Category: Journal

I just finished doing some yoga, which was fun. I think it makes my time watching Law & Order feel more productive when I exercise during it. and hey, I’m finally getting some use out of that yoga mat I bought in the spring and that 28-days of yoga exercises book I bought years ago.. Though I have used the book before to randomly contort myself, but doing it in some organized exercise can only be good for me. Plus, if I feel better during it then what could the harm be?

I got a job yesterday! Whee. Apparently the Leadership Institute is going to expand it’s student employment positions to three and I’m going to do one, I hope. I’m so excited about it. I was really feeling worthless about employment, especially yesterday cos Emily got a callback from Michael’s and I didn’t. But oh well. Now I get a job that will work better with my schedule and everything. Yayayayay.

Tomorrow, I’m going to Kansas City to spend the weekend with Joe for his sisters wedding. I haven’t gotten to spend any considerable amounts of time with him since the Road to Revolution. That makes this especially important. I can’t wait.

all of you who believe in something, say a prayer of thanksgiving because my masonic foundation scholarship came in today when i was in desperate need of money. i got all upset and worried about finances yesterday… actually, the worried has been pretty constant lately but the breakdown was mostly new to yesterday… and i talked to my parents about it a lot and was just really worried because i felt terrible that i’m unable to pay them back. so i went to mass and that calmed me down and i prayed that my financial problems would work themselves out easily and quickly and today when i got home from applying for my job at michael’s there were two checks in the mail for the full scholarship and loan amount for first semester. awesome. strange that it’s the masons which really came through for me this time, but oh well. i’ll take what i can.

also, i am completely in love with google calendar. i think everyone knows this about me because i talked about it a whole lot when it first came out, but now, it’s syncable to google.com/ig (that is, my personalized home) how awesome is that!? i love it. and its through an official module, not like the one i had been using. i’m so impressed with it. and it’s cool because i enjoy it so much that i actually take the time to schedule things and stay up on my calendar unlike every other solution i’ve attempted using.

i get to see joe this weekend. whee.

where was todays horoscope last night?,
i wonder.

I went with my brother just now to the bank so that he could open some accounts up and deposit his first major paycheck, technically it’s his second paycheck but it’s the first one that’s for an actual full work week. it was fun to do. we got him a checking and savings account and the woman that helped us was the same person who helped me set up my first accounts. i’ve always thought she was really nice. it made me sorta sad, first because of the sheer memory of being sixteen and having my first account. and how cool it was to have to “go to the bank” because i had an account there. and it also makes me miss stephanie and all of our fun doing nothing in the summer. i really wish that i’d be more responsible about money. it’s so difficult to admit but being poor right now only shows that i am not as good with cash as i’d hoped. i think the problem is i really never learned to budget, and even when i’d try i would fiddle around with the budget. i need to start actually making a budget and then adhering to it. i got iBank which is banking software for mac and it has a built-in budgetter so hopefully i’ll budget and then keep track of where my money is going to. usually if i at least keep track of it i spend more wisely because i really see how much money i’m spending on worthless crap a month. oi. finances. i just sorta hate it. i’m exciting about investing some money this fall when i have it so that i’m hopefully not in this situation later in life (ie. this time next year.) the joys of adulthood are limited, i find.

I think waking up by alarm early was a good idea today. For one, I have to be awake way-so-effin-early tomorrow. And so I’m glad that I can at least get myself ready for that by jumping in 1 hour earlier than normal then 4 hours earlier than normal breaks. It should be more seamless, especially cos I’m going out tonight with or without stitches to wear (oh no! i don’t have my favorite shirt that I really want to wear!).

I’ve noticed that I’m getting more shallow. I think it’s just boredom in the summer, but still. I painted my fingernails this pink color that i used to wear a lot and it just seems to dark. “not fun at all” is what i think whenever I look down. ablah. why am i this kind of person now? who knows. well. i guess it’s just that i like to have pretty painted nails. Still.

I’ve gotten really into the Institute kids. Partially because of RYLA and history affairs, but still. I just think they’re my favorite group to organize around and with. Speaking of organizing, I really need to get the websites for FIGHT, Phi Alpha Theta, and the history department up.. Hopefully I can meet with Bearman sometime next week to discuss all of it. I had a really decent working drawing. I don’t know why I threw it away. Oh well.

I’d also sorta like a new layout for this site. But I think I usually kind of want that. I’ll get it figured out.

Oooh! Today I looked at the mail and found a dvd that i’d requested from Catholic Relief Services about the Mexican-US border and immigration issues. It’s written by a bunch of people who went down there and interviewed a whole lot of people there and then this group of writers wrote a dramatization about it, I guess. I’m hoping to screen it sometime soon and then hopefully we can watch it on campus. How fun.

i finished the pie. it was delicious until the taste of it made me want to puke. that’s awesome.

restate yr assumptions:
1. water sounds delicious after eating an entire pie
2. saving 2/3 of the pie for devouring in about 15 minutes was bad strategy
3. only a glutton would eat a slice of pie à la mode.

The pie eat begins. State your assumptions:
1. Gluttony is defined by value, unfairly. These slices will not have ice cream, yet because I eat six of them I will be considered a glutton.
2. I don’t really want to eat this entire pie.
3. Why did I wait until 4:45 to start eating an entire pie?

Happy flag day, welcome to the great pie eat. Here’s the story:

Yesterday, I was checking facebook updates and came across Dave’s which commanded the following: “Eat a pie sometime next week. The entire pie. Not in just one sitting, but polish’er off by the end of the day. You’ll feel like ass, but the satisfaction of eating an entire pie will be well worth it! Err, maybe.” Immediately, I felt drawn to the idea. However, I cannot wait until next week. So I am going to eat an entire pie today.

I told mom this soon after deciding it. I walked into the kitchen and said, triumphantly, “I am going to eat an entire pie tomorrow.”
Mom: “JESS! You can’t do that! You need to watch yr figure!”
Jess: “No, mom, look, my tummy is flat! I’m fine!”
Mom: “You have saddle bags.”
Jess: “What?! You cannot do this. I just fixed the other part you already complain about and now you spring this other thing on me. Something I can’t even do anything about! It’s not even muscle! It’s just stuff that’s there!”
Mom: “You need to exercise more.”
Jess: “How can I exercise away something not connected to muscle? I know what I’ll do. I’ll starve myself. Then my body will be like ‘ummmm i’m hunnngrrry i neeed food. where can i get some food? oh yah… i’ve been storing it all in jess’s saddlebags. ummm nummm yumm.”
Mom: “You don’t need to starve yourself.”
Jess: “Then eating an entire pie won’t hurt me.”
All of this took place while I was buttering I baked potato beyond recognition. Awesome. So then I hugged mom and said “Thank you for helping me with the baked potato. I’m sorry you think I’m fat.”

Later, at work, I informed others of this monumentous decision.

Jess: I’m going to eat an entire pie tomorrow.
Roger: that sounds like quite the challenge
Jess: Yah, you should do it too.
Jess: “Eat a pie sometime next week. The entire pie. Not in just one sitting, but polish’er off by the end of the day. You’ll feel like ass, but the satisfaction of eating an entire pie will be well worth it! Err, maybe.”
Jess: I’m going to record it all by digital photo and put it on facebook.
Roger: I want to try the milk challenge
Roger: but the pie challenge sounds just as fun
Jess: yah.
Jess: you have the time. pies are only like 3 dollars, i think.
Jess: you can choose the flavor. WHAT IS NOT TO LOSE?
Roger: Are you too dumb not to eat an entire pie?
Jess: Freudian slip.
Jess: HAHA That’s the motto of the Great Flag Day Pie Eat of 2006.
Roger: Yours or mine?
Jess: Either way.
Jess: Yours.
Roger: Everyone’s a winner!
Jess: It’s true.
Roger: It will be like Pie Heaven on Earth.
Jess: Yes! In all flavors!
Jess: And Graham Cracker Crusts!
Roger: What about Chicken Pot Pies?
Jess: Don’t be ridiculous, I am vegetarian.
Jess: But you could do that, if you were a savage.
Roger: I only eat the chickens because I hate them
Roger: and want the strength
Jess: Oh. I can’t eat them. Because some tastes must go.
Jess: The Chicken Pot Pie should not have a graham cracker crust.
Roger: agreed
Roger: I have nothing against mr. graham
Jess: Awesome! Take photos of yr pie day. And actually do it.

Jess: You should eat an entire pie, tomorrow.
Nate: why?
Jess: It’s The Great Flag Day Pie Eat of 2006.
Nate: i don’t think i would feel very well
Jess: “Are you too dumb not to eat an entire pie?” is this years motto.
Jess: You don’t have to do it all in one sitting.
Jess: It’s just a 24 hour thing.
Jess: Like a marathon.
Jess: I meant a tv marathon. Which is fitting because comparing a pie-eat to a running marathon would be ironic. Giving how little exercise one gets eating a pie.
Jess: Anyway, just do it.
Nate: what if i don’t? will you come find me and shove a pie in my face?
Jess: No, silly, my pie will be in my stomach.
Nate: because that only works on TV.
Jess: Yah.
Jess: I’m going to do it though.
Jess: I can’t wait.
Nate: what kind of pie will you eat?
Jess: I haven’t decided, but I had a sudden urge to scream RHUBARB!
Jess: That’s not going to happen though I bet.
Nate: rhubarb pie is really good
Jess: Yah I bet.
Jess: but where would i get it?!?
Jess: If I controlled space-time I would have one.
Nate: you can make one
Jess: That’s a woman’s job!

This is going to be the best day of my life. It’s 1:26 and the pie is in the oven for the next 50 or so minutes. Then I have to let it cool for a few and then I’m going to put it in my mouth. Yum.

conversations with emily were very good tonight. we talked about a whole bunch of things and i must say that i really enjoy sitting in the company of a friend just bullshitting about smart things, like who oppenheimer really was. we also watched an episode of the Showtime tv show, Huff. It was good. I’d probably watch more episodes, but I am not at all addicted to it or anything. My drive home was surreal. I kept waiting for something absurd, and yet very regular, to happen but the only thing extraordinary that occurred was my viewing of raccoon eyes staring back at me from the other side of the road. crazy little guy was just waiting for something. maybe he felt it in the air too.

i just cleaned up all the comment spam on my website. whee. i’m pretty excited about finally doing that. i also changed the name/configuration of the comments script so that hopefully i can go awhile without it happening again. i found a program that will auto change it, but it’s so easy to change it by myself. i think mostly i just need to remember that.

summer is pretty boring and i need a second job. this is the story of the summer of 2006. i really hate the application process a lot though. there’s a few places i’m considering applying though and so hopefully i can just go there tomorrow and get apps filled out and get things taken care of. that would be the most exciting thing that could happen. the best impetus is how badly i need money. and i’d really like to have a second job and stuff too.

i got this really sweet software called Delicious Library that keeps track of all the books I have. all I have to do is type in the ISBN numbers. It’s amazing.