so my dad wants to change my name to liya. he just realized that l-e-a-h kind of spells leah as in princess leia. he hates that version of my name. so he wants to eliminate any risk of me ever being called "leia" or "leyah" or whatever. also, our only relatives who share our last name actually spell it merromi when they write in enlish. so really i ( Read more... )

things that make me unhappy ( Read more... )

1. What did you do in 2006 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

so at work today, my friend said such a sweet thing to me. she is this old brazilian lady and we've kind of become good friends. she said if she ever had a daughter, she would want her to be like me. other than that, today was crazy. i was left alone at the register for about an hour and a half with this huge long line of angry, stressed,and hungry ( Read more... )

-wrote the intro to a faaaatt paper that is due monday. havent done anythking else on it though ( Read more... )

i just paid $100 for my choir dress and it doesnt even fit. they took evryone's measurements but according to them, women with actual breasts dont really exist. also, they are under the assumption that most girls are on average 5'9". sweet. so my morning plans which were going to include sleeping in for the first time in a week and a half now are ( Read more... )

im a lot more excited than i expected to be. this going home business is also a lot mroe complicated than it should be. school is pretty fabulous, expecially conidering the alternative, but i miss people and laundry machines that work. yeah working laundry machines. thats about it. heh, i gues i also miss the fog. ahhh! 88 degrees in mid november ( Read more... )

i just got the tawonga staff picture in teh mail along with the staff application for 2007. now, i had an absolutly amazing summer, by far my best yet. but 10 weeks was sooo soo long. i could probably handle all 10 weeks again if it didnt mean i would almost never be at home and almsot never see any of my friends who are not with me at school now ( Read more... )

you know what isnt tight? well, i do. both dryers on my floor are broken. you know what is even further from tight? the dryers on floors 5,7, and 8 are also broken. this means that togniht i will likely be washing a lot of underwear, socks, adn shirts and then hanging them all over my room. yes, i will be winning the "best roommate ever" award ( Read more... )

southern california air quality just improved tenfold, all formerly sleazy politicians have given away all their illegal/obscenely large campaign contributions to charities, thousands of colombian drug lords have taken holy orders and now spend all their time teaching sunday school to poor children, the ozone hole is magically repairing itself, ( Read more... )