The New and Improved Pajjes of Noli: July 2006

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Here a Colorado picture to tide you over!

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Colorado!

Well, tomorrow(at 5:30 am, yech), I will off on my very first camping trip!

Isn't that sad? 20 years of no camping!

Anyway, my family is going tent camping in Colorado. I'm really really excited. I'm going to buy a new sketchpad today for the occasion ^__^ I'll put up pictures when I get back!

Love to all!

Sunday, July 09, 2006

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You are the Celtic Cross: This cross was first made out of stone and is often found atop hills, in front of castles and in graveyards throughout Ireland and Scotland. The stone was carved with various symbols including a circle or halo (representing eternal life) and variations of the celtic knot.
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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Yesterday really should have sucked...

but I was in a really good mood all day. Or, at least, most of the day. And I'm in a good mood today. I don't really understand that. I mean, yesterday:

I slept badly and woke up really tired.

I had a 7 am dentist appointment where the hygienist was apparently trying to remove all of my enamel and slice off my gums. So my mouth was sore and bleeding all morning.

I was late to work because of the appointment, which means less money.

After my 7.5 hours at my real job, I worked 6 hours at a ballpark selling overpriced food and beer. Beer smells bad.

I received a phone call (during the 6 hours shift) that I had just begun to forget to dread, which informed me that I am going to have to pay $700 for someone's bumper. Which means either no laptop or loans for school.

But, aside from occasional crankiness while my gums were really sore, and for about 20 minutes after I found out about the bumper, I was in a fine mood.

Maybe it's just nice not to be bored.

Sunday, July 02, 2006

real post! I promise!**take 2

Alright, I'm going to actually post now!

Really.

I just need to figure out what it was I wanted to talk about.

There's always the story of the frat boy who though I was a criminal. That was entertaining. But I think it will be way more fun to only explain that it was a misunderstanding involving community service for the Boy Scouts.

Oh! I've been seeing daylight again! I still get really tired if I try to go out much(I think 3 hours is my maximum 'out' time) and my back is not a bit happy with being out of bed, but I have, in fact, been able to see people outside of my immediate family! Yay!

Let's see...I got a credit card. Scary, isn't it? But I want a credit rating when I graduate college, and it gives me nice things for spending money, which I will be when I get my shiny new laptop. Which should be next week-ish.

I am also officially poor for the next year. See above paragraph.

***edit*** This post sucked and wasn't an update. Revised rest-of-post that doesn't suck quite as much:

I have been rather light on ponderings lately, because I haven't been reading many good books and have been too tired to think. Lately, though, I've been wondering about the nature and definition of dormant friendship. It's really a very confusing thing to define. I've reconnected with some old friends lately, and I have to wonder if it can be said that we were friends while we weren't speaking or really thinking about each other. Is a friend someone that you have, previously, befriended? But that would include a few people that I would no longer consider friends because of falling outs, discoveries about their personalities, etc. Does it depend on amicability toward them, then? If I think of someone kindly, when I think about them at all, and have genuine good wishes for them, and would love to talk to them again at some point, are they a friend? If I forget they exist, but would think of them kindly (etc.) if something reminded me of them, are they a friend?

Thoughts, please, my three friends who still read this!

Also, as a random tidbit, I have apparently gotten good at writing nice emails when I really want to call people names. I've had to write a few lately, most recently to a certain snide little man (who is making me do three times as much work as I need to because he formatted something absurdly, and had the gall to fuss that I hadn't formatted it that way in the first place! Just ask Nick how much I ranted about him.) who has been my chief frustration at work for the past three days. So, if I ever write you a very polite email, with no insults or poking fun, it probably means I want to call you names!

Oh, and I got to talk to a current student in the UD PhD program in Literature that I want to get into. She was very enthusiastic about it, which makes me even more excited about it. Apparently I could work part time while there. And there's a nifty Austen class, I'm told. ^__^ Speaking of Austen, if anyone has brilliant ideas of what to narrow my thesis topic down to, I wouldn't mind a bit! (Tasik, you are highly encouraged to annoy JoBu about reading Austen so he can discuss it with me! That slacker.) At the moment I'm planning on analyzing her view of marriage/society, but that's pretty obvious and broad. And if anyone knows a good reason not to choose Dr. Kelly, tell me before October or so!

Well, I'm supposed to be working, so I'll get back to that, but I think this post has improved significantly. Love to all!

The New and Improved Pajjes of Noli