*hello out there in t.v. land. i miss you. i miss california. i want to come home for a week and see everyone, but i can't. sorry. only five months til i see the sandy shores of california once again. oh, 16 lanes of the 405; oh, spires of the golden gate; oh, lofty peaks of yosemite; oh, yellow skies of richmond; how i miss thee. i want a burrito.
let's see, in the past few weeks i've been working hard at school, dancing every weekend, and drinking myself silly. well sillier than i would normally be. i am getting over a 'severe case of tonsillitis', as the doctor put it. i was so out of it on thursday that they had to send a doctor to my dorm to see me. but don't fret, i'm a survivor. i'm getting better.
alex miller is coming to visit me this week, i think. i can't get her to tell me the exact date and i've forgotten it, so hopefully she'll call me when her plane gets in or something.....also i'm planning a whirlwind tour of europe for april. i want to spend a week in paris, go back to amsterdam, switzerland, and then i'm going somewhere sandy to get a tan. then my sister is coming for a week. after that i'm meeting an american friend in milan for a week in italy. shopping! art! food! italian men! what more could a girl ask from a country? then i come back to a week of studying before exams on 8 may.
*this is a special update. well not really, but it is most likely the last update of 1999. what's new? not much. i'm still living in london. that is london, ENGLAND. it's christmas break and most of my friends have gone home, but not me. i'm still here. i had to move to a different dorm for the break cause my building closed. it was kind of a hassle having to move since i had to take basically all my stuff with me, but it was only down the street a few blocks. this place, International Hall, isn't nearly as nice as my old place, Hughes Parry Hall, but the food is sooo much better. and they have a hot chocolate machine. oh how i dream of the frozen yoghurt machine at cowell.....
i've been doing touristy stuff during vacation. i feel like i really live here, and going to museums and stuff kinda makes me feel weird. but it's not as bad as going to fisherman's wharf or pier 39 or something. nothing is as lame as being a tourist in san francisco. anyway saturday and sunday i stayed home, because i felt like shit and couldn't walk anyway, cause i had horrible, unbelievably painful blisters on the bottom of my feet from dancing all night last thursday in those betty page shoes. saturday night dan came over and we went out for a really late dinner at the Hare and Tortoise, a japanese place in the neighborhood. if you are ever in Bloomsbury, i highly recommend it. they give huge portions of delicious food for very cheap. and they have excellent tea. monday i went to the Victoria and Albert museum (again) where i planned to draw the statues. but i couldn't find anything that really wanted to be drawn, and i really had more fun just wandering all over the place. monday night i went to Heaven with juno and her friend graham. Heaven is a club under the arches at Charing Cross. it's free to students on mondays and has cheap drinks, only £1.20 for anything. there are three different floors of music: dance, indie, and cheesy retro. it's a cool place, especially since it's free.
yesterday i did absolutely nothing. well i stopped at the internet cafe to check my email. i spent the whole rest of the day reading 'Orlando' by virginia woolf (sp?). read it. today i am going to the British Museum to try to draw again. hopefully i'll find some willing subjects but i'm not holding my breath.
i hope everyone is having a good vacation in sunny california.
*hmmm, friday night wasn't too exciting, but it was definitely fun. my friend anne turned twenty-one so we took her out for chinese in london's chinatown. it's not nearly as cool (or authentic) as san francisco's but it's got some really good restaurants. and believe me eating out is a religious experience for those of us living at Hughes Parry Hall. after dinner we walked back to the dorm and had cake and champagne. well okay it wasn't really champagne, it was actually sparkling wine and it was pretty bad. but it was cheap. anne had never had a drink before so we got her to try the sparkling wine. i don't think it's really her cup of tea. i'm not sure how she managed to reach twenty-one and never have alcohol. the rest of the evening was spent drinking (well me and ed drank) and hanging out in anne's room. i think she had a good time. i hope so. i'm glad her birthday later in the year because it was so cool sitting at dinner, surrounded by friends, and realizing that two months ago we were all strangers to each other. my birthday kinda sucked because i didn't really know anyone and i wished my friends could have been there. i did go out with some people but it's different than being with real friends, ya know?
monday night i went out to leicester square with my other friends, the boys from the ninth floor. for some reason i always end up with almost all my friends being male. i swear it's not on purpose. it just happens. it's not a bad thing, of course...just odd being the only girl most of the time. anyway we went down there and had a few drinks at a pub called witherspoons which is on the west side of the square towards the bottom. nice place but it feels like a chain establishment, because it is. the crowd is a bit older, their beer is kind of expensive, and there's never anywhere to sit. but other than that it's a great place. later we walked across the square and past chinatown to this place dan likes called little italy. their coffee tasted like water, no flavor at all. what was cool was that they had pictures up of famous italians and they played pretty good italian and spanish music. they also gave us plates of green olives and peanuts. dan had champagne and i had a taste. i never really liked champagne that much before because it is kind of strong, but now i have a taste for it i think.
every other night of the week can be summarized like this: dinner, simpsons for an hour, go to my room for an hour or so, downstairs for drinks, up to tom's room with the guys for a few hours till everyone goes off to bed. somehow this works out so we all leave tom's room at around 3 a.m. i don't know where all those hours go. oh sometimes we have toast. that's about the only variation.
my accomplishments this week: turning in my essay on time; going to lecture for the first and last time this term (it's not my fault, my adviser NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT IT!!!!! fucking asshole); giving a presentation in my medieval british history class AND doing another girl's presentation ad lib when she failed to show up; teaching myself how to roll cigarettes and doing a nice job of it thank you very much.
please visit my new webpage if you get the chance. it's not as exciting as this one but it's got some interesting bits to it.
*so much has happened since i last wrote here. scott and i got back together after three weeks but broke up again in july. at the end of july i met jason who made the rest of my summer interesting to say the least. i spent august and the first half of september hanging out with carolyn, jason, and nick. in september i went down to santa cruz with care and jason to visit some friends, mainly ed and brian. i had a going-away party in september and got to see a few of my UCSC friends before heading off to england on the fifteenth. i've been here in london since then, studying at King's College London. you can read all about it here. i'm going to put a little more effort into this page from now on, especially since i finally figured out my fucking password. geocities has been infiltrated by yahoo and has changed its entire format, along with all our usernames and passwords and everything. everything i loved about geocities is gone and everything i hated seems to have been magnified. hence my new webpage on tripod.com. but i am not so bitter as to discontinue this page that i've worked so hard on. oh no. i will continue working steadfastedly, in order to provide you with intimate and embarassing details of my life. that being said, i'm off to class.
*not that anyone actually reads this, but i thought that i should mention that scott and i broke up on sunday night. we'd been going out for five months as of friday. it's sort of funny, because i knew it was over, and i was trying to think of how i should say it. we live in the same building and have the same friends, so i thought it would be especially hard to break up. but he came home on sunday night (he went to his mom's for the weekend) and he said he thought we should break up. we've always been really telepathic with each other, and this was one time that i was definitely thankful for that. i was dreading having to bring it up first. i am terrible at ending relationships. anyway we talked about it and had a laugh about it being so easy for us to break up, since we had both been stressing about it all week, apparently. he was relieved that i wasn't upset and i was relieved that he had brought it up. we are still good friends, which i am happy about, and everything seems to be cool between us. i think i've shared just enough here to really embarass myself, so i'll just go now.
*i'm feeling really crappy so i'm not going to write a whole lot tonight. i just wanted to tell you about two URLs that deserve your attention. the first, We Are Family, "is a voice of informed straight, lesbian and gay people who have chosen to love and support our gay and lesbian relatives and friends by working to spread truth about homosexuality. Our focus is on young people because they generally feel so desperately alone." This site is a great resource; not just for young people but for adults as well, especially for parents with gay/lesbian/bi children and for teachers. i encourage you to visit this site and listen to what they have to say.
The other site i want to tell you about is called Organic Body Jewelry. the owner, Erica, has some fabulous pieces of custom-made and traditional jewelry, and the site itself is well-designed and well-organized (unlike mine). By traditional jewelry i mean tribal jewelry from Asia and Africa. i ordered a pair of bamboo ear plugs for my 00 gauge stretched lobes and Erica was very nice over the phone. i'll let you know as soon as my plugs arrive. she offers very competitive prices and also does custom work. if you are at all interested in tribal body jewelry or in amber, bone, antler, metal, stone, or wood body jewelry, take a look at this site.
*last night i was up pretty late hanging out at brian's. it started out cool, just brian, scott, will, matt, and i; later on a bunch of drunk girls came in and were just way too drunk and loud and annoying for me, so i came down here to work on my webpage. by then i was drunk, of course, but i don't get stupid when i'm drunk. i recieved a very unexpected phone-call while i was working on my page, after which i ran back upstairs. thankfully all the girls had left. they're cool people when they're sober but when they're drunk i can't stand them. later on, i think around 2 or so, i finally got to sleep. that would have been early on any other saturday night, but i had to get up early this morning. well, early for a sunday anyway. i had to meet ruth (our preceptor) at ten to go to safeway. i then spent all day cooking in ruth's kitchen (thanks: brian, andy, & coleen) . then i went up to brian's to watch the superbowl for awhile. then i spent another hour and a half cooking more stuff. i cooked dinner for my building, about thirty or so people showed up. i made penne pasta with two kinds of sauce (veggie or meat), garlic bread, steamed broccoli, and salad. i think everyone liked it. so that was my whole day: cooking and watching the game. oh yah i also managed to watch the simpson's (a new episode!) and do all the dishes. and that leaves me here, typing away on my website. oh yah: please visit my friend Ed's site. it would make me happy if you did. also visit Stupid Questions and Witty Replies. if you've ever been pierced or tattooed, you will laugh your ass off. and sign my damn guestbook, you little maggots.
1/30/99 9:59 p.m. back to top yesterday
*sam and tim came to visit today! they were supposed to come last night and stay till tonight, but (what a surprise) they called at the last minute and decided to come today. when they finally got here, we went hiking all over campus looking for salamanders and just wandering around. we started out on the road to the mchenry library but got sidetracked, hiking under the classroom unit bridge over to the quarry. all the main entrances to the quarry are closed because of construction on the bookstore, so i hadn't been in there yet this year, mostly due to laziness about finding another way in. sam and tim found lots of critters in the mud under rocks; the quarry is a great place to find salamanders, since there are tons of muddy rocks to look under.
we wandered through the quarry over to the amphitheatre part and then ran up the hill to the road. we decided to hike up to crown meadows, which sam and tim had never seen. it's quiet and beautiful up there, more like you're on mt. tam than on a UC campus. of course, a lot of UCSC is like that. it took forever to hike up to the meadow because sam and tim had to look under every rock and rotted log they saw. after walking through the meadow, we had to decide whether to walk down 'north fuel break road' or 'fuel break road'. there is actually a sign posted with those two names on, pointing down two forks in the road. we went down 'fuel break road', for no special reason, overturning every rock and rolling over every log. what a day. they did find a new (well, undiscovered by them) species of california slender. the scientific name escapes me for the moment. they had to count all the grooves on its side, between the front legs and back legs. slenders have four legs, in case you were curious. anyway they found one that had more grooves than the usual species they find, so they got all excited about it. it's cool, i guess, but i'm not the type to jizz all over myself about a salamander with extra grooves.
we hiked back down the hill on another (unnamed) road and ended up at communications. sam and tim wanted to stop at the science library, after which we walked back to cowell and had dinner. that was my big, exciting saturday. oh yah, scott came with us. after dinner they hung out for awhile but they had to go pretty early since it is a three hour drive back to vallejo. that sucks. i wish they could have stayed longer.
anyway that's my story. more tomorrow.
1/29/99 7:34 p.m. top of page yesterday
*i did it! i pierced my tongue! i got a 10 gauge barbell, and it didn't even really hurt. i think all the adrenalin probably helped. anyway it took about a second for Jack (the piercer) to push the needle through, and it didn't hurt at all. then he put the bar into the back of the needle and put that through, and then screwed the ball onto the other end of the bar. after he put in the jewelry and my tongue started to swell-that's when i started to feel it. it doesn't really hurt, it's just kind of sore and tender. plus i couldn't eat anything but frozen yogurt for dinner and i'm starving. but the piercing looks really good and i'm glad i did it. after all, i've wanted it since i was twelve. seven years is a long time to consider a piercing. this is number six of my real piercings (not counting various plain earrings). i have my labret, septum, tongue, and eyebrow pierced, as well as a 12 gauge ear project in my right ear and both lobes stretched to 00 gauge. i love all of them but i think the ear project and the septum are probably my favorites. if you live in the santa cruz area, i suggest going to staircase tattto and body piercing for all your piercing needs. i can't vouch for their tattooing abilities but they have a nice selection of body jewelry and two qualified piercers.
1/29/99 2:42 a.m. top of page
*not much to say this morning. i just hadn't realized how long it's been since i updated. life has been pretty busy lately. scott and i are going out now; actually we've been together since november 9, if you want to get really exact. my new classes are pretty easy, except for my history class: africa 1800-present. it's my first upper division class and it is impossible to keep up with all the reading. my midterm is next thursday and that will be the day of truth for me in this class. i'll just have to do the best i can and get through this quarter. spring quarter will be awesome, cause i get to take an upper division costume design class where we actually get to drape fabric and design some stuff. i'll also be taking another history class: renaissance italy. i'm a history major, if you hadn't guessed. oh yah! i got accepted to EAP (the education abroad program), so i'm going to england next year to study. i don't know where though; i'm supposed to find out in may what city i'm going to. i'm praying that i'll get accepted to the london school, but i'll be happy with whatever i get. i hope.
i might pierce my tongue tomorrow.
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