halloween fun

It's been an odd week. Not bad, just kinda weird. Eric left town Friday to see his sister's baby (Dilan Preston) so I've been all on my lonesome since then. It's interesting because Eric and I haven't spent much time apart in the almost 4 years we've been together. Barring him being in Seattle a few days and me being in Korea for about a week, we haven't really spent nights apart. Friday Heather and I went down to Denver to get haircuts and to hang out. It was really nice, I think I kinda like Denver. I still need to spend more time there, but I'm discovering more and more about it that I like. After getting my hair cut, we went to a gypsy coffee house and then to a really cute thrift store. We were going dancing that night so we were kinda half-heartedly looking for a costume to wear. Lucky for us, the store had a bin of old lady wigs. We each bought one ($10 each) and decided to be grandmas for Halloween.
We thought it would be a good thing: two girls out dancing, sans boyfriends mind you, and dressed as old ladies, we wouldn't get hit on, right? No. Apparently that's not the case. You see there is definitely a Halloween trend that girls get dressed up as slutty as possible for the one night they can get away with it. We thought we'd be safe looking like this:
We got hit on a lot though, I couldn't believe it. Perhaps it was the sisters thing. Guys kept asking me if we were twins (maybe it was the matching wigs and glasses...?). Anyways, it was a good time overall but I can't believe how aggressive guys are nowadays. I haven't been in the dating world for a long time now so I wasn't aware that suddenly it's ok for a guy to come up to you on the dance floor and try to kiss you. Nasty. Other than the pushing guys away all night, it was really fun. I love going dancing.
Last night I went to a party at Lauren and Joe's. It was cool, I had more fun than I expected to.
Guess we're all caught up...Eric gets home tomorrow night and I'm glad. I miss him. I'm jealous he gets to see all of our friends and all the babies. I'll be there in a little under two months though, so watch out.

subtracting the fact that my tires suck, how cool is this?

It snowed!!!! I'm super excited. It's funny because everyone around here is like "Bah. Traffic's going to suck, boo hoo" and all the people I know from the dirty south are like "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" It's pretty great, people. I love snow.

Ketchup

Sorry for the delay in posting, there just really isn't much going on here. I worked all last week and then had a nice relaxing weekend with Eric. We bought our ski passes finally. We had to wait for over an hour to get them, people are nuts about skiing here. The first mountain has already opened. Apparently A-Basin has 16 inches of powder already. Supposedly it's the earliest any of them have ever been open. We can't take our lessons until November something, so I've still got some time. I'm super excited.
We went to see Yo La Tengo the night of the 10th. They're always a fun show. We got there while the opening band was playing (a band called Why?, they're really great) and Ira and Georgia from Yo La Tengo were at the t-shirt table. I thought that was really neat.
Other than that, this weekend was kinda boring to talk about, but relaxing for me. We tried out a new sushi place Friday night called Sushi Tora. It was pretty good. Saturday morning we biked to the market (still going on until November, that made me happy) and I went the whole 4.5 miles without stopping, which is something I hadn't done before. My legs were very achey that night. We watched the hockey game at Heather and Andrew's Saturday night (Avs lost) and Eric grilled up some delicious food for us last night.
Not much news other than that. I'm getting my graduate application packet ready. I've gotten 3 of the 4 recommendation letters I need. I guess for the last one I'm asking my boss, which I'm afraid might be weird. It's like "Hey, can you write this letter to help me leave this job?" It is a year away though, so maybe he won't be a dick about it. -shrug-

just clap your hands

Holy Moly, what a show. I haven't seen such an inspired and completely intense and energetic show in a really long time. And I have been going to some pretty incredible shows!! If Clap Your Hands Say Yeah comes to your town, folks, make an appearance. I guarantee it will be worth your while. In fact, if you don't believe me after this story, I'll eat my hat:


I got puked on tonight for (as far as I can remember) the very first time. Random drunk girl (AGAIN!!! At the same venue!!!) was of course sitting behind me and I eventually felt a kind of intense drip on my neck, which I was hoping was spilled beer. However, it was not cold. So I began to wonder...I turned to Eric and said "I think either someone just spilled beer on me or I just got puked on." I had him look at my neck and at the same time analyze the person behind me for any post-vomit signs. Apparently she was still bent over so technically she could've spilled her drink...or puked on me. So Eric, my hero, turned to her friend and said "Hey guy. Did your friend just spill her beer or did she spew?" The guy replied "I'd say its about a 70% chance that she just spewed." At this point I flipped out a bit. I'm a germophobic...Eric had to walk me to the bar and...I'll spare you the details. Anyways, how rock n' roll is that?

Despite the incredible disgustingness of this night (did I mention that I still feel a kind of burning on the area where it fell?) this was seriously an amazing show. If Clap Your Hands can give me a second album that is as good as the first, they might be my new favorite band. For now.

GRE

yayayayayayayayayayayayayayayay!!!!

I topped out my desired score by 30 points and I beat the score I needed to get into this program by 50 points! Kind of studying really does pay off!

Eric did pretty well too. He beat my score, that's for sure. But I'm alright with that.

Environmental anomaly

I seriously believe that I am probably the only person in the country to have had 3 spiders crawl on me within a 2 month period. Life just isn't fair. One was when I was sitting on the couch, calmly watching tv with Eric and this little thing (about the size of a dime, ewwww) scurries across my chest. I, of course, flipped out and starting jumping all around. Eric eventually killed that one. Then, one night I went into the bathroom right before bed and was carrying the shirt I was about to put on for PJs and this little spider goes scurrying up my leg. Luckily I have deadly aim and I swatted it with the shirt. Eric killed that one too. Then today, I'm driving in my car to pick Eric up for lunch and I feel something climbing into the sleeve of my shirt and, of course, its a spider. Luckily I was in Webroot's parking lot because I slammed on the brakes and starting freaking out. That could've been a dangerous situation. Now I'm scared to drive my car because I can't control my freakouts and that spider got away so it's lurking in there somewhere, waiting to crawl on me again. If I die in a mysterious automobile accident within the next few weeks, you guys will all know why.

So the day has finally arrived...Eric and i are taking the GRE tomorrow. Let's hope this time's better than last time. Not that last time was awful, just disappointing. I've changed my strategy this time, as well as my entire life plan. My new plan is to apply at CU Boulder for an MA in Linguistics. It's always something I've been interested in, so why not? It's also much more likely that I will get in with my current degree than the other program I was interested in. So now my studying plan for the GRE was basically "I'm not worried about Math, I'm going to bulk up my vocabulary" and that's what I've been doing. This program wants at least a 550 on the verbal portion and I'm hoping for at least a 600. If any of you have ever taken the GRE, you know that this will be a tough score to achieve, even if you're as super-smart as I am :). That test is a bitch, let me tell you. And if you are considering taking it, I offer you this advice: start studying now. It's not the SAT, you can't just breeze through it without a lick of studying, as I tried to do the first time around. Anyways, wish me (and Eric) luck. To cap off the end of the test, we're going to see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! at the Boulder Theater tomorrow night. Should be a great show, I'm pretty psyched.
Boulder is quite pretty in the fall, huh?

Alright people, due to much demand I'm considering joining up with the Myspace crowd. However, I need you guys to explain to me why it's so cool. I don't really get the point of it.