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I fell asleep in florida and woke up in georgia and now we're in south carolina. I miss people already.
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[July 19 2008] |
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[July 19 2008] |
Annnnd it's only Day 1. Thanks, Japan. Thanks.
( Escuela )
Speaking of earthquake-shaken places, a friend was over last night. She tossed and turned in her sleep enough to knock my 50-lb room divider onto my freaking face. It's about this big. Nothing bruised, surprisingly. But I woke up to people yelling, and I thought, "It's an earthquake. Did I charge my phone? My mom's going to be pissed if I don't call."
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[July 18 2008] |
They're like moist & really really soft chocolate muffins with a little cream cheese twist on top. Even Jason inhaled one, and he doesn't even like chocolate cup/cakes.
Nature: Animal Minds: The subject of animal intelligence has been an ongoing debate among scientists. Despite the controversy...
Jason: Seriously? This is their idea of a controversy?
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[July 18 2008] |
I hate shoplifters, I really do. There is no reason to ever steal anything from anyone. I was ringing up these two adult women, and as I was counting out her change, I noticed she took a trial size bottle of lotion and just stuck it in her shopping bag as if we were giving them out for free. Her friend looked at her and started laughing and they started talking in Creole. I was so shocked to see it happen that I had no idea how to react, and I acted as if I saw nothing. I looked at the lady behind her in line, and she saw it happen as well and started shaking her head. As I watched her walk away, I felt so sick with myself for allowing her to get away with it.
I easily could have been like, "Oh, I forgot to ring up that lotion for you, can I see that?" or something like "HEY MCSNEAKY I SAW THAT!" But being in the moment like that, I was completely blank and felt like I had no control.
The sad thing is those lotions cost $1.
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[July 18 2008] |
wow... over a month since my last post. anyway, just a little update. summer has been good so far. its flying by. my parents are out of town this weekend, so we're having a little get together tomorrow night... i'm pretty excited. (anyone who reads this and knows where my house is is welcome to come!) hopefully it'll be fun... jordan's parents were gone last weekend, so we had some people over. it was quite fun, although i drank too much and was hungover all day sunday. not so fun. ummm also we got iphones... they're pretty awesome. i used the gps on mine today to find the library i was looking for. and i got to drive jordan's new car by myself. also very fun.
so i have realized that i will not be able to graduate next spring as i'd hoped. i think it'll be fall of '09. i was pretty disappointed when i first figured it out, but now i think it's a good thing. i'll have more time to do internships, and i wont be super rushed my last year of school. i would have been taking 21 hours each semester to make it work. yuck. at this point i think i'll spend next summer in chicago. i always feel bad for asking jordan to spend his summers here, when he could be working up there. he wants to find a steady job in chicago, but he goes back and forth so much that its difficult. so we'll see.
blehhhhhh i dunno. jordan's on his way over now... i guess i'll go.
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[July 18 2008] |
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To the anonymous person that bought me a subscription to my favorite magazine ever.....thanks?!?!!?!?
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[July 18 2008] |
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Daily Bread-Martin Luther |
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[July 18 2008] |
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liz got her first teaching job
at gordon russell middle school
where most of my friends went
and i will soon learn all their
middle school secrets
tiger house is going oh so well
and we've been doing shows left
and or right
the turn out for all our shows
has been blowing me away because
i was under the impression when
you first start out you play to
a total of like 5 people
(this has not been so)
this weekend we will
be playing to a crowd
of 100+ and we are making
connections with a lot
of up and coming bands
i am learning a lot
so much so
i start back to school for some post-bach
graduate work and start my graduate program
in the spring
sing it out loud!
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| My dog thinks I'm dirt!!! |
[July 18 2008] |
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So, to start off, I'll just say that my dog has this weird habit of burying things... in the house... with "pretend" dirt. Seriously, he picks a corner, or the couch, or something, scratches a little bit, puts his bones or food or whatever where he "dug" and then he uses his HEAD to push "dirt" back over top of it. It's very, very comical, and one day it will make a great youtube video.
So I gave him this giant pig's ear today (like... the size of a small dinner plate) and he's been "burying" it and "digging" it up all day (in addition to rolling in it so he smells like pig :/ ). He gets into bed with me, and all of a sudden, I realize... he's burying the damn pig's ear UNDER me. Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
The pig's ear is no longer allowed on the bed.
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[July 17 2008] |
[mood|  sad]
[music| NERD - You know what]
i dont know what to do. at all.
ive lost the one person who means anything to me.
and they seem like they want nothing to do with me.
what do you do when u love someone so much, that without them u dont wanna live.
all i want to do is sleep. but thye wont let me. so i just drink and smoke and sit like a zombie. cause i dont know what the fuck to do about this.
i just want darko. thats all ive ever wanted. its all i need, for the rest of my life.
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[July 17 2008] |
I'm ready for my peacock feather tattoo. With every paycheck I get, I'm setting aside a portion so I can be 100% ready.
I feel so different. Everything is changing so fast and I'm excited. I like the path I'm heading in. Everything is uncertain and wobbly but that's the why I like it. Butterflies.
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| Monster Black Slurpee update |
[July 17 2008] |
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Well, everyone's predictions about what the new black slurpee would do were right on. That shit does not digest.
Let's just say, even the water was green.
(Now you know you're going to go try it)
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| Six word story contest from Urbis and Smith Magazine |
[July 17 2008] |
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http://urbis.com/opportunities/show/12
The theme is to 'describe your life as a writer, artist, or raconteur in six well-chosen words.' It allows for three entries and here's the three I entered:
1. Write right! Delete, backspace, sigh. Again...
2. Twenty sleepless nights. One lousy idea.
3. Write? With real ideas, technically edit.
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[July 17 2008] |
Eee so cute!! Especially because it appears that he has wet himself out of nervousness.
Anyway, that little guy is a brush-tailed bettong. In addition to being really fuckin' cute, he (or she!) does a lot to help the eucalypt forests of Australia out. Because eucalyptus trees secrete an oil which makes it hard for the forest floor to absorb water, this little guy comes in quite handy because he digs for truffles, thus penetrating the oily surface and allowing water to infiltrate it as well. This is useful for another reason: organic matter from the litter layer also falls down into this hole, to be decomposed and incorporated into the soil, thus making it healthier. A single bettong ♥ ♥ will effectively turn over at least six tons of soil every year. Without it, the soil would be hydrophobic & compacted, cutting down on plant diversity.
Well some asshole had the idea to introduce foxes to Australia for sport hunting. While the fox adapted to life there just fine, it did so at the expense of animal species in the 'critical-weight-range,' causing not only a marked delcine in their population size & distribution, but also an extinction rate much higher than normal. While once the cute little brush-tailed bettong was widespread in the forests of Australia, the species now occupies one percent of its original range. The forests survive, but a human life is much too short to see what damage will actually become of this, as every year the soil gets more and more dry, and more compacted, squeezing out all kinds of life that once lived there & helped the ecosystem to function--insects, spiders, fungus, bacteria.
Now...it always baffles me when people say that humans are 'too small' to affect the planet. People opposed to the idea of global warming often trot this one out, but I've also heard my friends say it. I think it's a problem of scope; humans, for the most part, live in cities and are unconnected to the world which supports them. They hear about deforestation and forest fires cumulatively destroying thousands of square miles of land, but because their quality of life doesn't immediately diminish, they think it's no big deal. Humans are horrible at thinking about long term implications, and moreso in areas we don't understand. I have textbooks on plant biology and have read up on our forests, and I've learned enough to know that even if I learn for the rest of my life about it, I will never understand a forest completely. No one ever will. It is just too big, beyond the scope of human understanding. And so we erroneously think that because it's too big for us to comprehend, nothing we do can hurt it.
It confuses me and makes me a little mad when people start saying that humans are 'too small' to affect the planet. Really? Are we? When a single teaspoon of oil can contaminate the entire water supply of an aircraft carrier, and the United States alone uses so much oil DAILY that if we were to put it into one gallon containers & lined them all up, it would wrap around the earth's equator six times...we can't affect change to the planet? What the fuck is that about?
Really I just wanted to show you all how cute those little bettongs are...
But, anyway, thoughts?
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[July 17 2008] |
I was super sick this morning and thought my appendix burst.
However, it was all over hurt than just specific hurt.
So I laid in bed, sleepily/sickly called Drew and he read me Oscar Otter, an x-men book called "masquerade" and some "funny" one liners from a book he found in his basement. The one liners were more funny because they were way more horrible than funny.
It's nice to have someone whose always there and nice and cute and lovely and who loves me.
In other news, we found a dead bird in my backyard, so we called the Board of Health as we are told to do to prevent West Nile virus and we live next to a swamp with a LOT of standing water. They told us "well, we don't know how long it's been dead, so just throw it out."
If I get West Nile, I will be pissed.
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