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March 19th, 2005

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June 15th, 2004

11:31 pm - cats. i do not like cats. i have no use for them. i think they are kind of gross and boring. i like kittens, but once they grow into being cats they cease to have a purpose for me. i dont have a problem with other people having cats, but i have no desire to ever have one of my own. unless for some insane reason my place of residence has a rodent problem that cant be dealt with in any other way than cats. this year in my anatomy class we dissected cats. i had absolutely no problem with it. today has been a day of cats. for the past two days i've been babysitting my next door neighbor's daughter for a few hours in the morning. i wont get into the problems i have with the daughter, but suffice it to say that she's doing everything in her power to hate me, and get me to hate her. anyways, they have five cats. i cant really tell them apart. some are allowed outside and some are not. this morning when i was entering the house i let out one of the "not outside" ones. the mother didnt seem to have a problem, she was just like "oh he'll come back in, just open the door when he does." so i didnt worry about it. a few hours later, the cat came to the door. the little girl and i get up to go let it in, and it runs away. so we go outside. before we open the door, the little girl puts another cat in the bathroom so that he cant get out when we open the door. we go outside and chase the cat for a while, but no luck. we go back in. an hour or two later i hear things falling in the bathroom. as a person with no pets, i'm not really used to objects falling. i get up to see what the deal is. i open the bathroom door and the cat sophie locked in runs out. the bathroom smells HORRIBLE. which is weird, because no ones used it since i got there, and you wouldnt think two little girls would make such a stink. turns out the cat shit in the barrel. which was impressive, since it had the sense to go in the barrel. but still. then the cat stepped in it and walked all over the bathroom. so i had to clean up cat shit and the shitty footprints. i dont like cleaning up shit. and i certainly dont like cleaning up cat shit. oh god did it smell. and then, tonight at work, we had to stay two hours after closing because the store was a mess, and it just so happened that every girl working late has a cat, and likes to talk about the cute things their cat does. there are few things more boring than listening to people talk about their cats. (that said, i realize i'm pretty much doing the same thing here, talking about cats. whatever, i contradict myself, so do you.) its not cute that your cat watches you shower and licks your legs when you're peeing. actually, that's kind of gross. blech, cats. in other news, my grandmother sold her house today and will be moving into the house across the street from me. which is both really good and could be kind of bad, in that she will be watching everything we do. but i love my nana so i can deal. Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: the strokes and regina spektor - post modern girls

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March 16th, 2004

12:02 am well, i wanted to make a post about what's been going on with me lately, and i just spent a long time writing a massive email to m y friend marissa, and that explained most of it, so i decided to just post it here. thanks to phil for explaining the mechanics of an lj-cut to me ( what i've been up to & other ramblings ) Current Mood: tired

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February 28th, 2004

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January 1st, 2004

10:46 pm - how's this for an amazing coincidence... when he was my age, or a little younger than me, my grandfather was a golf caddy. he caddied at some resort, and one time he caddied for babe ruth. it was pretty big for the resort, and a picture was taken of them. someone wrote a book about that resort, and the picture was published in the book. obviously its not a well read book, who reads about resorts. but anyways, everone in my family has a copy of the book and the picture. last week my grandmother went to a new chiropractor. she went back the next day, and randomly they had to go into some different office for some weird reason. in the office, hanging on the wall was the picture of my grandfather with babe ruth. how or why anyone who isnt in my family would have that picture is beyond me, but its a pretty creepy coincidence, no? so i was thinking, if this guy has it, i wonder if its on the internet. cause what isnt on the internet. if you go to google, and do an image search for "babe ruth golf" the picture comes up. its from the webpage of the resort. weird. Current Mood: surprised

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December 28th, 2003

01:09 am - my linus so i wasnt feeling like myself. still dont totally feel normal again. but one thing that helped/is helping, aside from friends, is rereading an old book that i read and loved a million times when i was little. anne of green gables :) my whole family is obsessed with the anne books. cause lucy maude montgomery was from prince edward island, which is right near cape breton island, where my family is from. i have all the anne books and dolls and paper dolls and everything. i wanted to be anne shirley when i was little. and be poetic and have red hair (i never understood why she thought it was ugly) and stand up for myself and fall in love with gilbert blithe. and maybe next i'll read the little house books. and little women! i am such a dorky girly girl. side note :: do little girls still play with paper dolls? i know i had a million paper dolls. i still have most of them. they were the best. Current Mood: dorky

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December 27th, 2003

12:58 am - work anecdote on christmas eve, this guy came into work to buy his wife a christmas present. he said he wanted to buy her jeans. he said he had no idea what size she was. i took him over to the wall of jeans, he picked up a pair and, spreading his fingers apart, proceded to measure the ass of the jeans with his hands. he decided a size ten would fit her just fine. this man, i am sure, was an ass man*. *ass man:(n) a man who likes himself a peice of his lady's ass Current Mood: amused

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December 4th, 2003

07:36 pm there are some people that have a kind of presence. its hard to describe really, but they just... i dont know. when they're there they have this huge presence, and it lingers even when they're not there. i've only met two people like this in my life, jeremy and alice. its really an amazing quality. i got a green balloon tonight at dinner and its making me happy. Current Mood: content Current Music: songs from alice in wonderland in my head

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October 9th, 2003

11:38 am - whooo! I got accepted into the OT program! (does little dance) So i'm now officially in Sargent College, and will graduate in 2007 with a masters. eek, another year. i'm so excited :) Current Mood: happy

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September 29th, 2003

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September 28th, 2003

06:06 pm - a direction. so, I have picked a major. I have decided to major in occupational therapy, granted I get accepted to the program. I finished my application essay just now. it's in another school @ BU, and its a five year program (i'll get my masters) so i have to apply to get into it. i'm very excited, because i really think that this is what i want to do. since most people have no idea what occupational therapy is(i didnt know till a few weeks ago), I will explain. occuapational therapy is basically giving people with disabilities their lives back, by teaching them new ways to do ordinary things. for example, teaching some one who's paralyzed how to dress themselves. things like that. giving them independence. and i'm very excited about it. yep. Current Mood: excited Current Music: WTBU radio

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September 10th, 2003

08:55 pm - Highlights. (not the children's magazine) so much has been going on lately, and i've been meaning to write about it all, but it just hasn't happened. so now that i'm back from work and dont feel like doing any work yet and i know that i shouldnt take a nap, i'll jot down some of the highlights of what's been going onn with me lately. - almost two weeks ago, tom and i did a triathlon. it was awesome. i cant wait to do another one. i learned that next time, i really need to train a lot more for the running part, cause that's where i died. i felt really good in the water, and really g ood on the bike, but i fucking ridiculously died on the run. so, gotta work on that. but yeah, other than that, awesome. and for anyone else who would like to try one next summer (cough beth cough) i definitely recommend it. cause if tom and i can do it, you can. oh, and today i got an email of a picture of me in it, which was really cool. i wanted to take a picture of us at the end but i forgot my camera. ah well. - that same night beth and i met up with some of my friends from BU, and we saw bjork and the yeah yeah yeahs. bjork was really good, and adorable, as usual. and the lead singer of the yeah yeah yeahs just fucking rocks. my god she's so tall. but yeah, another favorite artist crossed off the list of to be seen. - i moved back to school. i love my new room, though i miss my old floor. and things are going well with mary and i's new roommate katharine. lots of silliness. i have yet to take the trash out of the room yet since i've arrived and its really piling up. you wouldnt think three people would accumulate so much trash. - jeremy came to visit, we popped his weed cherry, and then he left. i dont like change. but its good for him, so yeah. - i like all my classes. i'm worried that neuropsychology is going to be hard, but i find the subject really interesting so hopefully that will motivate me to do well. i think i might be a step closer to picking a major, which is good. i will feel relieved when i finally pick one. - i am still working at the gap. its a commute, but i like working there. i also like having an income, which i didnt have last year at school. - my computer's keyboard broke the day i moved in. the enter key would not work, which is kind of an essential key for paper writing and such. other keys were also broken, and random symbols would appear while i was typing. after a week of mulling it over, i decided to buy a new imac (like caitlin's!) the day after i decided, my keyboard randomly started working again. i still think i will buy a new computer, but i think i will wait a few months until i save some more money at the gap. i have enough money now, but if i wait, i'll just feel better about spending the money. especially since now its not necessary. - my cousin got married on sunday. exciting, cause he was the first of the cousins to get married. the reception was at the boston harbor hotel, which is really nice. it was really kind of an extravagant wedding, and i feel bad for the father of the bride, who had to pay for it all, and who has three other daughters' weddings to pay for. anyways, i was really happy for my cousin. and even though i totally thought i would never be the type of person to cry at a wedding, i almost did. all those people so happy just made me really happy. anyways, back to the reception, there were fireworks. we dont know why exactly, it was suspected that the bride's father paid for them, but it may have been a random coincidence. it was really cool. my cousin was so happy. also, the food was awesome. i've had a good couple weeks of excellent food. my aunt had a clambake the same day as the triathlon that totally rocked. but at the reception, it was the kind of really nice place where they give you like, sorbet between meals to cleanse the palate. it was soo good. scallops and bacon, ravioli, salmon, fruit salad made of my favorite berries. mmm. and their wedding cake was basically strawberry shortcake on the inside. seeing my parents dance was weird. very weird. but i had a great time anyways. - i went with some friends and tom and his friends to see cake the other day. it was very good. also, last night beth and i took an epic adventure to see dave matthews, who was also good. - tom's new dorm is really nice. i am still afraid of his friends, though i am trying not to be. maybe not "afraid of" so much as "intimidated by." either way, i am trying not to be. what is my deal? okay, that's it from me. Current Mood: rushed Current Music: diamonds on the soles of her shoes - paul simon

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August 24th, 2003

02:35 pm well, its fall. i could feel it yesterday, but i tried to ignore it. but it was cold this morning. its fall. buy your new notebooks, put on a sweater, its time to go back to school. Current Mood: cold Current Music: i love the 70s playing in the background. god i love this show.

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August 23rd, 2003

12:47 am tonight was a lot of fun. michelle and i went to see spellbound, which i highly recommend. its a documentary about these kids in the national spelling bee. its really funny and touching and amazing. these kids, wow. makes me feel pretty inferior. also, there was this hilarious preview for a kung-fu soccer movie. it looked like a cross between the matrix and bend it like beckham. everyone in the theatre was laughing out loud during the preview. i love previews like that, where they're just so bad everyone laughs. the freddy vs. jason preview was like that, i remember. anyways, i had really missed michelle. i didnt see her this summer, i didnt really see her all that much this year, and had missed just hanging out and talking to her. and i hope that this year will e different. i really want to go to new york more. which, i always say i want to go places and never do. but, hopefully this time will be different. i really want to see the magdaline sisters. if anyone else would like to go, let me know. it looks good. and the kendall theatre is really nice. so, the past few days have been good. camp ended last week, so i pretty much had the whole week off, sans last night when i worked at the gap. i really dont mind working at the gap. i just kind of zone out and make things neat. some lady came into the gap last night though, and was looking at carpenter pants that were on sale, and said really loud "Oooh, carpenter pants are so SEXY!" it was really funny. her boyfriend, who i guess was supposed to look sexy in the pants, just kind of gave her a weird look. then this guy came in and picked up a sweater that was $20, and went on about how great a price that was, and how in a month they'll be selling them for $40 and that he was so smart to be buying them now. he went on and on about it. poor guy, little does he know that every week they reduce the prices of everything, and those sweaters will be $15 by next week. i like people, they make me laugh. some people are really grateful about stuff. like this guy thanked me like five times when i showed him where the mirror was. but then there are crazy people, like this little old lady who was buying christmas gifts (in august, mind you) and wanted to know how many inches wide the necks are of medium and large sweaters. she seemed really upset that no one knew. triathlon in like 8 days! good lord. i am starting to get nervous. but also really excited. i think i will be okay on the swimming, and okay on the biking, but i am really worried about the running part. we'll see how it goes i guess. tom went to some info thing, and they said that our age group starts first, which makes me nervous. clearly they're expecting us to be faster than older people. hah. i am ready to go back to school. i bought a fridge, and some miscellaneous products i will need, and i am ready. i'm also getting tired of living at home. i think that's the main part of why i want to go back. the freedom. plus, i miss mary and marissa and jeremy. oh, mary, if you read this, i want to make a "Freshman Year" mix CD, of songs that remind me of last year. i need some help. so far, on the list is Green Eyes Dont Stand so Close to Me The Good Life yep, that's all i got. i also feel like something from hot hot heat should be on there. but yeah, still in the really early stages of this list. there's so much more that i'm missing. we need to brainstorm. i think mariah carey needs someone to tell her to lay off on the shriek noise thing that she does for a while. like, if she did it every once in a while, it'd be like "wow, that's cool that she can do that." but she does it all the time, so its more like "wow, that's a really annoying noise that doesnt really go in this song." someone should let her know, is all i'm saying. some family bonding going on lately. last weekend i went down the cape with john kim and my mom. well, tom was there for a day, but then he had to leave. when he left my mom goes "it's been real tom" which was funny, cause it's my mom and she's such a dork. but yeah, anyways, it was fun just the four of us. just hanging out and making fun of my mom. best mom quote of the weekend: "i dont like this song. (sings) i'm weeeeird" (we were listening to radiohead's creep) ah, speaking of radiohead. thank you jeannie for those tickets. the show was amazing. we need to get you your money. for whatever reason, thom yorke's spastic dancing is really hot. getting to the show was hell though. there was a huge accident. there was a car totally engulfed in flames on the other side of the highway, and everyone on our highway slowed down to look at it, and going like two exits took like an hour and a half. it was worth it though, once we got there. okay, i think its time for bed for me. Current Mood: happy Current Music: clark gable - the postal service

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August 10th, 2003

10:43 pm this has been a very lazy weekend. aside from going out for a cruise with tyler last night, I havent really dont anything productive at all. which is kinda nice. I did go to the gym though, i suppose that was productive. I've found a workout partner to go running with me. my sister. she's faster than me, and doesnt like to stop as much as i do, which is good for me, cause it makes me push myself harder. i miss tom. i havent talked to him in a few days cause he's been away. i dont know if i'll get to talk to him tomorrow either. boo. and i wont be able to see him till wednesday. tom, if you're reading this, you better not have any plans on wednesday. tuesday will be our 16 month anniversary. that's a long time. and at the same time it isnt. i kinda feel like "we" always were. anyways, i love tom. i'm very happy. i hope the rain stops this week. humid days suck at work. this week is my last week of camp. its kind of bittersweet. i will miss all the kids, but camp needs to end. the kids are burning out and i'm burning out. this week we have a talent show. we have to make up a dance for them. we already made up a song. i smell disaster. well, i should go to bed now. lots of work this week, i'm gonna be wicked tired. but on friday i'm going to the cape! for like fourish days! a real vacation. and tom might come i think (i hope). yep, anyways, goodnight. Current Mood: relaxed Current Music: the postal service

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August 9th, 2003

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July 24th, 2003

10:54 pm - crackpots in waltham okay, so today i was reading the daily waltham paper, the Daily News Tribune (of which i used to be an employee, yeah paper routes) anyways, there's this speakout section, which is basically where people call in and bitch about random things and they type it up and put it in the newspaper. so there was this speakout, and i swear i did not make any of this up: I shudder when i think of Rep. Koutoujian's plan to encourage state employees to become organ donors. Is there anything more ghoulish than organ transplants? In folklore, a ghoul is a being who robs graves to feed on the dead. Medical science goes further, inviting us to covet not only the flesh of the dead but of the living as well. Apparently there is no limit to what the American economy will offer for sale. Even body parts are available to the well-insured consumer. Organ transplant really is nothing more than a high-tech version of the old practice of cannibalism, which was based on the belief that by consuming the flesh of the strong one gained their vitality in a longer life. Only today the flesh of the other person is incorporated directly into the body of the consumer by means of surgical cutting and attaching. No longer must one chew and digest a heart or liver in order to make it part of one's own flesh as did our more primitive ancestors. But I ask: Is one practice any more repulsive than the other? G.B. Waltham okay, what the hell? i mean, i've heard of people being opposed to a lot of crazy things, but organ donations!? i mean, you're already dead, its not like you need them, and if its gonna save someone's life... you know what? this psycho just inspired me to fill out whatever form it is you need to be an organ donor. i've been meaning to, and its about time i did. Current Mood: confused Current Music: Alison Krauss. i dont know the name of the song, but its a nice beatles cover

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July 22nd, 2003

11:31 pm queer eye for a straight guy = my new favorite show. its will and grace meets trading spaces meets e! fashion emergency. what's not to love? also, my new mission in life for this week is to aquire a sesame street shirt, and perhaps some muppet underwear. they seriously need to stop making these cute t-shirts of things that i loved when i was little, because then i want to buy them, and then i walk around dressed like i'm five all the time. i got that other job. did i mention that? so i am now an employee of the gap outlet in the watertown mall. yay ghetto malls. it'll hopefully be a job i can keep for the school year. good discount. decent pay. shrug. i have training on friday. exciting, kinda. Current Mood: tired

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July 19th, 2003

03:04 pm - why this day has sucked so far i was supposed to wake up to an empty house, my family was supposed to be at the cape. i was going to have a relaxing day, and get some stuff done that i had been looking forward to. instead the following sucky things happened: 1. i was awoken (awakened?) around 8 by the sound of a massive lawn mower. 2. that noise was followed by a chainsaw at 9 that has yet to stop, and the incessant bouncing of a basketball. 3. i came downstairs to find that my family was all still here. 4. my mom told me that they're leaving my sister and brother here with me. 5. my dad then gave me lots of yardwork to do which took me three hours. 6. while doing said yardwork my brother comes outside with his friend, goes into the woods, and smokes a bowl. all i really wanted to do today was go to the beach. or even just sleeping in would have been nice. Current Mood: irritated Current Music: mya - woah.... question, what does it mean for a kiss to be like woah?

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