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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
12:08 pm	So, with the exception of Sonia, no one has updated in two months. I figure I'll update because I'm bored and maybe someone'll read it. Here's my month of June: Kim's b-day, my graduation/birthday party, long weekend in Portland, few days in Walla Walla, then back to portland. Home for fathers day, then back to Portland. Now I'm home, it's independence day, and I won't be in Portland again until July 22 or so. Why so many trips to Portland? Not too sure, something about an internship, my cousin's wedding, and other messy things. I'm reading Middlesex, knitting a blanket and tanning. I'm on the opaque side of transparent. Soon my legs won't be a color of toothpaste. I'm house-sitting, but it's lonely because G's not there. She got a teaching job in Arizona so she'll be moving pretty soon I guess. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 19th, 2006
9:59 pm	Studying for oralsssssssssss is my life but it's starting to get real nice out there's a faint tanline from my watch I'll be home for my grad/birthday party June 4th! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: Wilco (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 1st, 2006
5:29 pm	You are a Social Liberal (85% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (13% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 16th, 2006
10:07 pm	well I guess I should let you know that I'm home for spring break...I've been home since saturday, but you've been doing finalsy stuff anyway. I got my haircut, went to the dentist, and went to a bros' wrestling match, so most of my duties are done, I just have to write a paper and study for orals. Ha, just study for orals. I have a positive attitude most of the time. Anyhoo, give me a call! Current Mood: tired (Comment on this)
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
10:52 pm	I'm not going to precisely describe what I'm going through on livejournal, because it's livejournal (no offense, lj people). But I will describe a vivid dream the other night, it involved watching people fall down a bloody waterfall. Here's what freakydreams.com has to say about this dream: Words like falling: Loss of honor. Fear of failure. Loss of power and feeling out of control. Words like down: Overturned. Confusion. Great disorder. You want to straighten something out. Words like blood: Essence. Life energy. Unfortunate love affairs. Severe disappointment. These past few weeks I've really gotten a chance to appreciate all the great people in my life. I got much closer to my walla relatives while staying with them, and my profs are being very supportive. It is a little embarassing when acquaintances keep asking how I'm doing, but I'd rather have it this way than thinking that no one cares. And I've never gotten so many offers to be driven places. So, feel free to call for funny/interesting/pathetic stories about this whole situation Current Mood: tired Current Music: Fiona Apple (Comment on this)
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
8:05 am	First entry of the year...if I had my perfect day to start a new year, it wouldn't include any of the things I did today. I've been wearing this "Enjoy Bothell" sweatshirt every day since getting back home. I keep thinking of my life in terms of songs and movies. Right now I am a Belle and Sebastian song and this sweatshirt is just like the bonnet naomi watts' character wears in I Heart Huckabees. Except I wasn't a model before. I usually write up some New Years Resolutions, right now I can think of a start: •floss more •start band with Stu. We will of course be ten times better than the Firey Furnaces •finish knitting this blanket •elminate a few banes Current Mood: melancholy Current Music: Belle and Sebastian (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 19th, 2005
3:27 pm	Sonia...grad school apps? Well, I'm done with finals and not a moment too soon. Actually a few days late. I'll be home on wednesday...and staying until after new years...and house-sitting as usual. Sorry D- not much has happened. Things this whole semester have been pretty consistent with the homework and the party. I've made about two new friends. I feel old. I stopped scowling at firstyears and sophomores and now more people smile at me/less people run away from me. When I get home Donovan will surely be taller than me, and I'll have to adapt to wearing heels all the time. I'll need those frou frou heeled slippers just like the ones my barbie had. I've been the tallest for almost ten years. Can we see brokeback mountain when I'm home? don't see it without me. And can we see it in Bellevue so we can laugh at people, like last time? woo christmas Current Mood: tired Current Music: Ladytron (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
7:14 pm	I am really embracing the whole Senior-gone-crazy-from-studying-for-orals persona. I get free food and sympathy and respect from younger kids, and plans for celebrating oral-completion from my fellow classpeople. It makes me want to work really hard so I truely have something to celebrate. But not too hard, since there's still finals next week. As angsty and stressful as the last couple weeks have been, I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. And that light comes in many colors and it's on a tree! I usually don't look forward to Christmas that much, but this year I just have a greater appreciation for spending time with my immediate family-and even some of my extended family! I guess it's residual from my time in Florence. Or maybe I'm just more mature? Last year I couldn't wait to leave Whitman because of things specific to Whitman I wanted to get away from, but I ended up feeling like I was leaving a bunch of unresolved issues to stay here until I got back. I still think a few things aren't quite settled, but I just care more about other issues. In the past few weeks I was really stressed about deciding what to do after graduation, because usually I make decisions based on random gut feelings, and I haven't had any of those. And so, blah blah blah, I decided to just wait until that happens and in the meantime seek and research several job/school/living options. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Spirit (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
7:26 pm	This morning was the first one in a long while where I woke up pumped about...anything. The thought of taking a shower, cleaning the kitchen, and studying for orals got me out of bed. I didn't even remember my radio show is today and so is the theta formal until later. Oddly enough, this is the first dance in college I'm going to without a date. Instead, I'm taking a dozen! Because I invited the Monstro to be my date. The other night I had a really great dream about a special someone, but immediately afterward I had a dream that I was in Soylent Green but it was with McDonalds food instead and I went around trying to tell people but nobody believed me. Then a hobo attacked me with his cane. I tried to jump back into the first dream but it just didn't work. Current Mood: peaceful Current Music: Broadcast (Comment on this)
Monday, November 14th, 2005
11:44 am	Well, I just tried changing my picture, but there was some error so I give up. I've been green pumas for three years! I'll be home next week, hopefully in good health. The only drawback is that I'll have soooooooo much work to do. This entire semester, my friends in other majors have been doing orals, writtens, working on thesis, etc. and I've been sitting back drinking green tea and wearing scarves all the time. Well the art history department waits till the end of the semester for orals, so I'll have that to prepare for in addition to five finals. And this will all happen again at the end of next semester. I guess it's a good thing I didn't have orals before, because I've had two sinus infections and one strep throat and I'd hate to go through both types of stress at the same time. Let's stick with lj and not facebook because I must limit my online diversions! Current Mood: blah Current Music: Matt Pond PA (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
8:53 am	Dear Reader(s?) I'm updating instead of cramming for physics, because [energy spent studyingxquiz score=ehhh I was trying to make a physics-looking equation but I don't feel like being that clever anymore. I'll be home in a week and a half. Gretchen's leaving for Chile a few days after I get back. Gretchen's leaving for Chile and won't be back until May. It's weird when any of us in my family is gone because we're so balanced. One girl and two boys? Two blonds and one brunette? Two middles and one outer? How will we make teams for foosball? I'll have to do Christmas shopping with my mom, maybe even my dad. I don't know if I can handle that. My mom said when I'm home I'll get to "rest and drink hot cocoa and get fattened up." I hope this fattening process involves a lot of milkshakes. I haven't felt such a need to be back home since the last week in Florence. I think the crazy amount of work I have to get done before break might have something to do with it. (Comment on this)
Monday, November 7th, 2005
11:11 pm	do people read this anymore? Current Music: Wake Up (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
10:29 am	A good Halloween. Eric was Harold and I was Maude. We got adorable trick-or-treaters. I got strep throat. I haven't been to a class all week but I think I'll make my debut in German Art History this afternoon. Since getting strep, I've had time to watch a lot of SATC and Donnie Darko, and drink a gross amount of Emergen-C. I've been sleeping inbetween vidya watching, which means a lot of strange dreams. Mostly disturbing ones. I don't even want to type them. Hmm what else...last week all us art history majors dressed in black for a class picture. We posed around a gravestone I made that said "RIP Art History" and looked very sad. The inspiration for the whole thing was from a senior sem day where the discussion turned into our teacher telling us that the art history we had grown to love since freshman year is no more and it's turned into a completely new field. Being the first generation born into this new field is exciting, but we are still mourning the olde art history. Current Mood: drained Current Music: the arcade fire (Comment on this)
Friday, October 7th, 2005
4:57 pm	I'll be home tomorrow...I don't know how much social time I'll have because, surprise surprise, I'm sick. I had to scramble to get ahold of my boss and to find a substitute this afternoon. I feel like I'm lying to them because I haven't seen a doctor, and technically I can still stand. I don't know where this ethic came from, in school I'd miss days to do just about anything. I started a tutoring project for my education class today. I went to an elementary school and helped this boy with a report about siberian tigers. Before I even started, all the teachers were saying "oh thank you so much for volunteering to work with johnny", so I knew I was in for a good time. I love a challenge! He avoided all eye contact and checked the clock every five minutes, and told me several times I didn't know what I was doing. This kid is good. I told him he has good handwriting and I'll be at his school every friday. He did recycle his scrap paper before he left... Besides that, I'm looking forward to going home and seeing my hairstylist, chiropractor, doctor, and spiritual healer. And my family. Besides that, I finally got the latest New Pornographers, Twin Cinema. You guys'd like it. Because I always say that. But I think you would. It came out a month and a half ago, so it's late news I know. So that's it. There's gonna be a birthday party at my house Sunday afternoon for the twins. All are invited! Current Mood: groggy Current Music: New Pornographers (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
9:19 am	I feel like each week has been an eternity and bam! it's already been a month of classes. September has seen me dressed up as a pinata, a seventies housewife, the white rabbit and a kitten among other things. Our plumming's been shot for a few days, so I haven't showered and must use the flush function of our toilet sparingly. This week I'm supposed to turn in my "Application for Degree Candidacy", which means whitman is going to kick me out soon, but they are giving me a nice piece of paper with my name on it, and in front of a large crowd they'll pronounce my name according to how I spelled it phonetically on a special form. Am I just a smart as anyone else with a diploma? There have been three dirty cereal bowls sitting on my desk for several days now, would whitman give me a diploma if they knew that? Current Mood: okay, more than Current Music: KWCW (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 21st, 2005
9:19 am	I woke up a while ago, but since no one is home/awake, I didn't use my vocal chords until just now when I sang along with Radio Cure (wilco) and I sounded like I've been smoking for fifty years. It was actually pretty cool. If I'm ever singing in a band (it's slowly becoming a goal), I won't talk for nine hours before each performance so I sound really hardcore for the first song, or at least part of the first song. Then I imagine for the rest of the songs my voice will go back to normal, and less hardcore. Uhh Sonia I gave you my number like a week ago...? The weather here is still up to the 70's or 80's every day, but I'm just not feelin it. There's no time for kittypool slip'n'slides, so what's the point? The only shorts I have are ragged cut-offs so I'm getting tired of looking like a house painter every day. I know I'll regret saying this when I wake up one morning and my tongue sticks to my oatmeal spoon, but until then, I miss my sweaters! Current Mood: glad I didn't drink last night Current Music: Wilco (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 12th, 2005
2:54 pm	My little house is now fully modernized with phone, internet and feminism. Email if you want my phone number...it is something you will want to hear anyway. I have all the basic furniture pieces and most of my art has been hung on the walls. I'm still missing a few framed pictures somewhere in the Monstro along with about seven items of clothing. I still don't know how I made it out of there alive. I've been plenty busy with recruitment, kwcw stuff and homework. I'm still getting over the sinus infection but it's pretty much under control. There were a bunch of hyped up parties this weekend and I attended most of them, but I just wasn't in party mode, although I tried to be. I went so far as dressing up like a pinata for my housemate's birthday party. I hope it's just a quick phase and not me becoming a cranky old senior. I guess if I partied less I'd be overall more productive, but I'd be happiest with a balance. I feel myself becoming the resident lunatic for all the clubs I'm involved with. The fact that I bought a bonnet yesterday and wore it to a series of meetings didn't help I'm sure. I think the subconscious reasoning behind this is if I act crazy, I know I'm acting crazy which makes me sane, but if I'm acting sane, it means I'm really crazy and I'm covering it up, right? Down with inner monologue! Current Mood: crazy Current Music: Arcade Fire EP (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
1:01 pm	well here I am at school. More specifically, the library, with its new macs, air conditioning, and of course, internet. Emily and I have been hard at work making our little house into a home. We figured if it's not decorated, it looks more like a shanty than anything else, and I'm just not at that stage in my life when I want to live in a shanty. Yesterday I painted my room and rearranged my furniture (I only have a bed so far), and put up some art in the living room. I'll post pictures when I figure out how to do that. I'm actually pretty pumped about this house. Every night here includes riding bikes, drinking, sitting, heckling and talking to dogs. The days have been a little too hot for me, so after getting chores done in the morning, I've been lounging around the living room eating frozen grapes and utilizing the mini-fan-on-a-squirt-bottle my mom gave me. Luckily today it's cooled down a bit today which is why I ventured out to the library at twelve thirty in the afternoon instead of right at nine when it opens. When it gets back to the eighties/nineties we'll bust out 100ft slip'n'slide and kittie pools again. I cannot imagine attending classes in a week. Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 13th, 2005
11:22 pm	Second night in a row spending wholesome time in downtown Kirkland. This time at the baseball field where donnie and stu had a game. I took over the announcer's box and announced to my heart's content. It was great except I didn't know every kid's name, and I didn't get a list because it wasn't a "formal" game. So I did a lot of "next up at bat, Mr. Blue Shirt!" It was exciting to heckle my brothers over a loudspeaker, and it's a lot easier on my throat. So I leave on Tuesday. My last year at Whitman. I already had the 'last day of school' feeling yesterday at work, although not many teachers ever hugged me, or kissed me on the cheek for that matter. Oh I'll miss Play and Jeff especially. I'll miss the free CD's and piss coffee. I'll miss the bathrooms named Syd and Nancy. I'll miss the tech guy who never wears his shoes in the office. I'll miss screening my calls because I'm still too chicken to talk to strangers over the phone. On my way out I grabbed a couple CD's and a Bo Deans promotional beer cozy. Alright, gotta get up for one final costco trip tomorrow morning. Current Mood: melancholy Current Music: computer, refridgerator humming (Comment on this)
Friday, August 5th, 2005
11:24 pm	big props to Sonia for an evening of entertainment: "I just keep ate-ing and ate-ing!" "Marta you'll get an onion on a string tied to your finger!" (when describing my future wedding ring) "didn't she get pregnant? oh...didn't she get pregnant?" big props to random family at DQ for more entertainment: white girl boy with bicycle helmet Current Mood: silly Current Music: Grizzly Bear (2 Comments |Comment on this)