Dec 21, 2002

so it's 330 and i just got back from this work get together thing at paul's a little while ago. how many people can say they've played "asshole" with their boss? i can now say i have. it was too funny. i got there around 12, intending to stay for just a bit, but we were playing cards and people were coming and going. everyone i work with is so different, and gets along (for the most part), it's so entertaining. denise & barbara (also moms of people my age and older, and bartenders at work) came and played cards too.
lots of hugs and merry christmases :) it was good times.

so far being solo in the apt. has been completely great. i've got christmas stuff spread all over the living room, though and mom and dad are coming tomorrow and they can't see some of it! :D i've been watching lots of movies and haven't been woken up in the morning ... plus, as of 430 yesterday i am entirely done with fall semester .... one to go ... :)

i fed adam's cat, nico, yesterday and today. i wanted to bring her to my house, she is a fantastic cat. i love her. i want a cat here, just like her. but really, that's not going to happen for a variety of reasons.

all right ... nothing exciting or thoughtful to write about ... i need to finish christmas stuff, make cookies, send cards, make some phone calls, and it would be fantastic if some how over break i ran into at least one of two boys. thats not asking so much.

haha

g'night *

Dec 18, 2002

i have spent most of the day being kind of lazy, or at least it feels that way. i have actually done quite a bit of research for my t.v. paper, which basically means i went through every part of the dawson's creek website doing screen grabs and taking notes. lay and i got blue jeans for dinner and watched life or something like it and may head to the bar for a drink later. i'm livin' the crazy life.
it's definitely kind of nice being here solo, although mariss and katie only left about 12 hours ago. it's nice to spread my work out all over the house, and not worry about cramping anyone else's space. we don't have any food that makes, sense, though, so i may have to hit up big y tomorrow, so i can make it through the weekend.
ways people have come to my blog lately: from tim, by searching for "lietrim," by searching for "Monsters Inc. Sound waves" (???), searching for "John mayer your body is a wonderland" (again, ???), and from my clark page (who knew that still existed???).
what else is new? dunno. i get to feed adam's cat and borrow his dvds for the next few days. his cat is awesome. i'm talking to dave, who i haven't talked to forever. yup.
maybe a certain cute boy will be at the blarney again tonight ... one can only hope.

must do more work aaargh

Dec 14, 2002

so, my birthday? awesome. i saw tons of fun friends, got fun presents, and all together had a good night. i will be posting pictures, now that my computer is back up and running.

finals/end of semester stuff? well, last monday tuesday and wednesday were pretty hardcore, with a t.v. journal and article outline due monday, video journal & final music video due monday afternoon, a larger than life size self portrait due tuesday morning, and a t.v. test wednesday. yuck. but now all i have left is my research paper due next thursday. yeay! sarah michaels is going to be my new FA, i got accepted for the 5th year program (sweeeeet), things are totally set.

i've got a cold :( and i've gotta get to work in a half hour or so.

fun pics comin' soon

xoxo

Nov 28, 2002

happy thanksgiving!
it's so nice to be home. i came up tuesday after class, and so far i have
1. watched picture perfect, panic room, and monster's inc.
2. gone pre-christmas shopping shopping and got lunch with my sis
3. gotten lots of sleep in my waaarm bed
4. drank lots of coffee
5. made 2 pies
6. went to the doctor's - i have a sinus infection :(

time to go see if mum needs any help.

enjoy your turkey

xoxo
jens

Nov 24, 2002

it only confirms all of our suspicions ...

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Nov 18, 2002

i told greg i'd write about him.
greg is in stud co as much as i am, except he doesn't have to be there.
but it's good times, it's like how studco used to be - awwwwww
if only liser came over
xoxo

Nov 15, 2002

hey hey !

not so much to report ... things are just goin' along. i haven't had much work lately which is sooooo nice.

yesterday in cultural psych we had an over-an-hour-long discussion about "ART." this girl who at the beginning of the semester kept calling portraits "facials" was doing her whole act of "well i know everything in the entire world and i know all the rules and everything is black and white" thing about "what is art?" i was so annoyed. so many things people were saying didn't even make sense, no one was listening to themselves. i talked a few times about intent, and that even though a chair may be mass produced, it can still be considered art or at least artistic - even if it's not set under a spotlight - because some one designed that chair not only to be comfortable, but also to be aesthetically pleasing (at least in the case of the chairs in our seminar room). Mariss said at first I sounded pissed but kept my volume really level so I just sounded passionate. it was great to have a discussion in there for once, but it was just really really frustrating.

in other news .... we went to the hockey game sunday night and even though clark lost, it was a fun game. vin even wrote an editorial to the paper thanking me and shapiro for organizing and for everyone coming especially from 13 and 46 beaver. awww! i also got quoted in the article about studco. man, i'm making waves this week. but that article was slightly ridic. (it was continued on another page under the headline "bickering continues"). but it wasn't as ridiculous as the article written ambiguously by "the scarlet staff" a.k.a. scott. i hate when people write articles that start with things like "The time has come for student organizations to stand up to Student Council and demand the accountability and just practice that all students deserve" and don't put their name on it! we all know he wrote it b/c he was at the meeting. and if he didn't, well, then, that's one more reason who ever did should have put their name on it. i dunno, i'm pretty worked up over it, because he used to be on council, and of all people he should understand the way budgets work. the article makes it sound like we made them give us $1000 that was theirs, and that's not what happened. oh man. i'm writing an editorial for next week. watch out.

anyways. i'm glad it's friday. i have to work tonight, but really, i always make great money on friday nights. sweeet. i am probably going to amherst tomorrow afternoon to see meredith and hopefully danielle. i have not seen meredith since, like, july. that needs to be fixed.

oh and i do yoga now.

xoxo
jen

Nov 7, 2002

hey, it's wicked cold outside.

we were out for over two hours today working on our capstone research thing. we got a lot of people to participate, so that was great, including one boy whose phone number kat got "in case we need to ask more questions," because mariss thinks i should date him. riiiight.

vin treated mo and i to dinner in the caf on his meal card b/c they were showing spiderman, pretty sweet.

and here i am ... nothing to do (yeay!) there is a show in the grind at 815, some electronica band, and i feel like i should go support clark and dave buttttt it's absolutely frigid out, and i dont think i'd be that into it. i feel bad. i think i'm going to watch t.v. for class ... that sounds so lame. it's so nice not to have anything actually due for once. same deal yesterday, soooo nice. video editing 10-12, maybe out with rachel and dori after, fun times... :)

Nov 4, 2002

so... here i am in the library ... i've been here for over an hour checking/writing emails, cleaning out my clark inbox, doing various things - gotta love this fast internet. i'm about to go photo copy some articles from the book for my t.v. class. i think i've spent about $8 on photocopying so far, but i still think it will be cheaper to copy all the articles we are actually reading than to buy the book for $60, read half of it, and (hopefully) get to sell it back for $30. right? right.

so we all got an email on sunday, one of those lovely "timely warnings" ... i don't remember the last time i got one.
"at approximately 2:00 am a female Clark student was walking in the vicinity of Shirley and Florence Streets. She was approached by two males who asked her a question. Both of them then sexually assaulted her. The student then ran away. The two males are described as follows: both are white and approximately 18 - 22 years of age. One was wearing a dark grey hooded sweatshirt and jeans. The other wore a black baseball hat backwards and jeans. One was taller than the other with approximate heights being 5'7" and 5'9"."
granted, we all try not to walk alone, but i know i have become far too confident walking around school. the area where she was attacked is well lit, families live there, the parking garage is there, and UP is not even 100 yards away from that intersection. two random guys, they could have been clark students, who knows...

met with timshary today for course scheduling. things look good although i had to email the head of the department with 3 very important questions. i'm going to register for everything possible tomorrow, and then change it if i have to. i may even petition to take a third class, who knows. prof. shary was great and said he wrote me a strong recommendation for the mspc, and that although he's on sabbatical next semester, he'd write me another if i need one for internships or jobs or anything. yeay! i refuse to be scared of what i'm going to do after may!

other than that, it's all ho-hum. t.v. test today, psych cancelled for thursday, doing the freud project this week blahblahblah ... mandy's wedding is saturday, which should be fun, and james & all those guys are planning a worcester trip sometime in the near future - it would be sooo great to see them.

all right, outs for photocopies, nightlandscape, and early sleep
xoxo

Nov 3, 2002

oh man. i never write.

wednesday we had a halloween party ... although i felt like i had to overcompensate as hostess for my not-as-psyched flatmates, it was a great time. yummy fall - smelling candles, cider, candy, theshining and pumpkin carving. i got lots of compliments on the invitations. that spider ribbon was excellent. we had 10 lit jack o'lanterns in the living room at once. and i just today realized there are still 2 pumpkins in my trunk . . .

thursday - halloween, yeay! a kid in my visual studies class was dressed up - way to go mike, it's tough to be that enthusiastic at 9 a.m. i met katie for lunch in the caf. i hadn't been there (besides twice for brunch) in about a year. weird. psych of art didn't run too long, we helped another group with their pilot ... mo and i came home, did some stuff, went and got tim, went to the halloween outlet (not as packed as it was last saturday!) for last minute key items. went to greendale to see todd @ waldenbooks. ate pizza. got invited to go to the "lingerie ball" with nick and james, but opted out. it was suuuuch a tough choice, i never see those guys! nick's IM profile the next day said he hung out with weird al. i missed out. mo and i came back, went to hear jill stein speak (go green!), (saw jill's brother who i haven't seen in ages), got dressed up, and went out. (pics hopefully coming soon) we hit up the cocobongo (sketchy) the foo bar (lots of costumes but pretty empty, a few clark people) the blarney (some more clark people, not too many in costume) and lietrim's (not toooo many people in costume, but some, and fun dancing and jamiefitz was there). came home in a crowded car (lori & katie were sober thanks to their 8 a.m. friday exam), hung out, was last seen cracking up on my bedroom floor at 3 a.m.

friday - class, spent years in studco, GOT AN A ON MY LONDON PAPER - YESSSSS! That's one entire credit (equal to a regular class by clark's system) based on a 15 page paper (including pictures) on the importance of history to contemporary graphic design. yes. thank god that is finally all set, and with such great results! i worked that night, it was okay, and staton closed (yeay) came home, hung out, got dressed up. drove way the hell down to richard's, then to dana commons. i won third place in the costume contest! sweet! we saw raffi's band play, winding up with 11:11, not only a fun song, but the only one i ever recognize. we then hit up the blarney - there were a ton of clark people -- and alums - including purple hat boy ... in a slightly different, yet purple hat. he glared at me. i haven't seen him since the end of sophomore year. a good night overall.

worked till 4 today, came home, read, hung out, went to eat @ the webster house with mo and vin where we got the "bling bling" treatment, with chris chatting and bringing us a free roasted feta appetizer to try out. i got scallops in my greek pasta, yum, although mo and i couldn't even get through half of our dinners by the time we got to them. stopped back at the beav, picked up sean and layla, went to see the ring. 920 was pretty much sold out. bought tickets & hung out till the 1020. sean & vin raced video game cars and some 15 year old boy in an Unseen tshirt told me they had just seen jackass and now wanted to do everything they did, just because they said not to. way to go, guy. his friend had a bunch of patches on his vest, including "cheer up emo kid" -- that's right aaron. the ring CREEPED ME OUT, to say the least, but i'm feeling pretty good now. i may sleep on the couch tonight, although the t.v. in the living room is larger & therefore more frightening. eek. stopped by the blarney for a quick drink, came back here to hang out. i see that ben folds is playing at lupos on my bday .. hmmm.

working again tomorrow and studying/reading for TV allllll night.

hope you had a good one
xoxo.

Oct 24, 2002

Oct 12, 2002

i think lori's birthday celebration was a success. wednesday night was fun, the blarney and the foo bar were both pretty empty, and we had no problem just taking up all the space, dancing. saw steph leach at the blarney, probably haven't seen her since graduation, and we smiled and waved and i didn't go over and do the superficial "how are you what are you doing with yourself" type conversation. i just don't want to. does that make me horrible? lori got sick on the way home, and mariss got sick when we got back here. katie and i were fine... thursday night we went out for dinner. there was unfortunate drama surrounding dinner, all because of complete miscommunication between katie mariss and i. it sucked. it sucked so bad. we did our best to get over it and went to the CocoBongo to see Raffi's band play their first Clark show since last year. It was fun, although we didn't stay to hear 11:11 (a personal favorite.) I have to admit that after Raffi played John Mayer's "your body is a wonderland" and i understood more of the words, I liked the song a lot more the next time i heard it on the radio. a lot of random people were there and it was fun to see them, but we moved on to lietrim's. on my way out i passed andy's girlfriend and i turned around to make sure everyone was still behind me and she had grabbed one of her friends and pointed at me and yelled "that girl jen HATES me" and i was like "weeeeird" and kept walking out. outside, lori told me that she had seen her start to follow me out and there was "some sort of commotion." I know we all do weird things drinking, but it was so strange. i don't know why she would think i hate her ... i feel kind of bad about that, although my only impressions of her are that she's pretty mean. i don't know. it's weird to think she even thinks anything about me. especially since she comes off so tough. i feel the need to say something if i ever see her alone on the street. anyways, then 2 carloads of us went to lietrims and danced and danced and danced and it was so fun! steph and mike and kate came, so did dori, plus our usual crowd. good times. saw the usual lhs - ers ... its just weird.
last night we threw lori a birthday party that was complete fun. danielle came out, which was awesome, and brought casey and megan. we had fun. a bunch of us took escort to "walgreens" and walked to lietrims. they actually had to go back and pick up more of our crowd. again, a completely fun time. no one from my high school was there, haha. i met one cute guy there, which was fun... but its not like we're gonna hang out. bars are so weird. we went to tortilla sams after with doug and jamie. i had yummy cream soda (2 actually, thanks to dougs wonderful friend jason). we came back really late. jason has been to the town i lived in in Indiana. haha. at 330 a.m. after a night at the bar, i was overjoyed about this. it is pretty cool though ... i mean, how many people have ever been there, really? i think i need to arrange for us all to go eat at sam's one night soon, to see this boy again. hmmm.
today was low key. i got up late and cleaned a little and ate soup and went to work. work was okay, i was out early. last night (or rather, very early this morning) i was planning to go to amherst after work tonight, but i called danielle tonight and told her i def. was not. it was a silly plan, and i'm tired. so here i am. i rented videos, and i'm going to drink tea and clean my room and hope my sinus head ache goes away. :(

i'm going home tomorrow after the shower to relax and regroup and really enjoy a day off.
see you tuesday after work.
xoxo

can't remember what went wrong last september, though i'm sure you'd remind me if you had to . . .

Oct 7, 2002

i love love love my town. I was there Thursday for the night, and went up last night to have dinner with my sis and go see Red Dragon (which I liked). Driving around, I was just full of love for the LB. It can't be beat in the fall.
Saturday I was going to buy pumpkins but A. it was too warm and B. Mo and I went to see Moonlight Mile at 340. I really liked MM, but I wouldn't say you absolutely need to run out and see it in the theater, but I would definitely highly recommend that you rent it asap. That's not to say I felt like I wasted $6, because that's not it. I just don't want to give the impression that it was amazing.
Friday night Erin came out, which was awesome. We went to the Foo Bar, but it was no good, so we rode Escort to Walgreens and walked to Lietrim's. Apparently, it was Assumption Alumni weekend. Whatever it was, it was packed, and I had SOOOOO much fun. Adrienne got an ugly boy, and Jamie to buy us $1 drafts, although I had money. Score. I danced a ton, it was just a great night. We started walking back to Walgreens, but Mo, Vin and I decided to go back for Hot Dogs. On the way back towards home everyone was at Hess waiting for a ride. We waited for a bit, too, then decided to keep walking. Escort was so late picking them up that we actually got home before them. It's quite the trek, too. It felt good to walk and run and talk though. Mariss and I talked in the kitchen for soooo long after, then I talked to Doug online for awhile, and eventually it was something like 445 when I finally went to bed. I did manage to get up at 1015 to get over to Kate and Adrienne's for breakfast. Score.

i have realized several things lately

#1 i'm a bad friend. i am always telling people we should do things, sometimes saying i'll call, come by, or suggesting specific things, sometimes telling them what i'm doing and telling them to call me. i raaaarely follow through. i'm horrid. i need to realize that all of my friends no longer live in my building, or are in my english class. i need to you know, put in a little effort. sorry.
#2 i am graduating college. people are going to start spreading out, even if me and mo and kate and lori stay here, everyone else might not be. so sad. :(

love you!
xoxo
good weekend... saw 2 movies... worked... am studying :P
details later
xo

Oct 3, 2002

Sep 30, 2002

fantastic weekend.
saturday mom and dad came down. they brought muffins and pumpkin glasses and running shoes cyndy bought me! we went to hear tim shary's lecture, checked out the traina center, went out for breakfast-for-lunch, target for a bookcase and nightstand, and back here to build the furniture. they brought my tv&vcr down, too. my room is so set up! later, they took me and mo out to peppercorns for dinner. it was nice out and we walked down. my dinner was SO delicious! we walked home, and they headed back. it was a really nice day.
later, mo and i went upstairs to say hey at sam's birthday party. then it was off to lillie's bday at 40 with mo, lay, kate, brady, and aaron. we met up with vin on the way. it was packed i saw meredith's ex boyfriend and 2 guys from my high school. all very random chats. we then called escort for a "ride to walgreens" and the wonderful boy, max, who was driving drove us all the way to lietrim's. yes, we got out of the clark university escort big white mini van at the bar, haha. at 2, we called up again, and everyone went to walgreen's to get a ride back. i wasn't ready for home & bed, i went with doug jamie and jay to tortilla sams, then to john street, where brendan was back from japan. a little while later doug drove me back and i fell asleep in my wonderful bed with the family man playing.
sunday i worked a double but i made a ton of money :D
today ... just had class ... showed my video, it was well-recieved.
xo

Sep 28, 2002

let's see ... i've been up since 845, a long day. finished outlining my chapter for t.v., ran (seriously) to class, walked home with rachel, hung out waiting for mo, showered, went to big y for hardcore grocery shopping. made 2 scrambled eggs and 2 pieces of bacon. went to work, found out staton was closing tonight for once, was home at 9 with some decent $. went to assumption to see tim play drums. saw marc & steph tequilla. talked to tequilla for way too long, considering last time i saw her was there about a year ago, and we hardly talked in high school. the band was pretty good, i had no idea what they were gonna be like, but in all honesty i kinda liked it. came home, was bummed to be doing nothing, but sort of liking the idea of rainy movie night. brady and aaron come over, wanting to go to the bar. talking to doug online, so b&a&me decide to go to lietrims. doug meets us there, and laughs at me. haha, kinda deserved. aaron and i have pearl harbors (new, yummy too-sweet drink). dollar drafts. see kristin benson, don't know when i last saw her ... random. apparently my night was all about lhs assumption kids. uhmmm then we left, and it was pouring and we got soaked en route to the car. now i am home, eating part of this sundae mo got me from mcdonalds. i'm not so much digging it, i think it's going back in the freezer, maybe for tomorrow night, but very nice of her to get, in consideration of me having not eaten anything. due to a late-night new story about the atkins diet we saw last night, i decided to see if i could go a day without carbs because i looooove bread products. i have been completely successful, although what i've eaten consists of a handful of baby carrots, 2 scrambled eggs, half a sliced tomato, and 2 pieces of bacon. oh and like 3 spoonfuls of mc d's ice cream. it's 1251 a.m. which means i have def. gone 24 hours which means maybe me and mo should heat up some of that nacho sauce we bought.
right ...
anyways .... i'm beginning to think that i didn't actually understand what was up ... so here i am.

mo and vin are watching sliding doors. i still miss london.
mom and dad are down at 11 a.m.
xoxo

Sep 26, 2002

mariss keeps telling me i've been "jolly" lately, and everyone else seems to agree. apparently, i obviously love life this week. haha, really, that's only good.

today i was oh-so productive. my 5th year app is coming together nicely. i had to pick a specialization within the Public Communications department, and I decided on Marketing Communications. After talking to my dad tonight, I got psyched for life and realized I have a career goal. This is good for many reasons. For one, I now have something to write in my essay on my career goals for the program. Also, I feel like Mark-comm is something I would enjoy doing - a nice mix of creative/design type stuff with all of the communication/discourse stuff I've been doing at Clark. It makes me sort of look forward to doing 5th year, as opposed to looking at it purely as a free master's and a way to hold off "the real world" for another year.

So, today I gave one of my recommendation forms to TimShary, another one to SarahMichaels, and faxed the last one to Andrew in London. I also brought a copy of my paper to StudyAbroad, and briefly discussed that with Sarah when I saw her - she said it looks good from flipping through it, which is enough to make me happy. Let's hope I'm still happy when she grades it. I think I will be, though, because it is a good paper.

Work was good, except Sean felt like it was okay to make sexist comments because he's gay "I'm part of a minority too." This morning in t.v. we discussed some feminist theories and criticisms and so I just had it in mind all day. Let me just point out that women are not a minority. We are a marginalized majority.

anyways, i need to go to sleeeep. i have to rub vine charcoal all over two pieces of newsprint tomorrow a.m. before class :P

it's almost the weekend!
xoxo

Sep 24, 2002

i also feel the need to update the fact that the house is completely back in shape after the weekend ... this week it was more wrecked than usual what with the pots in my bed (thanks layla and aaron), the missing stove knobs (aaron admitted they were in the fake plant), the upside down calendar, and tons of bottles/mess.

;)
typical day ... in a super good mood this afternoon, but had to go to work. made some cash at work, though, and was out around 720, making about $15/hour. wonderful, but unusual. back tomorrow for 5-9 ... a little extra cash ...

up early tomorrow to pick up the video camera and go for a run
gnight
xo

Sep 23, 2002

a lil' bit of craziness tonight... decided against going to get the bookcase & nightstand my mum told me Target has, due to all the work I had to do for Drawing. Good thing, because I was only almost done with the first piece when Pat called Mo to see if Vin was with her ... apparently Vin had been taken to the hospital in the middle of his class at WPI - at noon. Who knew? She tracked him down and Kates and I went with her to Umass. The man sitting next to me was moaning and it was horrid so we went to Dunkins and 'riss called while we were there, Vin was out. All perfect timing. He's okay, thank goodness! ... a little excitement in our lives...

The rest of the day was pretty typical. Andrew emailed me back, not only will he do my recommendation for 5th year, but he said "We've talked about you a lot recently as we've got a new intern and we're all interested to see if she can match up to you!" Aaawwwww! I miss them. It was great to hear from him, he's going to send me mail with all of the projects I helped out on in the last month. Funnn times.

Mmmm nothing else happend, I didn't get to show my video in production class today, oh well.

okay must draw
xoxo

Sep 22, 2002

what would my life be if not (at least) fairly ridiculous?

haha, oh mannnnn

the weekend started thursday (although I had class on friday, all we did was watch the season opener of the Sopranos), and it was a good one. friday night was pretty chill, i worked, and stopped by raffi's with vin and mariss. adam showed up, which was awesome. we hit up china lantern on the way back, i was in bed at 2 and up at 1230 ... pretty sweet. last night we had a random bunch of people over, lori's cousin & her husband & his friend, sean jamie aaron layla, tim, it was good times. the kitchen was a mess and sean and jamie put pots in my bed. haha. we tried to go to all of the straight up classic college keg parties that were happening but they got broken up, boo. def. still good times, however.

work kinda sucked today, i think my first several tables just hated me, then i got a bunch of nice people, who were happy about everything and full of praises who left me crappy 10% tips. friday night was awesome, so of course today had to be the opposite. i think i served 450 salmon or pot roast lunch specials. ooh the elderly ....

i'm at the library right now. i returned about 40 lbs. of books and thought i'd check my clark account. off to the UC now ... no plans for tonight as of yet

have fun,
xoxoxo

Sep 19, 2002

highlights of the week
* my research paper is finally done
* i'm getting better (after being sick on and off for weeks)

things are good ....

Sep 7, 2002

tonight .... was another foo bar night, but another odd & fun one, like last week. everyone came back to school all over worcester and the foo is crazy.

kate and i ran into scott dolce on the way to the bar and he joined us . . .
scott: so ... are you guys 21?
kate: yes ....
scott (to me): because you look 16/17 ...
me: oh man ..... i'm 21... i'm a few months older than kate
scott: yeah, right

sad times

some boy kept trying to dance with me who i was not at all interested in. he makes $80,000 a year "i'm a conservationist" .... he actually talked about marrying me. it was ridiculous. i was in the story line of a hip hop video, i think.

paul was there from work, i like seeing people i know out.

aaron & john came of course, but both of them left after a bit for lietrim's, john's windmill in full effect, aaron following john so he could get his bag at his house.

bed time xoxo

Sep 3, 2002

i am kind of sick, but not as sick as i thought i was getting based on how i felt last night, so this is good. back to just a little cough.

right now there is a man in the living room, replacing our windows - finally. this makes me feel more comfortable about giving my $215 to nate & carl tonight.

i miss the ethernet, and i miss using my own comp. soon, i hope...

three hours till i go to work. i hope it's a decent night. instead of going to Amen, i'm going to be a responsible girl and go to the library. i'm trying to be excited about my decision to be responsible, like i would have been excited about going dancing ... not so much working...

off to use these 3 hours the best i can ... especially since i can't watch growing pains in the living room right now. haha

Sep 2, 2002

the weekend was completely and totally officially ridiculous. hahaha

friday night i worked, came home and no one was here, but soon mo, kates, lay, brady, helena, and adrienne were all here, we had a few bevs and hit up the foo bar. we danced and danced and it was fun. adrienne and i saw kurt and caught up with him for awhile. we also met several other characters. we had many adventures on the way home (i think some of you who read this may have recieved a somewhat indecipherable email about this), including standing in the wendy's drive through.

saturday kate and i went out and did a few errands, made a ton of jello shots, and a pitcher of kamikazes. later, lay and i took mo to coney for her bday dinner, we came back, watch some trading spaces college special, had a few bevs, and people started arriving. we finished all of the prepared drinks (about a million - i have a picture coming), and half the thirty pack, by the time i kicked everyone out to go the bar a little after 12. we ran into a bunch of people on our way to the new cocobongo (thumbs down). we then split ways, kate and i went to the foo bar and mo vin lay sean and jamie went to the blarney and were going to meet us. kate and i saw rachel and dori at the foo bar, and danced with them for the next hour and a half, and had more fun than any other time we went this summer (which was quite a few). it was awesome. we ran into people outside the blarney on the way home. shortly after we got here, mo started puking, vin was falling asleep and katie was bouncing around and fell off the bed as i was wiping vomit off of marissa's mouth. vin and i had to physically get katie out of the room. i took care of mariss till about 330 when she was pretty sure she was not gonna puke anymore (and she didn't). i don't know how i managed all of this, but i did.

sunday kate and mo were pretty sick, but i was all right. we just kinda bummed around all day. i cleaned up my room some.

today my parents came down and helped me paint my room and hang up some little shelves and hooks. it made me very happy. they also bought us stuff from bj's and blue jeans for dinner yummmmm. kate and i just got sidewalks of new york, but i think i need to do a little work on my paper before hand.

xoxoxoxoxo

yeay weekend!

Aug 30, 2002

soooo work tonight was good, it was nice to see people, and finally catch up about the last party ... turns out i was not the only one with weirdo scrapes. staton is back to working there, and mike is moving to brooklyn, like, next week - whaaat?

mo's officially 21 in like 45 minutes ... now if only the girls were here ....

and if only you weren't such a frat boy, pal...

Aug 28, 2002

Karaoke night was only fun. Lori and I did "Livin' on a Prayer" and we did it right. The crowd loved it, hahahaha. All the PAs did "Baby Got Back," 'nough said. Jeff Carl & Jared doing "500 Miles," with choreography, was def. a highlight, though.

Had my first class of my senior year this morning - frightening. I'm required to watch 3 hours of television per week, and analyze it. Seems kinda gross, but it's like having a weekly screening for a film class.

The bookstore is still swamped and the UC was packed. I ran in and out of both. It's very very strange to have 1800 other people here after being here for all of the quiet summer. I'm not sure I like it. No, it's definitely good to see people, but it's definitely overwhelming. Everyone looks different, too, because I haven't seen most of these people since December. "How was London?" "Amazing." It's been shortened to that.

The new Traina Center for the Arts is GORGEOUS. It's very modern. I'm glad it's so nice since 3 of my classes are there this semester.

Back to the Beav for lunch, off to video production, then up to the LB to celebrate the sis' bday.

xoxo

Aug 26, 2002

holla -

my PA duties are over - thank god. it was def. not as fun this year :P all that's left is karaoke night tomorrow, which will only be fun.

lay is here for the night and we're all off for the annual "drinking on the green" and hitting the bar...

xoxo

Aug 24, 2002

orientation is going well so far.
suddenly it's fall.

Aug 21, 2002

today i rode the bus. i made four friends on the bus, 3 of whom were slightly crazy men, and 1 overly friendly woman. the bus driver was friendly, and i saw the guy who was always at my screenings and who comes to the webster house.
i rode the bus because it's part of international student orientation to take the new students on the bus to places like the outlets, so they can be familiar with a way to travel around the city. super.

so far it's going well. rahima speaks english very well. she had to get an mmr shot this morning, which sucked. ricardo is doing pretty well, too, but i haven't talked to him as much because his parents are with him.

as for me ... the PA party was fun the other night, although not as fun as last year, for a variety of reasons. 1. we don't all know each other as well as we did at this point last year 2. bobby's house wasn't as condusive to dancing as clare's 3. bobby's non-PA friends were there, requesting only ultra-thug music be played. interesting points of the evening were rachel knowing every word to "pour some sugar on me" and never making it to hariss' because i saw joey from french fall semester, and ended up meeting another scott and talking to him on florence street for 45 minutes, along with melissashannon, kate j., and sihiya who were actually friends with these people (i think).

tomorrow should be a pretty relaxed day, i may do some of my work (yuuuuck).

xoxo

Aug 20, 2002

it's like i don't know the words to the song that's stuck in my mind.

the international students arrive tomorrow. RIDICULOUSNESS.

this is the longest summer of my life and it has gone by far too quickly.

i got my paper extended till september 15.

that's about it.
xo

Aug 18, 2002

"are you saying i have a big butt?"
"no, no, but you got good booty for a white girl."

Camp PA was good this year. It was a million degrees so there were not so many running games. The pool was open, which was nice, but I had definitely been looking forward to canoeing on the lake, like last year, purely because I don't have that many opportunities to ride around in boats and stuff.
I fell asleep by 1030 or so, lo and mo and rich and i don't know who else were playing cards, and I just couldn't stay up. I could hear people singing by the fire. I was exhausted. Apparently I woke up several times (I do not remember this) and said things like "i didn't take my contacts out" (which i had), "shhh!" (everyone turns) "no not you, the mattress." I don't know. Sometimes I talk in my sleep.
I feel like i haven't gotten to know new people as well this year, as last. I think part of it is due to Mariss and Lori and Scott, etc. all being PAs. Last year I only knew Richard pretty much, and met so many more people. I must work on that. Also, I don't think we've done as much "bonding" stuff. It's going well though. PA party Monday night. International Students arrive Tuesday. Craziness.
xoxo

Aug 15, 2002

i hopped a fence.

Aug 12, 2002

the corners of her mouth began to sneak up into a mischevous smile. "Maybe," she said, "but I'm still not sure I want to invite you over."

- ethan hawke "the hottest state"

hanging out with the kids from work again tomorrow night. carpooling with boy #1.

Aug 8, 2002

"you're so rad! ... you're the raddest person i've met in worcester, or even new york . . . you're so rad!"

Jul 27, 2002

yesterday i saw a man riding a tandem bicycle - alone.

Jul 25, 2002

dunno if it's true, but i like the pic
click to take it!

Jul 22, 2002

the rothko link is messed up :(


danielle took this picture when she came to visit me with meredith in march. :)

lately i keep bringing all kinds of stuff back from home. just stuff. photo albums, boxes of cards and letters and movie tickets. it's been nice to look through it. i've realized, though, that i've lost touch with some pretty great people. i may start writing "haven't heard from me in 3 years but how are ya" kind-of-letters. :)

i just watched amelie, and i really liked it, i would highly recommend it. yesterday i watched i am sam. also good. sean penn was impressive.

good times with kate at the casino. i remember when even though we lived together i hardly knew her. it's so much better this way :)

mark rothko: untitled 1951-52 .... but i think they ought to call it peace on a postcard. :)
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Jul 16, 2002

july 16 1 a.m.

the past two nights have been only good times. lots of driving at night with the windows down, spending time with the girls, and going to bed early.

kate and mariss saved me yummy dinner last night for when i got home from work. later we dropped riss at vin's and went to hollywood to pick up following. we drove all around auburn/leicester/worcester to get home. it was nice.

we started the movie, but soon lori went to bed, then kate, and finally me. turned out there was only about 15 minutes left when i went to sleep. it was a pretty good movie. i liked it better when i got to the end than i had during. if that makes any sort of sense.

today i worked and waited around for the cable guy, who never came. i called charter, and now we get the installation for free, but it's annoying because i have to reschedule and figure out when one of us can be here. mariss and lori and i went to check out fabric for our newly chromed-up chairs. we didn't actually buy anything, but that's okay, since the spray paint doesn't seem to be drying. we drove to soft serve central in leominster, cruised the fitch, and saw "the rev." mariss and i were all brave, all "let's get out of the car and check it out" (it's a really old cemetary in a really spooky setting), and lori, who hates this stuff, is super brave and gets out too. lori feels like some one is there, then i notice a cigarette butt still burning. this street is not one you drive down unless you live at the farm at the end (the only thing past the cemetary), and we didn't pass any cars on our way up. scary scary scary so we all hopped back in, eeeek.

bed is not as early tonight as last night, since it is actually now 2. i'm typing this in word, instead of sleeping. i'm attempting to stop using the internet for stupid stupid stuff for hours on end, just because i'm awake. really, i ought to be doing something, sleeping, or at least reading or something. reading was one of the best things about being in london, at least at the beginning, i read a ton.

anyways, sleep is a must. i've been feeling crappy (on lots of different levels) lately, but sleeping a lot lately has helped, in addition to big emotional lengthy talks over the weekend with the girls (especially saturday night ...), and getting to do so much typical summer stuff with them lately.

home tomorrow.
xo.


Jul 14, 2002

apparently, i never write anymore... but i have pictuers and stories and all kinds of stuff to put up.

i just took off my ring for the first time in several days and my finger is all white underneath. weird... i love that ring.

tonight was barbecue #2 ... we finished off 98% of a keg, and i'm proud. hahaha
it was only good times

xoxo

Jun 29, 2002


I've decided to start putting pictures in blogs. That one was taken by Doug on June 4. It is hanging on our fridge. It isn't my favorite, but it's kinda funny.
I worked tonight for the first night in what seemed like forever. Although I don't feel like I made much money, it does break down to $10/hour in tips, which isn't bad considering it was a slow night. I don't know the people I work with very well, it's always strange to start a new job, and not know anyone or their stories, and to be the new girl. I don't feel like I'm not welcome or something, but I don't know them the way they all know each other. There's also not as much downtime and time for chit chat like at J&Bs (which is nice, from a working perspective). Anyways, it's still going well there. I only had 3 scheduled shifts this week, but got put on tomorrow morning for the parties, and am working Monday and Tuesday before we go away, which is a relief.
Last night, I reluctantly (I dunno, funky mood) went to a party (went to hang out) at Marissa's boyfriend's house. There are maybe 20 of us (Clark kids) living on Beaver Street right now, and we all hang out together most Thursdays Fridays and Saturdays (or so it seems) . . . yet, I still don't know any of them. I thought maybe it was just me, but the other girls share my feeling. It's just strange. Anyways. The keg actually froze, because this guy Dave decided to chill it with dry ice they could steal from the lab where he works. Brilliant, Dave. I learned how to play flip cup. A whole bunch of us walked to the FooBar in a slight drizzle, and I had the best time dancing for hours. Kinda needed that. Walked home with Aaron and Katie, no rain, just Aaron shaking trees so we got soaked untill we wised up and walked in the street. It was a good night.
xoxo

Jun 27, 2002


Brixham.
On one of our last weekends in London, Kate, Adrienne, Erin and I took a million hour bus ride to Brixham. There were lots of sheep and countryside along the way. One highlight was pigs in a field. I’ve only seen pigs in muddy farmyards, not spread across a field like pink sheep.
In Brixham, we were staying at Kate’s family friend Susan’s cottage. It was a truly lovely, lovely weekend. The place was tiiiny. Two small rooms, one on top of the other. There was a fireplace, and the front door was one of those that split into two.
Our first night, we went to dinner at this little place called the Poop Deck. The menu looked good, and as we climbed the stairs, we were instantly a thousand times more excited about our upcoming meal. The restaurant was on the top floor (third US style, second UK style), and hanging amongst the beams and rafters were fishing nets, star lanterns, and nets of little lights (like the kind meant to hang on bushes at Christmas). There was lots of cobalt blue, coral, yellow, and green. There was lots of exposed wood. I was in love.

A man and a boy were sitting at one end, at an area that looked mostly like a small bar. They were excited and surprised when we walked in (it was a very small place, there was only one other party of 2, and this was the first weekend they were opened for the season). We each ordered a drink, I don’t remember what I got, but it was good. The man encouraged us to get two orders of garlic bread, and we were very happy that we had when it was delivered. It was delicious.
For dinner, I had a Caesar salad and native prawns in garlic and oil (I think that’s what it was…) The salad was good, the prawns were truly wonderful. In fact, the prawns were so good that only half way through did I notice that the shells I was peeling off still had the eyes on them. (The restaurant had very low lighting, we were starved, and the prawns were delicious). After a moment to regain composure, I kept on eating them. Erin had monkfish, which I’d never had before, but it was good, and Kate and Adie had tuna nicoise, which I had also never had before, but it was delicious.
We had another round of drinks, I got some sort of fizzy peachy drink this time (house specialty), and the man brought this round complete with sparklers. It was only good times. He loved to chat and the 12 year old boy kept taking our orders and was great. They were sooo nice! We got some sort of blueberry souffle something or other for dessert, which was also delicious. We left full of wonderful, wonderful food, completely happy, and excited about a weekend away. The man let us know we were welcome to come back, even if just for drinks, and we said we hoped we would be the next night.
We walked around the bay and out onto the jetty. It was a beautiful night and we were happy. We went back to the cabin and had champagne some one had given Adrienne, wine, and made a fire - sort of. We went to bed early, and happy.
The next morning we had grapefruit for breakfast and trekked out for the day. We walked out on the jetty and laid blissfully in the sun for awhile. We had lunch outdoors on the bay. We visited the aquarium (1 pound admission I believe) … a sad, sad little place. We shopped all the funny little stores, had Devonshire cream tea (a must), and bought a kite and a soccer ball. We went back to the cabin and hung out outside, kicking around the ball, reading, having hot chocolate with Bailey’s when it started to get chilly.

That night, we went to the grocery store and bought fish and I think beans, and I don’t know what else, and it doesn’t matter… I made fish with lemon butter and cracker crumbs and it was a completely delicious meal. Later, we wandered down to town again and heard some one playing Bon Jovi covers acoustic in a pub. We ran into the man from the Poop Deck and had a chat. We walked around and saw memorials to local boys lost to the sea over the years. It was sad but somehow wonderful.
We went to bed fairly early again, and I opted not to get up in the morning and trek out to some hill, so I slept later and read Zelda when I woke up and picked things up around the cabin. It was really really nice, I was so relaxed. Sadly, we had to leave around lunch time, but what a wonderful place.
Brixham is a tiny fishing town in Devon, in South West England. It’s one of three towns that make up "the English Riviera." I’m pretty sure it’s the smallest of the three. It starts on a hill that sharply drops down to the bay and all up the side are rows upon rows of stucco cottages. It was gorgeous. I’ll have pictures posted soon. We were there before the tourist season had really begun, so we got to see the town in it’s off season state, which was cool. It’s difficult to explain it all, 2 months later … but what a wonderful place. It was such a good weekend. I was so … relaxed, and happy.

Jun 22, 2002

happy summer! and man, has it begun. granted, one of my roommates is at the beach today, one is at home swimming in her pool, and I am in the Beav, but I gotta work, and that's unfortunately also part of summer. I just finally got out of bed. I woke up at 9 this morning when Ildiko (sp?) came to see if me and Kates wanted to go to the beach, and then Kate came in and we talked for awhile, but I fell back asleep. My dad called at 1130 and we talked for a few, I got up for a few, then came back in and went back to sleep till a little while ago. I still only wind up with a grand total of 8 or so hours of sleep, though. :P

This week was only good times. Went out for lunch at the Sole Wednesday, which is always delicious. I love going out to eat. Mmmm! I don't even know what else, I've just been out a lot, made good money at work a lot, and had fun. thursday night doug jamie marc and tim played acoustic at the moonstruck, which was fun, but even more fun was being able to hang out out side for hours and hours with the tiki torches at jones st. after.

last night me kate lori mariss and aaron went for dinner at brew city. mo and i got giiiiant burgers, which is funny, the two of us being the previous vegetarians, especially marissa, who hasn't even been back on meat for a year yet. they were good. :) later, people came over, i cut vin's hair (pictures coming) - he had a five minute mullet before I finished it up. i don't really know the group of people who we keep hanging out with (the other girls do), so it's kinda weird, but kinda good at the same time, to be around different people who i have known who they are for the past 3 years, and been around them a good bit, but never really spent any time with them. like ildiko for instance. she randomly came to leitrim's with us when doug and chris came to pick me up. and she went to jill's after, which i kinda feel bad about because they were all just lookin' at pictures and stuff and we're just chillin', but she seemed okay with it, so whatever. i met some boy named cale who knows approximately 1000 people that i know. it was so random. i was telling katie and pat about it when i got back. pat knows him too. this boy knows about 70% of the people i know, i swear. kids from my high school, kids from fitchburg/leominster that i know, most of my ex-boyfriends, random clark kids .....

in other good news, dad called to fill me in on the financial package we got from clark this year, and i got another scholarship, so it's sweet, and i don't have to take out additional student loans. i am overjoyed.

now i'm just sitting around till i have to go to work . . . then who knows what . . . camping? IT? maybe just sleep. Oh man. As much as I looove hanging out, sleep sounds so key. but who knows how i'll be feeling at 10 :)

xoxo

Jun 17, 2002

things are alllll right

work is going well at the webster house. so far i really like it, and have been making good money - - so all is well! everyone i work with is pretty nice, and what an odd mix of people. today i found out the manager's two sons who work there are both older than i thought. one is 29. ridiculous. i thought he was like 23. one is 22. i thought he was 18. woops.

friday night i worked and went to a clark party across the street. strange to be at a clark party without 70% of the school even being in the area. it was gts though, whatever, me and katiehill had a dance party, we all watched some beer pong . . .

mum and dad came down saturday and we painted up my room. i didn't realize how not-white the walls were till we painted them. it's all bright now and looks bigger. i almost love my room. it's sort of the anticipation of love - once all my stuff is there and i'm finished painting everything and putting things up, i think i will adooore it. right now i have no blinds, just blankets hanging from the bars, and one of the windows only has bars on the bottom half so the house next door could look right in so i usually change in the bathroom. that's kinda strange mostly.

danielle came out saturday night - only good times. after she left, i went to vin's with mo and katiehill where i experienced the joys of andrew w.k. and vin gave us a giant can of tropical fruit which i plan to use as work out equipment. i will be buff! went home & watched swingers. "and i'm supposed to be all exicited because ... she's wearing a backpack"

sunday i worked a double. then i sat around.

i worked this morning.

all this working means i have lots of money to put in the bank, which makes me full of joy. :D

vegas baby, vegas

when are you comin' over?

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i went into the gap today. i saw some capri pants i liked. but they weren't capri on me, they were pretty much jsut weird ankle-length pants.
boo.

Jun 13, 2002

mmmm
yup i'm still at the apartment, and things are still good.
tomorrow i start my first solo shift at work, which should be good, and which means i will come home with money in my pocket (YEAY!).
we watched black hawk down last night. intense movie. i don't think i would say it was "good" ... really. tonight was original sin but the dvd kept skipping and we eventually stopped it about 10 minutes shy of the ending - another movie which i would say was "not good."
other than that, things are same ol same ol, but that's perfectly all right :D

Jun 11, 2002

I edited yesterday's entry since my dad just pointed out that it read as though there was a fight at the barbecue - he was quite confused. There was no fight at the party, people left to go watch the MikeTyson LenoxLewis fight on their black boxes.

So, not only do I have a phone line, but we also have internet! SWEET. This is a beautiful thing.

Not much to report. Today was hot, it's finally summer. Working tomorrow.

xo

Jun 10, 2002

just another manic monday ...

The Barbecue was a hit, I'm very happy to say. Not only did the four of us have a great time, but everyone who came seemed to, too. We also got lots of compliments on our place, which adds to our love of it. :D The majority of the crowd split before 1030, due to the Tyson fight, and having to work the next day (boo to that). JamieSalo and SeanDunbar showed up around then with champagne! Doug & Jamie showed up not long after. Those of us who were left amused ourselves and I split for Leitrim's with D&J at one. It was a ridiculous night, let's just say.

We have plenty of beer left, due to the fact that James&crew brought their own 30 pack of budlight, along with some wachusett, aaron brought a ton of sam light, and MattDoyle gave us a twelve pack of ice house. Good lord. 46 Beaver was full of beer. The grill worked wonderfully, and we still have about 30 hot dogs left. Hot dogs & beer = another barbecue next weekend! :D hott

Two key people (on my end) neither showed nor called, hmmmm. One was not a definite attendee so that is acceptable, but the other seemed to have been a definite. They missed fun times, and they were missed as well.

I still have no internet at my apartment which means I never check my email, which then means it gets filled with crap and I stop recieving messages. So really, if you want to get in touch, call.

Today I woke up at 1122 when some unknown person called my cellphone. I didn't answer it in time, though, and they didn't leave a message. I went to bed at 1230, after having slept on the couch for most of the day. I guess I needed some sleep, hm?

Time to change loads of laundry. Come over & hang out tonight if you're not doing anything!
xoxo

Jun 6, 2002

Hello from the library ....

Things are going really well! The aparment is great, and will be HOTT soon. My cupboard is peach and will soon be able to hold my clothes, yeay!

I started training at work last night. The job seems ridiculously easy. I think I could take my own tables tonight, and be fine. But oh well, tonight, tomorrow a.m., and then next week I start up on my own.

Looking forward to the weekend
xoxo

Jun 4, 2002

Hullo from the LB but I'm now a certified Worcester resident ...!

Sunday we (mom dad, g&g) hit the Beav. Dad and I put together my desk, mum and grandma scrubbed the floor. Slave labor. It looks SO much better now, I am speechless. Went out for dinner again, yummm.

Monday a.m. g&g left. It was a nice visit with them. Mum and I went out to buy sheets and I bought 3 more blue glasses from Pier 1 to match the 1 I already owned. I lovelovelove them. I love all blue glass. Mmmm. Went to the apt. to move more stuff in like bedding and clothes and my comp. Good times. Mom left I put more stuff together, Mo and I went to Ames, bought the grill, yeay! Walked to Fantastic's for subs, saw lots of people on the way, including KATE! YEAAAAY! Fantastics was good and filling, then we went home, and Mo and I went to Home Depot. IT WAS GREAT. It was like the television commericials where everyone is so helpful and knowledgeable. I have full faith that the people we met last night could teach us just about anything. They gave us tons of information in just the time we were there. Two thumbs up for HD. Chilled at home after and we all slept with our doors open (but we all slept very well, even me, which I wasn't expecting considering it's a new bed and it's currently in the middle of my room), but we didn't go running at 7 this morning like we were supposed to. After everyone's home tonight is the new plan... wish us luck.

Took my car to Colonial today b/c my service engine light was on again and it was making the same noise as before. Only took an hour and this time they replaced the hose (which was cracked), and last time I think they just stuck it back on.

All's well. Come to the barbecue this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay? Okay.

xo

Jun 1, 2002

finally sucked up reality and switched the time-of-blog back to eastern standard time.

went up to the annual library booksale today. got some good books, and a few records. spent from 1130-330 up to my elbows in dirt at my new place today, except for a trip to ames/thedollarstore, and a ten minute pizza break. the beav is looking a hell of a lot better though. none of my stuff is in there yet, really, but before leaving i put some dishes in the cupboard. much thanks to kate and mo's parents/families :D tomorrow i'm bringing down my bed, desk, and anything else i can squeeze in. mom dad grandma and grandpa are coming down to see clark & my place (scary), and bringing some more stuff. hopefully monday i'll be all moved in. barbecue saturday is ON!

came home and went out for cyndy's graduation dinner. we went to the great impasta, it was nice. i think she had a good time last night, and tonight as well. we then sat around on the couches for several hours. that's about it for my night, haha. i was maybe going to go to adam's but meliss and angela were gone from j&bs when i called and called meliss' cell phone and she'd forgotten entirely. i feel bad b/c adam now knows i called the restaurant looking for them and that i didn't go b/c they weren't. is that crappy of me? not entirely, i don't think. it would be hanging out with kids i didn't know very well in high school, and younger kids from work. i dunno. probably should get some sleep anyways, i'm wiped out.
1214 am june 1

i move into my apartment in 11 hours! can you believe it? i really can't. talked to mo today and she asked if i was psyched and i AM but i haven't even had a chance to think about it, with all that's been going on...

cyndy's graduation was tonight and it was nice. a HUGE thunderstorm was going on outside, so i guess it's a good thing it was moved indoors. i finally met the infamous mr. anderson, who was cuter than i expected, and was asking me about london and stuff - i was unprepared for small talk. maybe i will run into him in worcester, who knows.

we took lots of pics and whatnot and had cake & wine after with g&g and the roots and phylis. it was nice.

i can't believe cyndy graduated, all grown up.

need to sleep, very tired, need to pack / partly move tomorrow.

xoxoxoxo

May 31, 2002

1230 am may 31

guess i should just convert the blog back to home time...

last day at crossroads and j&bs today. fairly anti climactic, but good.

g&g sismour are here. grandpa looks really old. it's weird...

what a boring entry... but really, no new news. tomorrow is cyndy's big night. i can't believe she's graduating. i need to go get her stuff in the a.m. ooooh i'm also meeting the infamous teacher, mr. anderson. she and jon are so psyched to introduce us. i'm prepared to be incredibly embarassed... haha

will you email me please? i'd like to see you, soon.

xoxo

May 30, 2002

The Vague But Nice Quiz by blusteryvirgin

1234 am may 30

so i see last night's entry did not post. oh well, i will recap.

yesterday i worked the morning at crossroads, then came home to see my sis get ready and go to the prom. she and jon looked great, she was so pretty! i want to go to the prom! then i took mom & dad out to j&bs, which was nice. we were afraid the power would go out but it didn't.

soon after we got home, i got a pretty unexpected phone call. not entirely unexpected, but it came a little sooner than i thought i would, it was nice though. passed up a reason to go to boston, because i had a movie date with meliss. we saw insomnia. two thumbs up.

originally i thought i had to work lunch today but found out yesterday that i didn't (yeay). picked up the last of my europe pics from walmart (gaudi's chimneys and pics of kate on the beach, me on the beach, kate drinking sangria, me drinking sangria, and a few from the eleventh hour show in springfield a couple of weeks ago. went and got a new cell phone, exciting.

then off to j&bs where i came home with exactly $35. tomorrow is my last night, weeeird. i'm completely okay with it, considering how much i've worked between there and crossroads this month, i've pretty much OD'd on it, but it's always strange to leave for good when you've worked somewhere that long (2+ years) and know everyone's stories and husbands/boyfriends/childrens names and what they did last friday night.

last shift at CR at lunch, last j&bs for dinner, then my grandparents in the hiz-ouse when i get home. hmm.

xoxo

May 28, 2002

118 am may 28

today uncle chuck, adam, and ashley left which was sad, but not very sad because a. it was so fun to hang out with them for so long (haven't spent days together in years) b. we will be seeing them again in july.

i threw up again this morning. pretty gross. my stomach hates life apparently. spent a few hours on the couch today watching the real world chicago, went to walmart with my dad (no good grills) and tried to go to cingular about a new phone but all of those places were closed. :P hung around, went to worcester and met up with doug, went out to their show in easthampton. people attending the show? me, katherine, tim, 2 kids i don't know, chris' friend dave, and the kids from the other bands. i can't really say there was all that much fun involved, but it's always nice to see everyone, and tim up from CT and all. the ride there, but especially the ride back, were wicked summer. haha. it was the best. i got sleepy though, and am still, in fact, i'm painfully tired. will write emails tomorrow. remember the 8th, k?

xoxo

May 27, 2002

130 a.m. may 27

technically it is already monday, which means it is my last of 3 days off in a row. sad, sad times.

went to boston with the fam & the rels today. walked around the common and down to quincy market (where a man riding a 7 foot unicycle grabbed my jacket and nearly lifted me off the ground ... strange) and walked down long wharf. long day, but great.

"happy memorial day" ... eleventhhour tomorrow night @ the flywheel ... looks like the plan.

May 26, 2002

1248 am may 26

so . . . Wednesday night at work I noticed that Angela had a sign up asking to pick up some one's Thursday shift. Later that night I talked to Doug who affirmed the R-rated hypnotist show was on. Thursday I call Angela and she is happy to take my shift :D brilliant! Amusing car ride out with Doug, Brendan, and Jamie, and the hypnotist was fun-ny. He called me up. I was in and out of it, but there were things I didn't remember like horrible smelling hypno-farts and a superglued tongue. But some one would laugh and the dude next to me would fall out of his chair, and it was like I came out of it, which I think I was okay with. Jamie should have gone up b/c apparently he was super under the spell from the get go. It was funny. Ride home was funny, featuring the boys singing along to LesMis. How often do you experience that? haha. Irish Times with Doug and Jamie after. Huge line of kids from theCross waiting to get in but eventually we were there. It was very crowded, but seemed to be a great place, and there were two guys playing acoustic and not too loudly, and Doug said normally there isn't super-loud music anyways. This is a beautiful thing. It beats the Blarney and the Foo by far.

Stayed up very late and then worked lunch at Crossroads and dinner at J&Bs. It went well, but I was tired and not sure when my relatives were getting here, so I didn't go to Adam's for another random LHS roundup after work. UncleChuck, Adam, and Ashley ended up getting to the house around 1 today. It was great. We ate lunch, played badmitton, went for ice cream, drove around to look at stuff, had dinner, went to the drive in and saw Spiderman (still great!) and came home and hung out. It was great, and what a nice day - finally nice out.

Have a great weekend
xoxo

May 22, 2002

1008 am may 22

so i missed kelley's birthday because i knew it was may 20 - something but not exactly when, and hadn't had a chance to ask. i'm a bad friend.

i need to go to bed earlier, and i just want a few days off. i think i'm on the fast track to crossroads and j&bs overkill. any time I have a night off, i have to work a double the next day anyways :P one more week . . .
1 am may 21

saw unfaithful tonight, it was weird, very draining.

not much else going on. it was fun to hang out with meliss tonight. i might go see this hypnotist on thursday, but i'm not sure. driving in to the city and trying to find peopel doesn't sound as fun. work work work and uncle chuck adam and ashley come this weekend, which will be reeeealy nice.

xo

May 21, 2002

1016 a.m. may 21

dan linked to this. one big eye roll please?

Worked yesterday. Of course I was the late lunch girl with Kathleen and no one would stay. Luckily I had all of my things with me and I stayed till 330 and split when Jimbo came in. Had my "interview" at the Webster House at 430. It wasn't so much an interview as it was an opportunity to meet the manager. She seemed nice. We have to wear denim shirts (ugh) and ties (UGH). Haha, but it seems like it will be a good place to work. I guess Staton is coming back to work there, which would be fun.

Met Mariss at Clark and went to Kate's. We went to Mohegan Sun for dinner (yum), fun martinis at the gorgeous martini bar, and a little bit of the slot machines, haha. Stayed up not-too-late.

Back early. xoxo
1016 a.m. may 21

dan linked to this. one big eye roll please?

Worked yesterday. Of course I was the late lunch girl with Kathleen and no one would stay. Luckily I had all of my things with me and I stayed till 330 and split when Jimbo came in. Had my "interview" at the Webster House at 430. It wasn't so much an interview as it was an opportunity to meet the manager. She seemed nice. We have to wear denim shirts (ugh) and ties (UGH). Haha, but it seems like it will be a good place to work. I guess Staton is coming back to work there, which would be fun.

Met Mariss at Clark and went to Kate's. We went to Mohegan Sun for dinner (yum), fun martinis at the gorgeous martini bar, and a little bit of the slot machines, haha. Stayed up not-too-late.

Back early. xoxo

May 19, 2002

1125 pm may 19

I had a great day off ... I slept till 1130, had pancakes, went to Nashua with my mom, bought the cuuuutest halter top and great computer desk, went out to dinner with the fam, came home and watched 10 Things I Hate About You, and Never Been Kissed. Super relaxing, only good times. It's back to work tomorrow but out with the girls tomorrow night yeeeeeeeeay! I'm excited. :D

Shopping was fun today, but there were lots and lots of cute things I wanted. It's tough to hold back. Haha. I can't wait to move in. I really want to go down for awhile on the first... I already missed the apartment hunt, and the semester long talks about how to decorate it and how things will be, I don't want to completely miss our initial few hours there. I also don't want to cramp Cyndy's style on her big graduation weekend, though. We'll see how it goes.

I need to crawl into bed, but I have an equal, if not greater need to crawl into my bed. Mmmmmm.

Let's hope it's nice tomorrow*

xoxo

May 16, 2002

3 pm may 16

Hello Hello
I have once again found happiness and a renewed faith in myself. Well, that's exaggerating quite a bit, but I'm happy because I almost have a job at the Webster House restaurant. I filled out an application today and talked to the owner for 10 minutes, who said I was perfect for the position. I have to call back after 330 to talk to the hiring/scheduling manager to make sure I can get the kind of shifts/money I need/want, and that what I need/want fits with what they need/want. Even if I don't get it, I just feel a little better about applying places. I hate looking for jobs :P

Yesterday I worked at Crossroads, which also made me happier, because I finally made a decent amount of money! I was home for awhile, then at fabric stores and WalMart where I found great $2/yard fabric for a jedi costume (yes, I was talked into it). Went to JonesSt. and cut out all the pieces. Went to Papa Gino's for like 2 hours with Tim, which was fun times. Although he never smiles or appears to be having fun, Tim is fun. Haha. It was good (and interesting) to hear his perspective on some things. Back to the apartment (15 minutes late - dun dun dunnnn), and the needle had broken on the sewing machine anyways. Jamie tried to finagle me a Jedi costume from the pieces, but it just wasn't working. Off to the theatre (way early), and it was an interestingly geeky ride. The infamous JoePerna sat two rows behind me and I had to say hello and point out how Kate mentioned him every day in London. We shook hands. Wonderful. Some senior Clark folks were there, too, but not in our theatre. The movie got out after 2 and we went back to the apartment and stayed up way to late. Thus ended the night of geekiness.
Headed out around 1130 today and did some job - app stuff. One of the places advertising for waitresses had already "fulfilled the position" boo to that.
And now I'm home, and off to work. Of course, what else do I do, really?

xo

May 14, 2002

1135 pm may 14

I'm the crankiest girl today. I'm all out of whack. Worked this morning (of course), came home with $31. Which, for 11 - 230 is alllmost $10, especially if you factor in the whopping $2.63 I get hourly. :P I dunno. I just feel like I'm working constantly and not getting much for it. I've worked every day since last Wednesday and don't have a day off till the 19th. It makes me all lazy after work and I keep staying up late so I get up too late to do anything besides just get ready for work in the morning.

Called VinnyTesta's today, at 505 pm and they told me I need to call back between 3 and 5 and come down for an interview. So, I'm gonna try that tomorrow afterwork and hopefully I can get in a shower beforehand so I can run down and do the interview deal before it's 5 pm.

Still loving the 'scort. Got gas today ... 10 gallons with 310 miles on the odometer. No one shared my excitement. It is the expected gas mileage for highway driving, but I was psyched that my car gets mileage that great and that not only is it supposed to, but it actually does.

Star Wars tomorrow! It'll be a late night, so I must sleep. Must wake up normal, happy self.

xo
1248 am may 14 - happy birthday meliss
Hullo!

Things are good here. I've been working every day and don't have a day off till the 19th. Argh. Crossroads sucked last week, which makes it hardly worth the drive ... Last Friday after work I went to Adam's which was mostly just strange. All these people from work were there (half of them still in high school), and 5 or 6 kids I went to high school with were there (mostly from Adam's class except Mike D. from mine). It was strange. I introduced myself to Dave Cohen. I didn't know it was him. Oh well. Dave Court was there and we stood on the porch and talked about JoshFalk and Hans and stuff and Kevin from work, who is a junior in high school, was talking about Hans. So funny. Dave says he thinks Hans is coming back from California again. He always does. It was so random to see him at that Fitchburg party last spring, and soooo Hans, talking to me about girls for 45 minutes in the middle of a party after not seeing me for probably 2 years. I left with Angela and Beth at two.

Saturday worked the lunch shift, expecting to make something crappy like the $ 4 I made doing that shift once, but it was amazingly busy since there were only 3 of us on, so I walked out with something like $75. Not bad for lunch. Picked Lori up around 6 and headed to Springfield for the Eleventh Hour show. Stood around in the parking lot for a long time, feeling old. Most of the crowd was definitely in high school, and probably 15. I realized it was a lot like those shows I set up junior year. Heh. Marc was there, which was fun because I haven't seen him since their show at the Avalon the summer after freshman year, and that was only quick, before that it was the spring of freshman year before he left for tour in Japan. What craziness. He lives in Worcester. Maybe when he's not too busy touring he will come to the beaver barbecues. He seemed taller. The boys' set was way too short, but fun. Jamie was on bass and Tim was on drums and it was a fun change. I heard a couple of new ones but would have liked to have heard more because I really liked them, more in the way I would like them if they were just some songs from some random band I didn't know. Does that make sense? Basically, they were more my taste. After the show Lor and I bought drinks and a frozen pizza and interrupted Tim and his girl at Jones St. Woooops. I set off the smoke alarm and Tim was distressed. Doug came home, and soon Katherine and Brendan too. Hung out for a bit watching old SNL and split. Got home around 2 and for some reason signed online, finding a boy there that I hung out with a few times freshman year, who I met through Marc. Haven't talked to him much since then, except briefly and randomly or at shows, but I immed to say I'd seen Marc, and we talked till 4 a.m. Random. I was cracking up though. I of course invited him to barbecues and we exchanged numbers. Talked to him again briefly last night and reaffirmed our wanting to hang out. So random. It'd be great to see him.

Sunday was Mother's Day and work was only okay. Cyndy and I did dinner up for Mum, and she said she had a good day. Today it was back out to Crossroads, and with the rain, and it being a Monday, I of course only came home with $25. This needs to end.

Cyndy and I saw Incubus tonight, with the free radio station tix. It was fun! We had dinner at Applebee's and for me not knowing much of their stuff, it was a good time. It was Cyndy's first big "concert" deal, too, so that was cool. I think she had a lot of fun.

Unfortunately it's back to work again at 11, so I'm outs.

x

May 9, 2002

you're smiling like new jersey on its side, i'm glued to the seat

So... what's up?
I bought a car a week ago and somehow forgot to mention it. I am deeply and truley in love with it, so I don't know how this oversight happened. It's a 97 Escort with 33000 miles, in amazing shape. It's my first non-POS car, and I'm a very very proud owner. The only downside is it just has a cassette player, and no currently affordable remedies to that situation, other than the discman. Ah well. I love it. I got a really good deal and it's financed and even the insurance is in my own name. So grown up . . . haha It's been wonderful except the service engine light came on yesterday, but I took it in this morning and it turns out a hose must have loosened up when they power washed the engine and it then fell off. No worries. I was glad I brought it in and they took care of it right then, unlike the situation with my sister's car, where they made her wait a few days to bring it in, then had it for several days. :P I also got an alignment check and then got an alignment. I went to Demer's as usual. I have to say I highly recommend them... they always do good work, and today I didn't have my dad with me and the guy wasn't condescending or anything and it was great.

Being back at work is pretty good. Did J&B's Sunday and will be back tomorrow night. Crossroads Monday and today. Unusually low cash flow at CR but hopefully that will improve soon. The majority of the people I've worked with out there are the same ones I worked with last summer and they were all excited to see me, it was like having a strange, small fan club. J&B's was pretty good, but the Sunday night crowd was kinda weird, the youngest people and the girl that annoys me the most were working. I was the one who'd been there longest, it was strange. I really like working at those places though, I have a lot of fun. Adam was cooking at Crossroads today and it was fun to see him. He's just great.

Not much else is going on ... I dropped off my ring to be fixed yesterday. I'll have it back Saturday. It will be strange to wear it again... Ate BlueJeansPizza with Tim&Doug. Always fun times... Today I spent 3 hours driving into and around Boston and back to pick up the tickets my dad won from Mix98.5 for the Incubus show. I had a fleeting romance with a boy in traffic, but couldn't give our relationship the attention it needed, since I was on the phone with Lori... alas... Lor came over for DC&Felicity and we hooked up the Nintendo to our broken TV. Turns out the TV works fine for stuff that just goes in those colored jacks in the back.

Mariss was just asking me how I was adjusting and stuff, which was nice. Everyone goes on about how "normal" it is for me to be around, which of course is true, since I've always been around, but ... it's still different for me ... I dunno.

In general .. things are good. Home is nice, but I'm also looking forward to moving to the apartment. It will be so fun to paint and start with a whole new room ... one that's really mine, it will be different than a dorm room ... maybe just b/c I can paint it?

honestly, i can't dream of anything better

May 6, 2002

1226 a.m. May 5

A good weekend. I have been home 11 days and have stayed at Clark for 4 of those.

Friday night I went down to go out to dinner with the girls. We went to Biaggio's and it was goood and this woman sat down at the booth across from ours with her daughter and her daughter's friend, right before we got dessert. We were at Biaggio's for almost 3 hours and Lay had to get up and stretch her legs out and some how this got us talking with the woman about remembering when we were 9. Turns out she used to work in the public affairs office at Clark. After dessert the bill came and we had just got the money together, when the manager came over and told us An anonymous person would like to take care of your bill. We thought he was kidding, but no, he called our waitress over and said the woman at the other table wanted to take care of our bill, our $95 bill, and the tip. We were overwhelmed, to say the least. We offered to babysit, which she refused (although her daughter was begging her to let us, haha), and just said When you're settled, do this for some one. Stay good kids. I couldn't believe it.

Later, I went to the Blarney with Kate, Lay, Aaron and Brady. It was SUPER loud, as always (well as it was the 2 other times I've been). A boy was there, Justin ("this just in", remember?, the boy who was amazed by the fact that when singing Ani songs I could occassionally sound just like her...), who I nearly dated sophomore year. He was a friend of girls we worked with and I don't remember how I met him but we hung out with them all a few times and he would call me up and I blew him off at their halloween party, and then again when we were supposed to go for coffee. So, anyways, I was trying to avoid him. I felt like it just wouldn't have been a fun convo, and I know that's my own fault. Me Aaron and Kate went to the FooBar, where the music wasn't quite as loud, but it kinda sucked, especially since it was trying for a mini-club atmosphere, and there were all these silences between songs. I'm 95% sure I saw Lindsay from high school there, we made eye contact and didn't try and make screaming-small-talk, which I was happy about. The crowd there was very sporty and very gap/a&f. It was overwhelming. We went back to the Blarney, and this-just-in was still there, as were 9million other people, who all seemed to be incredibly tall. I swear I was the shortest girl there. Anyways, we didn't stay long, and me and Kate came home at like 130. Soon, the others came back, with JamieSalo and craziness ensued including dance routines and AaronWilson continually sitting on me. I crashed, fully dressed, in Lori's bed with her, and after 4 uncomfortable hours of sleep, came back to the burg.

I never went back to sleep but hung around, chatted with the fam, drank coffee, and showered, and headed back to meet up with Meliss and D. We went to Tatnuck for lunch and had a sucky waitress, but we got 10% off b/c I go to Clark, and I applied for a job. We got watermelon sherbert at Friendly's (yum), and went our seperate ways. Bought a 6 pack of SamAdamsLight, intending to hit Adam's barbecue, but stopped by the suite first and got all distracted, then Doug called about going to see Spiderman, so I went and it was great, I really really liked it. :D Hung out with him at Jones St. and Todd and Meredith showed up and I showed everyone pictures and we blabbed and played some video games and I headed back to Clark at 1, in a last attempt to reunite with the girls. Ricci was in the suite (with Richard - back from Madrid - yeay!) and pointed me to Suzanne's party. I arrived as they were leaving and we came back to the suite. And hung around doing not much of anything. I was cold, AaronWilson was drunk, Vin was hanging out with Mo and I discovered that he is a big BadlyDrawnBoy fan. If this is the case for anyone else check out About A Boy - the movie & soundtrack.

I fell asleep in my sleeping bag at some point, on Kate and Lori's floor while Katie and Richard were still watching the dance video and didn't wake up till Katie's alarm went off at 1040. I'm pretty achey considering how long I slept. I was tangled in my sleeping bag and couldn't move for awhile when I first woke up. Frightening.

Dropped off an app. at Vinny Testa's, where Kristin from LHS99 was hostessing. It was an LHSclassof99 weekend in Worcester, apparently (although neither spotting was strange considering I think K is at assumption and L is at Worcester State). Hopefully I could work there, I bet it would be great money. I've got the experience. Then it was home home home. I worked at J&Bs. It was just like always. Made okay money, realized out of everyone working I'd been there the longest. For awhile I was sitting at the table in downtime with all these kids fresh out of high school or still in it, and it was just weird, I wish I could explain it better without sounding like I'm all miss maturity or something.

I have a headache and it's not going away. Thissss blows. Maybe now that I've semi caught up, I can start writing more intelligent things.

I miss the city

xoxo

Apr 30, 2002

This is still set to London time. Actual time: 1140 pm April 30

This time last week I was asleep in the hotel in Spain, getting up in a few hours to go walk around, drink sangria, relax, and nap on the beach.
It hit maybe 58 here today. Sad comparatively.

Being home is good ... not that I don't or won't miss London or my experience there, but so far goodness has overpowered any weirdness. Doug picked me up Friday and we ate at the Flying Rhino, which was great mmmmm! It was good to see him. I think he was the perfect friend to see first. It was very easy and nice and fun. Then it was off to the suite and I was all oddly nervous but there was joyful squealing upon my arrival and I knew I was home, haha. Katie's show that night was wonderful, and we just primarily hung out in the suite and I slept on the futon for awhile while everyone was hanging out around me. Terribly exciting, right? But I'd gotten up at 6 a.m. because I was incapable of sleeping any longer. Big caf breakfast Saturday then got to see the apartment with Kate. It's perfect. I have two windows. I'm very happy with it. Lori and I went to Coney and to BedBath&Beyond and later we all went to Aaron's birthday celebration at Brady's. Kev Murray was there and we had ice cream cake. Mariss and Lor and I had gone to iParty and bought eye patches for the guests and a pirate hat for the birthday boy. It was great. :D Mo and I went to Kate's show a little late and then we all hung out in the suite again, this time I only took a 10 minute nap in the Papizan chair, but Layla and I did go to sleep at 130. I guess I'm still sort of on my London schedule, and still sort of tired from all of that travelling.

I went to J&Bs for my hours today and everyone was excited and loved my hair and they were all talking about the same old things, which was nice. Nothing's changed. Calling Jay tomorrow to try for hours at Crossroads. I'm a little lacking (very lacking actually) in cash, and seeing as Dad and I went car shopping tonight, I'm going to be needing quite a lot of it very soon. I also need a mattress.

Getting together with Meliss Saturday for lunch, which should be nice. She called tonight, it was nice to chat. Hopefully Danielle will be able to meet up with us.

My room is still a gigantic mess... which is just a constant reminder to how unsettled I am right now. It's difficult to motivate myself to fix it up, but I will. It's definitely good to be here it's just ... (obviously) different.

xoxo

Apr 26, 2002

I'm home! It's weird, but good. I slept amazingly well for 8 hours in my bed last night, in my very own comfy bed with all my pillows and my great comforter. Mmmmmm.
Spain was woooonderful, palm trees, beach, sangria, trying to speak Spanish "donde esta el train para la aeropurta?" Mmmmm and it was unexpectedly 80's - 90!!!

Apr 21, 2002

So I said I wouldnt be here, but here I am. Kate and I ordered take away from the Raj Mahal and said we'd be back in an hour, instead of sitting there for a half hour.
Paris ... didn't quite meet my super high expectations, but I know it could if I went back on a different kind of trip. It was still amazing to be there, and I walked about 45000 miles.
Friday night we went to Deux Beers where they'd put "bye bye miss you American guys" on the board (they play americanpie a lot at the end of the night). John made us redwhite&blue shooters and we all did the ice luge and other crazy shooters. Left late (1145?), and John and Devon were meant to be coming over. We all slumped on the couches and I played music and we made popcorn and they finally came over at 1. We chilled till 215 when almost everyone was near sleep. I was almost too awake, due my excitement for Paris. We said goodbyes, which was sad. John is not only wonderful but terribly fun and chances are we won't see him again, but I do have his email address.
I got up at 530 after almost no sleep since I was afraid I'd miss my alarm. Was actually out on time. Walked to Blackfriars because it's only 8-10 minutes further than Farringdon, so I wouldnt' have to deal with the majority of the circle line. Unfortunately, the circle line wasnt' running, which mean that at 620 a.m. I had to walk & run to Waterloo and some how, amazingly made it there in 15 minutes, on time to check in for my train. It was RIDICULOUS. I don't know how I made it.
I slept most of the way on the train, waking up at random times, including once we'd come out of the Channel tunnel, only to find France enveloped by fog.
When we got to the city, though, it was beautiful. I looked at the metro map, and didn't quite get it and figured I'd walk because it was so nice. It was a long walk to the Louvre, but I made it. IMPei's pyramid was smaller than I thought it would be, but the museum itself was giiiiigantic. Walked through the Tuilleries, to Place de Concorde, down the Champs Elysees to L'Arc de Triompf, down to the Eiffel Tower. It was amazing to be able to do that. It was better than seeing the Rosetta Stone (hehe). I thought about going up, but decided it probably wasn't worth it in the middle of the day so I wrote out some postcards. Was thinking of going to Notre Dame, but realized my feet were getting some blisters so I walked back to the Louvre. Only 5 Euros after 3 p.m., so I went in, and I had about an hour and 15 minutes, so I saw all the stars, like the Mona Lisa and Venus De Milo. Mona was bigger than I thought she'd be, since they always go on about how small it is - I was expecting 8 1/2 x 11 " size, but it was probably 6 times that.
I got a sandwich and a coke (ridiculously expensive) and ate and read outside in the sun. Mmmmmm :)
Today was mostly packing, lounging around, making the thickest pancakes ever, and playing in the park. I tried to fly my kite but it didn't work, but I did impress Kate Mike and Bart with my excellent football throwing skills. It was a beautiful day and now my time is done.
Will write from home.
xoxox

Apr 19, 2002

I won't be around for the next week . . . here's the plan:
Saturday - Paris
Sunday - last full day in London
Monday - bags to Heathrow
- fly from LondonLuton to Barcelona, 7 pm
Tuesday - Barcelona
Wednesday - Barcelona / Kate's Bday
- flight to Gatwick 11 p.m.
Thursday - arrive Gatwick 1225 a.m.
- hang out, get to Heathrow
- Depart Heathrow 11 a.m.
- arrive Boston 130 pm EST
- eat yummy Jade food!!!

take care, have fun (& see you soon!!!)
xoxoxoxo

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Apr 18, 2002


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Got my pictures back today, they're okay. The ones from DeuxBeers are fun, except in the ones with John holding onto me and Adrienne on the bar, I look like a munchkin. A munchkin.

I'm at work, doing no work again. It's very very quiet in the office.

I had the morning off, and I packed, quite a bit, actually. I was planning on cutting my hair and going to the bank, but packing was it. I think things should fit back in pretty easily.

I'm nervous (or something that feels similar) about going home.