4/30/06

06801

connecticut is OK. just OK. i have been spending a lot of time with my mom, which is always a plus. also, i am destroying my bedroom and rearranging everything and having a tag sale soon.

c.

4/27/06

they're the choices i've made

things:

king kong vs. godzilla triple feature - so much fun!
silent hill - gross, stuck to the games pretty well
all of my belongings - packed
studying - ehhh
tomorrow - not looking forward to it



in other news, i have a huge crush on crown prince frederik of denmark.
c.

4/26/06

naps


well.
c.

4/25/06

free cone day 2k6



today was free cone day at ben & jerry's. everything tastes better when it is free.

i go back to connecticut in three days. to be honest, i don't really want to go. i suppose it will be good because i will get to see my mom and ken. but ah, i can't want to live up here all year round. except for the whole not getting to see my mom and ken thing. crap.
c.

4/21/06

kickball 2k6


All of us, after the game!
Originally uploaded by chessie monks.
tonight we all played a very intense game of end-of-the-year kickball.

my team, TEAM BOA CONSTRICTOR STRANGLING A TIGER, got their asses kicked. we all looked fabulous, though.

c.

extremely amazing

last night, at coolidge corner, i went to see jonathan safran-foer do a reading from extremely loud & incredibly close. i didn't have tickets, so i waited in the standby line, and an older woman sold me her extra ticket. i was tickled pink. the event was held in the big theater downstairs, and it was almost completely full.
the reading was amazing. absolutely brilliant. i think that jonathan read the passages in the exact way that i had imagined them in my head... you could definitely tell that he had put a lot of his own personality into the character of oskar. in the novel, if you haven't read it, there are a lot of wonderful photographs placed throughout. while jonathan was reading, these images were projected onto the movie screen as they appeared in the text. this had a wonderful effect, as many of the photographs are... very strong images. it was beautiful. jonathan read very clearly, and gave the characters their own personality, so you could tell that he was very close to the novel (or, rather, that he had done this a million times). at the end, i was very heartsick, and also very pleased. i know that i need to read the novel again... it is such an enormous work, in my mind.
after the reading, everyone crossed the street (imagine, 200 people flooding out into the crosswalk) to the brookline booksmith to have their books signed. i had brought my mother's hardcover copy along with me, but decided to purchase a paperback copy for myself as well. when you purchased a copy of the book, they gave you a key that you could try in a lock. if your key worked, you won a prize (framed prints of images from the book, a paper sculpture made out of a copy of the book by JSF himself)! having bought my copy and recieved my little key, i waited in line for 1.5 hours (!) and got my book(s) signed. i always get sort of flustered at these things, so i just sort of babbled about why my mother's name has an 'e' in it, and how a lot of golden retrievers are named chessie. he was very sweet, and looked absolutely worn out in a very precious sort of way. it was first class. sadly, my key did not work in the lock, but i kept it anyway, just for pack-rat's sake.

i really wish my mom could have been there to experience it with me. she would have enjoyed it so much, and she is the one who lent me the book in the first place.

overall, things are going amazingly well. i had my first final this morning, rock music, and i think i did rather well. tonight there is a kickball game in the fens, filled with lots of music, and booty shorts, i suspect. i am going home in exactly a week.
c.

4/19/06

$$

i am going to have to go ahead and say i want- no, NEED this hat. someone give me $40.
c.

the lemon of pink


while this photo was taken a week or so ago, today has been a day very similar in general feeling. today i had my last class of the semester! to me, this is a very strange thing indeed. i guess i will take my finals and then go home for four months. i guess.

c.

ps- i suppose, in a moment of general silliness (and shouting) we (i) may have overexaggerated the extent of matt's injuries yesterday. he does have a concussion, but he made it through the night (almost).

4/18/06

to the hospital!

so. matt crashed into some dumb bitchfor. er, her car. he is dead. or he has a concussion.

also, the only people who read this blog are matt and burns. but i am making this post because matt may not remember 20 minutes from now. we are taking him to the hospital again, probably.
c.

ah.

i have so many crushes on both people in this picture. jeez.
c.

4/14/06

by-tor... and the snow dog!

At this very moment I am enjoying a smallish break from typing my "concert review" paper (which, coincidentially, I have not yet begun to type) to stuff my face full of chex mix and feel anxious about moving out of the dorm... to be precise, about how to get all my stuff back out of the dorm without a)breaking an arm or b)taking 400 years.

I have actually been feeling anxious about a lot of things lately. A few of these things are (in no particular order):
-Moving out/leaving Boston
-The end of the semester
-Going back to Connecticut
-Not having heard from Ken in what seems like months
-Relationships back home
-Running out of funds (and trying to work my ass off this summer)
-Probably The Future. No, definitely THE FUTURE.

Yes, THE FUTURE. That one where I sort of freak myself out and become convinced that I will have no money or friends or a job or time or probably life.

Anyway. This week has been... interesting. I had a lot to say about it but am now feeling sort of overwhelmed. In light of this, here is a Dig-style week in review:

-Last full week of classes: PLUS 2
-No death class Monday: PLUS 1
-Up to my eyeballs in Bible readings: MINUS 2
-Feeding squirrels in the park with GV, Peter, and Jared: PLUS 2
-Contracting rabies (probably) from squirrel scratch: MINUS 1
-Getting a ticket to the release of Death Cab's DVD, Directions: PLUS 4
-Spring issue of Spectrum, Astronauticus & the Dromedary released Tuesday: PLUS 2
-Amazing videos/Q&A at Directions screening at Coolidge: PLUS 3
-Lots of Drama. Lots of it. For your Momma: MINUS 6 (Yeah, SIX)
-My iPod surprising me with an excellent variety of "I'm feeling upset" songs: PLUS 1
-Seeing Death Cab for Cutie: PLUS 2
-The crap venue, assholes sitting next to me, etc.: MINUS 3
-Running out of money and therefore feeling anxious about The Future: MINUS 4
-Eating Annie's with my sister & being related in general: PLUS 3
-Going to the Black Maria film festival at the MFA: PLUS 1
-Being surprised by a great animation by Sarah Jane Lapp: PLUS 1
-Almost forgetting to write my concert review paper: MINUS 2
-Having to write my concert review paper: MINUS 1
-Getting to write about Jenny Lewis: PLUS 1
-My camera has declared itself obsolete and therefore needs to be replaced: MINUS 3
-The Me First & The Gimmie Gimmie's cover of "Nothing Compares 2 U" just came on: PLUS 1
-Missing Tierney Oberhammer in a really big way: MINUS 2
-It was 70 degrees outside this afternoon: PLUS 2

Total: PLUS 2

Ah, all is (almost) well.
c.

4/13/06

talking about

c.

4/11/06

ps

it should also probably be noted that i have signed up for classes for the coming fall semester. i will be taking:

-Elementary ASL 2 - Schreyer - MWR 9:15 - 10:20AM
-Jazz - Price - MWR - 10:30 - 11:35AM
-Survey of English Lit 1 - Leslie - TRF - 11:45 - 12:50 (with Peter!)
-Urban Social Problems - Rabrenovic - TF - 9:50 - 11:30

i am excited. i have heard nothing but good things about my professors, and i can't wait to learn more ASL.
c.

hooray


on wednesday, we signed the lease for our new apartment. lukewarm sake = party time! (note peter and myself looking a lot like mirror images of eachother. okay good.)

also, anything ridiculous you may have heard about the "good riddance kurt" party on saturday is probably true.
c.

4/7/06

photobooth

urgh, i hate how blogger resizes everything. anyway, there is now a $2 photobooth in the mfa. excitement abounds!

in other news, my address next year will be 10 Copenger St., Apt. 4!
c.

4/5/06

is your man on the flo?



i know there is a weird break in the two pictures, but that grey-roofed house in the middle is... (possibly) OUR APARTMENT FOR NEXT YEAR FROM THE AIR! YAYYAAYAYAYAY!

i love everyone! everyone!
c.

4/2/06

vitamins

so. i bought this shirt yesterday. i broke through my recent stingy ways and coughed up the 17.99... i am feeling very pleased with this soon-to-be addition to my wardrobe. yeah!

c.

4/1/06

and again and again and again

guess what time it is?! that's right, it's time to set the fens on fire AGAIN! yayyyyyyyyy!


only this time, let's make it right across the street from melvin hall, so when you are awoken by the sirens and creepy red light at 2am, you can feel the HEAT from the damn thing through your windows! yeah!

c.