like my day to be really terrible the rest of the day. And then you finally check your e-mail.
Thanks back to you D.H. I did recieve your e-mail and I would like to send you some good vibes since you just brightened my day. It just reminds you that there are people that run into your site and that they don't think you are half that bad - even if you feel like an ant trying to run away from a steam roller
but after that e-mail, maybe I am the steamroller laying down a smooooth layer of tar that will... oh forget the metaphor! I am not that cheesy, believe me. ehehe
Wednesday, June 30, 2004
No... I haven't blogged or checked e-mail in a while
It's not that im ignoring anyone - I am just keeping so busy that it gets lost in the backburner.
Besides the fact that my computer is in my office - which has all my programs for easy access and the ones at my Moms house are usually being used or are inaccessible.
I dont feel like using punctuation today so here we go I would like to go screaming down the driveway which I have no idea on why
frustrated?
((Deleted a lot of text that was pure rant - please move along... nothing to see here))
Hints of advice from myself to myself - Aya, don't get into someone elses business - you just insinuate yourself into their business and it isn't your place to be there.
Besides the fact that my computer is in my office - which has all my programs for easy access and the ones at my Moms house are usually being used or are inaccessible.
I dont feel like using punctuation today so here we go I would like to go screaming down the driveway which I have no idea on why
frustrated?
((Deleted a lot of text that was pure rant - please move along... nothing to see here))
Hints of advice from myself to myself - Aya, don't get into someone elses business - you just insinuate yourself into their business and it isn't your place to be there.
Saturday, June 26, 2004
Argh! So many problems now!
1. My swap image is gone
2. My comments aren't working atm
3. My About Me page isn't loading right
4. My Archives still collect onto a single page if a direct link is taken
5. It needs a whole revamping and that will take a lot of my time that I want to use sleeping! hehe
To Do
*Sleep
*Mow Lawn
*Shop
*Clean fish tanks
*Fix my flower garden
*Fix the vegetable garden
*Check the pool
*Clean up the two rooms upstairs
*Work on Aspens Scrapbook
*Blog about the conference
*Sleep some more
*Grow out my bangs
*Organize moms Scrapbook
*Relax in the sun
2. My comments aren't working atm
3. My About Me page isn't loading right
4. My Archives still collect onto a single page if a direct link is taken
5. It needs a whole revamping and that will take a lot of my time that I want to use sleeping! hehe
To Do
*Sleep
*Mow Lawn
*Shop
*Clean fish tanks
*Fix my flower garden
*Fix the vegetable garden
*Check the pool
*Clean up the two rooms upstairs
*Work on Aspens Scrapbook
*Blog about the conference
*Sleep some more
*Grow out my bangs
*Organize moms Scrapbook
*Relax in the sun
Thursday, June 24, 2004
Trying out the new formatting options that Blogger has given us...
What a crazy ride. As I went through the new fangled toys that Blogger gave us I ran into troubles. The worst was losing my swapping image in the top right. I also promise to update that picture of mine - I don't have that long curly hair anymore. eheh
Amazing Video
Sand Sicaf - ebaumsworld.com: "Turn off the lights and turn up the sound!
Warning: This video is a very large file and will take 3 hours to download if you are on a slow dial up internet connection. Broadband users only! 18.5 Megs"
Me - E-Baums World has this in their Hilarious Video selection - and I am glad to find it again.
Sand Sicaf - ebaumsworld.com: "Turn off the lights and turn up the sound!
Warning: This video is a very large file and will take 3 hours to download if you are on a slow dial up internet connection. Broadband users only! 18.5 Megs"
Me - E-Baums World has this in their Hilarious Video selection - and I am glad to find it again.
Neave.com
This site is something I will be coming back to for a closer look. The ameoba like feel is something akin to a rubber walled cell - fun to be in if you have the right outlook.
This site is something I will be coming back to for a closer look. The ameoba like feel is something akin to a rubber walled cell - fun to be in if you have the right outlook.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Writer's Conference
This has been one crazy week! The best day yet came from the dinner last night where we had the visiting writers and the local writers eat dinner with the conference staff. I sat at my table and chatted with the people I knew when an older man in a jean button down shirt and suspenders sat down with the administrators. My jaw literally dropped to the ground when he was introduced to my neighbor and then to me, "This is our local writer, Gary Paulson."
Gary Paulson!!
Gary Paulson....
Images of my childhood flitted through my mind and I was once again with that little boy stuck on the island with a little Hatchet. I had the luxury to sit down and eat for two hours with an author I loved since I was old enough to be read to. What a treat!
If that wasn't enough, he talked most of the time so I was able to listen to him - full of tales and rough stories about his boat and planning on running his dogs in Alaska. I would have fainted if I hadn't been eating something to keep me going. I tried not to act like the school-girl meeting their first rock star - but to me he was much better. He was Gary Paulson - the writer.
This has been one crazy week! The best day yet came from the dinner last night where we had the visiting writers and the local writers eat dinner with the conference staff. I sat at my table and chatted with the people I knew when an older man in a jean button down shirt and suspenders sat down with the administrators. My jaw literally dropped to the ground when he was introduced to my neighbor and then to me, "This is our local writer, Gary Paulson."
Gary Paulson!!
Gary Paulson....
Images of my childhood flitted through my mind and I was once again with that little boy stuck on the island with a little Hatchet. I had the luxury to sit down and eat for two hours with an author I loved since I was old enough to be read to. What a treat!
If that wasn't enough, he talked most of the time so I was able to listen to him - full of tales and rough stories about his boat and planning on running his dogs in Alaska. I would have fainted if I hadn't been eating something to keep me going. I tried not to act like the school-girl meeting their first rock star - but to me he was much better. He was Gary Paulson - the writer.
Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Fragmenting my thoughts
1) Or have they been fragmented all this time? My friends say that I have a mind that is opposite of a steel trap - I go from one subject to another. Perhaps a mild form of Adult ADD - but I think its the caffienated drinks - Coffee, Cappucinos, Mountain Dew, and mellow Yellow. I *have* been trying to cut down on these - but if I don't have any I will fall asleep by 1pm.
1.5) I vividly remember in one of my creative writing classes form years ago that memory should be seen as a large storehouse of information. What you have is a dog - name him whatever you would like - and he is there to fetch your information for you. Well, some people may have overactive dogs, some dogs may be deaf or just plain lazy. I believe my fetching dog chases his tail more often than my information.
1.53) Cats wouldn't be much better I suppose.
2) What am I going to do with myself for the next month and a half? I have no classes - I have perhaps the one livingroom to redecorate downstairs and then I guess Holly wants me to help redo her bedroom in town. She is getting older and needs her own life away from her younger syblings.
3) I have to remind myself to watch Monk this Friday - I have a fascination with strange people apparently. Lets list off those favorite actors of mine:
Bruce Willis
Vin Diesel
Tony Shaloub - Monk guy
Peter Falk - Columbo guy (If I could meet him in person I would cry - he is an old favorite of mine and I'd want to adopt him as part of the family)
3.5) There I go with lists again - can't help it.
4) Some people say I am anal - which is an interesting way to describe someone who likes things listed and in order - which apparently I get from my Dad. As I was redecorating my moms guest/computer room I ran into folders he had filed before he passed away and they list off every single thing my mom and he bought in the last 10 years or so. And some of this stuff we don;t have anymore. So, I do have that project yet, to go through and start organizing what files we need or don't need. He even made a 3-ring binder named "Tools List" and listed and categorized with ID numbers all the tools he had in the garage.
4.5) Although, in his line of work he did have to take his stuff with him back and forth (model maker) - so he probably used it for something. It is heartbreaking to get rid of the things he had worked so hard on. I keep telling mom to just keep the main important things and then let the other things go (its been 5 years) and make the space livable by giving her more room.
1) Or have they been fragmented all this time? My friends say that I have a mind that is opposite of a steel trap - I go from one subject to another. Perhaps a mild form of Adult ADD - but I think its the caffienated drinks - Coffee, Cappucinos, Mountain Dew, and mellow Yellow. I *have* been trying to cut down on these - but if I don't have any I will fall asleep by 1pm.
1.5) I vividly remember in one of my creative writing classes form years ago that memory should be seen as a large storehouse of information. What you have is a dog - name him whatever you would like - and he is there to fetch your information for you. Well, some people may have overactive dogs, some dogs may be deaf or just plain lazy. I believe my fetching dog chases his tail more often than my information.
1.53) Cats wouldn't be much better I suppose.
2) What am I going to do with myself for the next month and a half? I have no classes - I have perhaps the one livingroom to redecorate downstairs and then I guess Holly wants me to help redo her bedroom in town. She is getting older and needs her own life away from her younger syblings.
3) I have to remind myself to watch Monk this Friday - I have a fascination with strange people apparently. Lets list off those favorite actors of mine:
Bruce Willis
Vin Diesel
Tony Shaloub - Monk guy
Peter Falk - Columbo guy (If I could meet him in person I would cry - he is an old favorite of mine and I'd want to adopt him as part of the family)
3.5) There I go with lists again - can't help it.
4) Some people say I am anal - which is an interesting way to describe someone who likes things listed and in order - which apparently I get from my Dad. As I was redecorating my moms guest/computer room I ran into folders he had filed before he passed away and they list off every single thing my mom and he bought in the last 10 years or so. And some of this stuff we don;t have anymore. So, I do have that project yet, to go through and start organizing what files we need or don't need. He even made a 3-ring binder named "Tools List" and listed and categorized with ID numbers all the tools he had in the garage.
4.5) Although, in his line of work he did have to take his stuff with him back and forth (model maker) - so he probably used it for something. It is heartbreaking to get rid of the things he had worked so hard on. I keep telling mom to just keep the main important things and then let the other things go (its been 5 years) and make the space livable by giving her more room.
Updated Goals
*Finish Masters this year
*Write a {{brilliant}} thesis on the interwoven stories in Beowulf
*Graduate
*Study Abroad (See Post Below)
*Teach Abroad
*Live Abroad
*Learn more German and then take on French
*Get a great start on Old English
*perhaps learn Latin
*Get my PHD before I turn 30
Insert "find love, have a family and live happily ever after" somewhere in there
After all that - then I guess I will come up with more goals - much like
*Get a History Degree
*Bring my mom to Egypt
*Publish a few books
*Write fairy tales
*Live until I am 99 or so
*Finish Masters this year
*Write a {{brilliant}} thesis on the interwoven stories in Beowulf
*Graduate
*Study Abroad (See Post Below)
*Teach Abroad
*Live Abroad
*Learn more German and then take on French
*Get a great start on Old English
*perhaps learn Latin
*Get my PHD before I turn 30
Insert "find love, have a family and live happily ever after" somewhere in there
After all that - then I guess I will come up with more goals - much like
*Get a History Degree
*Bring my mom to Egypt
*Publish a few books
*Write fairy tales
*Live until I am 99 or so
New beginnings
I have been talking to the professors about my dream of going overseas to get my PHD. I convince myself daily that there will be some way to get over there to do what I want with the Old English Literature and to translate/rewrite many of the works that I think others would appreciate if given a chance. The children today are not given the training in classics enough and the literature will begin to be forgotten except by dusty ibrarians - that shouldn't be true. Everyone should know what Lais are, who beowulf was or wasn't, who wrote Morte d' Arthur, or what Hamlet meant when he said, "Get thee to a nunnery!"
Which reminds me of the Italy trip in Spring break - I think I need to save my money so I *can* go overseas!
Leysin American School in Switzerland
CEA
ISA
I have been talking to the professors about my dream of going overseas to get my PHD. I convince myself daily that there will be some way to get over there to do what I want with the Old English Literature and to translate/rewrite many of the works that I think others would appreciate if given a chance. The children today are not given the training in classics enough and the literature will begin to be forgotten except by dusty ibrarians - that shouldn't be true. Everyone should know what Lais are, who beowulf was or wasn't, who wrote Morte d' Arthur, or what Hamlet meant when he said, "Get thee to a nunnery!"
Which reminds me of the Italy trip in Spring break - I think I need to save my money so I *can* go overseas!
Leysin American School in Switzerland
CEA
ISA
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Another class under my belt
and I am sad to see it over. I am not wholly finished yet, as I still have to write the paper for it.
Here I am sitting at my moms computer, Celebrity Poker is on in the background and I am trying my best to add more items for the conference I am interning at next week.
Meaghan called and she will be coming in on Saturday and staying the week in here. She is also an intern at the Writers Conference. She is a great friend and was a wonderful resident to have on my floor last year. We'll all three (me, Aspen and Meaghan) have a blast this next week!
I did finish up my moms office - it is now a multifunctional room. She has her TV, files, 2 computers, playstation, futon/bunkbed, and mailing center all in one bedroom sized room. I feel the paint and the organizing has helped a L O T!
and I am sad to see it over. I am not wholly finished yet, as I still have to write the paper for it.
Here I am sitting at my moms computer, Celebrity Poker is on in the background and I am trying my best to add more items for the conference I am interning at next week.
Meaghan called and she will be coming in on Saturday and staying the week in here. She is also an intern at the Writers Conference. She is a great friend and was a wonderful resident to have on my floor last year. We'll all three (me, Aspen and Meaghan) have a blast this next week!
I did finish up my moms office - it is now a multifunctional room. She has her TV, files, 2 computers, playstation, futon/bunkbed, and mailing center all in one bedroom sized room. I feel the paint and the organizing has helped a L O T!
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
To remember is all good and fine
- but don't remember the bad - remember the good - don't keep grudges for a people by being as unforgiving and rehashing when it cannot be undone.
On that note - The redecorating project is well under way. I have unearthed her closet! It is a rather nice size and I took out the shelving for clothes out to install the new shelves I had cut at home Depot. I left Aspen at home and she volunteered to get started in painting the insides - a nice light sagey green. Hard to explain. I48835.
The other colors are a deep creamy white and a dark red with a dark olivish green. The large roomsize carpet is green, the drapes will have panels of cream and red. I am hoping to buy extra fabric for the bedding too.
Almost class time and I have a bannana bread to eat yet.
BeAuTiFuL DaY!
- but don't remember the bad - remember the good - don't keep grudges for a people by being as unforgiving and rehashing when it cannot be undone.
On that note - The redecorating project is well under way. I have unearthed her closet! It is a rather nice size and I took out the shelving for clothes out to install the new shelves I had cut at home Depot. I left Aspen at home and she volunteered to get started in painting the insides - a nice light sagey green. Hard to explain. I48835.
The other colors are a deep creamy white and a dark red with a dark olivish green. The large roomsize carpet is green, the drapes will have panels of cream and red. I am hoping to buy extra fabric for the bedding too.
Almost class time and I have a bannana bread to eat yet.
BeAuTiFuL DaY!
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Shaking the Foundations
Actually, its just me that is shaking. Didn't have enough to eat I guess and by the end of class I was willing my tummy to not growl. I then headed back to my office for a last minute snack of warm sandwiche and I think that leaving the sanwiche on my desk for three hours wasn't a good call. I ended up just munching the meat that hadn't touched the Mayo. Bleh!
Also, I told my mom that I would call her after class so we could go shopping for paint for her study. Bah, no answers. Called home four times until I rustled Aspen out of the pool so she could tell me they weren't there. I also had tried my moms cell phone numerous times and that wasn't answered and it seems Aspen had to once again get out of the pool to go upstairs and answer it for me. Grrrr... technology is good mom - and even when she knew i was going to call :-P
So, to sit here a bit longer and meet her there or go ahead and go home. /sigh. I didn't want to go home again to that room. I am so sick of sharing a room with two desks, two computers, a huge armoire, an even more huge bed that is in actuality a futon with a bunk, my clothes haphazardly tossed into three bags above and a closet so full that the doors cannot be fully opened or closed on account of the overthrow of order into chaos.
I have beautiful drawings and dreams for that room. And I will fix it - oh yes - it will be done. When I get the urge to redecorate, watch out and watch your wallet!! hehe I want to go in there, toss everything out, paint the heck out of it, put up curtains, tear things down, organize, and make it into a guest bedroom/study where she can relax and not be lost in the clutter. {{rubs hands together in glee}}
I should have gotten a second major - something in interior design. I love it. It is more than just a hobby - it is a huge part of me that just wants to explode from the books and go crazy with all the ideas in my head.
Does this passion surpass English? Even Old English? No... it's just different.
Actually, its just me that is shaking. Didn't have enough to eat I guess and by the end of class I was willing my tummy to not growl. I then headed back to my office for a last minute snack of warm sandwiche and I think that leaving the sanwiche on my desk for three hours wasn't a good call. I ended up just munching the meat that hadn't touched the Mayo. Bleh!
Also, I told my mom that I would call her after class so we could go shopping for paint for her study. Bah, no answers. Called home four times until I rustled Aspen out of the pool so she could tell me they weren't there. I also had tried my moms cell phone numerous times and that wasn't answered and it seems Aspen had to once again get out of the pool to go upstairs and answer it for me. Grrrr... technology is good mom - and even when she knew i was going to call :-P
So, to sit here a bit longer and meet her there or go ahead and go home. /sigh. I didn't want to go home again to that room. I am so sick of sharing a room with two desks, two computers, a huge armoire, an even more huge bed that is in actuality a futon with a bunk, my clothes haphazardly tossed into three bags above and a closet so full that the doors cannot be fully opened or closed on account of the overthrow of order into chaos.
I have beautiful drawings and dreams for that room. And I will fix it - oh yes - it will be done. When I get the urge to redecorate, watch out and watch your wallet!! hehe I want to go in there, toss everything out, paint the heck out of it, put up curtains, tear things down, organize, and make it into a guest bedroom/study where she can relax and not be lost in the clutter. {{rubs hands together in glee}}
I should have gotten a second major - something in interior design. I love it. It is more than just a hobby - it is a huge part of me that just wants to explode from the books and go crazy with all the ideas in my head.
Does this passion surpass English? Even Old English? No... it's just different.
Thursday, June 03, 2004
It's Miller Time!
Funny story - can't write it here. :-) It doesn't involve alcohol, just a saying.
Busy - if you have been e-mailing me, I am so sorry. I am actually scared to even open up my e-mail account and see how many I have. If you are one of those e-mailers, I will try to get in there tomorrow before class.
Class - yes, I have class right now. Another two weeks of it in fact. But, who can complain about a class about The Lord of the Rings and Beowulf.
uops, gotta go again - im late, im late, im late for a date! As they say.
Funny story - can't write it here. :-) It doesn't involve alcohol, just a saying.
Busy - if you have been e-mailing me, I am so sorry. I am actually scared to even open up my e-mail account and see how many I have. If you are one of those e-mailers, I will try to get in there tomorrow before class.
Class - yes, I have class right now. Another two weeks of it in fact. But, who can complain about a class about The Lord of the Rings and Beowulf.
uops, gotta go again - im late, im late, im late for a date! As they say.
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