sorry

i could have sworn i posted this already. but anyway, i haven't died, i have switched to a xanga, found here: www.xanga.com/saraikristi
sorry.

conceding defeat

alright, i'm horrible, i know, but i am now completely transferred over to xanga. sorry all. see me here: www.xanga.com/saraikristi

and the first people to sing the star spangled banner were...the eagles!

hmm. i've realized that the voices arguing in my head about colleges are actually more annoying than my parents, because i know my parents are cool with anywhere i decide to go. its the little voices in my head that are agravating, going back and forth- 'harvard, for free!' 'but does it really have what you want?' 'but its harvard! for free!' yah. getting ahead of myself a bit though, i haven't even applied yet.
today was an interesting day at work. those of you who have been following my blog for a while will remember my famous celebrity look a like phase. well today, bob huggins really did come into kroger. i was standing right next to him apparently, and didn't realize it. what was really funny was i was outside on my break a couple minutes after he left and cory came up. he's going to uc and is a big fan. and brenda told him he just missed bob huggins . he was like, are you serious? and he asked how long ago he left, and we told him it was just five minutes and he got upset. apparently he's seen huggins a couple other times, cuz he comes in sporadically, but he said he wouldve given him a hug, even if he'd ended up getting sued for sexual assault or something. otherwise it was a typical, long day at work. oh wait, it wasn't quite. garret (my sis's boyfriend) came in, which was interesting i said hi, and he said hi, and then we were like, yeah... after he left, cody, one of the baggers i haven't talked to much, came up and asked me if i was amy's sister, and i said i was, and it turned out he was garrets step brother. and then don was talking with me and cody about vampires, and how hes going to start a crystal methodist church that makes sacrifices to the great vampire in the sky. all kidding, because thats just how don is. he comes up with such random topics all the time, which some people think is just strange, but i like him, i think he's funny. reminds me a bit of corey , actually.
what else... prince of egypt has been stuck in my head all day. second period gets to do the song let the river run, which i absolutely love, and i'm jealous. transcripts have been indefinitely postponed, which makes me sad. oh, i realized that when i start driving a lot, back and forth to college, i will also start working less, because i'm only available TFSS, because of night classes, so i will have less money, and all of it will probably have to go towards gas. did i mention how the radio made the prediction it will hit 5 bux around us? in lousiana its already around 6. i feel so bad for those people, the victims of katrina. i heard just after it happened some political figure had described it as 'our tsunami' and i thought they were exagerating, but really, entire cities have been wiped out. entire cities. i haven't seen pictures, i've just been hearing about it, because i don't like watching the tv news for various reasons, and we don't get the paper during the week, but just thinking about it is incomprehensible. entire cities, just gone. and they're talking about rebuilding, but how long will that take? can you imagine how long it would take to rebuild a city? it takes long enough to rebuild a single house, but an entire city? i keep thinking of atlantis. i know these cities aren't entirely underwater, and they're not gone forever, but they have been completely wiped out, for the moment. its horrible. and besides that damage, there's thousands dead....
to change back to a more happy topic, my room is completely clean and organized, but for my closet. tackling my closet will take over every inch of space with piles and such, so i'm enjoying my clean room for a couple days before i do that. but seriously- bookshelves, dresser drawers, desk, under the bed, chair, desk drawers, corner in front of the closet, jewelry boxes.... all clean and organized. i'm very proud.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Book My Flight On the Second Star to the Right.

Those of you with xangas, i now have a xanga account- saraikristi . i'm just going to copy entries to both.
I knew it, i knew i shouldn’t have told my mom about that harvard deal. Because she got all excited and she told my dad, and now my dad told my grandpa, and at the moment they are discussing my extracurriculars and different awards. Gaa. And i’ve always been planning on applying there, at least, just to see if i’d be accepted, but i’m not sure i’d want to actually go there or not. Even with this new financial deal...i’m not sure. But if i do get accepted, with everyone all excited about this new deal thingie, esp if its what it sounds like, it’ll be a lot of pressure. I mean, the little money concerned voice in my head would be pressure enough, i don’t need everyone elses voices to add to it. Speaking of financial stuff, i need to go look more closely at the scholarships i pulled off of fastweb and start working on them. Or at least go finish organizing my room, which i’ve actually made pretty fair progress on. Both those would involve going upstairs though, and listening to my dad discuss my college application resume with my grandpa, which i don’t feel like listening to.
Really i haven’t been doing much lately. Pretty much i’ve just been working on organizing my college and scholarship stuff, and my room in general. I’ve got my list of colleges down to 17 that i’m looking at now, isn’t that good news. Oh, and we all (me phyl rachel krystal miles) went out to breakfast at ihop the other day, like we did last year. We even had the same waiter. It was a bit freaky, actually, we were even at the same table. I think the only difference was that phyl drove everyone this time, and we ordered (slightly) diffferent foods. But speaking of driving, i’m going to rant about gas prices for a few sentences. Up until now, the worst jump in price i’d seen was 26 cents in a five hour time period at the gas station near the college, and the worst price i’d seen was 2.99 at a gas station in yellowstone. Today, the gas station right by my house went from 2.53 to 3.09 in TWO hours. Fifty six cents in two hours. I know its because of the hurricane and all that, but really. I had avoided seeing a 3 in the dollar spot until now. Even in yellowstone, although it was only one tenth of a cent off of three dollars, it didn’t have a three there. I’d hate to see what gas costs are there now. And to switch from gas back to driving, i take my test on sept. 13, so i should have my license very soon, and before college starts. Wish me luck, and i’ll pray i don’t knock the stupid cones over, even tho they deserve it.
And i think people are getting happier again, which is a good thing. For a day or two, it seemed like almost all my friends were broken. Honestly, i haven’t talked to any party from two of the three broken couples that were making me sad, but miles and krystal seem happier for now, which is a great thing. And i actually have got a poem about this at my gallery, if anyone would care to look- book my flight is the title. And.....i think i’m about done now.

You be quiet, I’ll be right.

I Sound Like a Prep...

i'm still alive, really, don't hurt me! okay, i know i have a month to catch up on pretty much, so i'm either going to leave a lot out or make this really long or both. so we'll start with michigan. on the way to michigan i finally got my digital camera- *BIG GRIN*. heehee, its fun. the week i was in MI i was going through four batteries a day pretty much, i was playing so much. i've got cute pics of my uncles puppies up at my gallery. and theres many more coming of sunsets and beaches and mountains and wildlife.........but i'm getting ahead of myself. yah, not much interesting happened in MI. bridal shower, family reunion, etc etc. came home about 11 pm, left again for the airport for idaho at about 5 am. little earlier actually. so now about my two weeks in ID......

we went camping, had horseback riding lessons, half hour trail ride. saw bison, antelope, moose and elk all in picturesque settings in a single day. while i'm on wildlife also saw a coyote really close, wolves and a bear through a spotting scope really far away, bald eagles, lots of birds, a zillion bison, a few more random moose and elk, a marmet and picca (sp?), and more. my aunt declared me a wildlife charm. said she saw more with me in two weeks than all year. anyway, back to events. went kayaking, backpacking, horseback riding again- 2 hour trail ride this time- canoeing/bear tracking, hiking, more camping, exploring yellowstone, and best best best of all- PARAGLIDING!!!!!! that was awesomeness.

thats idaho in a nutshell, too tired to do more than that. since coming home- school started, went back to work. let them know i wasnt dead, all that. hadn't quit. not as many new people as i'd thought there be, but i might just not have worked with them yet.couple new procedures though. school wise, as i've already posted, bartons gone. new news on that- teacher is mrs. hansford. i'm not sure how other people feel about her exactly, i think we're all kind of afraid still of somehow offending mrs barton by liking hansford to much, but i'm getting really excited about this year. she knows what mrs. b was trying to do with the choir programs, and shes promised to build on that, not backtrack or tear it down. and she has something mrs. b doesnt...discipline maybe, because she doesn't love us too much to discipline us, which i always thought was a bit of a problem for mrs. b, bless her, was that she loved us too much. and she seems more organized, which could be a good thing. on top of that, 1st period is 27 people big, with- get this- FOUR guys. to non choir people this sounds like nothing, i know, but its really incredibly monumental. 2nd period i'm not commenting on, i dont think they've changed much. if so, i think its worse. and shes KEEPING show choir. didn't have to send nasty letters to the board of ed to keep funding after all. history is fine, although i realized theres people in my class i haven't seen since middle school practically. actually, i really haven't seen danny or adam except for maybe a couple glances since 6th grade. i hadn't realized how long i'd been away from regular classes. last news-we get our transcripts on thursday. its scary how much that excites me, but eh, thats who i am. course, strathern already warned us that the computers might not cooperate with said date. that would make me very sad. i really want to see how pseo classes translate onto our high school transcripts. anyway, i think i'm caught up now, at least in general. oh, and theres a couple new poems at my gallery as well, and there will be plenty more pictures coming, believe me.


It will be a wonderful day when our schools have all the money they need and the airforce has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.

maybe tomorrow

hello again. i have returned from chicago and have a few days yet before i must go sprinting off again. i'm really way too busy this summer, its flown by. like, i haven't even bothered to start a back to school countdown yet. usually by the middle of july i'm counting down days and haunting back to school supply sections. i haven't gone completely unaffected by the scent of new notebooks, though. i passed by the back to school sections in target and kroger today, and i now have an irresistable urge to completely organize my room. everything- closet, desk, dresser, under the bed, bookshelves...crazy talk, as many of you know, because it would take weeks to do all that, and i leave again on wednesday. before i leave, though, i suppose i should write some about chicago, shouldn't i? well, i'm not one for big cities in general- too big, noisy, and confusing for my taste- but chicago was beautiful, and if i was going to live in a city, i'd live there in a heartbeat. plus, it has lake michigan. my favorite spot was the bare stretch of marina between the planetarium and the aquarium, where you can look across and see the skyline, and see lake michigan stretching forever as well. the edge of the world, as abby says. the entire trip is a blur, we did so much so fast, but i'll see what i can remember off hand. the blue man show, thats first thing i remember after that marina. they were absolutely awesome. they were kind of like stomp, only they acted like mimes and made each number into a little comedy skit. they were really big on audience participation, too, and it was just a blast. and we got to see a dolphin show at the aquarium, and beluga whales. the planetarium wasn't too exciting really. the omnimax show there was actually disappointing, to tell the truth, although the preshow interactive screen thingie was good times. we toured chicago in good weather by a boat down the river, and also by bus during downtown traffic in the rain (the ferry tour was more enjoyable and more informative and interesting). we went up sears tower, pretty views. we stopped at a thousand and one gift shops, maybe more. when we went to navy pier, me devan, abby, jessica, and katie all walked down to a beach, which was really neat. it was a small beach but it formed a ninety degree angle with the city, so that immediately on your left is the beautiful chicago skyline and stretching forever in front of you is lake michigan. we went to a mcdonalds of the future- other than decorations and size, nothing was different from your mcdonalds of the present except everything was about twice as expensive- five bux for a kids meal, almost! museum of science and industry was nice, we played video games and bought grow-your-own corn out of one of those quarter machines. oh, and we 'drove' a tractor. that should cover most everything, i believe. tour, musuem, planetarium, marina, aquarium, tower, blue man, beach, navy pier, ferry tour...yep, i think i covered everything.


Philosophy is the talk on the cereal box, religion is the smile on the dog.

neunundneunzehg luftballons

well, today was an interesting day at work. apparently, our ice machine was leaking water, and we had an older lady slip and fall. at first i was afraid she'd broken something, but the worst of it, i think, was that she'd hit her head and she had a cut around her eye from her glasses that was bleeding pretty badly. they called an ambulance, though, just to be safe, and everyone was gawking and staring and asking what happened.

thursday night was our summer academy presentation for upward bound. since our theme all summer has been the science of art, our presentation was 'a night at a german kaffehouse' (and i know i spelled that wrong). we all got to dress in black and be beatniks, and it was quite fun. and then melinda and her tech whiz brother had put together slideshows of pictures of us spliced with music videos, so me and abby and brij and karma and jesse and a few others were all dancing on the sides of the room and having a good time. and then we did a singalong to the 80s song 99 luftballons by nena, in original german, and it was fun, but sad also, because me and abby decided the song was dedicated to dieter, our german teacher, because we might not ever see him again, as he's not coming to chicago. he hadn't realized that yet, when we pointed it out to him, and he seemed to be in denial of that fact, and said he'd visit during saturday academys.

and i am still slowly posting mexico posts, i've got the first three up now.



ninetynine dreams i have had, in everyone a red balloon. its all over and i'm standing pretty, in this dust that was a city. if i could find a souveneir, just to prove the world was here...and here is a red balloon, i think of you and let it go.