So, I went to see Flogging Molly last night. It was pretty damn awesome. Ryan, Brandon, and I headed to Grimey's, where they were doing a free show; we got there an hour early and hung out and managed to snag front row spots. So I was maybe a foot or two from the bassist. Afterwards we were hanging out and Brandon mentioned to the bassist that we wanted to go to the City Hall show, but it was sold out. he was like "oh, it's cool. Give me your names and I'll get you in." Then we had some awesome Mexican food, and headed over to City Hall, where we volunteered to deliver water to get backstage. Brandon wound up talking to the lead singer for abit when he showed up, then he and I lost Ryan and wound up with great front row spots (again).

The first band sucked; the second was cool, the third sucked (they would've been good, but I hated the singer), and Flogging Molly was really great. They played different songs from Grimey's, which was great. The crowd really got into it; at one point I turned around to find Brandon had bolted off to dance. I got quite a few pictures (Brandon managed to get one of the bassist signing my chest, as I thought it would be funny to do), two camera recordings, and a poster and patch. We didn't get home til 1:30 this morning, but it was worth it.

And now I'm sitting home trying to work up the motivation to study for my Japanese test tomorrow and pretty much failing horribly. I think instead I shall wander off to bed.

I'm going to Japan this summer. Whoo! Now I'm just waiting to see if I get the KIIS scholarship ( I hope so, since that would mean tattoo money [!]). Now I've just got to finish the semester without exploding from excitement or anything.....

And now I am off to look for luggage.

I am slightly tired of school. mostly my Intro. to Lit. class- we've got a quiz due tomorrow and the group annotated bibliography assignment due Wednesday. And, like always, I wound up with the most work in the group assignment- I have to type it out by tomorrow so we can ask him questions about it after class, but I can't because 1 persons till has to send me their work and 2 others have to fix theirs and resend it. I brought my quiz stuff with me so I could finish that while here at work and just realized I can't do the last half because I don't have a book with me I need. Boo.

I hung up with Tony last night. He stopped at DQ to get me something sweet and I was happy. I've really missed not seeing him lately. And from what I heard from him Liz kinda sucks now, which is cool, because I am mean and don't like how she treated him.

It has been 3 days since KIIS started reviewing applications. How am I going to last for another three weeks? I think this might be worse than when I applied for college, because deep down I knew I'd wind up at MTSU and wasn't that excited.

I think I'm starting to panic about graduating again. I was walking to Scarlett today and saw Josh's car in the parking lot and it hit me that 2 years from now I won't see everyone anymore. It's already kinda weird not seeing Jimmy, and knowing Ryan will be gone in May. I mean, it's kinda sad to think of all the things we've all done together and realize the majority of us won't talk five years from now. Then again, it's also weird to think certain one's of us will always remember certain others- I'd imagine Hannah and Ryan will remember one another, and I know I'll remember Jimmy (because if I didn't remember the first person I ever slept with I think I'd be really dumb), though the heck if I know if he'll do the same (he is male and all).

I dunno. I think about funny things sometimes.

Eh. I think it's Japanese homework time.

So. I haven't updated this in ages, mostly because I've been really busy with class. I joined the equestrian team finally, though I still don't have lessons set up because I can't get ahold of the coach. My KIIS application was completed yesterday, so now I just have to try and survive the next 2 or 3 weeks to see if I got in. I really hope I do; otherwise I'll be stuck here in the Boro again. Plus Daniel from class said he'd be in Kyoto when I'd be there, so we cold go get food. Which would be nice, seeing as I will know exactly two people in the entire country.

I guess I really shouldn't start planning things until I find out though......I don't want to get my hopes up or anything.

I dunno. I think I just lost all motivation to really write a nice entry here about how I've been lately. Maybe later.

105.9 has randomly decided to play a block of Led Zeppelin. I am a happy sponge.

I'm at work right now. Nothing's happened since I came in; all I've done is work on my English quiz. Finally finished after and hour and a half of work today and two and a half hours of work last night. I seriously hope I get a good grade; I atleast want to know I did all this work for something good. Kelly wants me to come home tonight after work and help her with her term paper; she has 200 words due tomorrow and 34 done, and I'm like dude, why couldn't you have told me this yesterday when I didn't have to work all day and then study for a Japanese quiz?

This semester has been perfectly fine so far. I have all kinds of work, but I am an upperclassman, so it makes sense. I like Japanese, and Brit Lit, and Book Arts (except for meditating; group meditation just strikes me as weird). I really like Russian except for the whole confusing it with Japanese thing.


I think I might submit something to Collage. It'd be cool, I admit, if I actually was put in, but it really freaks me out that everyone I know could then read what I'd written. Strangers I could care less about; friends, I'd rather them not see. And I'm submitting a piece to the next juried art show to amuse myself. I'm making it as simple and dumb as possible just to see if people actually think it means something. Because I'd probably cry with happiness if someone was all 'wow, that's so deep!' to my piddly little drawing of a guy in a chair just because that would prove how arbitrary art is sometimes.

WTF, WHY AM I NOT ASLEEP RIGHT NOW?!

I am so going to regret this tomorrow night. Or tonight. Technically. Whatever.

I have decided I worry too much. I mean, I worry about everything- things that happened a year or two ago, classes, people, even things that I know have never happened and will never happen. I'm beginning to think the next time I go to the doctor I need to ask about it, because I am tired of worrying myself sick constantly over silly things. Big things I can handle, but when it's worrying over the fact that I could have been on-campus last year (because, for some reason, I actually worried about that last year for no reason whatsoever), it's just annoying.

In other news, I have changed my classes yet again because- surprise, surprise, I am freaking out yet again about graduating on time. So I dropped Russian in favor of picking up either a science class or Book Arts.

And I get to study abroad this summer, so yay! I'll probably stress myself out too much trying to make sure everything for it is in place, but it's worth it in the end.

So, my resolutions for the year:

1. Drink less caffeine and more water.
2. Study abroad.
3. Become completely apathetic about Jimmy. I'm tired of hating him and every dumbass, selfish thing he says or does. From now he's just the guy I happened to sleep with in the past.
4. Get As in all my classes and try one extracurricular activity. Maybe yoga; I like what little I've done of it so far.
5. Go to Bonnaroo if I'm in the country.


Happy New Year's to anyone who reads this. Here's to hoping 2007 is better than 2006.

The title for the seventh Harry Potter book was just released recently: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I waaaants it.

In other news, I've been on break going on a week and so far it's been nice. So far my routine consists of going to work, coming home and bumming around (alot with Tony lately), talking to Jimmy on AIM (apparently, he finds it much easier to keep in contact now, unlike this last semster), and then going to sleep. Ebony left yesterday, so I'm alone til I go to my mom's, which is really nice. I've missed being alone with quiet and just myself for company. I'm taking 19 hours next semester- Color Drawing, US History II, African-American Lit., Intro. to Literary Studies, A&P I, and I'm auditing Japanese. I wanted to take German but it was at the same time as A&P, so no go on that one. I think I'll be able to handle it- atleast I hope so. The only class that will actually be hard- as opposed to just time and lots of homework- will be A&P (well, and Japanese, but it won't be graded).

I finally got around to buying a wireless card for my laptop, and let me just say it's awesome. I'm typing this baby while at work. It's great because now I actually have something to entertain myself with for five hours three days a week.

Meh. I don't really have much else to say, so I think I'm off to finish my study abroad application.

This week has been interesting. I finally finished my classes- all I have left now is a take-home exam for lit and a cumulative exam in Russian Tuesday. I ended up with a B+ in Drawing II, so I was happy, and everyone liked my final 3-D project, so hopefully I'll get a decent grade in there. Wednesday night I went over to Daniel's and watched Big Love with a fe wpeople and had vodka smoothies (yum). Yesterday I woke up early for work and ended up going bowling with Brandon, Josh, Jordan, Jimmy, Chris, and Ryan. They were all either decent or good, while I sucked completely, but it was fun enough. Then we all went out to eat at Bar-B-Cutie's (or however you spell that). It wasn't that great but ah well.

I was having a fun enough time until Jimmy told Chris he's been single for the past year and a half out of choice; I wanted to be like 'wtf, what were we then? Just friends that happened to say hello by making out?".... only I didn't because I'm a wuss. Instead I just tried my best to ignore him at the xmas party and was short whenever I was forced to talk to him. There's a greta picture of me with the girls and they're all smiling and I'm just glaring at the camera because Jimmy happened to be the one taking the picture. It's rather amusing.(I love how guys are so dumb that when you tell them 'yeah, I'm fine" in a completely pissed tone they just say ok.) I ended up getting a Hastings giftcard from Barndon instead of Jones Soda, which is good because had I gotten that I probably would've just burst into tears or something because I just wasn't in a good mood at that point.

I stole pictures from Chris to add to the pictures I got yesterday. These are all Chris's; mine will be up whenever I find batteries for the camera.
























The rest can be found here

So, I just got off work and figured I might as well update before going to bed. One week til exams and man am I gonna be glad when it's over. I have to finish my English paper, 3-D project, and drawing II project this weekend, and should probably go out and get my Secret Santa present. I went to talk to the associate dean of the honors college about registering for the study abroad tutorial and wasn't really told much of anything (he was all "I guess you can take it whenever" and I was just like "No, I want to take it NEXT semester. So it'd help me. Not just whenever, dumbface."); when I mentioned I was thinking of going to Korea or Japan (since all the freaking Russian programs don't offer lit classes and require you to know some Latvian or Estonian, wtf) he was all "Oh, do you know James..." to which I was just like "uh.......you could say that." They were supposed to e-mail me the new registration form but I've yet to get it, so we'll see. Applying for study abroad programs freaks me out because I have to have all my classes approved by 3 advisors, and seeing as I'm applying for 3 (atleast) sites, that means I have to get all kinds of info on everything. I just want to get in to my top choice, get the classes I want, and have everything count toward my degree.



Went to Wendy's with Josh and Jordan and then over to Daniel's tonight. We watched Clerks II, which I liked (even though it was really really dirty). Then went to Josh, Jordan, and Jimmy's and had some Irish cream, a shot of rum, and a mixed shot of everclear. Gotta say, as far as drinks go, I definately like the Irish cream the best, mostly because you can't really taste the alcohol (which I hate). I had a good enough time. I saw Josh's butt (horribly disturbing; I could've gone forever without ever needing to see that) because I'm dumb and listened to Jordan when he said Josh wasn't doing anything. I was then divetackled by Josh when I mentioned my face was hot from laughing at them. He got it into his head to put a bag of ice on my face, which ended with me flailing about freaking out about him touching me and kicking him while backing into a corner while Jordan and Jimmy just watched in bemusement. He later apologized and I said I don't like people touching me and he better not do it again. Gotta say, if that's his idea of flirting it sucks ass, because it's just creepy and not fun. Then Jordan started complaining about us not doing anything exciting, which led to Jimmy saying he'd rather being doing nothing than sleeping with hot girls, because then there's strings attached and it's all gay.

Yeah....Because he knows so much, what with the whole sleeping with one person. And, of course, there were all kinds of strings attached, seeing as I broke up with him later that week and then didn't see him for the next three or whatever months. Yeah..... Douchebox. So I mostly just rolled my eyes very obviously in his direction and hoped he'd shut the hell up about sex and relationships and HOW VERY GAY THEY ARE OMG.

Oh yeah. I'm all kinds of mature.

Bleh. I want this semester to hurry up and end. I'm so excited about break; I'll get to do nothing but work some at Womack and bum around playing PS2 games. I might even get around to getting rid of half the crap in my room so I can keep it vaguely clean. It shall be glorious. And best of all I won't have to work anymore crappy late night/early morning hours, so yay.

Guess I should go to sleep now, seeing as I have lots of Very Important Things to do tomorrow. Not that I'll do them, most likely. But whatever.

Amusing picture of the day:



This is why it pays to have your friend be in dance class with your ex. Beacuse you get silly picture texts afterwards.

New piktors up: 

Check them out. They're glorious.

In other news, I've registered for next semester (7 classes, baby, because I hate myself). I'm contemplating quitting the DA job once I find somewhere else to work this break since I need the money.  I finally got around to watching my awesome new Led Zeppelin concert DVD; it was glorious, and fun to sit around and debate  which song was which with Jimmy. I made spaghetti and cookies for dinner last night and it was all very yummy. Less than a month til break, which means less than a month til I'm done with Drawing II, which means I am happy. That class is godawful.

I had a great time last night, though both Jacqueline and Ebony already know this. Who knew scaring my sister could be such fun? I almost hopes she comes over more often just so we can do that some more. Though this time maybe with less of Josh in Jacqueline's running shorts.


And I would say more but I've got to head off to bed so I can finish all the homework that I have due tomorrow.....tomorrow. Because I like procrastinating.

So, I can't take Russian next semester, as it will probably be cancelled due to lack of interest and because it's during work. Which means I can take another langauge, though I'm stuck between Japanese, Russian (if it works out) or continuing German. (And I'd still like to take Arabic just because.)

So my schedule for the next semester is gonna be all kinds of fun. Honors African-American literature, Grammar and Usage in Modern English, Intro to Literary Studies, Handbuilding, some sort of foreign language, a study abroad tutorial, swimming, and Tai Chi. And I'm thinking of joining one of the honors fraterities so I have it for graduate school, and I'd like to actually join the linguistics club and rock climbing club.

So....I'm gonna hate myself. However, I only have one planned art class, which will be freaking amazing. We'll see, I guess.

So...I got bored and wandered back.

Was looking at old pictures Ebony just posted on facebook and they made me all nostalgic.



McCallie's was so much nicer when I just ate there and didn't actually slave away there.


I love this picture.


Oh, Brandon. I think that's his "I'm sexy" face.


Lookit my chubby cheeks! Man, I'm glad I lost weight since then. Not to sound shallow or anything....


Domino! Before she got big and ugly.


I remember that simply becase we had to go to the JUB and I was sad that I didn't get out of work because of the messed up floor in McCallie. Why do weird things never happen during my shifts, eh?


That couch was the comfiest couch ever.  I think we were still eating those candy canes in, like, February. Mmmcandy canes.....


Still the greatest ad ever. Seriously.


Yeah, they were crazy. Damn drugs..... Made for interesting stories though.

And thus concludes my trip down nostalgia lane.

So, I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to get to work tonight and listening to horrible pop music. And I actually like it. I think this means I need to be suckerpunched in the ovaries.

I fel tlike updating, seeing as it's been bloody ages, but upon opoening this I realized I don't really feel like going through all that effort. So instead I'm off to scrounge up food and hope somebody from Scarlett returns my calls so I can get a ride to work or something.

Man.....I want to have Robert Plant and Jimmy Page's babies.


Listening to Led Zeppelin stoned is either the greatest or worst idea ever. I dunno which.

Ahhh. I have to go finish Zoso.

So far this semester has been vaguely okay. I don't really like my classes much; I did sorta like Russian but both Jimmy and Josh dropped it, so now I have no one to be lost with ( I swear, everyone understand everything and I'm just sitting there screaming to myself "Dva, dva, dva! Oh crap, I missed what four was!"). So far the only one I think I'll really enjoy will be guitar, simply because it'll be easy and actually teach me something I've been wanting to learn.

Work has been decent. It sucks completely having to get up at 5:30 three mornings out of the week, but it gives me two hours each day to do homework which otehrwise wouldn't get down, what with me being a huge procrastinator and all. The bad part is the lack of training they gave me; the power went out in Josh, Jordan, and Jimmy's building today, which the RA called to tell me so I could help out and I had no freaking idea what to do. It's going to suck more when it's cold and dark when I go to work and come home because that means I'm going to have to stop riding my bike and start bumming rides, but we'll get to that later in the semester.

Guys, like always, suck ass. I have seen Josh in various forms of terrifyingness, mostly involving sweat pants and a wifebeater or a lack of shirt. I've been avoiding Jimmy like the plague and he's been doing the same in return; apparently when we agreed we'd still like to be friends really we meant we'd just ignore each other and whenever I tried to be nice I'd just end up feeling awkward. I admit I still have feelings fo him, mostly because I am inherently stupid and like making myself suffer- I keep thinking 'oh, it's easy enough to stop liking him, he's just a guy', and then I see him and I forget that completely. You'd think I'd pretty much hate him now, considering he said he ddin't care for me as a girlfriend and didn't love me and didn't even want what we had before now, but foolish little me, I keep thinking maybe things will change.

Mostly I just want him to realize he did wrong and treated me badly and made me feel like a whore, and I want him to apologize for it of his own accord (because saying that sound better than 'omg, why does he not like me....?'). I want things to go back to normal and to quit feeling left out (because I don't know why but I do; I think because I don't see Josh, Jordan, and Jimmy like I used to). I want things to not be complicated and I want to quit caring for Jimmy. I want to just see him as another one of my friends and not the guy I like and hate and care for even though I don't need to.

And yes, I know some of you have read this before, but really I felt like writing it down. From now on I swear I will try to not mention him so much because it's got to be killing both of you; I know were I in that situation I would have already snapped and suckerpunched a person. I will try and not care anymore and not think about it and not mention it and pretend everything is normal and that it doens't hurt that his version of being friends is not bothering to ever reply to me. Seriously.

I have to go to bed now. Silly DA job, you make me wake up much too early. That and Ebony wants my computer.

Ugh.

Stupid fucking guys.

I am not going to care anymore. I am going to be apathetic and I am going to ignore him and if he just happens to get fucked over royally at some point soon I'm just going to point and laugh.

Also, I want it to be Thursday night so I can be home with nothing to do but copious amounts of homework so I can sleep and not see anyone and just do nothing. Well, besides work Friday night. And take Obi to the vet. But whatever.

So I got the DA job. It should be okay, since it's only six hours a week- 6am-8am Tuesday and Thursday and Friday 12pm-2am. I don't know....We shall see.

I have training Sunday, which bites but whatever. My new boss sucks at remembering my name too; everytime he calls I say I go by Katy and he then promptly says "Ok, I'll remember that", and then just calls me Elizabeth anyway. I guess I should just be glad he even remembers my middle name.


And now that I have wasted time here I'm off to beautify myself. (Yay.)