To see me as an ent, try http://www16.brinkster.com/traseru/ent.html

Oh man am I dirty. I have just been ent-ified. My hallmates poured hot water on the ground and I rolled in it to get muddy, but then Cody wouldn't let me in the room so my ent clothes are outside on the porch and I am otherwise dressed. I still need to go get tree limbs and stuff to tie to myself, but that's ok. I'll do it later.

Wow, I just remembered something funny. Cody was showing her pumpkin that she carved for church off to everyone, and I only glanced at it because I was still working on mine, and I thought that she carved a cross with wings and devil's horns!!! I was amused.

Ach! Cody sprayed Lysol on my cabinet and it REEKS!!!!!

But I'm happy because my group finished the lab 1 1/2 hours early today. The lab was apparently too long, and last year took some groups more than two lab periods to finish, but we managed in one and a quarter lab periods.

Just carved my pumpkin! Yay. It has a square nose and eyes of horus.

Becotopia (10:47:27 PM): bok robin there's a sci fi class but I can't take it because I'm not an english major
the exculpatory (10:48:16 PM): what?
the exculpatory (10:48:21 PM): it matters?
Becotopia (10:48:41 PM): apparently
the exculpatory (10:49:13 PM): wow.
the exculpatory (10:49:15 PM): that sucks
Becotopia (10:49:31 PM): ja, methinks so too
the exculpatory (10:50:06 PM): hehehe
Becotopia (10:50:46 PM): tomorrow I'll go talk to the teacher and ask if he would let me in the class (providing I take the prerequisites)
the exculpatory (10:51:48 PM): that would be cool...
the exculpatory (10:52:06 PM): make exeptions for my sister! she is sissy! hear her roar!

Well, I got my wish; we worked out on the track today. Not too bad, I suppose, but my throat was parched at the beginning and it felt even worse at the end. When I was jogging down I got another leg cramp in the same leg. This is a disturbing trend. Does that mean I need more potassium? I'll look for banannas (eeew.) Then because I was a freshman I had to go gather up all of the cones. Looks like I'll also have to start lifting weights. But, good news, no practice the 7th, which I had not even considered, but everything is happening the 7th, so it'll still be a very busy day. Sally, challenge exam, greek children essay due, show in the evening... good fun!

Quick weekend synopsis:

Friday--went to bonfire, snagged cold Krispy Kreme doughnuts and apple cider that tasted like apple jolly rancher, and was impressed by the waste of money put into fireworks for such a small crowd, then went to play board games, then came home and watched Full Metal Jacket, drew until 4 am, went to bed.

Saturday--sat around and wasted what was left of the day by the time I woke up. Oh yeah, and went out to the store and bank to buy ink cartriges and paper for my computer. Still need to buy socks and cups.

Sunday--cleaned like crazy, did homework, then sat around not wanting to do what was on my to do list because I could not finish the whole thing. That list has now become the to do list for the week.

hermioneMALFOY (2:40:42 AM): dude, one of the guys I was hanging out with is apparently into fanfiction
hermioneMALFOY (2:40:43 AM): 0_o
hermioneMALFOY (2:40:46 AM): not HP, but still
hermioneMALFOY (2:40:57 AM): Hamstadini: I'd RATHER read and write fanfics.
Becotopia (2:41:08 AM): hehe
Becotopia (2:41:12 AM): rather than what?
hermioneMALFOY (2:41:12 AM): am so amused
hermioneMALFOY (2:41:18 AM): look at porn
Becotopia (2:41:23 AM): lol

acanthous (1:43:02 AM): I found milk made of almonds in the chocolate variety
Becotopia (1:43:07 AM): hmmm
Becotopia (1:43:28 AM): chocolate almond milk?
acanthous (1:43:36 AM): yup
Becotopia (1:43:53 AM): that's not milk
acanthous (1:43:58 AM): lol

FroggyGoSPLAT15: I type a 101 words a minute. But it's in my own language.
Becotopia: does your language look vaguely like this:
dfjkla; jla;jf ieq ierqvjkl bkalco?
or is it more understandeable than that?
FroggyGoSPLAT15: more like algfdorlgnkoredngkoemargokhma

Oh shit I totally blanked on Jazz Band today. Looked at my watch at six as I was sitting down to dinner and wondering why my day felt so empty, then realized that I was supposed to have been somewhere for the past hour. Damn. But what can you do? Sometimes you blank.

Becotopia (4:32:42 PM): hehe, "stimuli that poke (bad) or can be eaten or mated (good)"
hermioneMALFOY (4:32:55 PM): hahah I know
hermioneMALFOY (4:33:02 PM): she said that during the presenation and we were like 0_o
Becotopia (4:33:08 PM): lol
hermioneMALFOY (4:33:56 PM): Her: they can do three things! bump into walls and run away, bump into something and go, "FOOD," or bump into something and mate... luckily they are hermaphrodites so it doesn't much matter what slug they bump into, now does it?
Becotopia (4:34:21 PM): LOL

http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~mboyle/COGS1-f03/cogs1-f03-powerpoints/johnson-handout.pdf

Damn it I have a cold. I wouldn't have woken up in time for class today except that someone called for Cody about half an hour before I had to leave.

I went to track after I worked out for an hour individually with the coach Brandi. She attempted to teach me weird things to do with weights, including something where you basically push with your legs to a stand, shrug your shoulders, then immediately bend at the knees and get underneath the bar, settling it temporarily on your chest and shoulders. I am a spaz. Then at track we swam, treading water for thirty seconds then running in the water at a sprint for 90, 60, 30, & 15 seconds, 4 times.

I did go into the writing center yesterday, and the girl was nice and helpful. She didn't tell me what to do, merely made me tell her what I wanted, which forced me to be more critical. That is not a problem I generally have, but I bet in the future the writing center will be nice because they have people who have written the same essays I have, for the same teachers, so they will be able to give me hints.

Yay! I got 88% on my Geology test, and the average was about 78%. So, cool!

Tonight I am going to the Atheist Affiliation again. But I don't really feel like walking down there. Alas. Cody just affirmed that I am an atheist, which I think makes her sad. Ach! Should have asked if that meant I was going to hell. Another time, when I remember.

Yay! Happy 18th Birthday me!

acanthous (11:44:56 PM): ooh, in less than half an hour you can buy porn and cigs and vote, lucky you!
acanthous (11:45:16 PM): not to mention be tried as an adult for killing people and stuff
acanthous (11:45:18 PM): hehe

Why are earthquakes so cool?

In two hours I will be considered by the government "an adult." That really makes me think about ethics (probably because it's on the brain anyway) and how we're discussing what the moral difference between a fetus moments before birth and a newborn is. How is seventeen year old Tracy minus two hours so much less mature than 18 year old Tracy that I would not be legally permitted, at this moment, to vote or buy cigarettes or lotto tickets? Hmmmm. Though I guess you do have to have a definative age because it would be impossible to, on a case by case basis, determine whether the maturity of each individual was high enough to legally carry out such actions. Why'd they pick 18? I guess even numbers are easier than odd...? I am rambling, perhaps it is time that I go to sleep, and thereby alarm Cody...

Yay I have written one of my responses. One down, one to go by Friday. I think tomorrow I shall go to the writing center and ask them to pretty please look over it and tell me what they think.

Also I wonder if she thinks I'm going to hell.

Am currently resisting urge to ask Cody whether or not she believes in evolution.

Last night I went to hang out with the Jazz Band people, though only 4 other students showed up. We had a good time, played some Guesstures and they all did the 4 point words but I swear my 4 point words were all harder than theirs, so I did mostly 2 point ones.

Friday night I saw the scariest move I've ever seen--Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I was petrified. Cody saw it later and said it wasn't very scary, but I suppose , as she said, people who see lots of horror movies become immune to the gore and suspense. So movies are scarier if you haven't seen a lot of them. It was uber-gory and I'm sure cliche. I hate it when you know something scary's going to happen, so you cringe, and you want to yell at the stupid people in the movie. Half the time I was clutching my eyes, the other half I was rigid in my seat. I tried to hide in the bathroom the first time the guy came running out with his chainsaw, but there was somebody throwing up so I didn't want to stay there.

Hmmm, I must finish or nearly finish the Odyssey today. And plan out how to enact (with a group) one of the books. Oh well...

Becotopia: oh no danielle! the jeep is gone and lost forever!
Becotopia: we gave it to the jeep repair guy yesterday!
hermioneMALFOY: SERIOUSLY??
hermioneMALFOY: ack!
hermioneMALFOY: that is very sad
hermioneMALFOY: an end of an era!
hermioneMALFOY: that car has been everywhere

The downstairs of our building is flooding and I'm the bitch who isn't helping because a) I have a test tomorrow and b) my wacom tablet finally arrived today and I want to play with it. I suppose I should go help but I don't have my puddle stompers with me, which appears to have been foolish....

We worked with topo maps in geology lab today. I always wondered how they made them. Now I vaguely know. We had to try to make our own topo maps; actually, we just had to draw in the contour lines. But it was kind of fun. We also used some fancy compass with levels in it that was pretty cool.

Damn, it hurt to get up this morning. I wanted to throw something at Cody because she had her headphones on and was singing along before I had to get up.

Goodbye milk! It's all gone, I need to go shopping!!

It's FRICKIN' FREEZIN'! The wind is careening through the gap between Omega and Sigma, and the rain is plummeting along with it. Cody says I look like an East Coast Girl with my brown overcoat and cap. I'm just hoping not to freeze...

Apparently, on Wednesdays, they go to the pool. There ain't no way in hell I'm swimmin' today.

hmmm, I don't want to go to track. Not only am I sore, but it is a miserable day and who wants to run when it looks like that (gestures out the window) outside?

This is a good feeling. I was going to go to bed at a quarter to two, but then I was so close to being done with my story that I decided to stay up and complete it. So it is now done. Over to acanthous... well, aside from corrections and rewrites and all that fun stuff.

BryanBoyGenius (7:15:02 PM): so whens ur bday?
Becotopia (7:15:19 PM): the 21st
BryanBoyGenius (7:17:02 PM): doing anything for it?
BryanBoyGenius (7:17:09 PM): gonna go party?
BryanBoyGenius (7:17:11 PM): lol
Becotopia (7:17:23 PM): lol
Becotopia (7:17:24 PM): no
Becotopia (7:17:30 PM): drinking martinellis
Becotopia (7:17:35 PM): and perhaps getting cake
BryanBoyGenius (7:17:47 PM): oh for a second i thought it said martinis and im like ummm... wheres tracy lol

Well, that lecture was not half so interesting as I desired, but I already wrote my summary of it, so all I need to do is research one of the volcanoes he mentioned. But I think I'll wait because I overheard my teacher talking to someone else about how she hadn't heard of some of the earthquakes he mentioned so she would put a list on our assignments page listing those she recommended.

We're having a 40 point rock quiz on my birthday that sounds like hell. Damn it. Everyone in the class is petrified, both for that and for our huge test on Friday. We're going to find out tomorrow if we can use a cheat sheet. Please, please!

But, at 4, I'm going to go to a lecture on disastrous Pacific Rim volcanoes. Hmmm. Hope it's interesting...

Song of the Morning: Montana--Venus Hum

Haha, last night I had a dream that Robin got her eyebrow pierced.

Cutthroat capture the flag is fun. I got knocked down trying to catch someone with the flag by another person trying to catch the same guy, but it was ok because I totally saw it coming and my soccer playing prepared me for tumbles. I wound up with my feet up the hill on my back though I fell on my side with my feet facing downhill. Hehe, I'll post a photo of the "battlescars" aka grass stains.

Tracy's song of the day: Shut Your Mouth--Garbage

Wow. Just got back from Track, where I was one of, I swear, four freshmen. Stretched and did drills (brutal ones! 50 crunches with legs in the air, the evil stretch where you balance on your elbows and toes that makes you quiver, 30 each side obliques, etc) for 45 minutes, then ran for 15. I don't know if we were supposed to leave after that but I didn't see a congregation of people so I left. Now I'm sweating crazily and think I shall shower.

Weekend synopsis:
Cody left for Portland, so, left to my own devices, I was rather bored and cranked up the tunes. Saturday evening, about 10 people invaded my room (I only knew 2 of them) and we hung out for an hour. Then around 1, I got pizza with some people across the hall and we played this game called "Dirty Minds." It's not what it sounds--there are clues that sound like they should indicate some dirty thing but actually turns out to be something like "lumberjack" or "address". I did really well comparitively because they were all drunk.
The days were cold, windy, and wet, so I stayed inside as much as possible. Talked on the phone a bunch.
Sunday our power was off, so when I woke up at 11:30 or whatever I had to take a cold shower. I attempted to do homework by the faint cloudlight coming through my window but fell asleep for an hour, woke up and nothing had changed.

I had a weird dream last night that I decided to go to UCSD to have more poster space. And made weird sounds, creeping out Danielle. But this was after I struggled to get to sleep for about an hour because people kept talking on the balcony outside my window.

The weekend excitement was writing a story. It is not yet done.

But now I must go to lunch for I have a busy day. Alas.

Hehe, I managed to say something in Ethics today.

Ach, annoying Eli wants me to listen to this Miles Davis album "Kind of Blue." I know it's famous, but I don't like Miles Davis. I listened to half and it put me to sleep while I was trying to take notes yesterday.

According to my R.A., the wind has not even begun.

A justified use of an evening. Much writing accomplished, and talking to many people. Cody is away to Portland, so I am alone and making good use of my time, though I do have more homework to do.

Unfortunately, my feet are cold.

hermioneMALFOY (9:27:49 PM): >:0
Becotopia (9:33:31 PM): what emotion is that, just curious?
hermioneMALFOY (9:33:54 PM): which one?
hermioneMALFOY (9:33:59 PM): >:0?
hermioneMALFOY (9:34:07 PM): or :>
Becotopia (9:34:14 PM): >:0
hermioneMALFOY (9:34:24 PM): obviously that is an infuriated person

So sad--no mail!

We had a substitute teacher for Western Traditions today. He did not have a plan, nor any idea what we were talking about, so he decided to take his own tangents.

Teacher: Do you think Homer actually believed in the gods he wrote about in the Odyssey?
Tracy: What about Emperor Julian, who attempted to resurrect the old Greek religion after Christianity had taken over? He was a long time after Homer, thus, if he believed in it, Homer, who lived almost 1000 years prior, must have believed even more.
Class (silently): Who's Julian?
Teacher: No, Julian did it for political reasons. Did Homer believe in the gods of the Odyssey?
Tracy: Rarrrrrrr...

Later:
Teacher: There is a good possibility Homer was a woman.
Class: silence
Teacher: Let's call him Homera.
Tracy: D'oh!

Stupid east coast companies should check what area code they're dialing so they don't wake me up 20 minutes before my alarm. But at least now the tablet's coming. : )

Last night's capture the flag game was AWESOME! It was a thunderstorm, and the sky was lit with electricity on and off the whole evening. Then, when I was a flag guard, it started to bucket with rain, soaking everyone and prompting a)all the guys on the opposite teams to take off their shirts and b)all the guys on the opposite team to attack the flag. Good fun. Everyone was sliding around, it made it much easier to tag them because they couldn't change directions once they reached a certain velocity.

It's an uber-blustery day today, such that I had fallen back asleep with the music on but the noise of the wind woke me.

Hehe Mom, I know what I want:

http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=1984758&domain_id=1877&meta_id=3

The Rocketeer on DVD! I like that movie.

Cody's rabbit bit off the head of her sister's barbie doll! Reminiscent of the white rabbit in Monty Python? Reeeeee! "Run away, run away!"

In other news, I have been a naughty girl and did not wash my cereal bowl today. Instead, I lifted weights.

Finally made it to the grocery store today. I figured out the bus system, though on the way back I had to wait for 20-30 minutes for the bus (which was late) to come.

I bought milk, apple juice, "lots of pulp" o.j. (because last time I failed and got non-pulpy), ginger ale, powdered donettes, and apples. I won't go thirsty, at least. Then, lugging my bags (which weighed about 10 pounds [<--guestimate] due to the excess of liquid I for some reason chose to buy), I had time to kill, and remembered I wanted to go to REI. So I walked over there, and when I arrived couldn't remember what it was I wanted to buy. A fuzzy hat, perhaps? So I bought a water bottle because I lost my cheesy one the first week of school. I amused the cashier by all my groceries and because I wouldn't say my phone number instead of running through the card. He thought it was funny, but since it just came in the mail the other day, I wanted to have him swipe it. He played along. Hehe.

Yay I have Emerson Lake and Palmer on really loud. I think I drive my hall insane.

Heh, just locked myself out of my room while telephoning Danielle. She didn't pick up anyhow. But then I wanted back in my room and it was shut tight. So I remembered that I left my windows open, and my keys on my desk. I couldn't quite reach, so I borrowed a coat hanger and got them that way. Good save, Tracy!

I payed my tuition today. That's a lot of air miles... For some reason, though, I think they didn't make me pay my room and board. I'll have to check that.

I braved the storm to play capture the flag, and the people who showed up were quite impressed with my dedication, considering I, a new person, went in the rain, whereas most "old-timers" didn't show. But not enough people went, so after waiting around for 20 minutes, we wandered inside to attempt to coerce people into playing. They scoffed, so we went home. Yay! They gave me a ride back to my dorm, saving me 5-10 minutes of moisture exposure.

Becotopia (8:42:59 PM): I'm going to play capture the flag tonight
acanthous (8:43:11 PM): oh my
Becotopia (8:43:18 PM): could be cold
Becotopia (8:44:08 PM): will be wet
acanthous (8:44:25 PM): but you're determined to show your hardcore core?
Becotopia (8:44:30 PM): lol
Becotopia (8:44:33 PM): basically
Becotopia (8:45:05 PM): wouldn't you?
acanthous (8:45:34 PM): I would watch from a cozy window sil sipping hot bevy and sally would be there just because

Raining.

I should at least be able to remember the good tenor sax player's name: Brian.

Yaaaaaaay!

"GEOLOGY FIELD TRIP

Date of Trip: Sunday, November 9, all day; Assignment due November 12.
This geology field trip will be to Fidalgo and Whidbey Island to look at rocks, deposits, beach processes, and topography."

I know what I forgot to bring. It's long, black, wooden-handled, and hanging on the coat rack by the front door. Hopefully the sprinkles we got today will be all. I am sure they won't be, however.

Last night was open door night, so I walked around and met people. I only remember one or two of their names. Oh well.

Then I walked up to the arboretum for a night-time view of the city, which was nice but shrouded by fog. After that, I watched The Mummy, which I particularly enjoy though I know not why.

I just want to yell out in class--I've been there! I bet the teacher hasn't been to Mycenae, and yet he tells us stuff about it. Not what I saw, buddy. He says he thinks they had an overpopulation problem, sent the extra people to Troy, and that was what began the Trojan War. He didn't see just how small Mycenae was. I think they would have sent people somewhere closer than Troy.

Damn it I just broke my tall glass. No more tall drinks for me.

And what makes it worse is that I just washed it.

Last night I went with about twenty or thirty peple from my dorm to Capture the Flag against Delta. We played for a while, then it became clear no one would win because neither team knew where the other's flag was, and there were too many people in jail on either side. We agreed to put our flags in given positions, but then some stupid girl tied the Omega flag onto the object. So Delta tied theirs and began complaining about the cheating, and positioned one person directly over the flag so no one could get it even if they could untie it. During all this, Joe and I snuck across the street, hid behind a bus, running along behind it, and snuck behind the library. Joe went for the flag while I was supposed to hold back, so, since I didn't know where the flag was, I simply freed Omegans and wandered aimlessly looking for the flag. Finally we ended the game in a bout between the R.A.s, poor Tom our R.A. was definately attacked needlessly. All of Omega took off, Delta booed us, we went back to our rooms.

Cody made ready for bed, and since I wasn't doing anything I figured I too would get ready for bed. Then we were distracted and wound up in some kid's room with a bunch of people watching "The Family Guy," the ultimate politically incorrect cartoon. I was amused because the kids we were watching with were drunk and attempting to order food over the phone, but it took them about 10 times to dial.

Everyone is in Seattle today, at the football game between Western and Central. I am not. I am here. Oh well, I don't like football.

Yesterday after I took my nap, I was too groggy to remember to reset my alarm, so it didn't go off this morning. I thought it was set for 8:45 so I would have time to go work out and shower before my 10 o'clock class. Around 7:45, I saw Cody get up, then rolled over and went back to bed. 9:53, I wake up, look at my clock, and literally spring out and into my clothes. I spilled both boxes of jewelry on the ground in opening the door to get at my shoes, and had to pick that up. Then I ran to my class, only two minutes late. Pretty good for waking up 7 minutes before class starts, a five minute walk away.

The volcanoes we looked at in Geology today were cool. I want to read about Krakatoa.

HOT HOT Orlando Bloom!!! Good movie, that Pirates of the Caribbean. Unfortunately, the people across the hall told Eli I was going alone, so he went with me despite my reluctance. But he's from CA too, so we booed Arnold Schwarzenegger (sp?) when the preview for Terminator 3 came on. Arnold better not win.

Fun people at dinner tonight.

Danielle talked me into doing this thing for Writer's Month (November). So I'm going to try to write 50,000 words in November, according to the guidelines set down by http://nanowrimo.org/index.php Fun fun.

Hey, by then I'll be 18 too! (wink wink Sally!)

Good. Today, as I returned to my dorm, there were neither screeching fire alarms nor the jackhammer sound of the uber-loud generator.

I didn't eat very much for lunch, so now I'm hungry.

I forget everyone's name in Jazz Band except for the teachers, Zach and Kevin, the other female, Emily, and the two Omegan freshman other than myself, Robert and Eli. Alas.

Ahhh. Feeling stupid about voicemail for reasons I will not specify. Finally listened to it. Finally know how to listen to voicemail. So you can call me and YAY leave a message! Oh, the glory of technology.

The geology quiz was more difficult than anticipated, but I got the same rocks as others, so I'm feeling pretty confident. Except the stupid graphite scratched the glass, which it was NOT supposed to do. For the lab, I worked with the same people, but with the unfortunate addition of an annoying "I-don't-care-about-geology-let's-just-say-rocks-are-pretty" type.

Feeling better after some little food. Created new creature! Last night, actually. But I don't have time to upload it now. So it shall be introduced soon, on the main page, perhaps. When I have a name for it, mayhap.

But I must to classa!

Happy b-day Sally!

Still tired. Doing geology. Turns out my reading of the bible was needless; we won't discuss it till tomorrow. Could have finished geology instead of reading bible. Geology is much more interesting anyway.

Despite being noon-thirty, it is still foggy, though not too cold. Or maybe I'm already acclimated.

Put my laundry on, took a nap. Groggy. But must do homework before 2.

Happy 18th Birthday, Sally!

Too tired to work out this morning. Stayed up later than anticipated doing homework.

Last night while I was in Jazz Band, the power in the dorms was fluky and finally went out, causing the fire alarm to sound and the generator to turn on. It was quite a ruckus when I got back. Then, because the power in the dining hall was out too, they stopped serving dinner; so I ran down to Viking Union and ate there. I think by the end of the evening they ran out of food. At least the international food did, even while I was there.

Painted bricks in the generator-powered light until 7:30, when the power went completely off. So at 8 I went down to play capture the flag. When I got home at 11:30, the lights had just come back on. So then I did homework. And homework. And drew a little, but I shouldn't have, because I still have homework to do.

Running low on cereal. Must soon go shopping somewhere.

Happy Birthday Sally!