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3:39PM

i hope this is a good weekend. the weather is supposed to be great and i have lots and lots of plans.

i don't really have much else to say.

5:12PM

i had skin cancer. some of you might have seen photos or whatever. its all gone, for now. i have to get a full body check again in a few weeks. my face is healing pretty well i guess, at least thats what everyone says. i appreciate the support but i'm still pretty depressed about it all.

9:22PM

i got back at about midnight last night from canada. it was fun. i will run down my adventures and then post pics at a later date.

saturday: was supposed to try on bridesmaids dresses in the afternoon until i found out we had to go to BOWIE to pick up kevin's ski equipment and then be in Sykesville by 4. Had to skip the dresses, haul ass to kevin's parents and got to sykesville by like 4:30 or 5. had to wait for karl to bring the car to phil and cindy's house so we could pack it. packed up the car. ate dinner, toasted the trip, tried to watch zodiac. the trip gets under way.

got to canada around 4:30 the next day after stopping in massachusettes, connecticut, and vermont. unloaded the car and chilled before dinner. we were at a ski resort called owl's head in quebec... about 1.5 hours east of montreal. it was cold as shit.. i think the warmest it got all week as about 18 degrees farenheit. it also snowed the whole time. anyway, so yeah. dinner. dinner was included in our package and every night it was amazing. they gave us itemized receipts even though we didnt have to pay anything and dinner was around $30 per person every night. i had some really good soups, i had lamb chops, filet mignon with bacon, rabbit (which is gross) and some other goodies. good desserts too.

every night after dinner we would go back to our condo and drink/play games/watch movies/sleep. very relaxing. games we played include talisman, apples to apples, uno, and clever endeavor.

monday rolls around and phil drives me up to the lodge to rent my skis and boots. i get that all taken care of and we all suit up to get on the slopes. i havent skied in about 10 years and a lot has changed since then i suppose. to make a long story short, skiing sucks and i'll never do it again. i went about 20 feet and decided i hated it and turned my rentals back in. phil and i went down to the lake which we had a view of from our condo. it was all iced over and covered in snow. it looked amazing. it was lake mempremagog, and after doing a google search i learned that there is a fabled sea serpent in the lake. he was probably too cold to come out that day, though.

tuesday was a chill day. i napped, went into the next town, mansonville, bought some silly canadian candy, read.. you know, typical vacay stuff. phil and i also went to the bar at the lodge and played pool and talked to some locals. i also ate poutine. thankfully most people who worked at the lodge spoke english as well as french. every where else was mostly french speaking. the other good thing was that most places took american money. so i didnt have to exchange anything. since our dollar is about equal to the canadian dollar.

wednesday kevin and i went snowmobiling and magog. we went out for about 2 hours, with a guide, and it was so beautiful. it snowed the whole time and we were out in the canadian wilderness, or whatever. there were so many birch trees. i loved it. at one point when i was driving the snowmobile we went 80 km/hr. it was fast as shit! after snowmobiling we stopped in at a wal-mart so i could buy a new shirt (since kevin pulled us up onto a snowbank and i fell off the snowmobile my shirts were all wet). french canadian wal-mart is very clean and fancy.

on thursday, me, kevin, cindy and phil went dog sledding in magog. it was so awesome! the dogs were all pretty young, so the guy was still training them. he barely spoke any english but he was super nice, and after we all went out as a group he took each of us individually. i got to drive a sled with 7 dogs and we went pretty fast. it was a once in a lifetime kinda thing for me. so cool.

phil had a dungeons and dragons dvd that was actually a choose your own adventure movie and i was the only one to save the world that night. it made me think about those books i used to have. i've gotta look for them next time i go to my parents house.

friday we woke up, ate breakfast and piled into the car for the drive home. we had rented a yukon xl, it was HUGE. very comfy. it had leather seats and a dvd player. movies we watched (either on the trip there or the trip back) include cabin boy, blade runner, sin city, some john cleese movie where he plays a double bass and runs around naked a lot, and we also watched several episodes of house. we stopped in vermont for lunch and new jersey for dinner (arthur treachers holler).

the drive there and back wasn't nearly as bad as a ithought it would be. i did a few wordfinds and we also did some madlibs. i didn't sleep much, i never can in moving cars.

it feels weird to be home. the weather here is so much warmer and theres no snow on the ground.

11:47AM

today i sort of got in trouble for coming in late. i come in late every day. i guess its about time i got caught.

11:40PM

1) Where did you begin 2007?
at a party in williamsburg

2) What was your status by Valentine's Day?
single

3) Were you in school (anytime this year)?
yes, graduate school

4) How did you earn your money?
working at johns hopkins

5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
to visit zach

6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
i don't remember

7) Where did you go on vacation (holiday)?
i went to london in january

8) What did you purchase that was over $1000?
a fucking computer

9) Did you know anybody who got married?
several people

10) Did you know anybody who passed away?
yup

12) Did you move anywhere?
from hampden to bolton hill

14) What concerts/shows did you go to?
not many. avail was the only one i cared anything about.

15) Are you registered to vote?
Yes

16) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
jessica

17) Where do you live now?
baltimore

18) Describe your birthday?
same as usual.

19) Name one thing you thought you'd never do but did in 2007?
turn down a job offer

20) What has been one of your favorite moments?
spending time with max

21) What's something you learned about yourself?
i have horrible luck.

22) Any new additions to your family?
not really

23.) What was your best month?
none. fuck this year.

24.) What music will you remember 2007 by?
some crap

25) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
none really. its been pretty dry.

26) Made new friends?
a few

27) New best friend?
a new best work buddy

28) Favorite Night out?
all my favorite nights were spent in

10:42AM

i'm gonna be a bridesmaid!

12:02AM

s and c: remember this?

11:59AM

things with the boy are good.
i'm thinking about getting a cat. maybe after the holidays.

i have an interview on tuesday for a big promotion at the school of medicine. wish me luck!

christmas is in 3.5 weeks! wooo!

8:56PM

i won the work halloween costume contest

2:34PM

R.I.P.

11:30AM

i have to say "fuck you" to apple customer service and fedex customer service.

for the last week numerous people at both places have proved themselves to be complete and utter mouth-breathers.

that's all.

1:47PM

8:31AM

bday wish list:

sex pistols 1000% be@rbrick



eames be@rbrick set of 3



chanel 1000% bearbrick (if you find this for me i'll love you cause you'll probably only find them in tokyo!)



choro q 50% horror be@rbrick

3:29PM

sup i got accepted to grad school at hopkins. yeah buddy. thank goodness cause i am so fucking bored these days.

5:47PM

I have not updated this thing in forever. and ever. so here are some things going on if youre interested.

-i'm still working for hopkins. i still like it.
-i start graduate classes in the fall (actually let me expound here: i have not received an official acceptance yet because i have to have a face to face interview with the advisor. she works down in rockville but comes to bmore a few times a month. however, i am able to register for classes. so i guess i'm accepted but i haven't gotten a letter yet?) if anyone is surprised about this i sort of am as well. i didn't always want to get into this program but someone i work with just finished it and within five minutes of telling me all about his experience i decided that it is the perfect program for me. so i applied. there you have it.
-i got a new bed from ikea and did a super clean up job in my room (knucks to john frank for helping me) and i hung up all the art and photos i've been collecting from friends over the years. now my room looks sort of adult. and i like that.
-niles is dating that really pretty girl noelle from one world. i'm excited for him.
-i have been hanging out with some people i work with. they are super nice and fun and funny and make me laugh hysterically most of the time and its sorta cool that i can have friends surrounding me at work and see them on the weekend and its not weird or something.
-andy nelson's bbq is the shit.
-so is miss shirley's.
-big brother 8 has started.
-nothing else really going on. zzzzz...

8:49AM

I've had an ear infection for the past few days and I keep missing work and today I have to go back to the doctor because the pain is not better at all. A fucking ear infection.

9:04AM

i just received these kind words in a myspace message:

H!

I just wanted to tell yo that you are are a discrace to to fatasses because youre like the burger king of fat people so you need to get a life and one tha tdoes not include fat stuff and go bolimic for about two months so you will loose a lot of fat you fat slice of lard go eat your pains away FATASS WHORE BAG OF BURGERS and tell your mom to et yo some tapeworm pills and if you are not goin to listen to me make a video of you killin yourself by blowing you yor fat off with an AK-47 fat fattie fatfat.

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sad thing is, i agree with this person.

1:32PM

10:46AM

This is the national geographic picture of the day. :D

12:35PM

i wish i could disappear.

i wish i had never been born.