"Happy... HAPPY! Hhha-a-a-a!"

You know what's really good?
A dulcid, delicious, SCRUMTRULESCENT (sp? lol, for those of you familiar with Will Ferrell on SNL...) Italian soda! I had my first one the night before I left for B'ham, at Olive Garden. I had another one when we went to Olive Garden again, the weekend my fam came to visit, near my brother's birthday. And then I found out that they sell them at a coffee shop in the Viking Union... SWEET! I'm totally addicted! But I should probably stop soon... First of all, I don't have that many flex points (money to buy goodies like the around campus) left... the majority of them have gone to these wonderful drinks! Second, I always get them with both cream in them and whipped cream on top... if I keep that up my jeans might start squeezing me a bit. (Although I'm sure some of you would be thrilled to see that happen!)
Today I had an orange one; nummy! My first was a raspberry, which I think might still be my favorite. I've also had blackberry; very good. And yesterday I had an almond... my tongue said "Gratzi!" for that slice of wonderfulness! (Sounds like one of those cheesy lines you'd hear in an advertisement) But yes, I've made room in my heart for Italian sodas, right alongside chocolate, flower-flavored things (yes, it's true! They do exist), doughnuts, root beer floats, marshmallows... etc.
Ha ha, earlier, when I told how much I love Italian sodas to Luan, he said that they were like the white person's equivilent to bubble tea! As my brother said, more like bubble tea is the Asian's equilivilent to Italian sodas! lol...

I've noticed something about the way I punctuate my sentances/questions/phrases/etc. First off, I notice that hardly anyone that uses a semicolon; I was taught how to do so in 6th grade and was surprised later in high school that not many people knew how to use one. I didn't use them too often at first; they only helped me every once in a while on my essays. But what's really funny is that my use for them rose significantly after I read Wuthering Heights, since in just about every other sentance on is used. I don't really use them to look or sound smart; I just find them very useful for linking two independant clauses into one sentance.

Another thing I picked up for Wuthering Heights is the "--". I totally forget what's it's called--actually I know how to say it, but not how to spell it. So for the sake of not looking stupid, I'll leave you to wonder. So this little device can be used to interrupt a sentence--like a parentheses, but instead of being an "aside" interruption, it interrupts right out--like this. Anyway, for someone who's mind tends to wander and race in all directions, it is very employable--it's also very good for those who like to go on and on and on and make their sentences big and fat--like me!--in the context of sentences AND my bodily structure!

So the next one is something that I use to the point where I wish there was another punctiation mark like it... called the elipses...("Dot dot dot" for you H*R fans!) It can mean many things: A large, significant pause in a sentence or thought... a sign of waiting... a thought or sentence that trails off... Looking back on my other entries, I think it has to be one of my favorite punctuation marks... It's so simple, yet it can be very useful... if you wanna be vague... or sad... or confused... or if you're waiting for someone to pick up on your innuendo... I also use this alot for IM converastions, as some of you know...

Alright, I'm sure many, if not every last bleedin' one of you is sick of the grammatical lesson for the day. But hey, I hope that those of you who are nerds can see where I'm coming from, and at least appreciate it! Oh, and didn't you guys just LOVE how I incorperated those certain punctation marks into their appropriate paragraphs?! Oh, the cleverness of me!

I just came back from Math--EARLY!! Hooray for an easy class! And my philosophy midterm... I was so worried yesterday. I wanted to study for it as soon as my math final was over, but I ended up starting to after dinner (Ooh! Awesome story about that too! To be told later... let's see if I can focus on one story at a time!). There were practice midterms online, but... I found out that you needed Adobe Reader to open them. Or rather, Luan, who was online at the time, told me so when I panicked to him about it. I then had to download the software from Adobe's website... It was taking a looooooong time. In fact, the total time would take nearly two hours! HOLY CRAP! But then Luan came to my rescue again and sent me a file containing the software, which only took around 5 to 10 mintues to get here. Hooray! (Special thanks to Luan for being my knight in shining armor there!) So then I did those freakin' midterms... while being VERY distracted by people online. I admit it was all my fault for being distracted by them... but when there are cool people online, what else am I supposed to do?! ;)
BUT I got to bed at a rather decent time, woke up early enough to have a good breakfast, sat through other classes and finally got the (*dun dun dun*) midterm--it turned out that all the tests are exact copies of the practice ones online! HOORAY!!!! So I'm pretty sure I at least passed the thing, if not aced it! GO ME! *Does a little happy dance... very similiar to Gollem's happy dance*
Okay, it's nearly dinner time.
I'll come back with two funny dinner time stories. Stay tuned!

*Notice the Zoolander quote in the title? For those of you who know her, go read Candice's latest entry!