I'm sorry I have no photos to share! I will after tomorrow. I am just insanely busy with work and school and have no time to drop off/pick up/scan film. Gamestop is opening a second location, and the manager of that store has asked me to help out with setting it up. That's where I was all afternoon, and that's what I'll be doing tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday. At $8 an hour and 8 hours a day? I'm stoked. So far I've only been getting 8 hours a week at the old store, which is tough. :( It's just the way the schedule works out, I guess. I don't feel prepared for Black Friday at all.

We're also getting down to the grindstone in trapeze, since our performance is Dec 9th/10th and we only have 5 more classes. Bleh.

I missed Biology today because the bed was too warm and the weather was too cold and rainy and I was incredibly sleepy. Ugh. Oh well. I'm so lazy towards school right now. I just wanna work work work and make money. My final is in two weeks for that class.

Olin and I have been watching the old live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies and they are AWESOME. I have seen the second one (Secret of the Ooze) so many times as a kid, I can still quote half of it word for word.

Anyway. I should be gettin' a move on on homework and boring things, but I'll try to update more later!

P.S. Is it bad for me to be jealous of Tegan and Sara because they get to hang out with Astronautalis, and not the other way around? Those bitches! Get away from my man!

Man, I'm tired! Last night, Olin and I stayed up late because he was all randy from seeing me in my Halloween costume, which is 90% complete! My dress came in the mail two days ago, and I bought thigh high stockings, so now all I need to do is sew my cape and buy a wicker basket! I'm being Little Red Riding Hood and Olin's being the Big Bad Wolf. Admittedly, it's not as badass as Green Arrow/Black Canary, but I've never had a slutty Halloween costume before, and I feel so cute. I'll take pictures soon!

Then, this morning, Olin and I woke up early to go help out Luke's dad, Mike, with his sailboat. For those of you who are new to this journal, Luke was the boy of my highschool dreams. And then I gave up on him for Olin, ha! But Mike's girlfriend, Kim, is the owner of the restaurant Olin works at, so that's how Mike and Olin met. Anyway, so we went out with Mike on his sailboat, so this makes the third time I've been on it!

I think we were out on the water for 3 hours. I fell asleep for some of it, because his sailboat is the perfect place for a nap. The gentle rocking of the waves, the sound of the water rushing against the hull, the cool wind blowing to keep you from getting too hot... heaven!

Unfortunately, Mike is horrible at timing things, so we didn't get the boat docked until almost 2, which is when Olin had to go to work. So Olin wound up being 50 minutes late to work since we had to help Mike take down the mast of his boat (so it could fit under the bridge along the only route to the ramp), and pull in the floats, and all kinds of stuff that is not fun to do in the blazing heat of midday next to a fish market that smells like rotting seafood.

I meant to study for my two midterms today, but I'm so exhausted from this morning. I have my trapeze midterm tomorrow, which should be easy, and then my Human Biology one on Tuesday, which is probably going to be a lot harder. Egh.

Also, I had an interview with Gamestop, and the manager told me he would "most likely be picking me up", so hopefully I'll be hired and then I can work there with my bff Kendra! But since he didn't hire me on the spot, I'm nervous. Someone entirely more awesome than me could get the job. Bleh. Oh well.

I'm tired. And hot. I wish it was winter weather already.

I am becoming a hermit again, guys. Three out of four of my best Hawaii friends are scattered across the globe (New York, Washington, fucking Japan!), and I am so lonely. Well, kinda. At the same time, I feel like I have no energy to go out and be social, which is most probably just the depression talking.

Olin went to a party tonight thrown by one of his coworkers, and I didn't want him to go. I wanted to hang out with him and eat ice cream. But I let him anyway, because I don't want to be one of those lame, clingy, controlling girlfriends. But I kinda am, anyway, because even when I let him go out to things when we could be hanging out otherwise, I get all mad and bitter and am mean to him for a while. Sigh. I know I need to work on this.

Last night, I thought we lost Oliver and I was so heartbroken. We came home at almost midnight, and I went straight to our bedroom where Oliver would be sleeping, but he wasn't there. Walter (roommate) then told he accidentally let Oliver out. So I called for him, and it was so scary, because Oliver ALWAYS comes running at the sound of my car pulling in. And if not, he ALWAYS comes running when I call him after not being home for a while. So Olin and I spent an hour looking for him, and I had to go to bed without him. ...But 5 minutes later, Olin came in holding Oliver, and said that Oliver ran up to him as soon as he opened the door. :D So. But this has totally ended my procrastination on getting him microchipped - gonna go schedule a vet appointment for that when I take in the kitten for her vaccinations.

Lastly, my dad hasn't been home much lately. He spent 3 weeks in Washington DC, came home for a week, left again for 2 weeks to Sacramento and then New Orleans, came home for a few days, went to Maui, came home for a few days, and just found out today that he has to go to American Samoa to help with the recovery effort. The federal government offices down there got completely destroyed, so he needs to go and find a new office space, and then help giving out loans and permits and whatnot to people who lost their homes and can't get help through something called FEMA.

But there's rampant looting going on right now, and I'm afraid that there might be another earthquake while he's down there. I'm so scared to lose my dad. But I know that the people there need him more than I do right now... but still. I love my dad, and I miss him.

On the bright side, his racking up frequent flier miles means that maybe next year, I'll be able to go with him to Micronesia. :) He goes there a lot for work, and I'd go and keep him company and snorkel allllll day long.

Okay. I really hope someone read all of that.

I love you, world. Sorry I keep forgetting.

So! I've been in a really good mood lately. Olin and I went through another rocky patch of almost breaking up, although even when we get angry like that, I know we're not going to really beak up. I don't think we'll stop dating for years and years! But now things are better than ever. We're housesitting for my parents, so it's been nice having an entire, clean house to ourselves. No roommates, no mess, no stress! We've basically just been drooling in front of their new 52-inch Samsung LCD tv and playing with the kitten.

My mom took my grandma to Oahu to housesit for Ryan, because Ryan flew to New Orleans to meet up with my dad, and they're spending the week up there. Yeah, kinda complicated, I guess!

School's been going well. I'm pretty sure I kicked ass on my Human Biology quiz yesterday, because I studied like a fiend. Trapeze is another story, let me tell you about it.

SO, I don't have much upper body strength nor confidence, although admittedly, both of those have been building up slowly since I started the class. I've been having trouble with a lot of the hangs, especially because there are these other students in the class who have gymnast/ballet backgrounds, so they're just acing it. So I've been discouraged a lot and tempted to drop the class, even though I love the trapeze itself.

Buuut I'm not going to, because trapeze is amazing. It feels like you're flying, and a swan, and although I don't feel completely natural on it, I hope that'll build over time. Also, having Echo in my class is awesome. I really like Echo, and I'm glad we are like sisters-in-laws (since we're both dating Worley brothers), and I am even gladder that we are neighbors. I went over to her house on Monday and she was topless and didn't care, and I gave her a massage and lied on her bed with her and talked about nonsense and literature, and I liked it.

Anyway, my blisters don't like typing, so I am going to stop. Bye guys!