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Name: Tracy
Country: United States
Birthday: 11/4/1991
Gender: Female
Interests: I like to taste all sorts of delicious foods. I like to read all sorts of books, except really bad ones or tedious ones like Shakespeare plays. I like to play games! I like to express myself. I like to put random knowledge to use. I like looking for things that I want and finding them. I like saying things just to get a rise out of people. I like a lot of things, really.
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Member Since:
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| I should actually do some reflective entry on the first quarter of college or, given the time of year, the holidays, but instead I'm going to do one of those funtastic END OF YEAR SURVEYS! Whoo! Well, I guess that is holiday-ish? New Years spirit? Pasting off Jaritaaa!
I'm actually going to do this for MY LIFE to see if I've progressed. I think last time I was at like...60ish. 70? Eh?
Level 1
( ) Smoked A Cigarette
( ) Smoked A Cigar
( ) Smoked Weed
(x) Kissed A Member Of The Same Sex
(x) Drank Alcohol
SO FAR: 2
Level 2
(x?) Are / Been In Love
(x?) Been Dumped
(x) Shoplifted
( ) Been Fired
( ) Been In A Fist Fight
SO FAR: 5
Level 3
(x except it doesn't count as sneaking if you tell them you were probably going to leave) Snuck Out Of A Parent's House
(x) Had Feelings For Someone Who Didn't Have Them Back
( ) Been Arrested
( ) Made Out With A Stranger
( ) Gone Out On A Blind Date
SO FAR: 7
Level 4
(x) Had A Crush On An Older Person
(x) Skipped School
( ) Slept With A Coworker
(x) Seen Someone / Something Die
SO FAR: 10
Level 5
(x) Had / Have A Crush On One Of Your FACEBOOK Friends
(x YEAHH!) Been To Paris
(x YEAHH!) Been To Spain
(x) Been On A Plane
(x) Thrown Up From Drinking
SO FAR: 15
Level 6
(x) Eaten Sushi
( ) Been Snowboarding
(x) Met Someone BECAUSE Of Facebook
(x?) Been in a Mosh Pit
SO FAR: 18
Level 7
(x thanks Bill) Been In An Abusive Relationship/Friendship
(x) Taken Pain Killers
(x) Love/Like Loved/Liked Someone Who You Cant Have
(x) Laid On Your Back And Watched Cloud Shapes Go By
(x at least I think I tried) Made A Snow Angel
SO FAR: 23
Level 8
( ) Had A Sleepover and became slap-happy
(x) Flown A Kite
(x) Built A Sand Castle
( ) Gone mudding
(x) Played Dress Up
SO FAR: 26
Level 9
(x) Jumped Into A Pile Of Leaves
( ) Gone Sledding
(x) Cheated While Playing A Game
(x) Been Lonely
(x) Fallen Asleep At Work / School
SO FAR: 30
Level 10
(x) Watched The Sun Set
( ) Felt An Earthquake
( ) Killed A Snake
SO FAR: 31
Level 11
(x) Been Tickled
(x?) Been Robbed / Vandalized
(x isn't this the same as shoplifting, too?) Stole something
(x) Been Misunderstood
SO FAR: 35
Level 12
( ) Won A Contest
( ) Been Suspended From School
(x yeah, in the 4th grade) Had Detention
( ) Been In A Car / Motorcycle Accident
SO FAR: 36
Level 13
(x) Had / Have Braces
(x two. lol. With the girls.) Eaten a whole pint of ice cream in one night
(x) Danced in the moonlight
SO FAR: 39
Level 14
(x) Hated The Way You Looked
(x) Witnessed A Crime
( ) Pole Danced
(x) Questioned Your Heart
(x) Been obsessed with post-it-notes
SO FAR: 43
Level 15
(x) Squished Barefoot Through The Mud [seeped in through my un-socked feet]
(x) Been Lost
(x) Been To The Opposite Side Of The World
(x) Swam In The Ocean
(x two papers one night yeahhhh) Felt Like You Were Dying
SO FAR: 48
Level 16
(x) Cried Yourself To Sleep
( ) Played Cops And Robbers
(x) Recently Colored With Crayons / Colored Pencils / Markers
(x) Sang Karaoke
(x) Paid For A Meal With Only Coins
SO FAR: 52
Level 17
(x) Done Something You Told Yourself You Wouldn't
(x) Made Prank Phone Calls
(x it happened ONCE) Laughed Until Some Kind Of Beverage Came Out Of Your Nose
(x? my memories be fuzz) Kissed In The Rain
SO FAR: 56
Level 18
(x in school) Written A Letter To Santa Claus
( ) Been Kissed Under A Mistletoe
(x) Watched The Sun Set/ sun rise With Someone You Care / Cared About
(x) Blown Bubbles
(x) Made A Bonfire On The Beach or Anywhere
SO FAR: 60
Level 19
(x) Crashed A Party
(x I'm going to count Asian tour buses) Have Traveled More Than 5 Days With A Car Full Of People
(x) Gone Rollerskating / Blading
(x) Had A Wish Come True
(WTF?) Been Humped By A Monkey
SO FAR: 64
Level 20
(x) Worn Pearls
( ) Jumped Off A Bridge
(x to my chagrin) Screamed "Penis" or "Vagina"
( ) Swam With Dolphins
SO FAR: 66
Level 22
( ) Got Your Tongue Stuck To A Pole/Freezer/Ice Cube
( ) Kissed A Fish
(x) Worn The Opposite Sex's Clothes
( ) Sat On A Roof Top
(WTF?) Kissed A Worm
SO FAR: 67
Level 23
(x) Screamed At The Top Of Your Lungs
( ) Done / Attempted A One-Handed Cartwheel
( ) Talked On The Phone For More Than 6 Hours
(x) Recently Stayed Up for a while talkin to someone u care about
SO FAR: 69
Level 24
(x) Picked And Ate An Apple Right Off The Tree
(x halfway) Climbed A Tree
( ) Had / Been In A Tree House
(x) Been scared To Watch Scary Movies Alone
SO FAR: 72
Level 25
(x) Believed In Ghosts
(x hehe) Have/had More Than 30 Pairs Of Shoes
( ) Gone Streaking
( ) Visited Jail
SO FAR: 74
Level 26
( ) Played Chicken
(x) Been Pushed into a pool with all your clothes on
( ) Been Told You're Hot By A Complete Stranger
( ) Broken A Bone
(x) Been Easily Amused
SO FAR: 76
Level 27
(x) Caught A Fish Then Ate It Later
(x by Melissa LOL) Made A Porn Video/got asked to make one
(x) Caught A Butterfly
(x) Laughed So Hard You Cried
(x) Cried So Hard You Laughed
SO FAR: 81
Level 28
( ) Mooned / Flashed Someone
(x) Had Someone Moon / Flash You
(x lololol Jarita optometry???) Cheated On A Test
(x) Forgotten Someone's Name
( ) French Braided Someones Hair
( ) Gone Skinny Dipping
( ) Been Kicked Out Of Your House
(x I bite myself to stay awake when I write papers) Tried to hurt yourself
SO FAR: 85
Level 29
(x) Rode A Roller Coaster
( ) Went Scuba-Diving / Snorkeling
(x) Had A Cavity
(x) Black-Mailed Someone
( ) Been Black Mailed
SO FAR: 88
Level 31
(x) Been Used
(x) Fell Going Up The Stairs [TOO MANY GODDAMN TIMES]
( ) Licked A Cat
(x) Bitten Someone
(x) Licked Someone
SO FAR : 92
Level 32
( ) been shot at/or at gunpoint
( ) Had sex in the rain
( ) flattened someone’s tires
(x) Rode your car/truck until the gas light came on
( ) Got five dollars or less worth of gas
Total: 93
Granted, some of these don't count, but at least my life is progressing? I feel like I should try to accomplish 95% of this list before I die. Not 100% though, because there's no way in hell I'm kissing a fish or a worm.
Now, another!
1. What did you discover in 2009 that you've never discovered before?
You need to start wearing wrinkle cream in your early 20s. =[
2. Did you keep your New Year's resolution(s), and will you make more for next year?
These are the resolutions I've had for the last few years:
1. Be straightforward!
2. Find my long lost work ethic!
3. Take better care of myself!
4. Curse less!
5. Learn to be more accepting!
6. Have more fun. Curb my insane "morals" and just live a little.
7. Conquer fears of transportation.
8. Try to be less neurotic.
9. Try to kick this vampire addiction. AH! VAMPIRES! Why are they so sexy? =/ I can't be involved in five series at the same time...right? Ahhhh...=[
10. Tame my love for shopping. And then buying things that I can't wear on a regular basis. Ohhhh man.
And I accomplished...some, actually. Will revise this list later!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Well, not close enough. LOL.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Apparently also not close enough.
5. What countries did you visit?
Spain, France, Taiwan. AND HERE?
6. What would you like to have in 2010 that you lacked in 2009?
There are a lot of things. Like. I don't know, AWESOMENESS?
7. What dates from 2009 remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Hangouts, last days, concerts, FunList days, college stuff, etc. I don't know. Ask me in 20 years what I still remember.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting 50% over my intense cootie-phobia.
9. What was your biggest failure?
WEIGHT GAIN.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I was just sick for 2 weeks? LOL.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My...jeans? LOL no. Uh. Those coats that will keep me warm in Chicago? These awesome mitten gloves?
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Friends! My favorite people, like Melissa and Jarita and Zhao and Katie and Katie and Naseem and Vida and Andrew and Mike. Although I'm sad to say that some of my favorite people also didn't exactly merit celebration? LOL. Whatever, nobody reads this Xanga anymore. Except for like. Zhao and Jarita.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Me? Some dude? Some other friends?
14. Where did most of your money go?
Food...clothes...useless stuff.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
College. LOL. And life in general, I guess. OH AND SNOW. THE FIRST SNOW. LOL. I went crazy!
16. What song will always remind you of 2009?
I have no idea... Phoenix stuff? LOL.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder?
Happier! I think. Last year I was apping my ass off.
b) thinner or fatter?
Fatter =[
c) richer or poorer?
The same as ever.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Life.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Binging. Procrastinating. Generally things that generate self-hatred. Being a bitch to other people.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
I already spent it? LOL.
21. Did you fall in love in 2009?
What's with these surveys?
22. How many one-night stands?
Uh. no.
23. What was your favorite TV program?
Gossip Girl? LOL.
24. Do you dislike anyone now that you didn't dislike this time last year?
Yes. Because I hadn't met them yet.
25. What was the best book you read?
Did I read? LOL. Time Traveler's Wife? LOL. I can't remember reading anything though. I mean, I know I did, but I can't REMEMBER.
26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Phoenix. Or finally listening to the Smiths?
27. What did you want and get?
A halfway decent GPA at a school in a new place.
(where is 28?)
29. What did you want and not get?
Skinnier. LOL.
30. What was your favorite film of the year?
(500) Days of Summer
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
18! Frontera Grill and cake time with my BESTIES.
32. What was one thing would have made your year immeasureably more satisfying?
Being hotter? LOL. Having a love life? Getting better grades? Getting in where I wanted to be? Not constantly fucking myself over?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2009?
30 year old white woman.
34. What kept you sane?
Friends, alone time (which I now value as it should be valued)
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
JGL and Robert Downey Jr. and Thomas Mars. LOL. YEAH.
36. What political issue(s) stirred you the most?
I don't know.
37. Who do you miss?
School being easy, not being fat, good food.
38. Who was the best new person you met in 2009?
College friends (KKNVAME, etc) + Henry (not that he'll ever see this to appreciate it)
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009
If you want it you can do it. The price is varying levels of time and effort. -_-
Yeah, XANGA REVIVED! More to come, more to come.
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| It's that time again...! That's right! <Insert name of tournament> in 5 time!
Illinois Open (IO) in 5:
1. I don't dislike going to UIUC at all or anything...I mean it DOES mean I get to eat Chipotle for lunch (which I'm never against since I miss it too much...oh gosh I'm salivating now) but I tire of going there, I guess. Rantoul isn't terribly exciting. It's not like I'm a super big fan of ridiculously long road trips, but I think it would be nice to actually leave Illinois or something. Or, you know, go somewhere new that's not in the middle of nowhere. Then again this is my fault for not being able to attend anything of higher difficulty than regular. Although apparently we're gearing to send 6 teams to ICT (CHICAGO F!) so maybe...oh wait, but the rumor is that ICT will be in Chicago this year. Guh. I kind of wish I'd gone to THUNDER? I should also probably mention that I dropped my camera in David's car and consequently took NO PICTURES this time. 
2. This, I think, is not just my opinion but that of a few: this set had some issues. Like I'm not sure how edited it was kind of issues. LOL. Someone's idea of easy-even easier-I'm sure as hell not going to let you get 30 for the bonuses was kind of...lol...at times. But I'm not supposed to talk about this kind of stuff, I guess, even though nobody's going to see this Xanga (I hope) because I'll probably die the day they do. Ohhhhh god. But yeah. For my first experience with 11-ish line tossups, this was fun. LOL. Surprisingly. And I guess question length just makes you feel that much better when you can get a power, from legitimate academic love to anime knowledge (I think Donald Taylor looks down upon me for that one). I'll be interested to see what goes on during discussion of the set. We also, uh, lost. In a rather epically close advantaged final for Minnesota A. I thought it went all right given that their prelim match against Minnesota resulted in a devastating loss (150-645)...lol. It was so close too. We won the first match by a good margin and then narrowly lost the second by not being able to convert the last part of the bonus. 10 points! 
3. We had some lovely mishaps this time...lol... So on Friday when we were leaving, it was decided that Marshall's van group would meet in the parking lot of Treasure Island, but Shantanu said he wasn't walking that far and that Marshall could just as easily come pick him up, to which Marshall declined. This was Thursday. Then on Friday, at like...7...David gets a call during dinner from Marnold going crazy because Marshall left without Shantanu. David's car (David, Seth, Adam, George, and me) are all getting ridiculously unhealthy diner food (yum) and staring at his phone and laughing. So as it turns out, Marshall had to turn around to go pick up Shantanu, who apparently was so late going that that car had just decided to leave without him. Luckily they only had to turn back after around 10 minutes of driving. But this is just testament to how ungodly Shantanu was in his lateness. LOL.
4. The moment I'd been dreading for months finally came: I re-met Rob Carson. And actually it wasn't so terrible. I'm pretty sure he recognized me the moment he saw me and I pretty much just said nothing. Except the one time I awkwardly pushed Peter through the door faster so I wouldn't have to idle next to Rob for too long. I'm suchhhh an awkward child. But uh...at least he didn't say anything. And at least Bernadette didn't either. I think I'd have died if either had. But I swear that when Rob came over to do the "good game" handshake with us after Minn A slaughtered us, he had a knowing, amused expression on his face. I SWEAR. Usually when I think like this it's just my paranoia talking, but this time...this time I really think it was there. I don't think I was imagining anything. Ughhh. At least that's over. Which leads to...
5. ...my finally feeling more comfortable with the team. Haha. At dinner Marnold asked me, "So...were you rooting for Rob Carson because you think he's cute?" I don't think he and David believed me when I tried to tell them that I didn't really even think Rob was cute. I can objectively say that he's a 7 or 8 but he's really not my type (I said Henry>Rob for me). And then I proceeded to tell them who was kind of cute...haha. Marnold: "Who's on your calendar of quizbowl cuties?" I asked them, too, but they said it was too gay for them to actually do. And when asking about Kelly Tourdot (I don't know, she's female?)...they just laughed out loud and then asked Trygve, who said she was a -4. I thought that was kind of harsh but I've never seen her before. Ah. Finally my skeletons are free from the closet of my neuroses! When I told them I almost didn't join quiz bowl because I was so awkward about it, they told me that was dumb and that it totally didn't matter. And that it only made me moderately more interesting.  And I'm really beginning to appreciate how nice everyone is! Even though they're sometimes assholes in humor, still nice. It actually feels nice to be made fun of by Seth for burning my tongue four times in the same meal. I guess I'm mostly just a fool, but it feels better to know that I can slowly be more myself. Have some tea parties with my stuffed animals and Evan's...you know, that kind of stuff. 
All right, that's enough of my random rambling this time. I wish I had pictures. Ugh. I think I'm going to start studying more for quiz bowl. When I can and stuff. Like this feeling of being rusty just isn't fading. And I actually do have some desire to be better at it.
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| ACF Fall 2009 in 5:
1. SHIT I can't believe I forgot to write this two days ago, but uh...I was busy celebrating Halloween with all my buds. Speaking of Halloween...it was Halloween! LOL. So I was dressed as Thing 1 this year (Katie was Thing 2) and walked around and almost every round someone would ask me where Thing 2 was or tell me how awesome it was. =] Makes me happy. There were a few other pretty cool costumes, too, and there was a guy making balloon dogs for people! I never asked him for one, but I feel like I should have. =/ Having a tournament on Halloween is a pretty awesome thing to do...and I hope this can happen again sometime while I can still participate (grad school, y'all)! And I really like having the tournament here, because I only had to wake up late and then run to Harper, which is 3 minutes from my dorm LOL. Nice.
2. I thought the set was all right, with a few weird questions that made me wonder if there had been proper editing done. And I'm not talking about the repeats (like that one architect dude came up twice in the same packet or something). I'm talking about that creature thing that only asked about one and that one science one that was bad because the answer was just wrong. -_- What the lame, right? I really hate it when things like this happen...so slapdash. I know editing is hard, but how bad can it be that you can't prevent the same toss up from occurring multiple times in one packet? Or, you know, a school forgetting that their B and C teams had played their packet in practice. That was pretty good, too...lolol.
3. So us freshmen were divided into three teams of three people each instead of the planned two teams because of some weird bracketing issues (the bracketing was really weird on the overall lol) and that was...not really conducive to us doing well? LOL. George, Mike, and I were on Chicago C and as expected did pretty abysmally. Like. Middle of the field. LOL. Also, we had the misfortune of being placed into the bracket with all of the Illinois teams, so it was pretty painful being raped three times in one day (first by Mike Sorice, then by Ike, and finally later on by Trygve)...although they were all very nice in doing it. They're super nice people! But yeah...lol. We did so much worse than the A/B teams (Jakub/Kyle/Watson and Mike/Matthew/Sam) who got 7th and 5th respectively as compared to our 15th. LOL. I mean there were a couple of games we definitely should have won but our bonus conversion was pretty abysmal. It was literally 10 one game (I think we bageled so many bonuses it was just...lol).
4. Vain as I am, I have to look at my own individual stats. LOL. I did okay on a few tossups and mostly ended up messing up things that I should know but don't. Like. I need to get some balls so I can buzz in earlier when I actually know things instead of just being the golden chicken. Thanks to the whole two-man team situation, George and I as always, we both ended up posting 40 ppg. Which was great, you know. LOL. Maybe I wasn't as miserably useless to David's fantasy quiz bowl team, although I was just an alternate anyway. I'm not worthy of being even last pick on anyone's team! Not even a Chicago player's! Although hilariously I do merit some ridiculous gossip from quiz bowl boys on the internet. I can't lie though; I find the whole creeper thing totally amusing. Hahhahah. Let's see how many times I can commit quizcestuous acts in the next few years, yeah?
5. WHERE ARE THE CUTE BOYS? The cutest ones the entire day were HIGH SCHOOL kids and you know what? I'm not a pedophile! (Really, I'm not.) So in spite of the danger I face in having this xanga be discovered by people from the quiz bowl community, I'm going to write shit here. Shantanu is so cute with his sun bear (who by the way met Knut and bonded over being awesome bears), Craig(?) from Illinois is pretty cute in a hipstery way, I would definitely tap that one piece of sweet Catholic ass (just kidding, obviously if only for the fact that I anatomically CANNOT "tap" anything), I kind of want to pat Marnold's head and belly (his hair looks soft), and there's nobody legitimately cute. How will I find the Seth Teitler to my Selene Koo? (Just kidding, because I'll never be as godly as she is! They read for us one round and it was AMAZINGGGGG. SELENE KOO AND SETH TEITLER. Man, they're cool people.) I'm just going to have to sloot around a bigger tournament (ICT shall I cram ass for you?) or something.
I love how these things are usually only 60% about quiz bowl. And then I get tangential. But oh! Oh! Illinois Open in two weeks! That will be exciting, and potentially mortifying if Rob Carson mentions anything about anything to me. But with my creeper luck, he will and then Bernadette will throw me dirty looks, probably. I'm looking forward to quiz bowl tonight and I really hope Katie D. likes it so I can have a female companion. LOL.
ALSO update on Halloween...
After the tournament...was awesome! Wendt party = eating nice food, wrapping Vida the Hobo in toilet paper, watching Lemon get carried off to Crown house and exacting her revenge, taking pictures with the Scoobies and the rest of the gang, playing mahjong, royally embarrassing myself*, freezing to death in capris at night in the quad playing sardines, girl talk, fatass party with two pints of Ben & Jerry's, and moreee. If only for the fact that I never get any homework done on weekends, I love college and Saturdays. =] I should also probably mention that I went on a date the night before and probably forfeited a couple of tossups in the day just for not studying but hanging out with a dude, not that I think that whole ordeal merits mention here yet since this Xanga is mostly for amusement.
Speaking of...I should get to the royal embarrassment! YEAH. So what happened was on the way to the quad for sardines, I ran past Shantanu while yelling "PENIS!" (we were playing the 500 Days of Summer penis game) and then as I passed him he said, "Hi, Tracy" full of amusement and I froze in the middle of the street and turned around slowly only to awkwardly say, "Hi!" <pause> "Bye!" and then run away. I yelled back, "I don't normally do that!" but I'm not sure he heard. He was still drinking there with his friends.
This is only made better by the fact that George (who was running right in head of me) saw him and didn't warn me...and that my roommate Katie saw him way ahead (I was lagging behind the group saying hi to Emily) and turned around at the moment I yelled "PENIS!" next to him so she could watch me embarrass myself (she said to me later, "I knew you were going to do something stupid") as only Tracy can do! YEAH! Yelling penis next to the person I admire most on campus! YEAHHHH!! It probably did not help at all that I was wearing bright red from head to knee. Oh, God. After that happened I wanted to kill myself for 15 minutes.
All right, it's time for me to get some work done now, so I'll see you later, Xanga...maybe in a couple of days when I turn old on Wednesday! WHOO!
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| I feel as though I should make more obligatory entries in here now that I've actually begun college, so in spite of it being 2:25 AM on a Sunday night and my being rather behind on homework, I've decided that I do want to make a short post here now that I may expand tomorrow (probably not, but maybe maybe keep my options open).
School is sooo busy in Chicago. They're not kidding when they say there's grade deflation here. It's a bad misconception that this is where fun goes to die (unless your definition of fun is a shit ton of frat parties; but there's plenty of parties to go to if you look for them), but there really is a lot of work. Ah, hello to the next four years of my life. I barely have enough time for RSOs (mostly just quiz bowl and tutoring to be honest) and the weekends go by too quickly! I wish there were more down time where I didn't feel the intensive nagging feeling of needing to do more work (not that I even listen to it). I waste too much time on trying to keep up with shows and facebook. Ugh.
Adjusting has actually been fairly easy and uneventful in spite of a bit on initial apprehension during o-week and I'm finding there's a lot of nice and cool people to meet here. Roomie, floormates, housemates, other people. It's great! Hahaha. The weather is kind of abysmal (but I'm getting used to it...) and the dorm food gets to be kind of repetitive but we eat out once a week or so. And there's always hitting up the c-shop downstairs for sushi or something...lol. I really miss home and friends though, when I allow myself to think of missing Asian food and the luxuries and comfort we have to leave behind. It's making me a more affectionate person when I do indeed make the time to talk to people, though my messaging statuses are always RED/AWAY nowadays. Trying not to let myself be seduced into chatting!
All right, it's 2:33 AM now and I have a 10:30 lecture tomorrow to go to...so I'm going to hit the hay now. Bye, Xanga (and my one or two consistent readers).
ALSO...UNLIMITED TEXTING IS MAKING ME BAD. I feel like I have to take advantage of it because I have it. Ughh. Text me if we haven't talked in a while! (Then again, the only person I know who absolutely will read this entry is already going to text me...so maybe this is a little pointless.)
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| EFT in 5:
1. WHOOOAAAA first college tournament ever?! (Well, first one where I was actually in college...lol.) It was a lot of fun, and the traveling makes it a little different from what we're used to, I guess. Not that UIUC is even much farther from Chicago than San Diego is from Arcadia. LOL. It's really about a half hour difference, but an awesome half hour difference that leads into overnight stays! (Except that means I haven't done any homework in days. OOPS. Guess who's staying in tomorrow to work on shit?!)
2. Oh my dear lord. Co-ed rooming can get really freaking awkward. Really. Really really. I am not lying, dear God. I mean, sharing a bed with Margo isn't the weird part...it was how we couldn't stop our awkward laughter (and I mean couldn't) when we were supposed to sleep in the same room as Watson Ladd, who was also visibly uncomfortable with the idea of staying in a room with two chicks, even though we did decide to let him have a bed. So awkward. I couldn't stay in that room, even. God I felt so bad later when I realized I'd left Margo alone with him, but I was too busy playing cards and looking terrified in Room 124. Oops.
3. College tournaments are simply not as well run as high school tournaments are...because we're really not as afraid of people being unwilling to come back. LOL. I mean, it's definitely not the fault of any moderator for catching SWINE FLU (seriously) and being unable to come and infect us while reading, but starting late and stuff is never great. Great modding though, and efficient handling of protests and difficulties. The Anderson Officiator Deluxe with the 20 buzzers is ridiculous though, and resulted in first round SLAPBOWL. Which is especially bad against a buzzer because then nobody can tell who slapped or buzzed first (oh, playoffs). Also, this set was good bordering on terrible. LOL. It's always great when the moderators have to stop in the middle of a bonus to think about what articles are extraneous before they can continue reading. Or, you know, when the same bonus pops up in different packets. Whoo!
4. Chicago is no joke. 1-2-3, though we sort of messed things up by losing too much in the morning and getting placed in the second bracket. And although I've yet to see the sacred band, just witnessing the grace of his holiness Shantanu is kind of like...omgwtfnoway. You know, so eloquently phrased and all. I think at one game he scored 160 points on 17 correct TUs and 2 negs...meaning that he buzzed on 19/20 tossups in a single round. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL. Man, I love this guy. He watches Gossip Girl (out of worship for Chuck, no less) and dresses like it, too. Although I have to admit he does go a little over the top. Overpatterning...! Not that I'm some kind of fashionista guru or anything, so it's not like I can pass judgment on anything of the sort. Anyway, the final ended up with him dominating a game, almost by himself. Jimmy and Matt are both clearly good players, but it's like people don't really exist around his Holiness. Ridiculous. And this is the guy who wanted to play as Chicago D for the fun of it...because he'd never tried it before. "Was it everything you thought it would be?" "It was everything...and more!"
5. This wouldn't be a Tracy-in-5 sequence without some sort of ridiculous outside commentary about BOYS. So here it is: the pool is even worse in college quiz bowl! Which, I suppose, is to be expected. We noticed while attempting to play MBK (hence..."attempting") and noticed that not many men are too good looking at a college qb tournament. GREAT! My standards are already lowering thanks to the effects of my growing sense of ChicagoVision (it's like ALL white guys are starting to look good to me). Really...really...really terrible lowering of standards. Gosh. I even commented on it while we were in the room of a mod and he laughed because he knew it to be true. Yayyyyyyyy. I guess now I'm even LESS picky. Fantastic!
Anyhow, I'm crazy tired now and I think I'd really like to sleep. SLEEEEEEP. It's been so long since I last had to think for an entire length of 10 hours in a row. So now the exhaustion is setting in...I even slept for 2 hours on the car ride back. <3 Okay, now I'm really falling unconscious. AH!
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