"Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it"
alllllright. so i think i have some more to share about COLLEGE. so i will. if you missed out on my other experiences so far, they are in the blog with the other relaly long title. something about reading is sexy. i think it was interesting because it involved alcohol and that seems to perk everyone up. hahaha.
there are a lot of very little things that have been making me very happy recently. i really like it because every day i have like one more little thing to add to my list of "beautiful little things that make me overly happy for whatever reason". i'm not sure if that has to do with college, or ucla, because im sure the things that i have on my list can very well be found in other parts of the world, right when you step out into it. i think the thing i like about college is that its kind of a refined version of the world at large. a microcosm. anyway, so here is a list i have compiled so far in the margin of my math and chemistry notes of things that i just find so beautiful. like i saw them and i just felt all HAPPY. i think now i understand why i liked the movie "american beauty" so much. i told my friend that i was like... what is this! a movie made for samiah!?! because there really is just "so much beauty" !!!! aghhh i cant contain it.
things that make/have made me really happy in the last couple of weeks:
- the way my math professor has his lecture notes in one of those very collegiate writing tablets that you flip vertically (with the binding on top). they're usually yellow but his is white. i just love seeing it sit on his desk and then i love it when he flips it vertically. the pages are always so delicate looking but full of insight... which makes them beautiful but also very daunting. i think its just very cute in general how that is what/how my professor writes his lecture notes.
-there is this guy at ucla who is always doing stunts and flips and walking with his hands up stair rails on his hands and just doing crazy things without a shirt on. he is a student i think. but anyway. so one day i was walking back up to class and i saw him having a conversation with another person, and then another guy just kinda went by on a skateboard. the guy on the skateboard waved to the stunt-boy, the stunt-boy smiled and waved back, "hey!" End of story. but that scene just really made me so happy.
-there is this tall skinny white boy in my math class. he is also in my discussion for math. so the story here is, i have noticed, as im sure all of you have, everyone seems to have such a fascination or obsession with accents. iiii... dont really go head over heels for accents. they amuse me, they're cool, just, for me it is much more about your voice than your accent. okay. so the bigger story here is, people always think accents have to be something "exotic" or european. welllll, today i head the tall skinny guy speak in class. He has the most sheer surfer dude californian accent. and he uses it to ask questions about multivariable calculus, and it TURNS ME ON. duuuude. =P
-the really pretty girl who was standing outside the math lecture hall waiting to go in. she was reading the math book like no other. like. seriously. who the heck thinks that north campus girls are what its all about?! cause theyre noooooot. seriously. seeing her made me very happy. hahaha.
-the guy across the aisle from me today in chemistry. he looks so... east coast college kid. he kinda looks like the guy elle woods ends up marrying in legally blonde (which was shot at ucla! hahaha) except i think this guy has better hair than the movie guy. anyway. its not really about the guy. its about how under his seat, he placed his big messenger back type "backpack", and from it i could see his beanie peeking out of it.
yeah i dont know why. but a beanie peeking out of a messenger back just really made my day.
alright so moving on with my college stories. today i was having lunch with rod, and i just had the urge to say to him, "there are so many interesting people here! everywhere. i'm just surrounded by interesting people."
and of course rod replies the usual rod way, which is, "yes i know samiah. you're surrounded by interesting people in your math class, your chem class, eating lunch with you..." he was talking about himself. hahahah. rod rod rod.
alright. so what happens next is, there is a girl eating just one seat down from me. shes eating a chicken pot pie, and rod wants one. so he asks. excuse me. where did you get that? and then she tells us. and then she asks us if we're first years. and we say yes. and then we start talking to her. and she asks us where we're from. and we say diamond bar. and she doesnt know where that is. i ask her if shes from northern california. she says.. kind of maybe.. (im like what...?) and i say db is southern california (all of a sudden i smell chicken pot pie in my room btw...hahaha) and rod says its 40 miles away. and then we ask her where she's from.
paris.
and shes lived in singapore, and beijing, and shanghai, and australia, and new zealand, and and and and and......
!
her parents have to move a lot for their work. she doesnt always know where her parents are. because they're always in some new continent. and she's been in boarding school all her life. she is a math-econ major becaues she is asian hahah, but shes trying to get into the film school here (its like third in the nation). shes a second year, she took a leave of absence her first year to go film a documentary for mTV about high altitude animals. they shot that in... south africa, and then the high altitude part was shot in tibet.
yeah.
remember how i said, im surrounded by interesting people!!!!
i wasnt kidding.
when she left, i looked at rod and i said that same thing. and he just exploded and said I WAS JUST THINKING THAT! I was like SAMIAH we were just talking about this!
and seriously, she was only a SEAT DOWN from me.
you never know people. you never never never know people.
and im not saying that she would have been any less interesting if she didnt have that story, everyone is interesting and thats the truth of the matter. but i just found it so ironic that i had just been telling rod how we're surrounded by interesting people (which is inevitable in life based on how i said everyone is interesting) and then the girl right next to us just happened to be full of these very unique experiences! hahaha. LIFE!
and then rod told me about how one of his floormate's dad is alike a major film producer and how the guy basically gets to hang out with denzel washington and natalie portman on the weekends.
and then i made a face.
and then he was like do you not like natalie portman?
i say, "no."
and then he says why?
and then i tell him. and i must have gotten very very passionate about it because then rod started waving his hands and saying, "i take it back! i made a mistake of telling you he hangs with with natalie portman! calm down!" and he kept laughing at me. why are passionate people always so FUNNY!? gosh.
anyway.
do you guys remember this?
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
your turn
so i think i've told you about how random thoughts occur to me and then i write them down and lose them haha.
well, two thoughts have occured to me recently. i was talking to people and then it just kind of popped into my head. they came in sentences.
buuuut im not gonna tell you
but i will give you the beginnings of the sentences and then i think you can fill them in as you see fit in your own scheme of things as they pertain to you. i'd really like to know how you would fill these sentences in
ok?
ok
I've never met someone who wasn't _____________ .
I will never question ____________.
thanks boobs.
(boobs is my nickname for a bunch of people in general that i care about and am close enough with to call boobs. its not referring to "boobs". its just a noise. boobs. and yes its probably referring to you and i care what you have to say. sosayit!)
=)
remember that??
so if you havent figured it out already. these are what my blanks were and have alwyas been:
I've never met someone who wasn't interesting, or with a story to tell.
I will never question your ability to make me happy. (yeah i was thinking of someone with that.)
alright.
oh. theres this other thing.
from wayyyy back when. but since i mentioned natalie now i might as well put it up hahah.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
umm. so i'm sure you all know how i DON'T LIKE NATALIE PORTMAN.
so i almost died when today i was wasting time doing stupid blogthings and got THIS:
Who is Your Celeb Soul Mate? by killargrl9543
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seriously. why would anyone do that to me.
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why.
i miss you guys even more. and i hate my classes. but my math professor has a dracula accent which is cool and my chem professr has a south african accent which can only be described as "polite" which is really cute, and my history of modern thought professor sucks.
school sucks.
but college doesnt.
=)
and ask me for my mailing address!!
and pictures of my dorm room coming soon =)
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