Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Day 23 - Epic Adventure
Today was the perfect day to end my small little summer with. Jenn and I decided to ride our bikes to the art market. We left around noon, and got there over an hour later. It was beautiful weather, and it was amazing to just ride and listen to music and go through Riverside. The art market was still disappointing, with way more vendors and not very much art. Jenn’s aunt has a stall there selling wheat grass. I didn’t know, but it has a lot of amazing benefits aside from health benefits. We walked around for a while and I got a muffin, and then it started to rain. We decided to just wait it out, but it kept getting worse. I kept checking my phone to find a lull in the rain, but there was nothing, so we went ahead and rode our bikes to Al’s to wait it out. Although in the short ride from the Art Market to Al’s we were completely soaked. At first both of us were completely miserable, but we realized that it was actually a lot of fun riding in he rain. So we kept going and went to Kickback’s. I went inside and just stood in the door until a waiter came over, all worried to see this soaking wet girl in the doorway, an he brought us inside and gave us towel and pretended like it was completely alright for us to be inside, all the whole looking very concerned. We ate there, and got our bikes to ride back to my house. Although in the short time that we were inside Kickback’s, the temperature dropped and it was really windy. We rode only about 2 blocks to Walgreens, and we about froze. So at Walgreen’s we bought flannel PJ pants and huge tee shirts. We changed in the bathroom and looked hilarious trying to scurry out of the bathroom and back to our bikes without being seen. Although that failed, since we saw the whole world. The owner of Violet was in there, which made me immediately ashamed of my purchases. Then once we got past Avondale, Thomas Taylor stopped and talked to us. We were wearing terrible PJs, soaking wet, with make up running down our faces. Once we got back to my house we changed and got under some blanket on the couch with some tea, and Jenn got a tweet from Preston, who also saw us apparently. So that’s just great. It was an epic adventure.
Tonight I hung out with Evan. Went to his house and watched this really surreal anime movie called Mind Game. The plot was interesting and it had a bunch of montages that showed how all of the character’s lives intertwined. It was a weird movie, but very good.
Tomorrow I leave for Miami. Boo. Although today was a good last full day at home.
Tonight I hung out with Evan. Went to his house and watched this really surreal anime movie called Mind Game. The plot was interesting and it had a bunch of montages that showed how all of the character’s lives intertwined. It was a weird movie, but very good.
Tomorrow I leave for Miami. Boo. Although today was a good last full day at home.
Day 22 - Shopping, Charlie Bartlett
My mom and I finished shopping for work clothes today. Well, we tried to. We went to the town center and braved the rain and got a few more things. I just have no shoes. I have plenty of sandals, just no flats or anything. But I cant wear flats because my feet are so messed up. So I need to figure out all of that. I went to Express today, and I usually just ignore that the store even exists. But today we went in just to look, and we had possibly the most annoying sales girl ever. I kept telling her I was looking for clothes for a job in a business setting, and she kept pulling out the sluttiest clothes. And her voice… oh my god it hurt to listen to her. Granted, she was very sweet, but it was really annoying.
I went by the gallery today and picked up my very first commission check. $75. Whoo. Not very much, but it is still exciting to be paid for something I love to do. I worked on packing and everything tonight, since I leave on Sunday afternoon. I already have a flight home for next weekend. Thank god. I am excited to start work, but I am not ready to leave Jacksonville. I feel like my summer will be over.
Tonight Rob and I took part in National Doughnut day by going to Krispy Kreme, as always. We weather tonight was amazing. We drove with the windows down and good music playing. The moon was reflecting perfectly on the river. We sat on Robs back porch, listened to music, wrote in The Book and chucked it back and forth. I began the ngiht with it, and somehow I ended the night with it till in my possession. Not sure how the happened. We came back to my house and watched Charlie Bartlett, and I am still watching it. He has work super in the morning and bailed on me for the rest of it and High School throwback time with some Guitar Hero.
Tomorrow is going to be jam packed with packing and riding bikes to the art market and what not. Last full day at home.
(407): in the event that i am dead, my body is laying in the intersection of ... the pearl in springfield. it was my friend's 21st but i think i'm dead. wearing a black top. like i said, probably dead.
I went by the gallery today and picked up my very first commission check. $75. Whoo. Not very much, but it is still exciting to be paid for something I love to do. I worked on packing and everything tonight, since I leave on Sunday afternoon. I already have a flight home for next weekend. Thank god. I am excited to start work, but I am not ready to leave Jacksonville. I feel like my summer will be over.
Tonight Rob and I took part in National Doughnut day by going to Krispy Kreme, as always. We weather tonight was amazing. We drove with the windows down and good music playing. The moon was reflecting perfectly on the river. We sat on Robs back porch, listened to music, wrote in The Book and chucked it back and forth. I began the ngiht with it, and somehow I ended the night with it till in my possession. Not sure how the happened. We came back to my house and watched Charlie Bartlett, and I am still watching it. He has work super in the morning and bailed on me for the rest of it and High School throwback time with some Guitar Hero.
Tomorrow is going to be jam packed with packing and riding bikes to the art market and what not. Last full day at home.
(407): in the event that i am dead, my body is laying in the intersection of ... the pearl in springfield. it was my friend's 21st but i think i'm dead. wearing a black top. like i said, probably dead.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Day 21 - School Four, Evan, Delicious Panera Sandwich
Today was a very good day. I woke up early and just hung around my house for a little while. I called Jenn to see if she wanted to get lunch but of course I forgot she was at work. I grabbed my favorite sandwich ever from Panera and went to the UPS store to eat there. But it was lunch time so of course it was jam packed, and I ate in my car like a loser. But I just relaxed and enjoyed my sandwich and enjoyed a CD. Hm. Yes. I am a loser.
I picked up Mikey at his house and went to take pictures at School Four, which we have never done before. It was fun, but kind of disappointing. Most of it was fenced off, but there was one little place that I was able to slip into the yard. My digital cameras are both broken, so I was stuck with film and fish eye. I have to get it all developed to see how it turns out. The majority of the time when I use my fish eye lens the film messes up and doesn’t work. I hope some turn out. The city voted last night on he future of Annie Lytle. Apparently there is a good chance that the school will not be standing by the end of the month. I had a good chance to make a difference a few months ago, but of course my inability to finish anything I start got in the way. We will see how all of this pans out.
Tonight I hung out with Evan, a guy I met at that party I went to the other night with Jenn. That was really fun. We went to starbucks and exchanged music, and it was funny to see how similar our iTunes libraries were. We went to a hookah place in Orange Park, and it was nice to have an intelligent conversation with someone, which sadly enough I don’t get to do very often.
Today was a very good day.
I picked up Mikey at his house and went to take pictures at School Four, which we have never done before. It was fun, but kind of disappointing. Most of it was fenced off, but there was one little place that I was able to slip into the yard. My digital cameras are both broken, so I was stuck with film and fish eye. I have to get it all developed to see how it turns out. The majority of the time when I use my fish eye lens the film messes up and doesn’t work. I hope some turn out. The city voted last night on he future of Annie Lytle. Apparently there is a good chance that the school will not be standing by the end of the month. I had a good chance to make a difference a few months ago, but of course my inability to finish anything I start got in the way. We will see how all of this pans out.
Tonight I hung out with Evan, a guy I met at that party I went to the other night with Jenn. That was really fun. We went to starbucks and exchanged music, and it was funny to see how similar our iTunes libraries were. We went to a hookah place in Orange Park, and it was nice to have an intelligent conversation with someone, which sadly enough I don’t get to do very often.
Today was a very good day.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Day 20 - Liam, Art Walk, Casbah
This morning, pretty much right after I woke up, I took Camp and Liam to see UP. I have heard from so many people that it is so amazing, yet sad. I was in tears after the first 10 minutes. It was so sad. But overall, it was an adorable movie. Like other Pixar movies, they had a short movie before hand, and the one this time was so adorable. I would like to have a Kevin of my own.
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When we were leaving the theater, it was raining, and I realized that Liam and Camp are the two slowest people to ever walk the earth. All day long I was saying over and over “Come on guys walk faster!” They never listened. Then I had to get them ready to take them to Rover Rats, and it took Liam about a half our to put on his bathing suit. It was ridiculous. Today was, thank goodness, my last day of babysitting.
Tonight Jenn and I went to Art Walk, which was a huge let down. There really wasn’t very much going on. So we left and went to the Casbah. We ran into Damon, Mark’s friend, and a bunch of his friends there and sat with them. Corbett was there as well, and we had an awkward Tweet War from 3 feet away, which had us cracking up, and the people we were with very confused. Oh well. One of the guys we sat with tonight works for Chacha, which is this company that pretty much just answers questions. You text in your questions and bam, you get an answer. The first thing I asked was “Who is Kate Gorman from Jacksonville, FL?” and they replied with my dad’s home address. It was creepy. Then I decided to be a jerk and asked “What is the hokey pokey really is what it is all about?” And the reply said “Then we live sad, sad, sad lives.” So ChaCha is my new favorite thing.
Tomorrow will be a very good day. I am excited to get out and stay busy throughout the course of the day, since I haven’t done that in a while. I am waking up tomorrow and going to School Four with Mikey to take picture. It may be demolished soon and we want to go. Its funny because we bonded over our common unhealthy love of School Four, yet we have never been together. I am excited about that. Then later I am going swimming with Colton, which will be entertaining with this miserable sunburn I have. I am going to try to run over to the town center at some point to get some work clothes shopping done, but I am not sure if that will work. Then later I am hanging out with Evan, a guy I met at the party last night. So I am thinking that tomorrow will be a good day.
When we were leaving the theater, it was raining, and I realized that Liam and Camp are the two slowest people to ever walk the earth. All day long I was saying over and over “Come on guys walk faster!” They never listened. Then I had to get them ready to take them to Rover Rats, and it took Liam about a half our to put on his bathing suit. It was ridiculous. Today was, thank goodness, my last day of babysitting.
Tonight Jenn and I went to Art Walk, which was a huge let down. There really wasn’t very much going on. So we left and went to the Casbah. We ran into Damon, Mark’s friend, and a bunch of his friends there and sat with them. Corbett was there as well, and we had an awkward Tweet War from 3 feet away, which had us cracking up, and the people we were with very confused. Oh well. One of the guys we sat with tonight works for Chacha, which is this company that pretty much just answers questions. You text in your questions and bam, you get an answer. The first thing I asked was “Who is Kate Gorman from Jacksonville, FL?” and they replied with my dad’s home address. It was creepy. Then I decided to be a jerk and asked “What is the hokey pokey really is what it is all about?” And the reply said “Then we live sad, sad, sad lives.” So ChaCha is my new favorite thing.
Tomorrow will be a very good day. I am excited to get out and stay busy throughout the course of the day, since I haven’t done that in a while. I am waking up tomorrow and going to School Four with Mikey to take picture. It may be demolished soon and we want to go. Its funny because we bonded over our common unhealthy love of School Four, yet we have never been together. I am excited about that. Then later I am going swimming with Colton, which will be entertaining with this miserable sunburn I have. I am going to try to run over to the town center at some point to get some work clothes shopping done, but I am not sure if that will work. Then later I am hanging out with Evan, a guy I met at the party last night. So I am thinking that tomorrow will be a good day.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Day 19 - Babysitting, Bikes, Rooftop Party
Today was another Liam and Kate day. I took Liam and Camp to the pool and let them go off on their own for a bit. I was able to enjoy some time to myself, read some Augusten Burroughs, and drown out the terrible Timiquana music with Ghostland Observatory and With Faith or Flames. Julia was up there and we hung out of a little bit. She is going to be a debutante this summer, so that is exciting. I also encountered some of the rudest girls ever today. That is nothing new for Timiquana, but these girls today were a different breed. One soaked my book my shaking her hair off and when I said something, she just looked at me, laid down, and closed her eyes. Bitch. Liam and Camp had been swimming for a long time, and I kept telling Liam to tell me when they were getting lunch since I was starving, and finally I was just going to go order ahead of them, our number gets called. Turns out Liam completely ignored me and went ahead and ordered his lunch. No surprise. So I just planned on getting my lunch then leaving. I waited for about 30 minutes for my lunch until I decided to just leave. I stopped to see if it was just sitting there, but turns out someone just came in and took it. Jerks. So I had to wait for the woman to make me a whole new order. I hate the people at Timiquana sometimes.
This afternoon was pretty boring, didn’t do much of anything. Jenn and I went on a bike ride this evening, and that was nice. It gave us time to just talk and not have our phones buzzing every 30 seconds. We need to do that more often.
Later we went to Kickbacks for dinner then to a birthday party for one of the guys that she works with. On the way to the party we stopped at Walgreens to get some jellybeans, and there was this woman checking put in front of us with the worst hair I have ever seen. She was leaving and the cashier handed her a bag stuffed with candy and said, “Oh wait. Here’s your candy.” Then handed her some beach toys and said “and your toys.” And Jenn and I thought it was the funniest thing ever. Typing this now, I have no idea why, but at the time, it was hilarious. From there we headed to the party. It was on the roof of the new lofts in 5 Pts and it had an amazing view. I felt mega lame at the party since a good amount of the kids that were there were just graduating high school. I met some cool people, and saw some random people from high school. Eric Branholm and David Meyers were both there. When I first got there I thought I recognized David but decided it probably wasn’t him, but turns out it was. It was funny seeing him and Eric there, and it was nice to catch up. I sound so queer for saying that, but its true. At one point last night I went downstairs to use the restroom, but turns out two of the people from the party were having sex in the only bathroom that was available. David and I both got a good laugh out of that one and listened in for a while. They were there for a while so I had to pee on the roof. Great fun. Tonight was really good. Just hung out, talked, drank. It was nice to do that instead of TSI or the Pearl, where you cant really talk and people are swarming. It was a nice change of pace.
Tomorrow is another day of Liam and Camp. Can’t wait… Oh and I have the most hilarious sunburn from today. One side of my body is a tomato, the other is white as a sheet.
This is my life. I am such a pushover.
This afternoon was pretty boring, didn’t do much of anything. Jenn and I went on a bike ride this evening, and that was nice. It gave us time to just talk and not have our phones buzzing every 30 seconds. We need to do that more often.
Later we went to Kickbacks for dinner then to a birthday party for one of the guys that she works with. On the way to the party we stopped at Walgreens to get some jellybeans, and there was this woman checking put in front of us with the worst hair I have ever seen. She was leaving and the cashier handed her a bag stuffed with candy and said, “Oh wait. Here’s your candy.” Then handed her some beach toys and said “and your toys.” And Jenn and I thought it was the funniest thing ever. Typing this now, I have no idea why, but at the time, it was hilarious. From there we headed to the party. It was on the roof of the new lofts in 5 Pts and it had an amazing view. I felt mega lame at the party since a good amount of the kids that were there were just graduating high school. I met some cool people, and saw some random people from high school. Eric Branholm and David Meyers were both there. When I first got there I thought I recognized David but decided it probably wasn’t him, but turns out it was. It was funny seeing him and Eric there, and it was nice to catch up. I sound so queer for saying that, but its true. At one point last night I went downstairs to use the restroom, but turns out two of the people from the party were having sex in the only bathroom that was available. David and I both got a good laugh out of that one and listened in for a while. They were there for a while so I had to pee on the roof. Great fun. Tonight was really good. Just hung out, talked, drank. It was nice to do that instead of TSI or the Pearl, where you cant really talk and people are swarming. It was a nice change of pace.
Tomorrow is another day of Liam and Camp. Can’t wait… Oh and I have the most hilarious sunburn from today. One side of my body is a tomato, the other is white as a sheet.
This is my life. I am such a pushover.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Day 18 - Liam, Laid back
Liam and I spent the day together. Kind of. Mom had to work so Liam and I hung out, played Uno, and went to the Orthodontist. His front two teeth are both growing completely crooked, so we expected his orthodontia to be super expensive to get it all fixed. The orthodontist said it would only cost $160 total, and that would be for the wire alone. The front brackets will be free, since that is all he needs. Apparently once they get his front teeth straightened out, they wont need to do anymore after that. So I am excited about that.
Jenn and I watched Taken today also. It was so good. Neither of us really like action movies, but this one was amazing. We went to Panera and I got my yummy sandwich and my day was complete. After Jen left I was feeling oddly domestic. I did the dishes and cleaned, drank too much wine then just walked around the house finding little tings to fix up or clean. It was fun, in a really weird way.
Today was obviously just laid back and I didn’t really do much. I am falling asleep now, and it is still early for me. Tomorrow I am babysitting Liam and Camp again and I think I am taking them to the pool. I am getting somewhat of a tan, which is a big deal for me.
Oh and I got my IRS return today. Made my day.
I feel like my first week home was amazing and action packed and now my days and getting more and more laid back. That is a good thing though. I am exhausted.
Jenn and I watched Taken today also. It was so good. Neither of us really like action movies, but this one was amazing. We went to Panera and I got my yummy sandwich and my day was complete. After Jen left I was feeling oddly domestic. I did the dishes and cleaned, drank too much wine then just walked around the house finding little tings to fix up or clean. It was fun, in a really weird way.
Today was obviously just laid back and I didn’t really do much. I am falling asleep now, and it is still early for me. Tomorrow I am babysitting Liam and Camp again and I think I am taking them to the pool. I am getting somewhat of a tan, which is a big deal for me.
Oh and I got my IRS return today. Made my day.
I feel like my first week home was amazing and action packed and now my days and getting more and more laid back. That is a good thing though. I am exhausted.
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