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Friday, May 5th, 2006
2:21 pm	happy cinco de mayo Vermeil98: queso is so frickin good fyrefly432: i dont even get how its so good fyrefly432: its just cheese fyrefly432: and peppers Vermeil98: lol fyrefly432: but somehow it turns into like liquid heroin Vermeil98: there's an ingrediant you forgot to mention Vermeil98: pixie dust fyrefly432: lol! fyrefly432: omg fyrefly432: i want guac too Vermeil98: cheese, peppers and pixie dust Vermeil98: pixie dust is hard to find at the grocery store fyrefly432: they have this new appetizer at cactus that's guac and queso, side by side Vermeil98: u gotta go to like one of those weird organic grocery stores to get it Vermeil98: really? Vermeil98: thats awesome fyrefly432: i think it is too :( fyrefly432: lol organic pixie dust fyrefly432: fair trade fyrefly432: no exploitation of pixies Vermeil98: lol fyrefly432: omg do you think pixie dust is really like ground up pixies? Vermeil98: that's for the FDA to know fyrefly432: :( Vermeil98: hehe Vermeil98: i hate it when like Vermeil98: fairy rights activists Vermeil98: go into a mexican restaurant Vermeil98: and try to order queso without the pixie dust Vermeil98: its like what are u an asshole or something? Vermeil98: dont u know that queso without pixie dust is just cheese and peppers? fyrefly432: i know! fyrefly432: they're all like "i'm a nonfairietarian fyrefly432: "i only eat vegan fairie dust" Vermeil98: lol Vermeil98: artificial fairies suck fyrefly432: and it's like dude...it's totally the pixie bone marrow that makes it good Vermeil98: lol Vermeil98: pixie bone marrow = topic of conversation i didn't think i would have today when waking up fyrefly432: lol ya know, it's important to consider these things Vermeil98: you couldn't be more right fyrefly432: and like, the mexican restaurants that use illegally smuggles pixies fyrefly432: the ones they drive across the border in boxcars fyrefly432: poor little things fyrefly432: but omg, illegal immigrant pixies are sooo good in queso Vermeil98: lol Vermeil98: who am i to question where the pixies came from? fyrefly432: they're taking the jobs from good American pixies Vermeil98: what exactly jobs are we talking here? fyrefly432: um... fyrefly432: unclear Vermeil98: i heard most of the jobs pixies are qualified for were filled by elves Vermeil98: too many damn elves in this country fyrefly432: i know, and they refuse to learn the language Vermeil98: like i go into mcdonalds and see an elf and im just like go back to the fuckin forest man Vermeil98: hehe fyrefly432: hahaha fyrefly432: and the pixies and the elves are totally bringing gangs in with them too fyrefly432: it's like, the pixies throw the steaming hot queso on the elves, and the elves hurl those keebler cookies back fyrefly432: it's bedlam Vermeil98: lol Vermeil98: i can't believe you see kids these days just walking around with keebler cookies on the street fyrefly432: yeah, like they think it's cool to be a trash talking elf Vermeil98: there is NOTHING cool about being an elf fyrefly432: pointy ears are rather fetching (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
12:36 am	"i've got a song for you." "well, send it along." "this song is you." "what do you mean, this song is me?" "i mean that i heard it and i thought, that's the tessie song." "why?" "because i can't tell if it's happy or sad, but i've listened to it 20 times today and i can't stop smiling." despite the fact that yes, i'm single, and it's valentine's day, and maybe i'm supposed to be sad or bitter, having that conversation tonight proved to me yet again that every love, no matter how painful, is worth it. even if things don't turn out the way i want them to in the end. i have good people in my life. such good people. i am grateful for every romantic relationship i've ever had and the moments i've shared with people. maybe i'm "alone" this year, but i don't feel alone...i feel more loved than ever, and by a force that is greater than anything I know or can understand. Current Mood: touched (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
12:47 am	sweet home alabama? why do i feel the need to update this thing again? weird. kinda drunkish maybe. last night was awesome, went to the sr date auction...soooo funny...and then tombs...things are interesting...hmmm...i am using a lot of dots. oh, dots. today was work and elena and i danced to crazy hispanic reggae for the last 3 hours in the office, and then i went around to all of the office computers and put pics of my face up as the wallpaper. i kind of love my job. tonight went to CACTUS with 14 of my favorite people for sangria and swirly margaritas and queeeso and it was amazing. and then went to a party some friends had on o street in this huge mansion...twas a city/state party, where we had to come repping our homelands, so it was great fun. i love going to places and talking to people and telling them where i live/who i live with and having them go "oh, you're THAT house". it reminds me of jr. year henle 11's reputation. we are just a bunch of pretty normal girls who know how to throw really frickin good parties. although i must say, i feel like we're somehow tamer this year. it's probably better that way. tomorrow i go to the bball game at the mci center against cinci, then out to show some out of towners a good time. i also have to write a paper. bah. i never thought i would be this much of a second semester senior. i feel like this is what it means to leave without any regrets. next friday is our february 3rd party. the theme is...february 3. also, hidden talents. i am so excited. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 26th, 2006
7:55 pm	ladies and gentlemen, my mother. conversation with my mom, who was using my dad's screenname at the time. this, my friends, is really all it takes to understand why i am how i am. fyrefly432: i am debating whether or not to do homework pugman317: I guess you better do your homework!:-( pugman317: haha, just kidding fyrefly432: it will get done eventually fyrefly432: but i feel like i would rather go out and have fun tonight, haha pugman317: yes I know it will get done eventually, your so good, so I guess it would be ok for you to go out, you only live once fyrefly432: hahaha excellent pugman317: One time when I was at Green Mt. I studied instead of watching the streekers come through campus - I still regret that decision, it would have been so much more fun to see the naked men fyrefly432: hahahahaha! fyrefly432: that's amazing mom pugman317: yes, yes it is fyrefly432: although i can't believe you were studying pugman317: yes, I studied very very much, I had to, I wasn't born smart, like you fyrefly432: mom!! fyrefly432: you did NOT study pugman317: YES I DID fyrefly432: hahaha fyrefly432: you said you were never in the library pugman317: We were often there, but usually we were reading the old yearbooks and talking fyrefly432: wow fyrefly432: i feel so justified pugman317: Actually, GM was so easy even I didn't have to study much - I told you you should have gone there fyrefly432: i am kicking myself pugman317: As well you should be fyrefly432: hahaha oh mom fyrefly432: well, i am still finding the time for fun fyrefly432: i am good at that pugman317: that's very important, you don't want to be a nerd, because they never have any fun pugman317: Where will you go tonight? fyrefly432: laura and i are laughing very hard at you pugman317: WHAT! fyrefly432: um...we are going to a date auction fyrefly432: but not to be auctioned fyrefly432: or to buy anyone fyrefly432: just to hang out pugman317: I don't know how to respond to that pugman317: It sounds too wierd fyrefly432: haha its a thing to raise money for school fyrefly432: but we are just going because there is beer pugman317: Oh I see fyrefly432: i saw the list of the people up for auction, they aren't so cool fyrefly432: haha pugman317: Just make sure you don't drink too much pugman317: I had to say tthat fyrefly432: hahaha i wont fyrefly432: i have work tomorrow fyrefly432: did you know, mom, that if you drink too much, you can get a hangover? fyrefly432: someone told me that once pugman317: Yes I do know that, believe it or not I had one once pugman317: It wasn't fun and I learned my lesson to never drink again, that's why I always drink milk fyrefly432: hahahaha fyrefly432: i know fyrefly432: you only drink tom collins and margaritas fyrefly432: and milk fyrefly432: but not all together pugman317: Definitely pugman317: Actually scorpion bowls are pretty good too fyrefly432: hehehe yes they are fyrefly432: but very large fyrefly432: you are not allowed to have a whole one pugman317: that's for sure, I had to help out Beth andLiz Flannery last week when we were at the Grand Man. - I was afraid they were going to get wasted and not be able to drive home so I helped them with the bowl - it was really big fyrefly432: hahaha fyrefly432: you did a valuable service pugman317: we were all quite amused with ourselves - we went there after tennis last tues. fyrefly432: at least you didn't go before tennis! pugman317: yes I did pugman317: we may try that some time (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 22nd, 2006
7:18 pm	wow. just...wow. this weekend was so crazy. actually, yesterday was so crazy. today was being sick and having no voice and spazzing out and not doing enough work. we went out on friday night and so yesterday were all groggy and out of it, but the duke gtown game was on, and we watched it just for the hell of it, thinking we would lose reallly badly...but somehow...we won. gtown basketball actually beat duke for the first time in 21 years. this may not seem like a big deal, but it honestly has changed the atmosphere around here by 100 %. our sports teams have been so blah the whole time i've been here, theyve been nothiong to rally around...but when jtIII took over as coach last year, things have been looking up for our team. and we all love the bball players, they are the greatest guys. so it is like euphoria on campus like it never has been before. our whole neighborhood was outside screaming yesterday. we've never been this united before, it's just so much more friendly around here, everyone's just walking around with stupid grins on their faces. such a crazy feeling. so when there was 2 minutes left on the clock in the game, the mail came sliding through our door, and jen goes "um, theresa? there's a big important looking envelope for you" as i am lying in a pile of pillows on the floor, so of course i shot up, and opened said envelope, and i was officially accepted into grad school at CUA. which i pretty much expected, but not so soon! and it was awesome and amazing. and i will probably not hear from anywhere else till march, but, oh man. i have a future. i have sooo much on my mind and this week will be busy. also, on friday night i lost my house keys and that makes me sad, although, happily, i have recovered most of the rest of the stuff that i was randomly throwing around my house and room at 4 am or whatever. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 20th, 2006
10:46 am	when nerds do battle there is a majors fair at school today, where all the underclassmen come and we try to recruit them to our respective majors. me, kim and laura all somehow were picked to run the section for our specific departments (theo, psych, and medieval studies) and laura and i somehow turned this into a competition to see who gets more recruits. EmeraldLCD: you better watch it, theology - you're going down today Auto response from fyrefly432: gym and majors fair...wooooo theology! EmeraldLCD is away at 10:28:27 AM. fyrefly432: yahweh's wrath is upon those who scorn his academic department Auto response from EmeraldLCD: thesis stuff fyrefly432: you medieval studies heathen EmeraldLCD: you better watch it, theologian, or I shall bring the force of the crusades down upon you fyrefly432: um, sorry sweetheart, the crusaders fights for God alone...aka my number one man EmeraldLCD: no, i'm sorry, because if you were a medievalist you would know that the crusades were about more than fighting for God EmeraldLCD: beacuse we're cool and we know stuff like this fyrefly432: ok, ok, you win...so you guys are experts in some of the crappiest years of human existence...and we're only experts in the infinite and eternal. sigh. EmeraldLCD: haha fyrefly432: today, we will see who truly prevails EmeraldLCD: yes we shall EmeraldLCD: until the majors fair fyrefly432: until then life is good lately, school is awesome, work is ok (aside from stupid drama being caused by uber annoying new office manager). lots of time for fun this semester too. and it's friiiday which definitly calls for lots of fun and silly happiness. ps i miss people from home, come visit me. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 17th, 2006
12:26 am	too many problems to count fyrefly432: she hears only whispers of some quiet conversaaaaation Auto response from bsb24601: i hear the drums echoing tonight fyrefly432: she's coming in 12"30 flight fyrefly432: moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me toward salvaaaaation bsb24601: he turns to me as if to say, hurry boy it's waiting there for you bsb24601: (sorry i don't remember the line that comes between there) fyrefly432: IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT TO TAKE ME AWAAAY FROM YOU bsb24601: THERE'S NOTHING THAT A HUNDRED MEN OR MORE COULD EVER DO fyrefly432: p.s. it's i stopped an old man along the way, hoping to hear some long forgotten word or ancient meeelody bsb24601: thanks bsb24601: i knew it was something about an old man fyrefly432: (and continuin) fyrefly432: I BLESS THE RAAAAINS DOWN IN AAAAFRICA bsb24601: GONNA TAKE SOME TIME TO DO THE THINGS WE NEVE HAAAAAAAAD fyrefly432: it's more like HAAA-AAA-AAA-AAA-AAAAAAA-AAAAAAAAAD fyrefly432: (do do do do do do do doooo) bsb24601: the wild dogs cry out in the night bsb24601: as they grow restless longing for some solitary company fyrefly432: i know that i must do whats right fyrefly432: sure as kilamanjaro (sp?) rises like olympus of the saaarengetti fyrefly432: i seek to cure whats DEEP INSIDE fyrefly432: frightened of this THING THAT I'VE BECOOOOOOME bsb24601: IT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT TO DRAG ME AWAAAAAY FROM YOOU fyrefly432: THERE'S NOTHING THAT A HUNDRED MEN OR MORE COULD EVER DO bsb24601: I BLESS THE RAAAINS DOWN IN AAAAFRICAAA fyrefly432: (repeat 4 times) fyrefly432: GONNA TAKE SOME TIMES TO DO THE THINGS WE NEVER HAAAAA-AAA-AAA-AAA-AAAAAAAAAD fyrefly432: wooooah oh oh fyrefly432: do do do do do do do doooo bsb24601: (do do do do do do doooo bsb24601: that was beautiful theresa fyrefly432: we are amazing. bsb24601: almost as beautiful as our serenading of that guy in the glasgow computer lab Current Music: Toto-"Africa" (in my head) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006
9:45 pm	tehe. i just got a marriage proposal. and i think it was serious. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
2:24 am	2006 what what i am home, and therefore, have no excuse not to update on important days like new years. last night at nikki's was fun...i think there are terrifying pictures somewhere. i am proud of us for having very little drama, yet still having a pretty hilarious time :) back to school in a week and a day. i'm soooo excited for this semester...only 4 classes, and they should be great ones. and fridays off! amazing! only bad part being it's my last semester. i am NOT one of those people who's ready to leave college. i do NOT want to leave georgetown in half a year. i am already having a major crisis about it and it makes me really sad to think about. anyways, brief 2005 recap, because i was having a conversation with someone the other night and realized that i feel like this year wasn't even a full year, like it went by in a blur, and i don't wanna feel like that. so here's some things that happened, for my own reference. (and yours, if you care about/took part in any of these.) january: rung in new years with friends at nikki's, said goodbye to jason and family and went to scotland. got acclimated to having really easy school life. february: went to london, did some uk traveling, became really good friends with some scotland people, had my 21st bday (which nikki and i still reminisce about, because it was that ridic), un-broke up with jason...again...did some clubbing and stuff, hung out with nancy a lot march: crazy...went to paris, went to ireland for st. patty's, travelled scotland with parents, went to spain and italy, saw pope's funeral, had a bunch of visitors...was really not in school at all. april: came back from italy. maybe wrote a paper or two. basically was out of school after a week for "study period"...flew back to dc to get lots of important stuff done, moved in with jason for a month. was SO HAPPY to be back in america, as i recall. may: went to nigara falls and toronto with jason, just because. we both got sick, but it was still really nice. left to go back to scotland the day before his bday and law school graduation. was in scotland for half of may, took final exams. it was way too cold for may. said goodbye to some really good people and a really good city. june: flew back to boston for 2 weeks. spent time with family and friends. had a big fight with mom that was resolved peacefully. moved into my s st. home in dc where my subletters and housemates were waiting. realized just how amazing and yet weird summer was gonna be. had a running accident and gashed myself...now have cool scar. went back to work at CARA. said sad goodbye to joellen (my boss who left for chicago.) remembered how much i love my job. remembered how much i love dc and everyone there. july: work. lived with jason most of the time and helped him study for bar exam. went out sometimes with housemates etc. did a lot of swimming and running and eating indian food. had awesome 4th of july downtown. had some hotttt barbeques. wandered around in the summer night. shawn lived with us. the house was too hot and sometimes we all got crabby. the house was a complete drama fest that we all look back on and laugh about. august: first 2 or 3 days was hell. helped jason move out of his apartment. had to let his mice go and give away all his worldly possessions that didn't fit in a mustang. we both cried all the time. found out sumer had died. jason got very sick, had to stay at my house for 3 days instead of leaving. finlly left at 5 am one morning, same day my brother and kerrie, his girlfriend, came down to visit me. they distracted me. they also got engaged while visiting me, on the steps of the lincoln memorial. we celebrated raucously. they drove me home. home was a blur because i was vey upset a lot of the time, but i saw friends and that was good. came back to dc after a week and worked until the start of school. went out a lot to make things feel better. september: realized that this semester would be a bitch and a half. also was happy to see good friends in a lot of classes, and made some cool new friends. my house started throwing parties in the tradition of last year, and realized that we were just never gonna live like civilized females. started the great grad school app process. october: more parties. a lot of parties. and homecoming, which was halfheartedly and hung-overedly attended by us. lots of people were staying in our house this month. a very social month, and a very interesting one. took the gres and had hard school times. dad visited and ran a marathon. november: went home for thanksgiving. was sick some. was sad some...lots of things caught up with me. bonded with some different people. was a warm month...went to a bikini party in flip flops, this is how i remember. my housemates kept me happy and sane. december: finals were hell on earth. had some good christmasy times though...really fun christmas party and tombs nights and alicia's birthday night, which was very silly. beyond tht, had no life. rushed some apps that were due. finally got to go home and rest. slept sooo much and got to see the divine again, a lot. (still in the process of doing that.) find out that i'm allergic to metal and that is why i have been a sick mess for a while. huzzah for getting better now. and now it is january again, and almost spring semester time. i've never wanted time to go so slowly. sorry, that was long and probably really boring. random note: last night, while sleeping on an ottoman, i had a dream that i actually was fiddy cent's bitch ass ho...and he kept me in a cage. it was less than pleasant. maybe i will change my aspirations. Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: pink floyd--sheep (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, December 9th, 2005
11:58 pm	its gonna take a lot to get me away from you so being as i'm drowning in work, now is a good time to update this thing. first, things of note: -the entire reason hershey kisses are good is not the chocolate, but the little paper tags in them. seriously, those are so cute. do you think someone puts them in by hand? that would be a crappy job. -christmas in georgetown is so beautiful and i wish i had more time to just stroll around and take it in. -grad school apps being due in a matter of days as well as the usual psycho amount of papers and tests of finals season plus lots of professor meetings means NO free time. however, grad school apps are going well, and im getting excited to really get to it. no gonna jinx it till i start hearing back, which will be a while. -all my friends and housemates are starting to hear back about jobs and schools. jen got an amazing job offer from ibm, so YAY! she so deserves it. and laura d. is already in at gtown law school, but might be applying elsewhere too. nancy and amanda dont know what theyre doing yet, but nance'll probably work in computers right out of school. amanda will probably do something artsy and indie. and kim...oh kimi. at the moment she's digging the idea of teaching latin dance at club med. which is awesome. the business school ppl are starting to get jobs at firms, and my theo friends are pretty split up...most are getting jobs or doing volunteer type work after school, only about 2 or 3 of us are going grad school...one being my good friend kip, who's applying to some of the schools i am. he is a genius, but also more spastic then me, so we support each other in our endeavors. -i saw the coolest dog today. it was a little black cocker spaniel walking toward me on the sidewalk with this look on its face that screamed "outta my way, bitch!" -it is difficult that, after all this time...and with as much as i have tried, so hard, to distance myself...when i am really, truly upset about something/life in general,in the devestated, crying my eyes out kind of way, jason is still the only one who can pick me up again. and i hate the fact that i still rely on him, but it always just ends up happening...because i cant lie to him when he asks if something's wrong. he knows within 2 seconds no matter how hard i try. and i guess if nothing else, its good to have someone who forces me to do what's good for me...even if that's by threatening to drive up to dc and yell at me or to call my parents. because there's no one else in my life who will actually be that direct and that forceful, not that i want anyone else to be like that. and i hate that i need that right now. maybe someday i won't. the truth is, there's so many people in my life who help me immensely, in healthy, constructive ways, and i would never denigrate that. but i have trouble listening to people when it comes to really making changes that will help me. and when jay tells me, i know that he's just crazy enough that he'll make sure i follow through. which, at the moment, is important. even if part of the problem is linked to him. but we don't talk about that part. -have been out the last 4 nights, and my throat's been perpetually sore from hard liquor, ciggarette smoke, and screaming in loud places. my feet hurt today too. could be from all the irish jigging i was doing last night, or the latin swiveling with vlad, or the running around barefoot in the snow at 2 am. sigh. college is good. -kurt, as in ex-boyf kurt, is drunk iming me and mourning our lost love. wow. ok, i need bed. going home on the 18th! psyched! Current Mood: awake Current Music: silent lucidity--queensryche (Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
10:57 pm	if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied... this house is so fucking cold. can't wait till they turn the heat on. i have been sleeping in more clothes lately then...um...ever. except maybe scotland in january when the flat had no heat and the only way to keep warm was to drink wine. it's almost halloween. i LOVE halloween, have since i was little. i love being scared, too, maybe that's part of it. and NONE of my friends will watch scary movies with me. boo everyone. it's weird to walk past that hilltop cemetary on wisconsin every day where i have this crazy memory from last halloween. it's weird to think about last halloween and what a turbulent time that was in life and how much growing up i did. you know those professors you have who you respect more than anyone in the world and you really, really want to like you? well i have this one who ive known for the last 2 years, prof miller. he's in his 30s i think, young guy, probably the most brilliant man in the entire department here. he doesn't drive a car, rides his bike to school everyday. cares more about speaking for justice than keeping his job. so i was having a crisis of thought today, walked into his office and said "hey, do you have a second?" when he said yes, i kind of thought for a second, and then just blurted out "how can i be a theologian who means something in the world?" miller just goes "well, you found the question. i was wondering how long it would take you to ask it." and proceeded to give me 2 hours of probably the best and most inspirational advice i've ever gotten.i dont know what im doing next year, but i feel like i have a new sense of purpose. especially when he said "you have to do this. i know that for you, this is the only way, because i can see in you what i was when i was your age." and i guess that floored me. because, aside from like a very few people, there is no one who's opinion i respect more than this man's. and he told me that when he read my systematics work, it was what he would have written. honestly, i think that may have been the best academic experience i've had at gtown, ever. i feel like i just spent 2 hours with the yoda of the theology world. kick. ass. so i'm happy. i'm deeply happy. meg got me liking death cab. i feel kind of lame. daddy and grandma are coming on saturday. they are bringing me massachusetts apples. dad is running the marathon. and will buy me a lot of food, because he is the awesome. they are coming the day after a verrry large party will be at my house, which makes me afraid. luckily, it will be late in the day. very late. by that time, most overnight guests should be scraped off of the couch and floors. still, it wont be pretty. i have no illusions about that. luckily, this is the same dad who likes to brag to me "when i was in a frat, we had beer on our cheerios every morning!" so he won't care. i miss my puppy. i want a pet. i miss picking flowers. i wish there were october flowers. back to reading about messianic futures in west germany before i fall asleep. (now do you see why i was worried about being relevant to real life situations?) Current Mood: hopeful (Comment on this)
12:22 am	i miss sumer. i want to live life well. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 17th, 2005
9:45 pm	so a good friend of mine, and of my whole group of friends at school, Sumer, died last summer, and i didn't write about it then, partly because it was too close to the incident and partly because it was the day before jason left for LA and i was an emotional wreck for...well...a long time. but now that her memorial service is finally scheduled for a week from now, i can't get her out of my head. it was kind of indicative of how sometimes, the world makes no sense, and sometimes, even as a theology major, i have trouble believing in God. sunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, things that wipe out thousands of people, they make no sense either, they pull my faith into pandamonium. but sumer dying seriously killed something in the spark of faith in me. this is a girl who was in india teaching rural children to speak english for the summer when she was electrocuted in a freak accident. she was one of the most beautiful, kindest, accomplished people at this entire school. she was a living work of charity, an incredibly talented photographer, painter, singer and guitar player, and just such a caring girl. i used her camera for a while for photography, and i still have it. it's a vintage one, and i have to get it back to her parents, hopefully next week. i dont know why i feel compelled to talk about her. i see her best friends on campus, who are my friends also, and i just want to fold them up into my heart. i will never understand why this girl died at 20 years old. she was such an angel, and the world is darker without her. just had to get that out there. (Comment on this)
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
9:34 pm	in your eyes i can see that you're cracking up aaaaah blah blah gwah blah aaaaaaah! just had to get that out. i love how i only update this when i wayyy don't have the time to be doing it. but ok so here is life. i have the GRE tomorrow, which i've flipped out to to about everyone, because this test really really matters to me, because i kind of have to go to grad school next year, and because gillis seems to think i'm his prodigy and has basically promised that he'll get me into u. chicago, where i don't want to go because the theo school there is the scariest place on earth and i will never have a life again, and no one i love is there, and i really just kinda want to get my masters at catholic over the next few years and learn a lot of languages and then, after that, worry about the ph.d. a lot of the freaking out comes from the fact that i'm not ready to leave dc, being as all my connections are here, i have an amazing, guaranteed job position here and can go on salary as soon as i'm done with school, and most of my school friends will still be here next year. im almost certain i could pull a full ride from cua. but nothing erases the fact that if i dont go to one of the top 3 theo schools, i'll somehow be letting down a lot of people. maybe i shouldnt worry about this until i send in apps? ya think? i feel like that was really self-indulgent. i'm not really that smart of a person. i'm not sure why people have so much faith in me. so today on the way to class i got stung in the neck by a bee, and the stinger got stuck in there, and i'm also kind of allergic to bee stings, not in the "i will die" kind of way, but in the painful and puffy kind of way. so i called my dad, who of course told me to get to the hospital before my throat closed up, but, being the smart girl i am, i went to pass in a paper for class first. and then told my prof i had to leave before i stopped breathing, at which he looked terrified. needless to say, i was completely fine once i got the stinger pulled out of my neck and took some stuff. so i have a german test on wed, and had a german presentation today, and dude, i am learning to speak german and getting kind of ok at it! kimi's bday party was on friday, and it was drunk. my house is covered in polka dots. like, on the outside and the inside. still. our favorite new hobby is watching people drive down the street and do double takes. it was a fun party. we danced a lot. i'm kind of sad all my roommates are 21 now, so no more 21st parties. but then, we've never really needed excuses for parties...harkening back to last years presedential debates parties, election night parties, and, of course, the mild parties that occured pretty much every night of the sox post season. i am so type A lately. i need to chill. i love, LOVE all the people who have called today to wish me luck. i mean, i love the people who haven't, too. but seriously, people are so fucking sweet. also, life is interesting lately. i mean, when is it really not. but, yeah. oh man. it's laguna beach time. YES! Current Mood: anxious Current Music: close your eyes--chemical brothers (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
6:23 pm	i'm bad at trying to fall out of love. (Comment on this)
Thursday, July 21st, 2005
12:02 pm	needs more coffee i am at work. i am bored and hungry. i need to acquire a nail file. and, a can of raid...our kitchen has ants. skillions of tiny ants. completely disgusting. at the moment, i should be plowing through this huge stack of survey data, but it makes me weep a little. we're in the middle of an endless heat wave in dc, which, with no a/c in our house, makes it hard to, well, exist. i've been helping jason get ready to move, which is the most depressing thing ever. he's in california right now, apartment hunting and taking his bar exam, then he's back for a few days, then he leaves for good, which makes me hate life a little...but i'll deal with it. who knows what the future brings. sometimes the sadness is really kind of unbearable, though, and i have to recognize that i'll need help to really get through this. on a happier note, random stuff: i am wearing linen pants raspberry daquiris are clutch i now have an oriental rug in my room and a fog machine i want to have another bbq my bro is coming to visit in a few weeks and then i am going home for a week laura, alex, and melisa all just turned 21 and lauren and sandy are turning 22 soon and john is turning 23 in a week there are 7 people living in my 6 person house but one is moving out soon (woot) there is an ansel adams photo in front of me on the wall i love my office, it is pretty i have cheesecake factory leftovers i miss my puppy jason has to let his mice go free before he moves one of them is SO. INCREDIBLY. FAT. her name is sluggo. i am going to adams morgan tomorrow because i want to go to the toledo lounge because it has red lighting kyle minogue has some really catchy songs i can't decide if i feel sick or hungry it is laundry night it is time to get back to working (Comment on this)
Friday, June 24th, 2005
10:34 am	the best laugh never leaves your lungs man. life is hard without internet access. or maybe life is good without it? not sure when we're gonna be getting it...my new house is a billion years old. but i love it. it's one of those all hardwood floor, kind of falling apart yet totally charming townhouses in georgetown, and i live in the most beautiful neighborhood ever. burleith has such a cool vibe in the summer. so many students around, everyone just looking to have fun. it is SO good to be living with jen, kim, laura, and our two subletters, keith and john. keith is SUCH a cool guy, and john's ok himself, although kinda out of it a lot of the time. my friends are so amazing. i love the fact that i can come back from work, and kim's in the kitchen playing hostess to the brother of a friend she met in niger, complete with a full african dinner, or that shawn will bust into our house and start cooking for us at least 3 nights a week, just for the hell of it. it's awesome to be able to hang out with vlad again, and all the other people who are around this summer. it's awesome to stroll upper wisconsin with jason and pig out on mexican food at cactus cantina, and to work with ELENA at cara every friday. and it is so, so awesome to be back with jen again. she keeps me sane, and laughing. i miss everyone at home, i miss my family, and i miss the beach. but my job is going really well, and i feel like i'm finally really making inroads in the theology world and am building my potential. i know that i'm gonna be going through a really painful time in a month or so, but i've done it before and i know i can do it again. i foresee tonight as being a quiet friday night. EVERYONE is gone this weekend...or in jay's case, taking a practice bar exam first thing in the morning tomorrow, and therefore unwilling to let me distract. perhaps i can find some fun regardless. or just rest. i should be working. i have a stack of tasks to do. blech. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 30th, 2005
10:18 pm	but if you kill me like this...then i'll blood feud you like that... nancy and i discovered that studying for our celtic civ exam is way more fun if we sing our notes to the tune of celine dion's "all coming back to me". i think that's the name of it, anyway. the one with the video of the motorcycle dude and celine in the gauzy dress. i am coming home on WEDNESDAY! so happy! one last exam tomorrow. went to a celtic game yesterday, they are my football club of choice. in awesomely seedy part of glasgow. it was great fun. everyone, but everyone should go to a european football match at some point before they die. they even put red sox fans to shame. although i suppose it's better that we do without the stabbings. i do not, do NOT want to study. that is the only reason i'm updating this. i am sad because i miss my closest scotland friends, kathryn and april, they already went home. but they go to bc, so that is good. they are 2 of the funniest people ever and i want them to meet my friends from home sometime. kathryn does the best imitation of pope benedict EVER. and you do not have to know anything about him to find it hilarious. anyways, i went through a lot with them this semester, being as they lived with me. i hope we stay tight. so glad they live not incredibly far away. can i just say, i cant wait to see laura hallett. i dont think ive gone this long without seeing laura...well...ever. that's wiggidy wack. i am never going to be able to fit 5 months worth of shit into 2 suitcases. and if british air loses my luggage again, i am so going terrorist on them. speaking of which, last friday at a club i managed to get a group of drunk scottish lads to lead a rousing "USA" chant with me. im convinced that's the way to extend a peace offering to any brit who's drinking the hate-orade with regard to america. that, or telling them they have a dead-sexy accent. (Comment on this)
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
4:48 pm	being larry king would be sooo much better i'm back in scotland, after being in dc, and am taking exams. bah. just took one in theology. had i-law last week. only one left, but it's not till next tuesday. and then, finally, FINALLY, i get to go back to massachusetts. i miss it so much it's ridic. will be back june 1-13. so friends, i want to see you ALL. all the time, nonstop. i will love you up good. additionally, being in dc rocked my socks. i loved seeing the people who were around, my boyfriend is a hottie hot even if we made his apartment a disaster area (it is probably not good that i was deemed the messiest girl he ever met), seeing my family was so good, and getting stuff done for work was clutch. also, it was warm. scotland is anti-warm. but sigh, i will miss it here anyways. but damn, i miss HOME. real home. massachusetts home. yes. additionally, i am hungry. i want to find a chip shop. gonna go do that. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
6:45 pm	qua? i just got back from 3 weeks of traveling...am sick and writing papers out the wazoo. what a crazy last month it's been. started with going to dublin to see meg for paddy's weekend. it's foggy in my memory but involved hanging out with large groups of people who were very cool, and meg harassing our cab driver. she lives above a greyhound track. we watched dog races and talked to some dude from stockholm. everyone in meg's apartment was getting ass (except she and i, because our boyfriends were not present, and nancy, because she is a good person.)one night we hung out in a bar with some irish rugby team. they were like 18. it was awesome. after that we went to a place that was full of hair metal rejects. i suddenly looked around and found myself being attacked by several heads of gorgeous, long, glossy hair, all of it belonging to men, as they head banged their hearts out. god that was a great weekend. my parents were here, we traveled scotland. it was peaceful. we ate a lot of food. we drove a lot on really windy roads, which made my dad swear. i left for spain late in march with a couple people. flew into murcia to travel the entire eastern coastthe costa blanca, on the meditteranean. had a hell of a lot of adventures, as one does when one is 21 years old and hostelling in exotic places. went from murcia to granada, which is my favorite place in the world. most alive, gorgeous, culturally amazing place ever. like north africa and spain merged together, mixing of desert, snow capped mountains, tropical valleys. the alhambra is so beautiful it makes you cry. saw real flamenco in the gypsy caves...pretty sure my mouth was hanging open the whole time. drank a lot of sangria. went out to natural hot springs in the middle of olive groves at midnight with some 50 yr old dude named pepe who had a weed garden in his truck and like 10 american ex-pat hippies. hot springs are awesome. after granada went to alicante, which rivals it for coolest place in the world. endless miles of perfect, abandoned beaches. had a dirt cheap, basically empty hotel directly on the muxavista beach. perfect, beautiful, pristine city. walked in the meditteranean late at night a lot. Pope died. realized would be in rome for pope's funeral, by coincidence. grudgingly left for valencia, land of orange trees. and yeah, there are orange trees everywhere, full of the biggest oranges ever. and lemon trees! hence the amazing beverage agua de valencia (orange juice, sugar, vodka and champagne) and sangria full of fresh citrus. had the most disgusting food ever that made gina puke for 2 days. hung out in a hole in the wall bar full of friendly spanish gypsys and their dogs, who we danced and sang with late into the night. eventually went north to barcelona, spent a day there. gina stopped puking. tried to read catalan after finally getting used to speaking spanish again. spoke spanish to locals anyway. they were sympathetic. barcelona = gorgeous city with coolest architecture ever. went to girona, an hour north, to fly to italy. "got up" at 2 am to do so. did i mention we didn't sleep on this trip? got to florence, walked the markets. got comments such as "you, you beautiful, i love you. what your name? it no matter, i name you sunshine, give you 100 percent discount." ate amazing, amazing food, did whirlwind tour of florence, slept for a few hours. took train to roma. checked into sketchiest under the table hostel ever, run by chinese mafia. considered selves lucky to even have beds in rome, being as thousands were sleeping in parks and in train station. saw all the ancient city sights, as well as lots of stray cats. i named them all. went to pope's funeral at 5am. watched from outside st peter's square with hords of italians and polish people. mass was very, very long but beautiful. ate gelati at the best gelato place in italy, san crispinos. died and went to heaven. ate dinner at some sicilian mafia place where owner, waitor and cook proceeded to not let us leave for 5 hours. gave us several bottles worth of free wine, broke out guitar, percussian and electric piano, and sang us italian songs. danced flamenco with some old italian dude. was very, very sad to leave rome. wow, sorry about that. congrats if you read it all. it was a crazy time, im so glad i got to do all that...now im trying to figure out a lot of things. am going back to dc for a while soon to get a lot of things done. i have a lot on my mind right now. ah well, im sure a lot of people do. i miss my friends from home so much. working in dc this summer is important for a lot of reasons, but i cant shake how much i miss boston. ah well, after graduation maybe ill be back for good. and june 1-13...i will be there and i want to see everyone :) and will surely come back throughout the summer. i love and miss you guys so much. hehe, emotional i am as always when things are changing in my life. (3 Comments |Comment on this)