comme · d'habitude.....

I went to the Jersey shore this weekend with my Medford crew (Mark, Kristina, Mike, Colin, Jesse, and Katie).  The place we stayed was amazing and less than a five minute walk to the beach. Mark and i left around 3 pm and decided that instead of heading down right then we were going to play mini golf.  Then we stopped by his parents place in CT and ate dinner.  Finally we went on our merry little way and started what would end up being a 6 hour (normally it takes only 6 hours from Boston), very long drive. 

Most notably, we got screamed at by some crazy black guy while trying to get on the George Washington Bridge ONLY because we weren't going......After all we didn't want to get crushed by the tractor trailer that was trying to get in our lane.  Unfortunately we didn't hear what he was saying because our music was just loud enough.

We got to Stone Harbor around 2:30 in the AM to find everyone there and also that our room was really perfect.  With a big enough bed and central air we slept.

Friday and Saturday we pretty much the same thing  breakfast and then OFFTOTHEBEACHFORAWESOMEBEACHTIME!!  The water was so warm and it was so sunny that I got a tan and enjoyed playing in the water for more than 30 minutes.

I had lobster for the first time and Mark tried shellfish.  We also went to this okay-ish Mexican place.  We all played a round of Pirate mini golf as well as walking around in the shopping areas looking at folks and window shopping (Kristina and I went for real shopping Sunday morning after brunch).

We had too good of a time to remember to take photos but believe me!  it was soooo pretty!

The Beach:

and many of the houses for sale were more than 2mil...  8-O  Everything was clean and well taken care of. Some folks had landscaping some had rocks for yard and SOME.....mowed their catus' so that pedestrians could step on it and hurt their feet. :(

Anyway.  All in all it was a great 4 day weekend and I can't wait for Cape Cod with Mark, Seth and Tara in August.

So I've been graduated from college just shie over a month and I now have a real full-time grown-up job! I will be working at the Central Laboratory at Deer Island (Winthrop, Ma...close oh so close to Boston) for the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority as a Lab Tech. I start the 19th of June....so one more week of vacation for me. I have a gas gulling cadillac, a hand me down from my dad, until it is paid off and I trade it in for something more economical. My life feels so wonderful right now. I feel really fulfilled. Next step: get an apartment...but not until I get sick of my commute. :-)

I'm really really nervous about the phone call I have to make today....I sent my resume out a week ago and am going to call about it. I had a thought right before I fell asleep that they never got my resume because the post office never sent it, so the I had to e-mail it to them and I felt like an idiot. I hope that was just a dream and the woman I talk to today is really nice.

I also had this horrible thought as i was reading this book on XRF spectroscopy sample prepping that the machine used to press samples (like 1000 tons/ square in) would slam onto my right ring finger, where my tech ed teacher slammed my finger with a hammer in 7th grade, and bust open it open like a sausage.

I am not looking foreward to geochem lab after this horrible thought.

I hope today goes ok or else I may just have to sob myself to sleep with teddy tonight.

not 10 minutes ago did I turn in my undergraduate research for my senior seminar. I have gone from hell to the helliest of hell to hell and haven't quite gotten back yet (i still have 1 final and a 6 page paper for sci-fi to finish). I'm so tired...but i wasnted to assure that I wasn't dead... oh yeah and I'm going to be published in the library

but instead I will tell of the marvelous new clothing item I love to wear everyday....the SARONG!! Yes Folks, the sarong. a skirt, shirt, toga, dress, skarf, shawl, head wrap! YES i love my sarongs. I spent my time in SCI-FI correcting the stories my group wrote on our space travel timeline. i have two out of 5 left. I'm not quite as stressed as I have been in the past few days...amour? non. well yes that helps a ton. But i think it's because I did good work today. Good productive work that I can feel accomplished at accomplishing.


( for Shawn P. Kelly )

it's been 21 years since i came out of my mom's warm vagina and into a cold, sometimes unforgiving world. The past week has been insane with 2 floods, missed classes due to floods and mass chaos in the form of not knowing what classwork to accomplish. My undergraduate research has fallen apart and been slightly put back together. I'm withdrawing from my first class ever in 7 semesters of college. time for class....picture updates of flooding soon i promise.

tonight: margaritas with family and then a beer with lover and friend

I went to bed at 5 am this morning and woke up at 7:30 am for class. I don't recommend waiting until 7:30 pm to start chemistry homework that is due at 8 am the next morning....it just doesn't fly. I hope I don't get sick now.

When I was living in Flagstaff, Az I became very close to a boy named John Canfield. He tought me how to have fun in life and not to worry so much. THe last night I saw him, we were at a homewarming/going away party and our friend caitlin's place. I had wanted to leave to say goodbye to a few other friends I had made but john took it really personally. "what the fuck Kristen, why are you leaving. The friends who mean the most to you, who you'll won't see for a really long time. And you're leaving for people you hardly know?! That's low, we're the ones who care about you." I got so upset and left to say bye to my other friends. After coming back I told john what him saying those things to me had done. He obviously felt bad. With all things mended we had a great time chilling with folks and drinking a bit. Towards the end of the night I showed him my circle necklace. Since the beginning of the year WE had both had these stone cirlce nechklaces that we wore all the time. John got the idea that we would switch. so we did.

John w/ my stone:

Me w/ John's stone:


It breaks my heart to see these pictures because when I got home I took the necklace off one day either in my house or at Steve's....and I haven't seen it since. I just don't know what do do because it meant a lot to him. I should probably scour steve's room for it this winter. i can't think of it being anywhere else...It really hurts to see pictures of it and be reminded of it.

Stephen and I went on an adventure this past saturday in Dublin, NH.  There's an old house there that we are forever driving past going to and from school. 

( Our Adventure Begins!! )

We then went to Brattleboro to poke around and had delicious pad thai.  All in all I thought this weekend was fantastic!

I don't recommend watching Hotel Rwanda right before going to bed. Everything in l'appartement de Stephen was really dark, scary, and I kept imagining that soldiers were going to burst into the bathroom while i was on the toilet.

I was congested all night long and couldn't sleep this morning. So steve made me a big cup of tea and a cinnamon raisin bagel. We watched Bill and Ted's excellent adventure together and I felt better. Today will conist of lots of reading, writing, mathing, and nose blowing. 2 days of classes this week.. mon and wed !!

Last night consisted of dressing 70's and goin to two parties.  We met ( D-man ) at his place.  Ran over to John Bolster's and had a grant ol' time with ( groovin' music and sexy lovers )
Pictures were not taken at the actual 70's party, but just imagine what it must have looked like....plaid, polyester, short, shiny skirts, and david bowie. 

have a beautiful night everyone<3 k.

I'm going home in less than a week to go on a beautiful date with <3 and see my momma. I already have my dress picked out. all I need is little sweater to prevent me from getting sicker. My motivation to get work done is non-existent. I just want soup and bed. I took a nap and went to coffee and worked on my Sci-Fi story which is (in notes) 3 1/2 pages. Pictures from John Bolster's house will follow as soon as I steal them from <3's computer.

ah yes, We went to St James Thrift Store yesterday. I saw a beautiful long dress and bought it for 8$ after trying it on and having the ladies there make a huge fuss over me. I am now volunteering there every other tuesday afternoon. I'm excited as the women who volunteer there are funny and easy to talk to.

I'm looking foreward to my first day this tuesday.