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09:39pm 17/11/2008
  i think winter has finally come to chicago. we had the first sticky snow today, albeit a short-lived snowfall. maybe i should buy proper shoes...or at least real socks.

it's also become apparent that if i want to work in a non-profit agency, i better be prepared to work another job...one that pays.

i should stop procrastinating.		  
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10:36am 07/06/2007
  how i spent my summer vacation:

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02:24am 23/04/2007
  i'm officially old & uncool.

how unfortunate.		  
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07:57pm 09/04/2007
  so this is what i don't get:

why is there any need to eat a bucket of fried chicken when you're in the bathroom?

oh, there is none?

yeah, that's what i thought.

however, this is the second time that i've walked into the bathrooms at school and found a bucket of chicken in the stall.

the second time.

at least there wasn't a People magazine on top of it, like last time.

ugh.		  
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11:08pm 25/03/2007
 
music: bella - crystal tears
wow, i kind of forgot that i still have a livejournal. maybe i'll start using it again.

let's see...what's happened since november?

got accepted to grad school...so woooo! i start IIT in the fall. i need to start looking for a job/apartment--ideally, both.

i was one of the lucky 7.5% of employees who were cut from their positions.

my old manager offered me the position i used to have...and i reluctantly accepted.

i'm a curve-breaker.

my spanish has improved considerably. i have to give an interview to the editor of contratiempo...in spanish. crazy.

i've blown the dust off the 'ol polaroid, and i plan to use it a lot more.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlyouknowitstrieu

apparently, i've started talking in my sleep.

i'm a pro-bowler (on mike's nintendo wii.)

i've added about 8 lbs to my bootay.

things that i have to look forward to:

graduation, david bazan/ben gibbard, cedar point, 3 research conferences (charleston, chicago, canada), bjork (hopefully!), and summer dresses.

i'm pumped.		  
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11:53pm 17/11/2006
  so i've had this giant weight lifted off my shoulders as of 10:32 pm.

i just submitted my last grad school application. after months of stressing out, it's over. there is absolutely nothing more that i can do except wait. and maybe cross my fingers.

i also found out that there is a very good chance that i'll be presenting my research project at the University of Ottawa this summer. canada might be fun. i hear ottawa is rather quaint. here's to hoping.

i'm so ready to eat a mountain of stuffing.		  
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05:53pm 30/09/2006
  590 verbal
650 quantitative
for a grand total of 1240.

i'm pleased...but i need to get that verbal score higher.

i won't know my analytical score for another month.

here's to hoping.		  
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07:31pm 29/09/2006
  so i clearly missed my calling in life.

i took a practice GRE today. isat in front of this computer for over 3 hours, answering a multitude of verbal and quantitative questions, and i wrote 2 essays. my verbal score, of which i normally excel, i only scored a 580. my quantitative score, however, i scored a 640. that gives me a grand total of 1220. i scored an extra 50 points in math. what? i have not had a math class in almost 4 years, but i write papers in every class that i have. i read books, magazines, and newspapers in increase my vocabulary. i make it a point to learn a new word every day, just so that i can someday use it in scrabble, but math is my stronger subject.

maybe i should have picked a career that uses it.

so all in all...

i would love to score a 1220 tomorrow, when my score actually counts.

i'm pretty nervous.		  
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04:26am 13/08/2006
  it's 4:30am, and i'm not the least bit tired. i think i had too much coffee today.

i have the whole house to myself...it's kind of eerie. i do this to myself on purpose though. i always think of scary things happening when i'm home alone. for example, i had this nagging feeling that i was being watched when i was taking off my make up, so i was terrified to open my eyes. i also had to shut all of the blinds in the back of the house because it creeps me out that people can see in, but i can't see out. it doesn't help that people are shooting off fireworks.

really? fireworks? the 4th of july is over.

i have a roller skating date in 5 1/2 hours...i'm never going to make it.		  
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10:07pm 28/05/2006
  1 more year until i graduate.
8 more months until my last grad school app needs to be in.
6 more months until i can say i've been with mike for 3 years.
3 more months until school starts again.
3 more weeks until i go to new york.
2 more days until i go to cedar point.

that's my upcoming year. that's probably when i'll update next.
i'm slacking.		  
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11:43am 06/03/2006
  who steals a 1989 chevy astro van with 2 broken door handles?
the back seats are taken out, there is a hole in the gas tank, and it has over 150,000 miles on it.
my dad's baby is no longer.		  
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10:26pm 12/02/2006
  it's weird how certain smells can completely take you back to a certain time in your life that you thought you wanted to forget. for me, that smell was new car air freshener. y'know...the one that's shaped like a tree?

i was at work on friday, and i picked up this guy's check...and the smell of new car air freshener was all over it. i looked into his car, and sure enough...those little trees were in his rearview.

i thought i wanted to forget all of that, but after smelling that familiar scent, it made me feel pretty nostalgic--in a good way.

but end emo rant now.

the past few days, i've been stricken with the worst case of stomach flu/food poisoning in my whole life.

on friday, i tasted my dinner twice...and it wasn't pretty the second time around. i couldn't sleep at all that night..i couldn't get comfortable and i kept having these bouts of sweating and shivering. i was useless all day on saturday. i couldn't even get out of bed. i couldn't force myself to eat anything...and that is quite a feat for me. mike brought me some orange juice, nyquil, and some silly presents to make me feel better...and i think they helped. today i'm not quite as useless....i can at least walk around, which is a good thing. one more dose of nyquil and a good night's sleep will hopefully make me completely better by tomorrow. i hope.		  
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12:40am 20/12/2005
  this is the time of year that always has me wondering what i accomplished in the past 12 months.
and looking back, i think that i'm pretty satisfied with how things have come about.

-i finished my first full research project this semester. (by the way, we found that those who met their romantic partner while intoxicated rated their personal and emotional satisfaction as well as the overall communication in their relationship as significantly lower than those who had not been intoxicated.)
-i went on 2 mini vacations this past summer (new york city and cedar point).
-i threw my first dinner party--and it was quite a success.
-i almost burned my house down--but i was unsuccessful, thankfully.
-i beat tetris on nintendo...that took me almost a whole year to do.
-i got a second tattoo.
-marriage & family therapy became a very serious contender in my "what i want to do in life" contest.

despite the few things that made my year pretty good, there is always room for improvement, and i hope that this coming year will showcase that point. graduating, for example, would make for an excellent year.

as a side note...tonight i learned some new things about my friends, both new and old. some good..but mostly bad things.

most of it involves value indecision...or moral indecision.
teetering values is something that i have very little patience for, and it's one of my greatest pet peeves.
i've known so many people who have been on the proverbial fence, if you will.
vegetarian or not--smoker or not--christian or not--drinker or not. will you just pick one and stick with it already?
it's irritating to hear people profess one thing but then the next week turn around and do the other.

granted, i know i can be difficult. anyone who knows me knows my views on drinking...and how i hate it.
so of course, it's easier to just not tell me that you've been drinking...than to tell me.
but i won't crucifiy you. i'm past that. people are free to make their own decisions...but at least own up to them.
don't hide your decision, like you're ashamed.
but if you are ashamed, maybe you should examine that a little deeper.

it's not just one occassion. looking back, i've known countless people who have professed a certain belief or value until they are blue in the face, but the next week, they are doing the exact opposite of what they believed. it makes me stop and wonder what event triggered them to go against everything they believed in. what changed since last week? last month? last year?

no more fence-sitters.		  
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09:21pm 05/12/2005
  where am i at now?

school is almost done. 2 more weeks and i'm done. sure, i'll be stressed out and crabby...but once it is all done, i'll be floating.

the saddest thing i have to report is that my little jellybean baby is being replaced. in fact, it is replaced with an old-lady beige saturn. it's a saturn with 4 doors and a concealed trunk. i'm saddened by this profusely. i never thought that i would get so attached to my little purple baby, but alas, you never really know what you have until it's gone. cleaning it out was probably the worst. i went through all of the memories (stolen napkin dispenser from celebration station, big purple ball from a 3am escapade at meijer, a thrifted letterman's jacket that i never wore, heart window clings, 5 hello kitties, numerous notes that mikey left for me at night when i was sleeping, a stockpile of cds, 3 pairs of shoes, a giant horn, an umbrella built for a 3 year old, and much much more) that were attached to the car, and it was pretty depressing.

i tried to decorate the old lady car with my glittery heart ornament hanging from the rearview mirror and some hello kitties...but it's really not the same. it doesn't have the same effect in this car as it did in my jelly bean.

what else?

i watched a ton of episodes of The Wonder Years, and i remembered how wonderful that show was. i think wayne is my boyfriend.

i started looking at grad schools. scary.

it's 12 degrees outside right now. there is a thin layer of snow covering my lawn. i had to break out the knee socks.

my turtle babies are huge. they're about the size of my palm now...and they might be a little bit overweight. i still love them.		  
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09:27am 26/10/2005
  so let's see...

i've had this horrible death cough for about 2 weeks now. it's getting old. prior to seeing the doctor on monday, i hadn't slept in days because i was too busy coughing up miscellaneous body parts all night.

i went to a wedding last friday and watched many of my coworkers get trashed. it was quite a sight.

i have to decide whether i want to take Drugs & Behavior (psy 428) or Spanish Composition (Span 261) this spring. it would make more sense to take spanish comp because it's required to get my minor, but psy 428 sounds really, really interesting. what do i do?

i'm going to be alice in wonderland for halloween. i need a wig.		  
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07:21pm 22/09/2005
  as of late, i think that i have not been able to adequately pick up on signs, omens, warnings, whathaveyou. i'm normally pretty perceptive, but i think that i will blame the weather.

yesterday, sarah and i were sitting at schoops, and talking about how much we absolutely hate the eagles. we got to talking about how among all of our friends, the postal service is pretty much the only band that we all can agree on. it could be worse, i think...and somehow the conversation turned to aimee, and how she has this horrible love for alice in chains. yeah. i know. she's a strange girl.

we both started reminiscing about the crazy adventures that the three of us have done together. i decided that we should go visit her. right now.

so we started to drive to renssalaer without knowing how to get there. i thought that you could take route 30 all the way there, but i wasn't sure. we got to merrillville, when my "check engine" light turned on. that's normally not a very promising sign, but i decided to ignore it. i should have taken that as a sign to NOT go. but oh, well.

we drove down 30 until we were almost in valpo when we decided to call dave. he told us that we actually had to take 65 down there. we had to back track about 30 minutes to get to 65, and then we were finally off. the drive down there is really dull, and it smelled a lot like horses (which isn't a very pleasant smell.) we passed the XXX adult superstore and the bible college (within 2 miles of each other), and about an hour later, we found ourselves in renssalaer.

so st. joseph's is a really tiny college that is not very well lit, nor are there clear signs directing which way to go. also, it is in hilljack country, so stopping for directions was out of the question. after driving around for quite some time, we finally find it, and i park in the first available spot. we call aimee, and she's super surprised, and there is a ton of hugging. blah blah blah.

a few hours later (maybe around 12am or so), sarah and i decide to go home so aim could finish her paper and study for a test. we go back to my car only to find that i left my dome light on. well, shit.

i started my car, and my "charge battery" light came on. after a few minutes, it turned off, so i figured i would be okay. and i was, thankfully.

of course, since sarah and i have no sense of direction, we get lost on the way back to the expressway. it was getting late, and nothing was open, so we couldn't ask for directions. we found some trashy drunk guy walking in the middle of the road, and he pointed us in the right direction (surprisingly).

finally, i'm driving sarah home, and all of the streets are completely empty. i wasn't going fast, but apparently, i was going fast enough for a cop to make a u turn, get on my ass, and a few mintues later, pull me over. he told me i was going 41 in a 25 (ooooohhh). i only got a warning ticket, but i had to listen to this cop tell me that i'm going to hurt someone if i drive that fast. (are you joking?)

anyway, it's really hot in my house, and i think i'd rather be elsewhere. night.		  
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03:15pm 19/09/2005
  so minus the bear was really awesome. they played almost everything i wanted to hear and more.
even though no one really wanted to dance with me, i still had a great time.

oh, and i hate anyone who wears birkenstocks.
especially when they throw them in the air--
and hit me in the head. it really was a devil sandal, though.
after it hit me in the head, it hit sarah in the boob, bounced off, and hit the guy in front of me.
devil.shoe.

but then again..if i wore birkenstocks...i'd probably throw them at people, too.
y'know...since they're ugly.

thunderbirds was also very awesome. they didn't play any of their old songs, which was a little disappointing...but what can you do?

i went out with a bunch of people from work on saturday night, and i realized how uncouth some of the bank ladies are. i saw so much cleavage that night...it was a little disturbing--mainly because it was saggy cleavage. oh, dear. in addition, i saw some of our customers there, and one of them (who is married with a baby) tried to hit on me. i don't think he recognized me. so to sum it all up: i hate the indiana bar scene.		  
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11:04am 11/09/2005
  so just to keep everything updated.
i'm a fucking super villain now. scar and everything.

i was cleaning out my turtle babies' tank, and i bent down to plug their filter in.
of course, since i'm an ass, i knocked my head into the corner of this china cabinet thing.
i continued organizing their tank when this huge drop of blood fell into their water.
i immediately touched my head, and i felt this huge gash in my eyebrow.
my glasses got super bloody, and it wouldn't stop bleeding for awhile.

well, anyway...
i'm going to have this nasty scar in my eyebrow for the rest of my life now.
i'm ready for my fucking close up.		  
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05:26pm 28/08/2005
 
music: minus the bear - "the pig war"
and just like that, summer is over. school starts tomorrow at 8am, and i'm not looking forward to it, but let's look at it this way: winter break is only 4 months away. a meager 1/3 of a year.

last night, mike, jono, and i drove down to urbana to see headphones. i never realized how absolutely boring illinois can be. we took I-57 all the way down, and i think i saw 4 cars the entire time. we actually saw a hawk in the grass between the highway. i told them that if we saw a tumble weed blow across the street that i am turning around and driving home. a tumble weed could only mean that i am driving in the wrong direction.

well, we got there in a little bit over 2 hours (after getting a bit mixed up while driving around on the campus), and i must say the student union needs to be a little better lit. we were looking for 1401 w. green street, and we kept driving up and down, and the numbers were just not visible at all. finally, we asked the car next to us to point us in the right direction, and of course, we had passed that building about 4 times. i lose.

anyway, the show was nice. headphones played a rather short set, but i still enjoyed it.

the drive home was longer than the drive down there. i was really tired, and i was swerving a bit...but i guess it didn't really matter since i was the only car on the highway.

i'm pretty much wasting my last day of summer. maybe i'll go to bed.		  
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04:13pm 23/08/2005
 
music: minus the bear - "el torrente"
when you are used to seeing someone in a specific context and you see them in a different context, it's hard to match the name to the face. for example, this girl who i pretty much only know as "larry's girlfriend" and who i solely see in school said hi to me at target today. i stopped, and i must have had the most puzzled look on my face because she said..."i'm larry's girlfriend...?" i still look puzzled. i thought maybe she had me confused with my sister, which happens quite a bit, so i asked if she meant my chi. she was getting impatient, and said, "well...not unless you guys are twins or something. larry. larry day. his girlfriend?" the name just did not mean anything to me at that moment. i couldn't figure out who she was. finally, she said, "larry! he was in one of your classes!" and finally, it all made sense.

well, anyway. i felt like a jerk. and i still do.		  
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