30 March 2007

shmorf, misguided intentions, and misplaced jealousy caused my a misinterpretation of misused emotions


meghna rao: "but i really dont think id have any idea what was going on if it wasnt for the fact that i do." this picture was taken by my sister with her little red camera. meghna is currently attending the pumpernickel school of pastriotism, and watches the new hit television show "this american life" every friday evening following her weekly yoga session. she claims that these activities, when performed in that order, releases certain antioxidants in o positive blood typed persons into the brain producing a natural high not unlike the effects of chocolate or ginseng tea. this complicated process got the the nobel prize for randominity in 2003, the same year her first award-winning novel, "white roses and the taste of summer" was published. although critics said that the proper use of punctuation and tense was suffocating, she announced that that bit was a private joke by one of her colleagues at the breadloaf writers convention for the mentally furthered. this colleague is now a retired and wealthy purse salesperson living off the shores of idaho. currently she writes her books entirely by the process of copy-and-paste, which she claims has a stunning and long-lasting effect on the central nervous system (a remedy which is yet to be proved by any reliable medical sources). she now lives in new mexico with seventeen cats, a prairie dog, and two terminally depressed white mice.

yeah, so dc was really cool. it was so PACKED with stuff to do. the lincoln memorial was the best, i think. i would have liked the spy museum but i had to skip most of it because i hurt my nose real bad. but the lincoln memorial was really pretty... it was like eight at night with all the stars reflecting in the big pool of water and you could see the washington memorial all lit up and the capitol behind it.. it was so cool. so i stood right dead center an inch from the big pool and had a long meaningful conversation with banana. i had not had one of those with her for a long time.

then after more running around and tours we went to the aquarium in the morning of the last day for a few hours. that was.. yeah. kitty. does kitty even read blogs? i doubt it, seeing as half my posts have her in them and she never comments *gives imaginary kitty my teacher look*. then we had lunch at the hard rock café where a certain someone that is not myself was forced to stare at the plate the entire time, which went unnoticed by the person causing the hidden workings of this complicated episode in the ongoing... at this point, my audience dies of internal bleeding and will have to gnaw their own leg off to survive if i were to continue. onward and upward. i dont think any of you two people reading this got that, but i needed to say it.

other than that, we just went around. there was this whole behind the scenes stupid thing that i dragged meghna into that made me really sad for a little while. i was wrong about a lot of things, it turns out. seems to be a recurring theme lately. but i was sad with cool people which is hard to do and i was sad in a really really beautiful place which made it more beautiful as i tried to take in the symbolism. there was also something else really beautiful that i missed very much on that trip and when i finally saw her we got to talk and she made me happy again, like always..

im so stupid.

totally unintentionally, i usually say really stupid things but attempt to make them sound fantastic by using really big words. maybe i should be lynne truss when i grow up.

25 March 2007

power tools, eardrums, and unions

james is putting in a new storefront on michigan ave for his shop, and im helping him build things for it. like a huge desk. i just sawed a lot and you could always hear screws and nails going into wood
that loud squealy noise.
but i like the smell of wood, hot wood.

i dont know. i wish meghna would get online. ira glass is coming to pease auditorium, which we can almost see from our house.. hes the host of this american life, a great radio show. and i think we are taking meghna, because she likes it. should be fun.

no one has called me or commented me or initiated a conversation with me for like 4 days
besides magga and frenchie
but they are absolutely badass
so they dont count, besides everything

comment. call me. something.

see you in dc.

edit..

AUUGHGHKSDMHLSDM.

ira glass was AWESOME
diana, it was today.. im sorry. i could only bring one person and i had told meghna..
after party- this cool guy, davy, the in charge type thingy person from found magazine (look it up) is good friends with him. so he walks up to this FAMOUS GUY, and PUTS HIS ARM AROUND HIM, and says "i want you to meet josh and ruth and james and stefan" and then we talked for a while, about really interesting things. we all connected really well, and laughed a lot, and yeah. hes really a genius. i think i need to listen to his show now, more, because i know so much more about it.

meghna met the snail uncle. good job, meghna.
meghna gets mentioned a lot lately.

i am seeing the high school musical tomorrow at 2 (well today) and frenchie shall be there.. supra cool. she really is amazing in the most undefinable (best) ways. if only she COUGH READ MY BLOG maybe she could see..

i seem to be using "(BLAH)" lately. i hope its not annoying.

i hope my self consciousness is not annoying.

well im going to sleep, and maybe my unconsciousness will make me less tired.
GREAT FLIPPING DAY. i needed one of those. back on my feet..

oh right
the union had these huge stacks of chocolate and cheese (mm) and pineapples and eclairs and all that.. so delicious. meeting cool people is really fun, people you just immediately connect with. being an 8th grader and making people laugh happens really rarely, for me, and its nice to meet adults who treat me equally and who i can have a fun time with. comment THAT.

20 March 2007

name calling and baditudes

hey, guys.

magga, kitty, you know it all


bad week
well i have been real tired
i wish i could just take a day off
from doing homework
i have soo much english to do. and math. and civics. and latin.
and thinking


jaysus

i would talk about things
but everyone knows most of it
gimme some love, people
i will comment all 2 of you back, i swear

12 March 2007

gas mask lenses and army green

so my uncle came back from poland where he lives. i havent seen him for three years, but everyone except james and i went to his wedding a little while ago.

thats cool. because my uncle rox all ur soxes (hehe) and we played basketball and hes here for TWO WEEKS. i have a really bad headache again. so tired. and i JUST got home. time to start that homework crap. gr.

a lot happened but thinking about all that typing makes my fingers hurt. ow.


&& edit


he gave me this bag that was actually used in the 80s in the army. it still had gas mask lenses, gas mask lens fog repellent, and a canteen and stuff. it looks good on me, although i think if i brought it in to school people would call it a man purse. once again, influenced by the popular opinion of the world at large.

how very cruel.

08 March 2007

exhausted with the fambly

yea, so about 15 kids stayed after school and we all ordered pizza house. i was smart and didnt order, because SO MUCH FOOD got thrown away because hardly anyone finished. i ate, long story short. it was really a lot of fun because lo brought her buitar and we were all just walking down the halls playing buitar like any respectable big middle school family would do.

and then comes the wave of parents. we all get sorted out into our rooms. we have a small room but with a lot of adults. we had bens mom, mayas mom, saras mom, marions parents, and a few parents i didnt know and one who never said anything or moved.

it was really, really long. as in so mind numbingly long there were long silences and then someone would say "next question?" and we would continue sadly. it wasnt really useful, but i heard the other groups just fought or one person talked the whole time, so i shouldnt be complaining.

what a great way to spend an evening. just you know, waste it. at least our group was funny, and entertaining.

did you guys know that paddy doesnt even know that he comments people? i am like "so paddy i like the pointless comments that tell me how you didnt read my blog but you like duke" and hes like "you have a blog?" and it just made my day. you all know why. i hope.

well i have to go to school, this is actually the day after..

05 March 2007

on second thought..

oh wow, that was a great trip. except the driving.

we went to the aquarium, which was sorta cool. then we went to the chicago diner. gah. HOW AMAZING. its this vegetarian restaurant, and its got the best shakes i have ever had, vegan or otherwise. wow. then we went for lunch the next day.. wow. still good.

and of course, tmlmtbgb.
too much light makes the baby go blind. dont ask me where that came from.
its this place, like a crap building and crap cieling and paint and everything.
i go in, and you pay $7 plus the roll of a six sided die. then there are people with walkmans playing rather loud and earplugs and they yell WHAT IS YOUR NAME and you yell JOSH or whatever your name is, and they write it down on a name tag for you. i got "stuffing ass" and my mom got "shoe top ass". others were "forrest gump" and "donald trump". nice way to start, no? yes.

so then. you walk through this hall into this other hall into a room into a hall and then ONTO A STAGE. and there are about 6 rows of seats in a semicircle. the whole room is about the size of three classrooms. the first thing you notice is a clothesline with a bunch of sheets of paper with numbers on them. there are thirty sheets, thirty numbers.. one through thirty. i feel redundant.

its thirty plays in sixty minutes.

after an intro, somebody sets a dark room timer for sixty minutes, jumps and grabs a piece of paper, and yells the number, and a title.

after the HILARIOUS PLAY, someone yells CURTAIN and then the entire audience shouts the number they want. everybody gets a program, so we just picked based on titles. it was really, really, great. now you have at least one good place to go to in chicago.

yeah. headache.

02 March 2007

is chicago.. is not chicago..

i think only meghna noticed that i have a song title as my post title, which is cool. *tear*.

drive to chicago.
sleepy. sleeping.
snowing. slipping and sliding.
watching people crash..
we pulled over into kalamazoo and im at the hotel stealing wireless from some unsuspecting user. HAHAHAHA. how devious. so, we have a pool. we all managed to forget swimming suits except for my little sister. and we have a really, really, nice pool. if only i was allowed to go swimming in "man thongs". or maybe you have to know pretty eyes over there to get that one. well, some weird movie called mousehunt came onto the tv. see you guys later.


oh wait. except for i went downtown with marion today. pretty cool. the bus ride took forever. but it was wayyyyyyyyy worth it. im glad i went. if only i didnt have to leave so soon for "chicago". we should have gotten a tv projector instead, i knew it.

01 March 2007

freezing rain and a wasted day

so far. blogger. booming success. =[
at least it looks good
^^

i was gunna go see marion in ann arbor but we went to the bank for like an hour against my will and i had to cancel. stupid bank meeting that james had. rr.

so i walked in the pouring freezing rain without my love to the coffee place and got this huge mocha and a piece of quiche and a cinnamon roll. i hadnt eaten in.. 16 hours. laurieshipley.com.. she designs for james. and the academy is.. and gym class heroes.. yeah. pretty cool stuff. check it out.

anyways. i better go. i have an ortho appointment..