I Slave Away at This While You Drink TV and Watch Beer...

Hey hey.

2006-05-23T17:29:58Z

Life is going well. Im at work... Duane isn't here today and left me a list of things to do. I've done everything on the list... and am not aware of anything else that needs to be done... and its only 10. Only SIX more hours to go. Dang.

So, I quit my job in January because it was a big piece. I went to Spain in March with Lucy which was rad. We went to Madrid and Barcellona and then to Paris and then Amsterdam. Barcellona was definitely my favorite, it was gorgeous and full of things to do and everything was open until midnight or later! Paris was cool but expensive. Amsterdam was fun although snowy and unpleasant.

I started a new job at Cemex (a cement factory) which is a million times better than my last job with Sequoia. The factory is 10 minutes from my house up the highway along the coast. My last job had an hour commute so I'm totally stoked about that. Mostly my job is to call my coworkers at the various departments and pester them to find numbers they often don't have to finish the million environmental reports that the EPA, air district, county, etc etc needs to make sure we aren't breaking laws. It's pleasant because I like everyone so far, but often frustrating because, like I said, they don't have said numbers and also have a million other things to do. Anyway, they also pay me like twice as much as my last job did, which is mad tight yo.

It's Lucy's birthday today, and was Michael's birthday on Friday! Happy 21st guys!

Bitches.

2005-02-08T08:43:50Z

So Spaz is going to die soon. :-( She had a stroke about two weeks ago and another just recently. Lame.

Have a midterm tomorrow in astrophysics. Also lame.

Its nearly 1 am and I havent studied for said midterm. Also lame.

I have a bunch of things due that I need to do that I havent started really. Seriously lame.

AND, my car has a slowly leaking flat. BAH.

Updates

2005-02-02T02:32:59Z

So the art exhibit was awesome (I know its been a while, Im a flake). It was just as cool as I thought, and just about as gross as I thought too. It was also cool to see my dad, and Carl. I may go down to LA again in a few weeks, possibly to see Mr. Jagd and Carl again, but I dont know if Im going to visit my parents. I have really really had enough of my mom. She called me the other day to nag at me about a parking ticket that I had forgotten to pay and that she was mailed about, and to look for a job. Then she called me again 15 minutes later to say the exact same things and to tell me that I had upset my dad about not going to the career center yet. Then when I said I wanted to try to stay in Santa Cruz she started telling me what a horrible child I was for not using the fancy education that they paid for without my asking that they basically forced me to get. Really, I think that it was less effort to get a bachelor's degree in chemistry than to deal with my mom's yammering at me about not going to college. GOD. Anyway, I screamed at her for telling me that Im a terrible person and that Im not listening to her anymore about it. I also let my dad know what happened and said that Im not talking to her anymore. I have nothing to say to her at this point if shes still going to treat me like shit. So she called the other day and said "We need to talk." I havent, and I dont think Im going to call her back. Ive had enough, and shes only slowing down the process of my doing anything by screaming at me and making me angry and sad.

So what else... weve had a few great parties at Lucy's house. Nothing of particular note, but theyve been a lot of fun and I have many great new pictures. I discovered at one of these parties that someone left a juice drink under the passenger seat in the car which fermented and exploded, releasing some evil jank spirits into my vehicle. So I took the passenger seat out of my car and scrubbed the carpet. it came out and now the inside of my car looks huge and everything smells much nicer. I also had to sweep (shovel) the leaves off the driveway cuz I kept tracking composted plant matter into the car as I cleaned. Big job for an odwalla drink. I love my car. The art exhibit showing the interior of human bodies did not give me any confidence in my life depending on the functioning of a bag of meat and protein based organs... However, taking apart my car in the ways that I have so far gives me confidence in that machine. Its very well put together.

Also, I had no idea this could happen: The end of Becka's ear ring was consumed by her ear, such there wasnt even a bump! The skin was totally smooth, but you could feel the metal in there. It was the damndest thing. So apparently no one would get it out for her and she asked me to do it. Im a little weird, so I was more than happy to. I did it right before a party so I had an audience of about eight people watching the whole process with utter fascination. Towards the end, Cory had to go buy me a pair of needle nosed tweezers to get it out. The exacto blade wasnt doing the job well enough. Becka was super awesome about the whole thing, she hardly even flinched. Im a puss when it comes to pain so I would have been pissing and moaning about the whole thing. After I was done the rest of the party showed up and saw bloody paper towels all over the table, and the audience was quick to let everyone else know what had happened. People were impressed. It was fun. Later that night Becka went to go look at her ear and was super impressed with how small the cut was, and insisted that I consider becoming a surgeon. Quite an ego boost!

Home!

2005-01-07T03:05:01Z

Its good to be home. I had a wonderful coming back. I made it to Lucy's before new years by about fifteen minutes, and apparently everyone was all worried that I wasnt going to make it in time. It was so wonderful to walk in the door and have everyone in the house who knew me scream "CARLA!!!!" and give me a huge hug and tell me that they missed me. Yay. Im loved. I had a great time staying at Lucys for like.. god, six days or something. I so live there.... I hope I dont end up overstaying my welcome.

The last day in Dublin was fabulous. Mikey and I went to our first bar and got drunk one last time. We met these two guys and hung out with them the whole night and went to this sort of lame sort of cool club and danced the night away. Before we left we went into their room so that the one dude could change into more flattering clothes. I tossed my jacket onto the desk... right into their little pile of cocaine that I totally didnt see. It was fine, I didnt like, blow it away or anything, but that was sort of silly and very freaky. Drugs freak me out. Im a total pansy when it comes to anything harder than like.. pot. At the club they played dragostea din tei which was AWESOME. Thats totally our song from the trip. It was the best thing ever. That and "Yeah" by Usher. Its a crappy song, but goddamn if they didnt play it at EVERY SINGLE place we went. Wed be in a club for ten minutes and theyd play that song. Or it was on the radio. Or playing in the pub. Or playing in department stores. EVERYWHERE. Damndest thing.

So I have rainbow hair now. Its rad. Its green at the roots and fades to purple at the ends. I couldnt get blue in it because there was so much red in the base, but oh well. My fingernails are blue. That counts, sort of. Hannah rules.

All my classes seem really cool, which Im super stoked on. Theyre all Tu Th which means I get four day weekends every week. So thats tight as hell. Dare I say it... w00t. Theyre also back to back which means one, I dont get breaks (sorta lame) but two, that I dont have any dead time. I think I like it best this way. Im taking bioinorganic chemistry which is fucking rad, a science teaching course which is VERY interesting to say the least, and a macroastronomy class. The teaching class will be weird. There are only 7 people in it, and the teacher is unusual to say the least. Astronomy will be vaguely interesting, but an easy A, because Im brilliant. Hahaha.

A bunch of us are driving to LA to see this CRAZY ass art exhibit of all these people preserved in injection moulded plastic. That sort of sums it up... different parts of them are preserved, so you have a guy throwing a basketball with no skin. Or a guy who only has his nervous system and bones, or a pregnant woman and you can see her fetus. Its SO crazy and fascinating and beautiful. Theres even a guy riding a horse and a guy fencing whos split into three parts at his arm, of bones muscle and skin. SO weird! Anyway, Im going to finish cleaning my car.

Coming Home

2004-12-30T20:13:09Z

Went shopping with Becky and Kate that day, really hectic what with all the post Christmas shoppers. Then that night we went clubbing which was awesome. Mikey and I got really drunk and danced for hours on this little platform thing on stage. Tried some interesting blue and red drinks that tasted exactly the same. Mikey found a lovely young lady to hit on that only talked to him because she thought he was on cocaine. (due to the fact that he was dancing like a crackhead and having tons of fun) She had some LEGS on her, which was rad. I think she was a bitch though, one because she wouldnt dance with Mikey when he asked, and two, when she joined us on the platform with her friends, this other guy came up to dance with us and she told him to go away. He wasnt even invading anyones space, just dancing by himself sorta, and she was like, 'youre in the way, we dont want you up here.' Ho.

Woke up the next morning and Becky was all cracked out. Not sure why. Said goodbye and her dad drove us to the bus station and we spent the whole day on the way back to Dublin. Becky's dad is awesome by the way. We loved him a lot and were sad to leave that house. Her parents fed us a lot of really good food, and gave us lots of booze, all for free. They were rad. Even their dog, Georgia, was really tight. Little white mop dog. Friendly and not hyper or obnoxious. Becky and Kate are totally cool too. It was great to see them on their own turf. Theyre coming back (hopefully) to Santa Cruz soon, so we'll be able to return the favor of their awesome hospitality. By the way, Becky and Neil should get married and have lots of babies.

Dublin has been fun too, but hideously expensive. We went to see St Patrick's cathedral, Dublin Castle (briefly), and the Christ Church Cathedral. All were rad, but we got pulled into this crappy tourist trap called Dublinia. (looking back on it, the name should have given that away, but we wanted in the gift shop at the end. Though, because getting into a gift shop is an awful reason for doing anything, we really deserved the tourist trap, so, tough shit. It was a crappy gift shop anyway.) Then Mikey spent the whole day shopping for gifts for his family, which totally sucked... again, hideously expensive. But at least its done. Just to let you all know, I didnt get you shit. Its expensive, and I cant think of anything to get any of you. That and I really hate you guys. You can all suck someone else's balls. I dont have any, and Mikey's all touchy about that sort of thing. Really, Itd be worse for him if that actually happened. So yeah, someone else's. (We had a whole indepth debate about the ball sucking, and that's the conclusion we reached.) I dont want to come home at all. Youre all terrible people, and I hope you die. Please. PS people in Ireland are way hotter than you. WTF is up with that. Get your shit together. And they smell better too. Goddamn dirty hippies. You all suck. When I get back, Im going to kill all of you in the face. FYI, Ive had a shitload of caffeine, and intend to stay up all night. Mikey thinks Im retarded... and Im not sure why Im typing that. So were going to go get really trashed and make fun of you at the first pub we arrived at. You know, complete the cycle and all that shit. I hate you. You are totally lame, and superweak. Screw you guys-- were going home.

Updates from Birmingham

2004-12-28T11:20:31Z

So weve left Bath. That was actually quite sad, I was getting attached to Sara, her mom, and that adorable little house. When I grow up I want a ridiculously tiny, adorable little house thats really posh on the inside. Sara's mum gave us an invitation to stay there whenever we found ourselves in England again, which I will very likely take her up on. I had some great conversations with her, and I really appreciated talking to an older person who has her head on so straight. She apparently loved having us there and was really sad to see us leave. Snif. Oh well, such is travel. We left early on the morning of the 27th. Sara left at like 7am to make it up to Gatwick, and we left for the bus stop a few hours later. We found however that the busses werent running and we were going to miss our train. However, one of Sara's friend's (Patrick) mums was nice enough to give us a ride to the bus station. We made it with MINUTES to spare. There was no space on the train so we and about a half dozen other people crammed ourselves into the walkway between the rail cars right next to the toilet. That sort of sucked, but it was quite fun at the same time to talk to all of them and commiserate on being trod upon by those seeking to get snacks from the other car, or to use the loo.

Were in Birmingham right now with Becky and Kate, staying with the former's parents. This house is really impressive. Its also on the smaller side, very quaint, but each of the rooms is decorated in extremely decadent baroque style detail. Since weve arrived, I swear we must have eaten 4000 calories worth of food so far. We had this amazing lamb dinner last night that I ate tons of, and then for the rest of the night Becky's parents continually offered us more and more food or drinks, all of which were fantastic, and so very difficult to turn down. Mikey had tons to drink, and got to perform his standard 'America Sucks' rant, that I didnt have to listen to cuz I was in the den. Woo! Then we watched this really weird tv show which was a bit like a sit com, but all the characters were real lions who were made to talk using computers. It was utterly bizarre.

Today I believe we are going to go see some castles, which Im looking forward to. That or were going to go shopping and take advantage of the after christmas sales. Perhaps Ill pick up some more clothes. Ive only brought two shirts with me, and I must say, Im quite tired of wearing both of them.

Ian, if youre reading this, I gave Sara her t-shirt. She was very touched and really loved it and sends many thanks.

So Lucy, I keep meaning to ask... and Im a little afraid to... have you been feeding my rats, or did you forget about them? If youve forgotten... Im sure its too late now, so I wouldnt bother going in there to investigate the carnage. If you havent forgotten, then yay. No worries. Also, my hair is looking particularly unimpressive. I have a long stripe of roots across the centre of my head, and the colour is looking quite drab. I also want to incorporate purple into the redone fade, so if you would, pass the word along to Hannah so shell have dyes and bleach ready for when I come home.

Were leaving tomorrow to go back to Dublin to make absolutely sure that we dont miss the flight home. That would be superweak. One thing Ive noticed which was really odd: since Im not that good with faces, and am very ADD, so it feels like Ive been away from home for ages. I cant really picture anyone's face clearly so you all feel like distant memories of people that Im not going to see again. (Itd be sad except I know its not true) At this point, as far as my subconscious is concerned, Mikey is the only person who exists in the world. All other people last for like 3 days and then dissappear. Itll be strange to, one, stop moving around so much, and two, not see Mikey every waking moment of every day. Im suprised he and I havent been at each other's throats more, although weve enjoyed countless rounds of non-serious bickering about every possible stupid subject, which has been quite fun.

I had such a wonderful Christmas over here. It was really refreshing to do something else than get nagged at by my mom. It was especially nice to get trashed with a group of great people, and then go roaring around town at three in the morning on Christmas Day, singing carols at the top of our lungs and (at least Mikey and I were) quoting long sections of Lord of the Rings.

Im up to three hundred pictures now. There will be TONS of stuff to look at when we get home.

Boxing Day!

2004-12-26T13:39:32Z

So, Christmas was lovely. The night before on Christmas Eve we went out to the bars. Sara took us to the Bell initially and we all had a jolly good time. It was sorta crazy in there though: standing room only, and broken pint glasses all over the floor. We had a few drinks there and then we all decided to break into the Roman Baths to go swimming. This sounded like a really fun idea except for the fact that you have to jump in from a ledge. This means theres no way to get back OUT of the baths except to get arrested. As American citizens, I felt it was very unwise to engage in an activity that requires getting arrested in a foreign country.

So instead we went to the Mole, which was a pub/rave sort of joint. That was great-- they were playing early 90's crappy dance music. That made me kinda homesick. Im definitely looking forward to the goth party. Patrick, one of Sara's friends, kept buying us shots of this godawful but really really tasty cough syrup like liquor. Cant remember what its called now. Anyway, we had a great time dancing there, and then walked across town to get to her friend Kai's house. He was sleeping and didnt answer the door though so that was kind of a bust. By this time though we were all very well plastered so we didnt really care. We then walked to this other party but never made it inside. Sara had quite a bit too much to drink and semi passed out in a park in front of the party. We stayed with her there for about twenty minutes and then walked home. Unfortunately home was ALL THE WAY ACROSS TOWN... so it took quite a while to get there, and we were walking really fucking fast. Despite the fact that she was sick and throwing up, Sara managed to keep up the 'canvasser covering lots of ground' pace. That sucked for me, cuz Im lazy and cant walk quite that fast, but it was probably better to get home ASAP. We got back, I was feeling fine, but then I sat down and the room started to whirl around. I counted what Id had and had just crossed the 5 drink limit where Im still ok. So... little barf, not too bad, then to sleep.

Christmas Day was quiet, because Sara wasnt in that great shape. We watched the two towers and eventually opened presents. It was fun, but everyone was pretty ADD about it and it took like an hour to get everything open. People kept getting up and wandering about before all the gifts were open.

At around sundown we went up to Salisbury Hill which is the site of an old iron age fort and what I would imagine is the highest peak in Bath. We watched a beautiful icy sunset and saw the lovely city all around below. That was a really beautiful experience. The moon was full and huge directly opposite the sun on the horizon, and a big portion of the sky was pink and purple and orange.

Then, that evening we watched Return of the King, but not the extended version. It was cool, good to see that movie again. I want to see the long version though, Im sure its much better.

Today is Mikey’s birthday: hes 20. I think were all going to do something fun for that but it doesn’t appear that weve cemented any plans quite yet. We might go take advantage of the Boxing Day sales, or go for a drive in the countryside. Tomorrow were off to Birmingham to visit Becky and Kate for a few days… and then I think thatll pretty much conclude our trip. Talk to you guys later, and thanks for commenting, its really fun to hear from the folks at home.

Merry Christmas (eve)

2004-12-24T19:03:40Z

Hullo from Bath! Were having a lovely time here at Sara's mum's house. Its been wonderful so far to be staying at a real home rather than a youth hostle. Mikey and I slept until like 1 in the afternoon which was fabulous. Weve been getting up at like 7 am every day for the past two weeks. You have that to look forward to when we get home, Lucy. Hahaha. Our sickness seems to be subsiding. Mikeys still coughing but not nearly as bad, and doesnt look nearly so close to death as he did. My throat doesnt feel like a ball of hate and loathing anymore, and I can stay awake for more than eight hours at a time. Yay!

So the British Museum was great, like I said. The Tower of London was also really rad, though not nearly as gruesome as I was expecting, based on other people's reiterations of their experiences. There were quite a few people there, so it wasnt quite as mysterious and ominous and such-- though still quite enjoyable. We did go on a tour of the place, led by this totally awesome guy who worked there. Its hard to describe, but he was very well versed and enthusiastic and a great deal of fun to listen to.

So yesterday we saw the Roman Baths which were really really awesome. Go Romans for building stuff that still works after two thousand years without any maintanence. Sigh... So embarassing. Its also kinda embarassing to see all the proper efficient behavior of people in Europe when compared to us back in the states. However, even worse I think, is having to listen to Mikey rag on the inefficiency of the States... EVERY SINGLE DAY... quite often... MANY TIMES A DAY. Do you know how many times Ive heard about the issue of our crappy public transportation... oh my GOD. Anyway, its chill.. ugh.

So its christmas tomorrow... thats rad. It doesnt really feel like it though. Ive gotten a tiny bit of xmas shopping out of the way, but shit's expensive here, and I cant think of anything to get anyone. If you'd all write in to let me know what you want, that would help me out quite a bit. Ok dinners on, gotta go.

Hullo Again, at the Half Way Point!

2004-12-21T19:14:32Z

So, unfortunately, a few days too late I get an email from my dad offering to buy us tickets to Paris as a Christmas gift. Oh well. We probably wouldnt have enjoyed it that much anyway... see... we both have the goddamn flu. (See, I told you I was dying. Im STILL sick) So for the past few days we havent seen quite as much as we would have liked, cuz were going to bed at like 7pm... or earler even.

After coming back with some folks we met on Inis Mor (spelled it wrong last time) to Galway, we stayed at a different little hole in the wall hostle which was really awesome for the company. The dude that owned it, Jim I think, was this weird old Irish dude with tons of stories to tell. He was fun. Real nice guy too, helped us out with a lot of shit, like finding tickets to our next destination. So... whats next... we were planning to go up to Scotland but it was around then that we started to get considerably sick so we didnt think we had the energy to see much. We hopped a bus up to Belfast, and were going to go... I think to... Edinburg or something, but then changed our minds and decided to go Nottingham instead to see the Robin Hood stuff. We saw the castle, which was rad, but were too sick and tired to make it up to Sherwood forest and instead spent the whole afternoon in a pub with this dude, Leif, who bought us pints and talked to us for a long time cuz he liked out accents so much. That was fun. Then we hopped a bus to London, which is where we are now.

We saw the British Museum this afternoon, which was just as awesome as I remember it. It was hilarious to take Mikey there cuz he knew shit about a whole lot of the exhibits and kept saying "OH! Ive seen pictures of this! Cool!!" Like a kid in a candy store, I swear. It was sorta pathetic though cuz we only had the energy to do maybe a room or two at a time and then wed find somewhere warm and collapse. Tomorrow were off to the Tower of London. Rad.

The other day while we were doing laundry, I watched a short video by I believe the same guy who did the Triplets of Belville.. It was SO weird. It was about this poor guy who was always hungry and couldnt afford to buy himself any food. He notices the pidgeons at the park were really fat and discoveres that this weird old lady feed them really good food every day, so he makes this really scary pidgeon suit for himself and goes to her house... and she thinks hes a pidgeon and feeds him, and shows him her photo album of all these pidgeons. Before doing so, he has a dream that he goes up to her and she gives him a roast pig, and then all these TERRIFYING pidgeon people with scary little beaks and sharp teeth wearing suits come up and take his pig and then rip his stomach open... It was a really scary little programme. Then at the end he gets really fat too and wanders around her house and sees her feeding this other woman whos also gotten really fat and is dressed like a cat (the lady likes cats too)Then for some reason she comes after him with a pair of hedge clippers.... maybe to feed him to the woman she thought was a cat? I dunno. It was fucked up.

So, not enough people are commenting. At the very least, I know Lucy is reading this... tell Jay and Junerose at least to have a look and say hi. Bastards. Anyway, I really miss you, and Im really looking forward to coming home.

Paris...

2004-12-15T14:44:31Z

Ok so, it looks like Paris is a no go. I wont go into the obnoxious details, but no matter which way we go, its going to be bloody expensive. Perhaps we should have booked tickets in advance. Oh well. Whatever. Were both a bit cheesed off, but this will give us more time in Ireland and England. We are now considering going to Scotland as well. More details to follow.

Day... I dunno, 4 or something

2004-12-14T20:18:26Z

yo. In another internet cafe in Galway. We just got back from Inis Mor (spelled it wrong last time) which is a little island off the western coast of Ireland. It was GORGEOUS the first day. Mikey and I rented bikes and rode for about half the distance of the island from the hostel to Dun Aonghasa, which is a 4000 year old three tierd monument, potentially built for religious purposes. It was on this amazing cliff side that dropped straight off into the ocean hundreds of feet below. There was no one there in the whole monument so it was a really awesome experience to go see it. We both wanted to go look over the edge, but the tour book even mentioned specifically that people had been blown off the cliff because theyd gotten too close to the edge. Not to be defeated, we crawled on our stomachs up to the edge to look at the ocean below. Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying-- but totally worth the heart attack. The locals on the island were really interesting characters. Most of them were crotchety old men (Blue the chef of the one restaurant was one of them) who had a clear distain for tourists, but would hit on the young attractive ladies who visited none the less. Blue was in the middle of a feud with the barkeep and would become fast friends with you if you bought him a pint though. A good number of the people were extremely nice, and helped us out with good deals on stuff as well as good places to go see. That night and all the next day it stormed and blew pretty amazingly. You had to be careful walking around that you didnt get blown down flights of stairs. Unfortunately this meant we missed out on seeing Dun Eoicha (we think thats what its called) which was a similar ancient monument on the other side of the island. Tomorrow after wandering about for a final night in Galway we will be off to Paris in the morning. Hopefully well make it in one day, but its looking unlikely considering how far we have to travel. Talk to you again soon, thats all I can think of for now.

Day 2!

2004-12-12T10:35:38Z

Hello to everyone whos keeping up with us on this site.

Mikey and I visited Carl the night before we left which was awesome. Hes doing well and sends his love to all the folks back in Santa Cruz.

The flight was uneventful and dull. We arrived earlyish in the morning and hopped a bus into the Temple Bar area of Dublin where we got a room in a hostle dorm. Nice dorm but noisy area so we had to keep the windows closed and the room got insanely hot and muggy. We went to a bar across the road and had a few pints before crashing for the day until dinner time.

Dinner was odd, we were turned away from about ten restaurants because we didnt have reservations... live and learn. Finally settled on Mexican food which was tasty but odd.

Were off to the train station and are almost out of time on the computer. We are heading to Galway for the day, and then off to see the Innish Moor tomorrow. Beyond that we have no plans.

Were having a great time, and well update again in a few days. Love you guys!

Mine and Mikey's Europe Trip

2004-12-09T05:00:23Z

Ok so Im leaving for Europe on friday, and from then my livejournal will double as a Europe trip journal, even though I think its gay to put your journal online and have everyone you know read it. "Pay attention to me! This is what I did today!!!" I was going to open a new account but LJ is being bitchy and wont let me. Anyway for the next three weeks the entries will be made from Europe. Feel free to leave comments to keep in touch!

OMG...

2004-11-11T09:16:44Z

So I was looking at sex toys online this afternoon. First, wtf are they so expensive for. Straight up dildos were going for as much as 50 bucks! the hell? Its not like it cleans your house or makes you dinner when youre done with it. shit! Second, a friend of mine showed me these before, but theyre worth a second look. www.realdoll.com. The FAQs are most disturbing. Can I buy her clothes? Piercings? Tattoos? Put makeup on her? Jesus! Get a girlfriend!!! Man if I was dating some guy and I found out he had one of those Id be gone so fast... Anyway, theyre FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS. Like I said.. sex toys are expensive. K well. Bedtime. I just felt like writing something.

One more thing... I saw a music video to "Still Dre" which was four minutes of pimp cars and fly bitches. It was awesome. AND, the cars they featured had the same brand of rims as Im getting... OG. Original Gangsta. Yeah. Hell yeah.

silentprophet12 @ 2004-11-06T18:49:00

2004-11-07T03:32:57Z

Ok so, lost the research group... apparently Pravin (sp?) was too shy or something to tell me he didnt have space for me so Bakthan told me like... four days later that they couldnt take me. SNARL. However, I got my wallet back so thats nice. Minus the money of course.. filthy swine.. anyway.

Not too much to say. Been putting off studying for my midterm on tuesday. Ill be fine Im sure.

Cleaned my room. Looks weird in here with all this floor showing.

Things are going really well with Lucy. :-) Very nice. The glass for the coffee table finally arrived. Gotta go get a hold of Cooper (the table sitter) to have him pay for it. My rims STILL ARENT HERE. grrr... I REALLY want them. >.< Any day now Im sure though.

Still trying to get the remnants of henna out of my hair... so here it sit with my hair full of about a cup of mineral oil, wrapped in foil, with a hot pad on it... strange how many times I find myself in this situation. No matter. On to some warcraftage.

Updates

2004-11-02T08:18:01Z

So, good news and bad news. Good news is, I finally found a research group with which to do my senior thesis. WOO! Bad news, I lost my damn wallet at the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday. Egh. Rocky was AWESOME though, Id never gone before. They labeled all the folks that had never seen it live virgins, by writing Vs on their faces in lipstick. Before the show started they had all the virgins come to the front of the stage and give their best fake orgasm noise. Then they had the trannies pick the, say, 10 best people and brought them up to do it before the audience. Then they asked some silly trivia question, like, do I look good in these boots, or are those pasties going to come off? (I was wearing leather pants and HRC stickers on my boobs for pasties. It was so awesome) Then they picked the best girl and guy to perform in the show. Anyway, I was picked for the girl. (apparently I have a great fake orgasm, lol) My and the guy's part in the show was to be a double for Janet and (whatever the assholes name is) and have Frank pretend to have sex with you. When it was my turn he called up a few other people, and we had a 30 second mock orgy. Hilarious. It was tough to keep a straight face. I kinda wish theyd told me more clearly what was going to happen though, I would have hammed it up WAY more.

Halloween was AWESOME. Our costumes were so cool-- I ended up bleaching and dying my hair BRIGHT red for my manson costume. (the outfit from the Rock is Dead video) I also fixed my feathers a lot more, so they stood up from my shoulders instead of being all droopy like at the party. Im a little scared about my hair still. Ive never done anything even remotely permanent with it, but it looks TOTALLY awesome. Its the same shade as Jessica Rabbit's. Everyone says its gorgeous. :-D Before they put the red in though, it looked way crazy cuz I had henna in it from a few weeks ago. Thus, the roots were bleached blonde, and the ends faded to a kinda reddish brown. REALLY crazy and awesome looking. I almost left it like that.

So my halloween party was a little bit lame. The girl who was supposed to plan it bailed on us at the last minute without planning anything. Weak. Thats okay though, it was still lots of fun. Cool to see Erica and Avery again too, havent seen them in ages. Erica and I ended up in a wrestling match which was quite amusing, though my ass sustained a bit of damage from her spiked bracelets. You should see the bruise!

Anyway. TIme for bed. Early class tomorrow.

The Weekend

2004-10-25T03:01:04Z

So its been a fun and unproductive weekend. I have a lot to do on monday... and Im not doing any of it right now cuz Im a severe procrastinator.

On friday I went to go see an art show featuring stuff inspired by Day of the Dead. Spiffy. Afterwards we all went back to Lucy's house and watched Nightmare Before Christmas and played a drinking game where a shot was taken after a body part was removed or fell off. Im the only 21 year old in the group so from now on Im booze bitch. Haha. Spent the night at her house and the next morning went to go buy rims for my car, only to find via phone on the way there that they were closing in 15 minutes and we didnt have enough time to get there. That put me in a bit of a funk, but oh well. Im getting them on monday at 2 with Michael and Becka. :-)

That night we had another 10 person naked dance party. That was fun. Nothing too unique-- it went the same way as all our other naked dance parties. Becka had way way too much and passed out in the bathroom. Im a little worried about her. She perhaps has a drinking problem, as she routinely gets way more fucked up than I think anyone could have fun doing. She was also really really sad and withdrawn that night-- probably has to do with Michael and his new bf. The two of them used to date and are best friends, but she never gets to see him anymore, and is depressed about that.

So I think Lucy and I are back together... I stress the phrase "I think" We certainly were acting like it this weekend. That was really nice-- I missed her. As she says, she missed me a lot too. I hope she feels better soon so that being with someone doesnt feel like so much responsibility. That must really suck. I wonder how this chapter will resolve itself. All I can say-- college is really really cool.

So tomorrow I have to meet with a professor to hopefully get into a research group. Got a lab demo at 11 or 1, whichever I want. Probably 1, so that I dont have to get up super early to meet with the prof, and so Ill have time to swing by the library for a few references for my paper. Egh.. not so much looking forward to that, but oh well. I have to finish the rewrite of my first paper for 122 and turn it in before 5... which I REALLY dont want to do and am putting off with everything Ive got. AAND.... I have to go get rims for my car... wooot!! That last one is going to be awesome. MAN its gonna make me so happy. I may also get in touch with Mikey so he can pay me back for the plane ticket I bought him. Gotta stop loaning $ to people!

Quote from the weekend: "Seriously, I think people make WAY too big a deal out of the Holocaust."

Ugh Goddamnit.

2004-10-21T09:17:48Z

Grrrrr.... stupid.... grrrr..... bah! BAH! Hate you all. Okay so... yeah... why the HELL is everyone Im attracted to CRAZY.

WHY does Lucy keep MAKING OUT WITH ME!!?!?!? She SAID she wanted to be broken up. OKAY. FINE. I CAN DO THAT. >.

Oh My God...

2004-10-19T09:38:16Z

So, I was hysterically bored this evening, and eventually went to Saturn to get some snacks with Junerose, That was nice, we ran into Peter, Scott, and Nick and said hello. Just as we were about to leave, Christoph and Kelley came in, COMPLETELY shitfaced. Like... damn... I havent seen anyone that drunk in a long time. They managed to make it to a table and kinda collapsed. We went over to say hi, but then realized they were in a bit of trouble and wouldnt be able to get home by themselves. We took them home after a lot of coaxing. Kelley could hardly even walk, I was really worried about her. She smashed her head pretty good on the way into the car too. I got them home okay, put them to bed, and set the alarm for work tomorrow. Thinking back on it, I should have left water for them. Thankfully Junerose was there with me and took their car home for them.

The worst part of that was watching the couple dynamic... Kelley was pissed off at Chris and wanted to kick him out of the house, and telling him not to touch her, and that she needed a new place for him to live... Then she started sobbing about how much she hates her step dad and wants her daughter back. God that was so sad. Chris looked absolutely miserable-- like he was going to start crying any minute. He just kept telling her how much he loved her and tried to get her to stop talking, as she was just either crying or saying hurtful, rejective things to him. Miserable!!! I feel so bad for both of them, but especially her... She has so many problems, not only her drinking problem (thats gotten her in trouble before a bunch too) but also a whole slew of psychological problems too. Her life seems so hard. I cant imagine living something like that. And on the other side of it, Chris is totally in love with her and totally codependent, and so he could NEVER leave her. So, while his life might be way simplified if he went along on his own, he CANT. Emotions are goddamn tricky bastards.

On a side note, Anna has a whole bunch of bullshit drama with a stalker that used to live at her house, and came back and groped Carly.. Hes in jail and the trial is soon. Their lawyer advised them all to move, so Anna is looking for a place to live. Since Junerose and I are moving into Ruth and Kyle's bedroom, Anna can move into mine. Also, Kelley is getting evicted cuz she failed to pay rent... (again) and as Doug said, has just been one problem after another. So that totally sucks for her. I do like her, but Im not THAT upset about it. The friends she had over here had a creepy vibe to them. Theyre PROBABLY okay.. but if theyre anything like JC then.. yeah.. BAD fucking sauce. Ill put up the JC story later.. probably tomorrow or something. It occurs to me now that I never wrote it down. That was some crazy shit. Anyway, so that means theres even MORE space in my house. With me Junerose and Anna, that would be way nice-- we could get someone else cool to move into her room. Maybe we could get David to move there, and have someone we know move into his cheaper room. He was paying a grand before for his room, so he could afford it. I wonder who we could get in the little room. Maybe Carly? I dunno. That would be the shit! Anyway, its like 230. I should start the going to bed process. Oh ew.. I get my 143 midterm back.. I dont really want to see it.

Memories I Dont Want to Forget

2004-10-19T00:11:35Z

Happened about August of 2004:

After Jay's band party about thirty of us took a walk down to the beach at 3 am. Tom and a few others and I ran in the waves, getting our feet wet. I didnt want to get my pants wet so I took them off, which since I wasnt wearing underwear and just a tiny tank top, left me mostly naked. The shirt followed soon after. Then Christina took off her clothes, and soon we had about twelve of us all naked swimming in the freezing water. Every person who managed to get up the nerve to strip and run with us was greeted with chilly wet hugs from the skinny dippers. We were all kinda scared to swim out because it was at night and we didnt want to get washed away, so we all held hands and waded out into the night. It was so dark you couldnt see where the water ended and the sky began, it was all just black. Many people said afterwards that they were so glad they did it, and that normally they would NEVER be naked in public. I was also thanked as the catalyst for the nudity :)

October 16, 2004.

We went from Jenise's birthday party to a gig where Jay's band was playing. Mikey and Abigail swing danced to the music, which was lovely to watch. As their final song, they played Bloodletting, (for me) which I had been waiting for all night. Our whole group got up and danced to that one because Id made such a big deal out of it. It started with an unaccompanied single drum beat, which keeps the rhythm throughout the song. Somehow immediately all ten or so of us started snapping our fingers to the beat and stepping in sync closer and closer to the band, in exactly the same style as the gang in west side story. It was marvelous.

silentprophet12 @ 2004-10-15T14:19:00

2004-10-15T22:12:48Z

Okay, so nothings happened today, I just want to reiterate a hilarious and kind of disgusting story so that I dont forget it.

About a month ago, I convinced my crew to swing by the Indian restaurant on the way home from work. We did, and it was delicious. I will note here that we ate in the office instead of in the car, because Indian food is dangerous to eat in the car. We were all sitting around cashing out, and I was enjoying the last of the naan. I dropped a small piece on the floor, grabbed it, popped it into my mouth without looking at it.

Big Mistake.

You know those horrid looking wads of hair and lint that turn up from time to time in carpeted rooms? The conglomeration of everyone's shed hair, kicked around for who knows how long and balled into an unsightly wad, picking up dust, and pieces of paper? Yeah.

I should also mention that I have a problem with hair in my mouth. Its one of my pet peeves. Gives me the shivers.

So, turns out a fine sized wad was of said hair was underneath the naan... Yep right into my mouth. Hair first too. Junerose was there and saw me do it-- she said it was one of those slow motion NOOOoOoOoOoOoooooo situations where you dive in slow motion towards to stop something terrible, but you dont make it. So, my pleased look of "Im eating Indian food" melted into one of "wtf is in my mouth?" When I pulled the hideous hair wad out of my mouth and saw it, something happened in my brain which I cant really describe.

Now, I like to consider myself pretty badass. It takes a LOT to *actually* freak me out. Ill pretend for kicks, but Im solid. I can think Ive lost 700 bucks to a misbehaving ATM, and not go beyond muttered curses. I can calmly take a midterm on material that Ive missed 4 out of the 5 lectures for. I can find a my rat, dead, with all the flesh eaten off her skull by her housemate rats and not be grossed out and just deal with it.

This situation was unique. My heart rate went from a steady 75 to about 150, as my hyperactive fight or flight response launched about a quart of adrenaline into my bloodstream. A pause as the hair wad slipped from my hand. I started screaming as I jumped to my feet. I staggered about, holding my face in my hands, swearing and howling in disgust. I started laughing hysterically. Tears formed in my eyes as I tried to grasp the magnitude of the revulsion I was experiencing. "But Carla," I thought, "youre supposed to be so hardcore-- nothing phases you, calm DOWN!" I tried but to no avail, Id take a deep breath, but the sensation of the malaria/hepatitis/ebola/syphilis infested hair wad was still on my tongue, the image fresh in my mind's eye, and an involuntary wail would force its way out of my mouth. All my buddies were laughing hysterically at me. (I dont blame them, I would too) Eventually I calmed down and finished the rest of my meal.

So, to all you out there who live by the five second rule, please, think of me next time you retrieve something you dropped, and LOOK AT IT before you put it in your mouth.

Quick Silly Little Convo

2004-10-13T09:53:24Z

Said this while talking to Ian about the Europe trip with Mikey:

Ian: you know how he gets moody sometimes, though
Carla: well.. yes... but I suppose Ill burn that bridge when I come to it.
Ian: to be perfectly honest, though, I almost expect you two to come back from that trip either dating or not wanting anything to do with each other.
Carla Moyer: well, either of those options are no good...
Carla Moyer: but i totally see what you mean
Carla Moyer: i mean
Carla Moyer: id prefer we LIKE each other
Carla Moyer: but
Carla Moyer: god
Carla Moyer: dating mikey
Carla Moyer: thatd be like having TWO girlfriends
Carla Moyer: but NO boobies
Carla Moyer: thatd be horrible!

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

2004-10-11T08:29:20Z

Woot! Im 21 now, as of an hour and 12 minutes ago! So, thats pretty cool. Ive already had like four people wish me a happy birthday. I feel so loved :). Anyway, so Im listening to Diode's Ghost in the Shell... I swear, this song's intro is like sex. The part where she sings, ahhlantis oyyhhahhlantis seniahh seniahh ahhhaaaaaaaaaa (BASS KICKS IN, BBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ) GOD. Seriously. SEX. My loving this song really isnt hurt by the fact that she sounds massively hot. eheheh. Ok well, I slept all day, AGAIN. Snarl. So I wont be able to fall asleep tonight.. AGAIN. I think I may go get some nyquil to knock me out... even though I only got up like 4 hours ago. Itll work. I hope. I cant do another day of no sleep.

I think Im going to go for a drive for an hour or so. Then go to bed. That should be nice.

Woot!!!

2004-10-10T03:03:18Z

Oh yah, I finished my 122 report, EARLY. Its due MONDAY NIGHT, and I finished it SATURDAY early evening. OH. OH. OH. Owns. HAHA. Im feeling so much better. Now I have a bunch of time to study for my 143 midterm. Haha. nnnn. *pelvic thrust* Ooh, review tomorrow. Glad I remembered.

Plus I got a superpimp digital camera for my birthday from my parents, and pink roses from Stephen. Junerose also has something for me on Monday. Im probably gonna get the rest of my stuff on Friday, at my party. Whee! AND my friends are taking me out to Indian food on monday for my bday. Woo! Im loved! :-D

Yawn. COUGH COUGH Eghhhh

2004-10-07T17:36:49Z

So, Im trying to crash a class that I missed the first two weeks of. We'll see how that goes. lol. I couldnt do the grad lecture, lets see if I can learn three weeks of advanced organic chemistry in one! I have a midterm in that class on the 14th and a paper due on the 10th or 11th... I dont know which. I cant imagine why theyd have it due on a Sunday. Anyway, its gonna be crazy to try to do all that in the next few days.

I NEED to pick a costume!!! Now I want to be Gene Simmons for my birthday party instead of Pete Burns.... and I still dont know what I want to be for Halloween. AAH!

Talked to Mike yesterday for the first time in months... that was interesting. Things are going pretty lamely for him. Hes totally broke, working like three jobs, stressed, thin, and complains all the time as usual. Hm. I dunno. I feel bad being like, "screw off" totally. But hes still not someone I want to spend time with cuz hes so dismal. Id rather spend time with friends who DONT complain all the time. Unfortunately his mom is really sick... that makes me sad. I hope she pulls through, Id like to go visit her at some point. I havent the faintest idea WHEN, but Id like to go see her again. She was such a sweetheart.

So I cant figure out what to do for thanksgiving. I want to stay here and have my family come visit. Im starting to generally like them, so thats nice. I miss the hell out of Ricky, I havent seen him since Spring Break.... where I got to paint every day instead of going around with him and having fun. Thats not chill, he and I should bum at least every six months. They want me to go down to LA for thanksgiving, which basically means when Im NOT spending time with them, Ill have no friends to bum with. Cept Lauren, but she really doesnt count as a distraction, as Id have to warn her a two weeks in advance to get like, an evening of bumming.

Anyway, I just got back from the 8am class I am crashing, and am tired. Still sick, so Im gonna nap to keep up my strength... yeah... thats it... really, I just want to sleep. :) 'Night all!

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Quick Silly Little Convo

Happy Birthday To Me!!!

Woot!!!

Yawn. *COUGH COUGH* Eghhhh

Yawn. COUGH COUGH Eghhhh