The last time I talked to Bri, she said that she thought her home was going to be safe from the crazy-huge fire that's spreading in Lake Tahoe. She said something like if it crossed over the highway, that would be when she would would have to evacuate. And now apparently it's supposed to get really windy today and possibly cross over the highway. This is really bad.

When I talked to her the night after it started, she said up to 15 of her friends had already possibly lost their homes entirely. And her mom and sister were in San Francisco, but they weren't letting anybody in to the Tahoe area so she was alone with her dad. I wonder if they've left by now. I'm so scared for them. :(

By the way, what the hell is this? "Firefighters have contained about 44 percent of the fire, and do not expect to contain it until July 3." You don't have the technology to contain the fire, but you can predict the future? I know they're doing everything they can but July 3rd is a long way away so this is very frustrating.

I wish it wasn't freaking early in the morning because I want to call her.

After watching so much Black Books these past few days, I started to get really jealous of all the drunken fun Bernard, Manny, and Fran were always having. So when Bri came over last night, I thought it would be fun to drink a lot of Skyy Citrus. Between the two of us, we consumed a whole bottle. And drunken fun we indeed had!

But then I woke up this morning with a really non-awesome headache, and was reminded of all the times Bernard, Manny, and Fran were sitting around with massive hangovers. Oh well. Last night was really random and silly and happy and fun, so I think it was worth it.

I love Bri. I love the Awesome Department. I love Santa Claus. I hate Yessica Kumala.

Now for a day of Latin.

BAAAAHHHHH intense sadness. Tonight has been really fun -- we watched a bunch of old Awesome Department videos and thought up ideas for some last minute stuff we want to film before it's all over. I feel like I can't think too hard about saying goodbye to so many people because I might be on the verge of tears right now. Tomorrow I get to spend some time with Leah, which is awesome. And on Wednesday night, I think Bri is going to sleep over. This might be the last time I get to hang out with her, though, as she's going back home on Friday and her home is very far from my home. :( :( :( Luckily Leah will be in Cupertino for August, I think, so we'll get to spend time together there -- something we haven't done in many years. Crazy! Both Starr and Mitzi are leaving for London and Greece, respectively, before the end of the month, and I most likely won't see either of them again before I leave. Val, Catherine, and Brittny will be here for the summer, Thank G. There are a million other people I need to spend time with before September 4th... Several of them from Cupertino, but I don't know who will be in town when I'm in town. Aaaahhhh!!! And don't even get me started about family. Jesus. Oh my God. OH MY GOD I AM LIVING IN SCOTLAND FOR MANY MANY MONTHS STARTING IN 88 DAYS. WHAT!?!? THIS IS SO WEIRD. Will I meet friends even half as amazing as the ones I'm leaving behind? I don't even know.

I know I should be completely devoting myself to finals right now, but I feel like it's even more worthwhile to make sure I set aside time for the important people in my life. This week I'm going to try to balance the two evenly.

What a strange mood I was in yesterday! Hopefully it has passed. Today is Wednesday, which means two things: LOST (duh!) and clothes shopping by myself because I'm a loser. I have nothing (seriously, nothing) to wear out on Friday, so I have to take my lazy ass downtown and try to find something that I can purchase with a gift certificate. I really hate shopping for clothes when I am feeling so crappy about myself, and that's why I haven't purchased anything new since, like, the summer. It's bad. I'm ugly. I wear sweatshirts every day. I am trying to sit it out until I lose more weight. I wish it would leave faster. I need to go to the gym.

DEBBIE DOWNER. SORRY.

So anyway, hopefully I will find something today that will look decent and will be an acceptable outfit for "going out on the town" Friday night. I will try Urban Outfitters first since I have a couple gift cards there. I think I also have a Macy's gift card, so that's always an option. And if those places are lacking, I will have to go somewhere cheaper and not use a gift card.

Tomorrow I am getting my hair cut. I am really weird about haircuts. I am excited because it looks like SHIT right now and it is driving me crazy (especially my awkwardly long bangs), but I am really bad at trusting people to make it look good. I have gone to the same hair stylist since I was like five or something. Over this past summer, I really needed a haircut and she was out of town for a long time, so I had to make an appointment with some dude that works at her salon. He did my hair and it looked like crap. So I went back a few weeks later when Sheridan was back and she fixed it for me and I vowed never to let that happen again! But obviously I can't keep going back to the Bay Area every time I get my hair cut for the rest of my life, so now is the time to start taking risks. The girl I'm going to cut Val's and Brittny's hair, and they both look stunning all the time, so I already halfway trust her. But if she effs it up the day before my birthday, she better hang on to those scissors because I will be wanting to cut HER. Ooooh snap.

On Friday I was supposed to go out to lunch with Gary, but now he has to drive the french chick (I think I shall call her Rousseau II) to the airport because that damn bitch is finally leaving. I wonder if he would tell her to find her own way there if he remembered that Friday was my birthday. Probably not. I'm not that important to him anymore. Friday afternoon, Karen will arrive. And that night we'll go downtown with Catherine, Brittny, Leah, and Audrey. I am so excited to go to bars. I already feel grown up just thinking about it. I think it'll be a really good night.

On Saturday I will have to spend a good deal of time during the day studying/writing for my two upcoming midterms (test on Monday, take-home due Tuesday). Karen has already said she won't be offended if I have to take time out for this, which is good because my grades certainly depend on it. Saturday night, Bri is coming over and I am buying booze. Housemates and whoever else is interested: please join us. This was the night I was thinking about having a party so I told Bri to come over, but now I don't feel like doing anything, so I guess I'll just get drunk and we can play board games or something.

Sunday morning I am kicking Bri and Karen out early so I can study all day. That night the Awesome Department is going out to dinner. We're going downtown to some Italian place called Maria's. The menu we got in the mail looks wonderful, so I can't wait.

And those are my plans! I feel better already, after just writing them down. Now it's time to go find Mitzi so we can go to class and watch nasty people drink Cokes early in the morning and fix their nasty greasy hair. YAY!

Damn it, this song makes me want to watch Shaun of the Dead again. I just can't seem to get enough of some people. (By the way, Simon Pegg will be on Letterman tomorrow, and on Wednesday he will be on Kimmel with Nick Frost!) So... I've been watching lots of Spaced, obv. I think my favorite feature of the DVDs is the "Homage-O-Meter," which uses subtitles to tell you what certain lines, tableus, situations, scenes, songs, etc. they are referencing. It is beautiful. If I ever make a TV show, I am going to reference many things (especially Spaced) and steal their idea.

This weekend has been pretty good, but I have been majorly lazy. On Friday I think I sat around and watched Spaced all afternoon... At some point Brittny joined in and we decided to watch One More Kiss. It was a good movie... But if Gerard hadn't been in it, I probably would have been more indifferent. In other words, I enjoyed it, but I'm not going to add it to my "favorite movies" list. But Gerry + cooking + his constant hotness was niiice. Then Catherine came out and Ali came over and we all watched American Dreamz. And then at some point Val came home and Brittny went to bed and we all sat around downstairs until 2. I don't really know what we did. We talked? It was fun. I was tired.

Yesterday I spent most of the day with Bri. We were supposed to celebrate her recent birthday by going to lunch and a movie, but she had a bad night on Friday, so we opted to buy ravioli and make lunch at my house instead. I also made some delicious garlic bread and ate WAY TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING. After lunch, we went to Blockbuster and rented Keeping Mum. It was really cute! Maggie Smith was a little bit *amazing* (as always) and Patrick Swayze was a douche. Thennnn... I think we scarfed down a bunch of Brittny's fresh pineapple (as I researched the origin of the word "pineapple") and wandered around doing nothing. Eventually she was hungry for dinner (but I had been foolishly snacking all afternoon so I was not) so I took her back to Vons so she could get her favorite thing to eat at my house: tortilla soup in a bread bowl. Hehehe. She ate it and we watched some Friends with Catherine and Joanna. Then I took Bri home. I watched some Spaced with Brittny and ended up falling asleep on the couch... So I decided to tape SNL and go to bed.

I got up this morning and watched SNL, and it was brilliant. So much good Andy and Bill and Shia. Everyone is a genius. Except Avril Lavigne. And then I watched Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, which I got at Blockbuster yesterday. HAHAHAHAHA! It was definitely as good as I hoped it would be. How I love that Jables. I want to buy it now.

How is it already 4:12? I haven't even done anything today. I have so much reading to do and a Latin quiz tomorrow. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy??? Blah.

It is Friday. One more class until it's weekend, and it's the easiest class of all. I only have to go two more times (today and next Wednesday), which is good and bad. Good because I don't like moving things and building things and destroying my clothes with paint. Bad because... I like the people in that class. Shall I leave it at that? Yes. Val's alarm is yelling at her, as it has been all morning. When will it ever learn? TV was so good this week. Especially LOST, 30 Rock, and The Sarah Silverman Program. Ooooh, Sarah... She is slowly but surely becoming my personal hero.



Lol.

I like to have very early lunches on Fridays. In fact, I think pasta time is fast approaching! Speaking of food, everyone should buy "Choconilla" Cocoa Krispies. Sure, the name is the stupidest thing you'll ever hear in your life... But they taste like pure snappy, crackly, poppy Heaven.

There is something above the far end of my right eyebrow. It might be a zit, it might be a bite... Whatever it is, it aches like frick. I should examine it.

Bri might sleep over tonight. I don't know what we'll do. I hope I don't bore her. We never do anything very exciting when she comes over, but I always have a good time just getting to hang out with her. I'm hoping she feels the same way, because I am lazy/non-creative. Here are my ideas that I have come up with for tonight:

1. Rent a movie/see a movie?
2. Cook dinner/go out to dinner?
3. Bake something?

I am so boring.

The last time I looked at the clock it was 10:23, and now it's 10:42. This can only mean one thing: imminent death and destruction. But first, I better go eat that pasta. Shells or fettuccine? Life is so hard...

First day of classes. I'm not done yet, but I have a huge fatty break between the first two and the last one. This morning I had what I shall now call "Double Dutsch." Ooooh so clever. Greek & Roman Comedy & Satire at 9 and Latin 2 at 10. I was crashing the first class and it seemed interesting, so I was really hoping to get in... Fortunately I just got an email from the TA saying she'll give me an add code on Wednesday. Latin was good except that our classroom is waaay too small and I seem to have forgotten every single thing we learned last quarter. Great. After class I ran some errands and came back home... I had lunch and watched some Date My Mom. Sad. My next class is from 3:30 to 4:45 and I'm going to go to the gym afterwards. I *think* this is the American Theatre 1940s to Present class... Or else it's Shakespeare... But I'm pretty sure Shakespeare is tomorrow. And that will be my Monday this quarter.

Yesterday, the last day of break, was a good day. I woke up in a horrible mood because we don't have enough fridge space in this house and I couldn't find any of my crap and it was making me so crazy. I nearly lost it, so I had to call my parents and ask them if they would pay for a mini-fridge to be used solely for my food. My mom could tell how frustrated I was and, like the beautiful person she is, gave me permission to purchase one. So I got in the car, drove to Sears, found the perfect baby refrigerator, and brought her home. I felt so grown up, buying big ol' appliances all on my own! While I was at Sears, I noticed that there was a Red Robin in the same shopping center, which is just right down the street from our house. So I came home and told everybody, and we all decided to have a family dinner at Red Robin! All six of us went, which is rare these days, and we even had the pleasure of running into Bri, who I haven't seen in ages. She actually called me earlier in the day asking if I wanted to have dinner with her, but I had already made plans and hadn't called her back yet. Technically we still ended up dining together, we were just one table apart! After dinner, we came back home and watched For Your Consideration, which was hilarious. Then I went up to my room and knitted in bed while watching "Pregnant & Paralyzed" and "Woman with Half a Body" on TLC. God, I love that channel. So I guess it was a good last day off.

Dum de dum...

I sorta hate long breaks in the middle of the day because I am incapable of doing anything productive whilst in between classes. It's so much easier for me to focus once I know I'm done for the day. But I guess it's more enjoyable than having hours and hours of classes in a row.

I LOVE NEW YORK IS ON TONIGHT! Woooooo!!! I should be ashamed of myself for even thinking about watching it, but who am I kidding? I can't wait!

I'm gonna go do something now. Maybe watch the third season of Little Britain, which I just bought at Borders. I really shouldn't have because I don't exactly have the budget for it right now... But I saw it and had to get it. Naughty. That's it for a while. Not even any groceries, because I have plenty at the mo. If I eat less, I they will last longer and I will get smaller. Ready, go!

Bri just called to tell me that she hates me because we watched the first four episodes of LOST last night and she can't stop thinking about it.

HEEHEEHEEEEEEEEEE.