:: 2005 10 September :: 11.38 pm

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:: 2005 8 September :: 8.35 pm

The Nordyke-Greggs Syndrome
This is the paper I wrote for my Inquiry and Expression class. All it had to be was a personal narrative.

I wrote about my father going into the hospital last summer.

I cried while I was writing some of it.

I was kind of mean in my descriptions of some people but I was in a fowl mood. I'm sorry.

It's six pages long so you don't have to actually read it.


Read more..



I love you all.

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:: 2005 8 September :: 5.01 pm

I really hate when my browser begins to wig out like this.

Mozilla decided to be mean. Anything I typed into the little google add-on or the address bar typed backwards. Since I couldn't really search for the problem that way, I just closed it out, opened it back up, and now my bookmarks are all gone.

And I'm scanning the computer with three different programs because that is never a good sign.

I love you all.

P.S. I promise I'll have a full school update this weekend.

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:: 2005 6 September :: 8.05 pm

Anyone know German, Katie?
His handwriting is awful but this is what I could see:



Ich habe Ihr gehelfen, und Ich liebe die zeit Ich setz und denke uber sie, Ich weiß sie ist zu nett, zu gut, und zu hubsch für mir. Mein lieb bracht sie nicht sie kann lieb aus einen grossen mann haben, Ich bin nur schlect für Ihr.




I put in the accents where they actually worked, everywhere else, I just got a question mark. Like on uber. ü ber ﲾr. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. Yeah, so if you could, what the heck does that say?

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:: 2005 30 August :: 8.39 pm

September is a big band month.

Switchfoot's new CD comes out on the 13th.

Socialburn's new CD comes out on the 27th. (I'm glad they still sound like Socialburn. Even when they got a new record company. I don't think I can take another Eisley transformation.)

Our Lady Peace's CD came out today.

The Arcade Fire is going to be on David Letterman on the 14th.

Deerhoof's new album's coming out on October 11th so maybe it's just a fall thing.


I'm really excited for Socialburn's CD. Actually, I'm really excited for both Socialburn and Switchfoot. And Deerhoof.

The Books changed their site around. I like it.


I love you all.

P.S. Wouldn't it be nice if The Cranberries weren't "taking a break" or The Smiths were still together? Sigh.

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:: 2005 30 August :: 5.04 pm
:: Mood: cheerful
:: Music: Million Things by Cloud Cult

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:: 2005 28 August :: 9.40 pm
:: Music: Heaven by Lamb

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:: 2005 28 August :: 4.39 pm

It's a big joke at Aquinas that the squirrels are evil. It stems from the fact that any squirrel you come upon will not run away, it just stares you down.

Now I didn't believe this because I hadn't seen any squirrels on campus. But on Wednesday, I was walking back through the woods and there was a squirrel by the path just staring at me. He wouldn't move.

So I guess I believe it.

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:: 2005 25 August :: 10.19 pm

Ignore that first part. It's boring.
I don't really feel like taking a shower tonight. And you know what? I can do that because I am a college student and that's what we do. So tomorrow, I will sport a jaunty chapeau to cover up my greasy hair.


Things are settling down. I just need a JOB and life will be doubleplusgood. As compared to the plusgood it is now. Hardy har har.

If you feel like it, here are pictures from orientation. I'm not in any of those. Well, I'm in the Q.

Aquinas is so beautiful. You guys should just come with me and we'll walk around.

I love you all.


P.S. Nick = the best. Just in case you didn't know.

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:: 2005 25 August :: 8.11 pm
:: Mood: upset

Didn't get the job.

Whatever.

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:: 2005 24 August :: 9.18 pm

I can never be sick from school EVER AGAIN
My mommy got an old-fashioned lawn mower. You know. The kind you push and the blades rotate and it makes you wonder how it cuts grass.

I don't know why but I've always wanted one. She said it was because the other one is too hard to push and get out. She also said that the riding lawn mower was too much of a hassle and missed too many spots.

She's lucky my dad's the lawn and garden buyer. Or maybe that's why she asks, because she knows she can get it.

Either way, it does cut grass. It cuts grass really well. So well, in fact, that I might volunteer to cut the grass.

However, Mom tested it out on the front yard and it did nothing to improve the looks at all. It's just as ugly, if not more so. We have this fungus in the middle of the yard in the shape of the letter c. Weeds and crabgrass cover every other part of the yard. (Except for where it touches the neighbor's yard and his fertilizer was inadvertently spread upon some of our yard. I wouldn't be surprised if it was on purpose, as some kind of hint. "Look at how beautiful your yard can be!" If it was, sorry, guy, our well is broken and we can't water the yard. Nice suggestion though.)



I read the funniest thing yesterday. I was reading 1984 because I love those kinds of books. Someone was talking and it said they spoke "parenthetically" but the sentence they spoke was in parentheses. Most awesome thing ever. Oh, George Orwell, you slay me!


School's going fine, by the way. I'll speak more on the subject when I have time to sit down and let it all sink in.

For now, I'm off to read my Nancy Drew book. Number 32 and only cost me a dollar. I'm a sucker for Nancy Drew. You can blame my aunt Patty for that.

I love you all.

P.S. George Orwell (or shall I call him Eric Arthur Blair?) was fugly. Seriously. That had better just be a very bad picture of him (is that a mustache? If not, what is it?) because I don't know how I can love that man anymore. I'm kidding. He could be a 1000-pound woman and I'd still love him. (Not that way, Nick.)

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:: 2005 21 August :: 9.46 pm

Oh and I don't know if I mentioned this or not but I have an interview tomorrow at 9:30 for a job at the Aquinas library.

I'm pretty sure I'll get it. I was the first person to respond.

I love you all.

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:: 2005 21 August :: 9.00 pm

So I have my first math class on Tuesday. And I can't find my calculator.

I found my black sharpie (I noticed it was missing this morning), my copy of Le Petit Prince (which has been missing since our Mardi Gras project for French class. It was in the box with supplies that I took to school.) and this gold glitter thing that is involved in another story that proves I'm insane.

But no calculator. I figure I've got a while to find it. I only have math on Tuesdays and Fridays and I probably won't need it the first day.

Stressing out about it isn't helping either.

I love you all.

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:: 2005 21 August :: 10.35 am

I start college tomorrow at eight o'clock.



Wow.

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:: 2005 18 August :: 8.33 am

pointless rant
So...tired...

I want to sleep in but I can't. Maybe Wednesday I'll be able to.

I love you all.

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:: 2005 17 August :: 6.39 pm

Tomorrow starts my three-day orientation at Aquinas.

Thursday, I'll go with my parents at around noon and do some things. They'll leave at 7 and I'll be stuck having to socialize. I can't believe I got into an unsocialble funk this close to school starting.

Friday, I'll get there at SEVEN THIRTY IN THE MORNING and do some more stuff UNTIL MIDNIGHT. I wonder if they realize that we're starting school soon.

Saturday, I don't have to be there until 11ish and I only have to stick around until 10 or so.

What sucks is the fact that, after orientation, I can't really hang out with anyone. I need to get to sleep at a reasonable hour and all that jazz. Anyway, Orientation information is here, if you're bored.


I start school on Monday!

I'm excited except for the fact that I spaced my classes out weirdly and I gave myself an early class. I'm not smart. Hopefully it won't be too bad.

Plus, I don't have a car so I'll be driving my mom's van until I get my own car. It's going to suck. I'm not even on the insurance yet and I start school on Monday. Maybe I can stay over at Nick's occasionally. He's only about two miles away from school.


I hope everyone's doing okay. I miss you already. E-mail me your addresses and jazz so I can send you letters.

I love you all.

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:: 2005 17 August :: 6.13 pm

Remember that hot girl I met at Aquinas?

Behold and beware for her hotness is blindingly so!

Too bad she's interested in men. Hee.

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:: 2005 9 August :: 11.46 pm

Having my driver's license is pointless without a car.

Having a car is pointless without insurance.

Getting insurance is pointless unless I can pay for it.

Paying for anything is pointless unless I have a job.


I need a job.

P.S. I have killer hiccups. You know. The kind that hurt. The kind that, with every hiccup, clench every single muscle in your body. They hurt and make me angry. And kind of ill. I just ate and they're squeezing my tummy.

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:: 2005 6 August :: 9.55 pm

Holy expletive
A Very Long Engagement is the best movie in the world. Better than Amelie.

It's directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the same guy who directed Amelie. A few actors from Amelie are in it too.

Seriously, I haven't seen all the movies in the world but I can tell you right now that this is the best.

It's about a girl named Mathilde whose fiancee was killed in World War One. She doesn't think he's dead and insists on looking for him.

I cried a thousand times during that movie. A thousand. Even for me, that's a lot. I cried at parts that weren't even necessarily sad but just beautiful.

You know how Amelie had lots of red and green and a splash of blue? Well A Very Long Engagement has a washed out, yellow, old-fashioned look to it with bits of red, green and purple.

It is so wonderful. If you liked Amelie or French movies in general, you have to see it.

I love you all.

P.S. Can't do accents so you'll have to deal with some anglicization.

P.P.S. It's kind of long though. I didn't notice really, until I looked at the clock at it was 9. (I started the movie at 7.)

P.P.P.S. It has a lot of sex in it but I didn't mind it at all. It didn't seem out of place or gratuitous.

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:: 2005 6 August :: 3.36 am

So apparently, a man was shot in the parking lot next to Nick and Ben's house.

Which makes me a bit upset.

Except for the fact that the newspaper is the only source that said it happened on Madison and Franklin and everywhere else says Madison and Woodlawn.

Hrm.


Either way. Rachel = freaked out slightly.

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