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mel

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About Me

well, let's see. i'm a 21 year old college student from an insanely small town in upstate new york. i go to fordham university in the bronx, and i'm studying english and spanish. i'm a huge nerd and probably the biggest fan of sarcasm that i know. i have a weakness for bad horror movies, string cheese, and apple cider.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: melissa
Birthday: july 13th
Birthplace: rochacha
Current Location: the bronx
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: brown
Height: 5'4"
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: italian, lebanese, english, german
The Shoes You Wore Today: my pink sneakers
Your Weakness: apple cider
Your Fears: spiders
Your Perfect Pizza: cheeeeeese!
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: figure out what to do with my life
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: lol or interesting
Thoughts First Waking Up: SNOOZE!
Your Best Physical Feature: my collarbone
Your Bedtime: earlier than most
Your Most Missed Memory: hanging around with my kendall people nonstop
Pepsi or Coke: not big on either
MacDonalds or Burger King: meh
Single or Group Dates: meh
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither
Chocolate or Vanilla: chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: cappuccino!
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: rarely
Do you Sing: badly
Do you Shower Daily: of course
Have you Been in Love: nope
Do you want to go to College: that's why i'm here
Do you want to get Married: eventually
Do you belive in yourself: more than i used to
Do you get Motion Sickness: on boats
Do you think you are Attractive: meh
Are you a Health Freak: i'm not crazy
Do you get along with your Parents: most of the time
Do you like Thunderstorms: sure
Do you play an Instrument: yep
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yeah
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yeah
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: unfortunately, no
In the past month have you been on Stage: yeah
In the past month have you been Dumped: nope
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: haha, no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: yeah
Ever been called a Tease: maybe once
Ever been Beaten up: by angela
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: not painfully
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: myself
What country would you most like to Visit: spain!
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: meh
Favourite Hair Color: meh
Short or Long Hair: short
Height: taller than me
Weight: meh
Best Clothing Style: what i like
Number of Drugs I have taken: 0
Number of CDs I own: not that many
Number of Piercings: 7, but i used to have 8 ::sniffle::
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: more than 1
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My Interests

sleeping, making origami cranes.

Music:

something corporate, death cab for cutie, the format, the postal service, weezer, green day, straylight run, taking back sunday, ben folds (five), ben kweller, jack's mannequin, saves the day, rufus wainwright, fall out boy, guster, ben kweller, the academy is, and others.

Movies:

moulin rouge!, saved, garden state, the faculty, almost famous, happy gilmore, big fish, harry potter, lord of the rings

Television:

buffy the vampire slayer, angel, the simpsons, the x-files, the o.c.

Books:

dangerous angels and anything else by francesca lia block, the perks of being a wallfower, and HARRY POTTER! but i'm a total bookworm and will read just about anything....except the works of h.g. wells. ::shudder::

Heroes:

harry potter!

My Blog

no tiene nada que ver con nada

ya echo de menos sevilla. me parece raro, pero quizás tenga razón. CIEE termina esta semana y mis amigos salen. ¿que voy a hacer? claro, nada. jaja. también hace más calor que el infierno aquí. m...
Posted by mel on Mon, 15 May 2006 08:09:00 PST

the portugal episode, in which melissa gets a tan and hell freezes over

So, I am currently in the week of doom (aka studying and paper writing before finals next week). Much fun to be had. For anybody that´s wondering, I should be home around June 15th or 16th, but I have...
Posted by mel on Tue, 09 May 2006 08:36:00 PST

my 6 weird habits

Blake tagged me, so there you go.  The rules are, once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with "6 weird things/habits about yourself". In the end you need to choose the 6 people to be t...
Posted by mel on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:57:00 PST

pictures from morocco

So I finally uploaded my pictures from Morocco if anyone´s curious to see them. Some of the pictures from Spain in general are up too.  Be forewarned: I am a huge geek and will take pictures of p...
Posted by mel on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:01:00 PST

valentine´s day in spain?!

i thought they didn´t have valentine´s day here. apparently i was wrong. we´re infecting the whole world! we did start it, didn´t we? i had a cherry coke today. it was delicious. unfortunately, i stil...
Posted by mel on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 05:24:00 PST