FOUND

It's okay everything is alright everyone can all stop worrying now.

Lost

My passport, my driver's license, my student ID, my ipod, my cell phone, my birth control, my wallet, my debit card, my library card, louie the zebra, my co-op membership card, and who knows what else really.

Bad news.

New Glasses

I went to the glasses store today and ordered some new glasses. It was the fourth glasses store I tried. I'm going to become one of those people who wears glasses all the time so the choice was much more important than ever before. I chose some nice Sarah Palin glasses which are great for three reasons

1. They make me more like Sarah Palin
2. They are lightweight
3. I don't have to see frames all the time when I am looking at things

I pick them up tomorrow. WHO IS EXCITED?? I AM!!

Mt. Rainier Organics is closing. It's a real bummer. Where are we supposed to go for milkshake Monday? Where are we supposed to get our chocolate covered almonds? And nori flakes! Where oh where are we to get our nori flakes?

A real bummer and a nori flake emergency. Plus all the memories I have in that store. It's the end of an era.

I can't believe I had a whole post about music and I didn't mention S&M.

The worst part about my outrage over image obsession is that I still care about image no matter how hard I try not to. I don't value it but something in me still cares. Oh well. I'm working on it.

Banjo banjo banjo banjo banjo

I am playing so much BANJO BANJO BANJO BANJO. It's fun.

Want to know what music I like these days?





I'm really bad at liking music these days. It's a problem. But the Carter Family never fails me.



I don't know if I'd like that one if it wasn't about Tacoma. But it is, so I guess I have nothing to worry about.

What I really want is that woman from Folk Life singing Grass is Blue. We went to the Dolly Parton tribute at Folk Life, which was a brilliant idea of course, but we didn't have much time, so we only got to see a few people sing, and some were good and some were okay but then there was this woman who sang Grass is Blue better than I've ever heard someone sing anything.

Here is what I want.

I want music where people sound like they mean it when they sing about their emotions.

I don't know if this counts as music I'm into these days, or maybe it does, but either way Dolly Parton is a goddess.






And Johnny Cash is pretty cool too.

Hypnotist

I went and saw the hypnotist show at Ro's high school with her and her friends. It was weird being back in high school for a bit. I spent a lot of time thinking about high schoolers. All the kids looked the same as they did when I was in high school. All the boys had short hair and no beards. What a strange time in life. I might want to teach high school. The way the kids were didn't bother me. I was just thinking about how it is too bad they all live in a society that shapes them to be the way they are. It made me think about how much the society we grow up in affects what we turn out to be. It made me think about what high schoolers worry about and how they are still living with their parents. The show was pretty funny, too. I never went when I was in high school but I had a good time there tonight.

It's amazing

How much happier and stronger I am now than I was before. I've learned so much about the world from being out here. Being on my own and being at college is a part of it, being so far away from home is a part of it, and living in a culture so different from what I always knew is a part of it.

I'm not that wild and I don't like drinking. I spend a lot of my free time cooking. I go to the library almost every week and I do all my schoolwork and I don't care what people think of me. I'm becoming more like how I was when I was little, and I think that is a good thing.

Spooky was very well behaved at the vet's and hopefully her tapeworm will be all gone soon. We tried to put her leash on her to take her there since we don't have a cat box but she did the cutest/saddest thing. She would just stand there and refuse to move when her leash was on, looking all scared and uncomfortable, and we tried to pat her and reassure her but she would just be a little immobilized cat. So we gave up on the leash.

Yesterday in Seattle we saw this little Boston terrier and it rolled over and wanted tummy scratches. Speaking of cute.

I've needed a lot of tummy rubs myself lately. I've had a stomach ache for pretty much the last three weeks or so. Or maybe the last three years. One or the other or maybe both. Not sure what's up with that, should probably figure it out or something.

I hate that I say tummy. I used to hate that word but it seems I've picked it up from the hatchery. I am turning into a baby.

I wonder what my work schedule will be next quarter. I'm going to miss the littles.

Thinking about the future is scary. What am I going to DO? But I try to not let myself worry about it because I don't believe in worrying.

I have had it up to here with this obsession with image and status and materialism. So sick of it all. Like, the amount of money people spend on their makeup and their hair and their clothes and themselves. I'm so done! I'm done with it! Spending money to take care of the insides is okay with me because I value taking care of health, these are the only bodies we've got, but I look around and see all this money spent on the outsides and it's really freaking me out. Sure, maybe it's evolutionary to care about outsides, but isn't it time we used these brains of ours to figure out that what people look like does not matter?

I know other people will care about what I look like, but I don't think that means I have to care too.

HOW

Did I never read the Jurassic Park books until now???

THEY ARE SO GOOD. THEY WENT BY SO FAST.

That's the bad thing about reading fast. I find a really good book (LIKE JURASSIC PARK, WHAT A BOOK, AND THEN THE LOST WORLD, A SEQUEL EVEN BETTER THAN THE FIRST) and then I can't put it down and then it is over so fast. Now what am I supposed to read?

Actually, I hear that in the book version of Fried Green Tomatoes they are actually lesbians. So that answers that question.

What if there was a book about old time Southern lesbians exploring a jungle full of dinosaurs. Oh wow.

It's weird that I'm always me.

Maybe one of these days I'll have my First Legal Drink In A Bar In The United States.

Maybe I will go out for Mel's birthday on Thursday. Or maybe I will have too much homework. Either way, I have my first day of my internship the next morning anyway, so it's not like I could really party the night away.

HEY LOOK, I CAN WRITE ABOUT DRINKING ON THE INTERNET AND IT'S LEGAL.



Peekaboo.

Winter quarter

Is coming to an end. How weird. Soon there will be no more map making class, no more 15 hours per week of babies, no more winter. When I come back from spring break it will actually be spring. Spring here is great. I am looking forward to it. Spring here will be less homework, internship, volunteering at the elementary school. Spring here will be having to bus to my destinations, TWO buses when I am going to the elementary school. The last time I tried to take those two buses I ended up sunk into mud up to my ankles on the side of the busiest intersection in town (with no crosswalks, which matters a lot because crosswalks are a big deal around here) as the bus I was supposed to get on drove by. And then I took another bus and ended up in the wrong place thinking I was in a different wrong place with three minutes until the bus I wanted to get on left the transit center. So I took off at a run, not even knowing where I was going, just knowing that I had to get there fast, and saw a bus stop after a few blocks of running and ran towards it, only to find it was the wrong one, and then I looked across the street and there was the bus I wanted going to another stop, so I ran across in front of traffic and by golly I MADE that bus. Here is the thing: whenever I run, I make the bus. And it's a good thing too, because goodness knows I don't want to run for no reason.

Spring quarter should be pretty great. Maybe I'll even find a house to move in to.

Last night me and my future roommates sat around and told each other things about how much we like one another. And all my future roommates are guys so they don't get emotional about each other as often as we do. That will be funny, me and three guys living together. But also normal, because they're the ones over at my house the most often. I mean, one of them is here all the time. So that's normal. And the others almost all the time. Just still after having been friends with girls most of my life it is a little silly that I hang out with all guys so often. Maybe my girl friends will get less busy next quarter. But that isn't actually at all likely. I am friends with some insanely busy girls.

I always have my A though to sleep in my bed and bring a little girl energy around here. And that's good, because without her who are we supposed to have threesomes with?

I have had to accept that I really do not have time for sheep club anymore. I am just TOO BUSY. Maybe sometime I will get back to it because I really do like that club. But like, I have so much time.

Time to write evaluations.

Here is what everyone should go do right now

1. Read Jurassic Park the book
2. Watch Jurassic Park the movie
3. Watch Fried Green Tomatoes

YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!