October 5, 2009
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I'm trying to study and finish another post, but there are so many helicopters zooming around outside, because our school has had three major threats already today:
1) bomb2) armed intruder3) "White male subject
seen in the Cooper Hall area in black tank top, cowboy hat carrying
black puppy and a large hunting knife - Officers en route". (Word for word from my "Mo-Bull" system--our emergency text alert system...we're the USF Bulls, so they make Bull-puns all the time).
I know the third one should be really frightening, but, it is hard not to laugh at the description.The first time the sirens went off, I was on my way to class and noticed how nobody seemed to care about the sirens. They need a better system, because those sirens were not alarming (har har).
I remember last time we got an alert on campus that I remember was during the summer; the alleged gunman was actually 3 minutes from my dorm, and I received the warning text while I was on my way back from classes. I was really depressed then, and I actually was happy to be walking toward my dorm at such times. Though I wouldn't ever be selfish enough to put myself (& consequently others) in danger because of a down mood. This brings me to realize that I have made a lot of progress in my healing since we (ex- & I) broke up. (It is always hard with the first heartbreak; I suppose with all others too, if it is genuine). But I am a lot happier now, except when I think too much about him (which I rarely do, so no worries). My eyes are now open to the things that created rifts in our relationship, and things that I need to improve to make myself a better person for whoever might be my future someone, if he exists. Things that I am searching for in my future someone also.
I might add that I think the cutest guys are somewhat nerdy.
But human at the same
time. (Sometimes I felt like my ex- wasn't human; he lost touch with
the human world sometimes when his curiosity went overboard. Sometimes he would forget me amidst his studies, but no one likes to feel neglected...-_- [am I that boring or unappealing? Math is more attractive than me?
]). And then there is nothing like a sentient, compassionate being that also hasn't lost their sense of curiosity. n_n! I have a friend whom's heart one could win with food, but I think with mine if you talk nerdy...(& talking music sure doesn't hurt either, unless you hate the music I love!). 
Will reply to comments if I can get my work done!
I like to take my time & think out the things I have to say.& my layout is xkcd themed. (: It has been ages since I have had solid colors entirely, and such simple colors.
Comments (18)
Oh my, that's some scary stuff! You don't seem too worried though
@Roadlesstaken -
I guess it is the boy who cried wolf thing. We got several alerts freshman year, but nothing as terrible as todays. But apparently there have been arrests today. So maybe I shouldn't laugh it all off. [?]
Wow, your university is like Hogwarts, or OK Corral U or something. I didn't have one alert like that.....although every month they tested the Tsunami alarm....
@phantomFive -
I would probably be reallllly happy if I were at Hogwarts/if USF were more like it, except for the idea of being under siege constantly. :O!
there's a song i heard on the radio and it made me think of you. i don't know who sings it, but it is about fireflies, and catching them and it sounds kind of postal serviceish but perkier.
@Bonzai_Nekona -
Awwwwwwww.
I think it is Fireflies by Owl City, probably! I actually on only recently started listening to them. I've been trying to listen to more upbeat music to lift my moods and to wake me up! A lot of my other music has calming effects on me. :3
How can a guy wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a black puppy be a threat?
...well I guess the hunting knife might have something to do with that. Truly odd though...
Seriously, that's a lot of threats in a single day. I mean, there are crime alerts around the USC area all the time, but I don't think we've had anything like three alerts in a day > <
Yeah...getting over someone sure isn't easy, but people say time heals all wounds
it probably isn't true in all cases, but I find it to be true enough. It's great that you can learn from a breakup... I actually felt that I became much more emotionally mature during the period of time after my own breakup with my ex...and to distract myself, I focused a lot on school, hobbies, activities, and such, which actually helped me to rediscover my love for other things in life. Haha...and I'm starting to make breakups sound like a good thing...in all seriousness, I think being hurt is just one thing we have to experience at least once in our lifetimes...it's just part of being human. But I'm glad you're past the stage of depression though 
Haha nerdy huh? That would explain the Xkcd
...anyways, you probably have nothing to worry about. Once you're in med school, I'm sure you will be *surrounded* by nerds ^_~
@a_drunken_cellist -
I have no idea how people think og those things...(or do maybe that was the norm for him; but carrying around a puppy?)...
Ah, stay safe!
My school is kinda in the middle of the ghettos. I'm always going to schools in the middle of the ghettos; it's really weird. @_@!
The sisters used to always say, "everything happens for a reason"; and it seems pretty true, and it isn't hard making up answers, even if an obvious answer isn't clear O_~. In some ways it makes it scary to be as trusting and vulnerable. But it might be better to be that way than to have a big scary shell. Not that I could pull off being tough anyways. :[ I think I've been distracting myself with the same things; at first it was terrible though, because I was taking summer classes that reminded me of him (since he loved physics and when I first met him I was taking a 3 week class on genetics [& he was learning about pharm O_O]). I guess the trick is to stay human after all the hurt.
Yeaaaah
. Academic rather than comic-book/Magic card nerdy though. 
I like when people talk to me intelligently, or when they encourage curiosity. I know too many people who take these classes just because they have to (which I guess I sort of do too, but for the most part, despite grumbling, I really enjoy it!) 
. Do you read any comics/webcomics? 
!?
dang. 3 in one day would make me annoyed instead of worried. like, can't they get it right the first time? they need to try three times? and a puppy?
agreed with the nerd attraction. i find myself attracted to girls who are a bit shy, really studious and who exhibit slightly awkward social mannerisms. a girl who can talk about the energy/particle duality of light and also talk about a U2 concert can really light my fire.
oh, and i feel you with getting over your ex. it does get better, trust me. and you're made thicker by the experience, less vulnerable to the same mistakes.
@nyclegodesi24 -
Yeah, it was pretty annoying O_O, and I guess they were real threats and I should just count my blessings that nothing actually happened. But it's hard to take them seriously when there are so many. I wonder what happened to the puppy
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it's funny how a lot of people think it is a myth that there are people out there that like nerds particularly n_n! haha, I love the way you put that last statement, though I can't confess to being able to talk about U2 concerts.
As painful as learning experiences can be, I try to use them to justify why things happen.
It's just hard sometimes to see the light at the end of the tunnel, when we're always looking back instead.
@loves_mud - Hmm....yeah, if he got arrested, would the puppy be taken as "evidence"?
I used to read Xkcd on occasion...haven't really nowadays though. It's still good...just too distracted to keep up with them daily
I was never really into comic books, but I've read a few. I used to play Magic :O ...I never understood it for a long time, then a friend showed me how to play. He gave me a deck and I got super into it for a year or two back in high school. I loved it because it was so strategic and it actually required a lot of thinking, not just to make the deck with the right combinations, but also to play out the right strategies. Then one day, someone in my class stole my three decks...I knew who it was and I confronted him, but he never admitted it, nor did I bother to try to get it back, as I knew there was no way to prove that he took it (other than the brief few seconds I saw the proof with my own eyes). Other than the fact that those cards were given to me by a friend (and were worth quite a bit of money) and that I seriously hate it when someone can get away with theivery, it wasn't really a big deal for me. I simly moved on to other games like chess and Starcraft...haha
@a_drunken_cellist -
I was wondering the same; poor puppy! Must've been scary having police descend upon it! Or maybe exciting (more people to play with!?
!)...dogs are so affectionate, for the most part. n_n Unlike my cat >:(!
Aww, that's terrible!
I would imagine it to be a lot harder to steal from a person I knew than from a store though, since it is less personal. Either way, obviously it is bad. It's annoying like how people always ask to borrow school supplies and never return them. One kid actually asked me if he could steal my pen. I agreed, assuming he was actually going to give it back, but he didn't. O_O (fair warning?)
My only real memory of Magic might have came from when I was close to 5 or something; a kid asked me to play with him, but I had no idea how to, and what everything meant. So all I did was shuffled around cards.
No strategy involved O_~. I hadn't really looked into it since then, though I noticed a bunch of my friends playing it the other day in the Honor's Lounge...That is kind of what stopped me from playing with Tomagotchis. I let my brother bring it to class that day, and it was stolen. We were both frustrated, but we didn't really pursue it or try to get a new one. =. Now I'm trying to remember why I quit with Pokemon 140204 years ago. O_~
Haha...I'm sure he didn't mean it literally when he said he was gonna steal it. Sometimes, I forget to return things I borrow.
I had a tamagotchi too. It was confiscated from me when I was in elementary school because I was taking care of it while we were on a field trip or something
I got it back later, but I eventually lost it...my poor pet 
@a_drunken_cellist -
lol, yeah. Coincidence; I guess the ironic part was that he used that word specifically too. I've seen a few pens that have printed "This was stolen from [company name]". O_~
Awwwww!! n_n!!! This will sound weird, but I always liked cleaning it's poop! I felt bad because I lost it briefly once, and my pet became sick because poop accumulated there! I think there were two or three chocolate chip looking poops on the screen.
I wonder if I got a new one now if I could succeed. All my pets died before reaching the final stages. I've beaten Oregon Trail a few times, but I never could as a kid, so maybe I could take care of a tamagotchi now n_n. Except I'm busier now than I was then, so who knows. (Probably not a good distraction to start, so I guess that's one thing I don't need to find out O_~). Those might be more effective than the "sugar babies" they had some kids carry around in middle school / the dolls that cried for teaching responsibility of parenthood.
I'm sure you could succeed in raising one to adulthood now. I've never played Oregon Trail (but I've played and beaten Amazon Trail)...I do remember one well-known line from it though. "You have died of dysentery"...such an epic line haha. Anyways, In high school, we had to carry around stuffed animals all day. We pretty much had to just hold it nicely, never stuff it into our backpacks, never throw it, drop it, spill chemicals on it, or give it to someone else... honestly, I thought it was kind of a sad part of the "curriculum" because it weighs a couple ounces, it's soft, but durable, if you drop it while no one is watching, there are no consequences, you don't have to feed it, it doesn't poop, pee, cry, or throw tantrums...whoever thought this was a good way to teach parenting responsibilities was gravely mistaken...lol.
@a_drunken_cellist -
Maybe I'll try next summer or winter break when I can afford to XD.
I've never heard of Amazon Trail, but I have a feeling they might be about the same, because similar epic lines occur in OT. All sorts of diseases and death! But in OT we got to go hunting for food (bison were the easiest...everything else was too fast). Which I never really liked the idea of hunting, but it was a game
. Did they have that in AT? We also had forts/out posts where we could provisions from time to time. Do they have that in AT also? It'd be a lot harder without that option. O_O!
Haha, I like the addition of not spilling chemicals on it O_~! If only kids really were like stuffed animals...(jk! They'd be a little too limpid!).