| twenty four hours. |
[06 Aug 2005|09:15pm] |
last night was fun. i was previously under the impression that jess hated me, i'm not so sure if she does or doesn't, but she is extremely fun to hang out with. brendan's basement is awesome too. peter is pretty much exactly the same as he was when he left.
since i left brendan's, things have gone slightly downhill. i didn't fall asleep until 5am, and then i woke up at 6 with a horrendous stomachache. i feel sick to my stomach, and i haven't eaten yet today. the lack of food has also taken a toll on my already tampered with energy (i slept for about 5-6 hours total today) and i've come close to passing out i think twice. it's just like i have my eyes open but everything's black and then i catch myself.. yeah it's pretty weird. i should probably eat but i'm just not hungry. food just doesn't appeal to me, i just feel so sick.
i was supposed to go to my grandmother's today for yet another family party and then see a movie with courtney. stayed home in bed instead. watched some movies and was just completely bored all day.
whatever... yeah.
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| news. |
[31 Jul 2005|10:28pm] |
sometimes i don't understand why stuff like what britney spears'll name her trailor trash kid is so much more important than this: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2005_07_29a/en/index.html
furthermore, i continue to not understand why everyone is devastated by a terrorist attack in london, yet they don't mind the several that occur daily in the middle east. i also hate that the british are comparing the events a few weeks ago to 9/11. the recent attacks in england aren't even 1/100th of what happened on september 11th.
but anyway.
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| yeah so? |
[20 Jul 2005|04:40pm] |
i had surgery today, went well overall, i mean i'm not dead or anything so i guess that's always a good thing. however when i got home from surgery, the novocaine began to wore off and i am finding that this is immensely painful. i've had the same exact surgery before, and i forgot what it felt like. i'm sore, tired, and just not feeling too good in general.
i also seem to have developed a slight allergy to something- i'm assuming a plant- because i keep sneezing. everytime i sneeze, my stitches feel like they're going to rip out. they run directly under (and i mean like a mere half a centimeter here) my left shoulderblade, so they pull and stretch constantly. it hurts like hell.
but yeah, that's about all. no guitar for a while, i'm pissed.
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| summer. |
[19 Jul 2005|11:00pm] |
i went to mystic with my mom and pretty much invested in a lot of little kids' clothes because i'm small and i can do that. the shirts were like $6 and fit perfectly. i'm wearing one now, it's long sleeved but because i'm not actually a nine year old, the sleeves are two inches too short. which, coincidentally, is my favorite thing about this shirt.
also bought several things from american eagle recently. my favorite is the pair of fake birks that have tweed on them and are, as far as i'm concerned, shoes that i was born to own.
i've been hanging out mostly with julia and courtney, though not together. i've been the mall so many times, seen more movies in the past two weeks than i saw during the school year, and been to thayer street three times since friday.
friday, i was on thayer with courtney celebrating (being the geeks that we are) the release of harry potter and the half blood prince. i am mildly ashamed to admit that i completed the work of fiction in just over twelve hours. on saturday, my parents and i went for a ride around rhode island. we brought the dog to an art show and about a dozen people individually asked if they could pet him.
which, considering my lack of updates here, it should be known that my family now owns a fifth generation labradoodle that my brother named harry. 398676874673486743 people have come over my house since we got him just to see him, i don't mind it, but sometimes they show up without telling us and i'm not always ready to see people at random hours of the day.
sunday was boring? i don't quite remember what we did. i went and got ice cream on thayer that night though. i adore phish food.
yesterday i hung out with my mom, then went to the doctor's for a check-up. had some bad news, i have another cancer scare, so i'm going in for immediate surgery tomorrow. good times.
tonight julia and i intended to see wedding crashers, but were denied entrance, so we instead took a trolley (gotta love them ozone alert days) to thayer and hung out. we ate at johnny rocket's, went into urban outfitters, walked around, then i came home.
mike calicchia had a pretty rancid dream concerning me last night, he told me about it today. although i guess it was kind of funny simply because it's so ridiculous, but still sick.
playlist #5 or maybe 6, who knows
neil young - the loner
earth wind & fire - september
yes - starship trooper
the velvet teen - penning the penultimate
bob dylan - ballad of hollis brown
the beatles - she came in through the bathroom window
the beatles - golden slumbers
ted nugent - stranglehold
the eagles - hotel california
sublime - same in the end
vertical horizon - send it up (it's stuck in my head and won't go away)
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| live 8. |
[02 Jul 2005|11:04pm] |
i'm watching live8 right now, i want to see pink floyd. they better not be total jackasses at MTV and cut the performance to show me some annoying linkin park shit or something.
live8 makes me think of alyssa a lot because it just seems like something she'd enjoy.
hmm yeah. i hate green day.
maroon 5 was nice though. they did a sweet cover of keep on rockin' in the free world. iTunes is putting out live8 recordings, and i hope there's one of that cover because i'd so download it.
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| the usual. |
[02 Jul 2005|08:32am] |
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thursday, julia and i went to see war of the worlds. it made no sense to either of us and we both didn't like it. the kid who played tom cruise's son was easy on the eyes though, we enjoyed that.
today, i made a trip to the market and took a ton of money to the coinstar machine. by a ton of money i mean $70. afterwards i took a shower and such, then went to the mall. met up with brendan and dan, who talked about comic books then brendan became interested in the girl magazines he found on the borders couch. julia found us, so we left and went to the third floor. at one point lauren came upstairs and found us, so we went to the food court and got food. we walked around and i bought some things. the five of us seperated several times and finally met up altogether in borders again.
we headed to waterplace park or whatever to chill out by the river and found there was an african band playing a show. so we sat and watched, julia went and danced with the stoners out in front of the band. much fun was had, then we walked to brewed even though it was closed, admired some lucky person's ferrari, and went back to borders. lauren had some fun calling matt, then we all went outside to wait to leave, and talked to mike nozick and his girlfriend/date who was clearly didn't like us that much. all in all, it was a good night.
i was talking to lexy a few hours ago at like 1:30 and he randomly just calls me to say "NINAAAAA you're like my best friend!!" hahaha then i hung up on him so he imed me to tell me how stoned he is.
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| report cards. |
[26 Jun 2005|02:12am] |
report cards came in the mail today. four words = i love mr. hajian.
today we went to a dog open house. we're getting our puppy on july 6th. cutest animals ever.
don't really feel like updating..
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| hmm... |
[22 Jun 2005|09:29am] |
i guess it's been a while..
last tuesday, i had a bunch of people over (alyssa, andrew, julia, pete, rob, brendan, dan) and we had a picnic and some cake. we walked to my house, and by the time we got here, we were so hot that we had to chill out in my room for a while - i've got the only room with air conditioning. anyway, i had talked to george about a week before they came over about how i wanted him to not be here, and he said he'd be out of the house around 11-12ish. yeah, he lied. so when mostly everyone was supposed to stay until 3, everyone left at quarter to one except for andrew and alyssa. which was fine except for the fact that everyone left mainly because george wouldn't let us go upstairs. like.. thanks a lot.
all last week was boring, i kinda just hung around the house.
i probably did something on saturday but i don't remember what it is.
sunday was father's day, and my dad wanted to go look at plants, so we drove to little compton and got ice cream, then he and my mom looked at plants. i sat in the car.
monday i went shopping. i bought a skirt from juicy that is so vibrantly colored it's amazing, as well as more fcuk perfume because not only does it smell nice and i ran out of it, but also because "fcuk" amuses my dyslexic eight year old mind.
yesterday i had lunch with my dad, then at night i went out with lauren and christina.
later..
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| hahaha. |
[13 Jun 2005|05:38pm] |
it doesn't seem at all possible, but i'm really terrified of people. i just don't like talking unless i know you.. and then i don't shut up. today i was in bath & body works with my mom buying some candle ish for the first floor. one of the employees asked me how i was doing, so i said "fine, thank you" in that systematic fashion that i typically have. a few minutes later she asked me if i was finding everything okay- so i nodded- and she asked me "are you learning english?" i told her no, mainly because i'm not, but then she just looked at me funny. shouldn't you apologize for something like that?
and michael jackson was cleared on all charges. my mentioning this is mainly for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) vigilante.
good day, though.
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| so yeah. |
[12 Jun 2005|11:42pm] |
friday/saturday was fun. being around susanna was not as weird and awkward as i thought it would be. we watched some star wars (not much though), ate food, and had lightsaber battles. alyssa and julia did not sleep over so it was just myself and rob with susanna for the night. the three of us went to the cliff with lisbeth and took crazy pictures. when we got back to the house we tried to watch garden state but it didn't work so we watched will & grace instead. when that was over we put on the little mermaid and susanna fell asleep right away. rob and i watched it until the end, then we talked about religions and such until around 3am when i fell asleep.
then yesterday when i came home i just kind of hung around the house, same for today. tomorrow i have my spanish exam and i am not at all ready for it. i don't think anyone is, henderson's kind of unpredictable like that.
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| the adventures of nina. |
[10 Jun 2005|09:59am] |
so this was my last week of school. monday (after i got my yearbook) turned out to be considerably boring, same for tuesday with the exception of my last study period of the year where we played phish and took many pictures. i took my english exam early on monday and tuesday (and hour each day) and then on wednesday our finals officially started. i had chem first.. let's not talk about how i did on that exam. second was religion, and it was ridiculously easy. i finished it in 45 minutes and half of my class cheated on it. peter meckel was sitting in front of me and he kept opening his book on the floor to find answers.
yesterday morning, some kids stopped by my house and we went to cal's for breakfast before our afternoon exam. i love cal's homefries.. didn't really eat mine yesterday though.
i had my algebra final and i think i actually did okay on it. not great, but good enough. i was supposed to make up this test for skelly that i failed miserably cause i had been out sick the day before, but he told me to just do a few problems from the book and hand that in. and then on my portfolio- as in the one that i didn't finish- he gave a 100 anyway. definitely my favorite teacher right there.
the heat the past few days has been harsh.. and my knees are tanned but it's seriously just my knees, like it starts at the end of my school skirt and stops at the top of my knee socks.
last night i finally got to visit my grandmother because i didn't have homework or studying to do. i guess this is what happens when you smoke and drink your whole life. basically, she had a stroke and a heart attack at the same time (i mentioned this before) and she's been in the hospital since sunday. she's always been thin, but now she won't eat at all. she's slurring her speech and mostly out of it. she can't hear much, or remember much either for that matter. i'm worried that when she's finally dismissed from the hospital she's gonna continue smoking.. i hope not.. the damage she has to her heart is beyond repair. she could have a bypass, but she's too thin and frail to sustain that kind of surgery.. but yeah i really hope she gets better..
i don't have school at all today. i'm in newport at my dad's office, sitting in the lunchroom. this is the most gorgeous lunch room i have ever seen. on one side is all the kitchen-y stuff, vending machines and coffee machines and a dishwasher.. then on the other side where i am there's a couple of couches, some high tables with chairs, magazines, a arcade golf game, and this gargantuan plasma tv on the wall.
people keep coming in here and looking at me funny, perhaps because they have no idea who i am, plus i'm wearing a very unusual ensemble that includes tyedye, plaid, and polka dots all at the same time. as well as men's boxer shorts.
and i'm here because i guess susanna invited me to her star wars geek fest thing. which is weird because you know, we haven't spoken for three months or so. but this geek fest seems promising, there's going to be like a zillion people (or maybe elevenish?) and apparently brendan ryan is making cake.
i will officially be done with sophomore year on tuesday after my history exam. unless i have to go to summer school for being dumb at chemistry or something. however after my history exam (which ends at 10:15), i am planning to have a large picnic in my backyard with several of the coolest people i know. i just have to find out how to keep my brother away from my house for a few hours.
summer is going to be interesting.
peace.
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| from inside lasalle... |
[06 Jun 2005|06:46am] |
so it's quarter to 7am right now, and i'm in school. i got here at 6:30. yearbook sales start at 7:30 and i wanted to make sure i got one.. so i got here wicked early- i'm the only one here, therefore the first in line.
in other news, however, it took me about ten minutes to get into the building because all the doors are locked except for the cafeteria, so i had to come in through the ground floor of the science building and over into the main building. not to mention, since the school doesn't technically open until 7, none of the lights are on and i am in complete darkness.
actually, someone just came in and turned all the lights on in this corridor.
but anyway i'm bored. and waiting for alyssa to get here.
peace.
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| long time no update. |
[05 Jun 2005|11:38pm] |
last weekend felt like summer. it was memorial day weekend, therefore there was an extra day to hang out. that saturday was my last session of tennis until next year, and i played very well that day. particularly on my volleys, which are pretty much at the point of invincible. saturday night was mall with lauren and waterfire with several people, that was an interesting experience what with the mixture of high school drama, some strange christians, and really good chocolate drinks from godiva.
sunday was the bucket in the morning, gotta love it. in the afternoon, dave took laura and i to the mall and we shopped, then saw the longest yard. it was a good movie, i really liked it and i didn't think i would. on sunday night, i slept over christina's with lauren. amazing night right there. in the morning, christina took us to get dunkin donuts then drove me home. i spent the rest of monday cleaning until around 4, when we had a birthday party at my house for my grandmother. i came upstairs at around 5:30 and slept.
school = boring, all week. friday wasn't so bad, krause took us outside for our last class day and we 'reflected' and took pictures.
yesterday i literally did nothing at all. well actually, i went with my dad to home depot and got to ride in one of the home depot trucks.. plus i had a coffee coolatta through all this so it was a rather nice time.
today.. well first of all it started off with my uncle calling and asking to talk to my dad. my dad was in portsmouth, so i told him to call my dad's cell phone. three minutes later my mom calls, to tell me that my grandmother (claire) had a stroke as well as a heart attack. so right now my grandmother's in the hospital. i don't have favorites, but this is the grandmother that i've always gotten along with better and she means a lot to me so.. i really hope she gets better, because she's a smoker, and she's been withering down for the past decade so.. yeah.
lauren and i went to a pawsox game, ate a lot, didn't watch the game, didn't manage to get a tan either though. we did get lots of talking in, however.
then i came home and rearranged my room a little.. george came home and we had dinner.. the end.
two days of classes then five exams and i'm done. nothing more exciting than that.
( hello )
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| haha. |
[01 Jun 2005|11:13pm] |
it's june.
24 hours of school left until finals.
365 days ago, i was so much different than i am now.
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| i guess it's been a while. |
[22 May 2005|10:57am] |
last week flew by. on tuesday, i came home and slept from 5pm into the next day. therefore, on wednesday, i didn't go to school, but my day sucked nonetheless. my mom took me shopping that night.. i don't really remember thursday and friday..
yesterday i had tennis in the morning. played pretty nicely. next week's my last week for this season. i came home, took a shower, got dressed.. and went with my family to this place in cumberland for jenny's graduation party. basically a 3 hour luncheon with a bunch of portuguese people. they were all so nice, except i didn't quite understand what was going on when they didn't speak english.. anyway
last night i went to the mall with julia and this bohemian girl named sunflower.. we had dinner in the nordstroms cafe, then we walked around for a while. julia bought us godiva. julia tried on clothes in every store that we went in but yet did not buy anything. we found dan tundis in abercrombie with his friend zach. zach goes to burrillville and his job is to dig graves. right. julia, sunflower, and i did more shopping.. found dan tundis again. julia, sunflower, and i said "see you later" to dan tundis, did more shopping, then we got really bored so we went to newbury comics and found dan tundis for a third time.
zach bought a gigantic plastic penguin and the "what the f*ck" game, so we went to brewed and hung out there/played "what the f*ck." grant showed up in brewed, along with brit kroessler and claudio... uhhh but anyway on our way out we scared the shit out of some girls due to grant's star wars reinactments and general weirdness radiating off off zach, dan and mr. jacksfly peckersworth (the penguin). julia, sunflower, and i went to borders and bought books, then we were about to immerse ourself in said books when we noticed dan tundis outside on the sidewalk with zach and a hackysack. naturally we went outside and joined them.
then i left.
it was a most interesting night. the end.
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| weekend. |
[15 May 2005|11:42pm] |
this weekend my mom walked 30 miles in boston for breast cancer. i'm really proud of her because she was training for a while, and she raised about $8,400 through sponsors for cancer research. she's never done anything like this before either so yea.. my mom's pretty awesome, if you ask me.
friday night was kind of a mess. a mess that carried into saturday and still hasn't been resolved. otherwise, saturday was boring, i sucked at tennis because my mind was elsewhere. i came home and slept most until around 5. my dad took me to applebee's for dinner. lauren had a hot date.
nothing important happened today either, i woke up and my legs collapsed under me because my knees don't feel like working apparently. i went to the bucket to do coffee hour and only two other kids showed up to help. i napped when i came home because.. that's what i do. if i had homework, i didn't do it.
basically this was a waste of a weekend.
i don't like it that certain people don't care about anything that i say.
playlist #whatever:
smashing pumpkins - disarm
tori amos - you belong to me
rage against the machine - in my eyes
bob dylan - boots of spanish leather
phish - silent in the morning
dandy warhols - bohemian like you
radiohead - paranoid android
neil young - hangin' on a limb
the mars volta - inertiatic esp
the beatles - run for your life
dave matthews band - crash into me
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| whatever. |
[14 May 2005|01:00am] |
yesterday wasn't so bad.. in religion we made gospel charts, in chemistry we did a lab with the calorimeters, and in history we "worked" on our projects. lunch i don't remember, english was boring, henderson told us about how her husband only speaks spanish when he's drunk during espanol, and finally in algebra all the juniors had left to get ready for prom so skelly let us watch ebaumsworld ish until dismissal.
i slept all yesterday afternoon, then i was up until like 4am watching movies.
today i woke up at 8, took a shower, went out to breakfast with my mom, came home and napped. i woke up when my mom was about to leave for boston, i did the whole "good luck and have fun i love you" thing. my parents left and my brother went to the gym. i stayed home, played loud music, etc.
when my dad came home he took me to johnny rockets on thayer for dinner. chilled out a little in providence, then came home around 9.
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| it's may. |
[11 May 2005|06:29pm] |
it's may, may 11th to be exact. meaning i haven't updated in close to two weeks. i would be updating more often if i hadn't added everyone back from my old friend's list, because i was updating daily before that. doesn't really matter. i did all my homework that was due today, which is an accomplishment in comparison to how i've been operating in school lately. i just can't wait to get out of there. it's pretty much set that i'm not going back to lasalle next fall. i don't know where i'm going though... north providence isn't even an option, and my mom won't let me go to bayview. it's also been ultimately decided that i'm not leaving rhode island for good until i graduate either. there's a lot of reasons i want to stay here, for example: the wontons at jacky's galaxie.
besides, i have the specific horn. for a while i thought it might be general, but it has become clear that i was very wrong.
despite how i generally treat them, i have to admit that lexy hosey and mike calicchia are probably two of the coolest people i have ever associated myself with.
meanwhile, i'm really sick of a lot of people and their bullshit. most of these people don't know i feel that way. and they probably never will.
i don't really know what else to say except that mr. skelly is probably my favorite teacher for sophomore year. actually i had a lot of really awesome teachers this year.. last year i think my favorite was fernandez despite our few altercations. anyway, i'm so glad this year's almost over- only eighteen days.
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