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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ....

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

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

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!