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My 21st birthday party

2009-04-15T17:11:37Z

It was exactly what it needed to be. A friend of 16 years, a friend of 5 days, and friends from everywhen between. Dragonfish, Taphouse, Clever Dunne's, Galan's. Sushi, caramel ginger chicken, calamari, edamame, flaming sugar cube, lemongrass vodka, stout, ale, strawberry beer, pitchers, scotch, red wine. Unintentional exhibitionism. Stay tuned for round 2.

Housing next year??!!

2009-04-07T14:53:28Z

A couple friends and I are looking for a house for the next school year. We're looking for a lease starting September 1st on a place with a kitchen, hopefully some sort of yard/porch space, within one bus line from the UW. We need another one or two people. Let me know, soon!

chuckthetrucker @ 2009-03-31T20:28:00

2009-04-01T03:31:54Z

I have my own place with a panini grill in a neighborhood full of immigrants.

This means I can wash down a fresh panini with a 2 liter of mango soda, naked. Bitchin.

Canada

2009-03-30T02:56:05Z

I went there with Erin, it was so sweet. Maybe more later, definitely pictures on the facebook. For now, um, so sweet.

Health Problems

2009-03-20T22:29:17Z

Probably directly due to some less-than-optimal sexual decisions, my Bartholin gland is swelling and painful again. I moped yesterday, but I'm feeling now like I can't let this thing knock me on my ass yet again. Without a car or some seriously better drugs (I build up a resistance to ibuprofen within a day of taking it regularly), I'm feeling antsy - being trapped in the middle of the city is the ebola of cabin fevers. So I went for a walk (limp) around the neighborhood, and I have a playlist (all Queen, Presidents, and ABBA) that could energize even Keanu Reeves into showing some positive emotion, and I will fucking power through this!

chuckthetrucker @ 2009-03-19T15:13:00

2009-03-19T22:11:09Z

I can barely walk. Why do I do these things to myself?

Fight Club on Saturday

2009-03-16T23:37:41Z

Come to the Egyptian on Saturday at midnight and see Fight Club with me. Yes, I mean you. Hot Mama's Pizza before? I think so. 307-2692. For serious.

12:30pm Breakfast in Bed

2009-03-16T07:11:52Z

Chocolate bar with coffee beans, pretzel cheese sandwiches, beer....yeah, I can roll with this.

chuckthetrucker @ 2009-03-12T15:37:00

2009-03-12T22:40:06Z

A man on 15th had a sign that said, "Need change for food!" I need every cent I've got, but I offered him my leftover toast and hashbrowns. He declined. I understand scoring a fix being a more important priority than eating, but it wasn't like he had anything else to do, and who the hell turns down hashbrowns? Srsly.

Creepy!

2009-03-08T23:54:20Z

Today I went on a long and arduous quest for gluten-free cookies. In my search, I ended up walking to Red Apple, QFC, and the Safeway on Rainier, before caving and calling my mom for a ride to PCC. After doing the rest of my grocery shopping at Safeway, I was waiting for Mom to show and a twenty-something guy approached me and started trying to chat me up. I'm completely used to this, especially in Rainier Valley. It's an old dance, and I've grown up enough from my adolescent fear that every man on the street is a rapist that I stay calm enough to throw out a good number of snarky replies, perfecting the art of saying no firmly without abrading my pursuer's defensive machismo. I was doing the same old steps with this guy - it's all a game, really; we both knew he couldn't talk me into coming home with him. But then he said, "You were at the QFC earlier, right?" My immediate reaction was to say, "No, it must have been someone else in a green jacket," but he pushed the issue. "Yeah, you were there, I saw you there." All my panic centers kicked in and I was immeasurably glad to be leaving in a car. What the FUCK?! Maybe this guy just hangs out in front of grocery stores looking for pretty girls (he sure as hell wasn't selling Girl Scout cookies) and it was random circumstance. I hope so, but I'm still creeped out, and though it's paranoia overreacting, glad that Greg's here for another couple days. *shudder*

Egyptian@Midnight Schedule

2009-03-03T07:04:50Z

Bruce Willis & Milla Jovovich in Luc Besson's The Fifth Element • Mar 13 & 14
Brad Pitt & Edward Norton in Fight Club • Mar 20 & 21

So, anyone up for a midnight movie in the next few weeks?

The Next Episode

2009-02-26T23:36:15Z

in the life of my idiotic movie fangirl alter-ego is:

Guy Ritchie directing
Robert Downey Jr in his role as
Sherlock Holmes.

I knew about this a while ago, but the sneak peak after the Oscars, with Downey in the freakin hat (although not, yet, with the freakin pipe), made me all giggly again.

As is often the case, all the things that could go wrong with this movie (Jude Law as Watson? Huh?) are barely blips on the radar. November is too far away.

Relationship Memorabilia: a question

2009-02-20T15:33:12Z

After a breakup, what do/would you do with gifts, love letters, pictures, etc, that are related to or make you think about your former relationship? Do you burn/destroy things? Hide them away? Look at them every night before bed? Send them to your ex's new significant other? Create a shrine? Create a voodoo shrine?

Does it change depending on how you feel about the person involved?

Does the amicability of the breakup make a difference?

What feelings do you get from whatever methods you utilize? Vengeance? Closure? Regret?

I'm a packrat never get rid of anything. Very occasionally I'll put stuff somewhere where I won't see it until I'm ready to, but mainly if something is given to me or was mine to begin with (like a picture I took), I feel like it's more a part of my life than their's. Letters (an increasingly rare commodity these days) are a little harder, especially if I feel they contain dishonesty. But even those I don't destroy, I just hide them from myself until a time when I'll be able to look back and laugh. It makes me feel in control of my life, but doesn't really allow for any closure. What about you?

chuckthetrucker @ 2009-02-17T11:32:00

2009-02-17T19:34:19Z

This is crazy, but after all the bragging about my independence, suddenly all I want is someone who can't wait to get home to me.

I've had my heart sprained plenty of times, but it's been a long time since it was last broken. I never see it coming.

Space, and Why I Need It

2009-02-07T06:57:44Z

I have a lot of wonderful friends, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. But sometimes everything goes to shit, and I want to hole myself up and not talk to anyone, to drink wine and watch bad movies, to spend hours playing with my cat, to spend time with my biological family instead of my chosen one. The huge outpouring of concern in the past week has been very reassuring, but honestly? I just want to scream at everyone to leave me alone.

If I don't call or text you back right away, if my phone is off for a day, if I don't want to talk, there is probably a very fucking good reason.

I have a large, loving family, and while we are not without, in fact are chock full of, quirks and animosities, there's no doubt that we share some deep tangible bond that only a few well-beloved partners and the occasional friend can touch.

I love each and every one of you who has tried to be there for me in the last few days, but now, with Grandma's death especially now, I need to be apart from you. The real gift I need from you is to let me go for a time, and to welcome me with open arms when I return.

Tokyo dream

2009-02-04T17:06:28Z

My dream last night seemed to be my mind's way of trying to cheer me up - it were filled with optimistic, but highly unrealistic scenarios.

1. The Marine Corps paid(?) for me to go to Tokyo(?) to visit Greg, who was stationed there.
2. In Tokyo, at the very peaceful temple(?) that served as the Marine base, there was a tea room where I ran into my anatomy professor(?) who assured me that I am doing just fine in her class (not so).
3. I traveled later to a stadium(?) in a more metropolitan part of the city where Erin's and my basketball team(?) won some important tournament game.
4. That evening (it was all in the same day?), at a demonstration of robot(?) warfare technology (we are talking about Japan, after all), the presenter was a friend with on-and-off-benefits with whom I later exchanged confessions of undying love(?), and who I subsequently agreed to marry(?!)).

I don't even want to play basketball, and have, if any, very minimal romantic feelings for said friend, but in the dream I was elated (Going to Tokyo, spending time with Greg, and acing anatomy would all be sweet, though). Absolutely bizarre, but still left me waking up full of warm fuzzies.

chuckthetrucker @ 2009-02-02T13:39:00

2009-02-02T21:38:10Z

Going to my parents house. Phone off for a while. I am safe. Thank you for your concern.

chuckthetrucker @ 2009-02-02T04:09:00

2009-02-02T12:08:28Z

Tonight is pretty much a repeat of last night, except tonight my phone is dead and Adam doesn't have a key. My mom's right, I will run myself into the ground doing this.

School?

2009-01-20T01:30:43Z

Has anyone ever heard of a system at a legit office where you need to spend money in order to activate your payroll? I'm hoping it's ridiculous and illegal, and that I'm not planning to write off an extremely lucrative amazing opportunity.

What a fulltime job achieved during school (other than funding it): Used up most of my time, leaving me with fewer hours in which to procrastinate.

Went briefly to a party on Saturday night that was all the younger people from high school who I never wanted to see drunk. Yipes. I felt so creepy and old.

Drinking milk ---> calcification ---> strengthens my skeletal system ---> ?strengthens my ability to write about the skeletal system? A worthy experiment!

Sad Diego

2009-01-11T18:57:59Z

Yesterday I made hotel reservations for one for the first time. I have my plane tickets. In a month and a day, I see Greg again. Eep.

Last night

2008-12-30T21:35:56Z

was all about cute boys deeply under various influences, walking a lot in the wrong direction, best girls from very different times in my life, and my first adult taxi experience. What last night was not all about was sleep. I think sleep will be the main theme of...April?

chuckthetrucker @ 2008-12-18T09:24:00

2008-12-18T17:29:29Z

At 5:30 last night, when the thunder woke us up and we met in the hallway, both groggy and pantsless and a little alarmed, when we confirmed that the light outside was the streetlights reflecting off the snow, and not the aftermath of a nuclear blast, I really just wanted to make cocoa and s'mores (s'mores and me in the snow have a long history), open the blinds, and cuddle and watch it fall.

Stupid work.

In other news, Chrome is amazing.

Past/future

2008-12-13T17:14:57Z

Yesterday from 4ish on was more or less perfect.

Sister time, caramel apple cider, red bean sesame balls, cartilage piercings, Charlene, Don McLean, ABBA, Natalie Cole, munchies, trial and error, Crystal Skull.

I'll be in Pt. Townsend until tomorrow afternoon.

Thanksgivng Mk2

2008-12-03T18:54:59Z

was amazing. Erin and I (and Adam!) did an awesome job cooking; everything was delicious and abundant. Even though we were in the kitchen all fucking day, she's probably the least stressful non-coworker kitchen buddy I've ever had. Plus she's better than me at making food pretty. So, basically, good food, good friends, a movie or two, some wine coolers & boozy jello, more good food, kittens, and the promise that we will make this a tradition. I'm satisfied, although I haven't had more than a half-night's sleep since Saturday. Today is shaping up to be equally busy and random, but I'm enjoying it mightily.

Thanksgiving

2008-11-29T18:44:36Z

I made green beans amandine for the first time, saved Dad's cranberry sauce when he overcooked it, cored the baked apples beautifully with world's crappiest paring knife, got dinner done half an hour earlier than expected, manned up and enjoyed the gravy with giblets, walked all the way down to the lake and back, admitted how allergic I am to my cats, borrowed guidebooks for two vacations, did not fight with my parents, and in fact, laughed with them and fully enjoyed their company.

I'm proud of myself, and feel very accomplished.

Now for round 2!