Las Vegas

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well i’m back. I guess it’s time for the big write up. I forgot the order of some events so they might be off but here goes.

I got to Chicago on Sunday afternoon/night and went back to my aunt’s house in lincolnshire. Ran some errands, and then went out to dinner. We went into the city on Monday, didn’t do too much. We rented hedwig that night. Tuesday was off to Vegas. Eric (Carol’s husband) had booked us a limo to the airport so we didn’t have to drive and park LOL. It was like a 3 times stretch limo hahahaha. It was great. He tried to upgrade us to first class but they wouldn’t let him.

So we got to Vegas in the afternoon, checked into our hotel at the airport. The airport is wack, it’s got slot machines all over the place LOL. And it’s carpeted in some areas, which makes my crappy luggage totally un-roll-able. We caught a cab to Paris and found our room, got food etc. Our room looked down on the pool, and at the Eiffel Tower. So that was cool. From there we headed down the strip to check out the shows we were going to see. Next to Paris was Aladdin (which is apparently near bankruptcy). We made our way down to the MGM Grand, which is still the biggest hotel on the strip. We went inside there, because we wanted to see about George Carlin tickets. There is a lion habitat inside MGM Grand (and it’s free…the only free animal exhibit on the strip…Sigfried and Roy’s tigers cost money, so did Mandalay Bay’s sharks, and someone had dolphins). They actually have trainers that go inside the exhibit and throw things around and play with the lions, so they don’t just lay there and do nothing like at the zoo. So we watched them for a while, and walked around. The thing about all the casinos is that they take forever to get anywhere. They want you to walk through the casino and spend money and stuff, so nothing is straightforward. Signs don’t make sense, everything is spread out, and you just got lost. Some are worse than others. We found the box office and got our Carlin tickets for Wednesday night. Cuz of the jet lag stuff, we weren’t going to go to a show Tuesday night, I was super tired.

So from MGM grand we went across the street to the Tropicana where the Follys Bergere was. It’s like a classic Vegas showgirls kinda thing. Apparently it’s the longest running show in the US. So we were going to go to that Thursday, except that it didn’t play Thursdays. So we were going to skip it and do something else instead. Tropicana was fun, because it’s an older place. It smells like incense LOL. They have 1$ margaritas lol. They had this game called Lucky 20, you spend 20$ and get 50 credits in special slot machines. You can either win 50, 100, or 1000$ but if you don’t win cash, you get to pick a gift out of these showcases. And they weren’t totally lame gifts. So I did that, and got this 20 pound parrot glass that they sell at the bars with drinks in them (it’s huge, and soooo heavy) and a Tropicana T-shirt. We left Tropicana and out front was a free pull game to win a Mustang, and you can win other prizes. So I made my aunt do it, and turns out we won buy one get one free tickets to the Folly, so then we HAD to go hahah. Had to find our way back inside to find the promotions center to claim our prize. I don’t remember what we did after that, I think we went back to Paris, or got dinner or something.

So that night we went to the Follys show, which was cool. Singing and dancing and showgirls and stuff. We went to the 7pm one so that I wouldn’t fall asleep, so there was no nudity or anything hahah. The nudity shows were 10pm shows. They have a little intermission where this guy called Speedy Wally (or something, he has a website) came out and did this juggling show. He was hilarious, and really really worthy of the Speedy Wally name. After the show we went back to Paris and went in the Eiffel Tower to look out over the strip at night and take pictures and stuff.

Wednesday we went to Madame Tussauds at the Venetian. That rocked. I went to Rock Circus in London, and this is the same type of thing, but not all rockstars. This one had actors, musicians, and Vegas superstars (like Sinatra etc.). Took pictures with the statues and stuff. I molested Bono…haha. I think after that we stayed down on that end of the strip and went to Treasure Island, Caesar’s Palace, the Mirage and Bellagio. Treasure Island has a volcano that erupts all night, and they do a pirate fight or something. We didn’t see any of that cuz we went during the day. We didn’t really go into Caesar’s much. Wherever we were, there was this fountain with these crazy scary animated sculptures that came to life every half-hour or something. so frightening. hahah. The Mirage is where Sigfried and Roy perform. They had 1 of the white tigers (which wasn’t white…but it was the tiger you breed with to get the white tigers, or something) that you could see for free. But the dolphins (I just remembered, they had the dolphins) and Sigfried and Roy’s Secret Garden (rofl that’s just bad) you had to pay for, so we didn’t go. Bellagio was super nice. Not really a place for ppl my age, but my parents would like it. It was really really elegantly nice. They have this big lake in front of the hotel that has super fountains in it, that come on every hour or something, and do a performance to music. The fountains shoot water up super high, that’s why they’re super fountains LOL.

So um…Wednesday night was George Carlin back at MGM. There was an opening comedian too who was good, and then Carlin. Typical Carlin LOL. He was good. Filthy. My aunt seemed shocked, but um yeah… what the hell did you expect from him? She kept saying he’s normally more political…but he’s still always filthy so whatever. After Carlin I think we went to look up close at New York New York…In front there is a version of the Statue of Liberty, and 2 fire boats that shoot water out, and around the little pond thing is a railing. Well tons of people brought T-shirts from fire departments, and police stuff and other USA memorabilia and signs, and they are covering the entire railing around it, as a tribute to Sept 11th. It was actually really touching. Then we went to Excalibur, which is the whole King Arthur kind of deal. It’s a giant castle, really cool. And inside, is decorated like knights and stuff. They have a train to Luxor and Mandalay Bay (which we found out later after we walked all the way down to Luxor 😛 actually alot of the hotels that are grouped together by owner have trams and stuff…I think Paris had a monorail to someplace haha) Luxor was rad, of course. All Egyptian and stuff. It’s really nice inside. Carol got food at a Mexican restaurant inside, who’s bartender was from Rochester lol (but a Mexican restaurant in an Egyptian styled hotel?!?!). We caught the train thing back to Excalibur, and headed back to Paris for the night.

Thursday we went to New York New York, inside this time. Got these gigundous margaritas in statue of liberty glasses LOL. and I mean HUGE. I couldn’t finish it, it was like never ending. NYNY is really cool inside. It’s all modeled like Greenwich Village streets, and there’s a mini Times Square inside. You get to stay in the skyscrapers (some of them I guess). It’d be cool to stay there. Then we went to the Hard Rock Hotel, which is quite a ways off the strip, so we had to take a cab. It was cool. The casino isn’t that big, so you can walk around it and not get lost, while looking at the memorabilia. I guess the memorabilia are throughout the hotel part too, which we didn’t see, but it’s cool. I had a super bad headache, so we went back to Paris so I could take a nap, and my aunt went to read at the pool.

That night we went downtown to the old section of Vegas, which is what my vision of Vegas always was….tons of lights (not like the strip was lacking in lights tho hahah), the glowing cowboy thing, lots of neon etc. We went to the Golden Nugget for dinner, but didn’t end up eating there. I had an awful piece of pizza to tide me over til we found somewhere to eat, that wasn’t cooked…yeah, the dough was still raw. I think that’s what made me get food poisoning (more later). Ended up eating at Tony Roma’s in a different casino across the street. The main street, Fremont Street, has been sorta domed, and they do a light show every hour, to music and stuff. All the lights of the hotels turn off, so you can see the light show better. It was fun in a super cheesy kind of way LOL. So we went into the casinos down there, walked around. There was this fun place called the Bayou, which was modeled after the original in New Orleans. They gave out mardigras beads, and the inside was really cute. We went in the Golden Gate casino and Carol played single deck blackjack for like an hour, and only lost 30$…it was cool. If you want to make money, go to the old section, not the strip. After walking around more, we got a cab back to Paris. Our cab driver was this funny Korean man who proceeded to tell us why Koreans hate the Japanese, and how to make kimchi LOL.

Friday we didn’t do anything except eat breakfast, before we had to go to the airport. Got back to Chicago at 9pm, so didn’t do anything except get dinner LOL. Saturday went out with Carol and her friend to Lake Geneva, which is in Wisconsin. On the way there they stopped at a nursery to look at something, but ended up both buying this iron table set, table and 4 chairs (so 2 tables and 8 chairs)…which they had to get into her jeep Cherokee….they kept saying they’d fit, and the jeep isn’t THAT big. I sat in the car as they struggled with them. It was funny hahaha. Ended up having to tie one of the tables to the top of the jeep. Well by then I didn’t really feel good. We ate dinner up at the Lake, and I just had soup since I didn’t feel good – I figured it was my aunt’s driving lol. We walked around a bit, and I felt more sick. Left to go back home, felt more sick. Had to stop and puke on the side of the road LOL. I felt better, but by the time we got back to her house, felt sick again. But I had to laugh because…as if this wasn’t predictable if you know my aunt…we get to her house, open the garage door and continue to pull in the garage… until the CRUNCH of the table on the top of the car hitting the garage ROFLMAO. I laughed. It was so classic. Anyway…I was sick all night, puked like 4 times LOL. as if you needed to know that. Sunday brought Carol and her friend painting the chairs and trying to bend the table back into shape LOL. Then we went into Chicago drove around, got ice cream, and went to the airport for me to leave.

One of the days we went to Mandalay Bay…which was disappointing. I dunno, but to me, for a place in Vegas to be fun it needs some sort of gimmick, and they didn’t really have one. I’d rather stay in any of the other hotels than Manadalay Bay. But it’s supposed to be super popular among people my age…

random notes:
– it’s kinda funny how you can tell my tastes have changed since I went to Rock Circus in London… at Rock Circus tons of pics of MJ statue, posing with MJ…in Vegas…posing with Bono, didn’t even want to pose with their horrid MJ but I did LOL.
– you can’t cross the major streets in Vegas. You have to take escalators (outdoor escalators?!?!) to an overpass pedestrian bridge, and then back down escalators. it’s a good idea, but makes everything take forever.
– it was like 103-106 every day, but it wasn’t THAT bad. the heat radiates off of the pavement something fierce though.
– carolyn was right about the stepping over porn stuff. there are people up and down one stretch of sidewalk who hand out porn pamphlets to every male who walks by. and so then they are littered on the sidewalk. the first day i didn’t see any, but after that tons..guess they only clean the streets once a week or something lol. it’s only along one stretch of sidewalk on both sides of the street, because it’s against the law to do it in front of any of the resorts.
– and it’s against the law to sell spraypaint in the city of Chicago….lol
– i need to go pick up my last roll of film. not sure if the scanner works or not, so it might be a while before i have pictures up. if it works, i’ll try to scan them all tonight…all 4 rolls i took and 3 carol took….ok maybe it won’t get done tonight 🙂 – back from getting film. CVS screwed my pics up. not sure how much of what is wrong is due to the speed of film i used, while taking night pics, and how much is them. alot is them, because they completely cut pics off in the wrong places and shit…arg. so taking them back later after my dad looks at them, and try to get my money back. some definitely didn’t come out on the negative correctly, like my statue of liberty one so that’s ok that it looks like crap, but theres no reason most of my pics should look like crap just cuz i was on 400 speed, when my aunt used 400 speed and hers looked fine (and my camera is way better than hers)…arg.
– and i washed the hedwig shirt carolyn made for me, and all the glitter washed off in like…big clumps… it’s weird.

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back from vegas. it rocked. in chicago again now. will be home late late late sunday night so the full story will be up on monday.

new orleans plans are screwed up. not screwed up really, but screwed up money wise…might be changing hotels and stuff. dunno what’s going on. if worse comes to worse it’ll be like 70$ a person…i mean total. not per night LOL. and carolyn, we’d have to ask you to pay… sorry. trying to figure things out so we don’t have to pay but dunno how it’s gonna go. might have to pay for wed and sun night, but get thurs-sat paid for….dunno….

anyway. i’m all screwed up from the time change, i should try to go to bed.

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May 2002 Dreams

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May 21, 2002

1. i went to visit cory at the high school, and he shared his room with ms derme. i was talking to her, and she said she had a job for me. she got me hired at the high school working with the school psychologist.
2. it was graduation and my parents had come up and i’d taken them to their seats even tho i never picked up the tickets. i had jeans on under my graduation gown, because they had never given us a dress code. so i was running around taking care of stuff, and i realized they had forgotten carolyn. so i was like where the hell is carolyn? they said they had gone to the bus station to get her and waited 2 hrs and she never arrived. so i went back to my dorm, which was on north side, carolyn was speeding up to the building in a green car and almost hit the building. she had missed a bus connection cuz the first bus was late, which was why she never showed up at the bus station. so we were waiting around in this big gym, that was turning into a rave. and joe and rick and everyone were there. and then goth joe and his friends showed up, plus some of my other friends. and we were all sitting on this stage thing, and lights were flying around. then someone got down and was balet dancing on the floor. soon everyone else joined them. then MJ’s “privacy” was on, and i was singing, and goth joe was staring at me cuz he was surprised i knew all the words. he didn’t think i was an MJ fan, and apparently everyone else there was. so they were all impressed with me.
posted by sara @ 1:43 PM//

May 14, 2002

1. i was driving somewhere. either i was dr kirsh…or dr kirsh was with me…or i was going to find dr kirsh. i had to keep pulling over because of emergency vehicles behind me. then i was scared that something really bad happened, like a earthquake or nuclear bomb or something.
2. one of those dreams that are so nice because you can actually feel what’s going on in it. something about tim, and we were at a dinner table, and he was leaning towards me with his arm around my shoulders. we weren’t dating, i guess he was trying to date me though.

3. something to do with alot of hatred for my parents. i was at mcds taking their order even tho i didn’t work there anymore, and they were being really annoying with all kinds of changes to their orders. and roseanne (barr/arnold) was my manager and was yelling at them, and i was yelling at them. then it progressed into something different, but i was still full of hatred for them, and was constantly screaming at them and hating them.
posted by sara @ 10:42 AM//

May 12, 2002


1. danielle and I were at a pre-show screening of the Jay Leno show. We were walking around wherever it was being held, and I saw jon bonjovi walk out of his dressing room. So I was like, “look, it’s bonjovi.” Danielle was like “cool, get him over here.” So I’m thinking, “why should I get him over here, I don’t even like him.” But I did anyway, I was like “jon, do you have a few minutes?” he was like sure, so he came over to talk to us. I guess we knew bonjovi was going to be playing on the show because danielle had brought something for him to sign. So he signed her thing, and I just stood there with them. So danielle thanked him and we turn to leave and he’s like “where you going? I’m not done with you girls yet.” So we go back towards him and he gives us both hugs. Then he pulls 2 passes out of his back pocket, and gave them to us. They were all access passes to the actual taping of the Leno show that night. They were the cloth passes that you stick to your clothing. So danielle is like “Thanks but I don’t know if I can, I have to study for exams.” And I was like, “sure, I’ll be there!” so we leave and I went home and told my parents that jon bonjovi had given us passes for the taping that night, so I was going to be going again. It was 11:40pm and I realized I was late for the taping, so I was getting all my stuff together, and my coat to leave. I was going to wear my leather coat cuz I thought that would impress jon. Then I realized I couldn’t go to the taping because they tape the show in burbank california, and I was in NYC. So I was like wtf, why would he give us passes if the show is in california…and why was jon even in NYC if he had to be in cali for the taping. There was no way I’d be able to get to california before the taping was over. So I was kinda pissed off about that.
2. sorta related…because we had been given these passes for the Leno show we had access to a hotel room for the night. So we figured, might as well use it. So I went to the room with eric and his girlfriend. His girlfriend wasn’t mary, it was this girl lauren who has been in a bunch of my psych classes. We were there waiting for other people to show up. So the two of them keep making out, because they want to have sex, and I’m sitting on the other bed trying to ignore them and be invisible. They keep talking to me every now and then and I just keep trying to ignore them. Then I fell asleep on the other bed (they had gone onto the bed I had been on before), and other people had arrived at the hotel room. There was this girl who was piss ass drunk, sitting on the bed I was on. She started tickling my feet, and woke me up. So I was like wtf, why’d you do that, I finally fell asleep and you had to go and wake me up. In the other bed eric and adrienne were all snuggling under the covers, and lauren was standing at the side of the bed yelling at them. And adrienne was like “you knew from when I got here we were making out.” And lauren was all pissed off and yelling at them, or at eric for cheating on her or something, and eric just was there silent the whole time. Then adrienne said something about “look at me compared to him” meaning something about how much shorter she was compared to eric, but I don’t know what that was supposed to mean. Then the drunk girl was all talking to me and making no sense, while I was watching the scene unfold between eric, adrienne and lauren.

3. sorta related again…a bunch of us were in class and it took place inside this old mansion, upstairs in one of the big rooms. There was a chalk board, and a lecturn and desks. So the professor was teaching, and then I guess the lesson was over or we had a break so we all left and went outside. We were in NYC again, and me and danielle were sitting on a park bench on this busy street. Then adrienne showed up, and sat with us. I took out the passes jon bonjovi had given us and showed her, because I was still pissed I hadn’t been able to go cuz it was in california. So she freaked out because there was a picture of britney spears on them. She thought we had gotten all access passes to a britney show. So I was like no, it’s for leno. She was like oh. Then there were tons of people lining both sides of the street, almost like waiting for a parade. So we got up and started to head back to school, and a motorcade came down the street. Everyone started cheering and we realized it was chelsea clinton’s wedding party. There were limos and then people walking, as if it was a parade. So we were trying to peek through all the spectators to see chelsea’s dress, figuring it would be really nice. So finally we saw all the bridesmaids and they were in pink dresses, and then chelsea was there with her new husband who was really tall, and had icky hair – it was like my dad’s hair when he got married – long, and sorta curly, and frizzy. So I was like ew ugly husband. And chelsea’s dress was like just a piece of cloth. Then I wanted to see bill clinton and talk to him so I could tell everyone I got hit on by bill clinton. But then there was another limo so we figured the clinton’s were inside the limo. We got back to the school/mansion and the mansion was really kind of scary. It was old and falling apart, and there were 2 really scary dangerous stairways you could take upstairs, or you could take the elevator. The elevator wasn’t in an elevator shaft though, it was just a box on pulleys that would lift you to the next floor. But it was really beautiful and ornate. So we took the elevator back to the classroom and sat down. The teacher started teaching again, but every time he’d teach he’d talk about things that weren’t the same as he had told us before, so everyone would always be super confused. So I raised my hand to ask about this person’s name, but he couldn’t remember my name and he refused to go on until he remembered it. So I was like, it’s the most common name in the entire world. But he still couldn’t remember it. Then our teacher was courtney love, and she was writing on the chalk board in such small writing no one could read it. Then this other girl from my psych classes, sarah, came in and asked me if I had an extra pen, which I didn’t. Then courtney was playing a video for us, and korn’s “here to stay” was playing (or at least that’s what it was supposed to be in the dream), but it was this remix, or super long extended version. There was a bowl of juju candies next to me, and so I started taking them all out of the bowl to put in these little candy envelops. So I filled 2 envelopes, which was almost the entire bowl, even tho I wasn’t supposed to, because they were for the entire class. Then I turned back to trying to write down what courtney had put on the board, but no one could read it. Then she showed us this other video about townhouses that were built in swamps in florida, and how the companies were getting sued because of all the problems. Like at night, the swamps would rise up like at high tide, and fill the houses with water. If you were sleeping, the water would fill your entire house and you’d be sleeping underwater (but you wouldn’t drown, you’d just live off the oxygen in the water)…but if you didn’t realize you were underwater you had the risk of these water worms going into your nose. So people were suing the company for that too.
posted by sara @ 11:06 AM//

May 11, 2002

i’m not sure the order of these, they were sorta one dream, but it flipped back and forth a few times.
i was in class, in a big room like in newton. it was some sort of history class i guess, and we were watching a video on russia. they were showing footage from a fire that occured in some russian tourist area. a fire had started inside the place, and some people had caught on fire as well. so they had footage of the people on fire, and inserterd were interviews with the people who had been there either on fire, or just present, about what happened. well it turns out my 3rd grade class had been there on a field trip, and 2 of the people who had caught on fire were danielle and pete zinni. danielle had a beard and it was all on fire, and they were asking her on the footage if the fire had burned her ears. she didn’t even remember the event, she had repressed it. and they were talking to pete about how everyone had to evacuate, and asked him how the people who had been on fire had put themselves out. then there was a shot in the footage of me. i wasn’t on fire though. i was just there with the rest of my class, watching the mayhem. but since all of us had forgotten we had been there, were like OMG THATS ME!!! so then class was over, and i left and found eric. we were walking down the hall to our next class, and i saw a sign for a perfect circle playing on campus that night. i remembered seeing other signs, and i was like “eric, apc tonight!!! don’t let me forget, because i know i’m going to” so he was like yeah don’t worry about it. the show was at 7, and it was going to be in alice austin theatre, but it also looked like one of the big lecture halls. so then i left eric and was thinking about what i was going to wear to the show since my shiny pants were at home. so i was looking for my class but i didn’t even know what class i should have been going to. so i was like wtf, i only have 4 classes, what other class do i have today? then i realized i was supposed to be in comp art, but decided not to go because i finished all my projects. so i went back through all the maze like hallways to find eric. i found him sitting outside where the APC show was going to be, because the sign on the door said 7pm or just chill. lol there were tons of people around, but i managed to smoosh in between people and sit next to him. the other people around weren’t there for the show though, they were there for food because it was also the cafeteria.

some dream about looking at coats, and me thinking about my jacket fetish.
posted by sara @ 1:29 PM//

May 2, 2002

1. i was reading my adolescent psych textbook which is famous for typos and errors. so i was reading it, and it started talking about Fight Club and the filming of fight club. then there was a paragraph about how hot ed norton is. so then everyone who came into my room, i read them that paragraph because it was so weird that it was in my textbook. there were 2 other thinks i kept reading them too but i forget what they were.
2. i was at an orgy show with danielle, who was also my old best friend angela. the backstage was like a labrynth, so it was really weird. there were lots of hallways, and stuff. and the stage was someone’s back porch so we didn’t understand why the whole backstage part was so crazy. so we were hanging out in this big area right before the stage entrance, and we were talking to this woman who is the one who got us backstage. she worked for orgy, tour manager or something. i guess we knew her, that’s how she got us in. so we were waiting for orgy to come from their dressing rooms so we could talk to them. so i think paige came out and walked by and waved, then ryan came over. he put his arm around me, and was talking to me, and i put mine around his. he wasn’t any taller than me, so we were at eye level with eachother. i guess we actually knew the band too, because it wasn’t weird or anything. so i was talking to ryan, then they had to go on stage. so we walked onto this porch through the sliding glass door (the band went on from a side entrance). there were all kinds of people there to see the band. so there were a bunch of ppl hanging around this back area of the stage, because they all had passes, and we didn’t. but we figured, whatever, we know the tour manager, we know the band, we’re staying here. so there were 2 like 14 year old girls sitting there in plastic lawn chairs glaring at us, because we were going to stay there. they commented something like “oh 24 year old girls think they can do anything”. so we were like whatever. so the band came out, and jay saw us and waved. he was real light on the make up. so then he was motioning to us to come on stage, and we were like what?!?! then i saw that everyone had backed up and made this space at the barrier for us. so i ran and jumped off the stage, and into the hole in the crowd. for some reason, i guess she was scared, danielle/angela didn’t, and so she stayed on stage. but she was in front of the stage, not in back anymore. and i don’t know where orgy went. but there was some asshole in the crowd who kept walking back and forth, and making the entire crowd move back and forth over and over again. well his friends tried to make him stop, but he wouldn’t, so he got kicked out. and the whole thing pissed off Orgy who decided they weren’t going to play. but there was this big screen that came down and was playing orgy videos. so no one realized they weren’t actually playing anymore. then everyone started to disappear, so i was like what’s going on? to danielle/angela. and we figured out that they weren’t playing anymore and stuff. so we went back stage again to walk around and find the band. we found the tour manager and she was crying, cuz she was pissed off about the whole thing and told us that the band was pissed off at the kid who kept making the crowd move. so then we were walking around trying to find the band, but since it was all a bunch of hallways we got lost. i don’t know what happened to danielle, but i was walking down a staircase, and i heard someone say something about snakes. so i looked above me and there were snakes everywhere. but they were actually lizards. and where i was, was some part of a fear factor type game, to walk up the stairs with all these snakes/lizards on both sides of you. so there was this guy at the top of the stairs, who i guess was trying to help me. so he killed one of the snake/lizards which was a signal to all the other snake/lizards to go attack that guy… that would draw all the snake/lizards to him, so i could sucessfully go up the stairs. but they were all moving so slow, i was still scared to use the stairs. so i went back down, and out an emergency exit, and ended up in this ghetto ass shady looking street. there was someone there i was scared was going to attack me, so i went into a record store.

3. me, eric, danielle and adrienne were in a car with psycho ex boyfriend. danielle was in front with him, and the other 3 of us were in back. i was behind danielle. psycho had a big bottle of wine he was trying to open. the dream was weird because it kept changing perspectives from backseat, to outside the car looking in – like a tv show. so he was trying to get the cork out of the bottle, and his son (assuming his kid is a boy) was in the car with us too. and his son could talk, and was telling him he shouldn’t be drinking in the car. so we were driving down nash, i guess psycho was taking us to his house, or his parents house (if he doesn’t live there anymore, i dunno). and i guess we realized he was completely drunk. and he almost crashed into a house on the side of the road.

4. i guess this kinda morphed into stopping somewhere, and managed to get rid of psycho. then we were driving in eric’s car…eric driving, danielle in front seat, me behind her. eric wanted a blizzard icecream from this place called Freeze. so we went through the drive thru and danielle had to order because it was on that side of the car. but she didn’t know how for some reason. so i was trying to tell her what to do to order. it was only 2$ for the blizzard. so then we drive around to the other side of the building to get it, but you have to get out of your car to pick it up. then we had to go to a parking ramp because that’s where our car was. and that’s where we had to meet all our other friends (joe, rick, janet etc). there was some kind of gang dance off inside the parking ramp, so we were all sitting on this metal walkway/stair way watching the break dancers. the stairway was at a total slant tho, so i was sliding off, and about to fall off the stairs to the pavement below (Because the stairs was really like a fire escape ladder). but everyone else couldn’t let go of the bars they were holding on to, or they would fall, so no one could help me. i told someone that rick was the only one strong enough to be able to pick me up off the walkway thing and not fall himself, but he had gone down the ladder to watch close up so he wasn’t around. i couldn’t go down the ladder either, because i would have had to go down head first. eventually people managed to get me up so i wasn’t going to die.

4. something about having a part in a movie. where i played some girl having surgery, some miracle cure thing. so i did my filming, which was all of 5 minutes. and i guess my mom was in it too. or no, she wasn’t supposed to be, but she was at the filming, acting like a shocked witness or something, and they ended up using her. so we saw a commercial for it, realized she was in the movie too, then in the preview they showed some thinkg of me, which i had never done. so i was like um? gonna have to see the movie now, because i totally don’t understand.

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well i think it was pretty guaranteed i’d find a way online from chicago. i’m on my aunts slow ass laptop. it’s got one of those stupid green button mouse things. i hate it. even tho i hate the touch screen mouse things, they are better than the green button things.

anyway…the airport was fun. went through the metal detectors and they wouldn’t let me wear my belt…the metal chain belt. the head security guy who made the ultimate final decision on the belt went to high school with me. we never knew eachother tho. i remembered him (obviously) but he didn’t seem to recognize me at all. anyway, he told me i could go back and check the belt in my luggage, so i went back to the stupid counter, but my luggage had already gone downstairs so i was like forget it and my parents took it. so i had to go through the detectors again, then waited by the gate. and what do you know i’m one of the ppl picked at random to get all my shit searched, and wanded….i don’t care, really i don’t, but comeon now… what am i gonna do?!?!?!? so whatever. the plane landed at OHare early, but we couldn’t go to the gate cuz it wasn’t free yet so we had to wait on the runway for 20 minutes. super.

but anyway. went out to dinner last night, then went to bed at 11, which is 12 my time…got up super early and didn’t sleep that well to begin with. dunno what’s going on today. i should get dressed LOL i guess we’re gonna get lunch, maybe go into the city, dunno.

oh there was this kid on the plane behind me who looked just like Jay McKee, except he was from the south and not tall so obv it wasn’t him. haha. and i must say i LOOOOOVE flying and i want to be a pilot again…

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i said i got sunburned. i got weird sunburns. half my neck, a patch where my gown zipped up at the top, my nose, and my left hand and wrist. hahah. good thing most of them aren’t that noticible.

so unpacked and sat around for a while. then got adrienne and drove to the falls to waste a bunch of film in my new camera that my parents gave me for graduation. it’s a nikon SLR (manual and automatic, zoom lens etc). then it started to storm. so we got soaking wet, walking back to the ramp. the lightning was amazing. there was so much – more than i’ve seen in a long time. and we were driving into the storm on the way home so it was a perfect view. it rocked.

took carolyn to the bus station today, and headed back here. mom is annoying me with the packing crap for vegas. but oh well it’s ok. i probably won’t be on again until monday when i get home, unless i find a cheap (aka free) internet terminal at some point in the next 7 days. i might be able to go on from chicago/wisconsin.

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i graduated. i am no longer a college student. it was sunny and got sunburned, and it got hot in that black polyester gown…but it was ok. really long, but ok. home now. parents took carolyn and i to dinner, and going to go out later with adr and maybe danielle. time to unpack.

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i am so lame. i friggen dreamed about the Doom III trailer because i tried to download it last night to hear Trent’s musical contribution…the download didn’t work, and i gave up. but i dreamed about it. LAME!!!!!! it’s not even that important i was just bored. wouldn’t it be weird if i ended up hearing it and it was the same as in my dream….lol. and i dreamed about john stamos too. that’s 3 john stamos dreams now.

today is the grad rehersal and sunset convocation…at 3 pm…when the sun isn’t even close to setting LOL. but there is champagne so we can just pretend the sun is setting. so i have to all take a shower so i can go out in public. and i slept too long, so i can’t go see dr teres about computer art. hopefully he’ll see my email and leave my portfolio in the photo room for me to pick up.

tomorrows weather is no longer rain. partly cloudy, high 63.

i’m really tired. leah took a picture of me with paige haley hair when i got out of bed haha.

 

computer art proff called…he changed my grade hehehe. he confused me with the other sarah who left things out of her newsletter, and he said he knows i could come in and mount 2 other prints to change the ones he didn’t like, so he’d just go ahead and change my grade. haha go me!! now if only i could have done that for adolescent too.

 

well the rehearsal was actually funny. who knew our dean was so cool. he was wearing a white suit with blue piping and a cowboy hat. and he kept cracking jokes, making fun of us and stuff. it wasn’t our fault we lack the ability to form 4 rows hahaha. and then we pitifully sang the alma matter…lol it was funny.

but of course it had to start raining the minute we stepped outside to go to north side. no one sat down, cuz the seats were all wet. but better today than tomorrow. we went to the champagne convocation and stood there for 15 min before leaving, and they still hadn’t poured the champagne lol. we got glasses that are all etched and stuff.

i’m starving. it’s so icky humid now, and i’m all wet. blah

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well i’m not dead. i didn’t even sleep that well so i guess i didn’t have a concussion. but i’ve got a wicked headache now. blah. and my throat still hurts. no idea what i’m going to do today. take the rset of my pictures down and try not to give myself a concussion again. and pick up my grad tickets. and yeah i should have just stayed home.

super. according to rochester weather report today, it’s gonna rain saturday. yaaay!!!!  65 degrees and rain. great.

 

“I was disappointed that you submitted two very similar images in your final portfolio, and, that there were some problems and omissions in the newsletter. I seem to remember some other pieces that would have been a better choice.”

grrrrrrrrrrr. yeah i submitted 2 fire pictures cuz i didn’t like my others…and i know i did every single thing on the newsletter instruction sheet, even tho i didn’t like how it was going to turn out. grrrrrrrrrr. my final college cumulative GPA is a 3.66 which i believe is not high enough for the next highest cum laude thing…grrrrrrrrrrr. actually i looked and it is. so i’m graduating magna cum laude…

so we took a bunch of pictures today, and most i’m not allowed to post haha but here are some

and we went to applebeas for dinner. they played MJ’s “butterflies” and U2’s “kite” while we were there…i got a chocolate martini…*drool* absolute vodka, bailey’s, kaluha, creme de coacau (sp?) and drizzled chocolate…yeah. super yummy. and we stopped at krispy kreme after and got free samples and so then i felt obligated to buy some.. so i bought 2 lemon filled for later.

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i drove back to school for the last time ever. and i should have just moved everything home on saturday and stayed home. i could have come back friday afternoon for the rehersal, spent the night, graduated and then left. cuz there’s no reason for me to be here. whatever.

went out again with eric this afternoon. i guess it’s just not meant for us to go to the new record store. we drove down there, and there was a big giant dog inside barking at us, and it was locked up with a be right back sign on the door. so we went to the used bookstore around the corner and back to the record store, still not open. it didn’t seem like it had alot of stuff, and not stuff for us anyway so no big deal. although they did have a spin magazine poster of the 90 greatest albums of the 90s on the wall featuring kurt cobain, lauryen hill, i forget who else, and trent. and he looked really nice. so i want it hahah. like i need another poster. headed back home and washed my car. did nothing. ate dinner, and came back to school. i never signed off AOL at home though, so anyone who sent me messages from 3pm until 7:30 i never got them. hahah. my bad.

i forgot to mention that i bought some books at the thrift store yesterday. i got a nkotb book that i used to have LOL and this book called Class of 89 Seniors…looks like another promising teen book a la merrivale mall. eric found a downward spiral shirt at the other thrift store which also had furry cow car seat covers for 15 bucks. they even looked clean and stuff, but 15$ is still too much for me LOL.

i packed up most of my kitchen stuff…i dunno if the cookie sheet is mine…and i still have to pack a few other things that are in the dishwasher (since no one did the dishes all weekend)….

 

ok what the fuck. i got an A- in computer art. That’s fucking bullshit.

 

if i don’t wake up tomorrow it’s cuz i gave myself a concussion, hitting my head on the ceiling really fucking hard. like..my head feels flat now, and parts of the ceiling are now on my bed. yeah, it doesn’t feel real well right now. i’m really not joking. i think i should go to the hospital.

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i need to stop thinking really bad things about people, cuz everything i keep thinking keeps coming true. i might have only said this to carolyn, but i had wished that i’d run into goth joe…who’d i see tonight…goth joe. and i’ve been wishing for some pretty bad things to happen to ppl lately so i better stop before they come true, since i don’t really mean them. i should start wishing about winning big in vegas 🙂 but anyway…goth joe. yeah he gained weight. and he’s such a fucking coke head (which makes no sense cuz he gained weight), but goddamnit he’s still hot. arg. but over him. totally. he remembered me, which was more than i can say for tim. and saw this other girl from high school who i think was surprised to see me show up where we showed up. yeah. long story. not blog suitable. lol

i fucking reek of smoke. BLAH now i gotta shower tomorrow 😉 eric will be home so we’re gonna check out the new record store, and joe said he’d call or something. oh reminds me, i should see who won the game…oh hell yeah Avs in OT!! woo hoo

 

when i wake up in the morning my hair sticks straight up just like paige haley’s before he shaved it. lol. i rock. my mom left a note to let her know if i want to go to wendy’s for lunch, and well….i do and she’s not here. so….yeah. and she made coconut cake which i want to devour right now HAHA. starving.

 

yeah ok i signed up to do a support thing for Jay Gordon’s record label divison 1. and i got email from them today about membership information…theres 2 types…professional and non professional membership…100 or 65$…you get all access laminates to concerts and free shit, and press passes to events and stuff…yeah. how can i not want to do this ROFL. but i’m so torn cuz yeah, i’m broke. there’s only 200 spots for both, so i’d have to do it all fast and not wait til after my vacations when i have money. arg. but come on, this is supposed to go to ppl who support orgy, and who has supported orgy the past 4 years?! ME! so i should do it lol.

 

well went out with eric for a while. went to check out the record store but it was closed so i guess we’re gonna go tomorrow. hit some thrift shops and media play before going home at like 9:30. media play has one of those claw game machines with the stuffed animals in it. well their machine has THE best stuffed…thing… in it of all time. it’s this amazingly rad stuffed world trade center thing. it’s silver, and it has the two towers with the TV antenna on the top of the one tower. omg it’s the greatest thing ever. but i know i’d never be able to win it so i didn’t even try. that makes me sad. i think i’m going to start a collection of cheesy 9-11 souveniers…but i have to pick them out myself. so don’t anyone be buying me them – stick to the floatie pens 🙂 if someone wants to go to the media play near sheridan and win me the stuffed towers, that’d be ok tho 🙂

didn’t do anything with joe. had emailed a few times with no ideas of what to do. i told him to call if he wanted to go with me and eric to check out the store but he didn’t. oh well. heading back to school tomorrow after dinner i guess. i dunno when everyone else was going to be getting back home.

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