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Debates II
Thursday, September 30, 2004
10:18 PM

"President Bush invading Iraq after 9/11 is like FDR invading Mexico after Pearl Harbor."

I'm happy with the topics covered. Kerry was definitely able to touch on some of his main campaign points that Americans might have not hear as of yet. Bush was able to keep saying what he has been saying for months. Through all the stuttering and long, silent pauses, Bush told me this: That he believes a "free" Iraq will insure a safer America and that he has a stance and that it never changes, even when he makes a mistake. I felt like Bush didn't always answer the questions he was given. He ended up rephrasing some of the questions so that he could answer them like he wanted, so that he could say things he knew. But then, Bush still ended up getting a few of his facts wrong, some he had just stated in front of committees weeks before (specifically in regards to the number of trained troops in Iraq). Irregardless, Bush pretty much preformed like I thought he would. Kerry's appeal was much stronger in my opinion. His points were well made. I loved how Kerry used statistics and facts to get his points acknowledged. Either way we all know who I'm voting for. I really hope you took the time to watch the debate.
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Debates.

7:45 PM

I've been looking forward to today for two reasons:
1.)The Presidential debates kick off at 9pm Est. and I, like most Americans, am curious to see what the two candidates have to say when important matters are concerned.
2.)Operation: Code name Pancreas is finally upon us. Its gonna Rock so Hard.

My parents left yesterday for Hawaii so I've been chillin with the Cat and Jen so I don't get to lonely. I've realized that when permitted to live by myself I eat two things constantly. One is Pizza, the other is Chinese food. Between the two you can't go wrong. Tonight, in fact, I'm having left over Chinese food coupled with a Pizza, Totinios of course. I would like to take the time to thank my metabolism for loving me all these year. Keep it up pal.

So, expect political ramblings later tonight in-between my laundry and home work. I'm thinking Kelly will have comments on the matter as well so once you read mine head over to Kelly's to hopefully hear the other side. Jens coming over to watch them with me which will be nice since I will have someone to bounce my thoughts off.
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Feet.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
8:48 PM

Reasons why I am awesome:

1.) I had a Dermatologist appointment yesterday morning and was proscribed so much in the way of drugs I could open up my own under the table drug business. I'll be hiring next week.
2.) I also had an eye appointment yesterday and the doctor promptly told me every time I come in my eyes get .25 worse and for the first time in fours years my eyes are no longer the same prescription. One eye is now .25 worse then the other. So, give me a year, and I will be blind.
3.) My wonderful sister Chelsea can't remember the name of my blog so she has to go through Peter's site to find me. So much love.

My iPod is doing well, I thought you might want to know.

I went and saw Wimbledon last night and really, really enjoyed it. Like, for a romantic comedy it was spectacular. Studio Cannel Films are so the shit. Plus, this bad boy was centered around the high class, intense game of Tennis which I excel at so I was bound to love it. You should go see it.

Jen bought Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and invited me and my Hookah over to watch it. I took her up on the deal but then I remembered that my parents leave tomorrow for Hawaii and if I want good presents I should probably stick around tonight and help them out. My mom wants me to paint her toe nails. You have to understand as a child her feet grossed me out. I can remember shopping as a kid and seeing her feet under the dressing room door and thinking, I'll never let my feet get that old, so, the thought of me like touching her feet grosses me out. God. I'm such a good daughter. Anyways, I have to touch moms feet tonight which I'm not looking forward to and I really hope this insures some sweet puka (puca?) shells and reef flip-flops.

Speaking of flip-flops my math teacher today tells us about this extra bonus home work that we can do. We have to find an ad and make a true/false table with it and some other shit. Anyways, she was like, I'll give you till next Friday so you can use the upcoming presidential elections in your examples. We can see how many times Kerry Flip-Flops. The whole class kinda just made this noise, like, she didn't just say that, did she? I of course speak up and say, or, It could be the other way around too, dont you think? I was trying not to piss her off, she is really nice but then she just looks at me with this Bush-is-the-God-of-all-Presidents face and I say, we could just wait for Bush to stumble over his words like normal and count those. The class laughed and as she turned her back to the chalk board and right then I knew I was going to fail math. And to think I was just starting to get that stuff she is teaching in class. Pitty. I think I'm gonna use some of the latest research at http://www.factcheck.org/ to do my bonus home work. Should make her really happy.

Lastly, if you all value your computers like I know you do, download the newer version of Fire Fox here. It's the best browser in the world. Although I do here Google might be developing one...
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iPod.
Monday, September 27, 2004
1:45 AM

I'm a technology whore.
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Mini.

1:00 AM

Well, I jumped the gun on the iPod post. Ben had called me using threatening words such as "Im buying an iPod" and "they have them in-stock ", but when he returned home with my parents from shopping he was iPod-less. All the places they had checked didn't have crap for crap. My dad finally got a hold of someone at the Best Buy in the valley and found out they had iPod's there. He put two on hold. Two you say? Ben, the Dudley Dursley of the Cates family needs two iPods? Why no, one was for me. I can proudly say that I am the new owner of an Apple iPod. It's the prettiest thing Ive even seen. Plus, I really couldn't have purchased it at a better time. With Operation Pancreas only four short days away I know I'll be getting a lot of use out of it.

Also, if I even make it to an Eastern football game and stay for more then five minutes Im going to be amazed. Saturday Jen and I cruised into Cheney and Mischa and Timmy called us right as we got into the parking lot. Miscah, Timmy, Bobby and Bryan all lived on Jens floor her freshmen year and they now live together in random pairs in apartments in Cheney. We headed over to Miscah and Timmy's to play some drinking games with the rest of the boys as well as Katie and Andrew, but we then had to leave unexpectedly. Matt, who was unbelievably drunk and wandering around EWU's campus, called Jen and we thought it best to pick him up before the cops did. He had left a Frat party and kept telling us he would meet us at the gates of the school, but, EWU doesn't have gates. We finally found him sitting at a bus stop and took him back to the boys place were the drinking games kicked off again. I was putting back water like it was going out of style while Jen got housed, like the weekend before, off Keystone, Bud and some Bush. I lost rock, paper, scissors. What can I say. Its alright though, I honesty forgot how much fun those boy could be. Even as drunk and sometimes hilariously vulgar as they were.
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Hate.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
4:47 PM

Ben ruined my life today by buying himself an iPod. It's the only material object I've ever lusted over for a long period of time. I can already tell he will end up taunting me with it. Its like he hates me. Like, what did I even do to Ben to bring this much hate from him? I watch him play video games and buy him sexy man clothes from Express. I give him tips on the ladies that always come out as being handy. I let him skip school with me, and on those small occasion when I'm not feeling really hateful towards him I allow him to go to parties with me. Basically, I'm the perfect sister to Ben, even though he is a pretty big bitch most of the time.

And if its possible to have two sty's at once, of course in the same eye, I have achieved it. I should take a picture to prove my point. The skin under my left eye has taken over. Even my face hates me. I bet when I go to walk down the stairs to go tan in the back yard I will fall and break a leg or something thus completing the circle of hate. GOSH.

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More Movies.
Saturday, September 25, 2004
8:09 PM

The party blew so we bailed and went to a late showing of "The Forgotten".

More later, gotta run.
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Gattaca
Friday, September 24, 2004
8:39 PM

I got paid today. Man I love working for Eastern. I go to my classes and then straight to work. Its great not having to like, you know, drive somewhere. Well, other then out to Cheney everyday.

Tonight Jen and I are going to a Siesta. I asked if we had to dress up, I have this HUGE sombrero that would be a lot of fun drunk, but, as we don't have to dress up, no such luck. I'm making a deal with myself now that no Tequila will be consumed because I don't want to have to blog on here tomorrow about how I was puking for hours and how bad my throat burns etc.

Watched "Gattaca" today in EMAF. I hadn't seen it before but I can say now that the cinematograph is really beautiful. Plus, it had Ethan Hawke in it. I mean really, it doesn't get much better. The guy that directed it did both the Truman Show and S1m0ne, both movies I've seen so now I'm rounded out.

Really, who has a Siesta? I'm pumped anyhow.

OH. AND GET THIS: my computer which was in my possession for a brief period of time, like a day, had to be returned because it was broken right. So my new one was supposed to be coming in the next week. ANYWAYS, my model is out of stock so I get the next one up. I'm really excited about it. Like, I loved my computer before, but now, I'm going to have to play favorites.

Operation Pancreas: Mission Corn Maze takes off in 6 days.
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Zach Braff

12:57 AM

I would marry Zach Braff just for his taste in Music.

Thanks.
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Your Eyes.

12:25 AM

I just spent the better part of the evening visiting links. What links you might ask? Well, I'll tell you. I took it upon myself to visit the links of each site I have linked. Seriously people, if you could not have so many friends this wouldn't have taken so long, But NO. You link everyone and their mother. Consequently, I ended up reading all these random kids blogs, live journals and free webs pages. I saw pictures, mostly of people I don't know, and have now memorized even more details of random kids lives I will never forget. Honestly. I have this memory, and its great. If you tell me something about yourself, or friends of yours, chances are, ten years from now I will still remember exactly what you told me. Now tell me a math formula and I wouldn't be able to remember it in five minutes. Maybe this is just because I give a crap about people but I don't about math.

Also, get this, Eastern is now offering 500 megabytes of free web space. Like, what the what man. Finish my new office then start giving people free space. Gosh. What are they thinking? Oh, also, an update in Rachel's world of technology...My computer should finally be arriving in the next week. This, of course, is just perfect timing. It might be here next week but since I'm going to be out of town for Operation Pancreas I wont really get to see the glory of my computer for like two weeks or more. I guess after I have waited this long I can wait a few days longer.

Earlier this summer I purchased The Definitive Two CD Collection of Peter Gabriel. I love this guy. From "Sledgehammer" to "Your Eyes" you really cant go wrong. Its like two CD's of pure musical genius and enjoyment and I've been listening to it like its goin out of style. Really I have discovered some great music this summer. And when I say discover, I mean that certain people with spectacular taste in music have let their preferences rub off on me and I couldn't be happier about it. If there is one thing I love its new music. New really, really good music. New, as in, new to me.

Tomorrow its going to be 80 and Im breaking out my shorts to wear to school. Wait, maybe a skirt. So many choices. Watch out boys. If there is one thing I love, its my legs. Also, random Air Force boys are having a kegger tomorrow night and another Jordy Polusa is in the works. Its gonna be a good school year.

Toss up: Digital Camera or iPod? Gime some feed back kids.
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What the Fuck.
Thursday, September 23, 2004
1:46 AM

1.) All forest rangers are environmentalist.
2.) All forest rangers are storytellers
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Therefore, all environmentalists are storytellers.

(Construct a Venn diagram to determine the validity of them given argument.)

First off just No. I don't need this to make outrageously spectacular films. Second, this is like a word problem in disguise, and though I can tell this is not valid I'm so confused that I can't draw you shit for shit. This, on my first night of Math home work, is why I will never graduate college.

Why am I so stupid?
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Back to school
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
8:34 PM

Rachel's Schedule O' Fun
11:00-11:50: Geography 100. Its my last science credit and it looks like its going to be a lot of the material I covered in my Geology class with Dr. Asslick. I should do spectacularly well in this class. Plus, I already made two friends in the class, both of which are boys and sit on either side of me. Science never looked so good.
12:00-12:50: Math 115. Today in class I realized that Im not sure how I passed Math 104, and since you need to remember everything from Math 104 to be successful in Math 115, I can already see my hope of this class not kicking my ass fade into oblivion. It should be my last math credit. If I pass. Dammit.
1:00-3:15: Filmic Arts and the Humanities 214. This is the most spectacular class in the history of all classes. Hands down. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday we talk about movies. Wednesday and Friday we watch movies. Honestly. It doesn't get better then that. Today we watched Koyaanisqatsi by Reggio. American Zoetrope (the Coppola and Lucas production company from way back when) produced it in 1983 and it was really, really different. There are no characters, just music and pictures. No dialog. It was interesting but at the same time I didn't really know what I was supposed to be getting from it until about half way through. The music is random as well. Still, worth checking out. It is certainly unique.

Anyways, school went really well. I worked, got my books, went to class, and then came back and worked some more. I have Math with a kid Bens age that I knew in high school. Its weird to see him and not associate him with Ben. In all three of my classes I have a few kids that Ive had classes with before. Alas, no hot kid from last year which I was bummed about. Oh well, Im sure I will see him on campus. I do have homework in all my classes tonight though which I could do without since I just want to watch Smallville, call you, and then go to sleep. Im gonna go scrounge up some dinner.
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Fuck you.

1:31 AM

Thanks for making my day a little bit better. No really. Last night, when I was saying goodbye to my great aunt and uncle from the UK, my uncle and I, my dads brother who is a fire fighter, got into it over politics. Jack is indorsing Bush although his fire station is endorsing Kerry. Jack says he would vote for Clinton if he was running but for him, in this election, he is just choosing between two people he doesn't like a bit. Bush wins out, Jack seams to dislike Kerry's wife a lot, therefore swaying his position, but, you know, its always nice to hear the other side when they have intelligent things to bring to the conversation. It really gets me though when people don't think and they just say, or you know, type things without thinking. Who knows, maybe you were thinking, but, next time you have something to say, and, its not very nice, nor is it spelled correctly, keep it to yourself or say it with some kind of intelligence. Its to bad you have to shed a unflattering light on others who might share the same beliefs. But you know what, have it your way. I certainly don't have to agree with you, and I sure as shit don't.

I'm not ready for it to start. I don't even know what I'm getting myself into this year. I don't like it when things are unsure.

On a side note, Megan "hate" Curren took advantage of my kindness today, as Steph did the day before, and joined the world of blogging. Curren, a current Washington College student and Rugby player, taught me how to play flip cup this summer and to her I will forever be grateful. Check out her blog, and maybe, just maybe, when she is not drunk, they will make sense and be worth while. If not, I'm pretty sure they will be funny. Mostly.

I think I'll go clean my room and do some work.
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Penny
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
4:52 PM

Hollar. I got up at 11:00 today and found out the CMS server is again down for repairs once more before school starts so I don't have to work today. This, for numerous reasons, is glorious. In fact, since a select few have made me their layout bitch, I've got something to do with my time. Plus, the server will be up later tonight so I figure I will put in a few hours this evening. Whats up now.

I would also like to announce that as school starts tomorrow its only natural for me to have a sty in my left eye. By tomorrow I expect it to be fully grown, red, and impeding my site on the first day of class. Could I ask for more?

Its 12:48 and I just took a shower. I am awesome.

Hey, you know what you get for going to Eastern? A student planner. And its not even cool. Like, you would think they would be handing out little computers like Penny's from Inspector Gadget these days BUT NO. I don't have a dog, my names not Penny and I sure don't get to help my crazy half machine, half man uncle on all his "missions". I still want one of her computers that's hidden in a book though.
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Smash this biatch.

3:49 AM

Today I successfully passed three cops while speeding and never once got pulled over. Apart from that my day was normal. If you call normal being woken up at 2:30 in the morning by some heinous text message. It's lucky I get a kick out of drunk people.

School starts Wednesday and I haven't any supplies to my name. Like, you know, a computer, or, some note books, maybe a few pens and incase I fuck up in math a pencil equipped with the worlds largest eraser. Luckily I have all Tuesday to scavenge for such items, all but a computer, so I should be set by the time Wednesday rolls around.

As you might or might not notice, I've added yet another link. Steph, who you might remember from the Chestertown incident, (see: wanting to take a nap on the side of the road while insanely drunk off Goldslagger) has her own brand spanking new blog. As Steph is a grad student who was educated at the fine Washington College, like my sister, you can expect only the most quality of blogs with impeccable grammar and spelling. For some reason Steph doesn't believe in capitalization sometimes, and you know, that kills me and all, but, I cant do anything about it. Check her out.

Also, this new Fable game my brother picked up could turn into an obsession. Its like insane. When Ben went and bought Sly Cooper 2 he was all you wouldn't believe the line up of nerds waiting to buy this game, and then like a day later Ben buys it. Winner.

You ever see that episode of Seinfeld were George has like a mini bed put in under his desk so he can take naps at work and his boss will think he is always the last one to leave the office? This year is so going to be like that. Except I'm just going to live out of my office so I don't have to commute because commuting blows. Thanks Jen.

Gillian had the chance to meet John Kerry today and I was insanely jealous. NYU students are so spoiled. God. I need to tap that, ah, resource. I feel dirty saying I should be tapping NYU's ass. I mean, NYU isn't even an object thats tap-able.
Fuck it.

Im going to play some Xbox. I'll let you know when Im not a nerd.
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Random Parties.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
5:14 PM

I'm going to try to chronicle the events of last night for you. The events might seam a little outrageous, only when Jen is involved of course, but, as it's the truth, Im sure you'll get used to it.

Jen and I hit the Football game up and by the time we got there it was half time and the score was EWU 36 CWU 0. It was cold, everyone was leaving and Jen and I didn't know what to do with ourselves. I found out earlier in the day that all the kids I thought would be back in town weren't and most the parties were Frat kick offs. Yippy. On our way back to Jens car we were both on our cell phones seeing what was going down when some guys started yelling at us. Me, being the person I am, decided that these guys were drunk and shouldn't be hassling nice girls walking to their cars so I proceeded to go over to them and started to tell them their obnoxious banter wasn't flattering nor should it be tolerated. The guys responded by giving me a beer and inviting Jen and I to a party on the South Hill. Jen and I accepted and we were soon on our way with some Tonny kid in the back seat heading over to his house were the party was in full swing. At 8:30. Heinous, I know. Come to find out these guys aren't student they are a bunch of air force boys living off base and basically all they do is work and drink. Works for me, all I needed was a beer bong and they had one. Jen and I did the old coin toss and I got to chat with the drunken boys, staying sober to drive, while Jen got trashed and disappeared for about 45 minutes with some random dude. I figured I might be able to find Jen when he walked into the Kitchen naked with his forty and started talking to me. I ended up finding Jen drunk in the bathroom with the kids sheets on. We found her clothes, almost had to leave her favorite bra since it was in-between the bed and the wall, told the guys we had to go pick up a friend and that we would be right back. Jen left adding another guy to her count and I jacked one of his cool hats which I wore for the rest of the night. Thanks Tonny, I owe you one. So, we really didn't have a friend to pick up till about 2 minutes later when Brian, a friend of a guy Jen dated, called us from Dick's downtown were we went and picked him up. As a thanks for the ride Jen got a whammy and I scored the only type of hamburger I eat, ketchup only. Just a side note, that was like the greatest hamburger ketchup only I have ever had. Like, you would think since I get the same thing every time you can't really improve on such a thing, but no, you can. So, we have Brian, food and a new party to go to. At this party I broke out the digital camera while everyone was playin drinking games and Im pretty sure if those people ever amount to anything I will have sufficient blackmail photos of all of them. When things there started to wind down we hit our third and last party of the night with a one Miss Danielle Bright. You know that scene in Dazed and Confused when the kid is buying beer at the quick stop and he uses a cover story from another guy and he tells the cashier he's "working for the city. You know, its money in my pocket." I felt like that last night at D's party. I ran into a kid I went to middle school with who stabbed me in the leg with a pencil, the mark is still there, and talked to him a bit but he's gotten fat so I wasn't that bitter about the led. Then a kid I used to go to Youth Group with and then High School till he dropped out showed up. I was like what are you up to, he was like, workin, school, you know. It's so weird seeing kids at parties I haven't seen in ages. Some kids personalities just don't change at all. Anyways, Jen who has just been drinking all night decides she is finally housed and that we should head home so that she can get to sleep before she has to work. We got home at like 2:00, crashed and didn't get up till 11:00 this morning. Jen had to work at 1:00 so she dropped me off on her way to work this afternoon. I don't know how she does it. Honestly. Like, does it take something special to just sleep with some random kid you've known for two hours? Whatever it is I don't think I have it.

P.S. If any of you love me, could you please buy me the original Star Wars Trilogy on DVD that comes out on Tuesday? Thanks.

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Last Weekend.
Saturday, September 18, 2004
7:00 PM

This is officially my last weekend before school starts on the 22nd. I've decided that in grand Rachel fashion I wont do anything today. I got up at noon, ate a cookie and have been watching Ben play Fable and Sly Cooper:2 ever since. I'm pretty sure sometime this weekend I'm going to have to clean my room so I can start sleeping in there again and since tonight is the first football game of the year I was thinking I should probably attend that as well, but, other then that, I'm free to lay around all I want.

Seattle didn't pan out as you can see because my Aunt Irene from the UK is in town and we are having a family dinner Sunday night. I defiantly wanted to be able to go to dinner and making the rounds at the football game tonight should be fun. Plus the family I would have gotten a ride from needed me to look after their cats so I took one for the team and stayed in Spokane.

Jen called last night and finally said she realized she shouldn't have moved in with Rob and she wants to move back out with me. I still haven't un-packed all my stuff at my parents house yet but I don't think I'm going anywhere soon. We would have to find a place that would let us sign a nine month lease and that's few and far between in Cheney. Plus, the whole goal of moving home was to save money so that moving again would be easier and I haven't even been home two months yet. Jen is really retarded sometimes.

I have math again this coming quarter. I'm gonna die. Oh, also, I picked up another job for this year. Its more web site work and they really only need me for like four to six hours a week so it should fit in well with my other job and classes. Plus, the new job, like my current job, doesn't give a crap if I work from home or when I work, just that I get done what needs to be done, so, I should be sitting pretty sweet. I just need to start saving my money.

Oh, also, I saw Vanity Fair on Thursday which was really, really good and I picked up the Ambulance Ltd Cd which I would recommend to all.
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Hows this for funny.
Friday, September 17, 2004
1:22 AM

Today, for the first time in Rachel blog history, I received a complaint. Because of this complaint I have learned more about myself. Let me explain...

For years now I have examined the root of my bitterness and hate. Could it stem from my mother who has acquired such nick names as "The Rage" or "Stewart of Gondor"? Though she is crazy, I figured that if I had her crazy genes, the insanity that has gripped her would have surely taken me over by now and I wouldn't have the bitterness and hate I harbor, but just a lot of crazy instead. So, we turn to the other possible source: My Father. Dads not crazy but he does happen to be mean some times. Most recently I have been referred to as "Rach-ho". Though this nickname arrived because of a certain short skirt I conceal in my closet, I'm certainly not a scank and the nickname is misleading and hurtful. We could take the term of endearment he uses for my hair, "the Mop" and examine it or maybe count all the times he has called me fat and ridiculed me about my nose, but still, he can't be held accountable for my situation. Because these circumstances have emotionally scarred me they do accout for some of my bitterness and hate towards the world, but, not all. Tonight I came to an understanding; Chelsea Cates, my older sister, is single handily responsible for my state of mind. Take these simple facts into consideration:
1.)She doesn't like it when I express my feelings.
2.)She constantly steals my thunder by claiming all the great ideas I had in childhood as her own.
3.)Chels, being the perfect, 4.0 wonder child of the Cates family, is continually showered with love, gifts and a working car with dent resistant side panels.
4.)She once picked my best friend and I up by our underwear and gave us tremendous wedgies while swing us around the room. We might have hit her with something, I'm not sure, but I do know she had a glint of crazy in her eyes.
5.)She had an English nanny who read to her non stop as a child = instantly cooler
6.)She, unlike I, had two Christmases as a child, but the year I was born, Christmas was no longer.
7.)She received the traditional Cates middle name of Ann, where I got the crazy Lee middle name from my moms side.
8.)At 4 she taught herself how to ride a bike, a two wheeler at that.
9.)Back in my most fragile years Chels stole my favorite toy from me, Taloola Tomato, and threw it outside our moving car onto the cement drive way of a fire station. Mom had to turn the car around, get out, pick it up and when she returned to the car and asked whose toy it was, Chels, quick on the up take, said it was hers and Taloola was lost forever.
10.)Lastly, she stole my first boyfriend from me, John Mayer, and never even offered to share.

As you can see by the mounting evidence above any child who would have been forced to live with such a person would most defiantly turn out bitter and hateful towards a world in which her sister could do no wrong. So, now that I have a scape goat on which to blame all my problems and failures, short comings and heart ache, I just wanted to let you all know that I made some of that up and Chelsea made fun of me earlier today with Megan "hate" Curren in the background and that I felt I needed to share with you all that if you make fun of me I will publicly degrade you in my blog.


Jokes!
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Micah.
Thursday, September 16, 2004
2:45 AM

I love it when you say "I miss you". It makes me feel like I could be happy, like, excruciatingly happy for ages, or you know, till I see you again. I miss you too.

I worked today and even though I didn't make it in super early (12:15 AHAHHA) I did get a ton finished. Julie Thayer, the one that tried to kill me the other day, sent out a mass e-mail about how great I am today and thanked me for all the work I had done for her. Dr. Danny, the Dean of Students, printed it out and waltzed around the office posting it on all the walls. Steph, the director of Student Activities, came out later and saw it, went back into her office and grabbed a red Sharpe, and marked on all of them, "Ass Kisser". It was awesome. All the kids that were on the Eagle Entertainment retreat came back today so there left over food was chilling all around the office and I ended up pelting Steph with some chocolate Costco muffins then making a run for my office and locking the door. She kept writing on pieces of paper and sticking them onto my little window next to my door. One said "Cates, your ass is mine" the other said "Open your door or I'm going to tell everyone you love Bush." Keep in mind these people are all in there late thirties early forties. They all act like kids, maybe because they work with kids, but fuck, they are so awesome. I should hang out at work more. And not work. Good plan.

I swear I'm going in early tomorrow. Its pretty much the last day I have to get all my shit together, check it in, mark it for publish and then actually publish it. Hollar. I think someone should throw me a party. Mostly for being cool, but maybe partly because all my major web site work will be finished.

FAMMIT. Gillian is so silly.

Bed!
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Man Im Cute.
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
3:19 AM

So, if you'll kindly scroll down you might just catch a glimpse of my new hair. Its of course stunning in person, so don't let these pictures fool you. Who knows, maybe you will get lucky and you'll see me soon. I hope so.

At 7:01 this morning my bed started to vibrate. Of course when I say my bed I mean Chels bed because I have once again piled all my clothes onto my bed and no cleaning has taken place since, anyways, I woke up enough to see that my phones display screen was flashing so I reached for my phone and proceeded to curl back into my sleeping position huddled under three blankets. I groggily opened up my phone, saw who the text message was from, read it, cracked a "Oh, thats so cute" smile and replied. I then fell back asleep and woke up later to my dad yelling "Hey you Fat Lard, get up, Tina, get UP." Ok, so I know my names not Tina but I swear my dad was calling me that this morning. It was about 10:50 and he kept badgering me till I yelled I was getting up. Fat chance. I slept another ten minutes then finally got up. It was a pretty great morning.

Work has really picked up for me since I put off all my work till the last moment. It's all right though. I like feeling as though I have something to do at all times. And stupidly enough I keep taking on more jobs everyday even though the ones I need to get finished aren't finished. I guess I just don't want to disappoint. Anyways, I don't know where Im going with this. Today was just nice.

I might head over to Sea Town this weekend to watch Laura, my next door neighbor that attends UW, run some intense XC. I'd have to hitch a ride with her parents though and I know I would end up wanting to visit other people while I was in town, so, we will see if this really pans out.

Oh, also, since I excel at stealing the ideas of others, I added a new link to the right. Its been there a few days, check it out.

I'm gonna do some work now. Yes, I am Awesome! (Old school Strong Bad rocked so hard, seriously.)
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Genius

2:42 AM


I like to call this one "side view". I know, its genius.
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Brown

2:40 AM


Its kinda like a brown, you know, with some lighter brown...? Yeah, thats it.
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"New Hair"

2:39 AM


I like-a to call it "contemplation of new hair". Im so deep sometimes.
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Midnight
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
2:15 AM

adj. later, latest

1. Coming, occurring, or remaining after the correct, usual, or expected time; delayed: The bus is late. See Synonyms at tardy.
2. Beginning after or continuing past the usual or expected hour: a late breakfast; a late meeting.
3. Occurring at an advanced hour, especially well into the evening or night: a late movie on television; the late flight to Denver.

If you don't call me by midnight, I'm disowning you.

Just call me Hate.
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Goldeneye

1:37 AM

You know what, I had a Poncho once. When I was about five. I'm pretty sure my grandma made it for me. It was all different shades of blue. I hated the thing. I could never figure it out. It was like a blue straight jacket of death. Now that these tricky pieces of clothing are back on the market I know just what to do: boycott them. I will not buy one nor will I refrain myself from making fun of people wearing them. So, if you're going to wear them, wear it like you mean it. Frankly I don't think I can pull one off. Such is the reason for my hostility against the Poncho.

Onto more important news, my car tried to kill me today. So did Julie Thayer who is second in command to the vice president at EWU, freshmen frat boys, and the CMS. I had so much hostility and failure thrown at me today it was just ridicules. The extent of things were so drastic that from 8:30pm till now I've been working from home so that I can get all my material ready for the go live date at work. It's brutal.
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Split Screen Sadness
Monday, September 13, 2004
4:00 AM

You know that point when your listening to a cd and your like- just one more song, and it plays, and your like, god, these lyrics, they are just so right, every time, and then, before you can hit the stop button the next song starts up and you just don't have the heart to do it. You can't turn it off now. It's like everything he is saying, signing, is meant for you. Even though you didn't know it, you'd need his song at some point in your life. You liked the song before you even had an experience that related to it at all. When you first heard the song you thought, how could anyone let it get like that? I wont let this get like that. But now, the song is so much more then just "that". It's become undeniable. And then all of a sudden everything sucks. The song knows you better then your friends. The lyrics are your feelings expressed delicately and flawlessly through his song. The song contains one exact moment in time you wish didn't exist at all. If it didn't you wouldn't have to feel like you do right now. It keeps playing over and over again in your head. On and off, back and forth. And you wonder, how did it turn out for you? This circumstance in the song, did you just get over it? Did you move on? But how could you? And in that instant you know him just as well as you know yourself. All because you couldn't turn it off.
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Guns Guns Guns
Sunday, September 12, 2004
4:04 PM

I'm not a big fan of guns. I would never own one and frankly I feel like I have no need to. So, why do people feel they need guns? For personal protection? To hunt? Well, what kind of guns would these two tasks require? Certainly not an A-K 47. I'd love to see someone hunt with that then be able to eat the meat they have claimed with rounds of bullets in it. Awesome time. But I guess this is were personal defense comes into play. Do you really feel so unsafe, so threatened all the time that you need a gun in your house hold? And if your one of these people that do, does it need to be an "assault weapon" that has been banned for ten years now? That law used to ban "...more than a dozen types of military-style assault weapons, including A-K 47's." In fact, when you get down to it, the list of what has been banned can be found when playing Halo. "The law bans 19 specific weapons that have a detachable ammunition magazine or have more than one of the listed military features: folding stocks, protruding pistol grips, bayonet mounts, threaded muzzles, flash suppressors, barrel shrouds or grenade launchers." Yeah, next time you need a grenade launcher let me know. Id love to hear your reasoning. I guess the part that really gets me is that gun owners support renewing the ban. "An overwhelming majority of the public, including gun owners, supports the ban. A survey by the Consumer Federation of America showed that 74 percent of Americans want the government to renew the ban, and 52 percent of gun owners favor it. Sixty-three percent of Americans want the law strengthened."

If Bush cant be bothered to take something like this into consideration I dont know why he is in office. Listening to the public as well as acting on their wishes should be easy enough for him to do if the demands are reasonable. I for one think they are.
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Three hours of fun for...

1:47 AM

I just wanted to tell you all that this hair makes me feel incredibly sassy.

Thanks.
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Rumsfeld

1:22 AM

Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld mixed up al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein twice in a speech on Friday about the war against terrorism.

Oh, wow, Rumsfeld, get a grip man. Whats your job again? As Secretary of Defense shouldn't you know how to keep these two seperate in your head? That could be a problem if not...


Scientists are claiming that the unprecedented ferocity and frequency of the hurricanes that have battered the Caribbean this year can be blamed on one factor: the unexpectedly warm water that has been building up in the Atlantic over the past year.

Hum, maybe, JUST maybe, if we were still apart of the Kyoto Treaty things could be changed for future generations so that they wouldnt have to go through this as well. But I don't know, I mean, Bush "does not support the treaty" so it's got to be wrong, right? Hey, do you guys remember that "energy crisis" we had a while back. Oh, hold on, that was just a big scandal, Enron and all that jazz. So, really, if you think about it, Bush really has no reason now not to re-join the treaty. Unless of course it would mean the US would have to cut down on its "gas and coal-powered energy industries". Wait, you mean like oil? Like, gas used in cars? I just thought it might be cool to have cars that didn't rely on gas you know? To like help the environment and stuff? Wouldn't that just be a jolly good time. Makes me wonder why Bush hasn't been pushing more for alternatives in the fuel industry. After all Bush said that "We'll be working with our allies to reduce greenhouse gas..." so that whole getting rid of cars running on gasoline would help, right? Gosh, it sure is horrible that the Bush fortune is based in oil. Must make it hard for Bush to look for alternatives.
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Sassy.

12:09 AM

Happy Saturday.

I lost seven inches of hair today and gained about six new hair colors. Visited a few friends working for the man, saw a movie, tried a new place for dinner and its only 9:09.

I got my first drunk dial from Gillian last night. It was quite eventful. Some kid named Blake free styled for me then Michael, another kid I don't know, told me he was a drama major and that I should be impressed with him because of it. Steph also graced me with her presence shortly after being dropped while in the middle of a Keg stand. That Heidi. I bet she was just getting back at you for taking all the mens attention away from her and her flee market cleavage.

Whitworth kids always come off as stuffy.
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KEGGER BIATCHES!
Friday, September 10, 2004
10:25 PM

DOUBLE KEGGER!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude. Yes. Double Kegger at Ethans. Im SO freaken excited. Im doing laundry, ah, well, because all my clothes are dirty, but, I will soon have clothes. Um, in advance, Im just going to apologize. Last time I got smashed at Ethans I was just walking around with a bottle of Captain Morgans taking swigs with one hand and playin ping pong with the other. So yeah, sorry if I call you and you cant understand me. Maybe I should turn off my phone. HAH. Ok, I never turn off my phone. But, you know, if you havent been answering the phone when I call anyways then you wont have to worry, right?
:P
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Work

2:39 PM

So, today, on my way to work I realized I forgot my head phones. I usually bring CD's and rip them onto my computer using iTunes, and enjoy music all day at work. Or, you know, for as long as I show up for, but today, I don't have them. I rationalized this all as being ok because I would just make Grace, the woman who is one office over from mine, talk to me all day so I could keep entertained while finishing up some web site busy work. Bad news: Grace isnt here today. I would just listen to my music using my speakers but I have to keep my office door open in case anyone needs my services or feels like pawning some ice cream or other candy off on me (this office loves sugar, its awesome) and I dont think everyone in the office feels like listening to The Killers or The Beatles at very loud volumes. So, Im bored, and with no one to talk to, I decided I would blog, because, until its done, its quite entertaining for me. I was thinking I might go over to the Mars Lab and steal some head phones but last time I was over there this kid I dont really know that well asked me out for lunch and I really dont know what to tell him, so, Ive been avoiding the place. Ok, so, recap, Im bored. Someone help me. Thanks.
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201

2:59 AM

I didnt know it but today, whats left of it, held my 200th post. Thats a lot of useless babble and ranting, but, I still love doing it. I took a few very high contrast (Tasha style) cam shots of my hair since its all getting cut off on Saturday. Tomorrow is going to be super busy and I didnt think I would have time to document my hair so I got a head start on things tonight. Can anyone think of any reason why I shouldnt be cutting my hair? Its time for a change. We can do better. Scroll down a bit to check them out.

I ended up seeing Napoleon Dynamite today for the third time. Man I love that movie. Gillian called me while in the movie from a concert in New York. But, you know, it wasnt just a concert, it was The Shins. I was blind with jealousy and rage, ok, I wasnt, but, I got to hear a bit of the Shins over the phone which totally made my day. Before the movie I worked a bit and made some kickin blue berry muffins. Oh, and FYI, if you have my cell number, and you want to hear the best personal greeting known to man, give me a call and I will let it ring through. You wont be sorry.

Chocolate Milk Owns.
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2:50 AM


You can pretty much see all of it now...
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2:50 AM


Back.
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2:49 AM


Me and my hair.
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Kelly
Thursday, September 09, 2004
2:58 PM

Kelly its your birthday, Happy birthday Kelly!

Dude, have a killer time today. Oh, and watch out for Ligers. Look, I know they are pretty much your favorite animals, but, they are bred for their skills in magic, so you just need to be careful.

Hehehe.
<3
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Tracing

4:14 AM

Tracing by John Mayer

do you ever get the feeling
that we started in the middle?
or have you ever had the sense
that weve been lying just a little?
i mean come on
its not like weve known ourselves that long

and i cant say i really blame you
for being bored with the beginning
always staring at the score
to figure out whos barely winning
but dont you know
there is a reason strong, move slow

and im okay
if youre okay with wasting time
but when you trace
you always see the bottom line

we are tracing
i hope you know
we are tracing

and if you want to know the moment
i knew that i was still alone
i found i never learned your number
i only stored it in my phone
youd think by now
id know the shape of calling home
and im okay
if youre okay with wasting time
but when you trace
you always see the bottom line

we are tracing
i hope you know
we are tracing
were both alone
we are tracing
we are tracing

did you ever get the feeling
that we started in the middle?
or have you ever had the sense
that we were lying just a little?
i mean come on
its not like we knew ourselves that long
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Gettting Pretty Serious.
Wednesday, September 08, 2004
10:39 PM

Why do you love me? Why do you need me?

When someone says "I'll call you right back" you assume 5-10 minutes, maybe 15 if your pushing it. I got the I'll call you "right back" brush off 40 seconds into a conversation today and six hours later still no "right back". What the hell.

As much as I hate to say it, I'm totally watching The Video Game Revolution tonight on PBS. I was forlorn because the entertainment factor in Spokane post most colleges starting is shit, but this is going to be awesome. I'll document what I learn from it, dont worry.

In late August I walked into Client Services, Eastern's IT wing, and told them all about a little jem called FireFox. Its only the best browser ever and when my parents got their new computer it came installed on it because Micah, who is pretty much the Arch Duke (I don't know, I thought it sounded cool? Eh?) of any cool technology, made the computer and loaded FireFox onto it. So today I waltz back into Client Services and not only is everyone using FireFox but they have taken it one step further by using the Thunderbird email client. Im now like a celebrity in that office because I bring them great news every time I come around. Administrative love is the best kind.

Man Im so excited for VGR. HAHAHA. Im such a dork. Oh, and did you see that cool Napoleon Dynamite Merchandise? Like, I cant believe MTV and Fox didnt capitalize on that kind of stuff, this girl is going to get flippin rich!

I got up early and worked from 9:00 to 4:00 today. I was so tried because I never get up that early, and mostly because Im lazy and I like to take naps, I passed out on my bed around 5:00 and got up at 7:15 for dinner. It was brilliant.

I think Im going to catch NBC's new show "Hawaii". My parents are watching it to learn about where they will be going in less then 3 weeks were as Im just watching it so I can make bitter remarks and snide comments. Gosh Im great.

Always and Forever. Always and Forever.
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Dynamite

5:31 PM

This is Flippin Sweet Stuff.

Dont you want it all?
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Lindsey and Money
Tuesday, September 07, 2004
8:46 PM

I didn't really do anything today. I mean, I got up, found out CMS was down for maintenance, didn't have to go to work and almost just went back to bed. Instead I tanned, read, watched a movie, made some phone calls to stupid people that cant keep my insurance numbers straight, made appointments and then went for a trek out in the wilderness that is a Washington State park less then a mile from my house. I did the blog/site rounds like five million times and even cleaned my room. For a while there I was sleeping in Chels room because all the clothes I owned were on my bed but I finally put them all away. I think I might actually have slept better on Chels bed these past few days. My clothes now live in two dressers and both mine and Chels closet. What can I say, they are small closets. So, yeah, pretty much boring.

Today was Gillians first day of classes at NYU. Im very curious as to how they were. I expect a full LJ entry on it. ASAP.

Last night was pretty shitty to tell the truth. People were being horrendous but I don't think they knew it. I was pretty upset and when we got home at 8:30ish I just went to bed. Im over it now. Its not worth my time anymore.
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Zell
Monday, September 06, 2004
7:22 PM

Zell Miller's Attack on Kerry: A Little Out Of Date. Wait, what are you saying, that Zell was using information from Kerry's voting records 20 years ago on defense? Why on earth would someone do that? Those silly Republicans, maybe they should fact check their own speeches sometimes. Oh, wait, sorry, Miller is a Democrat. Ahahaha. Oh, Politics.

I would also like to point out "Sen. Zell Miller, D-Ga., got so angry at Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's "Hardball" current affairs show, that he challenged him to a duel." Gosh, that right there is just great. What I always wanted to see. A riled up, pissed of senator dueling Chris Matthews. You ever heard the saying think before you speak Miller? Well, now you have. Oh, what, challenging people to duels is normal in Georgia? I didn't think so.

This election is just getting so ugly on both sides.

Later tonight we are having a surprise 50th Birthday Party for my Aunty Kathy. I had plans to go down to Pig Out with Jen or Kari and Adam, who ever called first, but it looks like Im going back to Grandmas so as not to become the black sheep of the family. Keeping up appearances can get so tangled.

I rented Peter Pan and The Usual Suspects last night. I've had a chance to watch Pan, but Suspects is going to have to wait till Ben can un-break the DVD player. That kid kills me.
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Babies

4:45 PM

My very first and best childhood friend got married in May. I'm sure I told you about the wedding that took place on my sisters birthday. Today I found out she is pregnant. Due in April. She will now have gotten married and had a child before she can drink. Right now, what Tiffany is doing, is my worst nightmare. Being married so young is just unimaginable to me. I want to finish college, learn, have freedom. And to be having kids? She wont even have been married for a year before she has her first. I want to be able to have my husband to myself, travel, DO SHIT before, if I ever have kids. I don't even want to think about it right now. I don't want a husband, I don't want to be married and I sure as shit don't want kids. Its funny though, Tiff is re-creating her parents life story. Married super young, first kid within the first year of marriage. And Tiff has always wanted something like this. I just hope its not overwhelming for her. It seams next to insane to me. I cant even imagine. She has gotten further in life, well, the relationship side of it, then some people I know in their 30's and 40's. I sure hope her older sister, she indecently was just married last month, doesn't follow suite soon.

Things always change more quickly then you would expect.
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Love.

4:38 AM

Can you really be expected to stay in love forever? It is an awfully long time. Though, I suppose you can, if it really is just once.
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Sunday, September 05, 2004
8:41 PM

Today is a day of BBQ's. John leaves tomorrow at 6:00 so his family cooked up some raw meat and had us and the rest of the Meloche clan over. That kicked off around 1:00. We stayed for about an hour and a half then had to go buy four birthday cards. I think I read all the fucking shoe box cards in Hallmark. It was outrageous. In about 20 minutes we are heading over to the Grandparents house to celebrate Bens, Uncle Jacks, Aunty Kathy, and Gramps birthdays. I hear we are having Italian. Like two different types of lasagna or some shit. Im like, what, you said we were having a Birthday BBQ! I want some mother fing hot dogs. Oh well, Italian never did anybody wrong. I should be getting some belated birthday presents at this shin-dig as well so I shouldn't be complaining.

Friday my parents bought me a couple of shoe racks for my insane collection of shoes and I put them together and stacked them last night. My shoes look so nice just sitting on display. I couldn't fit all of them on the racks so Im going to have to keep some in bins and do a seasonal rotation. Im such a winner.

Ben finally cracked and shot me dead playing Halo yesterday. I think my skills are starting to worry him. I play this game like a champ.

I have a hair cut scheduled for the 11th. Right now my hair is really quite long. Hasn't been this long since senior year but I only wear it down like twice a month so Im thinking Im going to cut it just below my chin. All my crazy red and blond has grown out to show my brown roots so Im thinking I'll go back to my natural color with some high lights for fall. Im a little worried about getting my hair cut so short though. Its so thick I don't want it to be poufy all the time. Or look like road kill. You know.

I tried to take some pictures of my elbow to show case my heinous bruise but honestly, do you know how hard it is to take a picture of your elbow? John has like a super nice digital camera and he is coming over to the grandparents house tonight so Im going to con him into taking a picture of it. Its so sick yo. You have no idea. Its looks like, well, it looks like I fell of a 4ft counter right onto my elbow.

I need some new jeans.
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Done and Done.
Saturday, September 04, 2004
10:11 PM

Let me just start out by saying just because you're good at something doesn't mean you have to show off your abilities. Like, if you have nun chuck skills, or like, computer hacking skills, there is no need to demonstrate them all the time. If I took this advice from myself I wouldn't have a head ache right now. I was supposed to play Halo with Ben last night. All night just chilling, workin on my skills. I did for a while, Im getting pretty good, but then Jen called and was like you and D, Danielle a friend of ours from high school, have to come over and we will drink in our pj's. I'm like sure, why not, so I drive my ass over to Jens house expecting a quite girls night not knowing I would wake up at 11:30 this morning wondering why my back and elbow(lips)hurt real bad. I got to Jens, sat down, and had a beer. Jens cute friend Danny came over on his way to the strip club and said hi. He wasnt around for more then 15 minutes and he took off. I had just finished my first Coors. Ew. Jen all of a sudden is like, hey, lets funnel, and I of course break into my "I funneled out of a 20ft funnel from the second story of a house earlier this summer" speech. D was, of course, impressed and wanted to see my skills in action so I went first. Jen goes, Danielle goes for the first time EVER and we all congratulate ourselves. I took another one 15 minutes later and then another probably 30 minutes after that. In the mean time Jen and Danielle are drunk dialing boys. I talked to so many people last night it was outrageous. I took it upon myself to place a call to Tasha and Sterling. By that time I was so drunk I didn't even know that two boys had shown up. Danny, back from the strip club and Miles. We chatted and I funneled again, this time for the guys. Later I wanted Nachos. Jen made some for me. I was sitting on the counter eating them and then all of a sudden I just fall. Straight on my back off the counter. Three new boys walked in at that exact moment and everyone is like, oh my god Rachel, are you ok? I'm on the floor laughing, trying to stand up but I cant and everyone just keeps laughing and asking me what the hell happened. My elbow and left lower back took the brunt of the fall. I woke up this morning glad I didn't hit my head. I would have died. After this, to take attention away from that fact that I just fell off the counter, I ended up funneling again, this time with a Kokanee. SO after doing that again I start asking for pancakes. Seven shots of vodka and limeade later, I got them. I then made Jen call someone and by this time it was 5:00 am. Im like, hehe, call, leave a message, hehe. Oh, but who answers their phone, only you, at 5:00. So then I have to call you back and drunkenly apologies for waking you up at 5:00. I'm so, so, so, so, sorry. I really am. I feel horrible and juvenile. I was so drunk though, wish you could have been there. I really don't know how I woke up this morning. I committed the cardinal sin of beer before liquor and I fell of the counter. So kids, don't sit on the counter while drunk. Also, once, when in regards to the funnel, is more then enough. I cant believe I'm still not drunk. When you start drinking at 12:30ish the night just goes on forever. I went to bed around 5:45 when Jen was making her second batch of the pancakes. I woke up this morning with batter on my pants. Sorry again for the late drunken calling. I do feel horrible. Oh, and Tasha, did I even make any sense when I was talking at you? That was 3:00 something right? Ahahah.

How do you like the new layout?

You should download Frou Frou's "Let Go". I could listen to it over and over again. Just one of the many great things Garden State has given me.
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FCUK
Thursday, September 02, 2004
11:32 PM

Im quite sure I must have this shirt.

Thoughts?

Maybe you want one?
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Kitty

8:31 PM

This weekend is Pig Out in the Park. For some reason I think we might end up going down for dinner tonight. This is good for two reasons: They have chocolate covered strawberries and I always end up seeing high school friends down there. I wish it was warmer out.

We cant find my kitty. She has been MIA since last night. What are we to do? Im starting to get worried. Mom and Dad are convinced she is locked in someones garage. I hope she is just off killing stuff and she will come home soon.

Speaking of The Killers...I wont be seeing them this weekend. I will, however, be seeing them in October. I know what you're thinking...LUCKY!

Some one find my kitty please.

/Edit
I ended up finding my cat. After watching the Daily Show I came home from Kayla's and went out onto the deck and called my cat. I listened and swore I heard a cat. Called some more, ran and got my dad and we realized our cat was meowing from somewhere near. Dad grabbed a flash light and we spotlighted the neighbors shed. Right in the window was our cat. I super sleuthed it into their back yard, opened up the shed and out ran my kitty. I feel so much better now. Stupid cat. I love her so much. All is now well at the Cates house.
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Zach Braff

4:07 AM

"It's on tonight... let the floss and the Calamine know, we're gonna take him out in his sleep."

That is the funniest thing I've read all day. The Garden State blog makes me giggle.

Its 1:07am and I can't sleep.

Ben plays his music so that my walls vibrate. I go downstairs and say, "Hey Ben, could you turn down your music", he's lying on his bed playin with his cell phone and he answers me in his pissed off tone he reserves for our mother, "It's not even loud." I wanted to hit him. Hard. I asked nicely and he was a bitch. I'm never nice to him and the one time I try, sleepily and sad, he is a fuck wit. I walked away gritting my teeth thinking of horrible insults and come-backs that would piss him off, make him chase me up stairs into my room and try to beat the shit out of me, but, instead I turned on my parents computer and checked out AIM followed by a visit to Zach Braff's blog.

I'm going to try and sleep again. I can't stop thinking about it. I'm always plagued by it unless I'm reading or have company. It's your fault you know. Just make it stop.

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Kari

2:11 AM

Today was Mrs. Jones, Kari's, birthday. She turned 25 so she now has the ability to have a "quarter life crisis." Lucky! Ok, but really, she had to work tonight at the Applebee's so Kayla and Sarah, their mom and Sarah's boyfriend, Aubrey and I all ate dinner there and tipped her well in cash so she wouldn't have to claim it. Aren't we nice? After that Kayla, Aubrey and I went and used the North Park hot tub FOR FREE since Adam works there. It was very relaxing and nice.

Got news that my computer should be getting "examined" or something like that so I should have it back sooner rather then later.

I love it when people say, "I'll call you later", and its later, and they didn't call. I guess life just got in the way.

Oh! Ben, since he is loaded because he has all this birthday money floating around, bought an X-Box today. That, and Halo. I expect this weekend Ben and I wont shower and will get fat eating fast food while playing one of the greatest games ever. Im sure you would all do the same. Oh, what, your not dorks? Thats ok...more fun for me.

I finished "The Lovely Bones" and started "She's Come Undone" on Monday. I will be finishing that tonight and moving onto "Snow Falling on Cedars". I could have my own freaken book club.

The Killers are going to be in Seattle on the 6th. Should I go see them? Its like this huge festival and I love the Killers and I REALLY want to go. Thoughts? I would have to find someone to drag along but COME ON, its the KILLERS! If Kayla wasnt leaving she would so go with me. DAMMIT. So, yeah, anyone?
Ethan, you like The Killers? Tasha?

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