alison

I'm going to name my first born Pabst Blue Ribbon.

I'm still at work, writing inspirational words for greeting cards.

Hum.

 God... 
I used to date guys who dress up like anime characters and played dungeons and dragons.
They made me watch anime. 
Read manga. 
Taught me how to play Yu-gi-o and Magic and I even played Dand D for an hour once. 
They made me learn DDR and listen to them talk about video games. 
I went to an anime convention once. 
One made me buy him action figures or something and drive him to his D&D meetings.

HOW DO I GET THAT TIME BACK FROM MY LIFE? 


p.s. why am i pretending to work?

I should write here more.

It's hot in my room because there is no ventilation. 2 of my room mates are sleeping on the couch under the A/C. It's cute.

I slept through work last Saturday morning. (8am on Saturday mornings is just cruel).
First I started my excuse as an emergency tonsil removal, but then the recovery for that really is too long so I changed it to a.. tonsil fluid drainage??

Honestly, if something sounds too gross to ask about, then bosses usually don't.

(I love telling people I have diarrea*)
* I had to look at Dictionary.com to give me the spelling for that, the definition of diarrea is:
too much liquid in and too frequent emptying of the bowels
Example: He has diarrhoea.

and cites it in 27 different languages.
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Anyway, Greg left for L.A./Vegas/Reno this morning.
Sad :(
But he has work.

I would have gone, but school starts in 13 days and I have this awesome job.

He left me a lovely letter to discover when I woke up though.

And I miss him already.
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Bought a new pet mouse. The total now is 4. She's black and the only mouse I've ever met that gives kisses.
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I just spent $250 on textbooks for 3 classes which I will only glance at the day before a test or paper.
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My classes begin at either 12 or 2, and none on Fridays! I like my classes.
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I just spent $50 at the grocery store, on things I need. I come home to find out that the fridge is broken.
But my mom's giving me $400/month for groceries. :)
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My room mate's BF got jumped and hit 7 times with an aluminum baseball bat walking in Bloomington. They were going to rob him, but all he had in his bad were CDS.
He has some fractures and a black eye, but he's handling it well and it's healing on its own.
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It's really fucking hot outside.

Apparently Chicago had some tornados touch down.

Scary, I wonder if anyone was hurt.
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I went to the McClean county fair yesterday! It was small, but I went on the upside down rides and Greg won me a new goldfish.

That's about it.

I have an amazing job where I sit in an art gallery for 3 hours a day, usually by myself, and write essays about bloomington-normal. $11/hour. I love it.

I'm going fishing today!

Back home for the summer.

Extremely broke.

I like my house.

Greg is at the pub next door. He is in a bad mood because I went on a date with my friend Casey instead of him.

I am extremely frustrated.

RAWWWRRARARWRARWRARWRARWRA

Lazy Sunday.

Back in Chicago.

Here's what I've been doing:
Illinois, Tennesse, Kentucky, Ohio, and back to Illinois.

Bonnaroo was fun but Summercamp was better.
In Ohio we went to a gathering of people who grow their own mushrooms. Or just like to eat them. It was good times.
Rothbury soon.

I've done a lot of drugs
Drank too much smoked too much
Made absolutely zero money
Spent more than I can afford to
Met a lot of people
Seen a lot of things
Went to tons of states
Got a nice sun tan
Slept next to my boy every night.

Oh yeah, and we were arrested again yesterday for sitting on a bridge.
Dumb.

Apparently there's only a month left of summer - how in the hell did it go by so quickly?

I am sitting in the parking lot of "duds n sids super laundry" of murfreesboro, tn. Greg is putting a new starter in ze truck. then we're going grocery shopping and then off to bonnaroo! we're going to party in the parking lot tonight. cooooool. we even have tickets and an rv pass. (no sneaking in this time) I counted cars full of hippies on the highway down here. There were a lot....
OI.
But I'm excited for it! drinking and drugs and camping and music and etc.
It's been a good summer. No work. Lots of traveling. A good sun tan.
(Except that I'm broke. These things will happen...)

I am in Orland park.

Summercamp was tits.
Illinois cops are crazy - got pulled over 4 times after entering Illinois (no front liscence plate). The first was 10 minutes after crossing the border.

Had my first keg at my house, also fun.

I'm at Greg's. Today we pirated 150 gallons of grease from the back of restaurants and filtered it and cooked it to use in the truck.
Going to Florida. Tuesday probably. We're bringing the camper so we can pull off staying places for free. Ummmm and fuel is free too.
Then we're going to New Orleans and then Bonnaroo. Back to Illinois for a couple days, then Ohio, then Canada - etc.

Or something.

YUP. Fun summer!

Hello, how are you?

I am having my first keg at my first house.

i CAME to my room to nap but now I am not tired.

We are leaving for Florida / New Orleans soon.

But I have no money.

Don't tell Greg.

But I am completely broke.

UM. Well, there's always credit.
Hazaaah.

I'm drunky. Goodbye time for beer pong.

I am sitting in a hotel room 15 floors up in a hotel/casino in Reno Nevada.
It's kind of fancy, but free (because Greg's played poker here before)... I spent a while in a big bathtub drinking beer and watching TV.

Traveling was cool. We drove 36 hours. (he drove mostly all of it) Next week we're going to pan for gold. Tomorrow we're going to San Fransisco.

This is my first time out west. It's a lot different, but I love the mountains.
I saw wild horses, maybe 5 feet from the car.
And prarie dogs at a rest stop that really just walk up to your feet because they're curious. Cute.

Reno is big and pretty. It even has that little sign from the show Reno 911. Except the cops I saw driving by and riding bikes seem a lot more serious.

Iowa is pretty boring. Went to the world's largest truck stop. Not much there. Doesn't take long to drive through.
Nebraska is flat and boring too. Witchita seems kind of interesting, but that's about the only sign of civilization on I80. Then here's Wyoming which is the MOST boring state driving through I80. I don't have much to say about that except there's pine trees and you start driving high altitudes up into the mountains. Lots of cows.
Utah aint that bad. Salt Lake City is pretty and HUGE and kind of nice to roll onto. I was really suprised to see just how many mountains there were out here.
Then the moment you get into Nevada you see gas-station-motel-casino. The first town we hit I thought was Reno because of all the neon. But that's just how Nevada is. Most gas stations have at least one slot machine in them, I found out.
You know, a lot of this stuff seems like it should be on a post card, it's that picturesque.

Anyway, a lot more than that has happened.
You wouldn't believe how nice this hotel is! It's kind of cool. My boyfriend is somewhere downstairs playing poker or something. (I'm not old enough to gamble. Apparently I'm not even supposed to stay here?)

California tomorrow!

Today I am drunk.
There was... A FREE KEG!
Theatre majors, but they're cute!
I found out today that my favorite gay guy is straight!!
WTf.

double you tee eff.

UM. what else.

Saw Sara, always good.

Tomorrow a test
Tomorrow hand in a paper (that I didn't try very hard on)
Tomorrow pack a bit.

Complications with the company that owns our house.
Fuck it at this point.
I'm done being responsible.

EtcEtcETcEtc.

I'm unplugging my computer after I study.
Tomorrow. So CYA.

Edit: Alison is Bunnicula
"Today Vegetables... Tomorrow the World"
Or, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGV08KvSs-Q

Me and Danielle talked about kids books after she told me how a group of 24 bunnies were just staring at her today.

Itinerary:
Work on theatre and American Lit until 7:50, then take a final.
Pay rent.
And write a paper.
And turn a paper in.
Then write another paper.
And turn another paper in.
Then study for a test and then take the test and then drink and drink and drink.

Friday I'm going to Peoria to drop some stuff off, pick up the camper - hope it's in working condition.
Then back to the dorms to pack and pack and pack.
Move in on Saturday.
Leave on Monday.
Go to Nevada and California and stuff.
Then back for summercamp.
Then leave for Bonaroo.
Then... Leg Fest and Rothbury and Pitchfork.
And whatever else comes along the way.

Who knows.

Somewhere in there I need to settle in to the house and get a job for next semester close to home.

I'm excited.

Whenever I am stressed, have anxiety about something, I usually act impulsively or erratically.

Or I do something dumb like sleep through a test or interview or doctor's appt.

And now I am thinking to myself. How can I sabotage my finals this year?

We almost got the housing situation covered. For 4 people it's much more complicated than you'd think it would be.

The first 2 days Casey is having 2 coworkers with us, oh fun.
So if me and Greg stay there before we go to Nevada, that would be 8 people in a 4 bedroom house.

Poor subleasers.

Alison Is:
A little annoyed
a little tweaked
a little broke
a little something
a little blonde
And Moreover:
Kinda bored
kinda horny
kinda lazy
kinda dirty
kinda groovin
(at this moment)
Maybe she's drinking a beer too
Taking a break from not-studying.
Also, Alison is
extremely over-worked
and as always
confused.

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To: Self

From: Common Sense

Subject: Why did I become an English Major?

Body:
Dear Self,
I must have written 15 pages in the last 24 hours. The most of which will not be
considered for more than 2 minutes before they are placed aside. Any idea how this occured?
Thank you,
Common Sense.
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To: Common Sense

From: Self

Subject: RE: Why did I become an English Major?

Body: Dear Common Sense,
I don't know. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Sorry for the confusion.
From,
Self.

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Amphetemines are healthiest when not prescribed by doctors and used solely for academic / cleaning purposes.

Ode to Sara
Sara sells me pills
little white ones
that help me study
and if I get an A
this semester
I will praise medical science

She has a sick gecko
and needs some money
for a trip to the vet.
I hope Demetri
feels better
but it must be hard
for a little gecko
to live
in a little plastic cage.

The library at ISU has an entire row dedicated to utopian/dystopian literature.
There is so much I want to read.
I still need to finish Finnegan's Wake. Than may be my next conquest - free time permitting.

I'm reading right now, an author from 1883's take on life in the year 2000.
I wonder why I don't know of any author's now writing about life in the year 2200.
I begin to think that people may have been more pro-active in the 19th century.
Then I remember that this is what sociologists call "false nostalgia"
Isn't learning fun?

School ends soon, and for the first time I am not freaked out about finals.
I had my last class for Women's Lit today and am very excited about it.
I temporarily quit my job.
Which makes everything a little nicer.

Things are still going great between me and my baby, so nothing's new there. He suprised me on Thursday which was cool.

Moving out of my dorm will be a pain.

I want to start packing soon. At least cut down on some of the colors.

Things to do:
Not much.
Hooray!

I'm awake and it's after 5. So I might as well write something huh?

I just played a very long game of monopoly and won.

I'm getting really tan from this beautiful sunshine. Or, I will be tan once this sunburn goes away.

Me and Greg went to Cavefest last weekend! It's like this hippie-ish music festival. We camped outside and got SOO dirty muddy, but it was worth it. I had a lot of fun.
He's such a sweetheart.

I have 2 weeks left of school! I can't believe it. I might actually get good grades this semester, who knows.

Moving into my house is going to be hectic because 4 other people are moving in that day as well.

Hummm....

Oh My mom is giving Greg our old pop up camper that's been sitting in our front yard for years. I'm really happy just for them to get it off the grass but also, we could take it camping and stuff! That could be pretty nice.
I think they're really excited to get rid of it too.

I think maybe I'm sleepy now. I have to wake up in 4.5 hours to act for my theatre class as my final project. blah. Hopefully I memorized all my lines.

Haiku and a half
I should not drink and study
Because I spill my
Notecards all over the floor.

I have a problem
I should stop writing
such terrible poetry
it's kind of funny

missing someone
S0metimes I miss my mom
Because I only talk to her
every two weeks.
But then I remember
that when we d0 talk
she just asks about money
and such.
and it is boring to me.

my boyfriend
I love my boyfriend
so much
and sometimes I wonder
How I got so lucky
to have him in my life.
but I don't wonder
for too long
because then I start to think
maybe he wonders about me too!
and i hope
I'm a good girlfriend
to him.
I'm think I am
But not too sure
I've never met
anyone like him
or anyone
who loves me
so much.
But it feels good.
Happy.

the boy
The boy likes me
he really really likes me!
I like him too!
I like... the world
I see
through his eyes
every now and then.
I'm happy
I'm a part of it.
(His world, that is).
I don't want to leave him
ever.
Or anytime soon...
Who knows.
I want to live
for here and now.
He makes me happy here
He makes me hapy now
that's all I ask for.
Silly boy.
I really like you.
I really really like you!

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Today was good. What did I do? I don't remember or call to recount, right now I just want to focus on this case of Mickey's (the shame of Irish beer) and make slow progress on the rest of my studying.

BUT! This week is the bitch of the bunch and should be over by tomorrow night.

And then only 2 and a half weeks left of school. Good God. I'm not ready for it. I need to do some stuff.

Group projects....
E-mailing teachers...

My 15 page paper is 75% done. Nice, right?

I did a project today with a group where we asked people in the Quad to anonymously write down their worst prejuidices. It was an interesting turn out. People hate black people and mexicans and think Indians smell like curry, etc.
It was strange. I don't think the people in my group are very interesting. It's times like those where I wonder why I'm not like most people.

Hm.

Casey VanHecke is an emotionally unstable person. She had a tantrum last night and drove home at 2AM after getting back from the bar. I won't disclose details, but just say that she over-reacts and is super defensive (a trait known to everyone but herself) and when she returns to school on Friday night she will pretend like everything is normal and nothing is her fault.

Frustrating.
But she's still my friend.

Before she left she was yelling at me and Danielle, even though what we were saying was rational. Such as - "you could have called, you promised we would go to the bar tonight", etc.
But she was freaking out. The last think we said to each other...
"I had a really bad fucking day OK so lay off!"
"You had a bad day? I had a bad day too dude."
"What was so fucking bad about your day?"
I dunno. Then she left. I don't know what to do. But it's stupid to get in fights with your friends and then making them feel like shit when they don't worry over you when you leave in a tantrum.

END.