junio 30, 2003

yea, shes got a great personality

i was talking to charles last night and he told me that i had a great personality. it hurt my feelings. you dont wear tiny ass skirts so that ppl can tell you that you have a great personality. top that with him telling me earlier that i look just the same as when i left 2 yrs ago, and he's doing wonders to my ego. why would you tell someone who's turning 20 that they look like an 18yr old kid? not very nice. only ugly girls get told that they have great personalities. so that makes me sad.

oh and going with ppl telling me not very nice things, Gabe told me the other day that I was very male. what the hell is that?

oh and i went to ikea yesterday. it was magical. and i bought like dollar plates that are cute, so very worth it.

junio 26, 2003

sugar sugar how'd you get so fly?

i finally have cable, and i got my 3 movies from Netflix so i watched the first sesson of sex and the city and i have to say i'm hooked. but i think i'm hooked bc i can watch the first half of the first sesson without commercials and with the power to pause it whenever i want. i like that power. I also really just enjoy the show, but it makes me mad that i get cable but no HBO...::cry:: so read this and think of the wonders of being a slut, and how really its not so bad, and you have nothing to be ashamed of.

but to celebrate cable I watched back to back I love the 80's, I saw 1984 and 1989, this is probably just one of my favorite shows bc its funny and nostalgic, but making fun of urself all at the same time. wonderful.

oh and i've decided I'm going home for my birthday and partying. hard. so I dont know what i'm doing yet, but I've survived 20yrs its time to celebrate, get piss drunk, and look cute all at the same time. so when i figure out what i'm doing i'll let you know. (oh and if i know you consider this your invitation)

junio 23, 2003

my job rocks

i have too much fun at work, i really do. I just spent like 3hrs talking to Gabe convincing him to download music and then forcing him to lisen to the white stripes. hehe. he didnt like it. but i found out he does like John Mayer, Ben Harper, the Dave Mathews Band, and Korean girl pop groups (thats just weird.) then i asked a million and one questions about why he was homeschooling his kids and that was fun. plus me and the other research assistant got a ride home, so we didnt have to get rained on.

oh and i got a letter from my most favorite Jes who's away at camp right now, so that just started the day right. And i put money in my account so i could do laundry, and i paid the cable ppl so that the idiot box would work. so i'm having a great day...minus the funnel looking clouds outside my window right now.

ohhh and my hair looks cute. plus the weather was nice so i could wear a dress today. i win.

junio 22, 2003

shoes are more reliable than men

there are certain things that i'm all about. for instance, shoes. I love shoes, in a way where if i really had to pick between a man and a good pair of jimmy choos...i'd be pressed. i'm also all about unrated spanish editions of movies, bc really what fun is a mexican movie without all the sex, blood, and cursing that comes with it? right now i'm all about making a huge wishlist on amazon, bc i just love the recommendations that i get bc they give you a little button where you can say "why did u recommend this to me, idiots?" and they'll let you change it. I know some ppl are creeped out by their personal information being all out there and their shopping habits being spread to the world, but i'm not. If amazon can find other ppl who are learning italian, love indie foreign films, read marxian economics books, love books about makeup, and have a soft spot for albert camus, and these ppl can help me find new things to gush over I'm all over it.

its rainy and cold, so can you blame me for spending hours online shopping?

junio 21, 2003

i got the most beautiful flowers from andy yesterday, they're really just perfect. I just absolutely adore flowers, and really all pretty things and so this was a wonderful surprise (although it wasnt really a surprise since I knew it was coming)...and they smell so wonderful too bc its an arrangement of lilies and roses and other little flowers that i wish i knew the names of. they're the prettiest thing in my room, and a wonderful addition to all the boxes.

oh and the fridge saga finally came to an end yesterday, and i dont think i'll ever be ordering anything from best buy again, i think that store is just run by idiots. As we all know the darn thing was supposed to be delivered on Tuesday, of course it wasnt. Then they were supposed to call me wednesday night to let me know when it would be delivered, once again nothing. When I called the next morning they said it would be delivered between 8 and 10, and it was 11ish when i called, so i was like so who do i call when they dont show up? and the guy was like "ohh they be there" right. so the guy calls me back around 1ish and is like "oh the fridge has already been delivered, some woman signed for it" why they didnt bother telling me that my fridge was here is beyond me. so then i had to get my hugely illegal fridge (its about the same size as me, maybe a foot smaller and half my weight) into my room. the cleaning lady was nice enough to help me carry it after she saw me trying to push the thing to my room. "can you lift?" she asked me, lifting a corner of the thing, "we're about to find out" i said. i think she carried most of it, but we made it to my room. then i had to get the thing out of its box and that was a bunch of fun let me tell you.

that morning i woke up to this weird high pitched beeping, which i thought was coming from my computer, but it wasnt. so i went into the hall to investigate and turns out that someone decided that 10 in the morning was the perfect time to test the fire alarms in the building. yea. it started out with the individual smoke detectors but around 2pm when they started testing the entire buildings alarms i had to get out of there, so i walked over to tailgate which is a deli type thing to have lunch and buy some milk. its a longer walk than i thought it would be. oh the way back carrying a gallon of milk made the walk just a little longer than i wanted it to be. add in some south hadley high boys hollering at me and you can be sure i wont be making that walk again in a while. why do guys think honking their horn and yelling are good ways of picking up women? like seriously even if i was interested there wouldnt be anything that i could do, what i'm supposed to start running after the car? idiots.

junio 19, 2003

the first taste

theres that moment when you start dating someone or knowing that you want to date them, when you start the talking and the flirting when theres this uncertainty in the air because nothing is really for certain. its like a spark whenever you kiss them, like lighting running thru your body. you dont forget a kiss like that, but its so rare that after it happens its like a dream, it becomes the myth, and you settle into the reality of everything, the day to day kisses that arent quite that magical. and whenever theres a beginning theres an end. and no one sits around reminiscing how magical that breakup was. but theres always that memory, that dream of the beginning and the promise of new beginnings and new magic, but the future is so uncertain, and the older you get the less magical it all becomes, because ur no longer naive enough to just take a chance, to dive in and see where it takes you. life sucks the giddiness right out of you, i just wish i could go back and do it all over again, but ironically if i knew then what i know now, i wouldnt have done any of it. so its a good thing i'm not so keen on time travel, and an even better thing that i'm still naive enough to believe that theres still a little magic left out there with my name on it. and maybe even some magic with all of our names on it.

junio 18, 2003

today started in such an odd way. i woke up before i was supposed to and read all of the china essays over again (oh about 114pgs) and it was raining in that drizzly way thats somewhere between true rain and that wet haze stuff, and i just wasnt in the most cheerful mood, not sad really just that bittersweetness again, that and i rediscovered that i just dont have the best effect on people sometimes. i just really make a mess of things, but i mean well. i'll just try harder though and see if i can fix this.

but then i went into work and Satya wasnt there, and i was like "huh? he said 1:30 what gives?" so i waited for what seemed like a long time for me (like 5 minutes) and then i went upstairs in search of margaret's papers, which i didnt find. what i did find though was someone that i actually know here, so that was exciting bc you rarely ever see ppl here let alone ppl that you actually know so that was exciting. We chated and then wandered back downstairs where Satya had finally showed up. and then everything went uphill from there, we had just a really fun conversation where i realized that i do not ever ever want to go to Vietnam bc i have no interest in seeing giant cockroaches. plus i learned tons of other cool stuff (well cool to me), and general cool stuff like why their putting pig genes in corn. the thing that i really like about talking to gabe is that i can keep asking him stuff and he doesnt mind he just answers, and he doesnt bullshit me he just tells me the truth and if i dont buy it I can tell him that and its okay. so work is just really fun. we just have really random conversations, which are great and remind me why i'm in beautiful south hadley to begin with.

oh and then i got home and realized that i had no clue where my one card was (its my key to get into the building) so i just went around the back and climned in thru my window. thus reminding me to keep my windows locked, or not since i still dont know where my key is and thats not good. i'm in theory also waiting for the fridge ppl to call me, but since they didnt call me last time, i'm not really expecting much. although i do want my damn fridge bc i want some milk in my room, and water. ice cream would be nice too, but right now i'd settle for some milk, cheese, and ham so i could make sandwhiches.

junio 17, 2003

yea so i stayed home all day for no fridge. thats just beautiful.
my brother is a saint. no really he is. He drove all the way out to western mass and gave me my phone so I finally have a phone, and it took me a good day to figure out what my number was but i did, so now i have a phone and i know what the number is. Mostly my brother rocks bc we went out and bought me stuff to keep me somehow connected to the outside world, like a tv and dvd player, and a fridge. So its all good and bad news, good news I have a tv and dvd player, bad news I have no cable or even basic channels and only one dvd...but its the fifth element so i could really watch that in cycles, but I wont do that bc then i'll hate the fifth element. oh and the fridge, good news is i now am the proud owner of a fridge, bad news is I dont actually have the fridge yet...I'm currently trapped in my room waiting for the delivery ppl to show up since they never called with a "window of 3 hrs" when they would get here. bastards. which also means I couldnt go to work today. which I'm sad about bc I like work its fun, mostly bc i'm a big huge dork who thinks entertainment is sitting around and talking about china's economy for 4 hours at a time, while taking huge notes. and then printing out 14 essays on china on 114 pieces of paper...i want my fridge!

right so i was gonna tell a story about how i hate the future, but i dont remember how it goes really, so what i'm gonna do now is half tell the story and then u'll laugh and we'll pretend it was funnier and better than it really was. ready? ok.

so i was talking to charles and he said something about some movie about the future, and i immediately thought of total recal with the terminator guy, and so i asked him if that was the movie he was talking about, and hes like "no, i didnt say anything about mars" and then i said "but u said the future, and when ppl talk about the future i think of mars." and then he said "blah blah something about virtual reality and not having sex bc the fluids have aids in them and everyones doesnt eat meat" and thats when i got really angry and was like "i want no part in this future. the future sucks, no meat and no sex, they've taken the best parts out of life. bastards" and then he said something about video phones but i was really just stuck on the future sucking bc how can you force everyone to not eat meat? thats awful. i want no part in that future. and thats the story. the end.

junio 15, 2003

theres a fine line between friendship and love. i read a quote along the lines that becoming friends with someone was like falling in love, and thats kinda stuck with me for the last week since i read that. i think the best friendships are like that, which is probably why i dont bother being a people whore and fucking the room everytime i go to a party and why i really have a love/hate thing going on with ppl that are like that. (fucking the room is a lot like fucking a person, like its lustful everyones happy but u dont really care for them and u'll forget their name before ur even done with them) i have like my core friends, the ppl i know would be with me even if i got busted for having a child midget porno cocaine ring or something. and then theres everyone else, like thats really how i see ppl. which is good and bad. good bc it gives me a lot of freedom to go and move and develop new friendships and then call up ppl see them and its like u never left, like falling in love all over again with why u just adore this person to pieces. i feel that way whenever i see alesha, and even kassady bc i just see them and i remeet Kassady, she learns my name all over again and then by the end of the visit shes holding my hand and asking me what things are. but its also bad bc you see ppl and you realize you dont live there anymore and they keep asking you when ur coming "home" but you dont have a "home" anymore, you live your life between places, out of suitcases and boxes never really having all your things at one time. it just makes me wonder how things would have been if i hadnt high-tailed it out of texas (which i know pretty much see as the promissed land) i dont know if things would be better or worse, i know my world is bigger now so i guess i'm thankful for that. theres just that underlining sadness to it, the whatifs. the "what would have happened if i never had abandoned everything that i love?"

i dont know. but i do know this is the life i chose, and everything happens for a reason right? so theres a reason i'm in south hadley this summer. i just wish south hadley was a little closer to houston, thats all.

junio 14, 2003

is confusion really supposed to be this big a part of my life?

i really dont know what i want. although i know what i dont want so i guess i could just work things down from there. going to alesha's wedding and watching her walk down the isle in a huge white dress i felt like i was attending her funeral not her wedding. like that was the end of her life, but it was more the death of her spirit of the person i fell in love with in 3rd grade. of the girl that i would stay up for hours and hours with and laugh, dream, and breathe like it was all one action. when i gave her a toast i almost started crying, but i've been socialized well enough that I didnt say what I wanted to say which was something along the lines of threatening her husband with bodily harm if her ever hurt her, which he will at some point...they always do. i said something along the lines of being honored to be there at her wedding and wishing her all the happiness in the world bc she deserves it. and she does, but i just couldnt help being sad at how her life was turning out.

which just made me realize just how little i wanna get married right now. throughout the wedding i just kept chucking bc the best man was shaking just holding the wedding rings, like he didnt want anything to do with them. and in the car we talked about it and it just cememented the fact that i dont think i could be happy living in the suburbs and driving a volvo right now. or anything soon for that matter. it just feels too much like walking down the isle is akin to giving up ur life, like i had to control myself from laughing when the priest said that alesha was going to have to be submissive to her husband.

i have too much breathing, laughing, and dreaming left ahead of me for to get married. although its a nice daydream, and it feels secure, and safe but its not for me. not right now.

junio 13, 2003

my room is on the first floor which is really nice since I didnt have to lug any of my stuff up to the 2nd or 3rd floor (theres no elevator or dumwaiter in this dorm) but its also kind of creepy bc theres a door right by my room, granted its not the front door and not a lot of ppl go thru that door but ppl park their bikes right in front of my room, and i like to leave my windows open, bc I like sun, but that means someone can stand outside and see into my room. Its a really weird uneasy feeling bc I never feel alone when I'm in here.

the moving isnt really going at this point. i'll blame it on my lack of energy bc I dont really have food, well I do but its all microwavable stuff like easy mac and those pasta things were all you do is add water. Yesterday for dinner I got really creative and added tuna to my pasta and it was actually really good, or maybe I was just really hungry. My diet basically consist of juice boxes (which make me feel about 5 when i drink them,) cereal (but i have no milk since I have no fridge...yea this is really sad), chocolate chip cookies, pinapples, and ritz but i'm trying to ration those since i can eat like a whole sleeve of them in one sitting and since I dont have a car i dont know when the next time i can go to the store is. i really wanna buy one of those george foreman grills bc i'd kill for a burger right now...i need protein...and a fridge. since i have no phone though (its in a box somewhere...i think at my bros old place) i cant just call my parents and tell them to put money in my account for me to buy one. I'd buy one online but I really want it now and not in 7-10 business days.

I feel like i'm in survivor mode where I'm rationing the food and my energy bc i dont know how long i'll be able to survive without a fridge or tv...or real food. and since i have no phone i cant just order pizza...yea this is sad. oh well i'll make it. i hope.

junio 11, 2003

woohoo i have titles!

yea so i just got from meeting with the boss and I really think this will be just a really fun job. Basically I'm going to be paid to lisen to my favorite Gabe give me a lecture, then I write down questions, and then try to find other books or articles that talk about what he gave me a lecture about. I'm being paid to take a class, with my favorite professor. Score! I even ran into someone I know so not so bad, plus I have more money in my account than I thought I did. Woohoo!
i am now back at moho. i cant find my phone though, but at least my computer is all set up and ready. My room is huuuge like theres boxes (big computer boxes and suitcases) all along one wall but you look at the other part of the room and it looks like just a normal room. like clean even nothing on the floors or anything.

i am not excited to be back, the night before last I had my last dinner with my daddy and I had a mojarra which is fried fish like head and all, it was sooo damn good, but it was sad bc I kept joking around with my dad that this was gonna be my last meal, and it pretty much is. it was my last good meal at least. being home the last week was just so damn good though, i did alot of shopping and got to hang out with Charles who I hadnt seen in a year (he thinks i'm shady but i'm really not) But most incredible was getting to go to Alesh's wedding way out in bumfuck, thats seriously one of the most beautiful places i've ever been to. The people there were hick, but they were soo nice and the whole experience just made me appreciate Texas so much. But now it makes me miss it, because like for instance me and the bext man (i was the maid of honor) went down to the riverbank bc i wanted to see it (that and he wanted to show me the lions in tigers in one of the neighbors back yards, that was a trip) and it was just so gorgeous. Like a little slice of heaven and he started mentioning other places, but it just made me sad bc I didnt have enough time to go see them. Like they have a four-wheeler at the house but since I just came Saturday for the wedding and was leaving Sunday, I couldnt go out on them, there just wasnt any time.

It just showed me all the fun and exciting things that I could be doing but here i am in my cold room (its like 70 outside, while i know that it could be worse, I just came from 105 degrees to 70, so this is cold) I'm seeing Gabe in like half an hr so i should probably shower and get ready to "work" this should be interesting.

junio 02, 2003

I did some major shopping this weekend. Like major shopping. I bought a really cute pair of white drawstring pants, soooo summery and wonderful, a cute summer dress (its blue and halter top), a white top (sleeveless, v neck), the cutest jean skirt (its pleated and short), 2 purses, luggage, a new blow dryer, makeup, face wash, gorgeous green chandelear earings, and random wonderful stuff from target. I still have to hit up ikea before i go back though, and theres still some random stuff left to buy...i love shopping and especially when u go into a little store and buy something wonderful and find out its super cheap (like when we bought the purses they were like $15 bucks each and so we got really giddy and bought a lot of purses) and yea, thats why i love shopping with my mom, bc we love shopping, which is awful but so true, the only thing we didnt buy was shoes, but thats only cause I dont have room for anymore shoes at school...but a cute little pair of summer heals would be nice....

i have one week left and then its back to the cold...so sad. and brents still not back yet...punk. oh well, i guess i'm gonna end up missing him. This next weekend should be interesting, I'm either going to watch Alesh get married and be the maid of honor or I'm gonna go down to south padre island and go spend the weekend on the wonderful beautiful beach...i hope this girl isnt getting married this weekend, i really wanna go to the beach.

oh and filling out citizenship papers is an interesting process bc I sit there and some of those questions seem like tricks, like a word puzzle type of thing. and then some of them are just plain stupid, like asking you if you were ever a member of the communist government? like your going to check yes. but now at least for the most part its finished, except for the question on race, the choices were white, black, pacific islander, native american, alaskan, or unknown and I cant figure out what to check, bc I dont think I'm white, my dad thinks we should all check unknown since they dont have hispanic as a choice. I was thinking of just making a new box on the side for other bc i really dont think i'm white.