Same Difference

well, i spent some serious poundage on those skates. i like to think of them on a boat right now. a real grimey thing that's been cruisin' the ocean for a while with the barnicles and other sea stuff clamped onto the hull of this enourmous ship. Yarrrr!!!

my dad was real nice and bought me a set of 70mm wheels for my old skates. i broke-ish? one wheel. it made clicking noises when i put weight on it. I'm still gonna keep my old skates around for stuff. yea, stuff. I'm waiting for an email from RollerBlade to tell me the max wheel size of those skates.

good news today, my sister and i will be sharing a dorm together. it got real complicated when we first signed up. We got different rooms and the only way we could get one together was if we asked our roommates to switch. Mine refused to switch but it turned out kelly's roommate wasn't even going to northern so i just moved on over. gee, i hope Kelly'll survive me buwahahahahahhahahahaaaaaa!!!!!

I think my lj page will very soon need a makeover. I'm thinking graffiti. hum, i should design my own tag, something bamf. i wish i had adobe illustrator. haha i should've bought that instead of the skates. and one of those awesome drawing tablets...drools.

I thought I'd pay lj a visit.
My jobs have been good to me, although I've been spending a lot of it. Aww, I have nothing to show of it. BUT! I'm starting to save I've got my eyes on a pair of spankin' inline skates.



I plan on using these sexy thangs to get around campus this coming semester...and y'know, work on some slalom. Problem is, you can't get 'em in the Etats-Unis. I read off a forum that you can get them from a store from Canada so maybe I can avoid insane exchange rates that double the price of the skates. Haha, this store answers the phone in French but they can speak english, but it makes me want to take a refresher French class. When I really focus on remembering a french word/phrase/verb it eventally comes back to me so maybe i did learn something in my five years of french class. Et toi?

So I've been quietly salavating over these things and now you know all about it. yay!

oooh posty post!
I really like breakfast. it has to be the awesomest meal of the day. but the thing for me that makes breakfast amazing is having breakfast at unusual hours of the day...or what i mean to say, unusual hours of the night.

I'm sorry that I can't offer an easy way to sum up why I find breakfast so appealing at night. It just is. Fluffy pan cakes dribbling with syrup, hot eggs with gooey yolks, sausage or bacon, and maybe even some toast. All under the cover of darkness. muwhahaha.
haha, yeah

Aww my laptop cackled at me. That would be bad if the speakers gave out. well maybe not too bad cause then i'd have to bust out the headphones. the headphones with the fifty foot cord of doom. there, i made it seem like a bad thing. pats on the back. pats on the back.

This is funny, i work two jobs to save money and i end up spending more. oh sure i can justify these EXPENDITURES but nobody really wants to hear that. oh but i can't help spending money on summer clothes and perscriptions with no generics. BUt I REallY want to get a membership at this fitness center. It has a pool and I'd have two personal trainers: chaz and his friend scott.

Posty toast!

I have two jobs now. Although thanks to coach z, jerbs...sometimes jorbs. I'm working at this place in Geneva called the Olive Mill. It's a typical Geneva shop, the kind that only survives in places were people have and spend tons of money. Well, it's more laid back than Oberweis and it never gets jammed with people like Obd either.
Visit me!
I'll prolly run the store all by myself on Sunday. I'm looking forward to that and not at the same time. I can't even pronounce all of the olive names and describe their tastes. Oh well, I'll wing it. Most olive oils finish with buttery, peppery, or fruity tastes anyway.

My birthday was good it was more like a birthweekend than a birthday. I had sushi with my parents on Friday and sushi with Chaz on Saturday too! Mmmmmmmm! Yellow tail is my new favorite. I also really liked the spicy scallops too. I got a little food poisioning from one of the places I went to but I don't know which. Meh, it won't stop me from eating sushi again.
Chaz took me to the zoo on Sunday. The bears were really cute, but only the brown bears were out. They were play fighting in their pool. Cute. The lions, tigers and leopards were doin' the cat thang, lying around. I also saw two baby camels. Aww, I wish we saw lemurs.
I've been learning about all the prosimians, monkeys and apes in my anthropology class and it would be fun to see lemurs or sifakas.
I didn't drink anything on my birthday but I did buy a bottle of amaretto. I was going to mix it with apple cider but they only had apple juice at the grocery store. Poo.

Do I really want to major in photography?

I would have another to do list today but it kinda got messed up. Oh well, I think I'm gonna go for a bike ride.

to do list for the moment:
Fill bike tires with air
Bike somewhere
Don't forget your ipod

Well since luxemburger asked, i guess i should post something to prove i haven't abandoned lj.
This is prolly a good break too. My jewelry homework was getting to me, bothering my fingers from filing and filing. i need a mean rasp. no, i need a hungry one to eat the metal faster, haha. i feel kinda lame that it amused me.

A few weeks ago I mailed a cd to my cousin and i haven't heard anything about it from him. so, is he away from his apartment? Never got it?? Too busy to reply??? Questions!!!!!!

I like making to do lists so i'll share the to do list i made today:
go to the bank
mail the letters (x3) w/ stamps
research world hunger (conceptual project, design paper plates)
cut and file metal
try printing out design project (2-11x14 boards, logo 5x5 max size, business card, letterhead, envelope)
go to work (6-c)

i am excited about making tomorrow's to do list.

hmm, the word envelope is looking really weird to me right now.
i have a fun activity! grab a piece of paper and a pencil/pen/moose and write the word bubble in cursive. then look at all the funky loops! yay! you'll be scribbling bubble all over things. you can thank/blame/throw a moose at me.

I think closing school for a week was a little excessive. I threw out that thought to my mom and she looks at me hard and says, Kim, five people died. Maybe it was a little insensitive. Dad says a week is maybe too long to be thinking about it. I know I'll be thinking about it for longer than a week.

Everything openned up on Tuesday, and Kim and I took advantage of our time off to work out at the recreation center. We've really gotten into working out and taking care of ourselves. I ran at school today, and I had to stop myself because I had other things to do. I bet I could've ran for another hour.

The memorial service is planned for Sunday. The field house was filling up with chairs, getting ready for the over-flow attendance, and a tent was erected in front of the rec center as well.

My anthropology class will continue in another auditorium. Cole Hall is shut down for the rest of the semester. You can't even get within 20 feet of the building. It's taped off. King Commons is littered with crushed, dry flowers, and in the very center of the Commons is a tent protecting 8 panels containing hundreds of student thoughts, memories and condolences.

Walking through campus in the middle of the day is quite creepy when there's no one around.

I feel pretty safe when I'm on campus. For me, school is just place where everybody goes to learn their own thing, make friends and gain massive debt.
It was the weirdest thing when suddenly I'm getting a bazillion calls from my friends asking if I'm okay and telling me there's been a shooting at school. I was hanging out with Chaz at the time and we both got out of bed and went online to get more information.

I called Kim and found out she had missed the whole shooting by mere minutes. She was taking a test in the other lecture room of Cole Hall and had her class been a regular lecture, who knows, maybe the shooter could've walked into her room. Maybe Kim would've been shot. Kim's pretty shaken up.
I also called Maria. She used a friend's phone to call me so when I called the number back, I was talking to a girl, scared and in tears. Maria was alright too.
I also called my Mom although she knew I wasn't on campus, she was scared as well.

I still feel school is safe. In fact, I want to go back soon because I have homework I want to finish. This whole shooting this is just so random. Who could possibly predict when someone's gonna snap and take it out on students?

First week of school and things seem alright. My sculpture teacher gives us concept projects to work on and our first is: what is the largest art work you can possibly create. By the way there are no boundaries to answering this question and we're not allowed to ask the teacher or GA any questions.
I started out by questioning the term largest. It could mean huge, physically or impacting generations of people around the globe. Truly what is large in this relative universe. And art, what is it? An audience and a concept is what makes something art. Everything is art if you think about it. The artist is even his/her own audience too.

I'm gonna give this a lot more thought. I'm not even sure if i have to turn in anything at all for this project except my ideas.

My room is back to normal and the wall is white. the wall is a touch lighter than the surrounding walls and you can tell the difference in low light. I'm really not gonna care on this one. usually, my parents are really good at keeping records of wall colors and other random house things but nothing exists regarding the color of white in my room.

These are the last few days of my freedom before the spring semester starts. I hope I like my classes. I think this week has been more eventful than any other this break. No complaints here either.

Sleepy.
I dreamed this morning I was looking for a new pair of pants at a library. Also, I removed all clothes from the waist down while I was looking around. The real reason I was there in the first place was shopping for graphic novels.
I think I had some wierd priorities. Before I even got to the library, I was walking on all fours and when it came to crossing the street, I felt embarassed and got up on my feet, which was a struggle.

Mom woke me up cause Garrett and Ben arrived and we immediately departed for the Field Museum. On our way, we picked up a friend of Garrett's. We looked at old maps and old bones and dead, stuffed animals.

Mmmm, sleepy.

I'm looking back at last year's resolutions.

I planned to clean up my room and although it may not be consistantly clean, it has gotten better. It's a mess right now as i sit at my desk. I'm in the process of repainting my red wall back to the white. I'll miss you red, you were fun.
This year is going to be different too. My parents are moving this summer and it'll give me chance to seriously consider chucking or storing my stuff away. Hopefully more chucking, but I can't get rid of my toys or books. Sigh, I am attached to them. While putting a chosen few into storage, I apologized and promised them they'd see the light of day with a younger generation to play with.

Another resolution of last year was to get better grades. I got four B's and one A. I have to say I worked hard in pretty much all classes and for the most part I am pleased. I am getting to like staying late at school to work on my homework. I even found out I like watercolor painting a lot. I painted a Lancer Evo for Chaz and an octopus on a scrap of cardboard just for fun. My parents flattered me by paying over 200 dollars to frame one of my paintings. Our original framing selection would've been over 300 but I didn't want them spending that much. Those prices were actually at 50% off and hearing that, it justifies the price of art in general. A good frame is just as important as the art behind the glass.

Excercising was a resolution of Oh-seven, and it's again on my list. I'm also tacking on eating less meat and dairy. I gave up drinking milk all together a few months ago in favor of soy milk and plant based calcium sorces.

I also realized last night that I get angry when I drive. Maybe it was the result of an agressive lane change that sent me spinning into a median, but I believe I need to relax when I'm on the road. I was lucky nobody was hurt and my car suffered no damage nor did it fall into a snowy ditch. Certainly a humbling experience and one I've learned from.

I am sorry to say I haven't posted much this year. I have been working, hanging out with Chaz and working on my homework. I'm not going to make a resoltion to write more. I'd rather make one to read more. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has been the funniest book I've read in a while.

There is more to think about, but this will be enough for now. Good night and a good new year to you.

Taking a break now. The paper has to dry a little before i do anything else to it anyway. Just finishing a belated christmas gift for chaz.
It feels a little foolish trying to finish it. Not because it's after christmas, but because
Chaz is one of those people who are so honest about liking gifts or not that it really is brutal.
This time around it is a gift i'm making so hurts a pinch more. It's a watercolor painting of one of his favorite cars. Except after i showed it to him, i got a little bit of a no no from him cause it's the wrong year. Watercolor has no room for do-overs unless you're willing to start all over again. I told him I'd have to paint him another some other time.

Ouch. Is it that bad?
No, it wasn't as bad as his birthday which brought me to tears.
Maybe he'll grow to like this painting...just like those birthday gifts (fingers crossed)

Best "In Bed" fortune cookie line ever:

Someone would love to cuddle up with you.

Recently, my dad's been cataloging the dvds of all the family videos.
Watching them again has been funny, cute and a little embarrassing. Kelly and I had good childhoods. We had parties with friends, flew kites and there were tons of presents under the tree at Christmas time. It's also neat to see slightly younger versions of our cousins and other relatives. We are certainly lucky to have pleasent experiences like these in this lifetime.

what is up? i mean, WHAT IS UP? haven't posted here in a while and it feels...strange? mmm, i donno. How IS everybody? You tell me I wanna know. We should all go dancing. just shake it! all around. Love-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Seriously now.
Enjoyed your holiday?
Good. Good.

The Kim status quo:
Still working at the ice cream store. A better paying job would be nice, but i haven't been looking and that's my problem.
Still dating the tall man, Chaz. I doubt the existence of another man more cuddly and sweet than this one.
Majoring in photography at NIU. Yay art! My grades this semester were 4 b's and one shiny a.
My room still has one red wall. It will be gone soon.

If you were in my room right now, I'd probably do a little happy dance for you. Today was my last day at school and what a nice thing to finish. These first few days of break are always exciting because i have so many things i want to do during break.

Painting is one of them. Scanning my doodles and one or two paintings is another. My watercolor teacher kept one of my paintings to display with others when school resumes next year. I also desperatly need to clean my room and my car. I should take a picture of my car; it's gotten really bad.
Repainting my red wall is another thing i'm planning too.

My xmas shoppin' is almost done. I was bad too, I bought myself a cd. The worst part was I bought it after telling chaz he couldn't buy anything for himself except food, booze and gasoline.

i want to play in the snow so bad!