Kellie Opdyke
Sun 06 Oct 2002
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Well, I’ve been 18 now for nearly 18 hours now. WOAH! I totally didn’t plan that 18–18 thing. Wow, I am subconsciously clever.
Anyways. I didn’t do any of the things I’d planned to do on my 18th birthday, not even go out on a drunken voting spree. sigh Well, I guess there’s always my children, whom I can pose all of my squandered youthful dreams upon.
So far I’ve gotten $190, a spindle of 100 blank CD-Rs (grin), a charger for my cell phone so I don’t have to steal Ashley’s, a birthday card from my mom (with some of that aforementioned $$$ inside) that has some nuns on the front and on the inside says, ‘Hope your birthday is so fun that it takes a team working round the clock to pray for your redemption’... Hehehe… annnnd, THE very best present, at least SO far…. FLANNEL SHEETS for my bed at the dorm!!! Eeeeeeee!!! I was very upset that I was going to have to leave my old flannel sheets behind when I moved out, but now I have no worries. smile
Well, I’ve got to write this letter to my grandpa and then write this FUCKING essay for English (this week’s topic is: ‘When is failure personally necessary?’ wtf?), so, until NEXT time. keLLie
Thu 03 Oct 2002
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So today in English Dr. McDowell passed back our essays. Some of you might know that my essay totally sucked and that I was completely embarrassed to turn it in. Well, I got an A-. Word! Then he said to us, ‘Do any of you believe in Santa Claus?’ a couple raised their hands and laughed. Then he says, ‘Well, the other night when I was grading your papers I donned my Kris Kringle outfit. I felt really generous and I graded your essays very easily. However, as the course progresses, I will be doing a sort of Santa strip-tease and I’ll begin grading harder and harder.’ Yeah. Santa strip-tease. He did actually say that.
So then right after class I went to work (I’m an office assistant… ‘Good afternoon, Career Development Center, this is Kellie speaking, how can I help you?’). I got to shred papers the ENTIRE two and a half hours. Schweeeet. It was so cool! I’d never gotten to use a shredder before. You wouldn’t believe the immense satisfaction I got from doing that. I made it into a sort of game, trying to get each sheet ready to slip into the shredder by the time the previous one was finished. It was surprisingly difficult.
Then philosophy. We discussed “Phaedrus” some more, and Nic (the professor… did I mention that he HATES being called ‘Dr.’ or ‘Professor’?) was telling us about how Plato and philosophers of his day taught that philosophers were just a step below the gods… And so he was saying, “You would see true reality (salvation) if you led a philisophical life. Later we’ll have to talk about what ‘leading a philisophical life’ means. And if you fucked up, you didn’t get to salvation. We’ll also talk about what it means to ‘fuck up’.” Heheheh. He is so cool.
Right after class I came back and asked some people if they wanted to walk over to Dick’s… only Dan, from Kennewick, and Michaele (pronounced Michelle), from Guam, came… when we were walking down Broadway they started talking about how they were up there last week. They commented about how all the people up here are “so weird” and how they saw “TWO transvestites and THREE gay couples. Oh my GOD.” LoL. I chuckled.
It’s really foggy and rainy here in downtown Seattle today. How’s the weather elsewhere? I can’t see more than like 1/2 a mile out my window. Klazy.
OH YEAH! I went into the Law School today… it’s so fucking nice! They have this huuuuge flat, touchscreen computer thing in the lobby… and half of it is a TV… other half provides internet access… you just touch the screen to type in what website you want to go to… soooo crazy. And they have a little pub thing and two security guards watching it from this little balcony thing right above it. At that point I started getting snobby looks (probably because I wasn’t wearing ANYTHING Armani or Gucci) so I left. But, man! What a place.
Anyways. Homeworks to do now. Lataz. keLLie
Wed 02 Oct 2002
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Obviously I still haven’t gotten the hang of this whole journal thing. I accidentally pressed ‘submit’ when I wasn’t yet ready to submit. I shall continue.
Yesterday was Tasha’s birthday…. she, Ryan, Jack, and I all went out to LAS MARGARITAS (me gusta la comida mexicana)... I gave her this giant gummie Pet Crocodile and a Seattle University window decal… not to infer to her that she HAS to go to my school, or anything. Heh heh… Jack got her this sign that he stole from some desolate road out east somewhere… how appropriate for Tasha…. and Ryan got her this TOTALLY sweet light thingie. Yeah. It looks like a space ship thinie with these little fiber thingies coming out of it and it SPINS and GLOWS and CHANGES color. It’s a cool li’l thingie. I am in college and I learn lots. Happy Birthday Tasha…
Speaking of birthdays, THE most important birthday of the YEAR is coming up. Yes, that’s right. Jesus’s! There is also another birthday coming up, and that’s mine. It’s Saturday the fifth, in case you don’t know. I’m going to be 18 years old. Wow. First thing I’m gonna do is go out to a 7–11 and buy me some lotto tickets, cigarettes, some porn, and then ask the guy the directions to that place where I can register to vote is. Speaking of voting, I’m still debating whether I should register in the Democratic Party or the Reform Party. Is it possible to be ‘Not Affiliated’?
Anyways. I should probably finish up the bits of homework I have left… I don’t have a little area that tells you what music I’m “currently” listening to like the LiveJournal has, so I’ll just turn on WinAmp and tell you what it starts playing.
Ah, Foreigner “At War With the World”.
Peace, mah brothas (and sistas). keLLie
Wed 02 Oct 2002
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Yes, Socrates. In my philosophy class we’re reading Plato’s “Phaedrus”, which is a dialogue (not much of a surprise coming from Plato/ancient Greece) between Socrates, this old philosopher dude who is in love with this young guy Phaedrus and DESPERATELY wants to have sex with him and is trying to convince Phaedrus NOT to have sex with this OTHER old guy who wants to have sex with him. Ancient Athenian Love Triangle… wooo…
Yeah it was pretty funny the other day when we were discussing the reading… Everyone was confused about how “lovers” and “he” and another “he” were used in the same sentence. This one girl just couldn’t handle the fact that we were ACTUALLY reading about homosexuality in a Jesuit university, and she kept raising her hand saying things like, “But they liked women TOO, right???”
My English class’s been pretty cool too. The professor, Dr. McDowell is so cute. But, in a 35-year-old-receeding-hairline-Shakespeare-quotin’ kinda way. Yesterday when we came into class he collected copy fees from us ($3.50 to cover all the Xeroxes he has to make for us), so he had all these dollar bills and loose change lying on the table. The night before we were supposed to read a selection on the sense of sight and the way we interpret what we see, how we perceive things, etc. So when we had all seated ourselves, he sat down in front of us and was like, ‘So I trust you all read the essay about Sight… well, first I’d like to——oh wait, actually, everyone just close your eyes for a second, and keep them closed. Yes it’s very early and you all seem desperately tired… just relax… relax… take deeeeeep breaths, in and out, in and out… in and out… nice and slow…. relax….’ And so for about five whole minutes we all sat there in silence with our eyes closed. Suddenly, WHAM!!! and ping ping ping ping! Dr. McDowell had slammed the English textbook onto his desk and quarters went flying everywhere. We all jumped like 3 feet in the air. “What did you SEE??” He posed a desperate question. And so we spent the whole class period discussing the reading on sight, our thoughts on it, and, you know, deep and meaningful stuff about how we percieve and react to different things.
Wed 02 Oct 2002
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Well, I was reading some people’s live journals and I really wanted to get one, you know, just to fit in or whatever… but of course you need some crappy code or a credit card or something to get one. So I just did this random search and found this website. It’s sort of hard to use, but I think I will get the hang of it. Not that I’ll have a lot of time to use it or anything, since I’m a busy busy college student now. Anyways, I will post something more interesting and worthwhile later…. (why do I get a feeling that a lot of my posts are going to say something like that…)