au revoir 2008...

I expect a recap of sorts is in order... so here's a recap of 2008..

January... I was at home for two weeks before going back to Boston in early-mid Jan, then I spent most of the time in Boston feeling alone and sorry for myself because my living situation was crap. February was interesting. Lots of doing things I would never have thought I would do- going out for drinks way too much. In fact, I think I drank more alcohol in February than other times combined- the effects of turning 21. But I also went to New York for my birthday and bought the infamous silver Manolo Blahniks, ate a fantastic cupcake at Magnolia Bakery, and traipsed across the Brooklyn bridge in the rain. I spent more of my own money in one week of February than maybe the rest of the year combined. (manolos, a dress on sale at Anthropologie, dinner in NY, a cupcake, bus boston>NY roundtrip...)
March saw me coming home for Spring Break, and I went to Monterey for a few days. I also turned my life around in late March, health-wise and began my crazy 31 days in a row gym routine. April was the month I returned home to California for good. I also watched the Boston marathon at a block from the finish and had an epiphany that I wanted to be a marathoner. I went to a wedding in Topanga Cyn that weekend at the end of April that it was 105 degrees...
May was mildly interesting. Went on a memorial day weekend adventure with my mother in santa barbara/ventura and it rained nearly the entire time. Started my job back at Peet's. June is when I started my crazy summer class + work routine: work 4:30-9:30 am, class 10:30a-1:pm, lunch, homework, gym, dinner, bed... five days a freaking week.
July... I can't really remember much of July because I was in school doing the crazy routine. But I did start running in July. Which is a stupid time to start running. Got my first realllly nice running shoes. August was nuts. Radiohead concert at the end of the month, working, painting, running... But fucking Radiohead was amaaaazing.
September! I started classes again in September. This is also when my strange vertigo started and never went away. I hung out with friends and all sorts of shite like that. October had really hot weather which sucked. Lots of fires and bad air quality. More school, more homework and hanging out with friends. My parents were out of town and I had the house to myself (which is reeeeally rare as they never go anywhere on vacation ever) so laziness and all that ensued.
November! More running, increasing my mileage and time. Thanksgiving with lots of people over including one who didn't know how the hell to censor himself (Ryan knows who Im talking about lol). Rain!!!
December has been interesting. Busy as all hell. Christmas shopping, a trip to the Getty, GhostHunters marathons on SciFi (lol), a very fun time watching a boat parade though it was extremely cold outside, and Christmas.

I hope 2009 will be a happier year. Also, a more financially stable one. Bush will be gone, and who knows if Obama will be decent or if he's just like every other dirty politician. I'll be going back to Art Center in the fall, which means somehow 16 months after I start the final leg of the journey I might finally be done with college. Will I be single? Probably. But I'm okay with that, because I like my time and independence. My first marathon is in a few months and I'm terrified.

and with that said, I now bid 2008 goodbye.


-kate

nihilism for everyone

music: michael buble 'it had better be tonight (meglia stasera)'

ah, 2008 is almost over. hoping 2009 will be infinitely better and that our economy will get a little better.

also hope my footless tights are the right size.. may have to exchange them.. hmm..

*dance*

huzzah for Bruce Springsteen having a new album coming out!

not much else to say, just wasting time until i go for a run...


am in a right kerfuffle with art stuff that i want to do... have the idea but the execution compositionally is an issue.



kate

it's a right kerfuffle!

Thank you cards to be sent out, gift cards to be used... ah, the bountiful array of gifts I receieved for Christmas makes me happy. Don't get me wrong, I love buying gifts a whole lot, it's not just about my getting things. I think the most exciting thing about opening a gift is not knowing what it is; wondering whether someone got you something atrocious or really fantastic.

With that said, here is the once-a-year gifts received list:

gift cards:
subway
2 Jamba Juice
Sport Chalet
Barnes & Noble
iTunes
peets

clothes:
purple skirt + purple bird print blouse (Gap)
running capris!
running socks!! i love socks
running shirt!
huzzah for clothes!

etc:
frame with print of favorite alma-tadema print
(Borders- return book already have = money for other books!! yay!)
Little Britain Live dvd
see's chocolates


All in all, a very good pile of fun things. Food related gift cards are always fun. Kind of wishing had a Coffee Bean card, as do not want to drive to peets- would much rather drive 2/3 mile to the Bean and buy latte there (despite always having name written on cup as keith. name is not keith. am not a man!) hmm....

Watched my Little Britain Live dvd-- oh, how i love that show. if only they had Are You Being Served? in normal episode sets, not whatever bbc decides are funny episodes to put on a dvd... ;(

getting cold sitting here with blanket and no pants soooo that is all for today. time to put on pants and get on with my day.

-kate
ps: the title is in reference to lou & andy.

more sappy lyrics

currently listening to pink floyd, but here's some lyrics to a good song.

My song is love
Love to the loveless shown
And it goes on
You don't have to be alone

Your heavy heart
Is made of stone
And it's so hard to see clearly
You don't have to be on your own
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back
And I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
Got to get that message home

My song is love
My song is love, unknown
But I'm on fire for you, clearly
You don't have to be alone
You don't have to be on your own

And I'm not gonna take it back
And I'm not gonna say I don't mean that
You're the target that I'm aiming at
And I'm nothing on my own
Got to get that message home

And I'm not gonna stand and wait
Not gonna leave it until it's much too late
On a platform I'm gonna stand and sing
That I'm nothing on my own
And I love you, please come home

My song is love, is love unknown
And I've got to get that message home

-coldplay 'a message'

Along with "La Vie en Rose", this is another one of my favorite sappy songs. As it is the holiday season, I'm being overly emotional and all about the love songs. disturbing.

Was getting coffee and saw an adorable basenji (dog breed) and wanted to hug it, though it probably was not the same happy joyful overly excitable dog like my best friend's basenji, Ginger. Ginger is the friendliest, sweetest, most guileless dog I have ever been around. For some reason she seems to be the only dog that actually likes me. She sees me and wags her tail so hard that her entire back is moving to and fro and she almost hits herself in the head with her tail. It's adorable to watch. Plus she sleeps on the top of the couch, curled up like a cat. i heart Ginger.

Can someone please tell me what the hell I should buy for various members of my family for Christmas? Bleh. I'm not feeling very creative about gift giving this year.

-kate

i'm listening to the most non-holiday song ever- Pink Floyd's 'High Hopes'. i WIN.

la vie en rose

Hold me close and hold me fast
The magic spell you cast
This is la vie en rose

When you kiss me heaven sighs
And tho I close my eyes
I see la vie en rose

When you press me to your heart
Im in a world apart
A world where roses bloom

And when you speak...angels sing from above
Everyday words seem...to turn into love songs

Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La vie en rose

The Louis Armstrong version totally wins over the Edith Piaf version. <3 this song.

happy holidays.

-kate

kate wants a 911 turbo cabriolet

It's been unusually cold for LA, even for the fact that it's basically winter. Bah..

Last night I was in Ventura and it was like, below 40, and I was really glad I had my Columbia puffy coat. Reeeally glad. I wore it in the car on my long lonely drive back to Pasadena, with a long sleeved shirt and the heater on my feet. Wanted to wear gloves because my hands are always cold, but could only find one glove so I looked like an insanely stupid person.

My cold tolerance has apparently disappeared since last year's stint in Boston. I was awesome. I got to the point where I was walking around the city when it was 35 wearing jeans and a tshirt with my running shoes. Oh well. I guess cold tolerance goes away when you have to live through 105+ weather.


Also, I reeeeeeealllllly want this car. Nevermind that its around $150,000. We'll just forget that bit. We'll forget that any of the 911 series are mostly more than $90,000.



LOVE AT FIRST SIIIIGHT.

specs:
480 hp
0-60mph in 3.8 seconds
top speed: 193 mph. *giggle*


ohhh porsche how i love thee...


-kate

let the American auto companies just fail

Don't buy an American car. Not that it matters because they're all going the fuck out of business... But don't buy one. As much as I have grown emotionally attached to my not-so trusty little tank of a car, it's kind of made of fail. The latest thing to go wrong with it (in a ridiculously long list for the fact that it's less than 4 years old) is the CD player. The eject button fails to function anymore and apparently now I'll have Blink-182's album 'Take Off Your Pants and Jacket' in the car for all eternity. Because I can't afford to get another thing fixed on this goddamn car.

Screw you, Dodge.


I think I have horrible car luck. Plus the service center I took the car to because it was a mere 3 miles from my house, is TOTAL crap. I hope they all lose their jobs and go out of business because they're the rudest, most unhelpful bunch of assholes.

I know I've made some pretty angry points in this post but... at this point I'm so angry about all the weird shit that's gone wrong with the car vs. the amount of money I've put into the car and the horrible service i've received. This has been going on for almost three and a half years and I'm up to my neck with frustration everytime something random goes wrong because the douchebags at the dealership service center know absolutely nothing and have no work ethic.

Plus, let's please bring up the fact that nobody respects a young blonde girl. FUCK YOU. Just because I'm blonde doesn't mean anything. At least I'm not a fucking tool like you shitbags. I'm surprised you get ANYWHERE in life by the way you treat women, and that you aren't sitting somewhere just slobbering on yourselves.


you FAIL.



.kate.

world-class Kenyan runners for all!

Since I find odd things on both Runnersworld.com and other websites, heres a good weird one. it's embarrassing. embarrasing in a "americans are fucking stupid and degrading in the worst ways possible and i want to hide my head so people from other countries don't think i'm from this atrocity of a nation" way.

This woman gave her husband a Kenyan runner for his 40th birthday.... if that doesn't sound fucked up.....


in the words of the great David Bowie, I'm afraid of Americans.

-kate.


ps: did anyone who reads this blog watch the shrimp video? yeah. they're trying it with lobsters next. beat THAT.

cue Chariots of Fire theme song

holy. shit.

SHRIMP ON A TREADMILL. I especially like when it's put to the music from Chariots of Fire.

*giggles incessantly*

That so wins.

Whether or not it wins more than that video with the lion hugging people while Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" plays in the background.... well... no, because that video made me cry. The shimp video was just way too funny.


Went to the Getty Center with a friend on Thursday. They have an amazing new exhibit up thru early Feb of an illuminated manuscript. What's different about this illuminated manuscript is that they actually took it apart page by page and put them in separate cases. Fantastic stuff. Also, I had forgotten or not ever realized that they had one of my absolute favorite Alma-Tadema paintings (specifically Spring), and when I saw it, I just kind of ran over and stood in front of it staring at it for like 5 minutes. Awesome.


-kate

why is it socially inaccpetable to be single?

I'm perfectly fine with being single, but other people don't seem to be.

The world hates singletons.


If you are single, you receive pity. If you are single, and your friends are not, suddenly you are not always in their lives anymore. You aren't important because you apparently cannot possibly be someone to talk to if you can't talk about your lovey dovey couples moments with other couples.

Also, married people get tax breaks. If you are married and in the military, you get more money.

If you are at a certain age, it somehow becomes abnormal to not be dating or married. For example, I have started getting the question that all singletons dread- "is there someone special in your life?" by various individuals. As if I have lost my merit as a human at twenty-one years old because I am not the cultural/social norm due to my single status.

If you are of a certain age and spend a lot of time with people of either sex, people around you that don't know you will invariably make the assumption that you are a couple. You can't be friends, roommates, or even sisters without people assuming that you're dating someone. My mom and her sister were on a tour of the canyonlands of the US, and people ASSUMED they were a couple even though my mother was wearing her wedding ring and my aunt was not. "Would your friend like some cream and sugar?" The old lady asked my aunt. "You mean my sister?" she replied.

Gift giving:
You may receive a gift on your birthday, or you may not. Depending your religious views, this may be the only time of year you receive gifts if you are single. If you are married then gifts are:
1. wedding shower
2. wedding
3. anniversary
*4. baby shower
*5. baby

It's like that episode of Sex and the City. Carrie goes to a baby shower at someone's house, and her $500 shoes are stolen. When she tells this to the woman whose party/house it was, the woman scoffs at her lifestyle and talks about how 'well i have kids' as if that makes it alright to belittle other peoples lifestyles. Finally, Carrie gets her to pay for the shoes by registering herself at the boutique as marrying herself. So she gets her Manolos.


I could go on and on about this subject but it's too depressing.

namaste
.kate.

thunderballs!

The best things in life are free. BUM BUM BUM you can tell that to the birds and bees i want the money its what i want

okay bad 80s music that i don't even like aside, here's some things i like that may or may not cost money.



1. Macaroni and cheese.
Yes, the kind out of the box with the powdered cheese and so much salt that your arteries may clog up and you'll die while eating it. IT WINS. I'm actually waiting for my Trader Joe's mac n cheese noodles to cook right now. cost: 2 bucks or so.


2. Hugh Jackman.
The best things in life are clearly free when I can stand in Border's book store and casually flip through the pages of People magazine to see the extremely sexy and very cool Hugh Jackman as the "sexiest man alive." Thank you People magazine for all those great photos. Besides, other than being really good looking, he's funny as hell, a fantastic actor, has adorable children and a NORMAL LOOKING NON BIMBO ESQUE wife. How fucking refreshing, eh ladies? Kudos to Hugh.

3. this is the BEST tabloid headline EVER:

LMFAO. I nearly peed myself when i came across this on google images. Whoever came up with this wins at life and deserves a pie because that title is fucking funny. poor daniel craig. i mean, he has an AMAZING AMAZING body but come on, do pictures of the man adjusting the tiny shorts need to be put in a magazine? PRICELESS.


namaste.
.kate.

Nissans = fail. volvo c30 = hot

Here's one thing I'd like to know:

Why is it that NISSAN cars magically all look like current Lexus models? Seriously. Lexus releases their models and then shortly thereafter, oh look, big surprise, Nissan releases their models which resemble Lexus cars pretty closely.
I was just browsing photos from the top 10 new cars or whatever from the LA Auto Show, and Infiniti (the luxury car division of Nissan) has turned their mighty popular G37 sedan into a convertible. And guess what? It looks like the Lexus SC 430!

I have one thing to say:

Please be original and stop being lazy by basically COPYING other car companies. Seriously. It's Nissan. Which means they're made of plastic basically. My dad got into an accident with a Nissan rental... actually two accidents with Nissan rentals, and both times, the Nissan was far more damaged than the other cars.

So please be original. Flattery is important but my goodness do you think you could design something that doesn't look too much like Lexus? Seriously! I mean, are you trying to create some subliminal messaging so that people who can't afford Lexus or are being cheap will buy a Nissan instead? And you would think that with Infiniti being the luxury counterpart in the company, that maybe their models wouldn't look like Lexus' as well. Apparently I'm wrong.

It's like the Hyundai Genesis. It totally looks like a fucking Mercedes!

BE ORIGINAL. The reason BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus are at the top of the game are because they are INNOVATIVE. Their models don't look like they stole the CAD drawings from other car companies. Am I the only one that is seeing this?

Nobody is stealing Volvo's designs. Thank God actually, because the C30? One hot car.


Can someone please buy me one? I already thought it was an awesome car when I saw the design originally. Then, in the movie adaptation of the Twilight book saga, Edward Cullen drives one and... oh. It sounds so nice. The engine is all grumbly in a good way and obviously the person driving it in the movie was a stunt driver because I highly doubt they would allow Robert Pattinson to drive like he did skidding around like a Mercedes-Benz advert... But I digress. It's a fucking awesome car.



.kate.

ass kicking? perhaps not

Since Bill Maher is on my list of cool people, despite how obnoxious and cynical he is, I'm now going to be putting bits on this blog from his book that was published a few years ago. The book is New Rules and you should buy it for a staunch conservative homophobic closeted gay SUV driving republican this holiday season. I say that because I am an asshole. Get over it.


New Rule

Bush Whack
George Bush must stop saying he owes all his success to Laura. George Bush owes all his success to his daddy, his daddy's friends, trust funds, legacy admissions, the National Guard, the Supreme Court, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and AA.


Next time, who knows what my obnoxious controversial ideas will spurn for a quote.


By the way, white wine cream sauce is much better than alfredo sauce.


.kate.

23 weeks & "softcorn"

Oh Christ.

I just realized I've only got like 23 weeks until the Big Sur marathon.



shiiiiit.




yeah. i'm a retard.


.kate.

ps: here's a funny conversation i had with steph the other day.. notice my fuck up with typing.
Kate: oh god
Kate: snakes on a plane was on something
Kate: Auto-reply: compu'ah says no.
steph: i still havent seen that
steph: david has a random sankes on a plane hat and i dont know why
7:50 PM
Kate: and its all about sex
Kate: like
Kate: it's softcorn
Kate: soft core porn excuse me
steph: SOFTCORN
steph: HAHAHAHAHA
steph: SOFTCORN PORN
Kate: but
steph: *dead*
Kate: with
Kate: snakes attacking people's genitalia
Kate: it's AWFUL
steph: well of course, snakes are of course obvious phallic symbols
steph: you want good softcorn watch true blood
steph: vampire softcorn
Kate: yes.
Kate: mmm
Kate: vampires.



I WIN.

ah, memories.

I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside

I am ready
I am ready
I am ready

I am taffy stuck and tongue tied
Stutter shook and uptight
Pull me out from inside

I am ready
I am ready
I am ready

I am fine

I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded and unfolded and unfolding
I am colorblind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am fine
I am fine
I am fine.

- 'Colorblind' by Counting Crows.

holy shit. this was SO my favorite song when I was 15. I saw Cruel Intentions and this song was in the movie and then I downloaded it and listened to it on repeat wishing that Ryan Phillippe would show up at my house and serenade me or something. i don't know.

But it's a fucking good song, so there. I had good taste when I was 15, apparently. Go me.

<3 kate.

ps: thoughts and prayers go out to Chi Cheng and his family during this difficult time. (* chi is the bassist for the Deftones, and was in a car accident and now is in a coma- very very sad. especially since it's one of my favorite bands)

Oh Christ, what now?!

1. more fucking bailouts from bush.
As if George W Retard Bush hasn't fucked this country up enough, he's proposing a "free trade" deal with Colombia. HONESTLY. It's not fucking free trade you idiot. You got the fucking definition wrong.

MR. BUSH CAN YOU PLEASE JUST STOP. SERIOUSLY JUST STOP. YOU AREN'T HELPING. You've never done anything right except for screwing everything up so awfully that Bill Maher's jokes will suffer when you are no longer president. Everything you touch turns to shit so just accept that you are completely made of fail, and go lay on a beach somewhere and leave us alone.

Your job isn't actually a video game; people's lives are important enough for you to just stop your insanity.

2. Twilight!


fuck yes! I started reading the books about two weeks ago, and though not anne rice level stuff, it is truly entertaining. Robert Pattinson stars as Edward in the movie adaptation (which comes out next week) and for some reason I find him intriguingly attractive as the character. I thought he was not great looking when he played Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter, but maybe it's the skinny, pallid, blood sucking thing going on. Regardless, I'm looking forward to the movie to see how accurate it is to the book...

3. LA Marathon moved to Memorial Day.. what?
Yes that's right folks, the asshat Frank McCourt (owner of the LA Dodgers baseball team) has purchased rights to the LA Marathon and has moved the date from March to the end of May. WHAT THE HELL IS HE THINKING.
Nobody wants to run 26.2 miles with horrid smog when it's 90 degrees outside. Frank McCourt, you are right up there for my Asshat of the Day Award, right along side George W Bush. I hope you get no money and no one runs the race. Asshole.



Yesssss Kate loves vampires. Perhaps if I were a vampire I could scare Frank McCourt to move the date for the marathon.



.kate.

my finger is a brautwerst

my finger is all retarded looking. Instead of looking like a finger, it looks like some sort of bruised brautwerst. i.e. it's still swollen and looks sausage like, and is purple.



yuck.

murphy's law was clearly written with myself in mind.




Back to reading New Moon (yes I'm one of the fucktards reading the Twilight books.) If it has vampires, I'll read it.


<3 kate

um, clumsy much?

Forgive the weird typing style- my finger is in a freaking splint.,.. here's the story..

I was having a good morning; I'd had coffee (albeit though I had to drink it in like 5 minutes...) and looked at the I Can Has Cheezburger? book, and things were going well. The weather is great. Went shopping for Thanksgiving dishes with my mom, and before we were going to go to Glendale, we stopped at Subway.

Then, instead of being a normal person, I was my clumsy as hell self, and somehow managed to smash part of my left hand in the door. My middle finger was all screwed up and nasty and bleeding- the only part of my hand that was really damaged.

It hurt like hell. As it is Sunday, I couldn't exactly go to my own doctor, so mom and I headed to the Emergency Room. Well they told me it wasn't broken, and that all it was, was a contusion. I thought they were wrong but.... you know, how are you going to tell the nurses or whoever that you're questioning their judgment?

Finally the guy came in to bandage it up and after he finally looked closer at it, he told the other nurse/doctor that she was wrong. But instead of stitches, they put some sort of glue and tape on it cuz apparently there'll be less of a scar that way.


Yeah. THree hours later I left and finally got my Subway sandwich.


Long day.

Back to watching Young Frankenstein!

civil/political commentary.

Obama won, huzzah!



The first presidential election I was able to vote in was an historic one. How nifty is that?

Also, huzzah that Prop 2 passed. Not so much huzzah that homophobe biggots passed Prop 8. NICE GOING, A-HOLES. YEAH. AWESOME. YOU THINK GAYS AND LESBIANS SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE A CIVIL UNION. YOU WIN AT LIFE.

My question on this is, what is just SO terrifying to you about gays and lesbians being able to marry, huh? One out of three marriages end in divorce. Britney Spears had an embarrasingly short marriage. How is marriage all so sacred between a man and a woman? Please explain that one to me. Most of the reason people get married other than being in love is for other reasons. Property rights. That's why marriage was created in the first place, and then of course the Catholic church decided to spin it around and make it a little different. So let's not forget that folks. Let's not forget that it's an issue of civil rights.

LOVE is what makes a family.


ps: am reading the Twilight saga. Is v. good. Am apparently turning into a twelve year old girl by reading books since teenyboppers are apparently obsessed with them. V. scary.

peace, love and... carnage?

STOP READING THIS BLOG AND GO VOTE DAMN IT.


also, i had this thought earlier.. perhaps i've already had it but my short term memory short circuits a lot..

Vlad Ţepeş v. "Caribou Barbie" = lots o' carnage.

another thought... i kind of wish i were a vampire. i've kind of wished that since i was like 12. yeah. i'm weird. get over it.




EVOLUTION HAPPENED. GOD WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVOLUTION. GET OVER IT AND STOP SAYING THE EARTH IS 6000 YEARS OLD WHEN WE HAVE PROOF THAT ART EXISTED 27,000 YEARS AGO.


this post is so going to get me in trouble.

by the way, i'm a total pacifist. i would totally be a hippy without all the druguse man. i so would. peace and love yo.

.kate.

9000 year old city, whistling language and cirit racing. word.

HAHAHAHAHA

oh my god this is too much. After two years of reading about Turkey, after learning about so many things about it, this is very amusing: watching Andrew Zimmern (Bizarre Worlds/Bizarre Foods) oil wrestling is beyond funny. Too bad it wasn't cirit racing stuff... that would have been funny as he probably would fall off the horse. How about camel fighting? I care too much. It just fucking fascinates me.

They're making bird noises. very cool. An entire language based on whistling.

I CANT WAIT TO GO TO TURKEY.. in like 2 years.


yes. that's what i have to say about that.


Also, rat poison is EVIL. whoever came up with it was a sick fuck. it could have fucking been the unibomber for the amount of crazy shit going on in how the animals die.

Anyway back to watching about Istanbul...

they're busy building toys, absolutely no one's dead!

I'm only 21 and already an old maid. Woohoo! Where my 25 cats at yo?

currently reading:The Namesake
^^ really great book. highly recommend it.


Wow yoga kicked my ass last night. Lots of holding my arms up for longer periods of time than I can physically do. My shoulders are weak and have problems. Go me! Oh, and the yoga instructor says he's coming to class next friday (halloween) wearing a costume... very scary.

Applied at Lululemon Athletica for another job. Interesting place with great clothes.

I'm getting my hair did today. Does anyone actually remember where that phrase comes from? I do. From some cheesy Missy Elliot rap song from like 8 billion years ago. Wow 8 billion years, you say? Yeah damn straight the dinosaurs were getting their hair did, too. All sorts of fun hair styles. lol. On that note..

Problem with my imagination no. 1834987: picturing dinosaurs with elvis hair and do-rags.

Anyway. I wish I had a reason to dress up for halloween. I can remember most of the costumes I've had in my life.. let's see..
7yrs: pink power ranger! lol.. 8 yrs: Honey Bunches of Oats cereal box!!!! best ever. 9 yrs: retard chef? 10yrs: I Dream of Jeannie. i had the weird see-thru pants and funky hat and i was so self-conscious. 11, 12 & 13 i don't remember... 14: snowboarder.. 15yrs: i think it was the year i wore bright yellow pants and my Kobe Bryant jersey lol... 16:? 17: i dont have a clue why but i dressed up as a ghetto beanie-wearing prostitute. 18: trent reznor!!!!!!! from the Starfuckers Inc video. i even spent $100 on a leather coat and had crazy blue eye makeup. 19: the female version of frank iero! haha i bought stilettos and i looked cute.

that's it. didn't dress up last year. i think my top faves are the 1) cereal box & 2) trent reznor.

it's the season of Jack Skellington! yayyyy

<3
kate

musical thoughts

currently listening to: Treze diferencias de Canario (album: Anthology of Spanish Music)


Honestly, classical music is pretty much the best thing at night. It allows me to have my own quiet thoughts without thinking. There's no thought process, as some more intense music requires of me. Not all classical music, obviously, but it's that way with any music. Well, other than Nine Inch Nails or Tool or something. There's way too much energy there. Either that or it's too g'damn depressing and there's no way I can have my pre-sleep relaxing time with Maynard James Keenan screaming for 30 seconds straight, or Trent Reznor singing the most hollow sad song ever (And All That Could Have Been) amazing though it may be.

Speaking of El Queso (trent reznor's code name due to my own stupidty of trying to text and walk to class), he seems like he's mellowed out a bit, which disturbs me. I mean it makes me glad that he's happy, because nobody should be depressed their whole life- believe me, I know. But still... what's next, Trent singing 'Peace Love and Understanding'?? Speaking of which, the A Perfect Circle cover of that song is seriously the most amazing shit on the planet.

On that note, here's a list, albeit random, of some of my all-time favorite songs.

1. Peace, Love and Understanding - A Perfect Circle (eMotive)
2. And All That Could Have Been - Nine Inch Nails (Still)
3. Anytime - Brian McKnight
4. I Know - Fiona Apple (When the Pawn..)
5. Change (In The House of Flies) - Deftones [White Pony]
6. Levon - Elton John (Madman Across the Water) --- LOL anyone who has ever been in my car knows I will force you to listen to this while I sing horribly and loudly. lmfao.
7. Running on Faith - Eric Clapton (Unplugged)
8. Walkin' Blues - Eric Clapton (Unplugged) -- most amazing shit ever.
9. Not About Love - Fiona Apple (Extraordinary Machine)
10. The Eagles - Howard Shore feat. Renee Fleming - The Return of the King soundtrack. --- note: Renee Fleming's voice is AMAZING on this song. It's soul penetrating perfection and for some reason it always makes me cry.
11. Learn You Inside Out - Lifehouse (Who We Are)
12. The Cool, Cool River - Paul Simon (Rhythm of the Saints)

part two of this list will be posted another time...

adios
kate

i can has blackberry bold?

Like anyone would be
I am flattered by your fascination with me
Like any hot blooded woman
I have simply wanted an object to crave
But you, you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

Must be strangely exciting
To watch the stoic squirm
Must be somewhat heartening
To watch shephard meet shephard
But you're not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

Like any uncharted territory
I must seem greatly intriguing
You speak of my love like
You have experienced love like mine before
But this is not allowed
You're uninvited
An unfortunate slight

I don't think you unworthy
I need a moment to deliberate


Good song.

Just got home from work. I don't enjoy working with certain people so that definitely stresses me out more than I'd like. I haven't gone for a run in a week to let my achilles tendons relax and now my back feels like shit. I have to do a painting of a brick wall tomorrow. *eyebrows raised*

I want a new phone. Mine is acting weird.


.kate.

no sleaze please

I don't want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
Or select you or dissect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

I don't want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.

Bob Dylan, 'All I Really Want To Do'


Wise words from the poet of poets. WHo somehow is not really a poet... ANYWAY.


what is it with guys and innuendo? just curious. i mean, i can laugh at a dirty joke same as the next person but i don't go around constantly assuming innuendo. i was having this conversation with my friend Ryan today, who generally says amusing and always non-innunedo type things. He's cool that way.

I have so much camembert left in my fridge. >_>

Oh I'd also like to express my joy that Leanne won Project Runway!!!!!! yay! Kenley just has a bad attitude.. AND THOSE FUCKING PANTS. OH JESUS THOSE WERE SO AWFUL.

Need to go to the gym errrrghhhhh. Rereading Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, so if start writing like book, full apologies. Is v. easy to write like that. See? Have already done it.

Was at coffee shop in Studio City today with a friend and the person who took my order was the person who owns the piercing place where got lip pierced three years ago. Weird. LA is somehow smushed though not sure how. Hmm..


going to gym now as is too awful outside to go for long run.


cheers
kate

i shall be free no. 10

Feel like
A ghost in love
Underneath
The heavens above
Feel further away
Then I ever did before
Feel further
Than I can take
Dreamin' of you
That's all I do
But it's
Driving me insane
-Bob Dylan, Dreamin' of You

This new Dylan song has surfaced on his website, so I downloaded it. I really like it. The lyrics sound a lot like a song off of Time Out of Mind (specifically Standin In the Doorway). And, after having just checked my iTunes library, I know that it's GOT to be an alternate version of the song because a bunch of the lyrics are the same.


my cat is adorable. he likes to sleep on things we tell him not to. like the boxes in the above photo, which were the remaining things left in boston that katrina shipped to me. *hugs kitteh*



oh. and today, after having a conversation with a good friend about fanny packs and how much i can't stand them, i saw a portly old man wearing one at the post office. i couldn't help but giggle. so friend, if you're reading this, this sentence was for you. ha.


going to go listen to cheesy celtic music and get down with my irish roots.oh and apparently i found out today that mom's family is related to john adams, the president from a long time ago.


.kate.

ghosts 24 sounds like a chase scene in a 80s movie

There's a whole lot of people suffering tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Whole lot of people struggling tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Comes right down the highway,
Straight down the line,
Rips into your senses
Through your body and your mind.
Nothing about it that's sweet,
The disease of conceit.

There's a whole lot of hearts breaking tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of hearts shaking tonight
From the disease of conceit.
Steps into your room,
Eats your soul,
Over your senses
You have no control.
Ain't nothing too discreet
About of disease of conceit.

There's a whole lot of people dying tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people crying tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Comes right out of nowhere
And you're down for the count
From the outside world,
The pressure will mount,
Turn you into a piece of meat,
The disease of conceit.

Conceit is a disease
That the doctors got no cure
They've done a lot of research on it
But what it is, they're still not sure

There's a whole lot of people in trouble tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Whole lot of people seeing double tonight
From the disease of conceit,
Give ya delusions of grandeur
And a evil eye
Give you idea that
You're too good to die,
Then they bury you from your head to your feet
From the disease of conceit.
© 1989 bob dylan.

Disease of Conceit is one of my all time favorite Bob Dylan songs. It's incredibly sad and I've never heard anyone sing about the subject quite like it before. Conceit is a disease. We all have it. I post this blog and am conceited in thinking that it should be read and thought about. I'm also self-destructive though, so it's a little different.

In other news, (other than my being distracted about which Eric Clapton song I wish to listen to..) I had today off from school. Huzah. Also rereading The Bastard of Istanbul, which I highly recommend. I'd like to think that not the actual verbalized bastard in the story is the bastard that is written about, but the history of 1915 which some don't know and some try to erase... the history is the bastard. That makes no sense, especially out of context (since I'm probably the only person who has read the book)... ANYWAY.

Running: Injuries aside - many - I'm still trying to train. By myself. Which maybe is a little crazy. Oh well.

.kate.

into the void

you want me?
fuckin come and find me
i'll be waitin
with a gun and a pack of sammiches (?)
and nothin
nothin
nothin.
- radiohead


lol. sammiches.

Everytime i think about training and eventually running 26.2 miles, I think to myself "oh shit". What in the hell have i gotten myself into? Then when I think about my longterm goal of qualifying and running an olympic marathon sometime in my 30s, I think "oh shit" again. The hope is though, that you know what? If a double above-the-knee amputee can run a marathon in like a little under 3 hours, so can i. i have both my legs.

even when i was out of shape, i wasn't really. when it was 17 deg. with a windchill factor bringing it down to -3 or whatever, I would go for a walks. everyone stayed inside, took the T. I walked from my apartment on Huntington Ave, past the MFA and Northeastern, all the way down past the Prudential Center, thru the Copley area, and Newbury St., to Beacon Hill or the Common/Public Garden. Then I would walk back home after whatever I wanted to do. Once I walked two miles home with a pizza while it was snowing. Just because I wanted to.

So yeah, I can do it.

.kate.

Something I find very, very important

I've made political commentary in this blog before. I have, and I know it's controversial despite whether it's being read or not.

But I just really really really cannot stand Sarah Palin. She is BAD news for the environment and all animals. She's a member of the NRA (nat'l rifle assoc.), and takes place in canned hunts. (google a canned hunt if you don't know what it is, because it's just sick.) She hunts animals from helicopters and planes just because. She kills wolves and other predators in the state of Alaska to make more game available to hunt for hunters/poachers. After the current scary president added the polar bear to the endangered species list, Palin spent a whole lot of money trying to reverse the rulings. She hunts polar bears. She doesn't care that they're dying, and in fact, she'd like to see them all dead.

John Mccain.. whatever. I don't care. But Sarah Palin scares the crap out of me. She's a fucking psycho nazi gun-toting wolf-killing redneck. She is not qualified to do anything REMOTELY close to the job that she's trying to get right now.


God help us if McCain wins. It really will be the End of All Things. Horses will be slaughtered for food, cows and chickens will die for your dinners in ways that I don't want to think about, wolves and Polar bears and all wild game will be erased from history.


So please, please don't vote for her.

maynard..?

8D

forgive the cheesy face.

i have really bad vertigo but THAT'S OKAY! *gerardface*

Today I saw the doctor about my vertigo, vegged out while watching an hour and a half of The Return of the King on the hdtv, spent some quality time with my friend Steve, AND TO TOP IT ALL OFF...

I MET FREAKING MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN. HOLY CRAP.

*dances around*

maynard!wine was purchased--- for KEARA.. I'M THE BESTEST FRIEND EVARRRR.

purposefully bad spellllingggggg.

cheers
kate

kate wants korean food now

Two things. Or maybe 3.

1. Maynard James Keenan wine signing!!
Next Tuesday, MJK is going to be at my local Whole Foods (the giant one on Arroyo Pkwy) signing wine with Eric Glomski, the guy who owns/runs Page Springs. I was in Sedona Ariz. about two years ago on a weekend photo getaway and one of the places I went to shoot at was Page Springs. It was after the harvest (like a week after) and Eric Glomski was nice enough to let me wander around his beautiful vineyard for a few hours while I shot around 150 photos. It turns out Maynard was there the same weekend I was, and probably was at the vineyard when I was, so I think I might have accidentally run into his son like a bunch of times... whatever. That said, I really hope I'll be able to purchase some wine and meet MJK and Eric Glomski! I'm thinking of putting together some prints of my time at Page Springs for the owner.... I think it would be cool.

2. I run an 8.30 mile yayyyyy I'm slowwww.

3. Funnnnny conversation between myself and an old friend. Note: Jenn is Korean. Also note, I love Koreans.

Kate: over in the section of the apartment complex where i am
Kate: we are now the only non-korean family
Kate: lol
jenn: no way
jenn: -_-
jenn: haha
Kate: seriously
Kate: and everyone seems to know each other
Kate: they're always in and out of each others houses
Kate: so i don't know who lives where
Kate: >_>
Kate: i think they have keys to each others homes
Kate: i swear
Kate: i am not making it up
jenn: hahahahahahaahahahahaha
jenn: oh my gosh that's too funny
Kate: i dont know why it weirds me out
Kate: but it does
Kate: maybe because i'm uptight?
Kate: i dont knowww
5:45 PM
jenn: you should barge into one of their places today
jenn: and be like "yeah... I know korean people too. can I have some korean food?"
Kate: hahaha
Kate: oh man
Kate: seriously
Kate: that would be funny
Kate: oh man and when they first moved in, the first family anyway..
Kate: so like all in the past.... i dont know, like year or so
Kate: and the mom/wife lady says (to introduce herself)
Kate: hi
Kate: and "i have two children"
Kate: i was like oh cool okay..
Kate: then it happened again when the second family moved in.... and now the third family
Kate: x_x
Kate: WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY ABOUT YOU HAVING TWO CHILDREN???
jenn: hahahahahahahahahaha
jenn: THEY ARE SOOO KOREAN
Kate: i know its some sort of cultural/language barrier
jenn: koreans always talk about their kids
jenn: it's like their favorite subject
jenn: you should say "oh... well I have no kids"
jenn: muhahahahaha

Kate: oh man
Kate: i really could go for some good korean food
Kate: they're all quite nice though, which is good
Kate: in any situation where you get new neighbors, there's no guarantee that they'll be nice/normal
Kate: i mean, it's always nice when your neighbors aren't crack addicts or something
Kate: aren't running meth labs




.kate.

i really have nothing concrete to say

Bank of America is an evil corporation. 'Nuff said.


Will I be one of those 'tards with a bluetooth on my ear and a Blackberry in my hand as I walk into a coffee shop to order a latte? Let's hope not. God. A blonde chick in SoCal talking away on a Blackberry- WAY TO REPRESENT LA PEOPLE AS NON SUPERFICIAL.

I had to buy a staple gun for one of my classes this semester. And no, I won't come after you with it.
...if you don't piss me off. juuuussst kidding.

I need a new job. Ew.

It's all nasty and hot in my room and I'm sweaty. Yuck.

KFC hotwings are gross. Anything from KFC is gross.

On a positive note, since everything else I've written makes me sound like a cynical old lady, my allergies finally went away yayyyy.


mkay thats it. kthxbye.

.kate.

radiohead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!


I drove down to San Diego yesterday and saw f'ng RADIOHEAD. holy crap.

Left at 2 pm, got to Chula Vista at 4:30 or so.. show ended at around 11 pm, but due to trying to get out of the HIDEOUS parking lot traffic, TWO freeway detours (for two different freeways) and having to get off the freeway at around 1 to get out and stretch, jog whatever because my back was hurting so bad... didn't get home until 3:15 am.

Got four hours of sleep.
Completely exhausted still.

BUT FNG RADIOHEAD.

thom yorke is a freaking genius. most amazing show ever. the lights were amazing, the setlist was amazing, everything was just... holy crap.


.kate.

c y_mbal_rush.

bitch, bitch, bitch.. whine whine whine.

I didn't get to see Radiohead. :(


When the tickets went on sale, I still thought I might be returning to Boston for school, in which case I would have been in Boston when they were playing LA, and in LA when they played Boston. Or something like that. SO I bought tickets to see LP instead... which, I didn't go see because I couldn't afford the gas to drive to Irvine AND mostly because my car might have not started or something weird...

So I'm really pissed off that I didnt get to see Thom Yorke and his lazy eye. He freaking did stuff from The Eraser!!! AGHHHH.


Janet went, Ryan went, I think Carley went... other people probably went.... and I fail. The last concert I went to was like a year and a half ago. I WANT TO SEE RADIOHEAD. Or Eric Clapton. Or preferably both.


:(

showertime.


.kate.

you make me sick.

Here's something to chew on..

Why in the hell do athletes, CEOs of big companies, or actors/actresses get paid REDICULOUS sums of money?

You throw a little white ball around so therefore you are somehow entitled to be making $30 million dollars a year...??? Someone please explain that to me. Seriously.

ER doctors, nurses, elementary-high school teachers, construction workers.... THEY deserve to be paid more than Tom Cruise. I'm sorry but it's fucking stupid. People saying they won't sign a contract with a team because they're ONLY making $125 million dollars over 4 years.... plus endorsement deals. That makes no sense to me. Or actors. You get paid more money than a guy bent over pulling cabbages out of the ground 8+ hours a day 6-7 days a week in the burning sun... for what reason?

Your local farmers market deserves your business more than seeing every fucking stupid action movie does. I hate all of it.

And those CEOs of oil companies/Halliburton/Warner Bros....... FUCK YOU. You should all just be ashamed of yourselves. Complaining-- WHINING and bitching and moaning because you only make $5million a year. Oh poor sad you. I feel so bad for you. Please, give me a break. There are 12 year old children who work in inhumane conditions for less than a dollar a day for more hours a week than a goddamn surgeon intern at a hospital. And YOU'RE complaining about your $5 million a year salary.

Nobody of importance will read this, but just saying it makes me feel better.



i'm excited about having to save up a buttload of money to go to Europe in two years. I doubt that anyone who got a Porsche on their 18th birthday can ever understand delayed gratification.



.kate.

aren't i a ball of sunshine?

"i have to return some videotapes."

YAYYYY the 'check engine' light went on in my car! i win!


at work today i was so bored, i started doodling Super Alpaca vs. Patrick Bateman.



American Psycho is probably the most fucked up amazing movie ever made. Christian Bale's performance is FLAWLESS. Completely flawless. Patrick Bateman has no personality. at all. whatsoever.


It's a really disturbing movie. But you should watch it anyway. I mean, Christian Bale naked, covered in blood, with a chainsaw chasing a girl. PERFECT. Hilarious.

my driver's tan is getting pretty bad

i ran 8 miles in old beat up shoes on weds, 5 miles on thurs... and now i can't do anything because my leg is messed up because of said shoes.


:(


I NEED TO GO TO THE GYM DAMN IT.

oh and i have no car. >:(


oh well. such is life. i'm being forced to do this for some cosmic reason that i don't know or understand. time to let it go.


and yes, like the title says, my drivers tan is getting really bad. my left arm is like 2 shades darker than my right arm. and i have a lovely farmer tan too. lol. and my shoulders are a wee bit sunburned.

IRISH AND SUPER TAN GERMAN DON'T MIX. some of me tans and some of me burns.


eeesh.

new running shoes

i heart encouragement about training for various marathons & half marathons.


i also heart jamba juice. and my new Brooks running shoes. and socks. yay socks!


.kate.

more things about me

I doubt that anyone reads this but that's alright. Just a place for me to write so that I'm not so much in my own head.

I've made posts in the past- random information type posts, so here's another one AND WHY THE HELL ARE KIDS ALWAYS SO LOUD AND THEY ALWAYS RUNNNNNN :(

I'm going to Europe in less than two years. It's going to take a lot of money (lots of saving up, and no Manolos next year) but I'm okay with that. Travel is one of the things I love doing most and is one of the things I do the least. Now that I'm living at home again and not off with roommates in a strange city where it snows 5 months of the year, it's given me a lot of perspective on what I want in life and how much my friends and family mean. It's also given me a lot of perspective on myself and how I operate from day to day, both in my actions and in my thought process. Introspective, I guess.

I realize that I'm very competitive, and that won't be changing anytime soon. I'm also non-confrontational. I hate argueing, but I will get my point across. I can't stand being wrong and I will fight about it.

I have an extremely inappropriate sense of humor. Extremely.

I don't like showing affection in public or otherwise whether it's for family, friends, or something else. I will however, punch you in the arm, smack you upside the head or run into you and make you lose balance. Kind of like the cat that stands near your feet and weaves his way in between your feet as you walk and try not to stumble and trip on him. lol.

Pillowfights are really really fun. I fight to win. Or at least fall down in a giggle fit and not move for several minutes.

I'm slightly ocd, I wash my hands all the time because bacteria/germs and the like really disturb me.

I like having a clean room but I'm usually too lazy to clean it.

I like sleeping. I hate lazy people. I hate when I feel lazy.



kate

europe 2010!!!

I GET TO SEE THESE IN PERSON IN 17 MONTHS. OMG I CAN'T WAIT.



going to europe in two years. OMG. yay.

what about freud?

so my french teacher wins. he's this little old dude who likes to embarrass everyone. all the time.


in french, 'visiter' doesn't mean 'to visit' unless it's a place. if you say 'je visite ma mere' it means you are frisking your mother for hidden drugs or firearms. not cool. lol. unless you say 'rend visiter' in which case, you are paying someone a visit. i think that's how it goes. ANYWAY.

so 'cold' en francais is 'froid'. it's pronounced 'fhwah'. kind of. so someone said "il fait froid" but they pronounced it funny and my teacher was like, "what about Freud?" for the win!

also, when negating a sentence, you generally have to add the article 'de'. for example:
question:
Y a t-il un crocodile dans le toilette? (is there a crocodile in the bathroom?)

at first the general answer given in my class was "no il n'y a pas un crocodile dans le toilette".

m. martin: tres bizarre! then how many crocodiles are there?

that means "no there isn't ONE crocodile in the bathroom".

correct answer being:
Il n'y a pas de crocodile dans le toilette.




french class is hard but fun.


.kate.

i still have no voice. :(

random.....

me: i have no voice!
steph: where did it go?
me: i think it's hiding..... from gerard way!
steph: oh noes!





lol.


yes, i have laryngitis. FUCK this. not fair. soooo not fair.


.kate.

en français, tout le monde!!

french class 5 days a week. work at 4:30 in the morning 4-5 days a week. go to the gym 6 days a week for 1-2 hours.

tired!!


today was busy.

went to the gym (as usual)... got jamba juice... did errands... lunch at cheesecake factory w/ mom... went to a birthday party for a one-year old and discussed the problems of the world and e.coli with julia, natalie & carley... went to blockbuster to find that they did not have nip tuck season 3 disc 6 >:( ..... came home and found that my dad's uncle (who is only 8 years his senior) and uncle's wife were here visiting from Georgia aka the land down under. Diner avec la famille = très amusant. My mom bought me shoes at Steve Madden in old town weeeeee... and of course freaking red velvet cake = the best thing ever.


going to visit la famille dans l'etat de Georgie (Georgia for all you retards out there) en decembre. Je vais visiter ma soeur et sa famille, mon oncle (the one who visited us today) et sa femme.... et leur BMW 650i. >_>


OH. J'ai conduit leur BMW rental voiture. Elle est très belle! J'aime la voiture. (350i) Quand je vais visiter mon oncle en decembre, il a dit je peux conduire la 650i. Je suis très heureux de le conduire.


Bon nuit!

.k-s.

stupid weather

omg this weather.

Il fait tres chaud!! Aussi, aujourd'hui, ma mere et moi sommes conduiso... FUUUCK my french sucks. Today me and mom drove to Santa Barbara. There was a crazy hippie summer solstice parade on the street and shit.

I got a tan... :(


okay back to my book and lounging without pants by the tiny fan in my room.



merde.



.kate.

worried

i haven't been online much lately, or at the computer in general. The tendonitis in my left hand has gotten worse and it's now in my wrist and arm, and due to the overcompensation for lack of movement in my left hand/arm, I now have it really bad in my right hand and wrist. My right hand is currently cramped up really bad and I'm starting to get worried.

The anti-inflamatory/pain meds I've been taking haven't done anything.

I really need some divine intervention or something. Seriously.

Send some good thoughts my way, please.



thanks,
kate

i STILL love the Lakers

i hate kevin garnett.



I still love my boys. Still love my Lakers, and poo on any haters or fairweather fans out there. The Celtics and that asshat Garnett may have won the 08 championship but there's always next year.


i worked 6 days in a row. i'm exhausted. i'm angry about the lakers losing. i'm pissed off about gas prices and worried about my French pronounciations for class and what if I blank out on something.


I got a new bathing suit top. It's green. It's cute. I win.



.kate.

things about me

game 4 of the nba finals = kate is mad.

also, i'm exhausted and my wrists/hands hurt like hell. I have to be at work at 4:30 in the morning. Today was my third day of waking up at 3:30 am, and I have 3 more days of it. That's right, I have six straight days of getting up at three fucking thirty am. fuck.

I swear like a trucker, I realize that. I'm trying not to.

If I like you, you can guarantee that I'll be playfully mean with you and make jokes about you. If I think you're an asshole and want nothing to do with you, then I probably won't do anything other than acknowledge you.

I'm a tough nut to crack and I'd like to keep it that way.

I'm terrified of relationships, intimacy (opening up to people kind of intimacy), and pda.

i want dogs, not kids. i want my own money and i want to buy things myself. i don't like favors or loans and i HATE social charity. fuck off if i'm some charity case to you. go spend your time elsewhere.

i don't discuss my religious views with ANYONE, not even with my best friend or my mother.



so there's some stuff about me.

kate

NBA Finals Game 3: WIN!

8D

the lakers aren't made of fail! 8888888D

exxciiitinnnng! *mike shinoda fish voice*


<3 derek fisher!!!! d-fish makes THE most perfect shots like, 99% of the time that he makes them annnnd i'm so happy he's back on the team. freaking turiaf scares me a little bit- he reminds me of that swat team linebacker guy in the keanu reeves movie The Replacements. pau and sasha are badass mofos. i heart them.


<3333333 kobe. he wins at life and this game he was not made of fail!!


my brain is made of fail. :( i'm tired.


mkay byebye now.
.kate.

NBA Finals Game 2

:(




SERIOUSLY.


MY TEAM CANNOT BE MADE OF FAIL. I still have my #8 Kobe jersey from like a million years ago in my closet and I would LIKE TO BE ABLE TO FINALLY FRIGGING WEAR IT TO A LAKERS PARADE IN LA.


So please, Lakers, Please please please win the freaking home games. Despite all the bad calls and shitty refs that would soon as foul you for sweating on Kevin Garnett's nose...

please win.

stupid boston.




kate.



ps: i have tendonitis in my left hand and part of my wrist. le peup.

before i go to bed

I have to be at work at 4:30 tomorrow morning. Ew.

So work from 4:30-9:30 am, then I'm going to the gym. Then I'm taking a nap. Then I'm free for the rest of the day. Then I'm going to bed early.

Going to bed soon since I have to wake up so early. Wish I was at the beach again like I was last week.


Really wish I was at the beach again.




kate.

on holiday

I have Michael Buble stuck in my head. More specifically, his rendition of Me & Mrs Jones. lol. I win.

Trying to drink water and get out whatever is left of the alcohol in my system before I go to sleep. Had a cosmo with dinner tonight and since I'm such a lightweight... i have to wait until I'm completely sober before I nod off.

The past three days have been crazy. Awesome but they went by too fast. The Memorial Day minibreak holiday!

Thursday I drove up to Ventura with my mom to go camping at this one campsite near the beach that apparently my family used to go to a lot when I was growing up. I only remember being there once when I was about six or seven on mothers day and a bird pooped on my mom. lol. ANYWAY. So we drove up and I ended up having coffee with a friend for a bit before I headed back set up camp avec ma mere.

Camping is fun but I'm picky and I like and kind of need something soft to sleep on because of my back. So sleeping on the ground was kind of poopy.

Friday was just a total blur because I didn't sleep much and was tired. At some point I met up for coffee with my friend again and we sat there for a good two hours just talking.

Later, mom and I decided we didn't feel like camping again so we got a hotel room with nice giant soft beds. Oh to sleep in a soft bed.... lol.

Today I went shopping (what's new haha), had lunch with mom & my aunt, watched Anne of Green Gables and then went to dinner with mom & my aunt.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

someone neeeds to just tell me to shut up because i talk/type too much.


cheers
kate

nip/tuck

I started watching Nip/Tuck today (I love renting entire tv series at Blockbuster) and the verdict is that....

I fucking LOVE nip/tuck. it's funny, witty, has good dialogue/writing, a good pace and most importantly... Julian McMahon. Julian McMahon wearing bright orange shirts and being injected with botox against his will, taking his damn clothes off every 10 minutes of the show..... lol. It's a fun show. I enjoy the whole cast but Julian really does it for me.



...My apologies if this photo is so hot that your screen melts, or you drool onto your keyboard.

He's hot, he's 39, he's Australian and 6'2. Need I say more? mmm. Then again, I had a thing for him when he was on Charmed, lol.

Speaking of charmed, I've been watching the whole series on dvd as well. lol. Oh the big clunky chunky-heeled shoes of the late nineties. Seriously, people wore fugly heels in 1998. I know I did. At the tender age of 12, I actually had a pair of pinkish purple strappy heels that I wore to a dance. The heels were so chunky and ugly but that was the style... lol. Oh I love shoe trends.

Okay enough of my joys.... which are usually men and shoes. lol how shallow am I?


.kate.

difficulties of living in two states

UGHHHHH so frustrating.

Filling out an online application to take a class or two this summer at the local community college (so i don't go out of my mind with boredom) and the questions are a total pain in the ass. Asking me about my residency status and taxes and stuff like that... For example, this one question asked me if I declared residency in another state for tax purposes... and i had to think for a minute before I remembered that no, I declared non-resident when I filled out my taxes for Massachussetts. God. What a pain in the ass.

Living in two states is a really huge pain in the ass. i.e. where you get your mail, taxes, friends, jobs, etc etc.

You should always keep one permanent address with someone else in case something happens and you move and forget to change your address.


I reeeeally want to go on a vacation somewhere warm and sunny and tropical. Like Tahiti. Mmm. I want to lay around on a hammock on a nice sandy beach and take a lot of naps. lol. Oh the wishes of the insomniac. So yes. Tahiti. Beach. Hammock. And some good books! I could catch up on all my reading that I'd like to do.

annnnyway. that's all for now.

cheers,
kate

They don't make em like Fitzwilliam Darcy anymore

You know that David Bowie song "I'm Afraid of Americans" ?

Yeah well I'm afraid of Donny Osmond.




Why aren't men today like the men in the Jane Austen books? I mean I know it's fictional, but come on. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Col. Brandon, Mr. Knightly, Capt. Frederick Wentworth, Mr. Bingley........ WHY DO MEN LIKE THIS NOT EXIST ANYMORE?!?! I'm missing out on the cravats and breeches and MANNERS and guys on horseback and giant estates like Pemberley and when a woman's virtue was as brittle as it was beautiful. Today they're just... ugh. *sulks*


Can someone please give me a few thousand dollars to fly to New York so I can buy Manolo Blahniks? That would be most kind and generous.

Yours etcetera,
Kate

it's may!

I'm eating cold pizza on my bedroom floor, listening to Michael Buble in my pajamas. I win. 8D


I was at Cost Plus world market today and I bought some cool shit, but one thing I didn't buy and it's kitschy and I really want it.


alpaca! it's made with real alpaca wool. how awesome is that?! <33333 waaaaant.

I bought this satchel/messenger bag/purse



Later I went to a gallery opening with Natalie. A few of my friends were part of FEARLESS at Abacot Gallery in Chinatown in LA. It's up thru May 5. I really wish I had $4000 to spend on paintings there. Eessh.

Anyway that's pretty much it.

cheers,
kate

1. house finches!

:)

tequila night pictures will be posted later

numbered update of sorts..

So. An update.

1. Before I left Boston, there was a pair of House Finches (look them up on google if you must) attempting to nest in the space between my screen and the glass part of my bedroom window (the window opened up a great deal, they weren't stuck or anything)... Unfortunately because I was leaving and maintenence would probably destroy the nest if I left the window open, I had to close the window. Better that they never really got started on the nest. :( A video of the birds will be posted soon.

2. Finally back in la. yay!

3. Tequila night with the girls. Oh holy fuck. Had too many margaritas last night and am not entirely sure what happened in terms of my drunk texting and Natalie and Rosie taking my phone from me and texting people. *grumble* So if you got a retarded text message, apologies. It might not even been me that typed it. Pictures will be posted...

4. Watched fucking Cloverfield. Again. CLOVERFIELD = AWESOME. Neville Page is my hero and I want a chihuahua sized Clover for a pet.

5. It's hideous and still about 80 degrees outside and its past 10pm.

6. Packing everything when I moved back home for the summer was a huge pain in the ass. I had to ship a ton of stuff home, I had to leave a bunch of it with Katrina AND I still almost went over the weight limit of 50 lbs a suitcase with my GIANT luggage. My luggage is so large, the one suitcase is so gigantic that Maynard James Keenan could probably fit quite comfortably inside it. Still waiting for one more box to arrive because I didn't ship it 2-3 day Priority mail... and it's the box with my swimsuit in it. Go figure. i'm a retard apparently.

7. Going to a wedding tomorrow. Really want to wear both my Manolo Blahniks and my dress from Anthropologie but they don't go well together SO I will have to choose one or the other. If I wear the dress I don't know what shoes I'll wear though.

Okay nobody reads this so I'm leaving and reading the Meathead Perspective.


kate.

ironman and such

review board tomorrow morning at 9. really nervous because i don't like talking about my stuff in front of total strangers. i dont like talking about mystuff in front of my friends and family, so total strangers just make it worse. they want everything to MEAN something. what does this MEAN. it has to thave some deep meaning... no it doesn't. i just think it looks cool so fuck you. i may bullshit my reasons on the spot just so you will leave me alone. AND WHY ISN'T MYSPACE WORKING. *fidgets in seat*

katrina is fucking awesome and let me use her r1800 (epson printer) to print out my photography stuff since the school not only makes you buy the paper but charges you like 2.50 a print. which is a load of shit.


watched the 112th Boston marathon today and i was about 1 block away from the finish line. pretty rad. robert cheriuyot is my new hero. He's only really been running marathons since 2002. gave me a lot of hope that i can train for LA for next year and when i'm 25, be able to have run two or three more to qualify for Boston. (qualifying for boston means a time of 3:40made me even more inspired to start training for a marathon. i'm trying to convince my siblings to help me convince my dad to train for Ironman. Maybe not the Ironman World Championship in Kona but some triathlon nonetheless.

If you don't know about Ironman... This is how it goes:
SWIM 2.4 miles
BIKE 112 miles
and then after you're finished with that
RUN 26.2 (a marathon)

personally i think whoever runs and/or wins this race deserves to wear a shirt that says "i'm the most badass motherfucker on the planet" like every day for the rest of their life. no joke. you are a TOTAL badass if you can run a marathon but run a marathon AND bike AND swim in like 9 hours?????? seriously. I will personally make a shirt that says "im totally the most badass person on the planet" for anyone who competes in Ironman.


i'm going to bed now...

quick. angry. hurt.

I just want to go home. Why can't today be Thursday already? I hate Boston so badly right now. I want to be with my family.

I want to be with my friends. Not the people who seem like friends until they are called upon for something apparently so insignificant like a going away breakfast, and they dont show up or even call to say they can't make it.

Bravo, assholes. Bravo. Thanks for making me feel insignificant and retarded. I hope you feel guilty for it, because you should because you are so selfish and thoughtless. Have fun being selfish when you're alone someday with nobody around because you finally fucked it up big time.

This is basically not just about today, but about every single time someone has ever decided that I'm not worth shit. Well fuck you too. You don't deserve my time.


kate

weird moment #249587230948

the weirdest thing happened to me last week:

i was in the elevator in my apartment building heading up to the 6th floor (my floor of residence) and the elevator emergency call phone system thing starts RINGING. then it automatically picked up and it was one of those automated telemarketer things about reducing your mortgage costs.... i swear to all things holy and pure that this is just wrong. when telemarketers start getting access to private emergency lines..... wtf?! the world is gone to weirdness.

also i'd like to point out that the molasses cookies at starbucks are tasty.



kate

ps: I HATE BASEBALL SEASON IN BOSTON. loud obnoxious people and i live like a mile from Fenway.... *scoffs*

really old picture

According to my dad's uncle/cousin somebody, Bob (the oldest living Davis relative), this is my great grandfather on my dad's side. James Turner Davis.

random.

Wish I knew more. Like, back a lonnnng time ago. 'Cuz... I already know a whole hell of a lot about my grandmothers (dad's mom) side. Like, I know they settled in Connecticut in the 1600s and somehow ended up in Georgia in the 1800s. I know that four or five grandfathers ago on that side was Cherokee.... i';m tired, i've had a stressful day and now i'm rambling. I just wish i knew more.


kate

nothing compares to the southwest

This week has been really tough. Just totally brutal. ugh.

However, I did buy the Ashes Divide album on Weds, so that helped. Watched Life as a House on Tuesday night- such a good movie. I don't watch it but maybe every 2 years so... yeah. Thursday- ohmygod the weather was AMAZING. It was 73, sunny, not a cloud in the sky with a light breeze. Yesterday it just got ugly. It ALWAYS rains on fridays here. Or it snows. Rain or snow or some sort of precipitation on friday.

MarioKart Wii

I really want a nintendo wii, JUST so i can waste endless hours of my life playing mariokart. i basically did that already, back in middle school when i had my n64- because mariokart 64 still is the best fucking thing EVER. But now that mariokart wii is coming out... i dont know... mariokart 64 may just not be the coolest thing ever because in mariokart wii, there are DIRTBIKES and flying cars and crazy shit that i'm not even sure if i saw in the games' trailer. andddd yeah.

yeah. that's what i did last night: ate dinner at Jason & Katrina's house and played mariokart 64 on the wii. because we're adults and so fucking sophisticated and awesome that we played mariokart for an hour.

oh and i also watched some sex & the city last night too.


Today I woke up late, got coffee, went for a walk and realized i was overdressed for the weather. at 3 i went to lunch at this fabulous little wine cafe, Piattini (www.piattini.com). If you're in the Boston area, you should check this place out. I had artichoke & marscapone cheese ravioli with Veramonte Sauvignon Blanc (2002 Chile).... good wine, good food.

word. okay enough of my rambling.

kate

april showers bring.. sun????

Saw a film tonight at the MFA.

Waiting For Heaven (Cenneti beklerken
It's part of the Boston Turkish Film & Music Festival that's going on right now. For some reason I am absolutely fascinated and in love with Turkey and all things Turkish. Don't ask. It's a beautiful language and I loved watching this film a lot just because I got to hear people speaking Turkish for 2 hours, which doesn't happen in my everyday life. Anyway. Doubt that any of you will get a chance to see this, but if you do... watch it!

That said... I don't know if I have anything else to say. I've been going to the gym every day, 7 days a week for.... 10 days in a row now. And I've lost almost 10 pounds. yay. OH and I bought my Linkin Park tickets for Projekt Revolution '08 comin this August. weeeee

I miss the ocean. We have the ocean here but it's not the same. It's cold and there's no beach. If you drive to the Cape there's beach area but... um, Spring in New England = mayyybe 50 degrees outside if you're lucky.

uhhh what else.. I bought a new lotion at Whole Foods. It's coconut and it smells good. Oh, and it's organic, wheat & gluten free, vegan and $10. Desert Esesence Organics.

wow. what a gripping life I do lead. *yawn & blank stare*

cheers,
kate

ps: i got laughed at today at work by my supervisor because i was apparently really into playing a game on my iPod and must've had a really determined look on my face. *facepalm* yes. i'm a nerd. shut up.

random stupid wasting time

If..

Your house was burning down, what ONE item would you save?:
i would save more than one thing.

You were to be stuck on a deserted island, what THREE items would you bring?:
a satellite phone. also, all sorts of navigational eqipment and a boat stocked with food & water. and rum. >_> IT'S ALREADY ON THE BOAT SO IT COUNTS.

You were to live elsewhere, what country would it be?:
i would like to visit Turkey but I don't know if I'd want to live there.

You could either travel to space or be president/prime minister - which?:
neither. i don't want to do either.

You could choose one actor to depict you in a movie, who would it be?:
hands down, Ellen Pompeo.

You could appear in a TV show, what show would it be?:
Mythbusters!!

A broadway musical was going to be made about you, what would it be called?:
it wouldn't be.


THREE...

Most possessed items?: shoes clothes and books.

Things you take everywhere with you?: your mother, a pogo stick, and a pimp cane.

Items you wish to own?: Lexus GS 450h, my own apartment in beantown, money. lol.

Celebrities you wish to meet?: bear grylls, christian bale & ellen pompeo

Favourite sportsmen/women?: tiger woods..? OH i know. ian thorpe.

Songs on rotation at the moment?:
1. tool - right in two/ 2. linkin park - no roads left/ 3. kate havnevik - new day

Things that absolutely fascinate you?: birds, clouds & art

People you would do anything for?: mi madre, mon pere, my siblings.


Other.


What do you think is the most overrated fad that is happening right now?:
ugg boots and giant sunglasses.

What do you think of all the celebs going into rehab, moreso lately?:
i hope it actually works for them.

Do you follow fashion trends?:
i follow shoe trends.

Would u rather spend ur day at a beach or frolicking through a rainforest?:
beach!!! born and raised in socal dude, gotta choose beach. and who the hell frolicks through the rainforest?

What countries have you traveled to?: bahamas & st maarten. st thomas doesnt count cause it's a us territory..


What is...

The most embarrassing thing you've ever done and/or said?:
too many things to choose from.

The place you grew up like?:
small. sunny. bullshit people. lots of trees.

One thing you wish you could take back?:
a lot.

Your dream house like?:
modular home. floor to ceiling windows facing the ocean. dark woods. sound system throughout. huge master bathroom. three bedrooms, three baths. state-of-the-art kitchen. two car garage. two story. small wine cellar. circular driveway. garden. infinity pool. porch swing. super eco friendly green home. hammock.
:)

The best distraction in life?:
hot men. vacations. chick flicks!!!

Something you just find totally awkward?:
myself.

The most overrated thing/person/anything??:
CELEBRITIES.



i think the people above me are listening to loud music. maybe its the people below me. but it's pissing me off. it's 11 pm and i have a fucking headache. *mumbles*

back to grey's anatomy!

on the phone with my mother

currently listening to: Incubus 'Light Grenades' album b/c brandon boyd wins. srsly.


Back in Boston again. I should have been listening to that Elton John song "Holiday Inn" when I landed at the airport on sunday. Why? Because the lyrics as follows: 'Boston at last and the plane's touchin downnn'. Yeah. So Boston at last and the plane touched down and now I've been back for two days and I'm back to my routine of sitting alone in my room at my computer watching some dvd and updating this silly blog. :)

I had originally thought - because I ride the short bus apparently and didn't pay any gdamned attention to when review boards actually were - that i would be home 6 weeks from now or so. However, if all goes as planned (since boards officially run from april 21-may 9) i will be home by the 24! 8D april 24 is less than a month away. How freakin exciting is that?

Also, please note that I will be GLUED to the tv april 24 at night because it's the return of Grey's Anatomy!!! McDreamy for the freakin win!

Soooo I got a few coolio things over spring break.

1. a man wallet! you know, like skinny wallets that men have and they just shove 'em in their pockets... women always get big-ass bulky huge wallets that you cant even fit in a pocket. so my man wallet is freakin awesome. it's leather. it smells like leather. it fits in my back pocket. it's got a tree on it. and it was $9.95.

^ man wallet

2. bright blue adidas shoes. i can't find them freakin ANYWHERE online though (much like my manwallet *scowl*) so pictures of that will be posted later...

3. cute little flats (shoes) that are apparently called 'skimmers' and yet again i cannot find pictures of them on the internets! :(

4. a handy dandy 32-oz Adidas water bottle. weeee

5. a neck pillow thing... you knoww the ones you use on ze airplanes...


yeah. *struts* i got shoes and a manwallet. i win.

first college spring break

Sitting in my hotel room in Monterey, Calif. enjoying the last bit of daylight coming through my window (it's Eastern exposure) and wishing vacation would never end. Obviously that's an absurd thing because after a while it would get incredibly boring. But now and then I feel like putting my feet up on a chair in a fancy hotel and listening to Elton John and doing nothing unless I feel like it and.... yeah. Like I said though, after a while of that, it would get really boring.

Got a pair of Adidas adistar shoes at the Camarillo outlet mall yesterday. They're awesome. They're blue and brown and I heart them ( like i heart all of my shoes). Went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium today, as well as finding a Peet's Coffee & Tea ( my employer) about a mile from my hotel. Exciting! Well, exciting to be tired and to drink lots of caffeine weeee....

This is my schedule for my spring break:

Friday:
flight into lax. land @ 11am.
130pm lunch with alisa
4 pm, unpack
630 dinner + drinks with my brother

Saturday:
drive to Monterey!

Sunday:
Montereyyyyyy

Monday:
drive back to Pasadena.
??? drinks or dinner ???

Tues:
Dr appt @ 845am
afternoon??
dinner & sleepover w/ bff Natalie

Weds:
morning & afternoon ????
dinner + drinks w/ Rosie

Thurs:
do taxes :(
hang out with mommmmmmm allllll dayyyy

Friday:
more hang out time with my mom

Saturday:
breakfast with bro & family
lunch with my aunt and my mom

Sunday:
fly back to boston :(


yeah. busy week.

kate.

nine inch nails: Halo 26: Ghosts I-IV

i woke up today feeling a little awkward. wandered around in my pajamas for a bit, then grabbed my phone from its hiding place under my pillow.... opened the phone. it said i had one new voicemail. and just like that, from shitty beginning of the day to a voicemail from keara telling me that there was a brand new Nine Inch Nails album...

This being said, and the knowledge that I am a HUGE nine inch nails fan and have been for like three years.... THIS WAS THE FIRST I HEARD ABOUT IT. wtf trent wtf?! *shakes fist in trent reznor's general direction*

However, it is RAD. AWESOME. AMAZING. FREAKIN COOL.

it's a 4-part, 36 song album called Ghosts I-IV. And oh yeah, it's what EVERY nin fan has been waiting for.. for like FOREVER: it's entirely instrumental. That's right, kids, it's like Still but with 36 NEW songs instead of only five new songs.


36 new songs!!!!! *dies*

plus el rezzo himself isn't as gigantic and hulk-like as he was before. which in my book is exciting because trent reznor is much more attractive when he has a neck. it's like i can has cheezburger? but instead, i can has neck? 8D yeah very few people will understand the jokes on here. *cough*

alright, back to checking my email since i haven't had internet since monday...

cheers,
kate

ps: people in la- i'm back in pasadena on spring break from march 14-23 soooo if you want to get coffee/drinks/food let me know what your schedules are like.

dumduhdum dummmm dumduhdummmmm

*sings the indiana jones music*


because i'm a total nerd...




8D

someone PLEASE buy me the Official Indiana Jones Fedora because i'm a nerd and i also really like fedoras. If you want to indulge my nerdiness, you can purchase the hat at shopstarwars.com

mkay thanks.


kate.
ps: indiana jones and the crystal skull is coming out may 22!!!

buy this album immediately!

There are no guarantees in life
Not for the present,
Nor for the future.
All I know is
That I'm here;
Don't know for how long.
I love the way
You live so intensely
Enjoy every minute of life
With space to swing
Your arms around
Laughing loudly

Unlike me
Unlike me
Do you think I'm strange?
Unlike you
Unlike you
I am not pretending

There is no time,
There is no time,
There is no time,
Time doesn't really exist.

kate havnevik "unlike me", from her album Melankton. buy it today! its frigging awesome.

city girl

is the best really yet to come, michael buble? *scoffs*


i bought two new cds on thursday:
Eric Clapton "Me & Mr. Johnson"
Michael Buble "Call Me Irresponsible"

Hence the random first sentence, cause the best is yet to come (yes it's a tony bennett song) is on michael buble's cd. I also would like to point out that the lyrics to "I'm Your Man" are really um, interestitng. Lots of innuendo, lol, if you get my drift. It's a sexy song though, so who cares. A lot sexier than Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"... but we've already been there so we won't go there again. lol.

I'm eating girl scout cookies and looking out my window wishing i was somewhere out in the country with a fireplace drinking a glass of merlot... i've got the snow here but i want to get out of this city so bad right now. i'm okay with being in new england in this snow... it would just be better if i were out in the country. peace and quiet.


cheers.

wth

ummmmm...

i should not be awake. i have class at 9 am. today.


eeeeeep.

still, tonight was fucking AWESOME. in regards to tonight, i am super proud of the food i made. seriously guys, toasting pistachios & almonds, roasting peppers.... etc... not the worlds easiest feat. But I win.

And on that note... GOOD NIGHT.

cheeeeeers
kate.

new york post, part deux

This is the part where I share all my random pictures that very few people will look at. So have fun.



Rice To Riches


Terra's mugshot expression


pretteh lights


Terra, in Saras dorm after a night of drinking.... and lots o' pomme frites


Jenn eating fries


um, i can't use the camera very well apparently when intoxicated

SUNDAY


my shoes!!!


cupcakes from Magnolia Bakery




lunch!


Manhattan (Tribeca, I think..) at night from our trek across the Brooklyn Bridge in the rain.


Jenn and me, at dinner @ Grimaldi's in Brooklyn

and the shoe shots




cheers,
kate