denise

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:46:34 GMT

last night i wrote "I HAVE A WENIS!" on mallary's car (although i apparently spelled it wrong) and her dad had to drive her car to work this morning. now THAT is awkward...

nostalgic already

Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:44:09 GMT

evans leaves tomorrow... it's so surreal that we are finally all going are seperate ways. tonight virginia and i tried to plan our fall breaks and it was so wierd to realize that i won't see any of my friends for so long. i don't want to go into it thought; i might cry.

nick (nichols) made us graduation cd's and they are INCREDIBLE. they're called "headin' out, comin' home, and the road between" and let me just list some of these bands because it's blowing my mind. obviously wilco, drive-by-truckers, whiskeytown, old 97's, and jayhawks, and then some bands i've never heard of but they are just all incredible.

and camp ehs has been going well. wednesday was the ehs day and we just played games and such. yesterday we went bowling and swimming, which was pretty good but like 30 boys came and it was a little crazy. today we went to the museum of natural science and they all had fun in the basement where it's all the interactive stuff. virginia obviously knew her way around the museum so that was helpful and i heart her. and thats it. if you want to go to the beach with us on sunday, let me know! we'll have a blast, promise.

i think i'm on crack

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:40:56 GMT

sean and i went to wilco on saturday and it was sooo good. we saw nick (nichols) and that was fun. he walked in with two girls... what a player that bear-claw. the people next to us were just smoking away and it smelled so beautifully of weed the whole night...

anyways, i had a CRAZY dream last night. we were at war with japan and my ethics class and me were in a japanese lake and my dad was there and he was video taping us and all these japanese people came out of the forest and started attacking us. my dad didn't see them for a long time and one of them shot him in the head and i ran over and he was like "i'm so sad, i have no one" and i said "no dad, i'm here, i love you!" and i was bawling and he got happy and smiled and then i woke up...........

what does that mean? am i crazy? maybe it's my medicine... it was so weird.

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 14:27:36 GMT

now that i'm 18 i want to sign this form to let my parents take me off life support if i end up like terry shivo. have yall done one of these? it really intimidates me.

school? what school?

Thu, 07 Apr 2005 04:17:28 GMT

so far i've missed 2 or 3 physics classes. and i'm missing on friday and monday and next thursday and friday. actually i'm missing all of school monday, tuesday, and friday of next week. that's three calculus classes, two of which are block. i might as well just drop out.

oh and speaking of that, apparently if we even try senior pranks they'll kick us out. how ridiculous is that. i still want to plant bluebonnets on all the athletic fields because since they're the state flower, you can't pick them! can you imagine kim and coach russ having to deal with a field of bluebonnets? they'd pee themselves. i would love it.

tonight sean and i went to the dugout for some frito pie (which was incredible) and we saw craig biggio just chillin and watching his son's game. i really liked how a major league baseball player slash way famous person in houston can still enjoy things like watching his son's team and the other families were totally cool with him. i really liked it. anyways i'm going to bed

mmm mmm mmm

Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:18:55 GMT

so i heard they sell fried chips at the rodeo now...

haha.

anyways, i leave tomorrow to go to long beach for nslc (national service learning conference) and i'm excited. i like presenting our workshop, the people there get so into it and you can tell they learn alot and that makes me happy. i'll tell you more about it when i get home. i will miss you all this next week. toodles.

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:59:19 GMT

the other day at break we were obviously talking about eddie's massive hickey and we were talking about how odd hickeys are, etc and andre says "yeah, i think hickeys are only ok during intercourse." it was INCREDIBLE, i almost peed in my pants.

we beat st johns on wednesday, it was so great. i slid into second and ripped up my leg real bad. like i'm pretty sure there is a 2x3 inch section of my skin still laying on the field out there. but precious little sarah goldman doctored me up real good and i felt really hardcore, it was fun.

we're watching aladdin in history, it's such a good movie. i wish disney still made movies like this.

oh and sean got his new car last night. it's an 04 black focus svt, so it's super fast and has special racing seats and such. i like it but i still miss his old "black beauty" if you will. i'll get used to it though, hopefully.

gosh i loved fried chips...

people will see it and say "oh my god that's horrible" and then just go back to eating their dinners

Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:39:37 GMT

i saw hotel rwanda yesterday. so good. for awhile i've felt like i've been doing enough service type stuff with all the sos, but now i just want to do so much more. i want to present our refugee workshop like EVERYWHERE and make people care, because the quote is so true. and i do it too. we see the horrible stuff happening and we start to care, but then we go back to our regular lives and forget about the horrible stuff happening. and now everyone knows about what happened in rwanda, but it's happening so many other places and people don't even know. at the end of the movie, it said how the hutu rebels were driven out of rwanda and into the congo. and the movie ended with everyone happy that paul and his family were still alive, but people don't even realize that once the hutus were driven into the congo, the exact same thing started happening and is still going on. winston met a guy from sierra leone during outreach and they talked about the movie. the guy said that yeah, it's horrible what happened in rwanda, but it's going on in sierra leone, liberia, and so many other places. and while getting killed with a machetie(sp?) is horrible, in the other countries they torture the people until they die. like cut off all their limbs and just let them bleed to death.
and the movie made me so mad at all the major nations of the world. they knew this genocide was occuring, but they didn't do anything. and the un was there but they couldn't even shoot people. all they did was sit there. and when some diplomat woman was being interviewed, she completely avoided admitting that we knew what was going on, but we did and we just didn't do anything. i'm so riled up right now about it all. but i have to go to chapel now.

oh how i've missed you

Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:48:39 GMT

so mexico was very fun. one day we just moved a house over 6 feet. how cool is that? and we built a school in like 3 days. we worked with this guy, chava, who used to help people cross the border illegally. he would just keep some intertubes in his house and then someone would come, pay him $2000, and he'd float them across the rio grande in the middle of the night on an intertube. how ridic is that? our superviser, sam, was out of control and yelled at us alot, but it was funny.

it was so incredible to see the generosity and kindness of people down there. even though no one in chava's family has a steady job and they're living in complete poverty, chava suggested that we take our donations to other colonias(neighborhoods) because his always gets donations and there are others who are in greater need. how cool is that.

we also snuck a cat across the border. it's name is illegal(with a spanish accent) and it now lives with carole. it slept the whole 7 hour bus ride. gosh it's a good cat.

and daddy nick decided that since sean and i were always together, we have merged into one person and our new name is SHALISE. cute, eh?

mexico!

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 06:08:37 GMT

we leave for mexico in approx. 8.5 hours! i can't believe outreach is here already. that means prom and graduation are right around the corner. part of me wants so bad to get out of houston and away from my parents, but i still wish i could stay in high school. i've had so much fun and i'm scared i'll go to college, make no friends, and have a horrible time. i guess i'll just have to wait and see. well i'm going to bed, try not to miss me too much these next two weeks!

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:07:49 GMT

i deleted my last entry. i'm sorry it was so mean, it wasn't supposed to be. it was a joke and i didn't realize people would be offended.

Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:10:12 GMT

so my weekend was crazy busy. friday/saturday was senior retreat, which actually was pretty fun. my group was random but i got to play with rula and taylor throckmorton, and they're really nice. we shot skeet and did obstacle course-things and relays and all sorts of stuff. taylor and i OWNED the pamper pole and then we wrote it real big on the banner and drew a color picture of us. it was great fun. we also played alot of 4 square. everyone was so hardcore and dean said he was going to put some courts in for us at school. we're gonna have tournaments alllll the time.

after i got home from the retreat i went to marshalls and valu village with sean. i got a mexican dress and i wanted a belt but i never found a good one. then we went to my house and i fell asleep at like 8:30. it was so incredible.

sunday was the car wash, which went so well. we had over 150 cars and in total we made $8,000 for tsunami relief. po brought some somalian refugees and they helped out too. jeremy mcasland came and randomly started speaking swahili to the somalian boys and explained that he knew swahili because he lived in africa for a year... clearly, right? it was so funny.

then senior mens. i wore my star dress. we had ninfas at alex's and left too early so we were like the second people at the dance. we all stood at the front and watched all the drunk people come in and go dance which was funny. i was really tired so sean said he didn't want to dance, and i felt like a bad gf for not dancing with him. sorry sean.

monday i got up at 6:30 and served peach cobbler for 1.5 hours at palmer. i love when a homeless man walks up to get his food and you ask him "how are you this morning?" and he says "blessed to be alive." it is so cool that they aren't all depressed because of their situation but they are just happy to be alive. it really makes you think.

on a different note, i think i'm going to take up photography again. i looked at the pictures that won awards in the Photo Imaging Education Association and it made me wish i hadn't stopped doing photo. some of the pictures on that website are so incredible and they're all just really intesting and different. if i could take pictures like that it would just complete my life. so my new goal is to take pictures of everything cause i've realized the pictures i try to take all artsy-like come out horrible, but the pictures i just take come out interesting.

and it's chicken fingers for lunch! woo!

oh hey

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:21:06 GMT

i'm in history and we're watching the last samuri still. it's just... not my type of movie. too violent and the script is cheesy to me. but what can ya do. i got my tests back and i don't have hepatitis, but i do still have some mono. which, not that unfortunately, means i can't do softball preseason. my mom wanted me to stay home from rio bravo but that's not going to happen. but i do have to stay home sunday night after the dance, which sucks.

yesterday sean, nick and i raided the lost and found. well not really, but we got some bags and nick got a sweet shirt. that was fun.

last night there was a tufts open house so i had to miss small group. this place was way out in like ghetto memorial past the beltway. i went with sean but the actual thing was so boring, it made me sad cause i had to miss small group. they were supposed to pick a cornerstone topic but they didn't which is good, cause a few random younger kids keep suggesting crappy topics and it's really frustrating. like they don't understand that 3 people have to give seperate talks on it, so they suggest like "acceptance" or something. but hello, we just did JUNTOS earlier this year. and juntos rocks.

speaking of college, i'm starting to get nervous about not getting accepted anywhere. i'd be happy at UT but i would be really sad if i didn't get into any of the other 8 schools i applied to. the kids at the tufts thing last night all sounded so well rounded and had so many activities and interesting things going on and i felt so inferior. my mom has been stressing me out about it too cause she doesn't think i'll get in anywhere. great support, eh?

i still haven't decided what i'm gonna wear to senior mens. help me find something good for leia to wear.

today in ethics we talked about gun control. i don't really know what i think about it all. i need to start paying more attention to current events i guess.

and tomorrow is senior retreat. i'm actually a little bit excited cause all the pictures from last year made it look kinda fun. i hope my group is good though. but it will be fun to get to hang out with our grade causee haven't all hung out all together in awhile so i'm definetly looking forward to that.

ok i have to go write a spanish poem about my toothbrush. later.

booooored

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:15 GMT

it's almost 4:30 and i'm still at school. i'm sitting in the b wing, eating a strawberry ring pop that is quite delicious. i had softball earlier, but all i did was jog a mile and do some situps. don't tell kim, he'd be mad. oh ya, i'm waiting for sean.

today in history we watched the last samuri but i didn't really like it. and we did our tsunami chapel today. i thought it went well, did you? everyone should come to the car wash on sunday, it will be a blast. and it will be like 50 degrees but who even cares.

oh and apparently i got 2nd place in the photo contest. i didn't think the pic was all that incred, but whatever. it's of my daddy in a poncho. if i knew how to put pictures up i would show it to you. but i don't, so sorry.

tonight we have dinner with aimey, aka amy kortman, and i am so excited. i have missed her like crazy. anthony is going to have a very hard time finding another summer staffer like her. and jerry too.

i might dress up as princess leia for senior mens cause sean wants to be han solo. but all leia wears is a white robe or a gold bikini, and i'm not wearing a bikini. so that means i'd have to wear the robe, but it's just so boring. suggestions? and i don't know when we're going to go shopping cause of awesome senior retreat this weekend. psyche. nick said they were going to check our bags so we told him to fill his bag with girls underwear and tampons, but he chickened out.

my mom said if i have chronic fatigue i won't be able to play softball. i was really upset.

not.

ok well i'm gonna work on my english paper. slash i have no idea what to even do on it but i'm gonna have to make something up.

whap

Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:36:53 GMT

i'm in history. i just looked up what the sex bracelets mean and now i'm scared the computer people saw and i'm gonna get in trouble for searching for sex stuff on the internet. like i'm scared mr eisenberg is gonna walk in here right now and take my computer away. they really would.

my weekend was pretty fun. friday i went to the arc dance with katy. robert and his friend were there which was fun cause i hadn't seen them in a long time. they're so precious cause robert is in his wheelchair and he's always laughing and smiling and trying to give high-5's. and his friend just stands there dancing the whole night, taking care of robert. it's cute. you could do such incredible portraits of the people there. and i think emily baker should do it. katy and i agreed. then we went to lupe tortilla's but we left cause the waiter was taking so long. then we went to katys and mallary ate a block of cheese with a pumpkin knife, it was funny. then we sat in lauren's car, and then we went back inside and watched crappy tv. it was fun, but it made me realize that we're not as fun as we used to be, which was sad.

saturday i saw sean most of the day, and that was fun. i like that boy.

sunday was busy. brian dunnagan(sp?) spoke at church. he talked about a scary speaker who told him that fire was hot, but not as hot as hell. he also told us about his headgear and sweaty palms. it was good. then i had sos till 4. we made ribbons and painted a banner and such. then i saw sean for a tiny bit. then discipleship, which was good. jeremy said he had dinner with katie mac and i was really jealous. i miss her.

don't forget to donate your clothes and toys for rio bravo. and don't forget about the car wash on sunday, it's gonna be incred. tell everyone you know. it's at ehs from 1-5.

time to get back to work.

you're jealous

Fri, 07 Jan 2005 20:38:36 GMT

ok so i'm in spanish and i'm bored so i'm going to tell you an amazing story of something that happened to me in cancun. my family and i went to tulum and saw mayan ruins, and we went with a company on a tour bus so laynie and julia sat together and i had to sit by the stranger. the stranger was this 16 year old kid who drew anime and killer aliens the whole time and has his hair braided like a little girl. he didnt say anything to me until we were about 20 minutes from my hotel, and he had drawn this horrible picture of a girl with cat ears with like huge pamela anderson boobs and a tiny little bather top that didnt cover anything. so he wrote my name on it and gave it to me... and then he proceeded to tell me about how he loves insane clown posse and slipknot and wears eyeliner to school and all this horrible stuff. and thats the story. and no i don't have the picture, it's in a mexican dumpster somewhere in shreds. what can ya do.

in english we played the hiiiii-ya! game and it was so fun. it even made ms flournoy happy, which is incredible.

oh and sean made a live journal, it's parmasean. so go pay him a visit :)

cohen...

Fri, 07 Jan 2005 03:37:05 GMT

"hey, you smell like marissa!"

best line of the oc. hands down. thank you summer.
for the non-oc watcher: marissa is a drunkard. who keeps a flask in her chanel purse. enough said.

workin at the car wash!

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 23:48:54 GMT

thaaaaaaaaaaats right, we (sos) are gonna have a car wash! i'm so excited. it's for the tsunami relief. we're gonna try to get radio or tv stations to advertise it and everything. like it should be really big. so tell your friends and family, and go mudding or something and get your call all dirty so we can clean it!

and we made signs for mexico today and mr. nick nichols spoke in chapel and i got so excited for that too. it's gonna be like ruiz but completely different and so fun. and this is the group: me, katy, emily, sean, nick, elizabeth f, rula, and allie orzeck. how incred is that. so donate all your old clothes and toys and shoes and eeeeeeeeverything to us, the cute little mexican children need them. we're hopefully gonna set up a box at church too so fpc kids, you have to do this too. and don't hate on it cause it's sos...

and i got a b+ on my physics final, which was a nice little suprise.

but other than that this week is so worthless. i've had so many free periods. this is the second night that i have absolutely no homework. being a second semester senior is the greatest thing of my life.

this morning my computer froze 3 times when it was almost completely started up. so in all it took like at least 20 minutes to make it work. gosh i love ehs laptops. slash i can't wait to get a new computer for college.

well that was my day. i'm going to small group in a bit. toodles.

its been awhile

Wed, 05 Jan 2005 03:34:48 GMT

i haven't posted since... thanksgiving. what can ya do. i just came home from katy's. we watched troy (i had never seen it before) and it was pretty good. then instead of finishing my homework i was persuaded to take a bike ride with sean. and that was nice too. today at softball preseason virginia skelton and i were the only ones so we walked two laps around the track and were done. but it started raining so that was our excuse.
yesterday i had to go to the doctor to get tested for mono (again) and hepatitis cause i'm always so tired and there's something wrong with my liver or something. i had mono, but i hope i don't have hep. that would suck. i don't know the difference between a and b, cause i'm assuming i don't have c, but i just don't know. sean said i could have it but i doubt it.
ok, that's it, goodnight dears.

oh and congrats to vmelo for getting into plan 2!

my weekend

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:41:19 GMT

so my weekend was kind of odd. ok...

friday- sat around my house and did nothing until 7 when i went to laurens. it was me, lauren, emily, and then vg and wes too. we watched oc and made funfetti. it was good times.

saturday- woke up uber early cause laynie's friends were being soo loud. then went and got gina (jina) and winston from sjs and we went to colonial oaks and made hand turkeys and played bingo with the senior citizens. then we left and went out to sugar land for this refugee dinner thing. we did lame crafts that interfaith provided and served the dinner. it was fun. then we went to chuy's and had officer dinner and talked about nslc, etc. and winston decided he and i could be friends again! who would have thought. then he, amy, and i went to edwards and some freshman asked if he was dating amy... it was funny.

sunday- did college stuff all the day long until 6:30 when i went to emily's for the photo shoot. instead of getting a fun dress like everyone else, i had to wear my bather and galoshes and dance in the street in mallary's headlights. it was rather embarassing, especially when julian and some chick came over and i had to hide in mallary's car cause i was half naked. then i jumped in puddles and emily took pics. then i went home at 8:30 and did more college stuff with lori. sean comes home tomorrow!

the end.

first entry

Mon, 22 Nov 2004 05:08:24 GMT

so i'm jumping on the bandwagon and making one of these. how fun, right? well i don't have much to say slash this will probably be quite lame but whatev. i'm finishing my college stuff. so far i've submitted ut, bc, and pepperdine. in the next few days i will get everything done with and send in vanderbilt, tufts, wake forest, villanova, u of richmond, and william and mary. yep, thats a total of NINE freakin schools. party, eh? oh well. ok it's past my bed time, goodnight. ps sean i miss you.