radio_emergency's Journal

last night i went dumpstering with my roommates and we got a lot of great food.
we started at odwalla. and they locked it! wtf. so we left with nothing. when we got to the end of the road we decided to go back and stick gum in the locks.
we were pretty bummed about this.
we then went to tropicana. WHICH WAS ALSO LOCKED.
we tried and get in and were feel a little discouraged. so i decided to bend the plastic cover inward so we could get in. and it worked. we got a ton of stuff there including orange juice, naked juice, "purely" stuff. (the stuff that comes in the odd shaped clear plastic containers). and some other juices.
then we went to trader joes and got a ton of stuff. bags of bananas, bread, crumpets, pita bread, clementines, and a bunch of other stuff. i found a guacamole kit.

i got in bed at around 3 though. and had to wake up at 7 to do the homework i didnt finish before we went out.

school and being in my new apt are not coming soon enough. i cannot wait for school to start.. i looked at my class schedule and every class but 1 is in the building on the roxbury side of campus. not that anything is far away from anything else, but its cool to be able to ride and show up on the side where my classes are.
i need to find a job once im in boston. it needs to be at night, not shitty, and part time. search starts this week.. ill bus tables. i dont care.

luckily this semester is my semester of only 15$ i need to buy in books.
all this loan shit and fafsa shit is taking forever to latch onto my account. i have a previous balance and if it doesnt fix itself by sept 3-9 when i can do "i am here" registration i am going to be really annoyed.

very busy day.
woke up, cleaned the carpet for my room and cut it down to the size it needed to be.
then packed up my dads car for a trip to boston to the new place.
took everything out of my room and put the carpet in. put everything back in my room and organized it. now i just need to get a shelving unit for my closet, have decided on a bunch of milk crates or a metal shelving unit from target.

then i got home and went shopping with my mom for some new running/workout shoes, she had a coupon and i got a pair of the same ones i use now. i like them and im pretty happe about getting a 2nd pair. went to a TON of different stores to look for floor lamps, my room has no ceiling light!!! so i found a cheap one at target i like but the one in enfield was out, tomorrow i need to drive up to holyoke and get it.
went to marshals and got a sweet bamboo cutting board for cheap, a really nice knife for cheap, and a bread knife for cheap. also got a bath mat at ocean state job lot.

every time i go to the new place i get really happy and stoked to be living there. i love everything about it more than my old place. my dad likes it. we put the table together and moved the fridge into place.

i just want school to start. im so excited about this coming year i cant stand the waiting.

tomorrow im going to target in the morning, then tofu agogo, then comcast to see what kind of in person deals they have for internet and tv. i know i shouldnt get tv, but the only shows i watch are on right now and i dont care about anything else. maybe ill get the 6month intro special and then cancel when price goes up.

tonight was supposed to be really fun punk show in new haven. it ended up being 1/2 lame 1/2 fun night of swimming./
i text some people looking for the address of fucking discovery because i couldnt find any fliers with the street address.
was waiting for reply and thought i would spend time doing necessary shit for student loans. so i filled out a form and couldnt figure out how to do the rest. so i called the hotline. got an automated response that said they would call back in 45 minutes. so 10 minutes before call back i get the address. i dont want to have wasted the time and thought i did everything except the part i didnt know what to do. then my mom heard me on the phone and people told me i need a cosigner. so she gave her info and we had to fill out another 3 pages of forms or whatever. and by the time we were done and my forms were in i was too late for the show.

i waited around a little bit and my friends called me and told me they were going for ice cream and a swim. so i tagged along to friendlys hoping for sorbet when all they had was sherbet and we went swimming,.

i had a meeting today. im pretty stoked on some things. and equally as bummed on other things.
i got back to my place in boston and its fucking gross. there are a ton of dishes in the sink. the counters are gross, we have a mouse, and it smells, the bathroom is dirty.

i saw an apt today i really really liked. i just wish the rest of my friends could see it. if we all cant find a place im seriously considering adding money to student loans and getting a studio apt. living in this place will make me crazy.
tomorrow im seeing more places with ryan. might see if he wants to swing by the place i saw today. its getting down to the wire though. which sucks. i know i would be trading if i moved into a studio, and it wouldnt really be able to have people over still, but at least i would be accountable only to myself. well see what happens to this place.

i cannot wait to move out of my place. more text messages. i can just hear her passive aggressive voice. i do not believe i did anything to wrong her, but you cant be everyones friend. so with my new place i will take a positive attitude with me. my moving out should make her happy. she text me about how it was rude to leave without telling her a month in advance. and i know that. i fully accept all responsibility for finding a new person in the allotted time period. and its actually illegal to do that also. i need to give 30 days notice.
i really hope we get this place

lotus fucker were fucking awesome at whitney house. hanging out with dan brian and brian was fun. they slept over and we watched most of bourne identity. decided against going to boston the next day because im a baby and didnt want to drive in the rain. so i hung out in wmass instead and had tofu agogo then saw funny people.

i still need to take my asl placement exam since my return from dc. ill do it next week.
i need to see when im working first though because they are cutting hours like crazy and i need gas money.
will see how it all goes.

heres a vid i had to post.

new york was really fun.
bus ride there sucked. took about 6 1/2 hours from dc to nyc.
got there and went to the place i stayed and then went to red bamboo.
food was good and then slept.
woke up early and went the to the union square farmers market. it was fucking amazing. so many awesome fruits and veggies for so cheap.
i also got these hard bakes amish pretzel type things that were very very good.
after that i walked on this new walkway in the meatpacking district. its called the highline.
its this walkway you cant bike or roller blade on. in the middle of the district.
there is a bench area where you can sit and watch the road from behind a glass wall. its very awkward. then hung around chinatown and ate veggie dim sum. it was very good. i mean excellent.

while walking on saturday i saw tracy morgan. he was driving a lamborghini and didnt have a shirt on. i got some pictures and will post later.

tonight i went to an amazing talk at gallaudet.
a woman gave a presentation about black deaf culture
it was really amazing. she talked about the history of black deaf education.
she also went into what it means to be black and deaf. whether you identify as black or deaf first. what it means to be part of the black deaf community. she said that the black community isnt very connected with the deaf black community.
i also learned that when schools were segregated there was a BSL (black sign language) they had different words for some things and also a different syntax and signing style. some of their style made its way into ASL when the schools were integrated.
great talk.

im learning a ton in this class. but today i got really really angry.
the whole class is basically group projects. and there are 11 people in our class. groups of 2 is going to leave 1 person out. and of course i am that person. (which would be fine if i were able to just work alone)
but the teacher said i need to join a group. she asked me why i dont want to work in a group and i said that i prefer to work alone sometimes. and i found out for certain why when i met with this one girl.
she kept talking to me about asl poetry and marginalizing certain types of poetry as if some were better than others. i can tell you for certain abc stories that are good are extremely hard to make up.
i explained this to her and she kept talking to me like she was my fucking teacher and knew what was right. im fucking 23. you may be older than me but you are not right. dont talk down to me. i cant stand when people do that.
it sucks, no one in class understands this girls signing, and when she doesnt understand you, she just wants you to voice. arg.

i didnt do a whole lot yesterday but it was a lot of fun actually.
brian haley brian and tim slept over 2 nights ago and it was fun. we all hung out,
in the morning we went to sticky fingers.
after i went to verizon because my phone is broken again.

the sound works only when its on speaker phone. this is terrible news, because i generally loath talking to people while on speaker phone, so i dont generally do it in public.
they told me they were sending me another "new" phone. i asked them if it was new or just another certified "like new" phone that would break again. he said like new. im hoping it breaks again so i can complain and just get a different phone.
ive come to the realization that touch screens are nice, but i get so scared the screen will break its like a constant thing on my mind.

dc is still great. now i only have 3 roommates as 1 is leaving and will not return until i am gone.
speaking of leaving, my parents are flying me home because they are going to a family reunion i have no interest in attending myself. so they are picking up the things that will not fit in my bag or on the plane and are flying me home. this cuts commute from 6 hours to about a 45 minute plane ride, plus the obvious 3 hours wait time in the airport which still isnt that bad. ill just pack up my computer and use that in the airport.

tonight i felt really awkward at the show i went to.
i only knew my roommates there and im a little bad at meeting people.
but i hung out with peoples dogs who were hanging around.

on a positive note - class is amazing
i love my teacher and my grades are the best in the class. (the teacher told me straight up, which was a little awkward)
im biking a ton and my legs are getting stronger.
i still need to figure out what to bring for lunch that wont cost me a ton of money. im eating cereal for breakfast and usually soup or black bean burger at schoo, but i feel like i can make a cheaper lunch to bring if i had access to a microwave and refrigerator.

tomorrow i think i will be going to harry potter if i can get a ticket and then sneaking into bruno.
and i might ride by the real world house tomorrow.

i almost cried today.
i went to the mall (museums, white house, etc) today with a friend from boston, and we were walking to get food.
a bird had fallen into a fountain of water and couldnt jump out. so i went over and picked it up and took it out of the pool.
but it still couldnt fly away. so i put it on a grassy patch of area and left it. i hope it dries off and doesnt die.
i just feel so bad.

1st week of classes done. i need it to wind down. and do prevent myself from going crazy.
some of the kids in my class are very annoying. and their signing is not what it should be in this class.
i hang out with a few of the people in the class who are at the level they should be at.
im not regretting taking the course because i need to sign, but most of what we are going over i have learned and just need to practice/do because i have been out of class for a while. next week we start new material.
today i am going to an art critique in sign language.
and maybe hanging out with someone from boston who is here at gallaudet doing a linguistic study

started class today. i like my teacher. he reminds me of my old teacher. and hes from east hartford. ct is everywhere!
finished class and rode downtown to eat at java greens. shit got real expensive.
got hit on my bike but was able to save myself without falling or breaking my bike.
got a guided tour of the campus which was fun.
one of the guys who went to northeastern is here for the month. nice to know someone, but ive met a few people since ive been here who are nice.
my ass kills from all the riding. i need to invest in padded pants.

holy shit. this house im subletting in is fucking huge. my room is awesome. little hot but cant complain at all.
stopped by sticky fingers and got a bun.
tomorrow im going to ride around the city. need to talk to steve about possibly having him true my new bike.
i also want to stop by gallaudet for a minute and check my stuff and take a look around.
im going to take some picture of gallaudet and the house tomorrow and post them.

had a really good time tonight at boston beer works for the asl night.
saw a lot of people who i havent seen in 5 weeks and had some great conversations. also met a lot of awesone new people.
im trying to find someone to sublet my room. so far craigslist has not turned up anyone good.
this means i will be paying for my place in boston while in dc.

tomorrow i need to finish cleaning my room. everything i can pack is packed. just need to put shit in the car.
cant believe i leave for dc in 1 week. im very very excited.

my parents neighbor might be able to fix my old broken computer for free. this would rule. i want a computer i dont mind breaking to take with me places. in the event that i breaks or drops i wont be really bummed. only mildly.
my parents are hanging in dc for 2 days sightseeing in dc.
my deaf friend is coming down at the end of the month into the next month with her family so i will hang with her for an afternoon.
some other people i know may be coming through and interested in hanging out

im also scrambling on craigslist to find an old bike. mine is broken. dont know that i will be able to fix it before i leave.

today is
cooking with friend
working for dad. - this will be more annoying now because my dads foreman is in the hospital so it will definitely take longer than i wanted.
finally made a list of all the records i want to sell. i should have just done it on the computer and not a notepad.
my parents have a scanner. maybe ill try that.
i got another letter from the 2nd health care provider i have. i canceled it because im insured through my folks, but they didnt file paperwork correctly. so now i need to cancel this and get my 3 grand back from northeastern.

today i hiked the metacomet trail and got to the top where there is a beautiful view. i pulled out my camera and turned it on to realize that it is broken. the screen only shows purple lines and shadows.
then i got back and my dad asked me if i could work for a couple hours and i said yes and got free dinner out of the deal.

i miss boston so much. im saving a TON of money. which is really awesome. but all i do is work and watch movies by myself.
i dont even know when im going back next. i work weekends and the week. i get to hang out with my dog which rules. but not worth it.
i miss going to the gym too. which is being renovated for the next 3 weeks. so i guess i cant miss that right now.

i need to go back and fix my bike before i leave. i think im going to fix it into a single speed. i just need to flip the hub and put a brake on so i dont die.
i need to decide if i want to bring my car to dc.
i need to make a list of what to bring.

the registry of interpreters for the deaf or RID is having its bi-annual conference in philly this year. i want to go a lot. but i dont know anyone in philly really. one person who i havent talked to in a very long time. so i need to decide if i should try couch crashing through acquaintances or just put the whole thing off. its really expensive (350) but i thing the experience would be amazing.

still wicked happy.
found a sublet in dc with brad. im stoked im not living with some random off craigslist
now all i need is a new place boston so i can live with friends.
working is ok (movies)
i hate working for my father. although every time i do it i appreciate him that much more.
i need to decide when to go down to dc. i really want to go for the whole month. but i want to see 2 of the sick fix coke bust shows also. im torn. and if i stay i can work tons and tons of hours at the movie theater.
also need to decide if i want to bring my car down.

in other news.
i got out of work and someone left a copy of the book a tale of 2 cities on my windshield wiper.
i have never read that book and i consider a gift from the book gods.

i need to talk to ryan about my bike
i need to talk to brad again about more specifics of the apt.
i need to possibly get transferred the the theater in DC so im not broke when i come back to boston.

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