Feelin' Listy

* My iTunes download is in progress right now.
* I'm doing karaoke tonight with my favorite Japanese boy! Karaoke in and of itself would be fantastic; Japanese boys make it better.
* The boy I have a ridiculous crush on said that the only way he would ever hit a woman was if she were old. I know, that's horrible. That's what made it so hilarious.
* I got a postcard from my adorable non-English speaking teacher in Japan. It looks handmade, too. It is lovely, at any rate.
* I also got an email from my beloved Constance in China!
* Both the papers that were supposed to be due next week got pushed back a whole weekend.
* I think Quizno's is in the cards for dinner tonight.
* There's a ton more money in my bank account than I thought there was, and my mom sent me $40 just because.
* I tried a radical new thing called "actually putting effort into my hair and not having it look like shit" today, and it paid off, and everyone thinks I got it cut.

Edit: Duh. I forgot two of the best parts.

* It was flip-flop wearing weather today.
* It is virtually snow-free outside again. Maybe it will stay this way.

I couldn't decide whether to put this in madsurveys or here.

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list of stuff I bought this weekend (i love income tax $$)

-area rug from target
-runner to match the area rug
-shower curtain with colorful bubbles (target)
-Orange Crush Lip Smacker
-socks, black
-pants from Old Navy that said "short" but are way too long
-yellow sweater, Old Navy
-lots of gifts for Emma
-shirts for the girls from Old Navy
-toy for Aden (too keep him occupied while he was in the cart at Toys-R-Us

The walls of my dorm room, that is. I don't even remember what's on my walls at home. I haven't spent much time there in the past six months.

So. The things of wonder on my walls.

* Postcard that my friend sent me from Belize. Belize looks pretty. I want to go there, too.

* Three birthday cards: one is Hello Kitty in angel/fairy form, one is a handmade one from notebook paper with pictures of random foods cut out from magazines (tomatoes and a turkey), and one with a bunch of little cartoons with Japanese under them. No one knows what it means.

* Fan from Kyoto Gakuen University

* Certificate of completion of study at KGU.

* Invitation to a baby shower, and two registry information cards. I should take those down. The shower was last week.

* Pamphlet for the Beijing/Kyoto conference that I want to go to.

* Strip of photobooth stickers from Japan.

* Sign my friend Russell made me that says "I <3 Alyssa-San"

* 4 pictures from China: one from the Great Wall (the view of the Wall when you're on it); one of some of my friends and me after we'd gotten caught in a massive, disgusting, almost monsoon-ish rainstorm; one of a random market street; and one of Beijing at night.

I usually also have up this picture I found at a bus stop in Japan of some guy in a martial arts uniform doing...some kind of martial arts on a dock. It keeps curling up, though, and I love it and want to keep it in pristine condition, so it's down until I know what to do with it. Best found object ever.

over the weekend I had time to fill my purse a little more so here is
What's in my purse, take 2
synofthecity's amazingly long list of books
white make up poof
covergirl foundation ivory
covergirl compact ivory
covergirl outlast lipstick, some sort of raisin
covergirl outlast lipgloss
Tanya Donelly Whiskey Tango Ghosts
birthday card from MIL
cheap NYC eyeliner in black and white
tigi eyeshadow
wrappers from the tops of cigarette packs (2?)
slycurl's phone number
ID
Lane Bryant gift card (about $18 left on it)
green barrette (not beret)
some sort of foil that must have come off candy
7 pennies
6 dimes
2 nickels
1 quarter
9 ones
1 twenty
a small blue tag that says Twinkle Candy www.twinklecandy.com from a heart shaped lollipop one of the girls had
a silver twisty that held the cellophane from the lollipop

I am about 1/3 of the way through a paper due tomorrow. Instead of writing, I have:

* Glittered
* LJ'd
* Looked at Japan pictures
* Debated changing my paper topic
* Checked away messages on AIM about 66 times
* Checked my email about 43289 times
* Considered what music would be most conducive to paper-writing
* Made lunch

I told myself that I was going to start being productive at 2:00. Whoops.

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First of all, it is a black Tommy Hilfiger wallet with a red lining.

MN Drivers License
US Bank Visa Check Card
Marlboro Mastercard..I send in my Marlboro miles, they keep adding $25 to the card. It's a beautiful thing.
Paypal Mastercard (also like a debit card..it's been empty forever)
AAA card
Another AAA card
Library Card
Goodyear Oil Change Coupons
Twin City Coops ATM card. I think there might be 14 dollars in that savings account.
Fantastic Sam's punch card
Caffe Amore punch card (coffee shop here at work)
Some ladies Mastercard that I picked up in the Cub parking lot months ago and haven't done anything with yet
SuperAmerica Speedy Rewards Membership Card
Preferred One Health Insurance card
My contact lens prescription
Coupon for free cappucino or coffee at BP gas station
Tommy's new cell phone number
Las Vegas checkbook
Drink coupon for Norshor Theater in Duluth
Picture of Jaxon, my cousins baby
$1 winner Powerball ticket
2 free tickets to the movies
2 drink tickets to Mama Gets in Superior, WI
Pizza Rolls coupon
Three stamps
Dad's cell phone number
Wallet size pic of Mugsy
Boca Burgers coupon

Madelyn, this is partly for you so you have something to do. It's also because I have a "release" party to go to in 15 minutes and I don't want to get there right on time and look like a loser.

I have...

* No cash. Just some change. I need to fix that.
* A Wild Bean Cafe card
* A weekend pass train ticket from last weekend
* Chicago-Aurora train schedule
* Noodles & Company card, which is all filled up, but I'm waiting until I'm super-duper broke to use it. That should be soon.
* A newspaper clipping of restaurants in Chicago with South American food, because I've never had it and want to try some before I graduate.
* Chicago-Harvard train schedule
* Subway card
* Java & Juice card
* Two Ogden 6 movie theatre cards...I had to get a second one because I lost the first one, then promptly found that one.
* A Target gift card with $7.38 on it
* A Wal-mart gift card with $4.46 on it (I always put Post-Its with my amount remaining on the cards)
* A list of stuff I needed to email my dad about (circa late November), written on a bus ticket stub from Japan
* Minnesota ID
* Check card
* Card with my campus phone code on it
* Target credit card
* Phone card
* Gold Points card from TGI Friday's
* Insurance card
* 2004 calendar that I got in Cambodia...it has important dates like "Pchum Ben Day" marked on it (that was the 12-14 of October, FYI)
* Social Security card
* Expired Naperville Public Library card
* Econo Foods card
* School ID

Moral of the story...I need to clean out my wallet.

This, first of all, is my bag. At the moment, it serves a double function as both my schoolbag and my purse, unless I'm going out and want something smaller and/or less controversial.

It contains:

* a copy of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, with an ad for Brickhouse Pizza as a bookmark
* a carbon copy form of my room condition report, which I just turned in today even though I finished it three days ago
* a five-subject notebook
* a photocopied handout: "The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State" by Friedrich Engels
* the adorable but tiny Twinkle Puppy planner I bought in Japan
* an empty tube of Nature's Acres Orange & Calendula lip balm
* two pens, one black and one blue, because I hate pencils
* my wallet, which is fuzzy and leopard-print, and also contains a lot of things that I will perhaps list when I am bored again