My so called life   
04:20pm 30/04/2003
 
mood: sympathetic
music: White Stripes: Apple Blossom
Got the other estimate for the car, around 2400:/, other place was over 2600 though, so this isn't bad. But for the cheap one I won't have my car for a week and a half, at least they have free loaner cars, while the other place charged 28 a day for a rental(estimated it would take 5 days to fix). Thrills and chills in the life of Kallisti.

Started to cashier today, prefer it to bagging, you get to handle all this money...get to leave for work again in three hours.

56 days 'til Europe!		  
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GIP and yay!   
12:00pm 29/04/2003
 
mood: Zany
music: White Stripes: Seven Nation Army
Got my passport in the mail yesterday! Woohoo! And damned if I don't look like my Dad in the photo(I mean, I REALLY look my Dad in it!)

Also, GIP! This is my cat Stretch...

And need to get another estimate on my car today. To repair the damage the #*&(#*%&(&@#$ moron who sideswiped me this past Jan did to it(wasn't in the car, was a hit and run, grrrr)		  
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Oh yeah   
10:34am 25/04/2003
 
mood: **Squee**
music: The cat eating(I swear this cat has a hollow leg or something)
Bought my flight to Glasgow today!!!

Kallisti's Travel Itinerary:

Hop on a bus for Chicago at 830A and get to O'Hare around noon. Leave Chicago for Newark at 4P, arrive at Newark at 722P. Leave Newark for Glasgow at 835P, arrive in Glasgow at 8A the next day. Be a very very tired and jet lagged Kallisti, but a very happy Kallisti.

Coming home I leave Glasgow at 1245P and get into Newark(I'm flying to NEWARK) at 3P. Leave for Chicago at 445P and get into Chicago at 620P. Leave Chicago for Madison on a bus at around 7 and get into Madison around 1035P.

I know you all really wanted to know that, but goddammit! I'm excited! (can ya tell? ;D)

Am sick:/ Have a cold type thingy, will get lots of sleep tonight!:D		  
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Because I AM insane   
09:29am 24/04/2003
 
mood: intimidated
music: White Stripes-Live at Madia Vale(John Peel Session), Rated X
So I got a new job as a bagger/cashier at Cub Foods, and of course they put me at 11-5 yesterday, 10-4 today, 930-5 Sat and 245-9 Sunday. And I work my main job 630Wed-9A today, 7P tonight-9A Fri, 6P Sat-12N Sunday. Only upshot is that a trained monkey can do my job.

Plus got a sore throat, hope I'm not getting sick. That would really suck, don't have *time* to be sick!

62 days 'til Europe!		  
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Job hunt continues   
06:15pm 14/04/2003
 
mood: Determined
music: Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
6 applications filled out today. Menards(insanely long, stupid and insulting. After every job they ask you if you were fired from that job and they want you to explain any breaks in employment and had spots for your last 8 jobs. And they drug test), Kohl's food stores, Shopko, Cub Foods(online with an added bonus of a personality test!), Taco John's(half a double sided xeroxed, no references needed), Noodles&Company(no references needed, but spiffy form, nicest one I've seen so far). And now my hand hurts, used to typing because, well, my handwriting sucks. Hopefully one of those jobs will hire me, I just need it for two months...72 days til Scotland!

Aaaah...no one is home!! :D Peace and quiet for once.		  
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Shameless plug...   
10:47pm 13/04/2003
 
mood: Pimping
music: Whatever is playing on WGMP
My friend's internet radio station has a new web page at WGMP Gimp Radio, I have a show every Tuesday afternoon. We also have some gear up, more to come as soon as I get off my ass and do it:).

73 days 'til Scotland...		  
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GIP, again   
12:26pm 10/04/2003
 
mood: **Squee**
music: Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu
Courtesy of the lovely [info]munchkinott

Got my lodgings in Edinburgh booked! Now, to wait 76 days...(visiting [info]munchkinott and Healey)		  
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Life is good, life is great   
11:13am 08/04/2003
 
mood: **Squee**
music: Bad Religion - 21st Century (Digital Boy)
I HAVE MY OWN FUCKING ROOM AGAIN! Sorry, had to use all caps to get the full effect. Sammy just moved out...except that he left all sorts of crap on the floor:/

Now, back to searching for a second job for Kallisti:)		  
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GIP, part 2   
03:07am 08/04/2003
 
mood: touched
music: DaRude: Drums of New York
I would have done this in one post, except that I haven't gotten access to my roommate's server yet...

This is me. (have I mentioned that webcams kick ass?)

Mmm...Red Bull and vodka is good.

Also, I have my own web-radio show tomorrow(well, okay today. If you want to get technical) It is at WGMP Extreme Radio, name is going to be changing very soon. I'll be on from around 2P CST until whenever the hell I feel like stopping(perks of having a roommate with a pirate radio station in his living room).		  
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GIP, part 1   
02:59am 08/04/2003
 
mood: touched
music: DaRude: Let the Music Take Control
My roommate has a webcam. And a frog. I'm kinda intoxicated and I thought it looked cool...		  
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*whimpers*   
05:54am 06/04/2003
 
mood: lazy
music: Clash
Homicide: Life on the Street, seasons 1&2

Now *this* I want! Only I don't want to wait until May 27:).		  
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Ahem   
04:21am 06/04/2003
 
mood: Annoyed
music: NIN
I just was woken by my two roommates having a blazing row. They were goddamned loud to wake *me* up.

Back to bed with me.		  
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Oh, if only he was still here   
12:03am 02/04/2003
 
mood: annoyed
music: Bill Hicks, Arizona Bay: Clam Lappers&Sonic the Hedgehog
[puts on pimping hat]

The events of the last two years have really made me wish that Bill Hicks was still with us. Abrasive, in your face comedy that made you laugh and think at the same time. Bound to offend most people, but once you're hooked, you're hooked. To me, the mark of a true comedic talent is one whose material is still relevent nine years after his death.

He only released two albums(Dangerous and Relentless) in his lifetime, and five(including one compilation that culled from Dangerous, Relentless, Arizona Bay and Rant in E-Minor) albums after his death in '94. More albums are supposed to be released in the near future from his audio archives.

Hear his stuff at Stern-Pope.
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I think I'm going to be sick   
05:55pm 01/04/2003
 
mood: Cynical
music: kody - your culture owns you
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15517		  
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You know...   
09:08pm 31/03/2003
 
mood: Freakish
music: Idlewild - When I See Shapes
I was going to do something useful like laundry, but then I ran across this gem on a bitter shack of resentment.

Okay, now I am really going to do laundry. And read some smut until I have to wake my roommate at 10 to lift my spirits.		  
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Quick thought on the war   
09:03pm 31/03/2003
 
mood: Worried
music: Feeder - Just A Day
The war has been on my mind a lot lately, just like nearly everyone else. I am anti-war, I think that this war was one of the worst political/military blunders of all time. I watch cable news and marvel at how biased towards the United States it is. I see the bombs falling on Iraq and hear the media puppets tout how wonderful America is and how right she is in this war.

Then I wonder about the civilians. The men, women and children who live and die in the areas we bomb. We don't hear about them on the news, you have to go to sites like Iraq Body Count and the Iraq Diaries to find out just how the Bush led war on Iraq is affecting those who live there.

On Iraq Body Count by doing some simple math we find that the minimum civlian casualty so far in this war is around 44 deaths per day, with a maximum of 53 deaths per day. And the war has barely begun. Assuming that the death rate does not increase, in one year of this war, the minimum number of civilian deaths would be around 15,861. The maximum would be about 19,445. Why don't we hear about that on the news? Why don't we see the carnage that war brings? See the faces of those we drop bombs on?

There are those who would see my views and lable me as "anti-American". To them I say that I am American, in the tradition of being able to live free of fear from the government and being able to say what I want without fear of prosecution. Supporting people who openly suppress freedom of speech and human rights to me is being anti-American, along with making a mockery of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

On a personal note, I have two cousins in the Marines right now. One is a Marine sergeant(Bryan) and the other is a Marine pilot(Cedar). Each day I wonder if my mother is going to call/email me and tell me that one of them is being shipped off to Iraq. Bryan has already been on one tour to Afghanistan and is due to be released from service in August. I was worried enough when Bryan was in Afghanistan, if either he or Cedar gets shipped off, I have this feeling that I am going to be going out of my fucking *mind* with worry. Especially if Bryan gets shipped off, since he is my baby cousin and all(I'm 7 months and 7 days older than him...).

At least Bryan was able to come home for Christmas, Cedar wasn't:/.

On a much lighter note, my roommates toaster hates me*glances down at charred cheese pizza toaster tart*. No matter how low I set the damned thing, it keeps burning them!		  
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Spot on   
07:30pm 31/03/2003
 
mood: Amused
music: Teenage Fanclub - Star Sign
http://www.bear-left.com/original/2003/0330lessons.html

In other news, I have a job interview tomorrow at 11A to do basically what I do now, provide in-home support to persons with developemental disabilities. I don't forsee any reason why I wouldn't get the job, it's not like I haven't done nearly the exact same job for the last three years or anything...*g* Oy, next month will mark year #3 at my job.

I think I see a conspiracy...next Sunday I turn 23, and us here in the US spring forward an hour...so there will be 23 hours the day of my 23rd birthday...*looks around for hidden Illuminati spies;)*		  
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Evil telephone people   
03:50pm 26/03/2003
 
mood: Bitchy
music: kody - happy & dysFUNKtional
[rant]
I just got off the phone with my new phone company. Alas, the service rep I got was a real bitch. She first argued with me, then my roommate about the phone line. Then she treated me like I was 5 years old by asking if I was paying attention when I had said "yeah" to some inane question. She then ignored my request to repeat my new phone number so I could write it down until I finally raised my voice above hers. Then she deigned it worthy that I should know my new number before launching into the next part of her speech, which was slurred and not very intelligible, I had to ask her to repeat what she said.

After that came the "try and sell you shit you don't need" phase. I'm happy to say that after I cut her off mid-speech telling her that I just wanted the cheapest plan. After that, she didn't try very hard to sell me extra things like call waiting and caller-ID. Thank God.

All of this was done in a very snotty, condescending voice.

But hey, it still took less time to set up than my last number, which was through Verizon Landline(evil phone company, don't go through them, even for cellphones) and is cheaper. Only serious downside is that I have to shell out $58 bucks to put a second line in and have to wait until April 1 for them to install it.
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What they don't show you on TV   
12:52pm 26/03/2003
 
mood: Numb
music: The White Stripes - Black_Math
Iraq Diaries

Makes me SO proud to be an American.		  
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Bother   
10:38am 26/03/2003
 
mood: Frustrated
music: Belle and Sebastian: Is It Wicked Not to Care?
So I applied for a second job, took the tests, made it through the first interview and set up a second interview for 10A today. Only to be told this morning that all the positions had been filled yesterday:(. So it's time for Kallisti to pound the streets looking for another job. Grr. Argh.

Oh well, at least I won't have to lose hours at my job now.

Did see/hang out with Kody last night at open mic, which was fun. I was even home early(1A). Of course I didn't fall asleep until nearly 5A because I ended up talking to my roommate instead of sleeping. Insomnia is one evil bitch. Sleep tonight definately, otherwise I fear that I will like fall asleep at the wheel. Which would just be bad.		  
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