ibuprofen, costco, and beverly hills

so yesterday was one of those days where you KNOW you have a ton of work to do, and all you want to do is sit down and get work done.

and then of course one million things happen that completely prevent you from doing so...

like your room mate comes home from dance class, and she thinks she broke her foot, so you have to go get ice, and call the RA who isnt home, and then call the health center, who of course can't do anything about it, because they don't have an x-ray machine, but they highly recommend that you drive her to the St. Marys hospital to get it looked at, but you don't have a car, so you have to make alot of phone calls, while your room mate sits there and cries about her lacrosse season.

then you run out to get your flu shot but have to wait in line for one hour and forty-five minutes, to have someone stick a needle in your arm, and then you give them money.

lady: hun you have to relax your arm

laura: I AM relaxing my arm

lady: one...two...three.

*laura flinches

lady: see thats no good, you gotta not do that, now we have to do it again. one time i did this at costco, and guess what? they did gave me clorox wipes. and they gave me free samples. costco is always givin out samples. one..two... three. i was like "you aint gotta pay me to give shots at costco!" you were still tense, but i mean, its done now so... its just gonna hurt more.

laura: oh, im not really good with needles

lady: plus when you give shots at costco, you can shop afterward. the only problem is that theres always alota old people, them old people never have their right information ready...you go on and have a nice day now.

laura: thanks.

so then it was time for a lecture that i really wanted to hear about the history of pets in art in america. so i ran over to that, and was there for an hour and a half.

laura: my arm really hurts..

girl next to me: flu shot?

laura: yeah

girl next to me: you shouldn't have tensed up... its only going to get worse.

laura: so i've heard.

and then the presenter talked about pets. it made me miss my dog. and then craig called and said he wanted to go out to dinner.

so we borrowed his brothers car and drove to Solomon's Island (God Bless Y'all Real Good) and bought a bucket of crab legs and ate out on a pier and watched the sun set. and i had brought my water colors, so i did some painting which was nice (because my camera card is broken). And then we stopped by starbucks (boo starbucks...) on the way home and he got a soy pumpkin spice latte, and i got a white chocolate soy latte. it was really nice to get off campus, just for a bit.

*Laura scans the ipod and puts on Weezer*

Laura: yeah im not really good at being romantic

*flips the song to The Killers*

Craig: I hadn't noticed.

you may be wondering... How can college kids afford dinner?!

answer: craig got tired of waiting in line to get a flu shot, and decided taking me out to dinner was an acceptable option over having a needle stuck in his arm. wuss.

so then we got home and it was only 8, so we stopped by my place to grab books before we went over to the library to get some work done. (FACT: i actually WENT to the library to get WORK done) But anyways, we stopped by my dorm, and Megan (the one who broke her foot, and is just getting over the flu) had like... was definitely on some intense pain killers, and absolutely hilarious.

craig: how are you feeling?

megan (looks at her foot): well i dont think im sick anymore.

Then we went to the library. This is something i did not know about the library: there are one hundred million people there at night. There were literally like NO seats available on any of the three floors. this rather upset me so i started talking obnoxiously loud about how i wished there weren't quite so many people in the library because i absolutely HAD to do some work, until Craig started getting embarrassed. luckily, after like 40 minutes of wandering up and down stairways and in and out of occupied study rooms, we finally found a computer center upstairs that had some seats. we were there until we got kicked out at 12:30. let me tell you...if anything makes you feel like a nerd, its having to get kicked out of the library.

oh and then kim dellipaoli called. it is apparently like freezng in Saratoga New York. Skidmore will be getting snow, very very soon she says. They are like 20 minutes from Vermont. She was out playing "midnight dodgeball" with glowsticks and hot chocolate. which was apparently a school-wide activity.

then we went home and watched "whose line is it anyway" with richard simmons as a guest star. and megan ate lots of poptarts. and also alot of my special carrot cake from my madre, which i am not happy about because that cake was ridiculously amazing, and plus megan is just getting over being sick. but at least i won't gain a billion calories from it now.

Laura: did you ever notice that girl at the end of our hall who just constantly stands in front of the full length mirror? UGH she annoys me. I just want to go up to her and be like ...DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFE. god. narcissist.

Megan: actually my personal favorite is that girl at the other end of the hall who camps out in the hall outside her room in her sleeping bag and wears the Indiana Jones outfit.

Laura: equally exciting.

all in all it was an okay day.