A PRETTY LAME GAME

y'all when i was in hs, my friends would choke each other to pass out on purpose and they were like "THIS IS FUN LIZZIE YOU SHOULD TRY IT. COME ON JUST THIS ONCE"

but i was like "i don't know you guys... it doesn't seem like such a good idea... seems kind of dangerous... i don't really particularly enjoy passing out... it kind of feels like dying..."

but they were like "OMG YOU PASSED OUT FOR LIKE A FULL MINUTE LOL" "OMG I DID? IT ONLY FELT LIKE ONE SECOND LOL! OMG I WAS DREAMING! OMG I WANT TO TRY IT AGAIN"

but as a cautious teenager (a rare breed), i never tried it anyway even though it was SO MUCH FUN.

well believe it or not, i JUST watched a crim minds ep where tEEnS were playing ~*~the choking game~*~ with each other and DYING.

dr. spencer reid called it "a pretty lame game" and everyone knows that he's a genius who solves all the crimes with his superior intelligence.

looks like i was right all along. no surprise there.

crim mindz

if y'all were wondering how much i've been watching criminal minds lately, i'd say an average of two episodes per day

something important that needs to be posted on the internet duh

listen y'all,

i was just thinking about the somatosensory system and how it's basically the only sense you can't really turn off, and how outrageously disturbing that is.

let's consider the facts:

the five senses are sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch. duh. everyone knows that.

now let's discuss the ability or inability to lose all of the senses.

it's so easy to stop seeing, all you have to do is close your eyelids! also if it's bright you can still technically see but you can cover your eyelids with something dark and see absolutely nothing. also, it is possible for people to be blind.

it's really difficult to completely turn off your ability to hear. you can use earplugs which mostly block out the outside noise, but you can still hear yourself breathing, your heart beating, your bones cracking, you know, all the things you wouldn't necessarily ever want to hear. let's just say for the sake of argument that you lie completely still in a very quiet place. if you do this you can basically turn off your hearing. it is also possible for people to be deaf.

obv to stop smelling things, all that would be required would be to hold your nose closed. but taste and smell are so closely related, so we'll focus on the sense of taste aka the gustatory sense. this sense can very easily be dulled if you have a cold or some other illness. completely ridding yourself of taste would be so difficult, but LET'S JUST SAY that someone burned off all their tastebuds or like didn't even have a tongue. IT COULD HAPPEN. also once i met someone who claimed they couldn't smell anything ever. in either of these instances, someone could technically be conscious and without a sense of taste and smell.

NOW IS WHERE IT GETS CRAZY.

according to my thoughts and considerations, IT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CONSCIOUS AND ALIVE AND NOT FEEL ANYTHING AT ALL.

let's consider some potential scenarios. let's say you are somehow floating in the air and there is no wind. you wouldn't be able to blink and you'd have to somehow not touch your tongue to your teeth at all (because you can feel both those things). how would you ever separate your toes without feeling them being separated? okay, let's say you don't have feet. also, you are floating easily and not straining any voluntary muscles, not like it feels to float in water or anything. listen, besides all those things, still involuntary things can happen in your body and you can FEEL them. also, if you were wondering why you were floating in the air and didn't have feet, you would FEEL anxious. PHYSICAL FEELINGS.

also i just googled "people who can't feel" and the only results i got were people who can't feel emotions and people who can't feel pain, which is indeed very interesting but they can still FEEL other things.

this is so wild and crazy. i just can't believe that there is no way to ever stop feeling until you die.

can you be entirely numb? is that possible?

if y'all could possibly think of any scenario that wouldn't involve feeling, please inform me at once. it would bring me peace. thanks.

if numbers were spelled replacing letters with their numbers

here is how you would spell the numbers:

O1\1E

2WO

THR33

4OUR

5IVE

6IX

SE7EN

EI8HT

NIN9

long and long overdue~

lets begin with monday, june 20, 2011.

excluding The First Day, this was hands down my worst day in LA so far. i dealt with the MOST ANNOYING CUSTOMER EVER at work, and then UPS wouldn't deliver a package that my mom sent and i almost cried because it had magazines and two bags of almonds and you know other things i can't live without. i was so annoyed with the human race y'all. things started to improve slightly during the first half of tuesday, june 21, 2011. after work i picked up the new bon iver album from amoeba~~~

even though duh i downloaded it weeks ago when it leaked but i just wanted the actual vinyl to hold in my hands.

then later i went to the fun concert at the wiltern~~ that's the FUN concert. FUN the band, not the adjective. i was SUPER BUMMED bc i waited too long to get tickets because ok i'm sorry i didn't know panic!!!! at the disco still had fans past 2006. (yes, they were the headlining band). so i had to SIT IN A SEAT way up high in the balcony. i sat next to this girl and we were bonding, complaining, feeling sorry for ourselves over our bad seats. i mean having a bad seat at a concert might as well be the end of the world. then she gets a phone call and is like "ok bye, i'm going to the floor" so then i just read desert solitaire and tweeted depressing thoughts until it started. AND GUESS WHAT. it was still good! excellent even!

remember this time i saw fun before the album was released and this awkward picture was taken:

sighhhh

back when getting to concerts 4 hours early was sufficient

ANYWAY my point being: my mood was shifted from horrible to awesome. luv u fun~

also i got to talk to andrew ^^^ before he left the tour early. andrew dost is one c00l d00d. other examples of c00l d00ds: nick norwood~*~, eli haftman, ryan gosling, my bf, jesus. actually there are tons of them in this world. i am sad 2 b a gurl :o(

possibly due to my excellent night, and possibly due to the tylenol pm i consumed, i slept through the night for probably the third time since i've been in LA. which made wednesday, june 22, 2011, another great day.

basically i just spent a bunch of time reading desert solitaire and watching beetlejuice and drawing outfits.

then you know, the week continued. how is it even friday already? HOW IS JUNE ALMOST OVER omg

listen, living here is really so weird. lots of times ppl r like "R U AN ACTRESS HMM" and then i want to tell them yes, i'm an actress in the movie of life. but i don't want them to get confused and think i mean the eddie murphy movie. so instead i just smile and say no way jose. whatevs.

disclaimer: it's not like they think i'm an actress because i look or act like one. IT'S NOT LIKE I WEAR SUNGLASSES INDOORS Y'ALL>>> IT'S NOT LIKE I WALK AROUND WITH HUGE BODYGUARDS SHIELDING MY FRAGILE BODY, ITS NOT LIKE I PARK IN THE RED ZONE AND EXPECT TO GET AWAY WITH IT. it's just expected that everyone who lives here is an actor/model/singer/dancer/writer and/or is married to someone who is and/or works for someone who is. which is really such a culture shock, and i'm still getting used to it.

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here are some questions for an interactive experience:

do y'all know any good documentaries i should watch?

did y'all cry ab ryan dunn's death?

how do y'all feel ab brie cheese?

do y'all ever politely smile at dogs when you walk by them?

what's y'alls flavorite type of popsicle?

answers comments plz >>>

why did i even write this.

listen, i really love painting my nails. it suxx that i can't wear nail polish to work because having painted nails is beautiful/reminds me of when i was 10 and got like 5 colors from express and brought them with me to school to show off to my friends/also makes me less likely to bite my nails and the surrounding skin.

usually if i have one day off work i'll paint my pinkie nail (or if i'm feeling wild, both pinkie nails), and if i have more than one day in a row off i'll paint every finger. critical information right there.

ANYWAY

while i was on larchmont last week, i stopped by the FaMoUs~*~*~ beauty supply store and got this nail polish because duh it is worn by KiM kArDaShIaN and/or kAtY pErRy. no really. the reason i got it, despite the celebrity endorsement, was because i just thought it looked awesome. its called OPI shatter~*~ or something similar and it's supposed to look cracked..........

DO NOT BUY THIS YOU GUYS, unless of course you like the look of painting your nails with white-out and then coloring them with a sharpie. i know it SEEMS like it would be cool but it isn't.

photographic validation:

as you can see, it appears as though i let my two-year-old nephew paint my fingernail. it is smudgy and really ugly. i'd say the actual product is comparable to just watering down regular nail polish, or maybe what your nail would look like if you splashed hydrochloric acid on it.

i spent like $12 on this shit and don't want anyone else to make the same mistake. i could've used that money to buy like 3 drinks from coffee bean or 1/8 of these shoes i rly want y'all. they are platform boots and so rad.

****fashion blog time****

i'm wearing this.

also today i went to amoeba to get a few gifts and also expand my new tape collection to include teenage fanclub and matthew sweet.

~*~