you learn something new every day. today i learned that “you don’t have to talk to someone to give them bs.” does this mean i’m telepathic?

i definitely have a cold or something. it fucking sucks. i require tea and vitamin c (hmm, who do i know with a reliable vitamin c dealer?) and all that good stuff.

killfile is going to be here on saturday, hooray. he’s flying in to visit lunacrow (of #penny-arcade infamy), so he’s staying in nyc for a day or so before he takes a bus up to her neck of the woods. possibly we’ll hit batcave, although i don’t know how much fun that would be given that he’s going to be going there straight from a twelve hour plane ride. ouch. the longest flight i’ve ever had was seven hours and that was about six and a half hours too long. but still, it will be cool to see him finally.

tomorrow i’m picking up some pumpkins for me and gundam to carve sometime before halloween. so that should be fun. i need to go grocery shopping also; i cleaned out my fridge on friday and tossed anything that smelled funny, so essentially all that’s left in there is most of a twelve pack of code red and some soy sauce. which you know i really like soy sauce and all but.

yeah so gundam is the best ever. no contest. out of nowhere he surprises me today with a game boy advance, two games, and a carrying case for it. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i’ve been wanting one for ages but never scraped up the money for one. he has one too so we can kick each other’s asses on the train now and stuff. yay! he got me super mario advance and chu chu rocket, on the advice of tycho. chu chu rocket is SO much fun. it’s full of space mice. i’ve been playing it all night, i’m addicted. so yes, he is the very best ever.

quatoria is going to be in town tomorrow apparently, will probably hang out with him sometime this week. dunno what is going on this weekend; i have some nyu stuff to do before in the next day or two but other than that it’s unclear. right now i am still overjoyed at my new gba. yay!

so tired. for some (mysterious) reason, i didn’t sleep at all last night, and as a result felt pretty wretched when i got home to brooklyn this morning. i didn’t fall asleep until around 10 am, and then i only slept for a couple hours. but i feel a lot better now that i’ve had at least a little nap, a lot of brita water, and some food. i didn’t want to go tot he store, so i made basmati rice and stir fried some tofu with ginger peanut sauce, and mixed it all up. yummy. i need to go grocery shopping tomorrow or something, there’s not much here. must clean out my fridge, also; it’s way too full for something that contains very little that’s actually edible.

my landlord goes back to florida on wednesday; he spends most of the year at his house there and is only here for a few months over the summer. he’s generally a nice guy, but he’s a little nosey sometimes. it will be nice to be able to go outside without getting entangled in an hour long chat about the garbage or how much water i use.

i discovered today that gundam has never had real indian food, which is of course a travesty. i’m going to take him out to a really good restaurant on university place sometime this week and show him what he’s been missing. i absolutely adore indian food, more than chinese or italian or anything. especially potato samosas and vegetarian biryani. good stuff.

it’s still under construction, but i’m working on a cam portal for #caoine and other people i talk to a lot. you can see what’s there so far right here. you can mail me with your cam url if you want to be on it, but i probably won’t add you unless i actually know who you are. sorry.

it’s way too early to be up on a saturday. but gundam and i got to watch the new digimon, anyway. so cute. he’s at the store right now getting stuff for us to make breakfast i think. i dunno what we are up to today; i think we’re probably not going to batcave this week since i think ben isn’t spinning, and we went last week and everything. i think later we’re going to buzz my head again - it’s getting a little fuzzy since i got it cut a couple weeks ago. i redyed it yesterday because it was starting to fade in a couple spots, so it’s mad bright again.

i think we might have to go get more greens for the iguana later; i usually buy them on fridays in the farmer’s market in union square, but the booth i go to had already closed when i got there this week. i guess she’ll have to make do with whatever the supermaket has for the weekend and i’ll get better stuff during the week. last night she was feeling really friendly; she lay on my back while gundam and i were watching tv for a while and kept licking my head and stuff. she’s really adorable, and she’s starting to get a little bigger since she’s eating better now. she might need a new cage soon so she can keep growing without getting cramped, although her current cage is pretty huge. she’s finally completely comfortable with me, which is good. for the first few weeks she was a little nervous around me because she hadn’t seen me that much, but now she likes me. hooray. i wonder if i’m allowed to have reptiles at my place; i can’t have cats or dogs since my landlord’s allergic but i never asked him about other pets.

gundam is back from the store, hooray.

so tired. my momma drove back out to ikea for me this morning before i could protest and got me that piece to my bed, so i spent a chunk of today putting the frame together (metal bits kept falling on me, ouch) and moving the futon to the living room for couch use and rearranging the rest of my apartment around all my new stuff. i’m sleepy and sore now but my place looks really cool and my new bed is so incredibly comfortable. the mattress is really firm, which should be good for my back after a year of sleeping on that crappy futon. i’ve also got some new rugs and kitchen utensils and all that good stuff, plus all the stuff my parents brought with them from their house in massachusetts. my whole apartment looks completely different now, but i really like it. the one thing i might still get is a little coffee table or side table to go with the futon, and i want to get rid of the boxes that my g4 and monitor came in, even though i’m sure i’ll wish i still had them later if i move again or something. oh well.

will update my cam tomorrow, i promise. this week has just been so hectic what with my parents being here and everything, although it was awfully sweet of them to come all the way out here and buy me furniture and stuff. i think soon i am gonna curl up in my new bed and read until i fall asleep. either that or i’ll stay up playing quake 3 all night again. who can say?

so. it’s been a really long couple of days; my parents are in town until tomorrow so i have been mad busy. yesterday they drove up with a bunch of stuff i left at their house when i moved out, so we spent a couple hours bringing all that up to my apartment, then went to dinner and they headed back to their hotel.

this morning they picked me up in my dad’s truck bright and early and we drove out to ikea, where we shopped and shopped and shopped and then shopped some more. i got an incredible amount of stuff, all of which was quite cheap. new kitchen things, candles, chairs, bathroom stuff, a new desk chair, dishes and utensils and whatnot, and most notably a gorgeous new bed and mattress to go with it, so that i can finally move the futon out into my living room and use it as a couch. unfortunately, sometime between picking up the bedframe at the warehouse and arriving in brooklyn, a component of it has vanished. it’s possible it somehow didn’t get loaded on the truck, or fell off the truck somehow on the drive home, but in any case i don’t have it so i don’t get to sleep in my new bed tonight. we’re going to call them tomorrow though, and either have them deliver it or gundam and i will go out and get it this weekend. so all is well. a very busy and rather stressy day, though, plus i’m mad sore from moving everything (including the new mattress) up the stairs into my apartment. but it’s all good. i am tired and happy.

tomorrow morning i’m going to meet up with my parents again for breakfast or lunch, and we’ll either go back out to ikea or just bum around the city for a while being tourists, and then they’re driving back home to massachusetts.

side note: the huge grass rug i got for my living room smells SO good, you just wouldn’t believe it. it makes my entire house smell like the fields in back of my parents’ when they’ve just cut the hay in the fall. love it.

mmmmmm. october, finally. this is without question my favorite month of the year. it’s cold and grey and rainy and i get to wear my hoodies everywhere and drink hot coffee instead of iced.

my parents are driving down for a visit tomorrow; we are also probably going to go furniture shopping at ikea or something. my poor little futon is slowly collapsing, and giving me back aches. it will be relegated to couch use in my living room when i get a new bed. i’d also like a book case and some new chairs. woo.

today i’m going to clean my apartment for a bit, work on some nyu stuff, fill out some more applications. i’m going to take some kind of part time job for when i’m in school. won’t be another design job, but i’ll live. i’m sort of looking forward to going back tolnyu, as odd as it will be to technically be a twenty one year old freshman.

random note: listen to the first ten seconds of skinny puppy - inquisition and then velvet acid christ - the calling. HMMMMMM.