01 MAY 2003 - 8.58a
wow! may already! david's birthday is right around the corner.

all of my stuff is done except for exams! i'm so relieved. i slept a little bit last night... and it was nice.

the place where lucy is at has separated the yearling fillies and colts... they are starting to act like fillies and colts... you know, the boys think the girls are cute, etc. well. yesterday morning, MY filly, typical of the boy-crazy o'malley girls, was found IN the boys' pasture. all of the gates were closed, there wasn't a hair out of place on her. i'm assuming she jumped into the boys' pasture... there's no way she could have gone under the fence... and i highly doubt she opened the gates and closed them after, all by herself.

i'm thinking about sending her to a convent.

29 APR 2003 - 1.53a
wooooooooo! modest mouse midwest tour this summer! i'm anxious to see the dates. should they play cleveland, i'm sure i will want to see them elsewhere, as well. roadtrip, anyone??

the big presentation is tomorrow (today, really). up late doing last minute touches... up early tomorrow (today) finishing everything.

i have this fake banana taste in my mouth. not the taste of a fake banana, but the taste of banana laffy taffy. it tastes fake. but banana-y, you know?

i've been listening to the afghan whigs. odd for this time of year... but something feels good about listening to them.

28 APR 2003 - 12.14p
for now, i'm taking back all the bad things i said about paul h.

but before i talk about that, i want to thank lacey, the best friend in the whole world, and her husband ezra. without them, i probably would have had a heart attack on friday... and i might have very well killed paul. thank you both for helping out... keeping me sane... you are the greatest and i am unbelievably in debt to you. thanks for always saving my ass.

back to paul. so. he brought us donuts and hot chocolate on friday night and offered to do work. he was shooed away, though, because his drawings look furry. he totally redeemed himself on sunday, by staying here ALL DAY while i was at work, and doing stuff on the computer. he made some really awesome ads and a great billboard design (which features MY DOG!). paul has removed himself from my shit list, and is on the A-list for today. hopefully things will go well in our presentation tomorrow.

25 APR 2003 - 7.00a
i would like to stress how completely insane i am becoming. i have a huge presentation on tuesday. all of the following must be done for it: three storyboards for tv ads, three magazine ads (two of which must be done in pagemaker), a point of purchase display, an internet pop-up ad, a direct mailer, and a billboard. do you know how much is done? two of the storyboards are partially done. i'd like to point out that my partner, paul h, had a huge paper due the other day that he waited until the last minute to do... so he's been stressed about his own things. however, he does not have a computer... all of this stuff (except for the tv ad, and probably the point of purchase, too) must be done on the computer. i know i will be staying home both friday and saturday night this weekend (while paul does god knows what, as he offered to meet for this again on SUNDAY. i work all day sunday and must go riding after work...) becoming really familiar with pagemaker... and i'm assuming paul's weekend evening plans do not necessarily involve our ad campaign, since he neglected to offer working on it at those times.

yeah, i'd rather be going out... especially since it's my best friend's one month wedding anniversary tonight... and i haven't even seen her since she got married. but i don't want to fail. i don't want to stand up in front of a class and look like a complete loser because the quality of presentation that has been given so far has been really impressive...

i'm going to work on it now. BEFORE school. and i'm going to finish what i was too tired to do last night. sick.

23 APR 2003 - 11.53a
i have a lot going on. i don't know if i'll have the time/energy/desire to add a proper entry until school is over. i might have to call upon a guest blogger for the weekend to update everybody on what, exactly, i've been up to.

phoebe has been getting much love lately. paul and p had a very sweet moment last week... and although this picture might look dirty, i assure you it is quite innocent... phoebe is using tony as a human sofa, anybody who lies on the floor is fair game. she's chewing her favorite toy.

and this is a picture of my purse on the bed at the hotel last weekend. if i was all crafty, i would've stolen the bedspread to make a matching dress or something for myself... but hotel bedspreads are dirty and i am not crafty.

22 APR 2003 - 10.18a
pictures from the gbv cincinnati show are up at gbv.com or for a direct link to the pictures that i shared with gbv.com, go here.

20 APR 2003 - 10.32p
just a brief update... home from cincinnati! the weather couldn't have been any more perfect! i took a ton of pictures of gbv, hopefully i'll have a few up here, and then more at the gbv site once i get organized. the show was great fun... tony and i managed to drink an entire bottle of vanilla stoli between the two of us in a very short amount of time. the flASSk made another appearance. gbv did not play cut-out witch for the first time in forever and ever and ever. i was so sad. more later.

18 APR 2003 - 7.53a
i'm skipping class today in honor of good friday... well, i want to make this friday good... so i'm skipping class. class was preventing today from being good.

i want a golden poo!!

16 APR 2003 - 6.57a
HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY, LUCY!!!! i sincerely hope you enjoy the next year of your life wallowing in mud and being dirty and stinky.

tonight is ben folds. woo! gbv on saturday! woo woo!

15 APR 2003 - 6.27p
it's been a few days. there was a short-lived entry over the weekend detailing some of the chaos which occurred at saturday night's yo la tengo show... but i removed it, by choice... no sense in making bad things any worse.

here's something for dog lovers... that came to me from princess today. fun!

let's see... i got a haircut yesterday. i became terribly obsessed with going to the field day festival. my mom saw my tattoo for the first time ever, which was kind of funny... a story in itself, really. i went out and had coffee and watched boggle until very late... slept a few hours, did some stuff... and here i am.

i guess i'll tell the tattoo story... i was sitting on a chair, kind of leaning forward. my mom came up behind me... and must have seen it peeking out from my t-shirt. the minotaur waved a friendly hello to joanne, and she exclaimed, "YOU HAVE A TATTOO!!!" i said i didn't. she said, "YOU DO SO! I SAW IT!" i told her it was fake. she said, "let me spit on it and see if it rubs off." i told her that was gross. she asked how long i've had it... um, it's been a while. she asked if there were others... nope. she accused me of lying about others... um, nope. she told me i was going to hell, not only because i have a tattoo, but because i was lying to her about all the others i have. i laughed. i'm sure if you have ever met my mom and know her sense of humor, you're laughing, too.

in other somewhat related news, for those of you wondering how i got that large scratch (um, scar) on my back, if you check back to the archives, you might see some fake story about me falling off a chair. yes, i said fake. cool dave guessed correctly yesterday at school... the scratch (um, scar) came from that one time i had no money and was trying to crawl under the door of a pay toilet. uh huh.

cool dave's delivery of this was much better, i assure you. but it's funny just the same.

11 APR 2003 - 7.01a
HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY, NEWT!!!!

it's newt's golden birthday... 11 on the 11th. i'm not totally sure what he's doing to celebrate. maybe i'll bring him a granola bar or something since he doesn't like donuts. he's probably going to have to work today... sucks working on your birthday. poor newt.

10 APR 2003 - 4.16a
that's right... 4.16 A.M., motherfuckers. i rock the party.

i am about to keel over, though.

tonight was good... got some shit done for our big project... went out and about... ran into tony's friend tom, which was awkward (at least for me)... talked to him for a moment, he had a headache... and then i bailed because i wasn't sure what else to talk about.

too much coffee, i must go to bed so i can get my ass up bright and early. goodnight.

09 APR 2003 - 4.40p
it's been an interesting day... a morning of drama/slacking... then i participated in an experiment. luckily i was not attached to any electrodes and i wasn't shocked or anything like that. but it was close to torture. i had to watch 30 minutes of the young and the restless on an HDTV that was bigger than the walls in my bedroom. the entire time i was maybe five feet away from the screen and i wanted nothing more than to turn the volume down. afterwards, i had to answer questions about how i feel about my boobs and my butt. my friend julie signed up for the same experiment time... only she was in a different room, with a normal tv. she had to answer the same questions.

i met with my advisor after that... yay! i am graduating in december!! my graduation application is almost complete and will be turned in by the end of the week. i have 16 credit hours to go and then i will have a brilliant degree, which i probably will not use. i think that many of you will be amused to find out that i have to take a film class. oh, joy.

09 APR 2003 - 10.14a
i haven't quite made it to school yet. i'm a couple of hours late. i think i might try to take a short nap and arrive in time for my contribution to some research experiment. weeee!

let's hear it for slacking.

09 APR 2003 - 1.18a
a special thank to milt trachtenburg for keeping me informed of the trachtenburg family slideshow players' performance on conan being repeated. milt emailed the following to me earlier... i thought it was very sweet.

I saw your blog in January when you posted a note about missing the Trachtenburg family Slideshow Players on Conan. Well it's baaaaaaak!

Th 4/17: Nathan Lane, Sean Astin, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players (R)

Don't fall asleep. Get scotch tape and paste your eyelids back!

Milt Trachtenburg (the secret trachtenburg)

i assured milt that i would bypass the scotch tape and instead use duct tape to be sure that i would not miss it.

i went to see of montreal tonight. i met ed at the beachland and saw cool dave and rudy there. it was a good night, for sure. special thanks to ed for running a tab and picking up my drinks. however, weirdness did occur when i ran into two of tony's friends. one of them attempted to talk to me. i felt weird, especially since i have never talked to him before. luckily, his other friend just kind of nodded and waved. easy enough.

tomorrow is a big day... and i'm having a late night which probably isn't a good idea. class from 8.30a until noon... then at noon, i have to be part of some experiment for one of my classes... then at 1p, i have an appointment with my advisor. i am determined to make graduating in december as easy as possible, and hopefully she will help me along. following all that school garbage, i have newt, of course... and then work. after work, i am meeting up with mr. paul h to continue working on our advertising project (vanilla coke) and following that, i think i might like to go out. woo!

maybe i can sleep in just a little on thursday... fat chance, since i'll likely have to throw together a powerpoint presentation.

yo la tengo is this weekend and i am looking forward to it.

08 APR 2003 - 12.41p
there are certain things out of anyone's control... weather is one of them.

i have not written anything really super personal here before, but i'm feeling the need to vent, even though i have vented on three very close friends already... but dealing with a volatile personality has taken its toll on me for good this time. i thought things were fine, and the next thing i knew, i'm feeling the brunt of someone else's frustrations. it's not fair to me. at all. i just have to wonder if people will be told, "we broke up because i took my frustrations out on her."

if anybody wants to take me out for a drink, NOW would be the time.

07 APR 2003 - 8.08a
i am very tired of the way my blog looks. i'm tempted to take matters into my own hands, since i doubt even asking paul cox nicely would work at this point.

oh no! not the gap!

06 APR 2003 - 11.33p
i am so tired. i had a great weekend, though. unfortunately, the good stuff came to an end tonight when the indians home opener tomorrow was announced as postponed until tuesday. and unfortunately, i can't make it to the game on tuesday because i can't miss class. it sucks.

on friday night, tony and i ventured to pat's in the flats to see the wiggins. we hung around, had a beer, watched the band, ran into an old friend from high school (mark), and headed home. oh, and earlier that night, tony tried on all of my pants.

saturday, we went and visited lucy... she was a wild baby, as she's been inside for a couple of weeks, healing from her little foot abcess. i turned her out in the indoor arena and she ran around like an idiot... but she jumped over an orange cone in the middle of the arena... she's destined for greatness, for sure.

after visiting the newt, there was more hanging out and wasting time. i took a long nap at tony's at some point. he even left and came home while i was napping (don't remember)... then we headed to the beachland to see the strokes... er, i mean coffinberry... and viva caramel, and gem. it was great seeing most of guided by voices because i am a nerd like that... and they played the ultra cool hit, "i am a tree." i was tired. and i'm tired now. so i'm not going to elaborate on anything.

today we spent a lot of the day shopping for nothing in particular. i want roller skates... like real roller skates, none of this in-line garbage. i have happy visions of myself roller skating in the park in the summer, wearing a skirt. sigh, if only the weather would ever be so nice. anyhow, roller skates do not exist it seems (but our shopping was very limited) unless you like britney spears roller skates and just so happen to wear a girls size four.

in other news, i am unhappy to report the death of my friend laura's horse, "who?" the who?pony was rushed to aurora vet hospital on thursday and unfortunately did not improve after emergency surgery. my condolences go out to laura, although i'm not entirely sure she reads this.

02 APR 2003 - 5.24p
i'm down to FIVE copies of the survey! thanks to princess and becky... any other takers???

must run to work now.

02 APR 2003 - 12.17a
i have another test tomorrow. it feels like i never get a break. after doing stunningly well on my interracial test last week (when most of my compadres did pretty miserably), i feel like i am due to fuck one up. i don't want to study, so i haven't. i was at mr. tony meda's residence earlier this evening, watching him put together star wars legos that he got for his birthday. i came home to study, and i was so not productive. letterman is on now, and since he was gone for a month, i MUST watch and avoid studying. i am just so not into this class that i have the exam in (nonverbal comm.) and i've just been into a lot of other things lately (i.e. spending time with mr. tony meda and spending time with my newt).

david just sent a "texty" to my phone... frank black only played SEVEN pixies songs in minneapolis. they didn't play "cactus" there. totally sucks to be him. "cactus" is like my favorite pixies song... i'm betting frank played it JUST FOR ME. yeah.

if anybody would like to do me a huge favor and take some really lame ass survey (it's long, just a warning) for my 303 class, please let me know. i did not write the survey, but i must distribute 10 copies of it. there are 8 copies left. any takers? please contact me.