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[15 Oct 2007|07:20pm] |
I toyed with the idea of deleting this journal 'cause I might get searched on the internet by potential bosses. But I don't want to throw away all those years of misery and angst from high school...the thinly-veiled hints of who I liked at the moment, the drama at who I hated, the mentions of band and play and the name-dropping of people just to show I had friends...it's all deliciously awkward and deserves to stay up.
For awhile. Until I archive it to show my kids that look! Mommy was a loser in high school too!
Anyway. Been a busy year so far, what with all the classes and work at the Writing Center and homygod...IDIA. I love IDIA but it's my life, and sometimes that's really weird. I'm grateful for the friendships, though, especially the ones that enable surprise parties with colanders, rubber boots (one, to be exact) and a RUMUN blanket. So even though my Monday,Tuesday, and Wednesday nights are all IDIA, I dont mind. Much.
I got my hair cut:
That's about all. My life is pretty boring. Take heed, potential bosses! I will not come in to work drunk (all the time!)
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[05 Apr 2007|01:15pm] |
Helllooo? LJ, are you alive?????
You are! Or I am! Or someone is! (Is this existential mike on? *tap tap*)
I'm bored, which is the only reason I'm posting. Funny enough, I have like 15 minutes before I have to book it to class....across the street. But hey, George Street is a dangerous street to cross (sort of like a mobster is a dangerous man to cross, ka-chinggg I make with the funny a lot these days) and I need my time to defy the death that is New Brunswick drivers.
I'm sucking at school, pretty much. Made dean's list last semester, without ever going to class and working so much I had 38 points at the dindin hall in about a month or something. Now I hardly work four shifts a week, am in the negatives for points, AND am failing a class. (Failing to me is a C, C+ if I'm lucky, just so you all know.)
Unnacceptable, and yet. Can't make myself go to class. Carolyn W can SUCK IT HARD she's very boring and a little odd in the head, and who cares about poetry anyways? *English major hums innocently as she realizes poetry is a very important part of her friggin' curriculum*
I haven't left the dorm in what feels like forever on a weekend. Last week I did venture out for a little thing at Ajay's. It was super fun--didn't get drunk, but I did watch others do so, and it's actually fun being the sober one, you know? Went to little Ind with Jay and Janelle...also fun. Our little asian *pets* She liked the pretty things and the yummy food and we liked being cross cultural! Yay for asians!
RMC is soon. My speaker seems nice enough, but she's coming on the second to last committee session so...inconvenience much? The kids will only be able to take her advice when, hopefully, debating bills. Bah! I'm still working on Ed Mueller. CALL ME BACK MISTER MUELLER!
Not much else to add. Well, plenty more. But I'm bored of you now. Bye LJ. Maybe I'll come back soon.
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[01 Nov 2006|11:55am] |
It's an ARGHHHHHHHHH kind of week. Really frustrating. Ever have those weeks where everything just sets you off and you feel sort of like a ticking time bomb? That's so me this week, and it's weird, 'cause I'm usually really chilled out and laid back. I think I'm turning into one of those weird control freaks that repress and do the bright smile 24/7 thing, and then just sort of explode at the worst times in the worst possible manner. It's pretty crazy, I've been hearing some stories lately that make me go 'whoaaa who is that girl?' 'Cause as my good old New Egyptians know, I wasn't exactly miss wild and nuts in high school. Maybe it's the indian repressed thing. Huh. I think it's just that I miss my friends and my home so much sometimes. I called Jeff yesterday and made him meet me outside my meeting in the basement of Hardenberg just so we could share a smoke and talk for a bit. It was so nice to get a hug and a talking-to from a familiar face who's known me since I was 15-16, you know? I'm so glad John and Gina are coming this weekend for that reason...we're not even really partying. Just being low-key and hanging out once again--haven't done that since forever.
I've askewed paragraphs.
Anyways. I'm just going nuts right now. I've been trying to go to classes and work and sleep and do homework and do IDIA and MECH all at the same time and I feel like the more I try and accomplish, the less I get done. It's moving backwards time. I haven't really written in awhile, and it's a sort of catharsis for me, so if you're bored move right along. But if not, I'd love advice as to how to sort of feel better about the mistakes you make and how to move forward from them while not putting too much pressure on yourself so that you...well, self-destruct.
I need a cigarette and a steak and I cannot have either. This bothers me.
I have to go to work in 3 hours. I haven't slept in 24. So I'm off to nap, while I try and figure out the wrongs of the universe. And try and stop wanting to bite a certain person's stupid damn face off. (This is inner indian fundamentalist anger coming out...Katie knows what I mean.)
Byeeee!
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[31 Oct 2006|12:44am] |
wowww. so. life has been hectic in the forty million years since ive updated. lots has happened. too much to really describe. college is alternately a suckfest of suckiness and the coolest place on earth. sophomore year can go to hell. the dining hall is my least favorite place to be, yet i love love love everyone i work with. i drink much too much even tho i feel like i never have time to go out. i miss my best friend and my 'brother' and my NE kids. i love autumn but its damn cold and we havent had enough time to enjoy the leaves falling. i miss 7-11 and the perverts who shop there, but i do not miss the elderly maniacs who subsist on smokes and lottery. well ok, maybe i do. i enjoy principle of lit theory not least of all because matthew mcgowan, grad student extraordinaire, is a sexy beast. i hate math for stupid people because even tho berkowitz is a cute little old man, voting systems and fucking circuits are not my cup of tea. i love my roomie. i hate how some people arent the friends you thought they were. i miss apple cider and walking to plumstead pharmacy in woolen gloves and a warm coat, only to go to tooties afterwards for pumpkin ice cream. i love walking passion puddle when the wind is gentle and the leaves are pretty. i miss rumun and rmc as a delegate. i love rumun and rmc as a staffer. i miss the lobby of nehs and the annual plays. i look at the rutgers knight marching band and laugh and laugh because that is not me anymore. my football team is winning and it makes me smile, because remember how shocked we all were when NE started winning too?
i miss a lot of things. i love a lot of things here, too. but its all balance i guess.
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[18 Oct 2006|02:36pm] |
Background
The basic concept of eminent domain is defined as the government acquisition of private property for public development, with just compensation given to the original landowner. This taking power of the government has been prevalent in American history since colonial times, when private land was first appropriated to build provisions such as highways, mills, foundries, and dams. #(1) Eminent domain was already firmly established in the colonies, having evolved from the parliamentary practice of taking land and giving just compensation.(2)# During the Revolutionary War especially, requisition by the state of land for roads, dams, dockyards, and public offices, was common. Recompense, the practice of monetarily compensating an individual for land taken, was customary. Though recompense was not an explicit aspect of eminent domain in the beginning, by the time the United States Constitution was ratified, compensation became an important element of eminent domain.
The Constitution outlined eminent domain in the Fifth Amendment, or the “Takings Clause,” as it is known. (3)# The clause reads: “[N]or shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.” After the events of the Revolutionary War, property rights were treated in a thoughtless manner. British Loyalists saw their land torn away, land debts to the British were cancelled, and credit and bills were handled extremely poorly by Congress during that time.(4) # James Madison, a Framer of the Constitution and the author of the original Takings clause, wanted to see the government held in check with a power that was essentially limitless. However, the federal Takings Clause and its check of power did not have so much bearing on eminent domain at first, due to the fact that in 1833, Barron v. Baltimore established that the federal takings clause was only applicable in national government, not at a state level. The case involved a man named John Barron, who owned a wharf in Baltimore Harbor. When the Baltimore local government diverted the flow of streams during street construction, Barron sued. He claimed his property was damaged, and though the trial court awarded Barron compensation, the appellate court reversed the decision. The Supreme Court decided then that the Bill of Rights, or more specifically, the Fifth Amendment, was only applicable in federal cases. State court, therefore, could reverse the decision. (5)#
Most eminent domain cases were blocked from federal appeal from state courts in the beginning. The federal government did not even hold explicit power to directly take land in its own name until 1875, with the court case Kohl v. United States. In this case, Supreme Court Justice Strong deduced that an important federal power was the power of the federal government to condemn in its own name. With this ruling, federal governments were able to expropriate land for federal buildings and public works. Before then, clauses 7 and 17 of Article 1, section 8 enabled the federal government authority over land to develop only “needful buildings,” or such things as post offices, post roads, forts, dockyards (6)#. Before Kohl v. United States, this grant would force the federal government to appeal to state legislature to acquire land for any redevelopment. After the case was heard, the federal power to appropriate in its own name was established. Property owners, however, were still inable to appeal to a higher court than their state Supreme Court in cases of eminent domain. Federal courts would not hear cases on state eminent domain decisions at this time.
Eventually in 1897, Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad v. Chicago opened the way for the federal courts to review state court decisions on eminent domain. The case established that the Takings Clause, most specifically the just compensation aspect, formed a right of ownership so strong that by denying any compensation after seizure, “due process of law” was being violated. Due process of law is the idea that in order to keep legal proceedings fair, a person cannot be denied “life, liberty, or property” without a complete process through the legal system.#(7) The case was significant in eminent domain because it opened the door not only to federal judicial review of state court decisions of eminent domain. It also put forth the possibility that despite going to court, the plaintiff may not always receive what they feel is just compensation. (8)#
The case began when the city of Chicago, IL opened a road on the land of the railroad company. The company argued that because the city infringed upon the company’s land and only gave compensation of one dollar, the company’s rights to due process were violated. The Court established that due process required compensation for property taken. However, the Court supported the city’s claim that the railroad’s basis of operation was not prevented by the road. Because of this, the Court ruled that the railroad’s land was, in fact, not taken to the extent that just compensation was required. In regards to the revenue lost by the railroad company because of a gate installed to keep passerby safe while crossing the road, the courts found the loss of revenue purely incidental and not caused by the government‘s actions. As such, the costs must be borne by the landowner. With that, the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company lost their case at both a state and federal level, showing that while the government touted protection of property rights, the government also had no qualms in defying their own standards in a case-by-case basis. (9)#
With eminent domain an issue that the federal courts were now able to adjudicate upon, the question of just compensation began to matter even more in eminent domain court cases after Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company v. Chicago. However, just compensation was not the only clause called into question: the term public use also received scrutiny and debate. While discussion over eminent domain had up until the late-eighteen-hundreds pertained mainly to works like railroads, public roads, and buildings such as post-offices, which undeniably served the public good, with the nineteen-hundreds came development. With development came new uses for land. Property issues dealing with water, particularly, populated the eminent domain case-field of the early to mid-nineteen-hundreds.
In the early twentieth century, the issue of landowners situated by wetlands or rivers, or riparian, was the at the forefront of eminent domain discussion. Environmentally-charged court cases, heard on issues such as dam flooding or land destruction, began to circulate the question of both adequate use and just compensation. In the Supreme Court case United States v. Lynah (1903), (10)# a landowner’s rice plantation was derided of all its value and made into “a bog” by the government, which erected a dam across a nearby navigable river way. Though the court found that Lynah must be compensated for his losses, three Justices protested and raised the question of Lynah’s land sitting below the high-water mark allotted to landowners, thus, the drainage of his land being continually dependent on low-tides. Since landowners were only allowed to sit above the high-water mark, if Lynah’s property was damaged by water coming in at the low-tide mark, that was not the government’s problem. Low and high tides increasingly became an importance to owners of injured land that found its way in the government’s hands, as did the issue of non-navigable streams versus navigable waterways.
Along navigable waterways, property owners usually owned land above the mark that connoted high-water. Land that fell below the low-tide mark was considered to be part of the state‘s property, not a private owner‘s. With non-navigable streams, landowners claimed property from the bed of the stream up to the middle, or the entire breadth if the owner could claim both banks. Yet even in this situation, the federal government had a stake in the issue, with the constitutional power to regulate commerce and improve navigation by using these waterways. Still yet, state governments also had a stake, in their power to improve any navigation not under federal scrutiny. (11)#
The conflict of interests was the reason United States v. Lynah and the subsequent case, Bedford v. United States, were so vastly different. In one case, the government decided to compensate the landowner (Lynah) for damages. Yet the repayment for damages that were purely incidental was a precedent the Supreme Court did not want to set, and in Bedford v. United States, the question of consequential damage was again raised.
In the Bedford case, damages to land occurred as a result of flooding. The flooding was in turn caused by revetments, or reinforced barriers, that were constructed by the federal government on the banks of the Mississippi River. The Justices in this case ruled that the damages were consequential, due to erosion of the land over the years, as opposed to any governmental wrongdoing. By not awarding Bedford his three-thousand dollars in compensation, but awarding Lynah for his difficulties, the Court created a distinction of some cases being “more consequential than others.” By creating this distinction, the Court set up a situation where the rules for compensation of riparians became, to landowners, arbitrary.
Yet even among the confusion, a fairly settled rule could be discerned concerning compensation: the Court would not hold the government responsible for recompense when the land in question was below the high-water mark. Even for businesses whose productivity was affected by rising water levels, the government would not be made to repay the damages unless a specific legislative grant was brought into question. (13) #
There stood two distinct outcomes to almost identical losses as a result of these eminent domain decisions. One, that full compensation was given in the face of a landowner’s damages, and two, that the government was found to not be held responsible for the damages at all, and the landowner was doubly stricken--once by losing the property to sovereignty, and again by losing any value that piece of property may have generated and indeed, having to pay the losses themselves. Thus, the conflict between landowners and the courts when it comes to just compensation is illustrated.
Another aspect of eminent domain does not pertain to solely land, rather, another specific part of property. When dealing with eminent domain, it is not just land that is in question. It is any property owned or lived in by a private citizen. When other aspects of property are called in as an issue, the question becomes how far-reaching a private citizen’s hold on their property is, when confronted with the government that believes certain aspects of property to be navigable by all the public.
In the case Causby v. United States, it was airspace that became private property. The Causby case began when Thomas Lee Causby and his wife Tinie filed a complaint against the United States government because their farm in North Carolina, adjacent to an airport, was being subjected to low-flying military planes that disrupted their chicken business. Six to ten chickens a day were being killed by fright as the planes flew low enough to light up the night and blow leaves off the tops of trees. It was discovered that the United States government had taken an easement out on the property, valued at two-thousand dollars. An easement is the right of another party to use one party’s land for a specific purpose.# Usually it is public utility such as telephone companies using land for telephone cables. In this case it was the United States military using the Causby’s land for airspace.
The question was whether or not there was any eminent domain obstruction by the government in flying their planes over the Causby’s property. By examining Civil Aeronautics Authority regulations, it was deduced that since the planes flew in the minimum altitude to declare their flights were in public, navigable airspace, the government did not in fact commit any obstruction of the Fifth Amendment. The Causby’s were awarded two-thousand dollars, the amount of the easement, but the case served to illustrate the example that even airspace, the area of property above one’s physical property, was subject to taking by the United States government, whether citizens recognized that taking or not. (14)#
Conflict also arises over interpretation of public use. Similar to just compensation, public use serves as a limitation in the Takings clause. However, the wording of the limitation is so broad that it has been “public use” compared to “just compensation” that has caused the most strife in the issue of eminent domain. The Yale Law Journal observed in 1949, “The conclusion that follows is that so far as the federal courts are concerned neither state legislatures nor Congress need to be concerned about the public use test in any of its ramifications.”# (15) The Journal clearly stated that according to federal and state courts and legislatures, public use was not a term worth examination. However, as time wore on, it became clear that in fact, public use was one limitation that change in eminent domain hinged upon.
During the first and second world war, public use was the term applied to provide shelter during housing shortages, using land private developers had gained from eminent domain to build housing. The question of public use did not really begin to gain momentum until after World War II, however. Redevelopment was important in a post-war society and in 1954, Berman v. Parker established a new definition of the term public use. This change in term brought urban renewal to the forefront. In the case, public use was redefined as public purpose. (16)# By changing public use to public purpose, the meaning shifted from redevelopment that the public could use. Instead redevelopment became a change that was purported to eventually aid the public by furthering the entire economic growth. Slums in the District of Columbia were contracted towards this redevelopment, labeling the area “blighted.” When an area is labeled blighted, it means the land is in a ruined state. Often, the term “blighted” is applied to slums and ghettos.(17)# T
The entire area contracted in D.C was to be condemned, yet a department store that wasn’t in disrepair itself appealed the decision, claiming a violation of due process. However, in the court decision, Justice Douglas declared that public use encompassed public welfare, and as such, the redevelopment of land, and possession of property that fell in with blighted neighborhoods, was lawful as long as it served the greater public. Berman v. Parker established the Court’s right to define public use in a broad manner.
Another interpretation of public use is an unique case. The property in question was not the traditional land that eminent domain usually applied to. Instead, in Oakland Raiders v. City of Oakland, it was a football team called into question. When the Oakland Raiders deserted for Los Angeles in 1982, the Oakland municipality took desperate measures to keep their biggest source of revenue in town. They seized the team under eminent domain, and the California Supreme Court allowed such a tactic. The city argued that the Raiders were indeed property, and that under eminent domain, they had the right to appropriate the team as property. Without the team, the city claimed, public good and the economy would deteriorate. The case, which ended with the Raiders staying in Oakland, calls to attention the question of whether a viable business (intangible property) can be appropriated as a public use. (18)#
It is because of cases such as Oakland Raiders v. The City of Oakland that eminent domain steadily evolved into an issue of abusing power. The increasing amount of eminent domain cases that were tried after Berman v. Parker centered around the issue of the government taking liberties with the terming of public use. The Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff, a case which dealt with the state of Hawaii seeking to even out the percentage of state-owned property versus privately owned land. The state did so by exerting eminent domain and passing the Land Reform Act of 1967, essentially taking privately owned property for state enterprise. A landowner named Frank Midkiff challenged the Act in 1984, and the question became, did the Act violate the public use clause of the Fifth Amendment? # (19) The answer was decided by the U.S Supreme Court to be no, and with this court decision, eminent domain was stretched to novel limits and public use was weakened. This is what began the movement of angry landowners battling “abuse” of eminent domain, and what started to give so much attention to an issue that previously never received much scrutiny.
Perhaps the most prominent examples of eminent domain abuse are Poletown Neighborhood Council v. City of Detroit and Kelo v. New London. These case studies demonstrate eminent domain at its present roots--appropriating land, not airspace or businesses, for public use that has evolved from simple railroads and post offices into more complex areas of weighing the razing of entire neighborhoods against increasing the economic growth of an entire community.
Case Study: Poletown Neighborhood Council v. City of Detroit (1981)
The case marked the first well-publicized eminent domain abuse battle concerning urban renewal since Berman v. Parker. Hamtramck (or Poletown, so known because of its large population of Polish immigrants), a neighborhood in Detroit, was suffering from a lack of development. The city, perceived to be a dying industry, was the target of attention from the Detroit mayor and General Motors, who entered a plan together. If Poletown could be appropriated by the city and sold to General Motors, the company would build a state-of-the-art plant upon the land and revitalize the economy. As a result the Detroit local government began to offer payment for the property of residents, some who had been in the city for generations. Many homeowners agreed to the prices and moved out of their crumbling homes, but out of one thousand three hundred homeowners, many also wanted to stay. Undeterred, the Detroit City council put plans into effect and exercised eminent domain, and although a legal battle ensued, eventually the Michigan Supreme Court ruled in General Motor’s favor and Poletown was condemned, as homeowners lost their neighborhoods and livelihoods. # (20)
The case was revolutionary because of two reasons. One, that it was the first case of such largely publicized scale that illustrated a whole neighborhood falling to a company such as General Motors, in the name of economic growth. Economic growth was apparently not enough, as thirty-nine percent of the residents said relocation payments did not cover the payment of their homes, and the revenue of the town did not increase insomuch what the redevelopment was forecasted to generate. The second revolutionary aspect of this case, as such, is just compensation. In 2004, twenty-one years after the initial court decision to condemn Poletown, the decision was reversed in County of Wayne v. Hathcock.(20)# The court spoke about the “radical departure from constitutional principles” and how the “exception swallowed the rule.” Thought to be the exception to the public use tenet, Poletown v. General Motors sought to redefine public use as public growth and redevelopment. In Wayne v. Hathcock, the city of Wayne wished to follow General Motor‘s example and replace neighborhoods with technology parks on the basis of furthering economic gain. The Michigan Supreme Court overruled the precedent set by Poletown v. General Motors and denied the city of Wayne the right to eminent domain in that case. (22) # Though it was twenty-one years too late, the re-examination of the case showed the serious recognition of eminent domain abuse that characterized the growing issue of urban development in the United States.
Case Study: Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
The case of Kelo v. City of New London began when the city of New London, Connecticut approved a redevelopment plan that would condemn privately owned property and further economic growth by revitalizing the city’s depressed businesses. The New London Development Corporation (NLDC), a private entity under the control of the government, took interest in the pharmaceutical center Pfizer, who was seeking to build new offices near the Fort Trumbull neighborhood. The NLDC offered to buy the one-hundred-fifteen residential homes in the neighborhood, but fifteen property owners did not want to sell, citing the Takings clause. The property owners also said that because the NLDC was a private entity, the company wasn’t working towards a public good, but a private enterprise. The city exercised it’s right to eminent domain, and Susette Kelo, a homeowner, acted as a plaintiff in the complaint against New London. Eventually, the Supreme Court decided that economic growth was a valid enough reason to approve the condemnation of the neighborhood and build new developments on the land. This case set forth the precedent that was the major beginning of the concept of the government and judicial abuse of eminent domain. (23)#
The main point of Kelo’s argument was that the Fifth Amendment was being violated, because there was no real public use being made by the NLDC. One reason, Kelo claimed, was that economic growth and tax revenue did not necessarily mean public benefit. The other reason was because the NLDC and Pfizer were ostensibly private organizations, and it would violate the public use clause if property was taken from one private owner and given to another.
The government’s claim (and this was the first case since Hawaii v. Midkiff that reached the Supreme Court) was that the economic growth afforded to the city by the revenue Pfizer and the redevelopment plans would generate was substantial. (24) # Because of this economic growth, the public benefited from the redevelopment, and this was the case where the Court decided that economic growth was in fact a valid reason under the Takings clause to put forth eminent domain. Prior cases, like Berman v. Parker and Hawaii v. Midkiff decided similar outcomes, but because of the scale of media attention and the idea that private property that was not blighted or previously a slum could be transferred to another private owner, Kelo v. New London brought negative attention to the government’s interpretation of the public use clause.
Not all eminent domain cases are negative. There have been cases in the United States where just compensation has been awarded to plaintiffs and economic growth has revitalized a dying community. Indeed, in the case of Mesa v. Bailey, the Arizona State Supreme Court ruled that eminent domain must be ruled on a case-by-case basis, special to each person’s circumstance and each government’s claim.(25)# Until 2005, with Kelo v. New London, that is what happened, with each court case bringing forth different ideas on eminent domain. However, in the years following the Kelo decision, with the public worried about losing their property to an overzealous government and the government looking to revitalize slums and economically stunted areas, the need for a cohesive eminent domain policy is the one thing both sides agree on.
Constitutional Influence
Early versions of the Takings clause were originally written by James Madison, a Framer of the Constitution. Madison was inspired by the English practices of condemnation, where it was recognized that sovereignty had the right to take property in the face of public urgency. Compensation added as an inherent ideal based on fairness, not law. Madison changed the Takings clause to add a limitation of compensation. By doing so, he recognized what most people assumed was the government’s preexisting right to appropriate property, and he also limited the extent of that power by promising an individual recompense for land lost.
Madison greatly upheld the theory of government right to appropriate property in cases of public exigency and with compensatory limitations (26)#. When he applied such a theory to the Takings Clause, he outlined the need to limit the inherent right of a government to take property for public necessity with the just compensation addendum. By adding the just compensation clause, Madison insured property owners the certain protection against losing all value of property, even in the event of a seizure of that land.
These Constitutional limitations have changed in their original purpose to keep eminent domain in check. As public debate rages over the ambiguity of the wording, the original intent to award citizens for land lost and to ensure property rights otherwise has been eroded. The battle to put definitive meaning on the Takings clause is the crux of eminent domain. Until the terms public use and just compensation are definitely defined, the meaning of eminent domain evolves and changes in a manner that is unlike what it started out as. The Constitutional influence on eminent domain is huge, as it is the Constitutional clause that both gives government their power and limits them.
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[01 May 2006|12:49pm] |
Okay, so. Obviously I should be attempting my Shaping a Life final exam paper right now, instead of updating LJ. But let's be honest--things like that? Don't happen. I never forsake LJ for educational obligation...that's just crazy talk and I won't hear any more out of you about it.
Anyyyyways...
Well, this weekend was a blur. A good blur, but a blur nonetheless. I went to staff party Thursday night, and as soon as I got there, I was pretty much drinking whatever I could get my hands on. According to various sources, however, I was a cheery enough drunk. Very, very drunk--but cheery. Loving. Repetitive. Gullible. But funny as hell, if Jayasri's stories tell me anything (and I do have to rely on the stories, because I honestly remember very little.) so that's good, I guess. Then Friday night, me, Cheech, Cait, Dan, Deena, and George all went out to eat. We stopped along the way to swipe some alcs at the liquor store, it's so good to have someone 21 or older around. :D Then I caught a bus to the train station to pick up Jon, we hauled it to Rutgersfest, and--
God, did it suck.
Listen. I wasn't too keen on RUfest anyways...mainly just using it as an excuse to drink. I got there drunk and it STILL sucked. I did however come to the conclusion that once you're and IDIA member, you can never get far away enough from it. I saw Neelesh, Jen, Francis, Kay, Tanya, Muf, Coryn...it was like a staff party, except with puke bins and EMTS! After seeing Common preach about god and bogus wifeys, we went back to the dorm and started our second round of the day. THAT was fun. I loved hanging with Suz, Kyle, and Jon. Just a cozy, small party...with more booze to go around. :D I sound like a total lush. I'm not. This is the most I've drunk in a space of three days, ever. So, yeah. NOT an alkie, no matter what Kay may think.
Saturday was Folk Festival, and after dropping Jon off, it was again, IDIA members up the wazoo. Dozie (who ditched me!!!) Romo, Sam, Janelle, Taly, Sheila, and Darren...I can understand them all being there--but all at virtually the same time?! Lols, to borrow Jay's expression. I made some small talk, lay out in the sun, then went back to the dorm. Me, Laura, and Megan made it back around 6 and ate some delish food while the sun set a bit. It was chill, and restful. I had a lot of fun and got daaaarkkerrr.
My weekend in a nutshell. Now I must get on my soapbox. So I do smoke. Occasionally. And I do drink. Occasionally. What I don't understand is why it's so outlandish for ME to do it as opposed to other people. Do I have "Good Girl" stamped on my forehead? I may act shyer and more reserved now, but people who bother to get to know me KNOW that's not true. All the descriptions of me as a drunk? That's how I'm described back home, lol...completely sober. I mean, I don't change that much, and I don't get why it's such a shock that I may want to light up and toss a few back sometimes. Other girls do it, and they're considered "hot" for doing so. I do it, and it's all, "That's not good for you Ruchi, condescend condescend condescend." Go preach to the chick in the miniskirt lighting a Camel and drinking shot after shot, then maybe I'll listen to you, too.
Sorry. It's just a little annoying being pigeonholed, and no one reads this anyways. I just wish I weren't seen as so different from your average college co-ed, because I'm not. Aside from the promiscious sex, I do all the same shit--skip class, giggle about guys, get drunk, socially smoke even though technically I've quit, etc. etc.
Ehh. Shaping a Life calls with a siren's voice. If I get four pages of USD done tmrw morning, maybe I'll go to IDIA softball, too. We'll see.
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[24 Apr 2006|10:15pm] |
So, RMC was fun. I don't know how to start an entry like this, but yeah, that's how it'll go.
I now understand what everyone means when they say the conference is so amazing as a staff, too. I mean...I don't think I've ever had as much fun, or been as cool with not getting any sleep. Andrew was so fantastically nice and efficient even though I made a lot of blunders, and our committee PWNED! Our room was the Asian Room, which was the funniest thing ever. I got to know Kay, Olivia, and Janelle a bit better, and Jayasri also, of course, lol. She's probably the most twisted, crazy brown girl I know, which rocks hardcore. I felt like I made a lot of friends, and even those I didn't get to talk to, I'm just glad I got to share this weekend with. I'm sad the seniors are leaving after my very first conference and am SO grateful to Anthony and Taly for giving me the chance to be involved.
In other news, I now have so much work to do. I have the rep as a drunk among most EVERYONE now thanks to last night, lol, and in retrospect, maybe I should have done homework instead of drinking a huge bottle of Pepsi and strawberry vodka. But whatever. You only live once.
...HAHA FOOLED YOU. I'm Indian, so I actually get reincarnated! Harharhar.
Ummmm anyways. I'm gonna go and clean my room, it's just this side of disgusting right now. Much love to all.
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[30 Mar 2006|10:23am] |
/you think you know...what you are...what's to come. it hasn't even begun./
fuck. ive been up for 24 continuous hours. and im actually subtracting the collective two hours of napping i did here and there.
im going to fail my astro exam tonight.
i may very well fail astro as a whole.
courtney and sam are coming to visit friday (i think) and it shall be fun.
the 'wedding' is friday too. that shall be interesting. wine, yum.
i haven't been in my room for more than an hour in the past day.
my ear hurts.
i want to shower but i fear leaving this spot b/c then i will lose any knowledge i may have retained these past 9 hours.
I JUST SPENT 9 HOURS IN THE FUCKING LOUNGE
listening to bad 90's music while i tiptapped away on my laptop.
jon's bday is tmrw. i <3 him so much, the crazy kid, i wish i could see him soon.
john stephan does not exist anymore outside of myspace i guess.
cellphones do exist for something other than texting.
ive given up on the male race.
model congress dance thingie on saturday night, very excited.
my nose is itchy, if i scratch though, people will think im picking it.
shaping a mother fucking dyke sucks a twat. HAH.
i may go see dan row this weekend, im not sure. id sure love to cuz i havent seen him row yet, but saturday's busy.
i hate confrontations.
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[24 Mar 2006|11:19am] |
I'm having a lot of trouble lately reconciling the me-I-thought-I'd-be in college, and the me-no-one-thought-I'd-be-but-I-sorta-am in college.
Like on one hand, there's Ms. Care About Her Grades and Do Her Work and Not Get Involved in Nefarious Activities. I was a fuckin' saint in high school. The only time I practically ever touched alcohol was the three nights in junior year that me and Chris (but mostly Chris) drank all the beer in my garage. No promiscuous sex for me, because hey--I don't need to tell you how my luck with the opposite sex gors. And I was always in before curfew, if I ever went anywhere, because my mother was an insane, freaky, strange woman.
Now, I'm Ms. Grades What Grades, There Goes Tuition, ADEPS Again?, I'm Not an Alcoholic I Swear! I failed a midterm and subsequently dropped the class. I'm straddling the C/D bench for physics, I have a paper due on Monday I haven't even STARTED worth half my grade in US Politics, and hello, procastination, you're my new best buddy. I don't drink too often (really!!!!) but when I do, admittedly, maybe I don't know when to stop. I've been bent over the proverbial porcelain throne a few too many times. Promiscuous sex? Hahahaha...still a no go. My mom? Fuck her curfews, I don't even CALL anymore.
So, like, what happened to the 3.5 GPA-having, lots of fun-having, shower-ever-day-taking girl I was supposed to be?
So, did anyone know Terry Schiavo has a blog? durrr.blogspot.com
I miss my friends. I miss Chris the most, and I know Jon's gonna shoot me for saying so when he reads this (if he reads it) but no matter how often I talk to Chris or see him, I still feel like we're hardly even friends anymore. I miss how he used to hit me (thats gotta say something about my psyche, I just dont know what) and I miss how whenever we were around, most everyone else felt left out, 'cause it was pretty obvious that WE were best friends. I miss how he took care of me when I needed it, and how he always told me I could cheer him up when no one else could. I miss how he was Penis and I was Vag or Gup Gup, and I miss Bod for Men and Maroon 5 every Tuesday and Thursday morning. I miss sneaky nights on my porch or Bawls and bowling, or watching him KICK ASS as Tony and knowing, "Hey, that kid and I never even talked to much a year ago, and now I can't imagine us not being friends." Back then, we actually TALKED on the phone. We hung out all the time. It was HOPPsquared. Him, Jill, me and Jon.
I miss that. Now, I talk to him online here and there, but we don't have much to say, I guess. And it seems whenever we wanna hang out, it never happens. It's tough going to two different schools with different friends and no money between the both of you. I love you, penis, and miss you tons. :(
But, on a happier note, I saw John and Care when I was home. Aimee S-dizzle, too! And of course, my lovely Gina. I loved hanging out with them. John, poor slut, he's so abused. The only reason I say I don't miss HIM the most is because the stupid kid never IMS ANYONE BACK. Nah, it was nice seeing him all abused again. It was also nice being home for a lttle while, at least. I was gonna visit the school, but I'm not sure the fake smiles and 'hey we missed you''s are for me.
Jon needs to get his bosom and his blonde-haired self down here. I can't wait until he's all tanned again, then maybe we'll be gold and brown, instead of white and brown. That only makes sense to me and him, doesn't it? Hahaha.
Operation SB is going quite well, thanks. Not quite rounding second base yet, but it's a healthy run towards first!
Umm, theres not much else to add. This was melancholy, but ruminative.
VOCAB GIVE ME A STICKER BITCHKITTY.
What do you all miss about high school? Or for those still in it, what do you miss about those who've left? ;)
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[13 Mar 2006|11:42pm] |
dear lj
here is my advice to you after finding out the hard way
if there is something you wish to say that is extremely private, do not friendslock the entry expecting it to stay a secret just because your 'very bestest friends' will read it. because it WILL NOT HELP to friendslock WHEN YOU HAVE 238574783847484 MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDS. all of who live in the same town or go to the same school and know the same people you know.
also, heres an idea. don't use real names. because guess what? the internet? open to EVERYONE. and there are people who are truly dicks and will let people who arent on your friendlist read your 'private supersecret' entries. so then you're screwed and the people you drag into the discussion are screwed and hello, why the fuck cant you just grow up and not be so damn NEW EGYPTIAN.
one of my favorite things about leaving home is that im not privy to all the gossip. like i love hearing stuff and going, 'omg she'sPREGNANT, really what a whore' or 'dude she got FAT cause she drinks herself into stupors' or 'whaaaaattt syphillis AND herpes? damn!' but on the other hand, i am so glad i dont have to hear that shit 24/7. also, that im not the center of such gossip. is new egypt that dead that you have to shit on other people's lives to entertain yourself? ok scratch that, it is that dead.
the question is are you so fucking IMMATURE that you have to drag other people into YOUR shit just to overdramatize your own life and make yourself feel better?
i dunno, im tired of the politics, even though im not directly involved. i love gina though, because we have a good laugh about things like that. she was great fun and my favoritest neighbor ever.
i do
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[10 Mar 2006|02:51am] |
I have to get up in...
5 hours and 20 minutes.
For my ADAPs appointment. Where I will go, lie about my drinking habits, and be safely declared NOT an alcoholic. Stupid fucking ADAPs. It's a load of bull.
I lost la mia mamma's telefoni, too. So the old gal's gonna be pissed at me. OH, speaking of angry+italian language...I failed my 102 midterm today. Yeah. Not for lack of skill, mind you. Lack of time, I spent a bit too long daydreaming instead of, you know, midterming during the test, I guess. So I'm taking the W, I think, even though for all intents and purposes, I should take the W for Astro and Cosmo.
Sigh. This is just toughness personified. College sucks academically, right now.
I SAW ANTHONY RAPP.
That definitely made my year, at least. I met him, and touched him, and heard him speak, and it was worth every second spent in line with my textbooks and rabid stressing. I met two wonderful people there, Micheal and Katie, so hopefully I see them again soon. Katie is Carolyn Bembridge Incarnate, and Micheal is the cutest, most nattily dressed jailbait I've ever met. They made my week better.
On the party front, I went to the HR party last Friday. Four jello shots, two rum and cokes, and some tame LIT, but I was sober as a whistle. (albeit, a slightly drunk whistle, but...) I paced myself. It was cool to see RMC people on the party scene, and I'm starting to feel more comfortable for sure....Andrew has some hella wicked ideas for PC, so this year's gonna be the best yet! (I swear.) The RMC quasi-formal is coming up and I get to get dressed up and hit the Hyatt up! W00t. Happiness for that.
Spring break's tommorrow and my cell is broken. If you need me, call my home phone number...those of you who know me know it. Those of you who want it, leave a message and I'll answer (most likely).
Okay, sleep? Commence...now.
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[12 Feb 2006|11:41pm] |
So, what's the news, LJ? I'm mighty tired of not hearing from anyone in New Egypt...but the few I do hear from are golden. Pina is <3 so go say hello to her, right now. Please and thanks.
Hmm, what's going on in la vie de Ruchi? Classes...big thumbs down to those. Majority are uninteresting (Women in American History II) uneducational (Development of US II) and TOO DAMN HARD (Italian 102)...and Shaping a Life? I won't dignify it with a comment.
Got two papers and an exam coming up, but I find my time is spent downloading Grey's Anatomy. Good show, addictive, and hello...I have a horrifying attention span.
Also! RMC. I am smilng right now just writing this...I made staff! Despite some sort of disease taking over me and making me a wallflower to the tenth degree at meetings, I was even asked to AD! Hell yeah! I'm really excited and this Saturday's session was nowhere near as bad as I feared it would be...I still didn't talk, but I did meet a few people here and there. Hopefully I loosen up as time goes on...shy Ruchi, who would have thought?
I have decided to abstain from drinking. Seriously. I made a decision and I will stick to it. Seriously. Don't look at me like that, okay? I will not drink anymore. Nothing good ever comes of it, I am the magnet for bad drunk experiences. So I won't drink anymore.
Okay, okay. Maybe just a little.
Nothing too happenin' in my life, I regretfully say. I need to make some new friends because it is beginning to become crystal clear that the majority of my BESTFRIENDZ4EVA are heading down their own paths and it's how it should be, of course, but yeah. No one wants to have to say au revoir to buddies you have had for five years. Oh well.
So, I'm off to do some italian, and let's see....stay classy, LJ!
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[01 Feb 2006|02:50am] |
Hmm, I guess the chords of nostalgia just struck me today.
Facebook is the coolest. I found half my elementary school friends and it's the only way I remember anyone's birthday. Also, I joined tons of fun new groups, some of them being 'Rutgers Squirrels are the Minions of Satan' and 'Stop Poking Me! I don't even know you!' It was a great experience. I feel privileged to be a part of such outstanding forums.
I also rifled through my high school pictures. I really miss those good old days. Drama is certainly less now, but I sort of miss the adrenaline. And lord almighty, we were hot kids! Mwahaha. I love the pictures of me and Jon and Chris the best, I miss hanging with them. Just being silly, you know. Those are the best times.
This weekend NJ Transit is the big GOOSE EGG so me and Suzan and the Cirello twins are trekkin' to the city with Johnny (maybe) to see Chris and just have a good time. Maybe we'll visit Tequilas again, but APRES 7 thanks...cuz drinks are expensive, dude.
Suzan is doing abs of steel right now. How odd. I do feel lulled by the nightly ritual, however. I really ought to start doing some goddamn homework, but that's what tommorrow morning is for. As long as I wake up at 11, I'm golden. Italiano esame, wtf am I doing taking another language, especially when I miss french more than my soul. Je suis triste sans toi, francais. Je te manque.
Anyways. Boys. Yes, well, I've decided that my love life is hopeless. I continue to attract bad spellers and thugs. The thug thing would be cool if he was a poet at heart, but all I'm getting is 'yo mami you hott' and shit like that. I am not your mommy, bitches. STFU.
I need to update more, but with what? There is always something new happening, but do you care? Hmm.
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[15 Jan 2006|01:57pm] |
when the lj updates rain, they pour...survey time for the sverely bored
10 things you didn't know about me.
10. i sometimes pinch my nose to see what it'd be like differently shaped. okay, i do that a lot.
9. when i'm looking in the mirror for a quick makeup check, i'm actually making love to my reflection.
8. i make up words (syllable sounds, really) and randomly shout them very loud when i'm all alone
7. i sometimes IM myself and laugh because i think its funny
6. i dream all the time about being trapped in houses or corporate buildings with some unknown entity chasing me...but secretly, the chase thrills me
5. i used to make out with my pillow (he was my first, and very illicit, love) before someone told me it was unhygienic
4. i hate feet with a passion unrivaled by anything
3. babies hate me. its a fact.
2. i'm sometimes immeasurably scared i will die unmarried...but then i think that marriage isn't such a picnic either
1. i feel loneliest in crowds, and love tete-a-tete's.
9 ways to win my heart
9. make me laugh. like really laugh, fall-out-my-chair, wet-my-pants laughter, bonus points for dry wit. only one boy has ever done that to me before and i still think he is the perfect man. unfortunately, he is a fictional character.
8. dont hold it against me that i tend to love fictional characters.
7. IM me as soon as you come on
6. don't make me feel/look/think i'm stupid
5. call me even though it's possible that men actually genetically despise the telephone
4. let me wear your clothes, but never make me ask for them
3. write me a note. i like notes.
2. pretend you dont notice that my family is made up of nutjobs
1. be a little more touchy-feely...girls are tactile beings, dontcha know. only...be touchy-feely with ME, not with the chick in row 3.
8 places i've visited
8. disney world
7. india
6. los angeles
5. washington d.c
4. new york city
3. pittsburgh, pa (okay, i lived there...)
2. harrisburg, pa
1. philadelphia
7 things i want to do before i die
7. james marsters or nicholas brendan (hey. i can dream)
6. get stunned speechless (hasnt happened yet)
5. backpack across europe
4. stay in a five-star hotel suite complete with a concierge and hot tub, champagne and strawberries
3. drive. own a house. cook. be independent.
2. have someone i don't know tell me i'm incredible
1. write a classic
6 things i believe in
6. ghosts
5. the pursuit of happiness
4. the power of romance
3. the power of makeup in the field of romance
2. my best friends' dreams
1. fate
5 things im afraid of
5. spiders, bees, wasps, bugs in general
4. rejection
3. painful death (i.e airplane crashes, car crashes, someone ramming me in the face with a knife)
2. never changing
1. a boring life
4 of my favorite things in my room
4. my bed
3. the pictures all over my walls
2. my junior year prom dress that steph and sarah helped pick out
1. my bookshelf
3 things i do everyday
3. sleep (anywhere, really, it's a skill)
2. eat (everything, really. it's also a skill)
1. breathe (although sometimes i hold my breath for the hell of it)
2 things i'm trying not to do
2. spend money (uhh fat chance)
1. skip class (hah! we shall see)
1 person I want to see right now
1. eh live in suspense why dont you?
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[15 Jan 2006|12:53pm] |
I still have this?
Really?
Wowzers.
Too much has happened to give a detailed synopsis. And I'm sure not too many of you care. Uhhh. Hmm. Let's see. I went on a trip to India recently. Yep, the motherland, was sorta cool, albeit dusty and oh, yeah--third world. But other than that, the lack of entertainment, the shoddy toilets, and my insatiable hunger for pizza (OMG PIZZA) it was dandy. The shopping was great. I had a lot of fun, actually, so take this entry with a grain of salt.
I got my grades back...booyah to the naysayers, w00t w00t, I missed Dean's List by a hair, a hair named LO and I'll be damned if I ever take that class again because I was robbed of my A. ROBBED. All because I never went to class and still got A's on the exams. Bitch. *eta* Can I say, if you're going to brag about your GPA to me for lengthy periods of time, make sure that a) your college is actually, you know, statistically more difficult than mine, b) you're not an asshole that I don't even like talking to in normal circumstances much less in terms of grades, and c) you actually GOT a higher GPA.
Idiots. Yes, grades are a sore point.
Anyhoo, yeah, so not much in the works. New classes, should be fun. Nervous about the italiano, apathetic bout the anthro, excited for lit across borders (IF I get in) and the litany of other classes is to be decided tommorrow. I will see.
Umm. I dunno, my journals are usually for venting or ranting, but I'm just sort of languid right now. Not much happening. New Egypt is still New Egypt. I love it, but my life here is pretty much stale. Friends, eh. Family, UGH. So, who knows. Let's hope RU gets better.
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[10 Nov 2005|09:54pm] |
...
Eeee.
I'm so happy right now. Dunno why, I'm sure this will end soon. But right now...
Squee.
;)
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[04 Nov 2005|03:40am] |
I had a bad day.
But that's alright, because for once, I didn't wallow. I talked to Johnny for a bit, and he cheered me right up. My best friend is amazing.
Speaking of. Is Christopher Jones alive? Seriously. I have only said PENIS and UGHHH like in passing...I am going through HOPP withdrawl. I need them to sneak into my house and leave me empty starbucks cups again. Plz.
I came across old diaries. Omg. SO FUNNY.
I had to share an exerpt, because I know no one will believe me:
( Dear Diary, )
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ROTFLMAO!
OMG. HAHAHA. There is so much more from where that came from. SO MUCH. Especially as the years went on. I cannot believe how retarded I am. TEN POINTS TO WHOEVER GUESS WHO THE CUTE BOY I SPOKE OF IS. Lol! I really, honest-to-god talked like that.
And I totally dressed awesome too. Oh yeah, hawaiian shirts, long capri khakis, those clunky sandals. The super-me tshirt, the long skirts, the hideous oversized sweaters and turtlenecks. Oh yes. I was a fashion plate in middle school.
HOW DID I HAVE FRIENDS?
I have a mission...leave me a comment saying your first impression of me, and how it has changed for the better or worse. Either that or a really great memory you wanna share:)
OH NOSTALGIA.
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[24 Oct 2005|01:13am] |
It's been five months since I've seen your lovely faces, New Egypt...and I gotta say, I think I can wait five months more for some of you...
But for others, the ones I shared this weekend with, I can't wait for Thanksgiving to roll around because I really did have a blast with you guys...I forget how I took for advantage seeing my everyday high school friends all the time...when I saw Aimee and Miguel, I almost screamed with happiness. Leon? I miss that kid more than life...even if he is really really really mean to me, lol. Vicky and I hung out alot and I saw my brother Christopher and his amazing family quite a bit.
Of course John Stephan the Drunko was hilarious...but I did miss Gina and Jon TOO MUCH. Jerks. :(
I did love seeing my lj-buddy CKuey...I took these pics for people like her, who know how to have fun WHILE documenting it all...I don't remember some of these pics being taken, surprisingly enough...The party was really fun, some of these people drunk are an experience...Eddie peer-pressured me into Southern Comfort after two Bud Lights and a shot or two of vodka...so I felt it the morning after. But the party itself was great, right down to the huge chorus of "RUCHI GOES TO HARVARD" from Ashley Braskett, who is sweet and very convincing trying to get me more drunk (I totally almost just stayed, but Chris would've been piissssssed. And John was annoying enough about it, lol.) ...speaking of, the trip to 7-11 afterwards was craziness...All in all, this weekend was not too disappointing. Hopefully next time is just as great.
I do have pictures, I know that's why you're all here...
( Brown does it better...in bed )
Hope you guys enjoyed the glimpse into that night...the pics don't do it justice...but it was amazing. Thanks for a great time, Patti and Ash, ahaha...Love you, New Egypt.
I guess I sort of have to. :D
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[19 Oct 2005|08:07pm] |
dunno what to write here but thought id update it for the benefit of the few who read it...
feeling generally kicked in the ass lately, just when i think im finally done there it goes, another royal punch in the face. i am KOed.
not exactly sure how to phrase it so i dont sound like a retard, but ever wish you could keep your old life without keeping your old life? i love NE and high school and the times i had there but like everyone said people change, times change, shit happens. i am tired of holding onto that life with both hands and drowning right alongside it. maybe its time i dived into the one here at rutgers but im really scared to float without the kids who have been my lifepreservers for five years.
enough with the water metaphors.
im hungry and i smoked a cig and i should eat b/c otherwise i will have that gross stale taste in my mouth and an empty stomach. but not feeling motivated. losing weight is the plus to this but the added laziness is a minus, and as i was never good at math im not sure how that evens out.
friday looks like its gonna be the bane of my existence. how awkward is feeling like you dont belong in the place you miss more than anything? yes i miss high school, sue me. theres a party afterwards and it seems cool...i like that everyones friends now and so chill...it would be cool to go. the football game, ehh, i dunno, we'll see how cool THAT one is.
oh wait. i forgot. theres a good chance i cant even go home. i dont have a place to stay. im a vagrant. like roscoe.
sometimes my life seems like way too much of an effort.
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[16 Oct 2005|03:09pm] |
I tooled around in PS, tell me what you think of the new layout. C'est tres triste, je pense...mais je l'aime. Anyways...what's new?
So bored, trolling LJ. Homecoming is in a week, very exciting stuff, I guess, don't know if I wanna go after all, though. Lots of people aren't, but I do wanna see my friends, so who knows. We'll see, if anything, maybe I'll go for a little while and then persuade people to do stuff. Gina, I have to call you, friend...also, I think I left my jacket in your car.
Yes, the spiffy Gina and Ben picked me and Suzan up at PJ, and we proceeded to get lost trying to get to Rider U. We eventually got there, had an okay time, now I'm back and it's all good.
I'd tell a long, convoluted story about how fun it was and stuff, but really...it wasn't. I mean, for a little while it was, but then I got drunker, and eh...I don't even know who I am drunk. A whole other person, maybe. Don't remember much, but I'm sure I annoyed everyone lots again. Gotta stick with the water, dudes. Or else drink someplace good.
I love school. Autumn makes it so gorgeous...brick buildings, beautiful leaves, people in snazzy fall jackets. It's a great ambiance. I just said ambiance. I should be shot. I also have picspam, if you'd like.
( These are the nights you could never forget...even if you wanted to. )
Not much more to say, I have homework to do and errands to run. Leave one I guess...
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