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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
2:26 pm	I'm single now. Questions? AIM: TheSquis (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
6:37 pm	Couple Survey This is kind of like the 25 things - except they are pre-decided questions and it's about you and your spouse, not just you. Come on, play along - inquiring minds want to know! ;-) When you're done tag your friends. ♥ What are your middle names? Michael and Marie ♥ How long have you been together? 9 years (wow) ♥ How long did you know each other before you started dating? We knew each other online for months before, but started dating pretty much as soon as we met in person. ♥ Who asked who out? he did the asking ♥ How old are each of you? Suzy 24 and John 25 ♥ Whose siblings do/ did you see the most? We both ignore our families for the most part (sad but true) ♥ Do you have any children together? nope ♥ What about pets? We have two cats. Leo lives in New York with John and Ozzy lives in Korea with Suzy ♥ Which situation is the hardest on you as a couple? Living on different continents, also, managing the finances ♥ Did you go to the same school? Same high school, different colleges ♥ Are you from the same home town? Same state, but about three hours apart ♥ Who is the smartest? John, mos def ♥ Who is the most sensitive? Suzy, fo sho ♥ Where do you eat out most as a couple? Taco Bell and IHOP when we were last together ♥ Where is the furthest you two have traveled together as a couple? Texas... We've both been across the world separately though ♥ Who has the craziest exes? We have no exes really.. Suzy has had the craziest people trying to steal her away from John though ♥ Who has the worst temper? Neither of us have bad tempers ♥ Who does the cooking? At the moment, John.. when we're together, Suzy ♥ Who is more social? Suzy ♥ Who is the neat-freak? John is closer to being a neatfreak than Suzy by far ♥ Who is the more stubborn? We're both pretty stubborn ♥ Who hogs the bed? Suzy ♥ Who wakes up earlier? John ♥ Who has the bigger family? Suzy ♥ Do you get flowers often? Nope, never ♥ How do you spend the holidays? This year, separately ♥ How long did it take to get serious? 1 day ♥ Who eats more? John, but not by much ♥ Who does/ did the laundry? We used to do it together. I do the driving, John does the heavy lifting. ♥ Who’s better with the computer? John (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
6:16 pm	I had a dream about the Academy last night. It was last semester of senior year and I had to pick classes. I ended up in Calc C with Gevirtz for the third time by accident(I took it only once IRL though I did get a pity C). I remember telling Adam Taylor that I could help him with derivatives but I was shit when it came to integrals. Then I finally got to choose a class. I wanted to take a lit class with the female Dr. Smith. She told me a list of authors that they were going to read in the class. Then I lied to Dr. Smith by telling her that I had already read a lot of the authors when really I had only heard of one of them (Henry James). Then I woke up! Why would I lie in my dreams? I mean I know that I lie in real life. Everyone does about small shit. But have I come so far to do in while not even awake? And more importantly, why is the Academy still haunting me. Every 3 months or so I have a dream about it. Sometimes I am still a junior or senior, and other times I have to go back as an adult because it turns out I was one credit short of graduating. I don't dream about being in college or at my other high school. Guess it's just something about that crazy place. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
4:49 pm	Update So I'm still in South Korea. I'll be here until July 1. In July I am moving to Taiwan. John is probably going to come with me (even though he still needs to get his documents scanned). I am not sure where in Taiwan to choose to live.. there are options. I wish I could find out what the equivalents city to Ilsan is... It's 40 minutes from the capital and much cleaner and filled with parks. I got lucky in choosing here to live in Korea. I stayed up late last night to watch Obama's inauguration. I enjoyed the speech even though I had trouble taking my eyes off the book I am reading(Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express). The benediction was probably my favorite part.. it was very poetic and drew from references to the civil rights era. I'm currently at work. I am supposed to be making tests, but instead I am posting to livejournal. Go figure. (Comment on this)
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
6:30 pm	I have an earache. What's the deal? Am I like 5 years old suddenly? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 1st, 2009
2:01 pm	Meme taken from Kamihane 1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Lived on my own, taught English abroad 2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I didn't make any resolutions last year. This year I want to lose some weight. 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Yes, my friend Katherine(edited once I remembered) 4. Did anyone close to you die? No 5. What countries did you visit? South Korea 6. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008? John back sharing an apartment with me! 7. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? June 20, 2008. I left the US. 8. What was your biggest(s) achievement of the year? Surviving gall bladder surgery 9. What was your biggest failure? Calling it quits at Selfhelp 10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Gall bladder problems prompted surgery 11. What was the best thing(s) you bought? A laptop 12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Chistina getting married, Starsapphiredust getting married 13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? My mother 14. Where did most of your money go? Rent, car, insurance, credit card bills 15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? John agreeing to come to Taiwan with me in Summer 2009 16. What song will always remind you of 2008? Anything by ABBA 17. Compared to this time last year, are you: i. happier? Yes, I think I am ii. thinner or fatter? about the same iii. richer or poorer? poorer 18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Exercise 19. What do you wish you'd done less of? drinking 20. How did you spend Christmas? Christmas dinner in Itaewon then drinking all night with my coworkers 22. Did you fall in love in 2008? I've been in love since 2000 23. How many one-night stands? None 24. What was your favorite TV program? Dr. Who, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men 25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Yes, but it's an irrational hate 26. What was the best book you read? Atonement or Sense and Sensibility 27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Noraebang 28. What did you want and got? Friends who I can hang out with 29. What did you want and not get? John in Korea 30. What was your favorite film of this year? Mamma Mia 31. What did you do on your birthday? Dinner with John at a Japanese steakhouse 32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Financial stability 33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008? black pants and a blouse 34. What kept you sane? Alcohol, sadly 35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? The DJ at Fusion 36. What political issue stirred you the most? Election 37. Who did you miss? Election, all my high school and college friends 38. Who was the best new person you met? Priscilla 39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008? Liquor before beer, it's true 40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year. "All I can say is that my life is pretty strange" No Rain, Blind Melon (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
5:16 pm	Book Report- Spoiler ALERT! - Atonement So.. after a year of literary impotence, I actually finished a book. All it took was being trapped in a foreign country without anything I hold dear.. aka American tv and my husband. Today, I finished Atonement. I cried buckets at the ending. I can't believe the lovers never actually reunited.. that only in fiction, they ever reached their happy ending. I couldn't help but sympathize with Cecelia and Robbie as they were divided by great distance. I'd like to believe that I will meet John again, that we will regain our love.. but how can we be the same again? True, it's not war-time and it's very unlikely that John will die of Sepsis or I will die in a bombing, but bad shit can still happen. I am also upset that Briony never got her atonement. She ruined two lives, and was never able to make it right. How do you live after something like that? I am not surprised that in her old age she does not fear death. It had already come to those who were far less deserving. Now I have no more books, and I am more lonely than ever. I wish my new cat would come out from over the bed and love me. I am very needy right now. Stupid book. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, May 30th, 2008
2:03 pm	What a load of *$#% ! My gallbladder is staying in for the time being, but will need to come out eventually. Apparently for now I should just stick to a low-fat diet to get rid of the bouts of nausea I get every time I eat something delicious. If I was a size two I'd probably be on my way to the hospital to get the cursed organ removed without a problem. But no, I get a diet plan that if I misbehave even once I get physically ill. The surgeon was more concerned about the fact that I wasn't planning on getting my followup gastroscopy before going to Korea for a year. Sure, I have Barrett's esophagus that was indifferent to dysplasia (that means they don't know whether I have dysplasia(first sign you're on your way to cancer-town) because my esophagus was too inflamed), but Barrett's when treated very rarely leads to cancer... this I've been told by my gastroenterologists, but this surgeon was like "Oh, before I do surgery I recommend you get your gastroscopy because if they need to cut out my esophagus, they can just snatch out my gallbladder while their at it" (paraphrased, but I captured the essence of the statement) I know it is not in anyone's best interest to get upset at members of the medical community for giving their expert opinions, but I am just cranky due to missing my 12 o'clock cheese burger to a Subway roast chicken sub with no cheese. Current Mood: pissed off (Comment on this)
11:19 am	So, wedding season has come and gone. I attended one of the two weddings I had RSVPed for. The other one I got really sick at the hotel, and decided my presence would likely result in pretty white tablecloths covered in vomit. It turns out I have gallstones, and thus will probably have surgery to have them removed. I also had a bladder infection, but that has been treated, and my bladder is once again normal. At work I needed to have this funding application to Long Island by noon. It is now 11:30 and our chief exec. still hasn't signed it. I am very worried! At least I already quit, so I can't be fired. But I know the $5,000 the application brings in each year is important to Selfhelp's Long Island home care program. I have to leave to consult with a surgeon soon. I am hoping they can do the operation next week, so I can be back at work when my boss gets back the week after. Current Mood: worried (Comment on this)
11:04 am	Quote meme Pop over to http://quotationspage.com/random.php3. Pick five that resonate and post 'em. If you don't find five at the first go, hit refresh until you find the ones you like. Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001) I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. New York City detective When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them. Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004) I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on. Jean Kerr It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
12:16 pm	So much is going on in the next month- this weekend I am going to Indy to support my dad for a court child support hearing. In three weeks is my friend Christina's wedding, and two weeks later is my friend Adrienne's wedding. I've also got to start preparing for my move to South Korea(it's official now)in July. John has agreed to accompany me to the two weddings, but not to Korea. I will miss him, but I think the experience will allow me to grow more independent and into a stronger more self-reliant person. Current Mood: cheerful (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
11:00 am	Vote for Whitney to be the 4th Rascal Flatt! (We went to high school together and she canreallysing (Comment on this)
Friday, March 7th, 2008
4:34 pm	code only i can understand I s h a m m n i L G. I g S w t a m s, b r I a j j o h s e a l. I a r s a f a p. I f, f p a a s b a I a. L P a I a b s m w w t m S l m. I h y a. Y d t b p f. I w c u y. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 4th, 2008
12:20 pm	RIP Julia Carson Congresswoman from Indiana and my former employer A good boss and an honorable person (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
1:42 pm	About stuff and things So I am trying to develop a social life in this giant city of New York. It's actually not as hard as I thought it would be. I started going to meetups for board game enthusiasts, and have already made one good friend that way. Tonight I will try the meetup for standup and sketch comedy enthusiasts, and hopefully it will have similar results. Hopefully the new friend thing will work out. This first one was started on sort of weird pretenses since he thought I was single, and was interested romantically (yes, the Suzinator has still got it ((geez, how pathetic am I.. Suzinator?))). I hope I can morph that romantic interest into platonic girl companion interest because he seems like a nice enough guy.. though I am not yet sure whether his willingness to go to comedy clubs came out of wanting to go on a date or genuine interest in standup though. Only time, and more non-date outings will tell. (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
4:27 pm	Autumn in New York.. is not quite as smelly as Summer in New York. Yes, working in the city and living right outside of it is not quite the kind of adventure I thought it would be. Someone is stealing my Blockbuster DVDs out of the mail, and I'm pretty sure my landlord sneaks into our apartment when John and I are at work during the day. All this on top of sharing use of a shower with several strangers (all relatively non-social grown men) makes me anxious for a change of apartment, which isn't likely to happen anytime soon for financial reasons. I'm sorry I haven't posted for a long time, and now that I do it's so bleak, but that's life. I've been reading my old friend Katherine's travel journal lately, and find myself envious of her ability to see the good in every situation. Yet, I can not turn my brain from the negative. The ugly-hate-filled gunk that has filled my head since moving to New York is some strong stuff. It all makes me think of my mother, and wonder if I succumbing to the same illness that plagues her. I am going to a new doctor tonight, and maybe I will bring up that thought and others. I miss my old doctor, who grew to be a father-figure to me, and whose wisdom and wit helped me to be strong in times of illness. I have been trying to read more. I have several books checked out of the library including "The Kite Runner" and "I Am Legend", which show promise, and a few fantasy titles that don't. I cannot read the way that I used to.. you know, anything and everything. Now, a book has to grab my attention and whisk me away, and that takes real talent. More than real talent for writing- it is talent for story-telling, if you see the difference. I want to order some antennae for our television, so we might be able to pick up some stations. Right now, we get nothing, nada, but hopefully that is just do to our current lack of rabbit ears. Maybe I will post again in the next 6 months, maybe not, but I do still read my Friends' journals daily, so you need not fear you are posting for no one. Current Mood: depressed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
3:16 pm	CNN.com could use some more copy-editors " Andrea isn't expected to produce significant rainfall over land through at least Thursday morning, the weather service said. A previous forecast warned of dangerous surf conditions along the coasts of North and South Carolina as well as Georgia and northeastern Florida. Subtropical storms differ from tropical storms in some technical characteristics relating to wind and temperature, according to the National Hurricane Center's Web site." (Comment on this)
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
11:39 am	YARGH My not-so-competent boss led me to believe he had given the edits for an invitation I created to publications 2 weeks ago.  But he gave them to me today out-of-the-blue.  Then he makes me deliver them to publications and explain why the hell they are so late. Pisses me off to no end. Current Mood: annoyed (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 10th, 2007
4:05 am	One Fucking Awesome Night I am not one to over-embellish good things that happen to me, but tonight was freaking awesome. Today, plane from syracuse, ny to LA... flight long, but leave death blizzard for 65 degrees and sunny, definitely good. Wait for a long time for rental car, not so good, President of College treats for dinner at nice restaurant, good. NOW FOR FUCKING AWESOME- Then I take Mark, Anthony, and College President to Laugh Factory... DANE COOK is on the schedule.. already enough for awesome time, right? But there is also a special guest who just shows up at the end because he has time.. guess who? Carlos Mencia... I did a last minute upgrade on our seats, so we were three rows from the front.. I WAS TEN FEET FROM DANE FUCKING COOK AND HE WAS HILARIOUS.. 4/5 comedians including Mencia were at least very funny. I look back towards the entry spot for the comediens during Mencia's act, and who do I see standing there... Dane Cook, but not just Dane Cook.. DANE COOK IN A FAT SUIT. I saw through his disguise. No I didn't shout it across the room like I was tempted to do, but still... I feel like a spotted a celebrity in LA paparazzi-style, except I had just seen him for half an hour.. It's hard to explain, but I feel satisfied, gratified, and have thoroughly laughed myself to the point of exhaustion. It is now 4:12am EST, which is the time zone my body is still in (1:12 West coast), but I am psyched. I would have stayed for the last two comedians except my companions were a good deal older, and I could tell unless comic number 6 was Chevy Chase, they were going to fall asleep sitting up. Still.. fucking awesome night.. holy cow.. Dane Cook's new stuff.. so funny.... (Comment on this)
Friday, February 2nd, 2007
1:42 pm	This is the kind of thing that most people don't admit, but it bothers me when people don't like me. This guy at work, who, I'll say truthfully that we don't work well together, is having a superbowl party. He invites all the other young people in the office, but not me. He had the position I have now before I did, and he doesn't get that I don't agree with everything he says. Why am I so upset? I don't like him... but I do like football, and all my other friends from work will be at his party on superbowl Sunday, thus I will be at home alone with a husband who doesn't even like football. I am also just offended to be left out. Current Mood: irritated (2 Comments |Comment on this)