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i woke up looking forward to my evening. there is nothing special going on, but what i have planned sounds so glorious to me:
-go to the gym (and work up a black sweat)
-go home and shower.
-put on my comfy sweatpants and cook dinner
-prepare a stuffing to go inside the biggest effing tomato i've ever seen. the stuffing will consist of (garlic, onion, collard greens, chicken sausage, mushroom, cheese(?))
-finish an open bottle of red wine while tidying up my "junk room" in the back of my apartment
-consolidate linens and appliances for which there is no room in my kitchen in the junk room to make room for furniture i will remove from my parents' house (including my grandma's old ass radio (hifi!) inside a wooden chest)
-sit my ass down and read one of the books on my bedside table
-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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a few weeks ago matty got me this shirt as a gift. today is my first day wearing it, and i think it looks good!
small disappointment today. i made an appointment to speak to someone at the public health program i'm interested in attending, but she had to reschedule. i guess she had surgery last week and she wants more time to recover. reasonable, totally. so, we will try again next week. i found this out after i put on this cute/professional outfit and planned my work day to make it easy for me to get to this appointment in the frigid weather. now i realize i could have worked all day at the detention center instead and gotten way more work done. curses.
yesterday i went to the gym and had a long workout (about an hour). it felt AMAZING! then i went home and started a major unwanted clothing purge. you know when you wake up and look around you thinking, "i can't take this anymore!!!"? I finally reached that point. i have designated clothing for one of three fates: garbage, clothing donation drawer at work, AIDS thrift shop (whose sales go to benefit people in philly with HIV in some way...). so far, the only things going into the garbage are stank socks with holes in them from matty's dog chewing them as toys...and one old ass white shirt that was stretched out and yellowing. eeew!
i woke up with that excited feeling about my apartment again. you know how it is when you get some new furniture, or rearrange the furniture, or something? that feeling. i will try to continue to change some things up in here. it's a little early for spring cleaning, but i can't control it!! or better put...it's something i CAN control right now. it's nice to have a project to get excited about.Current Mood:  calm |
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(araba, i haven't spoiled the book but i can't speak for the comments that might come. if you are still reading twilight, beware...)
in short, i discovered that the author of twilight is supposed to be a mormon. erica and i had a conversation yesterday inspired by our respective bits of information about the book and its author. we also talked about an article in "bitch" magazine which reached the same conclusion we did...that twilight is abstinence porn. i mean, hell, people who aren't having sex deserve some good stories to read too! but yeah...the interesting thing about the book is, from that religious perspective it can be used as a brilliant piece of propaganda for abstinence, for reinforcing a particular point of view on women's roles in relationships, etc.
all that analysis aside...i was highly entertained! mostly because i am able to read without being completely brainwashed about the subject matter. grain 'o salt. the end of the book was kind of abrupt to me...plot twists and climax and all. i was more interested in the dynamics between bella and the family than some super duper high speed chase. that's just me. but whatever...it's a story...one of many. i'm debating about continuing on to the next one, or just leaving it be.
folks who kept reading?...
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i saw this job posting and thought of you. adventure?...
http://www.islandreefjob.com/en/Current Mood:  sleepy |
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i will have to link you guys to matty's lj entry because it documents our new year's eve. it was mellow and wonderful. just what i needed...
http://matty-realness.livejournal.com/29957.html
my grad school question is getting really difficult. i would have to take the GRE within the next four to five weeks, and i haven't even started preparing. last night i was in bed thinking, "i'm a smart person, i already have a master's degree. lemme just open the study guide up and start looking at sample problems". um.....yeah. the math section?!?! the only questions i got correct were about percentages. "if so and so got a pay raise of this amount, what would her pay be if her salary increased at the same percentage rate next year?" and "if a sweater costs this at 30% off, what was it at full price?" easy. but the "if m-3n=5, and 2m + 4n=20, what is m?"
oh hell no.
so i am seriously considering the two following options:
1. prepare when i can (amidst working and helping with my dad), and just take the test in one month balls out. if i can't answer the questions, just marking any old answers and bailing.
2. prepare over this year, and take my tests in a few months after more time to prep. submit my application for NEXT year (which is a disappointment to me).
tick tock. i have to make up my mind.
as an aside, i can't stop reading these two books. great escapism:
i'm a really slow reader, but i have been devouring these books. i read 'scarpetta' so quickly the other day, that my dad swore i'd skimmed or otherwise "cheated" as he put it. hahaha!
the best news is:
at midnight, for the first time in MONTHS, my dad said he felt slightly like he was hungry. he asked for ice cream...and HE ATE IT! if your jaw hasn't dropped, you don't understand the significance of this development. he hasn't felt anything remotely related to hunger in several months. anything other than revulsion or an unpleasant tolerance of food is a miracle. i hope it sticks...Current Mood: contemplative |
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-lame ass learner's permit test
-GRE
-apply to graduate school (again)
-get recommendations
-find an old research paper
-write a dumb personal statement
-get a new tv
-spruce up my apartment
-practice driving
-get license
-call someone to come and hook up dad's stereophonic equipment
-get a headstone for my great aunt
-mail care package to matty's bff
starting....NOW!
Dec. 29th, 2008 @ 03:20 pm
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dude!
yes, later today the temperature is supposed to climb up to around 50 degrees, but this morning it was raining onto frozen ground, creating the dreaded...BLACK ICE.
i left my house with plenty of time to walk the approx one mile to the train station for the 8:42 train. it turns out that it took me so long to get there, i was scuffling and shuffling, yelling to the conductor not to leave me. the next train was an HOUR later! i'll be damned if i fought my way down that icy ass road to get left!!!
omg, it was that really really thin ice that makes people fall left and right...and they did. everywhere. people fell, people skidded, people crashed into moving and parked vehicles. i saw two different women get out of their cars, give up on driving, and stand at the bus stop. one woman said, "i don't want anybody hitting my car, but better they hit my car while i'm not sitting in it! i'm out!"
it was madness.
in the middle of all that slipping and sliding, do you know some man STILL had the nerve to roll down his window and hit on me?! i said, "you really wanna do this RIGHT NOW, mister?!" he just shrugged and drove off slowly...and skidded a little.
Dec. 24th, 2008 @ 11:33 am
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yesterday i went over to my parents' house to help mom with dad. he decided he wanted a fried egg and home fries for lunch. he got the first bite in his mouth and immediately gagged and wretched. clearly it wasn't a hit with his body. he was sitting there fighting the nausea...trying to keep everything down when my cell phone rang and my sister called:
araba: "oh. my. god. i am so hurt! i drank too much last night and now i am busted."
me: "oh no! did you have fun getting that way? what did you do?"
araba: "it was a couple peoples' birthdays, so we went out to celebrate. my liver is like 'girl you are not 21 anymore!' i drank vodka cocktails, did shots, and then drank beer."
me: "what! you drank vodka drinks, shots AND BEER?!"
DAD out of nowhere: "ooooh! a boilermaker! wine, liquor, and beer."
me: "it has a NAME? who the hell would do a thing like that on purpose?!"
dad: "i did it often. the effects were ossifying."
i'm so glad that reminiscing about being nauseous snapped my dad out of his current nausea.
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Dec. 22nd, 2008 @ 11:51 am
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hey, folks.
i haven't written much because most of what i have to write consists of a few basic ingredients:
-colostomy bags
-bathing a parent
-barf
-laundry
-sitting around
-watching football
-massaging feet
-not sleeping much
-endless dishes to do
-hospitals
oddly, the insanity of these duties has taken on some regularity and some humor. certainly it isn't always fun to deal with this stuff, but there manages to be a moment here or there where something really funny happens and everyone has to stop and laugh.
dad is slowly improving daily. he should have the staples removed from his incision on thursday. i'll be going with him. it's still a huge struggle to get him eating and drinking every day. he's less fatalistic, and gradually taking more interest in maintaining himself (though he has his moments where he will protest and try to pretend to be all helpless because he feels bad for himself).
i'm sorry i don't really have more interesting adventures to share.
erica and i spent most of yesterday babbling updates at each other since we hadn't worked together since last tuesday. the holidays are ALWAYS crazy at this job. CRAZY. matty and i took advantage of an unseasonably warm evening last night by walking into center city. we went to one of our favorite places for drinks and food. matty texted two friends of mine to drop by for a quick hello (since i haven't seen them since it was early fall). haha, they finally dropped off a birthday gift they had for me (my bday was in JUNE).
on the train ride home last night, matty and i took out our ipods and played 'battle of the christmas songs'. i think the most insane was "my first xmas as a woman", but the best crowd pleaser was "baby it's cold outside". now that it is appropriate to be listening to xmas songs...what are your favorite playlists???...
Dec. 16th, 2008 @ 10:22 am
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