I swear I love you by the moon above you/ How bright it is shining in your world/ Some morning when you wake up all alone/ Just come on home to your blue Kentucky girl
01 May 2012 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: Celebrity Apprentice, Emmyloud Harris, epilepsy, Kubrick
So,
Every once in a while I can almost fool myself into thinking that I don’t actually have epilepsy. It’s been years since I’ve had a seizure. And the only time I get jerks are when I go overboard on the drinking (twice in three years) or when I’ve taken birth control. Well, I’ve wondered whether I’d be okay if I didn’t take my meds but I’ve always been to afraid to try it (it’s really quite stupid to stop taking them, I know). Anyway, I didn’t take my meds Sunday night because I wasn’t at home. I was fine Monday morning. Hurray! BUT then this morning sucked. No seizure, but I had the jerks. So I had to stay in bed extra and take my b-6 and magnesium. It made me feel kinda sad. By the time my mom was my age, she didn’t have to take her medication anymore.
Anyway. I had a rather productive school day today. Now I should do paperwork (I’m at home), but I just want to watch Sunday night’s Celebrity Apprentice.
I saw that Roger Ebert edited his list of top ten movies of all time. You know what movie he added? Tree of Life. I hated that movie. Sheesh.
On Kottke, there was a link to a collection of photos Kubrick took on the NYC subway in 1946. This is my favorite:
I think I’ll make carrot cake sometime this week.
Agnes
Ooops
30 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
Typo. That’s what I get for not reading through things before posting. I’m almost 27. Still 26. Ha.
“This does not taste like Twix.” “Not Twix. Twigs.”
30 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
I originally wanted to put the photo of myself with Doug Benson on this post, but my stupid work laptop would not load the photo unless it was a separate post. Anyway. Woo Doug Loves Movies! Look at the previous post for the photo!
I’m watching Girls now on HBO Go. It’s pretty funny. Is it bad that I feel too old to be watching it?
“See this is what you do. You act like I’m uptight. And then I follow suit. I become uptight. It is the most frustrating dynamic on the planet.” One of the female characters just said that. Before that, I was going to write about how I hate it when other people make me feel that I’m needy. Because I’m not. I don’t ask for favors. I don’t ask people to do things for me or give me things or whatever. I’m not demanding. I’m not time consuming. So I hate being made to feel as though I am. But I feel like you can substitute anything with the “uptight” in that quotation. Including “needy.” And it holds true in relationships, friendships, anything. Bleah. I’m tired. Really tired.
I saw Rica through the window sitting on the bed when I was walking around Lincoln Park over the weekend. She was a nice dog.
I’m never very good at defending myself when people accuse me of things. Any sort of things really. From why I really don’t like Bon Iver singing “I Can’t Make You Love Me” to being called intolerant to defending minutes I give for speech therapy. Feeling attacked isn’t ever fun. And instead of being logical, I get upset and offended. That’s me. I’m 27. And I love who I am. I think my mom would be proud of me. Hell, I’m proud of me. I get time with friends, time with the boy, and time for myself. There’s work time. Exercise time. Reading/podcast time. I love what I do for work. I feel like I help people. And I like it. All of it. There were a couple moments yesterday when I felt like it was March 2011. When it was a year ago and I was very unhappy and in a very different place than I am now. Nagging somebody to spent time with you makes you feel needy and crappy. And I’m not needy. Other people’s schedules suck. And it’s not fair. That’s all.
Anyway. Tomorrow is May. So one and a half months left of school! It’s gonna be super busy though. I’ve been thinking about putting up a flyer in some of the coffeeshops around here for summer speech therapy. I don’t know what to put on it. There are tons of speech kids who get services in the schools during the school year, but not during the summer, so I want to address the parents of those kids.
We’ll see.
This upcoming Saturday is the Polish Constitution Day Parade at Grant Park. I went to the one two years ago, I think. It was a couple of weeks after the big plane crash in Katyn.
Agnes
Doug Loves Movies!
30 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
After listening to Doug Loves Movies for almost a year, I finally got to go to a taping of the podcast. He was at Zanie’s. In Chicago. And it was fantastic.
How do I mingle with so few people? Did Simon mingle with Garfunkel?
26 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
So,
I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been doin’ stuff. Having fun. Working. Getting frustrated by work. Had my first really difficult parent. Started running two months ago. At first, I couldn’t run for more than a minute. Now I can run 3.1 miles in 35 minutes without taking walking breaks! No more shin splints. New antique button ring. New glasses. Thinking about what to do over the summer. I thought about making a flyer thing on a piece of paper and posting it around coffee shops and libraries offering speech services for the summer. Don’t know what to put on it. Going to see a podcast taping of Doug Loves Movies on Sunday with Bradley. I feel like I had a lot more to say. But now I’m kinda tired.
Agnes
Oh sweet blindness, a little magic, a little kindness
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
I don’t know what to write about.
I worked on my resume this weekend. I posted it on the ASHA site and on careerbuilder. And I’ve gotten loads of calls from recruiters and staffing companies. I’ve had a really great school year so far with regard to SOME things. I’ve had at least 101% compliance for every month this school year. I get stuff done on time. I get my Polish evals done. I get along with people at school. I really like my SLPP. The counselor is great. It feels like home since I’ve been there for about two and a half years now. BUT all this Rahm vs. Union stuff makes me angry and frustrated. The union is telling people to start saving money. Rahm does whatever he wants and, honestly, without a strike, I don’t think anything good is going to happen to teachers. I can’t afford a strike though. And now that the school day is going to be longer next year, we have to go back and revise ALL the IEPs we’ve done so far. Even speech only kids because the % in LRE will change.
I don’t have a boyfriend anymore. I’m dreading the weekend. Mine were always spent with him, away from my place. And they were always wonderful. We’re on a break. I don’t know what that means. I feel like every day that passes that we don’t talk, makes it harder and less likely that we will talk again. And I don’t know what to do.
Want to hear something funny? So, I work with a spectrumy (yes, I wrote spectrumy) boy. I see hom with one other artic student who happens to be African American. Spectrumy boy and I were walking down the hall to pick up the other boy and he said, “XXX has a brown face, right? You get a brown face from staying in the sun for too long, right? And I will get a brown face if I stay in the sun too long.”
My ex’s dad sent me an email today asking if I wanted to bet on the Carolina/Duke game. Parents love me.
Agnes
Well, hot and heavy pumpkin pie/ Chocolate candy Jesus Christ/ There ain’t nothin’ please me more than you
28 Dec 2011 Leave a Comment
Hi all,
2011 is almost over, so I thought it’d be a good time to sum it up. It started off awful. I was in the midst of a fight with my at the time boyfriend, which was rough. After that, things got better for a few months and then got worse in March. After the break-up (my first ever), I got lost and even considered going back to NC. Then the school year ended and I went on lots of dates and had lots of fun with lots of boys. And then I made friends and started having even more fun. Then school started again and the school year has gone really really well so far. And then I met a new boy and things are great with him. Like really great. For the past few months, I’ve spent my weekends going to festivals, exploring new restaurants and bars, seeing live music, going to craft fairs, caroling at the Bean (which I found is actually called Cloud Gate), going to movie screenings, wandering, and other stuff I can’t think of. I’m really happy.
My friend got me an ice cream maker for Christmas. I’m trying it out tomorrow morning. Vanilla with butterscotch chips and pecans.
I’ve been watching as much cable as I can since my dad has cable. Today I discovered Extreme Couponing. There are people who buy like a thousand dollars worth of groceries for like 5 dollars because of in-store deals and coupons. I think that’s unbelievable. Groceries can be expensive, especially if you’re shopping for a big family.
I finished reading Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. It was hilarious.
And I think I’m going to go to bed early today.
Good night,
Agnes
