Thursday, June 29, 2000
yeah! go spartans! i'm glad cleaves and peterson are staying close to home... and where are all of you who said they wouldn't go in the first round now??????
Monday, June 26, 2000
woohoo! i drove my first safari with guests today! i was scared to death at first, but i really know my stuff, so as soon as i got out on the savanah i had all but forgotten the guests were there. it went really well. my check out is tomorrow. i have to do a written and oral check out as well as a performance check out. i'm a little nervous, but i know what i'm doing so i should be ok.
Friday, June 23, 2000
the utopian existence i have been leading finally drove me batty yesterday... i have met so many people here, and finally yesterday i spent some time alone. this apparently was a bad idea since i was reduced to tears twice during a several hour long search for a bank.
now that i know where to go, and that the bank will be open when i get there... i'm off to deposit my measly pay and bargain shop to see who sells the cheapest raman noodles. (just kidding... i splurge on food!)
Thursday, June 22, 2000
jambo! i'm alive and well in sunny (and humid) florida... and i finally have computer access! woohoo!
I am living an a hook-up apartment with some great gals, and have met so many awesome people. the best part is... i get a microphone!
i am working at Disney's Animal Kingdom at Kilimanjaro Safaris. it has to be the best job in all the disney empire!
Anyway, I just wanted to check in for now. there is a lot to do down here, but i promise not to ignore you.
Monday, June 12, 2000
have you missed me? i'm in florida now... and other than a touch of rain and ungodly humidity, the weather has been nice and i've even gotten to touch up my psuedo-tan. i, of course have a wealth of great stories from the trip down here, and my stay at kelly's house... but those will have to wait til i get myself settled :)
anyway... it's nice to have gotten my blogger fix i've been craving so.
Wednesday, June 07, 2000
eek! only 3 more days til i leave for florida! i have barely even started to think about packing. i am a procrastinator by nature anyway, but packing is the worst for me. i put it off and put it off because it is such a painful and anxiety ridden experience for me... but of course that only makes it worse because i am under the pressure of a time crunch.
my family has many jokes about my packing inability. i literally have been reduced to a useless pool of anxiety while my friends and family pack me up and move me out.
mind you this packing trauma is pretty much just when i am moving out of places, like dorms, apartments, etc. or in this case, moving 1000+ miles away for the summer. if i forget something... i'm out of luck. i just get all panicky... and it's dumb because, what will i really leave behind that i CANNOT live without? and really if it was that dire, my mom could even ups it to me overnight if need be.
anyway, i'm a panicky packer, and a procrastinator. that is what we have learned about me today.
Sunday, June 04, 2000
go lakers! go lakers! honestly, i never lost faith, even for a second. check this out. it's like a way more advanced form of AIM, with reeeeally neato graphics. it takes some getting used to but it's even compatible with AIM and ICQ so you can talk to everyone all at once, with one application. tres cool.
Saturday, June 03, 2000
action figures.
the title says it all. action. action. action! and so much more accurate today than when i think back to the toys of my childhood. what were once posable lumps of plastic are now detailed, hinged, power packed, gadgets. they have shooting weapons, jet powered vehicles, even two part posable beards!
today i bought 3 huge sacks full of action figures at a quarter a piece. i mean, who doesn't need a box full of action figures laying around? really? party tonight folks. BYOAF.
i'm not exactly sure yet what i'll do with these figures, but i envision many many kodak moments in their future... stay tuned.
kobe can't do it alone, guys... pick up your game!
Friday, June 02, 2000
do you remember those little clear red plastic rockets? the kind you filled with water, then pumped up 'til they shot off into the sky releasing all the pressure? they'd only work about 10 times... usually until they re-entered the atmosphere a little hot and came crashing down on pavement, shattering the shiney hard plastic into confetti-like shards.
i haven't seen one of these rockets in years. i probably had at least a dozen of them growing up... what happened to them? have they all been launched? are they still orbiting? have they boldly gone where no plastic water pressured rocket has gone before?
at some pivital point in my childhood the red plastic rocket was replaced with fancy 'estes' rockets... sophisticated rockets that required launch pads, gunpowder-like 'engines', and a flame source. sure, they were fun to launch in the huge field at frances park... watching their parachutes unfold, guiding the rocket safetly back to earth. these rockets didn't shatter on impact (parachute or not... they were simply made of cardboard). instead their undoing came in the form of high winds and leafy tree branches... and it didn't take long for the basic preassembled rockets to get old...
when the store bought rockets were no longer enough to satisfy our creative hungers, rocket kits were bought. parts! oh the parts! nose cones, body tubes in all sizes, decals, and paint! i vividly remember the most beautiful rocket... a tall slender irredescent blue/purple icon standing straight and ever watchful on the fireplace mantle.
another favorite was the camera rocket. built from scratch, camera and all, the ledgendary rocket flew only one mission. upon reentering the earth's atmosphere it was captured by soviet spies... (well, oak or maple spies at best). several months later we received a phone call. the valuable vessel had been dislodged from the tree branches. it was a little worse for the wear, but the name and phone number printed on the side was still legible. the weather damaged film was developed to reveal a glorious bird's eye view of the park below...
fellow astronauts, i have tickled the sky. i have poked and proded the clouds, and i have photographic evidence... and to this day, parts of me are still there, eternally orbiting.
hey, all you californians:
has the concept of an offensive rebound not traveled that far west yet? eek! the lakers are scaring me!
k, i finally got IE5 all set up and my blog looks way better (though still not perfect). still there are many IE4 users showing up in my stats... so i'm sorry my blog sucks for you
oh look! i finally started adding pics!
it was the least i could do while i sat on my but waiting for my "critical updates" to download...
shit, i just checked out my blog in IE and it looks like CRAP! what's up with that? why can't all browsers just interpret html tags the same way? why can't they just read my mind?
the really shitty thing about this is that 73% of you view this page in IE! please tell me it looks better in IE5 than IE4... i'm upgrading right now to find out...
eh. help me. i'm panicking!
i have superhuman hypnosis-like persuasive powers. i make people buy things they don't need or want. i can sell you batteries with anything. would you like fries with that?
i once convinced an 8 year old boy to jump out a second story window... no lie. watch it... you're next.
one week til i leave for florida. EEK!
i yearn for the change, but at the same time... i'm terrified. i've imagined the entire summer, i've completely idealized it. still, i'm banking on "the time of my life" rather than disappointment due to high expectations not met.
i'm so ready for new faces, new places, new experiences, and new independance. i'm so ready to leave most everything here behind for awhile... though some people i will miss terribly. one in particularly. ...it never gets easier does it? a summer apart is probably best for us... it's the only way to move forward. i'm just so scared of what i'll find when i return... or what i will have lost.
anyway, i am excited.
thank you miss elisabeth for your sweet e-mail!
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