"I knew I had to go to the dentist this morning so I decided to start my day off right by having cupcakes for breakfast. Turns out my smart ass attitude towards the dentists didn't go over so well as they decided they didn't like the shape of my gums and decided to "reshape" them with some sort of surgical knife. Now I'm sitting at the library with a mouthful of gauze. I feel raw, bloody and minty. But it's cool cos really I appreciate the violence of the dentist's office. It's physical pain and discomfort that I don't usually experience every day. Hardcore."

---my cousin Mike, on his webpage (see my links if you haven't visited his page...it's hilarious)

"I don't give a damn about my reputation / the world's in trouble there's no communication / and I don't really care if you think I'm strange, I ain't gonna change / so why should I care about a bad reputation / anyway?"

---song on Red CD Jenny made me...she makes the BEST CDs EVER, those five are my favorite CDs I think

March 29, 2003
Celebrate...Woo ooo!

time 6:54 pm feeling great! reading nothing wearing butterfly shirt, jeans music Chicago soundtrack, Jenny's CD ready for party time! next EAT

HELL YEAH. I am SO done with that. I just kicked all of my homework's ass in about a 36 hour period and now it's time to PARTY.

OK well I wrote 'HELL YEAH' as the start to the update an hour ago so now I'm just making stuff up. But OHH I am SO HAPPY. I got ALL my work done and then some, and it's only Saturday evening; I just made myself a great dinner; the bread I made just finished and so I ate about a million piping hot pieces of it; and there are two amazing events on TV simultaneously, right now, the KS-AZ basketball game and World Figure Skating Championships. AND pretty soon (well, four hours) I get to go to the midnight fondue party!

Back to the TV thing. By the time I'm done with this update these events will be over but they are both great athletic events. I just watched Michelle skate and it gave me the shivers. She is SO AMAZING. I cannot believe what an amazing athlete she is, not to mention her absolutely wonderful attitude. Seriously, just chills. And she's still in the sport! Talk about a role model.

I LOVE watching Sasha Cohen skate too, she is beautiful. Her form is breathtaking, but more importantly she competes like she's on fire ALL THE TIME, even when she screws up a jump or something. She's just laughing and sparkling her way through her performance. I am in awe.

AND basketball. I still can't believe the respect I have for a mainstream, ball sport! (I'll bet you can't believe it either.) I hope my kids like basketball and gymnastics. That would be great. Hopefully this summer too I will try and play basketball like I've been thinking. Don't laugh. I'm 5'4" - could be shorter! Then again if you are laughing it's probably at my lack of coordination, in that case, by all means. Anyway these guys are amazing, too. It's too bad the Badgers lost, they put up a very good fight, but one of the best games of the tournament is on right now. They are damn impressive.

I have been under a spell since Friday morning, it's like I woke up possessed. I'm still trying to shake off this spell, but finishing that h-work and knowing that I have a swank (or something) party to attend helps greatly. Anyway back to possession. Just to reiterate, the insane amount of work I was given on Monday meant that I could in no way attend Notre Dame and be gone for the whole weekend while preserving my sanity. Though I miss my teammates muchismo and am sad I let go another chance to compete and that my Dad doesn't get to see me compete, I am just amazed by the amount of work I had to do and did complete. I can't imagine what would have happened had I not been here. Anyway, the point is, I was possessed, I worked on school crap all day Friday and a great deal of the day today, without stopping, I was crazy. I was like a school demon. And now I am going to be a celebrating goddess, or something like that. However, despite my demonic possession, I did do a few fun things. Today my cousin Mike came over to visit which was very, very fun, he was in a fabulous mood and was so funny, I love hearing his stories. We live our lives in very different ways–that is, I am crazily intense about everything and he knows how to let go and have a good time–but we understand each other so very well. So that was excelente. Then this morning I went to ballet, that was another great class, I feel very good about dance right now and hope I can take it this summer, and I just made some bread. And last night I went over to Apt 1 in my pjs and hung out with Misty, Sarah, Brian, and Adam for awhile. It was fun. And THURSDAY was a great night of fun with my True Ten friends (Misty, Sarah, Susan, and Kristin; we missed the rest of ya!) just hanging out and laughing about everything and then Friday I got to talk to Sarah (Komomua) as I called her for her bday! That was also very refreshing and happy.

So you can see, I can be both a school freak and a social butterfly, or something. Now I am watching bball/updating and tonight is the fondue party. I am really excited for that for some reason, I hope my expectations aren't shot down. However there are a few things I am nervous about. One is that I will fall asleep, because it STARTS at midnight, and we all know that I can't deal with that on a normal basis any longer (I woke up before 7 naturally every day this weekend, even this morning! sadness). I will combat this by taking a nap shortly. Two is that there will be strange boys there and I will be paranoid as usual. Three is that Peter will be there and I will say something awkward now that he is back in our circle of friends. And four, oh yes, number four, is that I will get really, really drunk.

What? No. Haha you did not just read that. But it's true, while I did drink a bit on the trip to St. Barth's (you can't avoid it with the Kellys, and anyway it was a good time either way), I haven't been TRULY drunk since either the Alyssa-Lexington Express Bday Party II OR since the May Babies bday party waaaaay back last spring when Andy and Ange were there and everything went crazy. Yipes. Now, not that I am saying that I am all about drinking, obviously I am not, I mean, I have been 21 for over a half year now and I have still not been to an actual bar (I HAVE used my privileges of being 21, just not in a bar situation)(note: Misty intends to remedy this on Tuesday when we go out for little Kristin's bday), and I just am not all about that anymore. I'm just not a big drinker. Sad I know. BUT every once in awhile I'll read over drunken emails to Sarah and Matt or remember wanting to go to New Mexico and I'll wonder if I might like to feel that crazy again. So anyway, getting back to the point, we will see about that. Worse thngs have happened, and I'll be just down the street at Apt 1.

My mom is going to read this and freak out. Mom! Don't freak out! I am not an alcoholic! Just in a crazy partying mood!

Wow, I must still be possessed. I just wrote the LONGEST UPDATE EVER. I will take this as a sign that I must get going on my nap idea, as well as enjoy the last bit of the KS-AZ game. YEAH! Have a great weekend everyone, it's far from over.

EDITED TO ADD: Kansas just beat Arizona! I feel really badly for Arizona though. For some reason I wanted them to win (and no, not because of my brackets). Man what a game. Well now I guess I hope Marquette wins, even though they're a private school, because those Jayhawk fans are irritating. OK bye for real.

---Lexi