Showers and jobs... I like my kaplan job!! now i just need to go to it :)
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posted at 8:38:23 AM by katie.
Monday, January 20, 2003
Cop-In-A-Box Thought of the day!!!!! Courtesy of Denise "After Lockerbie, it was not fashionable to overtly support terrorism. His novelty had worn off in Europe; all his neighbors were fed up with him and happy to see him put in a box..." -its Qaddafi in a box!!!! For the full interview, look here.
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posted at 11:19:54 AM by katie.
I love my neighborhood... Last night at about 3 am I saw a fox. A fox.
Countdown.... Harry Potter 5 in 152 days.
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posted at 11:08:07 AM by katie.
A change of heart.... I've decided from looking at some of the candidates (i havent researched civil rights positions yet, so I may be a sharpton-ite yet) I'm going to have to preliminarily get on the Howard Dean train. I saw him give a stump speech, where he spoke of several things: Ethanol for Shruti, Health care (i still have a fervent wish), and education. Especially education. He just came out and denounced NCLB, which was good. He also talked about the third rail in education policy - special education. He pointed out that sped was another unfunded mandate and that he wanted tochange that. You see, once the special education albatross is off districts necks, then they can worry about other things. For example - guess what percentage of DC's Ed budget is spent on special education - 30%. On top of that, kids from west of N. Capitol Street usually get lawyers and courts to order the district to send them out of state to various residential schools. All the rest of the kids need to stay in DC's (even with the difference) underfunded and overburded SPED programs. Sigh. So i've come out of the closet (another thing he talked about :) for Howard Dean.
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posted at 1:21:01 AM by katie.
Sunday, January 19, 2003
My Morning Blog... Well, falling asleep around 5:30 certainly make you less likely to wake at a decent hour. This is what happens when I have an empty apartment, though. Though in a sign for my future sanity, I almost wanted to sleep with the light off last night. Before, I had to read myself to exhaustion and then sleep with the light on or else i wouldn't be able to go to sleep. Last night, not the case (though i did read myself to exhaustion). When I was a child, I had a lot of intense fears - mainly the dark. Remnants of that seem to rear its ugly head when I sleep alone. I'm not afraid of the dark - I just can't fall asleep. But last night I was out with the girls, then went to Liss', and then came home, talked to storey (which was also FANTASTIC - its nice to talk to stor when both our lives are stable and there is no crisis on the horizon), etc. It was funny - I was talking about not living with eric next year (which is my plan to assert my independence, be able to sleep in a bed by myself with the lights out, etc) and he was like "just make sure you don't break up with him." I was like, "uh....I wasn't planning on it." Its also funny when other people ask me how long storey and emily have been dating (its about 16 months depending on when they start counting) and they're like "they're getting married already?" Now since I know storey very well, I know that when something's right, something's right. But back to the point, I imparted to storey the assurance that no, i was not going to break up with eric, that I hadn't been with him 2 years seven months and 2 days for nothing. I'm going to be with him forever, and I'm lucky cause I don't need to be married to know that. Yay Eric.
Harry Potter... in 153 days...
Friends I just want to make a brief observation on friends. I have friends right now (and former friends) who think that no one likes them. In one case, there is (in my opinion) no reason for it, but we need to work on the balance of communication and SELF RELIANCE. How do I communicate that to someone without getting them mad? I'm obviously starting here. Also, of course you're invited places. We're not going to give you a formal invitiation because you're our friend. We will call you when we know what we're doing so you can come your way and be with us.
My accomplishments and my plans Eric's out of town until tomorrow (his grandfather passed away) so I have things I need to accomplish. 1. Putting the rest of the clothes away. 2. Doing some of my laundry. 3. Going to the container store with Aaron. 4. When the container store is too expensive, go to Target for underbed boxes :). 5. Reaffix and grout the soapdish in the bathroom....DONE! :)
Alright, so I have a lot to do :)
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posted at 1:36:10 PM by katie.
Not Really Ironic...
You're Colombia!
You do a lot of drugs, and these have kind of distorted your view of reality, to the point that everyone looks like an enemy. You keep trying to restore order over your schizophrenic world view, but you don't even know which goal is your own and which is someone else's. You're pretty sure someone needs to be punished for all this, but who that is changes all the time. Things would be a lot better for you if you switched to coffee, or even to decaf, but all this money would be hard to give up.
Storey also knew I would dig around until I found it. Besides, it was written if not for me, at least with me in mind :).
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posted at 1:05:15 PM by katie.
Friday, January 17, 2003
Dreams and Introspections Now, my dream wasn't especially weird. It was actually a straightforward dream, which was a straightforward occurance for me. It just combined past and present, in the format of a debate tournament (i didn't debate, i just was kinda there). The difference was, Maria featured prominently. This dream was more than anything about her. I mean, I do have a fair number of regrets about those last few months. I also was reminded that i mght have been the crazy girl they were talking about, sneaking into the ICU. But she died over three years ago (just over, not that i know my dates or anything) so I should be past most of the regrets at least. Or past most of the part where I get very sad. Maybe it was brought on cause eric has to fly to a funeral this weekend. Maybe this is just due to come out. But holy jesus, am i a tangled mess right now or what... I'm actually ok, I'm just inner-turmoiled.
Hangovers without drinking I also awoke from this dream with a hangover. But I didn't drink. I'm about to go adopt the hanover cure of going back to bed and sleeping through it. Yay that I took some time off before I start my new job.
On a lighter note... 155 days to harry potter....june 21st
I love waking up to this.... denise (11:18:13 PM): kate
Auto response from kate2307 (11:18:13 PM): Ouch. Building furniture hurts.
denise (11:18:13 PM): i am drunk denise (11:18:19 PM): and i love you denise (11:18:24 PM): becaause you are wonderful denise (11:18:33 PM): and i have to see you soon denise (11:18:39 PM): before your christmas present gets more borkem denise (11:19:29 PM): yay kate denise (11:19:32 PM): katekate kate denise (11:19:36 PM): is wonderful denise (11:19:38 PM): sahit i am drunk denise (11:19:53 PM): but i couldntr go out because i keel expecting goats and there arent ANYU FUCKLING GOPATS kate2307 (7:38:58 AM): :laughing:
Auto response from denise (7:39:02 AM): i love my ho train girls.
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posted at 8:27:41 AM by katie.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
:) Still glowing....yay for jobs....
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posted at 9:36:38 PM by katie.
Tee hee hee... 157 days until Harry Potter 5....June 21st...
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posted at 4:10:10 PM by katie.
Tuesday, January 14, 2003
details later... :)
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posted at 6:33:38 PM by katie.
Monday, January 13, 2003
Bloggia Nervosa So, I need encouragement for my project. One project may go along with another - we shall see...but its such a good appetite suppressant! But that isn't the point.
Its such a pain trying to lose weight when there isn't someone along there with you doing it...i guess ill just have to make do. I want to make this happen. I mainly want to make it happen for me. I mean, people when i say "i want to lose weight" they're like "you're beautiful, you're fine, don't worry about it." But I want to - it has nothing to do with self-confidence, cause i have plenty of that. I just want to weigh less. :shrug: So before anyone tries to nag on me for doing this, just know that im doing this cause i want to :).
alright, im going to leave work in a few....love y'all...
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posted at 5:14:53 PM by katie.
Working, resting, blagging* Well, work is pretty dull. I'm doing the job that my supervisor warned me to "do everything else" before I do it because it is "boring, dull, and tedious." And she was right. But its alright - I'm learning a little about the CDCP :). I'm also learning that when its 5:00 PM EST, its 9:00 AM in guam :). And 8am in Palau. And 9:30 am in Adelaide. All of those are tomorrow. :-P
So I'm bored. I'm also tired. But such is life.
Ryan's got a study abroad blog, and I've got to go decide what to do for dinner....so much for "eric cooks" tonight....
Also, I don't know why netscape didn't publish, but it did post...i have no idea....i am having another interview tomorrow, for an admin job at this place...tell me what you think :). me?
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posted at 11:35:03 PM by katie.
Wow Blogger Netscape is weird....updates to come soon - don't have a real new job yet, but I have a temp job for the interim. Let's see if this works...
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posted at 10:58:04 AM by katie.
Saturday, January 04, 2003
Back to nightmares... This nightmare was very simple, and might even be true for the most part. I dreamed that for some reason i went home for something christmasy, but i had some kind of responsibility (and therefore, one of several colors of wristbands). There were several people with me, onbe of them being Angelo and another my brother. I don't remember the climax that turned it into a nightmare (it actually had one - it involved like being kidnapped with a bunch of people I know now in a chevy suburban, i don't understand) but then at the climax that turned it nightmare, the suburban stopped at a motel, and this is the part where we were supposed to be able to pull it together and escape - instead, all of the doors opened and one-by-one all the people that i was with were replaced by people from home who (might) not like me anymore. And my father - but i thought that was a given. This was not a pleasant experience. I tried to end it by grabbing my mom and talking to her for a few minutes, but the kids were screaming and I woke up - except that the kids that were screaming was actually just Emily yelling at her mom on the phone in various octaves. It did wake me and Eric up (though perfectly justified, once i realised what the argument was about :).
The interpretation is very simple, and I understand, so don't even bother. God.
And boo Ohio State.
Its not even that I like Miami. I just dislike Ohio State.
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posted at 11:00:09 AM by katie.
Wednesday, January 01, 2003
Updates of a New Year's Day Sort...
1) I'm going to be a "person with her shit together." That's what I've decided. 2) ALISSA'S BACK!! Now just to make sure she stays back. 3) New Year's 2003 is looking better than New Year's 2002 (tho with less energy deregulation in Kazakstan - boo to the Kazaks) and SIGNFICANTLY better than New Years 2001 (stupid glasgow).
Now let's just hope Eric doesn't wake up sick - Happy New Year!
