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Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
12:20 am	defecting I'm defecting from livejournal seeing as though i'm no longer an angsty 17 year old :) find me at... http://dreamwriter621.blogspot.com/ (Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006
5:30 pm	A quick update Funny thing about growing up is you have to get used to life changing and letting go of things that you once did almost regularly. For starters, this journal is slowly dying. I'm not getting rid of it entirely, because it's my little bloggy thing, but it's been a while since i've written. Neither here nor there though. In the past month since i ranted about how much i hate my job, i still hate my job, but less so now then at that moment. I've moved from south philly to west philly where I don't have internet . I quit my job at lights and started teaching SAT prep on the weekends, and i'm generally just busy as a bee. Hope everyone is well :) Current Mood: busy (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
10:58 pm	"We see nations rise in each other's eyes..." Back when I started City Year this song (Beautiful City- Godspell) was my little mental theme song. Although it's supposed be about Jesus and all that (after Godspell is all about that guy), the song is just very positive about a group of people being able to create a beautiful city and seeing as though CY thrives on a rhetoric of idealism... It just seemed to fit. So now as I enter the last five months of my second term of service, I no longer see this song as my theme for national service. I am still a huge supporter of the concept, but City Year as a whole has me jaded and angry at almost everything. Don't get me wrong. I love my work when it involves my kids. When I can teach them, I am happy. The kids are the reason that i'm in city year. No, it's the rest of the time where I'm playing babysitter to 18-24 year olds who can't seem to get their shit together to actually be effective corps memebers. So I get attitude for doing my job, and then I'm left unsupported and banging my head up against a wall while I look for some way to lead a group of people who don't seem to want to be lead, but can't seem to lead themselves. Then you have people on staff who for whatever reason decide to do just incredibly petty and bitchy things, for reasons i have yet to understand. The long and the short of it is I run myself around in circles, work my ass off, don't get home until 7:30-8pm most nights of the week, and yet... it never seems to pay off. There's never a moment where my CMs get it, there's rarely a point where someone (other than sam who's really good at this) says good job, there's rarely a moment where i feel as though i'm doing anything right. The easy answer is to think that really i'm not doing anything right, and completely sucking at life. Maybe City Year just sucks as an organization? I don't know anymore. Sorry, i know this my first post in a while and it's all rant-y and shit. More about good stuff later. Current Mood: frustrated (Comment on this)
Monday, December 26th, 2005
12:34 am	I'll be home for christmas... My aunt bought my a nice journal with a carved wooden cover. She wants me to chronical my life in it to one day write my great american novel, however, i don't think that my ramblings would make a deep, intellectual, or meaningful work of literature. Hell I read back over my old LJ posts and get embarrassed by all the stupid shit I once found meaningful and felt strongly about. I guess though I would have something to say when I got to the holiday season, because around this time of year I am frequently struck with how crazy my family truly is. I think Christmas eve is my mother's favorite holiday. Granted she's Jewish, and doesn't really get the whole "christianity" thing <"I would be christian if it wasn't for that whole jesus thing"--my mother> but I think there's something about going to the numerous open house parties that her friends have every year, going to see christmas lights, having dinner with family (we have lots of relatives who are christian) and of course the start of the 24 hour marathon of "A Christmas story" really make her happy. This year, because Hanukkah started tonight, my mother decided to combine her favorite night of the year with the start of the Jewish festival of lights. So Christmas Eve she held a latke and christmas party. Somehow it became my job to make the latkes and with the help of a food processor and more patience than i've ever had in my life, I made latkes for five hours. While on one hand it was annoying, I was tied to the kitchen for five hours not able to really venture away for fear that I'd burn them or start a fire with countless cups of oil needed to make the latkes cook. On the other hand, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride. I was making latkes from scratch, just like countless Jewish women have done before me, and hopefully countless Jewish women will do after me. For a brief moment, it made me hope that one day I would have a daughter to be able to pass the recipie and experience on to. The party was successful by the way. We had an improptu string trio concert in our living room that played christmas carols while we ate latkes and caught up with old friends. We drank lots of wine and coffee with kahlua (which is REALLY good by the way). Today, I went to my dad's for christmas morning (that whole interfaith baby thing), and then to my aunt's house for christmas dinner. Christmas dinner with my dad's side of the family used to be my favorite thing to do back when my grandma was alive. It used to be a cheerful day when the kids would be running wild around the house playing with new toys, football on the TV, women in the kitchen that my grandmother would put to work, one long table for the entire family to sit around, singing christmas carols, and sharing family stories over coffee and dessert. Now between death, divorice, and general unhappiness the christmas dinners have become a struggle for me to get through. There is a hell of a lot more alcohol than I remember, forced conversations, awkward moments, yelling, bitchiness, and no table long enough for the entire family to sit around. Maybe it's old age, maybe it's just a longing for my grandmother's strong family backbone, maybe it's that the family dynamic has drastically changed. But as i sat at my aunt's house for our traditional christmas dinner, I really started to wonder about family and life and where i'm headed in mine. I won't post my wonderings here, I don't think they're coherent enough. But I wondered about which side of the family I resemble more, how I handle relationships with the world, and if my fears of relationships will be projected onto those I love and keep me from ever really being happy in a relationship. (Those were the basics.) I have much more to say, many more musings to muse... but I have a nice journal with a carved wooden cover, and I wouldn't want it to go to waste. Current Mood: thoughtful (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
11:53 pm	My aim is true So Tariem sent me this song that he's been dying for me to hear, he said to me "it's called Alison, and it reminds me of you." So I finally got around to listening to it... and it's a cover of "Alison" by Elvis Costello. The most depressingly sweet song with my name attached to it. Also, "Muscles for Michelle" (it seems i'm the only one who's ever heard of it) has also been covered, why are all the songs of my childhood making a comeback? Sorry, that was a total side note... the actual title of this entry has nothing to do with elvis costello, but actually another song... "I keep making these to-do lists but nothing gets crossed out." The best phrase to describe me lately is "hot mess." My first semester of grad school ended on tuesday. From thanksgiving until 6 p.m. December 13th, I was a crazy hot mess of college fair, final exams, papers, service, lights of liberty, and everything in between. And now... well... I vaccuumed my living room for the first time in about two months tonight. Today I just took a big sigh of relief and became a human being again. I am hoping my CMs can forgive me for my scatterbrained, short temperedness over the last few weeks. I wasn't meant for this job. I love my kids, i love my work in the student success center, but I am not cut out for service leader life. I am tired of feeling as though I need to be in 18 different places at one time; I am tired of my CMs lying to me; I am tired of feeling stupid; I am tired of standing outside in 20 degree weather in circles that don't convey any pertienent information; I am tired of getting caught up in stupid CY drama; I AM JUST TIRED. All in all though, I know that when it's all over i'll miss it. So I'm going to shut the fuck up and stop whining :) "Spinning on the dizzy edge, I kissed [his] face, I kissed [his] head... " (side note: speaking of covers, i'm listening to the cover of "just like heaven" which is why the genders are switched in the quote ) One of the biggest reasons for the hot mess-ness that I have been living in is my nack for procrastination that I have. I've been spending lots of time with andy. It's good. It's really good. "Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness. Sometimes they say 'I don't know who you are, but let me walk with you some.' And I say, 'I am alone, that's all, you can't save me, from all the wrong I've done.' But there waiting just the same... and I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but i really just have friends." Yeah... that's all. Current Mood: okay (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 26th, 2005
1:06 am	"the heart may freeze, or it can burn..." Tonight, I saw RENT in the theater. I don't want to talk about the value of a RENT in movie form. I don't want to talk about the fact that the lyrics were far cheezier than I remember, or how Chris Columbus is a shitty director. I don't want to talk about how much i love Rosario Dawson or Idina Menzel, or about how Angel couldn't lip sync in time with the music. I want to talk about RENT. I nearly cried four or five times during the course of the film for reasons having nothing to do with AIDS or addiction. For me RENT is more than just a musical from my past. For me RENT symbolizes a whole time in my life. I discovered RENT at the beginning of my freshman year of high school. It was the source of countless sing-a-longs with Alicia... belting take me or leave me as we danced around. The first time I ever explored DC on my own was the day that a bunch of us girls got standing room only tickets for the show instead of waiting for rush seats. We took the extra time to ride the metro around the city, seeing museums, coffee shop hopping, and changing into "theater clothes" in a fancy hotel bathroom. I auditioned for three musicals using various RENT songs. I poured teenaged angst into the lyrics of these bohemians, quoting them whenever the emotion seemed to fit. It seems pathetic maybe, but watching it on the big screen just reminded me of all that crazy time. It reminded me of how decidedly uncool I was back then (and still am, but it's more endearing now). It reminded me of the quotes that were once stapled to my walls, and the harmonies that Alicia and I once had mastered. It reminded me of my first experience with homophobics, and my first true knowledge of what the term "gay" meant. It reminded me of how much I love to sing, and how much I loved the day we couldn't get tickets to RENT so Ana, Monte and I rode the metro up and down the red line stopping wherever we thought we could find a good place to hang out. Between the tears that pricked my eyes at moments that weren't meant to be tear jerkers, and the grin that stayed on my face throughout most of the movie, I didn't bother to think of if I liked it or not. It was just this nostaligic experience, better than anything I could have wanted while I'm in MoCo seeing old friends and family. And really I can't fault RENT because it's main message is so fitting for me at this exact moment: "Forget regret or life is yours to miss, no other path, no other way, no day but today." Current Mood: nostalgic (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
9:13 pm	The way that summer fades underneath the weight of it all... My life has gotten weird. I'll start with the good: My weekend was filled with fun and friends. I spent Saturday night going from one halloween party to another. I first stopped by Melissa and Danielle's apartment, watched a little "Santa's Slay," and talked to a bunch of La Salle people. From there I joined my favorite senior corps members in West Philly... where i got... drunk, very very drunk. Vodka and Cranberry is either my best friend, or my worst enemy... i haven't decided. It was really fun though. If I could figure out how, I would post some pics of the night, but i don't know how... so i won't. The bad: So Matt and I broke up. Yeah. Basically the distance thing was getting to him, and it wasn't that great for me either. I wish I could sit here and express exactly what I am feeling right now, but I can't. I've been hoping he would email me, want to talk it over, tell me this was a mistake... Right now, i am feeling very alone. I'm alone in my apartment, I'm stranded (more on this in a moment) in south philly while most of my friends are elsewhere, my family is two hours away, I am now single... I don't think I've ever been this alone. I don't like it. The ugly: FUCKING SEPTA IS ON STRIKE. Okay, think of all the busses, subways, trolleys, whatever the public transportation of choice in your city is, just stopped running. I have no way of getting to class. City Year is reduced to the world's biggest chinese fire drill of a carpool. We have to get about 200 people from all over the city and get them to their schools. So we're picking up people in their section of the city, transport them to the art museum where they then transfer into new vehicles, and then go to school. IT SUCKS. This strike also strands me in south philly unless I want to go out walking for miles. The long and short of this entry is to say: Between still not sure what i'm doing with my apartment, the end of the only functional relationship i've ever been in, and septa sucking, i'm cranky. Current Mood: cold (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 17th, 2005
10:31 pm	a quick list. happy thoughts from my weekend: ~Matt was here!! ~Serve-a-thon (it totally rocked my socks) ~"You don't blow a xylophone!" ~"Pope John Paul II, bitch!" ~"It holds the cheese?" ~All of those quotes were from Marilee's gathering on sunday night ~having monday off ~XPN's top ten best albums of all time party Bad parts of the weekend: ~losing ANOTHER roommate ~matt going home Current Mood: okay (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
11:59 pm	Rain rain go away... I hate the rain. I do. It sucks. No one i know is ever happy when it rains. So tonight when i'm surrounded by the sounds of falling rain and angry shouts, i choose to sit here and decompress to the sweet sounds of eva cassidy. Work is work. I am busy all the time. I am so busy that i neglect the ones i care about the most. City Year has this habit of doing that to people. Nothing hurts more when you realize that you haven't been taking care of your family and friends the way you should be. I'm sorry. I am so sorry. I will try harder to be there more, I promise. This feeling doesn't really get helped by our lack of service. The powers that be are not really willing to have CY in the school this year and thusly life is being made 10 times more difficult. The principal has issues with our 18 year old corps members in the school, even though we've had them the passed 4 years and it's been fine. I have felt as though I've been fighting an uphill battle since Sept. 30th. So when i'm not at work i'm at school, this is the first week I haven't had a huge assignment due for school, and it feels so good. Nothing huge for next week either. It's beautiful. Anyway... what else? Things with Matt are okay, it's rough, it's weird, it's a long distance relationship. I think things are going to be a lot better after he comes down this weekend. I'm still working at lights part time, but nothing interesting ever happens there. That's the major update. I'm a shit-tastic friend because i'm constantly busy. School is good. My relationship is strained but still breathing. And I hate the rain. The end. Current Mood: blah (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
11:02 pm	"This sensation's overwhelming..." Livejournal's got some serious angst going on lately, therefore, I'm posting a mildly happy entry to give everyone something to mix it up a little bit. Life is incredibly stressful, but at the same time it's been really good. City Year is up and running and it means crazy hours, divatastic corps members, a delightfully different senior corps, and a serious increase in my coffee intake. We went to the woods this past week for our basic training retreat... on one hand it was a mess because there was long hours, no A/C in the suffocating humidity, really intense workshops, and flaring tempers, but on the other hand it was hilarious. Brynn and I were underwear buddies because we both wore our superman underoos on the same day, we sang the Wyneshia song during our midnight staff/senior corps circle ("wyneshia's yelling at me again, she said to me 'girl you need some help, and what is going on with your hair?' i said to her 'wy you ain't gonna yell at me no more'"-- sung to the tune of "this love" by maroon five), Mike F. did his interpretive PT dance, amber's laugh was compared to hearty chicken soup, andy started the slow clap in the middle of a workshop, i got my permenant team of rad little divas, chris sang a soulful version of DMB's #41, and we only had one bee sting the whole time :). I laughed alot the whole time. In other news, things with Matt are (as far as I know) going well, and that's a big doofy grin on my face. Today I went to work for a breif 5 1/2 hour shift, and afterwards got to hang out with my katiedid for the afternoon/evening. SO FUN. I love my katie. We played skip-bo and listened to music while we talked about life and love and the rabbit and everything in between. It was just what i needed before settling down to a late night of homework and what not. Now I'm rockin' out to Kelly Clarkson... (Don't hate, you know that you secretly like her songs too...) Current Mood: silly (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
10:30 pm	Money, insanity, the godfather... and how they all intertwine. So yeah. Work is starting to get a little crazy, what with the corps arriving in two weeks and all. We had this programming and service day long "retreat" where the powers that be kept us in a room with no windows for an entire day while they talked about the upcoming year. Fun times, and by fun times i mean... i kept wanting to jam a pen in my eye. I can't be talked at for 9 hours, i shut down after an hour and a half. It doesn't help that i am having money issues. Yes I can pay my rent. Yes I can pay my electric/gas/phone/cable bill (though unless graham is horribly attached to it, i'm going to seriously reduce my service). So that leaves me with... my grad school tuition bill, my books, fun money (cmon everyone has to have something put aside to have fun), and oh yeah... food. This is where i start twitching uncontrollably, and wondering where those stereotypical jewish qualities of being good with money are when i need them. So i'm running around breaking up my americorps grant to pay for part of my schooling, filing out the fafsa and applying for the stafford loan... and tuesday i'm taking a day off from work to go wait at the welfare office and apply for food stamps. I am swallowing my pride in order to get 150 dollars a month from the federal gov't to pay for food. If i'm going to be poor, i might as well be poor with gusto. That's how my week has been, impending doom of bills and incoming corps members... worries about school and my disaster area of an apartment... Oh! I almost forgot about the godfather. I started watching it tonight because i've never seen it. Graham and i are splitting the first one up into two parts, and it was exactly what i needed to get my mind off the insanity. The movie is so freaking good. "There's a light at each end of this tunnel, reach out cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out." Current Mood: stressed (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 21st, 2005
10:41 pm	"Each question just begs another question." I don't have much to report. This weekend started off on the wrong foot and never quite regained the awesomeness it could have, but staying up late to talk with angie was great. Anyway, city year is going well. I'm sort of finding my way with the rest of the senior corps. As far as I can tell, I'm part confidant and part doormat (though i think i was just being sensitive on friday). Yeah. Jess tagged me, so i might as well. Ten things that make me happy (in no particular order) 1. singing loudly 2. good jokes 3. cuddling and talking before sleep 4. laying in a hammock reading a good book 5. opening nights 6. nights out with my favorite people 7. minor league baseball 8. playing on swing sets 9. a long walk 10. lounging on the beach i tag... anyone who wants to tell me what makes them happy. Current Mood: sleepy (18 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 6th, 2005
12:16 pm	Week away... Hey everyone, i always figure this is the best way to tell people i'm skipping town for a week. I'll be at "academy" (City Year speak for "week long training") for a week in Boston (well close to Boston), I'll also be visiting some people up there. No computer, so call if you want to chat. See you all when I get back on the 13th :) Current Mood: busy (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 1st, 2005
11:15 pm	A more fun survey This survey was sent to me through myspace... but i'm going to open it up to all of you. I want to know your picks, so comment people! Name 10 Musical Acts that would be your dream 1-Day Show. Name at least one song you would like them to play. They can be living or dead. Barenaked Ladies: Blame it on me, Brian Wilson, and You'll be waiting Guster: Mona Lisa, Eden, Deamons Eliott Smith: Pitselah Ani DiFranco: Gravel, Joyful Girl Eddie from Ohio: 20,000 hearts, step into the outside Eva Cassidy: Fields of Gold Green Day: Welcome to Paradise, Basketcase, anything off the new album Jimmy Eat World: Anything off clarity Ben Folds Five: Evaporated, Not the Same The Beatles (because everyone has to): Elenor Rigby Current Mood: sleepy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
11:16 pm	"Oh it took me a long time to come to this, and I have chosen my path." First statement of this entry... Don't buy 59 cent juice called "guzzler," it is really really gross. Anyway, the reality TV show/sit com has started. Graham moved in. This was the bulk of my weekend. Let me explain... Friday at work we found out that they've shut down all other operations and everyone in the office is on recruitment now. It's very sad. I don't want to be on recruitment. Friday wasn't bad though, we dropped off flyers at libraries in Mt. Airy, West Oak Lane, Olney, Logan, and Chestnut Hill. My car was rad. It was Chris, Amber and I rockin' out to the Killers, Modest Mouse, Dave Matthews Band, and yes even John Mayer. I forgot how much i love DMB's "Live at Luther College" album. Tim Reynolds is the man. Anywy, after our adventures in the north section of the city and a little debrief, we piled back into our cars for a going away bbq for one of the devo people. We played softball, cranium, and the men attempted to bar-be-que everything from hot dogs to veggie burgers. After I escaped from the wonder that is the strawberry mansion district of philly (because the bbq was at a park over there) I came home to start cleaning the apartment, and get ready for the move and my house guest (graham's friend matt came to visit this weekend... more on this later). Cleaning turned out to not go as well as i orginally hoped. Mainly because graham and i kept stopping to talk, or move things, or the vacuum kept clogging due to cat hair, or watching Deep Throat. Yes, you heard me. So graham owns the DVD of the famous 1970 porn, and in my frantic cleaning graham decides that i should relax a little and watch the most ridiculous movie ever. It was freakin' hilarious. Anyway, we then went to pick up Matt from the train station. Matt... I don't really want to talk to much about it... I don't want to jinx it, or be one of those silly girls who meets someone and gets all mushy and crazy about them in a livejournal. I've done that too much in the past. No more. I put my foot down. Instead I'll just breifly explain the situation, and that will be that. So I met graham's friend matt once in CT when i went to visit graham up there, and we re-met when he came down for the AP show. Well yeah, we kinda hit it off. ::insert big doofy grin here:: It's been good. We've been talking almost every night since then, and yeah, it's good. So he came down to visit this weekend and it was great. The weekend was then filled with craziness such as; ikea trips where the maps look like clue boards, the names all have some hilarious connotation to them (hehe "jerker", "gruntal", "samsjorn" ("and son!"), etc), and i found awesomely cheap keith harring pics; lots of arrested development; air conditioning(!!!!!!!!); popeyes; puns; soul calibur; long talks before sleep; and lots of other such nonsense. So that's that. It was a good weekend. I'm glad graham has moved in. I'm glad that matt came down to visit this weekend. I'm in a good mood. Current Mood: happy (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
5:19 am	"So close your eyes, you can close your eyes it's all right..." Wow I haven't thought of that song in forever, and it just popped into my head. I can not sleep. I've gotten about four and a half hours and that's all my body apparently wants today. I am chalking that up to first day of school jitters. Okay so it's not school, but in three and a half hours I will start my senior corps year with City Year Greater Philadelphia. The prospect is actually kind of nerve wreaking. I mean it's still City Year: same culture, same ideals, same basic idea for the kind of work I'll be doing, but there's no strawberry city. There's no Renee doing the DB, no crazy City Hero team for me to talk to, no Joey Plum hugs, no El rides with Dave talking about why men and women can (or in his opinion can not) be friends, no YGap (yay!)... no lots of things that made last year so unique. So I'm walking in blind again, same as I was September 1st last year, only this time i'm SUPPOSED to know what i'm doing... Thus the lack of sleep. So now that I'm up, I don't really know what to do with myself. In other news, I am growing to hate Internet speak. You know: ttyl, gtg, "u r 2 cool" (or in some cases kewl), i kno... In some cases, I can see the appeal. TTYL is alot faster to type than "talk to you later", same with brb or something like that. But seriously I think we've gone to far; KNO for know? Have we really gotten so lazy as a society that we can't add the w on the end of a word? Maybe it's just the English major in me (who hasn't stopped to proofread this entry for the abundance of grammar mistakes, I am aware), but when I read college kids writing and it's got 2's and u's and kno's it really starts to piss me off. That's my education rant. I finished the 6th Harry Potter last night. It was freakin' amazing, so many twists and turns and crazy things happening all over the place. Luckily Carrie just finished too, so she and I emailed our thoughts on the matter, so i won't spoil it here for all of you who haven't read it yet. I really want to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, maybe tonight or tomorrow if I can stay awake. Okay, so i think i'm going to lay back down and hopefully cash in on an hour of sleep or so. Current Mood: worried (Comment on this)
Monday, July 11th, 2005
10:16 pm	"Oh love is brittle maddness..." I had a nightmare last night. I don't really remember what it was about, just that i woke up at 4am scared out of my mind. In one of those irrational 4am thoughts, I refused to get out of bed to go to the bathroom but got up quickly, pulled Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece off my shelf and jumped back into bed, I guess before the monsters under my bed realized i was up. Once in bed, I promptly started reading it. It's one of those things i do when i'm scared, i take something neutral, usually a children's book or an awful silly girly romance book, and start reading to take my mind off the fear. Usually I just read a few pages and then drift back to sleep, but something about this book made me keep reading. I got to this part of the book, and realized that Shel Silverstein was sort of espousing about love in this odd little tale about a circle who had lost a part of himself. "Hi," it said. "Hi," said the piece. "Are you anybody else's missing piece?" "Not that I know of." "Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?" "I can be someone's and still be my own." "Well, maybe you don't want to be mine." "Maybe I do." "Maybe we won't fit..." "Well..."           --- Shel Silverstein's The Missing Piece I think that's such a great view of healthy relationships, when you can be yourself, but a part of something else too. I don't know, it just struck me as oddly profound for a children's story. Current Mood: contemplative (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
5:00 pm	can i really think of a hundred things??? I've been doing a lot more of these stupid livejournal things now that i have WAY too much time on my hands. I don't know who started this 100 things about yourself stuff... but i'm curious to see if i can actually think of 100 things... 1. I am from G'burg MD 2. I love music 3. because I love music I have a constant soundtrack playing in my head 4. I am learning disabled 5. I want to teach high school english in Philly public schools 6. I work two jobs (boooo) 7. When i'm in a bad mood, i turn up my stereo and sing really loudly 8. Eventually I want to write a novel 9. I'm a closet hypochondriac 10. Clue is my favorite movie 11. If I need time to think something through I clean 12. I hate big parties 13. One of my favorite moments in college was paper mache-ing (is that a word?) the hill for Midsummer Night's Dream sophomore year 14. I love cuddling 15. I am listening to Beautiful Ways by the Pat McGee Band 16. Since I moved to college, I have always lived on the third story of a building/townhouse 17. My first concert was Madonna when I was 8 years old 18. I have no rhythm 19. I actually like Kayne West's album 20. I have never been dating someone on Valentine's Day 21. I've never seen Rocky or the Godfather 22. The longest bus ride I've ever taken was 26 hours long 23. I secretly wanted to be a singer until I was 13 24. Before I discovered the theater, I played softball every spring 25. I don't really have a favorite food 26. I am addicted to caffiene 27. I think in narrative form sometimes 28. It's rare that I can pass a swing set and not play on it for a few minutes (in a public park of course) 29. If I could have a superpower I'd pick teleportation 30. Spring is my favorite season 31. I am a life memeber of Aviva BBG #642 RAH 32. Our mascot was Harvey the Honeybee 33. I still stop and contemplate buying honeybee merchandise 34. I can be very lazy 35. I really like Kokopelli (Native American messenger god who brings good fortune) 36. Where some women love buying shoes, I love buying Pajamas 37. When most of my female peers were going through their obnoxious teenie bopper phase, I was obsessing over broadway musicals. 38. I didn't drink until second semester of my freshman year of college 39. I have never tried pot 40. I worked at Hallmark on and off for two years. 41. I love alliteration 42. I can't spell for shit 43. I'm an audio learner 44. I coordinated a convention when I was 17 45. The bassist for Hootie and the Blowfish lived in my old neighborhood (well his family did). 46. I miss tuesday nights in the 'legion office. 47. Passover is my favorite holiday 48. If I had time to make Shabbat dinner on Friday nights I probably would 49. I'm getting tired of this stupid list but feel compelled to finish 50. I am addicted to the game Bejeweled 2 51. I didn't go to live 8 52. People have accused me of not talking enough about my own life 53. People have accused me of taking too much about my own life 54. I hate talking on the phone 55. This causes problems because my mother LOVES to talk on the phone 56. I have a soft spot in my heart for shitty chick flicks 57. Doing technical theater taught me to swear like a sailor 58. I really liked sailor moon when i was 14 59. Can you tell I'm now doing this based on word association? 60. When I was younger I used to kick ass at the Carmen Sandiago games 61. I also kicked as at tetris 62. The first video game console I had was a Sega Genesis 63. It was actually my little brother's 64. When I was the 6th grade my two good friends and I wanted to fix up an abandon tree house in the woods near our houses, but we were too scared to climb the tree 65. We also used to go wading in the creek in the woods, even though we weren't allowed to 66. I think an acoustic guitar makes any man a little more sexy (especially if he can play well) 67. I love roller coasters 68. I miss central air 69. When we were younger my friend Katie and I would watch the Miss America Pagent and make fun of the contestants 70. She calls me now whenever the pagent is on 71. I haven't had rita's water ice in a year 72. I'm starting to really like beer 73. If I keep doing this, I will in fact be late for work 74. The Princess Bride terrified me the first time I saw it. 75. I remember Beta players 76. When I was little I used to play office and staple everything I possibly could 77. I feel this prepared me for my life as an intern in college where i pretty much did the same thing 78. My very first office job was in a dentist office 79. I hated it. 80. I can't wait to see Green Day in September 81. I can't wait to see Ben Folds in August 82. I don't know where all this money for tickets came from 83. I have one cat 84. I have been taking care of Amanda's cat 85. When I was in Elementary school people called me "Alicat" 86. When I worked at University City High School a couple kids called me "Alicat" 87. They also called me Miss City Year, Miss Ali, and Hey you. 88. Fun socks make me happy 89. I love playing with Quark Express 90. I think i can do ten facts in 6 minutes 91. I love libraries 92. I am afraid of becoming the crazy cat lady 93. My mother is who i will probably be in thirty years 94. I have completely blanked 95. I love playing board games 96. I like being able to walk everywhere in center city 97. I think SEPTA is evil 98. I want to live in Baltimore again one day 99. being almost done makes me very happy 100. I'd rather be on the beach. Done bitches. Current Mood: accomplished (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, June 26th, 2005
11:00 am	Things to do... So it seems that lists on Livejournal are the hip thing to do, whether it's listing facts about yourself or just listing things you have to do in a given day. I will hop on this bandwagon because I don't feel like leaving for work just yet. I have a little less than a month before CY year 2 starts up where it seems i will only be working 28.5 hours a week at lights (yeesh) and have a sizeable amount of free time on my hands. So here's my list of things to do in my not-quite-a-month off. 1) clean and organize my room. 2) finish decorating/setting up the apartment (only a year late) 3) see movies "Crash" and "Nina's Tragedies" 4) finish reading the books i brought back from my dad's house (about two bags worth) 5) wine night/'tini shwasted night with Liss and Danielle 6) walk to camden for another riversharks game 7) hang out with my Katiedid 8) day trip to the jersey shore 9) organize my finances (don't you like how that's number 9 on my list?) 10) see Amy and Jamie before they skip the freakin' country. 11) see jess and ochal's apt. 12) play quizzo. 13) shop on the italian market 14) go on a picnic 15) write more. 16) stop making lists and go to work. 16 done! Current Mood: dorky (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, June 20th, 2005
5:37 pm	A more light-hearted entry... So last night I was really cranky. Graham kinda calmed me down and there is a possiblity that he and i might join forces and live together. ANYWAY, my weekend was very cool. Let's start with thursday. Thursday night I went to quizzo with CY people and Melissa and Danielle and Amanda. This would have been the ultimate in awesome way to combine two groups of friends, if we hadn't had to many people and split into "CY vs. La Salle" teams. Oh, and Andy got kicked out of Fergies because he "forgot" his ID. After we got our ass kicked in quizzo; Anna, Alex, Tariem, Roy, Joey, Andy, Elaine, Kellie and I went to the Plough and Stars to drink a whole lot, laugh a whole lot, and generally have a great time. Friday was the very last day of my first City Year. We got appriciated by our PMs... Jay gave us strawberries, and a picture of the team (that i took and had to get to him first thing thursday morning) for us to get signed. It was also graduation practice and graduation. It was a very emotional day (that andy and i both started hung over) and it ended with graduation. Graduation started with PT lead by three elemetary school students that are apart of our service learning starfish corps. Awards were given out... I won the greatness award. The award is given to the person the corps thinks exemplifies a constant can-do attitude, who is hardworking, and positively contributes to their team. It's given to 5 people. And I nearly started crying when they gave it to me. My team stood up and started cheering. It was a nice lil ego boost (they like me they really really like me!) After graduation, mom and i went to dinner, and then i was supposed to go out with all the cy people, but wine makes me sleepy... So I missed the greatest night in CY history and everyone elsei know got drunk with the executive director. Who's an asshole? This chick. Saturday... Mom, Andy and I started the trek home to Gburg. After a wonderful breakfast at Cracker Barrel, and a quick stop at home. Andy and I hit DC. We went to the new WWII memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam memorial, and then we walked to the Capitol where we sat for a half hour just talking and enjoying each other's company. We had dinner with Peggy at Capitol City Brewery, then we came home and i showed andy around my neighborhood. He was greatly amused. Sunday... The day was great. Andy and I went back to the city to go to museums, seeing various exhibits and modern art. The end of our adventure was sad, because we had to say goodbye on the metro. One very long hug and the promise to keep in touch over the summer. I really am gonna miss that kid, i'm really glad he's coming back to philly in august. Then I went to dinner at my dad's... and then had apartment drama. All in all a successful weekend. Later :) Current Mood: okay (4 Comments |Comment on this)