stupid myspace survey whilst waiting for dinner

1. Where were you 3 hours ago?
Writing an essay on confessional poets, or procrastinating about starting it

2. Who are you in love with?
A bear

3. Have you ever eaten a crayon?
Don't think so

4. Is there anything pink within 10 feet of you?
Actually... no?

5. When is the last time you went to the mall?
Saturday. It's not a frequent thing, just a coincidence

6. Are you wearing socks right now?
Yes with pine needles stuck in them

7. Do you have a car worth over $2,000?
Let's just put it this way, I wish I didn't

8. When was the last time you drove out of town?
Beyond Amherst? Can't remember. A few weeks ago. Ask me when I will next drive out of town. That's more interesting.

9. Have you been to the movies in the last 5 days?
My TV movies.

10. Are you hot?
Sitting beside the stove, waiting for dinner. Absolutely.

11. What was the last thing you had to drink?
Water

12. What are you wearing right now?
Jeans , zip up hoodie, stripey shirt,

13. Do you wash your car or let the car wash do it?
I'm so glad that the second one is an option. That's ALWAYS my mentality. It rains right? Good enough for me.

14. Last food that you ate?
Cinnamon roll from Texas Roadhouse. Yum.

15. Where were you last week at this time?
Dreading the start of my last week of school, and maybe with Amanda?

16. Have you bought any clothing items in the last week?
Sadly, yes.

17. When is the last time you ran?
Today, against the incredible wind.

18. What's the last sporting event you watched?
Some sort of game today, inadvertently.

19. What is your favorite animal?
Dogs and birds.

20. Your dream vacation?
Europe

21. Last person's house you were in?
Grampa's

22. Worst injury you've ever had?
Stepping on a needle comes to mind

23. Have you been in love?
Mhmmm

24. Do you miss anyone right now?
Mhmmm

25. Last play you saw?
Patience, 60s style

26. What is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex?
Humor, smarts? The inside, not the outside.

27. What are your plans for tonight?
Finish confessionals essay, start studying for Brit Lit. Will I do half of those things? Probably not.

28. Who is the last person you sent a MySpace message or comment?
Amanda

29. Next trip you are going to take?
NYC, then Washington State.

30. Ever go to camp?
Yep, funded by the Masons, baby.

31. Were you an honor roll student in school?
Haha, only in high school. College is a different story.

32. What do you want to know about the future?
How long I'm going to live for.

33. Are you wearing any perfume or cologne?
Soap.

34. Are you due sometime this year for a doctor's visit?
Probably for something.

35. Where is your best friend?
In NYC

36. How is your best friend?
Drawing drawing drawing

37. Do you have a tan?
Hah, that lady at Lenscrafters wouldn't let me get white glasses, because they would blend in, essentially.

38. What are you listening to right now?
Christmas music

39. Do you collect anything?
Books?

40. Who is the biggest gossiper you know?
Hmmm.

41. Last time you got stopped by a cop or pulled over?
On the way back from Chicago, somewhere in NY

42. Have you ever drank your soda from a straw?
Gramma used to have us do that.

43. What does your last text message say?
Something really silly and cute

44. Do you like hot sauce?
Stomach ache sauce. What do you think?

45. Last time you took a shower?
This morning.

46. Do you need to do laundry?
Don't I always? I haven't been caught up in a year.

47. What is your heritage?
Polish, Prussian, Irish, Scotch, little bit of French. A true American.

48. Are you someone's best friend?
I would hope so.

49. Are you rich?
HAH!

50. What were you doing at 12AM last night?
Dyeing hair with Amanda.


I'm just going to start doing these surveys. More effective than expecting myself to record my life down in this blog. My 'd' key is broken. What the hell.

gah!

I'm tired, that's all that needs to be said right now. Finals week.

Hopefully it'll be the act of writing, not what I write about that'll matter to me in a couple years.

It took me five minutes to get to this site to post. Thanks blogger. You're so fast, I can't keep up.

words from friends

"you're such a nice new discovery of a person" - maura

"you have an appetite for distruction" - cullen

no thanks blogger

let me just say, that blogger is no longer fun. i can't send photos anymore from my phone; i can't even sent text from my phone. i can't upload photos from the web. it's terrible and i dont enjoy it. i do this to record events, not stress over another silly thing in my life. so thanks blogger - one happy user at a time.

a note on comprehension

i thought it would be fitting to say, thank you so much for your support - and more importantly, for your understanding. both of these incomparable qualities rarely found in humans have even more rarely been displayed by you. the fine line between understanding and compassion, has not been crossed. to be frank, i don't think it's ever been contemplated. how nice to know that when i am out of sorts, so few people have the temperament to shed all else and try to comprehend what i battle with. so thanks. and please try not to strain yourself.

Sensationalism, on the shelves at blockbuster.

This isn't a joke, find it at your local supermarket

Wooot

So I'm finally done with school! I just caught a cold, so I guess I'm not as excited as I should be. I got hte summer internship, decided not to take a summer class, and registered for five classes next semester. Right now, that's about all.

I have work in an hour and a half, so I guess I'll go shower.

finals

last week of classes...much much much too busy

listen

give it a try:"ain't love a kick to the head" - dean martin

...

did you hear? the pope has bird flu!

..he caught it from the cardinals. lol.

blog from my phone?

i just set my blog up so i can post from my phone. there's nothing we can't do these days. i am continuously astounded!

more later.

happy easter

I call this "bunny atlas" - I know, genius!

easter flowers are my favorite

yes, a skirt, i know...you can't see it! haha!

RIP Alternative Press

The Village Voice is gone now too. What a shame the media has become in this country. Anything alternative or varying in view is being eaten up by massive corporate owners. Why do all our papers have to be the same? How alternative can it really be anymore? This leaves no room for progressive politics or public discourse.

RIP Village Voice.

Till we have faces...

Forget to mention that I finished reading "Till We Have Faces". I really wanted to note this too, because I was just entralled by it.

I finally discovered what the title means in the final pages. The book concerns itself with the presense/or not of the gods, love, and life/death. A character, Orual, has put a charge before the gods, but receives no answer. She then discovers that the questions that humans have - which seem to matter then - will only die away once we have foudn ourselves for what we truly are - and only then are our questions answered by knowing ourselves. I think she also learns that we cannot see ourselves until we let others see themselves, or until we see what they've become. And finally, there is a difference between scared and profane love, or selfless and selfish.

Here are a few quotes from the book:

"The complaint was the answer. To have heard myself making it was to be answered ... When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openely, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? how can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"

All around a great book. It's so nice to read something with meaning.

busy busy

Today has just been full of stuff, not that I'm complaining. What better way is there to follow a series of down days than a series of up days?

Work was definitely interesting this morning. Dawn has been out on vacation and Jeff thought it would be appropriate to act ghetto, following the theme of Busta Rhymes coming to campus. He said he's got some major dirt for me to write a story on for the paper, but that he can't tell me right now. I unfortunately won't know until Tuesday. You can't just say you have dirt and then not tell me! Guh!

After work I went to go visit my professor from last year's English 102 class. I finally gave him some stuff to read and critique, and he set me up with another girl that likes to write - Jackie. So we're sending each other stuff back and forth I guess, which will be nice. It's been so long since I had someone to critique my stuff, that's not a teacher and not my boyfriend.

But, apart from that, I started work on the Libby story. It looks good so far, I think. We'll see how it goes.

It's only four yet. More to happen later.

Spring is finally here.

50% the wisdom than before...

I had my wisdom teeth out Thursday. I only had two of them out, the troublesome ones, so now I only have half the wisdom I did before.

Also, I've been enjoying the days off. I had Thursday off for obvious reasons. Then Friday I chose to take off too. Again today, I had to work this morning, but I've been relatively inactive. It's so nice to loaf around, read, write, do whatever I want to do. It's amazing - how nice to have this freedom always.

Jill just made fun of my tummy : (

Tomorrow is Cullen's baptism. We had to shop today for a shirt and tie for him and he was soooo picky. He didn't want a white shirt, it was too plain. He didn't want a blue tie, he wanted a pink one. Who knew he was so picky about clothes? Him! Lol, I wouldn't be surprised if he was gay.

I made a cake for his party tomorrow. The dog licked part of it, but no one has to know ; )

Much more later. I don't feel like being online. (Think I'll go do some sit-ups)

enough

wow...i am really angry today and i don't know why.

maybe i'm over tired, or maybe everyone is doing incredibly stupid things today. my dad is mad at me because i didn't call his wife about some stupid movie she dropped off at my house. apparently i didn't call her because i'm not responsible, but why is it always my responsibility to babysit everyone else?

i'm sick of it.

hrmmm...

I'm off to write!

Awayyy!

<3

april fools!

So I just spent six hours reading on the couch. And now I'm cold...as I always am if I stop moving for 20 mins. Current book, you might ask, "Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis. [Random note: his minddle name was Staples - and that's not an April Fools joke.] If you have a chance, I recommend reading it. The plot's a little slow so far, but it addresses all sorts of questions about death, existence, and balance, while retelling the myth of Cupid and Pysche. Not sure yet if I'm wild about it, only on chapter nine.

What a strange day, though. I can't help feeling that it's Sunday already and my weekend is gone. Tackling the project of taxes today, which stresses everyone out. Sadly, being a dependent, filing taxes involves relying on my father to file his. So, I wait.

But that's about it. Did I mention that The Record is up on the site? I got sixty hits today, which is nice. [The inevitable April Fools joke prevails. I only got five hits.]

All the best.

graduating on time...

After seeing my advisor on Wednesday, it might be possible to graduate in two years. There's a course i need to take very soon and it's being offered this summer. It's also writing intensive, so the summer would be a great time to concentrate on just one class. However, tuition is $181 per credit hour - the class counts towards 3 credit hours - and i won't receive any financial aid. But, 300 level and up classes count towards upper division courses, which i need a lot of.

3096

COM302

INFO GATHERING

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10:30 am - 12:40 pm

MTWRF

If there's a reason i can't take it, (despite that my registration isn't until April 20th) i can also take some of my gen. ed. over the summer. But those classes tend to be so easy; I'd rather tackle something challenging.

Hopefully that'll work out. I just emailed Niman to see if there was a way to reserve a spot in the class for me. And i agreed to take the summer internship with Maria White. And i agreed to work at the box office this summer. All of that will work out, I just hope that I'll still have some time in early May off and August to visit Alex.

Guh, too much to remember. I also have to mail out that scholarship information before i forget. Still have to do taxes...

More later.

the onion...no wait, the radish?

So the April Fools Issue came out today; we emulated The Onion, but called it The Radish. It turned out much better than I thought it would, and much funnier. I'm going to play around with my Web site tonight, and hopefully figure out how to post the newspaper with Flash. We'll see.

More later.