[	Current Mood	|	Russian pancakes mmmmmmm	]
[	Current Music	|	Young Doubliners	]

Been a while, I just came on to say that I kept last year's resolution,

DRINK MORE WATER.

thanks Aquafina lol.

Nothing for new years.  don't really care for it anyway.  fell asleep at 8:30.  what the hell is up with that?  My friend called an hour later, I don't really remember what I said to him, something about it thundering while it was snowing.

and this Young Dubliners song was stuck in my head, maybe someone else can use this song,{because even after a semester at college, I'm as sober as ever}

Says my aul’ wan to your aul’ wan
Will ye go to the waxies dargle?
Says your aul’ wan to my aul’ wan,
I haven’t got a farthing.
I went up to monto town
To see uncle mcardle
But he wouldn’t give me a half a crown
For to go to the waxies dargle.

What will ya have? !
I’ll have a pint!
I’ll have a pint with you, sir!
And if one of ya’ doesn’t order soon
We’ll be chucked out of the boozer!

[	Current Mood	|	chipper	]
[	Current Music	|	their songs still stuck in my head	]

Last night was awesome.  I went to Union to help out my friend make food for Japanese night for international club, and just walking down the street I could smell the spices and everything.  When I opened the door to the kitchen I was met by a steamy and spicy blast of air.  There were like seven or eight of the Japanese kids frying, cutting, and mixing.  One of the kids had me try some mushroom soup and it was just perfect, (and this is coming from a girl who had food poisoning a few years ago from mushrooms.)  At first I just washed stuff in the sink or moved things around, but by the end I was rolling sushi with tuna and avocadoes in it. 

The campus safety guy drove our stuff over to the building where we were having the event. Two boys sang Japanese pop songs and one of them played the guitar, the guitarist, Shuta, said, "Welcome to the Kayta and Shuta show!  We're going to sing some songs in Japanese, you might not understand them....but we don't really care."  They were so animated and so much fun to watch, they were hamming it up even more than usual because some camera people were there filming NEC.

Then we watched two boys do Judo, one of them was six foot something and the other was five something, and of course the big guy kicked the little guy's butt, all in good fun of course. 

We ate the food, (my favorite being some green mixture of avocadoes and wasabi paste) and listened to music. It started out as J-pop, and then somehow got switched to merengue and salsa.  Normally I am pretty good at faking the two dances, but this time I had to have the girls who really knew them teach me, because otherwise I'd just be a poser lol.  The steps were actually easier to pick up than I thought.

After that I went to a little improv show the theater people were putting on.  I then called my mom, who said that she could pick me up at 11 to see Matt, Katy and William at the airport at 1 AM, so I headed over to the pub to kill time.  They were playing Irish music and only a handful of people were in there to talk to, but it was a hell of a lot better than being stuck in the dorm.

My family picked my up at 11:30, and then we headed over to machester airport where Phil and I did escalator races until their plane came in.  They were easy to point out with Matt in dress whites which had the petty officer emblem on it.  I got to hold my nephew for the very first time!!!  He looked so cute in his pumpkin hat!!!  The dumb airport people lost my brother's seabag, which had his and Katie's clothes in it.  But since he was in the military, and they really didn't want to piss him off, they are going to find it and deliver it to our house. 

Yeah that was really  long, but if you read it this far I love you. It was a good night.  I didn't get to sleep till about 4 o'clock in the morning, and I woke up at 9.  Time to go back to bed I think.

[	Current Mood	|	thanks guys!	]
[	Current Music	|	Zox - a little more time	]

So when we went on our Friday night Boston trip to the paradise lounge, not only was I exposed to indie bands but I was offered a free sample of Jameson whiskey. I had to put up my fists like Constantine to show the woman my big black Sharpied X's, only to hear the woman say, "What does that mean?" I should have just taken advantage of her stupidity.

Then there was the T. Kind of scary to hop on after a Sox game. "Ok guys get ready to squeeze!" Crammed between ornery middle aged women and rowdy college guys, was quite an interesting mix, especially when the train lurched and you had nothing to hold onto. At least it was a free ride.

I came home this weekend and it really did feel like, "home sweet home." When I left in august, my room looked like a FEMA site, and now, thanks to my sister's hard work, it is clean and beautiful. It also looks a lot nicer without my computer in there.

We went out to pizza Saturday night, had our traditional family cake at home. On Sunday Stefan and Tiffany came over and we played pool until Erin arrived, and Stefan was like, "Soul Caliber 2!!!" and in a mad fury people rushed over to the TV to play it. Finally Alicia arrived and we got stuff to eat and Klaus, Phil's foreign exchange student, hung out with us too. Then the clock said quarter of six and I said EEGAAAD! and we flew up to henniker. (ok that's an exaggeration.)

Now after an awesome weekend I am here procrastinating homework and fighting the college munchies, until I come home again yay!

[	Current Mood	|	peaceful	]
[	Current Music	|	TRL music...yeah we were bored	]

Ironically when I finally figure out that the library computers have AIM, there's no one online when I sign on. 
my last entry was protected, so if you log in you should see it.
In other news... I ate my first college cup of Ramen noodles today.  Damn you cheap meal plan!

I'm coming home this weekend.  Turning 19.  Drop by?

CAKE!!!

It feels good to be alive.

[	Current Mood	|	procrastinating	]
[	Current Music	|	Pon de Replay	]

I leave for college in five days.  5. That's one hand to count on.  I haven't done anything to get ready, it's not really a bad thing, I don't feel ashamed. (It's not like I'm going to Alaska.)  So much has happened.

( life goes by pretty fast sometimes... )

[	Current Mood	|	lethargic	]
[	Current Music	|	Alegria from cirque du soleil (it's stuck in my head!!)	]

( other summer stuff... )

This weekend I drove up to my grandparents' house all the way up in Vermont all by myself and nonstop.  When I got out of the car my knee was twisted funny so it pinched itself and hurt really bad.  It was a nice visit, with the exception of my incessantly drinking uncles.  I even ran waayyyyyyyy out in the boonies, to the point where there were no phone/power lines, deep deep in the woods.  Surprised I'm not in the stomach of a big, hungry mammal right now...  Next time someone else is coming with me.

When I came back home, I had more Teddy Grahams and frosting (mmmmmmmmmm) and passed out on my bed.  Surprisingly I think it made me run faster when I went out to do mileage.  If only it were really that easy. 

Today it was so sad at work when Ms. Debbie found out that her mom died.  First there was a phone call and then Ms. Karen rushed into the room, and then I knew it was not good news.  (It was almost like the room temperature dropped 30 degrees.)  I was very sad for her.  Just when things are running smoothly, Fate decides to kick you in the face. 

[	Current Mood	|	summer's awesome	]
[	Current Music	|	Bally Sagoo	]

( randomness )

[	Current Mood	|	<3 thyself	]
[	Current Music	|	It's like that - mariah carey	]

www.campaignforrealbeauty.com

[	Current Mood	|	oy oy	]
[	Current Music	|	"...just say hell-o world..." can't remember the rest	]

The excitement won't seem to end anytime soon.  I survived my first 8 hour day of work, and I'm no longer afraid of the 5 year olds, who have, unfortunately for me, discovered the power of numbers, and are excellent at creating mutinies.  I also went to Katie's family's house for a going away dinner and on the way home with Phil, a car almost collided with us as it ran through a light.

If you see me and it looks like I'm beat up, it's because I've been to the doctor's to get my shots and TB skin test, all in the same arm.  I still have to get bloodwork done for college I believe. 

On Saturday after my cello lesson, (where I was told to go home and practice for an hour so there would be no catastrophes) I headed over to Mateo Marone's for his graduation party.  Striker brought his 2 friends from Holland and we played badmitton, baseball, and ultimate frisbee until we were exhausted.  There was swimming and Pizza from LaFesta and some charades game, I got to play on the Dutch team which was pretty awesome. You have to be from Holland to guess curling.

I got back from my last recital.  I played with the orchestra and after my hour of practice at 10 last night I played my solo piece well enough, excellent according to some people.  I got a biographical music dictionary with a nice note from him on the inside cover page, but I don't know when I'll ever use it, now that there are no composer papers to write. 

[	Current Mood	|	GRADUATED!	]
[	Current Music	|	"...she says a-di-oh-os goodbye..."	]

      DHS  2005 

( Graduation )

[	Current Mood	|	snap your fingers daddios	]
[	Current Music	|	earlier I would have said mariah carey, now Phantom of the O	]

Ahhhh one of my hot pics of some sailors at matt's boot camp graduation got permanently resized  to like this big. __________.

anyway other than that, it's random pic time  playing ze cello

( look for more )

[	Current Mood	|	reminising stuff (can't spell	]
[	Current Music	|	lawnmowers...lets' say Enya's "pilgrim" instead	]

( How do I feel now that it's over? )

[	Current Mood	|	2 more days hahahahaha	]
[	Current Music	|	I Drove All Night - Celine Dion, the crazy Canadian	]

In english we had to write a manifesto, like a personal statement of things you live by. She made copies of mine for the class and I was kind of embarrassed, but glad I didn't pass in this one instead. 

Alternative Manifesto

1. Never been to a drinking party, yea no hangovers!!!

2. Never bought anything at American Eagle, Abercrombie, or Aeropostale; saved a lot of money.

3. Never got 4.0 in a quarter; still got scholarships at each school I applied to.

4. Never went on a school trip to a foreign country; never got food poisoning there and threw up the whole trip.

5. Never participated in student council; muahaha.

6. Never went tanning; never got that potato skin look.

7. Never complained about work, the money made it all better.

8. Never wore anything but regular undies, butt floss no thanks.

9. Never smoked, beat the wannabe thugs in my gym class on the track.

10. Never been kissed, this does give me ambivalent feelings, but hey what can you do?

[	Current Mood	|	frustrated	]
[	Current Music	|	Let me go	]

Random thought but I think that those double-dosage hippies we call guidance counselors should have told me like 4 years ago at least how expensive college is so that way I wouldn't have this monstrous fear of debt hanging over my head.  Everything has been so procrastinated, at times even as late as this year I didn't know if college was even an option. Each time I try to talk to my parents about costs, we all end up leaving the room frusturated, barely getting at anything.  So far I know 1) I have to pay for half of it 2) 10 year loans will be taken out.  If I didn't have that big scholarship I probably wouldn't even be able to go.  But I love that school and intuitively I know just out of providence that I'm meant to go.  But it breaks my heart when I hear my mom say,"Why couldn't you have just gone to Concord Tech?"  What?! Are you kidding me? Not to offend anyone who goes there but after how hard I've worked?  Setting high standards for myself so I could be in NHS? Jesus Christ why can't you be proud and perhaps glad that my grades were good enough to get the Alta Petenda scholarship? But I guess pride doesn't buy you anything.  It's not like I haven't considered a 2 year school, to get out quicker of course, but I NEED a 4 year degree to get into Peace Corps, which is the sort of thing I've always wanted to do. After that, there really is not much more that I could want to do in life.  I love my parents very much, but I wish that we all had better guidance on this event.

Maybe I'll go and when I graduate in four years will just disappear into Andes.