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Monday, September 11th, 2006
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7:59 pm - RANDOM URGENT UPDATE (ok not that urgent, esp since no one reads this)
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| Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
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10:33 pm - employment come to meeeeee
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Sooo...
Not that anyone particularly cares about my career prospects, but here's the update. I got the job at the world renowned art museum(yaaaaaay!).. but My aunt and uncle, who the whole time seemed acquiescent in letting me stay with them temporarily while I made a meager ten dollars an hour, decided to retract their offer (noooooo!). Needless to say, on a wage some fast food workers make, I could not afford DC housing.
But then! From out of nowhere! a Miracle sweeps in! A graphic design firm in Bethesda Md which designs for such museums as the rock and roll hall of fame needed a full time WITH BENEFITS administrative assistant, with plenty of room for museum and even design related advancement. This time I could actually afford to at least live in someone's dingy basement in DC, so I went for it. Unfortunately, they never called me back after what I considered a pretty successful interview. The woman, Peta, was even without prompting offering up advice about housing, expenditures, and where young people in DC go out. But It's been 9 days and the position has been reposted. www.gallagherdesign.com if someone wants to send them a hatemail in my name.
Sooo right now I'm working at Katzingers deli in Columbus. My cousin threatens to permanently coin me "pastramiousni" for all the sandwich-making I'll be doing. But yeah, so I'm living with my dad and had this horrific moment of despair earlier thinking I could be here forever putting pastrami on rye.
But to sum up, my darling ex roommate Jessica cheered me up and consulted me about not giving up on things. So I've been applying for jobs tonight, seeing what I can do. That's all. I know if I want it to change, it can. PS I felt random today and got my ears triple pierced. the end
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| Monday, May 1st, 2006
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4:48 pm - Holeh Crap
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| Thursday, April 20th, 2006
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11:59 am
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K, what WAS last night? *scratches head then runs to toilet to vomit up beer* Ugh
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| Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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10:40 pm - ooohweeoooooh
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I'm having fuuuuuuuuuuuuuun I'm having fun in the district! I don't know what the district is but soma told me to say it! whoooooooooo
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| Sunday, April 9th, 2006
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6:29 pm - La Musica me interesa
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New songs of interest:
Breathe Me~Sia: This song took a couple of times listened to before it hit me, but now I think it is fragile and gorgeous. The lady who sings it is clearly under the radar and eccentric (she's married to a 19 year old alpaca farmer, I once read)but everything, down to the intimate instrumental solo, is dead-on.
I Think You'd Look Good on the Dance Floor~Arctic Monkeys: bratty brit boys with an energetic sound and poppy lyrics ("Stop making the eyes at me/
I’ll stop making the eyes at you")
Cash Machine~Hard Fi:Once again, bratty brit boys, but with a moodier sound. Still definitely singable; I like it even better than the Arctic Monkeys song!
Heart in a Cage~the Strokes: OK, I think part of the reason I love this song is because in the video, the lead singer Julian Casablancas lies in the middle of a dirty dank New York city street and expressively gestures his lyrics as his uber-thin hipster band rocks around him...I know the Strokes have been around forever, but I still love their new album AND this song.
In the Walls~Stellastarr: I love "My Coco" and "Sweet Troubled Soul;" this one is good too- his voice just sounds like the 80s. And I like that *shrugs*
I'm on a quest for new music, so if anyone has any suggestions let me know. And if anyone wants one of these songs, I don't know how to link them here cause I am computer illiterate, but I can send them over AIM or what have you!
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| Sunday, April 2nd, 2006
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1:14 am - A True assessment of my final days at Miami University
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Good things about my final semester at Miami:
I am graduating in 4 years! and Cum Laude at that..
Printmaking is the best, esp. Xerox transfer and woodcut
My mom and I are back on good terms
I have a job interview
I haven't been completely destitute for lack of funds yet this Spring
The Rugby team girls make my day
I got asked on a date by my eccentric, ska-loving crush
I get to fly to DC and visit Annsley for my birthday!!
Had a hundred and one a-MA-zing conversations with my mateh, who so graciously forgave me
Manda visited and we stayed up late watching naked boys through the front window
Wretched things about my final semester at Miami which are threatening to make this semester more bad than good:
Broke up with Matt. It still doesn't even feel real, it's like losing a limb, really. And then having him tell me that he hoped I would just "get over" my social fears and that he feels more "free" without me
Ex-roommate. I need not expand upon this subject.
Watching remaining roommate go through the possibly worst experiences of her life, including an awful, unexpected incident tonight
Mediocre grades for the first time ever at Miami.
Feeling like this apartment complex is cursed
Never going out
Feeling the fear of possibly having to move home to D8N despite my best attempts to flee this god forsaken paved-over cornfield
Realizing how unprepared for adulthood I am
Realizing I am not immortal or invincible
....ugh.
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| Sunday, March 19th, 2006
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9:23 am
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| Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
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6:03 pm - Where's my bottle of laudenum?
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DEAR GOD I have not been this bored in so long and I don't know what to doooooooooo. I feel like a Victorian housewife.
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| Saturday, February 18th, 2006
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3:09 pm
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| Tuesday, January 31st, 2006
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9:17 am - If things could please get a little better from here on out...
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Getting rejected from design, realizing I may have to move home to Dayton because of someone else's destructiveness, and most likely losing a good friend is a lot to take in one day. I have had 3 hours of sleep.
I feel very lost.
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| Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
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1:11 pm - *shiveriiiiiiing*
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If it weren't for the large paper cup of iced tea I drank earlier, I would probably want to crawl into my bed and die, because today is off the wall. I woke up early to do homework I hadn't finished, went to Spanish linguistics class and argued with my teacher about when a "diptongo con acento debe ser separado en dos silabas diferentes y cuando no (???!!!)," ran home and ate disgusting hot chili ramen, (ok so I'm torn between disgusting and delicious) worked for an hour and a half...Now I'm in my bedroom for a brief time before I head to a 2 hour and 40 minute class, then to the art studio to finish a monotype project, then homework. I know everyone gets busy, but I also think everyone has several days where they consider that maybe they can't handle being this damn busy. This is one of those days. It's only the third week of class.
I just wish that I had time to appreciate all of the things that I've been learning. This art history class I'm taking is amazing- we're learning now about neo classicism, how through the paintings we can see a shift from the life of the spiritual to the elevation and appreciation of humanity and human emotion instead. So many pretty pictures! And it would be SO COOL if I didn't view the class as a nuisance instead of a real learning opportunity. Instead it's just an annoying time eater.
Someone remind me that I'm almost done. And JESUS CHRIST would heating get less expensive because I am freezing.
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| Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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9:44 pm
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| Monday, November 21st, 2005
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11:58 pm
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Me: "I'm worried about getting into design school."
Kristi: "You should come to *my* design school!"
Me: "Kristi's School O' Design?"
Kristi: "Yes. We would have rigorous Light Brite projects for portfolio review. That would be worth 15% of your grade."
Me: "Could we do sidewalk chalk?"
Kristi: "Well, I'm thinking of creating some new curriculum, but I'm hesitant with the sidewalk chalk studio. I would have to grade before it rained. And I'm not very timely with grades."
Good to know I have a back up plan if things fall through! PS Fall Out Boy rocked my face and I heart Kathryn.
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| Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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8:43 pm - Deputy Winston Loves to Party...
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Matt requested that I talk more about him in my livejournal. I will begin by stating that he looked like this on Saturday night. And that I hope to Christ, after all of the moustache stroking I have witnessed, that he wins the hallowed Abercrombie facial hair growing contest thinger. Godspeed, Matthew. *loff*
This weekend would have been exponentially better if a) I wasn't in an uncontrollably pissy mood, b) I had slept, and c) I could go out and have fun instead of painstakingly rendering my own face with a 6B pencil the entire weekend. My drawing doesn't even look that great.
Teaching in Hamilton was pretty fun. Besides that, just another week with another set of tests. This semester is seriously never ending. *slumps*
At least I have Thanksgiving and screaming like a 15 year old girl at Fall Out Boy to look forward to.
current mood:  tired
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| Monday, October 24th, 2005
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11:37 pm - So I have a little more respect for Hollywood actors now...
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So Kristi and some girls from her mass com class needed to shoot a music video for homework and they asked me if I could be in some of the shots... I never realized how hard it is to feign emotion in a silent room with three people and a video camera staring at you! I also never realized how bad my bangs looked today until I saw the shots :-( I can't even imagine how actors keep cool in a big-budget studio film, with 100 lighting technicians and cameramen and a director and other actors staring at them, making sure every hair is in place, every movement genuine and picture-perfect. Tom Cruise may get on my fucking nerves, but I give mucho respeto to someone like that who can keep cool with all the craziness going on.
I'm going to go crawl into my mosquito-netted bed now and pretend I'm in Bombay.
Oh and if you haven't already seen it, Annsley sent me the cutest thing ever:
http://www.cube-creative.fr/site/html/nt/nt_lc/akoa_hd.html
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| Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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10:20 pm
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1:33 pm - I have linguistics in 10 minutes. No, 9. Meh.
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Cutting the rest of MBI class because I could care less about being lectured to about osteoporosis and prescription drug abuse by a monotone exasperated middle-aged woman. So here I am at the science library with a little extra time. I can't finish the homework which I emailed to myself because something is wrong with mymiami so... HERE BE THE AIMLESS MIDAFTERNOON UPDATE!
I begin with the good/bad list of things about this week:
Good:
~I think I may have finally found something productive to do with my (almost ) Spanish minor. I got an email from my 361 teacher about tutoring Spanish-speaking children how to speak English!As long as I don't have to drive far, (gas is gouging me)I think it could be the extracurricular I'm looking for.
~I can wear fuzzy sweaters and scarves now because it is fall!
~we get to draw people in art class and it's fun
~I've rediscovered "Take on Me" by A-Ha since hearing it at 80's night last week and I'm half contemplating downloading the awesome comic strip music video.
~I made Matt the best taco salad evar on Sunday with lots of avocados and black beans.
~It is suddenly acceptable to drink apple cider
~I look nice today
Bad:
~It's way fun that we're drawing people in art, but unfortunately we have been drawing the same older overweight NAKED dude for 3 straight classes.
~I'm broke til Friday.
~one of my favorite people is very very mad at me
~I have to go to linguistics next
~I had a dream I had sex with one of my old professors. Not an attractive one either.
~Matt had to give his kitten back
~no one has time to watch Walker with me this week.
Okay I'm telling myself that after class I'm driving somewhere to get apple cider and read and it will be amazing. Sorry about the me me me update. Haha but that's what livejournal is, isn't it.
current mood:  weird
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| Sunday, October 2nd, 2005
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11:31 pm - You know you want it....(even if it is outrageously overpriced)
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I just wanted everyone to take a moment and drool over the fall line like I did today in Cincinnati with my roomie. Can't.....fight.....the consumerism! *collapses*
current mood: tired
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| Monday, September 26th, 2005
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11:40 pm
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Haven't stopped moving all day. I woke up at 745, have had three classes, work, grocery shopping, managed to make an a-MA-zing field green salad with salmon (so good), and am still studying at midnight. Days like this, school feels like a blur, and I don't know whether it's a good thing or a bad thing; I feel like I don't have time for myself,my thoughts, my friends... I feel like an academic machine, pumping out paper after drawing after group meeting after study session, quickening my step and clenching my jaw in an extraordinary effort to NOT FAIL. but on the flipside, at least I'm not thinking on anything too heavy...only now I am.
generally what I think I'm trying to say is that I believe I'm missing something. All of this daily grind is getting me down, and I wish I had the time to experience something extraordinary. School is not extraordinary (even if learning about the Bauhaus and Cheret is neato). Super wal mart, not extraordinary. I don't feel sad at all, but everything feels exceedingly mundane of late. School doesn't really mean anything now; I work so damn hard and in the end who particularly cares if you got an A+ or a B-?
ARgh nevermind.
Maybe I need a new friend or something. Or to get crunk. I shouldn't even be bitching, I have it so good.
current mood:  contemplative
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exhausted
