Great America's Halloween Haunt

Last Saturday, I went to the Halloween Haunt with mostly members of Q&A (Shiva, Billy, Matt, Nichols, Justin, Ash, Jason, Michelle, Crystal, Karishma, Thien, Thien's friend, Vivi, Steven). Met up with Q&A members from other colleges. Except I didn't interact with any of them XP

Went through the Slaughterhouse with Q&A members. Held Shiva's hand through it because she wanted to witness me getting scared. But it didn't really happen XP Oh, Luis, a member of QTIP, was the last ghoul we all saw in the maze. He did like a kinda dance or something XD And apparently, Billy gave him a hug, even though the talent (performers) and customers aren't supposed to have physical contact with each other.

I think Steven bought a plastic light-up, double-blade sword. Or he looked at it. I don't remember. As the group headed past the electric chair (that was interesting; made me think interesting things), Shiva decided she wanted to go back and watch the Fangs performance. So she and I left the group to go back toward the Slaughterhouse. Went inside the theater or whatever it is. Hannah met up with us in there. The musical was ok. I didn't think the singers were that great >_> Only recognized one song, which was "Psycho" by Puddle of Mudd.

After, the three of us headed over toward The Grizzly 'cause that's where Q&A went. They had just gotten off the ride when we arrived. Shiva was sad because she wanted to go on it. So Ash agreed to go on the ride again with her :) Everyone else wanted to go on Drop Zone -_- I did not. So I went with Hannah to Werewolf Canyon. Waited in a really loooong line -_- We got to talking about Halloween and other stuff. It was interesting conversation.

I learned that the performers inside the mazes get heckled and harassed a lot ): Wtf? People are paying to come in to bother the workers -_- What assholes. Hannah told me about a time she was working in one of the mazes. A guy and two girls came through. So she scared them. Then the girls started humping her -_- and then the guy started bumping her, saying "Huh, huh. Whatchu want? Whatchu gonna do?" and stuff like that. When they left, Hannah notified the (I forgot what they're called) people dressed in black who stand silently in the darkness with flashlights, and the three problem children were tossed out of Halloween Haunt :) Yay, happy endings.

Anyway, when we were close to the front, Shiva texted me and said that everyone else wanted to meet up with us or something. So spent a while giving directions. Mostly, it was Hannah who gave directions 'cause she's better at it haha. Eventually, everyone gave up on trying to find Werewolf Canyon XD except Shiva :3 So Hannah and I waited at the front of the line until Shiva arrived. One of the managers had been standing at the front of the line and told us we were cutting >_> We were just like "Oh? Really? That's cutting? We were just waiting for our friend to catch up to us..." But anyway, we got in. Fun maze :P

After Werewolf Canyon, we went to Carn Evil, Cornstalkers (because Hannah's boyfriend was supposed to be working, but sadly we came when he was on break), and Toy Factory.

All of these mazes were interesting haha. I can't say I was genuinely scared, but it was fun listening to other people scream >_> I remember in Carn Evil (yay for glowy-ness :D), people behind us were too freaked out so they started dancing and singing. Apparently, I was also moving too slow, so they passed us. I liked staring at all the creepy costumes, especially when they're not moving. Then you can try figure out which ones are actually people and which are props.

I think the last thing the three of us did was go on Drop Zone T-T I didn't wanna gooo. But in the end, while I was waiting in line with Shiva and Hannah, I decided I would. For Shiva XP

Took off my hat, my shoes, and other stuff. The ride was really quick. The slow ride up built up my anxiety T-T According to Shiva, I was saying, "This is soo high! DX" Though, I thought she was the only one saying that, not me. When the ride clicked at the top, all I thought was "Oh shit! What the fuck am I doing? In two seconds, this thing is gonna dro--" Drop ;-; I tried really hard to curl up into a ball with the harness in the way. I think I was also holding Shiva's hand haha XP Haha apparently, the ride pushed the air out of her lungs, making her yell. Hannah, on the other hand, just yelled for fun XP I didn't yell or scream. I can't.

I was so happy when the ride was over haha. Glad to be alive. Though my head didn't feel all that great anymore @_@ and I was kinda shaky. Seriously, that ride scared me more than all the mazes combined T-T I can't believe Shiva wants me to go on a whole bunch of roller coasters with her. Will I do it? ;-; I might.

I think we were all done and ready to leave about thirty minutes after midnight. Hannah left us to go pick up her boyfriend. Shiva and I reunited with the Q&A members :P

I was exhausted XP Lots of walking around that night. Then off to Denny's, yay. I don't remember much from Denny's. My brain wanted to shut off XD I had fallen asleep in Michelle's car on the drive to Denny's, so yeah haha.

I may have fallen asleep again going back to campus, but I don't remember XD

Saturday night was fun, but I don't remember too much. I do know I want to go to haunted places now haha.

Anyway, slept over at Shiva's. Waking up on Sunday was good. Then sad stuff happened in the afternoon ): but we're good now. Went home that night. Didn't get that much work done that weekend XP Baaad.

This past week has been all right. Monday, I skipped my 100W class 'cause my head wasn't feeling good. Followed Shiva to Prof Cate's Human Sexuality class at 10h30. I wanna take this class o: Anyway, we went there, met up with Alisa, Mackenzie, and Billy. Yay for queer panels. Sasha came soon after. I joined in on the class, sat in the audience. Just wanted to see how a queer panel works. I'm not that comfortable with talking to a large group of strangers about me, so I just sat back and paid attention. Next time, I might join a panel. But yeah, it was good and informative. Learn things about people's opinions and experiences. I was quite surprised to find out that none of the speakers had ever been subjected to hate crimes or anything close. But I'm also glad.


Well, that's that. I feel like these weeks are passing by so quickly. I don't remember half of what I do -_- It's sad. What's going on?

Half my semester is over already. Next semester's class schedule comes out November 1st. This is just crazy fast.

Mm, what else?
I don't have to show up to my 100W class for the next three weeks; instead, I show up to Brook's office on Monday for a fifteen-minute research paper conference, and that's it.
Tuan wants to go watch Saw VII as a group like back in high school. This time, we will try to make it happen. I wouldn't mind catching up with the guys.
Shiva's having a get-together thing at her dorm on Friday :)

I dunno what else I've got planned other than taking last midterms, keeping up with readings and such, and writing papers for my classes -_- Two research papers. Not fun ): I dislike research papers sooo much. I feel slightly overwhelmed and like I'm falling behind in school T-T Just need to last another eight or so weeks. I can do this.


Mm, I wish I had something more substantial to say about my life, but what can I say? It's going all right. I spend most of my time on campus with Shiva. I stay up too late on most nights. But I get my work done on time somehow o_o

Blah. I want to remember more of my day-to-day life. Meh. C'est la vie, eh?

First half of October 2010 is a blur...

Saturday, October 2: Spirit of Japantown Festival. Went with Shiva and Marian. Ran into some friends here and there. Had a snow cone thing from the Manju shop. So tasty. Snow cap and azuki beans! XD

Monday, October 4, I think Shiva and I went to the Great Mall. Was really hot that day.

Don't really remember what I've been doing. That's not new XP

Shiva's netbook died last Thursday (Oct 7) ): It was a sad day. Computer Services at SJSU isn't all that good >_> Very slow. They said they'd work on her netbook immediately, and two days later they still hadn't started.

They managed to recover only about 16% of her D drive ): Backed it up on my external drive. Been letting Shiva borrow my netbook. Mother has been wondering when I'll get my computer back haha. I'm just like "whenever my friend doesn't need it anymore."

Sunday, October 10, there was a Queer Dance Committee meeting. I'm actually participating in something. Or trying to. Came up with dance theme ideas and such. Was interesting. No Lady GaGa themes. I would never go to such a thing -_-
But yeah, seems like the Queer Dance of this semester will either be on the last day of semester (Dec 9) or in late February. Hope it's this semester. Would really like to reward myself for getting through this semester. Even though, finals would be the week after -_-

Monday, October 11, was National Coming Out Day. I forgot about it >_> Missed the bbq that the LGBT Resource Center hosted. Oops.

The Dalai Lama came to campus on Wednesday the 13th. Forgot about that too. But there was a lot of security around the Event Center that day -nods-

Today, I went to campus to hang out with Shiva. We and Marian L went to Fry's to buy a hard drive and other stuff. Then to In N Out in Santa Clara. Had some trouble finding our way back, but we did it. Back to campus for a QTIP officer meeting. I'm not an officer, but I'm kinda involved >_> It's weird. I don't know.

Meeting: Pushing for the queer dance to be at the end of this semester. Wanting to change the direction of the club. Planning to change QTIP's name to something more social and less activist, more easily recognized yet maybe less frightening/overly flamboyant (in terms of rainbowy-ness). Problem is the name QTIP already has a reputation. Changing it would mean we'd have to kinda start over but not really...


I'm pretty sure a lot has been going on with me lately, but I just can't recall much of anything. Just a lot of Shiva time XD

Ooh, going to Great America's Halloween Haunt tomorrow with Q&A :D Can't wait. $25 with the group discount. Awesome. Haven't been to a haunted thing before. So I hope it's good. Gonna see a bunch of performances, go through mazes, go on rides, and more.

Tomorrow morning, Mother and D wanna go to Half Moon Bay to check out California's largest pumpkin. So I'll probably go with them to see that. Then I'll get dropped off on campus to get a ride to Great America later in the day.

So many heat waves. In the middle of October D: It makes me sad T-T Do not want heat. Want cold. Where's the cold? Supposed to be a lil bit cooler tomorrow. Supposedly rain on Sunday. We'll see.


Anyway, should get started on a paper for my 100W class. Shiva wants me to do it now >_< She's right. I shouldn't be so lazy and distracted and such.

Hope you're having a good semester/quarter/October/etc.... Ok, bye!