As a whole, I consider the English/British (whatever you guys are calling yourselves this week, because there's also Welsh, Scottish, and Irish to take into consideration and well ... what do you refer to the people who make up the United Kingdom? I keep hearing different things so by now I've given up and in my head I refer to them all 'those blokes who live here' for I am LAZY) to be wonderful people. All the ones that I've met so far have been extremely nice and friendly and not one has treated me differently because I'm an American.

This does not stop me from wanting to punt my two neighbors through A WALL. For those of you who have never lived in a dorm before (And I hadn't before coming here), the walls are pretty thin. So when my neighbors decide to have a dance party late at night or blare their music at extreme volumes at all hours of the day, I can hear it.

No one should have to endure Nickelback or Britney Spears when they don't want to. Even less should they have to suffer through the horrific sing-a-long that accompanies it.

Like I said, I want to punt them through a WALL. But I won't. Not only because I tend to be a bit passive and non-confrontational (unless you are my younger brother), but also that would be one sure way to get me sent home FAST. So I will endure and suffer in silence.

...Okay not total silence. I have asked them to stop before, and generally it isn't too annoying. I'm vexed because I had a migraine today and that normally sets me on the edge as anyone who has known me for longer than a month can tell you. Kinda like how cell phones going off in a library make me want to throw things (but I don't! I'm all talk, really, and very little violent action....unless you're my younger brother who I love very dearly but should win a prize for "Most Annoying Sibling to Ever Exist" and I'm sure he'd display it with pride. Like he does the "Sister for Sale" t-shirt he owns).

Normally I'd grit my teeth and wouldn't even blog about it, except this most definitely is not the first time I've been annoyed by it. Plus, as said before, migraine. Migraines tend to bring out the worst in me. After all, it's only the feeling of jackhammers in my brain.

Migraines also tend to kill whatever plans for the day that I had (such as doing homework ... can't really do that if it reading hurts your head and turning on the light hurts your eyes) so I've basically spent most of the day - when I wasn't sleeping the pain away - mindlessly surfing the web. For the most part, I'm not even sure I knew what I was looking at. Mainly I kept pressing the "Stumble!" button of the Stumble Upon! plug-in that I have for my web browser (Mozilla pwns your soul) after watching tons of clips on YouTube, most of which were about Jim and Pam from The Office (American version, of course) - a show I haven't even watched before, and now I want to.

The result of which is an updated link section on the right. Just be thankful that I didn't put up everything I bookmarked today (most of which is now under a folder entitled "I am a nerd" because I stuck mainly to the educational pages after the pain lessened enough for me to read, but not enough that I was willing to get out of bed and pick up one of my history books. Yes, I know: LAZY. But it HURT!).

Also? Sorry for not responding to comments that have been made on previous posts ... I didn't know they were there. Oops? No seriously, shouldn't I be getting an e-mail or something when a comment is made? I have no idea, and luckily for me Christina told me she commented so I could go look and discover them all for myself. This doesn't mean I'll respond to comments NOW ... it just means I can no longer use the 'I didn't know they existed' excuse. But you all knew I was lazy in the first place and yet you still love me :D :D :D. RIGHT?!

Hopefully tomorrow I will wake up in a better mood/feeling better and be able to finish another paper by the end of the weekend. Yeah, I'm not holding my breath about it either.

Still no camera. What, were you expecting miracles? I'm not Huckabee, I don't "major in miracles" (Oh but I wish I did. Can you imagine the amount of money I could make if I could turn water into wine by magic? Goodbye student loans and their painful interest rates!). If the camera doesn't arrive by Friday, I'm buying a new one. Take THAT, parental units (whom I love and adore, but I WANT MY CAMERA).

Alright, the deranged one (me) is signing off now. I would apologize for the mindless points full of drivel but... It's my blog and I'll type what I want. Nyah.

:D

Oh: and so this post won't be a total loss to you, check out this out: His Video Message Out, a Professor of Computer Science Contemplates the Last Months Ahead . The video is amazing and totally worth the hour and twenty five minutes it lasts. Trust me.

And AGAIN: Neil Gaiman, who is a FANTASTIC author and you all should read his work, wrote this amazing book called American Gods that you can read for FREE (I believe it's only good for the next month) here: Browse Inside American Gods: A Novel By Neil Gaiman . This is one of my most favorite books and I highly suggest you do this.

Now I'll leave, and stop editing this post. REALLY. I swear. Oh look, what's over there? Shiny!