tang!'s Blurty

Time:

10:01 pm.

motherFUCKER

I got dumped over the FUCKING PHONE!

And I know it likely takes away from.. the seriousness? of it all to be making an online journal post about it.

but like.. WTF? who even does that?

and I figured people ought to know
and it wasn't uncalled for.
and there is some other drama involved in which saying this, here, is completely OVERSHADOWED BY.
so the other party has done worse, from my point of view
FUCKER

I'm obviously not going to be all dramatic and vague and shit
to angry to really think of flowery poetry and masking words.

and you might ask if i'm okay
and I am, really
pissed off more than anything
not that I didn't see it coming
well, I didn't see being DUMPED coming
over the phone!
DAMNIT

BUT
in other news
i went out with my aunt, my aunt's friend, greg, and that kid from thailand, golf. He goes home tomorrow. we had dinner and walked around the mall a bit.
AND
i'm reading the sandman

hm.

-Miss Recently Available (maybe I should get that printed on a sash like the pageants do)
(only I don't feel like I've won anything)

-claudia

do whatever.

Time:

2:21 pm.

speaking with joe, I considered:

is a porn star an athlete?

it's rather strenuous on the body.. as a professional, one does get paid. to be paid more, one must outperform the other porn stars. There must be some technique. There may even be a trademark. There is also a lot of work put into having the right equipment, and using it properly. This can include the body itself. Although,there is some acting involved. There are only a few things that separate a career in the pornography from a career in the rest of the entertainment industry. not to say there isn't acting involved in other sports, or competitions.
look Tang: poker comes to mind
look Tang: dance
look Tang: sort of
joebabe: kidney failure
look Tang: ..
joebabe: yeah..
joebabe: let's go wth that

edit- trey brings up a good point- does anyone win?

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Time:

12:17 am.

SO
what little have I been up to?
You have to understand, outside of school I don't thnk I do all THAT much, so when not in school, I'm really not doing much of anything. Well, I do things. SOme things. and here are some pictures from some of them!!

okay So it's mostly the folklife festival, and I realized I didn't take much else of other things.
well
YAY folklife festival!!
I think I'll just make this fairly long, as I never -did- finish my Foxy Island pictures..

I have to say I don't know what exactly is up and They are all sorts of weird sizes.. >_<

( I like to take pictures of things. )

I got a bunch of free pins from the alberta people if any of you.. um, want some free pins!

Well that was most of my folklife festival adventures anyways, excluding the puffy hand and walking around all over capitol hill and the crazy movie about drag queens and the robot dogs and the little kids and the painting and the being stranded by georgia avenue in the middle of the night and smartrip fury and food and fun and sun and so forth.

-claudia

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Time:

10:20 pm.

I got my course schedule!

Haha, it was actually available for like a month, I just didn't know how to access it. or my email. but now I do!! yay me!
It might still change.. but so far its:

Gen Bio : 0945-1050: MWF
Lab: 1100-1350: W
A Different Lab: 1215-1445: F
English- Thought and Expression (Honors): 1020-1200 TR (i think TR is thursday)
Modern Chemical Concepts (oh dear): 0830-1010 TR
Stage Design and Lighting: 1720-1850 MW
First Year Seminar (because in my school, you're not allowed to use freshman):
Strangely Familiar Music Group: 1430-1600 R

so, this brings up many questions and concerns..

the first was what the heck is R?
and why is it TR and not, say, Th?

but I figured this out, more or less, and T=tuesday and R= thursday, apparently.. I thought I had no classes on tuesday though!

I am not waitlisted for anything, which is nice

I have ten minutes to get from Chem to English in a nother building

I have to take Chem
twice a week
at 8:45 AM

it's not so bad, though

I'm very excited!!

-claudia

do whatever.

Time:

11:42 am.

DOWN SOUTH.

South Carolina- Krista (still?) and JOE (omg.)
Georgia- My aunt, Terri/Teo/Auntie
Florida- Alec, for now
North Carolina- Chris, and amandapus visited him
North Carolina- My mother, until last night, but still
North Carolina- Trey (okay, so he goes to school there, but still)
North Carolina- Ray's Girlfriend. No have never met her, but I just thought of this because he said she was there, and you know, I just thought that was quite a few people.

Also. That Virgin Concert? the one that is just now coming to the states? In baltimore? ON MY BIRTHDAY?
I really want to see that. I don't even go to concerts much, actually I don't think I've been to more than two large ones. I don't think about it.
But man, do I want to go to that (It's only maybe a hundred dollars, likely nearly pre-sold out, and I'll be living in PA by then, only).

ON the plus side, at least that's what I'll tell myself, not going means:
-spending birthday with close friends, or closer ones anyhow, and family
-not being in a crowd of people
-having another hundred dollars (plus gas and food expense and what not)

right.

do whatever.

Time:

11:34 am.

I have been updating my livejournal more, and barely even realizing it. This was my entry from last night:

I can't sleep I can't sleep I can't sleep.

1. I'm more than a little annoyed at my mother, who skipped off to North Carolina without really telling me, not until the last minute, and then probably only because I was already awake. She told my brother, however, and my aunt- who she more or less dumped me on for Saturday night. She is still not home. I guess I am more annoyed that she did not tell me she would be home so late, for if she had, or if I had figured it out, or if I cared less, I would not be here right now.
2. Saturday itself was not unpleasant, on the whole. Went down to DC and hung out, saw a museum I had never seen before and learned all sorts of new things. I then went all the way to Wat Lao with my Aunt and Golf for the Buddhist Lent Beginning Ceremony, or whatever it's called, and they weren't even doing anything, everyone had gone home. The next day I learned a lot of things about my mother's side of the family that I hadn't quite known before. Not that I knew much to begin with.
3. I'm reading Lolita by Nabokov. I started yesterday and am two thirds of the way through. My aunt asked if I thought it should have been banned on school lists and such, or not, but I am not done yet and I am not sure. I liked Part 1 more than the Part 2 I am reading now. Perhaps because he is just so much more optimistic, and wanting. There is even more lush expressive language, full of crazy descriptions and comparisons. I try to write like that sometimes. I flatter myself to think I am trying to write with more emotion.

I am not sleepy at all. But my neck does hurt a little.

-claudia

ps. My mother is still not home. rar.

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Time:

8:12 pm.

1. I thought PotC: DMC sucked. Like they were trying too hard. Well, there will be another one..

2. My hand is all sorts of swollen and nasty now. Yesterday it was my arm (two spots- looked lke i had some crazy mad muscles!) and my wrist. Today it's still my arm, less my wrist- but the swelling moved toward my elbow. Also, my hand is all sorts of gross. I think I had some kind of bad reaction.. to some kind of bite? I don't know. But it's pretty nasty. The first aid tent wasn't helpful but one guys I was volunteering with- he was doing some college thing with robotic dogs (it was neat) happened to have a mother who happened to be a nurse who happened to be visiting him that day. and happened to have benadryl on her. I don't thihnk it did much but it was still nice.

3. Teeney I got you a windmill.

4. ahhh.. operaton get-kelley-a-goddamn-picture-ID, or OP GKAGPID, is.. experiencing some major setbacks.

5. I love you all.

xx
claudia

do whatever.

Time:

7:43 pm.

Le chris est pas ici. pauvre!
mon détecteur d'oxyde de carbone fait BIP-BIP.
I would be worried, mais je ne sais pas si ce le moyen là est trop d'oxyde de carbone ou la batterie est simplement morte..
I guess I will find out. then again, if the battery is dead, what if it cannot detect the carbon monoxide levels and they climb dangerously high?

I have spent the last two days at Wat Lao Buddhavong, the Lao temple in virginia. They have a fourth of july sort of celebration plus they got a statue from Luang Prabang (an important city in laos, well, as important as lao cities go). It has made me consider my religion much more thoroughly. I have also been thinking of Christianity very much. I don't think you should expect any conversions over here, I've just been.. thinking.
My aunt has a friend with a nephew (or something like that) who is here from thailand and is working on his english. I have been trying to help him and have done what I can the past two days but I don't really know what to do anymore. He is twenty-five but it is easy to forget that. It is not as easy to forget he is from Thailand, however, and not just because of his accent or his looks but because HE IS SO POLITE. it's almost aggravating. I don't know if he actually understands me or he is just sitting there laughing at me. Not to mention his name is Golf. Yes, Golf, as in Golf. Well, that's just a nickname, and his real name is Taratip or somenot. Golf. without a very hard L, like goff. It reminds me of Geoff and I keep americanizing his name to Jeff but I don't think he has noticed.
Well, we're heading to DC on the fourth to see museums, the Folklife Festival and the fireworks. Anyone is welcome to see us there! I might be able to drag a cousin or two and maybe a boyfriend (pas deux, mais vous pouvez voir ses cheveux courts? not two, buut you can see his short hair?), I'm hoping to help Golf with his english as well, as I'm really running out of things to say. And the temple makes me so TIRED.

so, yeah, want to meet a dude from thailand and see DC and all?

You should all go to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, it's on the mall and free and really neat. it runs to the 11, i believe, i'll be volunteering.

je suis une fille fatiguee..

-claudia

do whatever.

Time:

2:02 pm.

TODAY'S VIKING LESSON.

1. Pillage.
2. Burn.
3. Repeat as necessary.

Steps one and two MUST be executed in given order.

I want to make a viking hat. Also I have to knit a hat for diana.
Ideas:
Said Viking hat. (Will more likely be gven to self or Simon. I just made a purse that started out as a gift to him, a pillow, but before sewing the sides i realized it would be an even better purse and just.. too cool. He's also much more of a viking than Diana).
Acorn Hat, replica of krista's acorn hat.
Chicken viking hat.
Chili pepper hat.
Blue bunny hat.
pixie point hat.
fraggle rock type hat.

Even if they aren't going to diana these are all hats i want to make.
Anyways, I found a pattern for a baby viking hat and I wondered.. what noise do Vikings make? as a battle cry?
ARRR was little too "pirate-y". Perhaps a prolonged grunt.. "rrrrrrrrr" or "ugrrrrrrrr" or the swedish chef from the muppets who says bonk bonk. suggested from the website: "maybe “Farfignuggen” or “Ikea” " Someone also said it's "SKOL" but unless that pronounced "school" that fails to strike fear in the hearts of many (and even school just strikes fear in the hearts of those that.. go to school).

perhaps they just repeat today's lesson.
"pillage, THEN burn."

-claudia the small defender of the north.. east

do whatever.

Time:

1:35 pm.

rambly college concerns.

I really hope I get along with my roommates. I want to live in the Castle. It houses residents in rooms of two to six. So I could have up to five other people to get along with.. No microwaves in the castle.
They've started tripling kids in rooms for my year. Triple!! IN what usually only has two people..
Well, even if I don't like it, I'm just going to leave the next semester and get my own room (and cook my own food..) in scotland.
I hope everything goes well in Scotland and I don't spend too much money.
I do hope I don't end up spending a lot of money I don't have. I mean, that's a pretty standard worry.
I hope I don't want to come home too often because I don't think I can secure a car anyways so I'll hardly be able to. I wish I could though. especially with my house being more or less empty. My brother is staying here, I believe, but I don't really care. I mean, he's a neat kid and all but we get along very well mostly because we don't really talk to each other that much. oh well. Party at my house : P
The class that worries me the most next year is chem. Sure, Biology is going to be hard. and it IS my major. I don't know what math I'll be in, and I know I'll have to in Honors Eng because I'm in the honors program (so math is likely adv. too). But see, at bigger schools the Bio kids would take slightly easier chem. But we're too small for that and we take Chem with the kids who are majoring in chemistry.

I got a summer reading book. A summer reading book!!! I was so excited to fnally have a summer where I wouldn't have to deal with summer reading.. But it's okay. for one, It's a graphic novel. I already finished it the first day I had it. (I also just got it wet and wrinkly and gross). It's a good book, too, about a girl growing up in Iran. It's called Persepolis, check it out.

I'm bored now and I'm going to go clean my room / get distracted by my sewing machine

(sewing machine has been finally named "usagi" which means rabbit in japanese. it looks like a pink bunny.)

kisses
claudia

do whatever.

Time:

9:11 pm.

Best / Worst Art History Joke of All Time

Baroque (adj.):
When you are out of Monet.

beach week wise, we satyed in sleepy little rehobeth, walked around the neat little shops, and simon got kinda sick (well his eye did anyways) half way through.
Simon now has glasses! and we'll be cutting his hair soon so revel in it while you still can : P
is it creepy for me to want to keep a small lock? Probably. Not as creepy as wanting to keep it all and knit it, but still kinda creepy. No shrines, voo doo dolls or magic spells, I promise.

I have seen SPAMALOT (thank you again SO MUCH, teeney) and it is AMAZING.

NOW I can stop using caps lock WAY TOO OFTEN.

yay spamalot! soo funny. So funny,i bought a shirt.

i went to my summer orientation with my cousins Ann and Kelley. I bet they were bored. I met a few interesting people. It was fun, I'll try to be an Orientation Leader next year. I don't know if FYSAE will get in the way of OL training, they told me the semester there starts later and ends later than ours does. they said I'd have like a month long winter break, but now I found out Arcadia has about a month long winter break anyways. So I guess it's not much different?
Oh, well I looked up the semester dates at the University of Stirling, which says:
Start of semester-Monday 12 February 2007
Start of teaching-Thursday 15 February 2007
Mid-semester break-Monday 2 April 2007
Teaching resumes-Monday 9 April 2007
End of semester-Saturday 2 June 2007

Final Exams for Arcadia are Dec. 12-19.
So, even counting the extra time we use in London (stirling and london kids go to london together for about a week) and any time they give us to "settle in", plus going up to PA and the UK, i've got a two month winter break!?! what am I going to do with that? 0-0 I asked if I would be able to stay on the campus and they said they weren't sure, since my room would most likely be taken by a FYSAE student returning from the fall semester.

I talked about being asian to one out of the two asian guys there (who, with me, made up the entire asian population there). We talked about how Philipino people are just SO phillipino and how Asian people understand how un-asian they are. :P Then we went (got lost on our way to) UPenn, which is an entire DISTRICT of Phila. (philly sounds funny to me). A rather LARGE district. Pretty much its OWN CITY. UNIVERSITY CITY. so large I HAD to use caps lock ALL OVER AGAIN.
just whe you thought I was FINALLY done.

We wandered among the Wharton School of Business, the very expensive, very competetive, very hard to get into school of Penn that Ann would very much like to get into. And somehow afford.
Good luck to her! Penn seems like an awesome place. The Wharton School was very elegant, very clean, Lots of Asian people there.

Tomorrow I am hopefully going camping with my loverly Krista and Diana.

good health and all,
Claudia

do whatever.

Subject:	Ramblings that make more sense in my silly head.
Time:	10:44 pm.

sometimes I think I need to meet someone, one person, I truly hate, just so I can have somewhere to focus it all on. I wonder if I would really regret losing a friend,or developing a hatred for an acquaintance. Would it really be so bad? Well, I would probably think it was horrible, especially a good friend. I also have this habit or becoming friends with someone, then very easily forgetting their negative aspects (after all, they're my friend). So they would have to do something, many things, that are atrocious. It's hard for me to think of anything that would make me feel that way (sure, if you killed my parents, things would get pretty awkward.. but you were either crazy, had a reason, had a crazy reason?).
but sometimes I think it would be healthier, or at least simpler, if I could just focus that emotion and expel it onto one person with good reason.

Just now I wondered if it's not the lack of someone to hate that's my problem, but my way of doing so much to forgive or try to justify another's wrongdoings (even when directly against me). Maybe there are people I should hate, at the very least harbor a much stronger dislike towards, and I'm simply holding myself back. Does this result in me being a nicer person, or just being snippy and critical of everyone else's little mistakes and annoying habits and offensive viewpoints or actions? That emotion has to go somewhere, right?
Does it?

claudia

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Subject:	promwise
Time:	2:40 am.

I know I've promised fox island but i'va also promised prom

actually i almost never make or trust promises

I'm also a little tired of typing "prom"

So we MADE our own dinner because we're awesome

and it was REALLY good. Seriously. and so much fun ^_^

and not having pupils is really creepy.
and poor katie antonelli who I must have been blocking in EVERY picture!!! I'm so sorry!!
bottom row: Derek, Caitylin, Claudia, Simon, joey and his dates- jesse and jenny but I can't remember which is which off the top of my head
top row: jesse, katie, hrenface, mandapants

Limo! our driver's name was Joe(seph)

KATIE!!

LIMO!! (woot!)

TEENEY AND JOEL! one of only two pictures actually taken AT prom.
we came late and left early. It was good- we were there just long enough for me, before I got tired of it.

I don't know why katie and teeney and joel came out so big and why resizing them isn't working

claudia

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Subject:	back form fox island
Time:	7:22 pm.

oo.

Back from chesapeaking it up, and am now internetting it up when i should really be laundrying it up. first, to get it out of the way,

fuck graduation parties,
people are just invading my house, and i'm going to do what i can to be "sociable" and hope enough of my friends and cousins stick around so that I don't shoot myself in the head.
I know simon will probably stay and the cousins will be there.
I really don't mean to sound ungrateful and mean about it. If anyone wants to come by you are more than welcome and i would be gracious and grateful. Just don't expect anything crazy!

MAN foxy island was some good times. I am not obsessed with boats- the sea has simply not factored in my life much- but I definately appreciate them more. Islands are amazing, living on an island- even for three days which was really two and a half- well it's a completely unique experience. I couldn't just sit and unwind because i have soo much to do now, coupled with my finely honed inability to be innocently excited about anything. But it WAS good. Very chill. I had a blast, so much of a blast that now my body hurts. My neck especially.

Expect teeney-like pictures of Foxy Fox Island, as well as last days of school, prom, etc, shortly.

dial up users beware!
hehe.

I hope you are all doing well and I may see you monday because I have to take three exams. Or tomorrow because my friend Christine is THE SHIT

"oh my damn"
-claudia

do whatever.

Time:

5:33 pm.

Today was my last day of classes!
and I had aide, ceramics, and anatomy. right. it was our last day with our kitty Lola. Who, although rather healthy looking and kinda fat- we think she may have been a housecat- also proved to have worms in her stomach. (UGH)

Tomorrow I'm going to the Chesapeake bay for three days, then I have to come back on Tuesday to take all my exams. Which are:

-Consumer Math: well, you know, it's consumer math.. I don't know if my group has done anything for our project or not, I guess I'll find out.
-English: turn in Senior Portfolio, plus some kind of English bullshit.. I don't really know what's going on
-Anatomy: Turn in little project and take a multiple choice test

And that's all.
psh

damn it feels good to be a SENIOR
-claudia

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