it was a rough and tumble day at sea today as class and crew boarded a small research ship to go a mile out into the ocean to look at fishes and things. it was good and fun until we reached the actual ocean, which was when the rain and the extreme lurching of the boat began. that boat was a-rockin, let me tell you. up and down and it felt like it was gonna tip sideways right into the sea. scary stuff. lots of people were queasy, whereas i had taken some dramamine and was clinging to a pole while i was getting pelted by cold rain. our class did a very good job at pissing off the tour guides, though.
ocean lady: what's a sinus? can someone tell me what a sinus is?
(silence)
ol: anyone?
kt bent: it's the thing that gives you a sniffle!
yeah. after the boat we went to the ocean institute to hack stuff open and poke at insides. it was better than i expected. our group was a dozen girls and one boy. now, our task was to cut open a mackeral. not even five minutes after the dead fish was placed in front of us, five of us girls took to the thing and propmtly cut it open and immediately started prodding and touching every bit of bloody organ there was. (two of these girls were homecoming princesses, i should mention) the more time went by the more guts and organs were hacked out and popped and mutilated. meanwhile, the one guy in our group is a cautious distance from the rest of us, saying, "you guys are SO SICK" and "i'm going to school with a bunch of serial killers, you guys are really fucked up" and "AWWW, GOD, DON'T DO TH-- AWWWWWWWWW!!" it was really nice, in a way. i have pictures but bluetooth isn't working just yet. later you will see FISH CARNAGE.
i'm doing current events and having much success with the redesigning of my website. my scanner is fine, turns out. i was the one who had a broken brain synapse and dad fixed the whole thing back to working order. i feel like my room is bobbing up and down...
halloween tomorrow. should be interesting, no doubt. andrea convinced me to be a cop so this is what i do. she is a fireman. i borrow her cop outfit from last year because i have no money, although when complete my outfit fits more of a "s&m nazi girlscout officer" description. not bad, eh? i definitely might be getting some looks tomorrow
my fingers feel like they're gonne bleed from guitaring... although i do know three chords now...
Thursday, October 30, 2003
it was a rough and tumble day at sea today as class and crew boarded a small research ship to go a mile out into the ocean to look at fishes and things. it was good and fun until we reached the actual ocean, which was when the rain and the extreme lurching of the boat began. that boat was a-rockin, let me tell you. up and down and it felt like it was gonna tip sideways right into the sea. scary stuff. lots of people were queasy, whereas i had taken some dramamine and was clinging to a pole while i was getting pelted by cold rain. our class did a very good job at pissing off the tour guides, though.
ocean lady: what's a sinus? can someone tell me what a sinus is?
(silence)
ol: anyone?
kt bent: it's the thing that gives you a sniffle!
yeah. after the boat we went to the ocean institute to hack stuff open and poke at insides. it was better than i expected. our group was a dozen girls and one boy. now, our task was to cut open a mackeral. not even five minutes after the dead fish was placed in front of us, five of us girls took to the thing and propmtly cut it open and immediately started prodding and touching every bit of bloody organ there was. (two of these girls were homecoming princesses, i should mention) the more time went by the more guts and organs were hacked out and popped and mutilated. meanwhile, the one guy in our group is a cautious distance from the rest of us, saying, "you guys are SO SICK" and "i'm going to school with a bunch of serial killers, you guys are really fucked up" and "AWWW, GOD, DON'T DO TH-- AWWWWWWWWW!!" it was really nice, in a way. i have pictures but bluetooth isn't working just yet. later you will see FISH CARNAGE.
i'm doing current events and having much success with the redesigning of my website. my scanner is fine, turns out. i was the one who had a broken brain synapse and dad fixed the whole thing back to working order. i feel like my room is bobbing up and down...
halloween tomorrow. should be interesting, no doubt. andrea convinced me to be a cop so this is what i do. she is a fireman. i borrow her cop outfit from last year because i have no money, although when complete my outfit fits more of a "s&m nazi girlscout officer" description. not bad, eh? i definitely might be getting some looks tomorrow
my fingers feel like they're gonne bleed from guitaring... although i do know three chords now...
ocean lady: what's a sinus? can someone tell me what a sinus is?
(silence)
ol: anyone?
kt bent: it's the thing that gives you a sniffle!
yeah. after the boat we went to the ocean institute to hack stuff open and poke at insides. it was better than i expected. our group was a dozen girls and one boy. now, our task was to cut open a mackeral. not even five minutes after the dead fish was placed in front of us, five of us girls took to the thing and propmtly cut it open and immediately started prodding and touching every bit of bloody organ there was. (two of these girls were homecoming princesses, i should mention) the more time went by the more guts and organs were hacked out and popped and mutilated. meanwhile, the one guy in our group is a cautious distance from the rest of us, saying, "you guys are SO SICK" and "i'm going to school with a bunch of serial killers, you guys are really fucked up" and "AWWW, GOD, DON'T DO TH-- AWWWWWWWWW!!" it was really nice, in a way. i have pictures but bluetooth isn't working just yet. later you will see FISH CARNAGE.
i'm doing current events and having much success with the redesigning of my website. my scanner is fine, turns out. i was the one who had a broken brain synapse and dad fixed the whole thing back to working order. i feel like my room is bobbing up and down...
halloween tomorrow. should be interesting, no doubt. andrea convinced me to be a cop so this is what i do. she is a fireman. i borrow her cop outfit from last year because i have no money, although when complete my outfit fits more of a "s&m nazi girlscout officer" description. not bad, eh? i definitely might be getting some looks tomorrow
my fingers feel like they're gonne bleed from guitaring... although i do know three chords now...
Wednesday, October 29, 2003
scanner still broken, forms to be filled, pills to be bought, current events to be done, sleeping must be had.
can't believe it's already wednesday and tomorrow i am going on a boat at seven in the morning for two hours to look at some plankton. woopee. can't stop eating fizzy ramune candy... damn!!!
yesterday was happy because i went to guitar center and... well, bought a guitar. my very first step towards abandoning modern society... next step is the beard. i didn't know if i was going to purchase so much as just look but i found something real nice. new guitars cost around 150 at the very least which was fine, but... in a corner i saw a guitar, GLOWING LIKE THE FACE OF THE NEWBORN BABY JESUS. it was a very nice used acoustic for about a hundred dollars. i talked with a man about it. he was very nice too. he sat patiently and spoke to me as i debated on whether to but the instrument or not, and then finally i decided to just go for it. and it was a good idea! i can't stop playing the damn thing and it's big and pretty. i got a chord booklet and a tuner and i'm not planning on taking lessons, so wish me luck... the whole business of music is looking like an impossible maze at this point. hopefully i'll get it soon. i can play three chords.
soooo sleepy... i hate boats...
can't believe it's already wednesday and tomorrow i am going on a boat at seven in the morning for two hours to look at some plankton. woopee. can't stop eating fizzy ramune candy... damn!!!
yesterday was happy because i went to guitar center and... well, bought a guitar. my very first step towards abandoning modern society... next step is the beard. i didn't know if i was going to purchase so much as just look but i found something real nice. new guitars cost around 150 at the very least which was fine, but... in a corner i saw a guitar, GLOWING LIKE THE FACE OF THE NEWBORN BABY JESUS. it was a very nice used acoustic for about a hundred dollars. i talked with a man about it. he was very nice too. he sat patiently and spoke to me as i debated on whether to but the instrument or not, and then finally i decided to just go for it. and it was a good idea! i can't stop playing the damn thing and it's big and pretty. i got a chord booklet and a tuner and i'm not planning on taking lessons, so wish me luck... the whole business of music is looking like an impossible maze at this point. hopefully i'll get it soon. i can play three chords.
soooo sleepy... i hate boats...
Sunday, October 26, 2003
boo-k.
work was slighty more bearable today since i saw just about everyone i know on the entire planet. i feel like i was there for years though. at least i'm done until tomorrow and i have halloween off.
ash is raining from the sky harder than it was yesterday. it's very dry outside and smells like arizona. i don't like it much since i don't really like arizona at all. i took the bus home and had to walk up a hill in the dark which was nice, and i listened to "aluminum" twice. it's a good song to listen to whilst strolling in the darkness. although now i'm home and it smells like i smoked a carton of camels and i feel ash welling up inside my throat.
my scanner went and broked itself. this makes me very sad since i was actually planning on updating my website. also, i hate the fact that my email isn't working either and i have to go to some webpage to access it, which involves having to input my password three times to enter it and once again when the page loads. then after that i need to put my password in every time i click on something. i even have to type my password when i log out or delete something. god, it's annoying. since nothing is working anymore i've considered taking the last of my precious funds to buy a guitar and run into the woods and grow a beard and strum my guitar and never see civilization again. nothing works anymore and i think it's a sign. i just noticed that there is ash all over everything in my room.
i hunger for ravioilis
work was slighty more bearable today since i saw just about everyone i know on the entire planet. i feel like i was there for years though. at least i'm done until tomorrow and i have halloween off.
ash is raining from the sky harder than it was yesterday. it's very dry outside and smells like arizona. i don't like it much since i don't really like arizona at all. i took the bus home and had to walk up a hill in the dark which was nice, and i listened to "aluminum" twice. it's a good song to listen to whilst strolling in the darkness. although now i'm home and it smells like i smoked a carton of camels and i feel ash welling up inside my throat.
my scanner went and broked itself. this makes me very sad since i was actually planning on updating my website. also, i hate the fact that my email isn't working either and i have to go to some webpage to access it, which involves having to input my password three times to enter it and once again when the page loads. then after that i need to put my password in every time i click on something. i even have to type my password when i log out or delete something. god, it's annoying. since nothing is working anymore i've considered taking the last of my precious funds to buy a guitar and run into the woods and grow a beard and strum my guitar and never see civilization again. nothing works anymore and i think it's a sign. i just noticed that there is ash all over everything in my room.
i hunger for ravioilis
gaaaaaah. things continue to suck as i drop candy in the car, forget my nickels, my scanner isn't working anymore and then discover that no 7-11s in the area carry mt. dew slurpees. someone's out to make me insane with fury until i have an emotional breakdown and end up a weepy little ball in the corner while my eyes fall out from crying and then my arms fall off too for no real apparent reason. some guy just drove by in a really souped up car very VERY loud and obnoxious-like. wait... he went away but i can still hear him. what the hell is this guy doing? is he racing someone? he's got to be a few miles away by now and i can still hear his car in the distance. that's fucked up. pulp fiction was on tonight and me and stweve watched it a little before i fell asleep in my own lap. thank you for being the good thing in my life, stweve. we sure did have fun at the arcade.
i guess i should sleep now
i guess i should sleep now
Saturday, October 25, 2003
weirdness abound today as half of california burns down. yellow, and i mean YELLOW, skies and white ash raining from the sky. it's very creepy and it looks like some sort of apocalyptic scene from a movie or tv show or something. but it was neat.
i have one of those jobs where you hope that any second satan will thrust himself from a huge crack in the ground, burn everyone with his stick of eternal hellfire, pour salty lemon juice on their flesh deprived bodies, and then eat them. i don't feel like elaborating beyond that
i am so happy with the new barenaked ladies cd i want to scream. i don't know if i brought this up before but it doesn't matter. it deserves second mention. some of the songs on it are just so damn good. aluminum and upside down are so fantastic and i think my neighbors really hate me because i've been playing them over and over and over again. also, stweve and i are planning out an amazing video for "shopping" which is officially the happiest song on the planet
i have more pictures to show now
ants in my shower. one ant is dragging the corpse of another ant while the other supervises
big whale bones from the ocean institute
whale ribs
i have one of those jobs where you hope that any second satan will thrust himself from a huge crack in the ground, burn everyone with his stick of eternal hellfire, pour salty lemon juice on their flesh deprived bodies, and then eat them. i don't feel like elaborating beyond that
i am so happy with the new barenaked ladies cd i want to scream. i don't know if i brought this up before but it doesn't matter. it deserves second mention. some of the songs on it are just so damn good. aluminum and upside down are so fantastic and i think my neighbors really hate me because i've been playing them over and over and over again. also, stweve and i are planning out an amazing video for "shopping" which is officially the happiest song on the planet
i have more pictures to show now
ants in my shower. one ant is dragging the corpse of another ant while the other supervises
big whale bones from the ocean institute
whale ribs
Friday, October 24, 2003
tonight i am depressed for various dumb reasons which make me feel dumb. computer has been naggy but i think it's mostly my fault anyhow. and then the rest of it isn't worth talking about.
today stweve and i went to japanese market to frolic. i took pitchers, so now i give you JAPANESE MARKET ADVENTURE GALORE
my toshi was made in HEAVEN. where the fuck was YOUR toshi made, huh?
the crunkiest air you ever had
no comment on this one
maybe more writing later...
today stweve and i went to japanese market to frolic. i took pitchers, so now i give you JAPANESE MARKET ADVENTURE GALORE
my toshi was made in HEAVEN. where the fuck was YOUR toshi made, huh?
the crunkiest air you ever had
no comment on this one
maybe more writing later...
afterthoughts:
• an ant bit my bottom left eyelid as i was trying to fall asleep last night
• i took a walk through what used to be the chuck jones studio gallery in town (it is now a shop that sells fossils and gems). i was so depressed because even though i only went in there maybe a dozen times i remember how everything looked and everything they had on the walls. i walked up the stairs with my head down and i kept thinking that when i looked up, i'd see the nightmare before christmas, simpsons and what's opera doc lumicels still there. the rikki tikki tavi and the jungle book cells would still be there too, the disney cells all over the top room and that one lilo and stitch cell i loved. some of chuck's life drawings framed in that little room in the corner with the framed newspaper article over the couch and then the marvin the martian sculpture in front of the "employees only" sign. i miss it so much and i mostly hate the replacement although it is selling a real-life triceratops horn from forty-five million years ago. it doesn't look like a triceratops horn but it is huge and it was one, i guess. which is awesome. it's selling for five grand and i probably stared about it for an hour since it was like... real life proof of dinosaurs right there in front of me. long ago it was attached to a dinosaur. that was neat to think of. but then i got angry because i can't like the store. i walked out afterwards
• i bought a belt that's really a seatbelt fashioned for pants. ain't that keen?
• my family threw a birthday party for my dog today. there are pictures
• an ant bit my bottom left eyelid as i was trying to fall asleep last night
• i took a walk through what used to be the chuck jones studio gallery in town (it is now a shop that sells fossils and gems). i was so depressed because even though i only went in there maybe a dozen times i remember how everything looked and everything they had on the walls. i walked up the stairs with my head down and i kept thinking that when i looked up, i'd see the nightmare before christmas, simpsons and what's opera doc lumicels still there. the rikki tikki tavi and the jungle book cells would still be there too, the disney cells all over the top room and that one lilo and stitch cell i loved. some of chuck's life drawings framed in that little room in the corner with the framed newspaper article over the couch and then the marvin the martian sculpture in front of the "employees only" sign. i miss it so much and i mostly hate the replacement although it is selling a real-life triceratops horn from forty-five million years ago. it doesn't look like a triceratops horn but it is huge and it was one, i guess. which is awesome. it's selling for five grand and i probably stared about it for an hour since it was like... real life proof of dinosaurs right there in front of me. long ago it was attached to a dinosaur. that was neat to think of. but then i got angry because i can't like the store. i walked out afterwards
• i bought a belt that's really a seatbelt fashioned for pants. ain't that keen?
• my family threw a birthday party for my dog today. there are pictures
Thursday, October 23, 2003
i am very sleepy but i thought i'd write something before i went to bed just to make sure i get that extra lack of sleep tomorrow.
just finished an essay and current events and you can bet your scrotum i'll be happy when school is done tomorrow. i am fried and ready to sleep all weekend until i have to work which i'm guessing will not be much fun. mostly i think this because it infrequently IS fun. or maybe i'm rambling. i very sleepy. i said so before.
a lady came in today to buy chocolate and she had pants with flowers on them. the flowers had spots which made it look like bugs were swarming all over her legs which was funny for me to think about. then this couple came in and bought some stuff and as they left i said, "you two have a good one" and then after they walked out i could still here them talking, and the guy said to the girl, "she knew you were german! she said 'you two have a good one'". now i do not know if i am missing something major here but i didn't quite understand that whole moment. maybe somebody can clarify for me.
i can't believe tomorrow is a whole week since the big animation show santa barbara trip. it makes me sad because i had fun and it's been over for like... a whole week. time goes by so fast.
and now time for phone picture extravaganza spectaculare grande fantasticonomous
boy scouts!
some underwear i saw lying in the street outside the health food store!
art teacher!
flugtag! and shortly after...
first time seeing animation show! don't worry, nobody was behind me to be annoyed by the incredible glare of my phone in the theater
i am done for now
just finished an essay and current events and you can bet your scrotum i'll be happy when school is done tomorrow. i am fried and ready to sleep all weekend until i have to work which i'm guessing will not be much fun. mostly i think this because it infrequently IS fun. or maybe i'm rambling. i very sleepy. i said so before.
a lady came in today to buy chocolate and she had pants with flowers on them. the flowers had spots which made it look like bugs were swarming all over her legs which was funny for me to think about. then this couple came in and bought some stuff and as they left i said, "you two have a good one" and then after they walked out i could still here them talking, and the guy said to the girl, "she knew you were german! she said 'you two have a good one'". now i do not know if i am missing something major here but i didn't quite understand that whole moment. maybe somebody can clarify for me.
i can't believe tomorrow is a whole week since the big animation show santa barbara trip. it makes me sad because i had fun and it's been over for like... a whole week. time goes by so fast.
and now time for phone picture extravaganza spectaculare grande fantasticonomous
boy scouts!
some underwear i saw lying in the street outside the health food store!
art teacher!
flugtag! and shortly after...
first time seeing animation show! don't worry, nobody was behind me to be annoyed by the incredible glare of my phone in the theater
i am done for now
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
so it looks like the reinstallation of the system worked nicely and i'm up and running with good stuff once again, except for now everything on my desktop is clean and i don't know what to do with all the vast amounts of space.
bought the new barenaked ladies cd off of itunes yesterday and howdeeee it is good. i think my new favorite song of the universe is "shopping" and i wish it played along with me wherever i went. i want to animate some really happy sequence to the song someday. it has so much potential. listen to it now.
took a routine trip to best buy today with stweve to look at things and drool over the indiana jones box set neither of us can afford. i was walking down the aisle going, "matrix two! nah. dreamcatcher!! stupid but funny!! i should bu--" and then i look over and see 28 days later all over the place. i dance and scream and jump up and down in my clunky high heel-ish shoes and man at the end of the aisle gives me dirty look. i buy even though i have no money!! i buy!! i get home! i start opening and look down and see...
FULLSCREEN VERSION
... i curled into a little ball and wept like a weepy thing. but it's okay now because i got to go back and EXCHANGE IT FOR WIDESCREEN. now everything is good again but i have a ton of work to do and i'm very sleepy. okay. i have so many pictures backed up on my phone it's crazy, so you'll be seeing lots of those soon. woop!
bought the new barenaked ladies cd off of itunes yesterday and howdeeee it is good. i think my new favorite song of the universe is "shopping" and i wish it played along with me wherever i went. i want to animate some really happy sequence to the song someday. it has so much potential. listen to it now.
took a routine trip to best buy today with stweve to look at things and drool over the indiana jones box set neither of us can afford. i was walking down the aisle going, "matrix two! nah. dreamcatcher!! stupid but funny!! i should bu--" and then i look over and see 28 days later all over the place. i dance and scream and jump up and down in my clunky high heel-ish shoes and man at the end of the aisle gives me dirty look. i buy even though i have no money!! i buy!! i get home! i start opening and look down and see...
FULLSCREEN VERSION
... i curled into a little ball and wept like a weepy thing. but it's okay now because i got to go back and EXCHANGE IT FOR WIDESCREEN. now everything is good again but i have a ton of work to do and i'm very sleepy. okay. i have so many pictures backed up on my phone it's crazy, so you'll be seeing lots of those soon. woop!
Monday, October 20, 2003
lately i have found that i haven't been eating so much anymore and have become increasingly thirstier. ever since thursday i eat maybe three things a day but feel fine. i am not sure why this is but i am drinking tons of water and orange juice and it makes me pee a lot.
i just backed up my entire harddrive and now i venture into reinstalling system ten in hopes of saving my computer. i don't know how well it's going to take it but i guess i'll find out in a couple of minutes. wish me luck. sorry about the pee pee statement.
i just backed up my entire harddrive and now i venture into reinstalling system ten in hopes of saving my computer. i don't know how well it's going to take it but i guess i'll find out in a couple of minutes. wish me luck. sorry about the pee pee statement.
Sunday, October 19, 2003
forgive me for not writing in awhile but i discovered that sometimes the button that lets me publish this thing works and some time it does not. but now that i think about it, i am fairly convinced that nobody reads this things at all so i guess i am mostly apologizing to myself.
dinner was interesting tonight as my brother has become some sort of pizza alchemist. he made three different frozen pizzas, each with a variety of different spices and flavorings. he then explained to me that "this is for veggie lovers" and "this is for meat lovers". then he held out his hands and said, "veggie, meat. veggie, meat. veggie, meat. veggie, meat. meat, veggie, veggie, meat. veggie, veggie, meat, veggie, veggie, veggie, meat, veggie". i do not know what it was all about and what he was doing exactly but he was doing it. then some sort of baseball capped opera man was singing god bless america and shook his face around a lot.
i have piles of homework and other things to do and i am finding myself increasingly horrified by how much stuff i have piled in drawers and things. i am trying to clean to make room for the disney animation desk stweve got for me. i really want to start animating on a real professional desk with real professional tools instead of my friend's light box with acme pegs glued to it. although at this rate i feel like i'm never going to get this stuff cleaned out. and on top of that i really need to remodel my website, finish backing up my computer files to reinstall the system, and get some artwork done. i don't like having monumental things to do.
went to santa barbara on friday to see the animation show probably for the last time. went with stweve and it took us almost four hours to get there because of traffic, but we made it. there were maybe five accidents along the way and we almost got into three, the most memorable being when a giant metal bucket thing flew off the back of a truck. i was watching this guy in the car next to us dance around and i kept saying "look at that guy rock out!" when all of a sudden steve yells "OH SHIT" and i look ahead and he does this amazing swerve into the shoulder and back into the lane. the last half hour of the driving was really beautiful. ucsb is also very very pretty with its massive moving pencil sculptures and columbus slanders chalked all over the sidewalks. we got there very early so there were good seats in the fourth row calling to us. the theater was decently sized and before long it was completely packed with people. don hertzfeldt was there to answer the questions of the people and i bought a pink animation show shirt. steve and i had a lot of fun and it was one of the best times i've had in awhile.
i should probably get back to work now...
dinner was interesting tonight as my brother has become some sort of pizza alchemist. he made three different frozen pizzas, each with a variety of different spices and flavorings. he then explained to me that "this is for veggie lovers" and "this is for meat lovers". then he held out his hands and said, "veggie, meat. veggie, meat. veggie, meat. veggie, meat. meat, veggie, veggie, meat. veggie, veggie, meat, veggie, veggie, veggie, meat, veggie". i do not know what it was all about and what he was doing exactly but he was doing it. then some sort of baseball capped opera man was singing god bless america and shook his face around a lot.
i have piles of homework and other things to do and i am finding myself increasingly horrified by how much stuff i have piled in drawers and things. i am trying to clean to make room for the disney animation desk stweve got for me. i really want to start animating on a real professional desk with real professional tools instead of my friend's light box with acme pegs glued to it. although at this rate i feel like i'm never going to get this stuff cleaned out. and on top of that i really need to remodel my website, finish backing up my computer files to reinstall the system, and get some artwork done. i don't like having monumental things to do.
went to santa barbara on friday to see the animation show probably for the last time. went with stweve and it took us almost four hours to get there because of traffic, but we made it. there were maybe five accidents along the way and we almost got into three, the most memorable being when a giant metal bucket thing flew off the back of a truck. i was watching this guy in the car next to us dance around and i kept saying "look at that guy rock out!" when all of a sudden steve yells "OH SHIT" and i look ahead and he does this amazing swerve into the shoulder and back into the lane. the last half hour of the driving was really beautiful. ucsb is also very very pretty with its massive moving pencil sculptures and columbus slanders chalked all over the sidewalks. we got there very early so there were good seats in the fourth row calling to us. the theater was decently sized and before long it was completely packed with people. don hertzfeldt was there to answer the questions of the people and i bought a pink animation show shirt. steve and i had a lot of fun and it was one of the best times i've had in awhile.
i should probably get back to work now...
Wednesday, October 08, 2003
back home, back hurts, taking some quiz thingys and waiting for stweve. he got me something coooool. maybe i'll write about it later. results now!
yay! my personal hell is... horrible!
Scientologists
Circle I Limbo
carrot top, pauly shore, General asshats
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind
NAMBLA Members, PETA Members
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow
Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies, DMV Employees
Circle IV Rolling Weights
Bill Gates, Gray Davis
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled
River Styx
Militant Vegans
Circle VI Buried for Eternity
River Phlegyas
telemarketers
Circle VII Burning Sands
jennifer lopez
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement
Michael Eisner
Circle IX Frozen in Ice
yay! my personal hell is... horrible!
Monday, October 06, 2003
notice that i keep getting the date wrong?
forget the time.
day whatever
haven't written in more than i usually do but now i'm writing. i scrawled out about three sentences of my government paper concerning bustamante's immigrant policy before deciding that i was done with it for the day. i should do it but... god. i'm in hawaii. i really don't feel like it.
plans continue to be shot to hell and now we all just sort of float around in the ocean and eat the little food left in the house. we are all dreading leaving the island as we have grown to love it before we even arrived. i look forward to being home and returning to the normal routine of buying dvds and seeing movies and such, but... damn. i sure could spend a hell of a lot of time out here just sitting on my ass. it's positively splendid. we did see kilauhea light house the other day. that was really something. all big on this cliff and jesus, there were all sorts of birds everywhere. albatrosses and red-footed boobies and what have you. really large birds and then this goose was sort of hobbling around pecking at grass. then, as you enter and exit, there is all this dirt about the sides of the path where these birds make holes and make their babies sit in them to sheild them from the winds (which were very strong). the little baby birds were so cute and fat, all gray and fluffy balled up in this little red dirt hole. oooohh i just wanted to stuff them into a pillow and squeeeeze!
speaking of squeezing, jack black on snl last night was great. he is a lovely man! he smacks everyone around and yet he is still the hippest youngster on this side of the railroad tracks. or something.
there is no one online and i grow sleepy...
forget the time.
day whatever
haven't written in more than i usually do but now i'm writing. i scrawled out about three sentences of my government paper concerning bustamante's immigrant policy before deciding that i was done with it for the day. i should do it but... god. i'm in hawaii. i really don't feel like it.
plans continue to be shot to hell and now we all just sort of float around in the ocean and eat the little food left in the house. we are all dreading leaving the island as we have grown to love it before we even arrived. i look forward to being home and returning to the normal routine of buying dvds and seeing movies and such, but... damn. i sure could spend a hell of a lot of time out here just sitting on my ass. it's positively splendid. we did see kilauhea light house the other day. that was really something. all big on this cliff and jesus, there were all sorts of birds everywhere. albatrosses and red-footed boobies and what have you. really large birds and then this goose was sort of hobbling around pecking at grass. then, as you enter and exit, there is all this dirt about the sides of the path where these birds make holes and make their babies sit in them to sheild them from the winds (which were very strong). the little baby birds were so cute and fat, all gray and fluffy balled up in this little red dirt hole. oooohh i just wanted to stuff them into a pillow and squeeeeze!
speaking of squeezing, jack black on snl last night was great. he is a lovely man! he smacks everyone around and yet he is still the hippest youngster on this side of the railroad tracks. or something.
there is no one online and i grow sleepy...
Saturday, October 04, 2003
october the third
(insert time here)
day five
today was "eat a shitload of fatty food and sit around on your ass while dad vomits" day. yeah, dad got a little ill but it seemed to have passed alright. poor dad. he was so happy when that dolphin jumped out of the water.
the swell still hasn't calmed much and the rain gave way to sun only for a few hours before turning back to... well, clouds again. mom and i went in to town for a bit and got some shave ice, which was even more delicious than it was the first time i tried it. the rest of the day sort of dragged on but in the lovliest of ways. saw a great view near princeville overlooking a huge mountain with all these big ol' waterfalls streaming down it. quite a sight.
roy got mauled by a tiger today. horrible and all that but i can't help but laugh every time i hear about it. you know the tiger was planning it, too. it was like... his revenge for all the humiliation tiger-kind has gone through all these years. sorry roy, but dangerous animals and sequins don't mix. you took that risk when you decided to make it your career.
sketchbook pages are still wiggly and very annoying. i'm scared to open the book now for fear the pages will get wigglier. the inside of my right ear won't stop itching and i just looked down and noticed that my pants are unzipped, revealing the word "lucky" along the exposed under-the-zipper jean. lucky? what the fuck? congratulations, you managed to get my pants unzipped. isn't that LUCKY? maybe it's implying i'm lucky enough to have them unzipped and whoever unzipped them is still there to read the message. or maybe i'm searching way too hard for the meaning in something like that. shut up. me tired.
there are lizards everywhere around here. lizards and dogs and the weirdest fuckin' bugs i think i'll ever see in my life. i felt all bloaty and lethargic all day and i still can't stop eating macadamia nuts. i'm in trouble...
(insert time here)
day five
today was "eat a shitload of fatty food and sit around on your ass while dad vomits" day. yeah, dad got a little ill but it seemed to have passed alright. poor dad. he was so happy when that dolphin jumped out of the water.
the swell still hasn't calmed much and the rain gave way to sun only for a few hours before turning back to... well, clouds again. mom and i went in to town for a bit and got some shave ice, which was even more delicious than it was the first time i tried it. the rest of the day sort of dragged on but in the lovliest of ways. saw a great view near princeville overlooking a huge mountain with all these big ol' waterfalls streaming down it. quite a sight.
roy got mauled by a tiger today. horrible and all that but i can't help but laugh every time i hear about it. you know the tiger was planning it, too. it was like... his revenge for all the humiliation tiger-kind has gone through all these years. sorry roy, but dangerous animals and sequins don't mix. you took that risk when you decided to make it your career.
sketchbook pages are still wiggly and very annoying. i'm scared to open the book now for fear the pages will get wigglier. the inside of my right ear won't stop itching and i just looked down and noticed that my pants are unzipped, revealing the word "lucky" along the exposed under-the-zipper jean. lucky? what the fuck? congratulations, you managed to get my pants unzipped. isn't that LUCKY? maybe it's implying i'm lucky enough to have them unzipped and whoever unzipped them is still there to read the message. or maybe i'm searching way too hard for the meaning in something like that. shut up. me tired.
there are lizards everywhere around here. lizards and dogs and the weirdest fuckin' bugs i think i'll ever see in my life. i felt all bloaty and lethargic all day and i still can't stop eating macadamia nuts. i'm in trouble...
Friday, October 03, 2003
10 something, 2003
sometime somewhere
end of day four
today was "eat a shitload of fatty food and sit around on your ass while being bored out of your mind" day.
that was basically it. mike and i walked around in circles making noises and i ate too many macadamia nuts to count. watched secret of nimh twice. i like it much. it won't stop raining, so there is no going outside or anything. however, i did get to hold a gecko. that was neat. they're kinda clear. my eyeballs really itch.
much to my dismay, i keep discovering these horrid mosquito bites scattered all about my legs and they itch like a bitch. also, my sketchbook's pages are all wiggly because of the humidity and i don't think there's any way to fix it. this makes me sad and all frustratey because i'm not very fond of wiggly pages. grrrrrrrrrrrr.
the new season of the man show is very funny. anything/one who makes fun of dr phil is a-ok in my book.
sometime somewhere
end of day four
today was "eat a shitload of fatty food and sit around on your ass while being bored out of your mind" day.
that was basically it. mike and i walked around in circles making noises and i ate too many macadamia nuts to count. watched secret of nimh twice. i like it much. it won't stop raining, so there is no going outside or anything. however, i did get to hold a gecko. that was neat. they're kinda clear. my eyeballs really itch.
much to my dismay, i keep discovering these horrid mosquito bites scattered all about my legs and they itch like a bitch. also, my sketchbook's pages are all wiggly because of the humidity and i don't think there's any way to fix it. this makes me sad and all frustratey because i'm not very fond of wiggly pages. grrrrrrrrrrrr.
the new season of the man show is very funny. anything/one who makes fun of dr phil is a-ok in my book.
Thursday, October 02, 2003
10/3/03
i don't even know what time it is anymore
the account of day three
well, i just wrote out this huge fuckin' post about day three and i went to publish it. then i thought, wait, let me not publish it yet and copy it just in case it doesn't work and i lose it. then, BOOP! the whole thing gone. erin scream and yell profane words a lot and be very pissed off. grrr.
so let me try this again.
yesterday was the official day of "driving around for three hours looking for a place to do beachy activities only to discover nothing" day. a big swell appeared on the north shore (where we are) recently and it makes the water very choppy. to the south shore! we said. so we set off to the south shore for FUN. we drove and drove, seeing about half a dozen pleasant looking beaches on the way but due to both my insistance and dad's, we kept going towards poi'pu, which is apparently impervious to swells or something. we were wrong. the water there looked like it could literally kill you. noo! we drive down there for nothing. but wait... spouting horn! a natural wonder where water spouts forty feet in the air every few seconds. there it is! let's go! alright, there it is. wait for it....
....
... was that it? no. wait again. waaaaaait....
..........
... three feet?? seriously, the water jettisoned maybe about three feet in the air and made a low rumbly noise. wowwwww. incredible. it was having a bad day, i guess. although ever time a drop came out of the thing, the gaggle of japanese folk surrounding us would go, "OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!" and start shooting photos. boo. we head home. but on the way, we get shave ice. now, no one seems to appreciate this stuff as much as i do, but it is deeeeelishus. mine looked like some sort of iced rainbow clown afro until it melted into a puddle of green-brown with chunks of strawberry ice cream floating around in it. yum!
upon returning to house, mike, taylor and i snorkeled a little ways down the beach. it was alright but there was quite a current and the water was a little brown. but still, so many fishies! then we bobbed around in the water for awhile talking, when we saw this guy in a turquoise speedo. a speedo isn't good under any circumstance, but this one was particularly bad. then, his wife comes running towards him from behind us. with a white THONG. her fat jiggled hypnotically in all directions with every bound. mike and i then decided to head back. it had been a long day. so ended the bout with mistress thong and speedor.
i had a strange dream the other night where a few people had built these robot-monster-humans who wielded incredible amounts of power. if the creator of the robo-thing died, it would become much more powerful and difficult to control. also immortal. the only way to get rid of one was by taking it apart with an axe and a special ritual or something. somehow, i was one of the monsters and this village voted to destroy me. i remember being backed against the wall, thinking, "this will be the first time i ever experience death". i was all scared but the guy with the axe was assuring me that as a good being and soul, i was assured a place in heaven. for some reason i believed him and that made me feel a lot better. then my dream switched over to me in my house with a t-rex and two raptors. what the fuck? i guess that's what i get for watching jurassic park.
raining a lot today and doesn't look like it'll let up. i think the macadamia nuts were hidden from me. froot loops aren't very good.
now let's see if the post button works this time...
i don't even know what time it is anymore
the account of day three
well, i just wrote out this huge fuckin' post about day three and i went to publish it. then i thought, wait, let me not publish it yet and copy it just in case it doesn't work and i lose it. then, BOOP! the whole thing gone. erin scream and yell profane words a lot and be very pissed off. grrr.
so let me try this again.
yesterday was the official day of "driving around for three hours looking for a place to do beachy activities only to discover nothing" day. a big swell appeared on the north shore (where we are) recently and it makes the water very choppy. to the south shore! we said. so we set off to the south shore for FUN. we drove and drove, seeing about half a dozen pleasant looking beaches on the way but due to both my insistance and dad's, we kept going towards poi'pu, which is apparently impervious to swells or something. we were wrong. the water there looked like it could literally kill you. noo! we drive down there for nothing. but wait... spouting horn! a natural wonder where water spouts forty feet in the air every few seconds. there it is! let's go! alright, there it is. wait for it....
....
... was that it? no. wait again. waaaaaait....
..........
... three feet?? seriously, the water jettisoned maybe about three feet in the air and made a low rumbly noise. wowwwww. incredible. it was having a bad day, i guess. although ever time a drop came out of the thing, the gaggle of japanese folk surrounding us would go, "OOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!" and start shooting photos. boo. we head home. but on the way, we get shave ice. now, no one seems to appreciate this stuff as much as i do, but it is deeeeelishus. mine looked like some sort of iced rainbow clown afro until it melted into a puddle of green-brown with chunks of strawberry ice cream floating around in it. yum!
upon returning to house, mike, taylor and i snorkeled a little ways down the beach. it was alright but there was quite a current and the water was a little brown. but still, so many fishies! then we bobbed around in the water for awhile talking, when we saw this guy in a turquoise speedo. a speedo isn't good under any circumstance, but this one was particularly bad. then, his wife comes running towards him from behind us. with a white THONG. her fat jiggled hypnotically in all directions with every bound. mike and i then decided to head back. it had been a long day. so ended the bout with mistress thong and speedor.
i had a strange dream the other night where a few people had built these robot-monster-humans who wielded incredible amounts of power. if the creator of the robo-thing died, it would become much more powerful and difficult to control. also immortal. the only way to get rid of one was by taking it apart with an axe and a special ritual or something. somehow, i was one of the monsters and this village voted to destroy me. i remember being backed against the wall, thinking, "this will be the first time i ever experience death". i was all scared but the guy with the axe was assuring me that as a good being and soul, i was assured a place in heaven. for some reason i believed him and that made me feel a lot better. then my dream switched over to me in my house with a t-rex and two raptors. what the fuck? i guess that's what i get for watching jurassic park.
raining a lot today and doesn't look like it'll let up. i think the macadamia nuts were hidden from me. froot loops aren't very good.
now let's see if the post button works this time...
Wednesday, October 01, 2003
10/1/03
eight nineteen pee-em
day two (end of)
well, obviously we discovered a hidden aol installer on the computer so now i think instead of actually WRITING my diary down (which was seeming pretty nice while i was doing it) i'll take the lazy way out and jot everything down this way. woop.
woke up this morning feelin fresh and frisky. i slept for about twelve hours, which is a record for this year i think. i vaguely remember dad yanking me out of bed at all hours of the night to witness the most spectacular starry sky. however, in my drowsy state i could hardly appreciate it. i grumpily pushed him away and fell back into bed. i dreamt that brendan frasier was my boyfriend and seann william scott was really perverted and trying to get me to strip for him. ew ew ew ew and a thousand times ew to all of that.
so i got up and ate half a box of froot loops and looked around at the SPLENDID MORNIN' around me. it was early. like, six or something. and i felt so awake. so time change CAN be a good thing. after rummaging around in my bag i discovered that i FORGOT MY ERASER. doi. we all went on a wild eraser hunt which was only sort of a pain since i'm a pissy bitch who will only let SANFORD MAGIC RUB touch my art. nothing less! put down that horrid half-pencil half-pen eraser in that grocery store, mother! what sort of disgusting amateur do you take me for!?? TO PRINCEVILLE, I MUST HAVE MAGIC RUB AND MAGIC RUB ONLY and then everyone got mad at me. a camera was purchased and i am taking pictures of EVERYTHING, even the gravel in the driveway (that was actually an accident) so i should have a pretty nice account of everything when i get back. i also ate a bunch of macadamia nuts.
we rented some snorkel gear and headed to ke e beach to see fishies. i am positive i looked like a bloody fool fumbling around in the water all pale and tripping over my flippers with a pair of goggles half on and a snorkel hitting my nose, but that's okay. once i got in i screamed when i saw the fish. jesus, they big!! big ol' fishies swimmin' around in PACKS!! i ran!! they were scary at first. there was this creepy brown reef all around and the closet i got to it, the more fish there were. fish fish fish all over the place, all these wild colors. fantastic! i was all OOOO, fish and then one opened its mouth and had a couple of HUGE FUCKING TEETH. gah!! run from fish!! it bite!! it eat my leeegggsss!! but no. i think it was just yawning. do fish yawn? i have no idea.
the waves were making me bob up and down and getting me a little seasick so i got out and started walking down the beach. there were chickens everywhere. big fat chickens just sort of rambling along the beach and the jungle. what the fuck? do chickens grow in the jungle? i swear to god, i've only been here about a day and everything is a mystery to me. so i kept walking down the beach and soon i reach this river where this young guy is fishing. i say hi to him to be friendly and keep walking. after awhile i turn back around and start walking across the river when the guy calls out to me. he asks me my name, where i'm from, who i'm with... and if it's urgent for me to get back to ke e. he wants to hang out, he says. now, i'm already lost enough in this strange land of wildebeetles and free-roaming gigantochickens. but this guy hitting on me?? i really must be somewhere in another galaxy. i felt sort of bad leaving him there because he told me to come back if i could, but i have to keep in mind that nothing makes any fucking sense here so it was probably a really good idea that i didn't go back. for all i know that guy could have been oprah's evil twin in disguise or something. stranger things have happened. after all, this is the land of the YAWNING FISH.
we came back and ate and sort of sat around for awhile. i took another walk down the beach outside and ate tofu. i drank lots of hard lemonade and beer and wine throughout the course of the day but i don't think i can handle the alchohol that isn't masked by some girly happy taste. i only had half a bottle of beer and thought i was going to gag by the last sip. blegh. but mike and i found a little garden in the yard with fresh oregano which tastes really awesome. as the sun started setting, geckos started popping up on the ceiling of the decks and then these two dogs came barreling into our yard all friendly-like and wanting to play. the geckos are really cute and i want to be their queen. i named one geico and the other wheezy.
i just went out to check the sky for AMAZING SPUNKTACULAMONGOUS STAR DISPLAY EXTRAORDINARE and i see... nothing. NOTHING!! there are no stars and everything is completely black!!!! NO SENSE MAKING ANY OF IT!!!!!! ARRGHHH!!!.. but it's so great here.
tomorrow i think we are going to snorkel at someplace called "tunnels" and then we might eat something. we have to get up early for that so i better get to bed. i'm exhausted anyhow...
... jesus, it's not even nine.
eight nineteen pee-em
day two (end of)
well, obviously we discovered a hidden aol installer on the computer so now i think instead of actually WRITING my diary down (which was seeming pretty nice while i was doing it) i'll take the lazy way out and jot everything down this way. woop.
woke up this morning feelin fresh and frisky. i slept for about twelve hours, which is a record for this year i think. i vaguely remember dad yanking me out of bed at all hours of the night to witness the most spectacular starry sky. however, in my drowsy state i could hardly appreciate it. i grumpily pushed him away and fell back into bed. i dreamt that brendan frasier was my boyfriend and seann william scott was really perverted and trying to get me to strip for him. ew ew ew ew and a thousand times ew to all of that.
so i got up and ate half a box of froot loops and looked around at the SPLENDID MORNIN' around me. it was early. like, six or something. and i felt so awake. so time change CAN be a good thing. after rummaging around in my bag i discovered that i FORGOT MY ERASER. doi. we all went on a wild eraser hunt which was only sort of a pain since i'm a pissy bitch who will only let SANFORD MAGIC RUB touch my art. nothing less! put down that horrid half-pencil half-pen eraser in that grocery store, mother! what sort of disgusting amateur do you take me for!?? TO PRINCEVILLE, I MUST HAVE MAGIC RUB AND MAGIC RUB ONLY and then everyone got mad at me. a camera was purchased and i am taking pictures of EVERYTHING, even the gravel in the driveway (that was actually an accident) so i should have a pretty nice account of everything when i get back. i also ate a bunch of macadamia nuts.
we rented some snorkel gear and headed to ke e beach to see fishies. i am positive i looked like a bloody fool fumbling around in the water all pale and tripping over my flippers with a pair of goggles half on and a snorkel hitting my nose, but that's okay. once i got in i screamed when i saw the fish. jesus, they big!! big ol' fishies swimmin' around in PACKS!! i ran!! they were scary at first. there was this creepy brown reef all around and the closet i got to it, the more fish there were. fish fish fish all over the place, all these wild colors. fantastic! i was all OOOO, fish and then one opened its mouth and had a couple of HUGE FUCKING TEETH. gah!! run from fish!! it bite!! it eat my leeegggsss!! but no. i think it was just yawning. do fish yawn? i have no idea.
the waves were making me bob up and down and getting me a little seasick so i got out and started walking down the beach. there were chickens everywhere. big fat chickens just sort of rambling along the beach and the jungle. what the fuck? do chickens grow in the jungle? i swear to god, i've only been here about a day and everything is a mystery to me. so i kept walking down the beach and soon i reach this river where this young guy is fishing. i say hi to him to be friendly and keep walking. after awhile i turn back around and start walking across the river when the guy calls out to me. he asks me my name, where i'm from, who i'm with... and if it's urgent for me to get back to ke e. he wants to hang out, he says. now, i'm already lost enough in this strange land of wildebeetles and free-roaming gigantochickens. but this guy hitting on me?? i really must be somewhere in another galaxy. i felt sort of bad leaving him there because he told me to come back if i could, but i have to keep in mind that nothing makes any fucking sense here so it was probably a really good idea that i didn't go back. for all i know that guy could have been oprah's evil twin in disguise or something. stranger things have happened. after all, this is the land of the YAWNING FISH.
we came back and ate and sort of sat around for awhile. i took another walk down the beach outside and ate tofu. i drank lots of hard lemonade and beer and wine throughout the course of the day but i don't think i can handle the alchohol that isn't masked by some girly happy taste. i only had half a bottle of beer and thought i was going to gag by the last sip. blegh. but mike and i found a little garden in the yard with fresh oregano which tastes really awesome. as the sun started setting, geckos started popping up on the ceiling of the decks and then these two dogs came barreling into our yard all friendly-like and wanting to play. the geckos are really cute and i want to be their queen. i named one geico and the other wheezy.
i just went out to check the sky for AMAZING SPUNKTACULAMONGOUS STAR DISPLAY EXTRAORDINARE and i see... nothing. NOTHING!! there are no stars and everything is completely black!!!! NO SENSE MAKING ANY OF IT!!!!!! ARRGHHH!!!.. but it's so great here.
tomorrow i think we are going to snorkel at someplace called "tunnels" and then we might eat something. we have to get up early for that so i better get to bed. i'm exhausted anyhow...
... jesus, it's not even nine.
for the convenience of the non-existent audience who is reading this, i am posting my hand-written diary of my excursion to the hawaiian islands on here. entries might be posted anywhere from ten to five weeks late, so... make a note of it.
9/30/03
6 something am
day 1 (technically day two, but a recording of the activities from the day before)
i didn't write yesterday because after all the day's activities, i was thoroughly exhausted. anyway, we made it here and it is absolutely incredible. it was magical from the very beginning as we took our SPACE THEMED LIMO to the airport where we booked FIRST CLASS FLIGHTS. getting through airport security wasn't the nightmare i imagined it being and, despite my worst and most certain fears, i was not stripped of all civil liberties and taken to some room to be interrogated about my supposed involvement with terrorsm. yay. so the flight was a cushy and pampered five hours and i consumed a delightful chicken dish along with all the food leftover from the family. glancing out the window of the plane, i realized... the ocean is big. huge, even. i don't think one realizes it until they spend a pretty decent chunk of the day flying over a massive plate of blue. amazing. but we made it alive and in a flurry of events we were getting on a flight to kaua'i three hours before when we were scheduled.
as we drove around in our gray ford explorer, i was lookin' outside and was all, "hey! this looks like... a place". that was until we went through this crazy dimensional portal and started driving down twisty roads the width of my pinky through towering vegetation (most of which looked like it could eat me). only without the portal. kaua'i is truly something incredible and every little thing is bloated with such amounts of beauty that it makes you fall to your knees and weep.
the house we're staying in is roomy and has all luxuries, including a HU-FUCKING-MONGOUS tv and sound system. i think that fairly soon the entire island will hear "my anus is bleeding" as if it were playing in the room next to them. hooray!
behind the house, there is this little pathway that leads to the beach. i walked up it and suddenly this flash of bright yellow-orange appeared. it was the sand. the cleanest, most spectacular sand ever. it looks like toasted sesame seeds. my feet sank about six inches every step into the stuff, until it insantly becomes finer (on some parts of the beach) and literally feels like velvet underneath your feet. the water is this wonderful green-blue gemstone color and it is warm, boy howdy. lots of little tidepools with fishes and crabs scatter the place. i walked pretty far down the beach, finding a sand bar and a multitude of interesting looking dead coral and shells. everything looks like it's from another planet out here.
my hand is starting to hurt since i was planning to put all of this in my online journal, but dad forgot aol so there be no internet for us! i met a woman from santa barbara too and there are crazy bugs all over the place. apparently, geckos come out at night so i'll have to see about that. i believe we are going snorkeling today, too.
mahalo (the word i heard about a thousand times yesterday)
e
9/30/03
6 something am
day 1 (technically day two, but a recording of the activities from the day before)
i didn't write yesterday because after all the day's activities, i was thoroughly exhausted. anyway, we made it here and it is absolutely incredible. it was magical from the very beginning as we took our SPACE THEMED LIMO to the airport where we booked FIRST CLASS FLIGHTS. getting through airport security wasn't the nightmare i imagined it being and, despite my worst and most certain fears, i was not stripped of all civil liberties and taken to some room to be interrogated about my supposed involvement with terrorsm. yay. so the flight was a cushy and pampered five hours and i consumed a delightful chicken dish along with all the food leftover from the family. glancing out the window of the plane, i realized... the ocean is big. huge, even. i don't think one realizes it until they spend a pretty decent chunk of the day flying over a massive plate of blue. amazing. but we made it alive and in a flurry of events we were getting on a flight to kaua'i three hours before when we were scheduled.
as we drove around in our gray ford explorer, i was lookin' outside and was all, "hey! this looks like... a place". that was until we went through this crazy dimensional portal and started driving down twisty roads the width of my pinky through towering vegetation (most of which looked like it could eat me). only without the portal. kaua'i is truly something incredible and every little thing is bloated with such amounts of beauty that it makes you fall to your knees and weep.
the house we're staying in is roomy and has all luxuries, including a HU-FUCKING-MONGOUS tv and sound system. i think that fairly soon the entire island will hear "my anus is bleeding" as if it were playing in the room next to them. hooray!
behind the house, there is this little pathway that leads to the beach. i walked up it and suddenly this flash of bright yellow-orange appeared. it was the sand. the cleanest, most spectacular sand ever. it looks like toasted sesame seeds. my feet sank about six inches every step into the stuff, until it insantly becomes finer (on some parts of the beach) and literally feels like velvet underneath your feet. the water is this wonderful green-blue gemstone color and it is warm, boy howdy. lots of little tidepools with fishes and crabs scatter the place. i walked pretty far down the beach, finding a sand bar and a multitude of interesting looking dead coral and shells. everything looks like it's from another planet out here.
my hand is starting to hurt since i was planning to put all of this in my online journal, but dad forgot aol so there be no internet for us! i met a woman from santa barbara too and there are crazy bugs all over the place. apparently, geckos come out at night so i'll have to see about that. i believe we are going snorkeling today, too.
mahalo (the word i heard about a thousand times yesterday)
e
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