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Meet Alison the Pukin' Pumpkin

2005-10-31T21:44:11Z

Maggie, Katie, Kathryn and I 80's danced under the stars and had our first annual pumpkin carving contest this weekend at the

thumbsucker

2005-10-08T04:15:39Z

Jeremy and I saw a movie tonight, and I learned two important things.

One from the Keanu Reeves.

And one from Jeremy.

1. The trick to life is learning to live without an answer.... I think.

2. If raindrops were shaped differently, they would kill us.

I learned more than that, but those are the two most important things. And Jeremy is happy, and that makes me happy. Goodnight.

a different coast

2005-10-03T16:28:52Z

We went to Wilmington this weekend. We did a lot of this

We also had the good fortune to be visitors at

The square of a triangle is a rectangle.

2005-09-01T22:26:57Z

A new year has begun here in Chapel Hill, but things are different. I am in a house. Laura is in Paris. And I am beginning the process of becoming a North Carolinian. This is the most recent and cutest development in that department. (It's a sea turtle!)

and a pig named elvis

2005-08-05T19:44:35Z

lucky duck and the good egg

2005-08-02T08:09:14Z

newness!

2005-07-02T04:12:01Z

lots of stuff

2005-05-02T18:32:15Z

i will now recount my spontaneous trip to atlanta, georgia in the form of dialogue.

Richard: (over AIM) are you a Mars Volta fan?
Alison: yes!
R: let's go to atlanta tomorrow night and see them, i have an extra ticket!
A: okay!

the next day at 1pm

R: gosh this bus is taking a long time. i hope we can get to my friend's car in the parking lot.
A: here's the bus!

drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive

A: i've never been to cracker barrel before.
R: let's go. it's crazy.
A: this is crazy! it's like a store and a restaurant in one! this food is good, but look how greasy my plate is.
A&R: ewwww

drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive

R: crap we still have 170 miles until Atlanta. i'm going to find cars that are going fast and speed and almost get pulled over by cops and scare the crap out of myself.
A: haha okay.

drive drive drive drive drive drive drive drive

A: we're here!
R: this venue is awesome!
A: yayyyyyy

listening to goooooood fucking music in an awesome venue that used to be some kind of theatre complete with balconies and everything. mars volta is amazing live definitely go and see them if you get a chance.

after the show:

R: this merch is expensive.
A: yeah, let's go.

drive drive drive drive drive drive

at 3am:

R: I need to pull over and sleep somewhere. Let's stop in this hotel parking lot.
A: okay

nap for two hours in the car in a parking lot hehe

R: okay, i feel better, but i need some coffee. let's go to waffle house.
A: i've never been to waffle house

waffle house is the best food you can buy at 5am. i got grits, eggs, and toast. they have a jukebox with a variety of waffle house tunes to choose from. the staff is friendly as you would expect from anywhere in the south. go there please.

drive drive drive drive

we arrived back to campus at 8am. what an adventure! phew!

relax that spot in between your eyebrows

2005-04-22T03:56:17Z

yoga is so good

NCAA national champs 2005

2005-04-08T01:54:37Z

on a run with bloc party

2005-04-06T04:49:42Z

I ventured to Charlotte for Easter weekend since I am so far away from home.

Maggie and I had adventures.

I got to know her crazy family and cute pets, and I discovered high thread count sheets. I saw a good chunk of Charlotte thanks to Maggie's reliable '76 Mercedes deisel aka The Tank.

In our travels, we came across cute coffee shops, great vintage clothes stores, my parents' former home and hangouts, and a good ol' southern cookin' restaurant (of course) called Dish. or Plates. I can't remember. Maggie's gonna work there this summer.

We took the train back to campus. A perfect close to a perfect

well, unc beat duke...

2005-03-07T04:46:06Z

the bell tower just played 'in my mind i'm goin to carolina'..... cute

2005-03-04T17:31:51Z

look at this freakin' masterpiece of modern architecture!

and it's mine!
it will be perfect after the following alterations:
- crappy xmas decorations
+ cute garden and tree-trimming
+ slip n' slide
+ elegant interior decorating
- shoes on telephone wires

comes complete with:
washer/dryer, security system, 3 bedrooms each with its own bath, two outdoor patios, spacious kitchen and living room, big driveway, fenced yard, dishwasher... everything a gal could need. and walking distance to anything and everything exciting in chapel hill/carrboro. yay!

the magster and abster will make perfect roommates. we're gonna have 7th grade dance parties and other themed get-togethers. everyone must make the pilgrimage to mecca at least once next year. you have to!

also, next semester i'm gonna take 2 or 3 math courses! woohoo!

good week, good week.

boys boys boys

2005-02-16T06:54:54Z

Daniel Striped Tiger (my boys) are goin on another summer tour. This time NC will be one of their stops. Greensboro probably. I'll keep you updated. You all should go and meet them and enjoy good music.

more southern by the minute

2005-02-13T18:25:43Z

This is in Asheville. Note the sweet tea, the fried green tomatoes, the grits, and the homey atmosphere.

thank you for not smoking too much

2005-02-13T08:00:21Z

tonight i attended an acoustic show. it was in this place called the skylight exchange by day (when it is a cafe slash bookstore slash record store), and the nightlight by night (when it is a bar slash venue). there are shelves of books to the ceiling on three walls and booths whose benches were all turned to the platform that is used as a stage. interesting people were in attendance as you would expect at a place like that. at one point, a yellow lab waddled over, sniffed maggie's knee, climbed up on the bench beside her, and laid her head down for a nap. i took over as the dog pillow when maggie got up to watch jason anderson's antics. he plays under the name wolf colonel. this is the first i've heard of him. steve white, he's your long lost twin. he's from new hampshire so you should catch a show if you haven't yet, i know you'd like him. he's on tour and i swear everything he said has come out of your mouth at one time or another. another act i enjoyed were the sisters. they had great voices. i enjoyed the songs but i liked the quiet sister the best. her voice was more humble. i dont think i deal with change very well, but tonight cheered me up. we road the p2p back to the dorm with an old friend (as old as a friend can get after only a few months).

missin' the ol' five speed, hair blowin' in the wind

2005-02-08T03:27:41Z

nice hat, girl

silly kitty! trix are for kids!

2005-02-08T02:10:29Z

we have class

2005-01-25T16:04:59Z

multi variable calculus

2005-01-19T23:39:29Z

arcade fire and a midnight drive

2004-12-25T03:22:10Z

i sleep at night surrounded by all of my not-so-important, semi-forgotten possessions.

tv is getting old

2004-12-19T04:01:20Z

well here i am.

great.

i won't list my complaints, although there are more than i can count on both hands. both feet too. anyway, i can just look forward to life post hospital and be grateful that i will feel normal again soon, and i will be able to sit up without kristen or kathleen or whatever the nurse of the hour's name is' help.

can't think of much else to say. oh i have a big tube down my throat which makes it uncomfortable to talk, so thanks for all of your calls. i'll stop ignoring them soon enough.

eleanor the flowahs are gorgeous. me love you long time, too.

more valium in two hours. thank god and merry christmas.

aklr86 @ 2004-11-29T20:54:00

2004-11-30T01:54:56Z

be firm! be strong! be a rock!

2004-11-17T08:47:56Z

well kids, things are looking up. the subject of the last entry is now my ex so to speak, and i have moved into a much more welcoming environment courtesy of kathryn, maggie, and katie as well as others. the walk is a tad bit further but it is very much worth it.

surgery will fix all my crohns-y woes if i am lucky, and i'm lookin forward to all that morphine or whatever they give you nowadays - medical miracles i say. people will pity me, and it will be nice to be home where more than two people are interested in visiting my sick ass. the nurses are way nicer at my bostonian children's hospital, too. i think i'll ask them if i can keep the 10cm of my body that they are removing. if anything just to freak them out. my mom wants them to take out my appendix too, ya know, "while theyre at it." ok sure mom, jeez. hopefully i'll have a killer scar to impress all the ladies.

in other news, thanksgiving is soon, but you all knew that. and i'm thinking of double majoring in communications with a concentration in media studies and production. i don't know that's kinda out of the blue. maybe i'll take a class next semester to make sure i really am interested in it. the only one offered is at 8am eek. suck it up? i think so. econ with maggie probably also. i keep changing my mind about my schedule. stressful, it is.

i will be attending a few unc basketball games in the near future... what??

i miss boston muchly, and living in an apartment on beacon hill with my two favorites is definitely something that i want to happen. it will happen. at some point. if only unc was in boston. but then it wouldnt be unc. it would be like unb or some shit. i dunno. wait and we shall see i suppose.

meteor shower tonight, but it is cloudy. damn clouds made me miss that lunar eclipse a while ago, too. maybe i should just go to the planetarium and see some fake astronomy shit.

hrm i was in a talkative mood wasn't i?

1918

2004-10-30T12:45:26Z

my roommate. her alarm clock has gone off at least 10 times this morning. it's saturday mind you. this started at around 7am. an hour and a half later and she's still not out of bed. she just sits up after it has been going off for about five minutes/when i yell at her to turn it off and presses snooze. then it goes off again 10-20 minutes later. oh there goes number 11. yesterday when she got back from working out (her FAVORITE part of the day she's told me many times) she proceeded to tell me about how excited she was that her friend was sending her the new tim mcgraw cd and how great he is in concert. not to mention she's afraid she's going to catch my genetic disease. oh the irony. hopefully she doesn't find this. i shouldn't worry. she thought thefacebook.com was a physical book. yet another reason why carolina is not exactly living up to my expectations.