what's your love story, baby?

oh man

2005-09-10T07:36:40Z

i don't think i've danced that much in a long time.

chaiteaisgood @ 2005-07-20T20:07:00

2005-07-21T01:09:18Z

today i woke up to two orthodox rabbis sitting in my living room.
so yeah, that's pretty much the most interesting thing that has happened to me since i've been home this summer.

dear justin,

2005-06-15T08:29:40Z

happy birthday.

lisbon

2005-05-25T05:48:03Z

the loves of my life: cassie and max at the hostel in lisbon

the greatest hostel in the world.

more lisbon

parque das nacoes area of lisbon, where the 1998 world's fair was held.

the beach in lagos.

our private beach in lagos, that we had to climb over rocks to get to.

oh yes.

i've already put all of cassie's underwear on three times!!

2005-05-22T20:49:37Z

so i'm home.
but really, i think i'd rather be back here. eating ice cream.

our two-story carousel. :)

monet's gardens at giverny.

i have laser beam eyes.

2005-05-14T11:42:46Z

i am in portugal also. i am not, however, loopy as cassie would have you believe. she is blowing in my ear and touching me inappropriately, and we are in the middle of this library. there are security guards coming for us i think. we should really go walk around lisbon now. portugal is the greatest place in the entire world i never want to leave. everyone should come and we will stay in this amazing hostel and be happy for the rest of our lives. we are past our internet time limit!

i'm in paris

2005-05-05T21:37:31Z

today cassie and i walked all around this one area of paris, and then we ate dinner at this really good thai restaurant. as we were leaving they gave us flowers. it was nice except for the fact that the waitress had to bring me a special english menu. i really wish i knew how to speak french. if i did i would move here and live here for the rest of my life because it's so beautiful.

chaiteaisgood @ 2005-04-30T15:26:00

2005-04-30T20:29:18Z

i leave for paris in four days!!!

2005-04-30T01:59:17Z

life is good.

booking hostels in portugal is NOT. it's probably the most difficult thing ever. but i am way too excited to be too worried.
i can hear my brother singing i am the walrus in the next room.
now i'm going to a movie with some of the most wonderful people in the whole wide world.
being home is so nice sometimes.

ps. HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASSIE!!!!!

my brother is cooler than your brother

2005-04-10T23:50:33Z

chaiteaisgood @ 2005-04-09T21:12:00

2005-04-10T01:13:11Z

je m'appelle avec ma belle

2005-04-10T00:43:50Z

i am officially going to paris to visit my beautiful one.

i will be there from may 3rd to may 20th.
this trip will include a few days in paris, a trip to portugal and spain, and a whole lotta good lovin.

i absolutely cannot wait.

pancakes, they bring people together

2005-03-24T05:42:24Z

and no amount of bad movies or bad bands outside my window can get me down.

house meeting on friday. this includes actually going inside the house again.
hopefully they won't be home. there will be so many pictures taken it's ridiculous. just you wait.

ps.

$4,000!!

2005-03-22T18:30:55Z

so maybe i won't be travelling around the ENTIRE world this summer.

today i found out that the africa thing will cost about a billion dollars, so i think i'll just have to settle for studying abroad there.

soo.... it looks like i need to start thinking seriously about europe with my dear roommate.
this is still mighty exciting.
maybe i'll go to paris when elena goes.
maybe i'll go to budapest and croatia.
maybe i can stay for a super long time.
maybe i need to talk to cassie immediately!!!!

and sometimes spanish presentations aren't so bad

2005-03-17T06:53:56Z

después de muchos años, cuando yo sea un montoncito de polvo callado, jugad conmigo, con la tierra de mi corazón y de mis huesos. si me recoge un albañil, me pondrá en un ladrillo, y quedaré clavada para simpre en un muro, y yo odio los nichos quietos. si me hacen ladrillo de cárcel, enrojeceré de vergüenza oyendo sollozar a un hombre; y si soy ladrillo de una escuela, padeceré también de no poder cantar con vosotros, en los amaneceres.

mejor quiero ser el polvo con que jugáis en los caminos del campo. oprimidme: he sido vuestra; deshacedme, porque os hice; pisadme, porque no os di toda la verdad y toda la belleza. o, simplemente, cantad y corred sobre mí, para besaros las plantas amadas...

decid, cuando me tengáis en las manos, un verso hermoso y crepitaré de placer entre vuestros dedos. me empinaré para miraros, buscando entre vosotros los ojos, los cabellos de los que enseñé.

y cuando hagáis conmigo cualquier imagen, rompedla a cada instante, que a cada instante me rompieron los niños de ternura y de dolor.

many years from now, when i am a little heap of silenced dust, play with me, with the earth of my heart and my bones. if a mason were to gather me up, he would make me into a brick, and i should remain locked forever into a wall; and i hate quiet crevices. if they made me into a brick for a prison, i should redden with shame to have to hear the men sob; and if i became a brick in a schoolhouse, it would pain me, too, not to be able to sing with you in the mornings.

rather, i should like to be the dust you play with along the country roads. squeeze me: i shall have been yours; crumble me, for having been the one who made you; trample upon me, for not having given you all truth and all beauty. or simply sing and run upon me, that i may kiss your dear soles.

recite a pretty verse when you have me in your hands, and i will throb with joy between your fingers. i will stand up tall to watch you, seeking among you the eyes, the hair of those i taught.

and when you shape me into some figure, keep shattering it, as you in your tenderness and sorrow shattered me.

don't give money to men. give only to people with license.

2005-02-14T04:01:55Z

for no apparent reason.
http://suitcasemagazine.com

red roof?

2005-02-11T22:16:48Z

yes, please.

hehe.

chaiteaisgood @ 2005-02-10T20:00:00

2005-02-11T01:01:26Z

WE HAVE A HOUSE.

and it's yellow. and it has a red roof.

i am in LOVE

just because

2005-02-09T06:03:35Z

i would really like to go to a place that looks like this:

she never stumbles, she's got no place to fall

2005-02-09T05:38:33Z

fate smiled on me today.

my favorite shoe broke, but i happened to have the exact color thread needed to fix it. why? because cheap walmart sewing kits with a billion different colored threads are my heart.

also, elena had a ticket to the vagina monologues at the reitz, but tragedy struck, and they sold out before i could get one. so i'm standing there, very distraught and trying to devise a brilliant plan to get in, when a very lovely girl asks me if i need a ticket. Then she GIVES ME ONE. just like that. amazing.
conclusion: you and everyone you know should go see it. they're doing it again saturday.

then elena and i, we flew home.

post script

2005-02-03T04:49:32Z

jake, johnny, and ben are going to go look at a house tomorrow, though i can't go because of class. it's only three bedrooms, but there is a den that could be a bedroom. but here's the thing. apparently, every good house in gainesville was put on the market and immediately signed for yesterday at like 8am, so if they see the house and like it, they may go ahead and sign for it. they're also going to call about that yellow one with the couch on the porch.

by the way

2005-02-03T04:00:17Z

last weekend was fantastic. i spent time with one of my most favorite people and there was much fun and creative cats.
i think this pretty much sums it up

hey carmen, come on, let's go downtown.

2005-01-20T03:54:19Z

i love the farmer's market and fresh strawberries and sugar cookies with raspberry filling.
also, i love accidentally running into elena swing dancing.

AND we looked at a house today.
it is on 4th avenue (right next to the courtyards). it's two-story, but the upstairs and downstairs are two separate houses, we would have the downstairs. it has four bedrooms, but i think only one bathroom. you walk into the living room, the first bedroom is a porch-like room off to the left, and there is a hallway straight ahead. the other three bedrooms, a bathroom, and the kitchen come off the hall. there is another porch-like room off the kitchen with washer/dryer. the floors all have crazy carpeting. the biggest problem: NO PETS. the best thing about the house is definitely the location. we're going to keep looking.

you are my sunshine

2005-01-19T16:50:18Z

and someone left the window open
and the room filled with a swirl of butterflies

the night the trees and the machines had a slumber party

2005-01-18T06:35:33Z

and the cars sang to us.

it's been a long weekend, there is much to be said.

friday night began with dinner at farah's with jeremy, sarah, peter, and others. we then had to leave because jeremy and peter (and the others) had to go see a pianist play radiohead, while sarah and i had to go decide how best to arrange some posters on my walls. however, we later returned to farah's, and there was a whole lota exotic mango hookah smokin. and cuddling. then, the walk back to campus was probably the best of my entire life, and upon arriving at fletcher, jeremy, sarah, and i watched the neverending story and ate a ridiculous amount of hershey's extra creamy milk chocolate nuggets with toffee and almonds.
it was marvelous.

saturday was, for the most part, uneventful, but elena wore a sailor hat and i was smiling for the rest of the night.

on sunday, jeremy and i went to the butterfly rainforest. there were so many flowers and there were butterflies that would land on your hand or your head or the back of some unsuspecting person's shirt. the colors were amazing and beautiful, and it was great.

today was chilly, but it felt wonderful. i spent a lot of it outside.

also, my roommate has been gone the entire weekend, which has been nice, i must say. it has not, however, stopped sarah from saying hello/goodbye to her everytime she comes into/leaves/walks past the door of my room. and, there's an orange bird hanging from the ceiling.

there will be pictures later, i promise.