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and oh yeah. went to barnes and noble today to waste my gift certificates. bought interview with a vampire (book) and deadeye dick by kurt vonnegut… use my GCs and they gave me the difference back (a whole 4$) but that was good cuz now i don’t have to worry about that anymore.

and i told my mom i wanted to go to galleria to buy the dress at hot topic. i told her i could show her a picture online. so i go find it. yeah hottopic.com changed the picture, so now the dress looks all slutty. so she’s all like ehhh i dunnooo…if it’s really short dont buy it cuz ur tall and then u’ll just look like a slut (well that was kinda the point of me buying a short dress :P) but whatever. gonna try it on and if it’s cute it’s being purchased.

 

went to dinner with my parents and their friend don tonight. cost 200$…it was a thank you to don for him mentioning the job my dad got to him back in january. and of course, we have hot waiters and restaurant staff when I LOOK LIKE SHIT! my hair is so damn long. arg.

anyway. i think don thinks i’m gay now. thanks to my mom. he was talking about an article in the paper about the gay bathhouse in buffalo, and my mom says to me “oh you should know about that” and i’m like ?!?!?! why the hell would i know about a gay bathhouse?…and she’s like, well you have gay friends. i’m like yeah but i haven’t talked to them in years. so whatever. i think she realized what she said and tried to cover herself but whatever.

but don was good for something, besides thinking i’m gay. he let us in on a little secret.. ok not a secret. but he mentioned this bar near the arena downtown, that he goes to after sabres games, and sabres players often go there. and it’s NOT pearl street… it’s called Cobblestones. It’s apparently a real dive, made to look like prohibition era speak easy or something. it’s like, behind the arena on the cobblestone street. he said last time Tim Conolly was there, and he made a face (cuz Tim is underage)…so i mentioned going to pearl street and seeing underage sabres drinking there…oh i probably shouldn’t put this on a public blog, since i could get the bar in trouble. oh well.

so tomorrow i’m off to burlington/toronto to hang with heather and meet ty finally. hopefully i won’t ge tlost trying to find the hotel. since NO ONE EVER GIVES ME RIGHT DRIVING DIRECTIONS! arg. lol

well…i’m home. it’s freezing down here. so i’m gonna make this short
1. most likely not going to get the job. everything went really well i thought…but the director went onto tell me that what he’s looking for is a “pro”…someone who’s apparently does research for a living (which i can’t imagine considering it’s barely a living wage)…someone who is a pro…someone who’s going to stick around for 5-10 years doing this work…he’s tired of the turnover rate of every 2 years getting new undergrad kids…or something. and he said there are 2 pros who are first in line for the job, and they look real good….so the big question is… why did they advertise to undergrad schools recruiting for the tech spots? he said if i really want to work there, to keep following up and bugging him… there are always part time spots, and volunteers depending on the grants that go through etc. but hello?! i need to find a job that is going to pay me. so i dunno what i’m going to do. i’m supposed to email him and tell him why i’m great. so…i’ll do that, and keep bugging him and see what happens. time for plan b… anyone wanna tell me what plan b is?
oh, and the sleep lab… TOTALLY NOT WHAT I EXPECTED… i was thinking control room, 1 way mirror or a glass window… hospital type bed they get hooked up to. NOT! it’s called a “sleep suite”…and it’s nicer than my house. there’s a kitchen, glass topped eating table, leather furniture, tv, vcr, 2 bedrooms with queen beds, nice fluffy pillows, 300ct sheets (yes they pointed this out to me, cuz i almost know what that means)….yeah. it’s super.
blah, i want that job. i guess the bright side is i won’t have to be working nights wherever i end up finding a job.
2. i wish, just once, someone would give me correct driving directions. it’s a really good thing that my class got out at 2 instead of 2:30… left at quarter after, headed up to rochester. followed his exact directions…had me turn right off the East Henrietta exit….WRONG…i ended up in Rush… which is like a 15 min BACKTRACK…so had to turn around. ended up being 5 or so minutes late. and besides that, i could have gone on to the west henrietta exit, instead of the east, and been like RIGHT THERE! but whatever…
3. my dad reads my blog regularly. that’s not happy lol.
4. oooh myyyy goddd…. new rolling stone magazine with Shakira on the cover… FOUR PAGE PHOTO SPREAD OF APOLO!!!!! and i’m talking SOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!! omg. totally scanning these….must turn on other comp to scan. sooooooo cute. of course back to back photos blah.

 

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the ONE day that my housemates dont have to get up early in the morning, which means the ONE DAY they won’t wake me up, what time was i awake at?? 6 FUCKING 30!!!!!! and why was i up at 6fucking30? because of the lovely mr snow plow man scraping the pavement unbelivably horrendously loud. and then mr snow plow man decided to stop and let it run in front of our house. then go again after a few mintues. so i laid there… at 6:30 when i don’t to get up for another 2 hrs. no problem i’ll just go back to sleep, i go back to sleep more or less every day when housemates wake me up… did i get back to sleep OF FUCKING COURSE NOT!!!!!! so i spend 2 hours laying in bed thinking about how the weather must be really shitty, and the roads are gonna be horrible for when i have to drive to the hospital for my interview, and how i should probably call the guy when i leave if it’s real bad to let him know i’ll be late etc.

so i hear danielle’s alarm go off at 7:30 and i haven’t fallen back asleep. then one of the wonderful geneseo brush snow plows goes by a few times.. so i’m thinking wow, more snow plows, it must really be shitty.

so i look out the window. AND THERE IS NO FUCKING SNOW!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN SEE BARE PAVEMENT… YOU CAN SEE GRASS!!!!!! there isn’t even an inch of snow… there isn’t even half a fucking inch of snow!!!!!!!! THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED FOR ANYONE TO BE PLOWING ANYTHING BECAUSE THERE IS NO SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! a bit of salt may have been a good idea… BUT EVEN IF THE FIRST PLOW SALTED, THE BRUSH PLOW HAS NOW BRUSHED ALL THE SALT AWAY!

i’m going to kill someone.

well i have an “interview” at the sleep lab on friday. this guy called… Henry I guess. haha. I totally missed his name. But yeah, 3pm on friday. hopefully i won’t get horribly lost trying to get to strong memorial hospital since i can only leave at 2:30…he gave me directions, and they are girly directions using landmarks and some streetnames…as opposed to # roads and directions…lol. he said it’s informal..for me to meet the drs who run the lab and the other techs and to ask questions and for them to ask me questions. hopefully they don’t ask me something i can’t answer so i look dumb… *scared* haha. but anyway. that’s a step in the right direction to getting employed. so yay me. now i just need to figure out something to wear, since i don’t own any nice clothes.

i hope i know how to get home from the hospital too.

and a half hour til the NHL trade deadline… i’m compuslively checking yahoo lol. i had a dream that varada got traded..so i’m sorta paranoid. hahah

finished chapter. the end was about gifted children…and being a “gifted child” i started thinking about elementary school and stuff. the book said most gifted children are “located” through IQ tests…but i don’t ever remember taking an IQ test as a child. i know i was 1 of 2 people who could read in my kindergarten class. in 1st grade it was me, eric, joeyjoe and this girl angela (not my ex bestfriend) who were in the highest reading group. and in 1st grade i started getting pulled out of class to work with the gifted teacher. i think it was me, eric and joeyjoe again, who got to go to her office (which was a closet, shows you how much they cared about us gifted kids) and we played games. they weren’t normal 1st grade board games or anything like that. they were like, problem solving games. like brainstorming things to solve a problem. and we played this game, i think it was called gatekeeper. one person was the gatekeeper and they would choose a shape in their head, from the choices of shapes we were given. then the other 2 people had to ask questions about it, and whoever was able to guess the shape got to go through the gate (got to be it next)…

i’m not sure if meeting with the gifted teacher in 1st grade was special math or not…i know i was in special math at some point, and i know i purposely failed the special math exam in 3rd grade because i didn’t want to be in it anymore. i remember sitting in a room with the other smarter kids taking this test. one of the questions was about how many legs there were on this group of cows…which can easily be solved with algebra…or by drawing cows LOL…but i purposely put the wrong answers, and didn’t really do the other problems… i don’t know why i didn’t want to be in special math anymore…maybe i wanted to just be normal or something. i don’t remember any special treatment in 2nd grade except being in the high reading group again, and having to go to a 3rd grade class for reading.

then in 3rd grade they contacted all the kids who were chosen to go to MPP (Major progress program)…the day they pulled us out of the class to tell us was the day of the in-school recorder concert… i was crying hysterically because i had brought my recorder case but the recorder wasn’t inside. i had to go down to the office to call joanne because my mom wasn’t home, so she could bring it to me…and the whole process of learning the recorder is a funny one too. we had lessons once a week. for the entire year i didn’t play a single note. i didn’t know how to sight read the music, and somehow i managed to never get called on during the lesson to play. then one day i stopped being lazy (3rd grade i was horribly lazy, didn’t do anything haha, seriously… a note was sent home to my mom about how i didn’t do anything, so she took away my tv privaledges, since all i did was watch tv)…so i stopped being lazy and i actually read the notes, and wrote down what they were on my sheet music, and suddenly i could play. and i played so good that i was chosen to play in the concert (not everyone played in it). go me!

really, i was so lazy in 3rd grade. i mean, i think i was really bored throughout elementary school… and high school…but anyway, every year we had the invention convention. everyone had to create an invention and they were all shown in the gym. then the best ones were chosen to be shown in a regional thing. 1st grade mine was chosen to be in the regional show (which took place at a mall LOL)…it was like… a leash to attach to my pound puppy, which was then attached to the bedpost so he wouldn’t fall out of bed at night :). you had to make a little model of it…so my model was a shoe box upsidedown with popsicle stick bed posts, and one of my mini pound puppies attached with yarn to it. apparently it was really great for 1st grade. we went to see the show and never found my invention :(…when we asked where it was, the gifted teacher said she didn’t want to show it because she was afraid it would get stolen (since it had the pound puppy attached)…so i was sorta disappointed with that. BUT ANYWAY THE POINT OF MY STORY WAS…. in 3rd grade, we had lots of time to do this invention. well i didn’t do it. the day it was due i told my mom to find a cardboard box, and put 2 bowls in it… one for cat food and one for water…it was the food box, so that pets wouldn’t make a mess with the food all over the floor…(and i told her this on the way to school HAHA) …and why that was so lazy of me, was because i stole the idea from this girl carrie. it was THE exact same idea… LOL i don’t remember what happened with that… hahah. i didn’t get in trouble or anything.

i guess my procrastination skills go back father than i thought. because I thought i acquired them in MPP…when everyone would wait until the night before a project was due to do it… i remember staying up til 9:30 (which was late for a 9 year old) doing my simple machines project….same with my electricity project and every other project we had to do. but i distinctly remember my simple machines project…someone was at our house meeting with my parents about their wills they were writing…i was in the dining room. i spread everything out all over the dining room table, and then i spent an hour coloring in my eraser with a blue pen… then spent an hour trying to wash the pen off in the kitchen sink… and i spent forever on this chart we had to do as part of the project…. god i was such a procrastinator!! i know people who never turned in the final weather project in 5th grade….and i used to fake being sick to get out of exams, and take them later… hahahah. i distinctly remember faking sick to miss school and take the government exam late, and the native american unit exam late hahah…and actually i took the electricity exam late too because i remember sitting in our special library by myself drawing circuits (and let me just add the stuff we did in 4th grade science was harder than the stuff we did in 11th grade physics)…lol

omg i really shouldn’t get started on all these MPP memories, cuz i got tons… LOL.

last night i asked eric if he had seen the episode of Forever Wild that was the metal olympics…he hadn’t. one of the categories was longest metal scream…sebastian bach had himself in the category along with some others. i don’t remember who else was it it, and i don’t remember who won (not sebastian)…but the whole time i was thinking, hellooooo maynard!!!!! maynard’s metal screams are way longer than these people…. and since they’ve played APC on the show, i figured, they’d have maynard as one of the competitors..they didn’t.

so i had mentioned this to eric, and he was like yeah, there are some things on undertow that are real long…i had been thinking of the stuff on lateralus, the long notes in ticks and leeches, besides APC’s Judith…well just finished listening to Eulogy…maynard’s end scream, 13 seconds long. he should have won that category. cuz that was longer than the entrants on the show, and that might not be maynard’s longest scream…

 

everyone says Earshot sounds like Tool.. um.. yeah are we listening to the same thing? esp cuz ppl that i’ve heard saying this are basing it on the earshot queen of the damned song which sounds NOTHING like tool. sorry. earshot sounds like every other guitar alternative band on the radio, not tool. the guy doesn’t sound like maynard, the drums are no where near up to the level of tool…and it just DOESN’T SOUND LIKE TOOL!

 

the drama of the townhouses never fucking ends. never. i went outside to move my car from the faculty lot, when i open the door, glass all over the cement. so i look around, our front light was completely shattered. 2 panes of glass, and the inside dome around the light bulb were broken, glass everywhere. our neighbors light was ripped out of the brick and hanging by the wires. danielle and i got home at 3:30 and everything was fine. the neighbor kid i talked to said they noticed after 4am sometime.

so we called Uni Police and the guy came to take a report…again…3 days after the fire alarm report…and a few weeks after the missing #3 report. he asked us if we thought we were being targeted by anyone….yeah…mhmm. since a light down in the next building was ripped off last week, and now our light was broken and #24’s was ripped out, we figure we’re not being targeted. the police guy was all weird tho, he made a big deal about it. then when i went outside to move my car, he was getting into his and asked me again if i thought we were being targeted.

 

from yahoo: “Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach was taken into police custody for making terrorist threats and for drug possession on Wednesday.”

NOOO sebastian!!!! ur so cool!!!!!!! i dont see in the article where he was making terrorist threats…he was threatening to kill the bartender…is that considered to be terrorism? lol since when?

 

i made pancakes for everyone this morning. they were good. so yeah, i took the plunge and cooked again. making chili on tuesday too.

i should get dressed lol

 

back from kareoke….it was rad. it was way better than beer gardens. eric sang 3 times – pearl jam’s “jeremy”, fuel’s “bad day” and stp’s “plush”…he originally signed up to do OLP’s “superman’s dead” but switched to plush. then signed up to do the staple, house of pain’s “jump around” but ran out of time. there was this other kid there, the “metal kid” who did 2 guns n roses songs, and then the bob seger version of “turn the page” and stuff…yeah. and that kid was gonna do plush too but eric beat him to it. they had a bizzare list of songs. they had u2’s “the ground beneath her feet”…which is like a bonus track on UK versions of “all that you cant leave behind”…like, who knows that song besides u2 fans?!

someday…someday i’ll get drunk enough or get up the courage to do something. i think danielle and i should do “you spin me round”…but she said she’ll never do kareoke…they had orgy’s blue monday, and if i was drunk i’d do that LOL. and i’d probably do closer too hehehe….they had Korn’s ADIDAS and this kid did it… was HORRIBLE…had no idea what the rhythm of the words even were.. it’s like hello!?! if ur gonna sign up to do a song, at least sorta know how it goes, k? great.

word of the day: super. i’ve said super like 10thousand times today.

i feel icky again. head won’t go back to “normal” blah.

drove home to take bill and leah to the superflea today. stopped at my house, then flea market for nintendo games. i got marble madness and california games (2 games i used to own but gave to someone years ago)…and bill bought his own marble madness. i wanted bubble bobble but the guy was asking 15$ for it!! i was like no fucking way dude. only that guy had it too blah. we didn’t get any super nintendo games…i wanted to get aladdin or lion king, but they were 12$ and i was running out of money. i also brought the powerpad back so we played around with our new stuff when we got back. also went to the galleria…hot topic had my skirt but it was missing one of the pins blah…they have this really cute Dickie’s dress there that i’m gonna go back and try on when i go home for break in a week. it’s like 39$ or something. it’s so cute. hopefully it’s cute on hahah. i need something to wear in vegas and new orleans since it’ll be 4 thousand degrees in both places. and i hate shorts.

so i guess danielle and i are going to rit again tonight for kareoke…or something. not really sure LOL. but whatever. MUST REMEMBER TO TAKE ERIC’S BDAY GIFT WITH ME! i’m putting it in front of my door so i can’t forget. lol.

interesting day today. went to class, which we almost didn’t have. he said we could talk about anything instead of lecture but no one had anything to talk about haha. so we had lecture. then went to do research stuff with the proffs. went to lunch with beth…sat in the union talking to her for like 2 hours. then went to clinical. we sat there for 5 minutes, proff didn’t show up so we all left hahah. ur supposed to give them 10 min if they are dr (cuz that makes them so much more special) but we just left. he was at a luncheon for a new honor society geneseo is trying to get. so who knows how long that’d be, you know? whatever. so since it was warm and nice, came back home, and this girl who is in my class who i walk back with wanted to sit outside. so we sat outside and played scategories for a half hour LOL.

when i was in the union with beth, i was showing her my computer art stuff because she might want to take the class. well this lunch lady just stopped and wanted to buy my stuff LOL. shes like, do you sell it? and i’m like no but i can. so i sold her one of my pictures (the color niagara falls one with the statue coming out of the falls and the space shuttle) for 2 bucks (costs me 25 cents to print haha). then she came back and was like, can you print me another one? and i’m like sure. so next week i’ll go sell her another one hahaha. go me.

and omg, yesterday i was in the library cafe waiting for beth sara and amanda to show to discuss the research and i was looking at people mag about the grammys. beth showed up and there was a pic of bono in the mag, so i’m like oooh it’s bono!! and i’m like i love bono! she goes “who’s bono?” i’m like OMG ARE YOU SERIOUS?! shes like yeah, who’s that? I’m like you don’t know who bono is? she’s like, no. i’m like from u2. she goes oh i like u2. i’m like and you don’t know who bono is?! LOL so now she’s like bono hahaha whenever i mention him. hahahah.