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Feb. 9th, 2008 @ 11:43 am pedestrians
One thing I really like about Port Vila is that the longer I'm here, the more smaller it seems. Like the other day, when I went to put some boxes on the ship. Before, I had no idea who any of the guys were that worked there and couldn't tell them apart from any average guy walking down the street, but now I know most of their names (I think three of them are named Steven) and have reached a comfort level with them that includes joking. Mostly on their part, but still, it's joking. Today, I was walking down the street and I saw Mama Rosie, who I hadn't seen for at least three months. I crossed the street to shake her hand, and suddenly her daughter-in-law and grandchildren appeared. All of them shook my hand, said hello, asked what I was doing and where I was going. Port Vila is random... and it's small. Even though I may not know many people, I'm sure that if I sat down and talked to any random person, we could figure out at least one person we both know, probably more. I guess this is what happens when you live in a small country!
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Feb. 7th, 2008 @ 06:43 pm yes, I still have a livejournal
So, here I am in Vanuatu wishing I had a place to record random thoughts/memories while I'm in town since it seems so gosh darn difficult for me to write letters or write in my journal while I'm here. And then I remembered I have a livejournal...

And the random thing I wanted to remember about today:
The guy wearing something that looked very similar to what Thomas Jefferson would wear. I only saw the top half because he was driving around in his air conditioned car, and I really wonder what kind of pants he was wearing with his jacket and white shirt with the weird neck-tie bow thingy. I've never seen that before... and I don't think he was wearing it because it was just the clothes he happened to pick out. And he was probably really hot. Even though he was driving around in his air conditioned car (I could tell because the windows were up), as soon as he gets to wherever he's going, he's going to have to open the door and be hit by the 85 degree heat and similar humidity. I guess it would have been even more weird (weirder?) if he was a ni-Van, but since I expect the ex-pats to be a little eccentric to start with, the major question I was left wondering was where he got something like this.

And the random rant for today:
I brought my stuff to the ship so that I'd actually have food when I get to the island. The guys that work on the ship spent a lot of time while I was there asking me if I wanted to go to Forland and how I was getting back to my island. Then, they laughed when I told them I was flying... I would take the ship, but I'm afraid they'll dump me in some random village and run away from me again! The little punks thought it was hilarious the last time I chose to travel by ship they dropped anchor in a village, sat there for three hours, finally sent us to shore, and then started the engines at 4am and left all of us passengers stranded there. They did have an excuse with the tropical depression getting stronger, but I don't understand why it's such a big joke that they left me behind to walk the two hours back home.
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May. 15th, 2006 @ 06:39 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: calmcalm
Current Music: Don McLean
I was told once that it takes a lot of work for an adult to maintain personal friendships. I'm beginning to realize how true this is, now that I'm out of school and can't just run into half the people I know just by leaving my apartment. In less than a week, I'm off to camp and another summer of isolation from the real world. Which isn't all that bad, but it can have its downsides. I will be isolated with some pretty wonderful people in a pretty cool place, but it's nice to get snail mail from other awesome people (I don't want to post the address here, so if you want it, let me know and I'll get it to you).

We got a new puppy, and I spend most of my time teaching it bad habits. Like how to wrestle. Right now he thinks hands are chew toys, thanks to me. My dad asked me when I was going to camp, and when I told him I was all packed, he said something about "as soon as gas prices go down, you're leaving, right?" I love my dad. But I wonder what he would do if I pointed out to him how much money he'd save if I wasn't here eating his food - I'd probably be gone within the hour. Besides teaching the dog tricks, my second hobby is eating my parents' food and gaining weight. For some reason, I eat the same but my metabolism is a little different without all the cross-campus trecks I don't make.

I don't want to grow up and join the real world. I want to go back to first grade, when I didn't have homework, and I played with toys and read books all afternoon.
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Apr. 8th, 2006 @ 06:59 pm (no subject)
I've given up statistics for juggling. This can only make me a better person, I believe.
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Mar. 26th, 2006 @ 02:06 pm personality
Current Mood: cheerfulcheerful
Current Music: U2
ok, so I sometimes think that quizzes are annoying, but not today... and I felt like avoiding my homework, and being a psychology major I picked this one:
Your Personality Profile

You are funky, outdoorsy, and down to earth.
While you may not be a total hippie...
You're definitely one of the most free spirited people around.

You are very impulsive - every day is a new adventure.
However, you do put some thought behind all your actions.
Still, you do tend to shock and offend people from time to time!


This is a one-question test. I'm taking a tests & measurements class right now, and we're talking about item validity and reliability, as well as instrument validity. But if I hadn't been taught to criticize personality tests (and other tests as well), I would say this test is pretty accurate. And just in case you're doubtful about my personality profile given this quiz, let me just say that later this afternoon I'm going hard-core ravining and I just bought a pair of rain boots for when spring finally comes and we get rain 3 days a week. And I decided today I'm going to Mississippi after exam week to do some hurricane relief work.
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Mar. 6th, 2006 @ 09:23 pm How long, Jenna?
Current Mood: thirstythirsty
Current Music: iPod shuffle
So, I have all this homework that needs to get done. I've even gone as far as to make to-do lists for each day of small, manageable chunks. Am I doing it? No. Of course not. Mostly, I'm reading Count of Monte Cristo, sleeping, and annoying my parents. (Which, by the way has hit a whole new level - they just put in a laminate floor in their bedroom, and every excuse I get to go in there, I attempt to slide all the way across the room. I figure it's making up for all the exercise I can't do this week, and it's worth it to see my mom get annoyed and amused at the same time.)

I brought my iPod home with the speaker set I got for Christmas, and it just played two Phil Collins songs in a row, even though it's set on random. Statistically, there's a 1.56% chance of that happening. Or maybe it's just because my iPod knows how much I secretly like Phil Collins.

I'm amused whenever I post because I get a message saying that my password is too easy to guess. I defy anyone to crack my password. (Yes, that is a challenge.) Until somebody guesses what it is, I'm going to assume that my password is excellent, and it's going to stay as it is.
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Feb. 25th, 2006 @ 08:50 pm Memories
Current Mood: mellowmellow
I'm going to go to bed as soon as I'm finished writing this. At 9:00 on a Saturday night. I'm like an old lady. Maybe, I'll go right from college to a nursing home. I bet there I'd be able to go to bed at 9:00 if I wanted to. I could also spend the day watching movies there like I did here. No sense in growing up and getting a real job - I'm just going to live in a nursing home after college. It's probably where I'm going to end up anyway, so why not just make it easier and go there right away? How sad is that. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in a nursing home, no matter how long I'm there. So indecisive.

One thing that I have decided, however, is to keep this darn thing that takes up a lot of time, even when I choose not to update for weeks at a time. I've been thinking I wanted to get rid of it for awhile, but after submitting to peer pressure and joining facebook and being excited by novelty of it, I realize that this thing is valuable, after all. Livejournal is like old school facebook, but instead of "how many friends can I find & stalk" it's a great place to keep memories. Prompted by Jenna (& Jakki, who did the same thing awhile ago), I went back and read a few entries from when I first started this thing. I've been able to remember things I've thought, felt, and did. And then a few years later, like now, I'm able to go back and understand how I've become the person I am now. What path I took to get here, and remember the person I was along the way.
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Feb. 24th, 2006 @ 12:57 pm (no subject)
Current Mood: chipperchipper
Current Music: Aretha Franklin
It's official, I think I went crazy roughly three years and 27 days ago. I'm still recovering.

I invented a new style of dance called "the Oegie" It looks something like The Freddy, only there's spinning around involved and can be done to any song.

I'm going to walk into a restaurant and order four fried chickens and a Diet Coke.

And remember, there's no wrong way to eat a Reese's. You can try, but you won't find one.
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Jan. 21st, 2006 @ 11:19 pm (no subject)
Something about Cran-Hill people puts a smile on my face. And when there's a group of us together, look out.
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Dec. 24th, 2005 @ 02:31 pm catnip
I can't be home long without something interesting happening. Yesterday I went shopping with my mom, and one of the stops we made was to PetCo to get something for our two cats. One who probably wouldn't play with anything we bought and one who plays with everything he can get his paws on. I almost had my mom in the checkout lane after talking her out of several things the cats don't really need when she decided she wanted to get some catnip. So we grabbed the cheapest container and continued to check out. We should have sprung the extra $.30 for the more expensive container, because I'm convinced it was all packaging.

Last night, my parents locked the cats in their bedroom to keep them out of trouble while they went out to eat. We (meaning myself, my brother and my sister) stayed home to keep US out of trouble, too. When my parents came home, I knocked on their bedroom door to give them something. My mom opened it and pointed at her bed, on which Leo was laying. Besides looking a little dazed, nothing looked odd. And then I looked carefully at the quilt, and spread all over it was catnip. Not only did Leo (at least I think it was Leo) manage to remove the container from the plastic bag, he also removed the plastic lid with his teeth. He must have spent a long time trying because there were many teeth marks on that lid. And by the time we found him, Leo was stoned, and Alta looked a little high, herself.
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