Little Bastards.

Little bugs are all over the place. No big deal right? Until the freakin' things reach the size of your hand!

Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little here but just last week I was in Buffalo in my friend's dorm. We're just hanging out, having girl talk, looking at the latest fashion trends when suddenly..."Ohmygod, cockroach. On your chair!" Following that was a series of very loud screaming from four girls at 6 in the morning.

Generally, cockroaches will not cause me to scream that way. I see normal cockroaches quite often and although I can admit that I would still run away from them...I would not scream out like I did that night. However, this little fucker was HUGE. The biggest cockroach I have ever seen, crawling at an amazingly fast pace, onto the wall and up on the ceiling. Honestly, I was scared shitless.

I really looked like that. Except, I'm not a cat. And instead of a stool, I was on the bed... and then I ran into the bathroom and stayed sitting by the sink...and it wasn't a mouse. But those are just minor details. Anyway, as I was saying. I was scared shitless and literally was not able to move. I must have screamed a hundred times because I just could not believe the speed that thing was moving at, and the size of it! I have never seen a cockroach that big EVER! Like what the hell was that?! Crawling at the speed of light over our beds?! Ugh, I would show you guys a picture of that ugly thing, but I don't want anyone to throw up on their laptops. Because I almost did when I decided to search for a picture. It took us about two hours to get it killed. It ran away and hid from us like a thousand times, but we wouldn't have been able to sleep without knowing it was dead. Didn't sleep till 8am. What a fun night.

About a month ago in my OWN dorm, my roommate found this huge beetle. It was the oddest thing we have ever seen and once again, we screamed for our dear lives! This big beetle was on our coffee maker, and we lost it for about 20 minutes. When we found it, the sneaky thing hid INSIDE the coffee maker, like where the pot is placed. Once again, scared shitless. But we finally got rid of it. For the next few days I felt itchy everywhere, it was so uncomfortable.

What is up with these suburban bugs? Why the hell are they so unnecessarily HUGE!? There is absolutely NO reason they should be that big ever. We're just lucky they were only bugs, and not mice. I do not even know what I would do if there was a mouse in our room. I think I'd die.

Music & Love

Instead of going to a crazy wild party and slut dancing at Sunny's, I went to my room mate's concert Saturday night. And it was well worth it! (I never liked slut dancing anyway...lol).

I was so happy that I decided to go to this concert. The orchestra played the most beautiful music and it left me flabbergasted by how amazingly talented our school is. It almost brought tears to my eyes while listening. The first piece they played was called Carnival composed by Dvojak (spelling?). Most amazing piece I have ever heard. The first note they played made my mouth drop! I couldn't at all explain how I felt the SECOND I heard them play. All I was able to say was "wow".

I was on the verge of crying because watching everyone up on the stage playing music made me really miss music. I used to be a part of the musicals and I used to be up on that stage singing and dancing my ass off! I used to complain to my friends about how I never had time for anything because rehearsals took up ALL of my time. Watching the performance made me really think of how much I loved what I did, and it made me realize how little I'm doing now in college. What am I doing with myself!? I expected myself to be much more involved on campus, but I'm not! I guess it had to do with me deciding to be lazy the first semester, but why did I decide that? Why am I allowing myself to rot away on campus? Jeez. This sucks.

But what also brought the tears to my eyes was the fact that the whole orchestra on stage really loved what they were doing, being music majors and all. Otherwise, they wouldn't be slaving off every last minute of their lives rehearsing. One person I want to point out is my room mate Jenna. She is so dedicated to her love for music. As me and her boyfriend sat in the audience Saturday night, watching her fiddle with her clarinet (she had to keep changing keys), we agreed that we didn't think we knew anyone, including ourselves, who loves music as much as she does. There is nothing at all we love that can compare to how much she loves music. She is literally practicing every minute she can, dedicating her life to music. She's in the University choir, SECOND chair in the Wind Ensemble, and she's in the orchestra. She might even be in some mysterious secret society for music players on campus that I don't know about because she is constantly not in the room! Her poor calendar is always full and I really wish she could take a chill pill, or smoke some "you know" to calm down. But I know she won't. She loves music and won't smoke anything that might affect her playing. I honestly admire her for loving music so much. I love it too, but I don't know how I would be able to stand it if I had her kind of schedule. Jenna Witterman, YOU are my hero<3.

Anyway, going to the concert was definitely the best decision I have made on campus. I would trade a crazy night out and slut dancing ANYTIME to hear wonderfully beautiful music.

Ice Cold

Winter is here, and it sucks major ass. Especially since it's supposed to be fall! Someone PLEASE tell me why it's in the 30's right now. I'm freezing my buttocks off!

I realized, thanks to all my facebook friend statuses, that everyone is complaining about the weather. So I might as well join them since it's seriously Ice cold. I'm just waiting for the snow to start floating down any minute now.

Seriously though? In the 30's already? I remember when October was such a wonderful month full of gorgeous crisp fall days. Chillier, but still sunny. I remember sweating balls underneath my Halloween mask, trying to grab whatever candy I could get. *sigh, what happened?

The trees up here are changing colors and it's so pretty in the sun, but today is just killing me because of the freezing air. I guess I had to know it was coming though, moving so far upstate. I'm just still not ready for it at all. If I'm like this during the fall, what am I going to do in the winter?! I'm just not going to be able to survive. I can see myself freezing to death. I'm going to be stuck in a glacier! Oh Horror!

Hello, Bambi

There's this beautiful spot that's just across the street from the campus. It's literally a forest that's just there and when you go deeper in, there's a creek. It's just such a gorgeous spot, and it's totally isolated from the street and from campus and campus police. With that said, obviously, this is where everyone goes to smoke their "Haha" (lol). We call this spot the Creek.

Well, yesterday me and my friends decided "creek it" and there's this dirt passageway with weeds everywhere. Anyway, when you look out there's like this huge pasture of grass. It's just like a huge open field in the middle of the forest. It's really a beautiful thing to see, I'm really actually enjoying this nature stuff nowadays. So, when we were passing by yesterday, what do I see prancing around? DEERS! Like two of them!

I mean, I've seen deers before. I've seen a bunch of them. But they were mostly when I took tours to national parks or something. Like this summer, I went to the Yellowstone National Park and I was basically face to face with a deer. But still, it's a national park AND we were on a tour so it really didn't feel as natural to see deer just lying around. Now, I see them when I'm just walking around, going over to the creek, and they're so close. I find it truly amazing and exciting.

I'm a city girl, so obviously I don't see this in the city. There are not enough trees and grass in the city to tend to families of deer. My friends kept making fun of me because I just kept pointing them out. They just don't understand how I felt seeing actual nature, it was just so organic. I was just so amazed, and was literally in a trance. I would have stood there watching them for hours if I could.

Nature is so pretty. :)
...besides the gross muddy puddles in the middle of the passageway. The ones I accidentally stepped in. Ugh.

Toilet Talk

Earlier this week, I made my way to the bathroom for my daily routine (tee hees). I walked into my usual stall and took a seat. When I looked up, I noticed this pink 8 x 11 sheet of paper that was not there the day before. On this flier were upcoming events at Fredonia and little get togethers in my hall. Pizza parties, new games that they bought for us like a Wii fitness, Apples to Apples, and Taboo. Since it's the month of September, they listed some interesting facts that occurred or occurs in September. Facts like September 15, 1999 was the first and only day Disney World was closed or how September is National rice month, Latino month, and that the most snakes are born during this time (Actually, August is first place, then comes September).

This piece of paper was labeled "Toilet Talk : The paper that keeps you occupied while you're occupied." I thought this was quite a clever idea. I laughed at how it was a paper that kept you occupied while you were in there. And the thing is, it really DOES keep you occupied! I realized that since that day, every time I stepped foot into my bathroom stall, my eyes go directly to that same piece of paper. I would read those same few September facts over again for the hundredth time. It's like a drug you can't stay away from, it's right in your face. Damn, that piece of paper really keeps you occupied!

It's possible that maybe the flier isn't doing it's full complete job. Fliers generally try to get you interested, they try to persuade and inform you about meetings. But, will I be attending those hall gatherings? Probably not. Do I want to have pizza with my RAs? Not really. However, the fact that I actually read it a hundred times over when I'm in there... I think "Toilet Talk" deserves an applause.

So, touche, Toilet Talk. Until our next encounter. c(:

Chalking up the Basketball Court

It's been about five weeks since I moved to Fredonia. I am seriously loving life on campus, I'm having so much fun with this new found freedom I have. I do miss the city though... that's one thing I can't seem to stand. It is SO different from the city. So much quieter, and darker. It's beautiful, but so weird at the same time. Nonetheless, I love it. Been doing a lot of new things, but I think something that I enjoyed the most (other than the occasional parties and drinking) was when me and my friend Christina decided to chalk up the basketball court!

So, there's this tiny basketball court located behind my dorm building. Guys are seen playing on it all the time, and I pass by it ALL the time. Every single time me and Christina walk that way, we always say that we need to chalk it up. Just so you guys know, Christina is a five year old at heart. She brought her chalk, crayons, and Hello Kitty coloring books to college. I love her. Best friend at college-- definitely! Anyway. We told ourselves that we were going to chalk it up for about a week. Then finally, we pinky sweared on it. We picked a pretty nice day to draw on the court. Making sure no one was there, we skipped our way over there. Chalk in one hand, cigarette in the other, we were so excited to start drawing! Christina picked her spot and started drawing flowers. I attempted to draw this little tattoo design I always drew in my notes that also consisted of a bunch of flowers and squiggly lines. While we drew, we both knew people were staring at us. Some probably thought that we were complete idiots, while some actually joined us! My friend Mike came to meet us and picked a spot of his own for some graffiti work. He got really into it, shading and blending in the colors. He's an art major, if you didn't know already. More and more people joined, the court was looking great! I ended up drawing a bunch of flowers and swirls, an apple tree with pink apples, and a sun. The sun was probably my favorite because I learned from the art major and actually blended in the colors to make a really pretty sun. I was very proud of myself.

The whole time sitting on that court, I realized how much I miss being a kid. I haven't drawn with chalk like that in the longest time and it really brought me back to those childhood memories. I remembered I used to do a lot of hopscotch and I had this huge urge to draw a big one on the court, but couldn't because there wasn't enough space. It was so nice back then. Like a facebook bumper sticker once said, "I miss being a kid, the only drama was when someone stole your crayons."

Our beautiful masterpiece stayed on the court for about a week. It finally rained today in Fredonia, so it was sad to pass by and not see our chalk on the court anymore. I'm sure the guys are happy about it, but I really wanted to see it stay there for a longer time... Oh well, I'm sure Christina and I will pick another day to chalk up the basketball court!