Sunday, November 30, 2003
well... that was not the funnest driving experience. Get to auburn, which is about an hour away from rochester.. and there is bumber to bumber traffic. I drove about 10 miles in one hour, it was so clogged. So i pull out the AAA map of NY and decided to get off at the exit (which i just so happened to be near at the time). I call up my dad and he gives me his advice. I headed off I-90 then north on 34, then west on 370, then west on 104 (which brought me into north rochester, very scary) and onto 390 south. Considering that i was in the traffic jam for like an hour, it took me 7 hours to get home....
i'm going to pass out from exhaustion soon....
Saturday, November 29, 2003
wow.. what a night.
mike bergman calls me up to see if i wanted to do anything, and i was like, mike, come to a tatoo parlor with me to see if they have any cool earings for me. So we go downtown, and head to the only open place around. Sadly, they didn't have any good earings.. so we were leaving, and i was looking at the tatoos, and i was like, mike, you should get this one (pointing out a pic of jesus). He's like, no, but i will get a tatoo.... an hour later, mike had a tatoo of a scorpion on his shoulder! i couldn't believe that he did that, it was so spontanious. Knowing mike from high school... and knowing him now.. wow....
so the people in the shop and mike and jess donah (who came right down when i called her up to inform her of what bergman was doing) pressured me into getting a piercing. So i decided on getting my Tragus pierced... which is the peice of cartalige that is closest to the face. I thought that it would be different and cool. Honestly though, i think that they put too large (in diameter) of a ring in.. but i can take it out in 2 months... i think...i'm going to go to my place in henreta when i get back to see what they think.
After the tattoo and peircing experinence, donah, bergman and i go get some coffee, and then decide to go to price chopper so that i can get some stuff to clean my new hole. While in the parking lot, we hear a cell phone ringing. There was this nce cell phone on the ground by a car. So we pick it up to answer and i tell the person that i found the phone. It was thankfully the owner of the phone, and she asked if we could bring it to plattsburgh state for her. So we are shopping and run into a lot of poeple from high school (jenn cicoti (sp?), joe smith, and holly aguglia). It was a pleasent little reunion..
We go the platts state, and drop off the cell. then we chill out in the rain, smoking cigars and trying to find people on a virtually deserted campus. We failed on that point, but we did have a great conversation, and bonded over our cigars.
It's after one am.. my parents have no idea what happened tonight... and idk how they will react in the morning when they find that i have a new hole in my head.. well probably not as bad as mike's parents are going to react when they discover that he has a tattoo... but eh, we are young... :-)
Thursday, November 27, 2003
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
today me and the family are having a small dinner here in peru... i guess i'm still not used to these..
growing up, we would travel to saratoga, to my grandmas house, to have dinner there. It would be my family (the 4 of us), grandma, and my aunt bevey's family (aunt, uncle, and the three boys.. all older than me) for dinner. Tom, my cousin, and me would usually spend most of the day toether making home movies or watching movies or the usual shit we used to do. Ben would piss off everyone. Mom, aunt bevey and grandma would cook, and the rest of the men would talk and watch football. then after dinner, the rest of the clan would stop by for desert. Uncle Tom's fam would show up first (aunt, uncle, two girls, and little tom). Then Uncle John, wife, and two girls, and eldest greg would stop by. And on rare ocasions, uncle bob and aunt kate would be there. and on extra special ocasions.. Aunt barb would be there.
So the house would be hetic, always something to do, someone to talk to... i loved those thanksgivings
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
i almost forgot what it felt like to paint...
Monday, November 24, 2003
So i'm sitting with my old high school counsilor talking about fall quarter, and i get a call from jess donah.. she's like, allie, we are leaving for montreal in an hour, do you want to go...
now i just love coming home, and informing my mother that i'm leaving the country, i don't know where i'm going, what i'm doing or when i'm coming back, but that i love her, and that i need money :-) but that is just me
Jessica, her new bf, joe smith and sam arnold all pile into donah's car, and head norht. Well it turns out that jessica didn't get any directions, and we don't have a plan.... and... she doesn't have her glasses.. Sam and i had to inform her of where to go, what lane to be and to watch out for the cars that are getting really close to our sides... We survived all the way till the city...
We pull into montreal, and we have no idea where anything is. Everything is in french (which was no suprise to us, but it just didn't help things), and canadians just can't drive worth shit!! So we just keep going straight, and i was like, oh lets pull into McGill to get directions,.. they should have some info about the area. One guy didn't know the area and the other dind't speak english. So we turn in some randome direction and just drive.. and drive.. and drive... Eventually we pull into a gas station where some guys give us directions (which turn out to be right but they just pointed us up the wrong end of the street). We are driving along this street, that is completely congested with trafic, and all of a sudden there is this loud horn, and i look out my window (i was in the back passenger side) and there is this car like 2 inches away from us.. i could have died, and i was so shocked....
We eventually get to St. Catherine street, where there are all these stores and porn stores, and strip clubs... idk, i guess that i was expecting something different... like night life or something.. but it was inpresive. There were all of these great clothe stores.. i fell in love.. if i had the money and the time, i could do some serious damage in montreal (drooling all over the place).
We had some good laughs though. Like donah and smitty preaty much reciting the whole forest gump movie in the car, and other random craziness which is who we are.
hehehhehhe
Sunday, November 23, 2003
It's so weird how i completely forgot how it is to live in this house, and how my life used to be.
Like, for instance, i took my shower this morning, and i went into the bathroom that i just monopolized these past 6 years, and realized how large it is. How large my mirror really is (it takes up the counter top up to the ceiling) compared to the small little medicine cabanate mirror i have in riverknoll. Also, when i went to wash my hair, i had my favorite shampoo there all ready for me. I totally forgot how nice it was to be able to go out and by shampoo and conditionor totaling up to $16..... i mean seriously.... i can only wish for the days..... also, i remember what expensive tastes i have. Like the nice litte antiques that i have throughout my room. The food tastes... just little shit like that. I can only wish for those days now...
Shelby came over today so that we can catch up on the ongoings of our lives. With all the stories that she is telling me, the one about taking her SAT's takes the cake. Apparenlty she was so hung over that if she looked up from her test, she would have puked.... needless to say, that her being hung over was a god send because her score raised from the first time she took them...
what a sudo-sister i have
Saturday, November 22, 2003
I'm home now for thanksgiving break and all ready it's been interesting.......
I was driving back to peru, and speeding the whole way. I always slowed down when a U-turn came around, but i usually got to see the state troopers before hand. Well i was about 5 minutes from the peru exit.. 5 hours of straight driving.... and what do you know.. i get pulled over by a state trooper for speeding. i was doing 81, when the speed limit is 65. I was so nervous, i've never been pulled over before, and this was a state trooper!!! So he goes off to check on my record, and i'm just sitting there trying to figure out how to inform my parents that i have not only been drinking a lot this quarter, slacking off in classes, want to go to south america for spring break, and got pulled over by a state trooper. so the state trooper comes back and tells me that he is just going to give me a ticket for the missing head light i had, which has no affect on my license and no extra charge to me.. all ihave to do is fix it within 24 hours. He's such an angle!!
so i pull into town, fix the headlight and tell the parents..... and that is the begining of the week.....
Friday, November 21, 2003
the best moments of the night:
1. beating pete in beer pong at his own damn house!
2. Alecia stealing a gatorade from Hess
3. im-ing people (aleica knows what i'm talking about)
4. Coming to the realization that the scarecrow, lion, and tin man are all gay!
Finals are over with!! well i don't know why i'm so excited, i really wasn't stressing over them. It's wierd though.. to think back to my first thanksgiving break. I was all sad about leaving my friends, like it was the end of the year. I packed so much shit, like 6 bags worth or shit, and poor evan drove me back to campus with all of that. He probably hated me so much. I was all gun ho and worried about my grades, i was always checking sis. I did preaty well that quarter, i believe that i only got one B. I was so young it feels like, such a baby.
Now, idk, i feel so old, worn out, tired, and apathetic towards the whole thing. I'm going home with just laundry and my computer so i can work. I'm probaby goign to just sit on the couch and watch tv and play in solid works. haha that and the ocassional drink. There has been a lot of changes in the las year. I dont know if they are all good or all bad, i don't even know if they are finished..
well one quarter done... two more to go,... and hopefully things change for the better in them..
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
I was watching the Shawshank Redemption tonight (well we only caught the end, but i've seen it so many times that that doesn't matter), and it was at the part where red went to the tree in the field and found the box. I've always wondered about there, whether or not there are boxes scattered about the country, under rocks and hidden from the world, containing secrets and stories. I know that it's not the same but similar, but i wonder if anyone ever found my signature under the windowsill in my old house on heather circle... and i wonder if there is anything in my house right now, hidden througout the decades...
Monday, November 17, 2003
Tonight i cooked my boys dinner... idk why i love that shit so much.. i guess i'm just a natural mother. eh.. we had this pizza pasta, salad, and pumpkin pie with whiped cream and beer! haha We all just sat around while aaron and brian competed to see how many bottle caps they can pick up with their finger tips and have them been all flat. I believe that brian won that game. Then kyle and aaron played a little baroo.. trying to see who can get the most bottle caps in my glass... aaron won that game.. poor kyle lost... ehhehehe
that is what college is all about
Ok, so i had an interesting weekend.
Saturday, not too long after i rolled out of bed, Becca ims me in need of help... she needs some one to find food for the thanksgiving dinner for phi sigma pi. So me and juice go out shopping for the various thanksgiving traditionals, and then i'm in the kitchen making enough mashed potatoes for 30 people, and all the other food (my wonderful big got to make the stuffing, and it was great). It was such a rush, to know that i was given a basic unprobably task of preparing a dinner on such short notice, with really no help at all, and then to suceed. Everyone got enough food, i have to say that it was great food (i didn't hear any complaining). I was just so proud of myself.. one of those moments where my character was tested.
So after an extremely adrenaline rushed day, i went out and drank myself silly hahahha. I went to the 227 party in westbrook.. and it was a great party... aaron was there, mike, alecia, nicole, jamie, etc.. and there was tons of people, tons of hot guys... but damn those cops. so around 1 something, when the cops kicked us out of the house, alecia and i went to another party, where i procceded to get shit faced. Now i'm not proud of myself, and i really didn't do anything too horrible or embaressing, but i felt so awful the next day that i don't think that it was worth it. It was a fun night, but not so memberable to where i don't mind being hung over most of the next day.
Speaking of the next day.. yesterday my ass was in java wallys for a good 11 hours!! working on that damn pnuematics and hydraulics project. It's not like i didn't understand it, or thought that it was too hard... it's just that it isn't worth the effort. two lab grades do affect your grade if you get an F... but it's just so minor that putting the effort to get the A is so wasteful. If this project related to the lecture.. or was difficult and worth a lot, i would have been fine with spending a total of 20 hours on this thing... but two lab grades.. i don't think so!! on average our labs take 5 hours to complete fully (that is the lab class and the write up)... so two of them should be a 10 hour project... 20 hours of my life was wasted!.... i know i'm bitter.. but it's just rediculous thats all.
After all that time writing and thinking, i went over to beccas at like 12:30 in the morning to chill out and eat cookies.. We had miguel over so we can discuss the very exciting spring break plans... good times to come!
... some key moments from chilling out with becca and miguel....
"teach me how to laugh" ~ Miguel
"i have to plan a week with you" (with such a disgusted sound to his voice) ~ Miguel
hahaha i heart my foreign friend hahahahha
Saturday, November 15, 2003
Classes are over, and what do i get to do this weekend..... homework!! I still have to finish that damn P&H project and webassign for physics. Yeah teachers suck sometimes.
Last night i went to the RIT vs. Elmira game. I think that if i wasnt' have brain dead from the week i would have been yelling and screaming (like the SWE girls around me) a lot more. It was a great game though, espically when most of the players were getting in fights with eachother. They need to do that more hehehe. Then i went to the midnight breakfast with some brothers. It was gracie food... so that is all i have to say about that.... hahahha. It was nice to chill with the brothers of course, and there was some interesting moments. Such as, when Nicole started to drive away while Onisha and I are laughing our asses off in the parking lot (i seriously was going to pee i was laughing so hard).
Hopefully tonight will be fun.. Alecia and I are going to a westbrook party like the good ole days.... aaawwww memories
Thursday, November 13, 2003
I can't believe that there is snow on the ground. I'm not ready for winter, I don't want it to come!!
when i was walking to classes today, i got this flash back of freshman year... and what it was like walking around during the winter. It's that whole association thing.. smells, sounds, tastes.... well snow brought back freshman year. I can just imagine walking to my solutions class listening to "the all american rejects", frezzing my ass off and it being all dark outside. Also, i remembered the first snow ball fight of the year. we waged war on rit..... so many memories. i just don't want to have to give up my sandles and summer clothes!
Wednesday, November 12, 2003
hahahha i'm such a spaz lately hahahhahahha
Tuesday, November 11, 2003
Well this past weekend was a bust, but i realized that it only sucked beacuse i had certain expectations for the weekend. I wanted it to be drunked, wild and crazy.... but that didn't happen. The weekend was good, i had a blast with emma on friday. We went and saw S.W.A.T (colin ferril is so hot!). It was so nice to catch up with her on all our girl talk. We've been so busy that the flow of news is a little delayed. Saturday could have been a lot better.. i just really wanted to get drunk, but i couldnt' find a DD. So i decided to just go and socialize with people, and that is where i came to the realization (while surrounded by a shit load of people who are trashed) that that is no fun.
Now not only did i have a sucky weekend, but today i realized that my parent's 23 wedding anniversary was on saturday! I completely forgot what the date was.. like i knew that it's on the 8th of November, but i forgot what saturdays date was. I feel so bad... i need to call my mommy tonight and tell her congradulations.
It's week 10 though, and we are all stressing out.. I'm really falling behind in work (like i should be working on my ID project right now....). The quarter is almost over then. Next quarter is going to be extremely busy though, but that is usually how i work best.. i time manage better when i don't have time to manage. I think that i'll do fine. I will have motivation because it will be the dead of winter, and i have some decent classes for next quarter. I just hope that that is how is works out.
oh! and i got my little!! it's anne!! (big suprise ;-) ) She really fits in the family line, and all the brothers seem to love her. I'm soooo happy that she is doing this! ehehe.. we have so much fun together, that it's insane. hehe
Friday, November 07, 2003
Sleeping in is so much fun.......
at least i get a little, pizza, and ice cream today... that has to make up for it! hehehe
I had so much fun this evening...
i saw this italian independent film called angela at the High Falls film festival. This is the summery the website had:
ANGELA (Feature, Italy, 87 minutes). With her two previous features, Roberta Torre created the outrageous mini-genre of the Sicilian gangster musical, but she comes into her own as a serious director with this spare, dark drama about a Palermo Mafia wife, caught between the mob code of honor and her adulterous passion. In a nervy, haunting screen debut, theater actress Donatella Finocchiaro captures the inner turmoil of the seemingly dutiful heroine. As Angela plunges into an affair with her husband’s womanizing cousin, she experiences something far more intoxicating than illicit sex – a taste of freedom so compelling that she’s willing to court tragedy in its pursuit. (Amy Taubin)
It did get a little boring at some points, but i really liked it. There was some fantastic photography and coloring in the film, very .. gritty. The actress was great, but i did get a little lost towards the middle of the film where miguel had to help me out. Everyone else seemed to like it too. I was so afraid that i wouldn't be able to get a ticket, but i obviously lucked out! hehe
Afterwards we went to the spot and chatted. It was joe, JP, jamie, onisha, nicole, myself, brian (an alumni), miguel, lisa and lonnie. There was a lot of great old PSP stories, and brian cleared up some questions we had about certain brothers..... We laughed so hard, it was one of the funniest and funnest nights i've had in a long time. Tonight is one of those nights that cements my love for my brothers. We are all so different, majors, personalities... etc... but we all have this bond that allows us to be such great friends. A great PSP moment!
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
This evening i was walking back from a meeting.. it was about 915ish at night. Rochester was blanketed with such a heavy fog. There was this glow from the airport, car head lights, and all the streat lights... walking towards crossroads, you can see the beam of light from each and every streat light. the simple cone of light was so mysterious in the fog. The whole atmostphere can only be described in one word... romantic....
Just to stroll in the thick fog, with the one you love. Knowing that no can see who you are or barely see if you are there.... being in your own little world, covered in this blanket, stealing kisses and words of affection...
what a dream
"i'm usually the only one laughing, but thats ok, i'm happy" ~ katie my roomie
Sunday, November 02, 2003
So this weekend was a bit of a bust.
I went to the tatoo parlor to see about buying new earings, but the ones that i absolutely fell in love with would cost me $40... they are actually navel rings, but i want to put them in my lobes, so they price it for one and not two. They are all glittery, but it won't come off becuase they are covered in acrylic.
I was there for like ever.. it didn't take long to realize that they really didn't have anything in my price range or that i would like. So i just stood around with this really cool chick that was working there. She had all these peircings, and the funkiest clothes. We just chilled and talked about tounge peircings and the places were we lived. The conversation was just so random, but really nice. It kinda made my day....
Saturday, November 01, 2003
HAPPY HALLOWEEN !!!!
