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So Eva was harassing me to update my LJ and at first I didn't think I had anything to write, but what can I say? I'm a sucker for peer pressure.
This vacation has been relaxing. Too relaxing.
After the nonstop studying that was the hell of finals, and basically the rest of my awful, torturous, academically stressful semester, I opened my arms to three-ish of deep de-stressing. And I had the perfect setting: my sister's sweet apartment, which was mine to "housesit". The convenience of living in Salem with a car was great, as my parents had abandoned me for the north (Rockport).
But quickly, as all winter vacations seem to go, I got into an extreme diet of laziness, fueled by Roseanne marathons at 2am, checking ONTD, trying to beat Super Mario Galaxy, and drinking beer that was not mine. After you get into that kind of a schedule, its hard to quit. I got to see people though, friends of some sort, and it was fun. And when things got boring, we broke out the ouija board, and I even got to entertaining myself a few times by inviting over a boy I met some weeks before. But once again, the ennui set in. Possibly it was the routine of having to cook and then clean and then take care of the cat and then feed the fish, rinse and repeat. Perhaps waking up everyday around noon really isn't that good. Then I was reminded that Marblehead, and not even Salem, is not Boston. Then I was also reminded that I'm not even going back to Boston, I'm shipping off to Ireland.
At first I was sad, realizing I was going to be away for the next 5 months and dearly missing my friends, both here and in Boston. As I was slowly moving out of my sister's apartment I also realized I probably wouldn't be returning to this region to live in, at least not for a very long time. A great feeling of sadness, regret, and anxiety filled me. Then my parents moved me into our new place at Rockport, where I'm staying until I leave for Dublin in a few days. And within hours, I was absolutely ready to go to Dublin. Holy shit, after 2 weeks of living alone and independently, its very jarring to live under the roof with parents.
Doooblin here I come!
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| Its been a bloody stupid day |
[07 Mar 2007|01:34am] |
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Omg you guys.
I haven't updated in forever and a day, but Shannan's recent LJ updatings make me SO inspired to do the same! Can you say, "thinspo", except "ljspo"?
It's been like more than a year since I last updated. WOW. So much has happened.
I really hope Eva starts updating, you guys. That'd just complete my life.
A few things I'd like to complain about:
- the motherfucking COLDASS COLD. What the motherfucking fuck? It was definitely 50 degrees on Saturday and now its motherfucking -20 with a windchill.
- my art history midterm. I'm memorizing 100 different paintings including artist, title, and I need to know the date within 5 days. Shit, I can't even tell you the date of my last period within 5 days (maybe because I skip it), much less some dead guy's painting! JK I mean I love the paintings but I hate the memorization.
- I guess I'll add in my Buddhism midterm but I'm not really that worried about it. Its just another hassle of a midterm to study for before Spring Break comes (ugh only 3 more days).
- Speaking of Spring Break, not traveling anywhere is going to suck. So I expect much fun and debauchery to occur in Marblehead. Also, laziness, lounging and the eventual ennui which I'm sure I'll experience.
- I'm working on costumes for this play, and the other girl who was supposed to do it with me decided to not do it. So all the work is left up to me, and I'm not that experienced, I mean sure I can sew and whatnot, but when it comes down to figuring out shit like buying costumes from stores with a "purchase order", which I don't know from Adam (sorry if I didnt really use that phrase correctly, I've been desperately finding a chance to use it, and I sprung at this opportunity), I feel a little overwhelmed.
- My throat hurts :\
Some good things?
- I like what I'm singing in my chorus. It's Handel. I like Handel. I realize now that I like the Baroque period, which for some reason I always overlooked before. But yeah, Caravaggio and Bernini excite me, too.
- I'm reading a good book, Dante's Inferno - heard of it, maybe? I fall asleep with it each and every night, dreaming of hell.
- I took some kind of a pill thats supposed to make me go to sleep about an hour ago, but maybe its just making me loopy instead. Is this a good thing y/n?
- London is in 10 weeks.
- Britney Spears shaved her head.
- After taking 5 psych classes so far, one of my classes finally talked about Freud. You can't cover that shit up bb no matter how embarrassed you are.
- I'm interning at the BU radio station and I love it. There is no theme to the show, kind of just play whatever you want. The djs are pretty ridiculous, in a great way.
- I was in Cambridge (MA) and overheard a group of cute guys speaking in genuine Irish accents. Holy crap. It reminded me that I'm going to the UK and will hopefully snag myself some thing with an accent.
I feel like I'm gushing too much, I mean I don't want to give you guys the wrong impression that things in life are actually going peachy, but its pretty alright in certain areas.
Some questionable (neither good nor bad things):
- It's nearly 2 am, and I love to sleep, so I don't understand why I insist on staying up and therefore prolonguing commencing that sleep experience.
I can't think of anything else thats ambiguous off of the top of my head. So with that, I bid thee, lj land, adieu. I am a recumbant nude, a la Titian's Venus of Urbain, 1538 (god I hope I got that right).
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[07 Oct 2005|07:10pm] |
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Oh LJ how I've neglected thee! Anyway, I'm happily transitioned into college, it's already been over a month and everything is hunky dory.
This weekend I took a 5 hour bus trip up to visit Shannan and Alex in Vermont. It was Shannan's 18 b-day so the three of us got piercings! ( and so )
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[31 Aug 2005|04:27pm] |
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I just finished the 5th Harry Potter book (yes I'm behind) and now need to fill the void. HERE, a quiz!
Click here.
Take the quiz.
Post your results.
( See cor_blimey's results. )
LOL
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[28 Aug 2005|12:21pm] |
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1. Choose a band/artist that nobody else has chosen yet.
THE SMITHS
2. Answer ONLY using titles of their songs.
3. Are you male or female:
Wonderful Woman
4. Describe yourself:
Girl Afraid
5. How do some people feel about you/or have thoughts about you:
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want
6. How do you feel about yourself:
I Keep Mine Hidden
7. Describe your ex boyfriend / girlfriend:
Unloveable
8. Describe current boyfriend / girlfriend / crush:
Handsome Devil
9. Describe where you want to be:
London
10. Describe how you live:
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
11. Describe how you love:
I Won't Share You
12. What would you ask for if you had just one wish:
I Want a Boy for my Birthday
13. Share a few words of Wisdom:
Accept Yourself
14. Now say goodbye:
Back to the Old House
15. Now send it to everyone to see what there answers are (and back to me)
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[27 Aug 2005|04:40pm] |
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Holy crap.
First of all, my friends are dropping off like flies to go to college. I can't stand the distance in mileage between us and the distance in days until I too finally go to college! I'm moving in Saturday September 3rd baby and I think its finally striking me that holycrap I'm going to live right in the middle of Boston and its going to be freaking awesome.
GOODBYE FRIENDS who left me for vermont!
Secondly, Seattle is an amazing city. I recently got back from ten days of fun with Zach - well, seven days in Seattle and then three days on a train. Getting a taste of freedom for those ten days was like a preview of what college will be for me!
Thirdly, I got my wisdom teeth out. It was a surreal experience. They made me inhale nitrous oxide while they jabbed at my gums with a novacaine needle. After spending minutes trying to find a vein in my arm big enough stick their IV needle of anasthesia, I fell into a weird stage in between sleep and consciousness, I don't even know how to explain it. I was aware of them drilling and digging in the back of my jaw, yet I just didn't give a shit. Then all of a sudden I felt like I was going to gag because I felt something like dental floss in the back of my throat. I realized they were sewing back up my now empty sockets where four little wisdom teeth lived, three of whom I never even saw, tear tear. I must've blacked out because it felt like 5 minutes but really it took an hour. After the room stopped as much as it could spinning, I had to pee a peeload so I got up and walked unsteadily to the bathroom. When I got home my entire face hurt and I just wanted to sever all nerves sending senses to my brain but instead took a prescriped oxycodeine and passed out on the couch.
Edit: & Layla rocks for coming over during my PAAINFUL recovery and bringing me a KLIMT BOOOOK and my Arrested Development DVDs!
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[29 Jul 2005|10:29pm] |
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Austriam Museum Lets Naked People in Free
Scores of naked or scantily clad people wandered the museum, lured by an offer of free entry to "The Naked Truth," a new exhibition of early 1900s erotic art, if they showed up wearing just a swimsuit — or nothing at all.
With a midsummer heat wave sweeping much of Europe, pushing temperatures into the mid-90s Fahrenheit in Vienna, the normally staid museum decided that making the most of its cool, climate-controlled space would be just the ticket to spur interest in the show.
Peter Weinhaeupl, the Leopold's commercial director, said the goal was twofold — help people beat the heat while creating a mini-scandal reminiscent of the way the artworks by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka and others shocked the public when they first were unveiled a century ago.
I'd go to see Schiele, Klimt and Kokoschka. But I just don't think I could uh, warm up to the idea of being surrounded by naked, sweaty people.
Anyways, here are three of my favorite paintings from the three.
 Schiele - Death and the Maiden
 Klimt - Death and Life
 Kokoshcka The Duomo, Florence
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| and pretty girls make graves |
[23 Jul 2005|10:09pm] |
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bored..
A - Age you got your first kiss: 10 hehehe
B - Band listening to right now: The Slits
C - Crush: Ewan McGregor!
D - Dad's name: Rowland
E - Easiest person to talk to: Anyone when you're drunk
F - Favorite bands at the moment: The Smiths
G - Gummy worms or gummy bears?: Worms, esp. the sours ones oooh
H - Hometown: Marblehead
I - Instruments: Violin & Saxophone, eons ago. Perhaps I'll learn the bass one day.
J - Junior High: Marblehead Middle School
K - Kids: 2 perhaps.
L - Longest car ride ever: A trip from Massachusetts to Georgia. We logged in three days. I was 7.
M - Mom's name: Stephanie
N - Nicknames: Doobi
O - One wish: I hope college will be awe-some
P - Phobia[s]: spiders, tsunamis
Q - Quote: "He is?" "Apparently" "Wow."
R - Reason to smile: shopping in Boston today, living in Boston in a month
T - Time you woke up [today]: 12
U - Unknown fact about me: My great-grandma is from India..
V - Vegetable you hate: Mushrooms
W - Worst habit(s): Not eating well
X - X-rays you've had: My head (MRI), my jaw (for wisdom teeth)
Y - Yummy food: Baguettes
Z - Zodiac sign: Cancer
now enjoy some pics
( lots of silly pictures. i mean lots )
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| georgraphy! |
[23 Jul 2005|01:11pm] |
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How well do you know your Europe? Try with a drag and click map.
I was only 82% correct. Sorry Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Andorra, San Marino, and Liechtenstein.
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| The Spider Saga; or My Longstanding Hate Affair With Arachnids |
[20 Jul 2005|12:09pm] |
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I hate spiders. Anything with more than four legs is evil and a menace because they can run fast. Insects are awful, but spiders are more despicable. And don't even get me started on centipedes. The mere thought of eight spindly legs creeping over a bare limb sends a shiver through the spine. In my life thats been a rare occurance as I tend to avoid spiders at all costs. Thats why last night I migrated downstairs to the bare uninhabited waste of house we now and then refer to as "my sister's room" - my sister, a college junior, has probably lived here, collectively, a month.
My migration was urgent, caused by dozens of miniature eight-legged menaces. Yes, baby spideys. Last spring while experimenting with my macro lense, I photographed an upclose shot of a hatched spider egg. Hundreds of tiny spiders were emerging, crawling over each other, together a mass of shivering, moving legs. This memoy was jumpstarted last night when I noticed one lone bitty spidey hanging over my computer. I thought nothing of it at first, then realized it probably had a myriad of brothers and sisters...somewhere in my room.
( ze Saga continues.. )
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[13 Jul 2005|03:50pm] |
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summer plans
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[07 Jul 2005|12:31am] |
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I guess I'm legally legal now? Technically, at least, although exactly eighteen years ago I wasn't born just yet. But its past midnight, so its July 7th, so I'm 18. If I went to a 7-11 right now I could buy: cigarettes, scratch lotto tickets, pornography. All of that stereotypical shit you can buy when you're newly eighteen.
Today was so perfect that I wouldn't have minded if today was birthday instead. It was pretty relaxing, despite the dentistry in the middle of the day (I'm getting my wisdom teeth out soon, by the way. Ah and no more fluoride treatment). It started out nicely, I woke up around 9 to hear a pit patter on the roof, I opened my eyes to realise it was raining softly outside, and went back to sleep happily. I love waking up to rain. Then Zach and I went to the library. I haven't been to the library in ages, because of my forgetfulness to return books (I brought my mom's card instead of mine). I was so excited to get new books. I got Nabokov's Ada (unfortunately they didn't have Pale Fire), Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, plus four Anais Nin books. I also borrowed two REM CDs and one Radiohead CD. Why the hell was I buying CDs and books off amazon these past few years when I could've always just borrowed them for free? Max also let me borrow his graphic novel, Blankets, which is awesome.
Then Zach and I made supper and watched a movie, The Butcher Boy. All in all a nice quiet rainy day, filled with books and new things.
( pics )
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| my bu orientaaaaaaaaaaaashun |
[17 Jun 2005|02:05pm] |
My schedule! Although it was a challenge to fit in all the classes I wanted, I managed. I'm totally loving that big blank space in the morning every day. I am certainly not waking up at 6:30 for classes anymore! And also that big blank space for lunch every day. No more 30 minute lunches!
In case you can't read College-Speek, they puke green in the key is my Earth Science discussion, and the perriwinkle blue is its lab. The orange is my French class - I placed in 4th semester French so after this semester I'm through avec Francais! The neon green is my Psychology lecture, the lavender is my Psych discussion (the lecture is 200 students big but the discussion is 25). The darker puke green is my Writing class, which focuses on "Negative Emotion".
I'm gettng all of my required classes out of the way (like lab sciences and writing and french). After this semester the rest of my required classes are two Stats courses, one more writing course, and a non-lab science (I'm thinking Anthropology.)
And according to RateMyProfessor.com (not RapeMyProfessor) 3/4 of my professors are totally awesome yellow smiley faces! One even has a chili pepper!
It feels so good to have this all completed! Now, exhausted, I'm going to sleep. Ciao!
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| tagged by daniel! |
[15 Jun 2005|10:03pm] |
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List five songs that you are currently liking. it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist, and the song in your journal, then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.
1) 'Sir Nose d'Voidoffunk' ~ Parliament. Fuckin a man! Parliament is so awesome.
2) 'Shut Up' ~ Black Eyed Peas. Why does it have to be SO DAMN HAWHD?
3) 'Demon Days' ~ Gorillaz. Que beautiful song!
4) Anything off the Rent soundtrack. Ohhh I'm going through another Rent phase. Just in time for the new movie!
5) 'Much Finer' ~ Le Tigre f/ Tricky. Hmm-hmm.
I wanna know what the following people are listening to:
Alex
Evan
Aveva
Layla
Lisa
<3
ohshit orientation tomorrow.
eep.
PS. ohh snap they[kodak] discontinued black and white photo paper. I feel kind of guitly because I have a new digital camera, but I love it too, too much.
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| I'm wetting quite nicely thank you, I do say nicely, I do mean that, actually. |
[11 Jun 2005|05:16pm] |
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I'm feeling bored AND morbid today. So.
The Ultimate Death Survey:
What do you think happens after you die?
I think that your body naturally rots and disintergrates away. When I die, I want to be cremated.
( the ultimate death! )
Okay. Now for something less morbid.
Finish the sentence
::Directions:: Finish the sentence to make it true about you…Bold,
italicize or underline the part that you change. Replace “…” with your
answer. Add at least ONE more fill in the blank sentence when you’re
done. *Get creative!*
( Finishing the dots! )
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| Gloucestah! |
[09 Jun 2005|03:49pm] |
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On Tuesday we all headed up to Adam's house in Gloucester! Much fun was had, here is the photographic evidence:
WHAT IS IT?
( Onward! )
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[01 Jun 2005|12:29am] |
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My cat Silky has had these black spots on his right eye for a few years and the vet has always said they were pretty innocuous, just another sign of his aging (he's about eleven).
My mom took him to an eye vet today and apparently the spots could be cancerous, so they're going to operate on his eye tomorrow to get rid of it. Then he'll be blind in one eye :(
And poor Silky, he's running around right now playing with my other two cats, which is actually pretty rare considering his inclination for laziness in recent years. But he's just blissfully running (or something like it) around with no idea of what's going to happen to him tomorrow.
In happier news, I'm going to go over to Scotland for about a week in the middle of the summer. I'll be staying with my sister at the Glasgow School of Art (she was there for her Junior year abroad) and I'm going to take a photography course. I guess that's my only high point to look forward to. The rest of the summer is going to be work, filled with lazing about on the beach in between.
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| Let me unbutton your pants just a little bit |
[28 May 2005|07:00pm] |
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Prom '05 (and number five, hopefully the last!) wasn't all that great. I think I cursed myself by saying on the way there, 'Hey I've recently been craving a rap fix!' By the end of the night after listening to hours upon hours of crap rap, I was sorely regretting saying that.
But at least I have photographs before it turned bad!!
;)
( Hot! )
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