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[Dec. 2nd, 2005|11:06 pm] |
Rascal got out of the yard Wednesday night and was hit by a car and killed instantly.
Isaac Mizrahi has said, "A mutt is couture -- it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you."
Rascal was made especially for us. I don't think I'll ever have a dog that unique and with so much personality ever again. I know I will have dogs and I know they will all be special in their own ways, but somehow I don't think it can ever compare to growing up with Spot and Rascal.
We had Spot since I was five. And even though she was old and neurotic and driving us all crazy it was still a hard thing to decide to put her down this summer. But Rascal still acted like the puppy that she was when I was eight. I remember how she used to sleep right next to me when I was home sick from school because she knew something was wrong, it was out of the normal schedule. and how she'd bark with her towel in her mouth when she got really excited and forgot to put the towel down. and how she always wanted to push her nose against yours when she had her towel in her mouth. and how she slept on the plastic chair on the back patio while we were away during the day. and how she'd always run to the fridge when she heard the ice being dispensed so she could catch a piece, but you had to throw it in a straight line b/c if it was arced she'd miss it.
it's a really horrible feeling knowing that both of them are gone. they were really good friends. and i grew up with them. and even though i like the new puppy jack, i don't feel connected to him like i did to rascal and spot. rascal really was always there for me.
the worst part about coming to school was not being able to see my dogs. you can always call home and talk to your parents and your friends. and you go back home. but now it just feels a little... less. because i'm already fairly independent of mom and dad, i love them, but i call home relatively frequently and it's not like I need to see them very often. but when i left for college rascal slept on my bed for a week or two and was confused as to why i was gone. so it made going home that much more important, if that makes any sense at all. because otherwise how would she know i was still alive and that i still loved her? and after the first couple times i came home she got used to it and everything was fine. i wish i had the chance to say good-bye. it might sound stupid, but for anyone who ever grew up with a really neat pet... i hope it makes sense.
she always sat in the passenger seat of the car when we drove anywhere and looked out the window, just like another person sitting there. and she'd look over to make sure you remembered she was there and then go back to looking out the window.
i guess she and spot are back together now. not sure how thrilled about that spot would be. but good dogs do go to heaven. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2005|12:45 am] |
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it snowed on me today. it was really really pretty and also really really cold. my lab met outside. that was sad. also, why am i still at my computer when i have a lot of work to do by this time next week? hmm. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2005|08:35 pm] |
wow, long time no livejournal!
well i am 21 now. i think that alex and ryan got a bigger kick out of me buying alcohol than i did, but it was still fun. drove to detroit and back three times in two weekends. that was fun, put a lot of miles on my car. also, flew home and back this last weekend.
WENT TO GAME FOUR OF THE WORLD SERIES. i cannot even begin to describe how fabulously cool it was. we even lost but i was still so thrilled to be there, to see us there, and i'm so proud of how we did. from coming from the basement of the n.l. central to the world series, from beating the cardinals to become the best team in the national league!! to seeing brandon backe pitch seven innings of shutout ball... fantastic.
i love my astros so much. i'm not sure that it makes any sense to people who don't love a team and follow them and all, but it is really neat. also, i almost caught a foul ball! it landed literally a foot to my left in the aisle, but five big ole drunk guys tackled each other for it and i was almost knocked over. which would've been bad. but the guy who had it ended up sitting at my feet and everyone was grabbing for the ball and i just looked and was like huh, i could reach down there and grab that. but i didn't want to die in a big drunkman sandwich, that'd be sad.
oh in other news... matthew mcconaughey sat two sections over from us. and he is as gorgeous in person as he is in the movies. also saw barbara bush and george sr. kiss, which is something i could've gone my entire life without seeing. ew ew ew. also, called barbara bush a dirty old bitch on my birthday, at dinner, in public. didn't so much realize what was coming out of my mouth until right afterwards when people were laughing and also looking at me like "i can't believe you said that"
went with sarah and dan and jerry to see elizabethtown, which was pretty wretched. the only enjoyment jerry and i got out of it was the southern-ness of his family. and the road trip. but sarah and dan didn't grow up in southern-ness, and so i think they thought it was more awful than even we thought it was.
my parents got a new puppy, and they treat him like he is a baby. he's too cute, although he tries to hump rascal and that is truly kinda disturbing, and we are having that fixed over christmas. he's a jack russel terrier/chihuahua/corgi(?) mix. five pounds of chewing wiggling dog. but rascal's gotten used to him and they play tug of war with the towel and rascal can pull him across the floor with his back legs barely touching the ground, hanging onto dear life to the towel. it's way cute.
met takako the habu lady at the yarn store, that was pretty neat. ordered a kit to make a cardigan from their paper and stainless steel/silk blend yarns. who knew you could knit with paper and stainless steel held together? pretty awesome. going to boston for thanskgiving to see jerry and have a non-traditional thanksgiving dinner, since half of his friends are vegetarians and i'm not so much a fan of the turkey anyway. and maybe we'll go to plymouth rock since that's all thanksgiving-y. although truly i don't consider it a holiday other than getting off of school.
work has been BUSY. busy as all hell, and my boss called today from POLAND having fits about the algae being in the fridge even though it was only there for five hours after being shipped for two days on ice, and i'd already taken it out of the fridge. sheez.
um. that's all for now. it's time to eat dinner. but i will start updating this thing more regularly anyway. |
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[Jul. 12th, 2005|08:48 am] |
it has been a long time since i've updated my journal. we put spot to sleep yesterday afternoon. she was having a really hard time dealing with the heat, and we're not here in the day to keep her inside. and she was having a hard time eating b/c her teeth were starting to decay.
it was really sad. but afterwards i think we all felt relieved. she finally looked relaxed, she was always so nervous lately. neurotic even. it was the right thing to do but that doesn't make it not suck.
anyhow. we're having a sale at the shop all week, so things should be crazy there. which could be fun. and the astros are over .500 going into the break! which i knew we could do. and harry potter comes out in less than a week. i should call chelsea and see if she is going to one of the bookstores. i told her i would call her when i got back from chesapeake bay and i am a lazy bum. that and busy, and dealing with the leading up to making a decision about spot :(
what a craptastic day. we put food out for rascal and she ran to the den to wait for spot to eat becuse that's what she's always done. it was awful. but then we called her back in and she ate. she wouldn't miss a meal over it... i was worried about her but i think she'll probably enjoy being an only dog for a while. |
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[Jun. 10th, 2005|11:52 pm] |
The trip to Chesapeake Bay was perhaps one of the most awesome things I've done in my entire life. I ended up with some truly amazing pictures and great friends. And a few excellent quotes ("don't bite crime!!").
Listing everything I saw would take forever, and it's late and I'm tired... But a few quick highlights, in case anyone reads this:
-seeing two osprey hatchlings (less than a week old) in their nest on a signpost platform in the middle of Patuxent River (including two pics that came out marvelously)
-digging for clams! (I got three Quahogs)
-watching birds on the beach
-seeing diamondback terrapins in the wild
-having a black rat snake living on our porch
-being in totally remote areas that most people will never ever see, and where it is quiet.
-beach seining
-rubbing stinky marsh mud on my face because amelia insisted it was wonderful (it did feel nice but the rotten egg smell was off-putting)
-finding 10-15 million year old shark teeth
-watching the sun set over back bay
I don't even remember what all else right now, but it was the neatest thing ever... I got to see animals that I didn't even know existed, I got to see animals that were nearly extinct 20 years ago raising young in the wild... I went to Capt. Zed's Bait and Tackle in Wachapreague, Virginia... That was raucous... OH and went to a bay after dark to stir up the water and see bioluminesence, which was amazing. I knew of it, but actually sticking your hand in the water and seeing all the little green lights and feeling tens of ctenophores brushing against your hand, it was so surreal.
Also, I have weirdass tan lines. And I miss everyone from the trip. It's kinda sad 'cause none of us will ever probably see Steve again, and he was hilarious. I know Amelia, Alison, Emily, Erin, Joey, and Jake have more semesters left which is good, because I can't wait to hang out with them again.
I am so glad I went on this trip, I came so close to chickening out and not even applying to go. I think that two weeks of being sunburned, being cold and wet and sandy on a boat, having to pee on barrier islands, getting bitten by giant flies, and putting up with Todd -- I think I'd do it again even if I only got to see the osprey nest and nothing else. It was that cool. |
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| Sarah's interview! |
[May. 14th, 2005|01:28 am] |
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1. Did you honestly think we would meet when we were crazy young girls in high school?
actually, yes, but I did not think that we'd go to college together or be roommates or wonderful friends -- that was all icing on the cake, but I did think we would meet someday :)
2. What is your favorite time of day?
hmmm i would have to say sunrise and sunset. not that i'm awake very often for sunrise, but it's really pretty, especially over the gulf.
3. What is your greatest lesson that you learned since leaving high school?
oh holy crap, just one? when in doubt, keep your mouth shut. and it's okay not to like some people, and it's also okay to like people but not like some things about them. and someone can be a good friend but not a good roommate.
OH and yeah this is the fourth lesson, but it's important: I am a really kickass person, and I am a lot stronger than I sometimes give myself credit for.
4. If you had to pick a different major, which would it be?
well it would still have to be in the sciences... unless it was literature... but I would probably say chemistry. I'd have to do more physics which would suck, but I think chemistry is a fascinating subject and if I had more dedication to study something that's harder for me than zoology is, I'd totally go for it (but I like zoology and it is easier for me to study and learn than chem...)
5. What do you think of our friendship?
oh this one's easy: it ROCKS. I was a little worried about it this last year but we were both busy and under a lot of stress but I'm so glad that we got to be such good friends freshman year, and I'm glad that we're still good friends :)
6. You!
now I'm feeling all nostalgic about freshman year, and even this last year because it's weird to think that another year has gone past. weird. but it is late and I must sleep.
p.s. if you want me to interview you leave me a note and i will ask you five questions (not six unless you're really special, i just got six questions b/c the last one was super-easy to answer) |
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[May. 12th, 2005|01:51 am] |
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It is almost two in the morning, I am sick, and I have to get up and go to work in less than eight hours. BUT, I do think it is time for a minor update.
I am home, after a 1258.1 mile trip, and we did NOT spend the night in Arkansas! Mom drove from north of Blytheville to just past Little Rock, and after dinner I drove from there to the Texas side of Texarkana. Mmm humidity.
I don't know why I am getting sick still. I think maybe because I left for Michigan and now when I come back there's massive shock to my system with pollens and such, but who knows. Either way, I am drugged up on Sudafed and it is good.
I'm only working at the yarn store this summer I think. I won't make shit-tons of money b/c I'll only get about 10 hours a week, but I'll be gone to Chesapeake Bay for three weeks, and there are plenty of odd jobs around the house that i know my parents will pay me to do.
Also, I rocked the hell out of this semester. I had set a goal at the beginning of the semester, back in January, that I was going to try to get all 4.0s in my classes. I'd never honestly tried to do that in every single class in a semester before because there was always one class where I knew that the best I could do would NOT be that good (orgo, comparative anatomy, etc). I got a job in February and I still accomplished my goal. I don't know that I've been much more proud of myself in a long time. Okay enough bragging, I always feel bad doing that but I'm so damn pleased that I had to share, after my 2.5 in comparative anatomy last spring, this is just too cool.
The Astros get back into town tonight (Thursday night), still sucking, but I still have faith that we'll pick it up and get rolling soon. And if not, oh well, I'll still go to the games. I'm a little worried that Bagwell might be done(!) He went on the DL for the first time in 7 years and I think his shoulder might be shot beyond repair. It'd be sad, but he's like Biggio I think -- both of them will only stop playing when they fall over one day mid-game and are physically unable to play any more.
Okay the Nyquil I took an hour ago just hit me... whoa. So I'm going to sleep, and then get up and go to work and hopefully I will have a voice. If not I guess I will help customers by pointing a lot, and make someone else answer the phone. I sound like a man.
Also, watching Lost and Alias tonight was not quite as much fun as it was at school. Jerry's missed a lot of Lost so he's mostly confused (understandable, it's quite messed up), but I miss Ryan gasping at every other plot development. And Alias was better with Melissa and Kat and Helen. Oh well, I'll see everyone again in two and a half months. Maybe less even, since I'm making a stop in Michigan en route to the Bay (I'm SO excited about it, I will probably detail more than any of you ever wanted to know about marine biology in here)...
Must sleep
love to you all
hasta |
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[Apr. 7th, 2005|08:16 pm] |
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It is baseball season. I watched as much as I could of the 'Stros first game and it made me marvelously happy. I was also insanely tired b/c this week has been hellish, so I fell asleep in the eighth. But it's ok, because it's the start of the season. I think we'll do surprisingly well this year, I really do. I think that the youngest outfield in the majors will step up and really help us out. I also think that Biggio is freaking amazing for going back to second base, and he made a diving catch/throw to first base that surprised me because he is old (in baseball terms). But he's still got it.
It has been really pretty out the past three/four days, which is good. With all the crap I have to do this week I think that crappy weather would've sent me into a cave for a day with stress. Boo stress. I went to the Spartan baseball game on Tuesday afternoon after work, watched an inning. Saw a car's back windshield get shattered by a foul ball... ha ha. That was funny. It was good to spend time outside.
This week, I've done a presentation, taken two tests (one of which I nearly overslept and was half an hour late for but still finished!) and I have one more test to go. Next week, we should be getting algae which will be good news b/c there will be LOTS of work to do. Like, taking pictures and measuring and cleaning 400+ individual pieces of 2 mm long filaments. And preparing more media. And then hopefully the experiment I was hired to start work on at the end of February will actually start. Today I set up the pH probe, which was $300+ worth of equipment. Aga had me calibrate it and type up a page of instructions to keep with it so nobody screwed it up. I was paranoid that I was going to screw it up. But I didn't. Also: Ego boost of the week -- Betsy and I were talking and somehow we got on the topic of new grad students and she said they were surprised by how many people applied for my job. Apparently they got 30 applications. I kinda wondered if I was the only one who applied given that the job involves lots of... well, algae. So that makes me feel really good. I really enjoy my job.
It's a good thing I enjoy my job too b/c classes just aren't that great this semester, and it sucks when you begin to realize things about people that make it very hard to deal with them. Life's just too short to deal with some of this stuff. So I've been studying and escaping to work as often as I can. I am learning algae taxa slowly, just through entering data and such, which is really surprisingly interesting. Not that I thought it wouldn't be, I just didn't realize how much it would be.
I'm really excited about the Chesapeake Bay trip. Even if we will be driving from Lansing. I could study algae there too. I want to take a limnology course. I need to find a summer job at home besides the yarn store. I need to work more than 2-3 days a week, lol. I thought about staying here this summer except for the Chesapeake trip, because I could work a lot, but I think I want to go home one more summer. I love the yarn store and my dogs and Jerry and my family (even my sister sometimes) and the Astros and the humidity and being tan. One more summer.
That is all for now. I forget how to do an lj-cut so this is long. I miss Sarah. We are both so busy. |
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[Mar. 24th, 2005|05:41 pm] |
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i have not updated in a long time.
it is forty-six degrees today and it feels like spring, which on one hand makes me very happy and on the other makes me very sad. especially since two weeks ago i was walking around the houston zoo in eighty degree weather and it was BLISSFUL. mmm warmth.
work is fun. i get to archive all sorts of things that nobody will ever look at again unless our lab gets sued or something. and then, they will be glad that i did such a good job so that i didn't stress their life out more by having to try to find slides while already being angry that they were sued.
today i learned how to calculate a coefficient of inbreeding. i also learned that orcas need to eat three babies a day to survive. and that apparently i was mumbling in my sleep last night at 3.30. also, it is ALMOST baseball season which is awesome. and march madness is fun. and other than that there's not any earth-shattering news to report except that maybe spot is still alive and that is quite frankly a miracle.
also, my former next-door-neighbor who had alzheimer's just died. which is sad. she was a nice lady. karla with a K.
that sort of reminds me of kim-the-fish and kim-with-two-feet. anyhow.
more later, will try to update this more regularly
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my physics ta thinks that alex and i were going to do kinky things with the sticky electrode patches leftover from doing bioelectric measurements in lab. this made us laugh all the way home.
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alex finally introduce his girlfriend to us. but i understand why he didn't do that right away b/c we are kinda weird, and if i were him i wouldn't have wanted to scare her off. |
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[Jan. 30th, 2005|01:48 am] |
this has been a very, very, very weird week. i don't know what to think of it, except to not think.
over the last month, i think i have watched more than 12 episodes of the x-files, which is hot. six of those were tonight. i don't know how many jerry and i watched from jan. 1st to the end of break... probably at least six. anyway. he is probably going back to boston in the fall, which makes me a little sad. but i think it'll be good for him because i know he misses his friends there, and that way he won't be so bored (because being bored always makes missing someone worse), and we'll be okay... we always are.
anyhow, i vote that people on our floor stop having to go to the hospital due to alcohol poisoning. that's just me. |
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[Jan. 4th, 2005|02:40 am] |
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this year i will turn 21. i hope it will be as wonderful a birthday as my 20th was (i have the best friends. ever.) this year, a lot of things are going to change. i'm tired of being held back by this, that, or the other... i am halfway moved in with cassie, which i think will help my peace of mind. i love amy and sarah to death (except not to death because that would be sad) and i'm glad that they're not mad at me but i just need a little space. i'm weird and not as social as most people, and i know they understand that. i'm going to be in genetics with andy (from herp class), ecology with alex and a girl from my marine bio discussion whose name i forgot but she's hilarious, physics with alex, and physics lab with alex and my ta from last semester who is very cool.
this year, i am going to make a snowman. i'm going to get a job already, because previous plans fell through and i'm ready to be making money. i'm going to apply for the study away in chesapeake bay with professor hill because it would be awesome. i am also going to not make any decisions about the rest of my life -- graduation, jobs, grad school, whatever -- that will be on hold until i figure out more.
i am just going to be.
i've made a lot of realizations in the last few days. starting with the fact that i am not simply returning to michigan state, but i'm actively choosing to enroll another semester. i wanted to go to college because it's what everyone does, but i don't think i'd ever actively chosen to be a student. i'm not required to be somewhere or to be doing something like i was in highschool. i am an adult and if i wanted to go off the grid right this second, i could. but i love to learn, and i love living in close proximity to all my friends in the dorms.
i am going to journal more. i am going to live more.
i am also really sick, it's two in the morning, and i have a doctor's appointment in eight hours. i have been sick for ten days now and my head is full of snot so if this makes no sense then don't read it, because i'm not going to try to explain. i can't paint a picture of how i'm feeling with words... but it's a rough sketch. |
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[Nov. 6th, 2004|04:30 am] |
I wondered the other day why on earth I was in Michigan. But I really know -- I got involved in the campaign and I fought for our democracy. Michigan went Kerry -- and I stayed up until 3.30 in the morning to hear it. My vote counted. My county at home in Texas was 80% Bush/20% Kerry. But there were still twenty thousand people that made up that twenty percent, which amazes me. I guess it just shows how you don't see the minority when the majority is so pervasive.
Ryan was worried that I'd flee to Canada. I had to explain that I said I'd be prepared to leave the country if that became necessary, not that I'd move if Bush won. I guess the majority of America wants him as our leader. At least he was elected this time and not appointed. Though the reports are already leaking out that there were extra votes for Bush added onto the numbers in Ohio counties due to "technical difficulties". But, barring further discovery, those 3,000 votes wouldn't have made the difference and I will now address my emails to the White House with "Mr. President" as opposed to "Mr. Bush".
I hate how he gets on his moral high horse about creating a culture of life. When thousands of people are dying in Iraq, for what? When as governor of Texas he refused stays of execution requested to have the time to determine if the prisoner was mentally ill/retarded or innocent. When we executed a man for a crime he committed as a minor.
The Kerry/Edwards pin will not come off of my backpack. I could live the next four years pretending that the election didn't happen if I wanted to. I will not leave this country though. Apparently the waiting list for citizenship in Canada has already lengthened considerably in the last four days -- but the people that are leaving are the people we need to stay and fight.
I, for one, refuse to give up the values that this country stands for to the radical right that wants to legislate some as second-class citizens, that wants to tromp on the environment for their own gain, and who thinks it's their God-given right as Americans to drive their Hummer down the middle of the highway and bitch about gas prices.
America doesn't stand for their values. The vote proved that -- half of the population didn't stand for those values. We have a lot of work to do in the next four years, and we can't give up just because we lost this week. It sucks. And I know a lot of us were depressed about it. But the idea of what this country could be, what it should be, should keep us pushing for an end to war, to poverty, to educational inequality, to discrimination.
Someone on the floor the other day, when talking about the fact that we'd never be able to get jobs upon graduation, claimed that they wanted to work for the government so they'd be all right. I'll never understand the mindset that as long as I'm okay, screw everyone else. I can't have that little compassion for my fellow human beings. I just don't understand. I don't think I ever will. We're all in the same boat. So please, don't leave for Canada until it becomes absolutely necessary -- if we stay and fight then it won't become necessary.
That's all. I should sleep. I should also note that everyone is talking about uniting behind the president. I think that's mostly bullshit since he doesn't represent any of my values, but assuming that he does I'll back him on that -- it'd be silly to not admit that something he did was good just because I hate him. Although I couldn't think of anything good that came out of the first four years. Pity. |
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[Oct. 15th, 2004|01:12 am] |
I haven't updated in a long time. I've been watching the Astros a lot because we beat the Braves in the NLDS in five!! I've been waiting since I was ten years old for us to win a playoff series, and we finally did it. And now, I am twenty. Within a half hour of it anyway. Which is a little scary, because i'm not a teenager any more, but it's okay... well, I am dating a twenty-year old anyway. It just feels a little old. And like I have to be mature now. But oh well.
So during the week and a half of the NLDS I did about... two pages of reading for my anthropology class. And I had around three hundred that should've been read. So I likely failed the quiz, but one of the quizzes gets dropped so I'm not too worried about that. I'm more worried about the take-home exam due next Thursday where you have to synthesize and analyze all sorts of cultural stuff from the three books. Which is a little scary considering that I'm in a four-hundred level anthropology class and I don't really know what it is that anthropologists do besides talk to people and say things about their culture. Maybe that IS all they do. how would I know?
So I have to write about the cultural and historical root of the Zapatista movement, or gender roles in the Sandinista and Zapatista uprisings, or something else (i forget the third essay option). I feel a little bit in over my head.
Our triple is going wonderfully so far, except for the mess, which bothers me somedays and not others. We're slowly cleaning. Slowly. But it's going well. And one of our suitemates moved out, which is sad because she's very nice. So Helen is all alone and I don't know if she found another roommate yet... she was trying to find one. Um. I'm doing really well in marine biology and herpetology though. and actually pretty decently in physics. so that makes me feel better about sucking it up in anthro. but hey, i'll pull through somehow. and i'm surprised i'm doing so well in physics considering that i've only gone to about half the lectures all year. that's hot. i just hate it so much, it really puts a damper on my day. so sometimes i just don't dampen my mood by bothering with it. it's worked out ok so far b/c i can learn the material more at my own pace and less with equations all over the board in an hour. we had a real live poison dart frog in our herpetology lab yesterday. it was hot. bright green and black. v. cute. family dendrobatidae.
my parents got me the entire first season of the x-files on dvd. and i'm so so so happy. this fandom could quickly spiral into an obsession. the truth is out there. i'd never seen the pilot episode and it is SO GOOD. it made me laugh that mulder wanted to exhume a body and scully had never done that because the first three years of the show scully always wants to dig up coffins. happens all the time. made me laugh. grammar quickly degenerating b/c i'm tired, must shut up. more later. |
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[Oct. 4th, 2004|11:54 pm] |
life has been a little surreal the past few days.
eight days ago i was home. three days ago amy and sarah and i decided that sarah should move in to our room. (we have a triple now. and yes, it rocks.) one day ago the astros won their final regular season game to clinch to the nl wildcard. three out of four baseball special people on espn predict we'll beat the braves. one predicts we'll win the world series.
the crazy thing is... we might be able to win. if we've ever had the fire to barrel into the postseason it's now. i hope we obliterate the braves. i don't like bobby cox at all. i'm so fucking excited that we're going to the playoffs.
wednesday, i will be finishing my lab as soon as humanly possible and hurrying back to the dorm to watch game one of the nlds!!!!
(p.s. michael moore rocks my socks. i'm v. glad that i skipped class to see him speak.)
(p.p.s. physics makes baby jesus cry.) |
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[Sep. 21st, 2004|03:56 am] |
the bush twins were here last thursday and i wanted to ask them how they felt about their father snorting coke at camp david, at yale, and in west texas while they were being born. but it was only open to the college republicans. it's not campaigning if you're only talking to people who are already going to vote for you, dumb bitches.
i can't sleep and it's four a.m. and i'm feeling depressed about the future of our country because half of the voting population seems to think that bush will keep us safe even though 9/11 could have been prevented and he just stayed on vacation in texas. it makes me want to vomit, honestly. it makes me physically ill to think of all the people who have died needlessly under this administration.
i don't care if the bush twins make every republican college-aged male want to cream themselves. it's not an excuse to uphold the oligarchy of the rich.
i'm also sad that i have to vote in texas. but oh well. i'm still voting, and i tell myself it counts even though the 2000 election proves it doesn't... 400 votes in particular didn't count. because black people don't count? is that the message we want to be sending our kids? is that compassion? i don't think so.
i'm so tired of the fear-mongering of this administration and i'd give anything to find a republican with a valid reason for voting for bush. not against kerry, but actually someone who thinks bush has done a good job and give me a coherent reason why. it'd be an interesting psych study anyway.
well i didn't mean to turn this into a political rant. but please make sure you're registered to vote. deadlines are coming up within the next week or so to get registered so GET 'ER DONE!
amy is back from wyoming which makes me happy. i am going home soon to texas which makes me happy. there are not too many amphibians and reptiles native to michigan, which makes me happy as i have to memorize them all. and the astros are only a game back in the wildcard race, which also makes me happy.
so aside from the fact that our country is going down the toilet... i'm pretty happy. i should start learning italian or something so i can move to europe. where people actually contemplate political issues instead of following blindly. i want my children to be able to visit national parks and breathe clean air and drink fresh water (there's nothing like drinking water straight off the ground -- you can do it so infrequently though). and i want our country to remain safe & free... both of which are going a little neglected.
maybe i should try to sleep some more as tiredness is giving me an overly negative outlook on life. i have class in six hours. fuck. |
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[Sep. 12th, 2004|03:24 am] |
-establish a semi-human sleep schedule
-go to the crappy honors college what the hell are you doing with your life retreat (but i feel obligated to go b/c they do give me a pretty sizeable scholarship)
-find a job. which can mostly be done through being cool and knitting things. (score!)
-umm some studying, b/c i haven't done much of that lately.
-deposit my paychecks so that i have money.
-send a card to jerry because he's wonderful and i miss him
-that's all i can think of right now. um. yeah. i should sleep, because that's good. |
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[Sep. 6th, 2004|01:58 pm] |
last night was one of those really happy life moments. i didn't get to sleep until 7.30 a.m. this morning, and now i feel a little like i got hit by a truck. but it was worth it.
i should do some homework and study some. i love college. |
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[Aug. 8th, 2004|06:06 pm] |
I haven't been online in a long time. I haven't been able to connect to wireless internet because my wireless card isn't compatible w/ Linux and Jerry and I keep having issues when we try to install the right drivers. So I have to plug into the modem and that's effort, which frankly, I'm not all about... But anyhow, here I am, online. Windows-free since 7/26/04! I'm excited about it, even though there's still a lot about Linux that I don't know.
Went to South Padre last weekend, all the way down at the bottom tip of Texas. Honestly, I didn't think it was possible for it to be more hot or humid than it is in Houston... but it was. I can see why they just lay on the beach and drink there. Anything paper was limp and damp from the moisture in the air -- way grody. We went on a boat tour and saw dolphins playing by a shrimp-boat. I got a couple good pictures, from a ways away though... You can just see the fins... Oh well. Got checked out by a cute college-aged guy working on the boat. Learned how to boogie board. Kicked a fish on accident. Went to D'Pizza Joint where Mike D'Piano Man was playing -- he played Walk like an Egyptian for me, which made me fabulously happy. I don't know if anyone else even likes that song, but I played it so much at school that I think I thought that surely most everyone else enjoyed it. But no one said turn that damn thing off so oh well.
Feeling a little depressed now... less than two weeks until I go back to school, which is going to be happy, but I'm going to miss Jerry a lot. It's been a really great summer just chilling out and bumming around with him and Jason and Nyssa. It's just going to be weird to leave Jerry here at home... He's going to stay here and work at his usual job this semester and maybe come to MSU in the spring to get the transfer credits he needs to get back to BU. It'll be hard to be away from him, but I'll suck it up. And I know once I see everyone up at school again that I'll be ok, because I've missed people while I've been home... so it's just bittersweet I guess. Either way, I'm looking forward to rooming with Amy, and seeing Sarah and Krista and Ryan and everyone again. Mom and I are leaving on the 18th of August, and it should only take us two days of solid driving to get there (my guess would be we'd finish up the last three-four hours or so on the third morning and be in town on the 21st). So Nadia will be at school (yay, my cute car).
I need to find a job b/c I have a horrible fiber habit after mom supplying all my yarn for me this summer. I'm currently in a Rebecca craze -- they're a German magazine and all their stuff is really cute. modeled by young aryans frolicking on the beach, which makes me laugh. I'm not as busty as ze germans so I have to make size small in everything but that's good b/c that's less yarn to buy. I've also been in a little of an alpaca craze -- I wish there was such a thing as machine-washable alpaca. Anyhow, that turtleneck is on hold while I finish a tank top to wear while it's still hot. So I need a job to pay for my yarn. I hope that going to class will mean that I don't go through quite as much yarn, b/c honestly, when you knit as much as I have been, it gets expensive. And once you try something nicer than Michael's and Red Heart yarn, you can't go back.
I'm going to miss working at the yarn store. I might try to get a job at the one in Okemos. I guess I don't have to tell them that I was working for my MOM'S yarn store... I know what I'm doing anyhow, it's not like I get the hours I do just based on nepotism. Anyhow. Augh a discount would be nice though. I want to start a club of knitters at MSU. We can knit for the homeless people in Lansing.
I'm also going to miss my dogs. And my bunny. Sigh. I guess I'm just having the back-to-school jitters b/c everything around me is about to change, and I've never been terribly comfortable with that sort of thing. but i am def. looking forward to getting back. |
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[Jul. 24th, 2004|02:33 am] |
amy is deathly allergic to rabbits. so much for the clandestine dorm-room bunnikins idea. i was sad about it but *next* year when some of us maybe get apartments i could bring bunny legally and just keep her in a room away from amy so it'd be ok. i hope she lives a while longer -- she's an old bunny
also: just saw bourne supremacy. didn't want to see it for fear of lack of franka potente (*sniff*) but added bonus of brief russian rock club scene. i hate to admit it... but i really like modern russian rock, if only for the badness. it's hot. (so is carrying around random slap-on license plates for italy... wtf?)
i'm keeping secret (nyssa's hamster) for another week. secret is way cute. likes to try to escape all night but i sleep through it. she hangs from the wire top of the cage. acrobat! i get a kick out of watching her. i still want to bring bunny indoors but i don't know how much of a point there is to getting a cage for inside if i'll only ever be home a few weeks at a time again. maybe next summer? will see.
talked to amy last night, which was marvelous. i miss her. also sarah and ryan. not that i don't miss everyone else. that's just who i've talked to lately that i've missed.
huge thunderstorm this evening (although brief) -- one clap of thunder was *right* overhead and it sounded like the world was ending. it takes a lot for thunder to made me jump but i definitely ducked (so the roof wouldn't fall on me? yeah, that's dumb). rascal kept trying to hide somewhere. it was cute. she's such a pansy. |
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[Jul. 18th, 2004|03:19 am] |
When I have children, I will learn to *let go* once they reach the age of almost twenty. I will learn to stop monitoring their every move and accept that they are mature and well-raised enough to make responsible decisions about their life -- emotional, physical, educational, etc.
I know that all parents are annoying to their children in some way or another. But I hope I'm annoying in different ways than my parents are to me. |
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