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May 14, 2008 |
Listening to: Ben Folds(Zak and Sara) -
Feeling: tired
11:59 Late Wednesday Morning
Home Sweet Home?
Well.
San Francisco was great that night we got there, what with the homeless people begging for change and sleeping in doorways and the delicious meal we got at a chinese restaurant with the very nice waitress who thought we were slothful gluttonous pigs, i'm sure. The fog was pouring in and I had such high hopes, The fountain was beautiful and the UN civic centre was inspiring.
It sort of went downhill from there.
the next three days were pleasantly warm, sunny, a little windy.
Sunday was interesting, we walked all over San Fran and got very little accomplished.
Monday, it was just my sister and my mom and I because Dad was at meetings. We had fun. There were lots of stores that all sold the same things.
There were very tall buildings.
There were a lot of people.
Tuesday, our last day...Dad got mad at me because I didn't want to go on a bike ride to the Golden Gate Bridge (He really wanted to exercise and I was like...no). Apparently Mom was appreciative because she wasn't about to tell Dad she didn't want to even though she didn't. So Chels, Mom, and I went to this thing called the Exploratorium and I got a lot of exercise for my brain. It was AMAZING! I spent too long at each of the stations, though, because I ran out of time and didn't get to play with everything.
I felt like a 6-year-old, and it was amazing.
so dad went on a big long walk almost to the golden gate bridge and felt better because he got to exercise.
then we went to the airport and got on a plane and my sister and I got along and it was a good family holiday.
I would totally go back to San Fran just for the Exploratorium. Maybe I will have kids. We won't go to Disney Land. We will go to the Discovery Centre in SLC and the Exploratorium in San Fran and all of the other cool science interactive fun things. depending, of course, on whatever future offspring I have's interests.
Other than the Exploratorium, however, I got really tired of so much tourism and ...well...i was disappointed that we never got to walk around in the rain. I was hoping for Fog. Also, San Francisco is basically Sydney, Australia only San Francisco has the island for its prisoners and Australia WAS an island for prisoners. I so much prefer Portland.
maybe i'm biased.
maybe i'm pickier than I thought.
I miss caleb. :( 2 and a half weeks though, then i'll get to see all my friends!! :) |
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May 11, 2008 |
Feeling: uncomfortable
10:02 Mid Sunday Morning
I Make A Crappy Sunday School Teacher
San francisco is so awesome
I think i fall in love with every city i meet.
well..except LA.
oh my god i have to take a shit like no other but mom is in the shower.
it's going to be a big one, too.
i hope i'm the last person to use the bathroom for a while.
um i am hungry which is a weird feeling: like, when you have to pee and you're really thirsty. |
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May 9, 2008 |
Listening to: Jars of Clay -
Feeling: psychotic
3:11 Mid Friday Afternoon
I've Got a Question
Where do we go from here?
I love him so much.
The kind of love where his successes are my successes. His face is the face I want to see when I wake up every morning. His clothes are the clothes I want to yell at him about picking up off the floor. His razor is the razor I want to see on the bathroom counter.
San Francisco...Oh you beautiful city. i will see you tomorrow.
It's time for a train ride.
the closer I get to the rest of my life, the more scared I get.
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10:00 a.m.
...2 days later
changed entry title from "310" to "839"
don't know where 310 came from. |
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May 8, 2008 |
Listening to: 8mm -
Feeling: frustrated
4:31 Mid Thursday Afternoon
Fallible Lab Equipment
I'm going to fukken kill that electrode.
god i am ...
overworking myself today.
trying to do two, three, four things at once.
I thought Rebecca was going to work today so I kinda planned stuff out accordingly
so now i'm sort of doing the work of 2 people.
oops. |
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May 6, 2008 |
Listening to: Fragile State -
Feeling: tired
11:16 Late Tuesday Morning
Department Head Search
I had some random dreams last night. All I remember is some sideways rooms and holes through the beds and floors, likeif you were sleeping and rolled the wrong way on the bed, you'd fall in and land in the yard.
The covers were red velvet. I hate velvet. I like the word, hate the fabric.
love the cake.
anyway
all my grades for this semester have come in! I must say i am pleasantly surprised.
A in Physics, Hazchem, Biology, Soils, and Marriage and the family!
A - in Art symposium....
GPA this semester? 3.98, which brought my cumulative to 3.74.
go me!!!!
Totally thought I was going to get a B+ in Physics and Hazchem and an A- in biology. i'll probably need to actually work at getting good grades next semester. sigh.
now i need to go rinse out more centrifuge tubes so that I can weigh out soils for the extraction procedure. |
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May 5, 2008 |
Listening to: Strawpeople -
Feeling: achy
4:41 Late Monday Afternoon
Mind Numbing, Note Taking
Saturday,
oh I cannot even begin to describe.
I had breakfast with Jeff, which was totally random yet awesome. He made scone nuggets and I made pancrepes (too thin to be pancakes, too thick to be crepes). He and his roommates were all in the process of moving out so everything was a mess but those were some deliciously unhealthy scone nuggets and pancrepes.
Then Jeff and I hopped into his jeep and drove down to his mom's house to drop some stuff off and then we went to the train station.
I learned a lot about this kid
and how the MTC simultaneously ruined him and yet was the one of the best things that ever happened to him.
The train was sooooo cool! it was basically silent, and the ride was so smooth that if it hadn't been for the changing view out the window, I would have wondered if we were moving at all.
The Red Hat ladies were having a party, i guess, there were a bunch of red-hat, purple-dress clad women getting on the train.
Jeff and I split up once we got to the city,
he did his thing, I found my way to the mall and met up with Sara.
Even though we didn't actually want to spend that much time at the mall, we ended up spending much of the day there. After bothering Kellie at work, we checked out the clearance stuff at Hot Topic -- I thought it would be all the same stuff but I guess in the city, they have more room to stock more "crude" items. all the crap at our Hot Topic is like, Hello Kitty and whatnot. All of what is at Hot Topic is "alternative" trendy, but they occasionally have good deals on make up so I check anyway.
Random store associate came up to us and said "i noticed you were admiring the hamburger phone" (yes, they raped Juno's hamburger phone). and started up a conversation. i couldn't tell if he was flirting or trying to sell shit. He kept looking me straight in the eyes and saying "whatever you need, just let me know..." Ordinarily I would have thought selling, but...all the other people in the store without their pet associates? And he said other things that just seemed creepy at the time but I can't remember them exactly. So we high tailed it outta there once we'd determined there was no good makeup on sale.
Then we went to Claire's and...well...
never again.
But Sara got a cute little Tinkerbell purse with a gift card that she got for her birthday.
Then we were GOING to leave but I wanted to see the body exhibit at the discovery centre. Apparently it cost money but we still got to check out "the beehive" and the other kiddie play areas. Then we went to the discovery shop and played with the toys in there and I ended up buying sour-cream-and-chives flavoured crickets and some mad libs books for the train ride home.
then we ATE the crickets, it was so awesome.
i still have some left.
On our way out of the mall, we heard a little kid whining to his mom about wanting ice cream, so we went into the ice cream shop and I traumatised the man at the counter. I then bought a scoop of bubblegum for Sara and mint choc chip for me.
then we wandered around downtown, found our way into that little side street w/ Sam Weller's book store and the City Weekly office. then we took the tram to the library and I bought a custard flavoured bubble tea that was actually captain crunch flavoured. amazing.
i love bubble tea hardcore.
Then Sara went home and I went back to Sam Weller's and read a book until Kellie called me. we went to Mazza and had yummy Lebanese dinner and discussed our sisters and life in general. it was amazing.
Jeff and I met up at the grand central station and took the train back to the car. we played madlibs and it was ridiculously fun
here's my favourite one that we did:
Super-Chickens (from Diva Girl Mad Libs)
"One of my favorite shows on TV is Super-Chickens. It's about three chickens who all have frivolous superpowers. One of them can burp, another one can shoot trains from her medulla oblongata, and the third one can tiptoe with emergency exits. The Super-Chickens use their powers to protect the horrendous people of the desert and defeat the powers of cacti. My favorite episode is when their father was kidnapped by the evil electrical engineer, Mr. Scrumptulescent, and they had to fly to the kitchen to rescue him. In another episode, the Chicks had to fight a villain who was made out of hooligans. The show is so cool that I even bought a gargantuan Super-Chickens T-shirt and a watch that says "giggity-giggity-goo to the rescue - Super-Chickens!" when you procreate a button."
....amazing.
simply fabulous.
best day in a long time.
Sunday was pretty good too; Sunday School was kind of blah, but the sermon was great. Then I went birthday shopping for Dad, got home, hung around outside, went on a litter-walk with Emily and found some gross and some really interesting rubbish. ...mostly gross. then we picked through it at the recycling centre. we found a plaster head in the dumpster and i stole it.
then i went home and we went out to eat and terrorised our server. poor guy. then we went home and ate cake and ice cream and watched Dad open his gifts.
it was a marvelous weekend. and today i worked for 6 hours and had a very boring afternoon. :)
this entry is ridiculously long but i love it even more so because of it. |
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May 2, 2008 |
Listening to: the bubbling in my fish flask -
Feeling: conflicted
11:11 Late Friday Morning
Friday? It's not Friday
My fish is still alive!!!
I got it like a week after Caleb left I think.
the 21st of February maybe.
it's like, survived 10 weeks in my care!
my only concern is...
mom was hoping it would die before I left for New Zealand so she wouldn't have to take care of it.
oh well, i've got a month to figure something out.
4 grades have come in.
2 to go. Physics and Soils...and I already know my grade in soils.
oh physics! i'm on the edge of my seat!
I can't handle the suspense! A, A-, or B+? how well did I do on the test?
ok, shower time.
time to go to work.
sigh. |
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