Friday, August 31, 2007

first i have breakfast then i take the international students to a payroll session then i go to a waterpark with international students

Sunday, August 26, 2007

Currently Listening Joyride: Remixes By Mirah see related power was out for 2.5 days. so we're tied mr. clay. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANT? that meant removing buckets of water from the basement that seeped in. it meant packing for school in the dark. it meant lots of candles and throwing away food. it meant a sort of community forming in this neighborhood through shared generators and gossip about down trees and when com-ed was going to fix the power. it was such a cool weird last weekend. NOW I HAVE TO FINISH PACKING AND LEAVE talk to you from galesburg. see you soon lexie.

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Currently Listening Speak for Yourself By Imogen Heap see related well in the past week i've gone to ikea to buy pillows and sheets, i've hung out with kathy and pac and went to chinatown, i've visited my future house/ my cute cute room, i've gotten so many good new used cd, i went to iowa with ashley and allison trumbo, which meant that i slept in a haunted victorian house, and i bought some major 90's themed purchases, i.e. the backstreet boys "millenium" and n'sync's "no strings attached", in addition to "forrest gump" and "hanson: middle of nowhere tour in japan video", what i'm trying to say in this run-on sentence entry is that i've been so busy, hence no writing. BUT i got two new pairs of shoes, and a pretty great tetanus shot in my right arm, even though i didn't need it. i really should be packing but instead i'm going to my last day of work, and then hanging out, and then putting off packing to probably watch another episode from the final season of the o.c. because i'm still recovering from marissa cooper's untimely death. i hope volchok rots in jail for what he did to the coopers and more importantly RYAN. new pillows for my new room dreary old iowa on a rainy sunday night

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Currently Listening Funeral By Arcade Fire see related today i got a new retainer, ate my mom's homemade pasta sauce, did a majority of the high holiday mailings (mondo importante). billy brought me green and blue freeze pops and i listened to my iPod a lot today because i sometimes don't care about what's going on in that office. we looked at a house in the south loop that we kind of sort of love and we're getting ideas, which is nervous exciting. this might be goodbye to my room, which is weird, i mean that's where a majority of my memories are and i pretty much put that world together, and it's a weird thought, but i think i could make the next one good. oh well. thoughts. pictures from day three or four in london! this is us just walking around, it reminds me of times square outside of the british museum (home of the rosetta stone) the inside was amazing!!!!! let me stress that word. seriously, sweet inner facade with this amazing curved glass roof. aye yae yae. this is inside the british muesum in the room where the rosetta stone is housed. basically everyone was all OMGFCHUHA THE ROSETTA STONE IN A GLASS CASE MUST PUSH SHOVE AND TAKE FLASH PICTURES/IGNORE ALL OF THE OTHER ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART IN THE ROOM SLASH SIT ON THE ART (see below picture) i kid you not, this fucking douchebag was sitting on a piece of art that was worth more than his life and his family. sooooooooooo ignorant. i'm seriously talking about a culture that takes pictures of a replica of the rosetta stone, and then takes pictures of the real one with a nice glare of the glass from their cameras. DUMBFUCKS. mind the gap and stuff. waterloo picadilly, and some cockfosters. i love a culture that has food called 'spotted dick' and a train station named 'cockfosters', it's totally easy on the ears. THIS IS WHERE I SAW MARY POPPINS ON STAGE AND MY LIFE WAS TOTALLY CHANGED. p.s. you can get tiny bottles of champagne and haggen daz containers in the theatre. crazy.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Currently Listening C'mon Miracle By Mirah see related hello all, i am at the synagogue right now and i'm in this really weird transitional creative and destructive area where i kind of want to keep everything but i kind of want to throw everything away and it comes at a very strange moment in my life that happens to be called "going back to college/sister is in turkey/ we are moving". speaking of that moving thing, we saw a house yesterday that everyone (mind, mari) kind of sort of loved that's in the south loop with skyscraper views and a neat public deck, and a cute courtyard area, which all happens to be inspired by english row houses from the turn of the century, and there's a loft type thing that is like hey arnold because you climb up a ladder in the ceiling and there's a tiny place for a bed, a hall for storage, and an area where a couch would go, and there's lots of different walls to paint lots of fun colors and neat lights and i think i could actually make this work but what am i talking about stop me ok? i think i want to own a rothko and a pollock. who wants to stage a heist or buy it for me? i've been listening to so much mirah and regina spektor and it feels so good to hear women who can sing and sing about cool things and be jewish ALL AT THE SAME TIME. mazel tov

Friday, August 10, 2007

Currently Listening The Moldy Peaches By The Moldy Peaches see related ok i apoligize for never updating but the internet is in and out here, knamean? so let's see, i left off with salisbury and stonehenge, which i will pick up right now. we took the train to salisbury (last entry's pictures) and when we got there, we walked from the station to the cathedral, across a lot of green, past fields of grazing sheep and their many tributaries. the water was clean. thx chicago river btw. there were people fishing with nets, and lots of families with their little children picnicking around, and it was an all around pleasant walk to the cathedral. the neighborhood was really nice, and mari was right about it looking like a nice place to raise kids. here's some pictures of my walk: when we got to the cathedral, richard gave us a smashing good talk about the history and such, and then we got to go in and have a looksee. we also got to join in their one o'clock prayer which was a new thing for me since i have never prayed in a church or cathedral before. here's some of my mom's pictures because my camera died: we had about 45 minutes to eat and walk around in salisbury, so we got a couple pictures, but nothing too serious. i mean we had to get on a bus to go to STONEHENGE anyways, so i guess the pictures could totally wait it you knamean? that's all for now, teatime at the tea museum. remind me talk about mary poppins and chicago, top shop and portobello road, and the drag queen on the train. lots to talk about, but tea and crumpets await. ciao ciao

Tuesday, August 07, 2007

so my camera has been super dodgy, as in, it didn't work at stonehenge or in salisbury cathedral, BUT, i've already seen both those places and it was nice to not look at things through a viewfinder for a change, so i actually got to take in the tour without worrying about my camera and picture. anyways, here are my best from the day we left which mainly consists of my airplane ride and the airport, not a lot of super exciting things: when we arrived, we took a cab ride from heathrow, and i was totally stoked because it was a BLACK CAB as in the jens lekman song that i really really like and it was a glorious and expensive ride (i've got the cab rides out of my system which works because man oh man that was expensive). when we got to the hotel our room wasn't ready so we dropped our bags off, grabbed lunch at marks & spencer (upscale premaid food stuffs, totally pleasing to the eye and mouth) and then walked over to holland park where we picnicked on a bench and planned out some details for our trip. we decided over sandwiches and pasta salad that today we would take a london walks tour that we'd done 6 or 7 years earlier that consisted of traveling to salisbury to see the town and cathedral and then moving onward to stonehenge. i came back after and i took a nap, while mari and mom went to harrod's. after my nap we went to an indian place called masala zone where i had some of the best homemade raita ever. and after dinner we watched an indian cooking show on the bbc which i'm totally stoked over because the recipes are online. today, we woke up at 8ish and had little snackies from harrod's for breakfast in our hotel room. we got lost on the underground on our way to waterloo station, but it was ok because we found our guide and it all worked out. here's a picture or two of waterloo station: our guide, richard, was the same we'd had years ago, and he was totally funny. i love richard. we took a pretty nice train ride to salisbury which is my next set of photographs, and it was all in all an enjoyable ride. if there's one thing europe totally has that american needs, it's the best train system ever. wtf america. get on that already. ok that's all i can manage tonight, because of computer and slow internet and stuff. more on stonehenge and salisbury cathedral + tomorrow's update if i'm not too tired. quote of the day: "school is pants! i hate school" and "tri-bal stone-henge"

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Currently Listening Begin to Hope By Regina Spektor see related two things: first order of business, pictures from p-fork week uploaded. they're on my f-book, which i'm assuming y'all have accounts for.

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Currently Listening Oh You're So Silent Jens By Jens Lekman see related DAFT PUNK IN CONCERT = BEAUTIFUL AMAZING EXPERIENCE. working lollapalooza yesterday was probably one of the best ideas mari and i have ever had. seriously, i had a walkie talkie, a binder full of top secret info, a special shirt, maps and schedules, 20 free download necklaces via itunes. and dude, i got in free with in and out priveleges. i saw daft punk in my beautiful city in my beautiful park for free. and it was pretty sweet that lcd soundsystem played "daft punk is playing at my house" before daft punk went on. it was pretty darn cute. and after our shift we got really good sandwiches and found refuge in my grandmother's apartment, where after eating, we took a dip in her pool before staking out our spots on the hill for the show. it was so so perfect and the only money i spent on my perfect day was on my perfect sandwich. such a good day. i have to work the night shift tonight, and i don't really have to see anyone today because i missed matt and kim, but seeing regina spektor and clap your hands say yeah could be cool. i hope she plays "dusseldorf" but that's probably a stretch. this morning before brunch we got family portraits taken by MARC HAUSER, apparently his mom invented pop tarts, fresca, and found orville redenbacher of orville's popcorn fame (who he did the portrait for that appears on the popcorn box- see bowtie). this guy was totally great and funny and smokes cigars and makes us go "YEAH" before he takes each shot. i had an enjoyable morning, and now i have to lay down for bit. here's some pictures from his studio/house in bucktown. so that's it for today. life is really good. i leave for london tomorrow night. i'm pysched for london. then two weeks before knox college starts up again. sweet. now all i have to do is lose a couple pounds and shave my head!