I'm not going to be updating this anymore, but I am going to be updating my new blog - http://volunteerinindonesia.blogspot.com/

I'm going to be living in Indonesia for a year! I want to have a drink with each and every one of you before I leave in July

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My photos

Ok, so I didn't send christmas cards or get anybody gifts....please don't take it personally, the last few weeks have been crazy and I just didn't have time. Sorry everybody!

Happy christmas to all.

So. Let's see. Where do I start?

My job. I work at Gate 1 Travel, which you can check out if you want to at Gate1travel.com I work in the product development department. Eventually I'll be in charge of the South Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti and more.) Right now I'm on a team of three and we handle all of Asia and the South Pacific. Basically we decide where we want the tours to go, what sightseeing and hotels we want, and how much we want to pay. Then we just sort of make it. It's a lot of filling out spreadsheets with rates and stuff, but it's a pretty good job. I like it. I make more money than I expected, so that's pretty exciting.

My apartment. I live in Glenside in a nice little one bedroom apartment. The only thing bad I have to say about the apartment is how small the kitchen is. I'm gonna post some pictures of the apt at the end. I finally have internet and tv which is pretty nice.

Uh...hmmm. I don't really know what else there is to say. What am I forgetting? Anyway, sorry that I haven't been talking to anybody lately. It has to do with not having internet for a month.

So here are the pictures ( my apartment )

So I'll definitely be moving to my new apartment on Sunday. We had some stressful trouble getting the electric and gas set up, but now it's taken care of. I went down and saw the apt on thurs and it seemed pretty nice- small, but that's what I expected. I think I should have a housewarming party some time. I'd only invite like five people, but still, it'd be fun.

I'm finally done being a cashier. I am so very happy about that.

I don't know if I'll have internet once I get moved in, I'm going to have to pick a provider and figure out what's cheapest and stuff. I'm kind of hoping I can steal some free wireless, but that's a long shot. Ugh, it's so stressful to have to worry about all this stuff I never thought about before- internet, tv, electric, gas....so many bills. My parents are letting me stay on their cell phone plan for now so at least I don't have to worry about that. Because there's no way I could afford it.

My address is:
850 North Easton Rd, Apt 4
Glenside, Pa
I don't know the zip code....I should probably look that up.

I got a job! It's with Gate 1 Travel in Glenside, near Philly. I'll be really close to Selina and Vicky! yay! I think I'll mostly be taking reservations for the Travel company- nothing too thrilling, but it's full time, decent pay and with benefits, so I'm excited. Mostly I'm excited about getting my own place. I have an apartment lined up already, when I was interviewing the guy helped me. It was pretty awesome. Rent doesn't sound too bad, especially for that area. Maybe I can get a kitten! I'll post with more details when I know them.

Well, it's over. I am no longer a college student. Interesting.

I had a job interview at the beginning of the week with PACE Resources in York, PA. I'd be writing their company newsletter, make between 25 and 35,000 a year and have lots of good benefits. I really want it. I think the interview went well, they didn't ask me much, it felt like they were trying to sell the job to me, they even ended by telling me where to look for apartments in the area. I should hear from them soon.

So, uh....how are you all doing?

Spending all day watching Monty Python and reading Sylvia Plath will make you feel extremely bipolar.

I've got a lot of work to do, so this seems like a perfect time to update.

My laptop died last night. It turned off and will not turn back on. I'm slightly panicked about that. I'm at the library now and I imagine my weekend will involve a whole lotta time here. But maybe, in a way, it's a good thing because I get a lot more done here. I got two pages of a paper written and 70 pages of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest read. Which really is not a significant portion of what I have to do this weekend, but it's probably more than I'd have done if I was in my room. Cause I would have fallen asleep. I almost fell asleep at the library anyway cause I was downstairs in a comfy chair and there's that nice booky smell and lots of pretty books around and it's really warm, but instead i got coffee and ate an apple and now I'm nice and awake and ready to procrastinate for a few minutes before I try to finish one of my papers. And I get to play on pretty Mac computers and that makes me happy. And I guess I'll rent a Mac while I try to figure out a way to get my laptop resurrected. I'm trying not to think about my laptop though. cause it makes me want to swear. a lot.

My radio show with Laura is in a few hours and that's exciting. It's really a lot of fun. And we play really good music. So yay.

I'm really trying to think of more things to babble on about, but I've got just about nothing. Off to work then, I guess.

I have coffee taste in my mouth and wish I had some gum. I should be writing a paper before I go to work at five, but instead I'm doing this. Last night I dreamed I went to Antarctica to visit friends who lived there and they didn't let us into their underground camp soon enough and i got frostbite on my pinky finger. How lame of them.

In class today we were talking about swooning and I kept thinking about the time I went to the vets office and tried to watch him operate on a dog, and I swooned when he cut it open. And then I laughed at myself. I'm such a noblewoman sometimes.

I got eight hours of sleep last night, but I'm still really tired today. I'm not happy about that. I went to bed early hoping I would wake up refreshed. Because work is pretty tiring and I have to go again tonight and then do homework when I'm done. I suppose I'll get through it somehow though.

so, in the spirit of procrastination, here's ( this )

I really like thursdays. Because I only have one class. And that's not until 1:20. It felt so nice to be able to sleep in. I think I may have been able to shrug off the bad mood that's been clinging to me the past few days.

Last night I tried out for the Vagina Monologues and got in! yay! I'll be reading "Hair", which is the first monologue. I'm glad I'm first because that means I just just go to rehearsal for like ten minutes and then say "well I'm done, I'll go do my hours and hours of homework now." "Hair" isn't my favorite one but I do like the voice and I know I can do it, so it'll be nice to not have to stress over a hard one like "Reclaiming Cunt" last year. Even though I ended up loving "Cunt" with all my heart. And that last sentence makes me laugh.

Not much else is really going on. I've been seeing people and being social which is nice. Oh and I got a job in the dish room. It's kind of sucks but it's not as bad as that catering job I had a few summers ago. Today I've got to go to the career center and see about life after college. ugh. I am so not ready.

ok, so it's 3:49 in the morning. I'm back in Alfred and (possibly) back to updating every now and then. I sort of forgot about this journal for a few months, it would seem.

I can't sleep because something crazy was just happening down the hall. I haven't exactly figured out what yet, but the police are here and people were yelling. I'm sure that the story will be all over campus by tomorrow morning and I'll find out the details.

The first week back at school has been fun. It's been really nice seeing people again. It's like I have a social life or something. Quite a change from the UK. Another change is having to do work every night and having more than 2 hours of class a day. But it's good. I like my classes so far.

I guess I don't really have that much to worry about. I'm just waiting to see if I can figure out what the drama down the hall is.

I'm so twitchy right now. Twitch. I took excedrin because the caffeine in it always makes me, well, twitchy, which is better, at the moment, than asleep with my head on the space bar and my essay turning into nothing but space. that would be a bad essay. Not that what I'm actually coming out with is much more relevant than black space, but hey, I don't actually, you know, care. I'm thinking that I could stay up all night to get my 1 and 1/2 essays written for tomorrow. Then just go to class at 11 (class that I tried to attend this morning only to realize upon seeing the empty room, that hey, it's weds, you idiot. thus proving my insanity) and then straight to library, print essays, sleep for like two hours or something, wake up and drink some of the vodka that's been on my shelf since halloween and go to some christmasy thing with my flatmates. then finish my short story friday or something and friday night go to the airport, get there at 11, wait until 4:30 AM to check in, leave at 6something, get to greece at 12something, sit around athens airport, go to sharons house and try not to act like a recovering junkie as i occasionally do with when i'm in such a state of exhaustion + stress. Then back to london weds, christmas shopping and home thurs. i want to be home now and be asleep. or be home and be with people that I like. it's been three months since i've seen any person that i particularly like and that makes me sad. but soon soon soon. i'm updating this so that my essay doesn't resemble this entry in quality. trying to get it out of my system, you know. although, as i've previously stated, I don't actually, you know, care. but i'm a total liar because what i'm actually doing is procrastinating and not wanting to end my dinner break. my last days in britian are a blurry fog of stress and i never did get to try yorkshire pudding.

Ugh, if there's anything worse than being sick, it's being sick in a foreign country where they don't have the same medicines and you just want to go home and lay in your own bed. But I think I'm starting to get better.

My parents will be here on Thursday! yay! It'll either help my homesickness or make it ten times worse. We'll see, I suppose. My mom and I will be attempting to make traditional Thanksgiving for my flatmates without the use of an oven. hmmm. It'll be interesting, to say the least. I hope my mom feels in the mood to go shopping.

Here's some pictures of me being drunk in rome that I didn't put on my other journal:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=xo4w4w5.186b8crl&x=0&y=-ji6f20

I just want to sleep but I have five papers to write. and I have even less motivation to do them than usual.

One of my plug adapter thingies stopped working and made me think that my computer broke. I was panicking for a long time before I figured out what was going on. I just have to buy a new thingie and that shouldn't be too expensive. Stupid plug thingie.

I'm gonna go be half-assed about doing school work.

Totally hot halloween pictures. Click away.

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p.s. There's a bunch more pictures here than at fourteen_weeks, so look at them here if you're friends with both journals

They keep setting off fireworks outside and every single time one explodes, I jump. It's been like three days of constant jumping. My nerves are shot. I'm going insane. Stop with the bloody fireworks already.

So, you know how british people often say "All right?" as a greeting? As in "All right, Harry?" "All right, Ron?" Well, every time someone says it to me, I don't know how to respond and get all awkward and confused. "Uh...yeah...uh...fine...er...hi, uh, how're you?" Why can't I figure out a coherent way to respond to this greeting?

One of the boys left a burner on today for like three hours. I hate sharing a kitchen with boys. I really do. And they leave their dishes everywhere. And today one dropped water on the floor, grabbed a dish towel that he uses for drying clean dishes, threw it on the ground and used his foot to soak up the water, picked it up with his toes and then put it back on the counter with his dishes. ew.

I have to write a paper and I can't seem to get started and I have no idea what to do or what to write and I can't seem to make myself care at all. This is not good. Why can't I just take all writing classes. I should have. And I don't think Alfred's offering any 300 level writing for next semester, which means I won't have room for any writing at all. I'm tired of lit classes. Or maybe I'm just moody right now because my sleep schedule is all fucked up. But at the moment I don't want to take any more lit at all. ugh.

Last night a drunk guy came up to me at the train station and asked me what train I was waiting for. I told him. He then grabbed my face and kissed my forehead. He said something else but I didn't catch it because I was too shocked. Then he left. Later that night, back in Norwich, I was trying to catch a bus at the same time as all the drunks from the clubs. I saw like four hardcore fist fights. The bus driver called the cops. This one guys was on the ground and other guys were just beating the hell out of him. Also these two girls starting going after each other, then this guy punched one of them in the face. It was intense. And there was like a 13 year old kid there and he kept instigating the older jock guys, if the cops hadn't come they would have well beat him. Oh, drunk brits. After this semester the antics of drunk Alfredians will never surprise me again.

I fell asleep reading T.S. Eliot and dreamt of footnotes and stanza breaks for fourty minutes this afternoon. Later I found this poem. I wrote it over the summer after reading a lot of e e cummings.

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I was tagged by inkonapin

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your Livejournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Little Ghost- The White Stripes
2. Blood From a Clone- George Harrison
3. No Matter What- Badfinger
4. Add It Up- Violent Femmes
5. I Feel Free- Cream
6. Float On- Modest Mouse
7. Golden Slumbers- The Beatles

And I totally don't even know seven people if you don't count Selina and the people she tagged so...
1. blueduckie24
2. widesmile
3. undeadbagel

I just got White Stripes tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!GAH!!!!! SO EXCITED! It's the weekend of my London visit, which is all payed for by the program I came here with and the day before I go to Liverpool. They were expensive, but it's so worth it. That week is going to go down in history as the most amazing fucking week that could ever possibly exist!