12.13.2006

Today was most excellent. I worked over at Nikki's house (hard for the money), and it was a beautiful day out so running errands was cool by me.

My dear friend Joseph is finally done with school for the quarter, and just in time for some birthday celebration and much overdue fun times. We have tentative plans for bowling this weekend - thank the sweet lord, I am very much in need of the sweet stench of a bowling alley, and the tender love of sweet Josephine.

I learned today that, according to Empire Corner, "vegetable chow mein" is the same thing as "vegetable chop suey." I was under the impression that chow mein had, you know, fried noodles. Apparently I was wrong. So if you go to the Empire Corner by my apartment, be warned of the aforementioned misconception.

Fortunately, prior to my Chinese food conundrum, I had gone to the magical fruit and vegetable food store on Broadway and gotten pears and chocolate hazelnut gelato. Post-"chow mein" consumption, I enjoyed the most phenomenal gelato-eating experience of my young life. In fact, I am going to take a gelato break right now because I can't stand to be away from it.

Ok, so it is called Ciao Bella Chocolate Hazelnut Gelato. I may buy stock in it.

So as I was eating this delicious gelato while still sporadically coughing up parts of my lung from the remaining 40% of my bronchitis, I saw a commercial for some new Peter Frampton album or tour or something (what it was is irrelevant) - anyway in this commercial there is an instrumental cover of "Black Hole Sun," and for whatever reason I can't get the idea out of my head.

Johnny Cash + "Hurt" = very acceptable, because it's Johnny Cash. Also, Trent Reznor is still pretty alright in my book.

Peter Frampton + "Black Hole Sun" = kind of unsettling.

So after the gelato (that is seriously like frozen nutella from heaven) and the rehashing of early 90's music video memories, I made the short trek over to Zsuzsi's house. Zsuzsi and Jordi just made an addition to their family - a small rabbit named Finnigan. Finnigan is absolutely adorable; he sniffs around like a dog and when he hops on the wood floor he slips a little. It was pleasant to see my old friends again, and I'm very glad they live in such close proximity to my new residence!

Tomorrow I have another adventure with Nikki, and Friday I have an abundance of good holiday times to be had.

11.14.06

i always thought that bananas were supposed to help you not get cramps in your feets and legs; i have eaten two bananas today and one yesterday and i just had a foot cramp for the first time in months.

i think this is all some sort of propaganda from the banana people. you have failed me, potassium. even the potassium from kazakhstan (all other countries have inferior potassium) is out of my life until further notice.

but dammit, i love bananas.

i had an interview at kid robot today for an office job. i would really like to work there. i am eager to hear back.

10.31.06

i am partially moved into my new apartment.

i am excited for work tomorrow. my job is wonderful, and i love the ladies i work with.

alex and i went to pittsburgh on friday. alex, a fully ordained minister in the state of pennsylvania, married mike and yvette rock. it was a very adorable wedding, but alex was sick when we got there, and the trip only made him sicker :( we made a fort at the airport on saturday (our flight was operating on pittsburgh-bad-weather-time) and watched television shows on his computer. i brought him soup and tea, and he brought me delicious chocolates and madlibs. i am madly in love with my boyfriend. i hope he is better soon.

10.18.06

new job. new place. same love.

I've obtained an amazing job with Yeh IDeology as a junior recruiter. Things are getting back to normal. I didn't post anything about all the crappy stuff that happened the past month because frankly, I don't want to think about it, nor do I want anyone to remember me by it. I am so grateful that I had an amazing man by my side to support me and tolerate my awful demeanor. I'm happy to say that I have fixed the broken parts of my life, and I can only hope that all that the people and things that I have compromised for the past couple of months can forgive me, and remember why they love me.

I have a new place to live on west 106th street. I'm excited to be near the park; I can rollerskate whenever I want now!!! I'm living with two ladies in a very comfortable apartment. It's going to be strange to sleep in my own bed again.

I found out yesterday that my brother is coming to visit for the New Year, and I'm so god damn excited. I spent this evening/night with Joseph walking around the financial district and eating at an extremely intense French restaurant with funny tasting vodka.

I am about to go to sleep, and Awesome has his head on my toes and life is good. I miss a boy. Goodnight.

8.30.06

This is lauren. It felt good to be alive today. I've realized that having anxiety about current affairs is fucking pointless. I will maintain this viewpoint until another problem arises.


It's true that nobody is willing to travel to the woods to visit me.
Yes, I get lonesome.

...but really.
I am 79% social and 21% crazy, so some time to nourish the crazy is alright. I can hang out in a remote house with awesome and do housewife activities. I can sit and relax and not think too much about where my life is headed at this very moment, even though I really don't know where I'm going and I wonder if where I am is beneficial at all. Most of this stuff is work related.

Plus living in the city right now would be the same runaround I'm doing here, only with more people and shit to sift through every day. If I begin this life as a serious commuter, it can only get better from here. Who knows. I'll have all the answers by the time I turn 23.


What happened on this day, the year 2006:
Alex moved things from kearny to ridgewood, and went to ikea to find nothing he was looking for. He will be home late.

I started the day rested, but soon developed severe bad-feelings at work, which subsided into complacency and then into passive glee. I also talked to jess jess (heart) and went to target. I bought a toaster.

8.26.06

I just saw a commercial for a ringtone that is a high pitched frequency that can't be heard by adults, so kids can have their phones on at school and at family dinners and their teachers/parents won't hear them ringing. In the commercial, they play the ring, and I can't hear a damn thing. I am hoping it comes on again before I leave to visit Daria so I can listen really hard and not feel like an old person.

I remember learning about this certain frequency a couple of months ago; I heard that owners and managers of establishments that attract teenage loitering (i.e. convenience stores) would start using the frequency outside to keep kids from hanging around their stores and meddling. If only this noise could be used in combination with the "brown noise" so kids could involuntarily shit their pants and then get headaches and leave crying.

7.21.06 - 8.05.06

So it has been quite a while since I've written about life. A lot of things have happened, and so quickly that I still don't think I've completely accepted that they're real. I am now Northeastern in a new home with the boy I love.

I bought a Prius. I like my new car very much. It has GPS, so even if I do get lost I can find my way home. I bought my car from Stokes Brown Toyota in Beaufort, SC; the people I dealt with at the dealership were absolutely amazing. If you are in the low country and looking to purchase a Toyota, I highly recommend you check them out.

I gave my beloved snake, Drake Barnaby Smith-Serota, to Wojtek, the best Pollock ever. I am sad to not have him around, but Awesome is the best stray poodle-cum-guard dog in the world.

The move was a fucking disaster. Alex came down for what should have been a 3-day trip and ended up a gruesomely hot and humid 5 days of customer service hell. We were finally able to leave Savannah at 8 p.m. on Saturday, 8.5 (we were scheduled to take off Friday morning). The tardiness of the movers squashed some of our exciting plans to detour from the drive up north - an example being our stop in Raleigh to visit the fine gentleman Pedro Warren. We ended up meeting with another Pedro, however, at South of the Border at around 1 a.m. Sunday morning. Here we befriended some fiberglass animals and bought coffee mugs.



We took a short nap post-South of the Border and then continued northward. We had to make a stop in Pennsylvania to pick up some amazing picture boards we bought on Ebay. Pennsylvania is the most picturesque place in the northeast. We were extremely exhausted and almost delirious but it was still worth the detour to see the countryside.

We finally got home at around 4 p.m. on Sunday, 8.5. Alex slept for a few hours, I cleaned and got groceries. Thus begins my new life.

I would like to thank Jon and Jess for being amazing during my last few weeks down south.