Happy celebration of overeating, smallpox, friendships, hardships, mistreating of food before it's dead, family, making our own harvest day 'cause we wanted to be contrary to England with Samhain, pumpkin pie, the end of Native self-control, self-regulation, and worth, and children's paper hand-turkey's.

All things said, I think Thanksgiving is a good thing... but people need to learn their history a tad more.
Ohhh well

Anywho - I'm going to see my entire father's side of the family tomorrow - and I don't think I've ever had thanksgiving with my sister before. So I'm glad about that. We're meeting up in TN for the next 4 days, so I don't know what I'll do without the internet...


and because why not.... ( Here's one of those silly interview questionnaire-thing gummies )

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I Fecking hate my bank. I think that's all I can say at this point, without hitting capslock or shift...

moto, ato de, ne?

I have fallen to yet another hoard! I am now on Gmail! risutales@gmail.com The more traffic I get there in the first two weeks, the more frequently I'll check it the rest of the time.

So yes, that aside, most troubles with roommate have been discussed, so life is happier.
As I flit off and away trying to figure out how in the world to get my boy the shoes he wants for Christmas...

Me and my falling off of LJ... I really do need to stop doing that... Blurgle...

WOWW... it's been a while. Well, if you don't have me via Facebook, or now Myspace(since in the past week I've been there more than facebook), or any other method(skype, etc)....

Life's been pretty much the same - still job searching, but now loan payments are coming up... which makes life exciting. I've gotten myself a boy, and I'm very happy with him. I have plans for thanksgiving, which make me happy.... and all else can be told at a later point in time...

Potassium deficiency strikes again! blargle! But at least it means that I can get some things done at home... like Talking with Jessie! ^^ I envy her being in Japan in some ways, but I also hope she isn't too lonely over there. Everyone should send her love and good thoughts!

But yes, Check in with Liss.
Probably the biggest thing is that I have been temping the past two weeks with the US Chamber of Commerce in a subdivision of the International Department. It's just Data entry, but I am learning names and all that good stuff.

Neechan came by this weekend - Twas lots and lots of fun. We went to Bound, Georgetown, Midnight, and Dupont Circle. Bound was empty, but that was nice since it actually left room for dancing. Then on Saturday after waiting to meet up with Pitt(which wound up being him showing up here to change for work for 10 mins before leaving) we went to Georgetown off of recommendations from people she knew in DE and was enjoyable enough. (as in we didn't run into any drunken frat boys)Dinner and ice cream there, but it rained. Next time Neechan comes down to visit we're going to take pictures at the exorcist stairs - it has been decided. We got to Georgtown via a bus from Farragut, so we also stopped by to take pictures at the west wing of the White House - that's the extent of touristy things that we did.
Back to Twinbrook to Goth-up and down to Midnight, where Neechan found a pretty shiny thing from the vendors. Good music, Neechan was over zealously taken care of when she sat down since she was wearing a spiffy matrix coat and 4 inch platforms. I took care of her too, but the Owner and some other guys constantly checked in on her. She felt all complemented and stuff. Kilted Air Force boy there wound up holding onto my cell phone for me as it had fallen out of my pocket a few too many times. Yay for oggling. There's Uniform, and there's kilt - Kilt wins, but the two trumps pretty much it all.
Sunday we stayed in the morning and made okonomiyaki for lunch. From there we ran down to Dupont - Neechan liked it better than Georgetown(big surprise). Then back to Union station to get her to DE!

I'm very excited about my masquerade b-day party. I should be making a mask with Danielle this weekend. I'm having too many mask ideas - I figure if I make my favourite two then I can just hang the one I don't use up as decoration. I'm still working on sending out the evites - if anyone hasn't gotten the evite, let me know! I probably simply have an outdated email address of yours.

and with that I say adieu as I hobble over to the kitchen to make lunch

Sushi lunch was canceled. :( I was looking forward to that too... and I also Haven't heard back from Schuyler after I responded yet. Pender never showed last weekend...
Neechan's coming to visit this weekend! Faire opens! These two things are separate as we would have no transportation to get there/back. Touristy things & Midnight&/orBound with Neechan. ::bouncy-bounce::

Still thouroughly annoyed at the flab of mine that's gotten worse with the lack of exercise the first two weeks after piercing and now having office job(which means office munchies as well as no longer having all day long to exercise) I'm working on it though. If I can increase my sit-ups each day by 25 more modified on exercise ball and 15 more real afterwards, I'll be happy.

very excited about my masqurade b-day party!!

So, Schuyler's Just back from Israel and sends me a text message at 4 today saying that and that he got me a surprise. At 4:30 some guy from another department I was talking with for a bit on Friday comes into the office asking if I want to have sushi with him for lunch tomorrow.
floods and desserts... floods and desserts...

SO I had a dream/nightmare last night. I was ready to pop pregnant, and then somehow during the c-section they cut out my bellybutton. The doctor showed it to me later. I said that I needed to have the Banana barbell back so that my piercing wouldn't grow back in.... even though he had my bellybutton in his hand.
....and you all thought I was weird when I was awake!

The most difficult part about Jessie leaving for Japan isn't going to the airport, isn't rearranging the room, isn't sending her stuff to PA. Nope. It's getting Pitt internetted up so he can talk with her. I've poked him repeatedly about skype, Facebook, and lj. I thought that maybe by sending him emails he might have done it on his own. but no, it seems that I indeed would have to go to Takoma and set them all up for him. Blargle. Indeed.

Hung out with JP today - even went swimming. and before anything's said about my navel piercing, I put one of those air-tight water-proof band aids over it and was only in the pool for an hour - not even enough time to get pruney. It worked just fine. :)
JP himself is still being 'creepy'-like. It's in his eyes - I mean, it's flattering that he still finds me attractive even though he dumped me a year ago-abouts 'cause he couldn't wait till I got back from Japan. He's just bored - even with Becky. He doesn't like talking about her generally. At first he said it was 'cause he didn't want to hurt me. Bull - he didn't want that awkwardness of talking about current with ex. Now that I'm obviously not hurt, and haven't for a while, he still doesn't want to talk about it. I asked how they were doing and his response was along the lines of "I don't know" and "eh". Great. I smell trouble.
Blargle, Blargle I say.

Almost done with Artemis Fowl Book 1 - borrowed from Schuyler. It's cute. He's in Israel for the next 10 days, meaning that he comes back around the same time that Pender's coming to DC to visit. Why is there nothing going on at the moment, but around the middle of the month there'll be lots of craziness. ::sigh::

So, Liss is alive, kicking, screaming, burning things, breaking mirrors, making messes, dressing like a pirate, putting holes in her body, getting phone numbers on the metro, losing friends to far-away places, becoming a Monster.com addict, getting lost in Dupont, not caring that she has not yet read HP7, and all other such normal activities for our well-beloved Squirrel. .... Do not worry, all will be explained in due time. ... if anyone's interested.

Only one of those is pertinent to today-the getting lost in Dupont. I had an interview at N Street Village, near Thomas circle. WMATA.com wanted me to leave 3 hours before and take a bus from Metro center. Yeah, I pretty much said "screw that, it's only 6 blocks from Dupont Circle." Makes sense, no? yeah... I forgot that I don't know that area too well. So basically I blew any chance at the job by showing up half an hour late, sweaty with make-up dripping and hobbling from pinky toe blisters in heels. I basically got time with the interviewers as a sort of "you made it all this way, so we'll talk to you" consolation. -_- yeah, 5 mins worth. Next. Yeah, pretty much that. I was so bummed that I got lost on the way BACK to the metro and it took me an hour to get there.

You know what else I'm pissed about? I got a navel piercing on Aug first and asked about exercise, as I've been getting back into that.(200 sit-ups and 300 Jumping jacks avg Daily ::Bouncy-clappy-Happy::).... and I was told to rest for one or two days before I'd be able to do those again, but a few weeks before any push-ups as I wouldn't be able to lie on my stomach. .... yeah, it doesn't hurt to lie on my stomach at all... but I still can't do jumping jacks or sit-ups without those hurting. Blargle! Just my luck, ne? and apparently I have a skewed navel. Ah well.

So yes, that's an update on Liss's life in three paragraphs. I'm off to help Pitt get Skype set up this evening so he too can talk with Jessie for free. Expect more frequent updates.
Liss out.
Rodger, Rodger.

yay for music. Blue (my iPod) is supper spiffy, and iTunes is fun. I now have the Bad religion cd I'd been wanting for a while, and Underworld: Evolution avi. Yay for downloading! also supper spiffy is the Underworld and The Crow music I now have.

Pitt sat me & Chris/Jessie down to watch the first three crow movies, since we hadn't seen them. the Crow: Salvation is my favourite of the three. Still debating over which is the best Crow-kill. bahahahaa...

Did absolutely nothing over the break/weekend - t'was kinda nice acctually.

Currently building up my favourites of Chiaro club sets.
I miss Chiaro. I really want to go clubbing, but I don't know of any good places now that Chiaro closed last fall. Suggestions anyone?

Go Liss... Tuesday night, after taking two mid-terms, bombing on one of the tests(my Japanese oral exam), the very last thing I needed happened...

I lost my wallet on the metro.

Just about everything's been taken care of already... credit, debit, it's all been replaced already... the pain is the driver's license. First off, I don't want a Maryland license... meaning I would have to go home to NJ and get one there... which the next time I'm going to NJ is Thanksgiving... which the DMV won't be open during...
So I have no idea by when I'll have my Driver's license back. It's not that I've needed to drive, but having an ID is helpful.
What good is it to be finally 21... and not be able to prove it??

secondary, is that now that I am 21... I have the worry that someone might use it as a fake ID... I'm going to see if I can tell MoCo & DC police to keep a heads-up for it.. or something. Chris suggested it.

but yes...
oh for untrustworthy America... how I didn't miss you..

Holy crud - I have an iPod.

My mother and her friend came down to visit for my birthday this weekend. As well as a suprise visit of my friend Aggy(the daughter of my mother's friend who came to visit).
Recieved the first of my Birhtday presents. The initial being chocolate cake(nummy!), of which I left half of it at the apartment this morning when I went out with my visitors and came back to only pieces left. ;_; :(

From Aggy and her mom I recieved a 12 tall doll of a Maiko(apprentice Geisha only in Kyoto - they didn't even know that's what they'd gotten), a silver photo cube-storage box, and a kitchen sink margarita strainer. :P


And from my mom, I recieved a 4 gb blue iPod Nano.

It's so tiny!!!! I'm afraid that I'll break it by accident.
Sean, be happy.. I have to put Mac programs on my pc. I'll acctually have to download iTunes.

but with the number of cd's I have... I'd better get on that soon....

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Oh for hyperness!! hehehee!

let'see... what's up with me...

I get my fridge back tommorow! I saw it put into Zak's car, which is parked in McDowell parking lot for the night. I'll get it tommorow evening!
Tommorow is Mabon! I plan on celibrating it somehow... not quite sure how just yet, but I'm working on that...
Speaking of that, AU Divination is a club! We just need to have an advisor by Oct 6... which yeah, I know, that's all of 2 weeks away. Apparently our back up no longer teaches at AU. So I'm planning on putting out last little feelers before Offically asking Sean to be the club advisor. I kinda feel bad about having a friend as club advisor... I feel like I'm cheating somehow....

My church is awesome - went there for the second time this past sunday - the sermon was on Australia. ^____^

My bike is still broken - I have nothing to blame but my own laziness though; I should have fixed it almost 2 weeks ago now... alas...

My 21st birthday's comeing up here soon, and I've decided that I want to go to Renn Faire for it. ^____^ I'm looking at having 13-15 people join me on my b-day celebration. ::huge Grin::
Now! If only I can get all the ride stuff figured out.... >.-

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and because I'm horrible like this, clicky, if you don't know what/have an idea of what to get me for said b-day...

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Still need to go to Great Southern Tattoo Co. to take a look around and decide if I want to get my chalice done there, or at Fatty's in Dupont. I have less than two weeks from when I want to get it done - weird, huh? Yay UUs!

ummm... yeah, that's about all that I can think of at 2 in the morning....
oh, and I officially regret moving as far away from campus as I have. I adore the people I live with, the apartment's awesome, I just don't like the roughly hour commute -> particularly for any late-night events....
Blargle.

My boxes from Japan should be arriving on saturday - it's the last day before the USPostal Service sends them back to Japan. They won't leave them at my apartment door, but they will spend the money to send them overseas. This is why our postal system is messed up.

More later - when I'm acctually awake enough to think on what's going on in my life....

So!
Saturday, September 9th: went to King's Dominion with some Cedar Lane UUC Young Adult Members. Matt, Megan, & Dan. Dan's kinda.. socially awkward. Megan's the Young Adult leader and pretty cool. Matt's not even a member of the church, but a good friend of Megan's. He's really spiffy and took it to himself to get me on the really crazzy roller coasters. He managed it – t’was lots and lots of fun.

Sunday, Sept 10th: Church at Cedar Lane - awesome service, water gathering. I'd brought my Japanese tap water with me and we'd even had the 'childeren's story' set in Japan. fun times.
Brunch with the Young Adults afterwards at Bethesda's Original Pancake House branch. Nummy Pecan pancakes. :)
Biked back home from church... to have my gear shift break on me when I was at white flint mall... so it too me an extra hour to get home 'cause I had to walk my bike back... grr...
'Bout an hour after I got back to the apartment I got an invite to watch movies at Matt's. Saw Rent for the first time and then the Exorcism of Emily Rose. both good films, but Rent was better.

Monday, Sept 11th: Turn-down day. Woke up late and didn't do anything for "Patriot Day". ... whatever. Talked with Matt on the phone and JP in person.
That was... interesting. Frankly, I'm proud of how I handled it. He was expecting me to be bawling, angry, etc. Nope. Just basically asked him how much contact he wanted to keep, said I was fine to be friends and all that cliché. He said friendship was an ultimate goal, but he didn't think he could have much contact with me for a few months - or sooner if I found someone. How silly is that? I mean, I understand that it would make things easier for Becky(and hence him) if they didn't need to worry about 'the old girlfriend' ... but still. it just seems like an odd marker to me.
by the end of our talk he was thanking me for easing his mind - that I wasn't devastated from the break up, that I wasn't in constant pain nor was extremely angry at him, that I too wanted to keep up some sort of contact, etc.

It was good to talk with him and get that settled, but it put me in a depressive, pensive mood that I only get rid of by talking with someone about it, but couldn't 'cause apartment mates were busy with their own things...

Tuesday, September 12th: 8:30-14:00 classes day. Potassium deficiency struck leaving my right leg too contracted and spasm-y to go to Japanese class. Hung out in the Davenport during that time.
T’was still in pensive mode when I went on a Mini-golf date with Matt. I feel really bad about it since I wasn't being my normal me, what with those awkward silences and all. ... yeah. I don't know. He's a really awesome guy, so I feel bad about not being up to par with my normal behaviour.(pun intended) We'll see how that goes.

Wednesday, September 13th: Work Study; the department's hiring 3 new professors, so I had to set up a database in Access for basic information for those who sent in their applications. Glad for the refresher in Access - I really wish I had it on my computer though. I also want to get acquainted with Photoshop better, but that's for another time.
Wandered around the quad and ran into Sara who decided to feed me at TDR. Yay free food and meal plans. Home and sleep after that.

Thursday, September 14th: Soo I slept too long. Missed my 11:20 block class as I woke up at 13:00... and it takes me an hour to get to campus. Still had to go to campus anyway to get in tax forms for Work Study that had to be filed in person. back home after that. Talked with apartment-mates and am finally out of my pensive mood me thinks.

Realized that somehow my Cell's battery fell out without me noticing. It says no missed calls or new messages... but I'm not sure if I believe that... so sorry to anyone if you did call/message...

Classes tomorrow that I don't want to go to.

AU Divination is officially a provisional club! we just need an advisor as our intended one went on sabbatical. Still waiting on an email response ....

John Stuart on Saturday - that should be quite nice.

and now, Japanese homework, then bed... and I need to be back up in 4 hours...

Check in:
Today is Labor day!
forgot about it, since I don't have monday classes anyway... remembered when the professionals in the apartment were still here at noon...

Internet's been spotty. ::cries::

baseball game yesterday: Nationals vs Arizona Diamond Backs.
Twas boring till the 8th inning when Nats started scoring... we won 5:3... still very boring, particularly compared to Japanese Baseball.

on Saturday I went down to Arlington with Chris to retreive my boa staff from JP's. Yeah, that was interesting. heh.. Got to meet Becky too - his new Girlfriend. She lives with him already, after a grand total of 2 1/2 months of knowing her... Talk about moving on quickly... Her two snakes are there too.

In truth, I have to admit that I think he traded up. She seems to be more apart of his circle - his world of things. She enjoys rock climbing, for example. I tried too hard to fit into his world. He's a good guy, a decent match, but it was far too much of a struggle to keep it together.

He said he'd call sometime to hangout. I told him that based on his past actions, I didn't expect him to. We'll see.
::sigh/shrug::

Nothing much going on at the moment. Moving in process continuing in the apartment. Dana's belongings are still here - we're waiting for her to show up sometime today to *start* packing her things up. Yay closet space.
For the first time in 3 years, I have candles "at school" and that makes me happy.

Pow-wow tonight to raise concerns about living in the apartment. 7:00pm on the dot. so there.

Yesterday I spent 4 F'ing hours cleaning strait, in the morning alone. Cleaning continued throughout the day, but interspersed, so I can't count the time.
4 hours!

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I've got a Gen ed that I need to try to blue card into today. I sent the prof an email, but no response as of yet...
If I get into that class, I will have classes on Tuesday and Friday from 8:30 am - 2:00 pm. Strait, no breaks, no lunch, unless a prof allows me to eat in class. This should be fun. on the flip side, that allows me Mondays and Tuesdays free for money garnering purposes. oh yay employment. -.-
I'm looking at work study positions at the moment - brushing up my resume, et al.

random factoid about Japan: In classes that are taught in english, they call Sylabi resumes - going off the literal translation from French where 'resume' means 'summary'. In American English at least, it's taken on the meaning of 'job summary' - but not in Japan. It took a while to get used to over there...

And now, I'm off... to go do.. stuff.

I have a bed! yay for mattress arriving!
you know, the kind of bed that you have to take with you... the kind with the 10 year warranty...

Haven't updated in a long while....
I blame my flight and dealing with having to use my mother's computer for internet - not prefered, and higly troublesome.
I've missed my AIM and MSN....

but yes, moved into the appartment with Jessie, Chris, and Zak -> should be lots of fun. ^^
went tubing last thursday down 5 miles of the delaware with my mom on last thursday. Spentim with some friends in NJ. I still need to burn my pictures off of my harddrive.

The appartment is awesome - nice set up - I'll be sharing a room Jessie, which means I will be attempting to keep my stuff orderly for the first time in a long time. ::sigh:: it's a really nice room... but the wireless doesn't reach past the dining room - meaning I have to go into the dining room or living room for internet.... icky-patuy...
it's 10pm, and I'm exhausted. don't know what I'll do tomorrow - well, other than my bed arriving sometime between 4 and 7. I'll probably wonder around the walking area in the morning - hopefully do some grocery shopping, maybe get a new swimsuit since I forgot my old one in NJ.
I didn't even do anything really today to be this sleepy, but alas.
on the good side, I did get to talk with both my advisors - that's right, that's one normal and one for Rits stuff... Saw Ley, Sean, found out that Morgan lives in the same apartment conplex as me, so today was productive - even moreso since I didn't even get to campus till 2pm. so yay for being productive... now I'm tired... nighty-night