Monday, September 26, 2005
oh what a weekend. saturday it was such a beautiful day, i grabed my minolta camera, put some film in, hopped into my car and drove. i went up a half hour or so north to this country store i heard about. went in thinking i'll buy a couple things, but the prices were so obscene that i was shocked. 8.50 a pound for licorice is just unreasonable. i took the scenic way home, stopping at every farm stand i could find. i have such a weekness for fresh off the tree apples, and homemade pies.
that night, i got all dolled up and went with some friends down to northampton, ma. i've been there before to go shopping so i didn't know where we were going to go bar hopping. we started off in this brewery where they had purple haze on tap. never had it before that night and i am a fan, and to add to it, if you bought it, you were donating to katrina help. after a beer, we headed to another bar to go play pool. since none of us could really play pool, it was kinda hilarious hahah. for the third bar, we were going to go to a place where we could dance, but northampton had some rule about not being let into a bar after 1 am, even though they close at 2. so after being locked out of every bar in town, we got in the car and drove the hour home.
i got to bed around 2 am, woke up around6:30 and headed to boston with a friend from work, her housemate, and her housemate's friends. me and my friend from work met up with my friend from school, had lunch and proceeded to walk boston armed with my trusty pop out map of boston and my digital camera. we started at macy's, walked to quincy market (lunch), the aquarium (the sea lions were the cutest), state street, boston common, public garden, newbury street (wish i had the bank account to really shop there), cobly park (that church is amazing), we said goodbye to my friend, boyston street, tremont street, and back to macy's. It was such a nice day to be walking around town, seeing the boston sites. i got my fortune told by some woman sitting on a stool in the middle of the side walk. only time will tell how accurate she was, but she did hit some things right on the money... it was scay. i just really love the architecture of boston. having the old historic buildings just dwarfed by the sky scrappers. gothic gargoyles next to contempary office buildings, it is just awesome. we were planning on staying for the fireworks, but by the time we made it back to macy's at 5:30 we were just exhausted, so we got on the T to start heading back to vermont. got home, passed out.
good weekend :-)
Saturday, September 24, 2005
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?dest=9999999997&product_id=3756866&sourceid=1500000000000002375350
now this is just excessive and rediculous
Friday, September 23, 2005
Last night I was getting ready for bed. My windows were open to let the cool almost fall air in. All of a sudden I heard something. I stopped moving, paid some more attention. I heard singing, love songs being bellowed from the street below. I walked towards my window to see if I can see the love sick person. Looking down, I see a man, dressed in leather pants and a leather coat, 50’s-ish hair, under the street lamp. I watched him, wondering what more he would sing. But he stopped and walked away.
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Monday
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8862~3060733,00.html
Today
http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~3063532,00.html
http://www.thechamplainchannel.com/news/5000042/detail.html
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050921/NEWS02/509210308/1007/NEWS05
http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050921/NEWS/509210390/1003
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=3876952&nav=4QcS
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/jump.jsp?itemID=0&itemType=HOME_PAGE
You have got to check out this site. There are some interesting, old fashion-ish things here. I’ll be traveling up to it to see this in person. My favorites are the Vermont tootsie toaster, the old fashioned vacuum brewer for coffee, stroopwafels, easy-to-handle milk box holder, and the plug in vaporizer.
I always seem to be blogging about my weekends on a Tuesday. It’s such a Tuesday today
Each day of the week has its own personality that makes it what it is.
Monday – Monday is a day of frantic confusion. Everyone has forgotten over the weekend what was really supposed to be done by Monday, the stark realization of the craziness of the week ahead and whatever exhaustion was built up over the last two days of fun.
Tuesday – Tuesday is a day of remorse. That is when one realizes that they still have a long week ahead, a pile of work to do and no end near I sight. Monday flew by fast with people running around like chickens with their heads cut off, you woke up today a realist.
Wednesday – Wednesday is a day of hope. You see the end of the week is near. The pile of work is becoming smaller, nothing too bad is being thrown at your desk. Everyone tends to be a little bit more optimistic.
Thursday – Thursday is probably the most productive day of the week. You know tomorrow is Friday, and that the weekend is the day after that. Knowing such wonderful information, motivation to have no work left on your desk Friday afternoon drives you to be the best little worker elf you can be.
Friday – Friday, there is even a restaurant dedicated to the day, there was a block of TV shows to celebrate the occasion and an acronym to signify the appreciation we have to the last day of the work week. This is the one day that slacking off just a little bit is accepted. You got most of your work done during the week; whatever you have left can be left for Monday, maybe Sunday if you are a good little girl or boy. People are more relaxed, they even decide to go crazy and wear Hawaiian shirts to work when everyone else knows that they should be left on the island. Tomorrow you can sleep in, tomorrow you can cook out, and tomorrow you can be who you want to be. It won’t be till Sunday evening when you realize that, yes, you do have a job/school that yes, you do have to wake up around the same time as the sun again, and that yes, you will have another pile of work waiting for you to do.
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
This weekend was so nice. I went out hiking in londonderry, vt at Lowell state park. Now I found this trail using http://www.vtstateparks.com. I took the address listed for the park, then using google, found directions to the park.
Me and my friend headed out in the early afternoon of Saturday. It is about an hour away, so we chatted it up, girl talk of course, on the way out there. I found the road to turn on preaty easily, and I wasn’t the least bit surprised when it turned to a dirt road. We kept going deeper into the woods, on this dirt road, hoping my little sporty car will survive the rocks, my friend asking “do you have a vermont map at all in your car?”
Eventually we found the trail, but unlike the print out I had from the site, there wasn’t a parking area. My friend just told me to park and we’ll start hiking, but I refused to believe that this was the state park, no true sign, only marking the direction of a trial, and no parking area. We kept driving and ended up on the same road we started on … so I took a right and ended up in a “town”.
To get directions we stopped at a mobil. I walked in, waited in line, and asked the lady where the state park was. She looked at me like I had two heads. “what state park, there isn’t a state park around here”. I almost died right there. What the hell was going on.
She sent us to the gas station next door, the boy working there was an outdoorsy type she said, so he probably knew where we were trying to go. We got some luck, he told us to go back, and head up a road that we later learned we passed. The directions from google were correct, but the state park website had the completely wrong address. We parked in the parking area and we were surprised to find out that the website was wrong again. It said that there wasn’t any facilities, but there was an porta potty.
We started off on the hike, i gave my friend my digital camera, I took my Minolta with black and white film. We spotted plenty of mushrooms (pics were taken of course), frogs, turtles, ducks, trees, dragon flys, blue dots marking the trail (which saved our asses a couple times. It’s a little scary standing in the woods looking around having no idea where to go… so we were all shouting out “blue dot” hahah) and a revolutionary war cemetery. 3.5 miles later, we hopped in the car and drove back home. Taking the scenic route back, I picked up a cute little pumpkin and some corn that was so very good, and some nice Vermont scenery.
We’ll see what happens next weekend. But at least now I have a Vermont map in my car.
the pics are listed under my fourth year at rit -->
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
So this past weekend I went home to rit. HA I know that it is weird that I call rit my home but since that is the currently the longest place I have been living in, it is the closest thing to home to me. That or my car… but that is another thing entirely.
Friday
After staying up to the wee hours of the morning the night before cleaning my room, I woke up early to … clean my room. Over the last couple years I have accumulated quite a large amount of stuff. Old notebooks from classes I’ll never think about again. Papers, notes, clothes, shoes, and other random stuff that I would never need and never use again. I threw out most of it, but I decided that it was such a waste to throw out stuff that can be used by people who need it. so I donated to the goodwill a bunch of clothing, purses, and holiday decorations. That evening I went to the little theater with a friend of mine to see “the aristocrats”. It was such a great movie!! Very very very very disgusting and dirty and just wrong. But one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. http://www.little-theatre.com/moviePage.php?filmID=294 . afterwards I met up with some more friends to drink and chill out. We met up in riverknoll, introduced everyone, and started off walking for colony. Now when I was at riverknoll I was completely sober. When I got to colony I was completely tipsy hahah. We all met at a friend apartment, chatted up for a bit. Towards the end of the night we all needed to get back to riverknoll. Since we walked we had to bum a ride from a friend. And since there was 8 of us… it got a little tight in the Toyota. There were 5 of us in the back seat, 3 in the front and the speed bumps were a little uncomfortable. Overall though, it was a really fun night.
Saturday
Saturday was the day to catch up with as many people as possible. It is extremely hard to make that much time in the day, and it was a shame to say that I didn’t succeed. Luckily there was a party that night, and I got to see some people that I didn’t even know was in town. After passing out around 3:30 I would have to say that the day was quite surreal. To say the least.
Sunday
Sunday I went down to canandiagua to visit my aunts at their little camp. It was such a nice day, and the drive was so beautiful. I got to see pics of their new house, which I would be visiting this winter… las vegas… so much fun! I was so tired from the night before that I almost fell asleep on some woman’s hammock, so I told my aunts it was time to get going. I headed back to campus, tried to see more people, had some really good laughs with the guys and passed out.
monday
monday i got in my little car and started to drive back to brattleboro. i made a pit stop at RPI to visit my best friend from high school. we caught up on the gossip, and she showed me around her soroity house. which i have to say i was entirely impressed with. and thank goodness that she is just as huge as a jason mraz fan as i am, because he is coming to rit in october. so we imediately made plans to go that weekend. got home to vermont, passed out and woke up not knowing where i was the next day. good weekend. :-)
can't wait till i get back home to see jason mraz, john stewart and rudolph giuliani!!!!
