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So my Halloween costume was a huge success last night. I was Tippi Hedren from The Birds. I did a rather good job of it if I do say so myself. Last Halloween I felt that I put a lot of effort into my costume and it didn't get a lot of recognition. But last night made up for that. I got a whole bunch of compliments and lots of strangers took my picture. They were even asking me to pose with their friends. Hehe. It was fun! I was at Otto's Shrunken Head for most of last night and saw Chris's band play. Then I went to some party at some rich guy's house with a friend of Chris's. It wasn't a costume party and I was the only one dressed up. I didn't care though. I played the piano there for a little bit. I had text messaged some people I thought might be around the East Village because I really wanted people I knew to see me in my costume. One friend stopped by to see and somehow we ended up kissing in the middle of the sidewalk. I got blood all over his face. I don't know what I was doing. Then I walked back to the party and as I was going in, a party guest was leaving and asked for a kiss on his cheek. I figured what the hell and then he turned his head as I was about to plant one so I kissed his mouth. That's the second time a guy has done that to me!! I hate that. So lame. And you'd think I'd have learned by now. It's just hard to believe someone would be that stupid to do that. If you have to trick a girl into kissing you on the lips, you've got problems. Anyway, I think I'm gonna go back to bed. I got home really late and woke up really early as usual. Hopefully Melissa is still going to walk in the Halloween Parade with me tonight. I'd like to revive Tippi once more. Here're some pictures:
10*29*04 I've been really busy all week so I haven't had much time to write. Good news is I finished my drug lab and I got my unknown drugs right. I got to watch Psycho in my Hitchcock class last night. My teacher had a big projection screen for us to watch it on instead of the TV she usually uses. It was excellent. There were a few people in my class who hadn't seen it. Such a sin. The one girl I was yelling at for not having seen it didn't even know anything about the shower scene. What bubble has she been living in her whole life? She tried to give not being from this country as an excuse, but the girl next to her was from Poland and said, "Big deal, so am I and I've seen it." Hehehe. During the scene where the detective is stabbed at the top of the stairs, the girl sitting behind me jumped so violently her desk moved back. I was laughing so hard at her I had to turn my head so no one could see. I had all the pieces of my costume together, but the wig I ordered online, which was supposed to come earlier this week, never came. Last night I read the feedback given for this seller on Amazon.com and they have over 50% negative feedback from people saying their items never came. And they have a no-money-back policy. The thing that really pisses me off is that I paid $12 for 2-day expedited shipping two Thursdays ago, so this should not have happened. They didn't respond to my e-mail from three days ago, so I wrote Amazon.com about the problem and they told me I can try and get my money back through them if I don't get my wig by the end of November. That doesn't make any fucking sense. What the hell will I need it for then? Since both companies involved are being deceitful, I plan on doing the same to get my money back. Anyway, so tomorrow morning I have to get up relatively early to go wig hunting in Manhattan. I'm sure the day-before-Halloween crowds I'll have to deal with will be delightful. I spent almost the entire 8 hours I was at my internship today studying for my midterm next week. I think I've got most of the stuff down. So now I won't feel so bad if I spend most of the weekend not studying. I think I'm gonna ask that boy I have a crush on in lab out to drinks next week. I'm sick of waiting for divine intervention. I'll ask him while he's working in the nurse's office. Haven't really decided my plan of attack yet. But I'll think of something...or just wuss out. Can't decide if I should ask for a Band-Aid (or a maxi pad) first and then start small talk, or just come to the door and state what I want right off the bat. "Look, you're hot. Do you wanna have drinks with me tonight or what!?" Who can say no to that? 10*25*04 My site was down for half the weekend due to some server problem my host had. I'm sure you were all worried. But, as you can see, everything is ok now. I can once again post meaningless banter about my life for the enjoyment of others. I spent most of the weekend in lab performing microcrystal tests. I finally finished around 4:30 Saturday afternoon, just in time to meet Geoff at the NYC Horror Festival downtown. I liked last year's better. The movies this year looked too professional. Whatever happened to low budget!? I voted for the most low budget looking movie short because it had everything I was looking for: gore, comedy, cheesy horror and it was short and to the point. Yesterday I had my photo shoot with Vincent. I actually had a lot of fun doing it. I thought I was going to feel stupid posing, but after half a bottle of wine I was fine. And I got to dress up, which I haven't done in a very long time. He ended up taking over 150 pictures. So at least one has to come out good. I hope. I know I blinked in about 10 of them and the flash didn't work in at least 20 of them. He said he should have the contact sheets by the end of the week. I'm keeping my fingers crossed in the meantime. This week in lab we're doing drug testing, so they're bringing in cocaine and marijuana and all sorts of illegal substances for us to test. This is much more interesting for me than analyzing torn paper fragments. I just hope I do the lab correctly. Other than lab, I'll be searching for the last pieces of my Halloween costume this week. Hopefully tomorrow after work and lab I can get it. Melissa said she may dress up as Hitchcock and walk in the Halloween parade with me. That'd be awesome. I hope she doesn't flake. I'd love to be able to wear my costume more than once. But I'll have to see what's going on. Other than that, this weekend is still kinda up in the air. 10*22*04 I have a crush on another guy now in addition to the one from lab. The crush I have on the guy from lab is purely superficial--nothing serious. And he may be cute, but he has dresses like an idiot. But the other guy I've been talking to a lot lately. Online mostly. We met last weekend when I went to NJ. I dunno. He doesn't really live that close, so I don't know what I'm doing. Well, I'm not really doing anything. But it seems like a futile attempt to try and start something up. But who knows? I fell asleep on the subway yesterday and when I awoke, my arm twitched and hit the guy next to me. It was pretty hysterical. I went back to sleep and pretended nothing happened. Today I woke up on the subway and I was practically drooling. I love sleeping on the subway. I love the white wine I'm drinking. I think I'll go watch Dead Alive. 10*21*04 I have a few minutes to spare before I have to start getting ready for school. My cat woke me up early by knocking over a lantern in the living room that I got from Ikea when I was about 10. If he had broke it I'd have broke his neck. But he didn't. One or both of my cats have managed to rip my vintage stereo speaker to shreds. I really hate them sometimes. I have class all day today. Actually it goes something like this: class from 11:05-12:20, lunch break from 12:20-1. Lab from 1-5. Work out from 5-6:30. Hitchcock class from 6:30-9. We're watching Vertigo today. Psycho next week! Speaking of which, my Halloween costume is Hitchcock inspired. But that's all I'm saying about that for now. I think my mom and I are in a fight. We haven't spoken to eachother since Saturday. She left a message on my voice mail that morning and I didn't call back within a few hours, so she left another message yelling at me and being a big bitch. So I called and left a message yelling back at her. And that was that. One hopes when they get older their parents will stop yelling at them for stupid shit, but that never seems to happen. Well, in my case anyway. I downloaded an SNL Continental skit with Christopher Walken last night that I've never seen before. I love Walken. "Have a nice glass of champagne!" Ok, I'll get ready now. 10*18*04 10*18*04 "You're only as ugly as we think you are" is my new favorite life lesson from Strangers With Candy. I watched a bunch of episodes from season one with Katrina yesterday. I had a lot of fun with her Saturday night. First we went to a party her boss had, and then we hung out at a bowling alley/bar in Asbury Park. The party was pretty neat. Mostly people in their 30s - 50s were there. It's kinda strange being in an environment like that and being accepted as an adult and not treated like a child anymore. Mostly because it wasn't that long ago when it was just the opposite. There was an art teacher there who was talking about smoking pot, and an older mother who got drunk with Katrina and me. I remember viewing these people in a completely different light when I was a kid. They never did anything bad in my eyes because they were supposed to be responsible adults. Then you get older and realize they're human too. Or, as Katrina put it, you realize their first names aren't Mr. and Mrs. Anyway it was just something that was in my thoughts for most of the night--I'm getting old, and there's no stopping it! At the bowling alley/bar, Katrina and I drank a lot and danced while everyone else pretty much just watched. So much for starting a dance trend. I also got to play drums that the owner had left near the dj's table. It's pretty fun. And it doesn't seem that hard to learn at all. But apparently the owner was mad I was using his drum set. But seriously, what do you expect if you leave a drum set all alone in a bar? Some drunk person (i.e. me) is eventually gonna get their hands on it. The Cramps were pretty crazy last night. They only played about 3 songs I actually know (granted I only own two of their albums). Regardless, it was still cool to see them. I went to a flea market with Katrina yesterday afternoon to buy a bookshelf, but I couldn't find one because we got there too late. So I bought a WW II gas mask instead. I've always wanted one of those. I also got a key element for my Halloween costume. I need to go thrift shopping to get the rest. And I need a wig. And some fake blood. Intrigued? Good! I'll post some pictures later. 10*14*04 Today was a good day. I got some new clothes and a pair of shoes in the mail this morning that I had ordered last week. I went down the stairs in just a towel to get the package. My neighbor came out and looked at me like I was nuts. It was kind of embarrassing. Anyway, I wore the new shoes to school today. They cut the side of my foot open. My feet are so goddamned sensitive! So I went to the nurse's office to get a Band-Aid, and lo and behold there was my crush from my lab. Coincidence? I think not! I finally got to talk to him in any case...even though it was just to ask him for a Band-Aid. Baby steps. I told some of my friends in lab I liked him and they were busting my chops all day. I found out his name too. But I'm not telling. I got my first essay back in my Hitchcock class tonight and I got an A! My teacher wrote a comment saying it was a very good first movie critique and I had a good eye for detail. So that pretty much made my day...even though it's almost over. Yesterday at my internship I got to watch Deirdre do a hair and fiber analysis on tape, latex gloves, and rope that some nut had used to tie up an old man. Pretty interesting. Tomorrow night I was going to hang out with Courtney, but I know if I stay out late I'll miss lab on Saturday again, and I can't do that. So I re-scheduled with her for next Friday. Saturday, after lab, I'm going to NJ to hang out with Katrina and go to flea markets with her Sunday morning. Then we're driving back to NYC to see The Cramps Sunday night. Monday night I may or may not go to punk rock karaoke depending on how tired I feel. The following Saturday Chris and I are going to the NYC Horror Festival. Then that Sunday (I think), my friend Vincent is going to take pictures of me dressed in whatever 50s clothing I have. It was his idea. I'm a little wary because I think I'll probably look like a retard. But I haven't dressed up in a while, and it might be fun. And by some miracle maybe I'll look decent in a few pictures. Let's see, then the weekend after that is Halloween and I still haven't got my costume together! This month is flying by so fast. In some ways it's kind of annoying that I have plans for the next two weeks. But for the most part I'm happy that I'm keeping busy. 10*11*04 Morrissey played Bigmouth Strikes Again last night. I am a very lucky girl indeed. I didn't get to bed terribly late, but I woke up three hours before I had to get up for work for some reason. I've been doing that a lot lately. I'm always tired as a result. I bought some melatonin pills today, so hopefully that'll help a bit. I think I just have anxiety about school. But a solution to my hectic final semester struck me today: I am quitting my job in December and taking out a big loan so I can complete my final semester without having to worry about working anymore. I just can't do this school/internship/work thing anymore. I can do it this semester sort of because I don't have too many classes, but next semester I have three classes which all have a lot of lab time. Plus I failed one of them already and I need to try and get through it somewhat better this time around. Plus I hate my job. So I told my boss of my plans to leave today. Now I have something to look forward to. Here are some stupid pictures of me. I don't photograph well on my digital camera. I miss my web cam, but it won't work on my Mac. So deal with it.
10*10*04 I had a dream about some sort of monster that wouldn't attack you as long as you gave him the right amount of jellybeans in the right color. That's pretty much all I remember about that one. I'm waiting for my mom to come over. Assuming she's still coming that is. She called me yesterday while I was taking a nap and asked me for the millionth time what time she should come over today. I answered her for the millionth time and then she asked me why I sounded weird, so I told her I was tired. Then she asked me if I was sleeping and I answered yes. Then she kept asking and her voice was growing more and more irritated and loud. What a freak. Finally I figured our connection was shot so I hung up. I called her this morning though and she sounded all mad at me. Guess it's that time of the month. She just called me while I was typing this and told me she's on her way. So that answers that. I had a lot of fun on Friday night. I'll elaborate on the night. Melissa and I had dinner, and then had some drinks and shot pool at a few places before seeing the movie. I had planned on going straight home after the movie, but since Andy and his friends were so close by, I figured I'd at least say hello for a few minutes. We met them at The Hole, but it sucked there, so we went over to Lit. On the way over we ran into Dima, and since Andy is friends with him too, they talked for a bit. One of Andy's friends, Erin, was pretty drunk and very crazy, so she kept harassing people on the street while we were waiting for Andy. She was going up to strangers and saying, "Angela! We went to high school together! It's so good to see you!" And they'd ignore her and walk away scared. It was pretty funny while it lasted. We didn't stay in Lit very long. The crowd there gets worse and worse every time I go there. So then we were walking all around to try and meet up with another one of their friends. Melissa was pretty drunk by that point and was feeding off of Erin's craziness, so she started screaming random things to people. I don't know what the hell we were doing, but we ended up standing on 13th and 3rd Avenue for a little bit and I sang the theme song for Duck Tales. Erin was on her cell phone and threw it onto the sidewalk twice. Finally we went over to Avenue B to meet up with their friend, but not before all bouncing on a mattress someone had put in the trash. The bar we ended up at wasn't anything special. We found a little notebook and Erin, Melissa and I all passed it around to each other and wrote Smiths/Morrissey lyrics in it. Yeah we're geeks. Shut up! So that was that. The whole night I kept telling everyone I had to go home because I had to get up early for lab. But they wouldn't let me! Well, I caved easily. But I tried, I really did. Sort of. Saturday morning I got up when my alarm went off and bought The Pixies tickets online as planned, but never made it to lab. I was just too tired. I ended up on the couch watching Netflix movies for most of the day. I had planned on napping and then hanging out with Andy again, but I woke up just as tired as I was when I went to sleep. So I stayed in and went to bed early. I didn't mind it too much. Sleep is nice. There's a secret Interpol show tonight that I really want to go to, but I'm seeing Morrissey. Dilemmas. My favorite line from their new album at the moment is: "Can't you see what you've done to my heart and soul? This is a wasteland now." Mostly because that's pretty much how I feel at this point. Luckily I don't have too much time lately to really care. 10*09*04 I just got home not too long ago. It's almost 5 in the morning. I met my internet friend Andy tonight instead of tomorrow night. We're still gonna hang out tomorrow night too, but he was in the east village and so was I.... I saw Shaun of the Dead tonight FINALLY. I loved it. There were some parts I wished had a little bit less talking and more zombie action, but overall it was great. Melissa enjoyed it as well even though she kept saying "ew" every 3 minutes. I liked how they made the most mundane events, like putting jelly on toast, so dramatic. Brilliant. I have to get up somewhat early tomorrow to buy tickets to see The Pixies and to go to lab. Stupid lab. To hell with microcrystals! 10*07*04 I just got out of lab. I'm about to go work out in a few minutes. I just thought I'd kill some time though since I have it. I'm rapidly fading. I need coffee ASAP. I have a little crush on one of the guys in my lab. He's really cute. I've never talked to him though because he's a graduate student which means we have no classes together. I'm just a lowly undergrad :( Maybe I should stop being a retard and say something to him. Maybe next time. Though we did share a moment before he left today. I saw him leaving the room out of the corner of my eye so I looked over, and it turned out he was looking over in my direction too and we made eye contact. So then I quickly turned away and pretended it didn't happen. That's the way I plan to win him over--through idiocy. The lab technician on Thursdays plays the shittiest radio station. I can't stand it. So today I listened to my iPod as I did my lab. Speaking of which, I need to get a new one. My battery doesn't last more than 3 hours anymore and I've only had it since February. I want to see if I can pay an extra $50 and get the newest iPod. I've had my fun with the mini and it's time to move on to bigger and better iPods. I got my new Converse in the mail yesterday. I also got a new printer/scanner in the mail. I love the way my old Converse look worn in. But it's gotten to the point where they just look like a pair of shoes a bum would own. Plus water gets into the holes on the bottom when it rains. And I can't wear them to my internship because they're too dirty. I just hope these ones get that worn-in look quickly. I hate when they look new! Melissa may be able to get us free tickets to see Interpol. She has a connection. I hope it works out because I really love their new album. Ok coffee time. 10*05*04 Ok so I'd really like to see Interpol November 12th at Hammerstein Ballroom, but tickets are sold out and people that are selling them on eBay and Craig's list want twice what they're worth. Plus people on eBay are charging $20 for shipping!! Shipping should cost 37 cents. It's fucking paper! Ridiculous. How do they sleep at night? Probably on a pillow stuffed with money. 10*04*04 Jeez how cute are my cats!?
Really cute! Awww. Anyway, I was just trying to take a nap, but then my mom called and woke me up. So I figured since I'd be doing nothing productive with this time if I was still sleeping, then I mind as well update this thing. I'm just trying to justify in my head why I'm not studying right now. I have a quiz tomorrow. :( I still haven't gotten a chance to see Shaun of the Dead. But Melissa and I are going to see it Friday night. So all is good. With my tight schedule now, I'm booked solid all the way until next Monday night. I got to be lazy for some of yesterday though, so that was nice. When I left my internship Friday I was so tired I forgot to shut off the lights and lock the door like the woman who works there, Deirdre, told me to. I realized when I was an hour away and started freaking out. I tried to call security when I got home and the next day, but no one answered. I called Deirdre today though and she said it was ok. She's so nice. And she has the most pleasant Irish accent. I wanna say she's only in her late 20s, but I dunno. Anyway, I wish I was getting paid to be there because I'd quit my job in a heartbeat. No, not even a heartbeat, a heart palpitation. Saturday I sold a bunch of clothes I don't wear to this store in Williamsburg called Beacon's Closet. I got $145 towards store credit, or $80 cash. I think I'll stick with the store credit. I was too tired to shop on Saturday, and I really wanted to go after work today, but I was too tired once again. So I have to wait until next week now. This coming Saturday I have lab for most of the day, and then I'm meeting up with an internet friend from Massachusetts. He made me a DVD of the Fensler GI Joe PSAs and mailed it to me a few weeks ago. How nice was that!? Anyway, I'm looking forward to taking him to a bunch of bars. I'm aiming for at least 7. Sunday my mom is coming up and then I'm seeing Morrissey that night. Oh and we're watching Rear Window in my Hitchcock class this week. I love that movie. So as soon as this quiz is out of the way tomorrow, the rest of the week shouldn't be too bad. I'm really loving my internship. I just had a bad first day. Okay, now I'll study. Maybe.
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