MadelineAwesome

Once upon a time, a few weeks ago, a friend’s mother asked me this: “Madeline, how cold does it have to get before you wear socks?” Well Jesse’s mom…today, today I have an answer.

the answer is it has to be 3 degrees but fee like -13 degrees. Because today, for the first time since social norms in korea forced me to, i am wearing socks. It was really a walk of shame, all 4 feet of it, from my desk to my underwear drawer–which houses my 2 pairs of socks. I almost didnt know how to put them on. my shoes felt tight and uncomfortable. But i’m wearing them. But when this weather subsides i will go back to my glorious ways of foot freedom.

When I was little I was pretty into raking leaves. I mean, raking them was actually the shitty part, but jumping in them afterwards was really great. Not that leaves ever really acted as that great of a padding. You pretty much were just hoping for the leaves to fly everywhere. That was the only pay off for jumping up and landing on the ground and getting crunchy shit in every single orifice. Actually the entire idea seems pretty stupid now. All of the “free-spirited” people at college think they are alternative and don’t care about social norms for “growing up” and jump in the piles of leaves that have been painstakingly created by the landscaping staff. Anyways, the point is that eventually I got sick of raking leaves but I still had to do it. But what is cool is that I sort of developed an allergy to dry ass leaves. I started getting hives all over when I was raking the leaves so i didnt have to do it ever again and the bottom line is that if you hate a chore, you can pretty much convince your body to get allergic to it and it will oblige you.

But I DO like the fall colors. To be honest, one of my reasons for choosing Indiana University was the trees. I visited last year just as the trees were starting to turn colors and I was pretty much sold on the place. Well, that is a lie because I pretty much hated the idea of the entire state of Indiana until like 5 months ago, but it was a selling point for sure. This is the part of the post where I’d like to post a picture of the pretty leaves on campus, but its dark outside. so Here is a picture of what you would see if you were my laptop and tilted slightly to your left/my right:

streetlamp that keeps me up. ugh. h8 you.

also: that is not the moon at the top of the window, its an obama poster. obama=so into circles. srsly. so progressive.

here is a picture I did not take of fall leaves at IU:

in other news: OBAMA WON YALL. if you read the first post on this blog over 2 years ago, you would know that i predicted this long long ago. I win.

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here is a picture from my shitty phone camera. check out the foliage yall.

ugh. dear colleges, plz send me letters. I need to make some life changing decisions and i would love to have more than a month to do so. here is a pie chart.

GREEN= UIUC–jerkz.
PURPLE= Illinois State, Iowa, Kansas and Indiana Bloomington
ORANGE= USC, NYU, Syracuse and the University of Puget Sound

in other news– Obama is advertising on Dictionary.com. gold. pure gold.

it is 5:42 right now. I looked outside and it is hella bright outside. I was like ‘woah. it really must be getting to spring. But then I remembered about day light savings.

i knit. not well, but i knit. I basically knit things that are rectangular. Scarves…and well. scarves. but i happen to like scarves and so do my friends. So it works out. I dont even really do fancy scarves. I sometimes insert a stripe, but i think i do it the wrong way. whatever. it works for me. But i think knitting is a good way to pass time and do something productive during time that would generally be unproductive. When i am on the train or in a car (and not driving) or watching TV or listening to a lecture in class knitting is awesome. Once you get the point where you can do it mindlessly its just a matter of muscle memory and your hands just do it. I just gave away one of these aforementioned rectangular projects to a friend of mine. Bradford Cox of Atlas Sound. He’s a good guy. He really like this scarf. I gave it to him and he was like “YOU MADE THIS!? This is so cool! Its so 1993! I LOVE 1993!” the perfect reaction. anyways. he went on to say how he wished he knew how to knit and that he used to do cross stitching projects when he was a kid.

here is the scarf i made for him.

here is the show. it was hot on stage.

and if the picture alone isnt doing it for you: here is a video from the show that some guy took.

he is from georgia where it like doesnt get cold so i hope its at least scarf weather for the rest of his tour…

okay. so i understand that they are trying to advertise for their reversible microfiber down comforter, but who do they think they are encouraging people to buy 4 of them. No one is that cold. No one needs 4 down comforters. not even if you live outside. in alaska. God. and even though they are trying to display all their terrific colors, they dont match eachother. so on an marketing level, this ad is counterproductive. it says to me “BUY OUR SWEET BLANKETS! THEY LOOK UGLY NEXT TO ALL THE COLORS OF THE RAINBOW!” i’m just stoked to go out and buy one. not even kidding. but actually i am kidding.

 

 

it snowed in chicago today. but not any kind of snow you will find if you use yahoo to image search for snow. it was nice and fluffy and light. It was a little depressing that i could not leave my desk to go check it out and announce to every passing hobo “CHECK IT OUT! ITS SNOWING”

 

i also did not get to open my mouth and devour all the smog of city air while catching a little bit of acid-snow in my mouth.

 

what a depressing day.