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| | Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006 | | 4:10 pm |
i can climb?!?
i thought you guys might be proud of me for this... I went to Colorado with some peeps from LATech... anyway, we participated in a rock climbing competition there (and went skiing the other 2 days which was awesome)... anyway, I placed 2nd in the women's recreational climb. (Basically i was second out of the beginners... but i thought I should've been given a pity award... I only made it up 2 of the climbs (they were rather difficult), but apparently I did better than the other newbies... anyway, i was really proud - apparently there is hope for me in the climbing world! | | Wednesday, June 14th, 2006 | | 12:15 am |
 create your own personalized map of the USA or check out our California travel guideI'm not sure about Michigan... so I didn't mark it. I think I went there when Arthur was living in Oberlin, OH... but not sure... going to have to go there one day to find out what the hell it is doing up there, and why the hell is it split in 2? Does anybody know? Why is part of it way up above Wisconsin or whatever state that is? Just saw my country... camped in Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Theodore Roosevelt national Park (in North Dakota... pretty cool - better than the badlands in South Dakota), and some other places. Saw and or experienced the Craters of the Moon, Badlands, Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse, Wounded Knee, Devils Tower, Voyageur National Park, Lake Superior (drove up western coast)... ...got pulled over and given a warning for speeding in T.R. Park... oops! (And it was two female cops... I'm amazed that i didn't get that ticket!) Also got held up on the Canadian border... was trying to go eat lunch in Canada, but when I saw the lines going into Canada, I decided it would take too damn long, so I did a Uey and ended up having to do the lines to get back into my country... i never knew i had officially left, but apparently i had... and of course my story sounded bogus, so they had me pull into their little carport area and snooped through my whole car... hooray for border patrol! ...considering making it my goal to visit all my states before age 30... which means i'd have a little over 1 year left to take out Michigan, Hawaii, and Alaska. i think i've realized my problem... i seriously love to travel. | | Monday, January 9th, 2006 | | 2:58 am |
funeral. wedding. xmas!
just woke up from a benadryl nap. relatively sick. sinus infection. crazy weekend. funeral friday. wedding saturday. xmas sunday. funeral was simply what it was... minus the preacher trying to save all of us instead of personalizing the ceremony for my old friend. He even made us close our eyes and listen to a "love song" to god during which time i wanted to vomit. (On a side note.. a friend found humor in it in thinking of it as homo-erotic). The only reason more than half the attendees didn't stand up and stop the preacher was out of respect for our dead friend. I imagined killing the preacher about 10 times in my head during his "save yourself so you don't go to hell" speech. The wedding was wonderful. Probably the best wedding i have ever been to... it was not fancy, there were no decorations. There was a bride and groom, and just a few family members and friends - simple but soo sweet. The priest personalized the wedding very much... even spoke some spanish for the groom from guatamala... really was a great good-feeling wedding. And the reception was at a mexican buffet restaurant... doesn't get much better than that! Xmas. Great stuff. Took my family a long time to have it, but perhaps worth the wait. Beavis got me a cool froggy thing - i love frogs and turtles (they swim cool)... can't go wrong usually there. And she got me Grave of the Fireflies.. a movie i discovered earlier that really touched me. Yeah!!! Parents hooked me up with all kinds of ohter junk that i love. Sister from Cali gave me a movie i'll probably love by the same person who did Amelie... and she gave me a wreath that says "Feliz Navidad"... oh the cheese in my family. I also did well with my gifts... I got my dad an awesome silk Chinese shirt that he will probably never wear, but that he honestly looks like a stud in. My mom got a pearl necklace from China that looks great on her (I am proud of how well i guessed her taste - didn't know i had it in me). Beavis got lots of neat junk from thailand and china... the best of which is probably the mom/daughter statuette dealy from thailand. I maybe shortchanged Jen a bit... but she is the hardest since she doesn't live close.. i have no idea what she is into exactly... so she got a fake Gucci purse from china and some other junk... but i think she felt jipped. But if i can truly satisfy 3 out of 4 for Xmas, that is great for me. So, warm fuzziness. | | Monday, January 2nd, 2006 | | 4:31 pm |
:(
Frustration. These last 6 months have been so tough on me, i had been looking forward to the new year and day 2 of the new year brings death. I want to scream. I know people die. I know it. I know i will die. But, i don't accept death well at all. I accept it of people with grey hair. I have a very hard time dealing with it when it deals with people my age. I have not seen him in years, so I doubt most of anyone reading this even knows him. But, back when I was in high school he was very dear to me - one of 2 little brothers. I used to go pick them both up from Ponchatoula high sometimes and then we'd go hang out. I picked them up more just so we could spend that much more time together as friends, not because they really needed a ride from me if you know what i mean. Ugh. Not close to him now at all, but still hurts so much to know i won't get to see him again. Actually, i'd like it very much if i were waking up from a bad dream. | | Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 | | 12:42 pm |
I miss my Wang
Oh yeah. I just got the best gift for the day. I sent my Taiwanese friend a birthday present about a month ago. Anyway, she did not tell me, but she used my same box and sent me a Xmas present. That sneaky girl - I love her. I answer the door at my parents' apartment thinking it is definitely NOT for me, and it is a box for Michele. Well, I sign for it remembering that I ordered something and thinking it is that. But once I go to open the box I notice the Chinese on the box. Oh! That was so unnesecary of her and yet it has made me feel so loved and happy that I am grinning from ear to ear. I really do hope our 2 lives cross paths again. I am quite sure that we will make it happen if it does not naturally happen. She really is a great friend (and not just cause she sends me surprise gifts). Damn I miss her. | | Tuesday, December 20th, 2005 | | 8:48 pm |
SpaghettiOs, 8pm Thursday
OK. Xmas time is here and so that means... SpaghettiOs. Yeah, so for those of you who are going to be in Hammond Thursday (the 22nd) night, there will be a SpaghettiOs party at my parents' house at 8pm. If you don't know the address or how to get there, annoy Louis and ask him. If you are one of the 9 people or so that are my livejournal "friends", you are invited to join in the merriness (and yes you can bring a friend if u want). There will probably be less drinking done than in the older days (I could be wrong), and perhaps less people, but not sure. Oh and there will be no furniture, so if you cannot stand to sit on the floor, bring your own chair! My old friends who are in town will be there - yeah! And, how can anyone pass up the wonderful warmness and yumminess of free SpaghettiOs?!?!! So, I hope to see all of you there. If not, warm holiday wishes to all of you! | | Thursday, December 1st, 2005 | | 6:52 pm |
eyes
The things i take for granted. I thought i could see for the last two or more years. I found out after getting new contacts that i have not had good vision for a long time now. It turns out i have a stigmatism, and the prior doctors either did not notice or did not correct it with my contacts. I saw people and places for the first time in ages this past Tuesday. I guess I mean I REALLY saw them. I just kept thinking what a glorious world it is we live in.... seriously beautiful in color and definition. The trees... i felt i'd been missing out on somethng. I can really look people in the eye again... i've been staring in a general eye direction (forehead) for a long time now. I can really look people in the eye again. Yeeha! | | Saturday, November 26th, 2005 | | 3:14 am |
the atlanta experience
It was really wonderful spending a week with my cousin who got hurt. She was still in the hospital for the first half of my visit and then they moved her to rehab where she is supposed to stay for at least 2 weeks. I thought I was going there to support her and cheer her up. I think the reverse happened. She is in damn good spirits after having spent 3 weeks in a hospital and having broken so many bones. Seriously. I am way impressed with her spirits. I also was able to finally have something in common with her because despite our age gap, I happened to see the sisterhood traveling pants movie, which she loved, so we had a common subject. Yeeha! However, the more interesting stories happened between my mother and myself. I think we left here on a Tuesday... we stopped at Subway for sandwiches before hitting the road to Atlanta. Anyway, she goes to the bathroom while I order the food. She had already said she'd pay. Well, food is ready, so I pay. Then i wait a minute or two. Then i go knock on the bathroom door and ask, Mom, are you okay? She opens the door with lipstick in her hand and asks if it is time to pay for the food. I told her that the food had been ready, I had paid, and that the food was getting cold - let's go. (I hate waiting on my mother to primp; I also do not understand the point in primping before a 6 hour road trip). Anyway, she finally gets out of the bathroom. I have to pee so I take my turn. I get out of the bathroom and she hands me her cell phone and asks if I can get the battery off. I ask why, and she said because it got wet. I ask her HOW it got wet, and she said it fell in the toilet. Ugh. I had just washed my hands too, not that being handed a "toileted" item was not bad enough. I of course spazzed and fussed and said, mom, you just handed me your phone that has been in a public toilet?!?!!! Ugh. I love my mother, but sometimes... She did realize afterwards that she had "oopsed" and apologized. Of course later when she was at the Verizon store handing her phone to the clerk, she never bothered to tell him where the phone had been. Oh, in her defense, the toilet was "empty" when the phone fell in. But what has to be understood about this is that I hate public toilets in a weird way. I hate unsanitary-ness. I used to trade with people back when I had to clean bathrooms as a task when waiting tables - I always made sure I wasn't cleaning bathrooms. Now I am better about dealing with public bathrooms (going to China helped), but I still don't like dealing with places where people i don't know relieve themselves - some type of reverse OCD perhaps. And the next day, I wake up early in Atlanta - around 8:30, which is 7:30 our time. Anyway, I eat breakfast and talk to my mom and say I am going to bed. I ask if she can wake me up around 11:30. She says yes. I wake up around 12:45 pissed. (We only had from whenever we woke up until 3:15 to do stuff so that we could pick up my other cousin from school - yea carpool lines!) I ask her why she did not wake me up and she said she saw me sleeping peaceful and did not think that she should disturb me?!?!!! If I had known I couldn't count on her to wake me up I would've set my alarm!!! Ugh!!! This is shit I had to deal with when I was in high school. I have not had to really deal with this in years. I do not know how to process it anymore!!!! And yes, I handled it poorly. I yelled and fussed; I am also NOT a morning person. So later I had to admit to myself that once again i am a terrible daughter for being overly-mean to my mom and go apologize and stuff. Hard to stay mad at someone who ultimately just lets you sleep. I just had a list of things i needed to do that day - eye exam, hair cut, buy + mail birthday present to Taiwan... so sleeping in was NOT what I had planned. I love my mom... my dad just laughed the whole time from the safety of his apartment in MS... he got great pleasure in hearing about my frustrations with her. cute. | | Monday, November 7th, 2005 | | 5:49 pm |
goodnight liz
Funny story. Last Saturday I went out with Jeremie and his new girlfriend. It was my first time meeting her and we were out with all her friends, so I was very nervous and uncomfortable, so I drank glasses of wine like shots. Doesn't much matter. After the bar we end up at her place. I was drunk and passed out on her futon. There is a girl named Emily and some guy left hanging out while I am sleeping. She wants to leave, so she tells him it is time to go. He apparently is obsessed with some girl named Liz. Oh, and he is really drunk. So, he replied that he had to make sure Liz was okay before he left. He walked over to me and kissed me on the lips and said "Goodnight Liz". I have no recollection of this. I am apparently getting more action while I am asleep than awake! | | Friday, November 4th, 2005 | | 9:14 pm |
OPINIONS PLEASE!!!!
k. need some opinions even though i already know how i am handling the situation. I'm staying with friends in AR right? well, last time i was here my friend's roommate came home one night a little bit drunk and we talked. I talked about this guy that i missed... my last beau up here... and so on - just late night BS conversation. Anyway, I fell asleep on my futon mattress that was set up on the floor of their living room (he was on the sofa at least 6 feet away). I wake up later to the sound of my name and some mumbling and his body crawling into my "bed". I was so pissed! I was afraid movement might encourage him more, so i pretended to be asleep until i thought he was asleep and then went upstairs to use the bathroom and crawled into my friend's bed who was gone for the night. The next day he apologized. Anyway, long story short I feel completely disrespected and I think he is scum. He should have respected me and my friend enough not to crawl into bed with me... especially when i was asleep. In his defense, he didn't try to molest me or anything when he thought i was still asleep. So, it could be worse. I just hate this situation. I feel a bit like I am overreacting since I was not raped or anything, but i do feel violated and disrespected. Just sux. And for those of you who might be worried about future incidents at that particular friend's place, i have switched to an all female apartment! | | Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 | | 5:12 pm |
| | 4:52 pm |
well. i've been busy not being busy. I have a new 2006 Honda Civic. It's great - really. I luv my new car. i still do not have an official job... my joke is that i have an MBA, new car, new clothes (spent @ $100 at the Good Will in Ruston on winter clothes), but no job, no home, and no man. Ironically the thing that worries me the least is the man part... i couldn't care less about men right now which is really a change for me. Probably just going to be a short-lived phase. I too am having trouble with the aunt and cousin getting rammed into with a vehicle... just seems like a huge avoidable stupidity - i have a hard time processing and accepting stupid things like that... makes me very angry and not pleasant to be around. I am dealing though. Actually, I am planning on driving over to Atlanta beginning of next week to help out some and while i am there visit with my 3 friends who live in the atlanta area. Here is some funny stuff. I am not cool enough to dress it up.. It is an Indian parody of a No Doubt song. I had/have several Indian friends who showed this to me. It is very funny even if you know nothing about Indian culture, but even funnier if you do. watch it if you dare. http://viknluda.com/foe/video/Went to wonderful Halloween party friday night that my french friend Jeremie hosted... half international and half american people there... and from all over... India, Vietnam, France, Sri Lanka, Estonia, Spain, Bolgaria, St. Vincent to name a few countries... at least 40 people there if not more at times... was best party i have been to in a long time - really... so nice! oh, and Jeremie was dressed as a cow and was dancing with his utters thrust out... rather amusing... sounds bad but he had a pillow underneath protecting himself and others from his utters... good times. | | Sunday, September 4th, 2005 | | 8:02 pm |
Change - relocation
Change. Tis the nature of life and I always approach it with hesitation but with hope. Anyway, lots of change. I am not sure if it is 100% definite, but my parents are planning on selling the home in Hammond. I am moving out of my AR apartment by the end of the month and I do not know where to at the moment. I might end up putting things in storage and squatting at friends' places for a short while. There is a small possibility that i might end up in LA teaching this semester... i responded to the request for instructors... and I would love to do that since that is about the only way i could help since i have no real money. I would be making about a third less than what i am supposed to make if that happens. If that does not happen, i might be gone for a long time, if not forever. If the house sells, I'll have no reason to return to LA. Most of my friends live(d) in New Orleans and most have relocated to Austin. I will be driving home this week sometime to remove the rest of my belongings from the parents' house. My family has lived in that house for 25 years. It is very sad for me to sell it, but I completely understand. My parents already have an apartment in Clinton, MS where my dad has been commuting to for the last 2 years. If they sell the house in Hammond, they will start looking for a house in MS. This is the first time in my life that I am going to really feel like a nomad (other than that year I spent in France living out of 2 suitcases). I've always had my parents' home to use as free storage... now i need to reduce the amount of crap I have in a major way and basically be able to live out of my car. | | Wednesday, August 31st, 2005 | | 11:40 pm |
Hurricane Katrina
Hi all. I am and have been safe in northwest arkansas. i don't have cable (too cheap), so i just get random excerpts from my computer... whatever. I see new orleans is fucked... in a real bad way... perhaps for good? i dunno. Looks real bad. I have an LA phone number so no one has been able to call me for almost a week now. I guess they are routing all LA numbers to some recording. I can call my friends that have non-disaster area numbers though - yeah. Actually that really was a blessing. I used Avi's phone to call my sister just before the hurricane on Sunday (my phone was already not working for LA numbers then). As a result of which she had his number in her phone. So, she called Avi (he has a Connecticut #) at 1:30 in the morning yesterday and gave him her hotel numbers and he and i were chatting at the time so he told me he was talking to my sister - you can imagine my shock and surprise. I then called her hotel and was able to speak with her for about half an hour. It turns out my little sister is in my state, but the southwest part - still about 5 and 1/2 hours away from me. It was so good to hear her voice. I still have not been able to speak with my parents but I know they are okay, but without electricity and drinking water (like everyone else) in Jackson, MS. It has been good to hear from most on here and know that most are okay. I am concerned a bit for those Guidry twins. If anybody has had news from them, could you please let me know? I would guess they are okay but just without electricity and water like the others. My friend Arthur is safe. That is all I know. Oh yeah, and I do not know where my sister is now. If anyone can enlighten me, please do. I was supposed to call her yesterday morning at the hotel at 10am, but slept through my alarm due to the codine in my cough syrup I guess. Cute. So, I have no way of contacting her. I know she is alive and well, but I would like to know where the hell she is. I hope she did not return to LA, even my parents in MS are planning to drive over to TX to stay with family if they still do not have electricity tomorrow. Damn this hurricane!!!! And even better, supposedly there is a typhoon headed for or already in Taiwan where one of my best friends is returning to on Friday. Damn that typhoon too!!! | | Tuesday, August 16th, 2005 | | 3:42 am |
back in the deeper south
uh yeah. I am currently in hammond but i don't really know what i am doing. I spent the weekend with my grandma in AL, which was much needed... it had been a long time since i had spent time with her. It's so cute... my sister gets engaged the exact day that i see my ex-fiancé for the first time since he left for Iraq one year ago. Anyhow, i'm happy for my sister but even happier that they are not trigger happy about the ceremony. I will feel better about their engagement after they have spent more time together. They have been together < 1 year and so they are still in the lovey dovey stage sort of. But, it is wonderful to see my sister so happy!! And anyway, what do I know? Not too damn much apparently. Anyway. Tomorrow I hang out with Chad. Tomorrow night I maybe go to N.O. to see Carolyn. Wednesday, Phil maybe comes here and maybe brings Arthur. After that I don't know what i am doing exactly. I could leave as early as wednesday and as late as saturday. This is my weirdest visit home simply because i don't think i've ever spent this much time AT HOME. Normally i practically live at Augustine;s and friends' apartments. I think I went to Auggie's for < 1 hour the other night and that has been it. I like the mellowness of the house and the lack of ashtrays and the extreme dorkiness. Oh yeah, my friend Jason landed a job in San Fran with Google; I'm soo proud of him. My friend Jonathan landed a job with Masterfoods in LA. I have really only three true friends left in AR - Jeremie, Avi, and Amanda. Avi moves to Connecticut August 29th and Amanda moves back to Taiwan Sept 2. I will be a lost soul after that. My apartment lease ends at the end of September. Currently I am planning to move out during September sometime... once I know where I am moving to... My job search has begun, but I haven't sent any applications off yet. I'm still in the "search" part of it. That is my update. I think. | | Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 | | 11:57 am |
Well, I am now an international student.... according to my international friends. The same night that my friend died he told me that I had always been the favorite among the international students because I was nice to them - glad he said that to me that particular night. Sunday I was invited to someone's home here for the 4th of July because I was an international. And basically since all my friends are international students, the last two days they have decided that I am international - I come from "Louisiana". It's rather cute. And, even more interesting, we didn;t go to that party, but I spent my 4th of July only with internationals - 2 Indians, 2 French, 1 Morrocan, 1 Taiwanese, and me. It was the first night any of us has been able to have fun since July the 2nd. But, Florie (my French friend) is permanently moving back to France tomorrow, so some sort of going away party had to happen, and it did. I made the famous carrot cake and made everyone wear froggie hats (yeah France). It was really good to see each other smiling again. Oh, and next time I come home I'm bringing the Taiwanese chick with me. She's a cool lady. | | Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 | | 9:11 am |
Haven't written in a while. Just got back Sunday from spending 1 month in China and 2 weeks in Thailand. Great trip, but not why i'm writing. A classmate and friend of mine passed away at 4:07am. SUCKED. He is an incredible man - very unique - had a heart bigger than the biggest thing you can think of. Doesn't matter. He was a 27 year old baby boy. I worried about him for two weeks straight while he was traveling on his own in China, and he made it back with this big goofy grin on his face - he was proud of himself and he should have been. Last night went out with friends. We all went to some stupid Chevy's kind of place because one recently single guy in our group really wanted to dance. (I'll call my now dead friend Sam). Sam danced his ass of and had a great time. Another girlfriend of ours told us she was leaving. Sam did not say goodbye. He apparently decided to walk her home when he found out she was leaving and he was going to come right back. Well, 5 minutes later the girl is on the phone saying something bad happened. They were walking on the sidewalk less than 30 feet from their apartment when a car went by so fast it somehow hurled Sam head first onto the ground. When I got there the medics wouldn't let anybody see him. We then went to the hospital for a very long evening. During which he officially passed away at 4:07am after fighting for over 2 hours. I never want to go through that again. And, he did not deserve it. I deserve to be hit and killed 100 times before he did. He really offered the world and the people in his life (perimeter) a lot. Such an injustice. Because of it being a hit and run, we had to wait for the "investigation" to stop before we could see him again. That was my first time to have to tell a friend goodbye after dancing with him just 2 hours earlier. Couldn't wait for a ceremony to see his body and say goodbye for he's international and his body has to get shipped back to his country for the ceremony. Hate stupid shit. The guy who hit and run, not the shipping of body. The world is so much worse off for having lost him... it really is. I haven't cried that hard ever i think. Anyway. I'm finally home and going to try to sleep now. | | Monday, May 16th, 2005 | | 3:39 am |
Guidry * 2 = 46?
I hear both of you graduated - congratulations!!! And, if my memory serves me well, it is time to wish you a happy birthday too. So, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the GUIDRY TWO!!!! | | Tuesday, May 10th, 2005 | | 3:13 am |
i ultimately have a weird neck
Still studying - last final tomorrow... Well, I got the health phone call today, and things are as I expected, I have an abnormally large thyroid. Nothing wrong with it that the tests showed... it is producing all normal levels of whatever stuff (hormones I think) it is supposed to be producing. I am so glad that is over. I hate medical stuff, it reminds me that I am doomed to die. |
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