ahoy! and other nautical expressions!
posted on August 07, 2003 @ 4:38 pm

-"who can you trust?" morcheeba
-"dead leaves and the dirty ground," white stripes
-"armitage shanks," green day
-"naked in the city again," hot hot heat
-"ice age," joy division
-"jukebox breakdown," saves the day
-"all the same," orgy

yesterday i had to stand outside and work. on the news last night, the guy said we reached our high of 103 at 3:45 p.m. when was i standing outside? 4:15 p.m. ai yai yai. (you know, like ricky ricardo). i was in some shade at least, though. by the time i was taken in, at 8:00, i thought i was going to vomit. the heat always does that to me, and it makes me so angry and anal. moreso than usual! :gasp:

i went to the library (UGL, FAC, SMF�take your pick, it's all the same place) when i got off around 10:00. i felt so loser-y because all these people around me were composing papers and surrounded by books and notes, and there little chelsea is at the end with her cell phone and car keys, playing cubis and talking to owen. i went to the bathroom to call jennifer at 11:00 to see if she still wanted to go to the drag show, and man, the anteroom is plush. "this place is amazing! i'm totally lounging in the bathroom."
"yeah, i fell asleep before classes in there a lot."

anyway, she was tired, and neither virginia nor cole were going to go, so she said she was just going to go to bed. thusly, i returned to cubis and owen until 11:45, when it closed. which sucks because it's usually open 24 hours during the regular school year. it's good to know my IF number still works (what you have to have to log onto those computers; mine's ifss514).

i couldn't sleep last night at all. i was reading wuthering heights, wanting to finish it since jennifer finished harry potter, but at 2:30 a.m. i told myself to go to bed. i put in alice in wonderland (what i fell asleep to the previous night), and nothing happened. i was just lying there wide awake. i ended up just watching alice, which is the best, most hilarious movie ever.

"nothing whatever?!"
"nothing whatever!"

so i get out of bed, turn on the light, watch "cosby," "third rock from the sun," and "cops," all whilst writing a letter in the f∂nєtIk �lf∂bєt. (i know that's not an upside down e, but it's the closest i could find). the 5:00 a.m. news came on, and somewhere around 6:30 is when i just turned everything off and played "asleep" by the smiths on repeat. i managed to fall asleep, but oh my god i'm tired.

after turning my alarm off for about 2.5 hours, the credit card company got me to sit up (my phone's on the wall at the end of my bed). jennifer and i went to randall's because we wanted to see if davey's assertion that only rich jews shop there was true. jennifer asked, "do you think they'll let us in? we can say we're jewish."
"between my blue eyes and your being black, i think they'd know we're lying."

michael has blonde hair and blue eyes, though, and he's jewish. anyway, we went to the one on 290E, near her toys r us. though i saw some jews, about half the people just looked normal. the prices were insane; everything was jacked up like a dollar. random conversation sample: she: "he's a husband waiting to find a mistress."
me: "yeah, if we were hotter he so would have hit on us."

we're going to go to the one on exposition and lake austin boulevard and see if we can find some loaded people. ooh, there's one on bee caves. we were talking about how west austin seems like another city; everyone is just rolling in it out there. you may ask yourself, as i have, why are we going to these stores just to find jewish people? we're not sure.

me: "we should go."
she: "yeah, we've got to go to heb."

:shrug: so we got her check (wherein i heard someone whistling "temptation" by new order but couldn't pinpoint who), cashed it, and went to the heb on oltorf and congress. i got noodles shaped like dinosaurs and six cheese tomato sauce! wee! and a lunchable with nachoes; those are so good. we got $54 worth of groceries; we've never gotten that much. in any case, our kitchen is full-o-food, and we still managed to forget aluminum foil.

i'm going to have to pay my speeding ticket since my name's not on the insurance (i'm just someone "given privilige" to drive the car since it's still in my parents' names), so that's $199. my paycheck today and the one in two weeks are both $489, though, so i'm not too worried about it.

john at work brought me all his dreamcast games. :pause: the count's right around 200. he said he'd let me borrow them months ago, but then we both just forgot about it. when i got to work he said he had a surprise, but made me wait like 10 minutes before telling me while he did his reports. he went to his car and dropped this gigantic cd case in front of me. i opened it up, exclaiming, "jesus christ!"
"i found them all while moving and remembered i said you could borrow them like six months ago. i'm so very sorry."

i really hope mine will play them, though. if not, i'll just find an old dreamcast (prior to 2000) that will played burned games (all but like one of them are burned). le sigh. i really hope they'll work; stefan's didn't the two times we tried.

gah, that's a lot of ramble with absolutely no substance. this has got to stop.

"dear your name here, it's been a long time, very long time, since i've heard your voice. i've had a hard time, very hard time, seeing less of you."
<3, chels.

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