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Wednesday, July 31, 2002 @ 3:55 PM
Okay, so... Yesterday I got a ticket for parking illegally while I was at work.
So today I parked legally in the BSC lot.
The problem is, I have no money at all and the lot doesn't close until 5:30.
I saw Dan's father, but couldn't bring myself to beg him for money.
It's a good thing Dan introduced me to Bejeweled (aka Diamond Mine) at PopCap.Com... I'm just chilling at Milner, playing it. My highest score so far is 5,700. Yay...
Someone, please come rescue me...
Lasterday Dan and I had smoothies and then just... hung out. We watched the "Rhymes-with-Blinvisible" episode of Buffy and just chilled. Our "quick visit" to Seth's turned into three hours of watching him play an RPG on his computer, during which time I silently plotted my own takeover of the RPG market.
Steve... Cori... do you guys want to help me make an RPG? ...Please?
Even if I never get around to doing many of the things that I plan, I enjoy planning them so much that it's still worthwhile...
I really need to update the site before school starts. The problem is the combined bitchiness of my computers. They're conspiring against me to ensure that I can't get anything done. But I found my RAM so all I need now is for someone to help me install it. Yeah. Again, I Iook to Steve...? Or Dan...?
If you post your demands - as far as what you want updated first - as comments, I'll try to accomodate you. Oooh, and as soon as anyone hears from Megan D., have her call me b/c A.) I want us all to go camping this weekend and B.) I have a ton of stuff for her, and C.) I miss her sooo much...
Tuesday, July 30, 2002 @ 6:17 PM
My bumper sticker reads: 
What Does Your Bumper Sticker Say?
Ran across this today: Wiley Office Furniture.
Picture that if you will.
It's office furniture, with a mind of it's own, and a habit of making mischief.
Heh. May I always be this easily amused...
I have come to a decision: Both of my computers are essentially evil...
I finally have a room for the fall! Atkin 871. Soon I'll have info on my roommate, and I move in about two weeks from now.
My mom got a case of the "Oh-my-God-my-daughter's-moving-away-from-home-very-soon"'s and said, "I have to take you shopping now. I have to buy you things." We spent a few hours at the mall on Sunday and I got new sneakers, four pairs of jeans, like eight shirts, and a red peasant skirt. My most productive shopping excursion ever. And my mom didn't find anything.
Lasterday, Dan and I made two pies (apple and blueberry) and chocolate cake. Alyssa and Megan brought over Mallrats and we watched it in the living room. Good times... Oh, and Steph got her tongue pierced.
I fell hopelessly behind in the novel-writing. I think I'm burned out, or something. I can't get further than chapter 35. I'm not sure what happened, but it's like I've run completely out of things to say... It may end up taking me 40 days instead of 30 to finish. But that wouldn't be the end of the world, would it? 40 days is still pretty fast. This whole willpower and discipline thing is still a work in progress.
Josh - I know just what you mean about crowds and no one getting your jokes. So does Dan (just ask my cat about Cybercamp). You always have the option of explaining something, if it's worthwhile. Or make a page that explains all your inside jokes for you, and just refer people to it. It's easier if you don't apologize for your unique paradigm and just expect other people to adjust. Just a thought. Oh, and how did the cane buying go?
Friday, July 26, 2002 @ 10:25 AM
The Wiz was, I believe, even worse than Charlie Brown. Or maybe I was just in a much worse mood. Dan and I ended up playing hangman through a good deal of the show. No offense to anyone who was in that piece of garbage, but f'n Christ, there are real theatre groups in this town... But who cares, right? You're probably happy with what you're doing. You're well-funded and well-attended. Who cares that you suck? Obviously not your audience of small children and senile grandparents...
I could not make a career out of this kind of anger. It would kill me.
Oh, and... Wow... Last night, Dan and Steve and I followed a car so far out of town that it took about two hours, round trip. We could have seen a movie in the time it took. But I have no regrets.
"We don't lock our doors when we're doing crime." "Unless we're inside the car." -- Kellie and Steve, clarifying the rules.
Thursday, July 25, 2002 @ 2:37 PM
I just did a search for "factor five," trying to find pages that link to our domain, but instead found out something more interesting: Most accepted personality tests are based on five factors...
Work dull. Maxwell Park Theatre tonight. (::gags over memory of CB::)
So far today, Krystal and I have spent half an hour just Josh-bashing. Hysterical.
Speaking of Josh... If you're reading this, when are you going to Chicago, and can I come? =)
Monopoly last night was a blast!
I'm half-finished with my novel!
I got a little less than four hours of sleep!
We're stuffing envelopes in seventeen minutes!
*GIDDINESS*
*ponders whether or not giddy should be a verb...*
Wednesday, July 24, 2002 @ 9:41 PM
I went to see Brett at Centennial about using 202. He seemed to be kind of a muted version of the way I remembered him from way-the-hell-back-in-the-day. He apologized for being kind of a bitter Benadryl-zombie, plus, he'd cut his hair.
For two years, Dan and I talked about filming a Monopoly game from an aerial view. We played for about half an hour before the battery ran out. We only played an hour, tops, before Seth had to leave and the rest of us lost interest. We watched "Buffy" and "South Park," and we're about to watch Serial Mom.
Tomorrow night: The Wiz @ Scottish Temple. (Only going b/c of Angie Fulton.)
Friday night: Something. Something with Justin Irvin.
Saturday: Possibly "Classic Buffy Fest" ???
Last night, Dan came over. We had pizza at Jake's and then followed strange vehicles.
We discussed our future lives as criminals.
Good times.
Massive Monopoly game tonight at my house, 6:30. Be there. This means you.
Tuesday, July 23, 2002 @ 3:17 PM
As though there could be any doubt...
Which Element Are You?
One more reason to love Chicago: The zip code is a palindrome (60606).
Plus, it sounds cool. Try saying it. Six-oh-six-oh-six!
Sleep = good...?
Last night I had a dream that the system went down at work and wouldn't come back up again.
Today it happened. I'm a prophet.
Of course, the night before last, I dreamed that I opened a drawer and found all the things of Carmex I'd ever lost. I said, "Oh, so that's where all the Carmex has been."
That has yet to happen.
Saturday, July 20, 2002 @ 2:54 PM
Something that amuses me greatly, and that I thought I would share with all of you, is that when I set up the mail-form thing on the issues page, I set the From value to my own name, and the Subject value to "I Have Issues!", which results in the following in my inbox:
To: Kellie Powell From: Kellie Powell Subject: I Have Issues!
That probably isn't nearly as amusing as I think it is... Still...
So, last night we watched the final pre-tech-week rehearsal of "Sure Thing." I have to say I thought it went pretty well, but that confidence in lines, and therefore speed, was a little lacking. Faster cue pick-ups would be nice. But I do applaud them as being quite possibly the only show that still has any hope of performing. After the rehearsal, we all watched Ed Wood and Sleep Hollow. *lobes Tim Burton movies*.
Dan was nice enough to give both myself and Seth rides home, but once we got out of the burbs Dan noticed a van that appeared to be bleeding, so I spoke up about how they must be Satanists, and we had to follow them. We did, all the way into a trailer park and almost into their driveway. Then we drove away very, very fast.
Today, I am cutting myself off from the outside world until I get caught up in the novel or until 6:00, which is when my father is picking me up. We're going to Decatur, so that I can absolve myself from the guilt of having not recently spent any time with my extended family. It is going to be the absolute antithesis of enjoyable, but hopefully it will give me more ideas for the book. If anyone wants to call my cell phone after 9:00, the number is 532-1626 and it is free. I don't know when I'll get back from the horror that is a Powell family reunion, but I was informed that "it will be too late to do anything afterwards, if that's what you're thinking."
*growls.*
Thursday, July 18, 2002 @ 12:33 PM
The following comments were posted regarding an older post, but I know people stop reading old comments after a certain point, and I wanted to draw everyone's attention to them.
"...I used to have You Don't Know Jack about Movies. But then I seem to have lost the CD. Damn, I remember the good ol' days of You Don't Know Jack were you'd go over the the girls house and play until her mom went to bed, then you made out for hours. I remember the good ol' days when I didn't feel I was attractive and was fine with making out for hours. Hmm, I wonder if You Don't Know Jack would be as much fun these days. Thanks for the memories. [Kudos to Krystal, wherever you are]" -The White Stick · Jul 17 2002, 12:31 am
"Hey Josh....for some reason I don't remember those days...i must have been really doped up back then....other wise it wasn't that great and i had to force myself to forget obout it...:) Is your self esteem at an all new high now? I hope so!" -Krystal · Jul 18 2002, 12:05 pm
*ROFFL*
Wednesday, July 17, 2002 @ 11:29 PM
I'm 2,000 words behind in the novel, which is one day's worth. Julie read most of it tonight. Then Steve came over, and we drove through the countryside in search of a "scarry looking" building (Julie's words) which she had seen the night before. What reminded her of an abandonded mental asylum turned out to be an abandonded barn. I was reminded of the reason that I don't go looking for secluded locations - namely the fact that with my lack-of-sense-of-direction, I'd never be seen or heard from again.
And furthermore, with the novel... I'm trying to make the nameless main character (a thinly disguised version of myself) as insane as possible. On some level, I'm enjoying stretching my own madness to the absolute limit. On another, entirely different level, I fear that making myself seem crazy is just... too easy...
I know, I know. I said it, not you.
Midsummer was really cute. And I ran into Mrs. Clesson, who told me Brome is available at U-High.
Two people called me last night while I was with Renata, and only one, Julie, left her name. Who else called me?
I'm still approximately 2,400 words behind in the novel.
I had a really bizarre dream. Matt Shaw played my Uncle Bill, who had just gotten back from a war... (Apparently I now dream in the 70's.) For some reason, he was taking on a field hockey team single-handedly, and it was a pitiful sight, so I stepped in as goalie (something I was always too afraid to do in gym class). We were getting pummeled, so I left in search of reinforcements. I found Katie Karl and my brother, Will, at my house, playing Boggle together. Katie drove us in Will's car to... wherever it was, we never got there... and Will looked at a magazine. In the course of subsequent discussion I discovered that Katie made and sold customized candles. At this point I woke up and realized I was late for work.
Tres bizarre, no?
Tuesday, July 16, 2002 @ 12:15 PM
Wicked festive - Renata's letting me have her extra ticket to Midsummer tonight!
Yay Shakespeare!
Oh, and just when you thought you had felt as much pity for someone with a horrible name as you could possibly feel, ever, I would like to introduce you to someone. Carole Semen.
Tragic, no?
Most of last night consisted of Steve and I channel-surfing and watching Clerks [Correction (thank you Steve): It was Mallrats], and me being weird.
And now it's Tuesday and I'm at work.
"Work." I hate the word. As I hate Hell, all Montagues...
And thee.
Monday, July 15, 2002 @ 2:25 PM
Heh. So... plans change...
I worked on the novel for a little while, then got distracted by my extreme sleepiness, and took a five-hour-long nap. Julie showed up out of the blue, and we went to a random fiesta at her friend Craig's. I liked the lawn gnome he had on his roof.
As of today, I am 2,000 words behind. At midnight tonight I will be 4,000 words behind. It's going to be a slow process catching up. Especially since I feel like I've run out of things to write about. Augh... I'm going to be reading the demon guide all afternoon in search of inspiration.
Tonight, I think we should do something. I don't know what. Maybe just random movies... or maybe we could all play YDKJ?
...Anyone...?
Sunday, July 14, 2002 @ 2:45 PM
Well, I got up through 5,000 words in the novel, but by the end of the day today I should be up to... 10,000. I fell behind Friday because of company, then Saturday was gone all day at Six Flags with Dan and Steve. We had a great time, it was a lot of fun. I felt bad for Steve though because he got pretty sick. I got home at 1 a.m. last night and went right to sleep. I slept until 1 this morning. Now I'm going to watch SLC Punk, then take back my overdue Blockbuster movies. Then, I'm going to stay up until I've got 10,000 words.
If you want to keep me company tonight, be prepared for me to ignore you until I need a human thesaurus or sounding board. I'll let you watch a movie without me while I type.
Thursday, July 11, 2002 @ 1:56 PM
It's raining! YAY!!!
And furthermore, from the I-Kid-You-Not Files: Carol Slutz.
Okay. So I'm going to give the novel-in-a-month thing a shot. I started yesterday and wrote about 1,700 words. I'm going to try to write between 1,000 and 2,000 words a day. If nothing else, this will provide me with a worthwhile project for the remainder of the summer. Please, don't ask me what it is about. The answer would be exhausting at this stage. Patience.
In the meantime, if you were going to write a novel, what would it be about? I'm going to need all the ideas I can get.
Today's Strange Names... Meet the perfect couple: Lois and Louis Thayer.
Wednesday, July 10, 2002 @ 2:44 PM
Yesterday: Discovered Anne Rice, who's a school board science chairwoman in Algonquin.
Today: The Boner family. Mrs. Nellie Ray Boner, her husband Earle Boner, their children, Kirby and Martin Boner, and Kelly Boner Conrad.
Yup.
OK. Quick poll.
Who think I can do this?
Last night, Steve and Michelle came over to shop and watch 12 Monkeys. I bought RAM and Chelle bought a new disc man. While we were at Best Buy, we saw an awesome sign, advertising disc mans. It was something like, "They're so sporty looking, you might be mistaken for a dumb jock." None of us had our cameras, so Steve suggested I flag down an employee and ask him if we could have the sign. I wanted to just steal it, but there were security cams. So, I started flagging down an employee. Steve just looks at me and says, "Who're you waving at?" (::eyeroll::) So the guy comes over to me, and I say, "We really like your sign, do you think you could give us a call when you're done with this promotion and want to throw it out?" But he thought I said we like the song that was playing, he told me I could ask someone in Media and they'd tell me what it was. So then I said, "No, the sign, we like your sign" and I pointed at the sign (again, like I had before). And he was like, "Oh. Sorry, I don't think we can do that."
Grrr. Then my dad called my cell phone when I got to the front of the check-out line, and I said goodbye three times, but he was still talking when I hung up on him. That's like my dad's gimmick. Refusing to end a conversation.
Then we went back to the house, and who showed up but Julie and Seth. No multi-terrain crack orgies this time, we watched 12 Monkeys and everyone said it was "too thinky" for a Tuesday night with friends. Probably true. Of course, there was lots of crazy flirting between Seth and all the females in the room. I invited them to go to Six Flags with Steve and I on Saturday (without first consulting Steve), but they had work and weddings. ::whine:: If anyone wants to go, we would probably love to have you, just call or something.
Dementia: "...psycho dentist!"
Tuesday, July 09, 2002 @ 1:51 PM
My life is kind of... sad and empty. I've been doing a whole lot of nothing. My job is totally unsatisfying, I get no joy from earning money, and it has made me hate computers.
On the plus side, I wrote the most bizarre thing last night... It's either brilliant or incredibly stupid. I can't decide yet...
Must go. They stuck me at the computer in the mail room today, and anyone could walk in at any time and ask me why I'm not working.
::sigh::
Sunday, July 07, 2002 @ 10:41 AM
Okay, so a new development in the Sims. (If you don't want to hear this, skip this entire post.) I finally built all ten houses in the neighborhood, and furnished them. The inhabitants are characters from the plays Glass Houses and Just Looking, the stories Second Home, Eve/Fell, and Dan, Dominique, and Kristin who are the stars of my yet-to-be-written TV series, Small World. Anyway, I decided I would get every single "family" completely set before I would actually let any of them live. (If you have the Sims, you know the difference between Live, Buy, and Build Modes, if you don't, sorry.) So, I finally clicked into Live Mode. Nothing happened. The Sims were frozen on their sidewalk, and the clock in the game was stuck at 7:00. I tried all three of the time-elapse modes, regular, fast, and uber-fast, still nothing. Frozen.
Obviously, this is the suck. I've already contacted Maxis online support, and I'm supposed to hear from them probably by Tuesday. If anyone has any ideas for what I should try, I'd be glad to hear them. It's probably important to note that the Sims were working fine (moving and living and everything) when I had just the Sims, it's only since I installed the first two expansion packs that my troubles began.
I haven't been doing much of anything lately. Minimum socialization, cursing the frozen Sims, watching movies, typing various things for Frank... Sad but true, my life sans S&C is little else but empty.
Saturday, July 06, 2002 @ 10:50 AM
I see no one has commented on my responses to the Friday Five. I can only assume this is because you are all sleeping in, and not because you don't love me. ::sniff::
Last night I bought a 32x burner. It cost me $90, but I get $60 in rebates. I also bought 50 CDR's for $12, but I'm getting $10 back. Yay rebates. Steve watched me part with my money. It was kind of pitiful. I'm not used to just handing over cash that way. In fact, I don't believe it's ever happened before. He watched me actually whisper, "Goodbye money. I'll see some of you again soon." My brother, in keeping with his recent uncharacteristically good nature, installed it for me, along with the USB 2 card I bought about a month ago. I'm still searching for RAM. I don't care what my father and Ventimiglia think, 96 is not enough.
The Sims download this week is a poster of the beloved Megan Dougherty, who is currently in Germany, and much-missed. The picture of her is so cute even she likes it, and you know how people are about pictures of themselves. You can download it from it's location in the left-hand column of this page. Rename it anything you like (as long as it ends in .iff) and place it in your C:\Program Files\Maxis\The Sims\GameData\UserObjects folder. It will appear under "Decorative." Oh, and please post a comment to let me know that you actually download it, because I might give this up after a month if no one actually responds.
It's Friday. (Well, technically it's Saturday, but it's still Friday to me.) And you know what that means. Another edition of The Friday Five.
1. Where are you right now? In my basement, at my computer.
2. What have you lost recently? A friend, though I hate to admit it. My cell phone - but I found it in the basement. A dozen hours of my life I can never get back (to ISU Preview).
3. What was the first CD you ever purchased? Does that embarrass you now? I was one of the last people I knew to start buying CD's. I made tapes of songs played on the radio, or "borrowed" from my parents' collections. Then one year I got CD's from my parents for Christmas, and I gave in. I bought my first few CD's, though I can't remember now what they were, from one of those "Buy 6 CD's for $.89" things. Columbia House or something. Now I feel stupid about that...
4. What is your favorite kind of writing pen? Pilot v-ball fine points. Now and always.
5. What is your favorite ice cream flavor? I used to have a real yen for chocolate peanut-butter, but I haven't really liked ice cream for about a year now... I've switched to Java Freeze smoothies and Iced Mochas - once you go caffeinated you never go back... =)
Wednesday, July 03, 2002 @ 4:28 PM
Preview is over. Yay! Last night the gang saw Scooby Doo (and I am actually still feeling a little ashamed). Then we rode through the country in the convertible, causing my own personal Hair-Related Hell on Earth. Tonight Steve and Chelle and I are going to see Men in Black II. My plans for Independence Day are to sleep and play The Sims, unless anyone has any better (sans-family) ideas.
And now... presenting... my schedule for next year:
IDS 100 - Foundations of Inquiry (Gen Ed) Tues/Thurs 11-12:15, Fairchild Hall 321 ENG 101 - Langauge and Composition (Gen Ed) Mon/Wed/Fri 11-11:50, Stevenson 250 CHE 102 - Chemistry and Society (Gen Ed) Tues/Thurs 9-9:50, Felmley Hall 133, lab 5-6:30pm Tues, Felmley Hall 302 PHI 104 - The Ideal Democracy (Gen Ed) 2-2:50, Stevenson 350 ENG 110 - Masterpieces of English Literature (Major) Edwards 235 Connections Group - English meets Fridays 1-1:50 in Stevenson 211, Wednesdays 10-10:50 in Stevenson 214
What sucks: I couldn't get into Spanish 112, Math 111 or any of the three theatre classes open to freshmen. I also don't have Friday or Wednesday afternoons completely free to spend with Dan.... boo potatoes. Plus my mom pointed out that my Chem Lab is going to take up the duration of the hours the dining hall is open, so Tuesdays may mean I only get to eat what I've hoarded in my dorm room or what Flex $ will cover.
What's all right: I don't start until 9:00 Mon-Thursday, and not until 11:00 on Fridays. I have Tuesday and Thursday afternoons free and
What's super-cool: I'm in "The Ideal Democracy," a philosophy class which only sophomores are supposed to be able to take in the fall. Frosh are not allowed to take Middle Core Gen Ed in the fall, but I get to because my advisor over-rode the system. Something (I'm thinking it was the ACT score) convinced him I was smarter than the average ISU freshman... *Cackle.*
What else is super-cool: Michelle: I have 12:00 free... at least I do on Mon/Wed/Fri. We'll do lunch. =)
Tuesday, July 02, 2002 @ 5:25 PM
Preview is a gigantic waste of time. Especially for freaks like me who devoured the course catalog on their own. Why can't they just let us register and leave? Or better yet, register online? Anyone who can read doesn't need the information that has been given to me today. Which makes me think Preview should be something you can test out of.
So, I'm here at Atkin-Colby, I have another hour and fifteen minutes before I have to be at my last session. I've already called Dan. I am now bored. I have no money. I am not enjoying the beginning of my ISU experience.
Monday, July 01, 2002 @ 11:58 AM
My Dementia: Longest Crack Orgy on Multiple Terrain.
It started out harmlessly enough. We were like, "Let's go color with chalk on the sidewalks." Then Steve had the idea to outline this dead squirrel in the middle of the road. Then we colored on someone's else's sidewalk for a while, but of course, Seth Gorden the Enormous Flirt had to start coloring on people. So then there was lots of chasing, and wrestling, and carrying of people (I am hopeless for guys who carry me around. sigh.), then finally we all collapsed on the driveway with everyone's head on someone else's stomach. This went on for quite a while. We decided that passerby thought we were crack junkies having an orgy. Then we discussed possibilities for the Guiness Book of Records.
We had a time.
That was pretty much the highlight of my weekend. The rest of the time, I played The Sims and didn't update because Blogger was being a pain.
I'm so glad you're enjoying my archives, Steve. Let me know what you decide about my metamorphisis.
I have ISU Preview tomorrow and the next day. It is going to be stupid. "This is Milner Library. This is Bone Student Center. Blah-blah-blah." I know. I grew up here. I've actually been a tourguide on the ISU campus. Prepare for suckage... At least I'll get to register for classes, and hopefully meet interesting people.
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