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Thursday, August 18th, 2005
8:33 pm	Deals Ok, so I am going to try and start reporting on odd finds at Deals. Perhaps at some point, I can see if they will late me take photos. Tonight I spotted a little device which was advertised as "Multifunctional Correctional Tape". It had a little bit of oddly translated English which read as follows: Clean and Neatness. Marker tape erasable by eraser, without vestige. Usage convenience. The safety is not poisonous. My favorite find of the evening was the Chef Mate, Country Chicken Gravy in Roasted Flavor. But hold on, what made it so great is that for just a dollar you could get a whole 6.56 lbs of it. I love Deals Current Mood: satisfied (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
6:27 pm	POOPie The writing of Syllaby shall hence forth go down as a big suck. The end And also issues of jealousy shall hence forth be resolved. Or attempted to resolve. Brains are stupid Current Mood: cynical (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 11th, 2005
12:17 pm	California Hooray for Berkeley. There is a place in the United States that is crazy in good ways. You can walk around and leave adult stores with a smile on your face and a brown bag in your hand without even being carded. I had a ton of fun with Dianna and Rollin and cats. We made lip balm, talked about a new line of adult toys for IKEA, visited the Emporer and other fun things. Visited Dianna's workplace and shopped Went thrifting Ate good food Made Beak Balm Ate good food Visited the beach Saw a big bridge Ate good food Visited Emporer Norton in Colma (Coma) Saw a large package Went to China town Ate Ethiopian food Got drunk on honeywine Visited "the Village" Saw crazyman on BART Ate good food Learned about Richard Tuttle (crazy artist) Bowed to Eva Hesse, Ana Mendieta and Doris Salcedo Got drunk Sewed while drunk Visited Pirate store Bought penis bone and ate.... hehe, those ran together funny. Anyway, I had a great time and will take offer of adoption up at any time. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 17th, 2005
8:58 am	Where to begin Not sure how this goes, but feels like it belongs on here somewhere. It is one thing to be lied to It is another thing to feel like you are being lied to And another to ignore yourself feeling that way As a note to all of you, listen to that inner voice, as to those of you who have lied, I suppose it doesn't even matter now hope all goes well and at least you purchased plenty of guilt art from me that makes up for it. I don't care how you do it, but I want to know if the bed I own needs a burning. A simple yes will suffice at this point. I am really tired of this crap, and totally ready to move on. Current Mood: cold (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 14th, 2004
8:04 am	quickly so hello again everyone and sorry for the delay. busy busy i left you hanging and felt bad, so let me clear up. i have been haning out with a household of boys/art students.they are all cool, love them to death. then there is ben, who listens to Siouxsie, kraftwerk, joy division, bauhaus. and who will be finished at the end of the year. :( anyway, i have told him my ast and my new issues and yet he stays. so we have been having a good time with each other, very nice. Also got a personal critique from Luiz Jimenez yesterday and watched Howard Dean speak/debate some conservative. fun day. thanks to dianna for the package, will call soon. love ya all court Current Music: dark Princess (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
8:23 am	umm school, and a man i slept next to someone very special last night, nothing happened, just the best damn cuddling ever..... where does this take me?.... Current Music: Any siouxsie... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 4th, 2004
8:47 am	Ha Ha Ha New computers are so wonderful especially when they look as cool as this one does. It is the most beautiful item in my home. And it is so powerful, and best of all it gets on the internet without too much problem. Hooray and yeah. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 29th, 2004
9:23 am	So i will try and paint a picture of what school is like I have now completed one week of school and have found some amusing things about where I am. First off, I will no longer have to worry about working out because as usual you have to park as far away as possible from the art building. But on top of that I have discovered something about Edwardsvill and the school. There are always two paths or two roads to get somewhere, and as you map them in your mind, you try to think which one is faster and go that way. But when you do it, it still takes forever. So the next time you take the other way and it is just as long. Interesting... normally there is a faster way, not here. Also on campus, there are squirrels but not like in Norman. There instead seem to be tamed Geese. And these geese like to do whatever they please, which includes taking giant poops on the sidewalks that you have to dodge on your way to class. I find myself saying "goose poop" over and over in my mind as I walk to class. It is a funny sounding little phrase. Come to think of it, i often get weird phrases stuck in my head at weird places. Like sometimes in my studio, i can hear myself saying "Ruth Bader-Ginsberg" over and over in my head. Like what in the hell is that all about? Anyway the other cool thing about school is that, well i find it funny, in art history class we get to have Raves. And you are reading this like, huh? Ok so the first day of class i go in and sit toward the back, the front lights were off, i should say the main lights, but there were two small lights on. A girl with a white shirt walked up to the front and i realized those lights were black lights. I was like, that is really weird, and cool. Then when we were viewing slides i understood why they were there, when they turn out the main lights, you can see your "white paper" really well. It is ingenius, they should do that at OU. But it still feels like we need a dj and a strobe light. Maybe for test days, i will put that black light sensitive stuff in my hair just to mess with people's minds. Had the barbque with the grad kids yesterday, it was fun. I am not really feeling a bond with anyone yet. Oh well, there are more students yet to work with. Time will tell.... and that is really all there is, my IBS calls, so i shall end this for now. Oh i will say one last thing, I think that Dodd doesn't want to speak with me anymore. I left a message and he hasn't called back yet, maybe i am hoping that he is just really busy or something. I dunno it would really be sad if Dodd no longer liked me. :( I guess i am just thinking out loud. (10 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 22nd, 2004
12:02 am	Long time no update, sorry, well everyone is busy anyway So the summer is coming to a close, and i hope that it ends this chapter of Suck-o. I begin school in about one day. I have met some grad students, or rather new grad students, ones who are scared like me, and perhaps scarred like me too. I dunno, already hung out with three of them till 2 in the am on Friday night and Saturday morning. I also met all of the art school faculty. I think they were all being way toooooo nice. And wonder how long till the babysitting ends. Ahh well. Nothing else new going on besides that, everyone is busy getting ready for school and stuff so i will talk to you guys when things calm down. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 14th, 2004
11:35 pm	Thinking too much School starts soon, maybe I will be filled with more fulfilling thoughts. Instead I sit and think, about why I still hang on by the smallest of threads. I need someone to knock some sense into me, and tell me that i am retarded, and to get over it. Only, that is something i have to do for myself, and for whatever reason, I can't. I wait instead, wait for something to end. Me, him, everything. I try and be strong, show myself that I am by being independent. Only i do this in dangerous ways. I went clubbing by myself one night, and realize this was a really bad idea. I knew that before i went, but i kept pushing me to do it anyway. At this point, not a lot seems all that risky, cause i just don't care. I want someone else to do what i can't. Although i guess i do care, cause once i was getting in a sticky spot, i left. it just seems like there are two people inside me, and one cares and the other is all about sabatoge. I guess i maintain well enough. I just need to prove to myself that I am strong, which I did be going to the club and not caring. It worked out fine. Only there is a line i am crossing somewhere. I think i am at least done with the dancing for the time being, school isn't going to allow that sort of freetime. It will be good to be forced to focus. MAybe the dangerous side of me will find comfort in that. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 12th, 2004
9:55 am	Watermelon at the dollar store If ever they bring "Deals" to Oklahoma, Cali, and whereever your journeys may take you, it kicks ass. I never would have thought that you could find Filet Mignon and watermelons at the dollar store. And hey it is a good thing. I realize it may seem sad to talk about this, featuring it on a lj post, but... I am so cheap. They also had Foccacia bread and eggplant for sale. 2 for a buck. Portions are smaller, but that works perfect for me. Lets see, yesterday was interesting. Work was a pain, first time that stuff was all off, and I had to figure what in the hell was going on. Anyway.. I didn't leave till around 10. Kinda later than i would have liked. Then I went to hang out with Nate and meet a couple of his friends. We watched tv, but it was cool, cause i got to see an episode of Reno 911, i love that show. If only Chappelle show had run too. We listened to weird music. At some point I may get to watch Cremaster 1 or 2 I can't remember. He has a computer that will download way better than mine. I think he almost has the whole movie, and it will be cool. Anyway, I also finally got a package from E. Lillard and got my watercolors and a really cool dress. Insane, to explain. It has long fringe though, enough said. I bought another pair of shoes, that fit, cause they are kids, and they are a crazy highlighter yellow color. Must stop buying shoes. but i love them. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004
11:23 pm	Most of the anger has worn off at this point Yeah today was a huge pain in the ass. I am about ready to find a job in IL, someplace closer to home. Yesterday coming home took me about an hour when it should take about 30 minutes, there was some accident, or something, I dunno, it just sort of randomly cleared eventually. So imagine my surprise and anger to find brake lights this morning on the way to work. I was supposed to be there at 8:30, in order to get things all together and such. And of course we open at 9:30. So I didn't have any breakfast food, and left at 7:30, so i could stop along the way and grab some food. Well that didn't happen. At 8:30, i was nowhere near the river, which at least signifies that i am in the right state. I start trying to call work, hoping to get ahold of someone to tell them my plight. I still don't know what in the hell is keeping me at this point. But i figure, there really isn't something that has to be done the hour before we open. So I keep hoping things will open. Finally around 9:00 I am getting closer to the river. I can see helicopters, so realize the source is close, thinking things will get better. I call Liz, who unfortunately I have her key, and ask to see if she has Courtney's phone number. COuldn't find, i tell her the situation, and she gives me another number to contact someone in the office. Call, no answer, everyone was at a different store for inventory. So then, I finally can see the road in front of me, and there is a sign that says road blocked, and is all marked off with orange cones. So they are now diverting traffic off the highway, and i say they, but there was no person, or cop directing any of this. I am thinking, wait, i dunno where this takes me, while i have explored, i don't know a lot still. I think, well i will just follow everyone else. But no, suddenly they could drive, and i figure most took off like i did, the street i was on didnt' even have a freakin name. So I kind of get a plan, like what i think i am gonna run into, highway wise. Luckily that is what happened, but not before i had to wait for a train, and go about 80 on the highway. So i finally get to work, hungry and frustrated. It was about 9:40 I would say. I wrote down all the numbers available, so I would have better chance next time. I dunno, it was shitty, so i found out later, there was some sort of chemical spill, that they were worried about being flammable and toxic fumes. Lovely. Oh well, so i made it there, that is the important thing. But i was still getting mixed answers by time to go home as to whether it had been cleaned up or not, so I asked the bank teller an alternate route. She was kind enough to help, and it was much better, also, it was a way that I had been on half of, so i sort of figured out the other portion. But it is good to know an alternate route, next time, I am getting the hell off the highway and finding another way. Cause if you have ever owned a standard and gone into stop and go traffic, it sucks. well i have vented enough at this point, again, a new job may come about if I have to deal with this crap much longer. Not worth it a single bit. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, August 9th, 2004
7:21 am	Mood is Grey So lets see, I woke up out of a dream where some old guy had taken a young friend of mine, and molested her and then hidden her in a junk yard. When we found her, she was totally messed up. Then all the women in the city got together and watched her, and stayed near her path. The old guy showed up and we all ganged up on him and then said if we saw him again we would kill him. Then as he was nodding that he understood, he turned into a woman. That is some weird shit. Also I woke up to find that Hesse who had so far unharmed a piece of art had taken the little foam hair rollers off in the night, and had a good old time. So this too was ubsetting, specially since, you can't explain to him why you are mad. Also it is too fucking early, I have to be at work to open. I have no food, and I guess just overall am cranky. And suddenly as I typed the last sentence, I remembered, this is the week before my period. That is what I will blame it on. Well there are some other possibilities, but they won't be discussed here. Lets just hope they all go away soon. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 6th, 2004
6:49 pm	Long time since I wrote Lets see, I need to start coming up with projects, for knitting. I know i want to teach a scarf, and secondly, i am not sure, i would think an intermediate thing would be a hat using double pointed needles. I need one more thing that would be simple. Maybe leg warmers, that might be too age specific, not sure if that would go over in Edwardsville. Or there are pillows, or even a bag to hold all knitting supplies or something along those lines. hmmm,,,,, well i am too excited and scared to even think. Will be cool to have a job doing something even more related to my art. And the chica that owns the store is a student in the textiles department. She was able to give me some incite into the professors. Good to have an idea what i am walking into. And she seems so cool, owns her own store. I want to worship her. I finished my gnome skirt, and am so happy with it. I think that i did well, and give myself props. Maybe i will be able to post it on myspace, since that is where i can put up pictures. I got to see some cool pix of a supernova from Rollin. Very cool, I heard that there are gonna be meteor showers this month, wonder if he knows where i should be looking. I love watching the stars. President Bush made a total freudian slip and said that he wants to harm the U.S. It is great. Gotta love his little phrases. umm, what else, tomorrow i go to the zoo, to meet up with my aunt, uncle and cousins. For real this time i think. I have been all messsed up on dates, but i think it is really tomorrow. So I got to wear lots of sunscreen, and get some money. Then think about what else i will do tomorrow on my day off. Probably work on some art here ar the house. well i think that is about all the new goods, thanks for the recipe jenn (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2004
11:57 pm	No stitchin or bitchin I went all the way to St Louis, and the place was very closed, bummer. I did get to see the Fox theater, which is cool. I didn't get to go in, it was closed too. Everything on the whole street was closed, i dunno what that was about. Oh well, good to explore if nothing else. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 1st, 2004
7:09 pm	hmm well there isn't too much exciting go on here, i have been learning the ropes of being a supervisor, and I learned not to shut down a register too early yesterday. That isn't that exciting though. I might go to a stitch and bitch on tuesday. The quasi-Dianna chica told me about it and said she was gonna go, she seems really cool. And I swear Dianna and her are connected somehow. Anyway, just dealing and getting along here. Doing ok. School starts in a couple weeks, i guess, so that is gonna help. Or make me a total wreck, we'll have to wait and see. Stress is great. ;/ (Comment on this)
Sunday, July 25th, 2004
6:00 pm	Chicago is cool I saw a great lake and everything. There were tons of people it being a saturday and all. Probably a ton of tourists. Anyway, it was super easy to get there. It was about 4 hours. I cried about 2 hours into it, no real reason i don't guess, just cause i could maybe. Lets see nothing else too cool on the drive there, oh i guess i passed a lot of corn. Thought of Tran and i saw some weird signs advertising gunssavelife.com. Kinda weird and creepy hangin out of the corn like that. So I got to the museum ok, it was really easy to find, and easy to park, although it cost me an arm and a leg. Oh well, i needed to get out of the house and do somethign cool. I got into the building, which is really nice as well. Paid and went directly to the Skin Tight exhibition. It was neato, lots of really cool little displays of clothes and then they had various fashion shows playing on the wall. Victor and Rolf had some cool stuff that was like blue screen, used like black and blue as the main colors, and as the models walked projected nature scenes where stuff was blue. Anyway, it was super cool, but the coolest stuff i saw was in the exhibition up stairs called soft edge. I saw works by Lorna Simpson, Linda Benglis, Ree Morton, Ana Mendieta, and some other ladies, one named Cat Chow. I gotta look up more about this one. I also saw a really entertaining piece by Bruce Nauman, one of the neon signs. It was a hang man and then when he gets hung, his penis goes up. or maybe it went up and he got hung. Hahah, simple and genius all at the same time. I also ssaw a piece by mathew barney. So cool, to see so many things that i hadn't seen before. I really enjoyed it. I went out and tried to find a cheap pizza place but after walking past the ritz carlton i kinda figured that was gonna be a no go. I went briefly into an HM store, it was way too packed so i promtly left. I walked another block and then came back, knowing my parking was building up quickly. So i got back to the car and left, 17 dollars later i was freed from the parking garage. EEEkkk, got to find another place to park for sure, maybe taking the train would work out better. So i got on the highway, and hoped i would see a pizza place off of the highway, that didn't happen. I was driving along midning my own business, when all the sudden the van in the left lane, pulled even with me and started honking. I looked over to see what the deal was. The guy driving starts thrusting his tongue in and out of his mouth. I was shocked and appalled, so I made my eyes get big and then as he passed I just started laughing uncontrollably. I don't know if any of these things are really happening. Like when there is no one with me, no one to tell and confirm with, i doubt that it really happened. Like on Friday morning, I think i broke out in Hives. I have never had that happen, and i was eating things that i have had before. But anyway, i saw red splotches on my elbows and down my forearms. I think it was also around my neck. But anyway it was so random, I went to the walgreens to get benedryl and asked the pharmacist for help, and she didn't totally acknowledge that she saw it. I didn't specifically ask though either. But anyway i don't know that it really happened. Maybe I am finally losing it, I just don't have someone to double check with. So I guess that makes me think i am going crazy. Anyway, i got to be all doped up on Benedryl at work, it was kinda weird. And i got to drive on it. Woo hoo. Well that was the weekend. Still having weird computer issues, and i found out i can't save anything to disk, cacuse the computer is stupid. That is all for now. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 21st, 2004
9:19 am	Ok ladies and germs, actually I think it mostly ladies I am gonna take a trip to Chicago. I am gonna go to the contemporary art museum, on saturday, woohoo. I can't wait, I just got to double check my directions with Courtney so she can alert me to any hazardous areas, but I think a one day trip can't get me into too much trouble. Anyway, there is an exhibit currently called "Skin Tight" about skin/clothing, hey maybe I will see something new, give me an idea. The computer still works shattily. I downloaded a new web browser, and it seems to work a little better, but I still think i need some major overhaul. Ehh, whatever, as long as it kinda works. Usually what I have to do it pull out the dsl before i turn it on so i have time to delete the old "data miner" files, and then plug back in so that I can use the internet till it slows with all the pop ups being allowed in, also I hope that it isn't recording my passwords. Anyway, that is really all that is happening here. I have work again today, and I close by myself. I think I am doing alright. I wrote to the guy on friendster he is nice to tell me about the town. I am trying to tell him who I am, things I like. That is a really hard thing to explain. It isn't just like, i like cats, softball, texas, art supplies. That is how it probably would have sounded when i was 13. Now it seems all snotty. I like art, researching cocoons, silk trade, and female artists from all cultures. In my spare time I unwind items of clothing and rewrap them, and I play with glue. I mean sheesh I can't say those things. He wouldn't know what to tell me. This just takes time and such, in order to actually get to know someone. And even then there are always suprises nothing clear cut cause we are always changing. It can be a slow one, or some crazy overnight thing. So i feel like I am blabbing along, so I will end this here. Thumbs up, and hugs. (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 19th, 2004
10:29 am	Well doin alright Have that strange feeling inside again. Got a weird pang in my heart on Saturday at about 10:30. Don't know what these things mean anymore, not sure any longer what to trust, who to trust. Think about how things could be in the future, think about little situations I could be in, and see how things are gonna be hard or make me retreat. Definitly need only friends for a while, no relatioships with ties to my heart. Maybe I am just nervous, I close on my own tonight, and I guess that could be the weird tummy feeling. Or... lets not think too much Courtney. I made an outfit out of one of the latest Vogue discards, a Donna Karen dress out of lycra knit fabric. It went ok, it was hard, only cause the shapes were insane to piece together. And I finally got it all in a piece, and it looks ok, I guess I need to make some minor alterations. Ahh I dunno, just good practice if nothing else. I dunno if I like knits as much as wovens. Maybe if I owned a serger, i would feel differently. Thanks to all you that went to the quilting deal. Preciate it. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, July 17th, 2004
11:41 pm	So here was my weekend Well Friday I was hoping for something to do after work, and Liz said that her friend Lindsay who I had done some stuff with before, was going to the Rum Jungle and there was another VIP thing. So that means, speak the right name and you get in free and have free beer for a couple of hours. So I had no idea that I was gonna end up clubbing after work, and wasn't dressed as cool as I should have been but oh well. So, I basically called Lindsay and asked if it was ok, cause Liz wasn't gonna make it. So I got in fine, parking was a pain but not terrible. I had my one beer, and met up with them. Danced, I didn't tear it up as much, had a couple guys kinda come around, but i basically ignored them. Later, Lindsay said that she had gotten free tickets or passes to another club down the way. So we decided to try it out. It basically was really crappy, like a new club trying to get off the ground or so that is what it felt like. But the cute owner was out trying to get ladies to come in, how Lindsay got the invite. So we walk in and there is some poor bachelorette party, the bride to be handcuffed to a blow up doll. And all sorts of other abuses. So they get her up on the bar and then the owner guy gets her to sort of straddle him and he lifts her up and down, over and over again. I watched in shock and amazement. Then it was time to put her down, and it pulled up her skirt and low and behold she was wearing a black thong. I think everyone in the club got to see her ass. So how is that for a bachelorette party? Anyway this club had crummy music, and no people, it was also bright for clubbing standards, so we called it a night. But it was still fun cause I got to dance, which is what I go for in the first place. So then I had work kinda early the next day, or today rather, and i was planning on going to the "Riversplash". It sounds like a water park but it is a free concert series at the Arch. Tonight the B52s played, and i went. Courtney went to, but she went with her boyfriend I think. Anyway she told me that I should ride the metrolink, little tram system. And it was cool. While I knew you guys were putting me together I was being empowered by going to this concert on my own. I hadn't really done much public transportation on my own, but I think that I liked it. When I got to the arch, it was easier to find a seat since there was only one of me. I got a spot on the hill next to some nice folks, I took my knitting to work on for the time waiting during sets and they asked me questions. It was nice. The B52s rock, they know how to have fun, and for that they rock, as well as they made a political statement with one of their songs. I saw some ladies get mad during the antibush song, and I was thinking, hmm.... their hit song is called, "Love Shack", basically a song of sex and orgies. And you didn't think that the rest of their music might have a liberal tone? So anyway, that was funny to watch. I called Dianna and left her a brief message of Love Shack. Then there were cool fireworks and the arch is cool at night, looks like it is made out of water, like in the abyss how the sea things look. I smelled some weed, and heard a parent give the "do you know what that smell is" speech. And I thought of everyone sewing, and it made me happy. So that is really it I think. Good enough to write for here, oh i know what else, some guy replied to my friendster thing, apparently from E'ville. I dunno if I should reply, I am a chicken. Anyway maybe you guys check it out, and tell me what I should do next. (3 Comments |Comment on this)