Friday, December 21

 
brian reminded me that i forgot to remember to add a link to my friend justin's weblog, organized chaos. this is something i should have done a while ago but i am very (adorably) scatter-brained. there are many cool things about justin, but one of my favorites is that, like brian, he hosts a show on our school's radio station. it is called "metal militia" and one of their taglines used to be "music to beat your wife to".

lighten up. it's funny.
posted by from shannon at 11:29 AM

 
fun and games are over. must pitifully drag my sick aching tired body into bed so that i can get up early and continue this packing business. good night!
posted by from shannon at 1:25 AM

 
i think i might have insomnia now. the opposite of narcolepsy, ironically enough. well, only ironic if you really know me.
posted by from shannon at 12:42 AM

 
in a move which i can only define as utter self-destruction, i have taken precious minutes in which i should have been either packing or sleeping and have abused them horribly. i just updated the link to brian's weblog at left, removing the ghastly spaces between the words and changing them to the appropriate periods, so it looks just like brian, and most likely the lord, intended.

so tired.
posted by from shannon at 12:37 AM

 
since it is after midnight i am going to pretend like i have been packing for two days.
posted by from shannon at 12:05 AM

 
so moving out is the worst thing.

ever.
posted by from shannon at 12:00 AM

Thursday, December 20

 
there is a very good chance that this will only be the first in a number of blogs tonight, as i am supposed to be packing because i go home tomorrow, but am finding myself completely incapable of such a simple task. i would rather curl up in bed with my book, an invisible sign of my own. i cannot get enough of this book, or this author, really. i will have to say more about it, later, when i am feeling more alert.

something funny occurred to me today; i touched on it briefly in a previous update, but i don't think i appreciated the true hilarity of it until today. i was thinking about riding the disneyland teacups last week. my friends and i, being the eager and stupid kids that we are, raced each other to be the fastest teacup. this soon became the opposite of fun. as soon as the sadistic cast member released us from our torturous hell of spinning china, we dizzily bumped and cursed our way to the exit gate, only to quickly collapse upon the very spot where we stood.

it is ridiculous to me that seven (seemingly) perfectly healthy twenty-year-olds should be sitting there, blocking the sidewalk because they are unable to move, heads in hands, faces green, after one ride on the damn teacups.

we must be getting old. i knew twenty was something to be scared of. nineteen, i miss you so.
posted by from shannon at 11:47 PM

 
just in case anyone was concerned, i am fine today. especially since i am leaving work early for a disney california adventure adventure. but really, fine. excited because i get to leave this place tomorrow.

will come up with witty and engaging stories to tell later today. bye!

p.s. the cigarette thing was a joke. i don't smoke. don't want anyone thinking i am too gross.
posted by from shannon at 2:15 PM

 
arg. so frustrated right now but no one to talk to. one more goodbye tonight but even more than that an ending. unsatisfying and confusing. want to go home - want my mother - but things are not normal at home either so i just feel uneasy and lost. maybe am being dramatic because of late hour and isolation of this place. am going crazy in manner of the shining. want a cigarette or something. just feel so anxious.
posted by from shannon at 1:34 AM

Tuesday, December 18

 
i probably have to get a typhoid immunization before i leave for italy. isn't that weird? typhoid?!? i didn't even think that was a real disease anymore.
posted by from shannon at 5:40 PM

 
i have big feet. i am not really happy about this, especially when i see girls with cute little feet. especially because they can wear chunky skater shoes and not look like clowns. i was expressing my jealousy to my good friend brian the other day when we saw a girl whose feet were so small her toes barely poked out from under her flared jeans. then brian said he thought small feet were freaky. "they look like hooves," he said. i feel better now. ha. stupid hoof girl.

other things i have been thinking about... it is so wonderful when you know you just had one of the best days of your life. which i did, on friday, december 14, in the year of our lord 2001. going to your favorite place on earth with some of the best friends of your life, and new friends who turned out to be quite charming, and having rain and cheap tickets and the smell of splash mountain chlorine in the wet morning and a ridiculous train ride and a midgetb sighting by a giant seashell and a nice conversation with a boy in new tigger socks and the spectacle of someone stuffing an entire thing of cotton candy into his mouth and gratuitous cockney-accented mary poppins references and a near-throw up incident on the teacups along with six of your friends and a last ride on peter pan and fireworks and a moment in fake snow where you just feel yourself saying goodbye but it is fine because it's sad and wonderful and just what you wanted - well, this all just makes for a good and memorable day.

and that was only the day up until 11pm! after that we had some good old-fashioned stay up until dawn fun as my guy friends and i bid each other goodbye until may. che triste. but there were some wild times, with a chili cook-off (which i missed), a first-time drunk, much male bonding over various shots and over the invention of rum and root beer (nicknamed "the latex" by the boys because of its smell - needless to say, it was a horrible failure), and wonderful gifts for ME (a cool new aussie cd and an amazingly perfect and beautiful travel journal.) yay jesus's birthday!

so i'm still recovering from that night of no sleep. and because of that i bid you all adieu. good night, neverland...
posted by from shannon at 1:08 AM