ATTENTION!

Hey there. For whoever out there who reads my ramblings, take notice!

Let me start out with a brief story. When I came to Blogger to start a new blog, my initial thought for the URL was jenniferbates.blogspot.com. But it was taken, and so I used my common internet username JBtheeUnknown instead. Today I decided to find out who it was that was using my ideal Blogger URL, and to my embarrassment, it was myself! Apparently, I had signed up for a Blogger account way back in 2005 with the URL address of jenniferbates.blogspot.com. Hahaha. Silly me.

So anyways, since I would much rather use the one with my name in it for random reasons, I'm switching over. I've already imported all the blogs from this one onto that one, and it looks exactly the same. So the only change would be for YOU, my reader. Just note that it's now jenniferbates.blogspot.com instead of jbtheeunknown.blogspot.com.

KTHXBYE!

I'm a Druggie

I've been sick for the past week with who knows what. I've been having a sore throat, painful swallowing, and a cough. I finally decided to go to see a doctor today to find out what's going on. Apparently there's nothing really wrong with me. I might've had strep throat earlier last week, but it must've healed itself as my tonsils are only "mildy red" and not whatever they're supposed to be to indicate strep. I'm fine with coughing. I rarely get sick, so I can put up with some coughing every year or so. It's the painful swallowing that I don't like. It makes the entire front side of my neck tense up and hurt with every gulp.

Since I don't really know what's wrong with me, I've been taking a couple different medications to alleviate multiple symptoms. For my throat pain, I was taking Robitussin that had acetaminophen in it, until I ran out. Then I started taking cold and allergy Dimetapp because that was the only thing I had, and it helped a bit with my coughing. Then I remembered that I have this herbal Chinese sore throat syrup that tastes really good, so I started taking that, but it doesn't really seem to help. After seeing a doctor today, I went to Walgreen's and bought more Robitussin for cough (this one didn't have acetaminophen in it), and Children's Motrin for my throat pain. Yes, Children's [liquid] Motrin; because I'm a baby and I can't swallow pills like a normal adult being. Anyways, hopefully I'll get better soon. It's no fun being sick, and it's also no fun having to take these medications without getting them crossed in my system. They're already giving me elevated blood pressure, and I certainly don't need any complications such as death from heart attack. (Yeah it's not proven, but I believe it's possible. Drugs are unpredictable)

Music Monday

Alright guys, here they are. My favorite band of all time, Modest Mouse. I don't remember exactly when I first started listening to them, but I do know it was about 6 or 7 years ago. I saw their music video for Float On on TV. I thought it was weird. But I kept seeing it during commercial breaks, so it grew on me. And now they've earned the spot of being my all time favorite band. I have yet to see them live. When they come out with their next album, I will definitely try to catch one of their shows.

One of the things I like most about them is that they have really super mellow tracks like The World At Large which is one of my favorite tracks to listen to while I just lay down and close my eyes. But they also have fast paced tracks like Florida from their newest album. I also really like that it doesn't seem like they're trying really hard to come up with their music. I get the feeling that it just flows out of them, and is natural in that way.

Well, there you have it! Music Monday as I promised. Again, I apologize for missing last week's. I would love to say that won't happen again, but when finals roll around, nothing is guaranteed.

ETA: LOL at the shitstorm that is #amazonfail.

GAH

I'm sorry. I'm like the worst consistent blogger ever. I failed to do Music Monday on Monday and I also failed to do Favorite Lady Friday yesterday. Sorry sorry sorry. I'll get better. It's just these damn midterms that are ruining the month of April for me. BUT, I will have a Music Monday this Monday since I promised. And I should have time to do something mid-week. Everything will be back to normal on April 21st. Sorry again!

Music Monday

Hey y'all. Sorry, but I'm short on time and brain function [re: organic chemistry midterm] so there's no Music Monday this week. But I promise to do a good one next week. As a little hint, it's my all time favorite band ever. Those of you who know me well enough, you already know who it is.

To emphasize my state of mind even more, this is me normally.

And this is me on organic chem.

You get the picture.

Favorite Lady Friday

Anybody remember that movie Panic Room? Jodie Foster's daughter in the film? That was Kristen Stewart. I try to make that the movie I remember her from because that vampire movie was just so...so...utterly absurd. I mean I get why people would be obsessed about it, but I'd rather not take part.

The ONLY reason that I may consider watching the next couple movies in the series is to see Stewart, albeit I think her character is strangely one-dimensional. But let's talk about her in Panic Room. That movie is relatively old now, but it was her "breakout role", I would say. People may not know who the actress was, but people remember the daughter with the short hair in that movie. And then she grew long hair, got older, more professional, and did In the Land of Women which I wouldn't go see because I didn't want to see Seth Cohen's face being all Seth Cohen-y.

Now she is slated to play Joan Jett in a biopic of The Runaways, aptly titled The Runaways. I'm excited for that. We will probably finally get to see more of her actual acting chops rather than the awkward googly eyes and intense stares that go on between her and Pattinson's unsettling "I-can-see-through-you" face. Ugh. Creep-o.

Lecture Me Friend

I'll admit. I like to think that I'm mature beyond my years; that I know who I am. But really, who knows who they are anyways, or are 100% sure of themselves? If they say they are, they're probably lying to you. People don't have enough time to figure themselves out. We're too busy trying to understand what's going on around us, that we all forgot to learn about ourselves.

But that's what other people are for. I believe that by understanding, and experiencing other people, we get to understand and experience ourselves. They are after all, interacting with you. Besides learning directly about ourselves from ourself, the best thing is to learn about ourselves through the understanding of how others interact with ourselves. Get it? It's like getting so see oneself through the eyes of another, yet still, your own.

I like experiencing this. Having people tell me about myself, without actually telling me. It's pretty insightful, because oftentimes someone won't say directly to your face what they think or feel about you, but they will act in some manner towards or with you that gives you hints. In some ways, this could mean that having tons of friends is better than having a few great friends, because the more people you are interacting with, the more possibly varied responses to yourself you get whereas a few good friends will react to you the same way after a certain amount of time.

Meh. Anyways...I'd go a bit deeper, but you know, I like everyone else, am too busy to do such things.