...it's been an insanely long amout of time since i posted anything up here, but i'm back.

i had a revelation about a minute ago, and i felt the need to get it written down somewhere, so i figured why not the good old LJ?

i was having a conversation with Larry, which went a little something like this:

Larry: emmie, you are so lucky you're not in west ( Read more... )

Recently, I read Slaughter-House Five by Kurt Vonnegut. The book was amazing, and had a big impact on me. Vonnegut likes to put weird little illustrations randomly into his books. One that caught my eye was a grave stone for Billy Pilgrim, the main character, with the “EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT” written on it. I got really emotional ( Read more... )

fuck.  i had a whole entry fucking typed out and i fucking erased it by accident.  goddammit.  this is why you should post in Word first.

here's the gist of it:

i'm really busy at school, i don't relax as much as a should, and i'm (obviously) really whiny about it.  end of story.

don't die for anything less than the best of
everyone settles ( Read more... )

i'm back in boston.  my roommates are nice and my apartment is really nice.  life is busy and hectic, but in a good busy and hectic sort of way.  classes are insane but interesting, work is work, and it's great to see all my NU kids again.  it's shocking how quickly one falls back into a routine.

but of course i miss jersey, and all my friends ( Read more... )

just got home from christmas day festivities at my aunt and uncle's house in nutley.  what a day/night.  i love my fucking family.  we always have so much fun...we just sit around and bullshit, eat ourselves stupid, drink ourselves stupider and sing christmas carols and beatles songs.  can't really beat that.

just had my last day of co-op the ( Read more... )

i'd like to say that i'm too busy to update, but that's really not true.  i'm just lazy.  or tired.  or both.

here's my life in fast forward since the last time i updated:

- went to the dropkick murphys concert.  it kicked ass, even though most of the openers sucked.  i'm looking forward to hopefully see them on st. patty's day in the bean.

- went ( Read more... )

In leiu of an actual update, I'm gonna post a stupid survey instead.  Actually, this one is kind of cool.  Leave me your answers in a comment if you get bored enough.

iTUNES SURVEY

How many songs total? 2432

Sort by song name - first and last:
’97 - Alkaline Trio

Zoot Suit Riot - Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Sort by Artist - first and last:
311

ZZ Top

Sort by ( Read more... )

rich text mode is working again!  (i am way too excited about this...)

i want a perfect body

i want a perfect soul…

but i’m a creep

yay radiohead.  i'm paraphrasing, but that’s ok.  you get the idea.

Started listening to the new CDs I just got: DKM “warrior’s code” and alkaline trio “From here to infirmary”.

Scanned through warrior’ ( Read more... )

updating just to update ( Read more... )

soooo the summer is over.  seemingly before it started, for me at least, since mine didn't really kick off til i got back to c-well at the end of june.  it ended with a bang though...green day at giants stadium on september 1st with larry, lori, harte, kev mcg and aj.  it was pretty awesome.  got nice and close again on the floor (although not as ( Read more... )