love is a place

Today with the help of my mom, my desperation and my mad skills at putting together a beautiful PowerPoint presentation (and possibly the fact that my parents love me after all this time), I got the green light for the 2005 SOCAL TO STPAUL ROAD TRIP. It's happening. Alex and I are packing it up and hitting the road on September 1, reaching Sisseton, South Dakota by September 3 to rub belt buckles and kick it with the cowboys. The 2nd Annual Two Star Barn Dance is just a big fat dessert on the side. After that, we'll head to the school and, hey, it's school again, and everything will fall back into place and it will be standard and okay and stressful and exhilarating and happy again.



old world underground where are you now?
subtract my age from the mileage
on my speeding heart, credit cards
accelerate, accumulate
looked for you downtown
wound up in a movie with no story
now it’s late and you are nowhere to be found

Listen to Metric.

kitten update

It is with great sadness and an empty heart that I report that the kitties Dashiell and Yossarian, both aged 10 months, most likely will not be returning to St. Paul in the fall.

You see, the stepcousin I'm living with doesn't like/is allergic to cats and does not want me to bring them, causing me to take action to find a place for Dash & Yoss to stay. The kitties will most likely return to St. Paul in September of 2006 where they will be welcomed back with open arms after a year in SoCal with my dear friend Michelle. Please, wish them luck, those little buggers. I will miss them oh so much.

back to the life

I have been back in the United States for a week and a half now. With the end of my beautiful stint in China came the end of desiring summer. I'm tired of my job and I seriously want to go back to school. Not to say I don't enjoy the things at home - I slept over at Dani's house on Friday, my Netflix, my brother, books at the library, my old girl cat, even my parents - but I've had them for the last two plus months. Basically, it's gotten to the point where this old life, two plus months is enough.

What I've been thinking about lately is the product tie-ins with cereal. They should never stop. There is something classically ridiculous and exciting about toys and special offer send-ins inside cereal boxes. I went with my mother to the grocery store the other day where we bought two boxes of Rice Krispies and a box of Frosted Flakes - over such cereals like Multi-Grain Cheerios - because they had Disney tie-ins - character wobblers and a free Disney pin to pick up at Disneyland. It was fun and now I've got two more extraneous little toys around the house - a Tramp and Iago wobbler that my cats like to bat around.

It's time for something new. I just got word that my grandparents are donating and old bed to me for usage next year in the house. I'm worried about finding a suitable desk and chair and storage space and all that. It's exciting to be out of the dorms, but the convenience was awfully nice.