Life, Love, and the Law

**not legal advice**

Since I'm studying and spending time on YouTube. I think it's funny how people will try to disclaim their copyrighted music and videos by writing I don't own this. This belongs to so and so. Dude, if you stole a computer and you still use it, saying "I don't own this computer," is NOT going to help your cause.

Things that I think sound better:
1) Stating that you have an authorized version of the song or video. An authorized version means you bought and paid for it, so you have a valid copy of it and therefore are not infringing someone's copyright.
2) Stating that you are doing this for fun and have not and will not make any profit off the video that you have uploaded.
3) If it's just music, then try to make a video that goes along with it so that you can say that you "transformed" the music and what you are displaying is YOUR own copyright(although that might be a derivative work--which will still get you in trouble).
4) Tell people to go buy the actual song or video. This will show that you are not trying to cut into the market and may just be putting up the song to help consumers listen to the whole song before they buy it.

**not legal advice**

I got a bunch of make up for my birthday (and just because). I've been itching to post some hauls and looks, but I can't! Stupid finals. I resorted to taking a webcam picture at Corner Bakery wearing NARS velvet matte lip pencil in Damned just to quell the craving. I cannot wait until all this is over.




Love life is still nil. I'm okay with that, but sometimes, someone will snap a picture like this and it'll remind me of how I miss being part of a couple.



From the other diary:

Giving in and holding out. Near misses and sudden collisions. Love doesn't come when you want it to. It's always a huge accident. How do I shake this feeling that it always comes so close and then zooms right by with me on the sidelines.

Thankful for my friends, whose generosity never ceases to amaze me.

Thankful for my parents, whose love and patience remind me to be a better person.

Thankful for my family, always a phone call away.

Thankful for all the privileges I am afforded and all those who came before me who secured them for my generation.

(Sorry Natives.)

This morning, I dragged myself out of bed and zoned my way through Bus Orgs. I went to work, settled myself in my routine and called my mom to wish her a happy birthday.

There was a time when I thought of her first and my mom's birthday second. My old roommate reminded me that it's been five years to the date today. When she died, everyone that loved her felt it. More than a tragedy, a suicide leaves behind all these unraveled pieces. All my best friends are my best friends because we were together that night and were together in the days that followed. We had a one year memorial. Then the year after that, another one. I can't remember where I was the year after that or the year after and now, today was a day just like any other. I was startled by how quickly those wounds sewed themselves back up.

I wonder if anyone else remembers. We've all come so far from a group of college sophomores, bewildered and bereaved.

Don't hesitate to show anyone you appreciate them. You never know when you'll have to say goodbye.

"Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

No kidding. They put purple and silver shadow EVERYWHERE and lined my upper but not my lower lid. Additionally, the MUA did not curl my lashes before applying mascara. I looked terrible.



I stood in line for 2 hours at the Clinique Fresh Faces truck for that wonderful souvenir.

I went home and added some eyeliner. Here's the after picture:



I still don't get how they made me look 14 in the professional picture.

I'm obsessed with full lashes. I usually put the corner lashes on top of a set of regular lashes, but since two sets of Darkness lashes don't layer very well, I had to settle with just one set. It was cute anyway.



Full face:



I'm wearing the drug store foundation again. That's why my face looks so white.