Rantings and ravings. Just think of it as Sunday afternoon with the in-laws, or the eccentric grandmother. Good times had by all. Except me..because I always seem upset in my blog posts..hm.

Monday, February 28, 2005

back by popular demand...

just kidding. no one has been complaining that i haven't been updating because..well..very few people (love to those who do) actually read this thing. and even if people do read it, they can't leave comments because well, it's a bit of a process, keeping up with this blog business.
past week, eh.
the dress-up thing planned by pamp was well...i believe the result of the fact that he doesn't see me often.
okay i'll explain dearie, just for you.
pamp, aka brian mulvihill and i had a conversation at cpac (don't shoot me, it was a conservative conference...oh yea...i'm the one who's in favor of the nra's existence...nevermind. you can't shoot me) okay anyway, pamp and i were talking at cpac and he was making suggestions of how i could be more positive about my self image and things like that and he suggested that i 'dress up' for a whole week (not a business week, but a full 7-day week, sunday to sunday). not dress up like, in dresses and skirts, but not t-shirts. that was the basic rule. sneakers were fine due to the walking to class thing, but no t-shirts. the thing is, i realized that i don't normally wear lots of t-shirts. even to sleep in i wear tank tops because it is so warm in this steamy tundra of a 3rd floor dorm. in conclusion, dressing up did nothing for the ::puppyface::. it's okay though. the effort was there, and i applaud the pamp's efforts. ::golf clap::.
last sunday, on my way back to campus, i ran over a cat. it was already dead, mind you. but that didn't matter to my inner child and my sympathetic feminine side. while driving, i managed to flood my lap with waters of guilt that streamed from my face, in torrents between the sobs. what's worse was that i didn't see the cat in time because i was following too closely to the car in front of me because he had cut me off. aside from that, i had not gone to church. = guilt. and plenty of it. ruined my entire week.
what else ruined my week might you ask?
the fact that according to former (she's dead now) psychoanalyst Karen Horney (Horn-eye) sickos, i'm neurotic. This could be due to a couple things. We were discussing in personality theories and research, her 10 neurotic needs. i managed to apply myself to at least 2 of them. bummer. Second possible cause for application: she didn't specify what a 'normal', or a 'healthy' person would qualify as. i could very possibly be 'normal' and/or 'healthy', and not know it because she simply left this distinction out of her analyses. we'll never know, because as i said, she's dead, but for now, i'm mildly neurotic. eh. i'm sure it adds character. sorta like running over a black and white cat that's already dead...someone's pet...the poor kid...yea that really got to me. but anyway...
i went to the college republican meeting on wednesday with the intention of voting for the guys who are most qualified to lead our club to a more meaningful existence. so i'm sitting there, and i'm reading 'Global Woman' by Barbara Ehrenreich...the lady who apparently wants a $2 increase to minimum wage...and i hear the speaker of the night (a man running for assemblyman i believe, but luckily he isn't in my district) and there's something i don't like about him...oh that's it! his mannerisms remind me of bill clinton! drove me nuts. then the candidates speak. matt esposito, eric pasternack...pasternac? not sure, tom sales running for chairman; daniel beckelman and tony decarlo (cool last name, almost as cool as mine ;O) running for vice chair. the go get 'em or 'GIT 'ER DUUUNNN' if you will, speakers were by far, tom sales and tony decarlo. the problem with voting for any of the candidates for me was that they each chose to incorporate a political issue into their speech that i sort of disagreed with. each one of them did.
i felt like crying. again. i don't fit in! not a liberal, not a strong enough conservative to belong to this group, but too afraid and chicken and not up on the political issues well enough to take a stand against them, so yea. i didn't vote. which is a bad thing to do, but it was the only thing i could think of to protest what they had said, quietly. i cheated tho. you see, my roommate becky had voted by absentee (she works at applebees, so you better tip her right) so rather than saying oh and here's another vote by absentee, i said hm...it'll look like i'm voting if i write down on this shred of paper who becky wanted to win. the entire time, i'm thinking back on all of the speakers at cpac who had views i disagreed with. some of the time, it was real torture. especially the end. the grand finale...the lady who was insulting the vagina monologues. and all of the mindless conservatives clapping like there was no tomorrow. i'd be clenching my fists if i wasn't typing. i take pride in the fact that a woman wrote a play to symbolize the fight against violence toward women. so what if they chant the word 'cunt' and make conservatives uncomfortable! isn't that the point? awareness must occur somehow, and the two conservatives i was sitting near (no names) HATED it. one said he really didn't mind it and that some parts were funny but he's lying. moral of the story: don't be too content on fitting in at college. no one will be exactly like you. least of all dudes who like dub-ya.
new topic.
i'm having trouble again with the whole trust vs. jealousy issue. i know i shouldn't, and that i should throw all of my chips in at this point because i know i'm gonna beat the house, but there's still doubt. it's the whole, being cheated behind my back sort of thing. i can't help it! i have trouble trusting people. that's what it boils down to. and i need concrete evidence that proves otherwise, or else the doubt will resurface. as it has recently. maybe it's a pms thing. i sure hope so. a topic this ugly isn't worth wasting an argument on, so i'll leave it here.
i'm walking for multiple sclerosis in april. it was nice last year. the boardwalk in belmar is softer than other boardwalks bc of the material it's made out of, and it's pleasant. the beach-front properties are humongous. if you'd like to donate and it's convenient, you have ample opportunity to get in touch with me and sponsor me.
i can't think of anything else to say...except bellydancing exercise tapes and 8 minute abs to fast club music is diesel. i hate using that word. i have to find a better one.
any suggestions?

Sonnet 112; Shakespeare
"Your love and pity doth th'impression fill
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none, alive,
That my steeled sense o'er-changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
Mark how with my neglect I do dispense:
are so strongly in my purpose bred
That all the world besides me thinks you're dead."

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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

i can't help it baby, this is who i am

cookbonus: so what'd u do today?
allmixtup48: i woke up
allmixtup48: went to class
allmixtup48: came back
allmixtup48: tried to read, ate a little, took a 10 minute nap
allmixtup48: went to the soup kitchen
allmixtup48: helped a man named duncan read words like 'far' and 'Carl'
allmixtup48: came back
allmixtup48: ate a little bit more
allmixtup48: read a little bit more
allmixtup48: day dreamed a whole lot
allmixtup48: went to class
allmixtup48: took lotsa notes
allmixtup48: walked to the cstore
allmixtup48: grabbed a salad
allmixtup48: and here i am. dancin around to jimmy eat world and talkin to dudes.
cookbonus: excelent
allmixtup48: excellent.
cookbonus: great recap

This is what i've been up to. sure i have updates. i went to cpac for cryin out loud.
Can't talk now tho. Ask individually if you're interested.
:OE bite me.
tehe

Tuesday, February 15, 2005

wrote this in my 530-820. social entrepre...n...zzzzzzz

there is a place inside
an empty void
it once ran red
alive with feeling
pumped hard with emotion
once stronger and deeper
than love.
this place has since
dried up
and lost touch
with what surrounds it.
isolated and out of
touch, i tried to
fill the void.
aggravating the already
sensitive flesh.
how can i substitute
for something i held so deeply and in the
thickest parts and the
most secluded?
where can i find
something to fill the void?

Monday, February 14, 2005

valentine's day edition

appreciation is in the eye of the beholder.
if you appreciate someone, chances are they don't know how much, or they may not be aware of it.
and if you are appreciated, chances are, you're clueless. you really might not know it...until you get random v-day gifts/cards/texts, and you really honestly and truly were not expecting them. thank you btw, to everyone who gave me something, bc i wasn't expecting it. at all.
have a little faith. there are surprises around every corner.
Happy V-day whether you're alone with someone, or alone without. :O*

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

things are better if i stay

why does music affect us so much?
if you play a certain song and you feel a certain way, you feel strong enough to move mountains, or weak enough to break down and cry. that's pretty powerful. the title of this entry is a line from a my chemical romance song. i'm addicted to it. it makes me dance and scream and everything in between, and it's wonderful.
my week:
monday: is over and i don't want to think back on it, except that i got to talk to frank.
tuesday: trenton area soup kitchen, clinical research sem was canceled but my lit review is still due friday, class and presentation of MEMO at 530 social entrep class, uno's later on to fundraise for circle k
wednesday: oh that reminds me i have to email liz and tell her i'm getting my ashes tomorrow at 12...intermission go get some popcorn...back. okay sometime tomorrow i'm meeting liz to create a presentation about the charles manson clan and examine them through a Freudian lens. fascinating. yea right! that stupid presentation has to be 20-30 minutes long so yea. hating angelone right now just a little. also on wed i have a circle k meeting, getting ashes at 12 so i can walk around all day w/ a dirty but blessed forehead, and then i have the class for which i have to read 200 pages.
thursday: cleaning house for the cromwell 5 boys, which paid pretty well; afterschool tutoring; and oh yea, the charles manson presentation. whoopee.
friday: YAY FOR VAGINAS! attending the vagina monologues, maybe seeing frank, maybe having an anti-valentine's day partay, and volunteering at one of the signup tables for the blood drive.
saturday: volunteering for our friendly neighbor assemblyman Bill Baroni and maybe going home.
sunday is up in the air as is...
valentine's day is monday give out free hugs and kisses.
so much work so little time.
keep it cool, dearies.

Monday, February 07, 2005

help me save me...tell me that the end is near

i'll be pleasantly surprised if i survive this week...

Friday, February 04, 2005

haven't i seen you here before?

well there ain't no heroes here.

so. how have you been? i do realize i've been away. these past two weeks haven't been the best, and i had much to tell but i wasn't going to tell it. also at night, when i would normally write in my blog, i found myself busy with other such pressing engagements. like csi. no no i'm kidding. although csi is three nights a week. homework is every night of the week. you see my issue.
i have to remember to bring a check back to school for my housing deposit. i should write that down. i realize i just did but i don't read what i write once i write it except to check for spelling errors because i find that tres sloppy.

more later. must eat now. farrel's hungry.