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Tuesday, 6.10.03--07:07 p.m. [ listening to: some weird song on the radio ] |
SUMMER! no more tests, no more annoying spanish class, no more feeling bad because of my procrastination... i love it! now, i could get all nostalgic about this year, but since it turned out to be a pretty crappy year for me... i won't. instead, i'll talk about my interesting day with mom and laura.
after school ended at 12:15, we went over to the oc outlets. mom was having some major problems driving, as she jumped a grand total of FOUR curbs. we got some subway for lunch, and i eavesdropped on a couple spanish people talking about some concert. so we're sitting there eating, and this van drives by with "CLASS OF 2003!" and such written on it. there was a phone number written in huge numbers on the back, with "CALL ME!" written under it. so, these 3 girls at another table called it. the guys drive back, honked and whatnot, then left. it was funny :) so then we headed over to gap, where we all got ubercool white pants for each, some cheap shirts, and lemonade lip stuff!! mmmmmmm... there were these 3 french guys who kept wandering around a bunch of stores without shirts on until someone yelled at them to leave. they were actualy kind of gross, but yeah. french guys. :) 2 hours and a few stores later, we got some tcby and left. tcby is NOT supposed to be .16. you can get a handel's cone for less than that!! and it was really gross too... the fat free crap. i guess it was in a subway though. so now we're driving down 50, and MmmBop come on. laura and i tried to get someone to look at our sign that said "We're listening to MMMBOP!" but no one looked. *tear* oh, and i spilled some gross chocolate tcby and mom pretty much drove off the road. it was a pretty interesting night...
and now i'm packing for york! YAY! first i have to get through a stupid visit to parkside. i really just want to go home. it'd be so much easier. anyway,
Happy Birthday to:
"LAURA -and- NATE!
whoohoo! food time.
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Monday, 6.9.03--09:13 p.m. [ listening to: sugerhill gang - jump on it ] |
da da.. da da da... da da... tonto jump on it! *wiggles hips*
so it goes. MUAHAHA! so happy so so sooooooo happy! then it's to york and SLIP N SLIDE, lots of movies, something fun on the 11th with joe, seeing mrs. leece when she gets back from europe, and various other uberfun things. whoohoo!! on another note, i really don't like a) sites that don't work and b) people who don't say hi back when you say hi to them. the reasoning behind (a) will remain subtley clouded with mystery, and i shall now explain (b). i was running around earlier (yes! lindsay running! whoa!) and said hi to pretty much everyone i passed. well, i didn't say hi to the scary looking old man with like 3004358909812737 dogs, but that's ok, right? so anyway, NOT ONE PERSON said hi back. they all looked at me like i was insane. i got home, looked in the mirror, and as i didn't have an extra foot growing out of my forehead, i don't think it was anything i did... mrh. but i had a nice run anyway, if tiring. very tiring. i felt sick afterwords too, maybe because i'm not used to so much sun. 5 pint sized little bottles of water and some yummy tomatoe and cheese tortilla things (sarah!) later, and here i am. NOT studying for my math or history finals i may add, although i'm gonna go do that now.
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Monday, 6.9.03--12:04 a.m. [ listening to: bryan adams - heaven ] |
it's going to rain straight though the 20th. joy.
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Sunday, 6.8.03--08:17 p.m. [ listening to: jay-z - beware the boys ] |
mrh, i need a plot that'll WORK.
back from york, and not studying for english, math, or history. no matter, i've gotten pretty darn good at BSing things. especially after that chem final. *cringe* but now there's only three to go, and TWO DAYS! and then it's wednesday, and wednesday will be good. at least in the afternoon. stupid mother not telling me what's going on. bah.
i was reading discover, and i found this. looks kinda cool.
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Thursday, 6.5.03--06:17 p.m. [ listening to: edwin mccain - i'll be ] |
my day:
woke up at 10 to the sounds of gigantic hammers hitting the living room floor below me, ate breakfast outside, read my churchill bio bio for an hour, studied chem, took a nap, studied chem in the car, studied chem in BN, and here i am. i think we're having hot dogs for dinner. yuck.
i'm coming home tomorrow! yay! before i come home i have to get through spanish and chem finals! boo!
[insert continuous playing of pomp and circumstance here]
class of 2003: you guys made it... blah blah blah... you're about to enter the "real" world... blah blah blah... we love you *tear*... blah blah blah... NOW GO PARTY! whoohoo!!
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Wednesday, 6.4.03--11:28 p.m. [ listening to: aida - my strongest suit ] |
well, now that we have a couch in our kitchen, breakfast will be that much more comfortable. just circumnavigate your way around the various saws at the bottom of the stairs, trip over random pieces of wood, run into the kitchen table and voila! you're there. easy as pie.
since my exams start on friday, i'm not going to school tomorrow. instead, i'll sit at home and think about studying. MUST STUDY CHEM. if i do nothing else, i have to do that. i didn't even open the book tonight as a result of a major headache, a nap, and a couple phone calls. speaking of which, starting the 10th my life gets better. the 11th will be something fun with joe, the 12th is YS's last day so we'll be SLIP N SLIDING our way down the huge baseball hill. (shhh, don't tell!) then the 13th, 14th and 15th will be filled with other random cool things. the really funny thing is that we're abandoning dad while the major work will be going on here. hardwood floors before put down and such. he was driving up to york every weekend, and now we're doing the exact same thing. ironic, isn't it?
YS class of 2003 graduates tomorrow!! best wishes.
People say I'm crazy doing what I'm doing,
Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin,
When I say that I'm o.k. they look at me kind of strange,
Surely your not happy now you no longer play the game,
People say I'm lazy dreaming my life away,
Well they give me all kinds of advice designed to enlighten me,
When I tell that I'm doing Fine watching shadows on the wall,
Don't you miss the big time boy you're no longer on the ball?
I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round,
I really love to watch them roll,
No longer riding on the merry-go-round,
I just had to let it go,
People asking questions lost in confusion,
Well I tell them there's no problem,
Only solutions,
Well they shake their heads and they look at me as if I've lost my mind,
I tell them there's no hurry...
I'm just sitting here doing time,
I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round,
I really love to watch them roll,
No longer riding on the merry-go-round,
I just had to let it go.
-Watching the Wheels; John Lennon
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Tuesday, 6.3.03--09:28 p.m. [ listening to: some guy - bendito tu corozon ] |
estoy estudiando para español y química. ¡creo que es ABURRIDÍSIMO! aunque, solamente cinco días más.
grab a bride and bless her heart
cada persona necesita algo mirar adelante a, y mi recompensa por estudiar ahora será un fin de semana impresionante. no puedo esperar. pero fui a nadar, y soy dolorido ahora. mrh! deséeme la suerte para viernes por favor. yo lo necesito.
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Monday, 6.2.03--11:35 p.m. [ listening to: DMB - two step ] |
sarah! long hair!! --grin--
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Monday, 6.2.03--07:23 p.m. [ listening to: ] |
dad just told mom that "my daughter is a liberal democrat" because i suggested that he should cook dinner for half the week, then he said that maybe mom should make "half the household income," then i said that i was sure she would if she could. mom's reply: "that'd be nice" and "all teenagers are liberal democrats these days."
what will the world be like in 10 years?
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Monday, 6.2.03--07:01 p.m. [ listening to: DMB - proudest monkey ] |
this is the result of my boredom.
now to swim, read, and study. oh, and send mail. muahaha!
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Sunday, 6.1.03--08:12 p.m. [ listening to: dream academy - life in a northern town ] |
after a totally awesome weekend, i'm back and ready to kick some butt for these last few days of school. usually at the end of a school year i feel all nostalgic and whatnot, but now i'm just ready for it to be over. i don't know where i'll be this summer, what i'll be doing, or where i'll live/go to school next year, but whatever happens - i have some of the best friends anyone could ask for. zarin, nadia, julia, alex, matt, becky and anyone else who i never get to see when i come back for a weekend, i'm really sorry, but it's really hard to coordinate everything. mrh! (hulia- we decided that MRH is negative and MUR is positive... do you concur?) but this summer, and especially after i get my license in aug, things'll be much easier. so, i'm sorry if i tell you that we'll be able to do something and then it never happens... it will eventually.
so, friday i drove halfway up to york, mom and i met joe at the outlets and ate some yummy subway. a tip: get the parmesian (s/p???) oregano bread - es buenísimo. joe and i got to york late-ish, and i went to tayn's for the night. paper writing, card-writing and general weirdness ensued. :) on sat, i did nothing that i had planned to do. no greg's community service thing, no antonopouli dance recital, no tea, no hanging out with becky. instead, we slept in (sorta) and then just hung out. still very cool mind you, but sort of disapointing none the less. then it was on to the shipley's and they're REALLY GOOD chocolate chip cookies. and a sleepy erin and jay-jay :) yeah, i ended up not going to post prom as planned, but it was probably for the better. next year... let me tell you, it shall be great! i wanna hear stories from anyone who went to prom/post prom though, so call me!!
watched One Hour Photo con josé sat. night. it was really strange, we won't speak of it. but the baby "lotion", ha... ha? hehehehe. the brownies joe gave the shipley's were really good, sar and i would know. and after staying up till 3 listening to music/eating brownies/carrots and ranch dressing, there were some weird things said:
"no no no no no home loans!" - sar
"it's 1 in the morning and we're listening to MmmBop" - sar
"i wonder if there's enough pop-ups here..." - sar again
"you're done" - sar in response to even more pop-ups
"this is funny because i talk to you online all the time but it's it's not as exciting because this time you're in york!" - nadia said this via IM, and it was really funny :)
"oh she just woke up" - sar to joe. complete lie of course. muahahahah!
"blook" - i don't veen remember who said that or why
"how are we slackers if we eat all the brownies? we're really diligent!" - sar to joe. it makes too much sense
"que pasa es tu pasa?" - sar. i don't understand. heheh
we ended up with around 6 different lists of songs, and went to bed at 3. after not waking up at 9:30 as planned, we got up at 11:30 (after some really strange dreams), made pancakes, burned a cd, and took showers. then sarah had to bounce, so she did. i went downstairs to find that joe was there, and after some chatting we also left. bounced, if you will. :)
I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT! having ice cream shoved in my face isn't my idea of a romantic afternoon or whatever. even if i did quadruple dare you! heh, you, you're good you! so much fun.
now i get to work my butt off for just a *few more days* then it's SUMMER! and i get to find a place to work my butt off some more. anywho, this song is really great, so go find it and listen.
"A Salvation Army band played
And the children drank lemonade
And the morning lasted all day,
All day
And through an open window came
Like Sinatra in a younger day,
Pushing the town away
Ah -
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
They sat on the stoney ground
And he took a cigarette out
And everyone else came down
To listen.
He said "In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy
And the Beatles."
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
All the work shut down.
The evening had turned to rain
Watch the water roll down the drain,
As we followed him down
To the station
And though he never would wave goodbye,
You could see it written in his eyes
As the train rolled out of sight
Bye-bye.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
Ah hey ma ma ma
Life in a northern town.
-Life In A Northern Town; Dream Academy
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Thursday, 5.29.03--05:51 p.m. [ listening to: paul simon - call me al ] |
i think i just pulled a feather out of my ear... no, really, it was weird...
ANYWAY. i'm currently packing some stuff up, since i get to go on back to PA this friday. i get to drive the 2 hours up to the bay bridge too! tayn - i scared. hopefully this wkend will at least be sorta sunny, but we'll have fun no matter what, i'm sure.
the result of my boredom as i sat through 2 study halls and an EXTREMELY boring SAT class was that i wrote a total of 6 lists. people who write lists have been proven to have less stress than those who don't write things down... so grab some paper and a pen... and go baby go!
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Tuesday, 5.27.03--08:10 p.m. [ listening to: the nightmare before xmas - kidnap the sandy claw ] |
memory book:
staying up all night watching random movies, then doing start doing hwk at 5:30 AM. watching the sky go from black to blue to really really light. resisting those berger cookies, but not the oreos, ice cream or fried chicken etc... hoping that we weren't in the hottub with those weird white worms. taking a crash course in coffee making. discussing life stuff (very cool). dancing around to the awesome mix cd. and that cool noise the bmw makes when you open the trunk. that was SO fun!
i concur.
WE JUMPED IN THE BAY!
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Monday, 5.26.03--10:16 p.m. [ listening to: ] |
back.
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Thursday, 5.22.03--09:42 p.m. [ listening to: mum's a-talkin on the phone ] |
Mean lil fellow, arn't you?
What Monty Python Character are you?
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Thursday, 5.22.03--04:59 p.m. [ listening to: an organ transplant commercial ] |
high points of my day:
we're going to the mall
we found "organic oreos"
cry, the beloved country
getting pulled out of the hall after lunch
going running in 5 minutes
low points:
computer dying
sitting through a VERY boring SAT class
waiting for mom outside in the drizzly rain for half an hour
sorry for no elaboration. :) will go run now
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Wednesday, 5.21.03--10:32 p.m. [ listening to: DMB - lie in our graves ] |
i'm currently reading 4 different books. i have 7 more on my bedside pile. yay! we just got back from the BN in town, where i got The Waste Land by T.S Eliot and Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad. oh, and a book for a friend. :) as we are apt to do, my family analyzed the layout etc... of BN. Mom and I love it of course because their fiction, biography, history and poetry sections are always good, and in my opinion the science section is better than Borders'. I don't think Laura is as thrilled though, because Borders has a better music section. ah well, that's what Kazaa is for, right? illegal us... dad complained about the business section, and he agreed with laura on the music selection. we signed up for the 10% off card thing and saved on our 7 purchase. cool. wish we had had it for the coffee though.
am really homesick and really dont feel like doing any work (i would love to read or draw or anything else) but we have a paper due tomorrow, and a chem retake. oh, and math hwk that can be quickly BSed. have i ever mentioned that i hate math? but about the chem retake: i have a chance of getting a 100. we'll see how that goes. maybe it'll be a record or something. :)
"Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple."
best story ever.
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Tuesday, 5.20.03--07:42 p.m. [ listening to: some movie that's on downstairs ] |
can't wait for: the wkend so i can see SARAH!
am loving: tayn, sar and hulia (the original three, yes) for sending me school cookies!!
currently procrastinating: various papers that i have to write, and chem of course
am plotting: a way to get pizza for dinner, and back-to-pa things
so that's pretty much it. tomorrow's only wednesday... and i really don't want to go to art class. ugh. one of the better parts of summer will be not having to sit through that. art=good, mr. zaiser=bad. so anyway, i only got 4 hours of sleep last night because i was up making chem posters and whatnot... and then mrs. mcguire wasn't even there today! it's a good thing, i guess, but i'm annoyed...
there's a kid in the newspaper today who says that people would be surprised to learn that: "All their earthly concerns are transient and of little consequence, compared with cosmic truth and salvation of souls." he's trying really hard to acheive that musical/poetic "i am so supierior to everyone" kind of thing. think - wyndham hills kids gone wrong, according to the gossip squad. heh :) thanks to ashley for pointing this out in study hall.
time to strech and shower after my run. it was very refreshing, thank you :)
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Monday, 5.19.03--08:06 p.m. [ listening to: OAR - crazy game of poker ] |
someone is sueing Oreo! WHAT THE HECK! this coupled with the fact that my eyes feel like burning, and i have a fairly huge chem presentation thing due tomorrow that i haven't started yet is making me cranky. i'm so utterly school-ed out. maybe i'll get to bed before 1? love y'all
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Sunday, 5.18.03--08:00 p.m. [ listening to: OAR - delicate few ] |
so it's been a while (WHOA! lil hasn't been plugged in lately!) and i forget what i talked about last time. not that that matters. yes.
I AM SIXTEEN!
woohoo for birthdays! a chronical:
joe drove down wed. night after dropping his mom off at BWI (she's in europe ahora!), and he, laura and I went swimming and freezed our butts off. well, i didnt' think it was that bad, but others did. :) the mosquitos were horrible though. anyway, so ainee and pop pop came back from williamsburg on thursday, a day early. ainee gave us her whole spiel on how the entire world is the same now, with mcdonalds around every corner... so that was cool. i think joe and i spent an entire night talking with her, which was weird and cool at the same time. i wonder if i could stay up in bucks county with them for awhile this summer. hmmm.
["Juls8642 (8:17:09 PM): the best way to annoy parents is to call them "parental unit 1" and "parental unit 2"" yeah. julia is so cool. :) MEMENTO IS ON!! ahh, memories. but, back to our regularly scheduled program...]
so, what else did we do.. pop pop, joe and I went and saw Matrix Reloaded. rating: 2.5 stars. it really wasn't that great. so much hype, not so much... a good movie. there were a lot of special effects (duh), a really strange sex/rave dance scene that was way too long, and a not-so-wonderful plot. i have to hand it to them though, that keymaker dude was really cool. he was the best part of the whole movie. so cute. :)
we had kabobs for dinner, and apple pie/chocolate cake for dessert. mmmm.... foooood.... then NATANYA CALLED and made my dad even better! yay for long phone calls and not knowing how the call waiting works (yeah tayn, apparently we do have that now. oops..). but yeah, my family (+joe) is great, when they're not being dumb. :) funny how that works. but yeah, so they gave me a bunch of cool stuff: this contact lens carrying thingy, a copy of Anatomy for the Artist, a wallet (it had a credit card in it! whoa!), and a bunch of blue and silver nested boxes. the boxes were from ainne and pop pop, wanna know what was inside the smallest one? an effin diamond ring. i was like, "holy crap!" and gave her a hug. so not expecting that. apparently she found it at an antique store or something, and had it resized. definitely crazy. and joe gave me Cry, The Beloved Country, Don Quixote and a box of mint oreos. :) gracias! the oreos are becoming tradition, aren't they? they ARE pretty dern good... and the books are giving me something to do while you're not here. lil needs amusement. you know what would be the BEST bday present? well, maybe not the best, but pretty far up there. plane tix to oregon! mmm, powell's... saturday and sunday were mostly filled with movies, war, and traverse. what would we ever do without that game?
i really should be working on my chem project. maybe i will, later. :) now i'ts back to reading, or maybe i'll go watch Memento. maybe both at once? tomorrow it's off to D.C. to see the National Gallery and Holocaust Museum. only problem is, it's gonna be cold and rainy and we have to wear skirts and whatnot. stupid school.
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Monday, 5.12.03--07:21 p.m. [ listening to: goo goo dolls - acoustic #3 ] |
very blah day. i have so much work, and don't feel like doing any of it. i just want to go outside, lie in the grass and draw. or play my flute. my sister's getting really good at the guitar, my whole plan of buying my own and learning how to play will now consist of having her help me learn. how cool :) 2 days left of school for me this wk, and 4 days till my birthday. hooza!
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Sunday, 5.11.03--02:40 p.m. [ listening to: norah jones - something... ] |
heheh i braided all my hair last night, slept on it, and now it's all crimpy and cool. yay! but get this: i went to make oatmeal this morning and turned the burner on. after maybe 5 minutes i noticed that the room kinda smelled like gas... badness. looked at the burner and realized that the lighter, well, never lit. so i turned the gas off for awhile, then turned it back on and made such the lighter sparked. well being the science buff that i am, i completely forgot that we don't have natural gas anymore, we have propane. now, natural gas will go away fairly quickly, but propane doesn't... it's heavier or something. so when i lit the burner the second time everything like blew up in my face. i'm talking bright blue flames two feet high. after screaming "holy shit!" a couple times, i realized that i wasn't dead yet, and that THAT my friend is why kitchens are tiled behind propane stoves. don't play with fire, kiddies.
in other news, ainee and pop pop are coming today! they make me happy :) however, that means mom goes on a cleaning rampage. she's currently putting carpet down in the attic or something. many grunting noises, and it's not a cool day, so it's like 90º up there. and it's mother's day! i offered to help and all, but she said i'd prolly just get in the way, so here i am, cleaning my room and the bathroom. we're gonna have 5 people sharing the same bathroom next weekend, when laura, josé, ainee, pop pop and i are all using it. maybe ainee'll use mom's bathroom. that'd be nice. :) heh, anyway, i've gotta finish cleaning, go running, write some letters, jump in the pool (!!!!!!!!), shower, and do a motherload of hwk. stupid chem projects. :P