It's a Thug Story

R.I.P.

Remember that baby seal from my previous post?

My friend texted me a few hours ago saying that she found its corpse lying on the beach.

I FEEL SO GUILTY FOR NOT HELPING IT.

Serendipity

Yesterday afternoon, I was taking a walk outside in order to clear my thoughts. I had just finished a two hour final for my Japanese pop culture class. I wasn't in the best of moods and I was hoping that this walk would help brighten me up. I ended up at the beach near my dorm and sat on a log while I listened to music. Staring off into the ocean, I noticed a little head pop out from the shore. At first, I thought it was a dog since many people walk their dogs around that area, but after a few seconds, I realized what it was. I sat there, not knowing if I should go up to it or not.

About five minutes later, a group of three people arrived at the beach and immediately saw it. They walked towards it and took pictures of it. One would think that it would get scared and run away, but it didn't. It just sat there. A couple who was walking on the beach joined the group and everyone just stared at it.

After a while, everyone left it alone and I couldn't see its head anymore. I thought that it had left, but suddenly its head popped out again. I decided to finally walk over to it so that I could take a picture. As I approached, it stared at me. It didn't move or anything. It just stared. I pulled out my phone and took a few pictures of it. It was kind of funny because as I took pictures, it pointed its nose towards the sky and closed its eyes as if it were posing. After a few minutes, I decided to leave it alone and let it sunbathe in privacy.


This really brightened up my day.

Lightening up the mood during Finals Week

After dinner, Daniela came over to study for our Physical Anthro final tomorrow. Emi was in the bathroom and I was showing Daniela that I can hide under my bed. That's when the idea popped into my head: I was to hide under the bed and scare Emi when she gets back from the bathroom. So I turned off the lights, hid under the bed, and waited for Emi to come in. I didn't think about recording it until it was too late to grab my camera, so I just stayed under the bed. When Emi came in, I waited a few seconds and then popped out and yelled, "BOO!" Emi jumped back and screamed a little. It was the first time that I actually scared her and she looked genuinely scared. We laughed so hard afterwards and Emi gave me kudos for actually scaring her. We then decided that we were going to scare Nick when he comes in to study with us and that we would record it.

About ten minutes later, Daniela left to go to the bathroom and Emi and I decided that we would scare her. I grabbed my camera and hid under my bed while Emi put her camera on her chair so that we'd have two different views of the scare. I wasn't sure if it was going to work since I had just scared Emi a few minutes before. I waited... and waited... and waited until we heard the toilet flush. Finally Daniela opened the door... and then "BOO!" She screamed so loud it sounded like she was being murdered. It was sooo funny!

Unfortunately, we weren't able to scare Nick because he knocked on the door while we were talking about scaring him. Oh well. Next time. I can't wait to scare other people.

I was looking through my Photobucket and found these...

I believe that this picture is over 4 years old:

I got an envelope

I have a lot of envelopes and stamps that I never use.

I think I'm going to try this out: http://www.igotanenvelope.com/

Now I need to think of where to leave envelopes...

De-lofted

Trang and April helped me de-loft my bed today... and it was not an easy process. I didn't realize that I have SO MANY things. I started packing earlier this week and I've already put a lot of my stuff in boxes, but when I was cleaning my desk area, we ran out of space in the room to put all of the things that were in/around my desk and had to start putting things in the hallway. Thankfully, we managed to de-loft my bed.

After Trang and April left, I decided to record myself cleaning and putting stuff away because I thought that it would be interesting... so here's the edited video (just a little over 2 1/2 minutes long) along with a before and after picture of my side of the room. I apologize for the crappy quality... the full quality version was over 100MB and the limit for video uploads on Blogger is 100MB. :(

Song: Bitter Heart by Zee Avi
(aka KokoKaina on YouTube)