Sun 7 Feb 2010

Weird headstones

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Today my mom and sister are coming to visit! I’m pretty excited. I wish it were warm enough to go graveyarding, though. My sister Siarna, mom, and I especially like to go to 18th and 19th century cemeteries (there are many in Connecticut) and check out the bizarre things people carved into the headstones back then, haha. Examples:


Chauncey L. Root, 1845
“His death was occasioned by falling from a factory in Ware, Mass. of which he was Master Builder”
Gilead Cemetery, Gilead/Hebron CT

…that sucks. heh


“Captain Abijah Rowlee, who left his native land for the defense of his country and died at Shormm si Vermont (?) Sept. 18 1776 Aged 76 Years”

“By foreign hands his dying eyes were closed.
By foreign hands his decent limbs composed.
By foreign hands his humble grave adorned.
By strangers honored and by strangers mourned.”

1810
Gilead Cemetery, Gilead/Hebron CT

So yeah, these are pretty cool :) I don’t have any pictures from the oldest cemetery we went to… it was a cemetery in Lebanon CT and some of the graves were from the 1600s.

Oh, here’s a couple from Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland:


This one is from 1660, probably one of the oldest we’ve seen.


This one is just kinda cool:
“Her death was not only peaceful,
BUT TRIUMPHANT!!!”
Yes, I would like that on my headstone please.

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Sun 7 Feb 2010

Tweets of the Week (2010-02-07)

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  • yay! @KidCuda helped me finish Halo 1! I feel so accomplished :P #
  • owwieeee my ears are dying from the cold!!!! #
  • The Black Crowes – "Hard to Handle" #musicmonday #
  • CONGRATS to @HiOhMegan on getting @theCSPH (Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health) approved! http://tr.im/Muh9 #
  • loving my Native American Histories class @AmherstCollege! #
  • .@RadioParadise turns ten today!! Happy Birthday to the best online radio station on the planet!! #
  • ohh noooo, #chrome, don't start doing this laggy thing to me again!!!! #
  • I kinda wish they'd let me make my #thesis more than 100 pages! Seriously, everyone else gets 120+!! #
  • I work with some ridiculously awesome people!! I'll be pretty sad to leave them in May… #
  • 'Cunt' by Inga Muscio has got to be the most empowering book I've ever read #
  • haha: ThingsThatAreDoingIt.com http://tr.im/MT85 #
  • thanks, Valentine Hall dishroom, for making my pants super sticky and gross after I JUST washed them!! #
  • goal for today: finish Chapter 3, Section 1 of #thesis, then get a head start on Section 2 #
  • finally downloading AIC's 'Black Gives Way to Blue'! Pretty excited to hear their new stuff :) #
  • eleven pages in (out of 30 or so)! Might have to scrap most of Section 1 though. Just working on Section 2 for now. #thesis #
  • Alice in Chains… still got it!!! Really wish I had the money to go see them at Mohegan next month :P #
  • no snow here for once! but it's cold, so I'm staying inside with tea and working on my #thesis anyway :) #
  • it sucks not being able to see @KidCuda this week :( but at least now I will have some $$$$ for his birthday next month ;) #

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Sun 31 Jan 2010

Tweets of the Week (2010-01-31)

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  • finished draft 1 of Chapter 2, just need to do some editing and then hand it over to the advisor by tomorrow! #thesis #
  • hahahaha RT @godlessgirl #Mydickissobig clowns climb out of it when I orgasm #
  • it's my first day of my last semester of college!!! #
  • Sixteen Horsepower – "Black Soul Choir" #musicmonday #
  • submitted Chapter 2, Draft 1 of #thesis today :) #
  • did you know that #pearljam was almost named Reenk Roink!?! My life would be so different had that been the case. #
  • starting my last 2 classes of college today! Native American Histories and Human Rights Activism #
  • via @feministe Teen pregnancy & abortion up for the first time in a decade. Thanks, ab-only education! – http://viv.id.au/blog/?p=17387 #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — ROBOTS by Dan Mangan official music video directed by Mike Lewis http://youtu.be/aRcXULN6mp4?a #
  • NO, #gmail theme background, there is NOT A THUNDERSTORM here!!!! #
  • submitted some @Dan__Black to the @radioparadise listener review station, hopefully he will be on rotation there very soon!! ;) #
  • my ex-roomie is the best :) this has been a fun birthday so far. Too bad I have to do homework now! #
  • guhhh #
  • why do I keep getting this intense craving for Taco Bell?? #
  • Loving this part of my #thesis! Doing some research on masturbation, then I can probably start writing. #
  • I favorited a YouTube video — Samwell – "Protect Respect" http://youtu.be/uiIHQBlPKvE?a #
  • very excited and hungry for Indian food with my mom tonight! #
  • About to play some Halo with @KidCuda! #

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Tue 26 Jan 2010

Here we go again

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Well, it’s back to the fun stuff: work, class, class, work! Actually, my schedule isn’t so brutal this semester, and I think I’ll even be able to find some (much-needed) time to squeeze in at the gym! I attended my only two classes today: Native American Histories, and Human Rights Activism. There are a LOT of people in each class, way more than I am used to. I have taken many classes with in my major, and those classes tend to be pretty small, like between 5 and 15 people. But both of my classes today probably had at least 50 people in attendance. I’m sure it will cut down after shopping period, though.

Both of my classes seem really interesting and not incredibly work-intensive. In fact, I’m only going to have 4 real papers to write this semester. What a relief–now I can focus more time on my thesis! I think I’ve made good choices this semester. These classes seem like ones I can learn a lot from without totally busting my ass and being stressed all the time. The thesis and my two jobs are stressful enough.

I’m thinking of putting in more hours at my jobs, too. I work 6 hours per week at the library already, and I’ll probably work at least 10 hours in the dining hall. But I’d like to up my dining hall hours to 12-15, so I can make some more money. I need new tires for my car (my dad bought the first pair, and I said I’d get the second) and I need books for this semester… and I have NO money, at all. Heh. And I don’t really like to ask my parents for money. Sometimes they offer (like with the tires) but I take care of all my bills, expenses, etc. on my own.

My old roommate, Laura, is back from study abroad in Niger this semester, and I’ve been hanging out with a bunch of my other friends, so that’s pretty cool. We had a very fun Transfer Student Alliance dinner on Sunday night, and tomorrow night a bunch of us are going to go out for my birthday! Hopefully, heh.

So I think the semester is looking good so far… but we’ll see how I feel by April :P

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Sun 24 Jan 2010

Tweets of the Week (2010-01-24)

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  • possibly going graveyarding today at a very cool, old cemetery on Lake Pocotopaug in East Hampton, CT #
  • too much rain for graveyarding :( Time to stay in, get comfy with some tea, and work on my #thesis #
  • 'The Lovely Bones' was great, by the way! Makes me want to read the book again… #
  • #thingsyouneversee – #pearljam's Spectrum bootlegs!!!! (Still waiting, still whining :P ) #
  • kiss me like the final meal, kiss me like we die tonight #elbow #musicmonday #
  • crazy crazy snow today!! #
  • DAMN I wish I could go to Coachella… http://tr.im/KUfg #
  • ah yes, this is starting to sound REALLY like a true feminist paper now. #thesis #amwriting #
  • one more section left to write for Chapter 2, Draft 1 of #thesis! #
  • going out for an early birthday celebration!! #
  • http://onion.com/2doCMQ via @TheOnion – Horribly Awkward First Sexual Encounter 'Worth The Wait' For Christian Newlyweds #
  • excited to see all the @AmherstCollege transfers back for the semester! Looking forward to seeing my old roomie again finally :) #
  • you know that I could be in love with almost everyone… I think that people are the greatest fun #nowplaying #
  • OMG there's only 120 more days until I get to start playing World of Warcraft again!!!! #
  • time to finish up this chapter! #thesis #amwriting #
  • I wish I could get my printer to work. :( #
  • ohh nooooo my sisters are subjecting me to Jersey Shore… I think I will go downstairs and watch the history channel now :( #
  • spin me round, roll me over, fuckin circus… #pearljam #

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Mon 18 Jan 2010

Pride and love

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Andrew said the nicest thing ever to me today :)

I sent him an updated version of my resume, all fancified and whatnot, and he said that reading it reminded him of all the things that I’ve accomplished, and it made him proud of me and gave him a rush of good and proud feelings for me!

I thought it was really sweet… but then again, most of what he says is really nice and sweet! :)

We celebrated our three-year anniversary this week. Last weekend he took me to see Avatar 3D (it was very good!!!) and then this weekend we cooked dinner together. We made homemade mozarella sticks, honey-mustard glazed rotisserie chicken, oven-baked brown rice, and lemon pepper green beans. My plan WAS to make Nutella chocolate chip cookies, but I ended up eating the Nutella on a bunch of pancakes (YUM), and then we both ate a pint of Ben and Jerry’s, so after that I was on a chocolate overload and didn’t even want to think about cookies. But (I thought) dinner was delicious, and I had a lot of fun cooking with him. Then today he came over again and we played Halo :) Someday I will work my way through all those damn games… I swear… if only to make him happy, considering Halo was his first love and all.

Now I am back at school and missing his cute face :) But I have to work on my thesis anyway, and he is just a distraction :P

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