31 OCT 2002 - 8.38a
the services yesterday were great... luckily we did not have the same priest at the church that we had at the wake (didn't mention him... but the guy was a cross between a priest and a lounge singer and a drill sergeant.)... the priest yesterday was really cool and did a great job of capturing who grandpa was. that was obviously very important to us.
the cemetary was the most beautiful place... he would have loved it. it was a military ceremony... just very, very touching. my grandpa earned it.
i feel like anything else i say isn't going to do yesterday justice. it was the hardest day of my life, but there was something so perfect about it... kind of queer, but like the planets were aligning for grandpa. i can't really explain it... but he would have loved everything about it.
went to work last night... had a pleasant surprise when tony stopped by post-haircut. the haircut is very short (it took me a while to realize exactly how much shorter it is), but good. it's the type of haircut parents will love.
i think i want grilled cheese for breakfast. i'm not sure if that's appropriate.
29 OCT 2002 - 11.40p
grandpa's wake was nice. they had a lot of his things out from nasa and a ton of pictures. it was really hard being there early with just the family... tears, etc. but as people started arriving, it was a lot easier. paul and lacey came (many thanks to the both of them... it wouldn't have been so easy without you there. i love you both!).
my mom and i just sat on her bed for the longest time... talking about everything. crying... and then laughing so hard my stomach now hurts. it was really, really cool.
29 OCT 2002 - 2.51p
thanks again to everybody. i can't believe how wonderful people are.
imperial teen pictures from the grog shop show on sunday are now up. check them out.
more content later. just wanted to get those photos up for any interested parties.
28 OCT 2002 - 9.25a
naked speaks.
i would like to extend thanks to everybody who emailed, called, and sent thoughts my family's way. we really, really appreciate it.
i really feel like i'm dealing with this fairly well. i have had a wonderful support system, and knowing my grandpa passed without pain or suffering is a great comfort. he was a great man, very much loved, and he had a long, wonderful life. i'm very proud of him, and i'm sure he's very proud of himself.
thanks again, everybody.
26 OCT 2002 - 4.07p
i have no idea how appropriate it is to post this here... but my grandpa died. some of you might remember increasing problems with my grandma, leading to her being placed in a home. grandpa had been by himself, and was doing well... in good health, all that.
my mom stopped by today because she takes him to see grandma in the home. there were a few newspapers on his front porch. no answer at the door. she came home, got their house key, and found him.
i'm pretty much in shock. he basically raised me... when my mom worked so much and laurie was in school, i spent many days/nights at my grandparents' house. my grandpa taught me how to read.
i might not be posting for a bit.
26 OCT 2002 - 1.21p
it's hard to believe we were nearly ready to claim insurance on newt six months ago. each ride has outdone the last since his chiropractic treatment earlier this month. i finally feel like i have my whole horse back... for the first time in two years. sure, he was sound for the whole season in 2001... but he just wasn't right... something i complained about all year. i'm really, really looking forward to the the show season next year. maybe we can even get him jumping a little more over the winter. not sure whether he'll show over fences next year or not... might just stick to hunter under saddle and low jump stuff like hunter hack.
stopped over tony's last night after work since i was in the neighborhood. didn't stay long, just long enough to watch a bit of the jackass movie special and some pavement videos off the slow century dvd he bought. this pushed me into a super pavement mood again. oh, how nutty i was about them. i miss them.
woooo! tonight marks the start of the halloween season. super excited about it. i just received word that my costume is DONE. i can hardly contain myself!
25 FRI 2002 - 4.43p
i have a feeling that lacey was talking about these in her blog. oh my god... i can't believe those are really real!!! i can't decide if i like jesus golfing with the little girls or jesus doing ballet better.
i just woke up from a nap. must get ready for work now.
25 OCT 2002 - 1.44p
eek! i hope this is a halloween prank or something... but paul "the cockmaster" cox has a new design for his blog. i am frightened of it. and all this time i thought mr. cox was straight.
25 OCT 2002 - 12.24p
it's true. i called paul h "tall" today. it was no accident. i said it and i meant it.
i hear the last minute touches are being done to my costume. i'm terribly excited. tomorrow night won't get here fast enough.
i'm back and forth on the congress thing tomorrow. this could be my last opportunity for a pumpkin cream puff until congress next year... i really should take full advantage of that. i wouldn't mind seeing the amateur hunter under saddle go... all fifty gazillion splits of it. oh well. i'm sure i could think of worse ways to spend a day.
the kidney presentation went over well with my TA and earned a smashing grade... extra credit, even (and we didn't have any additional props, aside from the plastic kidney that was the size of my head: huge!). my TA asked where my lab was this morning... uhh... didn't do it. i told her i've been out of town (?) and she said i could turn it in next week. ROCK.
the girl in my advertising class that gave me five dollars to photocopy my notes because i have good handwriting (mind you, she's taken notes the ENTIRE TIME... she has all the info, just wanted copies because mine are pretty) wasn't in class today. uhh... okay. the test is monday, so by the time she gets the notes, they will be completely pointless. ha, ha. this is also the same girl who can't hide her enthusiasm for batteries. figures.
25 OCT 2002 - 1.15a
i don't know if i'm just at the point in the semester where i don't care anymore or what. i just returned home from wilco, was thinking about how i have bio lab first thing in the morning, and realized i have a lab due in the morning. the lab was supposed to be questions we all created from our group presentations, but my TA took it upon herself to create her own questions about the body systems and diseases and crap. i just took a look at the list and there's no way i can get it done. OH WELL. that's what i say.
wilco was great. i am so unbelievably happy i went. i heard my two favorite songs, that was all i needed. really, really good. wish i would've caught them in the spring, too.
had a delightful time with tony, as always. it's funny. i don't know what's funny, but trust me it just is.
imperial teen on sunday. paul h? john? who's going? anybody? someone has to drive me.
24 OCT 2002 - 1.32a
and the award for the worst band i have ever seen goes to... the yeah yeah yeah's. more tomorrow, maybe (i don't know how important it is to discuss something i disliked so much). i would just like to say that if hating them makes me uncool, then motherfucking god bless the uncool. i am so glad i left early. not so glad that i found a parking ticket on my car... but that's no big deal.
it was fun to hang out with john. he's cool still.
23 OCT 2002 - 1.47p
the flASSk will be accompanying us to kent this weekend. i just decided. however, much to everybody's disappointment, i am not going to be carrying it in my underwear... we all know what a miserable failure that was.
23 OCT 2002 - 1.27
yeah, i'm obsessed. but there was a nice little gbv piece that our local news did when we had those grog shop shows... check it out at gbv.com. tony's in the beginning waiting outside or something. i couldn't really see it (i kept the little real player screen tiny), but he saw it on real tv and said his torso was on tv. i wasn't on at all that i could tell... what a gyp!
today is kind of cold and rainy and yuck. i was going to go to the tack store for newt's supplement and gloves... but i just feel really unmotivated to do that. gah. oh well. i really need to get the stuff. i'm debating...
tomorrow i am going to see wilco. yay!
"bulldog skin" is now in my head. HOT.
22 OCT 2002 - 9.53p
for tony: just because you enjoyed it so much the first time: I love Donal Logue, though, and for future reference I would do it to him... but probably only to get closer to doing it to Greg Dulli, as they are friends.
see, so it really has very little to do with donal logue and everything to do with greg dulli.
[now playing: the breeders - 'safari' ep]
22 OCT 2002 - 11.16a
quick update before i go riding... i had an entry all typed up ready to go... but tony has offered to pay me if i don't post it. so i guess everybody will have to wonder. i'll give you a hint... it has to do with tony thinking a certain breeders album (which i am not supposed to mention the name of) is an ep. i am completely baffled by this, and i was exploring my confusion a little more in depth with a post i had previously written, but decided to scrap it completely.
tony is still okay and i still like him. but the last i checked, 12 solid tracks constitutes an lp... and those tracks are pretty damn solid. especially track five.
[now playing: the breeders - 'pod']
21 OCT 2002 - 11.07p
my costume is going to be amazing. i spent a good majority of the evening shopping for stuff and watching lacey assemble it into my vision. i owe lacey something REALLY GOOD for this. i'm sure there will be lots of pictures... but damn, if you don't get to see it in person, consider yourself quite unlucky.
speaking of costume assembly, i actually heard lacey maybe say something about making costumes for her kids. you heard it here first... lacey talking about having kids.
i might be dissing the last weekend of the congress to drive to michigan to look at a filly that sounds more promising than anything we've looked at so far. both of her parents are world champions (well, her mom is only a reserve world champion) and most importantly, her price is right for a fast sale as her owner is going through a divorce and leaving for europe in a month or two. my mom is encouraging me to act super fast on this because this could be exactly what we've been looking for (if only she were a gelding...) and in our price range, even! her head might be a little on the large side, which is okay, because mine is, too.
my allergies just got bad all of a sudden. i should go to bed.
21 OCT 2002 - 8.57a
wow. i get a lot of hits from people that have america online. funny. i never quite realized it before.
imperial teen has a live cd that i keep forgetting came out... i might just wait to get it at the show.
i should decide if i want to go to wilco this week or what. and i'm supposed to go to congress on wednesday... BUT i have a test on thursday. lots of decisions to make.
last night i had to go to panini's in berea for marcy's birthday gathering... i guess she won some kind of free "party" or something. the food was horrible, so i mostly just drank. mostly people from work and marcy's bar friends were there. work people can get me to do anything when i am drinking.
my halloween costume is a go! lacey is busy doing the engineering of it, i'm sure. she is wonderful to help me out. yay!
20 OCT 2002 - 9.10a
it's been a busy couple of days. i haven't had time for the computer at all, which is fine with me.
friday was busy... kidneys, haircut, gbvdvd. the gbv dvd was interesting... but super exciting because it featured clips from the first ever gbv (breeders and whigs) show i ever went to. damn.
i just now, like two seconds ago, decided on a halloween costume. lacey, i need your help. you will LOVE it. please contact me ASAP.
anyhow... stayed at tony's late on friday night. woke up early to go to the congress sale yesterday. talk about insanity. there were people packed in there and it was so loud. commotion everywhere. some of the horses were really freaking out and i can't say that i blame them. early in the sale, we watched a really nice gelding and a really nice mare go for super cheap. we decided to look closer at some of the horses we were thinking about in their stalls... we had about 14 bookmarked in the catalog... and out of those 14, i only really liked two of them enough to want to bring them home. the first was a chestnut yearling... he ended up bringing a cool $18,500, just um... slightly... out of our price range. the second was a grey two year old (a little older than we wanted) that was really cool. he was "small" for his age, so we suspected he'd be more in our range than the yearling. i looked him over, and his knees were WIDE open, so i knew he had a lot more growing to do. he was probably 16 hands even at the hip, a little lower up front. well... when he went up, we bid on him twice until he was just barely out of our predetermined range. it was okay, though... as much of a pain as looking is, i at least know there's more out there for me.
that being said, i've enlisted the help of robin. she's going to look at that filly with me that i saw a few weeks back. she also knows what i like, and will be a great person to have keep their eyes open for me.
after congress, i went to the barn where i called tony (figuring baseball hadn't started yet). he was very curious about my whereabouts and how long i'd been there. i didn't suspect a thing, but it seemed a little odd when he seemed so very, very sure that i was going to talk to him later. hmm.
i went home and there was a bag of stuff for me with handcrafted card from tony. it was actually better than just stuff... gummi, socks, and a ryan adams cd. ah ha... so that's why he was so sure he'd talk to me later... and why he was so curious about where i was... and when i was leaving for congress and coming home (the previous night). it was a very pleasant surprise. i giggled much and called lacey immediately, who strongly encouraged me to attend the function at tony's instead of her own.
so, to tony's it was... i got to meet a lot of the people i have only heard about so far. pretty cool. i was a little wiped out from my day of horse auction and shopping... but it was okay. i ventured into tony's kitchen, which was really neat. i'll probably go in it again sometime.
after everybody left, tony and i watched a shins video. so funny, i love them. especially marty... i really, really want to put him in a shoe box now.
18 OCT 2002 - 12.34p
paul cox is a thief. i have more i want to say, but there's other things i want to talk about.
i'll start backwards. my kidney presentation ROCKED. there is no other way around it... it ROCKED. everybody else was reading off of their papers... i just totally got up there and talked, as did my partner. we worked really well off of each other and i'm sure the impression was given that we actually knew what we were talking about. definite A on that.
gbv was great, of course. wasn't the best show, and i can't help but feel somewhat slighted. there should have been another encore or something. i can't explain it. i'm so glad we went, though. it didn't even really seem like they played that long... super cool to go with someone just as crazy as myself who can sing every word and all that kind of stuff. yeah. so, they played good stuff... cut-out witch (i can never hear that song enough live), watch me jumpstart, lethargy, tony's favorte - official ironmen rally song, DRINKERS PEACE (!!), game of pricks, and of course tons more. tony just pointed out that we did not hear helicopter... just plain odd.
superdrag also played. i didn't think they were very cool. i saw them a long time ago, thought they were okay or whatever... but i just wasn't into them at all last night. bob came out and did a song with them, which was great. but they played their "hit" from a few years back... only it was like they played it twice as fast. there were people that knew the words to other songs. hmm. i wonder.
then tony had a great surprise when 84 nash opened. they were cool, yeah. oh yeah, and i thought i saw mark (from high school), only he looked like he gained about 100 pounds. only it wasn't mark. oh well. kind of funny.
it's almost time for the haircut!! yip! then i have to go riding... and then it's gbvdvd night with tony. yay!
I may be a thief, or I may not. After building up a 2000-strong cassette collection during my teens and early 20's, then buying a siginificant number of cd's and records (about another 1000 of each format), I've purchased more music in the last fifteen years than ten average people do in a lifetime. I feel that, after pouring such a significant amount of capital into an industry which continues to disappoint me more with each passing year, I'm just taking a return on my investment.
Hope your haircut turns out fantastically, though.
17 OCT 2002 - 2.45p
so, i went from being sad about missing gbv in columbus to being happy because now i am going.
tony is the worst influence ever.
but we're blaming it all on kelly, which is fine with me.
17 OCT 2002 - 2.04p
tomorrow is my kidney presentation in my bio lab. super queer stuff. i just found a great article that will be the basis of my presentation. joanne (the kidney expert) liked how the article was in the "your kids" section of the website.
everybody knows i love paul cox... but in his list of worst albums of the year so far, he mentions ugly cassanova. i have that album, it's good, not great. fine, whatever. but what i don't understand is why paul cox would even purchase the album... he hates modest mouse, hates brock, etc. sure, he's entitled to his own opinions about the mouse and brock and whatnot, but let me ask you this, paul cox: why the hell would you buy that album? i can think of a lot of bands i dislike... for instance, just bringing this up based on the apparent break up of the promise ring... if a promise ring guy made another album with some of his friends, i wouldn't buy it because chances are, i wouldn't be interested in it since i dislike the promise ring. it would be a waste of my (much needed) money. shame on you for being a poor consumer, paul cox. you deserve to have so many albums you dislike! and i'm not even going to discuss putting gbv on your list. shame.
i'm hungry for oreos.
Who said anything about *buying* the Ugly Cassanova album? I bent the law and obtained it online, just like half of the other albums I've heard this year. If you think I'd go out of my way to line Issac Brock's pocket with spending money, you're crazy.
Also, I thought I was relatively kind to GbV, considering how much I used to love them, and how often they've let me down album-wise the past few years.
16 OCT 2002 - 4.40p
i think i managed to shock the hell out of tony today by telling him that not only do i like jackass but that i own a big, long tape of all the pre-jackass skate videos. i had to laugh when he said, "i'm taking you to see that movie, it's my golden opportunity, so deal with it." yeah, i'm sure you all know how i feel about movies. that's why i laughed.
newt requested that i call him "mr. withers" today. so, mr. withers it is. i love newt.
i am in a mood. and it is good.
[now playing: sunny day real estate - 'diary']
16 OCT 2002 - 1.07p
i'm getting a haircut on friday. get this: darlene moved to a different salon, right? well, when i figured it would be inconveniently located, nothing could have prepared me for it being in NORTH RIDGEVILLE! but i am going. it will be a wee adventure but i don't care. i love darlene and i really, really need a haircut.
i got two imperial teen posters from the grog last night. i'm looking forward to that show a lot.
phoebe has finally recovered from the congress trip. she was cranky most of the time there... but she did get to ride on an elevator for eleven floors at the hotel. i think that's the longest elevator ride she's ever had. she was really cranky yesterday... today she seems her happy self again.
i have the hiccups.
15 OCT 2002 - 9.11a
i have some time to kill before i go riding. i'd like to share this picture of newtie and me, which was taken exactly one year ago today at the congress. i hate the picture because he looks like a praying mantis. i don't know why we can never get decent professional shots of us over a jump.
my hair cut is definitely happening this week. i've put it on hold for far too long. darlene moved to a different salon, which now sounds like it's even more inconveniently located. great. but i only work wednesday and sunday this week (took all kinds of time off for congress), so i guess i should have time to drive out to god knows where for a haircut. i would like to have some sort of celebratory thing to bid my long hair farewell.
actually, i'm just looking for any excuse to drink away my sorrows, as i'm missing gbv in columbus on thursday.
i guess my sister and her husband bought a house in richmond, virginia last month or something. they're on their way down, moving from new york today. my sister told my mom they weren't stopping for gas once in virginia. hm.
halloween is rapidly approaching. i have to decide what i'm going to do... i need to put a costume together for work (must call lil' jen about this) and whether or not it will be related to my actual halloween costume has yet to be decided. i'm not sure if i should scrap the pink ninja idea or what. i have really got to get on this. lacey? help?
[now playing: belle and sebastian - 'tigermilk']
14 OCT 2002 - 9.20p
i am so happy to be home. congress was fun... cold this year (but everyone is telling me we had a much colder congress last year... i don't care, cold is cold!), boring at times, but it was good. i was a little disappointed that i wasn't terribly motivated to want to show after watching about ten million hunter trips yesterday... in fact, i was feeling very anti-horse show, despite watching so much and picking the first and second place horses (out of many, many, many horses) in every class i watched. i have a good eye! the judging was much better than in years past, but of course, there's always the one judge who is watching a different class than the other three.
i'm feeling a little more motivated after watching a few classes today. not that we'll be horse showing any time soon... but i have to set goals for next year and stuff. we'll see.
having spent the better part of the last two days at the congress, i really have nothing exciting to talk about.
12 OCT 2002 - 2.35p
i forgot to add that tony gave me gummi worms. anybody that knows me well will know exactly how significant a gesture that is to me.
12 OCT 2002 - 2.09p
i'm tired. tony night was last night. i was tired when i got there. met his friend tom... very cool, funny, etc. i felt a little out of it. went for a drink... then back to tony's. there was a lot of discussion, all of which was good, as always. he told me i'm good in cars. i'm extremely flattered.
yes, so things are very nice and i am excited.
tomorrow joanne and i are heading to the congress. it will be almost a relief to NOT have newt there. there was a lot of debate about whether we would stay the night to monday... she was convinced phoebe didn't want to go. well... looks like we're staying. she found a last minute dog-friendly hotel room, which is unbelievable... i'm surprised she found one. we'll be doing the usual shopping down there... and baby hunting! exciting! and there will be lots of sitting around, doing nothing on my part. woo for that!
[now playing: the pixies - 'trompe le monde']
11 OCT 2002 - 11.54a
i had my bio lab this morning which was completely and totally pointless. we just had to turn in our lab from last week and then we had to decide on a topic for a presentation with our lab partner. jamie and i are doing kidney disease. great, huh? since my mom has devoted the better part of her life to kidney-related stuff, i figured it would be fairly easy to make a decent 10 minute presentation out of it. especially since i can get props and stuff, too. we have to do the presentations early next friday morning, which is exactly why i can't go to gbv. right?
anyhow, we were in class for maybe twenty minutes tops. i couldn't justify sitting around for almost two hours doing absolutely nothing... so i left and went shopping. i picked up two shirts, four pairs of socks, some underwear, and (lacey will be thrilled) my they might be giants halloween ticket.
i wonder how lacey is doing... she didn't sound too hot late last night.
so... not much left to say. i'm hungry, lunch is a priority. then horses... the whole herd is going out again today... hopefully i'll find time to ride tomorrow. work follows that, and then tony's tonight. another busy day...
[now playing: the breeders - 'pod']
11 OCT 2002 - 7.43a
slept well last night. there is no way i can go to gbv next week. so i'm not going to even think about it anymore. i just finished my lab that's due today. good for me. and i don't know what else. i need caffeine.
10 OCT 2002 - 2.39p
so, i'm still blushing and acting like a goon. i have to just get over it.
i had a lengthy conversation with lacey as i lounged pastureside while the herd was out. the horses were bad, i was making a pile of rocks to throw at them. but i figured that might make the "wild stallions" worse. they eventually settled. anyhow... lacey and i talked about tattoos and other stuff. a lengthy conversation, yes... and at some point, i did the famous naked o'malley whine... the one that is often imitated, never duplicated. i'm not even sure how it goes, really.
10 OCT 2002 - 10.36a
wow... since i know who reads this and stuff, a lot of tony's people have checked today. that's totally cool, though. hi tracy (i don't know you)!! hi person that tony works with (i don't know you either)!!
so, last night was great. i can't say anything other than that... any sort of review i could give doug martsch wouldn't do him any justice. i smiled a lot. it was just a great, nice, sweet show. unfortunately, the girls standing in front of us sucked, as did the architect sophomore standing behind us.
i'm dragging a bit today. i'm not doing anything justice.
the ride to columbus and back was fast... not speedy fast, but just good conversation and time really passed. another really weird (but good) thing in common with tony: gummi. i'm not going to say more than that.
yeah, this is where things are going to get weird for me. under normal circumstance i'd be saying all kinds of glowing, gushing, really lovely things about tony... girl crushing on a boy type of things. and there, i've probably said more than i wanted to, given all the "friends of t." that read this. but it's no big deal. it's not like my friends haven't heard it all already. but yeah, i'm going to hit the "done!" button and run out to the barn.
done!
08 OCT 2002 - 8.01p
a girl said "blow job" in my media class today. i laughed.
i'm sure by typing that i have generated a lot more pornographic possibilities in which my site can be found on search engines.
i have to go "babysitting" now. my last night with darling chrissy!
tomorrow is doug martsch in columbus with tony! hopefully babysitting and sleeping and class and horse chiropractics will go by fast.
08 OCT 2002 - 3.13p
i am so tired. i have to go to class. babysitting resumes tonight at 10 or whenever chrissy gets home from whatever practice it is that she has. hm.
07 OCT 2002 - 9.27p
while we're waiting (still) for our fucking pizza, i'd like to share a beautiful prayer that my babysitting charge wrote last night. i'm sure you'll all find it to be rather inspirational. without further ado:
ode to the lake
the waves crash against the break wall
a sense of power fills my soul
looking at the horizon canada is nowhere to be seen
a sense of smallness fills my soul
in the strugge of life help me
to be like a sailboat and float
along t greatness and not to
crash like waves against the wall.
amen, chrissy.
okay. back to babysitting.
i'd also like to add to anybody who may be reading this to "check me out"... i am a nice person or else i wouldn't be trusted with somebody's CHILD. yeah, i know she's 17... but still... that's a very corruptable age. i'm doing a damn good job. i even packed a lunch for her.
07 OCT 2002 - 1.17p
you know, i last had a haircut in may. i thought i hadn't had one since march or april. it's only been since may! how did my hair grow so fast?!
i think i'm too busy this week to make a hair appointment... between babysitting and then having vet visits and columbus on wednesday plus school and work and all of the usuals. next week, for sure.
07 OCT 2002 - 9.16a
hello... a brief update while i am babysitting... stopped home to get some socks. i'll probably be back here after class, but i'm not sure.
we went and looked at the filly yesterday. it was way out in the middle of nowhere (smithville?)... it made for kind of a nice drive, though. leaves are starting to change, and it was pretty and stuff. on the way there, we passed a horse TIED outside someone's house (trailer?) with a big sign that said, "HORSE FOR SALE." we were going to stop and get a picture on the way back, because we found it very amusing... but there were people outside of the house. anyhow, the baby horse was VERY nice. i really liked her a lot, and i think my mom did, too. so... if we don't find anything better at congress, we might have to get her. she's by far the nicest i've seen yet.
"babysitting" is going well. i'm having fun. last night we went out to eat and then watched a performance art type video that chrissy made for her AP world lit class... oh, it was brilliant. i sincerely hope her teacher "gets it" and gives chrissy a good grade. i'm going to be talking about 'levin' for a long time.
must remember to bring my digital camera tonight.
06 OCT 2002 - 10.44a
i am up waaaaaaay too early. i was at tony's until 4 this morning. i had such a good time, as always... he has a vincent gallo (!!!) cd. we looked at pictures and talked and talked and talked. he's cool, yeah. i'm excited to go to columbus with him on wednesday.
so, going to look at the yearling filly this afternoon. we'll see how that goes, i guess. i have no idea what to expect.
that's about it, i guess. i hope lacey calls me soon.
05 OCT 2002 - 6.29p
you know what rules? the west nile virus!!!!! rock and fucking roll, that's my front yard.
05 OCT 2002 - 1.48p
my allergies are horrible today. i have no idea why, as one would think that following rains and stuff like that, the stuff in the air that makes me sneeze wouldn't be in the air.
i went riding this morning. it is simply too cold for newt. he's more of a hot weather horse... loves 90 degrees and humidity. i think he wanted to buck me off today. would've been funny, but it didn't happen.
tomorrow we're going to look at a yearling filly sired by the late chips count chocula. we'll see... she sounds like something i'd be interested in, personality-wise. not planning on making any kind of purchase until after the congress, though.
now i have nothing to do for the rest of the afternoon. drinking with tony tonight. i might take phoebe to the store for some new toys. all of hers right now are pretty pathetic.
[now playing: doug martsch - 'now you know']
04 OCT 2002 - 4.33p
note to self: spoon on conan o'brien - november 6.
04 OCT 2002 - 12.22p
i tried to nap last night. i mean, it was fairly successful, except for a few people calling me. these are people i almost never hear from, except for when i call them... so in my sleepy fog, i probably ended conversations somewhat abruptly. the first call came from david, who admitted he was calling me because someone had just called and woken him up from a nap. thanks, "dave." the last call came from the canadian formerly known as the canadian, calling to make sure i was going to watch survivor. thanks, again.
i ran into paul h this morning at school. it was delightful. he went to the chamber on wednesday (the phantasy? whatever!) and made out with the girl he likes. let's hear it for making out! woo, go paul h.
last night amy showed me this picture from the post belle and sebastian cheese and spinach dip madness (that's my favorite amps shirt that i sleep in, by the way!). the picture made me want to get my hair cut. but i'm so indecisive. i don't remember the last time my hair was this long and i'm enjoying it just a bit. i might hold off on a cut, even though my hair is cute when it's short.
this is the first weekend in forever that i have both saturday and sunday off. i have no idea what i'm going to do with myself, aside from the usual (riding) and hanging out with tony tomorrow.
i'm going to have pizza for lunch.
03 OCT 2002 - 1.53p
middle names are very important.
so, i had a great ride on the newter today. hopped him over a few little fences and he was great... not crazy like one might expect him to be after only jumping a grand total of ten jumps since last october. this is cause for celebration, whether anybody reading this realizes it or not. so much celebration is in order that i'm afraid i'm going to have to skip my second class today.
i have been debating about skipping this class all day so far... i really have no good reason to skip it, aside from never having skipped it yet this semester. and it's kind of a boring class... it's that media class. so, i'm trying my best to justify skipping. i bet i end up going, just out of a lack of anything else to do.
[now playing: imperial teen - 'what is not to love?']
02 OCT 2002 - 10.26p
i am so tired. no plans for tonight, especially since i had to stay at work much longer than expected when i dropped a big box of artists' cards that were in alphabetical order. after i dropped them, they weren't in any order. SO... had to stay and get those back to where they needed to be. i suck.
i am so tired today! for no good reason!! i keep forgetting to mention my upcoming babysitting adventure. it's not really babysitting so much as monitoring the behavior of chrissy, who is 17. i'll be staying at her house for a few days starting sunday while her parents are in vegas. i talked to her mom today and i'm kind of under the impression that the only reason i'm staying there is to make sure chrissy eats dinner. i'm going to take her out for falafel every night. we've already made some tentative plans for our three nights together... we're going to do makeovers and chrissy wants to dye my hair (unlikely). we're also going to have a huge party... you know, the kind where there's ten million people and a lot of stuff gets broken. so if anybody wants to come to a party sunday, monday, or tuesday night, i'll give you directions (even though i don't have them myself)... or just drive to strongsville and ask someone where the party is... they'll be able to help you out.
[now playing: yo la tengo - 'electr-o-pura']
02 OCT 2002 - 12.25p
i am so not feeling as much stress as the one crazy girl in my advertising group. i don't get it... project is due in december, and i understand there's a lot of stuff to do for it, but at the same time... she is insane. we're doing energizer batteries for our mock campaign... fine, whatever. she wants to target it towards women. i don't know about you, but when i think "women" and "batteries", i think "vibrator." i want a different target audience... but she is insane, and is taking this way too seriously. the chick needs to relax.
i am completely exhausted today, even though i slept better and longer last night than i have in days. i have to play with the horse and work tonight. fun.
01 OCT 2002 - 10.09p
i am going to make someone's day with this... i just asked lovely amy if different color grapes smell different, not asking specifically about colors or smells... and she said: yes. purple ones are sweeter smelling. for sure.
01 OCT 2002 - 9.18p
for your viewing enjoyment... my gbv pictures can now be viewed at gbv.com in the "concert pictures" section. i'm terribly blushy about this, for no good reason, aside from seeing my name on the gbv site. queer.
becky will be pleased to know that i was TWO POINTS away from an A on that bio test i bitched and moaned about. yeah, i'll take a B. i'll also take the A that i "earned" on the WORST paper i have ever written in my life... the one i struggled with that was about tv violence. i'll quickly add that that A was given by the professor who loves my name and who gave me the curve-throwing exam grade. hmm.
i had a nice phone conversation with tony tonight. i laughed and stuff, except for when he was telling his friend to check my pictures on that site. that was embarrassing. i will get over it, i will, i will, i will.
