homework, art, tribal porn, and a new computer, oh my!

well, i'd tell you about my weekend... but i really dont know what to say... saturday was all chores and homework. literally. my only break from the two of those things was my trip down to mc donald's to grab some quick food, and later my trip to the gas station down the street to buy smokes (as i was running dangerously low). it rained all day saturday, and it was absolutely wonderful. i love rain. i'm sure i've said that before... but oh well. you get to see me say it again :P

sunday was spent on Stanford (Stanfurd) campus. i have an intense hatred toward Stanford, as both my father and myself are UC Berkeley employees. call it school spirit if you will, but i'm patriotic towards my place of employment. even if it is only because i practically grew up on campus, and they write my paychecks. anyway... i digress.

Stanford, as much as i hate them, has a wonderful art museum. a FREE art museum. and to a starving (not literally, but you know what i mean) student, anything free is automatically very very awesome. but on top of it being free, they've got an amazing Rodin exhibit going on, complete with a replica of "the gates of hell" and a whole wing full of his bronze sculptures. they also have a great middle eastern art wing (complete with egyptian mummy in sarcophagus), and two sections of native american art. we went through the WHOLE museum. and i only really had two problems with the place. 1) typos on the information plaques and 2) some of the pieces were dispursed rather randomly (for example, we found a Rodin piece of two ballet dancers mixed in with the Chinese art). we also went to the Stanford Mosoleum (or however you spell that), and the "angel of grief" (i think thats what its called... sorry... ADD... cant remember the name of the thing properly) which is one of the most beautiful statues i've ever seen.

After that, we went to the other side of the campus, and visited this outdoor tribal art display thing (yes, i cant remember the name of that EITHER... thank you... *sigh*). it was full of carvings in stone and wood that were done by tribal artists from new guinea, and it was stunning. the stone carvings made you feel like you were deep in a tropical forest (eventhough the place was covered in pine needles... hehe), and the wooden carvings made you feel as if you were in one of the spirit houses that were talked about on the informational plaques scattered around the place. the intricacy of the carvings blew me away (as someone who's done a little bit of carving herself...), and what they depicted... wow. there was one of these "spirit post" things that i couldnt help but laughing at though... every single creature on the thing was fukking another creature on it... or eating another creature on it, and in some cases, you couldnt tell the difference. alligators, boars, people, monkey looking things... all screwing. lol. i'm sure it has some sort of deep spiritual meaning, but with my dirty mind... well... all i could think was "orgy!!" LOL. i also found my perfect man in there too... maybe i'll figure out how to post pictures on this thing, and add that at some point. y'all will have a good laugh :P after that we wandered around to see some of the random works of art they have in front of their buildings... one was supposed to be a bronze sculpture of a unicorn... but... all it looked like was an abstracted fish... um yeah. I guess thats Stanford for ya. lol.

I was supposed to do homework after i got back from my trip into enemy territory... but i didnt. i swear we must have walked like 4 or 5 miles, and i was just too tired and sore to be able to address my geography, or my english. i guess i'll just do the geography while i'm in the lecture class tonight, and i'll do my english tonight when i get home, or at lunch tomorrow or something. AH! note to self: on the way to class tonight, buy blue books for the in-class essay tomorrow in english!

(hmmm it appears i HAVE told you about my weekend now... um... ignore previous statement about not knowing what to say)

OH! happy news... this morning i finally ordered my new laptop! i was sposed to do it like, 3 weeks ago, but well... i never got around to it, and then last night i noticed that dell prices had fallen through the floor (base model price for a laptop $699... whoa) so i went in and customized the heck outta one (turning said 699 into 1100 haha), and ordered it this morning. i checked on the order this afternoon (to make sure my card had gone through... erm... yes, i needed to check... shut up!), and :O they're building it now! *grins an insanely huge grin* i will have it in time to do all my geography field reports on CDRW! *bounces up and down happily*

okay... is it sad that i'm so excited about being able to do field reports on CDRW? or am i completely justified to be happy to finally own a computer that can handle my graphics software? (Corel will NOT run on the POS i have for a doorstop at home...-- glossary -- POS = piece of shit. doorstop = laptop that is so outdated and obsolete that all its good for is holding open a door) anyway... fun fun stuff for me, cuz the new laptop will have a battery that holds its charge for longer than 15 minutes (yes really... i told you... doorstop), and i can actually take it on the train to work with me, and do my homework THERE :D *bounces up and down summore* [alright, stop imagining that i'm not wearing a shirt... jeez... y'all are not my geography teacher, dont act like him! LOL]

anyway... um... i should like... um... work... or something... so... talk to y'all later!