5.30.2002

Alright, i think this is the official listing of the blog party - again, lindsay wants to go, maybe we can get drunk (or otherwise that i shouldnt mention on this page in case my parents find it) and go see what its about.

katie at 10:58:46 PM

Hey guys, I'm kind of in an annoyed mood. I hope people realize that i'm a bitch to be a constructive bitch, not to be a dickhead. I make stands in order to make a point and we're not dividided if we discuss things. In fact, god help us (anyone) if no one discussed anything. I think that's much worse than fighting.

People are overreacting. And So am I. But i'm right.

Eric's back hurts and katie has a cold.
katie at 11:51:26 AM

Yay John! Go, get into law school!
katie at 11:09:40 AM

5.29.2002

"There's a bash being held for D.C. area bloggers next Thursday, June 6. Its at the Rezdenvous Lounge, 18th Street and Kalorama, and kicks off at 7pm. "

thanks to Julian, and I think we should get a group of us together to go :)
katie at 3:37:27 PM

Cop In A Box
katie at 2:19:48 PM

Cop-in-a-box thought of the day

This could cause serious problems for the security of the lockbox...:Sparky,New Cosmic Cop,Smashes Lockbox Dullard Times

katie at 2:18:39 PM

How Compatible are You with me?

katie at 1:57:33 PM

Use This as the APDA Forum, cmon guys!
katie at 10:37:56 AM

Yay Job!

I got a job! i'm working for ICSD within Smith Bucklin and Associates (I've temped for them a lot before) and its at 2025 M St, and 9-5, 40h/wk. So those of you who are downtown, let me know when we're meeitng for lunch. BTW, its also 12/hour ! (!) aside from more than eric ;)

katie at 10:36:57 AM

5.28.2002

Pittsburgh

Alright, so I went up to judge CFL nats in Pittsburgh. Always an emotional experience, always a bad time, so I keep going, duh - this is my fifth time there.I drove up with Rahul, Gwen, and Ashish Sinha - Ashish is really cool, by the way - in Ashish's Acura TL. Now what's funny about this trip - rahul called himself "middle class" and Ashish told him how he was wrong, and his car has a DVD player. Yup. The "Acura Navigation System" is what its more properly called, but it does have a DVD player. This touch-screen system has also a GPS attached such that you can just plug in the address (or the intersection, or the PHONE NUMBER) of the place you're going, and it will give you directions from where you are currently located. Its crazy. But it is helpful in some ways - getting us to pittsburgh amongst lots of detours. But without the ANS, we would have paid attention to the detours, or our own common sense and also gotten there OK.

We then hung out a bit, and I caught up with Ryan - always fabulous. I love Ryan to death. He then found me somewhere to sleep, and we had breakfast in the morning.

the nest day involved hanging out with the pennsbury kids, playing with ryan, and i dont even remember what else - oh, that's right! finding katie, and playing. We went out drinking with Jared and his friend to this place up by Duquesne - We got real drunk and walked home. This would be fine if my roommate (and bedmate) had not neglected to wake me up in the morning, so I got fined for missing first round. Blah.

Policy was policy - tho i certainly wasn't scratched from Baltimore, judging Fernando and Lawrence second round (yay!) and getting slated to judge Loyola, and doing other such things. Then 5th round, we saw some kids who didnt think india and pakistan were on the brink of war, and I wrote "read the paper" on their ballot. But again, yay to Steph, scott, and the other Eric Benson for playing bastardized APDA with me, as well as playing with me all day Saturday. Then there were the kids who registered a complaint against me, who I then dropped with a 59-44 decision. I'm such a bitch.

More coming still - this is a work in progress.

katie at 2:51:25 PM

How these people warn this service is confusing to me - i guess they have to send in the blog configuration settings again, and then warn it then. why are people so destructive? this is a nice service, let's just relax and let it do what it wants to do, not sabotoge it.
katie at 2:15:14 PM

I really should try and use this blogbot service before it slides up to 100% warned. This is ridiculous
katie at 2:14:00 PM

5.27.2002

Home from Pittsburgh, and a big post to come. However, before I do...

Yay, and thanks to Steph, Scott, (the other) Eric Benson, Ryan, Rahul, Gwen, and whoever else I'm forgetting for entertaining me this weekend!

Thanks also to TK (my katie!) who I hadn't seen in years, and lots of other people who were there...

more later.
katie at 10:32:51 PM

5.22.2002

I'm still in pain, i'm in a bad mood.

I thought about changing my i-mood to something less depressing. But that about hits the nail on the head. Broken sums. it. up.
katie at 10:37:23 AM

If anyone's curious, my head is too big for my head. That might not make any sense. But it does. Cause it is.
katie at 12:09:18 AM

Fairfield!

(it has nothing to do with their debate team, just their university in general. not everything is debate related, silly. and also, all the people from my high school who are now there.)
katie at 12:08:53 AM

I love Liz too - its better that I saw her last night than her writing on my page.

Moreso tho, my head hurts lots and I'm about to collapse and lots of notgoodstuff. Its a party and a half.

But good comic to come.
katie at 12:04:38 AM

5.21.2002

Its funny how much pomp and circumstance follows graduation...

More on that to follow - now i need to go to bed.

But lissy's home :) Yay!
katie at 1:08:01 AM

5.20.2002

HOUSTON (AP) � A Texas man is facing up to 20 years in prison for shooting his girlfriend because he thought she was about to say ``New Jersey.''

A jury took less than two hours Wednesday to convict Thomas Ray Mitchell, 54, of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for shooting Barbara Jenkins outside his apartment in March 1999.

Although he did not claim insanity as a defense, relatives testified Wednesday that Mitchell gets angry, curses and bangs on walls when he hears certain words or phrases, including ``New Jersey,'' ``Snickers,'' ``Mars'' and ``Wisconsin.''

Now what's funny about this, she didn't actaully say the word. Just was about to say it. Jesus Christ.
katie at 1:54:45 AM

Smooth Reactions
Leon Watson, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested for allegedly severely beating his 2-year-old son in February; he said the kid had given him a "mad dog" look reminiscent of gang members staring down rivals. And Thomas Mitchell was convicted of shooting his girlfriend in Galveston, Texas, in February; she had uttered the name "New Jersey" to him, which he said was one of four names that enrage him (the others: Wisconsin, Snickers, Mars bar). And Lee Barter, 39, was sentenced in January in Portsmouth, England, for stabbing a friend twice for cheating at Trivial Pursuit (adding extra "cheeses" to his counter). [Albuquerque Journal, 2-14-02] [KTRK-TV News (Channel 13, Houston), 2-11-02] [The Scotsman, 1-4-02]

katie at 1:50:12 AM

5.19.2002

Greg's gonna have a blog! Stay tuened :)
katie at 9:22:14 PM

"Why would you trust a man who wears a bow tie? The tie is supposed to point down, accentuate the genitals. Why would you trust a man whose tie points out, accentuating his ears?" -State and Main
katie at 12:29:09 AM

5.18.2002

katie at 1:39:13 PM

5.17.2002

Katiebeth soooooo tired.

I blog, Amy! Only not about anything substantial.

Eric's parents are here. They generally dont seem to have a problem with me. This will change.
katie at 11:11:39 PM

5.16.2002

I was watching Condoleeza Rice, and I dont know if the administration could have prevented 9/11, but she made me think that they could. She slimed out of questions and kept talking about not releasing the documents.
katie at 4:50:11 PM

Poll result could alter liberal heartland - smh.com.au

Boo boo boo boo boo boo boo boo BOO.
katie at 1:30:18 PM

5.15.2002

What happens when Eric isn't willing to tell me the truth? Or what he's thinking?
katie at 7:31:45 PM

Oh, that's right

DC SUMMER!!!

Who's going to be in town this summer? I know that Lindsay is at GW, Eric, Em James and I are living in arlington together, Liss, Brandon are further down the street in ballston, Aaron is at Courthouse in between us, Danielle, Liz, Carissa and Denise are all at the Statesman in 2 apartments, other-Kate and other-Emily are in Georgetown, Julian's in Mount Pleasant, Angelo's going to be at Georgetown, Matt Rand is going to be at American as will Ryan, Jenny will be in fairfax....who else is going to be down here? Let me know :) Who have i missed?
katie at 4:19:39 PM

I had something to say...but I forgot
katie at 4:15:39 PM

omg, i hadnt realized em was in the hospital - my problem for not checking Storey's blog enough, but enough to stop my heart tonight - i hope everything is ok
katie at 2:55:12 AM

Eric made me sad tonight too, but that's a side issue.
katie at 2:43:15 AM

I realize why I wanted to join a sorority. I wanted girlfriends. At my school. that liked me for who I was. And actually knew me. I was looking for a quick and easy solution that way. I don't know why joining a sorority seemed to me the easiest way to get them, as it seems to be a lot of work and a lot of guilt tripping in order to get there, but I was looking for that innate friendship that I have with other people and really enjoy during like the summer and stuff. When I can at 12:30 call liss and say "I'm coming over." I want that. I have that, i guess, but I'd like to really have it. I dont know, I'm just introspective.
katie at 2:38:46 AM

Tee hee hee...go down and look at that job! I'm serious!
katie at 2:31:05 AM

Poor Dionne
I do have to echo Jon Stewart on this, from last night. Y'see. Dionne was about to start a tour in the Carribean after she was done in LA. "She thought she was going to have some trouble finding marijuana in the carribean. Right."
katie at 2:10:14 AM

5.14.2002

Cop-in-a-box!

look!
katie at 9:56:31 PM

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katie at 7:30:29 PM

Cop-in-a-box-thought of the dayBush signed something today that seems to be like cop-in-a-box. Lockboxes will never die! according to the WPNWE.
katie at 5:22:33 PM

Wait - Students that are here on foreign student visas are now to be reported to the government if they skip class. I just want to say.
katie at 3:40:06 PM

I have a question - i have a pretty diverse readership even if it has gone down -- are there people who dislike me because I'm from the south? or make judgements on me since I'm a southern debater? I want to know.
katie at 2:55:19 PM

I feel like there are people who are supposed to like me, work with me, who don't necessarily do. They seem to treat my ideas with contempt, and just respond coldly to what im saying without actually working with me. Hm
katie at 2:28:35 PM

Ryan seems to think i want to be british
katie at 1:56:29 PM

So, I've stopped updating my site so regularly. I've also become non-funtional in terms of life, so sue me. its been a little crazy, I haven't really been willing to get out of bed or do anything, but I assume I'll be alright -- but do you like the bubbles? I want to play with the colors a little, make it less pastel, but aside from that, I like it. Also, not many people look at my page anymore. YAY! Its my page once again, and not everyone elses who watches it!
katie at 1:53:28 PM

5.13.2002

test?
katie at 6:24:42 PM

5.12.2002

i'm not really catholic anymore, but I thought this site was neat. Its a really nice comcept - pledging yourself to a certain number of peacemaking hours.
katie at 7:28:49 PM

Remember Mother's Day

I almost forgot, but I got it.
katie at 2:37:15 PM

Something silly I stole - but its a good commentary on nonsmoking ads, drugs ads, and all that jazz.

katie at 11:37:42 AM

Last night, I went out at 12:30 and came back in at 6:30 or so. It was beautiful - the sun was rising, I felt refreshed, and hapy and all kindsa shit as I took the bus home.

Did you ever feel like a bad character being played by Ashley Judd? If you have, you're in trouble and should talk to me about group therapy.

Yay nonsmoking ads - they're ridiculous. I need to buy some before I call storey.
katie at 12:04:15 AM

5.11.2002

God, I'm tired and exhausted - I have stuff that I ought to do, but haven't achieved it and don't know if I have the energy to achieve it.
katie at 7:14:49 PM

baseball in a box?

"Brilliant ideas, every single one of them. But we recognize that the implementation of these radical new proposals takes time. So in the meantime, we're concerned that even in Denver, not enough is being done to make sure these baseballs remain quality-controlled, right up to the moment they leave the pitcher's hand.

If we're going to chill these baseballs at 40 percent humidity, then it seems to us that every effort needs to be made to make sure they stay at 40 percent. We can't have Larry Walker hitting 22-percent-humid baseballs, while Denny Neagle gets to throw 57-percent-humid baseballs. That defeats the whole purpose.

"How about if the hitter wants to check the ball every pitch to make sure it's the right humidity?" Donnelly wondered. "We might have to have a humidity meter."

Yes sir. A portable hygrometer. That's the ticket. But if that's not available, let's think bigger.

"Maybe we should just go into the humidor and play the game," Donnelly suggested. "Just play the whole game inside the humidor. It might be a little cramped, but the humidity is perfect.

"Or why don't they just make all the balls in the humidor? Why make the balls in Haiti, where the humidity's about 4,000 percent? Each club will hire a planeload of Haitians, fly them up here, put them in the humidor and say, 'Start sewing, baby.' And they're not allowed out of the humidor until they're done, because if you open the door, it might lower the humidity two percent.

"So then what we'll need," Donnelly said, "is a humidor underground. When you need a ball, it will just pop out, like at the bowling alley. I mean, if we're going to do this, we need to do it right."

Exactly. This is the kind of thinking baseball needs more of -- global, visionary, and only slightly insane."
katie at 2:09:49 PM

5.10.2002

Yay! My page has finally lost popularity!
katie at 1:56:02 PM

My CAT scan was normal, but I'm still not too happy yet. I dont think that's ever actually going to happen. I'm going to stop now.
katie at 12:37:56 PM

For the two of you who were worried - my head CT was normal. I'm still crazy though.
katie at 11:23:53 AM

5.8.2002

I'm going to continue on my self-destructive streak - tomorrow, i need to havea head CT and all in all im just about to collapse. So please don't pick on me for the next few days, my head is just worse and I'm just crying a fair amount. I blame most of my up-and-down emotions for the past few weeks on being crazy and having head trauma.
katie at 8:33:18 PM

Emily of the Day: Emily Messner

She's great and makes me happy and feel better. Hopefully enough to get through the rest of the semester with doctors and with classes. Yay Emily!
katie at 10:34:30 AM

5.7.2002

does anyone have a cure? maybe its my head maybe its me maybe im just going crazy, cause that's what i feel like - i dont have a heart that works anymore - it makes me sad cause i dont dislike anyone, i dont mean to attack anyone unless they attack me, and the stupid satire papers and no one reads what i say and im just going to not have a breakdown online again im going to bed :)
katie at 1:11:33 PM

Boo Jeremy. ;)
katie at 1:08:38 PM

Especially cause i think im a nice person and I know i don't mean anyone harm. I just put my thoughts on here, theyre my thoughts, its your choice to read them or not....
katie at 1:08:23 PM

God, my heart just keeps getting broken - does anyone realize? "I'm so glad the only online bullshit that existed when I was on APDA was APDAnet" -Emily Messner
katie at 1:01:55 PM

I'm also curious to who NAMEREMOVED is....

Cause she writes this:
"Writing the words to a sermon that no one will hear.

Oh, in response to criticisms of the nats article: we don't actually thinks the tab error was deliberate, though it is amusing that it was UMCP vs. MIT, and I kinda don't see it happening at Brandeis. But while we deeply appreciate Kate Myers volunteering to run nats, the tab error *was* pretty serious. *ONE* team broke on speaks. They had all day Saturday to double check. They had all night Saturday night to go over it one more time before quarters started. This is nationals. You should double check. Moreover, sweeping it under the rug in the email to APDA was really the onus behind subjecting it to satire. I can't see how we're the bad guys."

As soon as I finish reading the damn thing, and stop being just on-face upset, ill respond, and respond to her.
katie at 12:27:36 PM

New Look, thumbs up thumbs down?
katie at 12:25:58 PM

cop-in-a-box thought of the day
Put free speech in a box until people understand and respect it. Free speech involves respecting other's right to speak, and competent free speech involves reading their responses thoroughly. (This is not passive aggressive - just kind of a general observation, so don't read too far into it.)
katie at 11:57:45 AM

FYI Through my headache.... Worlds Prereg is up. I currently can't do it, but I dont know why - some kind of computer error.
katie at 11:45:07 AM

5.6.2002

Fuck, I should get off the computer if i have a headache ;)
katie at 11:45:58 PM

Please make concussion go away, it hurts
katie at 11:45:49 PM

Make concussion go away. And I'm not mad about NORPDA! It just made me sad.
katie at 11:45:38 PM

Go here and vote for Denise!

Its really important. apparently she gets a party with lots of alcohol if she wins. Its the poll on the lower right corner.

And I hate concussions. And doctors. Concussions wont go away.
katie at 7:29:47 PM

5.5.2002

test
katie at 12:54:54 PM

5.4.2002

Neat

Wow-its nice to know that people like me. Note in my craziness profile, i scored real low on the self-esteem disease :) But I do have to say - even though i was initially upset, because I don't appreciate being directly made fun of for something that I put a hell of a lot of work into and one mistake was made that I didn't control - i see the grain of truth in it, and therefore a bit of the humor value. That doesn't mean that I don't think it wasn't in good taste, or that some of the things in the newspapers that are going out over the internet are not in good taste either. But I say things on this that are not in good taste as well. I believe that people have their opinions and the rights to their opinions, but also ought to do it remember that there are other people's hearts out there.

And that some anonymous newspapers accept contributions. Once the seal is broken, now its open season. Or at least that's what Andrea said. :)

katie at 7:13:12 PM

5.3.2002

Yay Amy!
katie at 8:57:54 PM

Ok, so Eric is bitter, and its rubbing off on me. We may have found our revenge... No, not mine and Eric's, but all of our owns....tee hee hee...here its going to come!
katie at 8:47:04 PM

And I know this is kind of gimmicky, but thank you to Liz, Denise, Greg, Andrea, Yoni, Scott, Neil, and everyone else who has e-mailed me to remind me that people don't hate me. I preciate it lots.
katie at 5:28:40 PM

I'm posting this from IM....
katie at 5:26:32 PM

The Name is nice and non N/S dividing...

Looking back on it, there is a grain of truth in it all... Tho, Pat&Adam&Tim...I ask you to let UMBC have one more tournament next year than debaters... as ...In other news, the University of Maryland: VCR Repair placed a bid for nationals, despite not having a debate team. "It's true - this would be more tournaments than they have debaters - but that's also true for UMBC", tournament director Greg Jennings pointed out. "I look forward to breaking at the tournament." UMCP and UMBC both enthusiastically placed their support behind the bid.

Put y'alls money where your mouth is - we ought have one more tournament than we have debaters competing next year....lets see how that goes.

katie at 5:12:42 PM

Ok, I'm better now. I promise.
katie at 4:56:19 PM

I think I am going to go cry now. Moreso, if this isn't enough of a defense that I don't write the damn smash, I don't know what is. I would assume tit-for-tat, and just work it back in that publication.
katie at 11:04:53 AM

Apparently Pat didn't see me in tears during the entire final round. I don't know what I can do to apologize more. I don't owe pat an apology, but I assume that the emotional crushing of several generaltions of UMBC debaters ought to at least say something. Its not something Phil and Raj will ever get over - I know, because of Eric and Yale. I stopped caring about it, but I stopped caring about most. Jessa and Gorgo are still upset about it, and its almost 3 months later. Shockinlgy enough, Andrew Grossman turned out to be right about something. He asked me "why quarters" and I said "cause the 4-2 that gets in gets in only by pure luck, as speaker points are tight and arbitrary at the tournament". There was a 1 point difference between 1-10, and three points between 1-20. I then asked him if I should only break top 7, to only break the 5-1s. I should have.

Finally, if UMBC, if its defined as me and me alone, was trying to bust the tournament towards a team, do you really think that that team would have been Kevin and Rahul? I can think of a few other more likely candidates, specifically one that broke and broke my heart after quarters, and one that went 3-3. Hm.
katie at 11:02:55 AM

I'm so tired. Mainly, just plain exhausted, emotionally, physically, etc. I dont know if I have a real update, just tired and frustrated.
katie at 10:43:46 AM

cop-in-a-box thought of the day
Put bullshit politics in the box. Lock them up until they don't matter anymore. [kate's catching bits of cnn]
katie at 10:43:04 AM

5.1.2002

Disorder Rating
Paranoid: Low
Schizoid: Low
Schizotypal: High
Antisocial: Moderate
Borderline: Very High
Histrionic: High
Narcissistic: Moderate
Avoidant: Moderate
Dependent: High
Obsessive-Compulsive: High

-- Click Here To Take The Test --

katie at 3:06:22 PM

Storey keeps insisting that I put up the smash. What ever happened to the framing theory? I had a long blog response to it this morning, but i started having problems and the computer as well. First off, he doesn't read my defense of myself, bad as it is. Why its not James Messner? Because he's too busy running Emily's errands during the day. I've been home for a while, and have trouble finding him. Plus, he's turned into a Gold's Gym nut. And finally, he hasn't been around for all that long, guys!

Finally, I want to leave with Liz's suggestion... interlude [cause the only person I could come up with for it to be was Matty. In response to something he said about Eric and me - note that my blog is a template. Note that I started off not as the "apda blog hub" but just as a list of people's blogs that I know. People like George Kong and Angela Sherlock are not on APDA. I like mydamn links on the side of the page, and if you want me to fucking take them off I will. Theres also a link for Nolico. Know what that is?]

[interlude: Sorry for being a bitch LizLiedel.]

[interlude: why am i so defensive about not being the editor? Cause I keep getting mean and some e-mails with the potential to be mean that are just upset from people who think that I write it that are upset to be lambasted. I REALLY don't like that. I've already had enough emotioanlly draining conditions in the past several weeks, and as Eric will attest to, i've been so close to emotional collapse (and now physical) that I haven't had the mental wherwithall to take the grief of not doing the Slash, let alone actually publishing it.]

But finally, so y'all will get off my back... Liz Holmes said this on Shit Foos - and she's right....

"i think that we shouldn try to figure it out. who ever it is doesnt want to be found out, and, by being annonomus, can post more offensive, funny, articals.
this is a good thing.
lets not ruin it.

Liz Holmes Shitted a Foo@8:47 PM"

Now get off my back! I'm going to go back to bed, or to find a job, depending on how long I can stay upright.

katie at 3:01:12 PM

Finally, before I pass out, I dont know what direct jokes Helen was talking about. And fuck you liz on the spelling mistakes. (this is going to be mean, but its meant in good fun, and blame it on my brain damage) For all your ranting, do something real with your life. not just protest. But achieve something.
katie at 12:02:24 AM