August 19, 2002

It's been a few days, eh?

Calling all crafty and entreprenurial folk! I'm about to open up the shop pretty soon. I just want to get it up and running so you'll probably notice it's using an old layout. But, if you make and sell some of your little creations and wouldn't mind having it showcased in the shop please drop me a line. If you sew, knit, have photography prints, make a zine or whathaveyou and would like some extra exposure I'd be glad to give you a spot on the page. (FYI, the shop isn't as great as I probably mention it, it's just a small make-some-extra-money-on-the-side kinda thing.)

So the countdown to the end of summer has begun. When's everyone going back to school? Excited, nervous, or no comment?
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August 12, 2002

It's nearly been three months since this layout has been up. I'm so glad that I liked this simple and professional design for a majority of the summer. I'm thinking it's time I get my creative juices flowing again and create another design to launch next month. I have a good idea for what I'm going to do so hopefully it'll turn out great. I'm also open to comments and suggestions, so if you'd like to see a new page/section or something new added to Not Right then reply to this entry. A horizontal scrolling style might be used again, so anyone against that idea may get down on their knees and beg me to change my mind. Otherwise, I'm really excited to be making a new layout because it's going to kick butt erma-style!

Ooh yes. I went for a midnight stroll at Foxwoods last week and watched a band called Bootylicious play in the lounge. They're a good cover band. They got points for playing some of my favorite music.

My town is boring. I've said it. It may have a variety of businesses and such, something like Springfield in the Simpsons, but it doesn't satisfy me anymore. I'm probably turning into a cheap snob but I crave for places like a cute little cafe with open-mic nights, summer festivals, non-corny beach concerts, and community events that don't cost me much to enjoy myself. To my surprise there is an independent film festival at the Garde, and a couple art shows showcasing local artists and artisans, but it doesn't seem like enough. It's not enough for me to call my friends up to spend the weekend strolling around town and having good times. There are hardly those "photo-op" moments that I can show you of our local culture and daily living. Instead it's another trip to Hollywood Video, the supermarket, and maybe a look at clearance racks at Target and Wal-Mart (clearances are always good, you should see the cheap goodies I got yesterday). I've seen all the historic sights in Mystic and I've gotten used to the traffic that comes and goes with the tourists. I'm usually the type to make the best of a moment and live everyday as if it were my first time in town so it wouldn't feel old and uninteresting. That doesn't work for long. I'm ready to move back to the city.

I'm in a good mood really.

"Mental wounds still screaming, driving me insane, I'm going off the rails on a crazy train" -"Crazy Train" by Ozzy Osbourne
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August 9, 2002

Man. Some days you need to remind yourself that other people have it worse than you. I felt sorry for my friend Steph today. She's having the worst day ever, and it's her birthday! There's more proof of how Southern is screwing us over, she told me that her financial aid took off a couple thousand bucks for the next two semesters and she has to pay a minimum of $700 by monday or else her courses will be dropped and her dorm space will be taken away. Oy! And to add on to that, most of her supposed "best" friends bailed out of her small b-day celebration this evening. That's unbelievable. Steph is the nicest, most respected girl I know and stuff like this hardly ever happens to her. I wish I could help her out, but my bank account is pretty dry as well. And well, we all despise money, right? Man oh man. If I lived any closer to her than an hour's drive, I'd so pick her up and we'd do something fun. Maybe I'd make a stop at other towns and pick up Pam, Amy, Sam, Laura, and Sharon too. I miss my girls, I hope I get to see all of them next month.
10:52 PM [Link] [5 comments]

I know the who the winner is on The Weakest Link today. I don't even need to see the end. Why? Because I saw it yesterday! Whoever the numnut is who screwed up the tapes showed today's ending yesterday, and I have no idea who won yesterday's show.
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August 8, 2002

"Girl, I know you ate my sandwich! You better watch it, when I see you I'mma cut you up!"

"Shout out to dead people!"

I felt like quoting Saturday Night Live.

Anyhoo, there are some good discussions going on the message board. PLEASE join in. We like very opinionated people!
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August 7, 2002

I can't believe I didn't tell you guys this yet! Shao named his guitar after me. I feel so honored. I'm a teal PRS santana SE.

August 5, 2002

For Your Safety...
I've been thinking about this for the last few days, writing down some thoughts I had in my head, hoping to post a full entry on here, but this is all I have to say about it.

I don't know about the rest of you, but the kidnapping of the two teen girls in California was the last straw for me. I wish I had more knowledge in psychology to try to understand criminals, but still. Kidnapping young children and young adults to sexually assault and kill them is totally unacceptable and I wish everyone knew that. The victims in all these cases have not done anything wrong to deserve any of this. I wish there was something I could do, something we all could do as a whole to try and prevent this stuff. The Amber laws that more and more states are using helps a little by capturing the criminal quicker and getting a good chance of rescuing the victims, but most likely by then a crime has already been committed and a good amount of psychological/physical trauma exists.

So my question to you is Do you feel safe? As a teen girl? With your children? In general? I remember being asked this question about my safety in school, after the Columbine shootings. I used to worry about dodging bullets and flying knives, now I worry that I don't have proper self-defense skills just in case.

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site update: hot asian action! Maly from malleable.net is now sharing the message board with me. Suck on it!
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August 4, 2002

I'm sure the stock guy at Shop Rite was trying to be nice and helpful, but you missed the unhappy looks on my parent's faces when none of us could locate the Vitarroz 20lb bag of rice that was advertised in their flyer on sale for $3.99.

eet says here, Veetaroz rice. tree ninety nine! we look in the rice aisle, we look here. we can't find it! we like to buy it because eet's on sale!

Bless their little hearts. That was the sole reason for the visit to the grocery store.
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