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4.30.2004
4.29.2004
I'm very excited. At 6:00 I have a meeting with Kuzmanobitch, some other guy and Travis Peterson regarding peer evaluations of our first drafts for the final exam. I cherish the moments when I get to destroy Travis Peterson, the fuck...I mean, granted, I've already done it and all...but I like to grind them into sand with my heel, too....He'll learn to never fuck with The J.Mo about her writing again. :-)
I had a late night last night, spending the time between 2:30 and 4 am trying to get my friend Matt to accept that making abortion illegal would be terrible for society and woundn't reduce abortions. I'm really upset that he is pro-life and has misconceptions about the pro-choice movement, oh, and he will never be affected by abortion legislation yet still wants to make them illegal.
And I can't just let it go - this issue is too important to me. I really wish that people would stop caring so damn much about abortions. They are a side effect of the real problem - sexism AND poverty. Focusing on this one procedure doesn't help, I wish that people would stop threatening Roe v. Wade so that feminists could get some real work done.
::sigh::
And I can't just let it go - this issue is too important to me. I really wish that people would stop caring so damn much about abortions. They are a side effect of the real problem - sexism AND poverty. Focusing on this one procedure doesn't help, I wish that people would stop threatening Roe v. Wade so that feminists could get some real work done.
::sigh::
At Nathan's request, I have added comments to the blog. (This is something I've been contemplating for quite some time and have just been too lazy to actually do.)
4.27.2004
A conversation regarding graduate school, poorly paraphrased:
Me: "What if I'm the one who sucks the most?"
My Jew: "Signe, I promise that you won't be the one who sucks the most."
Me: "Says you. It's definitely possible that I'll be the one who sucks the most; somebody has to fill the role."
My Jew: "No, it'll be a boy. It's always a boy. Trust me."
Me: "What?"
My Jew: "It's true, I promise. That's even true here. I have a theory on this. It's because their mothers treat them differently. With girls, it's always 'don't do this' and 'be careful of that' and 'you can't sit that way.' But with boys, everything is either funny or perfect. Boys are always told that they're the best at everything, and they don't have as many restrictions. I'm going to try very hard not to be that way with my son. Anyway, boys always think that they're great, no matter what they do. They don't work as hard as girls, and when their stuff sucks, they blame it on everyone else. That's why you won't be the sucky one."
Me: "But--"
My Jew: "No. You will not be the one who sucks the most. Your gender prohibits it. (pause) The funny thing is, the boy who sucks the most won't even realize it. He'll just think that he's misunderstood, and that his peers are too stupid to catch on to his brilliance. That even happens here. I had a student in the other day who was upset that the entire class missed the Steppenwolf references in his story. I was thinking, 'Forget that! The story sucked!'"
Me: "Huh."
My Jew: "Don't worry so much!"
You know, I think she's on to something. Now that I'm thinking about my creative writing workshops, the crappy-yet-arrogant writer has always been male. After a bad workshop, the girls are ready to either throw themselves off a cliff or never write again...but they tend not to blame their failure on everyone else. Huh.
Me: "What if I'm the one who sucks the most?"
My Jew: "Signe, I promise that you won't be the one who sucks the most."
Me: "Says you. It's definitely possible that I'll be the one who sucks the most; somebody has to fill the role."
My Jew: "No, it'll be a boy. It's always a boy. Trust me."
Me: "What?"
My Jew: "It's true, I promise. That's even true here. I have a theory on this. It's because their mothers treat them differently. With girls, it's always 'don't do this' and 'be careful of that' and 'you can't sit that way.' But with boys, everything is either funny or perfect. Boys are always told that they're the best at everything, and they don't have as many restrictions. I'm going to try very hard not to be that way with my son. Anyway, boys always think that they're great, no matter what they do. They don't work as hard as girls, and when their stuff sucks, they blame it on everyone else. That's why you won't be the sucky one."
Me: "But--"
My Jew: "No. You will not be the one who sucks the most. Your gender prohibits it. (pause) The funny thing is, the boy who sucks the most won't even realize it. He'll just think that he's misunderstood, and that his peers are too stupid to catch on to his brilliance. That even happens here. I had a student in the other day who was upset that the entire class missed the Steppenwolf references in his story. I was thinking, 'Forget that! The story sucked!'"
Me: "Huh."
My Jew: "Don't worry so much!"
You know, I think she's on to something. Now that I'm thinking about my creative writing workshops, the crappy-yet-arrogant writer has always been male. After a bad workshop, the girls are ready to either throw themselves off a cliff or never write again...but they tend not to blame their failure on everyone else. Huh.
4 more days ..... why is it that I am so excited to graduate? What do I have to look forward to? Wiping kids' boogers, tieing shoes, getting all their icky germs, eating school lunch the rest of my life (or better yet a soggy peanut butter and jelly sandwhich that stinks like whatever other food I can fit into my paper sack), making lesson plans for every waking minute of the day ... hmmm teaching doesn't really seem as glorified as I've made it out to be. Maybe because all of my best friends are doing things so much better and more exciting - Meghan is working for the government doing nuclear research making more money in a year than I'll make in 10, Becca is moving back to CA to open a dyke bar or work for her mom, Sig is going to Alaska to become a famous writer, Rock will be a lawyer, Erica is going to be some amazing mad scientist, and then there's me the teacher.
I'm not really all that depressed or anything, but I had to do this 'reflective' writing on teaching and people's preceptions of teachers and things like that. Teachers are pretty undervalued and not as respected as they really should be. Not because I am going to be a teacher and would love to feel valued and appreciated by people other than snotty nose 7 year olds, but because really teachers aren't and haven't really been held in esteem since philosopher 'teachers' like Plato and all of those other 'old guys.'
So I'm done now : ) I think we'll be in Rapids this weekend if anyone is around and not busy I'd love to hang out! Oh yeah, anyone ever hear of Fifths Disease? It's going around the education department here at Ripon because of all those snotty nose sneezey kids we work with during clinicals gave us the virus. I don't think I have it yet, but it's kind of like a cold followed by a rash - I've had a cold for the past week, so hopefully I don't have a 'slap mark' rash on my face and lattice like rash on my arms and legs for graduation! That'll be sexy and excellent for pictures!
Off to class - and Jamie pretty sure after all the experiences with men/boys you've been through, being jaded isn't the worst thing you could be! I love you all - hopefully we can get together again soon, I'm in a girls-y mood! : )
I'm not really all that depressed or anything, but I had to do this 'reflective' writing on teaching and people's preceptions of teachers and things like that. Teachers are pretty undervalued and not as respected as they really should be. Not because I am going to be a teacher and would love to feel valued and appreciated by people other than snotty nose 7 year olds, but because really teachers aren't and haven't really been held in esteem since philosopher 'teachers' like Plato and all of those other 'old guys.'
So I'm done now : ) I think we'll be in Rapids this weekend if anyone is around and not busy I'd love to hang out! Oh yeah, anyone ever hear of Fifths Disease? It's going around the education department here at Ripon because of all those snotty nose sneezey kids we work with during clinicals gave us the virus. I don't think I have it yet, but it's kind of like a cold followed by a rash - I've had a cold for the past week, so hopefully I don't have a 'slap mark' rash on my face and lattice like rash on my arms and legs for graduation! That'll be sexy and excellent for pictures!
Off to class - and Jamie pretty sure after all the experiences with men/boys you've been through, being jaded isn't the worst thing you could be! I love you all - hopefully we can get together again soon, I'm in a girls-y mood! : )
why did it seem so goddamn important?
"When we are loved we are afraid love will vanish. When we are alone we are afraid love will never return." -Audre Lorde
That's why.
Well, that and the fact that a lot of men really are putrid pieces of crap who seem nice and normal and caring to begin with (that's how they suck us in) but who somehow morph into loathesome pricks who just want to ogle/fondle our breasts, fuck us, and tell their friends about it.
Men. Ugh. The bitterness was completely warranted, I promise. That old man of yours should get over it. :)
"When we are loved we are afraid love will vanish. When we are alone we are afraid love will never return." -Audre Lorde
That's why.
Well, that and the fact that a lot of men really are putrid pieces of crap who seem nice and normal and caring to begin with (that's how they suck us in) but who somehow morph into loathesome pricks who just want to ogle/fondle our breasts, fuck us, and tell their friends about it.
Men. Ugh. The bitterness was completely warranted, I promise. That old man of yours should get over it. :)
4.26.2004
I'm a bitter little bitch.
Bryan read some of the blog (he found a link to it...Man, ANYONE can find out all about us if they're interested...I never thought about it.) and said it was interesting and that I seemed a bit jaded in some of my entries about relationships/boys/dating/etc. I realized that I had often bitched in here about them (boys) but to what extent I did not know...
EVERY OTHER FUCKING BLOG was about how much I hate boys. Unreal. In fact, almost every single entry OPENED with a phrase similar to "I hate boys," which is really quite amusing...that I'd obsess over the "hatred" or whatever it is to such a degree...maybe I *am* jaded...why did it seem so goddamn important?
Bryan read some of the blog (he found a link to it...Man, ANYONE can find out all about us if they're interested...I never thought about it.) and said it was interesting and that I seemed a bit jaded in some of my entries about relationships/boys/dating/etc. I realized that I had often bitched in here about them (boys) but to what extent I did not know...
EVERY OTHER FUCKING BLOG was about how much I hate boys. Unreal. In fact, almost every single entry OPENED with a phrase similar to "I hate boys," which is really quite amusing...that I'd obsess over the "hatred" or whatever it is to such a degree...maybe I *am* jaded...why did it seem so goddamn important?
4.25.2004
Mozilla doesn't work well with Windows, eh? Funny thing...I find that Mozilla works BETTER than Internet Explorer. Sure, you need to download plugins every now and again, but that's not a big deal. I've found that Mozilla rarely (if ever) freezes, for example, whereas Internet Explorer freezes all the goddamn time.
Lisa: I will be in Rapids all summer. Come visit me while Jacob's in California. I bet Lauren and Jamie would like to play with us too.
Erica: I don't know why service workers get treated like shit. I work at a front desk in a college dorm. I do not order the soda, the pizza, or anything else; it's not my fault that we have Pepsi products rather than Coke products, and it's not my fault that we're always out of cheese pizzas. I have nothing to do with how poorly-stocked the vending machine is. I have no control over drunk assholes who think it's funny to take all the wet clothes out of the dryers in the laundry room. It's not my fault that the doors get locked at 11 pm and that guests need a photo ID to be allowed into the building after that time. I just press the cash register buttons and make change, mostly. But who gets to hear about all that shit? Me. AAAAARGH.
Jamie: I have no idea what it would be like not to have to worry about money. I'm terrified that I'll starve to death up in Alaska. If anyone knows of a sweet-ass job in the Rapids/Plover/Point area, let me know. I need to make as much money as possible this summer. I have a feeling that it's going to be tough.
Lisa: I will be in Rapids all summer. Come visit me while Jacob's in California. I bet Lauren and Jamie would like to play with us too.
Erica: I don't know why service workers get treated like shit. I work at a front desk in a college dorm. I do not order the soda, the pizza, or anything else; it's not my fault that we have Pepsi products rather than Coke products, and it's not my fault that we're always out of cheese pizzas. I have nothing to do with how poorly-stocked the vending machine is. I have no control over drunk assholes who think it's funny to take all the wet clothes out of the dryers in the laundry room. It's not my fault that the doors get locked at 11 pm and that guests need a photo ID to be allowed into the building after that time. I just press the cash register buttons and make change, mostly. But who gets to hear about all that shit? Me. AAAAARGH.
Jamie: I have no idea what it would be like not to have to worry about money. I'm terrified that I'll starve to death up in Alaska. If anyone knows of a sweet-ass job in the Rapids/Plover/Point area, let me know. I need to make as much money as possible this summer. I have a feeling that it's going to be tough.
4.24.2004
I also hate working. Why is it that people feel they can treat service workers like shit? The next time I see somebody treating a service worker like shit or making a stupid asshole complaint so they can save fifty cents, I'm going to put my boot up their ass.
If somebody comes to me with a legitimate complaint, I will help them. For example, if there is a severed head floating in your toilet, I will give you a discount and put you in another room. However, if there is a candy wrapper under the bed, I don't give a damn. I really don't.
If somebody comes to me with a legitimate complaint, I will help them. For example, if there is a severed head floating in your toilet, I will give you a discount and put you in another room. However, if there is a candy wrapper under the bed, I don't give a damn. I really don't.
4.23.2004
I wish I had a job. No, not really, but I need a summer job or I'll go insane sitting around being bored because every friend from college is going to all different remote parts of the freaking world and all my girls are at least an hour an a half a way and my husband will be half a country away for awhile. He's going to California, to tour with Chuck - the guy that stood up with Becca in my wedding. I have no desire to be the roadie wife for a month and California really doesn't excite me that much so I'll stay here, pay bills, play with my kitty, and converse with all of my mentally retarded neighbors who are actually quite entertaining. Marge stands outside below our living room windows and coughs and makes the weirdest noises at my kitty. Sometimes I crawl to the window (he has this little stand that he sits on to look out the window) and I grab him without Marge seeing me, because clearly the cat is horrified at this daily verbal assault. He stands up and arches his back and does this moaning/hissing thing at her. Anyways, Marge happens to be the one that freaked all the little kids out last year at my birthday party - she walked around the building outside singing It's a Small World exceptionally loud and awful! The flower girls from my wedding ran and hid they were so afraid!!! Anyways, off to class - 7 MORE DAYS OF CLASS LEFT AND 22 DAYS UNTIL I GRADUATE : ) I can't freaking wait! : ) Miss you girls! I think this summer after school is done I will host a girls night here at the apartment! Love you all!
4.22.2004
Jamie and Her New Boyfriend, Bryan
This is a joke, because my new boyfriend is a bit older than me...but as of now I adore him...begrudgingly. And this is irony, by the way...he's not in his seventies, he's thirty-two...which I think is a perfect age, because he's old enough to have gained experience and I don't have to deal with that adolescent bullshit mentality, and young enough to not be lame. Although he IS a Republican. *Gasp* But he's not ignorant, which is so refreshing to find in such a sordid partisanship. I feel that this momentus occasion, me actually keeping a boy around for longer than five minutes, deserves a celebration...*cough* Girlz Nite *cough*
(Pic is from Sindri's Madonna Page, by the way. Sindri rules.)
This is a joke, because my new boyfriend is a bit older than me...but as of now I adore him...begrudgingly. And this is irony, by the way...he's not in his seventies, he's thirty-two...which I think is a perfect age, because he's old enough to have gained experience and I don't have to deal with that adolescent bullshit mentality, and young enough to not be lame. Although he IS a Republican. *Gasp* But he's not ignorant, which is so refreshing to find in such a sordid partisanship. I feel that this momentus occasion, me actually keeping a boy around for longer than five minutes, deserves a celebration...*cough* Girlz Nite *cough*
(Pic is from Sindri's Madonna Page, by the way. Sindri rules.)
4.12.2004
Hope everyone had a Happy Easter. It's so much fun to split time between two familes and haul butt and scarf your face at both places in fear of a guilt trip for not partaking in the festivities. After a holiday I wish we would have chosen 1 family to celebrate with and alternate from that point on, but then I feel like we're missing out and yeah.
32 more days (weekends included) until I graduate - you have NO idea how ready I am to get the hell out of here. I have NO motivation or desire to finish any of my papers/projects/clinicals/finals/ or studying.
This summer Jacob is going to tour around CA with Chuck trying to promote Fading Maize and stuff. Everyone should come here for a girls night/weekend/week - whatever you want to do. Not sure the exact dates he'll be gone yet - not that you couldn't come when he's here, I just figured it'd be more fun to have ALL girls! I'm looking for a job, but it'd be nice to have friends to come home to - not that the cat isn't enough, but sometimes it's good to have something that talks back to you! So far I've applied at Berlin Memorial Hospital, this lodge on Green Lake, and some other crappy summertime jobs. Anyways, off to my next class! Have a good week everyone! Miss you girls!
Oh yeah - my sister found her dream job and no longer is moving back to Rapids to live with my parents. Guess what her 'dream job' is?! She walks dogs for an 8 hour shift at some doggy day care type place where old rich people pay $35 for 15 minutes for someone to walk/exercise their dog! Get off your ass and walk your own damn dog is what I'm thinking! I guess people leave them at the place when they go on vacations and work, too, but mostly it's old rich people too fat and out of shape to walk the dog. At least they care enough I guess. But I'm just amazed Amy proudly labels this as a dream job. Less than $10 an hour pay, no benefits, and really not much of a chance of mobility. Anyways, off to class again :)
32 more days (weekends included) until I graduate - you have NO idea how ready I am to get the hell out of here. I have NO motivation or desire to finish any of my papers/projects/clinicals/finals/ or studying.
This summer Jacob is going to tour around CA with Chuck trying to promote Fading Maize and stuff. Everyone should come here for a girls night/weekend/week - whatever you want to do. Not sure the exact dates he'll be gone yet - not that you couldn't come when he's here, I just figured it'd be more fun to have ALL girls! I'm looking for a job, but it'd be nice to have friends to come home to - not that the cat isn't enough, but sometimes it's good to have something that talks back to you! So far I've applied at Berlin Memorial Hospital, this lodge on Green Lake, and some other crappy summertime jobs. Anyways, off to my next class! Have a good week everyone! Miss you girls!
Oh yeah - my sister found her dream job and no longer is moving back to Rapids to live with my parents. Guess what her 'dream job' is?! She walks dogs for an 8 hour shift at some doggy day care type place where old rich people pay $35 for 15 minutes for someone to walk/exercise their dog! Get off your ass and walk your own damn dog is what I'm thinking! I guess people leave them at the place when they go on vacations and work, too, but mostly it's old rich people too fat and out of shape to walk the dog. At least they care enough I guess. But I'm just amazed Amy proudly labels this as a dream job. Less than $10 an hour pay, no benefits, and really not much of a chance of mobility. Anyways, off to class again :)
4.11.2004
4.10.2004
4.09.2004
Well, I think that the lecturers are full-time employees, graduate students that help teach are called GSIs (Graduate Student Instructors). At least the impression I got from the stuff I read was that these people have completed their schooling
And I've been assaulted by those "Jesus is my savior" people many times. Most of the time, they aren't drunk so I have to be nice or they'll get bitchy.... I might also be chickenshit.... *sigh* I think that you should do that whole "you can have death" during your last week there :]
And I've been assaulted by those "Jesus is my savior" people many times. Most of the time, they aren't drunk so I have to be nice or they'll get bitchy.... I might also be chickenshit.... *sigh* I think that you should do that whole "you can have death" during your last week there :]
Aren't those people called graduate students? Don't worry. We'll get our turn to sit in our ivory towers, be surrouned by peons that do the grunt work, hold lofty opinions, obtain sexual favors in exchange for good grades, and generally bathe in the glory that is academia.
Anyway, I was blessed yesterday by a very drunk man. He came to the front desk with several boxes of meat he needed put in the freezer and decided to talk to me about his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He opened the conversation by telling me "Don't ever lose your emotions. Don't lose your heart and soul." I wasn't sure what to say to that, so I said "I won't." He was like, "Some people don't even believe in god!" and I was like "Imagine that." He then asked me if I believed in god, to which I replied "There is no empirical evidence either for or agaist the existance of god." He blinked at me a couple of times before telling me that he had been touched by the Holy Spirit. I was like "Oh?" And then he looked kind of sad and was like "Sometimes I'm afraid of losing my heart and soul," so I said to him "But you've been touched so you don't have to worry about that." Then his friend came down and made him go to bed, which was kind of unfortunate because I was having fun. But before he left he said "God bless you, honey." I was like, "You, too." I really wanted to ask him if Jesus knew he had been drinking, but that may have been inappropriate. I suppose my desire to leap onto the counter and shout "You can have death!" to people who come and ask "I have petty complaint X. Can I have a refund?" is also inappropriate.
My coworker explained to me today how to use the deadbolt on the laundry room door to hold it open so you didn't have to use the keys every time you needed to go to the laundry room. He also explained to me how to boil eggs for breakfast. It's a good thing he did because these are both complex tasks that I doubtless could not have accomplished without his detailed explanations. It makes me wonder what I did to give him the impression that I'm such a monumental assclown that I can't figure out how to boil a motherfucking egg or prop open a door. Actually, it's probably just that I don't have a penis and he is a fundamentalist Christian.
Anyway, I was blessed yesterday by a very drunk man. He came to the front desk with several boxes of meat he needed put in the freezer and decided to talk to me about his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He opened the conversation by telling me "Don't ever lose your emotions. Don't lose your heart and soul." I wasn't sure what to say to that, so I said "I won't." He was like, "Some people don't even believe in god!" and I was like "Imagine that." He then asked me if I believed in god, to which I replied "There is no empirical evidence either for or agaist the existance of god." He blinked at me a couple of times before telling me that he had been touched by the Holy Spirit. I was like "Oh?" And then he looked kind of sad and was like "Sometimes I'm afraid of losing my heart and soul," so I said to him "But you've been touched so you don't have to worry about that." Then his friend came down and made him go to bed, which was kind of unfortunate because I was having fun. But before he left he said "God bless you, honey." I was like, "You, too." I really wanted to ask him if Jesus knew he had been drinking, but that may have been inappropriate. I suppose my desire to leap onto the counter and shout "You can have death!" to people who come and ask "I have petty complaint X. Can I have a refund?" is also inappropriate.
My coworker explained to me today how to use the deadbolt on the laundry room door to hold it open so you didn't have to use the keys every time you needed to go to the laundry room. He also explained to me how to boil eggs for breakfast. It's a good thing he did because these are both complex tasks that I doubtless could not have accomplished without his detailed explanations. It makes me wonder what I did to give him the impression that I'm such a monumental assclown that I can't figure out how to boil a motherfucking egg or prop open a door. Actually, it's probably just that I don't have a penis and he is a fundamentalist Christian.
4.08.2004
Well, today is the LEO Walkout at Michigan. I solved one dilema of possibly crossing the picket line by accidentally missing my psychiatrist appointment, but I am wondering how I would have felt if I did really have class. I'm just pissed that the university that can give hundreds of thousands of dollars and secure the jobs of crappy professors can't at least pay the people that do all of the work for the professor a decent wage with benefits. I wish that people were nicer.
4.06.2004
4.05.2004
so i forgot more stuff! Jacob and I were cleaning and found all those disposable cameras from our wedding. We thought we had lost them when we moved to the new apartment. We have to go to Oshkosh to pick them up, but we'll have them tomorrow night. K-Mart is like 2 or 3 dollars more expensive for everything, so we drive the extra half hour to the nearest Wal-Mart in Oshkosh. They made us fill out a seperate picture envelope thing for EACH camera - there were 30 of them! That got real old, real fast! We usually just put our digital camera disk thingy in the machine, so it was fun filling the first few forms out - it reminded me of when I was little! But by like the 5th envelope the nastalgia kind of wore off!
Also we're finally ordering our wedding pictures. If anyone wants copies of anything, I'll bring them home this weekend and we can get together. Otherwise give me an idea of what you want a picture of - we have everything from the rehearsal dinner to the last song the DJ played - and I'll try to find something that fits. The photographers charges for reprints are relatively cheap - like $3 for a 4*6, $5 for a 5*7 and $9 for a 8*10. It'd be cheaper at some discount place, I'm sure, but at least these will be really good quality, and they all have this frame around them that looks really professional. The only thing I was kind of pissy about is that we didn't get any black and whites, and we had asked for specific shots to be black and white, but yeah - none!
I'll bring the DVD of the wedding home, too. I know we were going to mail a bunch out, but then Jacob was having technical difficulties, and if he can't have the best quality he didn't want to send them out because he's anal about stuff like that.
How about if you girls want to get together Saturday afternoon - like 1ish or so we can get together at my parents' or Jacob's parents' house?? We'll be at Jacob's house probably, so I can tell them I'm borrowing the basement or something - let me know if that'll work or a different time or place or if nothing at all would work. I miss you girls!
Also we're finally ordering our wedding pictures. If anyone wants copies of anything, I'll bring them home this weekend and we can get together. Otherwise give me an idea of what you want a picture of - we have everything from the rehearsal dinner to the last song the DJ played - and I'll try to find something that fits. The photographers charges for reprints are relatively cheap - like $3 for a 4*6, $5 for a 5*7 and $9 for a 8*10. It'd be cheaper at some discount place, I'm sure, but at least these will be really good quality, and they all have this frame around them that looks really professional. The only thing I was kind of pissy about is that we didn't get any black and whites, and we had asked for specific shots to be black and white, but yeah - none!
I'll bring the DVD of the wedding home, too. I know we were going to mail a bunch out, but then Jacob was having technical difficulties, and if he can't have the best quality he didn't want to send them out because he's anal about stuff like that.
How about if you girls want to get together Saturday afternoon - like 1ish or so we can get together at my parents' or Jacob's parents' house?? We'll be at Jacob's house probably, so I can tell them I'm borrowing the basement or something - let me know if that'll work or a different time or place or if nothing at all would work. I miss you girls!
43 more days until graduation ... I used to be dreading it, but since I got my head out of my ass and realized I can easily get a job after student teaching and it's not the end of the world to move away from friends I am actually excited! We all moved away and we're still friends, granted we don't see each other every day anymore, but we're still friends. Maybe moving away from everyone will really show who true friends are and that's always a nice thing to know.
I sent out my graduation invitations. I'm pretty sure the girlz all got one, but I didn't have enough to mail to everyone! Even if you didn't get one, you are more then welcome to come! Sunday May 16th @ 1:30 is the ceremony and afterwards we'll be having a cook out and bon fire kind of. I am making these really good wraps I found in a Pampered Chef cookbook. There's four different kinds and they all look so good! Then we'll have fruit, veggies, and snack stuff. When all the old people leave we'll be whooping out the alcohol and lighting the fire :) My dad is buying a keg and I'll have lots of other alcohol to drink, so please come - it'll be a blast! You're welcome to spend the night at my place, too. I only have 1 pull out couch, but we have floor, too : )There are 2 hotels in Ripon, but I am guessing parents and people from out of town have already booked them, so I won't even bother with the info. Oshkosh & Appleton are both really close, though, so if you didn't want to stay here you could stay there. Anyways, if you plan on coming let me know and I can get you directions and all that other good stuff.
In other news my sister is moving back to Crapids to live with my parents, until next semester at least. She plans on going back to school, but this time at La Cross Tech. Hopefully it works out for her, maybe Appleton just wasn't the right place for her. She is quitting her two jobs and beginning to look for work in rapids. Good luck with that, but I'm sure glad that's not me, God knows there's nothing really left in that town!
I've had a cold last week and I've been sick off and on lately and I called my mom and told her I finally went to the doctors and knew what's wrong. She said, "Allergies?" I said no, I had to take a urine test and I guess in about 7 months we'll have to start calling her Grandma. She didn't say ANYTHING, just sat there, and I was like yeah and even more unbelievable there's 2, one boy and one girl. I waited at least 30 seconds (that's a long time on the phone) and she still didn't say anything! I said we thought April would be a nice name for the girl and FOOLS would be for the boy! :) She just sat there for awhile again, and I was asking if she was still there and she just said 2 children? I said yeah mom APRIL and FOOLS :) Another 30 seconds and she finally caught on! It was like 8 in the morning and I had woke her up and she didn't even realize it was April Fools day :) I think that is the best joke I've ever managed to pull off without laughing too soon! I never heard my mom say fuck so many times in my entire life, though!
Erica: your meth experience was so fun to read. I'm sure it wasn't 'fun,' to be in, but I had fun reading about it!
I'll be home for Easter weekend Friday night and then until Sunday night. Unfortunately, I don't get any days off for Easter - just the weekend. If anyone is around and wants to get away from the family stuff give me a call, 920-229-8245! Talk to you girlies later!
PS - that dumb quiz is so not even close - Pride & Prejudice - I don't really think of myself like that at all - and the last sentence of my description makes me out to be a guy I think.
I sent out my graduation invitations. I'm pretty sure the girlz all got one, but I didn't have enough to mail to everyone! Even if you didn't get one, you are more then welcome to come! Sunday May 16th @ 1:30 is the ceremony and afterwards we'll be having a cook out and bon fire kind of. I am making these really good wraps I found in a Pampered Chef cookbook. There's four different kinds and they all look so good! Then we'll have fruit, veggies, and snack stuff. When all the old people leave we'll be whooping out the alcohol and lighting the fire :) My dad is buying a keg and I'll have lots of other alcohol to drink, so please come - it'll be a blast! You're welcome to spend the night at my place, too. I only have 1 pull out couch, but we have floor, too : )There are 2 hotels in Ripon, but I am guessing parents and people from out of town have already booked them, so I won't even bother with the info. Oshkosh & Appleton are both really close, though, so if you didn't want to stay here you could stay there. Anyways, if you plan on coming let me know and I can get you directions and all that other good stuff.
In other news my sister is moving back to Crapids to live with my parents, until next semester at least. She plans on going back to school, but this time at La Cross Tech. Hopefully it works out for her, maybe Appleton just wasn't the right place for her. She is quitting her two jobs and beginning to look for work in rapids. Good luck with that, but I'm sure glad that's not me, God knows there's nothing really left in that town!
I've had a cold last week and I've been sick off and on lately and I called my mom and told her I finally went to the doctors and knew what's wrong. She said, "Allergies?" I said no, I had to take a urine test and I guess in about 7 months we'll have to start calling her Grandma. She didn't say ANYTHING, just sat there, and I was like yeah and even more unbelievable there's 2, one boy and one girl. I waited at least 30 seconds (that's a long time on the phone) and she still didn't say anything! I said we thought April would be a nice name for the girl and FOOLS would be for the boy! :) She just sat there for awhile again, and I was asking if she was still there and she just said 2 children? I said yeah mom APRIL and FOOLS :) Another 30 seconds and she finally caught on! It was like 8 in the morning and I had woke her up and she didn't even realize it was April Fools day :) I think that is the best joke I've ever managed to pull off without laughing too soon! I never heard my mom say fuck so many times in my entire life, though!
Erica: your meth experience was so fun to read. I'm sure it wasn't 'fun,' to be in, but I had fun reading about it!
I'll be home for Easter weekend Friday night and then until Sunday night. Unfortunately, I don't get any days off for Easter - just the weekend. If anyone is around and wants to get away from the family stuff give me a call, 920-229-8245! Talk to you girlies later!
PS - that dumb quiz is so not even close - Pride & Prejudice - I don't really think of myself like that at all - and the last sentence of my description makes me out to be a guy I think.
Huh. It says I belong in Gone With The Wind, too, and I thought my answers were very UN-Gone with the Wind...hmm...but anyway, NO, I do not find that to be accurate of you...well...Scarlett O'Hara is very independent, but she fawns over Ashley like an idiot when the fabulous Rhett is right before her...I can see you being stubborn like her, but she's really flirtatious and manipulative and ambitious, too...so...I don't know.
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