Things My Mum and I Enjoy on TV Together

*Daytime Soaps
*Univision
*Yo Yo Ma
*Hallmark Movies
*"Oliver" and "Two Fat Ladies" on the Food Network
*Random Law Dramas

Be calm young lovers and follow your star, be calm and faithful and true, cling very close to each other tonight, i've been in love like you...

Today was my day off, so I slept in late. Then my mum and I went shopping, and I got a new messenger bag and two pairs of shoes. The mall scares me. It's a heinous place and I never want to work there. But, at least I came out alive with shoes. I think I've been influenced by too much Sex in the City watching, because I kind of went crazy in there. And I've never bought unpractical shoes before, but these are just so IMPRACTICAL. It's awesome. good times.

Ah, then I went to Yujung's house for 4 1/2 HOURS to help setup her campaign, mostly making her graphics. I'll be wearing her campaign shirt all week to promote, as will Anna, because I say so. We've got teensy slips of paper and stars to hand out, like last year. Yujung is running against Nate Lindquist. I don't care SO much if she wins this year or not. I mean, I'll help out how I can, but last year was so frantic and desperate. She's mellowed out a bit, but maybe she is just more listlessly depressed.

I, however, am not trying to catagorize her, just to be clear.

Since Rose is not feelin' so hot (feel better!), I decided not to watch But I'm A Cheerleader for the second time in two days like I was planning, and instead I watched Almost Famous on ABC, and a little bit of an oxygen movie, that was with Denise Richards in a threesome. I love oxygen movies. Denise is such a bad actress, it's kind of sad, but there's a place for all these things. Yeah, so now I'm tired and I ate a whole bunch of Morinaga Hichew green apple chews so I think my teeth are going to rot, but they're nummy. Too bad they're all gone now...

I don't believe I am (necessarily) a lesbian. What was trying to verbalise earlier was simply that I enjoy the lesbian love scene in Cheerleader much better than many heterosexual love scenes in Hollywood blockbusters, say, Top Gun for instance. Maybe this culture is too desensitized to sensuality, or it just isn't portrayed anymore. Touch, I mean.

Dinner tonight was so cute! Teesy-weensy Nori squares, with rice, and strips of tofu, carrot, cabbage, crab fish, beef etc all rolled up, garnished with soy sauce and wasabi with little spoons! And little bowls of mushroom soup! Yujung's mom is so awesome!

My day really wasn't so bad after all. Next week I'm going to do more things I want to do in the evenings, I'm going to MAKE IT HAPPEN. So there. If that works out (only an econ project due on tuesday! oh no, and that history test...) then I won't have to wait for Saturday to goof off. Seven days is too long to wait for another break.

Neutral Milk Hotel

Last nights song was "Two Headed Boy, Part II." Today is "Comely." I can explain but I won't:
...........................................LISTEN........................................

Battle of the Bands

All I can say is that Jamey freaking rocks on the drums! Oh, and it was funny tonight because Drew kept pointing out how intensely rockerish Carey is. I think Carey smiled at me but I'm not sure.. :)

Yeah, so I paid $5 but Mann-Wood had gone on earlier than expected, so I only heard 1 15-minute-long song before I had to leave to give Anna the car to go to Drew's abode to record. Oh well, it was fun making an "appearance" anyway. I was so jazzed up when I got home that I didn't want to go to sleep. Oh, and that STUPID girl who keeps coming to art club was at the show, and she was dancing around moronically and hooting. The whole room was filled with sage smoke. I talked with Ariel a bit. Enough on that.

Rose's street is littered with kittens!

PS. You know those people you sometimes see singing in their cars like no one is watching? That's me.

She's got keys!

Today I drove wherever I pleased. It was freakin'awesome! And then I ran into Matthew in the parking lot of Payless. Life is funny like that.

I am working on a mini-project but I can't tell anyone about it!

Oh, and I'm going hip-hop dancing on Saturday. Fo-shizzle.

so...tired

haha

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Estudiando

I worked on math for SO long today during school. And then I talked to Courtney about my paper thing after Econ for a while. At least I have a good book to read, or else I think I would go insane. I spent a long time reading it yesterday, sitting in the graveyard. It struck me that I saw NO ONE that I know there, and our town is relatively large in that respect because you can escape to public places that are really nice but no one will find you there. It would be weird to be buried because then people would sit near you and read and write poetry and stuff like that, while you are RIGHT THERE. But it doesn't matter, I suppose, because you aren't really there anyway.

It's ominous outside today. I hope whoever reads this is okay.

17 at 1:40

Happy Birthday to me!

~Maia

Couple Nonsense

Guys Who People Tell Me I Would Look Cute With As A Couple:
-Lucas
-Drew
-Matthew
-the other Matthew
-Joho
-Alex H

Girls Who People Tell Me I Would Look Cute With As A Couple:
-no one

Conclusions:
-Cuteness rules
-I am not a cute lesbian

Owl Eyes

I feel like Adrien Brody.

This July

Oh, update quickly. News: The odds are quite good that Rose and I will be moving to Portland this summer, the odds are bad, however, that we'll be able to walk around, say, the area of the Roseland Theater downtown at night by ourselves. Because, sadly, we are girls. And apparently I don't give off a very "if you touch me I'll break your back" type vibe. So, yes, if we want to go to a concert, Lucas or Drew will probably be called or something.

Maia's Social Commentary

OK, If y'all want to know how I'm doing, then call me or something.

I've decided this blog shall be for social commentary, pop and politics, less "my crisis" ranting, and more good old-fashioned down-to-business ranting. Maybe I'll add links on here for things that interest me or something. I just feel better about it that way, or else this blog will die. And I don't want this blog to die, especially since I just revamped it and everything. I'm really quite attached to it.

To start my new blog way of life, I'll post one of the letters I wrote to my penpal in Austria, because what is more interesting than a letter? Hooray for the free press! By the way, Connie is 15 years old, from near Vienna, Austria, and her first language is German, although she also speaks English because her mother is from Australia :)

Hi Connie,

Austria seems like a really romantic and awesome place to live.

Right now I'm sitting at my dad's computer, in his study, and I can hear the clacking of my sister's high heels as she is moving around the house, getting ready to go to a orchestra concert. She is wearing a black feather boa, with her long hair down. Lots of pizazz :)

You know, I love music too! I love Belle and Sebastian, and Weezer, and the Shins, and lots of other "indie" bands in the states and overseas. Do you like alternative, or hip hop, or mainstream, or underground music? What do you like about it?

My school is really difficult too, especially since I'm in classes like calculus, and 4th year spanish. I love my school, because it is really liberal and people are accepting here. Homophobia is not a big problem like it is at some other schools, and people are free to speak their opinions. However, it is not so pleasant to be a republican and/or christian at this school because you have to be constantly defending yourself. There is a lot of prejudice in this country, but then, there is also a lot of blind trust. I am talking right now more about republicanism than christianity, because I am fine with christianity, but I'm angry about republicanism. Our president right now (George W. Bush) is a republican and he pushed his way into office by using the Supreme Court, so the people here didn't actually vote him into office. He infuriates me. And since you are from another country, I just want to apoligize on behalf of all Americans, even though it won't change what we have done, because I am really truly deeply sorry about our interferance overseas, and in the affairs of many other countries. I and many other people in the USA think that George Bush is an idiot, and I really hope that he loses the election this year so he won't muck up the world even more than he already has.

Let's see, you asked how school is like here. I go to a big highschool, with 2000 students, although I suppose it is fairly small in comparison to highschools in China or Japan or places like that. There is a lot of competition to do well at my school, although it is mainly competition to get into a good college, rather than a competition to see who gets to go to college. I had a friend once who moved here from South Korea, but then she had to move back, and she had to work really hard to get into a school that taught English well, because if you didn't get into that school then you were at a disadvantage and got a worse education. But the public school system here is really well taught, although we are under-funded.

I have one best friend named Rose, and a larger circle of friends (mostly girls) named Megan, Rachel, Tricia, Lerryn, Yujung, Carina, and Danika. My guy friends are named Lucas and Drew, and Matthew I suppose, although I don't know him that well yet. I just met them this year, but they are really nice and intelligent and funny, though they all have their quirks.

Rose is wonderful, I have known her for almost fifteen years now. We met when we were toddlers. Today we are still best friends. She is a musician, and she finished her debut album (called Fairy Stories) this past fall. She wrote all the songs herself, and performed them too. I played trumpet on one of the tracks, although I don't play trumpet anymore.

My other friends are mostly Asian, and they are really into their schoolwork, although I hate to generalize them like that. Tricia has an infectious joyful laugh, and Yujung is our school Vice President. Rachel is a friend of mine from middle school, and she is on swim team and works a lot at her parent's asian food store/restaurant. She has shoulder-length black hair, and loves Hello Kitty (excessively perhaps?). Lerryn is a friend of mine, although I don't see her that often, and she has really bad luck. The people in her family don't live very long, and get all kinds of illnesses and diseases. But I like Lerryn, although some people don't, because she can be bossy. But often people change when you take the time to pay attention to them, and in the past few months I realized that she really is an interesting person, with a quirky sense of humor.

Megan is a really really good friend of mine, who I met three years ago in freshman homeroom. Before that she went to a christian school, which was really small. Her mom is from Mexico, and she has a big Mexican family. Also she has a cousin who reminds me of Antonio Banderas, except an Antonio Banderas who is rather stupid with the maturity of a 12 year old boy. It's unfortunate. He has great hair though. Megan and I have become really close lately, and although we don't have any classes together, we still make time to see each other. Friendships outside of school really are the best because you get to know people on a deeper level.

Carina is a bit of an oddball, because she is republican and a christian, which is weird in my school. But you know what, it doesn't matter, because she is a really nice person, and I like her anyway. We can argue about her views on things, but her views don't depict who she is. I mean, I can get angry at her views, but I don't get angry at her.

Danika, I have known off and on for years, since first grade in fact. We are like planets that orbit in and out, and sometimes we align on the same path. She has horrible parents who yell a lot, and so she works really hard at school, I think maybe to block it out. And she is on crew team, which takes up a lot of time. -Censored- A bit twisted, isn't it? I don't like it. At all. Poor Patrick. . . he has been mistreated for a long time because he has alientated himself and been alienated for such a long time, since middle school. But although he has been seen as a social outcast, and now, some of my friends think, as creepy, he also has a twinkle in his eye when we talk. A joyful twinkle. and I like him for that :)

Oofda, it really is time for me to eat dinner now. And I have a bunch of homework to do. But it was nice writing to you, and I hope you enjoy hearing about my life, even though I can be a little disjointed when I right. If something doesn't make sense, don't hesitate to ask me what I mean. Sometimes I use slang. Is English your first language, or something else?

I'd love to hear more about your friends, or your school, or what you did this week, or what you want to do when you graduate, or if you have pets, or what you do in the summertime, or what you do when you're bored. If you have time to write that is.

Truly,

Maia

PS. I'm sorry if it takes me a while to write back, but I'm pretty busy and I want to have time to write you thoroughly and be inspired, because I like the idea of getting images and random bits of other people's lives through the mail, and I really want to put myself out there like that. It might be a while between letters, but I'll get back to you when I can.

There you have it! That was from a month or two ago. Don't you wish you were my penpal now?

PS. If you haven't played the hot air balloon game off the addictive games page, then you should. It's..er..soothing. Yeah. :)

Oh! Hostility!

I'm leaving really soon for Whitman so I just wanted to post and say I'm not suicidal or anything, as is evidence by my still being alive and all.

I have dead cherry blossoms in my hair and that is kind of annoying.

Oh, and I just got an email from my penpal in Austria and she said lots of stuff about terror attacks and things. We are kind of harping on it. But its interesting. Apparently lots of people in her school don't like other kids because they are Islamic. Connie is nice.

OH, I'm getting my hair cut next week, so if anyone wants to send me pics of haircuts (Rose??) then that would be cool because I don't know what I'm doing yet.

I wish I could hang out with you and the guys this weekend but oh well (*sigh). I could really use a Jamie Charlie Chaplin impression right now...

Oh, and thanks for the smoothie. You know who you are.

Oh, Anna, I listened to a bit of your mixed tape, hope you don't mind.

I saw a girl get into an argument with a parking-meter-maid-man today. I'm feeling entertaining.

meh

So yeah, fine, I've got to go pack now. Life is still dreadful.

PS. It's NOT my job to make other people conscientious. All I can do is listen, and if you don't talk, then things get futile. Sometimes I feel, like today and yesterday, that I'm being pulled back into the same old habits because my friends ARE my problems and I can't change them. And I'm being kind of slow changing myself. Which is a bad idea anyway. Screw that. I can be hostile if I WANT TO, dammit.

I wish I would just die.

no one counts the times i fail
if I waited at the bus stop you would never show up
even the bus driver doesn't know my name
and what's the point anyway?

A Service Announcement

Hi!

I'm tired and bored and exhausted and hyper yet feeling kind of ill and full of dread but excited for tomorrow but I'm not sure I really have the energy to be so never mind.

Greetings from your computer screen!

PS. You can totally comment in my lj account at www.livejournal.com/users/malarky87