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August 31st, 2007
09:43 am - i still love livejournal and the internet in general
important update:
carleycat is the most popular on a social networking site for kitties. http://www.unitedcats.com/
i found the site listed as "one of the top 5 social networking sites never to join." i'm awesome.
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June 28th, 2007
11:12 pm
lj--i am still alive and live in louisville. we're having an art show tomorrow.
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April 3rd, 2007
10:17 pm - look
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January 16th, 2007
04:26 pm - north carolinian no more.
be my friend, louisville. give me a job and help me unpack.
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July 26th, 2006
June 9th, 2006
04:08 pm
louisville for the weekend
and a triumphant return to the real world (work) on monday
Current Location: hanging out with carleycat
Current Mood: summer
Current Music: lemonheads
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May 24th, 2006
11:30 am
happy birthday, carleycat! two years old!
edit:
also, i turned 22 today. and it is the 13th anniversary of eritrea gaining independence from ethiopia. cillian murphy's birthday is tomorrow.
i have a shirt with carleycat on it, a few more dollars, and ashley parker angel's cd. thanks to all.
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April 27th, 2006
01:57 am
i hope that people i like will come to this show (it's a house show in west asheville).
& it will be the first time in four years that i won't be stressed out by school because THIS IS MY LAST WEEK OF COLLEGE.
ALL OF THE BANDS ARE EXCELLENT AND YOU SHOULD ATTEND.
let's celebrate.
also, i don't care if i am going by myself, but I WILL go see stick it on friday. they don't call it gym(nice)tics.
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April 13th, 2006
01:52 am
friends in the piedmont,
dan, kyle, jenny, and i will be heading to greensboro to see meneguar, boa narrow, and des_ark on friday. we are excited and it would be nice to see people i haven't seen in like, forty years.
i don't leave the solitary confines of the appalachians (or actually, my house/school) very often anymore, so this is pretty exciting. someone take us to a good restaurant because dan won't let us go to the place where i can get mashed potatoes on my pizza.
i just have to finish two research drafts before i can leave on friday. i am four pages into something like... um, an expected total of 25? sweet.
here's a picture:
and another: (obviously the best restaurant in england, on the curry mile)
okay, now i'm just REALLY procrastinating. g2g, pals.
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March 13th, 2006
11:51 pm
spring break is over and it is back to real life. real life, at the moment, does not include trips to the UK, eating indian food, going to shows, hanging out, seeing silver jews, buying records, and pizza. that was life during spring break. real life includes stupid things like writing papers you didn't kno about until the day before they were due and being really tired and still kind of sick.
but yeah, once again... our trip was awesome. the schools were great. i want to go back asap. the people who showed us around were seriously good, good people. they cooked for us and let us sleep in their beds and listened to our stupid american questions like "why don't you have biscuits? why are your biscuits cookies?"
anyways, we took lots of pictures, but i am too lazy to post them all right now. here are two of my favorites [i made them small, so i'm not going to do a cut]
here i am, standing with my new friend thom by a gigantic "iron man" statue dedicated to black sabbath. the statue is in the middle of birmingham city centRE next to fancy/important buildings. we were amused/amazed, obviously.
and here is dan holding his (old) band's cd at a record store there. again, amused.
good times.
but it's homework time again. more pictures later.
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March 2nd, 2006
02:34 am
not only am i traveling to cold, cold, rainy, rainy england with bronchitis, but i also have an intense stabbing pain near my ribcage everytime i cough. x-rays didn't show anything, but i did get motrin 800 or something ridiculous like that. i also consulted the tried and true web md earlier, and i am either having a heart attack or my chest wall is imploding on top of my lung. whatever. i think my body will kick out a shot of adrenaline when we're actually on our way and maybe i'll get better. if not, my new prescription cough medicine makes everything alllll right.
so yeah, we are leaving tomorrow!
i am actually pretty scared of flying, but i am even more terrified of meeting the program director at warwick.
have a good spring break, everyone.
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February 3rd, 2006
02:21 pm
i just found out that the bruegger's here (i specify only this one because i'm not sure if it's common practice) gives free refills on iced chai. you have no idea what this means to me. maybe i'm out of the loop, but i've never really heard of a place doing that. i'm way more excited than i should be. it makes me really value living in a consumerist culture so much since i can get free refills on anything and everyyything i want in the name of free market competition!! (i think i'm just kidding but can't be entirely sure)
that's really all i wanted to say. other than....school has been making my brain hurt, and i have been really whiny and slackerish this semester.
secondly,
i wanna go to this. hopefully i can and maybe someone else will want to go (thanks for the details, liz):
GENDER AND THE ARTS CONFERENCE
@ UNCG, March 29-31, 2006
The Guerilla Girls will be performing: 'Feminists Are Funny'
lots of workshops such as: 'From Attitude to Activism' and 'Street Theatre Tactics'
Mexican filmmaker Maria Novaro will be present for a discussion of her film Without Trace.
The Program in Women's and Gender Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro is organizing a conference to examine how the arts can be used for social and political action. This includes examining how expressive mediums of all types--dance, theatre, music, film, literature, visual arts, animation, puppetry, and other forms—are used to raise social consciousness and rethink identity norms such as of gender, class, and sexuality, in political protest, or to incite violence and encourage intolerance.
more details: http://wgs.uncg.edu/
and most importantly,
dan is coming home todayyyy! i missed him lots. i'm not going to let him go away anymore. and jim is staying for the weekend--which means i have to go clean his room. bye now.
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January 30th, 2006
06:58 pm
dan is in louisville. i was there this weekend and it was fun. i like jim marlowe, nick&courtney, and a handful of others a lot. we did a lot of things including (but not limited to) eating lots of food, playing outside, listening to tales of a scorched earth (SP RIP), and seeing black cross. also, i bought a pink scarf that reminds me of my childhood. i'm sad that carleycat and kyle couldn't come. and i am very glad jim is coming here this weekend to hang out and to bring danimal back. and maybe we will go to the farm with the pumpkins.
i feel lonely without dan around, but carleycat & kyle keep me entertained. and i am going to see baroness & sicarii tonight. then, i am doing homework forever and ever. again.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/niaha/kitty/anksadb.gif) melancholy
Current Music: and the infinite sadness
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January 21st, 2006
06:31 pm
yesterday, i went by the poli sci office to steal the stapler and a lady i know in there told me that the old secretary (the lady who used to be my boss when i worked there) was just diagnosed with breast cancer and had to get a double mastectomy and is in pretty bad shape. i had been thinking about that on and off all day. about breast cancer and cancer in general and how margo is such an incredibly nice lady and how she always talked about her grandkids and now that she's retired and has time to catch up and do things in her life, she's sick.
today, my parents came over to visit. they took us out to eat and bought medicine for me because i am probably developing bronchitis and got vitamins for dan because we are both generally very unhealthy. after our outing, they sat me down and told me that my aunt has also been diagnosed with breast cancer, is getting a mastectomy this week, and will undergo chemotherapy on and off for the next year. i am pretty much floored. yes, she is lucky because they found out early, but i am so worried. this woman has been incredibly influential throughout my entire life. she took care of me and helped to raise me. she's always done so much for me and i don't even know where to start with trying to wrap my mind around this. my initial reaction is "it's not fair." my second reaction is something along the lines of "oh my god." because now i'm forced to come to terms the mortality of the people who raised me and are very close to me. then, i did something i've never done before. i ordered flowers online. "pink ribbon lilies"--proceeds go to breast cancer research, at least. i ordered them because i can't call her right now and i wanted to do something, anything (plus she loves flowers very much). i don't want to call her yet (for one reason, i don't think she wanted me to know all of the details) and for another, i will cry a lot and we are both women who like to pretend that we are very strong, when we are really very scared and weak. i don't really know what to do now.
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January 16th, 2006
08:29 pm - i'm international
Thu, Mar 2
Departing flight
US Airways 70
Depart: 5:30 pm Charlotte, NC
Arrive: 8:15 am Manchester, United Kingdom
Fri, Mar 10
Returning flight
US Airways 197
Depart: 11:00 am Manchester, United Kingdom
Arrive: 6:12 pm Charlotte, NC
Travelers: 2 adult
daniel and i just bought tickets to go to england for spring break. we are flying into manchester, visiting schools and planning my future.
in particular, we will be going to birmingham--the birthplace of the industrial revolution and black sabbath. it just might be our new home.
in other news, i have been sick for a week. school is okay. i like my classes, i think. and last holiday starring queen latifah and ll cool j was an extraordinary film.
p.s. i've never been on a plane.
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December 19th, 2005
12:37 pm - news courtesy of jimothy
silver jews in asheville! silver jews in asheville! silver jews in asheville!
march 12th!
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December 14th, 2005
12:05 am
last friday, i finished exams at the very last moment, watched ashley graduate, and had a fun night out with close friends. we tried to figure out a location where we would all move to in three years. it was not successful. we're going off in opposite directions.
saturday, the whole house went out with ashley & brent for a final morning brunch. halfway through, we decided to get matching tattoos. we walked down the street and made appointments...very little hesitation & even ashley got one! (my tattoo count: 2, number of flying cats permanently on my body: 4) nothing can keep us separated!
saturday evening, i had to tell ashley and brent goodbye and i cried because it was so sad. we're going to go visit ashley in january before she leaves, but brent is on his way back to australia right now.. and those of us remaining here (incl carleycat) have big ashley & brent holes in our hearts.
in two days, we move across town and we totally aren't prepared.
school is over. i took 21 hours and made straight As. now that i'm not doing homework nonstop, i am really bored.
i miss my friends.
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December 7th, 2005
01:53 am
finals week. as of wednesday at 2 am:
humanities
history
internship
political analysis
music workshop
virginia woolf
civil liberties
a little over halfway finished.
how i spent the weekend before finals:
 (stolen photo)
-seeing daniel play in the last kodan armada show
-spending time with quality people..like, over a dozen of them. in one place. aka jim's house.
-learning to really like music again after a period of total complacency
-not sleeping
-being inspired and re-inspired by people i am lucky enough to call my bffs
after this week:
-ashley graduates/ashley&brent leave me forever
-moving
-working at the library more
-last day working at OV office
-christmas
-hoping to travel over break. and by "travel" i mean, going to visit people i really like and sitting in their living rooms just hanging out for uninterrupted long periods of time. maybe getting food, too.
a little more detail: i am so sad to tell ashley & brent goodbye. i add the "good" in there because it is a pretty big deal this time around. not like "heyyyy see ya soon!!!!." it's pretty final. i know it's not permanent per se, but i have no idea when i will see them again after they leave for australia. it's australia after all. they couldn't be farther away than if they were on mars. i am happy that they get to go to someplace where it will be summertime and brent gets to see his family. but it's weird to know that neither one of them will be coming back to asheville and going to class with me next year. everything here is pretty much already uprooted. there's a big chance we'll never live in the same town ever again, and that is really uncomfortable to think about.
end of an era, indeed.
Current Mood: up in the air
Current Music: broken social scene
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November 26th, 2005
10:38 pm
dear livejournal,
last night i decided that i must own a laptop. today, i bought one. [can you believe it?!--i am never that impulsive]
it is my early christmas present. we went in halfsies with my parents/joey. dan encouraged me to get it because he is really sweet. it is the only christmas present i'll see this year. & i am thankful, very thankful. it's real nice. & just in time for finals.
dan is playing ps2 right now. he got it in the mail today. in one day, we got all tech-savvy and stuff.
we celebrated our two year anniversary this week. it was special. i skipped work and we ate pizza 2gether. and then we spent the rest of the week watching arrested development and scrubs. (and not doing homework) i like my life.
no one is home now, and that is strange to get used to after always having lots of people around. we move into our new place on december 15th. i'm excited about it (there's a balcony!--carleycat will like the carpeted stairs!) but i dreadddd packing everything.
my schedule for the next month or so looks like the following:
write a bunch of papers
bowling green & louisville
write more papers
ashley & brent move to australia
pack entire house
move
work
christmas
i have a bunch of pictures i'd like to post, but none that are appropriately-sized.
the following picture is of heartwarmer while they played in my living room. it was a fun, albeit stressful night. i cant wait to see these people again. (look at the picture of baby dan in the background!)
p.s. carleycat's eyes are all better! she is the best.
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November 7th, 2005
01:27 pm
i'm not sure if i reek from not showering in a long time or if my house smells as if someone shut themselves in a small, tight space and smoked pot for hours. either way, i don't like it.
i'm not sure, but i also think carleycat is going blind. her eyes are milky white (everyone keeps making a ray charles comparison--a comparison which does not alleviate any stress, nor a comparison which i appreciate in a moment of distress) and she looks pitiful. she was doing so well, so very well. she has an appointment with her incompetent vet at 3:20 today and they better help her. i convinced myself she wasn't going blind, and now i am not so sure. it is so sad. the eye drops aren't helping. i'm skipping work to take her to the vet, and i've decided i will become her permanent, stay-at-home caretaker if she does go blind. i am very worried about her. she has the strangest ailments and i just want her to be taken care of. fixed for good.
carleycat is #1 stress. #2 stress is the fact that there is one month of school left and i have about three hundred research papers to write. contributing to that is the fact that i registered for my last semester ever. i am enrolled in the following:
philosophy of sex & gender
women's studies senior seminar
feminist theory
contemporary politics
poli sci senior colloquium
honors senior seminar (independent study)
and then, i am finished.
i haven't even finished my application to warwick, but interestingly, their prospectus guide has pictures of yo la tengo in it. that made me feel a little more at ease, as sad and superficial as that sounds. i think we'll move even if i don't get in. (speaking of which, carleycat can come to the UK with me)
to cheer up an otherwise depressing post...
things i DO like at the moment:
seeing milemarker
getting a new place to live
reading angela davis' autobiography
cuddling with carleycat even though she is sick
putting out the descolada cd with joel and brent
going to movies with daniel
and here are some pictures of happier times:
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