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2007 17 March :: 2.03pm
I didn't think one human could experience so many emotions
Yesterday was cram packed full of not being home.
I went to Rockford to donate blood, but my iron was too low.
One percentage.
I then traveled home to change my shirt and shoes, and on the road i was again.
Micki and I went to Wal-mart to get my eyebrows waxed and then we went to howard city.
We had plans to go to the movies, but that quickly changed when we felt like watching the Matrix Trilogy.
So we went and got them from my dad, and ended up watching tv for like 3 hours.
So then we came back here and I fell asleep and she left sometime.. haha
Oooh, and I got checked out by 3 weirdo's at the gas station.
Now I sit here eating my subway wishing I had KFC mac & cheese.
Next weekend is Hotel in Lansing.
I'm excited about that!
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2007 17 March :: 10.29am
last night was unbelieveable.
clutch played for 2 and a half hours....
i wish they would have play careful with the mic and the soap makers, and the yeti.
before they played electric worry (beale street to oblivion)
neil fallon was like "thank god for the internet" great show.
never seen so many older people at a show in my life though.
you'd have think we went to a CCR show. haha. they rocked my socks off though.
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2007 16 March :: 3.33am
you know, people are starting to steal "skife" from me.
i've been using that name online for 9 years as up august 1st.
i feel raped.
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2007 15 March :: 3.04pm
4/3 IS hard...
Jon was doing it wasted, and I still couldent do it sober.....
Its funny, Josh, Jon, Sarah, Tom and Walter get drunk like every night.
I sat back and watched them. It was funny. Not being an idiot for once...
And I wanted to punch my roomate in the head this morning.
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2007 15 March :: 3.56pm
I hope your meeting goes well today, Katie!
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2007 15 March :: 12.03am
So, Barack Obama. Yeah. He pretty much makes we want to cream my pants. Figuratively speaking, at least.
I just got done watching him give a speech at a fire fighter conference on C-Span. Of course, it was a lot about his campaign, and his stance on ISSUES.
Anyway, for all of you complaining that he doesn't have a stance, he does, and here are a few of them:
1. Iraq War: He is currently drawing up a plan (with other Senators) to withdraw troops from Iraq. He has never believed that war was the way to go and that the war has no military solution, and we shouldn't be in the middle of another country's civil war. His plan outlines that troop withdrawl begins May 2007, and ends ten months later on March 1, 2008.
2. Health Care: America spends more than any other country in the world on health care (about $8 billion), yet there are many families who avoid doctor visits because they cost more than they make in a week. He, along with other Democrats, really believe in Universal Health Care. I know, I know, I'm not quite sure how this would all work. But, it's worked for Canada and Great Britian, and everyone would be covered.
3. Veterans/ War Injuries: Of course issues like the Walter Reed Veteran's hospital have been really upfront lately. He is encouraging more funding for Veteran hospitals, and healthcare for veterans in general.
4. Energy: Wants to start working with car manufacturers to use technology already in place to be less dependent on oil. This way, we won't have to fight other country's civil wars to make sure they don't jack up oil prices on us. Hmmm.....
[edit] and by jack up oil prices, i'm talking about them cutting us off so that the price goes up and our economy goes into chaos, you know, the whole supply and demand thing...or blackmail..or whatever they call it nowadays.
If we don't rely on oil, we won't have that problem, that's all i'm saying.
5. Education: Stop making requirements so stupid. No Child Left Behind says that you either improve, or we take more money away from you. Hmm, wouldn't you think that if the government took away funding, the school would do WORSE? That's not what the current administration is saying. Anyway, Barack wants to increase funding for schools and dramatically alter the means by which schools get that money (i.e., oh, lets think, if a school is doing bad, how about we give them more money, so they can hire more qualified teachers, and so they can get text books that aren't from 1983). Plus, he wants to increase teacher salaries to make them comparable to other like jobs in the United States. What an idea! Actually paying those people in charge of the intelligence of our next generation! Who wudda thunk it~
Anyway, there are a couple things, and some rantings. Please feel free to comment, I know you would anyway.
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2007 14 March :: 10.09pm
:: Mood: awake
"This is not a clash of civilisations or religions, and it reaches far beyond Islam and America, on which efforts are being made to focus the conflict in order to create the delusion of a visible confrontation and a solution based upon force. There is indeed a fundamental antagonism here, but one that points past the spectre of America (which is perhaps the epicentre, but in no sense the sole embodiment, of globalisation) and the spectre of Islam (which is not the embodiment of terrorism either) to triumphant globalisation battling against itself."
-Jean Baudrillard
It's too bad he died last Tuesday.
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2007 14 March :: 6.36pm
quote of the day.
me: that draino is getting to your heads
sean: no its the oven cleaner.
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2007 13 March :: 11.21pm
i feel like driving right now. windows down, music up. my arm hanging out of the window of the grand am flying down back country roads....
i long for those days.
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2007 13 March :: 10.41am
high of 72 today
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2007 12 March :: 7.47pm
so yeah, downloaded "From beale street to oblivion" today.
not as good as RH/E or pure rock fury.
i think PRF or elephant riders are still my fabroites.
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2007 12 March :: 9.41am
I walked outside this morning and it was grey and raining.
This is the happiest I've been in a long time.
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2007 12 March :: 1.12pm
So my parents are for sure not going to come visit because of some stupid government passport thing. Which means when everyone's parents come to visit the first week of April, Rachel is going to be depressed and alone. In Perpignan, capital of NOTHING TO DO.
We found peanut butter, cherry coke, vanilla coke and taco kits at one store on Saturday. It was a good day.
I got my course schedule in the mail and just emailed the advisors with my class schedule. It is exciting!
Today is Nick and my anniversary so I am sad. He also starts his new job today so wish him luck.
I hope everyone and their lack of wisdom teeth are doing fine. Love love.
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2007 12 March :: 2.45am
hey nate or box.
you guys ever thought of putting like a 10 foot diameter trampoline in your apartment? how awesome would it be to jump from the loft on to it?
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2007 11 March :: 2.59pm
:: Music: dropkick murphys - for boston
so this week. i've got to decide if i want to stay in ohio, or not.
Advantages of ohio:
School is really good
High performance classes
no parents to bitch at me
Disadvantages of ohio:
No car
No job
250 miles from home
i have rang up about a $7500 college bill
I'm not even sure i want to wrench on cars the rest of my life.
I'm actually thinking of going to GRCC and taking some basic classes.
then maybe a business degree? i dont know really. just get the basics out of the way and have some time to figure out what i want in life.
I've already asked the opnions of some of you, others i really dont want your opnion because its just going to be "quit being a fuckin pussy"
so yeah....
thats just whats going through my head right now.
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2007 11 March :: 2.48pm
Back at Central. I had a nervous break down during work yesterday. We had a "Ram Pride" day, and it was loud and there was horrible karoke and cheerleaders, and they made us wear orange shirts. Plus there was a ton of people, and the ones that weren't all "yay rams!!" were really pissed off.
Plus, the management was being a bitch, and then we got slammed later in the day when everyone went home.
But at least I have two months off before summer and i have to do that everyday.
Ed meeting at six. Preamble: Check. Scavenger hunt: Check. Quiz review: Check.
Michelle
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2007 11 March :: 10.46am
Dear Mindy,
It wasn't me, i was hanging out at AJ's house with Dave, Andy and Rick. But HAHA anyways.
P.S.
you still suck.
P.P.S. I was probably sleeping when it happened, Call Miranda, she woke me up at like 1:37
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2007 10 March :: 11.46pm
Because I make everyone angry, I cause arguments that don't need to be started and people assume way too much out of one simple statement I will hardly ever update anymore.
There, done.
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2007 10 March :: 9.58am
kinda down.
i dont get to go see dropkicks tonight fuckin sucks.
but i do go get to see clutch next weekend if i can get a ride. but i probably wont because i'm a broke mother fucker without a vehicle.
(edit)
FUCK!
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2007 9 March :: 4.55pm
So apparently I must explain the whole being punched in the face story.
Let me start by saying, it was an ACCIDENT!
We wrestle. It happens. Not the first time I've caught a fist to the jaw or anything like that.
He doesn't do it intentionally.
I try to be all ninja swift and lets face it, Im not.
MIKE DID NOT PURPOSELY HIT ME.
Is that spelled out enough?
He won't hit me intentionally.
I promise.
If he did, I'd hit him back and leave him.
So please, don't leave me drunken voicemails saying you're going to kill him and burry him somewhere.
I get that you're concerned.
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2007 9 March :: 9.34am
Everyone has Clutch tickets but me...
If you really want to buy be a ticket you can. I swear, it would be alright with me.
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2007 7 March :: 8.25pm
Oh god. My mother.
Rueben and I are moving probably moving in together next year up at Mt. Pleasant, and for many reasons, but the main one being money. It's so much cheaper to live outside of town than in a dorm. My mother doesn't like the idea of us living together because we aren't married. She has told me flat out that it's immoral and she doesn't understand why we have to live together. She also said that she thinks if we live together now, we won't get married, or if we do, we won't value it as much.
I could not disagree more. We are from two very different generations. If she wanted me to be conservative, then she should have raised me like she was raised, being Catholic and getting yelled at all the time for doing things that weren't normal. How can she pass judgement on my life, what I want to do, when she all she does is complain about her life. She complains about my dad every time I'm home. All day. Every day. She complains about how my brother and I don't do enough around the house (and I'm not even there). She complains about work and drinks way too much when she's alone here because my dad works third shift and she works first.
My feelings have been clashing so much lately. I've been at home, work, and observing at school. I feel like I'm being drawn back and reliving the past ten years of my life. It's nice, it's comfortable, because it's what I'm use to. But then, being here for only a couple days reminds me why I was so anxious to get the hell out of here. It's things like that which made me move sixty miles away and limit contact to a few ten minute phone conversations a week. I don't miss it as much as I thought I did. It's not worth feeling "normal" to be here and having to consider any other people's judgement but my own. I know I'm young, but I know what I want in life. I know the difference between right and wrong, and I know how to treat others with respect. I don't need other people telling me how to live my life, especially when they don't know what kind of situation I might be in.
Rant is done.
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2007 7 March :: 7.09pm
I took a punch in the face today.
All I got was a fat lip, and some blood.
No biggy. Nothing I can't handle.
It's going on 2 weeks that I haven't talked to my mother.
My dad got hurt at work yesterday.
I got my glasses back.
I might be getting transfered to Rockford.
Greenville sucks the big anus.
That about wraps up all the details of my life.
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2007 7 March :: 1.14pm
familyrobinson16 (1:10:53 PM): walter!!
saxybssn06 (1:11:05 PM): hi
saxybssn06 (1:11:13 PM): how art thou my divine jackie?
familyrobinson16 (1:11:29 PM): always amazing
familyrobinson16 (1:11:31 PM): duh
I swear, if it werent for my gay friends, i would have no friends at all.
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2007 5 March :: 1.15pm
:: Music: Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Mother Rant
My Mom came into town last night. She came for one day, to see my sisters baby, which is now a month old.
And she’s mad I didn’t go see her yesterday. For one day.
She didn’t even call me to say she was here. She just expected my sister to relay the message (which she never does) and for me to show up.
The same person who didn’t bother showing up for my graduation. Nor my grad party. Why? Because she didn’t feel comfortable. She showed up to both of my sisters events, and I'm sure she will for my brothers, but not mine. Neither.
It's because I'm her least favorite child, I know this. But in no way should I be alright with it.
So I didn’t see her last night.
Maybe by choosing that I am perpetuating this situation I want so badly to end.
I'm just not a push-over.
And I'm still pissed off.
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2007 4 March :: 8.18pm
:: Mood: blah
I went and saw Beauty and the Beast last night at the high school. It was really great except for the little kid who would not shut up. We know that it looks like a lion, and no, after the twentieth time, we don't think your kid is as cute and precocious as you think he is.
I'm observing at the middle school tomorrow and the high school on Tuesday. I also work both of those days. It reminds me of high school. Leaving at seven in the morning, working until ten or eleven at night, going home, doing homework, and then doing the same exact thing the next day.
yep. I really have the need to let loose sometime this week. Any takers?
I'm reading The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. It's really quite good, but it's a bitch to read. I have a bad habit of skim reading, but with good pieces of literature, I can't do that. I can only read three or four pages at time, and then think about them, and then read three more pages...
I think I might start making an outline of a course paper for my literary criticism class. I'm writing on "Lust" by Susan Minot, a short story. She's modern, and it's well written, but devices and forms and their relationship to themes are a bit harder to pick out in modern works. I still have to figure out why she lists all of the guys she slept with. How does that contribute to the theme? That's what I'll be mulling over during spring break.
Almost done with laundry. Prepared for tomorrow. Hopefully going to bed a ten. Listening to the Counting Crows. So nineties.
"she's looking at you? I don't think so; she's lookin' at me"
Michelle
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2007 3 March :: 9.11am
Im in a lot of pain right now.
I slipped on some ice last night walking down some stairs.
And my back made pretty good friends with one of the cement steps.
Im having trouble walking and it SUCKS.
Every step I take, puts me in tears.
Anyway Im off to go lay in bed some more.
This weather sucks.
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2007 3 March :: 6.27am
man, i hate not being able to sleep, there is no place in this dorm that is comfy to sleep, the mattresses are like 4" think foam, so its pretty much like sleeping on rocks and the couch just isn't as comfy.
i miss my bed at home.
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2007 2 March :: 8.55pm
"617 650 4328"
its one of the dude's from darkbuster's number.
Call them and tell them how badass they are.
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2007 1 March :: 9.24pm
:: Mood: chipper
Weather sucked today. They closed campus at one because of the "inclement weather." Even the weather channel was bold enough to use an adjective such as "treacherous." It was exciting.
I went to the Cabin with Steve and a few other people and ended up getting my interviews with Steve and Joel done. I only need one more for the next check point, and I'm interviewing with Amanda tomorrow afternoon.
I have mixed feelings about spring break. It's going to be great to have a break from classes and the like, but I have a lot to do. Everyday on my calender has something going on, and, I haven't even gotten my work schedule yet.
I'm observing at the middle school on Monday, and the high school on Tuesday. So I might be seeing some of you guys (Jenny!).
I talked with one of the professors for education today about getting a middle level education minor. I think I'm going to do it, but it's an add-on minor, so I'm going to be double minoring, which is fine if it'll help me get a job. It's only an extra 18 credit hours because most of the classes double count toward my education degree requirements.
It was thundering and lightening out earlier. It was really pretty. Our electricity kept flickering and my computer wasn't too happy about it, since it got restart four times before I realized what was going on.
Working on scholarship stuff is draining, but if I don't get some new scholarships for next year, I'm going to have a big problem. Rueben and I are looking at moving ten miles outside of town to a trailer park on M-20. I called last weekend and the rent is only 300.00 a month, so, between the two of us and utilities, it's like 200.00 a month per person. Much, much better than the almost 900.00 a month between housing and a meal plan here on campus. Even the apartments around are crazy, the lowest we've found is 235.00 PER person, and that's with having like eight roommates. It should all work out. There are tons of scholarships that I'm eligible for because my gpa is a 3.93 and I'm going into teaching. I just hope that my credit standing isn't going to affect me much, since they give preference to upperclassmen (but only after financial and academic merit). We'll have to see.
For now, I'm content to sit back and read the millions of pages of literature a night that I have assigned and being involved with Kappa Kappa Psi. I have to keep reminding myself that next year, and five years, is a long way away. I always have good insight and planning skills, but sometimes I get a little nutty with worrying about what's going to happen.
I'll be home tomorrow, until the eleventh, if anyone would like to hang out. Call me, or leave a comment.
Michelle
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