Wednesday, October 30, 2002

A few more points of note..
*Tomorrow is Halloween! yeah, thats not actually that exciting. Rob and I are going to my house (home home, not apartment home), originally we were going to take my niece trick-or-treating, but no longer, now we are just handing out candy. But we will make them work for their candy, oh yes, there will be no easy getting-of-the-candy from me, nor from Rob (but this is not unusal, you dont get anything out of Rob without a fight)... there will be much recitation from the kids. The Declaration of Independence, The Gettysburg Address, Indecipherable Pearl Jam Lyrics, possibly "The Raven".... no child will leave with a treat without some intellectual collateral...
*Secondly, the deadline for the Laureate is Friday, so get your stuff in, or else. Up until today, we had a total of 8 submissions, and then we went in today and all the sudden we had 43 submissions. This is a gigantic relief. I was considering submitting pieces under pen names just to fill the damn thing up, but no longer necessary...
*Third, a small internal battle. I consider myself to be at least reasonably intelligent. Im opinionated, I do my best to read a lot, be up to date on things. So why, in total antithesis to this, do I have an unsatiated love for trashy television?? Now I dont watch television often, but when I do, do you know what I watch? Well here is a little rundown on this weeks television watching schedule for you...
Monday night... joined my roommate for a little viewing of "P. Diddy, MTV's making of the band"
Tuesday night... The Real World, in which one cast member starts a career as a Go Go Dancer, and the another has a one night stand with a girl in the community hot tub.
Currently I am on my way over to a friends house to watch The Bachelor. Trash! Complete Trash! And I relish every moment of it...
*Fourth- My term paper for American Lit is "Who do you think (pick an author) has answered the call to create a writing style/novel/attitude that is unique to the American Experience?" any ideas?? let me know... right now Im thinking Salinger
*Fifth- my roommate has abandoned me, Its 9 pm and I cant find her anywhere. SARA! WHERE ARE YOU?!? COME BACK, ILL BE BETTER, I PROMISE!!! :)
*Sixth- A nice quote, and goodnight all...
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker"- Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Sunday, October 27, 2002

Its almost Christmas!
Yeah, okay, thats a lie...
Me and Sara are putting up our Christmas tree next friday (we feel that anything after Halloween could reasonably be considered the Christmas season...) Seriously though, although I completely love fall, there is a bit of a lack of things to look forward to in the September/October months. Finally at the END of October you get Halloween, but that isnt terribly exciting. Then you get Thanksgiving which I love, and Christmas, but usually Im in a pretty positive mood for most of those two months because you put up decorations and it snows and you listen to Christmas music and make cookies and go home and see your family and its actually almost sad when you actually get to Christmas, because the season is more fun than the actual day. And two weeks after Christmas is my birthday, which is good, except that ill be 22 and that will make me feel unbelievably old.
In case you havent noticed, I have a bit of a lack of things to talk about lately, so im skipping from topic to topic.
The soup at work tonight was Spicy Thai Peanut and it was UNBELIEVABLYgood, so ive been looking for a recipie for it online. If you have a recipie for Spicy Thai Peanut soup, please send that my way.
Rob is working late and I was trying to wait up for him but its only 1:30, and he probably wont be here till 3. He is the cutest boy alive. We're carving pumpkins tomorrow. Im going to get a tiny little one for Me and Sara's cat (Catboy) and Im going to carve a little cat face into it. Then again, he's a psycho cat and he'll probably gnaw the entire face off of the pumpkin the minute Im not looking...
I can recognize my rambling when I see it, I will stop posting now... but on a final note, a great quote from the book Im reading right now-
"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."- Zora Neale Hurston

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Nothing To Post...

WHAT AM I GOING TO BE FOR HALLOWEEN?!?!
Had some milk supersaturated with Hershey's Chocolate syrup with my lunch.
Reading "Their Eyes Were Watching God".. its really good...
my niece is going to be a ladybug for Halloween.
Have geology lab in approximately 1 hour 10 min.
Currently dont give a f@#* about rocks.
Hate my neighbors because they stole our doormat. Must be nice being ghetto-fabulous, Ill have to ask them about it.
Tennis Shoes are falling apart, could be hazardous, good reason not to workout (beyond my control, obviously a sign from God.)
I dont know how and I dont know when, but Im certain that someday my unhealthy obsession with cheese will lead to my downfall.
Missed the lastest episode of the soft-porn season of Real World last night. Bummer.
Thats all I got kids.

Sunday, October 20, 2002

Choice.
You know what I love? Weekend Update on SNL. I think Tina Faye and Jimmy Fallon, especially together, are quite possibly the funniest thing ever.
Trees

So about my sweet Counting Crows concert last night. They have these causes that they try to endorse, and in every town they go to they invite an organization thats related to that cause (i.e., domestic violence, the environment) to hand out info in the lobby. So Adam gets up there and hes announcing that some kind of Detroit Tree-Planting group is out in the lobby and hes like "Yeah, go check them out cause, lets face it, your city could use some fuckin trees"
funniest ever.
in honor of a really good concert, tonights quote will be from them.. this is from "Up All Night" off of their new CD. In some odd offbeat way, I find it to be really romantic..:)
"Fix you're hair just right, put your jeans on tight
Wear a dress so I can get it off real easy.
Cause Ive been thinkin I'd
Like to see your eyes
Open up real wide
The minute that you see me...." -Counting Crows

Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Monday Morning

I was home (like, home home, parents home) Sunday and I set the alarm, and when it went off Monday morning, I totally wasnt used to it and it scared the hell out of me and I fell out of bed. At this point in time I am sitting on the floor and I realize that I had slept with one leg over the other, so one of my legs was completely asleep, so I couldnt get up, I had to wait for my leg to wake up. If you could have seen me sitting there on the floor, unable to get up after falling out of bed.. I swear to you, it was the most pathetic image ever.

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

A Couple Things of Note
After my insistant scramble to get tickets to the only Counting Crows show that they are playing in Michigan, they add another show in East Lansing. *sigh*
I took this test last week in my US 1940-1960 history class. I got done with the test and was literally laughing as I told someone how badly I bombed it. See, the thing was, it was completely my fault, because I didnt get around to reading 300 of the 400 pages of the reading that the test was over. Usually, Im a pretty good BS'er, but this time, I didnt even know enough to BS. And you know what I got on this test? Freaking 82%. I dont deserve anywhere near that. Its not because I did a good job of BSing, I think this guy just got sick of reading essays and gave me a good grade. For example, I will include a short essay.
the question was "What was the controversey surrounding the use of the Atomic Bomb in World War II?"
This is my answer, verbatim, off of my test paper that was handed back-
"The atomic bomb controversey was centered around the complete destruction it would cause. O'Neill understands the complete horror that it caused, the reason he named the last chapters of his book 'Reckoning.' I believe O'Neill saw this as a very final and thorough end to the war, however. Much of America was torn between these two points in relation to the A-bomb."
Now, when I read that, it is very VERY apparent to me that I havent read the book. Do you know what I got for that little gem of knowledge? 9 out of 12 points.
And lastly, I heard this on the news this morning. So theres this family in Georgia (?), and on Sunday they get in their car with their son to go to church, and as they're pulling out of the driveway, their entire house blows up in front of them. I guess it was some kind of gas leak. Can you even imagine? What if they decided that they were too tired to go to church that morning? unreal.

Sunday, October 06, 2002

My Pathetic Financial State
I just went to pick up toilet paper, 3 potatoes, and I saw grapes, and I love grapes, so Im like, sweet, grapes, picked those up. It came to $5.99. I had $5.60 to my name. I had to put the grapes back.

"To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go."
-Mary Oliver from "In Blackwater Woods"

Saturday, October 05, 2002

Nice

It's nice to have a job that you like. Its nice to have a job that, for the first time for as long as I can remember, I dont dread going to every time. Its nice to have a job that I have fun at. Nice.
Rob, for our 3 year anniversary, or for the next special occasion that comes along, we should go out for dinner and by a bottle of wine. There is something romantic about drinking out of wine glasses, I think. "But Lola", you're thinking, "you hate wine." Yes, I thought of that too. But there is the perfect solution. Riesling. Its the wine equivelant of frufru drinks. It actually kind of tastes like wine coolers. And its not expensive at all, maybe $20 for the bottle...

"The earth is so small and so fragile and such a precious little spot in the universe that you can block it out with your thumb, and you realize that on that small spot, that little blue and white thing, is everything that means anything to you- all of history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love."- anonymous

Wednesday, October 02, 2002

To Dorothy
by Marvin Bell

You are not beautiful, exactly.
You are beautiful, inexactly.
You let the weed grow by the mulberry
And the mulberry grow by the house.
So close, in the personal quiet
of a windy night, it brushes the wall
And sweeps away the day till we sleep.

A child said it and it seemed true:
'Things that are lost are all equal'
But it isn't true. If I lost you,
The air wouldn't move, nor the tree grow.
Someone would pull the weed, my flower.
The quiet wouldn't be yours. If I lost you,
I'd have to ask the grass to let me sleep.