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    2/06/02
So I have a new method of keeping an online journal now. Go to www.chefgrrrl.blogspot.com to keep up with the madness.

     1/20/02, 5:07 pm
For some reason I feel like updating. I NEVER feel like updating, so I thought I'd take advantage of this. So I've had a pretty good weekend. Corinne and Sara came into town, and we hung out at Bryan and Becky's all weekend, which was a good ol' time. We rented shitty movies last night and drank margaritas. Ah, how could we possibly beat the excitement of that? Impossible, I tells ya.
So Mr. Boy hasn't called yet. Actually, I'm thinking he probably won't and I'll have to wait till Tuesday at school to talk to him, which sucks. It's really annoying that I keep thinking about him and I keep remembering all of the little random stuff we have in common. Like, he enjoys Oregon Trail. He's been to Rocky Horror several times. He likes that "down by the water" song by PJ Harvey that I put on every tape I made until I was 18. He's seen Night of the Demons II. He likes good movies. His favorite book is "On the Road." God, I'm crushing hard here. This is getting ridiculous. Everyone cross your fingers for me. At least, the two of you that are reading this. OH, I went to my personal ad page and he fits everything. Therefore, he is officially waaaay too perfect to work. Sigh.

     1/19/02, 11:02 am
Hmm...an actual update, eh? Not like anyone will read it, but I feel somewhat inspired, for some reason.
So the Louisville life is going okay right now. I really really like school. I only have three classes (the first three on the list below) and I get out of school at 12, which is awesome. My culinary skills lab was separated into groups of 4 and now we cook stuff in our groups everyday and have a buffet at the end. It's actually quite entertaining, most of the time. I like my group, there isn't anyone stupid in it. There are a couple of guys in class that I would've been pretty pissed about being grouped with. Actually, I was going to start another feature on the site called "run-ins with genius" or something like that, and document all of the stupid shit I get to hear. Maybe I'll get around to that later, if anyone would like to hear it.
So I met a really cool guy Thursday night, which just happens to also be in all of my classes. I'm waiting for him to call though, I HATE the waiting rule. If he doesn't call, I'm going to be so upset. Everyone, be prepared for my crash and burn. We all know that things rarely work in Staceyland. Ah well, though...I'm not going to whine. At least, not yet. I'll do that Monday when he still hasn't called me.

       1/04/02, 9:30 am
Happy Birthday Melissa!!!! May your 21st birthday be filled with large casino winnings and fruity drinks:).
Alright, with that out of the way I guess I'll ramble here for a bit, since I got an encouraging note from an anonymous someone in my inbox asking me to update. See, all you have to do is ask:).
Well, I'm officially a Kentuckian now, and it's not nearly as painful as everyone was telling me it was going to be (kidding). School is good so far, although waaaaaay too early. My 7:00 am class is taking a little getting used to. It's so weird to watch the sunrise towards the end of class. I was born to be a night person; I love staying up till 3:00 am. I feel alot more creative late at night, for some reason.
My classes aren't too awfully bad yet, my schedule goes as such:
7:00-7:50---Basic Culinary Theory
8:00-10:50---Basic Culinary Skills Lab
11:00-11:50---Sanitation
12:50-1:50---College Success Skills, but I won't have this one fairly soon since it's an independent study class and will only meet once a month after next week.
My Culinary Skills Lab looks good...starting next week we break up into groups of 4 and start making food, and then at 10:15 the entire class makes a huge buffet of food and we eat. We make good stuff, I'm excited. Our midterm is over the five mother sauces, and our final is a knife skills practicum. I'm scared of the final. Apparently it's basically pass or fail. Eeek.
Sanitation class is somewhat amusing as well...the instructor is a 70ish year old woman who finds germs to be the most exciting things on earth. She just can't tell us enough about contaminations and bacterium. Ugh.
So usually we don't have school on Friday's unless you go in to get supplemental instruction, but today we had to meet at 8:00 to get our uniforms and knives. Our uniforms are the typical chef outfit (white coat, black and white checked pants, neckerchief, apron, sidetowel, toque, black shoes, and nametag with our hometown and major) and our knives are awesome, a little intimidating though. They come in a little black briefcasey thing. I don't quite understand why a pastry chef is going to need all of these knives, but who am I to ask questions, right?
I still don't have a job, but I intend to go job hunting today. It just sucks because I'm STILL sick and all I want to do is sleep because of it. I can't smell or taste anything (irony, eh?) I also can't really hear, which I think is driving Shane nuts. Ah well.
Oh, and I still don't know about my financial aid. We're waiting to see if my PLUS loan goes through, and if it doesn't, I don't know what I'm going to do. So if anyone reading this wants to loan me $17000, I would be forever thankful.
But I think I've written enough for today. Maybe more later, if anyone even reads this:).

       11/26/01, 12:21 pm
I'm updating, can anyone really believe it (all two of you reading this, rub your eyes in disbelief)? Things around here are getting a little weird, I constantly feel that things-are-going-to-be-drastically-different-here-in-a-month feeling. Which they are, I realize. I still can't believe I'm actually going to be starting Sullivan. I've talked about it for so long that it feels like I've built it up to mythological proportions in my head. Craziness. But anyway.
I was actually off work Saturday night, and I went to a show for the first time in a long long time. I basically quit going to shows a while ago, because anytime I go I kind of feel like I've outgrown them. I'm not insulting anyone that still goes to them (AT ALL), but with me they were such a staple of my high school years that I get really nostalgic whenever I go, and the new ones never quite measure up to the ones I remember. But anyway, I went to the one Saturday night and it was GREAT. The something-haypickrers-something or rather (no, I can't completely remember the name, but what's in a name anyway, right?) band totally blew me away. They were AMAZING. I smile just thinking about them.
Oh, and duh, I totally left out our Wednesday night shennenigens (how do you spell that). We had our third annual Thanksgiving dinner, and it was stupendous. Usually all my friends from high school get together and dress up formally and a few people cook. But this year we had a pot luck kind of thing and we dressed up in an 1980's fashion. It was great. I was Jennifer Beal from Flashdance, sorta. I had a great time. How could anyone NOT have a good time, playing twister while dressed up as a 80's reject? Ah, I love my friends:).

     10/21/01, 10:06 pm
I've been off of work for three days now, and I'm thinking it's going to be really painful to go back. I actually had an entire weekend off (unheard of, for me). It was stupendous. I saw two movies (From Hell and Riding in Cars with Boys), one of which was good. I'll let you decide which. It's not that difficult.
Shane, Susanna and I also went to see Ani Difranco in concert at IU, which was good, of course. She was better when I saw her about a year ago, though. This time she played alot of her newer stuff and hardly any of the old. That sucks, since the more I get into her the more I like her older stuff. But oh well. I had a good time.

     10/17/01, 11:52 pm
Well, I did it. I broke down and bought the video camera. And you know what? It's sooooo cute. I love it. It's my new pet. Hell, I may even name it.
So after I made this major purchase Kyle and I made his Real World audition tape, which amused us for all of 3 hours. Quite the accomplishment, seeing as how this is the most boring place on earth (outside of Cleveland, Ohio and Fairfield, Illinois, that is).
I also ended up calling Sullivan University today and making an appointment to tour the campus. It's the scariest thing in the world, to actually try to do what I've always assumed would make me happy (does that make sense?). If I do this and it isn't what I expected, I don't know what I'll do. Oh well. More later.

     10/16/01, 2:44 pm
Ah, a day off. I am doing absolutely nothing right now, aside from debating whether or not to buy a video camera. I just can't decide...it's such an expensive purchase, and I'm buying it almost purely for novelty value.    Ah well. Nothing really going on right now, aside from the fact that I'm going to see Ani Difranco on Saturday!   Yayayaya. I'm way too excited about that. Okay, no one reads this, so I'm quitting for now.

     9/26/01, 2:25 am
Alright, no, nothing is going on. The only reason I'm even online is because both Shara and Shane aren't home and I'm really curious as to where they are, so I'm waiting up...ugh, damn maternal instincts. I decided I could take this opportunity to update my site....but you know what? I don't think anyone reads this stuff anymore. So if you do, email me or sign my guestbook and tell me to update. Otherwise, I'll just go back to writing in my journal again. The power is in your hands. Heheh. I sound like an Army commercial