I've decided that for this year ( Read more... )

I went to the beach yesterday, too. Drove out with Michelle, Beth, Caitlin, Danny, Ashley, and Tyler. It was a lot of fun ... I actually took off my skirt and exposed my legs and bathing suit bottom, which made me feel proud. I kept my sweet Curious George Shirt on, which resulted in the ultimate in farmer burns. I burnt a lot. All along the back ( Read more... )

Well. Today was the Singer Memorial Blood Drive. I've been meaning to give blood since I turned seventeen, so Beth and I decided to go do that ( Read more... )

I talked to Jake last night - he's not back in New Orleans, and obviously can't go back until at least post-hurricane. So they're up in Indiana. I feel bad for him, though. Everything is back there, he hasn't seen his girlfriend in four months, etc. He said he guesses they'll have no power for a month or so once they do get back. :-(

It sucks when family's no fun. But ... we were in NY and it worked out, I suppose. Left at 8 yesterday morning, got to Brooklyn around 2  ... hung out at my Great Grandma Sylvie's while she coudln't move, see, or hear anything (I don't want to get old). Then we drove across the Verrazano Bridge to Staten Island to visit Grandpa Norm at his nursing ( Read more... )

I just realized ... I have a six hour + car ride in store for me starting tomorrow morning, sitting next to my brother with my mom on the other side of our back seat. My grandma will be in front, my dad will be driving. I'm going to SNAP ( Read more... )

They say these hills hold magic. Perhaps not the ordinary kind, all glitter and sparkles and flash. But it's obvious that something old and somehow deep lingers in these rolling hills and oceans of grass. Yes, there is magic, all right. You just have to look beyond the obvious and into the ordinary to find the patterns of nature ( Read more... )

I wonder how it would feel to be dystopic ( Read more... )

Whoa! I got the new Swellers CD in the mail today - Beginning of the End Again. It's super awesome! I just listened to it, and now I'm happy ( Read more... )

Harvard? Perhaps
MIT? I love you all.
Princess Mononoke? What a silly movie (Japanese guy in front of me: "I swear, when I saw it in Japanese it wasn't nearly so cheesy!")
New Aquabats CD? Yes Please!!