comme d'habitude.....

da trip down to da jersey shoah

2007-07-17T23:05:24Z

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.

zeesunflowery1 @ 2007-03-26T17:47:00

2007-03-26T21:53:38Z

I haven't posted in a long time....

I still love my job, I moved to Somerville Ma and have a crazy landlady who feeds stray cats. I am in love with life and a boy who likes fishing for squirrels:

New York New York

2006-12-03T02:19:21Z

Dispite the fact that I get no vacation time, I'm heading down to NYC with my lovey on Thursday night. Visiting with nonna and then getting lost in the concrete jungle together. I'm so excited!

zeesunflowery1 @ 2006-10-01T17:39:00

2006-10-01T21:58:28Z

I feel like I've been working for years. Week in and Week out it's the same. Sudays- TSS- Aqueous and Sludges, Settleables, and countless hours seaching google for the infatuation of the moment. Today it was Audrey Hepburn and her skinny black pants and sophisticated chic style. Monday through Thursday it can be anything from concentrating (not "concentrating on") extractions or extracting nasty compounds by muscular force. Spread about an hour of socialization with my work friends at lunch through out the day and the somewhat lonely sometimes horribley tiring drive home and you have my week.

I've been trying to mix it up a little with bringing books with me to read while I'm shaking my seperatory funnels or waiting for samples to become concentrated. I've read a little bit of Nausea by Sartre, background on Existentialism, some mystery that turned into a romance novel, the Da Vinci Code, Secrets of the Da Vinci code, and I think that's it.

Fridays are officially Steve and I day's. We went to Harvard Uni. to their Natural History Museum to look at all their cool arthropods and extinct animals. THere was also a collection of possibly thousands of animals from around the world. I have to admit that OUR chipmunk in the East is by far the cutest.

We then trekked by leg to eat at Grendels (chose only because it paid hommage to Beowulf....and we could sit outside and watch the people and listen to dylan sound-a-like). Falafels hit the spot minus some much needed spice and we returned to the archeological part of the museum for the last 10 minutes it was open.

We found ourselves in Boston after following the countdown of # of "smoots" to MIT (Harvard Bridge spans the Charles River linking Boston and Cambridge. In 1958 Lambda Chi Alpha took 5' 7" MIT freshman pledge Oliver R. Smoot, Jr. and rolled him head over heels the entire length of the bridge. Every ten smoots they calibrated the bridge, painting marks. The bridge was found to be exactly 364.4 smoots plus an ear. Successive pledge classes repainted the markings.)

We found a map and walked back over the bridge just in time to see the amazing sunset and eventually found the Cambridge brewing Co. where we had tasty pumpkin ale and nachos for dinner.

it rained on friday so we went to the illusionist instead and went to cambridge on saturday.

Steve shaved his beard into a very atractive collegiate proffessor mustache. It was exciting to walk around with a man that looked 30.

J-O-B!!!

2006-06-11T03:34:27Z

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. :-)

Meet Tabby Tampon!

2006-02-14T02:07:56Z

i sometimes hate having an overactive imagination

2006-01-23T14:44:37Z

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.

finally......

2005-12-21T02:43:25Z

I made the Dean's List.

Next Semester's Challenge: Get a 3.0

i am not dead....yet

2005-12-15T22:34:57Z

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

I COULD complain...

2005-12-01T04:14:36Z

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.

zeesunflowery1 @ 2005-11-21T14:15:00

2005-11-21T19:25:17Z

Where has all of my motivation gone?!?!?! I spent all of Saturday and Sunday doing work and today...after finishing a quant exam and passing in a good paper yesterday...I have no motivation to write my Science Fiction paper.

zeesunflowery1 @ 2005-11-07T13:03:00

2005-11-07T18:05:09Z

Do you ever feel like you're losing your firm grip on reality? Ever since this semester started I've been feeling like this. The stress of graduating and fending for myself has finally caught up with me. I'm in the midst of two battles;

1. I have an opportunity to get an internship with the Student Conservation Association, doing research in the US.

Pros- gaining experience in my field, loans deffered and loan interest is paid upon completion, get to travel, meet awesome people, may lead to a full time paid position somewhere

Cons- don't get paid much, I may only get 1,000 dollars for 26 weeks of work or more to pay off loans, i will miss steve, I may not get a full time paid job

2. It's really hard trying to figure out if Steve and I will be living near or with each other (after we both find jobs). I don't want to think about this, but everytime I unsuccessfully look for a job or am trying to figure out what the heck I'm doing with my life I become frustrated and depressed.

I'll figure it out in due time. The not knowing is what bothers me anyway. Not knowing and having no feeling of control over it.

Any insight would be nice.

cheers.

21st anniversary of my womb leaving

2005-10-17T19:29:13Z

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

sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep

2005-10-03T14:35:01Z

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.

hurting heart for fear of hurting a friend

2005-10-02T03:06:05Z

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.

haunted houses and 40ft railroad bridges OH MY!

2005-09-27T18:07:25Z

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.

The Kitchen and Back Entryway:

The dark and lonely wallpaper

The stairs....

Donkeypaper

I think they're trying to keep us out of there

The Carriage House:

the "sunroom"

Big railroad bridges and.....the steves who climb them.

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

4 years ago today the US fell apart.

2005-09-11T18:04:04Z

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 !!

dude, disco's dead.

2005-09-11T01:02:23Z

Last night consisted of dressing 70's and goin to two parties. We met
at his place. Ran over to John Bolster's and had a grant ol' time with
Porn director Stevie Love spots a potential star:

I think this will work out just fine:

cory, the hippie's been smokin a little too much:

ANd the band plays:

poor, scared bunny:

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.

thrift stores have a funny smell.

2005-09-10T23:37:09Z

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.

zeesunflowery1 @ 2005-09-10T13:56:00

2005-09-10T17:57:29Z

I woke up this morning with really bad sinus pressure...I need to remember to stay warm at night.

I wonder what being in labor on Labor Day is like?!?!?

2005-09-08T03:17:14Z

Labor Day weekend was filled with reading required reading, difficult quantitative chemical analysis problems and giving birth....scratch that last one. A group of fellow students and I went hiking up mt monadnock:

lovely folks in pictures satarting from the top left: My partner in crime, Seth, myslef and a pb&J, Shawn Kelly, Katie and d-man's roomate, and D-man 'n Megan. Of course I didn't take pictures until the summit, so all these pictures with the exception of Shawn....are pictures of us wolfing down sustinence (not shown- stevie Love, Brian Daigle, and his ladyfriend). We went the free way which also meant the hardest, steepest way. There were discussions of cannibalism, voting each other off, the story of the pervert inside the porta potty, and other ridiculous things.

I found my favorite coffee shop in Keene so now I have a "spot" to study and people watch.

My favorite thing about living in a single is being called to my window by steve <3 to come out and play.

Sigur Ros at the Opera House in Boston, Sept 15 (1 week away). Time to clean and start on my story for Science Fiction

Pictures!!

2005-09-01T02:46:54Z

I was sitting in political science when I started to taste metal. I stuck my finger in my mouth to feel what it was and saw blood. It seems to have stopped, but it made me nervous. I have no classes for the next 5 days so that means i can catch up with my reading seeing as I have so much of it....that and I need to send out a resume and do other pre-graduation things. I finally put up all my posters and finished redecorating my lovely room:

with it's roomy closet/dressing area and awesome workspace with art from mon coeur

to my fun door

blue lightning has a home here too

and I have a 20ft ceiling

and a bed built for 2 :-)

zeesunflowery1 @ 2005-08-31T07:13:00

2005-08-31T11:22:38Z

My wisdon teeth holes feel weird this morning. I'm back at school and and have a comfortable room all to myself with a 20 ft ceiling. The only non-fun part about this room is the stuffyness. It has prevented a certain special boy from spendng the night. Also, I don't know how on Earth I will be able to decoarte all the space more then 7 ft. My classes are going to be fantastic: Sci- Fi, intro to political Science, Protest in America, Quantitative Analysis, and Senior seminar. I NEED to put up my posters, once classes are over today, just like i NEED to start my undergrad research consisting of me wearing hip waders and collecting isects in rivers.

new glasses and mah gram

2005-08-26T03:54:08Z

I had a beautiful post to contribute about being in love but lj ate it up.:-( I am wearing my new glasses:

I look as though I can conquer the world....ok maybe i'll start by getting my GPA above a 3.0 (for grad school).

This is one of my most favorite women in the world:

my grandma.

zeesunflowery1 @ 2005-08-18T17:07:00

2005-08-18T21:16:22Z

My wisdom teeth are with me no more and all I have to show for it is a puffy lower right jaw. My eye prescription has not changed but I'm getting neat plastic frames without nose pads for once :-) Stephen has come to visit me the past few days; he's my hero for watching Muppets take Manhattan with me last night in bed. And he was amazed at how my bopi (BO-dy PI-llow)is nearly as tall as I am. Needless to say i wish he were my bopi right now instead of a fluff filled pillow. I learned two things today:

1. Don't ever take vicodin again even if you are in pain, because feeling sick and throwing up is 1,000,000 times worse

2. Don't try to rescue garter snakes from getting poisoned by chlorine in your pool because they may mistake this sign as negative and bite your thumb.

I got a bike computer for my bike and I LOVE it. I can now track my distance, time, and average speed!!! so cool.

I want (no. NEED) to get out of this house for a little while.

peace and <3 Kristen