you are invited...

so i believed myself to be finished with lj but i had to write about this awesome concert last night... if nothing else, so that grieb, missy and becca could share my joy and not think i had fallen off the face of the earth.

so i was skimming the houston press while chillin at work when i came across this pink floyd tribute band at Fitzgerald's. me, mikael and andrew decided we were gonna go so we smoked a bowl and rolled a joint of dro and we were on our way.

upon arriving we knew immediately that it was gonna be pretty fucking badass. they did the whole nine yards.. lights, vibrations, synthesizer, projector. Oh my god it was so cool. Their set list was totally awesome. They played till 2 in the morning and they played every song i wanted to hear. all the guys were crazy musicians. The guitarist pulled off that amazing solo in echo like it was nothing. my favorite was the drummer though, cause he was fucking amazing. but i think the hardest thing for a tribute band is finding a lead singer who can imitate the voice really well and this guy totally had it.

i hadn't been to the fitz in couple years but it was a cool venue, especially for this kind of show.. and it was only ten dollars (best 10 bucks i ever spent). oh and i totally lit up my roach in the middle of the crowd while listening to pink floyd. it doesn't get any better than that...

okay, let me just say that my roadtrip began and ended with pink floyd...how awesome is that? no, seriously i hate the fact that i don't have a cd player in the car because the radio seems to only play shitty music...but not today, my friends. today i had some non-stop rockin tunes from the cure to zeppelin to nine inch nails and this contributed greatly to my fantastic mood.

my mom came into the austin area with dan and maura for this wedding and they camped out on these people's property, so of course i went to go hang out with the hippie kerrville folks. they are always so entertaining. it was a costume party wedding where the groom wore a suit made of black duck tape and the bridal gown was constructed of bubble wrap and black lingerie. there was no priest...they walked down the aisle to a talking moosehead. (the bride actually jumped out of a cake) and then everybody sang "all you need is love" while dan played guitar. i missed the wedding but i showed up for the afterparty (a shame, i know, but i was really hungover this mornign) and they had a lot of beer, a live band from new orleans, and a chocolate fountain...these people know how to party. it was pretty awesome. i hung out with my mom and met some really cool people. i was also hit on hardcore by a jester - full makeup and costume. he was fun to dance with but i had to shoot him down when he very drunkenly suggested we make out, haha. he was like.."so, have you ever kissed a jester before?" wow. yeah...i wish i could've toked it up with the hippies but they've all known me since i was ten and my mom was there...something tells me she would've objected. but she didn't mind me drinking a lot of beer hehe.

anyway, i left there around ten and met up with bec and micah for some delicious queso at kerby lane. then grieb, paul and josh showed up and we went to rute mayas for the hard knox and the heads concert. that fucking kicked ass. everyone was there and we all just danced like the world was ending. i must say, i think they were heartened by the audience participation bc they played really well...i'm kinda proud to say they're from southwestern.

Today I slept pretty much all day. I woke up at noon and awkwardly encountered lauren and paul while yawning about how good the shit that we got is. Missy pulled me out of the bathroom just in time and we played marvin gay really loudly. that was quite amusing.

Missy aced her stats test while I studied and took a nap and lauren had a bite to eat. Then we reconvened around 4:20 (coincidence, hehe) for a smoke break in which the three of us got a bit high. by that i mean blown.

So off to work I went at 5, expecting to chill and study some astronomy. I arrived to find that I did not have to be there until 6, but that I was welcome to stay since Julie had gotten conveniently sick. Not only that, but Debbie had something I could help her with! (exclamation point to symbolize her extreme excitement). it involved taping boxes.

Well, I was really high and in no mood to argue, so I agreed to help. She spouted off a list of instructions that I immediately forgot and I spent the next ten minutes, while she told me to have a good break and be safe, thinking about how I should have listened to those damn instructions. She finished and I asked her to go over the box thing with me one more time. she was happy to.

eight boxes later and I have lost all motivation to study astronomy. haha on that note, my astronomy teacher put his own words to the theme song from Monty Python's the meaning of life.

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
and revolving at a thousand miles an hour,
that orbits at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
the Sun that is the source of all our power.
The Sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see,
moves twelve million miles every day,
in an outer spiral arm, fiftly thousand light years long,
of the galaxy we call the Milky Way.

that's verse one. it only gets better.
i am currently trying to memorize it because i believe it is the key to our final tomorrow...if only i knew how!!

oh what bleak and biting cold weather we have today. it's bloody freezing! and i swear the grass was alive yesterday... i was walking back to my dorm just now and musing about the grey sky and dead vegetation when out of nowhere i felt a sprinkle of something! at first i was like oh shit.. the sky is going to open up and start pouring on me right before i make it home, but alas it was a snowflake! of course, i can't be sure, but i would like to believe so. i continued my way home but had to switch my books to the other hand (the one formerly in my pocket) because i could no longer feel my right one. sadly i think it was frost bitten and might have to be amputated. just kidding. the exposure was minimal and although it looks a little blue i think it will be fine. frijole is curled up all cute and cuddley in our armchair and all we are missing is a fire...perhaps someone will be kind enough to light our couch up again. (eh, lauren?) anyway, he's going to have to move because i want to sit there and drink tea and be warm. cold weather makes me happy, if for no other reason than an excuse to wear a cute hat and scarf.
i made up a poem. it's in french...AND it rhymes...
je deteste les gens,
elle a
dit-moi...
mais, dit-elle,
la langue est belle.
please excuse the spelling errors as it is quite difficult to figure out accents on this computer.

so doing astronomy homework makes me want to destroy something. im so frustrated. i just found out that all the answers are in the back of the book and i've been doing all this unnecessary work all year. yet, like the good student i am, i started out just checking my answers (especially for math since i have to show my work)...but this posed a bigger problem. whereas before i could just turn in what i thought was the right answer, NOW i realize that i am, in fact, doing EVERYTHING wrong. everything. this is very disconcerting. especially since our final is cumulative...which means it covers FIFTEEN FUCKING CHAPTERS!! how the hell can i study for that? i cant even pass a regular test. this would mean memorizing 15 chapters worth of material and there's no way that's going to happen. i don't see any point in studying at all because i'll probably just waste my time studying all the wrong material anyway, and even if i manage to study something useful i will inevitably forget it before the test, as my head will be stuffed with useless information from these 15 CHAPTERS. this is ridiculous.

madness and chaos on the greyhound. i could kill that cracked out driver that left me alone and fucking pissed at a random bus station in austin.

so yeah, buses officially suck. i don't know why i agreed to do this. i should've gotten the hint when everyone i told that i was taking a bus to florida made a pained expression and said I'm sorry. Long story short, I missed my bus last night (through no fault of my own) and am being forced to take an even longer bus from here to Panama City. I leave at 1:30 today and will arrive at my destination at 8:30 tomorrow morning....that's 19 hours, my friends. i told my mom we should just forget the whole idea but she got really sad and i felt bad. i do want to see her. so what are ya gonna do? play what you've been dealt. i deliberately deprived myself of sleep last night (and the night before, for that matter) and somehow got up at 8 this morning and took a shower, so at least now i should be exhausted enough to sleep on the bus. i also packed up all the cd's i could possibly fit and four books. oh well, this should be interesting. if nothing else it will make a cool story.

im hoping i at least get to see the hurricane ravaged lands of louisiana and mississippi. who am i kidding, this is no tour bus. if only i had a peanut butter and mushroom sandwich for the road...

only on green hall would someone knock on your door to say, "i think your couch is on fire."

yes, it was quite alarming. and now our poor couch has a huge black hole burned into it. personally, i believe the culprit was lauren. she denies it but i dont believe her. she's been threatening to burn down our couch for some time now and she finally did it. (by the way, "lauren" refers to either or both green hall laurens...in fact i think they collaborated).

first the couch, what's next LAUREN??!

*calories consumed: umm..1000? 100000?
*cookies eaten (more important): only 1 (im getting better)
*cigarettes smoked: 5 (not so good)
*cigarettes not smoked: 15 (excellent!)
*drugs? unfortunately not.

lovely and unusually productive day today in austin. we were originally shopping for knives for bec's ninja lovin boyfriend and ended up buying sunglasses, a cigarette case, and this really cool carved wooden jewelry box. i couldn't pass it up. we also hit up whole foods and sampled all of its delicious goodness.

deep in the jungle where the mighty tiger lies, bill and his elephants were taken by suprise.
so captain marble zapped him right between the eyes........ZAP

on a side note, i'm thinking of going into hibernation. this is due to the arctic temperature of our dorm..if it gets any lower my blood will freeze in my veins and i will remain preserved for the rest of time, or until someone clever defrosts me in a gigantic, but non-toxic, microwave. and i will tell him all about the past and make it seem infinitely more interesting than it was.

the children asked him if to kill was not a sin. if looks could kill it would've been us instead of him...

the beatles make me incredibly happy :)

HEYYY BUNGALO BILL, WHAT DID YA KILL? BUNGALO BILL....

so last night i took a glorious nap and finally forced myself out of bed (very hard due to fantastic dream about italian guys) around 9pm. i stumbled around gathering my planisphere and other necessary supplies for a night of astronomy. i grumpily opened the door and somehow walked straight into the edge of it, successfully giving myself a concussion and probably a black eye. then i proceeded to walk out to my car, dig for my keys and realize that i had left the star quiz behind. so i went back, put down the planisphere, picked up the star quiz, and walked back out to the car only to realize that i had to go back AGAIN for my planisphere. i finally made it to the observatory and stepped out of my car and into mud, which i had to squish through to get to the sidewalk. could it get any worse??? i think not. but it doesnt matter because i totally rocked that star quiz and made it back in time to go to spider house with the girls, where i accomplished nothing of importance, but had fun nonetheless.

i think it would be cool if we had a jungle-themed library. we could have vines growing up all the walls and lots of leafy plants - real ones. perhaps some tropical birds. just a suggestion.

we stole from the government and now we're paying for it... where, WHERE is our pot?? oh woe is me.. this is why we need you lauren! you always make sure the weed gets put back in a safe place whereas me and frank and miss just pass out wherever we land and take for granted the knowledge that the pot will always be there when we wake up. well this morning it wasn't there. and me and bec even cleaned and fucking SWEPT and its still not there. this is our punishment for keeping that forty dollars. and the worst part is ALL of our liquor is gone too!! karma will fuck you over.. let this be a lesson learned.

http://www.quizyourfriends.com/yourquiz.php?quizname=050224021553-490475

take my quiz!

smoked, wrapped myself in a blue bedsheet, and went on a bus ride from hell to an incredibly cool house that looked like that party house in ten things i hate about you. some things i learned:

parties are just not as fun when you are experiencing severe bladder problems

definitely watch your beer goggles or you could end up making out with some pretty nasty fuckers

toga + 40 degree weather = ..well...coldness

all in all it was a fun and interesting night, and im not gonna lie...i really liked wearing a toga. it was really comfortable (at least mine was) and i felt like a greek maiden (ok i really like dress up games). i think the greeks had the right idea.. we should all lose the clothes and wear nothing but togas.

Sunshine in my eyes, and the flamango in the skies
The only way, you'll ever know, is to go, is to go!

Shed the light all day...

im locking all my journals from now on cause my parents can't seem to respect my privacy.

MY PARENTS ARE OUT OF TOWN!!

my sister threw this party last night and apparently the constable came and gave everybody a warning.. haha.. suckers. ya, i came home this morning and there were people asleep in every room of the house. it was SO funny. the only thing is dom let people smoke in the house so now it kinda smells like smoke.. but itll air out by monday. im not worried. anyway, i get the house sat. night, so stop by after 9 if ya wanna PARTY! just kidding... its just gonna be a little "get together"...but everybody's invited.

man, im just so happy my parents are gone... i need a break. especially since i start work on monday. OH YEAH.. I GOT A JOB!! at a nursing home (not my first choice) but what are ya gonna do? i really do need to be saving money for college. i cleaned up though with graduation money, so thats cool. AHH! just remembered i MUST buy scrubs this weekend before i forget.

man, there is now a whole in the crotch of my favorite jeans. oh well.. im still wearing them.

last night me, rebekah and amanda watched Spun.. this really awesome movie about meth addicts.. and amanda spent the night at my house. we stayed up till 6 or so just talking. it was fun.

apparently kelly lost his job again. so thats not good... the thing is i felt sorry for him because he was working all the time, but at the same time i really liked not having him here to stand over me and monitor my every move. thats the reason i've had so much fun this summmer - because i've pretty much gotten to do whatever i want. if i were a less selfish person i would be writing about how worried i am about my family's financial state... but..what are ya gonna do?

i'm planning on going to the movies tonight.. to see dodgeball, i think. i REALLY wanna see spiderman 2, but im not sure when it comes out. if anybody wants to come they should call...

man, i had this whole journal typed up and then i got kicked off aol!! that is so frustrating.
but anyway...

REBEKAH GOT A TATTOO!!!!!!!!!!

she was really good about it too, considering she doesn't handle pain very well. its really cute... very rebekah.

i have been staying up all night and then sleeping the entire day and i really need to stop sleeping so much. last night i went to sleep at a fairly decent hour (around 1) and i still slept till 2 today.

i love how we all end up at taco cabana at like 2 in the morning.. except its making me fat. that and sonic... but i dont usually eat there, just waste money in order to see steven. i sound like a stalker - haha.

so the other day we (kris, amanda, and me) all go with rebekah to pick up her pictures from senior tea, and the mudpit party, etc... and amanda's looking through them and all of a sudden we see this picture of a penis, but it took everyone a minute before it dawned on us what we were staring at (probably because it was so unexpected). anyway, amanda's so horrified that she keeps flipping through the pictures... but the lady had accidently given us triples and the dude had taken like three pictures of his thing, so she keeps flipping and she keeps seeing this penis at various angles and she's freaking out (because she's amanda) lol.. and we're all rolling on the floor laughing (or actually I was the only one on the floor) but still.. it was hilarious! anyway, it turned out to be brandon, probably that night we all got really drunk at jason's house. man that still cracks me up though. THEN they were gonna charge us for triples (like $20) if we didnt pick out one of each shot and lay them out before the lady. it was SO embarrassing. we were still cracking up and she ended up letting us off the hook after i warned her about the pictures i hadnt laid out yet. we gave them to mikael to give to brandon...lol.

i still can't believe rebekah got a tattoo! it's just so crazy!

******
Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you. By now you should've somehow realized what you gotta do.
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do, about you now...

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,has such small hands

- e. e. cummings

i wasted my barnes and noble gift card today.. bought a book on meditation, one on yoga, and this book of short stories by roald dahl (i love him)- its not his children stories though.

tonight saw stepford wives with the girls and kris drove me home with her foot. always the highlight of my day...

havent really had time to write lately and when i do have time im too lazy and convince myself that somewhere in the world i am needed to be doing something.. anything but being here. the shadows in the corners of my vision have gotten larger. im not going blind or anything, its more like seeing movement that isnt there. maybe im just a hypochondriac. but just because youre paranoid doesnt mean there isnt someone out to get you. jk.

i hope everybody has a nice day.

when its pouring down rain and your feet are consumed by mud, flip flops suddenly become your best friend. there might be some sliding involved on the rocky trek half a mile up a hill towards the restroom, but that is a thousand times better than sitting in a tent dripping mud everywhere, just trying to put on a shoe.

so i left with 20 bucks and came back with a chigger. but as usual i had the time of my life and im planning on staying the whole 3 weeks next year. YA.. i know im really bad at planning things and certain people wanted to go but couldnt, but if i am told in advance i will sign us all up for staff for next year, cause otherwise its freakishly expensive.. ask rebekah - she paid.

YOUVE GOTTA FIGHT.. FOR YOUR RIGHT... TO PARRRRTAY!

...AND THE SNOZBERRIES TASTE LIKE SNOZBERRIES!!....