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February 23rd, 2007
03:46 pm
Ugh. Work today. At least I only have four more work days until spring break!!! I cannot wait to go to Savannah, it is going to be so amazing. I miss James so much.
Everything is busy these days. I need to sit down and make some plans for what I am doing so I stop getting sidetracked and out of place.
Im growing clovers in my bedroom. I hope they are four-leaved clovers because I could use some luck outside of my academic life. Which reminds me, I need a new hobby!!
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February 14th, 2007
February 13th, 2007
01:17 pm - I'm back....maybe....
So, I think I may try to get back on livejournal. I don't really know anyone who does it anymore but that come with both positives and negatives so I don't care. I'm sort of afraid that if my livejournal dies I might not remember anything that was going on in my head during college soooo...there's that.
Right now I'm in the computer lab on campus, I really hate these fucking long breaks I have on Tuesday and Thursday but at least I get to see Kathleen during them. I feel like I never see anyone anymore and worry that my social circle is going to shrink. It's not that I'm unhappy with what I have been doing, I just don't want to lose everything else. I should probably make more of an effort to keep in touch with people but I doubt I will. Just as in my schoolwork, I am lazy in the social aspect of my life to the point that it almost becomes painful.
Also, I don't have class tomorrow which is amazing. I hope the weather sucks again tomorrow so I can just cuddle with Croissant and not feel guilty about it.
In an unrelated note, I wish I could journey into a video-game world for just one day. It would be awesome, I would play with Yoshi and fire fireballs and jump on walls. Plus, if I were in the world of Paper Mario I could fold myself into an airplane and fly or fold myself into a boat and journey on the ocean. That would definitely be fun.
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October 29th, 2006
06:09 pm - fall
When I was driving home from Rachel's new apartment across from Hamburg I saw THE most amazing sunset. It was jaw-dropping beautiful. I was on Winchester Road and surrounded by trashy restaurants and strip clubs and the like but it let me forget everything around me. I think it's nice how that can happen sometimes. It was like driving in a dream, or something. I absolutely love the way bare trees silhouettes look against the sky, it's probably my favorite thing about fall.
On that note, I am trying to appreciate things around me more. However, I think there is a very fine line between stopping to enjoy the world surrounding you and getting so lost in the small things that you forget what is really going on. I am lost enough in my life, after all, I need to remember to look at the big picture once in a while.
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October 4th, 2006
04:22 pm - People I Hate on Campus, Part 1: The Idyllic Couple
Yeah, I've seen you. Walking slowly, almost in the middle of the path, feeling it necessary to bridge the gap between yourselves by holding hands and staring into each other's eyes, occassionaly nuzzling and kissing maybe tossing in an ass grab every now and then.
I can never get around you, idyllic couple. You are too close to the edge of the path for me to walk on one side without walking in the grass but too close to the center for me to pass on the other side without running headlong into the other people who are trying to avoid vomiting as they stare at you. I mean, if you want to make out on campus find a damn bench, or a tree, or, for christ's sake, an abandoned stairwell. It's not that hard to walk to class at a normal speed with your tongue not jammed down someone else's throat. In fact, it's a lot easier to walk that way. You will avoid bushes and innocent bystanders that way. Also, I will not feel the insatiable urge to put on gloves and throw rocks at your head.
It's not that I have something against your naive romantacism. I think that sometimes it's kind of cute. (Note: sometimes, not often) But really, I hate campus. I don't want to spend any extra time there and I certainly don't want to be reminded that while I am trying to get through the hell I call class and avoiding the people I know and don't like on campus, there are happy people out there. It's just too much for me to handle.
Please idyllic couple, this is all I ask: save it for the dorms, the basements and the drunken parties, if you can. And if the strain proves to be too much for your young love, just take it off the path.
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October 3rd, 2006
12:07 pm
I need a new computer!!!!
I can't handle not being able to really enjoy new music since I can't put it on my ipod.
School = bleh but this weekend is RENT which I know will be amazing and we don't have class on Friday and I don't work until Sunday so I am happy.
More later, I have to go take a test and then go turn in a bunch of essays.
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September 26th, 2006
08:28 am
Good weekend...but now I think my cartilage piercing is infected, also I am having tooth problems and my mouth is all swolleny. But I don't care too much as my sister is finally coming home today. I'm driving to Louisville and am going to the airport with her boyfriend to get her. I can't wait! I know this is going to be a damn long class day though.
Also...I think I would definitely have sex with all the members of Of Montreal, even the girl...though she would be a little lower on the list. More about that later though, when I have more time.
Also, more about my parents visiting last weekend...haha.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/punquinheads/blue/excited.gif) excited
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September 21st, 2006
06:35 pm - Recounting my ranting
I had a sociology test today...I think I either did okay or terrible. We shall see. I am hoping for okay.
I studided for hours yesterday and it put me in a really bad mood because a. I find much of what I learn in sociology to be depressing and b. my mind wanders when I study and because studying itself makes me angry I tend to go on crazy rants about nothing.
Anyways, yesterday I got really pissed when I was thinking about the fact that attendance is required in our college classes. It makes sense to me that attendance is required up through high school but now we are PAYING for class. If we want to waste our money, we should be allowed to! If I buy a gallon of milk, I am not legally obligated to drink the whole thing, I can pour it out if I want. If I purchase an alpaca known for its soft, luxurious fleece, I do not have to shear it come springtime. We are a wasteful country and if I choose to waste my money by not attending my classes I should have a right to do so.
My roommate pointed out that teachers prepare lessons for us and its disrespectful not to go, but the fact is, they are going to get paid regardless. True, it is more fulfilling to feel like you are actually doing something at your job but I don't think mandatory attendence rules necessarily imply that students will be in class everyday, excited about learning something new. I think the best way to make sure that a class is full of eager young minds is to make it harder to get into college in the first place, that way we know the people who make it this far in their education are serious about learning. If our admission requirements are low we are going to be full of a bunch of slackers who don't care about school and end up failing or doing poorly anyways.
The thing is, I would go to class most of the time anyways but I hate being told what to do (problems with authority...it runs in the family) and I hate the fact that a couple of insignificant absences can ruin your grade in a given subject regardless of whether you understand the material or not.
Okay...enough about that. Check out the trailer for Jesus Camp on youtube. It scares me
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/punquinheads/blue/silly.gif) crazy
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September 11th, 2006
04:51 pm
Ugh...school is too much. Actually it's not, I just miss those days when I had nothing to do at all. And I could party whenever I wanted to. This semester has actually been kind of amazing, I am having a great time. Sure, I have no direction in life, but things are going well. On a kind of related note, there is a Funky Llama brand of wine which I am currently enamored with. How could I not be?
I'm bored with myself today. I want to do something drastically astouding or at least new and exciting. I shall think about that. Before anything, I must have deep contemplation on what will be good enough. I mean, Miami Ink makes me want to get a tattoo but that probably is not best idea...
I miss my sister. It's weird.
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August 28th, 2006
02:14 pm
It has been forever since I was on livejournal since I have not had the internet in ages. I kept thinking of things I wanted to write but now I have forgotten most of them.
I guess the highlights of my recent life have been extreme drunkeness, the invention of the word dramatical, the start of school, and the bailing out of my husband from jail. Yeah. Fuck the POlice.
I really liked the rain today until I had to sit down in class in my soaking wet clothes. Being outside in it was nice though, I hate hot weather and it felt really good. I think one of the most amazing feelings is standing outside in the rain while listening to an ipod. If the volume is just right you can drown out most of the outside noise but still hear the rain falling on the umbrella. It is kind of perfect except for the whole getting wet thing.
Oh also I saw this little sorority girl who had gotten cute for class (reject) and was wearing a little white flirty skirt but had forgotten her umbrella and you could see straight through her skirt. Haha, loser. She probably liked the free advertising for her ass though. Ugh, I don't understand that life.
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July 27th, 2006
12:32 am - Update...yay!
So I just had the most amazing vacation with amazing people. It will be remembered for years to come!
Since returning, I have been busy but I like it that way, I think. I move to Lexington in 5 days and CANNOT WAIT.
Do you remember those archeology kits from when we were kids? They came with this big hunk of soft rockish dirt and tools so you could dig for the jewels. I remember being a little kid and findiing the gems buried in it and washing them off in the kitchen sink in vivid detail. I thought it was amazing, magical even. I treasured those cheap little fake gems and kept them in a shoebox by my bed.
As I grew older, however, they held little value for me. I realized that they were not real, and as much fun as it was to look for them in that rock and the fact that they brought me enjoyment at one point was not enough to sway me to keep them forever. Now, it's not that I find it impossible to treasure the small things. I have tons of little things from my past that hold a great significance for me despite the fact that they are worthless. I still have this terrible red bracelet that my friend Daniella gave me in elementary school, it probably cost three dollars but it still means something to me. The thing that bothered me about the gems is that the value I assigned to them was so meaningless and fake. I liked them because I really thought they were exotic jewels not because they had personal significance.
I think the value of an item comes not from the its inherent form but from what it means. Those gems, though extremely fun to extricate from their little rock, never had a correlation to my life. The bracelet, on the other hand, will always remind me of good times with my elementary school friend. In other words, happiness and love are more important to me than all the fake shit I encounter in my life.
In other news, my sister is home again. Hmmmmm.
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June 20th, 2006
08:12 am
So this has been my favorite week of summer so far. I love that I get to see people all the time and that the people I see are not related to me. I don't have anything else to say on this subject that won't sound sappy and ridiculous so I'm not going to say anything at all.
I stole a rock from a house down the street the other day for no reason at all. I named it A.J. (Allie Jr.) and am not really sure what I am going to do with it now. Tony and I have been thinking that we should put some random cheap thing where the rock was with a note or something just because it would be a little funny. The rock stealing made me yearn for the GLF...oh what fun that was.
I think that one day stealing random things will get old. I wonder if other random adventures will become fruitless as well. If they do, I think that will signify a great change in my life and will most likely mean that I have become old and boring. I don't think I will ever get tired of random adventures. Just garden theft.
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June 18th, 2006
09:08 pm - Summer...
So here is what the rest of the summer is looking like right now:
now-next weekend-- Lexington: housesitting for Will and hanging out
next weekend-28-- Louisville: mostly boring, good days occassionally
June 29-July 8 or 9-- Cuba Lake with my parents: complete social isolation, kill me now
July 9-19-- More Louisville..
July 19-24-- Cuba Lake with cool kids: excited!!
July 25-August 1-- Louisville one last time
August 1-- Lexington and the independent life!
It's not so long.
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June 11th, 2006
10:39 am
I'm in Lexington now! It's exciting being back here for more than just a night or two. I get to see everyone without feeling that desperate rush that I need to cram as much fun as possible into the short time we have together. James has set off for Savannah which makes me sad but I'm excited that he is going to come to the lake. We have a pretty awesome group of people on board now.
I want to do a lot during these two weeks, I'm just not sure exactly what yet. I do have a few evil plans in store though. Mwahahahaha.
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June 5th, 2006
11:41 pm
Summer feels good for a change this week. James is home, the day of the devil is tomorrow and I am anticipating spending some time in Lexington away from the fam for a bit. It's been a good day.
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June 4th, 2006
11:13 pm - bouncing around
So, I'm going to be in Lexington for two weeks starting next Sunday! I'm pretty excited I guess. I don't really know what the hell this summer is. I have thought about moving to Lexington permanently(ish) as soon as possible, but I think I will probably come back after these next two weeks and then just hang around Louisville and go to the lake and move up when MY lease starts in August.
Yeah...MY lease...cool. I'm glad I'm not living in the dorms anymore, even if my room is tiny and I will probably starve to death and have to walk really far to class and all that. I think I'll still like it. The more I think about it the more I realize I really don't care if my bedroom is cute though. It really doesn't matter, I think I'd be more into it if we were decorating the whole place because it would seem like a big exciting project...but we're not.
I can't wait for August.
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June 2nd, 2006
11:14 am
Yay! I'm awake but it's still dark out since it has been raining. It makes me feel more productive to have woken up when it's dark out even if it is only dark because of the rain, not because it is early.
Rachel's at work again today. It sucks being trapped here, but I'll survive I guess.
Hopefully I won't do anything crazy today...haha, just kidding. I hope I do lots of crazy things and that they are all awesome.
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May 23rd, 2006
09:58 pm
Is it weird that I still like to think of animals is little furry/scaly/feathery people? I like to imagine them with little families and having conversations and the like.
I really think Tinker and Faye talk to each other. They follow each other around the house and whenever Faye Cat goes back to Lexington I swear, Tinker wanders the house for hours looking for her. It's really cute. I like to think that animals in the wild do that too. I bet that opposum that Matt Bailey and I chased down the street was on the way to work and we set him off-track. Probably his family had to starve that night because of us. That is no good.
I wonder what the description on the plaque would say if I were at the zoo.
"This is the wild Allie K. Her natural environment is a soft fluffy couch in front of a television. She also likes to wander through soft grass, swing, sleep in the sun and climb and/or jump off things for no apparent reason. She often travels with a pack of raucous, but lovable, twentysomethings whom she is very attached to. Her mating call is "boyyyys" and she is easily influenced by the promise of ice cream. She is generally a tranquil creature but may become violent if a member of her pack is threatened and at this point is best left alone."
That'd be cool.
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May 20th, 2006
02:29 pm
I am fucking sick of summer. I think that is all.
Yep. That's it.
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May 15th, 2006
07:26 pm
I cannot believe that it is this cold and it is supposed to be summer. I mean, why does the world insist on torturing me? It is depressing. Especially since my social contact is now limited due to the not-in-collegeness.
Did you know that the guy who plays Alex on Gray's Anatomy is 35 and has 5 kids? FIVE! Can you imagine if I had 5 kids? Ha. We all know how I feel about annoying children, if all 5 of my kids acted like my family acted when we were children I would soo have to give them away or something. We were not well-behaved...actually we still aren't very well behaved but at least we aren't our parents' responsibility anymore.
Well...that's about it. My life is boring. I wish the sun would come out!!!
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