Driving @ MindSay 
car
On my way, I intentionally missed a turn and went 10 miles out of the way, passing by the places where I used to play as a child. Eventually, I headed west again, and I was blinded by the setting sun. I couldn't see my gauges, my instruments. I couldn't see anything but the blacktop shimmering golden, slowly curving in front of me. The brightness was intense. I felt like a pilot flying blind. I felt nostalgic of my great uncle piloting his P-51 Mustang 65 years ago. I felt the guttural bark of my Mustang in what was then the here and now.
It was beautiful.
enjoy!
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i was supposed to post this yesterday, but i passed out. then aj called and texted but i was soooooo far gone [into dreamland] that i didnt even notice until like 10:30 this morning... and when i woke up the laptop was still sitting there right in front of my face where id left it and gary was pretty much almost dead because he had been off the charger all day and night :( [poor thing...]
we [aj and i] woke up at around 5:30 and left for orlando. it took us a couple of hours to get there. by the time we were actually within the city limits it was about 8:05am. we were feeling pretty smug because we were 45 minutes early for the orientation, but then we realized we were going to the wrong campus, so we had to go to the wrong campus, and ask for directions to the east campus D:
i ended up being LATE for orientation. i waltzed in there at 9:00 and everyone [about 54 other prospective students] was in this big hallway and as soon as i arrived they all turned to stare at me and then this professor guy called me UP TO THE FRONT to sign in. it was pretty humiliating...
aj decided hed wait in the truck... i dont think he realized i would be in orientation for 3 hours...
after we left at 12:00ish we went straight to the gated community i wanted to move to and took a look around one of the model homes and it was AMAZING! there were 2 pools and a fitness center and a computer area and all these other really nice extras. and the house itself was gorgeous! theres 4 bedrooms in each house [equals 3 room mates...] and im getting the downstairs bedroom because it has its own bathroom ;D
thennnnnnnn we proceeded to get taco bell. meximerican food. we'll get back to this in a minute...
we had to go to the mall so i could talk to my future manager at the hollister there [waaaaay prettier mall and the store was amazing! i cant wait!!!]. id been really nervous about meeting her but she was REALLY nice and told me to take as long as i needed to move in and get situated then i could call her and she would start scheduling me! :D then we went shopping there just to prove how much we loved her [and hollister]
movie time was next. we watched district 9 [highly recommend that movie it was EPIC]
but during the movie the taco bell [told you id come back to it] started giving us hell. we both started feeling sick... i took of my shirt and slumped in the seat and he just groaned the whole time. it was horrible. but it passed right around the time we started making our way home
when we got to ocala we went to my mall and got reimbursed for our purchase at the other hollister and went to american eagle to get some jeans for the boyfriend. whilst in ae this girl with amazing hair was cashing us out, and we both remarked on the aesthetic value of her hair. she gushed [heh heh beccabooskii] so aj got a free shirt because he bought a pair of jeans. i smiled at the lady with pretty hair and she gave me a shirt too! its pretty cute too!
at the end of the day he drove me back to my apartment and we tried to part ways... it was hard... i gave him a shirt of mine and serenaded him with the guitar and my voice. in the end he still left. and i was sad...
fin
heres a video we made before he left. enjoy <3
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I seriously need to get my driver's license. I am 23 years old and still don't have one yet. I'm going to start studying for the written test. I had a shitty experience today with a cab service. We got to the campus and I gave the driver my Capitol One. I wait for him to verify and he tells me it's invalid which is total crap because it doesn't expire until next January. He tries it again and it still comes up invalid. During this whole time I am literally sweating puddles, sitting in the backseat. I ended up giving him a different credit card and it is valid. I don't understand how my Capitol One could have been invalid for the cab but valid when I use it at the campus bookstore....hmmm. I won't be using that cab service again. So frustrating!
~A.M.L.~
last night YET AGAIN i found it impossible to sleep. so at 1 am i decided to roll out of bed and see what was going on in the world. i turned on the laptop and read a couple of articles about homes made of recycled shipping crates, and men surviving being struck by lightning, and women dragging their toddlers through department stores... then it occured to me that i recently had my cpt scores faxed over to valencia but i hadnt checked if i could sign up for new student orientation yet. so i hustled over to my atlas account and logged in.
and guess what?
I CAN
so i have two options.
option 1:
take the new student orientation online
pros: easy, fast, dont have to waste money on gas
cons: must print out some assessment sheet [dont have a printer], and kinda boring [2 hours sitting at the computer...]
option 2:
go to valencia and attend the new student orientation there
pros: great excuse for a road trip, more fun [more interactive], can visit the new apartment, can get immediate help from a counselor if i need it [as opposed to having to call in if i take it online]
cons: gas to take me from ocala to orlando is going to be pricey [im broke almost all the time :( ], the orientation in orlando is an hour longer, blah blah blah...
im not really sure which one im going to go with right now... option 2 [apart from the financial aspect] seems like the smarter option because i can get more done.
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anyhoo so after i got done with the computer, i went back to my room and started reading the florida drivers handbook because i am DETERMINED to have my license when i move from this place. yupp. i keep envisioning how my test is going to be. im kinda nervous [-tears chunk of hair from head-] i hope i pass it the first time... if i can get my license i wont need to worry about a lot of things. i'll probably use some of my grant money to make a down payment on a not-too-shitty-but-not-too-flashy car and that will help me LOADS when i move. ESPECIALLY considering that the college is a 6 hour walk from my apartment and i dont know how to use the public transit system down there AND i need a way to get to work also [hollister is transferring me -happy dance-].
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it didnt take long for me to get bored with studying for the driving thingy. so with complete disregard of the time and my neighbors i picked up the guitar and started trying to figure out the chords to that new panic! at the disco song [called new perspective]. its a lot more fun trying to figure it out by yourself than googling the tabs and chords... at least i think it is [not so sure about my neighbors... im pretty sure they hate me... and my guitar]. i have the bridge of the song and i kinda have the chorus. once i have it all figured out i'll post it here so everyone can see and be dazzled by my amazing talent and whatnot.
im hungry...
-goes to make fruit salad-
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so im wondering if its possible to consume healthy food in such a way that it becomes unhealthy...?
for instance every morning i wake up shower and do all that stuff then i make my breakfast which usually consists of fruit, or granola-y cereal, or a healthy breakfast bar. i also take a daily multivitamin and wash it all down with milk [enriched with more calcium because i sometimes add stawberry nesquik; another guilty pleasure of mine]. lunch is normally something vegetarian like soy burgers [or some other meat substitute] or a hearty sandwhich and fruit juice, and then dinner is almost always soup or salad or something. the point being that maybe im overdoing all the nutrients a bit. the multivitamin PLUS all the "good food"... is it possible that put together they might be doing me some harm...?
-musing-
i dont want to die... maybe i will eat cake for dinner tonight
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