Brave Little Toaster

the birthday passed quite eventfully. my extended family is...frightening sometimes in its dysfunction, actually. mostly amusing, now that i've gotten to the age that i don't feel like my own insanity is on the precipice. but saturday brought more infighting than usual, almost entirely from the porter cousins.

it ALSO brought a digital camera. expect millions of photo posts. INUNDAT'D!

in other news, today i washed the toaster. my parents don't so much take care of it while i'm gone. or even drive it, really. so as a result, it gets really gross. anything that falls on it in our many storms has ample time to decay partially before it's blown off. if it's blown off..
( anyway, my soapy saga )

right, so that's my toaster story for today.

i'm trying to get a nanny job this summer. i have a trial on friday. wish me luck?

damn, man. aesop rock and then i find out that dizzee rascal is coming! but on a monday...the day before my final art history paper is due. hmm...i should start that paper now and go to said show anywayses.

i like my little pink dress. and i'm having random musings (read: procrastinations). like, i want a sewing machine AND digital camera. birthday coming up, and i can only have one. how to choose? input?

almost caughted up on work. went to babysit for the precious oliver again. he was having an extremely grouchy day. temper tantrum right before the parents got home.

i should go surrender myself to william james. or call cara...ring'd

only one week tilli come home again.

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so that's cool. go mandalas! or no...they're more calm things, not like a sports team at all. so: peace out, mandalas? don't like that either, but it will have to do, for i am about to go grocery shopping. food'd!

oh wow. check out the onion this month.
i hope all the evangelicals take note:
Taurus: (April. 20—May 20)
You'll never be quite the same again after that Bible you've been thumping all these years finally has enough and beats the living shit out of you.

so i think it's funny that cnn hasn't called ohio yet, but fox has. that part's to be expected; the shocker came when we discovered that before fox, ohio was called for bush...by al jazeera.
i think i may cry.

rule for tonight:
if i get into brown, i will be calling everyone i know. however, i won't have access to a computer to check the brown website till like 9:00.
so, if i don't call by about 11:00, i'm not in and don't ask or talk to me about it unless i talk to you first.

this is mostly for non-pace type people.
on FRIDAY, i'm singing in cabaret, with will backing me up. if you want to come, please please please respond to this journal TODAY, because i need to buy tickets tomorrow before the show sells out (because it apparently might). the tickets are five dollars apiece, and i will need you to pay me back if you decide to come. the show starts at 7:00. i've been wanting to do this since seventh grade...please please please come!!

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i appreciate kati and her efforts to aid all her fellow procrastinators of the world. this took fucking half an hour, and i do salute you.
i was definitely considering not lj-cutting this just to see how many flames i could attract, but i don't think i'll be feeling this malicious tomorrow.
( and THAT'S how danny got his facial tick )
see, that wasn't so bad. now go do it yourself. it's more important than whatever it is that you're doing right now. run along...
and i must scurry back to my english paper. fucking hell.

i just went to the westminster-brookwood meet.
i just saw five record breaking races.
which records, you might ask?
national ones.
damn. wish i went to westminster...wait. no.
i'm entirely in awe of elizabeth hill and katherine bell and amanda weir. wow.

yeah, so this is interesting...if not accurate. love that "belief in something bigger" part. anyway...hafta to go write me a paper before my mother's soul eats mine. and believe me, her soul is hungry right now. blah! no! go away!!

( Edit McEdit )

ATTENTION:
i will be at javamonkey from 2 till 3 for a georgetown interview.
this is serious.
if you happen to be at jmonkey for that hour, pretend you do not know me.
if you attempt to distract me, you will not succeed.
if you disregard this message, i will be VERY angry.

( in other news )

my coach thinks it's a good idea to kill me. anyone to second the motion? yeah, that's what i thought; everyone thinks i deserve to die. he made us swim a timed 2000. yards. probably only danny knows how much that kills. for the rest of you, that's about a mile and a quarter.

i will be dead tomorrow.

and in boston. then in providence. i want to be excited, but it just occurred to me that i'll have to make up an assload of work, just from missing friday. blah. i hope i'll have a good time anyway. i probably will, but my conscious self is having trouble admitting it because i'm so tired i want to cry. and i still have to write an english daily. shoot me.

i just put random tags all over one of my 4x8 boards. it gets out some frustration/agression, but the fumes from the paint propellent prevent me from breathing, and the smell gave me a headache. there's no joy in amandaworld at the moment. my friend rahima is going to be in pain for the rest of her life because sports (gymnastics, volleyball, diving) have fucked up her shins and her back. that's so sad. i mean, she can still do them, but she'll hurt like she has for the last five years; apparently the doctor can tell her nothing new. i wish i could fix it. she deserves to suffer the least of anyone i know.

i love all of you.

i'm sorry you're sick, lala...feel better, my darling girl.
"come on and come to my house, ladies. come on and come to my house, girls girls."
you know that made my day yesterday...

hello beautiful

i just primed two boards with my dad. (okay, wow, that definitely came out "primed two boars," and the image made me laugh inside. but not outside. it wasn't that funny.) and i am SO FUCKING EXCITED. you wanna know why? it's because these boards were bought to do studio stuff on, and so now i have my very own free wall in my dad's shop. and i'm excited because if more of this priming stuff together occurs, i can spend more time with my dad, which is good for two reasons: 1) he'll feel more connected with me and thusly won't feel if he doesn't know what's going on, and 2) i get to spend time with my dad. he's a cool person. he has a lot of shit to teach me about working with tools and stuff. even if he is somewhat skeptical of the "i'm a girl" factor; i think he's worried about me damaging myself with power tools.

i could barely stop petting my dog to write this entry. he's so very cute; he just dropped his tennis ball on the coffee table and has his chin resting on it, staring at the ball, trying to see whether looking mournful will let him win. and now he's whining. hang on, i have to go submit to the will of an animal.

yeah, so tonight was glorious. managed to trick or treat without getting a single door slammed in my face. or rather, OUR faces, for danny and will and ajeera (sp?) and janet and the lovely skids allowed me to accompany them, and i got to see matt, who is beyond lovely. i have realized multiple times over the last week that he's the best thing that's happened to me in a long time. there isn't too much more to say on that subject other than my staple "he's fabulous," but methinks perhaps a little more.

by the by, i was definitely dressed up as a french maid. i think the company that made it fucked up and lost some of the skirt somewheres in production, for it was surely pretty short.

i have puppy fur in my mouth from kissing my dog's head. i'm such a pushover for huge liquid brown eyes: now i'm playing tennis ball with him.

( art )

perhaps i shall now be sensible and go to bed and get some sleep (upwards of eight hours if i go now!) so i can wake up and go do chess and do math and do art/darkroom stuff. and maybe go to the soccer game.

ps-bebop: thank you mucho for the alien headband-y thing. 'twas most useful in hitting danny and will (and occasionally, albeit rarely) myself in the face(s).

here be a poem i wroted today when i was trying to get creative for studio stuff.
read it aloud, 'cause i like it better that way.

"do me a favor"

so do you want to do a little something nice?

do me a favor and
don't me come
near

never me watching you
seem to ignore these mute
pleas for attention and
i have been list'ning in
nonchalant ways for the
op'ning to set you ablaze with my dazzling wit such a wondrous display and

i

can't understand now what drew me to
You are the gods now amused at my
hard-pressed endeavor to paint you a knight but your
serf-dirt blots out any striving of mine then to
gather a halo around that blond
head (that now needs to be washed) and i'll
take my paint elsewhere to daub on da
Vincis for i will be worthy and
you will soon pine in the
absence of light so i
ask you now please to get
out of my
shadow.

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it's so like meg to give me a broken condom...er, balloon. sorry--confusion there.
and also so like anna danna to take my candy. bitch. ::psst...let's have another orgy::

i should be doing a mountain of schoolwork right now. but i'm strong. i just say NO to the Man.

so i got two, count 'em, TWO (2) new mixes from the two people who are damned determined to educate my musical tastes, or at least indoctrinate me with theirs (this refers to eliz and danny the danny). and fuck them: it's working. i love mixes. somebody needs to give me a cd with "bodies" by the jen nettles band. by the way, if i don't meet jen nettles before i graduate i will be VERY upset. ::hints not subtlely at allie the allie and danny the danny::

i'm not sure whether it's sad that i had more fun at the land trust's oktoberfest party last night than i had at my senior homecoming. i probably would have had more fun, had i been there for more than twenty minutes. (in which annika asked me rather confusedly whether or not danny and i were back together; and in which danny harmed annika. we had a harmedannika on our hands...) but then jo and danny and matt and daniel and kate and allie would have spent less than thirty minutes looking for me, and that would have been no fucking fun.

wearing a short dress and combat boots is definitely the best.
"he never scores / he just gets an infection." i love both placebo and danny right now.

fuck me, i don't wanna do work. i wanna go play in the rain. what a gray fucking day. and a fucking gray day. the two are distinct, you see. got that, bitch? there a problem with that? you lookin' at me? ::channels de niro::

i have to go channel einstein. mleah.

so thanks to all who put up with me. this would entail mostly livy and jo. so i'm finally in a good mood, despite the best efforts of all. god, my head is stubborn sometimes.
good old swimming.
nothing like pounding your body into water and concrete to make you head behave.
and asthma drugs; those are good too. especially when they make you shake a whole lot.
meg the meg...i miss you. where's my redhead? now it's just me and jean. we used to have a threesome.

so i finally got my computer to work. how, might you ask? by leaving my home computer to rot in hell and using one at school. so, since my computer finally works, i think i shall do what all the cool kids are doing and post the quizzes.

( #1:_sexual,_of_course )

( #2:_the_less_interesting_one )