ah, sweet victory

this just in!:

FOR THE SECOND TIME IN TWO WEEKS, IN A STUNNING UPSET, ALEXIS STAPP BEAT COREY FISCHER IN THREE GAMES OF PING PONG.
the world is asking, what's going on with corey fischer? what happened? he was on top of his game, on top of the world, really. he had so many successes behind him, one would only think the trend would continue forever! but no, it was as if the gods looked down and decided that corey had had enough wins... more victories were simply not in the cards for him. it was time to give alexis a chance. and oh, success has never been so sweet!

ok, really, I shouldn't brag so much. it's just ping pong for pete's sake! but really corey, 21-11? you can do so much better than that! honestly, you better start winning at least 1 out of 3 again or I'm going to have to find a more worthy opponent. just kidding, I would never do that. but maybe. but probably not. but...

after finishing my multitude of papers and one test, I swore off writing for the rest of the week, but obviously I'm currently breaking that oath.
you know that you've been stressed out and working too hard on homework when you are happy to go to a job you hate... just because you know you won't have to write any more stupid papers. I was EXCITED about CLEANING TOILETS last night and this simple fact is a testament to how much work I had to do these past few days. but, hooray, hopefully only a few more days of cleaning smelly men's bathrooms and emptying garbage! (it's a proven fact that men's bathrooms smell worse than women's... seriously... I'm pretty sure there exists research about it and everything... check it out).

I'm really excited for halloween, as always. halloween ranks about second on my list of favorite national holidays... what could be better than pretending to be someone else, eating seven pounds of candy, and scooping out pumpkin guts? not a whole lot. I have no official plans yet for friday night, other than dressing up thug-like (anybody have some ice to loan me?) and partying somewhere.

anyway, this is already foreva long and I was writing this instead of reading spanish poetry. whoops! good night and much love.

babies

born today, thomas edstrom... son of peter and sarah edstrom, and nephew of (my roommate) rachel edstrom! welcome to the world, thomas! congratulations rachel on becoming an aunt. we should form a club.

babies really are the best way to start people.

Hoo-raaaaay!

here's some advice for you:
don't drink from the wrong side of the glass to cure hiccups, because it makes you puke. and before it makes you puke, it makes water come out your nose. neither are really pleasant things to have happen to you at 1:30 am, but though they both happened to me tonight, I still laughed til I nearly soiled myself...

so I had the hiccups, and I was trying to solve it by drinking from the wrong side of the glass. (has anyone ever heard of this and/or tried it before? it's really kind of awkward! and who came up with it in the first place? what kind of crazy person figures out that drinking from the wrong side of the glass is an effective cure for hiccups?) though it was hard to figure out, it cured my hiccups by god. but the water spewed from my nose immediately, and then I started laughing so hard that I just... well... I puked... in the kitchen sink, no less, because cassi was occupying the bathroom. it was not pretty, let me tell you, but I still laughed really hard and rachel told me I'm the greatest roommate ever.

other than the puking and such, I've really had quite a good week. I scored a bunch of As on various assignments and tests, including my rhetorical criticism of conspiracy rhetoric midterm!!! which I was terribly worried about. I usually tend to underestimate myself and I end up doing better than I think I will, but I really felt that the test did not go well, even after all my studying. but I ended up getting an A, which makes me a happy little girl. I also wrote (what I thought was) a really bad spanish paper a week or so ago, got that back, got an A on it and not only that, my professor posted it on her website as an example! hooray for me! once again, reaffirming my decision to major in spanish. I actually like spanish a lot. and it's nice because I've been putting a lot of work into school, and as cheesy as it may sound, I really feel like I've earned my As.

last, but not least, and actually probably most importantly (hehehe)... I, alexis m. stapp, BEAT COREY C. FISCHER IN THREE GAMES OF PING PONG on Tuesday, October 21st. this is a first for me, and for corey as well (loser!). just kidding corey, we all know it was a fluke. many factors contributed to my OVERWHELMING SUCCESS and corey's SHOCKING DEFEAT, and who knows if they can be replicated at another time. I like caps tonight a whole lot.

anyway, it's seriously late now and I still have class at o'dark thirty so I should get some sleepy sleep sleep. much love.

beat box bizzle

ok, here it is: my first ever (slightly) drunken post. probably won't happen too often, so take advantage of this rare opportunity. don't be distracted by the somewhat decent typage... I pride myself on the ability to still be able to type fairly well even when inebriated. (granted, my grammar kind of takes a downswing but what are you going to do? I really just don't know.) kelly, aurora, chelsea and I went out to eat at little angie's, where aurora and kelly shared a margarita the size of their heads. not their combined heads however, just one of their heads by itself. now that's a big margarita, people. not to say that kelly and/or aurora have big heads. just know that it was a big margarita.
anyway, then we drank here for a bit, whilst watching queer eye (and playing the marvelous queer eye drinking game). plus, my boobages... they're squishy. that's right.
anyhooooo. good night. much love... alcohol was created by the devil.

I'm still in the beginning phases of this whole online journal thing. had a hard time with several other journals (how hard can this be, honestly? everything is set up for you! there must be something I'm missing... or else I'm just cursed) and now hopefully this will work. it seems like it's working... but I have a feeling it's not going to work, and I'm just being lulled into a false sense of security. we'll see.

anyway, the point I was trying to make was that because I'm still testing the waters with this, I'm not going to do a "real" post today. also, I'm just feeling sleepy and I have homework to do. excuses, excuses, I know. instead, I'm just going to make some nice ol' lists. enjoy.

bad stuff (or things that did not make me happy today):
-the midterm for rhetorical criticism of conspiracy discourse... despite the fact that I started studying several days ago, I still had a mad scramble of studying today, and still felt completely deflated when I sat down to take the test.
-the thought that I have another test coming up next week, and, for the class mentioned above (don't make me type it again!), a paper that's worth more than the midterm... please. make the bad man stop.

gray zone:
-the realization that it's midterm... this is a glass half empty/half full kind of thing for me today.

good stuff (or things that made me happy today):
-the enormous pile of leaves that had blown into the bike rack outside lake superior hall.
-enjoying the poetry of jorge luis borges early this morning
-recording "the greatest hits of amanda and alexis... and amanda and alexis and cassi... and chelsea and alexis" etc.
-"exploring" amanda's roommates' crazy disgusting messy room. I'm pretty sure that they live in a landfill.
-the mint chocolate fudge ice cream I'm eating right now.

overall, more good than bad today, which is typical but I'm somewhat tired so I probably don't sound too positive. don't let the weary, rundown tone fool you!
anyway... may this blog have a long, happy, and fulfilling life. don't give up on me yet folks! love to all.

OK!!! OH MY GOD!!! this better work... OR ELSE.