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...I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
May. 31st, 2007
04:26 pm - Ah, Livejournal, my old friend.
The stress of finding a job is finally gone - I will be a summer employee at Gelaterie Stam on 42nd. I think I should open some sort of official savings account for college instead of just cashing my paychecks and stuffing 20-dollar-bills into an envelope.
I'm going to see Feist on June 20th, holy buckets.
Things with my gee eff are great, I can't wait to go to college with her.
I can't wait to go to my cabbage so I can canoe and swim and ski and play all day long. And Megan can take me on romantic sailing excursions and we can cook vegetarian food for my family.
Mar. 25th, 2007
Mar. 24th, 2007
03:29 pm
I got into all of my colleges. I still don't know how I'll pay for it but it feels good that I am accepted.
Dec. 31st, 2006
04:36 pm
If you still don't believe in global warming, step outside. It shouldn't be 60 degrees in late December in Iowa.
Aug. 4th, 2006
09:09 pm
Here are some of my pictures from Mexico. That's only a small fraction of the pictures I took; I'll put more up when I get home.
Aug. 3rd, 2006
04:50 pm
Hey yous
Mexico was amazing. As soon as I figure out how to link to my photobucket album without requiring a password, I'll do that so you can see pictures if you want.
Right now I'm sitting on the porch at my lake house enjoying the feeling of the breeze on my bare skin, listening to my uncle play the fiddle, and taking in this beautiful cloudless day.
I just went back and read the lj posts that I missed, and I was reminded that for every bit of hate and ugliness there is in this world, there is just as much love and beauty. It's not hard to pick out all of the awful things that happen in the world, but there are also some wonderful things hidden right under your nose. Even on lj, everyone is talking about how much they love someone, or offering their support for anyone who may need it, or offering encouragement to someone who is battling.
Jul. 24th, 2006
05:52 pm
I´m at the beach and it rules. I'm gonna party tonight, surf tomorrow, and party tomorrow night. This is fabulous.
Jun. 30th, 2006
07:27 pm - MEXICO CITY!!!!
So I am writing this entry from an internet cafe in Mexico City. All of the websites are in Spanish and the keyboard is strange and kind of hard to use.
We've done so much shit in the past few days I don't even know where to start. Some highlights:
--Mexico City is neither as dangerous nor as dirty as I thought it would be. We teenage girls can walk around the city by ourselves without worrying about getting robbed or shot or raped.
--El Museo de Frida Kahlo was AMAZING. Her house is so beautiful. I bought a Frida Kahlo lighter.
--Shit is so fuckin cheap here. I ate breakfast for 12 pesos yesterday, which is less than $1.20.
--Keyboards have the letter ñ right next to the L key.
--The manholes are square.
--Men whistle a lot.
--Traffic laws are more like loose suggestions, and there are very few intersections with stop lights or stop signs.
--People run around a lot here. Literally. All the time I see men running down the street like they have somewhere SUPER important to be.
--The lights on stop lights are line up horizontally instead of vertically.}
Tomorrow we get up ridiculously early and get on a bus to head for our homestay community, which after some initial reservations, I am really excited for. It's an extremely small rural town with no running water or electricity, supported mostly by the production of coffee. The community works with Oxfam and another program to help the coffee farmers get fair prices for their product and to ensure that the community is completely sustainable. Our main projects are to create shade for higher-quality coffee by braiding the branches of trees together and also to paint signs along the road to the town. RAAAAAHH!!
Jun. 22nd, 2006
09:26 pm
If you wish to receive a letter or postcard from me while I'm in Mexico, leave a comment with your mailing address!
Jun. 21st, 2006
12:24 am
I'm just a little bit terrified to be going to a different country for a month to live with total strangers. I've always been independent but I've never done anything like this before. As soon as I get on that plane, I'm essentially on my own. Not that I'm without guidance or support, but once I'm down there there's nothing my friends or family can do for me. I have to start from scratch creating totally new relationshsips, and that might be the biggest challenge. It's also something I need. I need to be self-sufficient.
Anyone going to the Arts Festival?
Jun. 14th, 2006
06:48 pm - Bienvenido a México
I just got my itinerary for Mexico, and it includes:
--3 days in Mexico City, including the Frida Fucking Kahlo Musuem
--20 Day homestay in a fair trade coffee community in Oaxaca state
--3 days in Oaxaca City, including a visit to the Mayan ruins at Monte Albán
--2 days at the beach in "eco-cottages"
I'm really excited, a little nervous, and really really dreading packing.
Jun. 8th, 2006
May. 21st, 2006
08:35 pm
As I Lay Slepting
1 Not About Love - Fiona Apple
2 Parisian Dream - Laura Veirs
3 Pin - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
4 Combat Baby - Metric
5 Lines in the Suit - Spoon
6 Some Red Handed Sleight of Hand - Cursive
7 He War - Cat Power
8 Breakin' Down - Ben Harper
9 Quit Doin' It - Mates of State
10 Watchmaker - Excuse 17
11 Touch the Sky - Kanye West
12 Automatic Music - Stereo Total
13 Timorous Me - Ted Leo + Pharmacists
14 Color Bars - Elliot Smith
15 What Is Your Secret? - Nada Surf
16 Banquet - Bloc Party
17 Ivan Meets G.I. Joe - The Clash
18 Strange - Built to Spill
19 Real Heat - Denali
May. 17th, 2006
10:58 pm
Uuuggghhhh do I really have to start thinking about college recommendations and applications?
Hannah, I think you would fit in really well at Grinnell.
"Mushaboom" by Feist is a fucking ridiculous song.
Apr. 28th, 2006
03:08 pm
I was looking forward to not having school today so much and now I don't know what to do with myself. Blarg.
Something that I touched in one of my aquariums is making my finger all swollen and sore. I hope it isn't poison.
I heart Shakira. That's right, I said it.
Ed Fallon called exotic dancers "artists" last night. I think he should be governor of Iowa.
I think I'm going to end up working at Salvy until I leave for Mexico because no one wants to hire me when I'll be gone all of July. This thought is really depressing. As is the fact that I'm going to miss tons of graduation parties because of work.
I only went to US History once last week. Score.
I just found out that Valley's after prom is at Jordan Creek. If that is in fact the case, then I'm not going. I hope my Valley friends don't underestimate how serious I am about this boycott.
May 1 is Day Without Immigrants. Unfortunately my AP test is that day, but after that I'm not going to school or work.
"But Annie," some people ask, "You're not an immigrant, why do you care?"
"Fuck you," I say to them, "My ancestors were, and so were yours, unless you are Native American." I'm doing it to show solidarity with my hermanos y hermanas.
I'll laugh when some dumbass kids from my school drive all the way to Tasty's during lunch only to find out that it's closed. Tools.
Apr. 6th, 2006
05:56 pm
Well I'm not going to Ghana.
But I AM going to Mexico!! Specifically Oaxaca. I'm thinking Mexico is a better match than Ghana because the focus of the program is sustainable development and fair trade. And that's my shit. Not to mention Guacamole and The Cabbage.
Hannah T and I are thinking about having a fundraiser to help raise the money we don't have for our trips. Maybe just a big backyard party where we dance for quarters.
Mar. 30th, 2006
01:03 pm
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties
See this movie, learn your rights, and fight for them.
Mar. 11th, 2006
12:36 pm
All of my entries have been really lame lately. So here.
Yeah....so I made this screen in graphic design and the printing teacher was all like "You're only going to print one shirt?!" So I should probably use this screen more than once. So if anyone wants one of these guys, let me know.
Mar. 9th, 2006
05:47 pm
Sometimes I feel like I've just been observing my life from this body. Every once in a while for a brief moment I feel completely detatched, like what I'm seeing and feeling and hearing isn't registering in my brain. I can feel myself walking down the halls and I can feel people brushing up against me and I can hear snippets of conversations and recognize familiar faces, but I still get this feeling like I'm not all there. At the same time I've been having really strange dreams, parts of which seem completely real and directly translate to something in my life, but that morphs into something completely fantastical with no explanation, or even words to describe it.
Mar. 2nd, 2006
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