my friend Jan in Madrid just told me that he saw me and Molly on spanish tv! he said there was an advertisement for the documentary we're in, How Many Roads. it was in a documentary film festival there that I didn't even know about. i have no idea if it won anything. but that just made my day. i'm on spanish tv! yippeeeee!
i'm also excited about our roadtrip to north georgia tomorrow in the jeep liberty. i'm really getting attached to that thing. i love my saturn but there's something about the jeep. i think its that i'm above all the other cars and i can look down on everyone, unless i'm around a bunch of other suv's.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
turquoise countertops
i just heard the longest loudest roll of thunder ever. its been pouring outside the last 2 days and my attempts to get out and play some tennis have been squelched, no pun inteneded. but i did get a sweet jeep liberty to drive until my car gets fixed. yay! i've never driven a jeep before and i love it! i wish i could keep it. but i think the wreck could not have been timed better because i get to take the jeep on a roadtrip to north georgia this weekend. we get a whole week off for the 4th! i only have 1 class right now and it only meets 2 days a week so one class off means one week off! works for me....
last night i was supposed to play tennis with amity but it rained so she invited kara, rachel and me to have dinner at her house. she has the coolest back porch and we ate to candlelight. she even has a hammock chair, which i had never really seen one before but i tell ya they're fun. like an adult swing if you will. the dinner was yummy too, spaghetti and garlic bread with cheesecake for dessert. i love eating outside, when its not hot, under some kind of covering with no bugs around. so not very often i guess....anyway, it was a nice evening, we talked about the neurotic people in our lives and why they act the way they do. get a bunch of pseudo therapists together and thats what the conversation will inevitably consist of.
now i'm staring at my room trying to decide what i should give away and what i should keep before i move. only one more month! and i will have my very own apartment! with turquoise countertops! i have to say that that is one of the main reasons i picked these the new apartment. and its close to campus and they're cheap, but the turqupose countertops are what really sold me.
last night i was supposed to play tennis with amity but it rained so she invited kara, rachel and me to have dinner at her house. she has the coolest back porch and we ate to candlelight. she even has a hammock chair, which i had never really seen one before but i tell ya they're fun. like an adult swing if you will. the dinner was yummy too, spaghetti and garlic bread with cheesecake for dessert. i love eating outside, when its not hot, under some kind of covering with no bugs around. so not very often i guess....anyway, it was a nice evening, we talked about the neurotic people in our lives and why they act the way they do. get a bunch of pseudo therapists together and thats what the conversation will inevitably consist of.
now i'm staring at my room trying to decide what i should give away and what i should keep before i move. only one more month! and i will have my very own apartment! with turquoise countertops! i have to say that that is one of the main reasons i picked these the new apartment. and its close to campus and they're cheap, but the turqupose countertops are what really sold me.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
she was a fast machine
its been a rough week kids. i ran out of gas and got in a wreck and my plumbing decided to go crazy on me. i flushed the toilet the other day and right afterwards crap started to come out of the drain in my bathtub. and my toilet was overflowing at the same time. as the plumber left i was like, so who cleans this crap up, in so many words, and he just said, 'you do."
today an old lady rammed into me on her way to church because she claims she didn't see my bright red car. i didn't have a stop sign, the old lady did. so naturally i pay no attention to the car at the stop sign until it meets the back half of my side. luckily, there was no one sitting on that side and nobody got hurt. my knee just got a little scraped when it scraped against the dashboard with the impact but thats about it. she was such a cute old lady though, she pointed out how she was wearing red to match my car. the cops that showed up were women and the old lady, (i don't remember her name and i don't know what else to call her, she was a lady and she was old) said to me, "don't you wish there was a gentleman here." i just laughed. she also said she had just gotten a new car, which was a year old, after having driven the same one for 28 years. wow. she said she had just been practicing in a parking lot the other day too. which i didn't understand if she had been driving for 28 years. i think i was also half listening to her anyway, i was too busy reeling about what just happened and all she wanted to do was make small talk....the lady cop was really cool though, she was telling us all about her marriage to another cop and how she has to "leave it at the door" talking about her job when she comes home and how she won't talk about work there. it was kind of funny because our speaker from the family therapy workshop said the same thing pertaining to therapy like the day before. this had 2 intense days of friday and saturday from 8 in the morning until 5 of learning about family art therapy. it was interesting and fun at times but just very very long. sitting in a conference room all day gets old really fast.
but all in all, today turned out to be a good day. kara, rachel, amity, and i all decided that we still wanted to go to the beach anyway, why let a little fender bender get in our way. the beach was sooo nice, the water was so warm and it felt so good. i'm a sucker for waves and sand. especially after wrecks and cleaning crap out of my tub.
today an old lady rammed into me on her way to church because she claims she didn't see my bright red car. i didn't have a stop sign, the old lady did. so naturally i pay no attention to the car at the stop sign until it meets the back half of my side. luckily, there was no one sitting on that side and nobody got hurt. my knee just got a little scraped when it scraped against the dashboard with the impact but thats about it. she was such a cute old lady though, she pointed out how she was wearing red to match my car. the cops that showed up were women and the old lady, (i don't remember her name and i don't know what else to call her, she was a lady and she was old) said to me, "don't you wish there was a gentleman here." i just laughed. she also said she had just gotten a new car, which was a year old, after having driven the same one for 28 years. wow. she said she had just been practicing in a parking lot the other day too. which i didn't understand if she had been driving for 28 years. i think i was also half listening to her anyway, i was too busy reeling about what just happened and all she wanted to do was make small talk....the lady cop was really cool though, she was telling us all about her marriage to another cop and how she has to "leave it at the door" talking about her job when she comes home and how she won't talk about work there. it was kind of funny because our speaker from the family therapy workshop said the same thing pertaining to therapy like the day before. this had 2 intense days of friday and saturday from 8 in the morning until 5 of learning about family art therapy. it was interesting and fun at times but just very very long. sitting in a conference room all day gets old really fast.
but all in all, today turned out to be a good day. kara, rachel, amity, and i all decided that we still wanted to go to the beach anyway, why let a little fender bender get in our way. the beach was sooo nice, the water was so warm and it felt so good. i'm a sucker for waves and sand. especially after wrecks and cleaning crap out of my tub.
Monday, June 19, 2006
the bonnaroo
i am posting in my new blog. how exciting. i always get butterflies in the beginning. this is the 3rd different blog host for me. hopefully things will stay cool between us and i won't have to break up with yet another. let's hope this time the relationship stands the test of time. wish us luck.
i am up at 3 in the morning and i have class tomorrow at 9am. the reason i am still up is because my roommate and the obnoxious college boys next door are over here running a muck. yeah, its good to be back in tally. at least i don't have to sleep in my car next to people who complain about how they might do better in school if they would stop free basing meth all the time. yeah, thats an actual quote from one of our neighbors at bonaroo, which i have decided to never go to again unless i get vip passes at least. yeah, it seems like it would be a blast, but unless you like hardly being able to see the stage and being around a bunch of poser hippies all day in the worst heat sleeping in your car while random people walk by watching you snooze, again in the sweltering heat then its not for you, trust me. i guess i'm not cut out for the bonaroo crowd. i like a more intimate setting where you can be close to the stage. i just decided that i don't like large music festivals. plus there was no way to ever get a chance to meet any of the bands because there's so much security and too many damn people. its a bit overwhelming. there was just so much stuff with all these different booths and all the bands i wanted to see playing at the same time at different stages. it was really frustrating. and our car was like a mile away from the stages so we had to walk forever just to get there to see whoever we wanted to see play. when there's so many people that you can't even see the stage i might as well go home and listen to the radio. all whining aside, which i did a lot of and still am, we got close enough to the stage to see Tom Petty so that he looked more like an ant than an ameoba. and a very stylish ant at that with a red shirt and black velvet jacket which he soon took off and replaced with a badass vest with a big cross in the back. but there were a couple big screens so the rest of us could see a little closer which was nice. MR. TOM PETTY ROCKED LIKE A HURRICANE. hehe, but really he did. he sounded amazing. he played almost all of my favorite songs and ended with a kickass version of American Girl. I LOVE THAT SONG. and to everyone's surprise STEVIE NICKS came out in the middle of the set and joined him for a couple songs and sang backup for "don't come around here no more".... he was so funny, he said to the crowd, "is everybody having fun at the bonaroo" it reminded me of when people say the walmart or something like that. it was kinda cute. yeah, he's definitely southern. but a hard rockin southerner. i almost spontaneously combusted when stevie nicks got on stage. i really went nuts. it was so surreal because i had never seen either of htem in concert and tom petty looked exactly like he does on tv. for some reason i thought he would look and act different in concert. differnt how i'm really not sure. he is the real rock n roll deal though. that was one of the best live shows i've ever seen. Tom Petty is way underrated i think. oh well, those crazy kids finally toned it down and decided to go to bed so i guess i will too. more on this adventure to come.
i am up at 3 in the morning and i have class tomorrow at 9am. the reason i am still up is because my roommate and the obnoxious college boys next door are over here running a muck. yeah, its good to be back in tally. at least i don't have to sleep in my car next to people who complain about how they might do better in school if they would stop free basing meth all the time. yeah, thats an actual quote from one of our neighbors at bonaroo, which i have decided to never go to again unless i get vip passes at least. yeah, it seems like it would be a blast, but unless you like hardly being able to see the stage and being around a bunch of poser hippies all day in the worst heat sleeping in your car while random people walk by watching you snooze, again in the sweltering heat then its not for you, trust me. i guess i'm not cut out for the bonaroo crowd. i like a more intimate setting where you can be close to the stage. i just decided that i don't like large music festivals. plus there was no way to ever get a chance to meet any of the bands because there's so much security and too many damn people. its a bit overwhelming. there was just so much stuff with all these different booths and all the bands i wanted to see playing at the same time at different stages. it was really frustrating. and our car was like a mile away from the stages so we had to walk forever just to get there to see whoever we wanted to see play. when there's so many people that you can't even see the stage i might as well go home and listen to the radio. all whining aside, which i did a lot of and still am, we got close enough to the stage to see Tom Petty so that he looked more like an ant than an ameoba. and a very stylish ant at that with a red shirt and black velvet jacket which he soon took off and replaced with a badass vest with a big cross in the back. but there were a couple big screens so the rest of us could see a little closer which was nice. MR. TOM PETTY ROCKED LIKE A HURRICANE. hehe, but really he did. he sounded amazing. he played almost all of my favorite songs and ended with a kickass version of American Girl. I LOVE THAT SONG. and to everyone's surprise STEVIE NICKS came out in the middle of the set and joined him for a couple songs and sang backup for "don't come around here no more".... he was so funny, he said to the crowd, "is everybody having fun at the bonaroo" it reminded me of when people say the walmart or something like that. it was kinda cute. yeah, he's definitely southern. but a hard rockin southerner. i almost spontaneously combusted when stevie nicks got on stage. i really went nuts. it was so surreal because i had never seen either of htem in concert and tom petty looked exactly like he does on tv. for some reason i thought he would look and act different in concert. differnt how i'm really not sure. he is the real rock n roll deal though. that was one of the best live shows i've ever seen. Tom Petty is way underrated i think. oh well, those crazy kids finally toned it down and decided to go to bed so i guess i will too. more on this adventure to come.
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