Ahhh fuck!

Ok, this is too weird. I was just continuing my stalking from last night, and clicking around on facebook a little bit. I clicked on the album that contains the photo of the guy playing. It's sort of a portrait album. It also contains 5 other pictures of people. They are all good friends of the album owner. And who else is in the album, you ask? Pat, this guy I went to high school with and was in yearbook with and had a huge crush on. (Emily might remember me talking about him recently). Even though this is completely bizarre, maybe I have my in!!! I'll have to think about this. Maybe they don't know each other, but still.

I am a horrible person.

In other news, he just sent me a tiny email in Icelandic :D :D :D :D :D

I am hopeless

So like I may have mentioned to a couple of people, last week I found this guy on a website I am on, and I'm totally in love with him, if I can say that. He knows Icelandic and lived in Iceland, he likes the same bands as me, he went to UW-Madison, is very nice, funny, really smart, has a masters, etc etc, basically all the stuff I would say if I were to design a robot for myself. Anyway, I stalked him tonight and while I was feeling very creepy and horrible, I found his facebook page, which is public (thus lessening a tiny bit my bad feeling about looking at it), and there was a picture of him playing guitar and singing at a place which was a public place which I don't want to name for some reason. Augh! Why! The universe knows I immediately fall in love with any guy who can sing. Did I mention he looks like Ben Gibbard? We all know how much I love Ben. The picture of him singing - I would have thought it was Ben had I not known. I have a lot of love flying around right now. I have to figure out how to lure this guy in. So far we have written to each other 3 times each. I had to extremely hold back from asking him to marry me on my first email. (Ok, not that, but I did nearly have a coronary when he said he lived in Iceland - I may possibly have almost cried). I was extremely excited that he has written back. I need to really concentrate on this one though. I feel like I want to completely go for it right now; however, I do NOT want to screw it up. I am not sure still how guys react to girls completely falling all over them. It depends on the guy, I guess. So I am "playing it cool" at the moment, which is obviously a facade that I am cleverly putting up, while in the background I stare at facebook photos and wait in agony for a reply. I am so painfully pitiful. I am slightly afraid it will backfire and he may forget about me, so that's a problem. I have to think of something cool that will secure a memory of me, like learn Norwegian and write an entire letter in Norwegian (he knows that one better). I wrote part of my last one in binary. I thought that was funny. Or I need to learn something he really likes and pretend I don't know he likes it. I already messed up on one of those sort of because he's really into Meyers-Briggs and we have the same score, but I said I haven't thought about that in a while, instead of spewing forth facts about it like I should have ;). However, perhaps the fact that we have the same scores means that he is similar to me personality-wise (go figure) and that I could do what I would want someone to do for me, which is be extremely complimentary, nice, write to me 93 times a day, and fall all over me. So perhaps if he's like me, he'd like that (I'm not going to write to him that much, I have learned enough by now not to do that). He said in his next letter he will write about Meyers-Briggs. Perhaps then I can glean more information for my plan of attack. My plan of attack has been pretty successful so far, but not overwhelmingly so. I annoyed myself with my last one because I think I came off slightly arrogant. I have a problem with that when I'm talking about certain things, like Icelandic or my website. I feel like I'm talking about me, me, me and how awesome I am.

 

Did I just write that much about that? It's bedtime.

Photoshop Contest Entry

Here is an entry I made for a photoshop contest. It's supposed to be literal band names. Guess what band it is. By the way, it looks better big, if you click on it.

:(

I forgot about CP. L

Ticketmaster

Ticketmaster just went independent, and started off with a $750 million debt. Along with 100% of the population, I ask, how the fuck is that possible?

 

Anyway, Coldplay is on the Daily Show tonight and not tomorrow.

Compliment

I am glowing with happiness and self-congratulations after a mini exchange between myself and an icelandic person on av club - check it out

 

http://www.avclub.com/content/music/sigur_ros_0

 

It's toward the bottom right now. But anyway a person said he/she was Icelandic and so I decided to show off and write Icelandic. This person said my writing was really good. AHHAHAHA! I'm so proud of myself! Brag...brag...brag...brag...brag I kind of annoyed myself though on that page because I put about 37 comments. I can't shut up sometimes.

Help me remember

Dear Blog, Coldplay is going to be on The Daily Show for some reason on Thursday, and Today on Friday.

 

Sincerely,

E

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Ára bátur

In case anyone wants to know, asked my teacher what ára bátur means and she said that usually the word is one word and it means rowboat. But Sigur Rós likes to play with words and possibly they made it two on purpose, and in that case ára could also mean demon.

 

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Sigur Rós

Here is a streaming thing of their new album and I think you all should listen to Illgresi (weeds). It's a little over 4 minutes. I think this is my favorite song on it right now. I really like Jón's vocals on it and I think it sounds like a song from the middle ages. I have been trying to figure out the words. Without looking anything up I heard the following phrases in the song (this is making me laugh by the way)

you sleep soundly until noon, you find animals, feet, swim, grass, it shines a lot, green, we work, clothes, good day, give life, thought, light, time, home

So there are some key words from the song. :D

And here are translations in case anyone wants them. Some are in English obviously, and Fljótavík and Straumnes are both place names.

Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - With buzzing in ears we play endlessly

1. Gobbledigook
2. Inní mér syngur vitleysingur - lunatics sing inside me
3. Góðan daginn - good day
4. Við spilum endalaust - we play endlessly
5. Festival
6. Suð í eyrum - buzzing in ears
7. Ára bátur - Something boat? I am not quite sure what it is because there are 5 words for ára. I'll ask my teacher. I thought it was river boat, but silly me, river is á or ár but not ára.
8. Illgresi - weeds
9. Fljótavík
10. Straumnes
11. All alright

Why

Why am I still awake right now? Well, might as well write.

 

My week in Icelandic was great. In speaking class I talked about Akureyri and Sigur Rós and the wedding. I'm really doing well, if I do say so myself. Level 2 ends next week!!! I'm going to take a break I think, if I can, until September or so. I can't believe how my ability has exponentially shot up in the last 6 weeks or so. I think that the writing class helps the most, and obviously the fact that I have a teacher who is a native speaker. Things get in my head and stick there. I think also it helps that I enjoy it. Speaking of Sigur Rós, I'm in love with their new album, but I don't have much else to say about it right now. My teacher showed me the midnight sun the other day. It was a hilarious exchange because of the following. She wanted to do a video chat but I don't have a webcam. So I went through the wizard and selected "no webcam" yet somehow it selected my DVR and was showing her People's Court. It was hysterical. She was like "What am I looking at??? Your television???" Haha. OH! And then I was trying to say "I'm really out of whack with sleep and eating" and I asked her how to say out of whack. I didn't think there would be anything because that sounds like a colloquialism. Yet, she said "It's out of cow" like that was totally normal. I was like "Why do you say that? That's kind of strange" and she said "Isn't that something in English? Out of cow?" And I said "No, it isn't anything, unless you're talking about how you don't have any cows anymore for some reason" and she laughed and then told me the difference between out of cow and out of cows - út úr kú / búinn með kýr (the second one is funny in its own right for a completely different and hard to explain reason) but anyway I thought that entire conversation was hysterical and now I'm going to tell her I'm out of cows all the time (the one that means I don't have any cows). Anyway, she never explained what out of cow means because she thought it was a thing in English.

 

Ahhh, I gotta go.

Battlestar Galactica

The almost-series/season finale was yesterday and shit it was awesome. Emily - if you're not TOO far behind I'd almost say catch up just for watching that episode. This quasi-season has been really up and down but it's worth it for yesterday.

Coldplay and Comedy Central

Apparently Coldplay signed a contract with Comedy Central. (I'm making this up by the way). This is what the contract said.

 

"We, Comedy Central, agree to play your ad at least twice every commercial break."

 

Ok, we all know how I feel about Coldplay but this is definitely overkill. I can only imagine how I'd feel if I hated them.

 

Besides that, I have been trying to think of a precedent for album/artist advertisements like this. I keep thinking it's an itunes commercial but it isn't. It's just a plain old Coldplay commercial. Right? Maybe I thought it was itunes for a reason, but I'm not sure itunes is mentioned at all. Regardless, it's odd. And, I'm actually tired of it. It's just because I am tired of having the song in my head.

Sometimes...I bleed

I'm awesome

My mom's cat has terrible behavior. There are a million things we need to work on, but one of my least favorites is his jumping on the counter. Not ok. So I thought of an idea to place empty cans on the edge of the counter. That way he won't associate it with me, he'll just think the counter is noisy and scary. I'm a genius! I've also been separating the two of them because the new cat is kind of mean to Daniel and I don't want Daniel to be nervous in his own house. But I went out for a half hour today and left them together and lo, two cans were off the counter when I got back!! Caught red-handed! I also sprayed some citrus smelling stuff there. Apparently cats don't like that. Nancy also said they don't like to step on tinfoil. So, soon my counter may be a tinfoil orange with cans on it. :D This cat is ridiculous though. I have never appreciated Daniel more. The only bad thing Daniel does is accidentally claw me because he doesn't understand his claws. It's hard to train cats, especially since you never know when they are going to do something, and also because their "bad" things are less people-oriented than with dogs. A bad behavior for a dog is usually something involving a person or something loud. Who knows when a cat feels like jumping on something or if they're even doing it right now? And they forget 1 second later, so it's no good if you notice too late. That's another good thing about the cans, it alerts me so I can rush over. Anyway...I'm off to clean more.

Liver disease

I purchased some of that lotion that supposedly turns your skin tan and my skin is now yellow.

 

My mom's cat escaped my apartment today, that was fun

Samning um Akureyri

I just finished my report on Akureyri and wanted to share it. I put a translation there too. It's a masterpiece! I'm so proud and it only took me about 2 hours to write. Kind of sad because it's basically a second grade report. Oh well. I'm still really proud of it.

Akureyri er fjórða stærst borg á Íslandi og er kölluð ‘Höfuðstaður Norðurlands’. Hún er staðsett á suðvestri hliðinni Eyjafjarðar og er umlukt hjá fjöll. Þrátt fyrir stað hennar, veðrið er fallegt, einstaklega á sumarin þegar það er sextíu stiga (tuttugu stiga C). Í Akureyri það er bókasafn opinber, listasafn, og Akureyrarkirkja. Það er náttúrugripasafn hvar er hægt að læra um alla fugla Íslands og önnur jurtir og dýr. Nyrðastur grasgarður veraldar er í Akureyri og það er með miklar jurtir af Íslandi og öðrum staðnum. Í Akureyri það er líka frábær háskóli sem heitir Háskóli Akureyrar. Í háskólanum er hægt að læra lögfræði og félagsvisindi, heilsu, menntun, eða verslunarfræði og vísindi. Eitt háskólapróf er kennt á ensku (tölvufræði). Háskólinn er með frábær fjarkennslu fyrir nemendur sem búa á Íslandi og nemandaskipti við aðra skóla. Í stigi persónulegu, Akureyri er uppáhaldsborgin mín úr veröld. Mig langar til að búa þangað framvegis. Það er ein ástæða ég er að læra íslensku!

Akureyri is one of the largest towns in Iceland and is known as the capital of Northern Iceland. It is located on the southwest side of Eyjafjörður and is surrounded by mountains. Despite being so far north, the climate is beautiful, especially in the summer when the average temperature is in the upper 60s (around 20 C). In Akureyri there is a public library, art museum, and Church of Akureyri. There is a nature museum, where you can learn about all the birds in Iceland and other plants and animals. The world´s northernmost botanical garden is located in Akureyri and contains many Icelandic and foreign plants. There is also a great university called University of Akureyri. At the school you can study law and social sciences, health sciences, education, or business and science. A major in computer science is taught in English. The school has a good distance learning program for students that live in Iceland and an exchange program with other universities. On a personal note, Akureyri is my favorite town in the world and I hope to live there someday. That is a great part of the reason I am learning Icelandic.

I felt a little guilty because maybe London is my favorite city, but I didn't quite want to get into that.

P.S. I received my diploma today!

Weird

I was just listening to Easy To Please, my namesake song, and was transported back to April 2001. That was incredible. Hi, 20 year old Emily!

Long day

Today I was working on a thing with my coworker Brian for about 4 hours (ok, it was probably only 2 or at most 3) and I was ready to kill myself at the end. I was sooooo annoyed with it. I finally figured out the problem and it was the stupidest thing ever (Brian agrees it is dumb). I was going to report a bug on it but it's SO dumb I don't even want to look at it anymore. I'll probably do it tomorrow though.

Then I was drinking some green tea and I got wired. It was funny because I don't usually react to caffeine. It could have been something else in it, I guess. I'm exhausted from that stupid bug though. That was probably the hardest I've worked on something in a while, mostly because I couldn't figure it out. That was due to the fact that it was such an idiotic bug. Neither of us thought to look at what it ended up being. Anyway...

Lost season finale is on tonight!

There was an earthquake in Iceland today. I'm going to ask around at my school to see if everyone is ok. Crazy...it looks like only minor injuries but still, crazy. It was in Selfoss and I don't know anyone there, but you never know.

Oh! I got a hold of my best friend from high school, Melissa, and I am going to see her this weekend. I can't wait!! I have not talked to her literally in years. I was going to go to Nancy's because she's having a garage sale but I will be out of town now. I am boring myself with this blog entry. Good bye. BAD BYE! (Simpsons)

Here are some pictures I took today. I didn't see the goslings but I saw some ducklings. :)