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[Sep. 27th, 2006|07:53 am] |
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ppl like to comfort others by saying, "on the bright side, there's nowhere else to go from here but up!" But from my years of science, that doesn't seem true. there's still a lot further down... 'cuz once you've hit rock bottom, some @$$ comes and blows out the ground under you and greases the hole so you can't climb out before you've had a chance to dust yourself off. then you realise that there's something below that rock, and you start sinking down into the molten lava. and for metaphorical sake, you keep sinking down into that lava until there really is no place to go but up. cuz you're dead center of the world with the weight of everything crushing what's left of your sad sad soul... so, no more saying there's nowhere to go but up... because that's just asking for more of the bad |
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| still bored.. but wishing it would last longer |
[Jan. 12th, 2006|08:42 pm] |
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yea, havent done jack shit i the last week. should have been writing the essays for my D license exam, or writing application essays for SPUR, or researching my spring research project... SOMEthing, but i did nothing. nada. so tomorro, i have to be up at 7:30 to go to a dentist appt, then to the DMV to argue with them to see if i can get them to mail my license out next week (which they wont, so i'll be stuck with a "valid with no photo" ID... what the hell is that?). i wish they would jst let me renew it. i mean, my birthday is in 12 days, for christs' sake... o well. i'll jut have to use my "alcohol restricted" license for a few extra months.
anyways, i then will be accompanying my mother to my old emlementary school to pick up my lil sis and see all my ol teachers. ok so really, like 2 of them. after we pick up a dress from the mall i will be bringing back up for formal this spring:) heehee
speaking of buying stuff, i've gone nuts in the shopping dpt. since new years i have bought 6 or 7 new shirts, including 5 spaghetti straps, 3 pairs of pants, and some other miscellaneous crap. ive been at the mall 3 times (3 dfft malls, but still). this is all very unlike me. very. but i may as well get it all out now so that i can focus this semester more (ha).
already making out my drink list for my 21st, btw. so if anyone has recs, please lemme know!
D&B specific:
TNTea,
Tropical Fling,
Walk the Plank
anytime on bday:
pina colada ;)
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gonna try to work on stuff now... and wait til the house quiets down to have a li talk with my dad... |
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[Jan. 12th, 2006|01:20 am] |
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wow- i suck at this, huh? last post was in june?! alright, tomorro i will update once again for those few of you who still even loook at this... la di da.. |
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| doo da doo |
[Jun. 17th, 2005|10:11 pm] |
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| | BNL-- blaring from beth's comp:) | ] |
so i should be writing my physics lab report-- the first full one i have to do for this summer. buuuuut.. it's friday night. really, u can only be so motivated. i did finish my hw though, at least. i figure while beth is out shopping for food and doin laundry, i can take a short break and update this thing...anything to procrastinate from my lab report. funny, the lil intro to the lab is written for the course during the year, and says u should dedicate 3 hours every other week to writing a lab report. um, that's 6 hours per week for me (2 labs a week). aye. up to chapter 8 already though, test no. 2 on monday. hopefully i can do as well as i did on the last one:)
y do i need to get my lab report done tonight when it;s not due til monday afternoon? well, my friends, this is a special lil weekend here. 1 year ago tomorro i was asked a simple lil question, and the next day we went to the gay pride festival. tomorrow we get to go again to the festival, and this time with some pride:) after beth runs a 10K, that is. then we're goin out to sandusky to visit lauren and jim, stay at jim's for the night, and enjoy gay day at cedar point with my uncles (rick and shawn) in our red shirts:) a whole weekend of not giving a damn who sees us- yay! so being at cedar point all day sunday, i doubt i'll have any energy to finish a lab report, though i will have to study some more. *sigh*
hmm, what's bein goin on lately? well i know like 6 ppl who have gone to spain for the summer, and 2 of them are sedning me 2 emails a week about what they're doing, including every little detail-- it kind of amuses me:) kind of wishing i was able to go abroad for a semester, but it just won't happen. i think of my hs friends i am one of the only ones that isn't. a lot went this past spring, and if they aren't going abroad next year at some point, it's cuz they are now! o well, i also blew the whole "every visi girl joins a sorority" thing too:)
instead, i'm rushing between jobs, doing a lot of filing patient charts in the opthamology dpt since they ran out of work for me in my normal office (grant work for research projects-- much more fun) and trying to keep up with physics. so far so good, but i know the second half of the summer is going to be hell. oh boy.
and today i donated blood. it's been 363 days since the last time i donated blood, so i figured i should get on that:) i can donate again one more time before soccer season (aug 12)-- yay! i didnt pass out or even feel dizzy, though they were really cautious with me. god, pass out one time, and look what they do to u! yeesh
i'm actually keeping up with the summer workout so far, but i'm gettin really antsy to actually play again. hopefully coach will give me when they're playin up at ursiline so i can go join them again, cuz i'm going nuts. i havent touched a ball in... ok 2 weeks, but it feels like forever!
ok, enough procrastinating. time for me to work!
lata kids! |
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| short one |
[May. 29th, 2005|10:21 pm] |
i don't have many short entries so i thought i'd spare you today: went to 4 soccer games in the last 2 days... really wanna go back out and play NOW... the games were played on such beautiful REAL grass fields...
and i was injured by a 6 y/o, who later stole my phone and, with her twin sister, talked to beth for like 15 minutes- aye(:))
the bruise she gave me is quite sensitive too-- never thought i'd be injured by such a lil kid...:) |
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| weird day |
[May. 17th, 2005|12:03 pm] |
so today i came home again from cleveland, but not after a surprise visit to my mom's adopted parents' best friend. the woman who i grew up knowing as "grandma Draxler" before finally realising that my mom's maiden name was Lanzendorfer, so where did draxler come from, then learning my mom was orphaned even by her adopted parents when i was born and so the Draxler's said they would be my grandparents. well my grandma draxler, who i NOW call Aunt Helen, told me when i decided to come up to case that i had to come visit her so she could make me perogis and such and talk to them, but i havent had a car and have been unable to. my mom decided to pay a surprise visit to her today, but we were the ones surprised when her husband, now Uncle Connie, told us to call Hillcrest Hospital. after celebrating thanksgiving, her 80th birthday (early december), christmas, and new years in the hosptial (and never telling us) she had just returned again for the 4th time to the hospital yesterday and is awaiting a heart catheterization or somethin and is taking constant respiratory treatments.
it was kinda sad to see her like that. before my grad party 2 years ago she had apparently had heart failure, but previous to that, i dont know that she had mnay health problems. her husband too-- he has a lot of health problems now as well, and his company just changed hands and will no longer be providing as extensive health benefits. yea, at 86 he still works, kinda... those two are so busy, even at their age.
*sigh* when we first walked in to the hospital, Aunt Helen was talling us what all was wrong and how she had told them that if the need ever came, not to resucitate her, at which point she started crying. as optimistic as that old lady is, she realised that there was no point in telling her famiy she was in the hospital again, there was nothing they could do. uncle connie was in the 101st air borne that parachuted in over normandy on D-day and they are having a couple things for them in the next few months all over the country, and she kept saying how she wanted him to go but she couldnt go with him, that she wasn;t going to be able to travel again, etc. not even to see her kids in texas and elsewhere. then she looked at me and said, don't ever get old, it's not worth it! i told that to rebecca afterwards and restated my lil pledge to check out as soon as my medical bills are more that all my other expenses. she told me i have to call her before i do that so she can try to talk me out of it:) aye, that's 40 years down the road yet, dont worry about it now(:)) then we got into a mini-bioethics discussion. haha. it was kind of a rough time seeing helen like that though. o well, like she said, nothing i can do but visit her...
ok, enough depressing rants from me today, going to go do something happy |
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| all out |
[May. 16th, 2005|10:01 pm] |
now, the green quite really is empty. 2 hours after i was supposed to check out, and an hour and a half after they turned off card access to Tippit, my mom and i finally finished packing what was left into the car... packed it so tight the car probably could have rolled and shaked quite a bit and nothing would have budged, including me in the passenger seat sith my matress pad on top of me, 3 bags and boxes around my feet so i couldnt move without my mom helping me out. no extra charges to the suite. sad to leave it.
now i have a packed room at my uncle's house... haha, where am i gonna put it?! move into the house on june 1st, but i still wont be in my room til august, so half my stuff has to be moved only temporarily- aye. hmm, i feel like there was something else i was supposed to report on, but i cant think of it. so now i am going to go sleep or take a shower or something. goin back home again tomorrow. then just a couple more days:) |
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| goodbye to the greensuite... |
[May. 15th, 2005|10:25 pm] |
today was a sad day. i re-entered the greensuite this morning around 4:30 am. it was empty. chairs stacked against a wall with the table shoved up next to them, the other chairs and coffee table over against the window on the other side... it was so empty! still green though. i moved a few things out of my room to let my mom have enough room to sleep in my bed while i took a quick nap and went to help with commencement. there, i watched markie take up the engineers banner, and watched everyone get their diploma. got some food and returned to move furniture into my uncle's van. as i did, all three of our remaining neighbors checked out of their rooms. by the time i returned, phil was throwing the last few things on top of his car and getting ready for a long driive home. leaving only me in the greensuite tonight...
of course, now i am not there, i am at my uncle's. sad i dont even get to spend the last night in the greensuite. tomorro i have to go back early to finish packing a few things and check out at 11:30. then the suite will be completely empty. sad... but the good news is we get to move into a house in a couple weeks. have our own kitchen. yay:) real food! cant wait... |
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| most influential albums |
[May. 4th, 2005|11:26 pm] |
ok, so i guess it's my turn now-- i dont feel like doig these yearbook pages because I'm mad at my asst for not doin her job.. so here's to procrastination and a long night of work, even though school is completely over!
please note: i reserve the right to edit this as i remember other albums when i get home:)
10) destiny's child: the writing's on the wall-- you know what? not even gonna explain this...
9) Jimmy Buffett: Songs you Know by Heart-- a huge part of my childhood, man-- everytime i hear any of his songs i think of my mom and laugh:)
8) New Radical's: Maybe you've been brainwashed too. song: You get what you give. what can i say, i was obsessed with them for awhile. just fun music to listen to
7)Various Artists: Livin' Jesus. yea, i cheated. i pulled a mix cd my class put together for my senior year retreat. it had some great songs and most have a memory attached to them, or at least remind of the good times of HS. like the sunscreen song, the other version of somewhere over the rainbow, island in the sun, a great day to be alive, at the begining
6) switchfoot: Learning to Breathe-- pretty much any song on the album. good to listen to when you've had a bad day after you've listened to all the angry music and just need to calm down...
5) eve 6: eve 6. song: Small Town Trap and Open Road Song; also Stroke 9: Nasty Little Thoughts-- these were my two anger management CD's all through high school- jump in the car and blare. later i listened to the words more and for awhile could kinda relate...
4) carbon leaf: Echo Echo song: Torn to Tattered-- i've seen them 8 times-- of course they are on my list-- their lyrics are amazing! any song, u just pick one
3) Billy Joel: Greatest Hits Volume III. ok, the man's awesome... i could prob pick any song and have a story to tell about it...
2) BNL: well, almost any album.. they've all bled together by this point. choosing one though, Born on a Pirate Ship. if you know the songs and u know me well enough, u'll understand y (also has my name (In the Drink) and a Charlie Brown (Same Thing) on the same CD. haha...)
1) Sister Hazel: Fortress. song: strange cup of tea. i'll just leave it at that:)
still working on this... |
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| haircut! |
[May. 1st, 2005|11:35 pm] |
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hey kids,
so i got my haircut yesterday. i figured since i had cheated moose out of cutting my hair last semester i'd give her another chance. after some technical difficulties ( i had a significant chunk taken out of my hair beofre they realised they had crappy scissors and went looking for some different ones for like 20 minutes b4 finding decent ones) moose and skillin argued about how to cut my hair and whether or not it was even. it was quite amusing. i let themm style it too, cuz i;m that nice. i chopped 4 inches off, much to moose's dismay, which is still longer than it was after jr year of HS (just below shoulder length). they decided i needed a side part, which i havent had in years. i didnt like it that much-- i just wanted it on the other side like my old one used to be, but i left it as they told me until i got home a few hours later so that gaeta could see it and witness that i had kept my hair down all day. she liked it as well, so all is good (waiting for moose to send the pix so that y'all can witness it...)
on another note, i just heard from kate (friend from hs) that her cousin died. she'll be skipin finals and such to attend his funeral in chicago. the reason i bring it up is that he was drinking, got a friend to drive him home from the bar, and they were in a car accident. her cousin died on impact, though he was "uncharacteristically" wearing his seatbelt. his friend walked away from the accident. they arent sure yet, but they think the friend was drinking as well... things we keep hearing about and yet it continues to happen. so i am hereby stating that i will b DD until my birthday:) that's right- no alcohol for me unles everyone is stayin on campus for the night. i figure i could use something to make me drink less for awhile;) as i told gaeta, i am purchasing one bottle of alcohol, and that's all i am allowed to buy all summer. save me money too.
that said, i should return to my work. theater presentation due tomorro, bio final wednesday, 05-05-05 on thursday (PARTY!!) and yearbook pages ASAP, hopefully all done before i go home friday night. pakcing goes in there somewhere too... at least preliminary packing... |
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[Apr. 30th, 2005|12:53 am] |
so it's been a pretty decent week, gotta say. no class... finished those last thursday, so i've just been working. got lots of hours this week. and monday night went to see carbon leaf for the 3rd time at the Grog shop alone. i think it had 2x the number of ppl from last spring! next time i'm standing right up at the front though... maybe they'll come back for the irish cultural festival this year... and i'll see them in another 2 weeks when they play at the dc101 chili cookoff if i can find anyone to go with me, which isnt lookin good so far. urg.
hmm, should be doing yearbook pages, but have been severely behind on that. i just cant wait until all this is over and i'm back home riding my bike and sleeping and not doin jack... oh shoot, i just remembered i have my theater presentation to do too! 10 yearbook spreads left, theater presentation, and bio exam before i leave next friday evening... oh, and packing goes in there somewhere too. leaving my stuff at my uncle's house.
oh, and my uncle and sean are coming to my bro's graduation:) yay... only a few of u will understand that one...
hmm, my health is crap right now. i've been making an effort to work out every day, but i am so fatigued.. doesnt help that my sleeping spells have come back. 2x in 2 days, and they are not fun. i wake up from those more tired (and freaked out) then when i go to sleep. and these last 2 i've woken up with numbness that continues for awhile, so my mom is gettin me into see a doc at home (darn doc here is crap...).
but on the upside... we signed our lease on wednesday! now we have a house (no sublettors though... urg) and i'll have a car to park in one of our 2 parking spots, and i'm gettin a bed tomorro that will either b mine or megans if i decide to opt for a new bed (and my parents agree to help pay for it:-D)
hmm, really, i have nothing more to say. i lead a rather boring life... time for me to get back to work...
or sleep
or wishing everyone were back in the states again...
or wishing i was abroad too...
or just listing things i could be doing OTHER than work
yeah, that sounds good:-D |
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| soccer party.. and afterwards;) |
[Apr. 24th, 2005|02:29 am] |
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so i figure it's about time i wrote another one of these things. my apologies if you can't follow this, but i also figure it's about time I did one of these a bit tipsy... cuz kno what? i outlasted gaeta. never though it could happen huh? yup, just got home and gaeta's passed out. granted i had kinda an advantage on her, but i was surprised to come home and actually find her home already asleep.
so what was the night like?
actually, ill start with the day..
so apparently no one knows i'm actually a sophomore. i volunteered with for hudson relays again-- 4 hours of standing in freezng rain (in april) waving a flag so that the officers knew when to block traffic on Euclid to let ppl acros.. so cold at the end of that.. neways, a bunch of juniors from APO kept visiting me and kept being like "oh, we're winningm that's awesome..." then i had to tell them i was a sophomore (though i was rooting for the juniors as well, what can i say) several times before they believed me. then they felt bad for me and applauded me for cheering on the juniors regardless. (i guess they kept getting confused as to y i said "oh, we're in last by 10 minutes, and thinking i was a junior... yea, silly kids..). needless to say, juniors won, 8 minutes slower than last year. hopefully y'all set a record next year! fix that bad time...
neways, then i spent 4 hours at springfest, which was held in thwing due to the rain and snow. i did sumo wrestling. i was told we would be switched out every half hour... after 4 hours of pullilng ppl off he ground every 30 seconds, trying to keep drunk overwieight football players from crashing into the fireplace 1 foot outside the ring and tryin to keep angry ppl in line, i finally stmbled out into the snow to go back home and pass out for an hour or so while gaeta made jello shots for the soccer party. i woke up, washed dishes forever (still not done.. thank god we have a dishwasher next year) and then the soccer girls came up, followed by gaeata and dellens with the spaghetti and sauce. o wait, not enough utensils and plates? o darn... what are we gonna do? o, but we have trashbags-- time to eat everything a lil differnetly!. morgan (rennie's lil sister) was in heaven-- ate her spaghetti one noodle at a time. and when it was time for ice cream, even better. we had an awesome night. i can;t even remember half of the quotes from imaginiff... but they were good.. esp from preema, as usual. we managed to get beth to call us back, but cara, sorry hun, just couldnt reach u. guess it was too late.
afterwards, it was time to hit up the parties. so all the freshmen except skillin and moose left and KTH joined us for Becky's party... at the soccer house. lauren and i spent quite a bit of time goin from room to room deciding which who would live in which. gaeta insists she wasnt drunk at that point, but most there have another opinion. she did spill 2 mike's in a matter of 10 minutes...
then we headed up to SAE... which was rather empty. stayed for a bit. by the time we left i had sobered up a bit ( i hadnt meant to get drunk in the first place, but i did... still kinda am...) and walked Dellens over to sigma chi before running to catch up w/moose, KTH, skillin and newman to go down to foam party. it was kinda nice, runnin while tipsy.. coulnt feel my shins hurt... i hsould do it more often! neways, i had to get the others into the party since somehow i was the onlyh one on the list (never thought that would happen either.. yea, talk about an insane night)... as we were walkin in, i ran into one of my lil pledges. he was amazed he saw me at a party: "you just dont seem like the kinda person i expected to see at party... i guess cuz u were my pledge ed and all..." thanks asad.. .i was only ASST pledge ed, yeesh. then again, i remember seein my pledge ed last year at a party and i though i was breakin a rule. no, just the law, that's ok.
we went upstairs to put our coats away and i ran into ANOTHER APO brother. Robert, who knows gaeta cuz he went out with a girl from her old HS, sat there and chatted with me about god knows what. i talked to him for like half an hour before he showed me around the place. had another drink or two, went downstairs... ran into ANOTHER brother! Adam, a frosh, was like "GOD LOVE BEING A DRY CHAPTER, HUH?" then we talked aobut APO stuff.. and RHA and USG stuff... got kinda scary at a point. then adam wondered off and KTH walked over. robert knows KTH really well, so up started a convo again. but the time we all had finished, andrea and our 2 remeaining frosh waled out, and andrea and i went on a search for her coat. robert tried to lead, but we couldnt find them for the life of us. finally, skillin and moose walked up and found their stuff first try... dunno ho, swear i wasnt that drunk, but it meant we could finally come home. i had spent 2 hours tryin to call gaeta off and on hoping she had found her phone, which she had lost at SAE (hence her not joining us) w/no success. hence me bein so relieved she was home when i returned. i came back to my room to find this response to my away message:
Auto response from MissNsumthin: not feelin well on the biggest party night of the school year.. urg
LRCT: Oh, Amber, I am so sorry. Being in Columbus among college students, I know how important these events are. Are you sick? And in what way?
Love,
Grandma
ah, i love my grandma-- she amuses me so much. needless to say, but illness ended up not preventing me from drinking. i had quite a bit of fun, surprisingly enough. tomorro i must wake up and do work though, so i will head off now. love y'all and hope all is goin well. |
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[Apr. 4th, 2005|01:35 pm] |
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haha, one more thing-- we played Ursiline last night-- we only had 7 of us, against their 2 full squads. bex had an awesome game-- she got really competitive (guess she kinda hates them), lauren had this awesome near save dive that was from outside the goal and was just barely short, and i hurt my ankle cuz i'm smart like that. i dont even kno how-- i just remember at some point going to pass it with the outside of my foot to becky and getting my foot caught and limping for the next minute or so before gettin the ball back and going to shoot it and having sharp pains on the front of my ankle. if anything it's a minor sprain-- i taped it for the second half which helped a lot, but i still couldnt let my foot get in contact with anyone else running through the ball. we won by the way-- a very back and forth game, but we were the last ones to score-- 2 goals in 5 minutes to take back the lead and win- HA. ahem, i mean, yay, good game...:-D now off to lab while i debate seeing adam today or holding off to tomorro... |
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| good weekend |
[Apr. 4th, 2005|01:01 pm] |
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i actually had a good weekend this weekend, in spite of being in 16 hours of workshops in 3 days. Our chapter of APO held sectionals this weekend on the main quad, and it ended up working really well, though the random snow storm was poorly timed... regardless we had a good turnout. i didnt go to any of the little workshops-- instead i did the 4 LEADS workshops they managed to get this weekend. LEADS is a series of 5 workshops that our fraternity puts on that teach different things about leadership. because of the intensity of the course and the fact that i did it the entire weekend, it was kind of like a retreat for me. a really good retreat, that didnt sounds like cheesy god stuff (like all the million other retreats i've been on... they get old after the first couple hours). as a leadership retreat, it actually focuses a lot on identifying your own personality type, your leadership style, etc. friday night was the first one that you have to take before any others (the other 4 you can take in any order), Launch. There were a few excercises and whatnot that you did as a group and it broke the ice real quick. i was happy to see so many of my little pledgies there too:)
saturday was Discover, which was mostly focused on learning about yourself. that was 3 hours, but we ran over. o well-- took the sectionals picture after that and still couldnt find my cell phone that i lost the night before when i got stranded out in broadview heights at sonia's house, had no cell phone reception, no battery, turned off my phone to save the little battery i had left, then someone left to come back to case so i ran out to catch her and couldnt fine my phone in time to leave. i prob shouldnt have come back with the girl i did, but i'm safe, so thank god for that... didnt get back til 3:30 am though through the sleet and the other ppl we were following had car trouble so we had to take a detour for them...
Satrday afternoon was Achieve, which was a teamwork workshop. lots of fun lil gamesand crazy amounts of symbolism, as always. i had a lot of fun in that one, though i could have done without the OOOOOOO-Vation!! every time we did something well-- the only cheesy thing of the weekend. part of gettin through thtat class though:) i finally got my phone bak after that , and now that i look back, i'm glad i didnt have it b/c it kept me completely separate from the outside world which made it that much more relaxing-- havent been that relaxed (in the middle of the school year) since Echo retreat sr. yr, which was also amazing... that night was our banquet-- we actually had GOOD Bon apetite food-- when they cater, it's amazing!! the banquet was a lot of fun. my jaw dropped when our keynote speaker finished his speech with "and God Bless"-- it was the first time i had heard someone finish a speech like that since HS, and it was the first time God was mentioned all weekend too. and only time for that matter.
unfortunately, JPII died saturday too-- i found that out 2 hours after his death when i came home and somehow happened to sign onto the news website. i feel bad for the next guy-- he has huge shoes to fill...
sunday was explore... i got almost no sleep the night before because after the banquet i went to the swimmer's "Pimps and hos" party, which i only planned to stay for only a lil bit b/c i was so tired. But Jim was having fun so he didnt want to come back, and i knew lauren was goin anywhere so i just stayed and drank and got compliments for my sweatshirt (I love the ladies:) thanks lish) and jim's hat, that i stole from hhim repeatedly. i finally got a ride back at 1:30, had to put my clock ahead (damn daylight savings...) and therefore went to bed at 3, got up at 8, and was back down in Nord sitting througha 6 hour lecture. we were supposed to have 2 lecturers, but one had car trouble, so we had 1 lady for 6 hours. surprsingly, though, she held our attention the whole time. i took a 5 minute nap during our first break and was set for the day. our presenter was actually the organizer of the program, so she really knew what she was doing, and was very energetic the whole time-- i gave her kudos forr that. colin and i kept making faces at eachother from across the room when we did get bored. most of our chapter leaders were in there, but they were so tired they didnt contribute at all-- thats ok, i did all our talkin (weird, huh?:)) it was basically me, a couple ppl from one of the other chapters, and the a random person here and there that contributed the whole time because ppl just were just so drainied. we had a lot of lil excercises and only tok a break for lunch and the one break 2 hours in to the morning part, so we got to finish early. i was one of 4 ppl do do the "marathon" this weekend (all 4 workshops) so i got home and was so drained i passed out for 3 hours, got up at 7, did no hw before our game at 11, started my hw at1:30, and didnt sleep til 3:) go me...
so in summary, i really enjoyed the LEADS program. there's only 1 workshop I have left to do before I have it completed (I may retake some in a year though) which is Serve. that one is a weekend long though, and there are only a few through out the country. i cant go to the only one that is close to us (Pittsburg) because it is the same day as my bro's graduation and i cant make it up fast snough, so i'm seeing if i can go to the on in st louis instead and just leave after class one friday and come bakc by sunday evening-- we'll see... i think it was so fun because it was a group of ppl with a common link (hey, we're all brothers) but it's not religion. so we're learning about ourselves without having stuff preached to us or trying to explore ourselves "with God's purpose in mind" or some stuff like that. so it was different, and awesome... heehee-- yea, i'm still kinda on a hi from the weekend, but i have a lot of catchup work to do this week, so i am going to get to work on that...
hope all my abroad buddies are doin ok;) |
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[Mar. 27th, 2005|12:06 pm] |
so today's easter, which means most good little Christian families gather together and have Easter dinner. but my family likes to celebrate holidays a day early, apparently, so we went last night:) yup, we went and had Easter Dinner at the House of Blues.. mmmm. that's only, what, the thirdtime i've been there? i just finished my leftovers for lunch too.. blackened shrimp linguine... except i finished all those shrimp last night, but i stole my lil cousins fried shrimp because he said they were too spicy for him, so i had those on my pasta instead. ah, my taste buds are in heaven still:) hmm, what else? well i got ther 20 minutes late and my family all yelled at me for being stubborn and not letting anybody give me a ride (i guess they dont communicate with eachother that well because all of them called/emailed me at some point during the week to ask how i was getting there and offer a ride). so of course at the end of dinner i asked my uncle rick for a ride home b/c it was dark and i didnt want to walk back through public square on my own... that was a fun ride-- my uncle rick, sean and my grandma. we were driving bak along superior nd my grandma was recalling 50 years ago when she taught at one of the schools there and how segregated it was, etc.. and somehow we came to talkin about churches (we passed a gothic church and she was talkin about how gorgeous those churches are). my uncle said something along the lines of "i've been in enough churches in my lifetime. then again i havent been to mass since I was confirmed. i dont need to see anymore though." Sean responded with "yea," and i responded loudly with an "AMEN!" my grandma just kind of leaned forward and my uncle was like, "sorry, Ma, i just dont believe in organised religion anymore..." and she said "well, i guess that makes all 4 of us!"
ah yes, fun times with the family.
last night, returned and talked to leonetti for awhile while lauren, lish and brandon went on a giant eagle run and responded to shoes being thrown at the window... oops, didnt have my cell phone on me and definitely had to let skillin and the rest in to set up for liz and mere's surprise party. liz was first-- that went off without too much of a problem. she was guided up blindfolded thinking she was going to dinner and instead ended up being surprised with a few friends and supcakes with candles on top. a lil while later, we organized a way to "kidnap" mere off of cornell and bring her back to be surprised as well (quote of the night: Lauren: "This is our fake gun!" (holding the window chalk) Preema: "Does it vibrate?":)) unfortunately, the plan didnt work: mere turned at the last second to see me and lauren running up behind her to throw a pillow case over her head. we still struggled to get her into the car just as the campus security drove by. i just laughed at thatpoint. we introduced mere to our partners in crime (Lish was the getaway driver and brandon wad the one who distracted them by asking directions...) blindfolded her, walked her in circles til we could get organized again, then the boys carried her over their shoulders, up the elevator, into the wrong suite, back out and into the right suite, and another surprise cupcake was hastily blown out before the smoke detector went off.
it was a fun night... finished it off with a phone call to ecuador, and this morning started off with a phone call from S. Africa:) |
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[Mar. 26th, 2005|07:53 am] |
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oops, so i havent really gotten a chance to update this with my spring break... and right now i still dont have time b/c i have to go eat and run down to veale withiin the next hour. my apologies... i figure you all are on break too though, so i have a little extra time. maybe next weekend after my exams on thursday and when we dont have guests in the suite...
last weekend i went home. it was a much needed break. i had a lot of free time to just kind of wander Crystal City (across the river from DC) and sit and enjoy the gorgeous weather and do hw. well i did til i got creeped out by a couple guys, anyways. i havent been doin too well with creepy guys the last couple weeks. hung out with alicia both nights, and now she's up here:) unfortunately, i have a lot of shit to do this weekend, so i've been leaving her to her own devices (or to create mischief with lauren) a lot. hopefully right now she'll sleep until 3 when i get back from concessions (actually, that is quit elikely...). i have easter dinner with my extended family tonight at House of Blues... i've had my grandma, uncle rick, and aunt margie all call or email me within the last couple days to make sure I'm coming and have transportation-- ah, I feel loved:)
again, i apologize for th short update-- between classes, my new job (10 hours a week of filing and taking stuff around the hospital.. sadly, i'm already looking forward oto the day I can quit...) APO stuff (we have sectionals next weekend, which is huge), issues elsewhere, and me issues (for those of u who dont kno, i may be dropping premed... not finalized yet, but quite likely) i have been stressed out more than usual and running on no sleep. go me:) (on the sleep note though, my doc and i finally agreed that the next step was sleeping pills (that or surgery, so i took pills) it took me 3 weeks to actually fill the perscription. so now i have pills, but cant take them when i need to. i dont like having all those pills. as i told alicia, its like having a gun in your house to protect against burglars or whatever... it just makes me nervous...)
oh, and still waiting to sign the lease, but we have the house! to my housemates who are abroad, take care of yourselves and have fun! we miss you! |
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| Amsterdam- where prostitution is legal, drugs are condoned, and i am of legal drinking age! overall |
[Mar. 16th, 2005|10:24 pm] |
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Hey everyone,
so I've actually been home for a couple days now and have still not posted... sorry. it's taking me awhile to recover from jet lag... i just wanted to give you all a brief rundown of the week and later i'll give some more specifics so you can read if you please...
well, in spite of the Netherland's lack of law enforcement, I did not even get drunk last week. i did visit a couple coffeeshops, including the one that part of ocean's 12 was filmed in, but they were sold out of spacecakes and were rather crowded, so we didn't stay too long. it took me until friday to find a liquor store in amsterdam (there are only 2, interestingly enough), and i took advantage of the fact that they took credit card and bought a couple large bottles of alcohol. i brought 3 unopened bottles home on the plane, including 2 i am reserving specifically for the reuniting of the suite:) (the third is just for me, bought just because I could buy it:-D). i'm still laughing at the fact that i did not get stopped once by security. i checked my bag specifically so that i would not have it on my person if it was searched, since alcohol is legal, just not for my age... of course, when u go through customs, you have to pick up your baggage, then recheck it after you go through. somehow, i was left alone while the 2 ppl in front of me and 1 behind me were randomly searched... thank god. thinking i had gotten through the dangerous part, i asked the recheck lady if I could uncheck my bag, which she allowed me to do... i then walked around the corner and oh, what's in front of me? another security check point. so i put all my bags and half of the clothing i was wearing onto the security belt (i was able to wear my boots and belt and all though the amsterdam metal detector, but not ours...) and prayed they would think i was 21 and not find the large glass bottles a problem. once again, god was on my side and i got through without a problem, and somehow i was one of the few in my group to not get searched further. yay! so now i have lots of alcohol all to myself:-D
hmm, what else... well there was tons of bush bashing-- u girls would've been proud. i kept a neutral stance. at dinner monday night it was me, winnie, 2 christian fundamentalists- who i really didnt agree with what they said at the end of the week, but that's another story- another liberal, and my "blue-haired buddy" (that's what the grad school student in my class called Ben) who is also a democrat, but doesnt know when to shut up... like he starts making up facts and will not concede even when every bit of evidence is wrong. we had a good 2 hour convo over a traditional 3-course dutch meal (soooo good... and expensive). i put in my 2 cents, usually just siding with whoever seemed to be losing for the sake of fun except for in a couple arguments that i just couldnt play devil's advocate. at the end of the night winnie labelled everyone then looked at me and said "yeah, u, i just can't figure out..." i laughed, cuz i cant figure me out either:) but hey, can't blame me: that's what happens when u go from hard-core catholic upbringing (like anna said to me in 8th grade "I can see it now, Sister Amber Catherine, the soccer playing nun... kicking a soccer ball in a habit!") to, well, the lifestyle i have now. yea, it was amusing. pretty much every dutch presenter we had (several professors, the Canadian prostitute, the parliament member) had something to say about Bush. *sigh* i almost got beat up the 4th night becuase of something that was said, but it was all in good humor, no worries...
hmm, what else... i think i'll leave it at this for now, i must go pack and whatnot... second update will come tomorro!
~Amber
in the meantime, for our early st patty's day celebration, we started off with B-52's... with kahlua... which reminds me of kahlua and milks from over the summer... *sigh* miss you 2... |
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| off to amsterdam |
[Mar. 4th, 2005|12:52 pm] |
so i am briefly joining the study abroad club now-- leaving for Amsterdam soon... heading to the airport in half an hour- yay! somehow, even though I'm leaving halfway through the day, everyone's gone already.. it's not even one pm and i'm sitting here.. alone... in an empty suite. no worries though- -prob better cuz i got everything done and am ready to go! I cant think of anything i'm missing... haha, i just threw a banana into the trash can at near the suite door from my room- score! sorry, distractions, what can i say. i'm running off of very little sleep at the moment... hopefully that will help me adapt to the time change better (it's worked the last two times) so that tomorro night i sleep really well:) (i'll prob watch all the movies and stay awake all night tonight:-D)
*sigh* I'm gonna miss my laptop... no computer next week= less email, no music, ... plus no phone means no communication with the outside world! AHH!! haha, unless u ppl call me:-D j/k...
well, i'm well stcked with food-- i could prob go 2 months on my fat stores:-D (sorry, bio test yesterday and now everytime i'm hungry, eating, getting hot or cold... all i think about is all the processes involved- aye) haha, so i dont have to spend too much on food next week... it can pay for my drinks everynight instead;)
well, the time has finally come-- i'm outa here! made it through hell week and am halfway through the semester... time to shut down my computer and head to amsterdam and hope that the violence there doesnt affect my group (crossing my fingers).
take care all, until the next time i see a computer... |
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| all gone |
[Feb. 22nd, 2005|07:58 pm] |
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so today the last of our travelers is off-- sad:(
that means 12 days til i go to Amsterdam though! :-D
and next week's hell week went from 5 exams in 3 days to 4 exams in 4 days. phwew, maybe I WILL make it (DR J, the amazing man he is, decided to tell us today that next week's exam would be postponed until AFTER break). yay! and i moved my sports med exam up to monday and my theater exam up to wednesday. thursday i will die though. i need to get a b on the ochem exam... and after my 2 exams i have my follow up to my sleep study, then dinner with my uncle... i think packing falls somewhere in there as well... not sure where though:)
anyways, skipping the carbon leaf concert tonight to do work, so i should probably stop trying to find other versions of puzzle inlay to download and play, and just get back to working... *sigh* i hate hw. urg |
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