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Monday, August 28, 2000 @ 5:07 PM
Julie and Eric broke up. Today I had physical fitness tests again (gag!) I found out that I cannot do a single lousy pull-up, but I'm relatively flexible (39 centimeters on the sit-and-reach, yeah!)
I also surprised Logan at his school because today was my only "free" day all week. Tomorrow, Good Doctor practice. Wednesday, Thespian meeting. Thursday, Good Doctor practice and Creative Writing Club meeting. Friday, Good Doctor practice. Gag gag gag gag gag. But Logan, Cori, Justin and I will (hopefully) be going to the freshman football game in Streater on Thursday to see Will (my little bro) and Shane (Justin's little bro) get the crap tackled out of them.
Contrary to popular belief, I actually do have some homework tonight, so I'll try to write again tomorrow. (Oh, and by the way, the little icon next to the date is a perma-link.)
Sunday, August 27, 2000 @ 3:19 PM
Have I ever told you about this? However I spend my time at the Back-to-School dance is how I spend my entire year? In 1998 I spent the night dealing with other people's issues, and being the third wheel, and that's basically how I spent my freshman year. In 1999, I had a good time but in the back of my mind felt like something (or perhaps someone?) was missing. And that's basically my sophomore year in a nutshell. Well, if the prophecy continues, my junior year is going to be short, filled with freshman and the feeling that "it's all been done before," but made worthwhile by good company.
Recently discovered fact: A kegger is not the same as a rave.
Wednesday, August 23, 2000 @ 6:28 PM
Well, I've been through my first two days of school, and a Good Doctor rehearsal. I dropped my Principles of Technology class and now I'm taking Psychology, and Physics next year. My schedule is very nice this year, and I haven't been getting lots of homework. I have a quick math worksheet to do, and I'm supposed to forget a number (don't ask). I keep losing my connection! Dammit! (ha ha. connection! ha ha ha...I meant my internet connection. Dave's World sucks Eric's nuts.)
The back-to-school dance (party in the pit) has been moved to Saturday night. The Daria movie is on Sunday. Eric doesn't want to be kidnapped for his birthday again, so we'll have to think of something else this year. I have no idea what I want to do for my birthday either. Oh, well, I'll think of something...I usually do. =) I need to go shopping. I need a job. I want a car.
Monday, August 21, 2000 @ 10:20 PM
Picnic was a blast. Those of you who were there know this, and those of you who weren't should have been.
School tomorrow. *SIGH.*
Lexi - Cori says she bought the socks at Gadzooks. =)
Picnic. 3:00. Maxwell Park. Bring money, soda, ice, cups, or snack-food-type stuff. We're ordering pizzas. Everyone's invited.
Sunday, August 20, 2000 @ 3:10 PM
(Notes: If you want to know what's going on with me, that's all in the post below. The following are notes and links to 'blogs, and some song lyrics.)
Thanks anyway, Lexi, but I finally went to the blogger website and got my perma-links set up. I'll try to remember to ask my friends where they bought the toe socks. =)
Has it been eleven years Since I stood here with my peers And we started out To conquer doubt and frisbee? (Day Job by the Gin Blossoms)
I'm not sure why but that actually sounds like fun...
Yay! There's going to be a Simpson's Movie! Hopefully it will be better than recent episodes, which have been a little..."egh." (Link from Running Red Lights.)
Wow, if I were anything like the women interviewed in this article, then Logan would be seriously in trouble...
(Just kidding.)
I know just how you feel.
I wish I had heard from Eva lately. I'm still waiting for her to start up a webpage. Josh just informed me that I'm going to miss the FUW show. My mom has left me car-less, and it's too late for anyone to come and get me. Dammit.
After reading Killogs today, I have this strange urge to go photograph road signs...
Huh? Is your name "Mooth"? And hey, you don't use perma-links!
Huh? A NAME code? What?
Well...Ten things that make me unusual: 10.) I was born on Halloween. 9.) I had a driver's permit for eleven months before I finally got my license. 8.) I'm taking Advanced Placement Literature & Composition and Algebra II/Trig in the same year. 7.) I helped found an independent theatre company. 6.) I once cried because of a commercial. 5.) I drove past the Palace Theatre twice without seeing it. (F'n cornfields.) 4.) I live in Lexington IL but know only five other people who live there. 3.) I scanned my toe socks, and featured them on my 'blog cam. 2.) My friends pages consist entirely of very large JPGs. 1.) I am the re-incarnation of Christina Rossetti.
My blog needs a background. I am *so* sick of black!!!! In fact, I am sick of Never Better's entire layout. I am going to redo it, and I am going to redo it soon. I hope.
Maybe if one were truly desperate...
From the "It was just a matter of time" files: Internet Bumper Stickers.
All right, all right, that's quite enough randomness for one day.
Last night, I arrived at the theatre fifteen minutes late for "What Lies Beneath" (I drove right past the theatre without seeing it twice. F'n cornfields.) Oh, well. I didn't want to see it again anyway. I walked in without paying, looked for Kat, Logan, and Josh...didn't find them. Went back to the car. Called each of them. Josh was home, he couldn't go because of his mom. Kat and Logan's parents told me they were at the movies. I went back in (still without paying) to look for them, and didn't see them. Then I got beeped. It was Logan, calling from a pay phone at Parkway Cinemas. He went to the wrong theatre. I waited in my car, eating Ritz crackers and reading Flowers for Algernon until he got there. We waited outside "What Lies Beneath" for Kat. Funny enough, Dan was there with her. (They both really liked "What Lies Beneath." I maintain my opinion that it sucked Eric's nuts.) Anyway, Kat went home but Dan and Logan and I decided to watch "The Cell" (without paying). While we were waiting for it to start, who should come in and sit with us but Steve Agge, who I hadn't seen for almost two months. His parents were also somewhere in the theatre, and he had run into Kat outside, who told him that we were inside. He watched the movie with us, but we didn't really talk. "The Cell" was kinda disturbing... I got a little freaked out driving home alone after midnight. I locked the doors and turned up the radio. I was shaking when I got home, but I covered it well. My mom went to bed and I watched "Scream 3" on pay-per-view. (The first two were better, but this one had a few seconds of Jay and Silent Bob.) "Scream 3" didn't freak me out at all, but I woke up three or four times last night with an image still fresh in my mind: A woman dead in a bathtub of blood.)
Today I feel lousy. Very tired, bad headache, feeling kinda down in general, and my computer is having issues. (Translation: It's being a BITCH. My HTML program refuses to function properly, so no updates except for right here. I love blogger...)
I saw my father this morning. I went to breakfast with him at the greasy place across the street, and for an hour of meaningless conversation, he gave me $20. Do I have a good relationship with my father? Well...who knows? But I have $20 now that I didn't have before. I'm going to buy Stick Supporter bumper stickers and put them on my textbooks...if I ever get them.
Tomorrow my mother and I are going to go shopping, and hopefully Logan and I will do something, because it will be my last night of freedom. School starts Tuesday morning, and I can't work up even the slightest bit of enthusiasm.
Oh, and to the guy who said my website was pointless: You are banned from my message board, banned from my guestbook, and blocked from my e-mail! You can go straight to Hell, you f'n loser! I'd like to see your website, you piece of jellyfish excrement! Get a f'n clue! If you don't like my site, then LEAVE!
*deep breath.* I'm okay now.
Saturday, August 19, 2000 @ 10:58 AM
I feel bad about being so sporadic with this journal/'blog. But not much is going on. I feel lousy - I am tired, I have a headache, and I'm running a fever. I bruised myself severely in my sleep last night - there is a large and nasty bruise on my thigh and a smaller one above my elbow. All I can remember from my dreams is a very blurry image...Jennifer Roberts talking on a tiny white cellular phone...weird, no?
Today I have Good Doctor practice, I'm most likely going to be blocking "The Audition" scene all by myself. Then at 7:00 I'm going to see "What Lies Beneath" with Logan Kat and Josh. It sucked the first time, and it's at Palace so we'll probably get stuck paying. (Grrrrr.) I intend to make fun of the movie the entire time, and give everyone stuff. The big update for the day is going to be The Photo Gallery. I'm going to scan a bunch of pics that aren't there and should be. (Assuming that I don't get sidetracked by that blissful state known as unconsciousness.
Friday, August 18, 2000 @ 5:38 PM
There are ISU students all over the place. Yesterday was Moving Day for them. It's weird seeing the campus all filled with the cockroaches after it being abandoned all summer. Also, I am sick. I am exhausted (see post below) and I have a headache, and I have a really high temperature. I have a wussy immune system. Perhaps I should make a webring. ( << ? wussy immune system # >> ) Or perhaps that should be the name of a band...Introducing, Wussy Immune System. (I think this is an Asprin-induced fever-dream or something.)
Good question! This blog's soundtrack includes but is not limited to: 1.) Almost any of the songs from Rent or any Stephen Sondheim musical. 2.) "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen 3.) Anything by Three Doors Down or Nine Days (especially "Kryptonite" and "Absolutely") 4.) "Who Needs Sleep?" by the Barenaked Ladies (also "Alcohol" and "Light Up My Yard") 5.) Anything by the Gin Blossoms or the Goo Goo Dolls 6.) "So Much for the Afterglow" by Everclear 7.) Anything by Harry Chapin (especially: "Sniper," "The Mayor of Candor Lied," & "The Rock") 8.) "Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon 9.) "Little Sister" by Jewel (and "Who Will Save Your Soul?") 10.) Anything by Counting Crows or Weezer (for variety.)
Oh, and by the way I haven't watched "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" in more than a year but I think I identify most with Willow, because I am a computer geek and I tend to think of myself as introverted and self-effacing (though admittedly not as much now as then). Other TV characters I identify with: Daria (of course! My brother William is Quinn) and Delia from My So-Called Life (again, not as much now as then.) I don't really watch much TV anymore, except for Law & Order and sometimes "Win Ben Stein's Money." (Hey, Logan, remember that guy who answered "Moliere" and we both laughed at him? Hmmm...I've forgotten what the question was...)
I've spent the past four days away from my computer. I've spent the past three days completely exhausted. I've spent the past two days feeling otherwise miserable. (I think I'm getting sick.) Good Doctor rehearsals have started up, yippee. If only I were awake enough to really enjoy them. I went out the other night with Josh, Ryan, Kirsten, Krystal, Sammi, Emily Baldoni, and Kat. We ate bad pizza at Tobin's and drank water because most of us are impoverished (sp?). Emily told me, "Just remember you're better than U-High." I just said, "Thanks." I meant it. We went to Kirsten's house in Danvers, and it brought back memories of freshman year, when I stayed over the night before her baptism. We ditched him in the park and hid in her closet to freak him out. We talked endlessly about nothing, including Zeke and Megan, so it must have been around April '99...I remember Ryan thinking that the person who was really right for Zeke was Alissa. =) And we fell asleep outside and it started raining on us, and by the time we got inside, it had practically stopped raining, and the next day after the ceremony at the church, we went to town and ate at Chicago Style Pizzeria, and Ryan and Kirsten used a knife and fork to eat theirs, and Ryan drove me to my mother's office, and we sang along with his Rent CD's on the way, and I remember taking Angel's part on "I'll Cover You," and I remember when we got there, no one was there, and I had to wait outside, and later that day I went to Steph's house (I think maybe to work on POP???) and I fell asleep in her basement because I was so exhausted from the night before, and...I hadn't thought about all that for more than a year...It's so weird...I'm a completely different person than I was back then...and yet, in some ways, I'm not...
Anyway, I spent the time at Kirsten's reminiscing about that girl I was when I was a freshman (and helping Krystal torture Josh.) Oh, and I found out from Kat that Steve Vittitoe stole my social security number before I cleaned it off my driver's license. Yes, I admit, I'm a dumb-ass. Now, Steve, please tear up my information and don't use it to get credit cards or anything that would cause you to violate your parole.
Monday, August 14, 2000 @ 11:20 PM
Tomorrow morning I have to buy text books. School starts back up in 8 days, it's so depressing. I'm going to try to get to bed before midnight. (Ha. Like anyone actually belives me anymore when I say that.)
The following is a conversation I had moments ago with the one and only Steve Vittitoe.
bool101: r u going to the party? kellie rai: No. I wish I was, but I can't. bool101: why? bool101: but but... I have vodka =( kellie rai: much as it pains me to admit this, my mom won't let me. bool101: lol
Half *grrrr* and half...*blah...*
Another good person who returns links. (Yay!) I guess I just liked the way that your blog looked, and it held my attention long enough to read two or three days worth of entries. I enjoyed hearing about the NeoPets adventures. To tell the truth, I would use perma-links...If I only knew how to make them work...I keep procrastinating digging through the blogger site in search of help. I will get it done though...soon...really...
I don't know where my cast bought the toe socks, but I suppose I could ask them and get back to you. =)
Well, doesn't look like I got offline and cleaned my room, does it? I was waiting for something to download...I'll sign off soon...really...
This makes 9 posts today. Jesus. Maybe I should try getting a life.
This is my 8th post of the day. Oh, my God, I'm an internet junkie. I have to get offline, before I get any more tangled than I already am in the web. No wonder they call it a net.
Okay, it's probably just me, but I think this Power Bloggers thing is nuts. By trying to post the most, isn't that like winning a big award that says, "You have no life!" ? And I don't know about everyone else out on the www, but I tend to look for quality over quantity. Maybe it's because I have such a short attention span, but I tend to read the most recent couple entries, and if that doesn't hook me, I move on. Even if the blog is really interesting, I'm likely to only read maybe a week's worth, then bookmark it and come back in a few days. Sleeping in 45-minute intervals to become #1 isn't going to make your blog worth a visit if you're posting drivel. (This is not, of course, to say that any of the Top Bloggers are only posting drivel, so please don't hate me. =)
d00d, thanks. This made me laugh.
Yeah, I'm going to be online all day. No! No! I'm going to clean my room now! I mean it!
It is now 4:43. I am still online. (Was there ever any doubt?) But I'm getting offline now. Really.
You know, there are people who travel around the world and collect magnets and coffee mugs, so why not sugar packets?
As for the new layout, I am completely uninspired, and I have to clean my room sooner or later. I told myself to get off the computer by 2:00, then by 3:00...It's now 3:25. I'm getting off at 4:30, I swear!! (I'm not an internet addict! I can quit any time I want! I just don't want to right now...heh...)
Well, doesn't it just figure? The only person to join my boho blogs webring has disappeared. Oh, well, what with Webring being taken over by Yahoo I should probably just delete both of my webrings, that seems to be the current trend. Or maybe I'll come up with my own similar system...yes...I think that's a good idea...Hmmm...
I've been playing with my wish list today, and also with an old project of mine called "Sinners and Saviors." Expect it soon, along with a new and more colorful layout, I hope.
Oh, look at that, Bryan. I have heard 14 of the Billboard Top 100 (Don't envy me though. There are about six that I wish I hadn't.) That is, I have heard a song from 14. I haven't bought or listened to the entire CD of a single one.
My brother stole and lost my driver's license. Definitely a bad thing. The pizza pan is also missing. (WDF?) And we're out of Ritz crackers. (I may starve to death.)
I just keep changing the blog template. It's more fun than you'd think it would be. And I think it's time for a new version of Never Better. I'm so incredibly sick of black...
I feel kinda bad about what I wrote last night. I'm not going to edit it out, because it's what I was feeling at the time and I don't wish to self-censor. But I do realize that I do not always make good decisions, and besides, I have the rest of my life to be an adult.
Today I stayed home. I wanted Dan to take me to town, but he has to work. Blargh. Another day in front of the computer and periodic laundry-carrying and folding. Still, I'm sad that in 8 days I will lose this freedom. I can't imagine myself writing daily once school gets going again. Sad but true, I get too busy for the internet during the school year. I'm going to try to make time, but no promises.
It's going to cost $213 for my driving insurance for six months. Jesus. And I'm supposed to clean my room some more today. F'n gag! I'm already doing laundry! Argh! I need a real life instead of this prison (living at home with family) existence.
I'm gong to finally write the about me page, then I'm going to do some more laundry and clean my room. (*gag!* F'n...! *SIGH!*) Egh.
OK, "Hollow Man" was not all that, and Dan, Logan and I were the only ones who showed up. Eric's house afterwards was kind of fun...I'm downloading "Right Now" by SR-71 and talking to Eric and Ryan Donovan on AIM. Eric and I are talking about sex and God. It's a very interesting discussion, and I'd post it but then Julie, Eric's girlfriend, might get upset.
I cannot go to Josh's party. It starts at midnight, there will be drinking. Mom says a big hairy "No way in hell" to that. I don't think it's because she actually cares about me, but because she doesn't want to look like a bad mother. This is probably bitterness talking, but I do think that my mom cares more about what people like Mrs. Irvin think of her than whether or not Josh's party is actually dangerous. Parents! God! I want to run away or go on a killing spree! AUGH!
Sunday, August 13, 2000 @ 5:39 PM
Going to see Hollow Man at 7:00 at University Cinemas. We will be sneaking in, (or more accurately walking in, since there is no actual sneaking involved) so none of you Moral People had better come.
Last night, after Fight This Place, my dad picked me up. We went to Wal-Mart to kill some time before going to see "Bless the Child" at midnight. While there I bought a new backpack and ran into Jenny (Wojick, class of '99) and Steve (Vittitoe, class of '00).
"Bless the Child" sucked, and I wish I could have hung out with Cori, Justin, Logan and Neal instead. I'm not going to get to go anywhere today, and my mom doesn't want me to go to Josh's party on Monday because there will be no adult supervision and I just couldn't keep a straight face and say that there wouldn't be drinking. Not even I am that great of a liar.
My mother just won't leave me alone. She insists that I am cleaning my room today. (*EXPLETIVES*) I wish I were one of the lucky people going off to college, instead of living with my family. I think people like Josh and Cori who are afraid to leave town/home and go to college just don't realize the up-side. If I survive this year, I'm going to be ready to run away from home or go on a killing spree by June.
Saturday, August 12, 2000 @ 6:32 PM
Logan page is finally up, and I made some quick changes to Eva. Plus, two new Quotes. Many pictures are also on their way.
Note: Made up with my dad. We're going to see "Bless the Child" tonight after Fight This Place. My mom is inexplicably pissed off.
I scanned my license. (As if you didn't see it coming. I mean, anyone who would scan their toe socks is bound to scan their driver's license sooner or later, right?)
Went to see Fight This Place last night, and it was amazing. I am going again tonight, because it was that good. I wish that I had one fraction of Mark Hackmann's talent.
This morning I went to the Driver Services Facility, and I took my driver's test. And miraculously, I passed. I missed 23 points, which is a passing score, and so, I now have a license. Most of my friends got their licenses six months ago, but still. At least I beat Logan. Ha ha ha ha ha ha...Anyway, instead of going out and driving somewhere, I am going to hang out this morning at my mom's office while she's in class (Will has football practice and somebody has to be in to let him in.) We'll be here, chilling on the computers until 11:00 or so, unless I hear from anyone, which isn't likely. We're going to go home then about 11:00, and then I'll beg and pester until I get to drive myself to Fight This Place at 8:00. I would also consider going to see a movie today. I'm going to find out what's playing and then call some people. Know what? I'm really hungry. I don't know why, since it's only...9:37 right now and I had a bowl of cereal already this morning. What's going to suck is being back in school and not being able to eat yogurt or Ritz crackers anytime I want. Or maybe I'll hide crackers in my bookbag (if I ever find one I would actually buy) and eat them discreetly during classes. That could work.
What is everyone doing Sunday? Anything interesting? Yes? No? Possibly? Call me, beep me, mail me, IM me. I think I'm going to do some blog template work, look for JavaScripts, listen to the radio, and scavenge the building for snack food.
Two blogs I found today and enjoyed: Breathe in, Breate Out (I agree, NeoPets is addicting. I had to give it up cold turkey.) and Al-Noor (Oh, my God, there's another Kellie, and she spells it a completely new and different (and wrong) way!)
Friday, August 11, 2000 @ 4:41 PM
Yesterday: Used half a roll of film at Eva's house, went for coffee with Josh and heard a great many Stick Tales, then went to Cori's grandmother's house (she lives in town, while Cori lives in El Paso and I live in Lexington.) We ended up staying up all night instead of going to bed early like we intended. We went to the airport and saw Eva off. We had her final goodbye party at the airport, while we were all incredibly tired and silly. We were having a great time until it was actually time for her to leave, when all of a sudden it got really sad. No one cried or anything, but it was pretty emotional. Eva will be returning June 24th. That's...hang on, I suck at math...292 days. Wow.
Tonight: Going to see Fight This Place, at the Studio Theatre at Centennial, at 8:00. It costs $5. Mark Hackmann wrote it, so it's going to be good, or at the very least, thought-provoking.
I have no idea what I'm doing tomorrow.
Thursday, August 10, 2000 @ 11:45 AM
Yesterday: Registration. ICK ICK ICK. But afterwards we went to Fairview Park and had a picnic (fried chicken ew, more on that in a second). Megan and Steph were only there for a little while, and Kirsten decided to go home and watch an 80's movie, but Justin (whose tongue, we decided last night was a deity), Cori, Dan (the McDonald's Man), and I went to Justin's and played two games of You Don't Know Jack. Then I went home and cooked chicken soup for Logan and froze it in tupperware.
Today: Brought the chicken soup to the BSC, where Logan was supposed to meet me, except he never showed up. Finally he paged me to tell me that after I called he fell back asleep. (I'm not actually mad, but if I was, could you blame me?) Bored all day long, and found the books I have to read for AP Lit & Comp @ Milner and checked them out. Plan to spend a couple hours reading outside and getting some sun, then head to Eva's from 2-5. (This is a semi-open invitation. Repeat: semi-open invitation.) I'm spending the night with Cor-Door, and getting up way-early to go to the airport and see Eva off. Eva is one of my coolest friends, and she will be in Germany for a year. *SIGH.*
Tomorrow: Who knows? I may go see Fight This Place. (Mark Hackman! *...sigh...*)
Tuesday, August 08, 2000 @ 8:25 PM
Yesterday: Hung out at Bone, singing practice at Eva's, had a nice talk with David Foster, hung out at Eric's and caught up with Megan and Dan. Dan's working at McDonald's now, and Megan's working at Fazoli's. All my friends are driving or getting jobs, or both...Logan's in driving school this week, every night from 6-8.
Today: Hung out at Bone, expected to have singing practice at Eva's, but didn't, expected to find something to do while Logan was at driving school and my mom had a dinner date, but didn't, watched some TV, came home and listened to my mom yell at my brother for being asleep when the Bug Guy came and not returning a video game to the rental place, read my e-mail (I got a nice message from Nick the Hero), talked to my friend Justin "Ithiophilis" Irvin on AOL, and wrote this entry. I plan to take a shower, watch Law and Order and go to sleep early, as I am incredibly tired, and also incredibly relaxed. (Hypocrite - Thanks, by the way. =)
Tomorrow: Singing at the Blair House and attending Registration (Hell.)
Sunday, August 06, 2000 @ 8:48 PM
I'm not sure exactly why, but this really disturbs me: Yahoo is merging with Webring.
Since I accidentally stayed up all night last night, I slept basically all day. Then I watched The Godfather Part III, which was better than I expected, though one thing bothered me: What happened to Connie and Carlo's son? As far as I could tell, they never mentioned him...
Eva leaves in five days. She will be in Germany for a year. Josh leaves in roughly two weeks. And school resumes August 22 for U-High. I'm finishing the second-to-last paragraph of a chapter in my life. My summer of love is drawing to a close. Soon my parole will be revoked and I will be back in classes. I have to go to registration, I have to buy school supplies... Oh, the horror.
I have such precious little time...
Godfather night didn't go as I expected, but it was still nice. As could have been predicted, few had interest in actually watching the movie. We got a very late start due to multiple delays. Josh never showed, everyone but Steph & Logan were late, and Emily and Eric left insanely early. After the first, the remaining (Kat, Eva, Steph, Logan) didn't really want to watch the second so we socialized for a while. Steph and I ended up buying chocolate ice cream at the Freedom gas station and making lumpy milkshakes with the blender I got for Christmas. Speaking of which, I could really go for a milkshake right now...
Last night (Saturday night) I went to Kat's for what I thought would be a party and ended up being a very small gathering. The only ones to show were Eric, Logan, myself, and Kat. We played Monopoly (Eric and Logan cheated and won, Kat lost, and I surrendered) and "I Never." Interestingly enough, Eric is the only one of the four to have ever kissed someone at midnight on New Year's Eve.
We gave Logan a ride home, and in the car he insulted my writing ability, and later last night (or maybe earlier this morning) I ended up crying over it. I'm starting to think I wasn't meant to write at all, I'm better at proofreading. Maybe I should be an editor, and then I could give criticism instead of having to try to take it. I have always been incredibly weak when it comes to criticism, no matter how constructive, and Logan's was harsh. I told him he wrote bad love poems, which isn't much of an insult because everyone does. I just can't take being criticized, and it doesn't help that I don't really have any skills.
But music was his life, it was not his livelihood, and it made him feel so happy, and it made him feel so good, He sang from his heart, and he sang from his soul, he did not know how well he sang, it just made him whole. - "Mr. Tanner" (Harry Chapin).
The recommended MP3 of the evening is "Mr. Tanner" by Harry Chapin. Or anything else by Harry Chapin, for that matter. "The Mayor of Candor Lied" was especially good, and "Sniper" is always a swift kick in the head.
Friday, August 04, 2000 @ 12:26 PM
"All three Godfather films? That's like ten hours!" "Ten hours well spent!" -William and the Blockbuster clerk last night.
Today at three, the Godfather trilogy at my house. Yeah.
Serious news: Remember what I talked about before, what happened on (the highway to my house)? A mentally impaired man was killed over $15 worth of gas. Shot five times in the back. Now the man who fired is being charged with murder. Read the whole story here.
Oh, yeah, and I saw Josh, Emily, Jenny, Sarah, and Lottie last night at Three Musketeers. And the show was amusing. Not the best show ever, and far from thought-provoking, but it was funny. I was especially amused when one of the musketeers asked me to hold their hat while they were dueling. This is what you get for sitting in the front row.
Today I went to see The In-Crowd, which was kind of a cheap rip-off of The Skulls, only with a female-dominated cast and a cheesy book I once read called The Evil Twin. I got my U-High Junior ID. It was a bad picture. They always are. Tomorrow I am having everyone I can think of come over at 3:00 to watch The Godfather trilogy. This should last nine hours. That is twelve hours away, and I intend to spend about eight of those hours sleeping, so I'm getting offline now.
Actually, Bloomington and Normal are two twin cities, and are often referred to as a single entity, Bloomington-Normal. I like saying that better than just saying that I'm from Normal, IL, because of the corresponding snickers and comments on my normalcy or lack thereof.
Yes, I know normalcy is not a word. Neither is "femaler." So what?
Thursday, August 03, 2000 @ 2:42 AM
Yeah! Killoggs rocks my socks!
Thank you Christie, for reminding me how lucky I am. All I had to do was ask, and Logan shaved... (by the way, thanks Nagol. I'm sure it'll grow back soon...)
I watched Sweeney Todd tonight, which I rented from the new video store in downtown Normal, The Movie Fan. My name is on the card, so I can get movies whenever I want. Sweeney Todd, a very dark Sondheim (I am going to start the Sondheim fan club someday) musical. Sadly, it had several moments of cheesiness, and I was a little disappointed. All together very macabre. It was a musical, and yet, it was better (and scarier!) than What Lies Beneath. (Yeah, I just can't shut up about how much that movie sucked.) Go to your local video store, and rent everything you can find by Sondheim. My personal favorites are Company and Sunday in the Park with George. To tell you the truth, I hate musicals. They're the bastard genre of theatre, they're inferior to real plays for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that every time there's a dramatic moment, someone bursts out in song, which is just horribly unrealistic.
Instead of making a movie that mocked scary movies called Scary Movie, I think there needs to be a musical making fun of cheesy musicals called Cheesy Musical. I think Nate Gibson is already hard at work on this. (Remember Nate? He's the guy who allowed his friends to lock him in his trunk. Ring any bells?)
If you won't go to the video store, at least get on Napster, and get files from Company, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd and Into the Woods... (but nothing from the first act.)
Wednesday, August 02, 2000 @ 8:34 PM
Ann @ Damaged just discovered Vertical Horizon. I think congratulations are in order.
AIM is being a Royal Bitch. I am connected to Dave's World, and yet, the AIM service can't be reached. That is not the only problem that I'm having with my computer. Hotmail pages cannot be displayed, and OnlyDreaming is having Issues of it's own. Plus if you read my last post (see below. duh.) you know that it wouldn't let me copy Rent for Eva because of alleged errors on my CDR's. AUGH! Technology! AUGH! I am considering going on a killing spree. I am not kidding this time. If I even manage to post this, I will consider it a miracle.
Oh, computer gods...Please...be kind to me, allow me to post on my 'blog about what bitches y'all are...(I think I have made them angry...)
Tuesday, August 01, 2000 @ 11:08 PM
No, I've decided, Bloomington-Normal is not such a nice place to live. A mentally impaired man was killed on the highway that I take home every night. He was shot five times in the back over $15 worth of gas. What is wrong with the world?
On the light side of the (very) local news, AIM is lagging like crazy and I don't seem to be able to copy Rent for Eva because all the CDR's I have apparently are scratched or something, the damn copier just says that there are errors on the E:/ It is very frustrating. I should just make them MP3's and upload them somewhere for her instead...You know what? I don't care how much better quality CD's are. You scratch a f'n CD and it skips and/or goes crazy. You practically have to try to harm a cassete.
Maybe I'm lucky to live in Bloomington-Normal IL, where people are calm and polite and movie patrons do not yell, smoke, or bring picnic baskets. Yet, I must admit, $6 for all-day movies (in NYC, no less) is far out coolness.
Just beginning?!?!?!?
Hell yeah, Josh Sisk. Harrison Ford is old!! But where do you live, man? Because I have never been to a movie and heard obnoxious comments yelled out. No offense, but it sounds like a pretty ghetto movie theatre...
These are all the 'blogs that mentioned me or my 'blog within the last 30 days: Midnight Cheese and This Boy is Toast. Only two. That's kind of sad. What can I do to up my visitor count? Hmmm?? Got any suggestions? You know the drill.
I went to bed at three a.m. last night but couldn't sleep, I didn't sleep unil around five, but then I stayed asleep until noon. I came to town to get my purse back from Josh, and my hair cut, and get my new UHS ID. Unfortunately, coming to town (today) means chillin' at Milner Library (oh, my favorite place - sarcasm!) for a few hours. The damn "research-only" comps here don't even have AIM! They won't let you run installation programs, so downloading it is useless. They even block out all the free mail providers. I found the backdoor to hotmail this morning, and I am so proud of myself.
Linkage: The Religion Test. Take the religion test, then post your results on my message board, along with your turn-ons and plans for the week.
Justin Delabar (owner of Delablog) is feeling quite bored, so go visit him, maybe write to him, see if you can ease his pain. (There, I've done my good deed for the day. I can turn my owl pin right side up. Does anyone else remember that from brownies? Ah, bah, nevermind...)
Oh, and here's one more link to my Amazon.com Wish List, because I think you can learn a lot about people by what they want for their birthdays. =).
Ahhhh, look at that. For once the calendar isn't late!
I'm going to try very hard to not stay up all night, because tomorrow I am going to get up at a decent hour (like nine or something) and go get my hair cut, and get my University High School Junior ID. And retrieve my purse from Josh's car, where, like the Honorary Blonde little ditz I am, I left it the other night. And I will probably have to drive, so I need to get some sleep if I want to avoid falling asleep on the highway again.
(Yes, that has acutally happened. Oh, the joys of being sleep deprived...)
So much joy in life, so many pleasures all around The pleasure of insomnia is one I've never found So much joy in life, so much to be enjoyed The pleasures of insomnia are ones I can't avoid... I count sheep, I count heart beats, The only thing that counts is that I won't sleep I count down, I look around... Who Needs Sleep (Barenaked Ladies)
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