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first of all, the head honcho hunter has upgraded moveable type which means i get to mess around with a fun new system with all sorts of new gizmos to tweak. YAY!

second of all, in order to post on the stagger inn you need to be registered with typekey, which you can do here: TypeKey. it is an authentication service which will prevent spammers from using my comments section as their own personal advertising buffet.

as always, you can email me here if you have any questions or private comments you want to make.

can still completely go “foop” and go up in a puff of smoke.

short version:

went to get on the plane friday morning. voucher had not yet arrived, so they would not let me on. i left, voucher showed up.

the good thing about all of this is that i have a fully-paid for plane ticket which i can use anytime in the next year.

the bad thing about this is THAT I DID NOT GET TO NEW YORK CITY.

eh *shrug* what can you do?

i have to give big thanks to my aunt (for helping me with the plane ticket) and my uncle and his family in new jersey who were going to put us up while we were out there. i think the worst part of the whole deal was the fact that i did not get to see my dad, uncle, aunt or cousin. grr.

i ended up spending the weekend in kansas city, alternating between eating, sleeping, going out, visiting friends, babysitting, puppysitting, doing homework and taking long, hot baths.

my kind of weekend. *rowr*

Ok well over the last three days I have now gotten 13 gigabytes of web traffic to this server! Most of this is comment spamming and I don’t know where the other 10 gigabytes of traffic is from yet. But I am going to have to shut down the server for about 2 days. While the server is down you should be able to visit the site and everything but a few things are going to be changing around here. One big thing is that this version of MT is going to be upgraded in order to prevent all comment spamming! Allison if you would call me I am going to need to talk to you ASAP! Please call me today after 4:00 PM EST!!

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okay, so here is what i have to do to get to new york city:

drive to kansas city

fly from kansas city to denver (to pick up my dad who is apparently afraid to fly alone *grin*)

hopefully (we’re going to be on standby and the plane is almost full to capacity, grr) fly from denver to philadelphia.

take the pennsylvania transit from the philadelphia airport to trenton, new jersey.

take the new jersey transit from trenton to edison, new jersey.

where my uncle will pick us up and take us to berkley heights, new jersey.

then on to new york city using the new jersey transit again.

i am tired already.

if we cannot get out of denver, my weekend will still be okay because i will get to stay in colorado for the weekend and see family, which is a good thing.

wish me luck.

is it ironic that my current music selection is danse macabre?

this makes me miss blogger, where i could audioblog and keep you up to date on the mission.

but, until i can access a computer again, this is khat saying “over and out”

“this can’t be the end” by explodingdog.com

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson
1937-2005

alisha entrusted me with coloring her hair…it looked kind of scary.

but it turned out okay in the end.

i am not quitting my day job, though.

the truth comes out. the divine miss k is the true artist in the family.

i am seeing these in my dreams right now. i cannot believe that i am heading there in a few days.

i am frantically trying to get all my homework and odds and ends finished up prior to the trip. the tickets are still a bit up in the air, but it will hopefully all work out in the end. plus, we get to take amtrak from philadelphia to new york and i love amtrak!

i have also made arrangements with t.s. mcclellan to purchase one of his works. he is my new favorite artist and i urge you to go and see (and invest in!) his work.

i will show you a picture of the piece once it is safely in my happy little hands.

8am test in the morning. really looking forward to that. really.

went out for my nightly walk/run and am having serious doubts about how safe it is for the following reason.

recently the coyotes have been coming into town, sometimes right next to the house (they get into little howling/tearing some poor animal apart arias which seem to be right outside the back door).

in any case, i came back from my bit of exercise and then took the car down to the next town to hit the market for a bit of dinner and on my way back home i saw a pack of them running across the road, only a few yards down from my house and on the road i usually walk at night. this, coupled with the fact that i am scared of the dark makes me a bit nervous about wandering about with my headphones on, oblivious to the possible dangers of living “in the boondocks”.

oh, and i saw the ring 2 preview last night and could not go to sleep until about three this morning.

with the light on.

huddled close to kaya.

underneath the safety of five blankets.

with a fort made out of pillows.

thus, really great thing about living alone: i can eat fried cheese and sriracha hot chili sauce for supper and no one looks at me as if i am crazy and should be beaten soundly by a cordon bleu chef.

really sucky thing about living alone: no one to keep away the scary things underneath the bed/in the spare room/outside the door/behind the bureau, etc etc etc.

non-random quote of the day:

Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.–Magdalena Abakanowicz

the bachelor brother’s bed & breakfast by bill richardson (book on cd) as well as reading the sociopath next door by martha stout, ph.d.

an odd combination. one intended to not only entertain but enlighten.

okay. fine.

they are both ways i get to run away from the reality of textbooks.

i use them sparingly. like when i start to feel that my microeconomics book would look much better in flames on my trash pile out back. that is when i break out the soothing non-school-related reading and calm myself until textbooks can be borne again.

i have stephen king’s dark tower books (5 & 6) lined up in case i need backup.

i love our public library.

if being emotionally involved with someone is truly worth it.

if we all live in our own little bubble and just kind of bounce off each other, then we avoid getting hurt entirely. is that worth it? sometimes i think it is, because rather than wallow in self-doubt and a constant state of questioning one’s own worth to another, we can just agree that we are amazing and if someone else does not agree then pfft to them, no skin off our nose.

run on sentences are fun.

randomish quote of the day:

If I love you, what business is it of yours? ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

also, please try out skype (free internet telephony) because it is awesome! my id is tofallfromgrace if you want to try it out and need a guinea pig. it has better quality audio than my cell phone…not hard to do, but you get the picture.

but a reality. friday i will be winging my way to denver to pick up my dad and then jetting up to new york city to see the gates, moma and countless other nyc attractions.

this is due to the very cool fact that my aunt is an airline attendant and my uncle lives in new jersey. the connections were made, the arrangements confirmed and the gates will be mine to drool over in less than a week.

i am so excited i am about to burst!

*happy dance, happy dance*