i cannot believe it's already december, and that the semester is almost over. i cannot wait until finals are over and i can sleep normal hours and eat more than one meal a day.

lately i've been not sleeping, watching lots of television shows online (such as: Dexter, True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Gilmore Girls), and making art that i dont know what i'm going to do with when the semester is over. hopefully over break i'll have some time to do things that i've wanted to do for a while, like photoshop and upload a billion pictures and get tigers jaw shirts printed for tour and a million other things.

phillies play at 9:15. there is no way i am ever going to be able to write this 6-8 page paper, let alone on halloween night when i should be dressed up as a ghostly ghoul, haunting the streets of philadelphia. *sigh*

This year i'm spending my halloweekend alone in my apartment watching Fear Fest '09 on AMC, and hopefully going comatose at some point from eating too much popcorn.

everything is good, despite being a loser who does nothing besides go to school and watch tv. my boyfriend will be home in a week, i've had my tickets for new moon preordered since september, and in six weeks i will be done with my first semester of college.

i'm slowly adjusting to being a real college student. at first the work load was really overwhelming, but after going to classes for a few weeks i'm starting to figure out what i can bullshit and what i need to actually spend time on. generally, i'm enjoying all of my classes. all of my professors are nice and want to be called by their first names. susan, robert, mary, nichola, beth. i cant remember my art history teacher's name because that class is so boring.

oh philadelphia, how i am enjoying you so. i love living in an apartment i can call my own. i love having sleepovers every night with amanda, and how most of the time she's the mom and cooks me food and cleans up after me. she doesnt complain about how messy i can get when i'm working on a project, and we like the same tv shows.

this weekend is the great american hardcore fest, where i'll be doing merch for title fight. i'm excited to go to boston. i havent been there since tour and it will be nice to see friends and hang out with title fight all weekend.

this video is 100% hillarious






cant sleep. shane can sleep forever but i cant sleep past 12 even though we didnt go to bed until after 3. i got my new macbook pro in the mail yesterday and i love it. i feel cool now. and now when shane goes on tour in europe we can talk on skype! i move on saturday and i am so excited! i'm finally going to be in the same city as my boyfriend and my friends without having to drive 45 minutes. school starts on the 31st and i still have so many supplies to get, and money shit to figure out, but it'll all come together.

"Long ago, men went to sea, and women waited for them, standing on the edge of the water, scanning the horizon for the tiny ship. Now I wait for Henry. He vanishes unwillingly, without warning. I wait for him. Each moment that I wait feels like a year, an eternity. Each moment is as slow and transparent as glass. Through each moment I can see infinite moments lined up, waiting. Why has he gone where I cannot follow?"

5 days till shane comes home.
15 days till i move to philadelphia.

pictures from sound and fury, + more
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i'm home for less than two more days, then i'm off to california, where a alot of awesome things are going to happen. for one, i get to see my brother and he's the coolest. two, i'm going to sound and fury fest, and i get to see shane for three whole days. i miss him so much and i am so excited. there are more things, like surprises that my brother hasn't told me about, along with going to the tapings of Chelsea Lately, the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Kimmel. i have SO much left to do, i havent even started packing and i'm babysitting all day tomorrow. i still have friends that i want/need to hang out with before i leave for another week, and i need to get my college tuition figured out and paid before i leave.

so much to do, so little time.



pictures from title fight in syracuse and the menzingers at metro
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i am HOME after a week long tour with Tigers Jaw and Kite Party. every show was fun. being the only girl with 9 boys was interesting, but i got to sleep on a couch every night. i love my brothers in tigers jaw, faking a brittish accent, and tour games. we documented our trip on our tumblr, it was a good trip, i suggest reading it. tigersjaw.tumblr.com

yesterday Shane and i celebrated my birthday because today he left for another 3 week long tour with Title Fight, touring out to California and back. We took a million naps and he took me to Katana for dinner and bought me a Diana F+ lomography camera, and tickets to go to Camel Beach when he gets back.

tomorrow i will be 18. Anna and I are driving to Syracuse, NY to see title fight because we miss our boys already. next week i'm off to california to vist my brother. i'm going to sound and fury, and the tapings of Chelsea Lately, Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Kimmel.

summer hasnt really felt like summer so far, but it's truly been awesome. july will be over soon, i am going to be 18, i have an iphone, i'm ordering my macbook pro, moving to philadelphia going to school, living in the same city as my boyfriend, my friends are awesome, and i have the best boyfriend in the world that i love so much.

happy 4th. i spent the entire day with my boyfriend who i havent seen in three weeks and had an amazing adventurous night with my friends - i got to eat a cheeseburger that wasnt all the way cooked at a cookout in hamilton park, and watch the kirby park fireworks from the train tracks above pierce street. i'm loving summer.

so orientation is over. my classes are scheduled. i'm glad to be home and sleeping i my own bed. the whole orientation experience only made me pat myself on the back for choosing not to dorm. good job self.

i love the show 16 and pregnant and i want a kitten more than anything else in the world. my brother is in from california and tomorrow we're going shopping and getting my iPhone and then shane comes home on saturday.

basically everything is great, and i'm only in a cranky mood because i havent gotten enough sleep and i was driving so much today.

tigers jaw tour in less than a week holy shit. i feel like there's still so much to do and i want to spend as much time as possible with shane before he leaves for tour again.. we'll figure it out.

i'm so into strawberry banana smoothies. tomorrow i start my babysitting job, 7:30 AM yikes. tomorrow also includes a fun filled evening, hopefully involving boats, angelos, and maybe transformers?

aw, it's summer!!!