Branches on the Same Tree

2004-05-27T18:23:00.000-05:00

pretty picture...

2004-05-26T23:24:00.000-05:00

poo

2004-05-25T16:05:00.000-05:00

ugh...couchblog is now scrapped. i got tired of the pastels. i'm now trying something dark and hard to read, with a bit of starkey-like influence coming in.

not much else to say.

sorry.

2004-05-24T10:49:00.000-05:00

children are horrible, evil little creatures.

they are annoying, obnoxious, and self-indulgent.

i do not like them, sam-i-am.

that's all i have to say.

2004-05-22T00:11:00.000-05:00

uh...maybe?

2004-05-22T00:10:00.000-05:00

generation 2

2004-05-21T23:32:00.000-05:00

The new site, so far....

2004-05-21T11:54:00.000-05:00

luci and i went job-hunting yesterday...fun stuff. we drove out by the racetrack and applied at the great wolf lodge, which is HUGE and neat, and then went to cabela's and walked around, then went across the street to Chateau Avalon to get applications, but we couldn't just fill them out and turn them in cause they were just in a box outside with nowhere to turn them in. after that, we went to nebraska furniture mart and wandered around for like an hour and a half, looking at computers and couches and trying out massage chairs and stuff. it rocked.

then we went to lawrence, and went into Deal$, the store where nothing is over a dollar. i got a pack of 10 gel pens and luci got some scrunchies, a headband, and something else, i don't remember what. we found some sort of dollar-store pseudo-porn, called "her bridal night" with some french girl...it was hilarious. she was kind of ugly, and on the back it described her as a "sex-kitten." hehehe. cracked me up.

i think i'm gonna add some color to this site, just a little splash here and there, but i gotta figure out how to do that without making it look ugly. i sorta like the whole gray thing, but kai's search for a better scheme has inspired me. maybe, i dunno, i think i might get into a springy theme. that would be cool. i have some random half-formed ideas in my head. hrm...

2004-05-18T10:51:00.000-05:00

This tattoo rocks...

2004-05-16T08:54:00.000-05:00

Ugh....what a weekend.

Friday, I moved home. Mom and Dad borrowed grandpa's truck, and brought it and Dad's car down to Emporia. however, there were problems. Problems like the truck deciding to DIE on the road, by spewing antifreeze and transmission fluid all over the place. So, they called me and told me, then drove the remaining 38 miles in just the car. I had almost gotten everything in boxes and bags by the time they got there, and we packed as much as we could into the Oldsmobile. Jason's mom helped us get everything finished up in my room, and then we packed a bunch of stuff into her F-250 and Jason's Skylark. However, because my parents and Jason's parents cannot seem to agree on anything, or make any sort of decision in less than an hour, we not only didn't get everything to fit, we took an extra hour standing around talking about what we were going to do.

I talked to my RA, and she said I could check out later, at like 9, and then we left(The actual posted rules stated that I had to check out at the time I had signed up for, 24 hours in advance, or pay a 25 dollar fine). Jason and I drove the Skylark to his house, went in, got some clothes for him, and left in his dad's GMC Sierra to return to Emporia. Meanwhile, our parents drove the Olds and the F-250 to Tongie, where they unloaded all of my stuff into the house. I assume Jason's parents went home after that. Jason and I got back to Emporia at around 9:30. Jason took the cart full of stuff outside, and I put my bike and the last bag of stuff and my broom out in the hallway, then went and got my RA. She was asleep, and I felt really bad for waking her up to check me out when I was like 40 minutes later than I said I would be. She was okay with it, though. She claimed she was just taking a nap.

Checkout was simple, I had missed a sticker and a few pieces of tape, but other than that there was nothing wrong with the room. We paid the 5 dollar fee for keeping the cart the whole time we were gone, and then left. We got home by like 11:30, and collapsed into our beds (Jason slept on the mattress I brought home from the dorms, in the living room).

Saturday morning, I woke up at about 6, and went out to try to wake Jason up. He did NOT want to wake up, but I managed to wake him anyway. We got up and got dressed and stuff, ate donuts from Caseys, and left to go to to Great Strides walk. We had to be there at 7:30. so we left at 6:45. It was cold and wet and miserable that early in the morning, and I was absolutely sure that the walk was going to suck. However, it warmed up quite a bit so the weather wasn't nearly as bad. We waited around for about half an hour until Luci, Alicia, Pat, Joanna, Sonja, and Angela got there. They brought orange shirts, with "Team Neo-Geo" stenciled on the back in black paint. The girls' shirts were CUTE! They're ribbed, cap-sleeve, scoop-neck shirts with 4 little snaps on the seam from the underarm to the neck, on the left side. I'll post a picture as soon as I have one.

We walked....and walked....and walked. The walk was 6.2 miles (approximately), and instead of a huge wraparound loop style path, or a few laps around the same track, we walked 1.5 miles in one direction, then back a mile, then down another fork like 2 miles, then 1 mile back, and forked off another way for .5 miles, which took us back to the shelter house. The park was beautiful and everything, but the whole doubling-back thing was annoying. Plus, I was sore already and grouchy and stuff, so I didn't have a great time, but I lived. Jason stayed with me through the whole walk, which is more than I can say for other people, so it wasn't too bad.

I'm gonna watch Finding Nemo now, with Robin, so I'll post more later, maybe.

2004-05-13T19:03:00.000-05:00

i made this (it's not done yet!) for the Desk Gnome, a girl named Sara (Sarah?) who works behind the desk in the Towers Complex Lobby. We went an entire semester without seeing her anywhere except behind said desk. Lawn Gnomes are only in Lawns, Desk Gnome is only behind Desk, right? Except, we found The Desk Gnome somewhere else once, and it freaked us out. oh well. she's nice. like, really awesome. we're gonna miss her. therefore, we decided to make her a "we'll miss you, desk gnome!" card.

yes, i'm rambling.

i'm supposed to be finishing up my packing and stuff. however, I DON'T WANT TO. i have so much stuff to do and it's overwhelming, so i'm taking a short break to relieve the whelms i have (overwhelm...whelm...yes, continue being confused).

on a side note, jason does NOT have pinkeye. he has a sinus infection that somehow traveled up into his eyes from BEHIND, as in like up through his drainage pipes or some freaky shit like that. kinda makes you a little worried about how effective washing your hands can be, when the sneaky little shits can work their way in the back door like that.

yeah.

2004-05-13T10:39:00.000-05:00

well, jason now has pinkeye. i woke him up and told him to open his eyes, and both eyelids were practically glued shut. yummy. i've been trying to take care of him but he's like a little kid when he's sick, selfish and bossy and unpleasable. i about broke down and cried cause i'm doing such a lousy job of taking care of him. nothing i've done lately has been good enough, considering the way he took care of me while i was sick. i feel like a horrible girlfriend...

i now get to figure out a few things...number one, where to put a link to someone's website, since they put a link to mine. it needs to be a permanent link, and i really don't have a space set aside for those. next, i get to spend a while trying to put sitemeter back into my site, without screwing up my tables. finally, i get to remake alicia's tag-board cause it got lost in the whole catastrophe they had. therefore, i will maybe be at the computer more than usual today, but i probably won't feel like talking.

i'm going to go quietly try to pack some more of my stuff now. i have to finish packing by tonight, basically. ugh.

2004-05-11T11:15:00.000-05:00

i have now been awake for almost 50 straight hours. i stayed up with jason last night, while he worked on his final project for art, and he didn't get done until like 5:30. we ended up having a big hashing-out of a couple of problems we've been having in our relationship, i sat and cried on the floor of the 3rd south lounge study room, he thought i was going to break up with him, and we ended up just sitting there hugging each other. we went to his room, where he was going to try to get a bit of sleep before his 8:00 am anthropology final, but we got back on the topics of earlier in the night and ended up doing some more crying and some blaming and some apologizing. by the time we were done, his alarm was going off :-( so he took a shower and i walked him to class.

we went to walmart after his class, and i bought this conditioner called Cholesterol, which you can use as a normal conditioner or as a deep-conditioning treatment, which is what i did when we got back. the stuff ROCKS. y'all should try it. i also got crest vivid white, a new, cheap, whitening toothpaste with no peroxide, that shows visible results in 14 days. whee! no more ugly teeth! (yes, i have ugly teeth.)

let's see...i'm sitting here now completely au naturel except for the towel on my head, which is holding up my pin curls. i'm feeling old-fashioned today, so i'm doing pin curls, soft makeup, and pretty clothes. of course, i won't go anywhere or see anyone except jason, but at least i can pretend that it matters what i wear, right?

aside from all that, i don't think i have anything interesting to tell. i'll be coming home friday, and going shopping with luci and alicia and most likely jason that night, and then jason will spend the night at my house. the next morning, we are going to the great strides walk and walking, but i haven't collected any of my donation money so i am gonna be the cheap-ass walker that only does it for fun. what a loser i am.

uh, yeah, i think i'm gonna go lay down. i'm finally starting to feel tired, and my eyes are burning when i blink. fun stuff, eh?

2004-05-10T16:48:00.000-05:00

well, this new blogger thing is weird. i turned on comments, had to change the way it put the deal in my template cause it said it wouldn't work, and now when you try to comment, it just takes you to the view comment page. wth? i dunno...maybe i will try again later.

alicia's tag-board needs to be recreated, i'll do that this weekend. what happened was, the tag-board people somehow lost (or broke or something) a few of their server/hard drive things. that means that all the tagboards that were on them are gone. however, older tagboards were saved on their backup files, so luci's and mine are both recovered. alicia's, being fairly new, had not been backed up yet. poop.

i have to call best buy again now, so i'll post more later. blah.

2004-05-07T13:52:00.000-05:00

well, i have a story to tell, folks.

it turns out that interesting things DO happen at ESU.

fires, for example.

this morning, at 10:30, the fire alarms went off. now, you must understand, the towers complex runs fire drills as often as possible, so alot of people ignore them as best they can. unfortunately, there are staff members that roam the halls and check EVERY SINGLE ROOM in the complex to make sure people are gone. so, nobody actually gets away with it, but people try damned hard (jason included).

anyway, the alarms went off. i was asleep still, so i sat up groggily, pulled on the same jeans i wore yesterday, and padded sleepily outside, muttering to myself something along the lines of "shitty ass damned fucking piece of shit fire drill mother fucking shit". i sat down on the stone wall around the parking lot and waited for them to let us back in....

suddenly, i heard a police siren. and another, and some other sirens that i was too sleepy to identify...we ended up with a lot of police cars, two or three fire trucks, and at least one ambulance. there was a fire in the top floor of south tower, jason's building.

at least nobody lives on 8th floor this year...they have the floor blocked off for asbestos removal, so nobody has lived there all semester, which is a good thing. a worker left a tool on overnight and it managed to catch the curtains on fire. by the time they were actually entering the building, smoke was pouring out of three windows on the front of the building, and apparently also coming out the fire escape door on the other side.

meanwhile, the inhabitants of north tower, south tower, trusler, and singular were all standing or sitting around in the parking lot catty-corner to south tower, where we got a nice little announcement about how it would be an indefinite amount of time before we could re-enter the building and blah blah blah.

jason and i went with dustin and krisi, after borrowing a pair of krisi's socks out of her car, to the union to eat. we went to jason's history class after that, and sat through 15 minutes of droning on and on about the new deal and stuff, and then left. towers was finally open again! yay! they had it closed for about 2 hours, total, and when we finally got back in our doors were all locked...i know my door was unlocked this morning. i KNOW it was. however, it was locked when i got back, so i had to go get a lockout key. apparently the same thing happened to alot of people, so they were not charging for lockout keys at the desk. yay!

so, now, i'm sitting here breathing the gross fire-extiguisher-flavored air and cleaning my room. what a morning...

blah.

2004-05-04T01:09:00.000-05:00

yay! i'm still sick! i have pinkeye in both eyes. the nurse practitioner (who is really nice) gave me two prescriptions, one for eyedrops to take care of the pinkeye, and one for Bactrim, some antibiotic, to take care of the sinus infection i apparently have. so, now, i'm sitting here with a sleep mask tilted to cover only one eye cause i have to keep it closed for 5 minutes after i put in the drops. also, i was supposed to put them in every hour, but i kinda forgot a couple of times. i've had them since about 5:00 and i've put them in my right eye 4 times and my left eye 3 times. lol.

on the bright side, i was introduced to a very addictive, very interesting website today: Everything2. it ROCKS. check it out, i dare ya. pick a random node to read, they are all pretty interesting, from what i can tell. woo!

another thing that happened today...i got really bored, and decided to try to fix this damned problem with the tables that make up this page. you know, the problem that makes the bar above this section not quite line up with the top of the side boxes? so, i got my ass in gear and actually WROTE the entire html document to make the table, and the nested tables, and stuff. i know alot of people think tables are satan's contribution to HTML, but i rather enjoy them. they're so....neat and orderly. UNTIL NOW. i wrote the HTML, it all seemed perfect, until i typed it in. now, when i view it, for some reason, it stretches. sonofabitch! the pieces don't quite line up the way they should, so i end up with odd gaps between those neat little border pieces i have for my tagboard and my little quote up there. it's pissing me off. i even had a few friends look at the HTML and they couldn't find any problems.

well, i've just managed to piss myself off again, thinking about that, so i guess i should go to bed. or, maybe, play chrono trigger. who knows? aha, i need to put eyedrops in the other eye, that's what i should do.

goodnight.

....and god bless.

2004-05-03T11:53:00.000-05:00

hi!

did you know that if you get a cold, and manage to get germs in your eye, you get pinkeye?

i found that out yesterday.

i won't share any of the gross details, i'll just say...it's very obviously pinkeye.

so. i have an appointment at the Student Health Center today at 4:15! yay! maybe they'll give me something to make my eyes feel better and not look so weird (i kinda look like i've been crying alot, except more bloodshot).

meanwhile, i'll be sitting around here sucking down these pop-ice popsicles that jason's mom bought me, drinking lots and lots of orange juice, and maybe cleaning my room up a bit. oh, yeah, and playing as much as i can manage of this stupid DEMO version of duke nukem 3D since i can't find my DISK! argh! pisses me off.

i tried to download the stupid game and found out all about the virus that packages itself as Duke Nukem 3D.exe (among other things) yesterday. fun stuff, eh? hey, i'm not complaining. it's my own damn fault. computer doesn't use protection, computer gets AIDS. i understand. leave me alone, k? i'm sick, for pete's sake. geez.

2004-05-02T14:07:00.000-05:00

almost done! yay!

2004-05-02T03:31:00.000-05:00

ARGH! i figured out what's wrong with this damn thing, i'll fix it tomorrow.

maybe.

2004-04-29T23:13:00.000-05:00

my head feels like someone has clamped a huge vise onto my temples and slowly been turning the lever for the past 2 days, until it's pressed so tight i can't hardly see, because of the pain.

my face hurts from the sinus pressure, enough that i literally can't touch my face because it hurts so much.

my neck, back and shoulders ache constantly and nothing helps, not heat, not ibuprofen, not backrubs.

have you ever accidentally swallowed pool water? know that feeling in the back of your throat, from all the chlorine? my throat feels like i gargled extra-chlorinated water for hours and hours, then drank lemon juice.

ick.

i don't like being sick, y'know?

2004-04-26T23:54:00.000-05:00

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2004-04-25T02:13:00.000-05:00

well, i think i'll be posting here from now on, but i'll also try to keep up my uJournal. who knows? i'm going to bed now, cause i finally got everything looking basically the way i want it...i decided that i need a bit of color, but i don't know what color yet so i'm leaving it the way it is. sorry.

blah.

2004-04-25T02:00:00.000-05:00

I just wanted to be the first to say I Love You on this site so I LOVE YOU

2004-04-25T01:28:00.000-05:00

I CAN POST STUFF!!!!!

2004-04-25T00:13:00.000-05:00

Well, I finally buckled down and did it...I remade my blog, entirely by myself, without using someone else's template. And I'm happy with it, so far!