tropical vacation suitcase

hey! i had such a good time in boston! thank you so much for hanging out with me if i saw you there. it was great!

i'm sorry you weren't around, jacq, but it sounds like you're holding it down solid wherever you are. i missed you in bean town. come to brooklyn soon. no! not brookline! i said brooklyn.

stuff in boston:

• made a crepe at paris creperie. it was terrible and they threw it in the trash.
• dinner with cousin and webster and six or seven surprise guests at matt murphey's which is great and has bunny paintings
• gave aaron a GREAT haircut
• found a washington DC bag for megan at urban renewal
• indian food!
• made a friend on the bus named annie (also, eric)
• interviewed this guy noah in his bathroom and screamed a lot
• watched my best fiend with no pants on with a bunch of people. i mean, no one had pants on.
• made a kinski face
• monen sleepovers and giggling and fighting
• roof hangouts
• dart game at on the hill. five dollar pitchers, oh gosh.
  
• parachini said shakira reminded him too much of a goat
• is rock dead?
• breakfast with khury! he wore a shirt with sequins on it and got me excited about education for social justice. turns out he's read "beyond resistance!" which i wrote the back cover copy for!
• went crazy with my new cassette recorder and now i have recordings of a glass harmonica and webster rapping outside matt murphey's on webster place. a car went by with the radio up loud and i said ahhhh there goes your beats!

i love you.

cause and effect.

cause: four successful years of college.
primary effect: graduation.
secondary effect: family 'vacation' to boston.
tertiary effect: parties, food, exhaustion.

cause: drunken bike riding, poor balance.
primary effects: huge crash, pain, blood.
secondary effects: cool bandages, muscle relaxants, postponing vacation.
tertiary effects: intense sleeping, negative mood, lonliness.

cause: age between 18-22
primary effect: eligibility to fly cheap standby from boston to chicago.
secondary effect: flight saturday may 27th.
tertiary effects: visits to zach and neal
quadernary effects: seeing "too much light makes the baby go blind," eating delicious food, fun shopping, drinking at amazing bars, buying alcohol past 11 pm, walking millions of miles, wearing dresses, falling in love with chicago and all it has to offer. (i feel like i belong here in the midwest - the last four (to six) years in boston have been a hilarious joke.)

let me see those titties bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, let me see those titties SHAKE!

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

i got to work an hour late today. no one's even in the fucking office anyway. i was listening to gravy train!!!! on the train this morning and it made me even giddier and less psyched about being inside and concentrating on work. but unfortunately i have a bunch of stuff that actually needs to get done today. mannnnn.

office closes at three.

hey jacqueline, ever try BLOGGING?

i've heard it is cool?

yo i'm coming to boston fri-mon please hang out with me thanks okay

"do whatever you want with the drums. fuck with the drums as much as you want. it's like the same fucking BEAT."

that's what marco's saying right now.

suddenly it seems like everyone i know is making music. it's nice.

also, here's why i love tasha more than anyone:

Tasha: the drawing of comics is needed badly

esp since i cant find a therapist

Sent at 9:09 AM on Thursday

Tasha: my ex bf sent me a txt yesterday

after ive been actively ignoring him for ever

he just wanted me to know he was eating pizza with john linnell. wtf!

how depraved is that?!

Sent at 9:13 AM on Thursday

the bad news is, my roommate realized she's not actually going to get a kitten.

the good news is, i am going to start a garden on the roof. what should i grow in it, besides basil? jacqueline i know you are going to say pot.

things are pretty good here, except the rain finally hit us today, and it's really dark outside even though it's lunchtime. i saw harry and the potters yesterday, and they're a lot better than they have any right to be. a little kid got excited about hugging and hugged alena. it was great. alena invited herself over for a rooftop harvest dinner party once things actually grow up there, so you all can come, too. how long do vegetables take to grow?

"this is the worst vacation ever."

so far senior week is off to a great start!

watch out for the triple crown triathalon coming up. it may involve any of the following: swimming, biking, beer drinking, running up the down escalator, running down the up escalator, sprinting, eating, donuts, the tisch, rain, dressing or undressing, reality tv, the davis, bars, "the beer mile," "the donut mile," fights, drama, 6 movie marathon, 3 way ties.

1. don't ever make fun of my sister. yes, she has downsyndrome. yes, she is also having a hilarious time in this photograph. no, she has never looked more "retarded" in her life, but that was the point! don't you get it?

2. turnaround: i may be coming to ny on saturday. be in touch. i'll call you tomorrow.

3. is it possible that i am having an allergic reaction to thai food?

3.5. is drinking a whole lot of water somehow a sign that you are having an allergic reaction?

4. less than 24 hours until the end of my undergraduate career here at tufts university.

4.5. less than 24 hours until the coolest field trip of my entire life.

5. my family is coming in a week and i am really psyched about it. sox game. shopping. museums. eating good food. getting wasted. throwing parties. sweet!

nocturne al

1. too bad about the jacqueline-free weekend, but i'll see you soon enough babydoll. make that two handjobs.

2. http://criticalanglefilms.com/videos/armadillonocturne_qt_small.mov DUDE WATCH IT.

3. i got acupuncture for the first time yesterday. here's a tip: don't move your legs when there are needles in them! no! not even if they are itchy or something.

4. carly ptak invited herself over to dinner monday night and it was delightful. i made seitan green bean curry and i still have leftovers. i think she talked my roommate into dropping out of college.

5. i invited calvin johnson to the party on saturday. he can't make it, but he wrote back telling us to "DANCE ON!"

6. today i got a mailbox key so you can now START SENDING PRESENTS.

7. last night me and three other editorial assistants all dreamed about puppies.

8. i am learning to drive! slowly! but! surely!

9. emily left a streetcar named desire on my pillow so i read it on the way to and from steph's party on saturday. it was amazing. now i want to see the movie, and read it again, and build a subway that connects bushwick with parkslope so i don't have to detour through manhattan.

10. lightning bolt was good. geoff is good at initiating conversations that consist solely of lightning bolt riffs.

newsflash

in the course of a week baby charlotte has learned to crawl, and pull herself up to standing position. she also does this incredibly cute snorting thing and laughs whenever you pant like a dog.

in other news, due to the lack of funds, interest in drinking beer, and considering my parents will be in town for like 5 days this coming weekend, i gotta stay in boston this weekend. i will come a different weekend and for sure bring the rage. sorry to disappoint! i'll make it up to you via handjob or something.

we're off to the sligo. i need to feel assured i will suffer all day tomorrow from a hangover while starting and finishing two huge assignments in order to graduate. may as well live the last day of work as i have the rest of the school year.

I wanna chew my bubble gum with you.
And I wanna walk you home from school.
And I wanna carry your books to every class.
And I wanna fuck you up the ass.
Girl, don't you know it's true, how much I love you.
I wanna sing it 'cross the land, oh won't you hold my hand?
She tells me that she loves me,
Now I'm gonna tell her that I love her.
She tells me that she loves me,
Now I'm gonna try and fuck her.
But where the hell are my priorities?
Left in the hands of the authorities.

pollen count?

have you ever had that terrible feeling where the inside of your ear itches to the point that it is almost your throat? you know there is no way you can make the dull burn itch feeling stop so you try to swallow, make terrible hacking noises, and try to cough to make it go away, but none of that works. instead, you have to grin and bare it. i've been experiencing this feeling for the last two hours.

i had my nose in middlesex all weekend, and i really couldn't study until i finished it (500+ pgs). patrick made me broccoli and i will head to the library.

"that was music, i swear."

lightning bolt was wonderful, and so was my last james dinner and the japanese potato salad. also: nautical almanac was wonderful, and there was this moment where the guy was drooling and sort of falling over and people said "i think he is going to die" and the girl was playing (sort of) the violin very slowly with huge arm gestures and i said to myself "oh, this must be zombie music. yes, this is what zombies listen to. i get it." also, moshe's was open so we got hamentaschen on the way. sadly, though, seeing lightning bolt meant missing my roommate's band (againnnnn), but she'll probably have another show soon? she wore my shirt to this one, though, so i guess we're even. okay, i'm going to bed now. my boss is back and i have to be awesome tomorrow. one of my work pals said "amy, seriously, maybe you should buy a nice black blazer -- you could even buy a used one -- and just put it on every time you go into her office." okay guys, goodnight.

hit the ground running

i had a really fun day. the spring has me hyped enough to really be into sea foam green. it's really more of a blue in most cases, but i like it.

hey, we'll pull through.

what does one do about a persisting sore throat (possibly) due to consumption of alcohol?

i'm still not through with any of my classes.

new fridge, brand new era, feels great

i'm listening to a mix cd from my internet friend and it's really good. it's the first mix i've gotten in a long time, and i forgot how good they can be. i like that there's an additional layer of meaning: there's the significance of all the individual songs, just the same as if you'd heard them on the album or on the radio, but then there's the significance of which songs were chosen, and in what order, and so on. hey, this has captain beefheart on it!

my apartment smells incredibly strange. oh. this is because emily put tahini in the stirfry. that's a terrible idea. was it good? no.

tonight me and tasha snuck 22 oz beers into teriyaki boy. and then we didn't see drawing restraint 9.

we got a new fridge! this weekend, i plan to scrub the floor, like in the olden days. because the swiffer didn't do shit. i also want to cook eggplant. and marco's having a party on saturday! and fkkn lightning bolt on sunday!

there's no need to name names.

last night a pal tried to convince me to "come over" to cleveland so that we could "make things beautiful" (fuck) and then get married because we would get along swimmingly due to the fact that we're both huge assholes. plus i'm "alright looking" and "my mother loves him." he'd admittedly cheat on me a lot and i'd probably "just get used to it and start cheating myself." " hey everyones gotta have atleast one divorce." that's no matter because he'd stay home and take care of the kids while i worked because he knows im a "complaining little bitch" and wouldn't want to change diapers. he denies he would spend the entire time drinking beer and convincing our kids that metal is cool, but we both know that would be his primary purpose. we'd probably have cute dogs though.

i told him that i'd think about it. the marriage thing i mean.

funny! funny?

i got this from a friend yesterday and it made me laugh really hard. i'm not sure if it is actually funny.

Hey Jackie O,

When are you coming to O-Hi-O. You know I love the female figure.


Cyrus

Also, i really like the new aloha record. i wasn't sure if i would, and on the first listen i wasn't hot on it, but now, wow. it's smokin.