one more miracle

Apparently the answer to the chest pain mystery is C) None of the above (at least in terms of the guesses various people gave me, which included pneumonia, heartburn, and a bruised/strained bone or muscle). The answer is (drum roll please)... osteochondritis. Err, yeah. In layman's terms, that's an inflammation of the cartilege right where the two halves of the ribcage meet under the sternum, so when I breathed in and they moved together it really hurt. She said that it will go away of its own accord in a few days, and in the meantime to take ibuprofen to get the swelling down, and also not to focus too much on my breathing because that makes me breathe unnaturally and feel short of breath. It's apparently a strangely common condition for 20-somethings, which she doesn't quite understand.

I'm quite relieved, I must say! I took an Advil and feel much better now. Phew!

It's SO GORGEOUS here. Sunny and probably in the upper 60s - low 70s. Guhhhh so beautiful. And of course I have to sit inside and study D: D:

Amusingly, the girl sitting next to me in the computer lab just looked up Panic's But It's Better If You Do on youtube *g*

On a not so fun note, I called the laptop repair people and apparently they're trying to recover my data but 'it's not looking good' D: D: D: I just want my damn lab report! And my Ireland photos! *sniffles* The good news though is that the new hard drive will be covered by my warranty, so the only possible cost to me will be the data recovery.

By the way, Niall = most preciousest ever (he's wearing flowery board shorts today and I made so much fun of hm for looking like a surfer, hee) and Dara = funny and darling and as big of a text whore as I am, and James = a total sweetheart who met me at the clinic so i wouldn't be alone. I ♥ my boys!! (Even when they are being confusing and messing with my head.)

Well I should go get things accomplished and stop rambling into the ether. <333

Well, it has been one eventful evening (morning for me) on old LJ/in the world!

First of all, thank you all for your kind comments. I'll be okay. If I think about it too hard, I get really sad, but I'll be okay. (I think this song will be my soundtrack for a while. &panic;)

Okay, in bullet points:

• Clinton won Pennsylvania. FUCK. (At least Obama won my county? \o?)
  
• This girl street teamed for S//C in Chicago, hung out with Frankie in an alley, and found out RAY IS FUCKING MARRIED!!! :D :D :D :D Congratulations to Ray!!!
  
• Vicky-T is OBLITERATING that fourth wall. I'll repeat what I said in modillian's comments: God, mostly I feel bad for VickyT. I'm kind of shaking my head at her for "engaging" (in the sense of "with the enemy") because she can't win. I've seen her having impassioned conversations with MORONS in Youtube comments, and she doesn't seem to understand that no amount of logic or reasonable arguing is going to make the haters stop hating. It's just not going to go anywhere pretty and I'm really amazed if she isn't pissed yet, but if she isn't then she's gonna be.
  
• This just in: Cobra Starship is BEAUTIFUL. On that note, I BOUGHT MY WARPED TICKET!!!! And enoughoflove's!! YAY! THE TALL TRIFECTA OF AWESOME!
  
• The new Clandestine site is actually gorgeous, and the soundtrack starts with a remix of I Write Sins which is pretty sweet. Is it just me or is that Nick Scimeca modelling???

And that's it for now. Wow! Now I am off to do a sociology presentation, then spend a loooong day in the library D: Later, loves.

It's amazing what a give-and-take thing Livejournal is. Usually I wake up to at least 2 or 3, sometimes more, emails from LJ comments, but this morning my only email was from Google saying "You have no events scheduled for today" (it's a very depressing email to receive every day, I should probably look into switching that off) and it made me sadface. But it's just because i spent a day off Livejournal! (Which was painful, let me tell you - I dread looking at my flist) Did the Disco or Fluffy Puppy Cuddle Time My Chem get up to any noteworthy shenanigans?

Last night was a lot of fun! I looked lovely, if I do say so myself, and most of my sci fi friends were there, especially Sarah, who got together with Barry officially last night which makes me so happy because they're two of my favorite people here and they totally deserve each other. James showed up after the dinner and awards ceremony thingy, in a dashing black suit (and his stubble-turned-almost-real-beard because I told him I like it so he didn't shave it off *g*) and we had so much fun together. I didn't get drunk at all (such an expensive bar, omg) but lots of people around me did, which is enough to get me acting all goofy in and of itself. Dave was there, who is a very effusive and affectionate drunk, and we had a blast (I believe a threesome was planned with me and James, who is his future roommate) and then I hung out with Sarah's friend Owen (Eoin? I've seen it both ways in Ireland) who is fabulously gay and thinks my boyfriend is cute (at this point the plans became a foursome, YEAH YOU'RE JEALOUS), and in general it was just a ridiculous good time. Sci Fi got snubbed in the awards so some of the guys were pretty bitter (Conor, Mark, Bren) so that was a little bit of a sour note, but I had a great time anyway. I had the geekiest conversation with Jimmy ever - topics ranged through Joss's new series, Battlestar Galactica, and Star Wars - he agrees that Hayden's a good actor who gets a bad rep for the SW movies! \o/ I love geeks. I also got to chat with Colin for a while, which was really nice because it's been quite a while since I got to do that.

Wow that was a really long paragraph. I enjoy remembering the details of nights like that :) I have a lot of awesome pictures, including some truly adorable ones of me and James, so I will be posting those most likely tonight, keep an eye out!

In the meantime, I'm trying not to have a panic attack from all the work I have to do. My sociology class decided to be a MASSIVE BITCH and drop a five thousand word essay on my head yesterday, due in two weeks. Granted, I'm writing it with two other people, but UGH. That's HUGE. On top of that, I have myriad lab reports to write, which are aaaaaalways a bitch, and these two things combined mean that I'm pretty much going to get no time to study in the next two weeks. GREAT.

*breathes*

I predict myself descending into a vibrating ball of stress over the next two months. Suuuuucks :( At least I have you lovely folks to keep me at least a little sane <3 (Except when you keep posting about how faaaabulous MCR is live, I am so jealous, zomg.) I'm afraid I'm going to have to tell James that I can't spend quite so much time with him, because wow, WORK, and then you know I really really need time to myself :-/

LIFE HARD. How are you?

How is he so lovely and sweet and wonderful? He always says my name when we say goodbye (why is that so sweet? idek!), and when I was walking away I glanced over my shoulder and he was standing facing me so he could wave to me one more time. What a darling romantic, I adore it, meep. I also adore that we can just spend an evening dicking around on his laptop, exchanging music on our external hard drives, watching Robot Chicken and giggling at Lolcats. He asked if I wanted to come stay at his place tonight, but I'm still a bit overwhelmed by what happened Saturday night so I said no this time. I think I'll probably be staying there Wednesday though.

Meep!

Panic at the Disco: still the most adorablest.

Spencer feeding Brendon cake!
Brendon swearing repeatedly and why is that hot!
Ryan and Brendon discussing Pretty. Odd. track by track! Brendon getting all excited about the writing process for Mad as Rabbits is the cutest ever ♥

If you somehow missed any of these, just friend shiola_shiola, seriously. She is the bringer of all things shiny and Disco! ♥

My Chemical Romance: still my most FAVORITEST.

The best concert report EVER! In which Gerard says he LIKES what they do to guys like him in prison, and demonstrates! Frankie pokes Gee in the armpit mischievously! Mikey dicks around with cigarettes in his nose while Gee sings Cancer! Bob bribes fangirls with a drumstick for a Gee puppet they made! Gee is HILARIOUS in response to a guy who requests Cubicles! Gee molests his baby brother! Bob wears the cut off top of a tube sock on his wrist! WHY ARE THEY SO AMAZING AND WHY AM I NOT FOLLOWING THEM AROUND THE STATES? Sigh. ♥_♥

(Pee Ess, it gives me so much joy that "Gee" is canon. Because he will never NOT be Gee in my head, and it's totally not just a fangirl thing! Yay! If I ever write MCR fic, Frankie and Mikey will call him Gee all the damn time.) (I just realized that at first I typed Gee without the quotation marks, and it looked like I was having joy for the fact of GERARD'S EXISTENCE being canon. And, well, that's true too. How is he reeeeal?)

I am clinging so hard to the knowledge that these boys are extreeeeeme workaholics, and that when I am back in the US of A I live a mere 2 hours from them, so CHANCES are that before they write a new album and get back on huge headlining tours, they'll at least do some festivals or one off shows. Right? RIGHT?? *prays to the gods of music*

That's all for now, chickies. Gonna go sleep. <3333

I got home from my choral performance about an hour ago. So glad it's done with! I didn't feel like it went too terribly well - there were actually a couple movements of Brahms that I had maybe sung once before the rehearsal today, and I was literally sight reading what felt like new stuff during the concert - but Niall said that it was a "powerful performance" and he really enjoyed it, so I suppose that's what matters! It's so much easier to tell when something goes wrong when you have the music in front of you, anyway. And oh yeah, NIALL CAME! :D None of my other friends did, but he came, by himself, and gave me a hug of congratulations after. And he genuinely seemed to have enjoyed himself! (He's a huge music geek, so it's unsurprising, but still ♥) He's such a good friend, I am so glad to know him. And it was really good to talk to him after not seeing him for 2 weeks! Made me realize how much I miss everyone.

I was so ridiculously uncomfortable during the performance, and now I am ridiculously sore, from standing up for an hour. Wtf? My shoulders and neck are killing me from holding the awkward score folder, and my feet were actually numb about 10 minutes into it, and my knee that I messed up in karate was complaining loudly. I feel like I just ran a marathon, not sang in a concert >.< Ow ow ow. I totally bailed on the reception because I needed pajamas and my bed. And chocolate. Gah.

In happier news, I got an email from my study abroad coordinator back home responding to my questions about what requirements I have met while studying here, and he said that I am totally on track for completing my chemistry major, with the biochemistry option and math minor as I wanted! YAY!!!! I was so happy to hear that, because I was really getting quite worried. \o/

Re: texting James - how often is too often? He didn't respond to my text earlier today, and I don't want to be pushy about possibly hanging out tomorrow, but then again I really really want to see him and it sounded like he wanted to see me. I think I'll wait until tomorrow when I'm actually on campus and text him to see what's up. I'm dying to know if he thinks something could happen between us too!

I have my Kate back!! I just sat and chatted with her in her room for like 45 minutes, it's so good to see her again. She's totally my rock of sanity among the American students. She was in the States visiting her family and boyfriend for the whole break, so I hadn't seen her in 3 weeks! Yay for life going back to normal :)

Still ridiculously in love with Northern Downpour. (I want to see them play it live!!) Also addicted to The Hush Sound's "Wine Red," randomly, even though it's from the older album. I just looove that song, and the video's pretty presh.