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Hi.
My name is Kate.
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wSaturday, March 15, 2003 |
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How many years has it been since I was last on a trampoline? Four glasses of hunch punch later and I made up for it like a mad woman. Have you ever tried to kick someone's ass on a trampoline? It's a near death experience if there ever was one.
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Kate at 12:07 AM
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wThursday, March 13, 2003 |
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So this is what my Shakespeare class really talks about: "...if you need your ass scratched call a fairy in a flower cap." This is a direct quote from my professor.
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Kate at 1:59 PM
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wTuesday, March 11, 2003 |
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Yo. Let's rock this thing.
Paper writing all tonight and tomorrow. Study, study, study. PAR-TAY. Test. Test. Collapse. Concert. Play. Collapse.
Let's see if I can make it outa this week alive.
posted by
Kate at 5:32 PM
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wMonday, March 10, 2003 |
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Things on my to do list:
1. Wear cute overalls
2. Go for a run
3. Mail some letters
4. Draw some nude people
5. Write a paper
Things not on my to do list:
1. Collapse in a big sweaty mess on bed after run and fall into semi-coma
posted by
Kate at 4:03 PM
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wWednesday, March 05, 2003 |
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Quiz, yo:
Seven Deadly Sins
ANGER
1. Who did you last get angry with? Myself.
2. What is your weapon of choice? My magical powered bitch slap hand, much like Snoop Dogg's.
3. Would you hit a member of the opposite sex? I often do, but I doubt I've ever hurt anyone.
4. How about of the same sex? Not so much.
5. Who was the last person who got really angry at you? Um, I'm not sure. Probably a good friend.
7. Do you keep grudges, or can you let them go easily? I'm the worst grudge-holder in the entire world because I'm lazy and holding grudges is hard work.
SLOTH
3. Name a person you've been meaning to contact, but haven't: My aunt.
4. What is the last lame excuse you made? I make so many of them. It's like choosing between my children, really.
5. Have you ever watched an infomercial all the way through? No. I'm a real connoisseur of the as-seen-on-tv products though. The pasta draining pot fascinates me.
6. When was the last time you got a good workout in? This afternoon. A run in my new shoes! It's like bouncing around in a cloud! I'm still a lousy runner, though.
7. How many times did you hit the snooze button on your alarm clock today? Had I hit snooze this morning instead of just turning off my two (you heard me right) alarm clocks then perhaps I could have had a shower and not been late to Modern Poetry.
GLUTTONY
1. What is your overpriced yuppie beverage of choice? Uh, don't have one really, but I make up for it in the sheer amounts of liquids I drink everyday all the time. I'm a real juice junkie, and then there's all the milk and water and, sadly yes, sodas.
2. Meat eaters: white meat or dark meat? Vegetarians: Vegan or no? Meat eater. Will try almost anything once. I usually prefer white meat, though.
3. What is the greatest amount of alcohol you've had in one sitting/outing/event? I certainly couldn't tell you because I lost count of course, but I'd have to say Halloween this past fall and Dead Day spring semester last year run a very close race.
4. Have you ever used a professional diet company? Diet? Yeah, right.
5. Do you have an issue with your weight? I think I might. I probably weigh more than someone my size should, but as long as I can still function on a physical level that I'm comfortable with I try to be okay with my body size.
6. Do you prefer sweets, salty foods, or spicy foods? Definitely sweets.
7. Have you ever looked at a small housepet or child and thought, "LUNCH!"? Hell yeah.
LUST
1. How many people have you seen naked (not counting movies/family)? I couldn't count them. Seriously. I have seen many, many naked bodies in various situations and contexts.
2. How many people have seen YOU naked (not counting physicians/family)? 1...2...34567???? I'm not exactly sure. It's not as bad as it sounds. I promise.
3. Have you ever caught yourself staring at the chest/crotch of a member of your gender of choice during a normal conversation? Oh definitely. Women too. Cleavage is an eye magnet no matter your sexual orientation.
4. Have you "done it"? Um, done what? I need clarification.
5. What is your favourite body part on a person of your gender of choice? I love backs and shoulders. I love the bendy place where the bicep connects to the forearm, and I love, repeat, love the indented muscle place on a man where his stomach connects with his groin.
6. Have you ever been propositioned by a prostitute? I don't believe so.
7. Have you ever had to get tested for an STD or pregnancy? No.
GREED
1. How many credit cards do you own? I don't own any, just a check card that I never use. Except that one time when I used it to go sky diving.
2. What's your guilty pleasure store? Coconuts, definitely. I can't go in that store without buying at least four or five CDs at a time.
3. If you had $1 million, what would you do with it? I would take a trip and buy a few new clothes and let my dad manage the rest.
4. Would you rather be rich, or famous? Rich.
5. Would you accept a boring job if it meant you would make megabucks? Depends. I might work a job like that for a while, but eventually I'd have to quit.
6. Have you ever stolen anything? I don't think so. I've kept some "found" things.
7. How many MP3s are on your hard drive? Not too many.
PRIDE
3. What thing would you like to accomplish in your life? I want to be as successful and good a poet as possible.
4. Do you get annoyed by coming in second place? Hell yes. I seem to have the second place curse too. That, and it usually takes me three tries to do anything right. Like I totally got my ears pierced (first hole) for the third time three weeks ago and I'm trying really hard to not screw it up again.
5. Have you ever entered a contest of skill, knowing you were of much higher skill than all the other competitors? After a long moral debate with myself, I'm about to do just that. It's an almost sure $75, though. How can I pass that up? And maybe someone will beat me and my ego as well. That would almost be a good thing.
6. Have you ever cheated on something to get a higher score? Yes. I'm not proud of it, but I have.
7. What did you do today that you're proud of? I can't think of anything that I'm exceptionally proud of today. I ran?
ENVY
4. Have you ever been cheated on? I don't think so.
5. Have you ever wished you had a physical feature different from your own? Sometimes I wish I had extremely dark features instead of extremely light/blonde features.
6. What inborn trait do you see in others that you wish you had for yourself? Let's see, I wish I had a natural curiosity that wasn't tempered by an unwillingness to look stupid and ignorant. People who ask lots of questions are my heroes.
Finally, what is your favourite deadly sin? Gluttony, totally. I love to eat.
Seven Heavenly Virtues
FAITH
1. What religion do you follow? I was raised Presbyterian, but I don't hold to a rigid faith system right now, and I probably never will. I do believe in god, though.
2. What religion were you raised as? You know.
3. Do you believe that forgiveness is a religious property, or a human property? Definitely a human property.
4. Do you believe in magic? I still check the back of my "wardrobe" pretty regularly.
6. Have you ever said the words to a prayer and not meant it? Yes. How terrible.
HOPE
1. Did you get everything you wanted over the last holiday season? No. I didn't get any CDs. What an ungrateful little brat I am.
2. Regarding your future, what is the best thing you could hope for? To be true to my art, my craft, my skill and my work, no matter what the cost.
3. Do you let yourself get your hopes up for something even if you know that there is a large chance of failure? I try not to. I try very hard not to.
4. Do you believe in Murphy's Law? Sometimes. Mostly not.
5. Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? There's no lottery in Alabama. That's evil, duh.
6. Do you gamble? If so, what game or activity? Gambling games are usually scary and strange to me.
7. Have you ever had something called off on account of bad weather, but then gone ahead and done it anyway? Not really.
CHARITY
1. What causes do you support? Not many. I try to be as environmentally and socially and politically responsible as I can. But I fall short. A lot.
2. What causes have you given money or time to? Lots of environmental stuff.
3. Have you ever worked in a soup kitchen or done another kind of outreach for the homeless? Since I've grown up surrounded by small towns where the homeless population is virtually invisible, I've never done any kind of service of that kind.
4. Would you ever consider joining the Peace Corps, Amnesty International, or another travel-inherent worldwide charity group? Maybe.
5. Do you give money to the homeless on the street? Do you talk to the homeless on the street? Like I said, I'm not around a lot of homeless people, so when I do visit big cities, homelessness is something that clenches at my heart in an awful way. I've never given anyone money, though. I wouldn't know where to start, so I usually just ignore them. I'm a bad person, probably.
6. Have you ever helped out a friend with basic needs, like rent or food? Nah. My friends are totally dope and stuff. (what?)
FORTITUDE
1. What are you most afraid of? That I'm not as good as I think I am, and not in a saintly kind of way.
2. What did you do today that was really brave? I haven't done anything exceptionally brave, really. I ate alone in the dining hall. That's definitely an uncomfortable thing.
3. Who is your favourite superhero, and why? Wonder Woman. I want a rocket like hers. I'd modify it slightly though.
4. Would you put your life in danger to rescue someone? I hope so. I hope so.
5. If you were to face the Wizard, would you want more courage, more brains, or more heart? I'd want more brains so badly that I'd hardly be able to keep myself from asking, begging, for them. But I don't think I should be changed at all because then my writing would change and it's got a real chance to be something good as it is I think.
6. Have you ever gotten stage fright? If so, when? If not, how do you avoid it? I used to do a lot of performing - band, dance, etc... I was never extraordinarily comfortable onstage, but it was never an excruciating experience either.
7. Do you consider yourself to be a leader or a follower? I'm not such a good leader, but I'm not such a good follower either.
JUSTICE
1. Have you ever been summoned for jury duty? Were you chosen? Nah.
2. If they reinstituted the draft (for both genders), would you go, or would find some way out of it? Dude, I'm legally blind. They can't make me go...can they?
3. Do you support capital punishment (the death penalty)? This is a tough call. Ultimately, I'd say yes.
5. Do you believe that Dubya is rightfully President of the USA? I believe he was fairly elected, but I don't agree with anything else in context with him.
7. Have you ever written a letter to a politician? No. Shame on me.
TEMPERANCE
1. What do you have the hardest time moderating yourself on? Snacking. Thinking too obsessively about certain things.
2. Do you collect anything? The usual things...CDs, shoes and whatnot.
3. Are you addicted to anything? totally, totally chapstick, lip balms, glosses, anything lip related.
4. Have you ever put anything on layaway or used an installment plan? No. I don't think so.
5. What's your preferred method of paying for things? Cash for small stuff. Checks for bigger stuff.
6. Tell us one thing you wish you hadn't let yourself do: When? I'm always letting myself do things I wish I wouldn't. I wish I hadn't let myself get embarrassed in Creative Writing class today when a boy I used to like read his short story and it had a part where the main character explains why he doesn't like one night stands.
7. Do you feel that you obsess over things? Constantly, sadly.
PRUDENCE
2. Have you ever participated in a vigil? I guess.
3. Do you take advice when it's given? Even if you haven't asked for it? Sometimes. I'm really stubborn about advice for the most part.
4. What area are you wisest in? I'm mostly very, very foolish, but sometimes I think I intuitively know a lot about being human. Sometimes I can even write about it.
6. Have you ever had unprotected sex outside of marriage? Would you ever? No I haven't. I hope I wouldn't be stupid enough to do that, but I could. Maybe.
7. What did you learn today? That my new shirt that I got free with my new shoes perfectly matches a blue beaded necklace I made.
And of course, what is your favourite heavenly virtue? Justice.
posted by
Kate at 9:42 PM
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wMonday, March 03, 2003 |
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Alright, alright. I know I've got a paper due in a week and I know I've got to write some stupid thank you letter for a speaker at the environmental club meeting I didn't even go to and I know I've got to work on my short story at some point and I know I've got two tests next week and the damn paper and and and all the poems that are slipping between my fingers just when I thought I was getting them down faster and better.
But...of course there's a new female model for life drawing tomorrow and how I might go camping this weekend but I'm not sure and how I might be planting potatoes tomorrow at an organic farm run by a guy named Gary just outside of town and, yes, there are a million things to do and, no, I'm not going to read The Taming of the Shrew tonight, or am I? Oh, what does it matter? People like me and tonight I totally drank beer out of a old Wendy's cup while I watched Billy Madison in the photography room in Malone. It was so trashy/cool.
posted by
Kate at 11:57 PM
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It's been the kind of day where I feel like running everywhere just because I can...and I did...in my new shoes! Yay!
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Kate at 4:40 PM
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And also...
I love drawing the human figure; I mean, I really love it, as in spend-the-rest-of-my-life-pursuing-the-act-of-drawing-the-nude-human-figure-love-it, and I mean it. This weekend, when I went home, I decided to show the parents some of my latest drawings. My mom just winced a little. She thinks it's a phase, I can tell. And when I asked my dad what he thought he just said, "It's a dude showing his bare ass, that's what I think."
My poor, poor parents - that they ever had a daughter like me. Thank god I've got a sister who wants to be a pharmacist and a brother who wants to fly airplanes.
posted by
Kate at 1:17 AM
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wSunday, March 02, 2003 |
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So...
What I really want right now is an ink cartridge for my printer and some Coca-Cola from a soda fountain and some Dove chocolates. I really want some Dove chocolates.
My dad bought me some New Balance running tennies this weekend because my other shoes were cheap - albeit fashionable - and it was like running barefoot on concrete. I messed up my foot really good, but it's better now and I have these new shoes too. I used to make fun of people who wore New Balance in high school. Not because I was a particularly lusty trend buster but because I couldn't really afford them or the complimentary Abercrombie and Fitch baby tees, and besides, I've never been very style conscious. I match sometimes. Anyway, now I'm going to be, like, a running super hero in my new New Balances and the free t-shirt I got from the store Dad bought them at because, you know, he knows the owner because he knows everybody. Of course none of this thoughtful - or is it thoughtless - rambling has done anything to help me with the reading I haven't done or how I can't find the correct ink cartridge for my printer anywhere or how I'm really just incredibly thirsty right now and dying for some Dove chocolates, preferably dark.
posted by
Kate at 9:28 PM
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