Is it September yet?

Jul 12, 2006 01:51

This has been quite the summer, I must say. I've managed to stay active on a fairly regular basis, but I wear myself out all the time. Working seven days a week doesn't help at all, especially since I got a new boss halfway through the season and he doesn't think we need a third person working in the depot. It's such a pain in the ass! I had a day off today, and I'll get another one tomorrow. It's been great fun, but I know when I go back to work I'll have to work with the girl sent up from Anchorage because Peter will be taking two days off. Doh! It's a major donk working with her, and she steals our pens. Grrrrr.

How come the summer is going by in such a blur? I wish I knew. What have I done? Let's see...I performed in my dance recital, I've gone hiking a couple times, I've seen 7 bears (2 grizzlies and 3 black), I've watched my car get licked by two brand new moose calves while their mother poked her head into my motorhome, I had a guest from Wales for two weeks (a very long two weeks at that), I've driven up to Fairbanks after work to see X-Men, Godsmack, to rent a car for my friend, and to see a play with Cassandra, only to turn around and go right back to Denali for work the next day. I've made a Seward run and went with Major Marine Tours on the Prince William Sound (I highly recommend this!) Oh yes, and I've gotten closer to finishing my math course, while also teaching Peter and Thomas (co-workers/friends) how to salsa. We've had several smoovie nights. I run a lot, read a lot, play my clarinet a lot. I've been asked to give a ballet workshop for some little girls in Healy. I'm going to the Anderson Bluegrass Festival at the end of July. Oh! I'm going to dance in the Golden Days Parade in Fairbanks on July 22, so I get that day off from work. That's been and will be my summer.

My last day of work will be August 29. I lied to my boss and said I'm flying out right at that time to go to Greece. If he knew I wasn't flying out until September 4, I'd lose my senority with the railroad and would have to reapply for my job next summer and take a pay cut if I chose to work for them again. That'd suck. I don't mind lying to Peter Budke about when I'm leaving-- he hasn't proven to be a spectacular boss in any fashion and he pretty much forgets about us Denali folk quite frequently. It's rude.

I'm in a bad mood! My sister and I got into a bit of an argument tonight and it's really upsetting me. I think tomorrow I'm going to call her up and apologize, even though I really don't understand what caused everything. I think she and I were both in a bad mood and we rubbed each other the wrong way. It feels awful.

Ack! I'm a thief:

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✓ I miss somebody right now. (Several people, always)✓ I don't watch much TV these days. (Gross)✓ I own lots of books.× I wear glasses or contact lenses. (I so rock)× I love to play video games. (Gross)× I've tried marijuana. (Gross)✓ I've watched porn movies. (Ha, oops :))✓ I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. (Um. oops again.)✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.✓ I curse sometimes.× I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.* * * * *× I have broken someone's bones. (I have dislocated someone's knee-- had to do with being the 'psycho-ex')✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.× I hate the rain. (Are ya kidding???)× I'm paranoid at times.✓ I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. (I've a silly nose)✓ I need/want money right now.× I love sushi. (GROSS!)✓ I talk really, really fast. (Not always, but a lot of the times)× I have fresh breath in the morning. (Does it only count if I've slept?)✓ I have long hair.× I have lost money in Las Vegas.✓ I have at least one sibling. (Three!)× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past. (Just the other month I had on the false lashes. Cassandra made me do it.)× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.✓ I like the way that I look. (Ehh..kinda iffy though)✓ I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.× I am usually pessimistic.✓ I have a lot of mood swings.× I think prostitution should be legalized.× I slept with a roommate. (I've only had one, she's a girl)✓ I have a hidden talent. (I can fold the tip of my tongue over and hold it there for a long time.)× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.✓ I have a lot of friends.✓ I have pecked someone of the same sex. (It wasn't so weird at the time.)× I enjoy talking on the phone. (Ugh)× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants. (I WISH)✓ I love to shop and/or window shop.× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother. (I love my mom)✓ I have a mobile phone.✓ I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.✓ I've rejected someone before.✓ I currently like/love someone.✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (and it sucks)✓ I want to have children in the future.✓ I have changed a diaper before.× I've called the cops on a friend before.× I'm not allergic to anything. (Sulfa, penicillin, maybe cats. Hopefully cats. I don't like them.)✓ I have a lot to learn.× I am shy around the opposite sex.× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.× I have at least 5 away messages saved.✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before. (No drugs)✓ I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past. (Probably my most shameful act ever, it was a weird situation, I got over it. The friend never did. I don't blame her.)× I own the "South Park" movie. (I do enjoy it though.)× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.× I enjoy some country music. (Yeah, and I love feeling ill)✓ I would die for my best friends.× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist. (Pretty chill actually)× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.× I have dated a close friend's ex.× I am happy at this moment. (I'm actually in a very bad mood right now)× I'm obsessed with guys. (Not OBSESSED, but I tend to like them)× Democrat.× Republican.✓ I don't even know what I am.× I am punk rockish.× I go for older guys/girls, not younger.× I study for tests most of the time. (ha!)× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met. (Not me, but my friend Eric's way of tying shoes is crazy weird.)× I can work on a car.✓ I love my job(s). (Not too shabby)✓ I am comfortable with who I am right now.× I have more than just my ears pierced.✓ I walk barefoot wherever I can. (Only when it's decent)× I have jumped off a bridge.× I love sea turtles.✓ I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup. (Definitely on lipgloss anyway, not so much the other stuff.)✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (I just started playing my clarinet again!)× I hate office jobs.× I went to college out of state.× I am adopted.× I am a pyro. × I have thrown up from crying too much.× I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved. (I hope not)✓ I fall for the worst people. (There have been times...)✓ I adore bright colours.× I usually like covers better than originals. × I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.✓ I can pick up things with my toes.× I can't whistle.✓ I have ridden/owned a horse. (Ridden)✓ I still have every journal I've ever written in. (I just finished another journal the other night. I should burn it.)× I talk in my sleep. (As if I know)✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.× I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.× I wear a toe ring. (They tickle)× I have a tattoo.✓ I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with. (I've been annoyed with at least every one there at some point, but usually it's just one person that really gets to me.)✓ I am a caffeine junkie.× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all. (Probably why I don't fit in so well at UAF)× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.✓ I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better. (How will I ever be able to move out?)× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner. (GROSS! Beer please.)✓ I'm an artist. (In some sense)× I am ambidextrous.✓ I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed. (Sometimes I roll on the care bear my dad gave me for Christmas and it starts talking, which wakes me up and I feel so confused...)✓ If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony. (I'm not kidding either. Clothes kinda suck.)× I have terrible teeth.× I hate my toes. (I love my toes!)✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me. (I basically stole it.)× I have more friends on the internet than in real life. (Yeah right)× I have lived in either three different states or countries.✓ I am extremely flexible. (I could always be more though. I'm working on it!)✓ I love hugs more than kisses. (People are hardly ever bad at hugs.)✓ I want to own my own business.× I smoke.× I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.× Nobody has ever said I'm normal.✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (Songs too. And photos.)× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons. (Like my FISTS! I joke...)✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.✓ I have played strip poker with someone else before. (I didn't win)× I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.× I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.× I can't stand being alone. (Sometimes I crave being alone. But not always.)✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (Seems to be that way anyway.)× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again. (Uhhhh....sure.....)× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.× I'm a judgmental asshole.× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.✓ I have travelled on more than one continent.× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. (That's so rude!)× I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.× I am a Libertarian. (I don't have a clue man.)× I can speak more than one language.× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be. (That would be so nice...)✓ I would rather read than watch TV.× I like reading fact more than fiction. (I like them both.)✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (All the time, and I'm sure there is more to come)× I have no piercings.✓ I have spent the night in a train station or other public place. (I've spent this entire summer in a train station...)× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.× I like most animals better than most people.× I own a collection of retro games consoles.× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver. (Shiver with glee!)× I have hit someone with a dead fish. (No, but I have stepped on a dead fish before. Then I freaked out.)× I am compulsively honest. (Hehe...ehhh....)× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. (Not dozens. Maybe it wasn't even topless. I don't remember.)× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex. (That's complicated)× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.✓ I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to. (I forget to eat sometimes. Usually I don't sleep because I don't want to. Like now, I should be sleeping, but I don't have to work tomorrow. Woot!)× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.× I dislike milk. (Not my drink of choice, but it's alright)× I obsessively wash my hands.× I always carry something significant around with me.× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair. (I imagine that to be hot and itchy.)× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.✓ Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother. (It's more of just being homesick, and it's not that I even live that far away!)× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (Lately it's of me eating my cereal with plain yogurt instead of milk. Mmm!)× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.✓ Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. (shrug)✓ I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won. (God, my life has changed...)× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.✓ I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.× I don't like to chew gum. (I hate it when others chew it though, unless they're quiet about it)× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it. (It'd be interesting)✓ I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. (It's only happened maybe twice. One time I couldn't find my car because I had forgotten that I was driving a different one. That sucked.)× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.✓ I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.× I love to sing.× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.× I have a custom-built computer.× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.✓ I've gone skinny-dipping.✓ I've performed in three plays.× I enjoy burritos.× I'm Irish and loving it.× I have a thing for redheads. (kind of all -heads.)× I am a twin!× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else. (Wouldn't that be great?)✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. (!!!!!)× I sleep more than 12 hours a day. (Sure)× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.✓ I need more time to myself.✓ I wish I was more open-minded.× I hope that I go really prematurely grey. (Grey is the new blonde)× I download songs from the internet.× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend. (eh?)× I say random things to freak people out. (No, but random things do slip out for no purpose at all)× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.✓ I love playing Truth or Dare. (!!!!!)✓ I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.× Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (Music entertains me, or it blocks sounds from elsewhere)× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.✓ I think this survey is particularly long.× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. (Most of them are real-life ones)× I can only hate someone that I love. (Sure)✓ I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks. (It tasted awful, but it got the job done.)

It's warm in my room. The weather was great today.
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