Welllllll... My bags are packed. Mostly. A few last minute things that I still need will have to be stuffed in tomorrow morning, but the rest is packed! I have two bags that are containting clothes, and I carefully spread all of my clothes between them in case one gets lost. It was a very OCD moment for me -- one pair of jeans in bag A, one pair of jeans in bag B, dress up trousers [ :) ] in bag A, skirt in bag B, sweater in bag A, sweater in bag B... and so on. I even tried to make sure the bottoms and tops in each bag matched properly. It seemed ridiculous at the time, but if one bag gets lost forever I'm gonna be grateful I did it. If both bags get lost, I'm royally screwed.

Hmmm what else did I do today? My mom and I battled the crazies at Target... Yuck, remind me never to shop there on Labor Day again! I took care of random things like calling the bank to tell them I'm moving and printing out schedules for my parents to have. Then I went to dinner with my parents and it was very yummy. We came home and took a few pictures for the Christmas card (yes, we're aware that it's still Summer) and then my mom opened presents and we ate some cake. Next we watched a couple episodes of Spaced... including Daisy's birthday episode in honor of today being my mom's. And then the parents went to bed and I stayed up and packed and talked to Gary for about 40 minutes.

NEWS OF THE DAY FROM GARY: He and his roommates now have a snake named Optimus Prime... But they recently had to change its name to Optimus Prima because turned out to be female and gave birth to a bunch of baby snakes. This freaked me out because I had never thought about snakes breeding before, and I imagined the birth to be really weird looking. I'm still planning on doing some research on this. Later in our conversation, Gary walked into the room where the snake lives and found it EATING ITS BABY. Then his roommate walked in and the snake spat the baby out. I was really close to vomiting.

He also has a rat named after some video game character who likes to crawl down his pants.

And that's that... I took some time to finish putting all of the songs from the FotC show on my iPod. Did you know that there were 24 throughout the season, including a song by the Crazy Dogggz? I think that's a pretty nice number. And I'm excited to listen to all of them tomorrow on the plane. I'm also thinking about watching LOST, since I have seasons 2 & 3 on my iPod, but that might freak me out too much... Since I'll be in a plane and all.

Ooo! Speaking of the plane! When I checked in online this afternoon, they let me pick my seat. First I decided that I wanted and aisle seat because I don't want to have to crawl over people when I need to pee/take care of STUPID GIRLY THINGS THAT NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHEN SHE IS FLYING ON AN AIRPLANE. [TMI, maybe, but it's frustrating so I had to let it out.] Then I realized that I totally need to be in a LOST-numbered row! For some insane reason I remembered that Jack was sitting in 23C when the plane crashed, but I think row 23 is up in the first class section, so that was not an option. So my only other choice was to go with row 42... I picked seat 42C because it's an aisle seat... But then I started getting really paranoid that it was Ana Lucia's seat, because I know she was in row 42. Luckily, when I looked it up later I found that she was in 42F. So I think I have the perfect seat.

Now I'm going to go to bed. I am having a hard time knowing how much sleep I should get tonight... Because I'm going to have to try to sleep on the plane tomorrow, and we leave at 4:50 in the afternoon! So I want to be tired enough to fall asleep, but I don't want to be fumbling through everything tomorrow. Plus I might not be able to sleep on the plane no matter how tired I am, in which case I'm going to need some extra energy from tonight's slumber. So I think I'll aim for 7 or 8 hours. You're really glad you read that, aren't you? I GET RAMBLY WHEN I'M NERVOUS.

Goodnight my dear friends. I'll do one last post tomorrow before I depart! AAAHHH!

Yesterday was our second trip to the Getty. I drove Mitzi and we had a fun time listening to music, writing down good vanity plates, and getting a hardcore case of the giggles. Hooray. I'm proud of myself for driving through L.A. traffic, something I was hoping never to do. But I did it and I survived. Plus I think it was worth it, because the Getty Villa is pretty damn awesome.

Today I awkwardly took a nap on the couch and then somehow moved upstairs to my bed. I don't really remember doing this. I slept from like 4:30 to 9, and I'm still tired. I'll probably be asleep again in another hour or two. The only reason I got up at nine was out of hunger.

Bear Grylls is the ultimate champion of life. Nothing beats a Man Vs. Wild marathon... Nothing, that is, except the announcement of new episodes beginning June 15th. Wee!

Leah slept over last night, and I had an amazing time with her. Leah, I love you so much. I really really do.

I am no longer going to the movies this weekend, which makes me sad. :(

I bought new bras at K-Mart today. My lady lumps are already much happier. Lawwwwl.

Brittny, Mitzi, and I watched the first episode of Shameless, which I rented because James McAvoy is in it. It turns out that it's a really good show and I can't wait to watch more. I also can't wait until Aymen returns my movie so I can send it back to Netflix and get another DVD.

Today is Gary's birthday. He is in Vegas with his family. He was playing Craps when I called him. Gary is weird. But I like when he's with his family because I don't have to worry about him doing anything dangerous or stupid.

My dad got a Facebook account. When I found his friend request last night, I laughed for a long time. I was quite tipsy, so it was v. amusing.

My LOST calendar makes me sad. Did they make you-know-who the May picture just to break my heart?

I feel like watching an episode of The Office (the original one), but I hate to turn Bear Grylls off. I guess it'd be okay, since I've already seen this episode. Goodnight everybody.

Gary and I were supposed to go out to lunch today, but I just called him and he is really drunk so apparently now I am going over there for a barbecue? He sounded like an insane person on the phone. I am definitely not going to stay too long... Good thing I have lots of stuff I have to do before my family gets here tonight. That's a good excuse for leaving.

Last night was lovely. Leah came over to watch The Office (which was amazing amazing amazing!) and then Catherine & Val's friend Sachman (spelling?) joined us. We did crazy things and watched Shaun of the Dead and had a generally delightful time. Mike's Hard Lemonades are not only more delicious than Smirnoff Ices, but they also are like symposium drinking cups with messages written inside the bottle that you can't see until you've finished drinking it. Erickson probably loves them.

Ummmmmmm I'm totes not in class right now. Haaaa! I have two classes on Fridays and one was cancelled because we are going to the Getty tomorrow instead... So I didn't go to the other one. Here are all the classes I missed this week:

Latin on Tuesday (slept in)
African Cinema on Tuesday (cancelled)
Light Lab on Thursday (had to finish a midterm paper instead)
Roman Civilization on Friday (diiiitched!)
Greek Sanctuaries on Friday (cancelled)

That's one of each! Very nice. Somehow I still feel exhausted from the week though.

Now to dry my hair so I can get this barbecue thing over with... Haha.

Of all the places in I.V. to live, Gary's house is RIGHT NEXT to the Boonies. Go figure. He knows Steve.

And now for three LOST fan videos I have seen+enjoyed recently.

1) It's Oh So Quiet by Bjork -- ENSEMBLE


2) Crazy by Gnarles Barkley -- HURLEY


3) Everybody's Changing by Keane -- SAWYER/KATE + ANA LUCIA


And a special added bonus: A FABULOUS CLIP FROM EPISODE 3x02 IS NOW UP ON ABC.COM!