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[Aug. 23rd, 2007|05:47 pm] |
I gotta say, I don't like this town much right now. This town, or the glut of towns that surround it, or really any of the people who drive around it. Or the rest of the idiots like me who live east and work west.
I need books on tape and a cell phone headset, because I have to do this twice a day for a year, whether I like it or not.
Job's ok, though, so long as I can keep my cynical/humorous side on hold for 8 hours a day. And there are a great number of people there who will be committed to my physical, professional, and socio-emotional well-being. I think it will be sort of like living in the perfect society, but in order to live in the perfect society you maybe have to pretend you're a little dumber than you are. I guess I can deal with that. We got to dance around in a circle hitting sticks together with the music teacher today.
Sorry. Life's not really so bad. It's just been kind of a long and lonely week. But all signs point upward. |
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[May. 31st, 2007|05:34 pm] |
Dear people who hire people in Los Angeles,
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAghaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaapshliespaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaapoop
Love, Anne |
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[May. 9th, 2007|11:36 pm] |
It's one of those times in life when anything you do that makes you happy seems directly associated with the unwise and futurely disasterous.
On the upside, LOST was off the hook once again tonight. The Live together, Die alone dichotomy came back and slapped John in the face while Jack tried to reestablish his allegiance to the group, but with uber over the top leadership/screw everyone overness. I feel like their roles are about to be reversed somehow, but how? I feel like they will have to redeem the value of Locke's faith journey over the science, etc., somehow. And they played a dirty trick by pretending like the end of Ben's flashback sequence brought his story full circle in any way. That was a bit of a disappointment- it pretended like his story was cohesive, somehow, with the whole bad father thing tied to Sawyer/Locke, and him ending it, but the story they told is clearly missing some element of Ben's journey- and they didn't highlight a particular mystery- we just know it's missing some set of unknown events that they don't even clue us into. The Jacob stuff has potential though, if they keep it away from the hokey. I almost feel like they've raised the stakes so high that the coolness factor will never live up to what we expect. Oh, and what do we make of the fact that Locke's never seen a dead guy on the island but a whole bunch of other people have?
And by we, I mean clearly only me, since I am an enormous dork.
Ok. One more final, and then I'm done with college. Life is so weird. |
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| For British Eyes Only! |
[Apr. 27th, 2007|09:18 am] |
So, there was this whole fiasco with the library, and in my head it took on all the significance of my life's current ineffectuality, plus they were going to charge me 100 dollars for a book I returned, which is ridiculous, but then it got fixed, but I still want to send a letter expressing my extreme displeasure with the situation, because I really enjoy being right and letting others know it, essentially.
But, as it turns out, the person in charge of such things is named Nigel Butterwick. How can I write an angry letter to Nigel Butterwick? He is clearly a precious, doddering old British man, which is probably why the library is in such poor shape, but you can't blame Nigel for that!
So. I am going to have to reinvent him in my imagination for this to work correctly. So, please send me suggestions of the most evil British man to ever live, so that I can envision him and write my appropriately scathing letter.
Thank you. |
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| my sister is an evil tempter |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|02:11 am] |
69 confession questions
TAKE THIS SURVEY! |
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| | 1. The phone rings; who do you want it to be? | the job people with a job | | 2. When shopping at the grocery store, do you return your cart? | to the parking lot place, yes | | 3. In a social setting, are you more of a talker or a listener? | listener, unless i'm drunkles | | 4. Do you take compliments well? | no | | 5. Do you play Sudoku? | this kid challenged me to a contest on the airplane, and i lost | | 6. If abandoned alone in the wilderness, would you survive? | hmm only if i learned to commune with the island monster | | 7. Do you like to ride horses? | renee's! | | 8. Did you ever go to camp as a kid? | yep | | 9. What was your favorite game as a kid? | boat... with Grace... or stores | | 10. If a sexy person was pursuing you, but you knew he/she was married, would you go for it? | my first impression of this question was that a sexy person was chasing me through the jungle and wanted to kill me... guess I'm still in the LOST world | | 11. Have you lied to get out of a date? | haha i've had so few dates in my life, i don't think i ever had the chance | | 12. Could you date someone with different religious beliefs than you? | myles sometimes pretends to be a republican, so yes, i guess :) | | 13. Do you like to pursue or be pursued? | if we're being honest, i like being pursued | | 14. Use three words to describe yourself? | magical leoplurodon, charlie | | 15. Do any songs make you cry? | i have no soul | | 16. Are you continuing your education? | every day | | 17. Do you know how to shoot a gun? | well, my gun shooting partner at camp had to reload the bullets for me, but yes, i guess | | 18. If your house was on fire, what would be the first thing you grabbed? | the fire extinguisher! ha! | | 19. How often do you read books? | skim, mostly, in order to write papers on them. next year will be different | | 20. Do you think more about the past, present or future? | right now, the future | | 21. What is your favorite children's book? | love you forever, just like grace | | 22. What color are your eyes? | brown | | 23. How tall are you? | 9'4'' | | 24. Where is your dream house located? | in Los Angeles, on 37th street, on top of another apartment | | 25. Do you have a secret fetish? | candy mountains | | 26. Have you tried sushi? | yes at my awesometastic birthday soiree | | 27. Have you ever taken pictures in a photo booth? | yep | | 28. When was the last time you were at Olive Garden? | too long ago, that's for damn sure | | 29. When was the last time you were at Church? | sunday | | 30. Where was the furthest place you traveled today? | legends | | 31. What was your favorite job? | boys and girls club | | 32. Do you like mustard? | sometimes | | 33. Do you prefer to sleep or eat? | hmmm eat | | 34. Do you look like your mom or dad? | both | | 35. How long does it take you in the shower? | 7 minutes | | 36. Can you do the splits? | hahahahahahaha | | 37. What movie do you want to see right now? | LOST | | 38. If you could fast forward your life, would you? | yeah, but not too far, just 3 days | | 39. What did you do for New Year's? | went to Morgan's. | | 40. Do you think The Grudge was scary? | didn't see it, yo | | 41. Could you relate to a character in Mean Girls? | my hair is also full of secrets | | 42. Do you own a camera phone? | yes | | 43. Do you have an "ex box" with pics and letters from past lovers? | i have one lover, and i'm marrying him, but i do have an email folder with his name on it. | | 44. Was your mom a cheerleader? | my mom was like the anti-cheerleader propeganda queen | | 45. What's the last letter of your middle name? | h | | 46. Do you like your middle name? | indeed | | 47. How many hours of sleep do you get a night? | not enough because i stay up doing things like this | | 48. Do you like care bears? | i like the care bears theme song! | | 49. What do you buy at the movies? | movie tickets? | | 50. Do you know how to play poker? | sort of | | 51. Do you wear your seatbelt? | yes, fool | | 52. What do you wear to sleep? | mumus | | 53. Anything big ever happen in your hometown? | popcorn!!! | | 54. How many meals do you eat a day? | 2 | | 55. Is your tongue pierced? | no | | 56. Ever meet anyone you met on myspace? | no | | 57. Do you read myspace bulletins? | no | | 58. Do you like funny or serious people better? | i prefer leoplurodons | | 59. Ever been to L.A.? | yep! | | 60. Did you eat a cookie today? | no... just 18 hershey's kisses | | 61. Do you use cuss words in other languages? | i used to | | 62. Do you steal or pay for your music downloads? | steal | | 63. Do you hate chocolate? | just that i ate way too much of it today in a fit of stress eating | | 64. What do you and your parents fight about the most? | nowadays, completely ridiculous things when my mom goes craaaazy | | 65. Are you a gullible person? | yes | | 66. Do you need a boyfriend/girlfriend to be happy? | well i was pretty happy for the first 20 years of my life, so no | | 67. If you could have any job what would it be? | the paying kind | | 68. Are you easy to get along with? | usually | | 69. What is your favorite time of day? | just before dark | | CLICK HERE TO TAKE THIS SURVEY! |
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| There are 16,000 things I should be doing instead of this. |
[Mar. 29th, 2007|09:52 am] |
001. real name→Anne Elizabeth Sutherland
002. nickname → Annabelle, Whore, Precious, Puffy, or any combination of the last 3
003. birthday → October 6
004. zodiac sign → libra
005. male or female→ female
006. elementary → Memorial!
007. middle → BF
008. highschool colors- green and white
010. hair color → brown
011. long, medium, or short → long
012. sex position → who would answer that question? that's weird.
013. food → the edible, non-caloric kind
014. do you like rentapigs → i've been trying to figure out what this means every time i've read this survey, and I just had a brillian realization- they're talking about rent-a-cops! So no... but I do like the security guards at the library, especially Cecil. And hot cops.
015. are you health freak → not really, sadly
017. do you have a crush on someone→ several, actually, but don't worry, I'm only marrying one.
018. do you like yourself → i love me, i'm drug free!
019. piercings → ears
021. righty or lefty → righty
FIRSTS :
022. first surgery → my wisdom teeth. and then grace and her friend laughed at me because i couldn't eat pudding.
023. first piercing → ears
024. first best friend - Andy Seibert. It's only gone up from there.
025. first award - hmmm... I think everybody got an award in 1st grade. mine was probably "most uptight"
026. first sport you joined → umm...
027. first pet → Fauna
028. first vacation -> probably to California? Who knows?
029. first concert → 5th grade band... so much cooler than actually WATCHING people perform. I guess if I'm going that route, it was TIOS with the awesome Mrs. Larson
030. first crush → Leigh Walker. I thought he wanted to sit by me in 1st grade because he liked me, but he probably just wanted to cheat off of me and Kristina Gordon. Sad.
CURRENTLY :
049. eating → nothing
050. drinking → fake Crystal Light!
051. thinking → I should do something productive
052. i'm about to → Not
053. listening to → the sound of silence
054. wanting → to get well
055. waiting for → motivation to take a shower
056. miss someone? all the time
058. want kids? 18, starting next year (making myles have heart attacks is fun, you should try it sometime)
059. want to get married? WOOOOOOO!
060. careers in mind? Motherhood is the only appropriate vocation for a woman graduating from Our Lady's University with a ring adorning her finger. Failing that, I guess I will be a bouncer.
WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE/SAME SEX? :
069. hugs or kisses → I guess it depends
070. shorter or taller → medium
071. smart or retarded → hmm
072. romantic or spontaneous → spontaneously romantic (Stef is smart!)
073. nice stomach or nice arms → arms
074. sensitive or loud → both to a degree (see I told you Stef was smart)
075. hook-up or relationship → relationship
076. sex or food → for the time being, I'm trying to avoid both, especially if either comes from a strange man on the street with a cart.
077. trouble maker or hesitant: I'm... hesitant.
HAVE YOU EVER :
078. kissed a stranger → no
079. gotten lost in a park with no lights on and had to follow the moon back to your car → no
080. lost glasses/contacts → in that horrid freshman swimming class
081. ran away from home → once but i just hid instead and laughed while everyone looked for me
082. ran around the hallways like a madman → no, but i once filmed a video with a seductive winking scene in the hallway of Fitzpatrick
084. fucked a dog → i like stef's answer= i like emily's answer-(i liked grace's answer, so i'm keeping it) seeing as how that's impossible and probably against the law, oh and utterly disgusting... no
085. dreamt about blowing up people at your school? no, that's mean.
086. made a hitlist → once, for ellen. we still have work to do before graduation, come to think of it
087. cried when someone died → i rarely cry for normal reasons. i have a heart of stone.
088. liked a friend → (stef's funny, so i will keep hers) i like all my friends....that's why they are my friends...
DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
089. yourself →on occasion
090. miracles → yes
091. love at first sight → no, that's lust (i agree with stef)
092. heaven → yes
093. santa claus → i believe in the power of capitalism in the heart of every girl and boy...
094. sex on the first date --> sketch, yo
095. kiss on the first date → probably not
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY :
097. Is there one person you want to be with right now more than anything? yeah
098. What color is your underwear? blue flowers
099. Do you believe in God? yeah
That was indeed a waste of time. But it was fun! |
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[Mar. 26th, 2007|02:40 am] |
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Well, after literally half a gallon of fake Crystal Light and not a whole lot less hummus, I now have a 37-page thesis draft completed and sent to my advisor. And I shaved my legs tonight. I am kind of like a goddess. The goddess of chickpea paste and Lutheran-Catholic ecumenism, perhaps. And what better kind of goddess is there? All shall love me and despair... or at least develop vegetarian tendencies and fellow feeling toward former religious foes. |
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[Mar. 22nd, 2007|01:20 am] |
Someone I don't even know and probably wouldn't even recognize if I saw on the street (such are the charms of facebook) just got tagged in a picture of Ireland. Just a name from that semester brings me back to the safe danger of that adventure. It was a very small foreigness, but it was ours, and at least in my memory, I wasn't scared as we floated around and gathered up new places to take back with us. I'm missing that bubble- whatever it was- that surrounded me the whole time.
Mostly I'm just a stupid oyster, I think, who isn't careful about where she parks her shell before she has to jump out and find a new one. And it's good to face the unknown sometimes, but it would be nice if someone would tell me what, exactly, that unknown contains. |
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[Mar. 19th, 2007|12:07 am] |
Happy Birthday to Stef!!!
If I had a plane ticket and you had a locker, I would totally decorate it. :) |
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[Mar. 6th, 2007|11:04 pm] |
So, I recently followed a link from somebody's facebook profile to their myspace. Now, myspace in general kinda creeps me out, what with its loud music, excessive colors, difficult to read text, and general emo tendencies. But the real problem is that the page always comes up too wide for the browser, so in order to look at the page you have to not only go up and down but left to right. Is this just a problem with Mozilla? Or does the entire myspace world deal with this on a regular basis?
I don't know why this seemed like such a compelling question right at this moment. But it did. I worry for you, myspace people.
I think I will go to bed now. |
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[Feb. 20th, 2007|06:02 pm] |
The last two days have been a good reminder that there is something new and different and good on the way, that moving from place to place will not always be a painful experience to be protected against and dreaded, and that the unwelcoming icy months aren't just in between, but directly give rise to new life beginning again.
That's why I'll miss the seasons- not because I'm a glutton for punishment, or because I think you need pain to know what happiness is- but because life isn't always 70 degrees and sunny, and it's good to have the world remind you ever year that the miserable days never last forever. |
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[Feb. 8th, 2007|11:18 pm] |
Mrrrraaaaaaaaaah!
I just want somebody who knows me/is willing to pretend to have known me in some capacity relating to CTY to be a reference. Is that too much to ask?
In other news, I'm totally obsessed with LOST.
Also, woot for pyaar in all shapes and sizes.
That is all I have for you. How are you? |
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[Jan. 19th, 2007|05:16 pm] |
I find myself greatly annoyed with everyone I encounter today. And yesterday too, really. Except Cecil the library security guard. Never with Cecil. Perhaps I will marry Cecil if it doesn't work out with Myles for some reason. Except that would probably annoy Cecil's wife, which would just begin the cycle of irritation all over again, wouldn't it?
On the other hand, I just got my first positive response to an application I sent out (making it 1 response out of at least 50 attempts in the last few months). Of course, from that response, I gleaned that the woman hadn't actually read my resume or cover letter, based on the fact that she doesn't know I currently live in Indiana, but hey, it's a start. |
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[Jan. 15th, 2007|09:54 am] |
This week was good. Being at home reminds me of how much I would have moped had I stayed here a week without Myles. The beach is an excellent place to sit and let your thoughts catch up with your life, I must say. The trip (orchestra tour to Florida) was also an interesting introduction to the almost-forgotten freshman year promises of the "Notre Dame family." It made me wish that we had gone to Southern California this year instead of two years ago, because the people I stayed with all wanted to find my unskilled, unconnected self a job.
So, I'm heading off in a few hours, after lunch with the fam, to one last semester. It's already filled up, I feel like- a weekend here, a weekend there, SPRING BREAK ARKANSAS 2007 WOOO! (we need a better name), thesis deadlines, etc. But let's make it a good one.
Anyway, I'm going to go pack, awkwardly, near the furnace man. |
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[Dec. 14th, 2006|12:05 am] |
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I just applied to be an admissions counselor and a financial aid counselor at the University of Southern California. If Mary descends from the dome and smites me while I sleep in my cold-medication induced coma, know that I love you all. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2006|09:12 pm] |
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Well, I've officially lost all motivation to study for my final again tomorrow, bringing the world's easiest finals week (brought to you by fake Spanish and a whole lot of papers during the semester, as well as the letter Q) to an unofficial end. I've still got about an hour of studying left for this one, and I intend to spend my 3 hours Thursday morning at work studying for Spanish, but no more. So, now I have 3 days to work on my thesis, which will hopefully make up for the fact that I've only worked on it for about 10 or 15 hours all semester.
It's odd how time changes over 4 years of college- I measured freshman year in insurmountable papers, overwhelming amounts of material, and quality time laughing at things with my newfound amigos. Now, it's hours. 10 pages = 5 hours + 2 hours for internet procrastinating and talking to Myles + 1 hour for breadsticks if 2 out of 3 breadstick dependable friends also have assignments due - 1 hour for superproductive efficiency when I get tired of writing and want to go to bed, or alternatively, when the paper is due in an hour. I've learned how to turn ideas into manageable nuggets (cleverly always noted with page numbers to save time during the citation process) that can be shifted around and whose contribution to the overwhelming theme can be easily recognized. It's really not all that different from math or science, I think, just a little messier and the answer in the back of the book is slightly more up to the eye of the bespectacled beholder.
That being said, I really love it.
Did you know that if we used the most common international measure of poverty, 55 million people (20% of the US population) would be living below the poverty line? And that 15.6 million of those are living below half the poverty line?
So here are my goals before Friday- figure out how to reunify the Christian church, and then find a job that will allow me to tackle poverty next year.
But after Friday, I'm going to rest. Rest, be with the people I love, and with God. Because every time I've taken the time to do that lately, I've felt guilty, and that's not how we're supposed to be. We are more than movers and changers, we're beings... and I for one need to remember why I am bothering to be. Otherwise, what's the reason for putting the thoughts down on paper? |
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[Dec. 2nd, 2006|05:50 pm] |
Alright, no more really good and sad movies involving marriage until December 15. I have spoken.
In other words, I heart last night. Thanks peeps. |
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[Nov. 30th, 2006|10:23 am] |
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I frickin got a free flight from Southwest airlines because I already accumulated enough flying points. SO AWESOME!
Where should I go? I can go anywhere! For free!
This might be the most amazing thing that has ever happened in the world.
FREE FLIGHT! HOLY CRAP!
Plus people came to my panel yesterday. And I got a second interview for a real job. SAWEET! |
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[Nov. 20th, 2006|08:00 pm] |
Truth be told, I'm kind of excited to go somewhere where it's 70 degrees and sunny every day during November.
Just don't tell Myles I said that. |
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