Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! i went to my high school friend, Pat's (not roommate Pat) house for a little get together. saw some friends, reminisced, had some laughs, etc. it was a good time. but still, i miss my chicago friends...
January 1, 2003 @ 10:37 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
back in black
back in chicago, excited to see my roommates and all of my other friends. not excited for classes or rush. stupid meghan and her being-done-with-class-ness. tonight a bunch of us are seeing chicago at the century theatre, then probably going...
January 4, 2003 @ 9:42 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
I'M FREE!!!!
rush is finally over. oh thank god. so here i am, a week later and behind in all my classes. i've been averaging about 4.5 hours of sleep a night, and last night i only got 2. i stayed up...
January 14, 2003 @ 9:42 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
cyber-paranoia
so it's always a debate for me how much to reveal in these postings. why? a) internet stalkers, b) my life isn't that exciting, c) i think my mom reads this (hi mom!). so we'll leave it at this. yesterday...
January 17, 2003 @ 9:40 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
did i have a good time?
i think the party last night went well. i say "think" because i spent most of it hiding in my room. i was totally NOT in the mood for a party, plus i took one of my sisters downstairs to...
January 19, 2003 @ 9:39 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
laundry list
freaking out about my 2 religion classes. how will i ever catch up? how will i write two papers next weekend? how will i ever know what to write about?! ack! luckily, tonight is holly's 22nd birthday party at las...
January 23, 2003 @ 9:35 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
uh oh
i think i'm actually getting more panicked about my religion classes. i think the panic escalated around the time i realized i have two papers due in a week. of course right now i'm....procrastinating as usual. actually considering procrastinating in...
January 26, 2003 @ 9:34 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
tengwar
i have once again proved my lifetime membership in the sacred order of nerdity: yesterday i identified the etymology of tengwar (elvish to you non-nerds out there...i just keep getting lamer and lamer) and today i identified a quote from...
January 28, 2003 @ 9:31 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
lotr!
so last night we watched lotr: the two towers at our apartment. a bootleg of course. it was pretty decent...lots of artifacting and funky sound, but still all the hotness you can handle....or can you? oh, there was also a...
January 29, 2003 @ 9:31 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i'll do that later...
ah, procrastination. i am the master. so far i've watched charlie's angels (+special features), downloaded pics of elijah wood, checked my email about 35 times and balanced my checkbook. yep, those papers are just writing themselves. i have this weird...
January 31, 2003 @ 9:27 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
speshul
today is my special day! well, one of them anyway. today is the 21st anniversary of the day i came to america. i celebrated with japanese pan noodles from noodles & company and "the recruit." mmm...colin farrell. oh yes. the...
February 4, 2003 @ 9:26 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
oh god, i'm lame
i can't help but notice that i've mentioned the lord of the rings at least one in my last four posts. you might ask yourself, is lord of the rings all that this kid watches? and the answer would be...yes....
February 6, 2003 @ 9:24 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
if it's not one thing...
so board games at kate's was super fun. i kicked ass at scattergories and then eric kicked ass at trivial pursuit. going home was overwhelmingly wonderful and i didn't want to come back. for my mini-welcome home dinner my mom...
February 11, 2003 @ 9:23 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i heart you
happy valentine's day! this morning the roommates and i went to see daredevil. it was lots of fun and ben affleck and jennifer garner were totally hot, but it was pretty short (1.5 hrs) and the dialogue was a little...
February 14, 2003 @ 9:21 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i will never have an affair
i skipped class today and watched 'unfaithful' with meghan. i will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever have an affair. if i didn't already know it, this movie convinced me. yikes. so i finished reading 'the fellowship of the ring'...
February 18, 2003 @ 9:20 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
who knew?
so it turns out that brendan fraser has a pretty interesting website. don't ask why i was looking. anyway, there is a link to pianographique and it's so much fun. definitely something to kill time. tonight is the b-day party...
February 21, 2003 @ 9:19 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
ugh
tomorrow morning is registration. let's hope that since i finally have the first enrollment appointment, i actually get all the classes i want. i spent way too much time online last night looking up interesting webpages. moodstats here i come!...
February 24, 2003 @ 9:18 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
new slogans
yay! eric just showed me how to fix my html so i don't have to save the long way. hooray! meghan, eric, jon & i went to see 'old school' tonight. it was fucking amazing (just for you eric, just...
February 27, 2003 @ 9:17 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
Happy Birthday!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGHAN!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY OZZIE!!! i got meghan 'XXX' for her birthday. there is a featurette called 'diesel powered' lol! i can't wait to watch it! we went to chili's for dinner and ate SO MUCH and drank, well,...
February 28, 2003 @ 9:16 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
paging mr. smuckles
ozzie's birthday party was off the heazy for sheazy, as the kids say these days. it was downtown at iggy's, a martini bar with excellent food. everyone looked great too! lots of eye candy - a perk of working in...
March 2, 2003 @ 6:11 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
happy birthday to me! sort of.
today is my six month birthday! yay! but today only 4 people are in the office. jon, kate, muon, and me. all alone. sad. but tonight is the sex toys party at the house and it should be fun. woo...
March 4, 2003 @ 6:09 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
pink with ruffles AND strapless
so today fran and i went to old orchard (because although i have two final papers due on friday, it was clear that i might as well make it a shut-out weekend for productivity) to look for a dress for...
March 9, 2003 @ 6:09 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
end of quarter crunch time
one paper down, one to go! then i'll only have printmaking to worry about. three days to finish my portfolio...think it can happen? it'll have to. i went to the art store to get paper today, but they were out...
March 13, 2003 @ 6:07 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
originally this was dated as the 15th...
ok, so it's technically the 16th, but it's only 12:28, so i say it counts as saturday still. meghan and i just got back from the bbq. it was awesome. started at 5, ended at midnight. brats, hot dogs, hamburgers,...
March 16, 2003 @ 12:28 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
all hail the student discount
what the fuck?! what the hell is this?! anyway - erin's going away party was awesome and the karaoke was great. i am officially done with winter quarter classes and couldn't be happier about it. today i called a bunch...
March 19, 2003 @ 6:05 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
bear with me
dude, 'spider' is a creepy movie. really creepy. any movie where the lead actor who is getting paid mad bank (i'm hip....i'm with it....) and only has 3 comprehensible lines has to be weird. but it was a good weird....
March 20, 2003 @ 6:04 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
drinking game
ok i feel much better than i did 2 days ago. i'm feeling a little stressed about the film, but other than that i'm ok. i'm on the 3rd disc of 'Six Feet Under' and it is so amazingly good....
March 22, 2003 @ 6:03 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i love vacation!
the academy awards went more than well. my faith in the academy has been restored with the announcement of adrian brody as this year's best actor. i was so happy i actually jumped up and down and yelled. plus, i...
March 25, 2003 @ 6:00 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
mmm
last night meghan, eric, mike, and i went downtown to the green mill to see kurt elling play. ok, we didn't really see much of him, but we could hear plenty. it was super! meghan and i got there later...
March 27, 2003 @ 5:59 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i'm going home!
today i go home for the weekend! dad's picking me up in about half an hour. then it's good food and my piano all weekend. good thing i'm going home because so far this weekend looks pretty crappy weather-wise. it's...
March 28, 2003 @ 5:56 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
...and i'm back
this weekend was great! i played the piano whenever i wasn't sleeping or eating or at a family function which was...well, not as often as i would've liked. but i practiced some chopin and managed to keep my mom up...
March 30, 2003 @ 5:55 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
a new quarter
whew! first day of class and i'm exhausted and it's only...well, i guess it's midnight, but whatever. i was up at annenberg for ipc 20 minutes early this morning, then got let out early so i went to norris and...
March 31, 2003 @ 5:54 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i'm a doofus
i just had this weak epiphany that i don't need to sign my posts. because i'm pretty sure you all know who is writing these. so no more name stuff! i'm also thinking that my next version of this site...
April 2, 2003 @ 5:53 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
my bum hurts
if you couldn't tell, the first couple weeks of class have been really busy. my schedule is going to kick my ass. good news: anal/perf is going well and everyone seemed to really like my personal narrative performance. today kate,...
April 12, 2003 @ 5:50 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
pat will be awesome
this morning i got up early and went to the post office to pick up the package that josh sent to me (really, himself) that's a gift for (shh!) meghan. who i hope isn't reading this before he gives it...
April 15, 2003 @ 12:21 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
weirdest easter ever
the shoot was AMAZING! it went so well, kate and i actually experienced afterglow. ok, maybe it wasn't that good, but we finished on schedule and even squeezed in some extra shots. we stayed on the jib the entire day...
April 20, 2003 @ 12:20 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
eric -vs- ....everyone
i managed to piss the whole weekend away, hanging out with my friends. which really isn't a waste at all, it's just not as productive as working on compositing or my poetry performance which is TODAY for chrissake. crap. i...
April 22, 2003 @ 12:19 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
happy birthday andrew!
my poetry performance was ok. whatever. it's over. wednesday at work i almost got my eye with a sheath of papers as i was bending over to get something out of my bag. that's for you, andrew. :) andrew's birthday...
April 27, 2003 @ 12:17 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
and then there was one
'identity' was, indeed scary, but between mike and my theories, we pretty much had the movie figured out by the halfway mark. tonight we're going to see 'x2' and i am SO EXCITED!!!! everyone says how awesome it is, and...
May 3, 2003 @ 12:13 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
what're you doing? ....stuff.
man, i've got to start updating this more often. this week i did a lot of nothing. well, not really, but i was sleepy most of the time so i ended up taking a lot of naps. friday i got...
May 11, 2003 @ 12:12 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
jim, am i going to die?
mike and eric, those lucky bastartds, are on their way to l.a. for e3 to try out video games and have fun and merriment in the land of sun and parties and earthquakes and landslides and flash floods and plastic...
May 13, 2003 @ 12:10 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i'm a nerd.
right now it's midnight. where am i? that's right! WORK. i have just finished making 6 mark overlays for our promo commercials. oh boy. further proof of my nerdity (besides making up words like 'nerdity'): i'm tired today...er, tonight. know...
May 15, 2003 @ 12:09 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
so so close
ok, so obviously i've been extremely busy in the past month, and specifically the past week. i'm busy onlining 'the caseys' and finishing up classes. graduation is in less than 3 weeks and my last final ever is tomorrow. after...
June 3, 2003 @ 10:30 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
and done
all of the posts from my previous site have been moved over. the only thing that isn't up are the pop-up windows about the calvin & hobbes quotes and etc. these might....never....be put up. who knows. today my parents and...
June 29, 2003 @ 11:04 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
oh great
walking to the el it wasn't raining. when i got on the el it wasn't raining. when i got off the el it was pouring and i had 5 blocks to walk in my white tshirt and no umbrella because...
July 7, 2003 @ 9:26 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
can't...do...it...
office is going to summer hours - starting at 9am instead of 10am. it's killing me. i was just getting into the work-every-day pattern, and now a proverbial monkey wrench has been thrown. plus i have to get used to...
July 8, 2003 @ 9:30 AM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
with only my nerdiness to comfort me...
my plan to get more sleep has failed. i was up half the night with a stomach ache somewhere between "i want to throw up" and "why does it feel like someone is reaching under my ribcage and squeezing my...
July 10, 2003 @ 5:33 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i forgot...
i forgot - tuesday a ton of terrible things happened electrical storms knock out all of our web service's customers except for us. until they fix all of those, then we have no outside net access. jon's computer freezes, erasing...
July 10, 2003 @ 5:49 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
what a bunch of bullshit
went to the d____ street fish market* specifically to get the only item i ever order from that restaurant: the blackened chicken sandwich. and: they're OUT OF CHICKEN. wtf. how are you out of chicken? that's like being out of...
July 28, 2003 @ 1:23 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
poop.
what a shit week. let's hope it gets better when the rents bring my new bed tomorrow after over a month without one. or when i get to go home this weekend and see my kitty. probably won't be that...
August 12, 2003 @ 10:52 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
the big 2-2
what do i want for my birthday (sept 4)? well, i'm glad you asked. in an effort to keep my family from complaining and to get my parents to buy stuff i want instead of just giving me money and...
August 28, 2003 @ 10:49 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
rain
it is not allowed to rain on national holidays where you get a day off of work to supposedly go to the beach and have a cookout and maybe swim and drink a lot of corona and eat too much...
September 1, 2003 @ 2:42 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
happy birthday september!
today is my birthday. i am 22. i am at work. this would be bad except that so far i'm doing some html/css which is my favorite. i hear homemade lasagna is in the forecast for tonight, plus maybe some...
September 4, 2003 @ 12:06 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
braaaaains
this 3-day long head ache better be due to something other than the fact that i spend at least 8 hours a day staring at a computer monitor. if that is the reason, i am basically screwed here....
September 10, 2003 @ 5:33 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
...and...relax!
ok, i have been reminded yet again that I-80 across iowa is THE WORST. thank god that's over. congrats to adam and jen on their wedding and rockin' reception! also that cake was so damn good. thanks to grandma for...
September 22, 2003 @ 12:13 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
sleeping pills + antidepressants + alcohol + cigarettes...and also maybe some cocaine
saw 'anything else' tonight, the new woody allen film with jason biggs and christina ricci. it was...awesome. the most impressive part was that jason biggs played the woody allen character SO WELL. eerie. also it made me feel better about...
October 7, 2003 @ 12:38 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
eric's birthday!
happy birthday eric! tonight we eat delicious cake and salmon (well, i won't be eating the salmon) and cookies and falafil (maybe)! ah, 24 years old - next year is the big quarter-century mark!...
October 11, 2003 @ 1:38 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
HURRY UP
stupid dvds are taking SO LONG to burn. like an hour each including verification. ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH. i want to go to pizza!!! mmm....bourbon balls....ahhhhhhhhhh...
October 15, 2003 @ 4:38 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
lately...
uh, thought i'd better update with something other than my baby panda obsession. lately i've been building a new website in css - got to do some fun javascript menus too, plus the movable type-driven News section. other than that...
October 30, 2003 @ 1:34 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
the land of flw
this weekend my aunt is in town for her birthday which is tomorrow. so tonight i went out to my cousin's house in oak park and we had a birthday dinner and opened presents and stuff. ah, relaxing to get...
November 9, 2003 @ 10:42 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
what about the turkey?!?
christmas/kwanzaa/chanukah/holidays in general/whatever should NOT be allowed to start before thanksgiving. let's give the turkey a chance! what about taking time for a nice national holiday, a nice nondenominational all-american let's all come together holiday, to think about what we...
November 18, 2003 @ 11:25 AM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
65?!?!?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!! see you tomorrow evening!...
November 25, 2003 @ 4:40 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
zzzzzzzzzz
head hurts....sleepy....want to go to bed....argh. btw - thanksgiving was great, had a great time and ate some awesome food that i didn't have to pay for. ahh yes. i've seen master and commander. twice. was even better the second...
December 4, 2003 @ 5:01 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
it tastes like burning
so the other morning at 6am the electrics (memphis belle? anyone? anyone?) in our ceiling fan shorted out, scaring the crap out of kate, who was sleeping on the couch, with it's loudness and burning smell-ness, etc. she left for...
December 6, 2003 @ 8:24 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
(whimper)
i feel awful. can feel my pulse in my brain. eyes exploding. might pass out. argh...
December 9, 2003 @ 9:49 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
so soon...
tomorrow i get on the train to go home for the second visit out of 3 within 6 weeks. yay! plus - an added bonus: trivial pursuit tournament! (as if getting to ride the train weren't exciting enough) also, oddly,...
December 10, 2003 @ 1:42 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
well...
well, the trivial pursuit tournament was awesome - but we didn't win...or place. it was HARD! tv themes that no one at our table had ever heard before, bizarro sports questions, airport abbreviations?? we did have a pretty high score...
December 15, 2003 @ 9:25 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i miss you guys!
so i just got home from my annual christmas get together with my lady friends from high school. maria, nicole, katie, and tiffany (and brian) are all doing ok - everyone basically has no idea what they are doing right...
December 24, 2003 @ 1:01 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
christmas!
yesterday we went to my cousin's wife's parents' house for soup and snacks. logan and caleb are so cute! they were wearing matching (but diff. colored) sweaters that also matched matt's (their dad). we had to leave before the brandy...
December 25, 2003 @ 10:59 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
leaky ball
ugh. ben - this is what happens when you squeeze your ball! ...
January 8, 2004 @ 2:39 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
vacation, in brief
so i promised some sort of trip update and...it's not going to happen. at least not in the multimedia-photo-and-laser-show sort of way i had hoped. later i'll maybe post some pics of the most beautiful sunset ever and me in...
January 12, 2004 @ 11:18 PM | 4 comments | 0 trackbacks
death? is that you?
here in the outer office we're used to all sorts of weird noises coming from the ceiling and the furnace/ac unit which is perched right outside our door. we're used to the screeching noise like a car peeling out that...
January 14, 2004 @ 12:13 PM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
my lungs!
kara: i just kept waking myself up with my coughing eric: maybe you can try the all night, sneezing, sniffling, coughing, stuffy head, so you can pass out medicine ...
January 23, 2004 @ 9:26 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
coughy
it all started with a doughnut. i inhaled the doughnut. it made my throat kind of raw and scratchy. i thought that was the end. then on thursday i started coughing and started feeling feverish. i stayed at work and...
January 27, 2004 @ 4:56 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
pat & ryan
tonight i FINALLY got to see pat and ryan play with the whole band, since EVERY TIME they had a gig before, i was out of town. or the venue burned down. long story. anyway, it was sort of appropriate...
January 31, 2004 @ 12:08 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
fuckin' a
i got spammed again. bad. 'vioxx,' some asshat bot put comment spam on EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY POSTS. that meant i had to remove BY HAND 160 COMMENTS. this also means that i had 160 EMAILS TO DELETE. fucking...
February 3, 2004 @ 11:01 PM | 3 comments | 0 trackbacks
7 levels of the candy cane forest
last night i went to the brew & view with eric, jon, pat & jessica (2 high school friends) and their friend tony. saw elf and bad santa. it was the perfect balance of innocent fun (mr. narwhal!) and down-and-dirty...
February 13, 2004 @ 11:12 AM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
stick your fingers in your ears
...if you don't like to hear about girly stuff. basically, i'm having my period and a uti which means double the pleasure double the fun for the area between my navel and pubis. i want to go home so bad...
February 25, 2004 @ 1:33 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
my biography
it's like watching my life flash before my eyes....
February 25, 2004 @ 2:38 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
76th annual academy awards
most predictable oscars ever....
March 1, 2004 @ 12:09 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
oh my back!
not much has been happening lately - kate is out of town for awhile and the office has been in a flurry as temps work on fulfillment for our big project. my mom is coming in town at the end...
March 11, 2004 @ 9:31 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
my mom will be here soon!
where has this week gone? i guess i did stuff every night so that's why it flew by, but really - shouldn't it only be tuesday or wednesday? i played chip's challenge for a couple of hours last night (ok,...
March 25, 2004 @ 10:54 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
jon puts us all to shame
sometimes you're just floating along, thinking everything is ok, you know, you're just trying to maintain...then someone drops a bomb on you and you realize that you're totally wasting your time and that essentially, you suck. such a time was...
April 15, 2004 @ 10:48 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
bodice ripping & 17th century commerce minutae
today i received the copy of 'the confusion' that i bought for eric and i can't wait to finish 'cryptonomicon' so i can move on to 'quicksilver.' though i do have to admit i'm really in love with 'cryptonomicon' and...
April 15, 2004 @ 2:07 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
i did...nothing!
well, almost nothing. i laid around a lot and watched sex & the city and band of brothers. i ran a ton of errands while i had command of eric's car. saturday night i hung out with my high school...
April 19, 2004 @ 1:18 PM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
moving weekend + anniversary
this weekend i helped eric paint his new room. it was awesome except that the last 5 people that painted didn't bother to tape off the moulding, so when i pulled my carefully placed tape off (after i had scored...
April 28, 2004 @ 4:13 PM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
shopping is hopeless, for clothes anyway
i still have some things that i would really like to get for my trip to japan: comfy shoes that can be put on and taken off easily, a mid-weight coat and maybe some lightweight pants in case it gets...
May 3, 2004 @ 12:22 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
best burgers
i had the best hamburger tonight - it had to be the fixin's - fresh tomato, onion, ketchup, brown mustard, pepper jack cheese, toasted buns...mmmmmmm......
May 3, 2004 @ 12:25 AM | 2 comments | 0 trackbacks
invading japan
if i can figure stuff like this out, i will be fine. and the language. and food that isn't seafood (or apparently beef, which is in short supply). other than that - yeah, it's cool....
May 10, 2004 @ 11:43 AM | 1 comments | 0 trackbacks
ohhh, so THIS is jet lag
so fucking AWAKE. got back from japan on thursday morning, before the time when i left japan, and then promptly slept for nearly 24 hours. now it is 6:15 am and i am wide awake because it is only, what,...
May 22, 2004 @ 6:17 AM | 0 comments | 0 trackbacks
apartment search is over!
i found a new apartment! it was the 3rd one i looked at, the second listing i saw. it is large and cheap and quite nice and i'm very very happy with it. it's kind of far west, but that's...