It's just begun to dawn on me that I don't have anything for my college which starts in a little more than two weeks or so. Well, scratch that. I do have my laptop and a sign for my desk. Yep. I can definitely live a few months at college with just that.
This weekend, I'll just have to go to Ross and start picking some sh** up. My mom is working that weekend but I think I can pick out bedding and all that jazz for myself. Also, I can always pick out the non-girly stuff with my dad. Like shelving and lamps and stuff. I can pick out towels and curtains and stuff like that with my mom.
All I need to do is to just start!
Well, I'm looking at a comforter set from Walmart. It's reversible. Plaid. Basic but not basic. I do think it looks a little off. I'm not sure why.
Like someone with no personality would choose this type of bedding set. I don't know... But I do like it. I think it'll look even better if I put the plaid pillows behind the white pillows and placed some cute decorative pillows on there.
Here's another bedding set that I've been looking at. I can't remember where it's from. I think it was some girly dorm website. I like this too and it's a bit more expensive.
I'd probably choose other pillows but it's basically what I'm looking for. I love how simple it is. The throw blanket is functional and cute. It'll go with the black and white theme I'm going for.
In my mind, I was telling myself I didn't really have a color theme. And I don't. But there is a look for my room that I'm going for. I want it to look nice but in a not try-hard way. I didn't want bedding with exaggerated patterns (like those obnoxious floral ones in obnoxious colors that seem to be the trend nowadays). I didn't want my bedroom to be too match-y match-y either. If I do a black and white theme, I can do several accent colors.
I really want to incorporate a wall tapestry in my room. And I really want to do a large six-poster "mural" on the side of my bed. I really really need my dad to give me a debit card so I can get started on ordering these posters from Amazon.
I'm also still considering doing lights in my room but I most likely won't do Christmas lights. I'll probably do those lantern ball lights and hang it over my wall tapestry.
So yeah, enough of the dorm stuff. I'm feeling nauseous right now because yesterday, I ate bad chicken. At least, I think it was the chicken. And it made me upchuck everything into the toilet. I haven't thrown up like that in forever and thinking about it makes me want to throw up right now.
The chicken was in this spinach stew that I think my mom got from someone else. I don't know. And the spinach was really good and I was eating it with fufu. And there was one piece of chicken left in the pot after my mom and I crushed so I decided to take it and eat it. I finished the chicken right after my dad came into the kitchen to talk to me about tuition. And all I remember was me feeling extra queasy and I had to stop talking to him to go the bathroom and then, everything just came out and continued to come out for awhile.
Like, I remember tasting everything that came out. All the chicken and the spinach and it didn't end until I started tasting the pizza I had eaten hours before.
My parents gave me apple cider vinegar and lime and mint gum and ginger to chew and it took awhile before I could regain myself but I was still feeling nauseous until the time I went to bed until now.
I didn't think I could eat breakfast but I ended up eating a bagel with cream cheese and some blueberry yogurt spread that I found in the kitchen of my building. And it was still appetizing. I drank some water though and felt like I was about to gag. So that's great.
I'm probably just going to buy mint tea and a clif bar for lunch. I only have like three dollars anyway. It's 11:44 now, but I'll probably go out to get lunch at around 12:30 pm and then, I have to go to this building to drop off my poster for the symposium tomorrow.
I had the poster printed three times in total. You see, this was how I designed my poster on Power Point.
I sent the file of my poster to this lady in another building and I don't really think she knew what she was doing. A bit of my poster cut off while it was printing and then, when it came out, it was as if the background went missing.
So all the fonts were the same (or as close as could be when you're printing on paper), and the background was white. The thing is, the four boxes that I had created were transparent. So it just didn't translate well on paper. Some colors were too light to be seen and the wavy thing in the back was really blatant and not subtle as I had wanted it to be.
It was ugly. Not to mention, it was humongous. I couldn't imagine that was how big the poster was supposed to be. Also, for someone who is doing this alone and on a project that isn't even as cool as everyone else's, I didn't see the reason why I should have such a big ugly poster to display.
So I had to go back to my building and change things around. I made the background gray and made the entire poster smaller. I changed a few colors around and this was the outcome.
I took the poster home on Friday when I had that Youth Education Luncheon. And I was planning on getting it laminated since it was posted on that mediocre regular white paper. But then my mentor asked to see it so I brought it yesterday and omg. Yesterday was the struggle.
First, I couldn't find my badge. I spent a bunch of time trying to look for it and when I couldn't find it, I decided to just f*** it all. But I was already almost to leave the house.Then, I spilled water in my work bag so I had to spend time taking all my sh** out and transferring it to another bag. Next, I had to go ask my dad for some money because I was planning on having my poster laminated in the morning and picked up by afternoon. But when I went to knock on their door. They were in the bathroom and that was an extra few minutes wasted. My mom answered the door and had this attitude when I was getting the money. When I grabbed my bag and poster to go out the door , I realized that one of the straps on the bag broke. Then, a minute or so as I was walking to the bus stop, I heard a truck drive behind me. Something about that made me reach up to my head and I realized that I forgot to take out my ratchet night bun. If you knew how bad my ratchet night bun is, you'll realize how mortified I was.
So I had to just let my entire hair and walk until I was in a good area to tie everything up in a ponytail. During all this, I was trying to keep my poster somewhat good-looking for my mentor to see. But it was like the world was against me. After I picked up a badge from the visitor's office, I hopped on a bike and put my stuff in the back. I think I got a really ratchet bike because it was really hard to pedal for some reason and it made a bell noise when I went over a hump.
My poster fell three times as I was heading to my office. So of course, it got a little stained, a lot wrinkled, and much bent. It wasn't completely horrifying when I got to my building but it wasn't in it's best condition.
But I forgot to mention that as I was walking across the street to NASA, I was talking to a girl that rides my bus and asking her where she printed her printer. And she was telling me about some graphics office where they print posters for all the interns. She said the people printed on glossy paper so I didn't have to worry about laminating my poster and then later e-mailed me the information.
It was such a blessing. I got my poster so fast and it came out well. I went with my original design which had the dark background but unfortunately, it didn't translate so well on the paper. Everything came out darker than on the power point so the background just looked black and the colors were a bit darker too but it wasn't too bad. I also made the poster a little bigger and I actually feel like I stand in front of the poster without feeling like a loser among the other interns doing great scientific things.
So yeah, I'm going to go play my Kardashian game while I wait for 12:30 to strike. I think I'm going to get a cold drink instead of hot tea. I can barely drink my water (which is average temperature) without feeling a wave of nauseousness.
Buh-bye.
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