"The past isn't real. It's just a dream."
-Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Monday, October 31, 2005 | 3:56 PM | Allegri
Thursday, October 27, 2005 | 11:02 AM | Allegri
I have two requests for you all this morning, prayer for the most amazing person ever an one for myself.
1. My dearest floormate: Gretchen has lyrangitis and she has the opening night of the musical Stepping Out, In which she is one of the leads, and has no understudy. Pray that her voice will come back and not be painful to perform.
2. Myself: My throat is killing me and I can when I take a deep breath, I can feel it all throughout my chest and start extensive coughing fits.
1. My dearest floormate: Gretchen has lyrangitis and she has the opening night of the musical Stepping Out, In which she is one of the leads, and has no understudy. Pray that her voice will come back and not be painful to perform.
2. Myself: My throat is killing me and I can when I take a deep breath, I can feel it all throughout my chest and start extensive coughing fits.
Monday, October 24, 2005 | 9:08 PM | Allegri
Every year, each floor from all of the residence halls, plan an event that can make or break your relationship with your roommates. It can only be described as Roommate Roulette. At an event of such velocity, one is in the environment of utter confusion and complete trust of their roommates. In the weeks leading up the event, ones roommate finds a certain someone, as a blind date for their roomie, or in my case; roomies. The best part is keeping it blind, not allowing your lovely roommates to know whom they are going with, a surprise.
It was so much fun, finding dates for my roommates and keeping their prying minds away from manipulating me into giving away the name. Although, I played the same game on them, fortunately none of us gave in. Finally the day came, and as us girls sat in our rooms eagerly awaiting our dates arrival, yet nervously hoping that our roomies did not double play us and get someone really annoying. A knock. Laura was first, anxiously she opened the door, her date waited seemingly as nervous as she. And then they were gone. It was just Karis and I now, one of us would be left to sit alone in the room for who knows how long, a knock. Nervously, I answered the door, unknowing if it would be for me of for her. Thankfully, it was for me. My date. I laughed, the hilarity of it was astounding. My date, was a boy from my dorm, whom practically became my brother since Welcome Week, and through SA.
After waiting what seemed forever to get all of the "couples" from the floor into the vans, we were on our way. Our first stop, one of our floormates for a delicious dinner of Tacos... yummy!!! After dinner, we jumped back in the vans and headed over to another house for some pie and hot chocolate. After we indulged in some wonderful pie (mmmmm, cheesecake!), we went out side for a bon fire, which was fun, and warm! We all found out some good information by that fire; 1. Shoes will melt if they get too close to the fire, move them went you start to feel a tingle in your toes... 2. Anything that you throw in the fire will burn, even if it is your friend... After the bonfire we headed back inside the house and played "4 on the couch" and eat more food. Around 11:30 we piled back into the vans and headed back towards the campus, were everyone went there own ways, many to bed others to movies showing around campus. A bunch of us watched Oceans 11, and devoured more food, and highly caffeinated beverages until about 4am. Then finally decided that the bed might be a good place to go....
The night was amazing, tons of fun, although I can feel a cold coming on....
It was so much fun, finding dates for my roommates and keeping their prying minds away from manipulating me into giving away the name. Although, I played the same game on them, fortunately none of us gave in. Finally the day came, and as us girls sat in our rooms eagerly awaiting our dates arrival, yet nervously hoping that our roomies did not double play us and get someone really annoying. A knock. Laura was first, anxiously she opened the door, her date waited seemingly as nervous as she. And then they were gone. It was just Karis and I now, one of us would be left to sit alone in the room for who knows how long, a knock. Nervously, I answered the door, unknowing if it would be for me of for her. Thankfully, it was for me. My date. I laughed, the hilarity of it was astounding. My date, was a boy from my dorm, whom practically became my brother since Welcome Week, and through SA.
After waiting what seemed forever to get all of the "couples" from the floor into the vans, we were on our way. Our first stop, one of our floormates for a delicious dinner of Tacos... yummy!!! After dinner, we jumped back in the vans and headed over to another house for some pie and hot chocolate. After we indulged in some wonderful pie (mmmmm, cheesecake!), we went out side for a bon fire, which was fun, and warm! We all found out some good information by that fire; 1. Shoes will melt if they get too close to the fire, move them went you start to feel a tingle in your toes... 2. Anything that you throw in the fire will burn, even if it is your friend... After the bonfire we headed back inside the house and played "4 on the couch" and eat more food. Around 11:30 we piled back into the vans and headed back towards the campus, were everyone went there own ways, many to bed others to movies showing around campus. A bunch of us watched Oceans 11, and devoured more food, and highly caffeinated beverages until about 4am. Then finally decided that the bed might be a good place to go....
The night was amazing, tons of fun, although I can feel a cold coming on....
Monday, October 17, 2005 | 7:19 PM | Allegri
I sit, taking it all in. The cool afternoon breeze, refreshing. Dangling my feet into the chilly water, the temperature a reminder of the freezing conditions that are soon to arrive, eagerly awaiting their turn; like a young child waiting for the recess bell. Luscious Reds, Vibrant Oranges splash the trees with color, photosynthesis done. The crisp sounds of a gleeful child crushing the fallen leaves as he traverses off the path. Donning my eyes from the 1,000 Ft ship, to the Aerial Lift Bridge, I listen. Attempting to decipher the code of long and short horn blows, as preparations for entrance to the harbor are made. Slipping on my blades, I return to the path, memories of past trips down this trail flooding my mind.Events of the weekend still fresh in my mind as I return to the campus, the reminiscent joy of looking back on past fears and excitement. On Saturday night; Eric, Molly and I went on the "William H. Irving Ship of Ghouls", (oh my heck!!) rationalization about these sorts of things is irrational, and borderline impossible. After boarding and deciding that this would probably be the biggest waste of money ever, I was practically red flagged. Not far into the vessel, I had lost all sense of rationale, fear had taken over. All senses alert and nerves feeling every change in temperature and air density. Lungs gasping for air as I abandoned this ship, fingers relaxing after they left the grip of Eric's arm, leaving a negative of where they had been. Forcing my mind back into reality, and getting my heartrate back into a normal range...
Thursday, October 13, 2005 | 11:20 AM | Allegri
Fall break is officially fall break, fortunately enough I had a test at 8:30-9:30 this morning that ended my week with no later classes! So, I'm off to Duluth for the weekend to hang out with my cousins and grandparents, and get to eat food that is not mass produced!!
Monday, October 10, 2005 | 9:35 AM | Allegri
So, I have a hairline fracture in my left tibia, due to a tumble involving 160 people, complete psychoses (a.k.a. homecoming rally), and a set of bleachers. And due to a pair of crutches that I had to be on, I have a shin splints in my right leg... yay! The fact that everyday I have to ascend and descend three flights of stairs to get to my room is no help, nor that we have no elevator in the Freshman housing. And the fact that hyper-flexision is the one thing that sends a shooting pain up my shin. The one item that pains me the most is that I can not do any "strenuous" activity for 2 weeks which means that I must quit tennis. I feel like cripple whom will never heal from one injury before jumping into the next.
Friday, October 07, 2005 | 6:06 PM | Allegri
What all started on a lonely dismal day in October of 2004, has finally reached its one hundredth post. Wow, 100... werid to think of all the time that was spent in making all of those posts... the countless hours of procrastinating on homework by writing a post about how I was not doing homework to write it. Now I thought that dedicating this post to something would be a grand idea, but to what? What things other than posts do I have a 100 of? Pictures? That might be a bit difficult to post. Then it came to me, 100 random facts about the wonderful writer of all of these amazing posts that you have come to read. So here it is, where the rubber meets the road, you may be faced with extreme boredom, or engrossed by the sheer randomosity of many of these, but anyways... In Honor of my 100th post I am going to give a little bit of insight and background on your lovely author and expose something's that you might never have guessed.
1. I was born in Florida.
2. I was an Air Force brat.
3. I have lived in 7 houses, in 9 cities, 4 states, and 2 countries.
4. I have had more concussions than I can remember. Maybe those two are related??
5. I knew how to shoot both a gun and a bow before I was 12.
6. I am nocturnal.
7. You can count the number of students in my graduating class with 2 hands.
8. My favorite actor is Johnny Deep.
9. I have winter allergies.
10. I love the color red.
11. I have an addiction to Mountain Dew.
12. I am deathly afraid of spiders.
13. And snakes too!
14. Frosting on cakes makes me sick.
15. I have had stitches in my head 3 times before I was 5.
16. Two were because of an (evil) birth mark.
17. My favorite snack is chocolate chip cookie dough.
18. I love to read.
19. When I was in my early teens I had 4 notebooks filled front to back with details on items that I had watched being recovered from the Titanic and all of the other stuff about it, most of this information was acquired through hours of the History and Discovery channels, I brought these notebooks with me to the exhibit and got a lot of strange looks about it.
20. I am Swedish and German, predestined to have blonde haired and blue eyed, I changed that.
21. I used to watch Pacific Blue everyday after school, along with Saved by the Bell, and Full House.
22. When I was in elementary school I played the piano but I quit to play the flute, although my lessons never came through and the flute is still unused.
23. I have danced and done gymnastics for at least 6 years of my life.
24. I am an organizational geek/clean freak but I am also lazy; the two do not get along very often.
25. I would rather climb a rock face than sit in a classroom.
26. My favorite food is anything Italian or Chinese.
27. I hate fish.
28. I have an addiction to History especially European, and early American Colonies.
29. I have traveled across 4 different continents.
30. My favorite place is Tallinn, Estonia (think 17th century).
31. I love dogs, and have an adorable one back home (Emma).
32. I love to cook, but hate to do dishes.
33. I have had my life threatened 2 times.
34. I have been in 2 Disney movies, Going to the mat, and Halloweentown 3.
35. I am addicted to text messaging.
36. I am very accident and injury prone.
37. My digital camera goes everywhere with me.
38. I have moderate views on the political spectrum, but usually lead toward republican.
39. My dreams often come true.
40. I got stuck in the 90's and still think that Backstreet Boys are cool.
41. My favorite author is Shakespeare I can't understand why people think that he is a hard read.
42. I like most women have already chosen the names of my future children, and have back up names in case any of my friends steal them.
43. I am deathly afraid of needles.
44. I have 46 pairs of shoes, and counting.
45. I have had two boyfriends and never kissed either.
46. It's a miracle if I get more than 5 hours of sleep a night; unless it's Saturday.
47. I love my nalgene!! I collect them, currently I have 13 of them...
48. I was raised in a born again Christian home and still follow that adamantly.
49. Back home I go to church on both Saturday night and Sunday mornings.
50. My favorite scent is Coconut.
51. American Eagle gains at least half of my income.
52. The rest goes to Caribou and Barnes and Noble.
53. I aspire to one day be an Ambassador or work for the government.
54. I havenever broken a bone only partially broken 1 bone.
55. I am a total Internet junkie.
56. I am a Leo.
57. When I was 8 I made up my own dream profession; A Pediatric Paramedic Orthopedic Surgeon I think I might have watched a bit too much ER.
58. My favorite number is 7.
59. I have 131 people on my IM list, all of whom I talk to regularly.
60. 9 of whom live in a different country, and all of which I have met previous to them landing on my IM list.
61. I am lactose intolerant.
62. I have taken 1st place in speech twice.
63. Not to brag, but I am an excellent Archer.
64. I hate piggish eaters my biggest pet peeve.
65. I really want to learn how to play the drums.
66. I have a dream to backpack across part of Europe with my brother someday.
67. Who lives in Moscow, Russia.
68. I also have an older sister who is studying Biotechnology.
69. My first celebrity crush was on Tom Cruise.
70. I can quote the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings.
71. I have met Andy Serkis (the voice of Gollum), and was in a movie with Debbie Reynolds.
72. I love cryptographs, the complexity amuses me.
73. My favorite candy bar is 3 Musketeers.
74. If I could chose a decade other than the 00's I would chose the 40's.
75. I do my homework, just usually on the morning it is due.
76. I compulsively check my email like 30 times a day.
77. I usually only eat 2 meals a day, but I snack terribly . Another bad habit that will catch up with me someday hopefully not soon.
78. I love running.
79. I have an addiction to tanning.
80. I will instantly fall head over heels for a guy who is chivalrous.
81. I kill at Monopoly.
82. I tend to use sarcasm as a defense.
83. I love wearing my sunglasses at all times during the day, inside and out.
84. Many people take me for a snob.
85. But really I'm just insecure, so I rarely let my guard down.
86. I have an addiction to spy and cop shows (Alias, CSI, and Without A Trace).
87. I have to have a piece of gum in my mouth during class, otherwise I will fall asleep.
88. At times I can be quite obsessive-compulsive.
89. I hate people who try to prove how "cool" they are by bringing others down it only proves how big of a jerk they are.
90. My favorite flower is Jasmine.
91. I support George W. Bush as President.
92. I hate is when people don't stand up for themselves, and then they turn around and complain about it.
93. My cousins are on the U.S. Olympic Ski Jumping team.
94. When I was 12 I was asked to come work at Colonial Williamsburg, but I had to decline, considering I lived in Minnesota at the time.
95. Did I mention that I am a total history geek?
96. My mom is glad that my hair is the most rebellious part of me, it has changed to many times to count, nearly every 3 weeks.
97. I plan to live in either Paris or London, someday.
98. I have known my two of best friends since third grade, Shout out to Rosa and Alyssa, I love you two!!!
99. If I can't drink soda I have to have Orbit Gum, another sad addiction.
100. It is still my aspiration to be an Archeologist.
Man that was fun....
1. I was born in Florida.
2. I was an Air Force brat.
3. I have lived in 7 houses, in 9 cities, 4 states, and 2 countries.
4. I have had more concussions than I can remember. Maybe those two are related??
5. I knew how to shoot both a gun and a bow before I was 12.
6. I am nocturnal.
7. You can count the number of students in my graduating class with 2 hands.
8. My favorite actor is Johnny Deep.
9. I have winter allergies.
10. I love the color red.
11. I have an addiction to Mountain Dew.
12. I am deathly afraid of spiders.
13. And snakes too!
14. Frosting on cakes makes me sick.
15. I have had stitches in my head 3 times before I was 5.
16. Two were because of an (evil) birth mark.
17. My favorite snack is chocolate chip cookie dough.
18. I love to read.
19. When I was in my early teens I had 4 notebooks filled front to back with details on items that I had watched being recovered from the Titanic and all of the other stuff about it, most of this information was acquired through hours of the History and Discovery channels, I brought these notebooks with me to the exhibit and got a lot of strange looks about it.
20. I am Swedish and German, predestined to have blonde haired and blue eyed, I changed that.
21. I used to watch Pacific Blue everyday after school, along with Saved by the Bell, and Full House.
22. When I was in elementary school I played the piano but I quit to play the flute, although my lessons never came through and the flute is still unused.
23. I have danced and done gymnastics for at least 6 years of my life.
24. I am an organizational geek/clean freak but I am also lazy; the two do not get along very often.
25. I would rather climb a rock face than sit in a classroom.
26. My favorite food is anything Italian or Chinese.
27. I hate fish.
28. I have an addiction to History especially European, and early American Colonies.
29. I have traveled across 4 different continents.
30. My favorite place is Tallinn, Estonia (think 17th century).
31. I love dogs, and have an adorable one back home (Emma).
32. I love to cook, but hate to do dishes.
33. I have had my life threatened 2 times.
34. I have been in 2 Disney movies, Going to the mat, and Halloweentown 3.
35. I am addicted to text messaging.
36. I am very accident and injury prone.
37. My digital camera goes everywhere with me.
38. I have moderate views on the political spectrum, but usually lead toward republican.
39. My dreams often come true.
40. I got stuck in the 90's and still think that Backstreet Boys are cool.
41. My favorite author is Shakespeare I can't understand why people think that he is a hard read.
42. I like most women have already chosen the names of my future children, and have back up names in case any of my friends steal them.
43. I am deathly afraid of needles.
44. I have 46 pairs of shoes, and counting.
45. I have had two boyfriends and never kissed either.
46. It's a miracle if I get more than 5 hours of sleep a night; unless it's Saturday.
47. I love my nalgene!! I collect them, currently I have 13 of them...
48. I was raised in a born again Christian home and still follow that adamantly.
49. Back home I go to church on both Saturday night and Sunday mornings.
50. My favorite scent is Coconut.
51. American Eagle gains at least half of my income.
52. The rest goes to Caribou and Barnes and Noble.
53. I aspire to one day be an Ambassador or work for the government.
54. I have
55. I am a total Internet junkie.
56. I am a Leo.
57. When I was 8 I made up my own dream profession; A Pediatric Paramedic Orthopedic Surgeon I think I might have watched a bit too much ER.
58. My favorite number is 7.
59. I have 131 people on my IM list, all of whom I talk to regularly.
60. 9 of whom live in a different country, and all of which I have met previous to them landing on my IM list.
61. I am lactose intolerant.
62. I have taken 1st place in speech twice.
63. Not to brag, but I am an excellent Archer.
64. I hate piggish eaters my biggest pet peeve.
65. I really want to learn how to play the drums.
66. I have a dream to backpack across part of Europe with my brother someday.
67. Who lives in Moscow, Russia.
68. I also have an older sister who is studying Biotechnology.
69. My first celebrity crush was on Tom Cruise.
70. I can quote the entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings.
71. I have met Andy Serkis (the voice of Gollum), and was in a movie with Debbie Reynolds.
72. I love cryptographs, the complexity amuses me.
73. My favorite candy bar is 3 Musketeers.
74. If I could chose a decade other than the 00's I would chose the 40's.
75. I do my homework, just usually on the morning it is due.
76. I compulsively check my email like 30 times a day.
77. I usually only eat 2 meals a day, but I snack terribly . Another bad habit that will catch up with me someday hopefully not soon.
78. I love running.
79. I have an addiction to tanning.
80. I will instantly fall head over heels for a guy who is chivalrous.
81. I kill at Monopoly.
82. I tend to use sarcasm as a defense.
83. I love wearing my sunglasses at all times during the day, inside and out.
84. Many people take me for a snob.
85. But really I'm just insecure, so I rarely let my guard down.
86. I have an addiction to spy and cop shows (Alias, CSI, and Without A Trace).
87. I have to have a piece of gum in my mouth during class, otherwise I will fall asleep.
88. At times I can be quite obsessive-compulsive.
89. I hate people who try to prove how "cool" they are by bringing others down it only proves how big of a jerk they are.
90. My favorite flower is Jasmine.
91. I support George W. Bush as President.
92. I hate is when people don't stand up for themselves, and then they turn around and complain about it.
93. My cousins are on the U.S. Olympic Ski Jumping team.
94. When I was 12 I was asked to come work at Colonial Williamsburg, but I had to decline, considering I lived in Minnesota at the time.
95. Did I mention that I am a total history geek?
96. My mom is glad that my hair is the most rebellious part of me, it has changed to many times to count, nearly every 3 weeks.
97. I plan to live in either Paris or London, someday.
98. I have known my two of best friends since third grade, Shout out to Rosa and Alyssa, I love you two!!!
99. If I can't drink soda I have to have Orbit Gum, another sad addiction.
100. It is still my aspiration to be an Archeologist.
Man that was fun....
Monday, October 03, 2005 | 7:34 PM | Allegri
Oxygen, I sit slowly taking it all in, breath by breath. Unknowing if the next breath will be easier or more difficult than the one before. With each, a painful reminder of the ones that had come before, the lingering mucus still occasionally clogging up my trachea. My mind relapsing on the pain, pressure and trials that it took to take in every ounce of oxygen over the last week. My lungs cry out as each drop of pure air reaches them, as each agonizing cough clears the passageway to allow more oxygen - they rejoice.
