Footnotes

Whoo, I am really outdoing myself as far as being lazy is concerned. I'm in freaking Los Angeles and I've spent the past week doing close to nothing. Granted, school did really creep up on me this week, but it just really sucks how unmotivated to get off campus I've been. I'm going to blame most of this on the fact that I'm almost flat broke until I get the student loan I've been waiting for and that getting anywhere I really want to go requires setting at least two hours aside for transportation. You see, we (as in my fellow U of M students and I) are ignorant of how lucky we are to be living in a college town. Northridge is not a college town; its definitely a suburb, meaning there's really nothing to do except accidentally walk through people's backyards. Its a foreign concept to me that I'll elaborate on sometime in the future. But I swear, tomorrow I'm going somewhere. I promise.

I guess since I'm in a blogging mood but I don't really have any adventure stories to tell, I'll just update you all on a couple things that haven't been important enough to add to some of my more exciting posts.

First off, a lot of people (well, a lot of men) have been approaching me and questioning my ethnicity. Not that I have a problem with it, but I swear to you no one has ever questioned me being anything but just plain old white. I'm white. Norwegian, Swedish, Irish, German. Whiiiiite. The first time some guy approached me about it was last week. He asked me if I was Armenian. Then, a couple days later. someone inquired if I was Israeli. And then today, it was Egyptian! What?! This is what I look like right now:

Now, I wish I could say "Why yes, I am an exotic Armenian/Israeli/Egyptian lady. Thank you for noticing". But I can't. I'm obviously just white. I think I'll just assume these men were crazy. One of them did tell me I have beautiful feet...yeah.

In other news, I've been indulging in a lot more TV than normal. I think I've mentioned it before, but my roommates are all from nearby, so they've usually gone home for the weekend by Friday night. This has left me with a lot of alone time at night in my apartment, which seems to lead me to the inevitable outcome of browsing Hulu for interesting looking shows.

The first series I breezed through was Wilfred. I've had a certain fondness for Elijah Wood since becoming obsessed in the Lord of the Rings in middle school (don't even get me started on this), and the fact that he plays the lead role really makes the show. That, and the fact that the other lead role is a dog that Elijah's character sees in a humanoid form after overdosing on cold medicine. I absolutely loved the first season. I'm not going to do a big recap/rating thing, but just know that I recommend it, so start watching it right hurr.

The second show is Misfits. Ohhhhhh my god. Obsessed. If you haven't heard of it, Misfits is a British drama about a bunch of juvenile delinquents that get super powers after being exposed to a weird storm. I know, it sounds like a genre that's been completely played out, but Misfits makes it totally fresh and fucking awesome as hell. Its honestly one of those shows where you're like 'This is totally my favorite episode', and then the next one is even better. And its hilarious. I'm pissed that I finished watching it already, but season three comes out in October. Pumpedddd. Just watch it. You will thank me (and thank Jacky by the transitive property. THANK YOU JACKY). Although, I do want to warn you, the best character leaves after the second season. Asshole. But still, WATCH IT.

 

If you do end up watching the first two seasons, Facebook me and I'll send you a link to the Season 3 webisode. I don't want to put it up here because the more places its posted, the more likely it is to get taken down for legal reasons blah blah blah.

Anyway, that'll do for tonight. Like I said, I'll hopefully have something more exciting to write about tomorrow night. Until then! <3

Edit: So I got a really late start to the day and its going to be less brutally hot tomorrow, so I've swapped adventure-day and homework-day this weekend. Exploring LA begins at 9am tomorrow, wish me luck!