Friday, September 30, 2005

never heard of it.

the purpose of this journal is simply a memory exercise. I have the most fleeting memory of anyone I've ever known. I don't remember endings to movies, plots of books, stories from my childhood until those experiences are suggested again and again by others. However, I kept a journal in my sophomore of college, and i was sufficiently less demented. some thoughts, some feelings, but mostly experiences and everyday jib-jab. Elementary students could tell you that writing things down helps consolidate memories. well, they wouldn't use the word consolidate, but the concept is there. And this is my goal... not so much to head off the onset of alzheimer's in my amateur scribbling, but at least to be able to remember more details about my life. I don't really predict much of an audience.
So. with that said, all formalities out of the way. I shall commence the rambling...all to follow will most likely be of little consequence to you. consider that your only warning.

Thursday, September 29, 2005

where were you when?

my intention is not for this journal to be a survey center, but i just haven't gotten the bug yet, i guess.
Where Was I...?
1 min ago- complaining to sam's club about it being two months since I ordered my mattress and eating a PB & J
1 day ago- exactly? eating from the fruit tray at kathy's pandora jewelry show
1 week ago-transfering mutant c.elegans to new culturing plates
1 month ago-spending the weekend in dallas with aaron
1 year ago-getting into the swing of my senior year, waiting tables at johnny carinos, planning aaron's birthday, making mcat plans
3 years ago- aw, just starting my sophomore year. my first apartment with dos katies at the centre, busy as a social bee... what great fun to be an underclassman, with little worries and lots of free time.
5 years ago-my senior year in high school. probably occupied with cheerleading, student countil, football games, and yearbook. i still thought baylor was in new york, and had yet to begun applying to colleges--but already steaming to get outta town.
7 years ago-probably the same as in previous....? in the 'old' high school. um sophomore year. just got a learner's permit...maybe reading julius caesar and working on a homecoming float...

Friday, September 23, 2005

potty humor.

Thursday, September 15, 2005

look. something shiny.

i save every card i have ever received.
i indescribably enjoy picking the pointy ends of the feathers that stick out of my pillow.
i like dr pepper, but only the top half of the bottle or can.
if i had a second language, it would be french.
i hope to spend at least one year living in europe.
crickets scare the bejeesus out of me.
i once was sidekicked by my 9 year old brother during a ruthless game of capture the flag and broke my left pinkie.
my favorite museums are the met in ny, centre pompidou in paris, and hermitage in russia.
i say a prayer for someone when i see a car missing a headlight.
sometimes i pretend to be dumb, so that others will ask less of me.
sometimes i pretend to be smart, so that others will be impressed.
sometimes i care too much about what other people think.
i have had a sting-ray suck on my back.
i cannot dive.
i am a Christian.
i would give my left toe to sing on broadway.
i would like america to end its obsession with celebrities.
i enjoy sneezing.
i have over 300 pins in my 'collection'.
deep down, i hate to fast dance. in public.
i worry that someday i'll undergo an emergency MRI and the doctors will fail to recognize the permanent metal brace behind my two front teeth and i will be smashed.
i love multi colored sharpies.
i am not a risk-taker.
i own over 70 pairs of underwear.
i once jumped from one moving boat to another.
i must have a clean house.
i would spend all day in the bath. I take 2 per day when I am home.
Squares appeal to me.
I would love to be a writer, but I cannot write & I have nothing to say.
I like saying the word 'crysanthemum'
I sometimes jump the shadows on the road with my mouth when riding in a car.
I think many of my thoughts as a 'storyline'.
I don't think I make a very good first impression.
I indescribably hate being ignored.
I have begun to think of my future in terms of 'we'.
I hate the word 'ritter' and 'boob'.
I go through a whole box of matches just for the smell.
I practice some conversations.
I sometimes 'sign' words along with the televison.
I have eaten camel, emu, and kangaroo.
I have gone 17 days with my only shower being in seawater.
the president waved to us.
i would like to chase a tornado.
sometimes my tv will spend a whole day on the weather channel.
i can't do everything i put my mind do.
what doesn't kill me, doesn't make me stronger.
i dislike natural light in my bedroom.
i was once grounded from my blow dryer.
i have worn a swimsuit on stage.
i have a milk allergy that doesn't stop me from painfully consuming dairy.
i climbed 280 feet to the top of St. Paul's cathedral by myself.

i miss my grandparents.
i have biked down a volcano.
i have been stung by a jellyfish.
i have been on a hospital gurney.
i do everything the hard way.
when i turn on the tv, i always first check to see if there is a poker tournament on.
i once singed my hair in a candle.
i have had a tennessee congressman cut my tangled hair off of a chair leg.
i once won a 17 lb. ham.
i have given my autograph.
i always kill my plants. and fish. rest in peace bill.
i make "pop-up" scrapbook pages.
i have ridden a horse IN the ocean.

i know mixing bleach and ammonia can kill you.
i was in on the beanie baby craze of '98.
i think sushi is disgusting.
when i was 11, i had a fish named Nitro, after american gladiators.
i like writing my name in velvet.
i onced helped my brother run away from home.
i even packed him a sandwich for the road.
i drove a golf cart off of a bridge. a small one.
i point the airvents in my car at my underarms. ...what, too much?
my favorite smell is my pomegranate archipelago candle.
and burning leaves. and aaron's aftershave.
i am so very afraid of knives.
i hate coffee. love coffeehouses.
i work at SPICE.
i have a 4' x 5' pirates of the caribbean paris, france
premiere poster in my living room.
i dont understand 'shrugs' as a wardrobe choice.
i was in dance for ten years.
i have changed majors.
i have never asked a prof to change a grade.
i am afraid of ice skates.
i have been asked if my hair was real.
i can never get rid of tan lines.
i forget to wash my sheets.
my favorite possesions are the things that were handmade for me.
i love getting mail. im always requesting catalogs online
just to ensure the aforementioned.
i have had a song written about me.
i never want to be mediocre.
i have been in 'white-water' without the raft.
i care more for my friends and family than they will ever know.
i have relinguished my obsessive-away-message checking days.
i think my freudian 'super-ego' has too much control.
i once thought of joining the military.
i now have a piece of jewelry named after me.
i carved jack sparrow's face into a pumpkin.
i have performed the national anthem many a' time.
i have visited 27 states.
i have visited 12 countries.
i like the smell of gasoline.
i run for a while on empty.
my favorite game is cuddlebug.
i don't understand vera bradley.
i am taking my victory lap.
i drive a stick shift.
i was once on Jerry Lee Lewis's MDA telethon.
i could spend all day at a playground.
i always save the best for last. in anything.
I get a little too-excited about Halloween.
i've been in parades.
green is my favorite color.
i could live on garlic bread alone.
i once played 14 board games in a row.
...and i am really good at them.
i studied abroad.
i haven't seen very many classic movies.
i have fired a gun.
i voted.
i performed at the half-time show of the Hula Bowl.
i was offered a job while in France to take over a crepe stand for a month.
i have snuck 'in' to my own house.
i have waited tables.
i am obsessively-compulsivedly organized.
i first thought Baylor was in syracuse, new york.
i recorded an album (just on tape, back then) when i was nine.
i have never played spin the bottle.
i am blood type B.
i do not read the newspaper.
as a child, i had an invisible friend named Max.
i don't have any cavities....yet.
i absolutely love themeparks.
i can cook a mean spaghetti.
i have cloned DNA.
i love empty vases.
i will never have enough urban outiffter's charlotte shirts.
i've seen over 25 broadway shows.
i will always have bad nails.
i ride a scooter to class some days.
i sang music from little shop of horrors in a bar
when i was four years old.
i enjoy studying.
i have ridden the NY subway.
i went to an easter sunday service in central park.
i have been to 'bike' camp.
i have been on a runway.
i have been in a choir.
i'm part german. part irish. part scot. who isn't?
i want to name my first daughter 'Elle'.
i've paid way too much...
i'm a pushover.
but at least i'm very forgiving.

i was salutatorian of my high school.
i have sold tupperware.
i have skiied a black diamond.
i have given to a homeless man.

i have been in the tunnels. i have an 'asbestos free' souvenir.
i am a supporter of fox news.
i bite my cheeks.
i have traveled by plane, train, and boat.
i have been to a 'pee party'.
i had to have braces twice.
i have snorkled in the great barrier reef.
i have been backpacking/camping.
i have sung at the grand ole opry.
i'm not sure there is ever a 'bigger man'.
i have tie-dyed.
i spend a lot of time watching big brother.
my hummingbird cake won grand champion at the county fair.
i have played greasy watermelon.
i have been in a sock war.
i have walked into a mens restroom.
i wish i was crafty.
i adore beautiful, old architecture.
i have taken the MCAT.
i have marched to my state capital.
i have had poetry published.
i have tried to talk like the gilmore girls.
i could sleep all day.
tulips are my favorite.
i believe true love waits.
i climbed on top of mitchell's restaurant.
i am well documented.
i really DO like college football.
i have been sea sick for 3 days.
i love shopping for other people.
i have 'sledded' down the stairs.
i am a karaoke-er.
the road has always been traveled.
i wrote an newspaper article on pollution.
i have dressed my brothers up in my dance costumes,
pageant dresses, and cheerleading uniforms.
i am directly related to sam houston.
my first cd was amy grant-heart in motion.
i have been kissed on the beach.
i have johnny depp's johnny hancock.
i own a tool set.
i think wingstop puts crack in their lemon pepper sauce.
i have sumo-wrestled.
i have slept directly beneath the stars.
i never think to floss every day.
i have helped build 2 habitat houses.
i have dined in a revolving restaurant.
i have seen michael flatley's legs flail about as if
independent from his body.
i've petted a killer whale.
i am building credit.
i have been a blonde and a brunette.
i have played mud football.
i have been on a ghost hunt of san antonio.
i have played paintball.
I have been on bourbon street.
I have lost money to slot machines.
I have driven a dirt bike against the side of a house.
i bought the brady bunch movie soundtrack.

My parents are bikers.
i have polka danced.
i really hope the long-run is worth it.

Friday, September 02, 2005