Current Mood: World Domination
Currently Playing: Eye of the Tiger



Rob got a new office chair from my parents for his birthday. He thinks he's a badass. He won't let me sit in it, and when I say that, I mean that if he leaves the room and I sit down he gets mad, despite the fact that he isn't sitting in it. He turns around in it so the back is facing me and does that "I'll Get You Next Time Gadget" Dr. Claw thing. Chair? Check. Computer? Check. Commence World Domination.

This is Rob and the New Chair ganging up and making fun of Old Chair.

Current Mood: bored and thirsty... a little hot... but otherwise okay.
Currently Playing: Indigo Girls

The only thing that would satisfy me right now is s'mores.

Current Mood: edgy
Currently Playing: I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watching Me

So Ray's on vacation. Filling in for him is his cousin, whose name we dont know. Let me give you an idea of what this guy is like. Pretend you did some, I don't know, speed. Then you drank ten Red Bull's. Now try to carry on a conversation.
Rob told me that the guy came up to him out of nowhere the other day and was like "Hey, I'm Ray's cousin. I'm filling in for him. You got any problems, you need anything, you come to me, a'right?"
So, my computer is coming tomorrow and I work 9-5, so I was thinking I'd have the guy sign for it so I didn't have to go to scary downtown Yonkers to pick it up from the post office. No big deal, the super signs for packages all the time, right?
So I saw him putting out the garbage tonight and I introduce myself and I'm like "I have a computer coming tomorrow, could you sign for it and keep it in Ray's apartment until I get home at 5?" and the guy's like "Oh, now, I, uh, I don't know about that.. I dont want to be responsible for no computers. Last time I did that, I signed for a lady on the fourth floor, and then she opened it and it was missing a keyboard and some parts, and, I dont want nothin to do with a computer."
Hey, I can understand that, no problem. So I'm like "that's okay, I'll just pick it up at the post office. I may even be home when it comes"
He's like "well, no, you know, I'll sign for it, but I'm not responsible. I'll sign for it and put it in Ray's apartment, but you know."
I'm like "Well, don't worry about it, no problem."
And then we go to the elevator. And then he follows us in to the elevator.
"Well, uh, just tell him to ring the super's apartment, 1D, and if I'm there, I'll hold it for you."
"K"
Up we go in the elevator.
Rob- "woah. that guy is nervous"
Me- "woah. that guy is on something"
So I get online and check my email.
Ring.
My doorbell.
"Uh, hey, so, you know, I may be around tomorrow, so I'll just hold it for you, I'll either be around the garage or I'll be in Ray's place, 1D, so you just tell the delivery guy to ring me."
Rob- "NO, REALLY. We'd rather just pick it up, don't worry about it, no problem."
Seriously, I'm going to be sound asleep tonight at like 3am and the guys going to ring my freaking doorbell. And I'm not going to answer. So he's going to call the phone. Then he's going to crawl up the fire escape.

Current Mood: Missing the student ghetto...
Currently Playing: Damien Rice

I think the chai tea at the coffee place I go to has some type of addictive substance in it, and it's not caffeine. I crave it. It's laced with something, I'm sure of it.

Current Mood: blahbity blah
At 7:30 this morning while at the grocery store I watched a woman drive into an almost completely empty Meijer-sized parking lot and run smack into the cart corral at 25 m.p.h., knocking all the carts over and moving the corral. She then looked up to see if anyone else had noticed and drove away.

Current Mood: A ridiculously good mood
Currently Playing: So I call up my preacher
I say: "Gimme strength for Round 5"
He said: "You don't need no strength, you need to grow up, son"
I said: "Growing up leads to growing old and then to dying,
and dying to me don't sound like all that much fun"
"I Fight Authority, Authority Always Wins"- John Mellencamp

Two Things
1. "Loving anyone is different from impaling anybody or getting something to own and have. It's like trying to hug your favorite painting, or talk to or waltz with the perfect time of day, the memory of the most beautiful tree you ever saw." - from "Issues I Dealt With in Therapy" by Matthew Klam.
Isn't that really pretty? The story is hilarious.

2. I love John Mellencamp.
So, for my photography project I had this 'Americana' thing going- like, I took pictures of really small town or wierd things and put them together. We were critiquing (sp?) one of them in class, it was a picture of this little pink house with all these lawn chairs set up on the front lawn next to one another and it reminded me of the "Little Pink Houses" song, not only because, obviously, the house was pink, but it just looked exactly like something that would be described in the song. So I say "You know what it reminds me of? That John Mellencamp song."
I am telling you, these people looked at me with the blankest stares I have ever seen. Not a single person in that class knew who John Mellencamp was. Not even my teacher, who is probably 45 or so. A) I felt like a gigantic idiot B) JOHN MELLENCAMP?? JOHN MELLENCAMP IS AWESOME! HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW WHO HE IS??? HE HAS A MILLION SONGS!! JACK AND DIANE??? ANYONE???
no.
So I let it go.
Then, my pictures were up yesterday for the visual arts show and my writing teacher was in the building and we were looking at them and he's like "You know what that reminds me of? That 'Little Pink Houses' Song. That's an awesome song."
GOOD GOD, THANK YOU. This is why I love this guy. Besides being the awesomest teacher of all time, he knows what's up.
So, I got out the John Mellencamp CD I just recently stole from my parents and listened to it why I was paying all my freaking bills this morning. This CD is awesome. You should love John Mellencamp too. Do it.

By the way, I'm done with school for the year:)

Current Mood: ha
Currently Playing:I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

It's 6:50 a.m.
I've been awake for not even a half hour and already Rob has said the following two things to me
And I quote-
1)
me: Rob, my hair feels greasy today
rob: Well, that's because you're trailer trash, sweetie.

2) "Laura, your head's so big you look like a science fiction character."

Current Mood: new pictures
Currently Playing: new pictures

New Pictures
There are new pictures up, including this one of my sister being eaten by a giant butterfly. Click on Bill Cosby.

Current Mood: Tired.. but not quite tired enough

Oh for the freaking love of all that is good...

I cannot sleep. I have been lying in bed for an hour and a half. All I want to do is sleep. I have to leave my house to get on a plane at 11 am, and I have many many things to do before then. Also, I've just noticed that I'm getting one of those zits on my chin that kind of grows under the surface and never quite shows itself, but you can feel it there and it really hurts.

So I have a lot to do when I get home tomorrow. Rob is picking me up and we're going straight to the photo/computer lab so that I can scan my negatives into Photoshop, make them look pretty and print them off to turn in for my final photography project. This could take quite some time, seeing as neither me nor the 'lab techs' (and I use the term loosely) seem to have much knowledge on the particulars of the enigma that is Photoshop. Awesome. I need to get it done and out of my way though. This is the last week of school and I need to do the following things- 1) my photo project 2) finish reading this book for Craft and this story I'm supposed to be presenting 3) read and critique workshop stories for the past two weeks. Not too bad. I start working full time for the summer the week after next.

So I've been thinking a lot about what kind of house I want to have. Not for any particular reason, mind you, because we wont be buying a house for quite some time, but these are the things that I think will be absolutely necessary when we do-

1) Lots of trees. And not those little wussy trees. I want the huge trees that hang over the street in the summer and touch the trees from the other side of the street and make the whole place shady.

2) A fireplace.

3) Windows. Windows EVERYWHERE. I mean, at least one or two on every wall so there aren't any dark corners in the house.

4) A nice backyard with a deck.

If I had to choose one of the four? WINDOWS.

Current Mood: smelly (it's my blog, and if I want smelly to be a mood, it can be.)
Currently Playing: Jump! For my love (Jump in!)
Currently Reading: Garden State by Rick Moody
Currently In Need Of: A shower and lunch

Good thing about today: I went down in the basement and got my hammock out and set it up on the deck and read and read and read for hours.
Bad thing about today: After spending said number of hours in the sun, I came inside and I smell like disgusting burnt skin smell, like when you get out of tanning bed.

Dear Ryan-
Do you read my blog? We are seriously seriously seriously considering buying a bed. I even went to the website. I like the 5000 bed. But I like the 4000 bed price better. What are the differences with the beds? Do I need a base or can I just use the one we have? Please advise.
Lola

Current Mood: content
Currently Playing: the television

Last Night on Jeopardy Tournament of Champions

Q:[author's name] had over 100 of these animals and later wrote a children's book about them.
Contestent's Answer: "What are unicorns."
Hmm....

It's time to face the truth. I am old. Like, old and boring. The following is evidence.
1. Have you heard the new 50 cent song? You know, it used to be that I'd hear a rap song and if it was really explicit, as this one is, I was like, whatever. This song actually offends me. I think it's disgusting. I think it shouldn't even be on the radio.
2. Today I went shopping. I tried on this adorable shirt. I then looked at the price tag. It was like $30, and I thought to myself "$30?! are you crazy?" And then I went shopping in Mervyn's instead.
Seriously. I'll be wearing polyester and talking about bunyons in no time.

Current Mood: happy
Currently Playing: It's Our Anniversary- Tony Toni Tone

It's my anniversary! At this time a year ago I was dancing at my reception.

Last night I went to my cousin's wedding- good time, pictures to follow. I had another dance-off with my Uncle Bruce. He'll tell you that he won, but let it be said that he may be the king of the twist, but I beat him at everything else. He's a total one hit wonder, one trick pony.

I need a chiropractor like you just wouldn't believe. My shoulders constantly hurt and when I roll them back they make these loud popping noises that can't be good. Also, from time to time there's a sharp pain that starts in my lower back and goes all the way down my right leg. I 've never been to a chiropractor, but I have this dream about them that I'm going to go and they're just going to make some tiny movement and it's going to completely realign my entire body and It's going to feel completely amazing. Maybe it's good that my insurance doesn't cover it because then I'd go and it wouldn't work and then I'd just feel let down.