That's right--one of the things I forgot to bring with me to college is my essential Beatles. Oh well, I'm going home this weekend, I can survive three more days without them. It was really cool once when I was in the cafeteria for lunch, the music playing was from the "Beatles #1" album. Today they played some of the Who. I'm craving a music burning spree when I get home...
So during the past week... I've been going to classes. My theater one is alright. It's mostly going to be debates in there. Not a bad thing, that cuts down on the workload a bit. We do have a book to read out of, but apparently we'll never talk about it in class. Heh, part of my homework was to go see a play, or rather a musical, called "Big River," the story being "The Adventures of Huck Finn." I rather liked it! The songs were catchy and fun (sometimes heartstring-pulling), the acting was well done, and overall it was an interesting play. I saw that on Saturday... Let's see, I have a music appreciation class (Music 105), which is actually a First-year Interest Group. I think it's fascinating, especially for someone who loves music but can't make it, like me. We break songs down and analyze the parts to see how and why they make the music sound like it does and why the composer did this and such... Then, since I'm in the FIG, it comes with a seminar that relates to it. We basically do the same thing in there, except there are only 20 something people in there and we analyze "modern" stuff. Example: yesterday we analyzed the song "Pretty Fly For A White Guy." (So funny, I think of David every time I hear that song...) Then there's a Philosophy class: Phil. 102-Intro to Logic. It's pretty simple stuff. It's basically "the study of methods for evalutating arguments." And everything I need to know--class notes, homework, the syllabus, etc. is online. This is one of those "only have to come twice a quarter" classes, but he doesn't recommend it, obviously. If I miss one or so, it won't be a big deal, but I prefer to be present during class... It's just a better experience, I think. Then I have my math class. The workload is quite a bit, but what's really nice is that it's "Functions and Algebraic method." It's like algebra all over again. Get this: in the MIDDLE of my book it explains quadratic equations! Man, did I score with this one! No calculus for me, babe--it's all about the 2x+1! But it's a little tedious in there, so it can get rather boring. Oh well. The homework load isn't too bad either. Plenty of time to do... not much...
So overall I think I have a pretty easy quarter, but I shouldn't speak too soon--it's only the second week, after all. As far as my social life goes... it's mostly online. Sad but true. I do hang out with the girls on my floor, but I've forgotten how to be myself... I'm so shy. It's like being the new kid at school all over again. I hate that. I was never good at it. As a matter of fact, I had some of the worst times of my life being the new kid. The people here are friendly, yes, and I've got a couple of potential good friendships going... but I miss the ones I left behind... *sigh.* Aleeza and I had a nice long talk about this, she feels me! I kinda wish I was in the same situation as the UW people, who know about 10 Lindberghians going to their school. Hmmm... I wish I could talk to guys again too, I've forgotten how to do that. I thought I was getting better at it since junior year, when I made my first real guy friend in a long time. But now that I'm here... it's hard again. It's hard to talk to people in general, I must say. I'm starting to lose track of how many times I've eaten breakfast by myself (my roomie is not a breakfast eater), and I'm too afraid to go up to people eating alone and sit with them. What's more sad? I can't even go up to people with Homestar Runner shirts or sweatshirts or other items advertising their fanship and say "Hey, I like Homestar too!", let alone "Great Jorb!" or, as Sonja put it to me, ""sewiously..That is a coow t-showt." What's even worse... (for those of you who've seen Napoleon Dynamite, which is about 2, I think) I saw a girl wearing a "Vote 4 Pedro" T-Shirt, but did I go up to her and say "Heck YES I'd vote for you!"? NO! I just smiled like a moron and kept walking! *DOH!* That was handed to me on a silver platter... Oh well: I promised Sonja that NEXT TIME something like that happens, I WILL talk to them! Now to find someone with a H*R shirt...
Something cool did happen yesterday--I got up from my "Lair" of a dorm room because... I heard a guitar playing! One of my weak spots is a good guitar. Actually, I love most if not all kinds of musicans, but guitar really does it for me. It turns out it was across the hall, and this girl had a guitar, and a guitar-playing guy friend! And he was GOOOOOOD! She played a little guitar herself, but she was still learning, as she said. But she wasn't bad! (I always reassure people by saying they're better than me!) But HE was SO FREAKIN' GOOD! I (literally) sat at his feet in awe as he played... he played some John Mayer, an artist I've been meaning to get into for a long time. He played a few things I didn't recognize, and then he played some things he wrote himself... beautiful stuff! I could've listened to him all day... Anyway, that was my highlight of yesterday. Hopefully I'll have some more in-house concerts coming up!
So in the meantime, I hope to make more friends, never stop seeing so many hot guys on campus, meet someone with a cool shirt and TALK to them, and have a few good times... and hopefully I can wrestle some inner demons to the ground, they've been invading my thoughts a little too much these days... (details to remain undisclosed on this blog)
... ... ... ("dot dot dot")
*GASP* I hear a basketball bouncing! Time to scope out some guys!
Music to Groove to right now: "Music for a Found Harmonium" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Every Beginning Comes from Some Other Beginning's End
Man, what's with me and the Semisonic songs for my titles?
Anyway, as most of you know (or SHOULD know)... I be in College! As of Sunday, September 19th I have become an official WWU Viking. I had my first class today--my ONLY class today-- Intro to Theater. It went pretty well, but it was the intro day, so not a whole lot happened yet. Thursday should be interesting... four things in one day. Just wait, the complaining will begin fairly soon, I reckon.
So let's see if can remember back to last Friday... I wasn't home for most of that day--for the first time in a long time-- because I went dorm shopping with my mom, went to Lindbergh to pick up my brother (and saw some teachers!), then went to a Mariner's game. And it was nice--the only game I go to this season they win! Then Saturday morning I spent a last Shari's meeting with a few cool people--Michelle, Candice, Sonja, Alex, and Deanna. Oh, and Aleeza, on the phone! Had some breakfast there, discussed a few pre-college things, had little chitchats, then said some goodbyes/good lucks. I hung out in Michelle's car while it rained outside, waited for my mom. We sang that one Romanian techno song one last time together... ah, good times. Then it was off to Western with me, Graham drove. And no, I didn't die. Minimal yelling at him from my mom too. He did a good jorb. Anyway, I did that so we could do a little early moving in. It was my mom's idea... so don't give me too much credit for brilliant ideas. Mostly likely if I have a brilliant idea I stole it from someone... So we did some moving in, and a little bit of shopping at the Bellis Fair mall. I like that mall. I think it's nicer than Southcenter so far. It's got a lot of cool things... including a poster store! SWEET! We hit Target and Sears for some stuff. We put them in my room, we left it for the next day. We took that long, 1 1/2 hour drive back home, and my family decided to take me out for dinner. Graham was going to make some of his delicious paella for me, which I LOVE, but it was going to take too long and I still had some packing to do. I called my roommate, we discussed a few things, got some business out of the way, and I found out the only poster she was bringing was a Beatles poster! SCORE!!! I had no problem with that one whatsoever! My family then went up to Olive Garden... mmmmmm... And I tried an italian soda for the first time... so gooooooood.... Then I went home, packed, talked with a few people online, and went to bed.
So now it gets a little more interesting: I woke up early to head off to Western because my roommate and I were planning to bunk our beds and we needed to get parts for the beds (they recommended we come early). Of course, when we get there, there was a loooooooong line; we stood in that line for an hour, watching people carry off big parts so they could loft or captain their beds... when it was my turn, I held out my hand, and recieved four pins. Graham found it so hilarious that we waited an hour in line for four small pins. Oh well. Then my mom decides last minute that we need some carpet, so it was off to a carpet store for us. I was ready to just get the cheapest kind there was and be happy with that, but after looking around my mom just decides that we get a nicer, more expensive carpet and padding to go underneath. Hey, I've got no problem with that! What I DID have a problem with was putting it in my room. We had to move ALL of the furniture outside into the narrow hallway, and we rolling and unrolling that stupid carpet took so much effort. We also discovered last minute that my room is not square--the building itself curves around, so this room has a slight curve on one side. So we had to trim that carpet by hand... in the end, though, I'm glad we have it here. We're the envy of everyone on my floor! We also bunked our beds successfully, and it opened up ALOT of space. I was surprised at how big our room looks now. We have room for a little entertainment center (TV-VCR combo plus a DVD player and and a really awesome sound system!) And our view... ha ha, let me tell you about the people here: they're all nice! And smart! And cool! I lucked out with my roommate, she's into the same movies and most of the same music and I get along very well with her. The girls on my floor are all nice; I've already got to know them on a "friends" basis! And the guys here are all cool... and HOT!! Seriously, every other guy here is hot, and the rest are in the least pretty cute! It's so cool... So the view from my room is very nice! I can see the town down below, the forests and hills in the distance, and a little bit of the Sound. Right below is is a basketball court. My first reaction was, "Ew. Pavement." However, the day I officially moved in, about 6-8 guys decided to play basketball... a few with their shirts off... all of them HOT! We attracted an audience of girls with our nice view, and as one of them said, "I could get used to this...!" To make this story even funnier, one of the girls joked around with putting a sign on our window indicating that we were looking for a few single men. My roommate actually did it! A few pieces of printer paper, a sharpie pen, some tape, and the we had a sign on our window that read "Single?" Man, we were being so silly and giggly about it... I love being a girl sometimes! So later we have a hall meeting, which explained the general policies, and then we had a floor meeting, where introductions were made and we got to know our Residential Advisor. She's fun, funny, and really nice; not bitchy or over-authoritative at all. And the girls on my floor all seem cool. I'm glad to be where I am!
So let's see... over the next few days I shopped with my roommate and her parents, got some posters from the school, decorated a bit, watched a movie with some girls (we leave our door open, we welcome visitors!), ate a barbaque with our floor (we're having dinner together all this week), then went with this one girl on my floor to go watch a movie on the big flat-screen TV up in the lounge on the 9th floor. We watched the SNL's The Best of Mike Meyers, then Don Juan DeMarco. Oooooh... Johnny Depp is so freakin' SEXY!!! And it was a good movie overall. That ended after 11, so I didn't really get to sleep until 11:30-ish.
The next day I went to go eat some breakfast, by myself, as I had done the previous day (my roomie is not a breakfast eater), and I expected to be by my lonesome again, when a guy just comes over and askes permission to sit next to me. And hey, I'm not opposed to new friends! So we do the whole standard introduction questions, "Where you from? Where you staying? What classes are you taking?" etc. We ended up talking in there for about an hour! So later I decide to buy my books, and he had nothing else to do so he followed me to the bookstore, and even directed me around a bit. We went back to my dorm room, talked a bit, then decided to go get some lunch. We did so, talked some more, then went to his dorm so he could do a couple of things. Back to my dorm, where I found my roommate lounging on her bed and watching TV; we joined her, watched, chatted. My roomie and another girl on my floor proposed that we all take a bus to Bellis Fair and do a little shopping. I wasn't opposed to that, and my new guy friend... Holy crap, I think I should stop to tell you names!
Roommate/Roomie: Allison
Girl we know on our floor: Tiffany
Guy I know: William (not Will, not Billy, etc.)
ANYWAY, William wanted to go to Costco to get a few things. We took the bus there, a very tedious ride... we made it too the mall, us girls shopping, poor William being dragged around... but he was a good boy for the most part, not too much complaining, although he kept voicing about how much he wanted to go to Costco. Later we split up- Tiffany and Allison wanted to go back, and William still wanted to go to Costco, so I stuck with him. We had a fun time trying to find it... turns out BOTH our sense of directions are so great. Oh well, as we kept telling ourselves, we had an adventure! We found it eventually, got some stuff, then had an interesting time finding a bus that would take us back to school... It took forever to get back, but in the end, I got a new friend, something to do, and alot of exercise walking around trying to find things! Not a bad day... except I missed dinner.
Speaking of which, I'm hungry. I want to eat. I'll post more later. Until next time... I miss you all!
Anyway, as most of you know (or SHOULD know)... I be in College! As of Sunday, September 19th I have become an official WWU Viking. I had my first class today--my ONLY class today-- Intro to Theater. It went pretty well, but it was the intro day, so not a whole lot happened yet. Thursday should be interesting... four things in one day. Just wait, the complaining will begin fairly soon, I reckon.
So let's see if can remember back to last Friday... I wasn't home for most of that day--for the first time in a long time-- because I went dorm shopping with my mom, went to Lindbergh to pick up my brother (and saw some teachers!), then went to a Mariner's game. And it was nice--the only game I go to this season they win! Then Saturday morning I spent a last Shari's meeting with a few cool people--Michelle, Candice, Sonja, Alex, and Deanna. Oh, and Aleeza, on the phone! Had some breakfast there, discussed a few pre-college things, had little chitchats, then said some goodbyes/good lucks. I hung out in Michelle's car while it rained outside, waited for my mom. We sang that one Romanian techno song one last time together... ah, good times. Then it was off to Western with me, Graham drove. And no, I didn't die. Minimal yelling at him from my mom too. He did a good jorb. Anyway, I did that so we could do a little early moving in. It was my mom's idea... so don't give me too much credit for brilliant ideas. Mostly likely if I have a brilliant idea I stole it from someone... So we did some moving in, and a little bit of shopping at the Bellis Fair mall. I like that mall. I think it's nicer than Southcenter so far. It's got a lot of cool things... including a poster store! SWEET! We hit Target and Sears for some stuff. We put them in my room, we left it for the next day. We took that long, 1 1/2 hour drive back home, and my family decided to take me out for dinner. Graham was going to make some of his delicious paella for me, which I LOVE, but it was going to take too long and I still had some packing to do. I called my roommate, we discussed a few things, got some business out of the way, and I found out the only poster she was bringing was a Beatles poster! SCORE!!! I had no problem with that one whatsoever! My family then went up to Olive Garden... mmmmmm... And I tried an italian soda for the first time... so gooooooood.... Then I went home, packed, talked with a few people online, and went to bed.
So now it gets a little more interesting: I woke up early to head off to Western because my roommate and I were planning to bunk our beds and we needed to get parts for the beds (they recommended we come early). Of course, when we get there, there was a loooooooong line; we stood in that line for an hour, watching people carry off big parts so they could loft or captain their beds... when it was my turn, I held out my hand, and recieved four pins. Graham found it so hilarious that we waited an hour in line for four small pins. Oh well. Then my mom decides last minute that we need some carpet, so it was off to a carpet store for us. I was ready to just get the cheapest kind there was and be happy with that, but after looking around my mom just decides that we get a nicer, more expensive carpet and padding to go underneath. Hey, I've got no problem with that! What I DID have a problem with was putting it in my room. We had to move ALL of the furniture outside into the narrow hallway, and we rolling and unrolling that stupid carpet took so much effort. We also discovered last minute that my room is not square--the building itself curves around, so this room has a slight curve on one side. So we had to trim that carpet by hand... in the end, though, I'm glad we have it here. We're the envy of everyone on my floor! We also bunked our beds successfully, and it opened up ALOT of space. I was surprised at how big our room looks now. We have room for a little entertainment center (TV-VCR combo plus a DVD player and and a really awesome sound system!) And our view... ha ha, let me tell you about the people here: they're all nice! And smart! And cool! I lucked out with my roommate, she's into the same movies and most of the same music and I get along very well with her. The girls on my floor are all nice; I've already got to know them on a "friends" basis! And the guys here are all cool... and HOT!! Seriously, every other guy here is hot, and the rest are in the least pretty cute! It's so cool... So the view from my room is very nice! I can see the town down below, the forests and hills in the distance, and a little bit of the Sound. Right below is is a basketball court. My first reaction was, "Ew. Pavement." However, the day I officially moved in, about 6-8 guys decided to play basketball... a few with their shirts off... all of them HOT! We attracted an audience of girls with our nice view, and as one of them said, "I could get used to this...!" To make this story even funnier, one of the girls joked around with putting a sign on our window indicating that we were looking for a few single men. My roommate actually did it! A few pieces of printer paper, a sharpie pen, some tape, and the we had a sign on our window that read "Single?" Man, we were being so silly and giggly about it... I love being a girl sometimes! So later we have a hall meeting, which explained the general policies, and then we had a floor meeting, where introductions were made and we got to know our Residential Advisor. She's fun, funny, and really nice; not bitchy or over-authoritative at all. And the girls on my floor all seem cool. I'm glad to be where I am!
So let's see... over the next few days I shopped with my roommate and her parents, got some posters from the school, decorated a bit, watched a movie with some girls (we leave our door open, we welcome visitors!), ate a barbaque with our floor (we're having dinner together all this week), then went with this one girl on my floor to go watch a movie on the big flat-screen TV up in the lounge on the 9th floor. We watched the SNL's The Best of Mike Meyers, then Don Juan DeMarco. Oooooh... Johnny Depp is so freakin' SEXY!!! And it was a good movie overall. That ended after 11, so I didn't really get to sleep until 11:30-ish.
The next day I went to go eat some breakfast, by myself, as I had done the previous day (my roomie is not a breakfast eater), and I expected to be by my lonesome again, when a guy just comes over and askes permission to sit next to me. And hey, I'm not opposed to new friends! So we do the whole standard introduction questions, "Where you from? Where you staying? What classes are you taking?" etc. We ended up talking in there for about an hour! So later I decide to buy my books, and he had nothing else to do so he followed me to the bookstore, and even directed me around a bit. We went back to my dorm room, talked a bit, then decided to go get some lunch. We did so, talked some more, then went to his dorm so he could do a couple of things. Back to my dorm, where I found my roommate lounging on her bed and watching TV; we joined her, watched, chatted. My roomie and another girl on my floor proposed that we all take a bus to Bellis Fair and do a little shopping. I wasn't opposed to that, and my new guy friend... Holy crap, I think I should stop to tell you names!
Roommate/Roomie: Allison
Girl we know on our floor: Tiffany
Guy I know: William (not Will, not Billy, etc.)
ANYWAY, William wanted to go to Costco to get a few things. We took the bus there, a very tedious ride... we made it too the mall, us girls shopping, poor William being dragged around... but he was a good boy for the most part, not too much complaining, although he kept voicing about how much he wanted to go to Costco. Later we split up- Tiffany and Allison wanted to go back, and William still wanted to go to Costco, so I stuck with him. We had a fun time trying to find it... turns out BOTH our sense of directions are so great. Oh well, as we kept telling ourselves, we had an adventure! We found it eventually, got some stuff, then had an interesting time finding a bus that would take us back to school... It took forever to get back, but in the end, I got a new friend, something to do, and alot of exercise walking around trying to find things! Not a bad day... except I missed dinner.
Speaking of which, I'm hungry. I want to eat. I'll post more later. Until next time... I miss you all!
Thursday, September 16, 2004
It's cold
The title is a result of my muse off on her vacation island right now... and I have no idea when she's coming back, or IF for that matter. It is cold. I'm wrapped up in my bathrobe and my many blankets on my bed. Whatever happened to summer? The fall equinox didn't happen YET!
Yesterday was interesting. I got a surprise visit in the morning from Tyler, so Tuesday was NOT the last day I saw him after all. I won't go on and on about this because 1) Stuff, and 2) To help all y'all's gag reflexes! He left before noon, and in the afternoon I spent the time with 3 more friends: Michelle, Luan, and Candice! We sat in my living room and listened to each other's piano skills and had funny conversations, then we headed over to my living room and watched Zoolander! It was especially crucial, since Luan hadn't seen it. Man, we love that guy, right girls?! At one point it was funny: he left to go the bathroom, and his wallet was just sitting on the floor next to my couch... with encouragement from Michelle, I took the wallet and hid it beside me, under a blanket. Luan immediately noticed its absense on return, but who did he accuse first? Michelle! And she played along with it, just to make it even funnier. She was telling the truth when she denied credit for its disappearence, but she knew she was distracting him from the real culprit, who sat "innocently" next to him the whole time... and once the phone rang, and as I went to go answer it I very nonslickly snuck it with me as I got up... Luckily at the time Luan was busy yelling at Michelle for taking it, and Michelle saw me get up with it and put a big show on in denying it... At the end of the movie the theif was FINALLY revieled... but not without a price! We all got to take a little tour of his wallet, courtesy of me. Nothing too embarrassing... just enough for blackmail, though! ;)
And today... I was supposed to go to the fair, but alas, friends do have other plans... Oh well. There's still a glimmer of light at the end of the the Puyallup tunnel, I might come back the weekend after my first week in B'ham (I'm assimulating to this foreign land already!) to go there; it's been pointed out to me, though, that leaving after my first week wouldn't be good cause I got to get used to living away from home... but dang it, I WILL do the Puyallup! Just watch me!!!
Today was rather a bum day. I woke up, sat in my bed and thought alot, as I often do these mornings, I got online, got offline, watched TV, took a bath, got online, wrote an email, talked on the phone, chatted on IM, got offline, ate some food, talked on the phone again, went online, sat around, got offline, watched TV, talked to my sisters, ate some pizza, ate some other food, went online...
Man, even I don't want to hear a review of my very boring day! I'll wait for tomorrow...
Yesterday was interesting. I got a surprise visit in the morning from Tyler, so Tuesday was NOT the last day I saw him after all. I won't go on and on about this because 1) Stuff, and 2) To help all y'all's gag reflexes! He left before noon, and in the afternoon I spent the time with 3 more friends: Michelle, Luan, and Candice! We sat in my living room and listened to each other's piano skills and had funny conversations, then we headed over to my living room and watched Zoolander! It was especially crucial, since Luan hadn't seen it. Man, we love that guy, right girls?! At one point it was funny: he left to go the bathroom, and his wallet was just sitting on the floor next to my couch... with encouragement from Michelle, I took the wallet and hid it beside me, under a blanket. Luan immediately noticed its absense on return, but who did he accuse first? Michelle! And she played along with it, just to make it even funnier. She was telling the truth when she denied credit for its disappearence, but she knew she was distracting him from the real culprit, who sat "innocently" next to him the whole time... and once the phone rang, and as I went to go answer it I very nonslickly snuck it with me as I got up... Luckily at the time Luan was busy yelling at Michelle for taking it, and Michelle saw me get up with it and put a big show on in denying it... At the end of the movie the theif was FINALLY revieled... but not without a price! We all got to take a little tour of his wallet, courtesy of me. Nothing too embarrassing... just enough for blackmail, though! ;)
And today... I was supposed to go to the fair, but alas, friends do have other plans... Oh well. There's still a glimmer of light at the end of the the Puyallup tunnel, I might come back the weekend after my first week in B'ham (I'm assimulating to this foreign land already!) to go there; it's been pointed out to me, though, that leaving after my first week wouldn't be good cause I got to get used to living away from home... but dang it, I WILL do the Puyallup! Just watch me!!!
Today was rather a bum day. I woke up, sat in my bed and thought alot, as I often do these mornings, I got online, got offline, watched TV, took a bath, got online, wrote an email, talked on the phone, chatted on IM, got offline, ate some food, talked on the phone again, went online, sat around, got offline, watched TV, talked to my sisters, ate some pizza, ate some other food, went online...
Man, even I don't want to hear a review of my very boring day! I'll wait for tomorrow...
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Parting is such sweet sorrow...
As cliche as those words are, boy are they ever true right now...
I just had one of my goodbyes today. With Tyler, that guy I've been "seeing" for the past 3 weeks. He'd become a really cool friend; he's funny, easy to talk to (although it took me a while to get some decent conversation going), and very sweet. He brought out some traits in me I never thought possible before. He has definitely made these past few weeks VERY interesting!
I told myself before my blind date with him that I could just be his friend, nothing more. The distance would be too hard to manage for me, and usually before I date anyone I want to know them first. And... well, that's how I felt for a while. Throughout most of our dates, I just wanted to be his friend, no matter how cozy I got with him... =) Then, as my time here grew shorter, and as we got to know each other more, I felt myself getting more and more attached to him. By this time, he was already attached to me. I felt a little scared by this at first, because I really wasn't on the same level with him. But, I guess that changed a bit... quite a bit. I believe I developed a crush on him... in the end, a rather large one. I didn't want to say it, I didn't think it was possible... but with the way I'm feeling right now, I can't deny it.
We had a really fun day today; or at least, I can say I had a fun day today! He came over to my house this morning, then later we went hiking with his friend, Kevin; shared lots of laughs with them! Then we went back to Kevin's house and... sat there a while, talked, then watched The Pest. (Not sure what to think of that movie... very weird. I guess it's one of those "the more I watch it the funnier it gets" movies, kinda like Zoolander) Then he took me out to dinner (Mexican food... mmmm!), then we went back to my house, to say our last goodbyes... for over an hour. It seemed shorter, though...
"She took off her silver locket
she said, 'Remember me by this.'
She put her hand in my pocket
I got a keepsake and a kiss."
I remember those lines from Dire Straits' "Tunnel of Love" as I hold his necklace in my hands... and no, he didn't leave it here on accident, either. I don't need any material objects to remember him by, though. We've shared some extraordinary moments; in my terms, at least. *Sigh*... what interesting times these have been for me. He's stirred up so many emotions, it was one wild ride! Lots of happiness, laughter, fun, moments were he made it feel good to be me, and sometimes just a warm, relaxed, content feeling. There were a couple of negative emotions as well: uncertainty, confusion, guilt, and even a little bit of annoyance. But those were few, and I'm glad. Right now, though... a bittersweet feeling. I'm happy I saw him today, I'm happy that we shared some great moments again. I'm sad that I have to leave... I'm sad that this couldn't, possibly ever, develop into a deeper relationship. I knew that from the beginning... yet I found this last goodbye so much harder than I expected it to be...
Of course we'll always have email, we'll always have IM, he'll have this blog, and now I've got a new cell phone! (Yay for me!!) It won't be quite the same, of course, but we'll still get to be friends. And he is an AWESOME friend! Hardly anyone makes me laugh as much as he has, and if you can make me laugh, that's something really valuable in my book. And he was such gent, too... always opened doors, payed for EVERYTHING, was always honest with me, listened to me, talked with me... man, whoever marries him will be LUCKY! (Hee hee, Tajae, you get it?!) Mostly I'm grateful for him for the experiences he gave me. I've learned quite a few things, especially about myself. It's always good to do that. As he said to me, I never thought this much would spring up from a blind date. I'm missing him..
Man... I have a feeling this won't be the end of my sad feelings. I've got more friends to say goodbye to... thank goodness for all the communication breakthroughs (i can forgive technology for that purpose). It won't be the same, ever... but I'm not going to let my KIT skills die this time. YOU WILL HEAR FROM ME!!! =)
"And there's this burning, like there's always been...
I've never felt so alone, and I've never felt so alive."
~Third Eye Blind (Motorcycle Driveby)
(I like quotes, can you tell?!)
I just had one of my goodbyes today. With Tyler, that guy I've been "seeing" for the past 3 weeks. He'd become a really cool friend; he's funny, easy to talk to (although it took me a while to get some decent conversation going), and very sweet. He brought out some traits in me I never thought possible before. He has definitely made these past few weeks VERY interesting!
I told myself before my blind date with him that I could just be his friend, nothing more. The distance would be too hard to manage for me, and usually before I date anyone I want to know them first. And... well, that's how I felt for a while. Throughout most of our dates, I just wanted to be his friend, no matter how cozy I got with him... =) Then, as my time here grew shorter, and as we got to know each other more, I felt myself getting more and more attached to him. By this time, he was already attached to me. I felt a little scared by this at first, because I really wasn't on the same level with him. But, I guess that changed a bit... quite a bit. I believe I developed a crush on him... in the end, a rather large one. I didn't want to say it, I didn't think it was possible... but with the way I'm feeling right now, I can't deny it.
We had a really fun day today; or at least, I can say I had a fun day today! He came over to my house this morning, then later we went hiking with his friend, Kevin; shared lots of laughs with them! Then we went back to Kevin's house and... sat there a while, talked, then watched The Pest. (Not sure what to think of that movie... very weird. I guess it's one of those "the more I watch it the funnier it gets" movies, kinda like Zoolander) Then he took me out to dinner (Mexican food... mmmm!), then we went back to my house, to say our last goodbyes... for over an hour. It seemed shorter, though...
"She took off her silver locket
she said, 'Remember me by this.'
She put her hand in my pocket
I got a keepsake and a kiss."
I remember those lines from Dire Straits' "Tunnel of Love" as I hold his necklace in my hands... and no, he didn't leave it here on accident, either. I don't need any material objects to remember him by, though. We've shared some extraordinary moments; in my terms, at least. *Sigh*... what interesting times these have been for me. He's stirred up so many emotions, it was one wild ride! Lots of happiness, laughter, fun, moments were he made it feel good to be me, and sometimes just a warm, relaxed, content feeling. There were a couple of negative emotions as well: uncertainty, confusion, guilt, and even a little bit of annoyance. But those were few, and I'm glad. Right now, though... a bittersweet feeling. I'm happy I saw him today, I'm happy that we shared some great moments again. I'm sad that I have to leave... I'm sad that this couldn't, possibly ever, develop into a deeper relationship. I knew that from the beginning... yet I found this last goodbye so much harder than I expected it to be...
Of course we'll always have email, we'll always have IM, he'll have this blog, and now I've got a new cell phone! (Yay for me!!) It won't be quite the same, of course, but we'll still get to be friends. And he is an AWESOME friend! Hardly anyone makes me laugh as much as he has, and if you can make me laugh, that's something really valuable in my book. And he was such gent, too... always opened doors, payed for EVERYTHING, was always honest with me, listened to me, talked with me... man, whoever marries him will be LUCKY! (Hee hee, Tajae, you get it?!) Mostly I'm grateful for him for the experiences he gave me. I've learned quite a few things, especially about myself. It's always good to do that. As he said to me, I never thought this much would spring up from a blind date. I'm missing him..
Man... I have a feeling this won't be the end of my sad feelings. I've got more friends to say goodbye to... thank goodness for all the communication breakthroughs (i can forgive technology for that purpose). It won't be the same, ever... but I'm not going to let my KIT skills die this time. YOU WILL HEAR FROM ME!!! =)
"And there's this burning, like there's always been...
I've never felt so alone, and I've never felt so alive."
~Third Eye Blind (Motorcycle Driveby)
(I like quotes, can you tell?!)
Sunday, September 12, 2004
The nerds inheret the earth... and not the wind, right guys?!
I was just reading over the comments on my latest entries, and was flattered by the admiration of new friends, nostolgic for the old days, and then decided to clarify a few things:
First of all, to Kevin: I agree with Danielle, if you're going to join our colony, you've got to spell it right!! Minus 5 points for that. To Danielle: Man, I'm really missing Aleeza now! We nerds have got to reunite in the future. And to Mary: you haven't hurt yourself yet! What qualifications do you have as a nerd?
Our little Nerdtopia (note the way it's spelled!) is open to expansion. All you gotta do to be with us is to:
Have a great appreciation, and even better, a love for, the arts; this includes literature, visual art, music, theater, and all that jazz.
An interest, or obsesssion, with video games is valued too. And regular usage of a computer, especially the internet, is a definite plus.
Please bring your own (many!) posters or prints of different works of art, cult classic movies, plays, musicals, video games, etc.
It REALLY helps that you took Honor's Language Arts at Lindbergh High School for at least 1 year and have an appreciation for the teacher, Ms. Bedtelyon. But if you had a class similar to this, or a teacher with great influence on your nerdiness, we can accept that too.
And, most importantly, you gotta be smart, but not afraid to be a dork every once in a while! As Jack Sparrow pointed out, it's remarkable how often the traits of brilliance and madness coincide with each other.
Any other rules I'm forgetting? I'm not the only creator of this geeky paradise!
First of all, to Kevin: I agree with Danielle, if you're going to join our colony, you've got to spell it right!! Minus 5 points for that. To Danielle: Man, I'm really missing Aleeza now! We nerds have got to reunite in the future. And to Mary: you haven't hurt yourself yet! What qualifications do you have as a nerd?
Our little Nerdtopia (note the way it's spelled!) is open to expansion. All you gotta do to be with us is to:
Have a great appreciation, and even better, a love for, the arts; this includes literature, visual art, music, theater, and all that jazz.
An interest, or obsesssion, with video games is valued too. And regular usage of a computer, especially the internet, is a definite plus.
Please bring your own (many!) posters or prints of different works of art, cult classic movies, plays, musicals, video games, etc.
It REALLY helps that you took Honor's Language Arts at Lindbergh High School for at least 1 year and have an appreciation for the teacher, Ms. Bedtelyon. But if you had a class similar to this, or a teacher with great influence on your nerdiness, we can accept that too.
And, most importantly, you gotta be smart, but not afraid to be a dork every once in a while! As Jack Sparrow pointed out, it's remarkable how often the traits of brilliance and madness coincide with each other.
Any other rules I'm forgetting? I'm not the only creator of this geeky paradise!
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Ha ha, you're funny!
I've suddenly got the urge to just list a bunch of quotes from my friends that still make me laugh to this day. All y'alls should have a quote of your own in this list; if I forgot you I'm sorry! See if you can find yours! (I HOPE you can find yours!) Some of these may have been said by you, some said by me. Some of these may not be word for word either... oh well! You'll get the idea...
"You intrigue me... are you trying to turn me on? Have a granita! We need to use those color-flamed candles..."
"I'll come down and help you go to that gym, and then I'LL eat your food!"
"I think you're terrific!... But we both know sex can be dynamite. Let's cool it!"
"MAIN-ganeese!!"
"What?? It's supposed to be a DRESS???"
"I love Legolas ALOT more than she does!"
*covers ears* "SHUT UP!!!"
"Eating a bowl of hot cheese."
"We oughtta become pilgrims--search for a new land where we can practice our nerdness in freedom!" (note: this one could kill two birds with one stone)
"Check it out, yo!"
"Those poor hormonally stressed out children!"
"I've got a steady hand!"
"It's the beast in me!"
...And that's all I can think of right now. I really hope you guys know what I'm talking about!
"You intrigue me... are you trying to turn me on? Have a granita! We need to use those color-flamed candles..."
"I'll come down and help you go to that gym, and then I'LL eat your food!"
"I think you're terrific!... But we both know sex can be dynamite. Let's cool it!"
"MAIN-ganeese!!"
"What?? It's supposed to be a DRESS???"
"I love Legolas ALOT more than she does!"
*covers ears* "SHUT UP!!!"
"Eating a bowl of hot cheese."
"We oughtta become pilgrims--search for a new land where we can practice our nerdness in freedom!" (note: this one could kill two birds with one stone)
"Check it out, yo!"
"Those poor hormonally stressed out children!"
"I've got a steady hand!"
"It's the beast in me!"
...And that's all I can think of right now. I really hope you guys know what I'm talking about!
Friday, September 10, 2004
Things, issues, and stuff like that
Thinking and thinking and thinking...
Right now I can hear The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack coming from my brother's room... such cool music! It makes me want to see the musical real bad.
That takes me back to a time where I thought musicals were stupid. It was the musical "Oliver" that really did it for me... So stupid. I had to put up with that in 8th grade. The next year I would be forced into "bootcamp" in my Honor's LA class by reading that book... argh, to this day there's only one thing relating to Oliver Twist that I can stand, and that's Oliver and Company. It's the cute little kitten!!! And that song... "Why should I worry? Why should I car-a-a-are..." But then later that summer I saw my cousin in a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Well stone the crows! That sure won me over! From then on, musicals were cool! I long for those days now... that school year and that summer had to be of the best in my life. So then later I got introduced to various other musicals, including the Sound of Music, which was very cool! A bit cheesy at some points, but it still is one of my favorites. That was the day Michelle, Sarah, Deanna and I kidnapped Candice for her birthday! We pounced on her from behind, wrapped her up in masking tape and bandanas, and attempted to carry her from her house to her car... dropping her several times along the way! Poor girl... we also never failed to take pictures during the whole process! I feel the urge to laugh out loud as I recall the incident... we were all trying to be as quiet as possible, but I was falling on the ground, dying of suppressed laughter!! What a weird tradition for my friends to kipnap each other on our birthdays... I was "abducted" once to go eat pizza; that was when I got my red feather boa... I oughtta wear that again someday! I remember leaving a trail of feathers in my wake... And now I miss the old days.
Ha ha, now y'all have gotten a taste of what my train of thought is like. When I bring up bits and pieces of it during conversation, it may seem random, but there is really a fairly coherent train of thought behind it. Train of thought... that reminds me of Max, who used to say "My (your) train of thought has crashed." I kinda regret not knowing him more... Oh well. I hope for the best in his experience in New York.
New York... Musicals... ALEEZA!!! I miss that girl... what's sad is that i've known about her since Freshman year, but I just got to know her senior year. She was so cool, and now she's gone... She was smart in LA (I'll never hear the phrase "As it were..." without thinking of her now), she was a nerd with me! (NERD POWER!!! Danielle, Aleeza: we need to start construction on Nerdtopia sometime soon!), she was musical saavy... I wish we could've had more good times. But I hope she's having a fulfilling time in Manhatten... and she'd BETTER see some real broadway musicals for me!
So now I'm listening to Third Eye Blind's first CD... They were pretty cool for a post-grunge rock band. Their music's original, they're TALENTED musicians, they're lyrics are interesting and rather smart (but not necessarily the attitude behind them), and the songs are rather catchy. The last three songs on this album... I always have to hear those ones together. They just seem to go together... and it reminds me of past times... when I was sad... Oh boy. Fun times. Woo-hoo. But they're good songs. I like them. I also think it's funny that whenever I hear a good guitar (that's one way to win me over--play the guitar, and play it good!!), I start strumming along, even though I have hardly any skills in that field. Maybe I watch my guitar-playing brother too much... I wish he would be nicer to me. Oh well.
"I'm on a train, but there's no one at the helm
and there's a demon in my brain that starts to overwhelm..."
~Narcolepsy (Third Eye Blind)
This is not a reflection of how I feel at the moment, but rather a song at the moment. Go look up the lyrics. I imagine what it might feel like to experience what he's describing in this song... and it's scary! I just like that particular line, sometimes it comes in handy for quotations... Hey, now that reminds me of:
"And since I am dead, I can take off my head
to recite Shakespearian quotations!
No animal nor man, can SCREAM like I can
with the fury of my recitations!"
Ah, good stuff.
Alright, enough tangents and seemingly random thoughts. Back to business. Which is... waiting for people to come online to talk to...
Before I go, I feel compelled to explain the title of my blog a bit. It's a song by Semisonic, from their album "Closing Time." It's rather short, it's not the most elaborate song; pretty darn simple, in fact. But for some reason I love it. It's a pretty enough tune, and the lyrics... for some reason remind me of me, in a way. It just means something to me... and it's hard to put it in words, like many things.
Okay, NOW I'll go back to the nerdery with all the other nerds (bonus points for anyone who knows that movie!). We need to start blueprinting Nerdtopia...
Right now I can hear The Phantom of the Opera soundtrack coming from my brother's room... such cool music! It makes me want to see the musical real bad.
That takes me back to a time where I thought musicals were stupid. It was the musical "Oliver" that really did it for me... So stupid. I had to put up with that in 8th grade. The next year I would be forced into "bootcamp" in my Honor's LA class by reading that book... argh, to this day there's only one thing relating to Oliver Twist that I can stand, and that's Oliver and Company. It's the cute little kitten!!! And that song... "Why should I worry? Why should I car-a-a-are..." But then later that summer I saw my cousin in a production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Well stone the crows! That sure won me over! From then on, musicals were cool! I long for those days now... that school year and that summer had to be of the best in my life. So then later I got introduced to various other musicals, including the Sound of Music, which was very cool! A bit cheesy at some points, but it still is one of my favorites. That was the day Michelle, Sarah, Deanna and I kidnapped Candice for her birthday! We pounced on her from behind, wrapped her up in masking tape and bandanas, and attempted to carry her from her house to her car... dropping her several times along the way! Poor girl... we also never failed to take pictures during the whole process! I feel the urge to laugh out loud as I recall the incident... we were all trying to be as quiet as possible, but I was falling on the ground, dying of suppressed laughter!! What a weird tradition for my friends to kipnap each other on our birthdays... I was "abducted" once to go eat pizza; that was when I got my red feather boa... I oughtta wear that again someday! I remember leaving a trail of feathers in my wake... And now I miss the old days.
Ha ha, now y'all have gotten a taste of what my train of thought is like. When I bring up bits and pieces of it during conversation, it may seem random, but there is really a fairly coherent train of thought behind it. Train of thought... that reminds me of Max, who used to say "My (your) train of thought has crashed." I kinda regret not knowing him more... Oh well. I hope for the best in his experience in New York.
New York... Musicals... ALEEZA!!! I miss that girl... what's sad is that i've known about her since Freshman year, but I just got to know her senior year. She was so cool, and now she's gone... She was smart in LA (I'll never hear the phrase "As it were..." without thinking of her now), she was a nerd with me! (NERD POWER!!! Danielle, Aleeza: we need to start construction on Nerdtopia sometime soon!), she was musical saavy... I wish we could've had more good times. But I hope she's having a fulfilling time in Manhatten... and she'd BETTER see some real broadway musicals for me!
So now I'm listening to Third Eye Blind's first CD... They were pretty cool for a post-grunge rock band. Their music's original, they're TALENTED musicians, they're lyrics are interesting and rather smart (but not necessarily the attitude behind them), and the songs are rather catchy. The last three songs on this album... I always have to hear those ones together. They just seem to go together... and it reminds me of past times... when I was sad... Oh boy. Fun times. Woo-hoo. But they're good songs. I like them. I also think it's funny that whenever I hear a good guitar (that's one way to win me over--play the guitar, and play it good!!), I start strumming along, even though I have hardly any skills in that field. Maybe I watch my guitar-playing brother too much... I wish he would be nicer to me. Oh well.
"I'm on a train, but there's no one at the helm
and there's a demon in my brain that starts to overwhelm..."
~Narcolepsy (Third Eye Blind)
This is not a reflection of how I feel at the moment, but rather a song at the moment. Go look up the lyrics. I imagine what it might feel like to experience what he's describing in this song... and it's scary! I just like that particular line, sometimes it comes in handy for quotations... Hey, now that reminds me of:
"And since I am dead, I can take off my head
to recite Shakespearian quotations!
No animal nor man, can SCREAM like I can
with the fury of my recitations!"
Ah, good stuff.
Alright, enough tangents and seemingly random thoughts. Back to business. Which is... waiting for people to come online to talk to...
Before I go, I feel compelled to explain the title of my blog a bit. It's a song by Semisonic, from their album "Closing Time." It's rather short, it's not the most elaborate song; pretty darn simple, in fact. But for some reason I love it. It's a pretty enough tune, and the lyrics... for some reason remind me of me, in a way. It just means something to me... and it's hard to put it in words, like many things.
Okay, NOW I'll go back to the nerdery with all the other nerds (bonus points for anyone who knows that movie!). We need to start blueprinting Nerdtopia...
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Strange Days, indeed
Wow, looking back on my summer, it's been rather interesting.
In the beginning there were many grad parties to attend, and my grandparents were visting, so my schedule looked rather full. Then the usual void of the summer came... not much done, not much seen... Candice and I were some of the only ones I knew who were not out of town or working, so all we had were each other... Yuck! ;) We tried to make a little list of things to do before the end of summer, most of which haven't been accomplished yet... Oh well, there's still time! To the batmobile!!!
We did go to leavenworth in the middle of July. First time planning a trip and taking it by myself, with no relatives involved. It's a neat little town, but I think from now on I'll just make it a one-day thing. If you don't have alot of money, there's not much for you to do either. So it was basically walk, shop, and eat for me. But it was interesting being in a different landscape, although it was the same state... I'm not used to being literally surrounded by mountains. Plus Candice and I had some interesting times (To her: Remember the trail? The deer? Those guys? Our little room? The wasps? Sausages? Fudge? You and your camera? Good times...).
More of a void... sometimes things happened. I was glad one day to hang with Sonja, and we had the time of our lives watching Dirty Dancing (The line that stuck withe me the most is "I carried a watermelon!" Maybe it's because I love watermelon beyond many things?) and just chillin', then Michelle came back and a group of us got together had a nice time at Red Robin's, and for a few of us, a nice time afterwards. Some of us would have late night chatrooms... those got interesting. Sarah came back and we had some times together, Danielle had a birthday party, and the four of us (Sonja, Aleeza, Candice, and yours truely) who decided not to join her in the strip club had a FABULOUS time, right girls?! Then... Then, I was set up on a blind date for the first time in my life. Not bad at all! Thanks to Sonja on that one. Then I attended a Girl Scout ceremony for Sarah, then attended a party where I would be seeing Sarah and Aleeza for the last time in a long time... (I miss them real bad!!!) Then I hung out with my blind date (hereafter known as Tyler) again, and again... Then I saw Luan and his little brother for the first time in a while courtesy of Michelle, then saw Tyler again and met his friend Kevin... Then saw Tyler again, and saw him again... I shall leave out details of those incidents for confidentiality reasons. I'll tell you in person if I feel you should know (and this applies for most of you reading this anyway). But man, on that last incident... I think these last 3 weeks have been the most interesting of my summer, thanks to relations with him. *Sigh*... Nobody told me there'd be days like these... The latest thing I did was hang with Kevin yesterday. He's a very cool guy! So I hope for my remaning days here I don't have another eventless day. Carpe diem!!!
I go away to college in less than 2 weeks. I've been a rather flip-flop on my feelings of going there... At first unsure of whether I'd be accepted, then sad that I'd be leaving everyone, then looking forward go because I was feeling rather detatched from everyone, then a bittersweet feeling of happy to go but sad to leave friends, then boredom saying "Can't I just go NOW?!" And I thought nothing else would change... then along comes August 27th, last friday of the month. Suddenly all these things are happening, all these new things, sometimes they happened too fast... And in conclusion, I'm happy to start a new life and gain some new experiences, I'm scared of the changes that are coming so rapidly, and sad that with all this new stuff happening, it may have to end as quickly as it came. But not necessarily... one of my resolutions is to not let these relationships die... or die fast anyway. I hope college doesn't kill me...
So until next time... "Shall we go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky..."
In the beginning there were many grad parties to attend, and my grandparents were visting, so my schedule looked rather full. Then the usual void of the summer came... not much done, not much seen... Candice and I were some of the only ones I knew who were not out of town or working, so all we had were each other... Yuck! ;) We tried to make a little list of things to do before the end of summer, most of which haven't been accomplished yet... Oh well, there's still time! To the batmobile!!!
We did go to leavenworth in the middle of July. First time planning a trip and taking it by myself, with no relatives involved. It's a neat little town, but I think from now on I'll just make it a one-day thing. If you don't have alot of money, there's not much for you to do either. So it was basically walk, shop, and eat for me. But it was interesting being in a different landscape, although it was the same state... I'm not used to being literally surrounded by mountains. Plus Candice and I had some interesting times (To her: Remember the trail? The deer? Those guys? Our little room? The wasps? Sausages? Fudge? You and your camera? Good times...).
More of a void... sometimes things happened. I was glad one day to hang with Sonja, and we had the time of our lives watching Dirty Dancing (The line that stuck withe me the most is "I carried a watermelon!" Maybe it's because I love watermelon beyond many things?) and just chillin', then Michelle came back and a group of us got together had a nice time at Red Robin's, and for a few of us, a nice time afterwards. Some of us would have late night chatrooms... those got interesting. Sarah came back and we had some times together, Danielle had a birthday party, and the four of us (Sonja, Aleeza, Candice, and yours truely) who decided not to join her in the strip club had a FABULOUS time, right girls?! Then... Then, I was set up on a blind date for the first time in my life. Not bad at all! Thanks to Sonja on that one. Then I attended a Girl Scout ceremony for Sarah, then attended a party where I would be seeing Sarah and Aleeza for the last time in a long time... (I miss them real bad!!!) Then I hung out with my blind date (hereafter known as Tyler) again, and again... Then I saw Luan and his little brother for the first time in a while courtesy of Michelle, then saw Tyler again and met his friend Kevin... Then saw Tyler again, and saw him again... I shall leave out details of those incidents for confidentiality reasons. I'll tell you in person if I feel you should know (and this applies for most of you reading this anyway). But man, on that last incident... I think these last 3 weeks have been the most interesting of my summer, thanks to relations with him. *Sigh*... Nobody told me there'd be days like these... The latest thing I did was hang with Kevin yesterday. He's a very cool guy! So I hope for my remaning days here I don't have another eventless day. Carpe diem!!!
I go away to college in less than 2 weeks. I've been a rather flip-flop on my feelings of going there... At first unsure of whether I'd be accepted, then sad that I'd be leaving everyone, then looking forward go because I was feeling rather detatched from everyone, then a bittersweet feeling of happy to go but sad to leave friends, then boredom saying "Can't I just go NOW?!" And I thought nothing else would change... then along comes August 27th, last friday of the month. Suddenly all these things are happening, all these new things, sometimes they happened too fast... And in conclusion, I'm happy to start a new life and gain some new experiences, I'm scared of the changes that are coming so rapidly, and sad that with all this new stuff happening, it may have to end as quickly as it came. But not necessarily... one of my resolutions is to not let these relationships die... or die fast anyway. I hope college doesn't kill me...
So until next time... "Shall we go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky..."
Well, I hope you're happy, folks!
I'VE FINALLY DONE IT!!!
This is it, my own personal blog, online journal, whatever you want it to be. Ever since I first got introduced to these things (this summer; yep, I'm so not with the program), I confess I did have an interest in starting my own, but then I always got that feeling of "NOBODY will be interested in what I have to say!" And of course whenever my friends would say such things on their own blogs (e.g. "You don't really want to hear all this." "You must think I'm really stupid now.") I would always say "No! Of course not! This IS interesting!" And, it may be that I'm crazy, but there is a chance that some of you would like an insight into my life. Many times it was requested (not pressured, I repeat, NOT PRESSURED) that I start something like this, and I always said I would be too lazy to update it, that I would HAVE to maintain it, and, again, no one would be interested in my life. Yet I got so many requests... So as of today, September 9, 2004, 9:00 (ish) in the AM, I'll acknowledge all of you who have asked/suggested/begged me to do this. And... here it is. The end.
At night she spreads her wings
She dreams of bigger things
She floats above the town
She sings without a sound
She can be anywhere at all
She can be anyone at all
A glow and then a shine
What she hopes she will find
Tonight, tonight
She's got a picture in her mind
She can be anyone at all
At night she changed her mind
She left the world behind
... More on that later.
This is it, my own personal blog, online journal, whatever you want it to be. Ever since I first got introduced to these things (this summer; yep, I'm so not with the program), I confess I did have an interest in starting my own, but then I always got that feeling of "NOBODY will be interested in what I have to say!" And of course whenever my friends would say such things on their own blogs (e.g. "You don't really want to hear all this." "You must think I'm really stupid now.") I would always say "No! Of course not! This IS interesting!" And, it may be that I'm crazy, but there is a chance that some of you would like an insight into my life. Many times it was requested (not pressured, I repeat, NOT PRESSURED) that I start something like this, and I always said I would be too lazy to update it, that I would HAVE to maintain it, and, again, no one would be interested in my life. Yet I got so many requests... So as of today, September 9, 2004, 9:00 (ish) in the AM, I'll acknowledge all of you who have asked/suggested/begged me to do this. And... here it is. The end.
At night she spreads her wings
She dreams of bigger things
She floats above the town
She sings without a sound
She can be anywhere at all
She can be anyone at all
A glow and then a shine
What she hopes she will find
Tonight, tonight
She's got a picture in her mind
She can be anyone at all
At night she changed her mind
She left the world behind
... More on that later.
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