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I haven't updated this thing in awhile, so I thought I would while I am bored at work.
I have a real, adult job now. I am a technical business analyst for a pharmaceutical management company. The work is okay, my co-workers are nice, semi-convenient location, awesome benefits. Adult life is not really that bad, the worst part is time management and making time for work, the gym, MYSELF, errands/life, friends. It's tough, but I am working through the kinks of it all.
I'm looking to move out of my current apartment, because now that I have a j-o-b, I can afford to live somewhere more comfortable. So, I am semi on the market for a new apartment/house, preferably in South Philly, a little closer to work..i'm in no rush to move, but it would be nice to settle down somewhere with a BIG kitchen, a living room and a seperate bedroom.
I have also FINALLY managed to get into the habit of going to the gym every day again. Once you get over the lazy hump, it's hard NOT to go. I've been going every morning, 5 days a week for the past 3 weeks. 3 weeks and going strong! It feels nice to be working out again. I am toning up and losing what I gained during my (practically one year long) break. I didn't gain a lot of weight, but I gained back the hardest pounds that I lost before...but I guess that's what I get for being lazy/overworked from school. Regardless, I am pretty stoked on life because of it and my tummy is getting flatter and my muscles more toned, and I love what my body is doing with it.
On the topic of my body, i have a real deal legit ass now. The wonders what bike riding, ellipticalling, squats and lunges can do to one's flat behind. It's REAL nice too...i mean I don't have much, but its a couple steps up from what I was working with before. sup at me.
This past weekend, labor day weekend, i went camping for the first time. IT WAS SO FUCKING FUN! SO SO RIDICULOUSLY FUN. swimming in the BEAUTIFUL lake a million times a day, staring up at the bright, starry sky, talking shit, ghetto cooking FEASTS, the beautiful campgrounds, wonderful company....probably one of the best weekends I have had in a long, long time, hands down.
In October, I am planning on going to Toronto with Gavin and June. This will probably trump camping weekend, sorry George haha. Can't wait to hop over the border, Canada seems like it could be a potentially awesome time. We are also stopping at Niagra Falls on the way down too, hopefully! Can't wait!
One thing that's relatively negative in my life is the lack of yoga. Bikram yoga takes dedication because it takes so much time to do. It's 90 minutes, but it ends up being a 3 hour block of time when you consider walking there, getting there early enough to get a good spot, 90 minutes of yoga, 20 minutes of post-yoga, walking home, showering. The only time I could realistically fit it into my schedule is if I do it at 6:15am, but that would mean I'd have to wake up at 5:30 and I am not sure if I can make that commitment. I am already waking up at 6:10 as it is for the gym....oh man.
that's all i got.
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i will never get a whole summer off ever again. i am a real deal adult now. not really looking forward to getting old.
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[01 Apr 2008|10:44pm] |
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It's been a month and a half and I figured I should update this thing.
I FINALLY GRADUATED COLLEGE!!! Finaaaally. My last term grades ruled too:
INFO 365: A-
INFO 480: A
INFO 426: A-
COM 380: A-
STAT 202: C (C for COULD CARE LESS)
I did goood. Now I am just hanging out, not trying to worry about too much. Viva Las Vegans is paying me money to make vegan banana bread, made the absolute healthiest way possible. Totally rules because I get money, people buy and eat my food and I get a free sandwich out of it. Today I had the best conversation with her about catering to the vegan health conscious-trying not to rely on too much soy protein-i work out a lot and am sick of eating gross tasting supplement bars. I'm gonna try to make cookies with hemp protein that taste good!
I NEED A HAIRCUT REALLY BADLY.
I am going to Austin, Texas in 2 weeks, should be way fun.
I am going to Israel in a month and a half, should also be way fun.
Trying to land a job for the month of June, but I am currently not worrying about it. I'M TRYNA LIVE RIGHT NOW.
Yoga rules. The gym back in my life rules. Eating healthy rules. I love vegetables. I love fruit. I love tofu. I love sore muscles getting TOUGH AS SHIT AGAIN. My new goal is to lose the last couple pounds and to sculpt the most amazing shoulders and upper back. It's gonna take some time, and I am willing to be patient with it. Since the stress of Fall term, I reintroduced sugar back into my diet, and now I am working reaaallly hard to ween myself off of it again. Too bad sugar tastes so good and is incredibly addicting. Oh well, I have faith in me.
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i would just like to note that i was in a dressing room the other day. i had a dress on. i was looking at myself in the mirror and had my back turned towards it, but my head turned backwards to see myself and i was standing on my tippy toes in order to see the hem of the dress in the mirror (tight space), and holy shit. the back of my calves are INSANE. SO SO SO INSANE. i have retardedly muscular calves. (and thighs, and ass, and upper arms (not my triceps, I WISH!)) thank you yoga, thank you bicycle. <3
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[24 Dec 2007|07:54pm] |
total body transformation. i wasn't kidding. it's been done. i am really healthy so i am healing very well, infact my doctor told me i am the first patient he has ever had that never took the prescribed pain medication. i quite honestly didn't even need it. i took it a total of 3 times, but mostly for shits and giggles since i was bored haha. i am not 100% sure if it was exactly what I wanted or not. obviously i won't know for at least 2 months. i just honestly wanna get back to normal. out of bed, off the couch, i wanna get new clothes and get new bras and get a new sports bra and get back to the fucking daily grind. i am literally CRAVING the gym right now. I mean, seriously, honestly CRAVING it. I'd kill to be on the elliptical right now or on MY BIKE or get in the yoga studio. I wanna sweat my ass off, I wanna get my heart rate up, I wanna feel the burn of my muscles. I wanna get even more fit than I am right now. I am ready for it. I can't wait til I can get back to this.
So, it is officially 3 more months. HOLY SHIT 3 more months. I AM GRADUATING. I hope winter term will be just as good as fall term. Fall Term my grades were as follows:
Info420: A+
Info425: A-
Info205: B
Blaw: B
Stat201: B-
Psy330: A-
YEAH. 3 A's and 3 B's. FUUUCCK YEAH. Not baaaddd. This was one of the hardest terms so far. Panic attacks, many sleepless nights, many nights spent inside studying when all I wanted to do was sleep or be a normal human being and go OUT. OOF. It's done and over with. One more term left!!
Wednesday, I will officially sit down and look/apply for jobs. NOT stoked. I am not looking forward to the job searching process because quite frankly I don't know exactly what I want or what I want to do or where I want to work. I don't know if I wanna stay in Philly or move to NYC. I am pretty sure I have narrowed it down to these two cities. If I do stay in Philly I really really really really only want to work in center city. I really really really do not want to commute to South Jersey or PA suburbs (GROSS) because honestly I hate driving and I have really come to hate hate hate suburbia. Holy repetition.
okay, that's it.
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[08 Nov 2007|11:18pm] |
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steph just updated and said that her bff's arent updating regularly. so, i thought i would satisfy her lj creeping. even though everything i have to say is old news to her since i talk to the babe every day hahaha. <3
well
i am completely stressed the fuck out. panic attacks. sleep deprivation. overworked. overwhelmed. this is my life. this will continute to be my life until march 2008. i want to sleep. i want to exercise regularly. i want to eat like i used to with control. ive been stress binging and not supplementing this with formal exercise. after this weekend, this will change. i have to make sure of it because its added stress for sure. and by binge eating i just mean, for example today i ate:
2 slices of 18 grain organic bread toasted with about 1 tablespoon of natural peanut butter (ingredients: peanuts. thats it) and some organic no-sugar-added jam
coffee. triple strength.
a grilled chiken sandwich from the vegan lunch truck
an apple
steamed cauliflower and my mom's stuffed peppers with cabbage.
this sounds really good. but then i ate:
soy ice cream + peppermint chocolate soymilk
a cupcake
guh. and i skipped yoga because im on 4 hours of sleep right now. but i am going tomorrow morning.
i really really hate school. i hate my senior design project aside from the fact that it has the potential of being a cash cow and there is now currently a capital investor involved. i hate my group. not all of them. just most of them. i dont know why i thought it was a good idea to be on the same team as another girl because she is a mega bitch. i really hate talking about this because it bothers me that much. so next subject
steph i dont know why im updating. i have nothing positive to say about my life right now
i havent had a spare moment to myself in the last 3 weeks. i have been trying to get out downtown to shop for some business casual clothes, which i need for tuesday by the way and i literally havent had a spare minute. this past weekend i couldnt go out. i had to stay in and write two papers. sunday dinner my brother came over. we're eating dinner and all of a sudden, with food in my mouth, i lose my appetite. put my fork down and start crying. it was awful. also today i was in a senior design meeting and this kid comes up and starts talking to my other team members and im looking at him and his name sounds so familiar and he looks so familiar, and im still looking at him and i couldnt figure out where i knew him from. about a minute later he sees me and is like "elli?? how aree you!!" and i honestly felt like an idiot so i was like "uhh, i dont mean to sound like a dick, but i know i know you, but where do i know you from?" and hes like "uhhh....we used to work together??? at goe" FUCK. i was working there up until about 3 months ago. honestly, how do you forget somebody that you used to talk to on a regular basis??? this is just an example of where my mind has been and how completely disoriented my brain has been
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i just drank som kava tea and im feeeeling goooood hahaha.
uh today i was in whole foods. i was dressed real cute. but i have stress pimples. 3 different cute and non-cute dudes said helllo to me and one started straight up trying to converrrsee with me haha. it was a nice way to get me out of a pissed mood
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i have a crush on a "normie" hahah. its this kid in one of my info classes. he has like the biggest hardon for me ever. always looking back at me in class to check up on me and see what im doing and when i catch him creeping he always smiles. and hes alwaaays tryna talk to me. and the best part is, he has some legitimately good things to say. he's knowledgeable about politics and worldy affairs and american economics which is like boner material for me, holy shit. the other day he was walking me out of class and we bumped into my favorite professor in the hall and i started to talk to the professor and he just waited there for me and continued to walk me out. so cute. and also the other day i went to sit behind him and he goes "why are you sitting there?" and i go "because its by the window" and he says "uh huhh...(HUGE PAUSE) you know you just wanted to watch me play solitare on my computer" i totally thought he was gonna blow up my spot because im pretty sure he knows that i know and that he knows that its mutual hahaha. its pretty sad that going to class is literally the highlight of my week. IS THAT BOGUS OR WHAT?? jeez
couple of things outside of school i want to get accomplished:
get a suscription to The Economist
get a suscription to a veggie magazine. I'm thinking VegTimes or something like it?
Look into getting a new desktop for my parents house and a new laptop for me.
apply to: microsoft and google. both in seattle
buy some business casual clothes
TAKE A MENTAL BREAK.
im gonna go shower and go to sleep. 9 hours of sleep tonight. GET INTO ITTTT
tomorrow is going to be sooo good. favorite human beings. good food. good hangage. well needed. cant wait to see you. <3
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159!!!!!!!!!!!!159!!!!159!!!!159!!!!159!!!
FUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKKKKKYEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHH!!!!!
It's officially one year and I have officially lost 65 pounds.
My real one-year goal was to be 155. I'm 4 pounds away from that. It's October 20th. There are still 11 days in this month. It's feasibile. But if I don't lose those measily 4 pounds, I'm not letting it bring me down. I had a rough plateu of a summer. I BROKE DOWN THE 160 BARRIER THOUGH!! YESS!!! I am really determined. Nothing is gonna bring me down.
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[11 Sep 2007|12:07am] |
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I've had the same yellow flowers sitting on my coffee table for a week now. They're still alive. I got them last Sunday. It was September 2nd last Sunday. It was also my half birthday last sunday. Accompanying the bouquet of flowers was a birthday card with a dinosaur on it. It was from aaron. Who I consequently started dating last week and last night, or I guess this morning he became my boyfriend after only a week of dating. I don't care that it's only been a week. I honestly haven't been this stoked on a dude since....maybe ever. To be honest, I never was really really into any of my boyfriends. Like I was never really stoked on them. Like david for instance, I was never reaally into him like he was into me but I just went with it for all the wrong reasons. Sean? gross. i mean, i could sit here and go through them and tell you how i felt going into the relationships, and i will just be saying the same things, i never really felt anything special.
i don't know. he just left here about an hour ago and i already miss him. and he left his hoodie here last week and i sleep with it next to me. jesus fucking christ. he's reallly comfortable. like when we sleep together and cuddle, it just feels right. there is no awkward "where do i put my hands" and my head fits perfectly in his neck. guh. when did i become this fucking person??? i can't wait for the fall, it's gonna be good.
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[03 Sep 2007|09:25pm] |
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i think i just had the cutest 24 hours of my adult life right just now. details as they come. no jinxing.
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[20 Aug 2007|06:29pm] |
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i wrote a bunch of shit in here last night and i was just being a negative nancy, so i deleted everything i wrote.
a couple of things:
i almost died last night. my car spun out of control and now the rear of the car is all fucked and my trunk wont open and it needs body work.
last night and today i cleaned out both of my closets. my WHOLE ENTIRE WINTER CLOSET IS EMPTY. I have a couple of band hoodies in there that I just can't part with, and by a couple I just mean two and by i can't part with i mean, are way oversized and i would never be able to wear them out of the house but the bands are pretty huge right now and these hoodies date back from honestly like maybe 1999 and 2000. $ebay$
HOW FUCKING LIBERATING THOUGH. I completely rid myself of every oversized garment I own, and by oversized i mean, it once fit but is now humongous on me. It was amazing trying on old sweaters and jackets and wrapping myself in them. HOLY SHIT, i seriously didn't realize how much weight I lost until i put on my winter jackets. Inches and inches and inches. absolutely insane. next month my mom is coming into the city so she can take me shopping at H&M and the gap outlet and maybe urban if there are decent sales. I honestly don't want to spend too much money on clothes that might not fit me in a couple months, but i DEFINATLY need a new fall/winter wardrobe because I literally have ONE PAIR OF JEANS and one light hoodie and one 3/4 sleeve shirt. Thats it. One outfit and none of it matches hahaha. stoked on that aspect of my life. I also need new eyeglasses because the ones I have now are too big for my face and keep sliding off my nose since my head shrunk. I dont know what kind I want to get, i should look into it soon.
schools okay. its week 9. that means there are 2 more weeks of summer term. 2 more weeks of summer. its cold and rainy outside right now and its totally fucking depressing me. my summer is gone and i feel as though i did nothing. i mean, i went to israel and swam in the mediteranian and some natural springs and i swam in a pool or two. but like thats it. i went to the beach a small handful of times. I HAVENT EVEN SWAM IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN YET!!! What is wrong with me? I think I'm just getting older/busier and haven't realized that my childhood is slowly leaving. I have two more terms left of school and I am done. I applied for early graduation and I will officially be done by the end of March. The end of September I am already applying for real life jobs. Its safe to say that I already miss being an un-adult and I haven't even graduated yet. guh. Also, to reiterate is almost the end of summer, meaning fall is coming, meaning daylight is slowly growing dimmer and dimmer. I have really come to love love love the sun and the heat, ever since Israel. I literally embrace the sun and getting sweaty. I fucking love it. Ive been sporting this amazing glow/tan since June and I dont want it to ever go away ever. I seriously look so good hahaa.
things on my agenda:
continue the weeding out process of shitheads in my life, which i have realized is pretty much everybody.
homework: mktg paper, mktg presentation, hrm word list, com proposal, com presentation, 215 paper, 300 take home final. all this in 2 weeks. very doable.
learn how to cook indian food
get new glasses
get new fall/winter clothes
stop being such a negative nancy
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[27 Jul 2007|03:52pm] |
today was excellent.
i woke up at 7:15am. got up full of energy. got on my bike and rode to the gym. had an excellent workout. got home, had an excellent morning preparing for work. got to work and within an hour and ahalf of being there, got fired. kevin was extremely apologetic because it wasnt his decision. i told him to not worry about it because i was quite glad i got fired. it saved me the trouble of quitting and allowed me the possibility of going on unemployment. unemployment at age 22, awesome haha. i hope it works out, not because i need the money, but because i just want to take more money from that awful, awful fucking company. kevin gave me the number to some woman he knew hat worked at sun microsystems in philly. i might give her a call on monday. she is a director of some department aparently. im not too eager to go back to work. i go to class full time, take 19 credits and its summer! my mom told me to call her and my dad told me to relax and not worry about getting another job until i graduate in 7 months. i'm going with my dad on this one. i have enough money saved up to continue paying for rent. i should be more than okay. also, i am currently in the process of buying tickets to fly to san francisco in early september. i'm going to go visit mary and stay with her. i figure i am arriving on the friday she has off and we'll have the whole weekend to hang out. and then during the week while she is at work, i can take a bus into san fran (she lives in the suburbs of) and hang out during the day. maybe rent a car so i can venture out of the san francisco area. actually i dont know how it all works in california, so obviously im gonna need to do a little more research. maybe rent a bike instead? whatevs. im going to californiaaa
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[18 Jul 2007|09:32pm] |
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listening to shai hulud on the elliptical was pretty much the best idea i had today.
also, drinking 4 different white wines and 4 different red wines in my wine and spirits class was pretty much the sweetest part of my day.
last week we drank 6 different beers - 2 pilsners, 2 pale ales, an oatmeal stout <3, and a barleywine ale which was disgusting.
next week we are drinking local beers and having a small potluck. my professor rules. she's gonna teach me how to make homeade absinthe.
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[08 Jul 2007|11:57pm] |
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I got back from Israel over a week ago. I've been meaning to update this thing for awhile, but just haven't gotten around to it. I intended to share my journal that I kept while I was there, but I nixed that idea. Instead, I'm just gonna share the overview and the highlights.
First off, the trip itself was worth it. Israel is an amazing country. It's seriously so beautiful and so fucking sad at the same time. Life is pretty much westernized over there and it's so surreal seeing people with pistols and handguns on them going into a McDonalds or a Starbucks. During our trip, we had one or two armed guards with us at all times, depending on where we were and I can honestly say, I would have felt comfortable without them (maybe thats just the ignorant American talking). While I was there, I was honestly thinking about moving there for at least the 3 months I have before I officially graduate, and maybe even for longer. I came up with this idea while staying at Kibbutz En Gev. It was like 11:00 at night and I was on my way to meet up at the bar on the grounds, and I took a pitstop at the beach. I layed on this hammock, on the beach of Lake Kinneret, by myself, with my iPod on Morrissey, under the moon (which was so much brighter there) and the stars and Mars, and Jupiter and Venus and looking out at the water and looking out at the city, Tiberius and just thinking to myself "this is where I want to spend a (majority) of my life." And it felt so real and I felt so calm and everything just felt so right at that moment (which lasted about an hour an a half.) I don't know, I had everything figured out. There's some background story to this, like visiting Mt. Herzl the day before and seeing all the cemetary plots of soldiers who were younger than me. And seeing this girl, who had to be about my age or younger, sitting at one of the graves, silently, just staring at the plot. She must have been visiting her brother or a boyfriend or something. And I just looked at her and forced back the tears in my eyes. I can't even fucking comprehend the feelings she must be feeling, losing somebody so close to her at such a young age, and this being the reality of most of the youth of that country. Insane. I had a similar moment on one of my first nights there. We were at a Bedioun camp, in the middle of the desert in the south. The night we stayed there, we all hiked out through the desert so we were in a big empty plot with nothing around us (except for a white surveilance blimp and some dry bush) and we all gathered in a circle to hear a story and then we all seperated by ourselves and I was just sitting literally in the middle of nowhere in the desert, under the moon and stars and highly visible planets with our own thoughts in complete silence for a good 20 - 30 minutes. Unreal.
These moments and some of the places we visited and some of the people I talked to were all the redeeming points of the trip. I was really annoyed throughout most of it because the majority of the kids on the trip just finished their freshman year of college, so everybody was still 18 - 19, ignorant, annoying, incredibly unintelligent and still in there COLLLEEGGGE/BEEEEER stage. There was a small fraction of us who just graduated and were 22-23. Huge age gap in terms of maturity and you could definatly tell who was 3 years younger/older. There were other birthright trips there while we were there and a lot of them seemed to be graduate/young professional trips, which I should have been on..but they were probably just on the same PARTY mentality level as the younger kids in my group. Oof.
That's pretty the jist of it.
I started class a week late last week. 19 credits, 6 classes. So far my Social Aspects of Info Systems (I think thats the name of it) seems like the most time consuming/labor intensive. So far for it I have to read 3 more chapters (already read 3 today) and write a 5 page paper on the culture of the dot com industry by Tuesday. Summer term, really shouldnt be too bad, although my Tuesdays fucking suck. 9:30 am to 9 pm with one official 30 minute break and it seems like my night class professor is a dickhead and will seriously make us stay til 9.
Right now my stomach is in pain. I have had a stomach bug (not flu, not virus, but bug) since Tuesday. It's now Sunday. It's been so bad that I had to go to the emergency room yesterday because the pain is just getting to be too much. They put me on a clear liquids diet, which I violated and later regretted. So now I am back on it haha. I'm hoping if I keep it light and starchy (ugh) it will go away soon because I would really hate to take antiobiotics.
While I was in Israel I lost 3 pounds. Amazing. It was eating a lot of fresh veggies and fruit (mediterranean diet <3) and doing a good amount of vigorous activities. The best part, for example, was climbing up the Masada (a huge mountain) and everybody complaining about how tired they were and how much their muscles ache and how much their thighs hurt and how their legs won't stop quivering and there I was, never once complained, infact feeling quite nice and I could have honestly climbed it again without feeling any pain whatsoever. It felt really good being more physically fit than the majority of the people there. But yeah, I have 14 more pounds to go. Today my dad told me I should stop where I am and eat something because I am "too skinny" haha it's nice hearing my dad say that. It's gonna be tough in a couple days when my stomach gets better. I didn't formally exercise while I was in Israel and when I got back, I only got to really get into it two days before my stomach bug came on, which rendered me unable to do anything too rigorous. It was tiring riding my bike to class on Thursday, oooffff. Oh well, when I get back into it, it will be a challenge again. I look forward to it.
I need to take a shower and wash my hair and do some fucking homework. Ugh. Tonight and tomorrow night are going to be homework hell.
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Just a really short update:
I'm leaving for Israel in a couple hours. It hasn't set in yet that I am leaving, even with me packing my luggage and even with me calling my aunts and cousins asking when they are gonna meet up with me there. But, I'll be really stoked and excited once I actually get on the plane, I am sure.
I weigh 167 pounds. Further weight loss will be a definate priority in my life once I return back home. Going back really strict, like I was before. I need to step up my game on the exercising big time. I'm actually kinda stoked on it. One potential downfall is my wine and spirits class. It's mandatory that I drink a lot for that class hahaha. I don't know, whatever. I'm just gonna enjoy myself.
The boy I was seeing for a really long time is like, officially officially out of my life. He called me a couple times this weekened and I didn't pick up, nor did i reply to any of his text messages. Good for me. No more lowlives, please.
Life is pretty good right now. I can't complain. I have my health, my shrinking waistline, my friends, my decent grades, a steady paycheck, a nice handful of male followers, an insurance approval of some future surgery, and now i'm apparently a jetsetter.
And when I get back, I get to see the man himself, Morrissey.
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[18 May 2007|04:19pm] |
I don't know. I have a lot of shit going on in my head right now. I just found out yesterday that I am graduating early. March 2008 instead of June 2008. It's the difference of one term/3 months and quite frankly I don't mind. Graduating early is going to rule. Instead of having a year of senior light terms (i.e. 5 classes instead of 6), I just have to take one extra class per term, which doesn't mean anything to me because I already have been taking 6 classes a term since I can remember, hence me graduating earlier. I hope everything works out okay. I had to add a class to my summer schedule. Wine tasting. I am taking a class in which I will be drinking wine and getting graded for it. I can't complain about taking an extra class, it's gonna fucking rule.
I'm going to Israel in exactly a month. I'm going to see Morrissey the day after I get back. Summer of fitness. Summer of achieving higher-babe-status.
I finally got rid of the dude I was seeing for awhile. He hasn't really accepted it yet, but oh well. I am working on weeding out all of the shitty people in my life, and step 1 has been completed.
Two nights ago, I had a semi-sweet time with steph. I want to do it again for sure, but this time under different circumstances. life-altering. steph, let's go on a fancy date sometime next week. picnic in rittenhouse? horizons? wine? i want to wear a dress, preferably. lets play dress up haha. i need to pee.
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169169169169169!!!!!!! FUCKING FINALLY BROKE OUT OF THE 170'S!!!! FUCK YEYSYEYS it took so long, but i made it!! even with my thursday night double dinner and alcohol binge.
19 more pounds.
19 more pounds.
dear summer,
i love you so much. i can't wait to eat all of your gorgeous produce, almost exclusively and play in your warm sun at all possible times. i want to learn how to play tennis and i want to bike ride and walk and run and play basketball and soccer and kickball and swim in the ocean and play in the sand and eat watermelon. but i hate your nj mosquitos.
i love you,
elli.
p.s. summer, i'm going to be a babe by the time you get here, just to give you a heads up.
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[27 Apr 2007|12:02pm] |
I don't really have anything of substance to say. I am officially a busy person. I work MWF 8 hours a day at my second to last job doing tech support/GUI design and then Tues/Thurs I have class all day. My Tuesdays suck for the most part as I have class from 8am-9pm with two 1-hour breaks in between classes. And my night class has been getting out at 8 instead of 9, which is amazing because I only have a 12 hour day instead of a 13 one. OOOOFF. School is okay. I'm doing pretty well in macroeconomics (i'll find out officially on Tuesday when I get my midterm back, but I think I did pretty okay) which was my main concern for this term. My Human Computer Interaction 2 class sucks because my professor reaaaalllly reaallly sucks. He's nice but he's a really shitty teacher and it takes a lot of effort to understand what he is saying. Which is terrible because it's my concentration and I'm pretty sure it's what I want to do with the rest of my life. My public speaking class is okay. I made an informative speech about veganism and how it promotes a healthy lifestyle. I got an 89 on the speech which I thought went pretty well and I followed his guidelines. I think he was just being a biased asshole and didn't give me the one extra point because of the content of my speech rather than my delivery. My next speech I'm going to do is a persuasive speech about recycling haha. i'm seriously such a hippy. I saw some girl in that class throw a water bottle out in the regular garbage when there was a recycling bin right next to it, I wanted to punch her. My ethics class is sweet, the professor is one of my favorite professors I've had and the books we are reading are written by an ultra-liberal philosopher who sides with animals rights and has a bunch of things Peter Singer wrote and even recommended the readers to pick up a copy of Animal Liberation. Seriously so awesome. My Social Gerentology class is eh. Boring material. My professor thinks he is a comedian and he has the best stories and he's a seasoned cyclist and has these gnarley cycling stories about getting hit by cars and breaking his shoulder in 10 different places. MY AI class is super interested and the professor loves me. But he was out last week and he gave us like seriously about 8 hours worth of homework to do and I haven't started it yet and it's due in 4 days. OOOF. I'm gonna have to stay in this weekend and make sure I finish it by Sunday because if we do well on it, he's gonna count it as a midterm. I think I already made a post about all this academia bullshit, but whatever.
ISRAEL. I'm going in a month and a half. I had to go to the Consulate last week to renew my Israeli passport and make sure I am signed out of the IDF officially so I don't have any problems entering my mothercountry. The last thing I want is getting stopped at the airport and being detained. FUCK hahaha. I'll be there from June 18 - June 30th. I'm staying a couple extra days so I can visit my aunt, uncle and cousins in Haifa. I really have to ask my cousin if she can take me to the airport though...I'll have to call her sometime this weekend so I know I can officially extend my stay. Now that I'm thinking about it, traveling by myself on a 12-13 hour flight is gonna be rough. ughh. I guess I'll deal. I'll have homework to do I am sure since I will be missing my first week of summer class.
I've been really excited on running. like, I look forward to it. I am starteing yoga, officially next week since I'll be working the 12 - 8 shift and I'll have plenty of time in the morning to run and do yoga. Summer of fitness, so stoked. I am looking really good these days and it will only improve during the summer months.
I don't know. I think thats it. I work, go to school, do homework, run, sleep, eat, hang out and poop. that's my life. i'm into it.
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[12 Apr 2007|06:02pm] |
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amy and i are going to israel for 2 weeks in june. it's official. and free!!
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[11 Apr 2007|05:34pm] |
i need to get my life in order. my brain is going on overload, it's getting pretty bad.
and i just had the most refreshing 16 hours of my current life.
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