This is an entry for Brittany. Hi!

Note: Am considering starting this up again.

Happy anniversary.

Just realized I hadn't posted in about a month.

I have things I have to do, but I like posting.

I'm happy today, I made the Holiday Package for school. It's like a student written show, with student directors and stuff. My friend Alex submitted something and I hope for his sake it gets in because it sounded funny. I used "jawesome" as an adjective to describe myself. I picked out a whole load of cds I want to take some songs from but then I never did it. I called my friend Jess to ask if she was going to the swing dance tonight and she said she was on her way to my house. She lives about 4 houses away.

This one song for the audition for the musical reminds me of Ms. Litman for some untold reason.

What else is going on? I got my first report card. Pretty decent.
A Capella: 100
Gym: 98
Psych: B+ (I forget the number
Eng: A-
Span: A-
AP Gov: C+

They just give letters here. It's odd.

Anyway...
Every Friday here I bring my infamous "Free Hugs" sign to school. This guy Dan (whom I eat lunch with) made a sign today that said "Hugs $5" I got a free one though and I don't think he carried his sign around much.

I think I'll take this time to give briefs about my new friends. I've been people mapping like mad, but thusfar I haven't had many results worth seeing, visually. I've had quite a lot of unintelligible crap that will help me eventually.

( Erin ): First person who talked to me out of class. Has lent me multitudes of manga which I have not been good enough to read. A mix between Ariana, Anna and a holistic healer. I <3 her greatly. She's been very un-pushy in gleaning information on why I'm here. AND SHE GOT ME A BEAUTIFUL TEA KETTLE FOR MY BIRTHDAY!

( Da Boys ): PUPPIES! ZOMG! They make life worth living. Tuffy invades Max's condo sometimes.

( Sarah E ): Lives a few blocks away. Met walking home from Across The Universe which was not exactly her cup of tea. She attends the same church as Margaret from next door (Mormon, LDS) and that is very much a big part of her life. Very kind girl. Left my party before we watched V for Vendetta because it was rated R.


( Racheal ): from Psych class. Really cool to talk to. She cut her hair since. And I'm in my Homecoming dress! I take the bus with her in the morning, when I take the late bus. She's from Tennessee, has family there so she's somewhat familiar with East-ness. More Southern, but she has that hospitable feel to her.


( Kieran ): Racheal's guy. Quite nice. Dressed as a Japanese woman for Halloween and I couldn't tell it was a man at first, or second glance.


( Wei ): Met her in Psych, also has AP Gov with me. Very intelligent. Robotnic (there's a robotics team at this school) and stuff like that. Wore heels the entire dance.

( Chris ): English class. Great teeth. Real sweetheart, gives good hugs.


( Cattie and Alex ): Cattie's in my English class and runs the GSA. Alex is a stringbean, whom I adore. He takes the bus with me occasionally and usually waits for it with me. Doesn't live far away, is a Junior. I went trick-or-treating with him and 15 others. T'was the greatest, most epic trick-or-treat of my life. He's in my Psych class and I have the intention of dressing him up as a woman one day.

( Me, in case you forgot ): Yeah, I met her somewhere. Can't get rid of her.

( Kristen ): Choir. Hugs me sometimes when I cry audibly/run out of the room. It's better not to ask. Great voice, she's been my tutor since I couldn't even round my vowels when I came. Sophomore.

( Jen ) ( and Anna ): Are sisters. They made me beautiful jewelry. I have English with Jen and I just started talking to Anna on the bus one day. Much like Evan Bell, whom I don't have pictures of, but she smells better.

( Jess, with Jen on lap ): Jess lives 4 houses away. And plays tennis. And reads this. She cut her hair and now she's a cute little boy. ^_^

( Dan ): Well. This is Dan. Yet another to my collection. He cut his hair. It's an epidemic recently. But he looks good, which I don't usually say of guys with long hair who cut it. Gives good hugs.

( Anthony ): Is and odd little duck. In my gym class. Eat lunch with him every day. Spiffy.

And there's a boy named Gabe who slightly disrupted my evening-ness with Guy. At least he (Guy) still held my hand. And Guy will not meet my brother. Unless somehow I convice him to come over for Thanksgiving. Which would probably just be awkward. Sometimes I'm afraid he thinks I'm awkward. But then I remember than I'm friends (good friends) with people who are older than him and he's not really that much older than me.


In any case, I'm in need of some good sleep.

Sweet dreams everyone!

-YT

I've been extra ordinarily out of it today. It probably has a lot to do with the ash from the fires down South (yeah, I'm fine) that gets blown up here. I think I'm a sensitive flower to the matter since I've had such issues with my noseal area within the past year.

The brightness in the day was talking to Dan on the phone and him being genuinely happy to talk to me and know I'm doing well. He cut his hair to 2 inches. >_<

Oh, yes. And I also met a boy who owns Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band chucks. He acquired them in San Fran. Need to go shopping with him. Ha. How often do I say that?! Anyway, his mom gave me a ride home because she didn't want me waiting outside in the dark, alone. I love people. Here and everywhere.


-YT

Ummmmmmm. Ummmmmmmm.


So, Michele and Mike bought one of ( these ) in black.

And they said it's mine to take care of. By...keeping it clean and making sure Ryan doesn't screw it up or dent it or make it icky. It's not mine, but I'll be able to use it.


And it's taken an hour to settle, at least that much.

I'm in the market for a name. Thusfar, the best submission has been "Falcon" or "The Falcon". But I don't know how Star-Trekky I want to go.


Sometimes, sitting near good looking people is more distracting than being in the same room as them. It makes it harder to concentrate and think in the proper language. I wrote a little paragraph in Hebrew today.

I'll post pictures from Homecoming soon. There are a bunch here already: http://pics.livejournal.com/sarabe/gallery/0001ty6s

So you can see what Erin looks like. YEY! It's time to go make birthday invites. It's that time of year again!

-Effy (apprearantly, as dubbed by Erin. Short for effervescent. Yes, we know the connection to the Pants)

David was in class tonight. ::headesk::

It was the angriest, least focused class I've ever had. I honestly can't do anything properly if I'm as mad as I was today. I'm so rarely that mad. It makes me cry when I am. RAWR.



Friday will be good. Friday will be amazing. Friday. Live until Friday and it'll be smooth sailing.


<3
YT

THE PEOPLE I WORK FOR DYE THEIR CAT PINK.

I met a fairy today.
She bought me a hat.
She made me start believing again, I think.



I can't wait to meet my new bosses. I'm so happy I've gone freelance and we basically sound like the perfect fit for one another, family to baby-sitter relations. In addition, they are my first clients for the hardware cleaning service on Saturday. I'm making so much money this week. I love it.

I saw Harry Potter at 3 am today.



In 3-D IMAX.



I'm so happy. The score was beautiful. And Luna was awesome. So was Neville.


Some girls in the bathroom liked my outfit. Then I got to watch the sun with Dan. It was great.

Now, I've been a generally busy person recently who, for the most part, hasn't much gone on the computer. Mostly, I've been either doing housework or not succeeding at working for others or being with Dan.

Yesterday, I went to a bunch of places and applied to work. I went to Fill-a-Bagel and they look promising. It was like, 100° out so I kinda died a little. I stopped at Applebees for a glass of water. It was the best glass of water I've ever had in my life. Eric opened the door for me and suggested I go up to the bar. Dave, the bartender gave me a glass of water. Then this old guy sitting next to me told Dave and I this riddle:

"A woman walks into the bar and asks for a cup of water. The bartender reaches under the bar and pulls out a revolver. The woman says 'Thank You' and walks out of the bar."

He made us ask yes or no questions for about 15 minutes solid. It was great. I was stumped so I had him tell me the answer when I left the bar. I'll leave it up to you lovely readers to figure it out!

Then I went to FedEx/Kinkos and printed and finalized my flyer for my computer hardware cleaning service. I wrote out those annoying little tabs that you can pull off. Then we made a few copies. Color copies are 89¢ each. >_< Mum and I went around putting them up. I put one in Jenkintown Business Graphics, one at Acme one at the Jenkintown Library (the librarian really liked the idea), and one at the Abington Library. Mum and I went to the Ringel's for dinner because we haven't eaten dinner in a while (prob since Friday. Mom seems to cook best whenever Dan comes over. Can you blame me for bringing him over all the time?) so we had chicken. Thoug's chicken. Yum.

The best part was that before we went home we decided to try putting up my flyer in Starbucks. Good call!

This morning while I slept, some lady called, in response to the ad! Mom woke me up and I talked to the lady. Her name is Kate. She and her husband have a business in the city which has about 30 employees and about 45 computers! (I advertised at about $3 a keyboard, $2 per mouse) She asked me whether I did other things and I said I do monitors and towers as well. She asked me if I babysat. When I said I did, she said "Oh Em Eff Gee!" I like this woman already. A lot. She was so excited to talk to me and so excited to meet me. It was just an excellent way to start the day.

I'm really excited. I know that most people hate doing mundane things like cleaning mice and keyboards, but it really amuses me greatly and makes me feel good. And now I will have money for it.


Man oh man. I'm glad.


And, providing I find my debit card, I'm going to see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix at 3 am tonight/tomorrow morning with Dan.
Have I mentioned that I like this kid? He's such a beautiful illusion.

::dances off stage left::
-YT

So, I convinced my mother yesterday that we should go see Kansas. It was bloody amazing. I met up with Pinto's friend Rob whom I had met on a couple of occasions previously. The violinist was just ::dropjaw:: They were a lot heavier than I expected them to be. I mean, their main songs aren't particularly heavy or light but they definitely had some heft to a lot of their songs. They did this totally rocked out cover of "Elenor Rigby" which was just amazing. As I said, my mom was there, which was unusual in itself because it's not usually my mom who takes me to concerts. But she totally had a great time. Which was happy. We brought Gayle too, because it was only fair for both of us to have friends.
It was really rainy the whole time so by the end of the first song we were soaked. That was nice because it made my hair a lot better for headbanging. We weren't in a mosh pit or anything, but we were nearly at the gate which separated the common folk from the people who had won seats. Which was lame anyway because half of them left anyway. Rob, his sister Sarah and were stationed next to some pretty hardcore fans which was pretty much awesome. They were all long brown haired stoner types but they were having a great time and they weren't smoking anything besides cigs so it wasn't bad. The one kid knew every word to every song as well as how to play every song on every instrument. I was just glad that Kansas was actually a good band. Their voices weren't as shot as Chicago's had been. And their music was more heavily dependent on their instruments so it was great.

Then there were some fireworks. They didn't get good until the big booms in the finale. Rob, Sarah and I all hung out near the Dunkin Donuts truck and Sarah drank like, 15 little cold coffees. When we finally got through to my mom, she was all the way back near the stage. As we walked back, I found a pair of shoes! They are from Playboy. I think it's hilarious. I took them, I don't care. They seemed to be a bit too small but I don't care, I can always give them away as a present. We picked up some of the junk from mom and Gayle and Sarah Rob and I all walked. The rain got vicious at that point. We've all never been that soaked. I mean, my underwear was sopping. Mom and I drove Gayle home and she gave us some clean, dry clothes. My mom didn't get as wet as me because she had an umbrella. I love umbrellas. I was shivering. I don't know of a time I slept so well when I got home. I love sleeping in Nathan's bed, now that he's not here. I know so many people like bigger things but sleeping in a Queen sized bed isn't as nice for me (alone, at least) as a little single.

I'm really happy because even though I had to wake up early-ish today I have a job. And I'm working for the same person tomorrow. Yey money! Tomorrow should be GREAT! I'm working, then Dan is coming over. Ok, it gets better. Mom, possibly Gayle, Dan, Anna and Anna's family and I are all going down to First Friday. Anna really wants to meet Dan. If you live in the city and read this, I suggest you come to. I love seeing people. And you can meet Dan too. Anna promised to take lots of pictures, which I promise I'll post as soon as I can.
Then we're going to watch Driving Lessons because I'm a fangirl and Rupert Grint is pretty. I have a thing for redheads, sorry.

Ugh. I didn't take my meds this morning. DUMB. I have to take them soon after I get to my job, but in the meantime I have a wicked headache. But that's ok.


^___^ I'm just really happy.

-YT

It's true.




































I want to be a marshmellow.

I'm a little bit mean. It's one of those charming things you never want to know about me.

Anyone wanna see Kansas for free in Jersey with me on the 4th of July?

Thursday was pretty sweet. I went up to New York City via Greyhound. It was a lot easier and less complicated than I thought. It was a pretty nice walk down 42nd St and up 5th Ave. Very shiny objects. I got to the Apple Store and called the guy I was supposed to meet up with. He said "Oh, you didn't get my e-mail? There are thunderstorm warnings so we won't be up there until later tonight, between 6 and 8." Mind you, this is at noon. Then Pete called and I gave him the update. The two of us were still on to meet after he got out of work.
I spent most of the day on 5th Avenue, going into the very very fancy stores. I went into this huge mega-store of super designers. The models are ugly. The high fashion clothing is ugly. I explored 5 floors of it. I especially liked it when I went over to the 60% off racks and the prices of the discounts were four digits long. I liked touching everything. A lot of it was soft. The leather smelled different and not quite as homey as regular leather. Then I got overwhelmed and left.
I liked the Louis Vitton store. They had a book of this guy's artwork on the table and I started talking to the sales lady about it. His art consists of visual representations of music. Like, the shape of an E chord. Or a C# chord. I found it fascinating.
Then I looked around for a shirt I could afford. I tried on a bunch of stuff at Ann Taylor. It was mostly stuff I could afford. I liked that. Some of them fit but didn't look as great as they could. The most disappointing thing was this one red blouse. It was just plain red but if you've met me, you can attest that I have a million skirts but no blouses. It was a petite cut so it stopped at the right place, which is unusual and lovely. It was a size 12 and the body fit perfectly, which is even more unusual and lovely. But it gapped. Which was sad. They didn't have a 14. But fitting into a size 12 shirt and dress made me feel really happy because I was wearing a size 16 skirt (with a belt). It seems the subconscious way of losing weight works best for me. I should keep it up.
I wound up buying a very shiny, pretty shirt from Dress Barn. I felt very skinny there because all of the sizes were too big. The shirt I got had lots and lots of sparkles on it. They got all over my Sega bag.

Then I walked about 10 blocks north because I thought Pete said "58th St." on the phone. In fact, he said "38th St." He got out of work and we met at 46th. I walk faster? He's 6'4" and I'm 5'5". How does that work, it's usually the reverse. But maybe that's only people like Brendan Sullivan. Pete has rather large feet. Size 15. In any event, we then met up with Hana (pronounced Hannah, which I couldn't get my head wrapped around) and went to dinner. We went to Pete's favorite restaurant in Chinatown. It was magnificent. My entrée only cost $4.25. The whole dinner for three of us (with green tea ice cream each) was just under $24. That's a happy happy thing.  Dan called and left me a message, which is weird. I called him back and he told me it was Jim's 21st on Friday so he couldn't make the party. Actually, that turned out ok too. He wanted to know about my day. It was so cute. He sounded sad.

Hana, Pete and I all went back to the Apple Store in hopes of finding Shawn King, the guy who I was supposed to meet in the first place. It was rainy. People had started camping out outside the Apple Store for the iPhone. We never did find Mr. King so we left. Hana went home and Pete and I went back to Pete's house. He lives in a very cute little town right outside the city, not a great deal different than Jenkintown. We watched the tail end of Pirates 2 and tried not to fall asleep. As we got ready for bed, the younger brother, Jon, came home. He's going into Junior year in High School. The house was air conditioned. ::angelsong::

Now, Pete doesn't believe that I did so little all day, but I really did. I went to CVS when I woke up and then walked around Larchmont, which is the town. Then I came back and soon after Jon and Pete's mom came back. At some point, Jon drove his mom and I to the cable place for a replacement modem because theirs got blown during the storm on Wed. At the cable place, Jon informed me that he has also made a "FREE HUGS" sign. Then we went back to the house. Jon and I talked for a good long time and he played Guitar Hero. I started to read so I went and read and Jon went on the computer. I tried raspberry jam for lunch and it was amazing. Then I just read Snow Crash because it's my favorite book and I was determined to have it done before I lent it to Pete on bookswap. I got all but about 50 pages. Considering it took me a year to read it the first time, a week and two days with >50 pages left is not bad at all. Now I'm going to read Diamond Age for real. The book Pete lent me is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It looks good, I started it this morning.

Pete came back from work and we went and picked up his car from the shop. We hit the road at 6. We went to Hana's for a bit to pick up The Perks of Being a Wallflower. We got to my house by 9. It was pretty good timing. Mom made us hamburgers and noodles, which were very very yummy after the drive. I gave Pete a piece of mekupelet. And we made him some Vietnamese coffee. Then he left because he had to go to Baltimore and it was already past 10:30. Mom and I sat outside and talked about how nice a guy he is. She really likes him. I like him too, he is a wonderful person. And he's going to read this. Hehehe.
I was pleasantly surprised when my mom said I can still have Dan over tomorrow even though she's not going to be here at all. I think she really likes Dan too. In case you didn't know, Dan and Claud are the same person. I just don't feel like calling him Claud in this entry. She's also letting me hang out with him on the Fourth of July even though she won't be here. Plans for that day have yet to be made.

I'd really like a job. For real.

For now, I'm going to go finish my chores so I can...well, I'll probably just read but there is always the chance that someone will hang out with me.

-YT

My mom woke me up this morning so I could go down to CVS and get my meds. I was very mad. She asked me how she looked. I told her she looked like a tea cozy.


That's all.

For those of you keeping track at home who I haven't told yet, I have some very very exciting news indeed.

This upcoming Thursday, I will be traveling to New York City to the 5th Ave Apple Store for the release of the iPhone. No, I'm not going to buy one because I have $0 but I'm going to meet up with a guy who's being sort of the "special corrospondant"/on scene reporter for the NEW YORK TIMES for the event.

It's something that I've been too excited to write about, so far.

I'm trying to work it out so that I can be picked up in the city and driven all the way home the next day. That's yet to be determined, but I hope it can work out like that. ::smiles::

In other news, Claud (who was a bit shell-shocked that my friends/family actually call him Claud) came over last night for dinner. We watched Pi which he seemed to quite enjoy.

It's so pretty outside today and I have all these dumb chores to do. Someone please call me so my last day of having a SEPTA pass is not wasted?

I don't feel like writing anymore, these days. I want to go outside and read.

-YT

::sigh::

I only got a 1710 on the SATs. I need to take a course so I don't suck next time.

I'm busy.

Yesterday I went over Brian's. What else did I do yesterday? I don't remember.

Mum decided that Nathan and I should do a bunch of stuff today. I cleaned the millions of dishes in the sink. Also ran the dishwasher. Nathan "swept" a bit. I gave up on the containers that smelled like rotten watermelon.
We took out the front window and took the icky couch from the middle room out onto the front lawn, where we proceeded to start hacking it up with a dull ax. The good that's come of this is that I found several things I'd lost. I found my "Pi is my best friend" shirt as well as my copy of Snow Crash which I'd sorely missed. Also some cute lip gloss. I look like I rolled in grease. I also fell over backwards from the couch/carpet when we tried to put the window back in. I think I can give my quote of the day, which was myself saying "Why am I all covered in lubricant?!"

In case I don't get up the nerve or have the time to tell you Mom, I have a boyfriend. HOLY SHIT A CARDINAL JUST FLEW RIGHT NEXT TO THE WINDOW. Um, anyway, tis Claud. Figured you'll be cool with it. Hope you will, anyway.

So happy right now. Gonna go down to Jersey to see Stefffy. I'm such a busy bee.

Oh yeah. I remember what I did yesterday! I went (without reason) to the Chestnut Hill Hospital. I'm not 18 so they wouldn't let me be seen by the doctor. Dumb. Then I walked over the Metz's. Talked with everyone. Took a nap. It was very good. Took too many trains.

-YT

Yesterday was just about as perfect as they come. It started off with me insisting on wearing that little black dress my aunt, Michele, had bought for me (for prom) in Cali. In case you don't know, my house is very old and very strange. Probably the coolest feature of my house is the closet you see when you come in is, in fact, the same closet on the other side where we hang dresses and suits and stuff. You can walk right through, if you want (and you're small enough). I thought my dress was on the side with the steps. That door didn't open. After about 10 minutes of trying, I went to the other side and just walked through. I tried the door from the other side. It still failed to open. I had to call up to my mom "Moooooooom? Can you please come downstairs? I've got myself stuck in the closet."
She got me out.
My dress was on the other side of the closet.

School was nifty. Short, sweet, to the point. We cleaned up the lab in record time, reorganizing the entire front closet. We were done twenty minutes before school ended so we didn't get lunch. I saw Kyle P and gave him a hug good-bye. He picked me up. With one arm. I don't know why so many people like picking me up off the ground. I made Anna and Henry vamoose from school pretty quickly because I didn't want to miss my train. I looked at the clock after I dropped them at Borders and it was only 12:11. My train was at 12:35. >_< Oh well. It was ok.

SamPinto had called, asking where I'd went-she wanted to hug me. I told her I'd see her over the summer. I also managed to fall down while sitting. I was asleep with my foot on the little bit on the side of the train and my foot fell and scared the crap out of me.

Claud picked me up at the station. We went to lunch because neither of us had eaten. Rotten boy wouldn't let me pay for my freaking cheesesteak. We went to a cute little record store and looked around for a while. More because it was air conditioned than it was actually worth being in. Then we went into a little thrift shop that I'd gotten a mini-skirt and a dress in (as well as out kitchen table and chairs, one of which I'm sitting on now) with Marty. Claud was telling me he got a couch there. When we went back to his house, I saw said couch. It's one of those hideous things your grandmother throws out on her own volition because she can't stand it anymore. He'd kept the price tag, it had been $15. Hahahahahahahaha.
We watched Amélie. Then we pretty much just hung out the rest of the day.

Got home right before the storm last night.

I was so happy. Still am. Just the plain "Damn, this is nice" kind of happy.

Now I have a doctor's appointment, so I gotta dash. Because that's English....?

-YT

Mrs. Mi-LAR!!!" Oh, she's such a cutie. I talked to Boaz tonight. It's funny how you can go to school with someone for 2 years and never have a conversation. It's also awkward when everyone is asking how I am, how my year has been, how I like school and I have to lie about everything. The only person I was honest with was Emily. Which is odd. Then again, she was the only one who asked about my family, by family member. I couldn't lie flat out when she was so specific.
Mr. Brangel is leaving the school so that he can be a stay at home (or close to home) dad. His oldest is 5. Angela left (I think?) and her oldest is 12. Almost a teenager. What the hell? Her younger one is now 6. RaChel (since I can't chhhh properly online) is in the hospital. Mrs. Freidman made an announcement during graduation that she fell when she was dancing at a party in her room and they think she broke a few ribs. I really want to know what hospital she is in and make her a card. I saw Rabbi Shawn and Rabbi Galfand. I saw Mrs. Miller. Ari reminded me of how Gabe used to go "Mrs. mi-LAR!!!" Haha. Gabe's a good kid. He really is.

I'm so excited for this weekend. I might officially be someone's girlfriend by the end of it. ^__^

I also need to stop planning out every minute of my life. It's getting to be disturbing.

I get to be Tech Leader for 3 days.

Speaking of Tech, I may get a job for the summer (or at least part of it) because the Perelman schools are looking for a Mac Tech. I thought it required things I didn't know about but it's just stuff like imaging and workgroup manager. Which is what we do anyway. That would be good.

Oh yeah. I <3 my brother. He wore a beige striped with brown shirt, brown pants, white belt and a sparkly green paisley tie. He rocks my socks off.

-YT