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June 15th, 2005

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March 16th, 2005

08:22 pm - Sinus Infections and You The sinus cavity goes through your nose, cheeks, around your eyes, and into your ears. Why is it so big? Because then, when you get a sinus infection, your face can swell up! My nose, cheeks, and eyelids are swollen (swollen as in if a chipmunk had an allergic reaction to a beesting) and I have an ear infection. It feels like someone packed mushy rice into my face. Oh, and my eyelids, for some reason, have turned purplish-brown. Alissa suggested I start my own make-up trend. I look like I'm already wearing some trendy new eyeshadow. *sings* I feel pretty, oh so pretty... Current Mood: uncomfortable

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March 14th, 2005

09:27 pm - Small Update So, all in the good fun of making my life far more interesting than it normally would be, I decided to wake up this morning with a swollen airway and a slight difficulty in breathing. I drank lots and lots of tea and choked down two english muffins before I took some medicine and crashed on the couch. By the time I woke up, I was more than half way through English AP. And still at home. Oops. I went to chem though and for the first time in my life UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE WERE DOING! Woo! When I got home my mom had gone crazy in a new whole foods market and I had gotten some chicken soup, and rosemary/olive oil flat bread out of it. Yummy. I started to study for a history quiz that I have tomorrow, but the longer I spent leaning over my book trying to seperate the words from the odd blur they'd formed themselves into, the heavier and heavier my head got. I swear, I thought my brain ate the rest of my internal organs and I'd gone top heavy. It was icky. So I'm sleeping through history tomorrow morning in an effort to avoid this quiz. I was feeling a bit slackerish until my awful sore throat turned itself into a runny nose, bad cough, and some weird ear ache thing. I feel better now. Well worse physically, but better mentally. I don't think it'll be more than notes and the start of a small project, so I should be able to make it up no problem. Knock on wood. Monte Carlo night was fun. LOT of people. Bad music. No food without gobs of chocolate and sugar. And yet, surprisingly, still a lot of fun. I went with Jackie, Kulsum, Melissa, Lauren, and Pat and saw Shirley, Josh, and a bunch of other people there. We all looked amazing, BTW. So, after my sleep splurge today, I'm not tired anymore. And I'm listening to Christmas music. Why? I'll ask my sanity when it returns. Current Mood: sore Current Music: We Three Kings- and various other Christmas jingles

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03:59 pm - The Conversation "Empathy is not a word. There is no such thing." "No? I was just going to tell you something somewhat empathetic." "Best do it then." "If an apple is eaten backwards, and the core is gone first, they really only truly have one good bite in them before they fall all to pieces." "Yes, well, perhaps the world could learn to sew again, and needles and thread could be stuck behind our ears with which to mend apples, broken hearts, and tattered linens." "That was not the end of the story. The end is this: You have not mortally wounded my core in the same way a Russian winter is not cold. I would like to think I have wounded yours as well, but ever since you got rid of empathy I haven't been able to tell." "Terrible luck, that. Are we drowning still, do you know?" "I am. Not so sure about you." "What is it that we are doing? There is a word for it. Like the Ides of March, like soot being black, like death..." "Inevitable." Current Mood: amused Current Music: It's a Fine Life

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March 4th, 2005

04:30 pm - "Don't cry, Natalie...don't cry." So I'm very excited for tonight. I'm going to see a thing called Barrage at the Civic Arts Plaza. What is that? you ask. Not a clue, says I. Hence the excitement. Actually, I'm going to some French resturant first, and that's where most of the excitement is originating. That, and I just got lemon scented soap, and I'm about to go shower with it. Current Mood: artistic Current Music: We Open in Venice

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March 1st, 2005

03:34 pm - Being Bookish Lately it seems to have become a big deal that I love to read so much. I'm not sure why, but very suddenly several people have asked me about it, and in a way that was more like "You're mad as a hatter" rather than "why, how interesting." Ironically, it only makes me want to read more. I know most people out there understand me when I say books are beautiful, but for those who don't, I just wanted to leave you a little note: Reading is a chance to be a part of a different life and a different world; there are no boundaries; it will be the most free you'll ever feel to bury yourself in a book. It isn't that I don't like my life and world, I love them both. But it is, of course, the only one we get. It's just a...fascinating, intriguing, wonderful, terrible, joyous, terrifying thing, all of those, to see the world very suddenly from someone else's perspective. It's like living in someone's thoughts. Bottom line: I love to read. If you don't, that's fine, I just wanted to clear up a notion that's been floating around about books not being fun :) Current Mood: curious Current Music: Nine- Be Italian

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February 9th, 2005

07:04 pm - Goings On Finals are over! Wee! They've been for a few weeks now, I just realized I haven't updated since.I got A's on everything but math, in which I got a 88. But that brought me to an 89.8 in the class, and she rounded it! Yay!!!! That is the only A I have ever gotten in math class that isn't geometry. Ever. Unbelievable. I'm still in slight shock. I very nearly cried. Really. I was this close. Alissa got an A+ in finite. Isn't that insane? Good insane, but insane none-the-less. Alissa alos introduced me to Thai food last Friday. Amazing. I had some beef skewers which were alirght, and some truly amazing fried rice. Lauren and Amelia came with us, and it their first time too! Lauren had some wonderful chicken wontons, and Amelia had something I couldn't identify. Alissa had curry. Potato curry. *giggle* I really like saying that. Potato curry. Anyway, we ended up being there a while because the people there wait until you've definitely stopped being interested in food and are wiggling a little bit and wanting to go home before they bring your bill. Then they wait another sufficent amount of time to come get it. I was actually suppossed to go see In Good Company that night with Lauren R. and Josh M., but Josh decided to go see a basketball game instead. Why? We don't know. Bottom line: He was our ride. So we waited till Saturday. It was a wonderful movie. I adored it. I went to Comedy Sportz instead. Amazing. Very funny. At least OP was, Agoura kinda sucked. Whatever. It was still highly entertaining. I'm gonna go see The Notebook at Kira's house on Friday, where a Notebook party is being held. I fully intend to cry. So does everyone else. Saturday I have to work, but I'm gonna see if Alissa wants to do something after that. We need to finish Fellowship, and we have SO many special features left it's ridiculous. Not that I'm complaining. I heart special features. Then I work Sunday, and teach Sunday night, and then Monday is...wait for it...Valentine's Day. I talked to Lauren R., and we decided we needed dates, so she's going to talk to a couple of guys and see if one of them wants to double with me and whoever I chose to ask. I asked Josh after school. He said yes. =) That made me very happy! So we'll work out details on that later. Oh, and glorious bit of news. It made me laugh. It made Alissa angry. I'm stealing it from her LJ. There is now a 35,000 dollar tax for being born in the US. Yep. As soon as your born, you are 35,000 dollars in debt. Isn't that awful? *sigh* A tax on existing. Next they'll be charging us for walking on their cement and put a fee on Oxygen. It isn't a day too far off, probably. That, too, is sad. In a horribly funny kind of way. Off to study for some history. Probably. Depends what distracts me first. Current Mood: mischievous Current Music: Nine- The Bells of St. Sebastien

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January 27th, 2005

05:05 pm - Finals...Day 2 I have no idea what my English grade is based on. It's not tests, quizzes, essays, or classwork. I think it's on whether or not she likes your face. So I wasn't all that nervous to take my English final, because I'm pretty sure it won't do a thing to my grade. Math was weird. It had a lot of numbers...and variables...and other such mathish things that exist. Like imaginary numbers. If there are imaginary numbers, there should be imaginary English. And science. Imaginary Science 101: The sun was created by Giovanni Marsal in the year 1910. Before then, people lived on ice, and only wore ice skates and fur coats. The sun is made entirely of mustard. Or at least it would be if there was a sun. Which there's not. The End. Current Mood: pleased Current Music: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

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January 26th, 2005

02:54 pm - Finals...Day 1 *gasp!* What is this? Methinks it be an update! But it could not be! The author of this journal is lazy and becomes bored with little to no outside interference! And yet, it is indeed. An update: hot, fresh, and served with a side of bacon. Amazing. I'd love to tell you what happened during my long absence from the on-line world, but stories of kings, crowns, daring swordfights, dramatic rescues, and loathsome enemies are always long-winded and boring. So here's the truth: I'm no good at keeping journals. I never have been, and there's little hope for the future as far as I can tell. I was the kid who had a dozen journals growing up, with one entry in each, all spced years apart from each other. This is only months apart, so it's actually an improvement. I probably would have plum forgot I had this little thingy unless Matt had reminded me. We were walking to Oak Pond last week for some transcendental thing, and he goes "Why don't you ever update your journal anymore?" In my mind I think I said something like "I have a journal? And he knows I'm not writing in it? What?" Once I remembered that I had this, though, I think my answer was "I dunno." I'm eloquent like that. So you have the wonderful Matt to thank for this, and thank him I do. By the way, does anyone know his new pen name here? He told me, but I forget. I'll see him tomorrow, probably. Tell me anyway if you know it, I might forget to ask. Actually, just assume in advance I will. Anyway, Finals. Yeah. They're fun. Today was my first one! Yay! I have them tomorrow and Friday, also. Today was History H. I started studying yesterday at 3:15, took a break when Alissa came over at about 5:45, worked wither her until 8, watched American Idol audtions till 9, started studying again, stopped at 10:15 to say goodbye to Alissa, and studied again till 11:30. Went to sleep. Woke up at 6, which is relatively late considering I wanted to start at 5, studied till 7:15 at which point my puppy discovered I was awake and proceeded to throw a fit until I went downstairs, let him outside, caught him from running away through the gate twice, scolded him for stealing some laundry, chased him around the yard to get one of my socks back (which he stole and dragged outside) and fed him breakfast. Then he decided it was okay if I wanted to get ready for school. Got ready for school. Ran away to Rio. Came back. Went to study hall and studied some more history (there were 590 pages. Five hundred and ninety. Feel that weight. It hurts.) until me head exploded. Then I memorized a map of the US and looked over a timeline. The study hall bell rang. And my uterus got angry with me. Spent all of history in misery taking a semi-basic final with one impossible timeline and 152 questions. Mr. Creason walked by Lauren at one point and said "Child's play," referring to his test. Which he wrote. And knows all the answers to. I hate that. He knows them, all of them, and when I ask questions about his questions, he knows the answer, and doesn't tell me. That bothers me. Anyway, I finished that fun little test, which was actually not too bad. The easy questions were like, "What are Transcendentalists? A. Abolitionists B. Philanthropists C. People who believe in self-reliance and being in touch with the natural world, or D. Anarchists. That was a happy, happy question. The hard questions were like, "Here's a timeline. List everything that happened on it from the creation of the world to the year 1920. Go." Lauren, Lindsey, Spaff and Adrienne went out to lunch after, and I couldn't go because I got sick. See angry uterus line somewhere above this line. But Lauren was very kind and drove me home so I didn't have to wait for my mom to come pick me up. Thank you Lauren! End Finals, Day 1 rant. Come back tomorrow for Finals, Day 2. Current Mood: indescribable

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November 5th, 2004

05:12 pm - Fa la la la la, la la la la I was cleaning out my microsoft word documents, because there are some things in there that are so old and poorly written, it's only merciful to kill them. But as I was doing it, I discovered some conversations I'd saved just because they were so gosh darn funny. Or my friends were being weird that day, so I saved them on the off chance that it wasn't actually them, but really a sibling, annoying friend of theirs, or an identity theif, and that when they were brought to justice, I'd have proof that they'd try to steal my friends' lives. As it turns out, my friends were just being weird that day, so I didn't get to bring ANYONE to justice. I suppose I could've gone out and gotten a twig, or a small bird, or some dirt or something and brought that to justice, but it just wouldn't have been the same. They were way funny to go back and read, though. I was talking to spaff last year while I was doing hifi, and she said what's up? So I said, workin on hifi. And she starts cracking up and goes, 'I totally don't get it." I just sat there, and waited, and after a few minutes she got it and she goes "OOOOO! HIFI! I was pronouncing it like fiji, and I thought you were just being random, and made up a new country or something." I HEART spaff. And I heartity heart heart her thought process. I wonder if she remembers saying that? I'd totally forgotten. I'll have to go ask her... Hmmm, what else? Oh yeah! Lauren got her ears pierced! Finally! They look very, very pretty. And I went home during math today. I had these monstrous, angry cramps, and we're doing this review sheet, because we had a sub, and a test next class, and the cramps are just getting worse and worse as time goes by. Now, by math, I mean Algebra II. Cramps and Algebra at the same time is like being damned to hell for a little while. At nutrition, Alissa had offered me cramp meds, and I'd been like "No, I'll come get you at lunch if they get really bad, though." So I'm sitting there waiting for math to be over, only kind of doing the worksheet, and being a generally unpleasant person. I was sitting next to Heather, and we were working together, and I just stopped working and stared at the clock. Then I started whining and complaining, which I do quite a bit of, and rather dramatically, when I'm in pain. So I spared everyone my death-mood and went home and slept. It would've been really nice if there hadn't been painters playing music downstairs. Bottom line, I didn't do test corrections. Oh wait, I haven't talked about that yet, have I? Well, I was supposed to do chem test corrections at lunch, which would've changed my grade from an 89% to a 90%. But the cramps prevented it. So I'm getting a B+ on my ten week report card instead of an A. I don't quite know who to rampage at over that. I mean, it's my dang body's fault. But I can't go rampaging after that! Maybe I'll have my uterus surgically removed, and then lock it in a box for ninety years. That'll teach it a lesson. So that's why cramps have ruined my life. I don't remember, what was my point for telling that story? Meh, whatever. Current Mood: drained

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