| kick up your heels get happy |
[05 Mar 2008|06:51pm] |
Hello all. I've been neglecting my lj for quite a while. So here's the updates.
1. I'm on spring break now. It's actually been pretty good. I've spent my time reading for school, working out, and hanging out at the Vous... which is not non-smoking contrary to what I had thought. Being home has really put life into perspective a little bit. It's been nice to clear my head and get ahead on some school work. It's time to kick ass for the rest of the school year.
2. I am supposed to student teach next year, but I'm thinking about trying to spend a year getting certified to teach elementary school instead. I don't know if that would even be possible, and that would mean that I wouldn't graduate in May, but I really hope it is. I have been struggling with the idea of being a high school teacher for quite a while now... and I think it's time to do something about it. If this isn't possible I'm going to have to student teach next year anyway, but my fingers are crossed.
3. I still love my co-op to death. Phoenix House has been the best living arrangement I've ever experienced. We have a blog that is quite funny... check it out. www.phoenixhaus.blogspot.com
4. I bought my ticket for Rothbury the other day and I can't wait to go! Anyone who is going to be in the midwest over 4th of July weekend should come too. www.rothburyfestival.com
I hope everyone is doing well. Love you guys.
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| This song was featured in my dreams. |
[16 Oct 2007|01:44am] |
I don't wanna grow up
I'm a toys 'r' us kid
there's a million toys at toys'r'us
that I can play with
From bikes to trains
and video games
it's the greatest toy store there is
gee whiz
No, I don't wanna grow up
Cause baby if I did
I wouldn't be a toys'r'us kid
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[27 Sep 2007|01:44pm] |
1. Where is your cell phone?
Charger
2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend?
complicated
3. Your hair?
dirty
4. Work?
god's
5. Your father?
Back
6. Your favorite thing?
laughing
7. Your dream last night?
Vivid
8. Your favorite drink?
cider
9. Your dream car?
boxy
10. The room you're in?
Coral
11. Your pet?
nonexistant
12. Your fears?
scarrry
13. What do you want to be in 10 years?
helping
14. Where did you hang out last night?
Clay's
15. What you're not good at?
punctuality
16. Eyebrow rings on the opposite sex?
noper
17. One of your wish list items?
incisors
18. Where you grew up?
mid-west
19. The last thing you did?
read
20. What are you wearing?
pajamas
21. what aren't you wearing?
pants
23. Your computer?
tiny
24. Your life?
beautiful
25. Your mood?
content
26. Missing?
Friends
27. What are you thinking about right now?
words
28. Your car?
runs!
29. Your work?
procrastinating
30. Your summer?
busy
31. Your relationship status?
complicated
32. Your favorite color?
seafoam
33. When is the last time you laughed?
today
34. Last time you cried?
sunday
35. School?
good
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[27 Sep 2007|01:21pm] |
Hello everyone,
It's been a really long time since I've posted so here's an update on my life.
School- I'm taking three classes and all of them are actually pretty good. My senior seminar is about the Middle Class and it is making me see sociological phenomenon related to class EVERYWHERE. I really like it because it's one of those classes that actually expands your view of the world, not just one narrow subject.
My teachers ed class is also really good. I'm finally in one that is specifically for Social Studies teachers, and I feel like I'm learning things that I'll actually use in the world which feels good.
I've also stopped being such a fuck wad about skipping classes. I've only missed a couple so far which is a HUGE improvement from last year.
Other- I don't do shit other than school so far this semester. No job. No extra curriculars. Nothing. It has been really fun so far, and I'm actually getting my work done for school. I feel like a bum though. I want to at least get a part time job or join one club.
I live in a house with 28 other people and I love that. Everyone has turned out to be really cool and nice.
Other than that there's not too much. Oh, I saw Knocked Up the other day, I think it's better than Super Bad.
Also! Watch this video. You have to watch the whole thing and have the volume up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
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[09 Aug 2007|08:37pm] |
I get to go back to school so soon. Being home has been ok. I'm going to miss Matt a lot, and Ayla, and the few times I saw Nik and the other boys was fun. But other than that it's time to get out of here. I have a lot of goals for the year... here are a few...
1. Keep my room relatively picked up (particularly don't let dirty clothes pile up everywhere)
2. Work out in order to be better at boxing
3. Go to Class!!!
4. Get a job.
5. Don't procrastinate as much (especially on my capstone paper)
6. Make that book I've been wanting to work on
All good. Go to class is the most difficult one. I reaslized today that Sasha and I are in the same Senior Seminar which makes me very happy. We're pretty good at enabling eachother and this year we've decided to use our powers for good.
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| walkin on the sunshine state |
[26 Jul 2007|12:01am] |
I'm in Florida! It has been the best trip to visit my dad and grandparents Rachel and I have ever had. We've done a lot of things including snorkeling, shopping, walking around South Beach, eating delicious food, going to Tarpin Springs, and hanging out with my grandparents. Good stuff. It's the first year that we've gotten to spend time with just our dad. That has needed to happen for a long time and it has been very good.
Today Rachel and I rode bikes down to the pool to lay in the sun. We ended up doing water aerobics and playing in the pool for a long time. Then my dad came up and we cooked gator. It was ok but definitely not something I would order in a restaurant. Also not like chicken...
Tomorrow Rachel, Grandma, and I are going to see Hairspray and I can't wait. Judge me, go ahead... I love Hairspray.
Also... I am kicking ass in our traditional euchre tournament. I'm about 4 games ahead and on fire!
I'll be back in Spring Lake on Tuesday. Can't wait to see those of you who I will be seeing!!
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[02 Jul 2007|03:52pm] |
I will be back in Spring Lake on Tuesday night. Hooray! Then I leave for South Dakota on Thursday. Yay! Then I'm back in SL for a few days. Whoppie! Then I leave for Florida for about a week and a half. Great stuff! Then I'll be in SL for like two whole weeks. Amazing! Then I go to Maine with the fam to drop Rachie off at college. Aww! Then I'm home for about a week. Cool cool! Then back to school. boo/finally!
I intend on going to the bar with several of you. You know who you are, or at least you should assume.
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| bird is the word |
[16 Jun 2007|02:46pm] |
So... I've been making a point of being friendlier to people that I don't know, mostly people on the street. Today I was walking into CVS and I smiled and said hi to a guy that was standing by the door. He said hi back and as I was about to go in he said "you're very beautiful" in a delightful accent. So, of course, I giggled and said thanks and he asked how old I was and then he asked if he could call me sometime. I said maybe a couple times and went into the store. He followed me in a few minutes later and we talked for a bit. And I ended up giving out the digits and we will be having tea sometime.
Things like this have been happening to me with alarming frequency as of late. It's good to be friendly and very beautiful I guess... lol.
Ridiculousness, pure and simple.
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| Oh Rats |
[10 Jun 2007|11:39pm] |
Ok so here it is...
The other night, Thrusday I believe, my room mates and I had injested some intoxicants if you can imagine. I was standing by the kitchen and all of the sudden a white rat darted out of Lauren's room and into our Kitchen under the fridge. I screamed like a little bitch, blood curdling, seriously.
You may be saying to yourself, as my room mates were, "was it really a rat or does Ashley not know the difference between a HUGE, freaky tailed, rat and a mouse?" Rest assured it was a fucking rat, and not just any rat. We've seen his little albino ass around the outside of the house since Lauren and I moved in. I had a dream about befriending this little guy the first week we lived here.
Since Thrusday he's been spotted at least once a day. First on the basement stairs, then in the living room (which was particularly unnerving), and then again in the basement when I was doing laundry today.
I'm not scared of the rat. I don't think he's going to charge me or bite me or anything like that. In fact I think he was probably someone's pet that got let out/escaped into the wild and decided to move into my house. The problem is what I've termed "scarry movie anticipation fear." I know that this little bastard could pop out at any minute from behind anywhere and it puts me on edge like crazy.
Oh College.
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[08 Jun 2007|09:07pm] |
On this rare occasion that my internet works I would like to say salutations to all of you. I'm pretty bored at this current moment, but life has been very exciting lately.
I need to buy my lollapalooza ticket asap. I can't wait for that. Girls State starts pretty soon, which should be a lot of ridiculousness as it always is. I don't know how I'm going to be able to go away for class four of the days of camp but it'll all work out somehow I'm sure.
I'm torn about what to do tonight. Since I don't have a phone there's no way I can really get ahold of anyone, maybe I'll go visiting, but it's getting a little bit late. Ah but the night is young and my house is full of rats... long story.
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[07 Jun 2007|12:12am] |
Hey,
I left my phone charger in Spring Lake and my phone is completely dead... so if anyone's trying to get ahold of me leave me a message on this baby.
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| lolololly pop |
[29 May 2007|01:05am] |
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So here's an official re-cap of my 21st bday weekend...
Friday:
A bunch of people came over to drink at my place including Sasha and Jenni who came from out of town. We finished off a pony keg and a few shots and the people who were left came on a mission to go to the bar. We started out at the Riv where I was not allowed in after 1, then went to Crunchy's where I was also not allowed in, and finally went to the Roadhouse Pub. If you know the layout of the bar scene in EL and the location of my house you'll know how ridiculous that is. I proceded to have four drinks in about 20 minutes because I didn't feel drunk really when I got there and last call was quickly approaching. So needless to say I got wasted. Then tons of debauchery occured (very little of which I remember).
Saturday:
Woke up drunk, then after that wore off felt very Very hung over, watched some Weeds on tv, hung out with Mike and Clay for a bit, went to the bar with Chris, Tim, and Eric, then went to a party with the six north boys which was a lot of fun. Did a little bit of fight clubbing and bugboxing.
Sunday:
I lounged around all day watching Dexter, which is the best show I've seen in a really long time, then went to Phoenix with Mike and Clay to hang out with Pat, we ended up going back to Mike and Clay's to have a fire, make smores, and play some euchre. It was really fun and relaxing.
Monday:
Made some dinner with Paul, Watched more Dexter, hungout with the roomies.....
Good stuff. I'll be back in SL next weekend. I hope to see some of you then!
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[15 May 2007|03:05am] |
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It's my first night in my beautiful new hippie house. We haven't totally finished moving out of Klassy K yet but that will happen tomorrow and we decided we must move in today. It was fun hanging out with all the guys. It seems like we're going to have a really good summer together. I can't really foresee any problems.
You should all come visit me on my absolutely fabulous porch asap... Center Street is calling all of you, or at least it should be.
I missed my first class of the semester today... Just totally slept through my alarm and two different phone calls. I didn't even budge. Lauren and Mike missed theirs too though so I didn't feel like a total fuck up.
Went to my second class. It's African American Politics with Tim and an absolutely fantastic prof. He's an ex-black panther, socialist, who is going to teach me about hating the man and I can't wait. There are only about 7 people in the class so we should be able to have some crazy small discussions, only problem is that if I don't read it is going to be quite obvious.
Tomorrow morning I work from 8-12, then off to print some stuff and hopefully make it to the bank, then Psychology Reasearch Methods from 1:50-4:40. I'm really not looking forward to this class, but I don't think it should be THAT much work. We'll see though. Then hopefully I can skedadle to the Secretary of State after class, but I think I only have like a 20 minute window... I think I can make it though.
Time to get my sleep on. caviar wishes!!
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| Cake and Celebrating |
[04 May 2007|01:50pm] |
Finals are done!! And oh what a finals week it was. I didn't end up sleeping at all last night. Megan and I started studying for our ridiculous Law and Social Groups final at around 12:45am and didn't stop reading and going over shit as fast as we possibly could have until literally the moment the professor passed out the exam. I know more than anyone ever should about the levels of scrutiny used in equal protection cases... the subtle neuances between a compelling and legitimate State interest... discrete and insular minorities... aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
Oh well, I think it went well, and I'm proud of my night of work.
I also wrote a pretty bitchin paper about mass-media portrayals of marijuana and their effect on pot laws. Here...have a little taste...
"The tensions between a conservative, hard-line approach to enforcement of this substance, and liberal representations of the drug and its users in mass-media will continue to spur on public debate about this issue. America is currently at a crossroads with regard to marijuana law. It is impossible to say what will happen in the future, but if the historical cycle of awareness and regulation continues we will see a significant liberalization in the legal ramifications of using marijuana in the near future."
Haha, I guess I should have proof read it before turning it in, I'm taking a nap now... I'm also a pretty classy broad...
How's your day going?
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[29 Apr 2007|09:29pm] |
I made a very difficult but necessary decision this weekend and I'm proud of myself for doing the right thing.
Exams suck blah blah
I got a ton of new music this week which I'm very excited about:
Moldy Peaches
Lots of Rap
Easy Rider Soundtrack
Tons more...
That's that.
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[18 Apr 2007|10:49pm] |
Well, I finally wrote that paper. I was feeling good. All that weight lifted off my shoulders, weekend approaching. Good stuff. But then the bomb got dropped. I have 10 legal briefs due tomorrow. They take about an hour a piece and I've been working on them on and off all day. I have five done. Only five more to go. This time I'm going to try to just do them with minimal thought and anxiety. Here we go. After this it's officially the weekend, and you better believe I'm going to celebrate.
In other news, tomorrow I'm going to a Buddhist temple for meditation for the second time. The first time I went was incredibly rejuvinating. I've never been to any sort of religious gathering with such a beautiful and positive message. The thing that stood out the most to me was when the monk told us that if you are practicing and it's making you less happy you're doing it wrong. Buddhism is supposed to make you happy and friendly and able to let things go. I had been personally averse to organized religion for a long time, but I think I was grouping organized faith and organized religion into a false category. I hope it's as good this week as it was last time.
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[17 Apr 2007|10:23am] |
I'm a miserable fuck up as of late. I have a paper that's five days late in a class that I am probably going to fail. Awesome. When did I start hating school? Fuck. I don't even know what to do about it. Obviously writing the paper would be #1, but after that there are only more papers that I don't want to write. I guess no one wants to write most papers.
I've just realized lately that pretty much everything I've done in college has been based on me skipping a lot of class, not doing all the reading, and bullshitting the papers at the last minute. I'm so glad I pay to do that. I'm not even not studying anything that's getting me ready to do any job that I'm interested in doing. Except my teacher's ed. class which I enjoy.
The biggest problem with all of this, aside from the self-loathing, is that it's a huge blow to my identity. I guess I always saw myself loving academia. People talking about big abstract questions about life and the world sounded exciting and fun. Now that I'm surrounded by academics I realize that I hate it. What's the point? aljkf s;ieowajkg;a jkldf;a My eyes have been welling up at least five times a day when I get to thinking about it but I can never really cry. That's the most frustrating part of all. It's like my body won't let all of this out, I have to just wait and wait until it finally feels better on it's own.
I don't do my homework and I get depressed, I'm depressed so I don't do my homework. Fuck it.
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