caffeine highs, coffee shops, shades of grey: September 2005

Friday, September 30, 2005

psh that test was my bitch

So I pretty much kicked my WC test's ass. Boo yah shocker. Then I got bored and instead of having everyone's names as the links I put a little description thing there. Just for kicks. Marie and I are meeting for lunch at noon. I should head out here in a minute. Tonight will be fun: film festivals are amazing. Shit. Need to call Alex and figure out the timing etc. After French I shall.

Today was the first of my 3 midterms this next week (French on Wed and WR on Thursday). Not too much fun. Plus a WC Civ essay and a Film Essay. Ugh I need to work on WR and Film after French. What an exciting prospect for a day.

Bob Marley is amazing. Indeed. One week until the Homecoming Game and that means 8 days until WICKED with THOMAS!!! YAY.

This is the coolest quote ever when I'm in the right mood, which I happen to be right now:
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk,, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn, or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." -- Jack Kerouac

I want to read On The Road.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Did someone say A.D.D.?

yum yum orbit gum.

not much to report. WC test tomorrow, French Quiz yesterday, Religion Test next Thursday, French Test on Wednesday, Fall Break in a week, Film Festival at the Modern tomorrow night (yay Pride and Prejudice!) and ummmm I don't know what else. Really should be studying for WC as the test covers about oooooh 4000 years or so. Bleh. All essay too...and I'm like hmmm two history essays in 50 minutes without any guidance as to how he wants us to approach them (i.e. do we even need a thesis or to make an argument about which is more important or should we just straight out answer the questions? and then of course there's the infamous "how long should this be" and what about paragraphs? Damn AP classes at least had essay structure. My prof's are a little too random and unspecific as to what they're looking for those bastards.

I wrote some random haikus last night. they made me giggle.

OC TONIGHT!!!!
I'm excited.

I think I am going to go to either a coffee shop or the library to study because although my dorm is fine, I've been in here studying for awhile...we shall have to see if the mood suits me. Decisions decisions.

Fallout Boy is awesome.

OMG. We woke up today and it was in the 60's outside. I almost died of happiness. Canada, how I love thee. Yesterday it was 104. NO fucking joke. 104 one day, 64 the next. Texas is retarded.

Hehe Tom Delay got indicted. Makes me happy. That bitch is going down!

Carolyn Burnham: Well, I see you're smoking pot now. I think using psychotropic drugs is a very positive example to set for our daughter.
Lester Burnham: You're one to talk, you bloodless, money-grabbing freak.

HAHAHAHA I love American Beauty. Such a good movie. I think this weekend I shall have to go see Proof because the TCU theatre department is doing it. Sunday seems like my best bet...YES.

UGH. Parents weekend this weekend. Parents will be here for Saturday (not bad but not good because my roomies will surely be trashed). This could go horribly wrong. Indeed.

I'm going back to studying. Bleh. Happy Thursday.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

"we live in a beautiful world" (I'm jamming to Coldplay right now)

So today in World Religion class we really had quite an interesting discussion about Catholicism and rituals (well were talking about rituals and such and then talking about examples and ways to apply the theories and Catholicism had several good examples so we used it) but it was really interesting and intellectual and all that stuff. It was like our class just clicked together and we were all empathetic (most of the time; there were a few bumps when the Catholics in the class weren’t able to remove themselves from their own religion, understandably, but it was overall good) and it was the coolest thing ever. So enjoyable. It’s times like this that make college classes so incredibly enjoyable and give me hope that there will be depth and meaning after AP classes.

Then I was all chilled out and such from that and I was listening to the new Death Cab for Cutie CD (=amazingness) and I realized how much I’ve mellowed out over the past year or so. Like how much I’ve changed. Not that I don’t still Rock Against Bush or love Anti-Flag and stuff, but my ability to chill out and be mellow has really really changed. Like…I can just relax and be chill. Not always, but a lot of the time. Probably the majority now whereas it used to be the minority. I think I left my brown belt in Southlake this weekend and want to go back and get it because it is my brown belt and I do need that. Well I don’t NEED it, but I can’t wear certain outfits without it because my pants will fall down and my black belts will not go. Sound shallow I know, but I think most girls understand the importance of a brown belt. Its like a necessity. I’m debating whether to go back and get it or not. Hmmmm. I think I’ll do some HW and think on it and then call my mom and see what the plans are for dinner. Because Gilmore Girls is on tonight. Hmmm tough call. I could go home, have dinner (yum?) get my belt and whatever else I forgot…oooh I could stop by Kate’s and pick up the Bell Jar finally. And watch Gilmore Girls at my house and then come back. That wouldn’t be too bad. I could study this afternoon and then do that. Yes that is the plan. WOOT.

later bitches.

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Grey's Anatomy makes my life worth living

"Let's play who's life sucks the most. I'll win. I always win." hahahahaha I Heart Grey's Anatomy soooooo much. Wow.

So it's been awhile since I last updated (sorry Pam).

So last week was fairly uneventful. Homework and being goofy and just life in general. Friday I came home and LD and I went to football game after grabbing dinner at Joe's (which by the way has changed...Southlake isn't the same without the old Joe's...tear) and we got to see everyone: Kate, Mal, Elizabeth, Alyssa, Deepak, Panda, Ben, Skyler, Tomdale, all the flutes and drum majors, even Mrs. McCombs and Mr. Behrends. It was amazing. I've missed everyone so much. And then the flute party at Mal's afterwards....HAHAHAHA. TWIZZLERS!! Good times.

Saturday was homework (essays=death) and then a hair appointment (now pink, shorter, and oh so hot) and then some awesome hanging with Mal and watching the Final Episode of Friends (the end of an era...which I shall come back to later). Today was more homework, laundry, errands, our family going to Pets Mart and adopting/becoming a foster family for a new dog, dinner, and GREY'S ANATOMY!!!! I love Grey's Anatomy. I don't know what I'll do when it goes off the air. Maybe cry.

It reminds me of my OC and Friends addictions. When we were watching the Final Episode of Friends...it was just like it was all those years ago, when I used to watch it every week and lose myself in an episode with characters I knew so well. and when it ended...it hit me. Friends is over. It's been over for two years, and yet I had never seen the final episode (weird I know but we had a band concert that night and I had to miss it…I was really sad at the time) and it was really weird because it was like the end of an era…And I remembered how obsessed I used to be with that show and what a big part of my life it was and how when it ended…my life changed so much. Not just because it ended, but the ending of it coincided with so many other watershed events in my life: the end of High School (onto the Sr. High), Jordan and I breaking up, cutting my hair short for the first time, quitting soccer, getting my car, finally taking off the black nail polish…I mean, it’s really weird to look back and realize that it was over 2 years ago that Friends ended. To look into the past and be able to see things I’ve never seen before and realize how much the tiniest things can affect your life, things like TV shows or Joe’s cheese pizza or a book or English class or a haircut or…anything. The memories I have from high school are associated with so many different objects and people and places that I just took for granted, that were just normal and always there. But it’s those things, those little things that leave lasting impressions on you. Amazing. So much has changed in two years. I’ve changed so much in two years. If the me then could have seen the me now…I wouldn’t have recognized myself, and not just physically. I barely recognize myself then. I was such a different person and yet I was exactly the same. Existentially weird man.

Wow. deep. and weird. So, to end, another Grey's anatomy quote because tonight was just that uuuuuhmazing:
"You realize this constitutes hugging right?
Shut up. I'm your person"

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Monday, September 19, 2005

lovesongs for the lovely

"but kelly, you have this natural beauty about you that's undescribable...I think it comes from you being so content with yourself that it just makes you shine"

mal you just made my night.

to quote myself, "I'm just a person with a good memory and passion for literature and poetry."
As such, J. Al. is in my head...
so, my readers, my lovelies, it is now time for me to pose this question to you:

Does the world end in a bang or a whimper?

Sunday, September 18, 2005

homework duuuurrrr

Imagine by John Lennon is quite possibly the most romantic song ever. I'm just weird like that.

Church today was...interesting. I was able to be totally empathetic until Sunday School when they started talking about politics and rich v. poor and the hurricane and people on welfare etc. and I really had to bite my lip. But I didn't say anything. It was a great moment in history: I held my tongue in a political discussion, despite Kate sitting there laughing and going say it, say it. Pam as you were in my Government class, I think you know what a big thing that is. Anywho...back to the homework my professors so lovingly assigned me over the weekend. Bleh I think I have to do Stat. And maybe French. And Western Civ too maybe. UGH.

Saturday, September 17, 2005

why be productive when there are surveys to be taken?

FIRSTS:
-First job: market street whore
-First pet: hmmm... a black lab till i was three but the first one I remember was our chocolate lab Coco.
-First piercing/tattoo: ears...soon to be cartilage and tatoo on my foot.
-First credit card- masgtercard
-First real kiss: 14
-First love: i've never been on love
-First enemy: hmmm....let's see. oh yes deann something or another in Illinois in elementary school because she was a prissy bitch.
-First favorite musician: i think either tom delounge or mark hoppus of Blink 182
L A S T S:
-Last car ride: giving Kate a ride home after we watched American Beauty really really early this morning/really really late last night.
-Last kiss: UH like forever ago...by forever I mean like..over a year...wow
-Last library book checked out: I cannot even remember it has been years.
-Last movie watched: American Beauty about 12 hours ago.
-Last beverage drank: water
-Last food consumed: chicken enchiladas last night at The Ranch Ranch
-Last time showered: bout 10 minutes ago
-Last CD played: Listening to Coldplay on my comp but the last actual CD I played was the Shins Chutes Too Narrow yesterday in my car.
Last website visited: myspace
N O W:
-Single or Taken: taken I believe
-Crush: the drug dealer in American Beauty will always have a piece of my heart.
-Birthday: December 23, 1986
-Sign: Capricorn
-Siblings: Kyle
-Hair color: Strawberry Blonde
-Eye color: Blue
-Shoe size: 7-8ish-
Height: 5'3''
RIGHT NOW WHAT ARE YOU...:
-Wearing: a towel
-Thinking about: i need to get dressed and then run errands and do chores and homework
-Listening to: Coldplay "Talk"
-Wanting: to see the beauty of this world at all times and to trust myself
FA V O R I T E S:
-Favorite song: White Shadows by Coldplay, Where Soul Meets Body by DeathCab, and Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends by Fallout Boy
-Favorite movie: American Beauty, Sin City, Pulp Fiction, I Heart Huckabees
-Favorite show: THE OC (duuuuuuuuurrr I'm obsessed) and Gilmore Girls
-Favorite word: I don't think I have one though I do use fuck and whorebag the most often I think
-Favorite holiday: New Years Eve
R A N D O M:
-What are you going to do after this: put on some damn clothes
-Who's someone you wish you could sleep with but can't (famous person): uuuummm probably the drug dealer from American Beauty...sooooo hooooot
-Do you drink: on occasion
-How many times a week do you drink: probably about once every other maybe
-Do you do drugs: no
.-Do you smoke: no.
-Do you think you're attractive: I have my moments
-Best Friend(s): Pam Mal and Kate
Did you enjoy this survey: it gave my life definition and meaning duuuurr

Friday, September 16, 2005

fun quizzes!

hmmmm I am undecided as to whether all of these are true about me or not...but it's kind of interesting to think about. the idea that an internet quiz could tell me more about my true self than I care to think about. That this psychoanalysis of my deepest wants and desires could actually be complete bullshit...or completely correct...WEIRD.

The Keys to Your Heart

You are attracted to those who have a split personality - cold as ice on the outside but hot as fire in the heart.
In love, you feel the most alive when your lover is creative and never lets you feel bored.
You'd like to your lover to think you are stylish and alluring.
You would be forced to break up with someone who was emotional, moody, and difficult to please.
Your ideal relationship is traditional. Without saying anything, both of you communicate with your hearts.
Your risk of cheating is zero. You care about society and morality. You would never break a commitment.
You think of marriage something you've always wanted... though you haven't really thought about it.
In this moment, you think of love as commitment. Love only works when both people are totally devoted.

What Are The Keys To Your Heart?

Thursday, September 15, 2005

on friendship

"A true friend stabs you in the front."- Oscar Wilde

I wonder how many true friends I possess...who would, if neccessary, honestly betray me (using honestly as a real adverb here and not like we do in everyday speech). How many of you would be upfront with me if there came a time when you had to screw me over? And how many would go behind my back?

This was not provoked by a friend or anything, rather by this quote and me analyzing things and being philosphical. College really makes you realize who your true friends are because while you meet new people and make new friends, it is the old friendships that are strengthened by distance and time. These are your truest friends, these people who you find you still have a close bond with after months apart and only talking every other week. Some friendships I know will last a lifetime if we manage to keep in touch. Some deep conversations today led me to this conclusion.

Pam-you are truly one of my dearest friends and I know that in 10 years we will still be in touch.
Matt- I haven't spoken to you in a few weeks, but we are still close.
Dave- I don't know what will happen between us, but I do know that we will, in the end, always have our friendship, no matter what happens, good or bad.
Mal- I love you more than words can express and I hope you know that.
Allie- I don't really know you that well but I am beginning to and I think that this is going to be a good friendship.
Heather-we haven't talked in a few weeks, but our friendship is stable and we always have fun. For those of you I didn't mention: don't feel left out. I love you all too. I only have so much room.

To end...a few words from a brilliant man because I could not have said it better myself:

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that gives value to survival."
~Mr. C.S.Lewis~

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

on tolerance and humanity

Religion class was interesting today. We were discussing different religious philosophers and phenomenologists and what they believed religion was and what it meant for something to be sacred or holy and why people made thing sacred or holy and how things became that way. It was interesting. There were a few different views: one was all about the emotional impact of a sacred experience and made up words to describe it (mysterium, remendum, fascinum) and another talked about the difference between the sacred and profane (basically profane is ordinary and sacred is anything not ordinary). Then we started talking about this guy named Paul Tillich. His theory about what was sacred/holy/whatever you want to call it was that there was this “Unconditional Being”, as in the sacred was this powerful thing (being) that was never changing (unconditional). Then we started talking about the definition of unconditional and how human beings have a conditional existence. We are completely dependent on certain conditions (i.e. the temperature, the oxygen to methane ratio in the atmosphere, etc.) staying the same. Our existence would cease to be if the temperature suddenly rose above a certain amount or fell (hard to imagine in TX) below a certain number.

The human body has a range at which it can function and anything outside that comfort zone will kill us. Likewise with the atmosphere: if there was an oxygen shortage we would all die. Our existence is conditional and dependent upon factors outside of our control. We are surrounded by conditional things: rocks, trees, animals, water, the list goes on and on. Humanity is a conditional thing: it has a beginning and an end. It will not go on forever. Life will, at some point, cease to exist. And I don’t mean we’re all going to die eventually, I mean that at some point humanity will cease to be. Life will be gone. The stars, the planets, the universe will be gone at some point. It too has a conditional existence. What then will there be when all of this is gone? Nothingness….

We were also talking about what people view as sacred or holy and people were giving different examples (like crosses or something) and then someone mentioned where the World Trade Center used to be and then we started talking about how people may view that as sacred in the way people view a graveyard etc. and how it holds special meaning and is a place to be remembered. Now I’m not saying it shouldn’t be remembered. What happened there was a tragedy. Same thing with the London Underground bombings and the Oklahoma City bombings. People’s lives were lost for no reason. But the real tragedy (and this is just one opinion at one moment in time) isn’t the useless killing. I mean yes that’s sad and wrong but it’s not the worst. The worst part about it is that in 50 years, no one will even remember that one morning thousands were pointlessly murdered in a war they weren’t fighting, in a stupid battle for culture and religion and meaning. What everyone has failed to realize is that our differences shouldn’t divide us, but rather connect us. We might not agree with each other, but killing each other is not the answer. Ask yourself on December 8…does this date hold any significance to you? Do you remember the thousands that were murdered during the Pearl Harbor attacks, the 9/11 equivalent of the 40’s? No one remembers Pearl Harbor. When will people begin to forget September 11th? 10 years? 20?...2? In a way they have already forgotten; we are at war in Iraq, creating a breeding ground for the very activity that caused something like September 11th to take place.

How is it that our culture and country can be so affected by a single event and yet never really take the action necessary to prevent it from happening again? How can people be so blind to the fact that it was caused by cultural isolation, ignorance, and intolerance rather than by not having enough weapons or by some foreign dictatorship? How long will it take for humanity to realize that we are to blame: individuals and humans and intolerance and hatred, not governments and religions. Governments and religions are merely pawns of mankind. How much longer must we wait before people realize that war and killing and violence are not the solution but rather the problem? How long will it take?????

"Tolerance is bigger than race, greater than creed, mightier than color. It is not a breaking down of all barriers between ourselves and the other fellow; it is the realization that, in reality, there are no barriers to break down."

Sunday, September 11, 2005

In memorium...

Hard to believe that is was almost exactly four years ago to the minute that I was sitting in Dsouza's Honors World Geography class watching the events on the TV onfold in shock...so much has changed since then. I don't even remember who I was then. ANd now the person I have become...I know who I am. But I wonder how much of who I am and waht I believe has been affected by those events...How much it changed me into the outspoken liberal I today. Who would I be if it hadn't happened? Would I still be this me? Would I even know who I was?

Friday, September 09, 2005

to steal from Pam

sorry pam but it was too good to pass up...

TEN random things about me:
1. I only drink if I have a reason to.
2. IThere is only one person right now who really knows me.
3. I sing in the car at the top of my lungs when no one else is listening.
4. I think my D Cup is a pain in the ass and wish they were smaller.
5. I am actually really quiet.
6. I’ve never worn a thong in my life and I don’t ever plan to.
7. I am addicted to caffeine.
8. I love losing myself in a good book.
9. Being overly romantic is a huge turnoff for me.
10. I am an eternal optimist when it comes to humanity but an eternal pessimist when it comes to society.

NINE ways to win my heart: (sorry to not change it Pam but I couldn’t have said it better myself)
1. be yourself
2. have a sense of humor
3. don't let me badmouth myself
4. be loyal (not like a dog, but if I tell you a secret, keep it, dammit)
5. don't mind spending time with me
6. like my friends, dammit.
7. like me for me
8. like me when I'm in my pajamas and look like crap
9. keep comments about other girls to yourself

EIGHT things I want to do before I die:
1. Live in Europe, preferably London.
2.Travel throughout Europe.
3. Go skydiving.
4. Have sex with someone I’m head over heels in love with.
5. Be published.
6. Make a significant and positive impact on someone’s life.
7. Read all of Shakespeare’s plays all the way through (not in one sitting obviously)
8. See the aurora borealis.

SEVEN things I wish I were:
1. not so damn responsible.
2. less mature.
3. a better writer.
4. less ADD
5. skinnier/more toned.
6. a piano player (the most beautiful sounding instrument in my opinion)
7. a decent singer

SIX things that get me mad (or annoyed/paranoid/frustrated):
1. cramps
2. ignorance
3. people who do things with out a good reason
4. cigarette smoke
5. stupid people who think they know what they’re talking about when they don’t.
6. conformity

FIVE things I'm afraid of:
1. ending up alone.
2. spiders
3. being stuck in a job I hate for the rest of my life.
4. dying before I've truly lived
5. becoming someone I’m not

FOUR of my favorite items in my room:
1. my laptop
2. my MP3 player
3. my books
4. my diet coke.

THREE things I do everyday:
1. surf the Internet
2. e-mail/IM people
3. listen to music

TWO things I need to do right now:
1. Find a shirt for Sept 16th.
2. read for Western Civ I suppose…

ONE person I want to see right now:
1. Kate

Thursday, September 08, 2005

For those of you who lack Godot...

Someone told me to write something inspirational...I'm not sure who, if anyone this inspires, but this is what I thought of, so for those of you who lack Godot:

Human beings, by nature, are greedy, violent, inconsiderate, corrupt, and power hungry. However, also by nature, they are peaceful, thoughtful, logical, loving, beautiful, and innocent. The idea of timshel, or “thou mayest” comes into play here; every person has the ability to choose what to become. Every man and woman has the power and the responsibility to choose between the good and the evil that naturally resides inside of them. Some people appear to be inherently good, but they are nothing more than inherently strong willed and open minded. Others appear to be inherently evil but they are nothing more than ignorant and unable to control their various emotions (greed, hate, anger, love, etc.). American society tends to be superficial and fake and people feel the need to conform to an ideal: a perfect body, perfect job, perfect family, perfect home, perfect life. Nothing is perfect. Nobody is perfect.

Southlake is the ultimate American town, full of corporate transfers, money, consumerism, boredom, drugs, alcohol, a disenchanted youth, superficiality, the list goes on and on. People who are “trapped” in the Bubble tend to think of nothing more than getting out and seeing the world outside and, once they have seen this world, leaving this bubble for good and living in “reality”. But Southlake is reality. This bubble is real. These people who pretend to be something they’re not, these buildings with all of the same architecture, these stores that thrive on fruitless spending, they’re all real. Southlake is reality. Southlake is America. The people in this town are real. Everyone here is searching for their Godot. Even though they’re going about it the wrong way (being materialistic and spending their way into oblivion in hopes of giving their life some sort of definition or meaning), they are at least searching for Godot, rather than waiting for him (for those of you who haven't read it, Waiting For Godot is an existential play about two hobos who sit around and wait for Godot (symbolic of meaning) to come into their lives and it never comes; the idea is that man must actively seek out meaning rather than waiting for it to come to him). For the true individual, for the person who shuns Southlake’s methods and realizes that they’re wrong, Southlake is the perfect place to find yourself, discover who you are. Because most people don’t necessarily always know exactly what they want, but they can tell you what they don’t want and, using that logic, eventually decipher what it is they truly want.

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone is an individual. You are not Southlake, but rather one antithesis of it. I am another antithesis, Thomas another, Pam another, Heath another, Mal yet another (I could go on about all of you but I shall not). You have the ability and the position to benefit from the superficiality of Southlake because you choose to reject it. By rejecting it, you are really accepting it; accepting the fact that you are one of it’s negatives. My point is, with the right mindset, for the time that you spend there, you can make Southlake you hell or your heaven. But in order to do that, you must look inside yourself and discover what is you want, and who you want to be. Do you want to be the wild party animal? The quiet marimba player? The brilliant but crazy one? The quiet depressed one? The anti social one? The innocent one? The mad one? Anyone you choose, you can be, because you already are. You are perfect in your own way; you have all the components for happiness and success and brilliance with in you, you just have to choose which to use, which to be. You control you. Nothing more and nothing less. You control your destiny. It is your choice...thou mayest.

Wow that was really long. I hope it was as inspirational as it sounded in my head. If not then I hope it was an interesting insight into my slightly twisted logic.

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

economics of the world

I was reading some articles on Truthout today, some about the Roberts Supreme Court nomination and others about the hurricane and about how badly people think the government is handling it and about all the problems etc. Then I found this article from the Independent U.K. about Katrina’s effects on US Oil production. Obviously oil rigs have been damaged and destroyed; some have floated away, some are in pieces, and others are leaking millions of gallons daily into the Gulf and Mississippi River. Besides having an effect on the US prices and oil production (oil prices have obviously risen dramatically), this is having a serious effect on prices all over the world. The growing demand for oil in China and the United States over the past few years along with the knowledge of an eventual running out of supply has forced prices up over the past few years. Coupled with the supply shock of hurricane Katrina, there are massive global economic consequences. Prices all over the world are going up because of a limited supply and a daily increasing demand. The Gulf of Mexico produces about 25% of the US oil supply and the majority of that 25% is no longer available. Although this is reversible and the economy will begin to recover dramatically when rebuilding etc. starts, what’s going to happen in 10 years when we really do start to run out of oil, when we’ve exhausted all of our supplies and are past the point where it is cheap to extract it and it is actually attainable? What will happen to the economy? The US can’t survive without cars; the majority of the country is designed for car traffic and public transportation is lacking. Were public transportation to be more prominent this wouldn’t be so much of an issue because we wouldn’t be consuming as much oil and energy. Also, the government is under funding research for alternative sources of energy. Many people are blatantly ignoring the problem and drive SUV’s that get less than 9 miles to the gallon. This is ridiculous. I don’t care whether you’re liberal or conservative, oil is not the future of this nation, or of the world. Eventually we are going to have to find some other energy source. That’s just the way it is going to be.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/090205EA.shtml

for some interesting and more educated reading on the subject.

Monday, September 05, 2005

surprised

wow....college really keeps you out of the loop. pretty much the only news i've been hearing about for the past week or so has to do with hurricane katrina (not that we shouldn't be focusing on it because it is important and the people do need help) but there are other thing happening. Like with the Supreme Court and Reinquest dying on Sunday/Saturday (not sure which yet...maybe even before like onThursday) and Bush nominating Roberts, the guy who was just confirmed like not even a month ago to replace him as Chief Justice. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but somethings not right here...on the bright side he hasn't nominated anyone else to take Reinquest's spot yet. He will of course, but he hasn't yet so there's always hope for another Bush nomination confusion where they nominate a liberal who they think is a conservative...

Sunday, September 04, 2005

the bubble is nice

sooooooo I'm home. It's nice. I like my bed.

uuuummm carroll won on friday. Yay. TCU won yesterday. Yay.

so let's see...classes are going fairly well. My Western Civ and World Religions and Film classes are looking to be awesome while French is eh and Stat is bleh. Friday night I went to the football game and saw Mal and my brother and Miss Eyer and Ms. Grey and it was nice. Then Dave and I hung out for a little bit and got some ice cream (yum). Saturday morning Mal and I had breakfast at La Madeline's which was so much fun (I've decided I want to move to Europe when I'm older and become an expatriate and just go from cafe to cafe like in The Sun Also Rises because that would be fun). Anyway then we hing out at Mal's place of employment (hahahahaha so much fun stuff to do) and then my brother and I went to the mall and then I came home and ran some errands and helped clean up the house. Then for the big cheese...So Kate, Thomas, Dave and I decided we were going salsa dancing last night but then things got messed up and Thomas' mom and Kate's mom changed their minds an decided that we they couldn't go because it was too far away. But we were all dressed up for it (omg Kate and I looked so fine it was not even funny; not to be conceited but there were heads turning everywhere we went) so we all hung out and then got Dave and went to Carrabba's (spelling?) and Kate and Thomas and I were so hyper and loud and everyone kept starring at us but we didn't care and it was hilarious. Except then I got a stomachache for no reason and was like bleh no fun. And then...we went to Braum's and then we chilled. And it was nice. A little weird at times but nice. But there's a place in Colleyville that has salsa dancing on Friday nights so we're going to do that on the weekend when the footbball game is on a thursday/when the playoffs start.

Uuuumm we're having a family golfing outing this afternoon. YAY. should be interesting. talking to Pam right now. She's doing good. Miss her. Not much else going on. I'm out.

caffeine highs, coffee shops, shades of grey