Friday Morning, 12.30.05: I hadn't told them which of the two theatres we were going to meet up at, but I assumed they would figure it out since the other theatre was in Galveston. My mom parked the car along the side of the road and we walked down the cliff to the theatre. I bought our tickets to "Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic" at the machine. Quentin and Wylie were already there, so Kristan was the only one left
/ I was in the backseat of Kristan's dad's car as they were driving down the freeway to get to the theatre. We were running really late, we would probably miss the first hour of the movie. Kristan made a joke about St. Eve on Eve's day, like Alex had said, and I laughed along but I had no idea what she was talking about. Then I noticed that we were exiting on St. Eve Street, the freeways curved above and below us - sign of a healthy urban sprawl in and around the city. We were on our way to the Galveston theatre, and I wondered if I should say anything about how we were supposed to be at the other theatre. I figured it was my fault for not mentioning it earlier.
/ claudio and I walked out of the theatre and we spotted an arcade machine (one you walked into and sat down in) pretty low. He joked that his little brother (or a dog?) should go in there. Music: Sneaker Pimps - Blue Movie
Saturday Morning, 12.17.05: Fritz came back, although I wasn't sure if he was still going out with Yoon, I figured they probably were. He was being his usual annoying self and made a mess in the kitchen. I remembered that I was taking a statistics class that I hadn't shown up to all semester, yet I was scheduled to take the final. I rode the bus to campus early in the morning, at a strange busstop, no sunlight. Natalie was there doing one of the puzzles I had bought for Proyecto: Nicaragua. I wondered what would happen if I didn't take the final. I contemplated going back on the bus, perhaps I did. Music: Wham! - Last Christmas
Thursday Morning, 12.15.05: I walked through downtown in my pajamas (shorts and a long oversized t-shirt), after passing through an electronics store a second time. What was I looking for? And where was I going to find it? I tried avoiding looking people in the eye.
- In a bus in the middle of nowhere with a prarie backdrop, some people from my Middle East class were with me
- I received the e-mail from the Spice Girls website webmaster. She said she would shut down the site but Melanie B fans could still check out her Melanie B webpage. I realized that the Spice Girls just weren't famous anymore, even the most die-hard fans had given up on things. But was there going to be a reunion? It looked as though there might be. She went on to talk about Rupaul, and I saw the new music video. Rupaul in a bikini (with a light scarf covering part of her body) on the beach. "She's so beautiful". Some people just didn't understand, she was a woman trapped in a man's body. Music: [dream Rupaul song]
Saturday Morning, 11.26.05: - This kid claimed he was Chiquinho but I knew he couldn't have been. He looked totally different, younger than me, and even had a different voice. I got on the bus with Claudio. At first I thought maybe it was, but then came to my senses. I generally avoided him, although Claudio talked to him some, in broken Portuguese. Could it be my young cousin Waseem?
- We got on the train as it was about to leave. Some woman had left her yellow puppy on the train and didn't even realize, so one of my friends grabbed him and asked if he belonged to anyone. Everyone thought he was so cute and one man offered to take him in if no one claimed him. Then I stopped him and told him the dog belonged to that woman. When we gave it back to her and she didn't didn't even seem that happy. I wished we had given it to the young man instead. But eventually we reached our destination, we passed the Everglades and before I even had a chance to get a good look at them we were at South Beach. We had to go over some rocks and a wooden deck before we actually got to South Beach. I mentioned Morocco to Kristan as we went over the deck.
- Janet went with some of her spinoff tv show friends to her old apartment, and the reunion was a funny one. Five's company
Friday Morning, 11.25.05: I sat in Claudio's bedroom, which was mine, and my mom brought me my mail. A had received a large white envelope from Harvard, addressed only to my first name, followed by my address, and inside it were smaller enveloped stuffed with money. There must have been thousands inside. I didn't know what to do, but my mom suggested that I ask Harvard about it
/ Kristan and I were roommates in Harvard. But maybe we didn't go there and we were just in that room for some reason. I don't think it was a dormitory but rather an administrational building. The (female) president walked by and our door was open. I had just finished throwing a pair of black underwear at Kristan, and then she threw two more pairs to where it lay, close to the door. I told her she started it and then after she argued that I remembered it was me. So I was writing in my journal about getting my GED when the president came in. I had hoped she hadn't seen what I had written and realized she probably hadn't; if she had seen I was writing about my GED she would have known I didn't really go there.
- The highway was a busy one, I thought the side of it was a strange place to wait for a bus but a lot of busses did pass by there. I saw Emily Montgomery get off of a 926 and wait around with us. Kristan's dad tried to flag down a bus with tourists in it but it didn't really work. They slowed down but didn't stop, they were a few lanes over anyway. Across from where we were standing, and across the highway, lay a beautiful Hindu temple. Kristan mentioned wanting to go to Kuala Lampur. Then she pointed out a goodlooking guy waiting close to us, and asked me if he had gone to Bellaire, like most of the kids waiting around. I told her he didn't and then flug her to where I was standing so she could ask him the other questions she wanted to know. They got to talking, he had brown hair and blue eyes, very cute. A tourism date was set, and later Kristan remembered that the busses only had 2 seats and if she could sit next to him instead of me. It didn't bother me at all, especially knowing what had happened when she went alone to Madrid last summer.
- I was looking for Samantha from Sex in the City (or Charlotte, I couldn't even get the names right). I went in the loft and saw that a computer was getting hooked up. The place was empty but I could tell it would turn out nice and modern looking. Fritz told me his dad was living there, to try the place where she used to live because either she would still be there or her roommates would know where she was. It was in the same apartment complex, and it took me a while before I remembered where it was, but luckily I had been once before. The windows were boarded up, it looked dreary. I can't remember if I actually knocked on the door or not.
Thursday Morning, 11.24.05: I was happy Claudio was coming to spend Christmas break with me in Houston, but not at my grandfather's house. I don't know why my mom had dragged us over there. We were both exhausted; I went to my cousin's old room where there were two beds, and he went to my aunt's old room. I could hear my aunts and my mother gossiping. All I could think of was being in his arms and sleeping at his side. Then I figured we were probably only going to be at my grandfather's for a day and that we could have alone time when my mom went to work (part-time job)
- The weather seemed nice for a day at the water park, but then it started getting cloudy and eventually rained a lot. I figured I should keep my clothes on since they were already soaked, but when we went down the slide my legs were exposed and hairy. I heard some little kid make a remark. Then we went climbing up some stairs to get to the next ride. It was a dark and wooden way to the top, and there were a number of turns we had to make without any signs. My host sister Adriana was with us, maybe Cristiane as well. "N�o esque�a", then I was at the top of a smaller slide where younger (wannabe) Madonna and current Madonna were. I didn't even care, I just wanted to get the check I had left. It got wet of course, and the ink had mostly come off.
Wednesday Morning, 11.23.05: I split up from my mom and walked along the left side of the store. To my left were mens clothes, and to my right cleaning supplies. I tried to avoid the group of "cool" kids who were in a circle and talking. I still tried to see if I knew any of them. I went to the back of the store and to the right but I couldn't seem to find the juniors section. There was another mens section, what the hell. My mom was ready to leave and then I finally found stuff that I liked. The Zara brown sweater that I bought in Madrid, but in more sizes than the large that I bought. I thought about buying the small (in reality I want a medium) and then getting my money back with the large I had previously bought. My mom started bitching about taking too long, "Are you in a rush?", and I paid for the sweater. I noticed the size said s-g (or some other random letter next to the s) Music: Madonna - Push
- After swinging through the vines, etc in the video game I landed in the apartment bathroom. Then I was with my mom in her car, it was getting late. Her car was unusually messy, especially the glove compartment. She gave me crayon sticks of alfalfa, as if that were what I was looking for. She seemed bothered when I wasn't excited about it. So I kept searching and found a big bag of little pencils bunched together by 10s with rubberbands. They would do the trick. But I had to act quickly, I could hear them coming Music: Depeche Mode - I Feel Loved
Tuesday Morning, 11.15.05: Tia Blanca came over, my apartment complex was slightly different. There was a large courtyard, and that day it was filled with beautiful exotic animals. The one that particularly caught my attention was a large multi-colored (mostly pink) bird that looked a lot like an ostrich, but had great flying and tree-climbing skills. It hung upside down from the tree by my apartment as I stared in amazement.
- I was alone for a while in my mother's apartment. I looked out the tiny window to see how dreary the day had become; the apartment wasn't very well lit either. My cousin came in with a small orange and white water gun, and showed it to my mom.
- German had a gun, and I was afraid he would use it against me. Pretty sure he would use it against me. So I ran, all the way to my old apartment in Barcelona. I didn't want to wait for the elevator but going up 13 flights of stairs didn't seem good, either. There were two old women with their grandchildren, etc in the elevator. I had pressed the button for the 12th floor, but one of the old women seemed intent on keeping me in the elevator and kept pressing buttons to make the elevator stop at the 11th floor. For a while I thought she had broken the elevator, but I finally got to the 12th floor. German had almost caught up to me by that point (he took the stairs). I hurriedly got into the apartment and saw that things looked cleaner and there was more natural light. The layout and scheme was identical to that of my mother's apartment except with more light. I saw Larisa working on her laptop in the living room; perhaps it was just an image in my head. German was then at the door but I wouldn't let him in for fear of my life. I told him that I knew he had a gun Music: Madonna - Get Together
Saturday Night, 11.6.05: It was getting dark out. My mom pulled up to the 2 story wooden apartment building (4 apartments total), and we saw my pale aunt Gloria watching TV. When she saw us she started talking and acting fun and crazy as usual. The black lady who lived next door was always bothered by the noise and was generally an unpleasant neighbor. There were no doors or outside walls, so we could see what was going on
/ I knew it would be a long bus ride. I sat next to a black girl and we started talking for a little while. I got off the bus and had to transfer, but I took a while strolling around The Shops at Sunset. The next bus came earlier than I had expected, and I went running to it naked. I managed to put a tanktop and panties on before I boarded, so I would be let on. Music: Fiona Apple - Better Version of Me
Saturday Morning, 10.29.05: I sat down to use the bathroom, but the shower curtain wouldn't close completely so the young boys in the pool could see me.
- I had to get to the other side of GC before the busses to the other campus left. Along the way I stopped in a small grocery store where an Italian girl about my age let me try some dark green penne pasta. It tasted so good, I told her I would have to buy some to take home with me. It was sold in tiny boxes
Wednesday Morning, 10.19.05: We stopped around 107th and Bird, going towards FIU. Everyone was getting off of the bus; the last ones to leave were me Sarah Koronfel, and the Chami sisters. We helped clean up and Saqi (the bus driver) turned on the radio. The song playing was "Nada de esto fue un error", I started to sing along. The song made me feel alive again Music: Coti, Paulina Rubio & Julieta Venegas - Nada de esto fue un error
Tuesday Morning, 10.18.05: I had a shiny blue bike and was making my way up 107th ave. Surprisingly, I could ride pretty well, it looked like I had finally gotten the hang of it, and envisioned myself riding the bike to school
Sunday Morning, 10.2.05: Someone was telling me about his semester abroad in China. I asked him if he was wishing he were still back there and he said no, which surprised me. I knew I didn't want to be back
- I took a good look around the apartment; it turns out we had a lot more bathrooms than I had previously noticed, and they were really nice. I wondered if there was an extra bedroom I had missed out on, too.
- There were two ladies in charge of the mini conference. I sat with Kristan and other students from FIU, who were generally rude people who paid no attention to the woman talking. She had asked what a director did. I waited a while and then answered her question as best I could, over the other students' voices. A director's job is to interperet a script, get a vision in his mind, and get the actors and staff to convey this vision on film. She liked my answer. Later Kristan and I went down the dark, grey slab stairway and onto the street, as I commented on how rude the other students were. Music: Blur - Strange News From Another Star
Monday Morning, 9.19.05: Adrienne and I had to go to the 4th floor, but I, out of habit, pressed 1. There was a group of teenagers by the elevator, I guess they intimidated me because I get like that in front of groups of people that I don't know. The hallways were pretty and had many glass walls.
/ Amidst the traffic jam, I glanced upward and saw what looked like a Magic Eye in the sky. A blue background with 7 or 8 floating Alfs. I told my mom and she stared in amazement as well. I wondered how it was up there... but I didn't want to blink because it would be hard to concentrate on it again Music: Fiona Apple - Sleep To Dream
Thursday Morning/Afternoon, 9.15.05: I found out that I had left the stove on all day yesterday.
- My dad came to see my apartment. I had told him that I was living with a Korean girl (only), so when he saw Michael he was a little angry, although he didn't say anything. I wanted to show him my cat Mimi but she wasn't in, but as we walked into the kitchen she was there. I was pretty happy with everything.
Tuesday Morning, 9.13.05: Fritz was in Mikey's kitchen with me. The phone kept ringing, and then his pager went off and it showed my dad's friend Sol's number and name. So my dad had somehow tracked his pager number down; we chose not to respond.
/ We could be transported to a lot of little planets. I choose to go to Apu's Kwik-E-Mart, but it took a while. I walked through the high school at night to get to the transporter. Each floor was supposed to be a different decade. Someone had written on 1 of the lockers "I want to be [male pop-star]". I saw it on 2 different floors, with 2 different pop-star names. I thought it was a lame attempt to try to make the floors look like their respective decades. Because no one would really write something like that on his locker.
Saturday Morning, 9.10.05: Oasis was in concert. They were playing one of their new, shittier songs, and then halfway through it they said they knew what the audience really wanted to hear and started playing "Wonderwall" instead. Liam gave his brother a funny look, and then stood their awkwardly. The crowd enjoyed the change of songs.
Sunday Morning, 7.31.05: It was getting late but we wanted to leave, at least for a while. We had walked a while uphill to get to the store/parking garage. She asked the man working there what time they closed and we went on our way.
- [Woody Allen movie] Woody and his wife had a cute baby girl that they neglected and made money off of. They had bought a lot of jewelry and other extravagent purchases. Woody awoke that day to discover they were all missing. He and his wife panicked, and they searched the whole house for their jewelry or for some clues at least. But they hadn't realized that their baby girl was also missing. The camera did weird shots throughout the house, and at the end we could see that the young housekeepers and cooks had kidnapped the baby and taken her under their wing. They were caring for her in the shot, dressing her up and fixing her hair. But I think at the end they walked the plank and she died anyway
// Sasha told me to see this movie and told me the metro stop to get off at. I got off at the stop I had to switch over on and I looked at a map to see how to get to where I needed to go. Robine was there and told me that from the stop we were at we'd have to take a Greyhound bus. That sucked. Then I found out that the movie name he told me was just another title for Million Dollar Baby. "This sucks, I could have seen that at the shopping center I was just at if I had wanted to"
Tuesday Morning, 6.21.05: Sharmila told me about how much weight she had gained since she went off to college, and how her longsleeved shirts didn't fit her anymore.
Saturday Morning, 6.11.05: By myself at the train station. I sat down and the same group of teenagers returned, they probably realized I had no friends. It was depressing. Later I went to the platform, Najla was there. She had been ballet dancing in some sort of play; I wished I were interesting or more fun. I wouldave danced along with her just to have something to do
- I only had 15 seconds left on the phonecard. I gave my friend my other card with more minutes, I only needed 15 seconds to call my dad anyway
-Every floor had a Chuck E. Cheese, we were on the 5th or 6th. We both really wanted to, but then a boy came in with his mother, he was slightly retarded. I told him we should just go up another floor but he insisted on finding a forest. He drove some, we passed black guys playing basketball until we got to my elementary school. We needed to go up stairs to get to the forest, and the only way to go up was through the Wendy's (or McDonalds?). We sat down for a while, it was pretty full. Then the waitress noticed we were just sitting there and we weren't customers, so I told him I wanted a McFlurry. I asked if he wanted some and he replied of course, he loved the m&ms.
Wednesday Morning, 6.8.05: McKenna was telling me about what happened one night when everyone was drunk. I had no real interest in the story, but it eventually got funnier. Her boyfriend's best friend threw her in the pool with her clothes on and then started playfully attacking her with a bubblegun, then humping her. Her sorority friends saw this and the following day at breakfast there was bitchiness. Someone threw a condom at her while she was in the kitchen. She didn't react. [story told to me while I envisioned everything exactly how it happened]
- Earlier I had passed by the camp site and I didn't take a picture of the birds like I had wanted to (forgot). I came back with Sandra.. she was telling me how much she liked the camping - easily reachable by public transportation, etc. I guess I agreed. I took a better look at the birds this time, they had bright red faces and pointy beaks. My mom (or Sandra) said their faces were that way because of the fire (?). We were on the subway and Sandra mentioned wanting to see the new pope, the Vatican. I expressed no interest. Late night came, we were waiting at a busstop and I realized we didn't have bustickets. Other people were waiting for the bus so I asked them where we could buy one. They answered me in Italian so I didn't understand completely, but from what I gathered they said at any high-tech place. It was late so I figured we were screwed, but right by the busstop was a cybercafe we hadn't noticed earlier. I asked the Pakistani working there about the bustickets. He gave us our medical records, I hoped that would work, or that the cops wouldn't come
Tuesday Morning, 6.7.05: Claudio and I wanted to have sex in the plane, but we knew that in 10 minutes people would start coming in. I still really wanted to, but we decided to hold out, and a good thing we did because they came earlier than we thought they would. It was a comfortable plane, coushy seats around the permimiter (not in rows)
/ I was on my way out when someone pointed to the "babies" standing on the stairway above us. "Those aren't babies, they're my cousins Wasim and Yesen" They were smiling at me, they looked so peaceful, almost fading. Had they not grown? Perhaps I knew it was just in my head Music: Nine Inch Nails - Closer (remix)
Tuesday Morning, 4.26.05: Staying in a hostel again. I think one of my many roommates was Tsegereda, or maybe just someone who really reminded me of her. I hated having the top bunk. We asked about the huge waterfall, and someone gave us a rough map of it.
/ I went out to put some food in my aunt's freezer, but someone had put a rope decoration on the refrigerator handle so I couldn't close it. I thought about putting it in the freezer in her garage but instead I just removed the rope. She came and told me I didn't need to do that, and showed me how the refrigerator handle had slightly fallen out of place. She fixed it and rearranged the things in the freezer as well. I went out to the backyard and stayed in the toolshed area, talking with my mom. My uncle and cousin came and everyone laughed at the things my cousin said, including me even though I didn't understand what he was saying. I noticed there were some birds I had never seen before in my life, many different colors, and some of them were so tiny that I thought they were insects at first. My uncle said the smallest one bit hard, so we tried killing them. There was a bright orange one that looked like a caterpillar, and a light pink one that I thought maybe was poisonous but it wasn't. "It looks like a kiwi!" I looked farther out of the shed and saw a few more, one that had three toes and could curl into a ball, with a funny, friendly face. I realized that there were cooler animals in my aunt's backyard than in all of Costa Rica. Then my mom took out a minispray perfume and sprayed it all over the shed. I got mad at her because the flower-like smell would draw all the animals inside, which happened. Total chaos, I think some bats came inside, too. I ran through the cave and sat down at a meeting, they were talking about my mom. "I mean her sandals aren't like... they have [I tried motioning how her big slanted sandals were]. So she's not a hippie or anything" Music: Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
Tuesday Morning, 4.19.05: I was just going to wait outside (in the dark) but Sandra convinced me to go inside. Or maybe I got a little lost and decided to go inside. The prices weren't as bad as I thought they would be.
Monday Morning, 4.18.05: I was in the Madrid subway listening to some music. After I got off I was in a waiting area outside until the Lufthansa ship came in. One was coming, with a green light on top of it, and the Germans said (in German) that it was some other company, but I looked down on my ticket and saw that the ship in the picture had a green light on it, so I knew it was ours. I started waiting in line for it and the others caught on soon after.
/I took Germ�n (who was actually the gay guy from Aqui no hay quien viva) with me to the United States. We were in Boston, 1 of the "greenest cities" according to the newspaper article I had just seen. I asked him what he wanted to do and he said "eat cutlets", so I took him to some restaurant on the 2nd floor of a decrepit building and he ordered the 2nd menu del dia. I ordered the 1st since it was cheaper, but I really wasn't even hungry to begin with. He left to find some other gay guys, I went into another room to use my laptop
/ The power didn't seem to be working. I eventually got the smaller light on and it sufficed. I was a few weeks pregnant, maybe 2 months. Just then I felt a little bump come out in my stomach... it was a horrible feeling; too late to abort, I thought to myself. I knew it technically wasn't, but mentally it would be a lot harder for me to go through with it. Claudio was completely unsupportive and didn't want anything to do with the baby or abortion. Music: The Verve - Weeping Willow
Sunday Morning, 4.17.05: Kate Connelly and I got into some argument outside the bathroom area on the 3rd floor. It might have been over toilet paper, or some other ridiculous subject. I walked over to where a closet was and saw two cute little Spanish boys, around 3 years old, walking by, followed by their teacher.
/ Me and Sandra were running all over the city (Seattle). We took a "train" which was just a lot of SUVs attached to one another, and sat by 1 of the mother chaperones. I got off around the information booth and saw a homeless man stealing a sextoy. I eventually found the underground nuclear reactor zone Music: The Urge - Jump Right In
Sunday Morning, 3.13.05: It had been so long since I had last eaten Whataburger, and it was excellent. I was telling the 2 people sitting at the table with me about how I was going to order a strawberry milkshake as I was finishing up my burger, although I don't even know how I knew them. I went in line to order the milkshake, in front there were 2 Mexicans and their Black (Haitian?) friend, all of them looked homeless although I'm sure they weren't really. The cashier was some white lady, I could tell she learned Spanish in Spain. "Bale, bale", I laughed a little to myself. They ordered a the #1 Music: Uniting Nations - Out of Touch
Friday Morning, 2.18.05: We made a stop at a fastfood restaurant during the field trip. I sat in the sauna as the robbery was taking place across the street
- I got a spot on campus, and at a reduced rate. There were 2 glass elevators in the dorms, I went to the 6th floor with my key but couldn't remember which room was mine. All I remembered was that it was on the 6th or 7th floor. Mikey came with me, we were in my Dad's room in the dark. My grandfather was in there and I told him "adios" as I went into my dad's closet (the elevator) with Mikey as we were about to make out.
- There were a few containers on the carnaval booth shelf, the lady in charge made the paint inside of one of them MC Hammer pants and another one was a reference to some other early 90s pop star. I laughed a lot. She asked for any volunteers, no one wanted to follow her act, but eventually 2 guys went up. They hadn't really finished their act; it started with 1 of them coloring this picture of a bed with a green crayon. Then we went underground with them into a world of robotics. There was an animated face with a multicolored map of the world inside, a preacher's hands that moved about as his audio went, and a flower that swirled and opened up. I moved the flower away from the preacher's hands because they were about to collide, but they slowed down and eventually stopped moving. I was especially sad about the preacher's hands, Kristan said it was ok Music: Erykah Badu - Tyrone (Live)
Tuesday Morning, 2.15.05: We left the room and everything fell out of my duffel bag as my teacher turned the light off. She scolded me and I told her it wasn't my fault.
/ Professor Ipodaca held the elevator door open for what seemed to be her favorite student. They were talking in the elevator about something, then we were in the car rushing to get to preferred student's class. Ipodaca was also in a rush so she offered to take the girl to the building where her office was so she could pick up the papers she needed, and the other guy in the car didn't know where her office was. "It's 117 right?", "yeah"; it seemed as if she didn't even remember me, but I didn't care too much. Then the girl decided it was too late and she needed to go to class, but she thanked Ipodaca for the offer (or maybe she didn't).
/ Fauzeya, Yousef and I were walking through El Raval (Pakistani district) when we heard about the floods in Egypt on the radio. "I told you it would happen"; I love making predictions. The floods in the Nile were the heaviest in years, relief efforts were being made and donations were needed. The flood had a major impact on the price of chicken, since so many had died or something, so we walked by restaurants that were open to see if the price of chicken had really gone down. 1 restaurant, Chicken Point, was packed and cardboard had been taped against the windows so it was hard to see what was going on inside, but I saw 1 Desi man dancing around happily. The other restaurant was also packed, I thought it was horrible that people were celebrating when tradegy had taken place in Egypt
/ Nicole and I went walking, she needed a car replacement part and I needed to call someone. We found a payphone hidden away in the median of a street, but we hesitated in picking it up. Then people surrounded the area, it seemed like they were waiting to make a call but I was scared they were on to us. I picked up the phone and the Russian spy kept talking, I told Nicole we needed to get out of there. We walked across the street to a gas station so she could get her carborator, she had been using the one from my dad's 91 white Dodge. The mechanic was French and didn't understand what we were trying to say. "..Carborat..or", I tried guessing the word in French but it came out stupid. He took the part and found a replacement for her car, then pulled the lever to reveal that "AQUAPROGRAM" had been spelled out, just as she had wanted.
Tuesday Morning, 2.8.05: Wylie called while I was in the hostel, we were talking like it was back in 7th grade, laughing it up.
/ I passed by where I was going to launch off of, tourists all around. I had been there many times before, but going the other direction. This time it was Sri Lanka, I thought I would be able to fly a small private plane around the nearby island to explore the green mountain and wildlife but at the last minute I was told I couldn't. I was disappointed, but still excited to get to explore; it was a nice change in scenery Music: Gloria Estefan - Something Gets in the Way
Saturday Morning, 11.6.04: I was 6 months pregnant and in the passengers seat. There were 4 of us in the car and we were driving at night by the docks, few streetlights. The pimp behind us sped up and cut us off, hitting our car hard as he did so. We swirved about 100 degrees, and I was pretty sure I had lost the baby in the process. I was very angry at first, I hoped they had caught the guy and he would get what was coming to him, but then I thought maybe it was a good thing; I don't even know how I got pregnant to begin with. We parked the car and walked into the warehouse by the sea, from the outside it looked like a wooden shack. The light was florescent white, it didn't make me any calmer. Music: Prince - Illusion, Coma, Pimp and Circumstance
Friday Morning, 10.29.04: I really wanted to take surfing lessons but my mom seemed insistent on leaving at 2:15. I talked to the lady in the surfing booth, she said that I could wait around for a regular lesson or take a lesson right away for $20. That seemed like a lot of money to me but I really wanted to take that class right then so I could finish by 2:15. I thought I'd haggle the price a little "I'll give you 8"; "Ok". I wasn't expecting that at all. I went back to the apartment to get the surfboard. A lazy sunlight came in through the blinds, it made the place look like a small office building, not lived in. We had little furniture, the place was pretty empty, but it just gave more room for the light to shine dimly. I didn't think I would make it back in time
- Andrew Mazarakis was lying on my bed watching tv on his laptop. I was about to get ready for class when he convinced me to stay and watch the next episode of "Fudge" with him. It had been a while since I had seen it and it was only 30 minutes, so I decided to stay and watch it with him Music: Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Saturday Morning, 4.17.04: There were a bunch of us in my living room, but I was the only one of us older kids who knew any Arabic, so when my little cousin Waseem told his mom that he had a girlfriend no one else thought it was cute. I don't know how I understood it though
- I was backstage at the MTV Music Video awards, helping this rapper carry his stuff. Then I realized that I left my stuffed bear Yoyo at home, but they told me I could just walk there and get it since it was about 10 blocks away (on Death Row Road). I was carrying a big white jacket that belonged to the rapper. My mom said I didn't have to close the door, since I was fumbling with the keys anyways, and so I left the patio door open Music: Tori Amos - Way Down
Friday Morning, 4.16.04: It was happy and fearful at the same time. I went up the backstairway of the old school, walked through the halls, and then all of us were running down that same stairway. This time we walked through the basement; there was a stream that ran through it. I could see myself and Claudio in the ugly bathroom there, but that had already happened. And then the feeling turned merged into passion Music: Franco Battiato - Le Tue Radici
Monday Night, 4.5.04: We were spies, and the only colors were olive green and white. It was misty out, but I got to the security system and disabled it with my watch, which opened it up so I could take a part out of it. We had to act quickly, and we did. When I got home I was exhausted and went straight to bed Music: Missy Elliot - I'm Really Hot
Wednesday Night, 2.11.04: I knew they were the killers, 2 of the ones in bed with me. I couldn't see anything I could only feel their bodies touching mine. I tried screaming but my mouth was too dry
Wednesday Afternoon, 2.11.04: I was rushing through the airport with that cart holding my luggage on it. I got to where they check your passport, even though it was a domestic flight, and they had us write a quote from Roseanne, I guess as proof that we were really american. Luckily I had one copied so I pasted it and checked the "Roseanne" box at the bottom (I hadn't heard of the other 2 options). I took my longsleeved purple shirt and continued on
Wednesday Morning, 2.11.04: I was already late for my 6:30 class when I walked outside, I saw Lesbia in the lounge. I realized I was still in my pajama shirt so I went back inside to change in the living room of my townhouse. My mom asked me if I had forgotten my keys, I said no. She told me she got another cat and I said something along the lines of we don't need another cat because we already have 2. I don't hate cats, I just thought that 3 would be too many. This made her mad and she said that if I didn't like it she could get rid of it, but that I should at least see it. She had a big purse with her and she took out my cardholder; behind where I keep my Student ID there was a picture of the cat with my name below it. The picture background was magenta and the cat was tiny and black. "Aw, how can you show me something this cute and expect me to not want it? So where is it?" She kept searching in her purse... "ok, here it is." I looked- there didn't seem to be room for a cat, and if it was there I was afraid it had been squashed to death. She pulled out this golden tinted plastic brush. Some of the fur had made its way out to the bristles. I was skeptical of it, it couldn't even be used as a brush because the fur was too soft. I turned the brush and looked at the top of it, I could see something resembling its face, more fur had been let out at the top, the rest of the cat was inside. "That's terrible, why'd they put it in here?"; "Well, its face was kind of swollen". It didn't seem too horrible in the dream, but I woke up wanting to cry
Tuesday Night, 2.10.04: My Italian teacher has us return this worksheet packet and bring up this little paper card we all had so she could staple it. I only had about 2 staples in it when everyone else had around 8. She said something about it and I said "I've been absent a lot"... And I mentioned that there were actually 4 or 5 staples instead of the 2 that she said (because I noticed more on the other side). Kristan was waiting for me so we could leave
- Kek� (little girl from Brazil) was on the River Oaks playground during the late afternoon with one or 2 of her friends. She told me about the 2 women who made out and then asked her if she would do their nails. "That's awesome". Michael was there and backed up the story, I thought it was really funny. I imagined it happening in one of the women's cars.
Tuesday Morning, 2.10.04: Siham and Sharmila were sitting with me in the kitchen. The phone rang, it got confusing from there because it was either my dad or my uncle, my dad was in Israel, my uncle's friend had died. At first I thought my dad had died. When I found out he was still alive I calmed down a little, but I was talking to my dad and then my uncle. I didn't know why he was stuck in Israel, he sounded distraught, as did my uncle for obvious reasons
- I didn't realize we were going to Portland until we got to the airport and asked where we were going. (Just for 1 day). Luckily I had my sweatshirt on, but nothing warm underneath. I wanted to go back for my jacket
Thursday Afternoon, 2.5.04: Mike came into my room. I didn't really care, I wasn't going to ignore him or anything. He said he had just come from the cafeteria, but he was dressed up and had cologne on. He wrote something on a scrap of paper on my desk: "Go to hell". I can't remember how I reacted, but I let him know I was mad at him, and when I walked out and to the McDonalds colored plastic ball play area I saw his friends Stephanie and Natalie there and started talking to them. We were in line, I guess to go in the play area, and Mike came up and tried to get in front of me to talk to them. I tried hitting him but it had no effect
- I don't know how, but we had gotten into Astroworld for free. It was the part I couldn't find the last time. The rollercoaster was fun but I wasn't buckled in right and I was scared I was going to die. I could see the self-service car wash in the distance
- Kristan let me into the factorytype place that her and Albert had set up, I guess it was another remix party, but I had trouble getting in under the opening. While I was trying, 2 cars snuck in. I later asked her who they were and one of them was Batami, which made me laugh
- It was Jennelle that told me about the sale to Rio. I looked at the website and sure enough there it was: Miami to Rio, $90 roundtrip. The website even said Florida International University instead of Miami. I was at the office. There was a line, I rushed to get in it. The man in front of me was rejected when he signed his name, but when I did I drew this anime-looking head and she told me to wait in the other line. I saw some people standing around so I waited there, and the person after me asked if it was the Rio line and one of them said no, so we both rushed into the room with glass walls. I sat on the floor. We were given a sheet of paper and a pencil (mine was plastic and mechanical) and we told to write something. I wasn't paying much attention and thought we had to write about a normal day in our lives. I wrote about a line and then the pencil broke, cheap thing. Then I realized we were actually supposed to be writing about why we love money and don't want to give it up. The woman in charge was old and mean, but she was the patron of this sale and would only accept certain people to purchase tickets at this price; I considered myself lucky to be in the room. I asked the black lady who was her assistant if I could get another pencil (there were a few on the floor at the other corner of the room) and the old woman overheard and asked why I was talking. "I need another pencil"; "What happened to the one we gave you?"; "It doesn't work" and I showed it to her. "Oh, so you broke it then? You BROKE the pencil" and her voice was so harsh I was nearly in tears. She wouldn't let me use another one... I started to cry. Even if I could get a pencil and wrote a great essay I wouldn't be chosen because she already hated me. I really wanted to go to Rio. Some people in the room were done writing but no one offered me their pencil. I guess it was a competition, afterall
Thursday Morning, 1.8.04: I walked outside and was talking on my cell phone. The conversation was pretty important and I was kind of pissed off, but mainly concerned. Shaun from geography 2 walked by and even though I hadn't seen him in a while and wasn't really friends with him I waved hi to him and he did as well. I probably would have talked to him if I wasn't taking the important phone call. I looked up at the closed circuit monitor at the corner of the outside of the building and saw that the library computer lab had gone into some code red shutdown phase. I shouldave been more concerned as I hadn't saved what I was working on in there, but before I had time to think about it the volcano erupted from out of nowhere, and rather close to me. Katie Gilger and one of her friends quickly went to grab the rocks that had recently (and rather quickly) formed. At first I thought they would be too hot to even approach, but I grabbed a piece of Shaun's and it was really pretty. Still glowing on the inside
