Karna's Blog

Questioning

2010-02-11T00:34:00.000-08:00

Do you ever just question everything? Everything you have done? Stupid Slipknot, don't listen to their music. Recommended to me by inmates, nonetheless. God. Turn this shit off.

Crazy student

2010-02-06T00:06:00.000-08:00

This is my umpteenth revival of my blog, but this time is for real. haha. like always. I have many more exciting things to focus on now, though. Like my newest crazy student. Like,really crazy. Like not all there, at all. He busted a Michael Jackson dance in the middle of my floor today, and I was actually too impressed to be upset about the distraction. That was some good footwork. He refuses to say "sperm" out loud and pretends he can't read it, even though he just read the words "mitochondria", "endoplasmic reticulum" and even "reproduction" so obviously "sperm" is not so hard to sound out.
In other good news at work, one of learning-to-read guys brought a letter from his ex to read out loud today (good practice for him) and she said "I have to go too the store" and he said "hey that is the wrong "to" because I think it should have only one o in to" and I very nearly cried.

Help!

2010-02-02T18:13:00.000-08:00

SO I use the Haloscan commenting thing, well I think I do, not that I ever get my ass on here to write or anything, but I got an email today saying
Haloscan is shutting down Feb 17. Ack! Say I want to actually write my blog. What do I do?

Prison Drama

2009-10-12T23:46:00.000-07:00

Last week was a tough one at prison. I got my first subpeona, had to have a three hour long deposition today, and a very, uh, let's say "rude" plot was discovered that would potentially not be fun for me to experience. Blah. I am figuring out a new course for life. The prison will suffice for another couple years, but then I think I will change career paths. I want to be an editor. Not like a newspaper editor, but an actual editor editor, one who edits manuscripts or articles or whatever you want edited. If I miss a comma, no one will want to rape me. Good call. I like sign language too...some career options.

last week of freedom

2009-09-08T21:38:00.000-07:00

I start work Monday. I am trying to get as much done on my new house as humanly possible before then. I won't get to move in before work starts, but if I can at least get the place put back together, that would help. Remodeling is more work than you think.

Holy God it is hotter than Hell

2009-08-30T09:01:00.000-07:00

Well I almost died of heatstroke in Rome today, it was around a hundred and this Alaska girl likes the beach and sun but that is too much for me! I saw the Colosseum and Roman Forum, the Vatican for the third time, the Papal tombs and Pop John Pauls burial place, which was neat since last time I was here, I saw his green, dead body layed out, and attended high mass in Latin in the Vatican! How cool is that! Couldnt understand a word but I figure God might love me more for going to mass in the Holy City...off to home tomorrow, and I am ready. I want to do laundry. I think I smell.

Revived from Europe

2009-08-27T04:20:00.000-07:00

If anyone reads this or checks it, tell me so I dont waste my time. I have not posted since Jan 27th apparently, that is like 8 months, so I would not be surprised if I have NO ONE. I thought it would be appropriate to update my blog while in the city of its birth, Florence. I flew over here, well, to Venice, the 17th and 18th. Sage and I travelled to Croatia next and spent three days there. We then spent another day in Venice and on the train for 7 hours going to Vienna, Austria. We left Vienna last night, trained all night and I got to Florence today. I will be here for two days, it is Thursday at 130 right now and I will leave sometime Saturday to train to Rome, where I will sightsee til my flight home Monday. Sage left for school today so I am officially on my own travelling.

A little too much

2009-01-26T15:49:00.000-08:00

It's monday, and I already wish it was Friday. Good God. I currently have prisoner from hell, who does not need school but rather a really good shrink. It has been deemed unsafe for him to remain in my class so we are transferring him. I would write more details but when I write my prison book in a couple years, I want you all to buy it.
It snowed this weekend. Grrr. Teasing us. I want either 1)spring or 2)LOTS of snow so work gets cancelled.
My weekends for the next month are filled up. This weekend is superbowl--I think i am going to the ocean to see Dan. Next weekend is a 5K that Sara and I are running Sunday, and Saturday (I just did that backwards, SUn-Sat, weird) I am going skiing with my ten year old cousin. The next weekend is Valentines-Presidents weekend, and I am hopefully going to Kala Point to stay in a condo. The weekend after that I have to move houses. The weekend after that, the 25th til March 1, I will be in Anchorage with the girls. The weekend after that I might be going to Walla Walla with Sara. Holy crap.

Hello out there

2009-01-21T17:29:00.000-08:00

Here I am. New quarter at school, it's freezing cold out, and I am ready for summer. Here is the update: nothing really is new except i am free from prison CORE training and back to teaching. I have one extremely obnoxious student. The medium security sex offender unit is ok. I still miss you over there, Valdez. One rant I have...it is SO ANNOYING when people ask why i have spring, summer, and christmas break. I know to them it must seem funny since i teach inmates in a prison. But really people, I teach for EDMONDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE and therefore have the same breaks as any normal teacher.
In other news, I need two cheap tickets to Maui for March 21 to 29. Anyone know a good source?

For Real, Sara

2008-12-08T21:18:00.000-08:00

Ok so you might not believe this, but the VERY last thought I had in my mind before I got douched in the eyes was "Don't be a pussy. Squeezing out a child will hurt worse." I kid you not, Sara. That was honestly my thought that got my through it. Haha. So, with any luck childbirth will NOT hurt less, but I am not holding my breath.

The weekend was good. I went camping with Dan. One of these days I will post some pictures, but I'm not sure if Carli still reads this or if she just stalks my myspace these days, and I know her obsession with Dan so I am keeping his pictures to myself right now. HA!

I am at the grandparents' right now, hanging out and getting fed dinner so I can't complain. I am about 65% done Christmas shopping, so that is extremely exciting. Besides that, I am tired, ten hour days are long, and I am going to bed. I will dream about pepper spray and how fun it is. RIIIIIGHT. I did my pepper spray laundry last night and had a relapse. That shit lingers forever.

Pepper Spray Sucks

2008-12-03T20:45:00.000-08:00

Well, today was OC day. We ended up having two choices, the red canister (a little less harsh) or the silver canister (more harsh). I was about sixth or seventh to go, the first girl to step up. I let the guy choose which canister to hit me with and of course he chose silver. Fun stuff. It was a count of three and I had to open my eyes. He douched me right in the eyes from four feet away with the shit. GODDAMN THAT STUFF HURTS. I had to run forward, pry my swollen-shut eyes open with my fingers to find Bob the rubber man, and then beat the shit out of him. I felt like I did ok, but turns out when I watched the video, I beat the shit out of Bob. I walloped him over and over in the head with my fists while kneeing him in the rubber balls for the whole 30 seconds. I remember beating him with my fists but I have no recollection of kneeing him so much. Awesome. Then I was escorted to the water bucket where I spent 5 minutes cussing and filling my eyes with baby soap. I went to the yard and stood with the other recently-douched people and it took me 7 minutes to recover. Two other people got better as quickly as I did and the rest of the class took 20 to 45 minutes to get better. I was pretty damn impressed with myself, not going to lie to you. Out of the six girls, I was the only one who didn't cry. There was not a chance in hell I was going to do that. One boy in my class screamed like I have not even heard a little girl scream and dropped to his knees and couldn't even fight off Bob the Rubber Man. Over all, it was a good experience and shockingly I would definitely do it again. Everyone in my class thought it was crazy how fast I recovered. So, overall again, I liked it. Weird, huh? My skin didn't even turn red. I think I will join a Pepper Spray Team. Because I am one badass pepper-spray-receiver. BUT--It did hurt more than anything I had ever done in my life.

Dead Blog?

2008-11-29T21:28:00.000-08:00

Tiffany wants to know why my blog has died. I shall awaken it from the dead. I am currently in Core training, which every prison employee has to take eventually, and it just took them over a year to catch me and stick my in it. It is 6 weeks of mainly boring theoretical stuff with a little interesting material thrown in. On this coming Wed., I get sprayed in the face with OC, or Oleoresin Capsicum, or a very severe pepper spray, which is going to royally suck. I saw the other class before us right after they were sprayed, and it is ugly. I'll write about it in a couple days and let you all know how it went.

Back to Work

2008-09-23T16:51:00.000-07:00

Today is my second day at TRU, the medium security unit where I have been moved for this year. You may think, Wow, great, that's gotta be better then being in Maximum, but you would be wrong, oh so wrong. This is the sex offender unit, woohoo. Not all of the guys here are sex offenders. However, we have the only SOTP (Sex Offender Treatment Program) in the state, so we get them all. So far it is much more layed back here than in Maximum, though. On an interesting note, I have a deaf student and a sign languageg interpreter, and my task is to teach him to read. Think about that. How do you teach a deaf person to read? Normally, phonics is how I teach reading. Sounding out words that you don't know. It he doesn't know a word, he cannot sound it out. He has been deaf since birth, so doesn't know sounds. Reading for him has to be all memorization. Seeing a word, having the interpreter sign what that printed word is, and memorizing it. Sheesh. This will be interesting.

Happy Labor Day!

2008-09-01T18:25:00.000-07:00

On the ferry just now, Kory decided he was going to start telling people happy labor day. That's funny to me. Like, Happy Memorial Day! Happy Presidents day! Nice. We just got back from sitka, where we sucked some royal ass at softball. Only half our original Whitehorse team made it, and where we took first in Whitehorse at Dustball, I am fairly sure we took last at Mudball, though we refused to check because we just didn't want to know. We had a very good time, though, and most certainly took first place in the "team that drinks the most" competition. I have one week left til I return south the real world of traffic and work.

In that prison work department, I just found out that instead of teaching in Maximum this year, I will be teaching in medium--which while that may sound better to most of you, in reality, medium is where SOTP is--the Sex Offender Treatment Program. Sweet. Now that is really a fantastic staffing change. Kudos to stupid administration decisions.

Come to think of it

2008-08-25T10:13:00.000-07:00

Now that I think more about it, I think what I miss is the simple life...bartending is not exactly a brainbuster and it's kinda cool knowing everyone you see. At the same time, it sucks knowing everyone you see sometimes, and you just need to get away. I guess I am excited to go back to work, but at the same time I know that with a good bartending job, I work much less hard and make more money. My teaching job is not bad money, but in a good location, I would make more with just tips in bartending. Oh well. Gotta have a grown up job sometimes, I guess.

Goodbye Ginger

2008-08-25T10:08:00.000-07:00

Ginger takes off today. She was only up here since Thursday, quick trip. At least she got to see Alaska. She got to see the real Petersburg too, since it has not stopped raining since she got here. Dan got lucky, he had like 4 days of sun out of his 7 days here. Now I work today thru Thursday and leave late Thursday night for Sitka for softball. I get home Monday. That's labor day so there is no work, then I work Tues through Saturday and head for Washington Sunday. I'm excited to get back, but I am also having weird thoughts of missing it here. Mostly, strangely enough, missing winter, because I was thinking about when I went to Wrangell last December and it snowed constantly and was so beautiful. I was thinking how I miss all that snow. Then I was thinking that someone needs to clunk me on the head with a blunt object and say "You idiot, it rains all winter, and snows maybe a couple times, which promptly turns to slush, now get the hell out of town and move back south."

Creepo

2008-08-19T12:19:00.000-07:00

So this morning a number calls me that I didn't recognize. However, with all the applying for houses and stuffg i'm doing, I figured I better answer it. It was : 916-628-0303. Google it. This dude started asking if I knew who this was. I said no, I don't ,who is it. He said I had to guess. I said I am going to work in ten minutes, I'm not going to guess. He said "oh, at 8:30?" which of course I was going to work at 7:30, which tells me he is down on the west coast since he is an hour ahead. Unfortunately I said no, 7:30, so he knows I am in a different time zone. He said ok, well I want to tell you about something that happened to me but I am embarrassed you don't even know who i am, so you have to guess before I tell you. I said no, good bye. He left two voice mails saying to call back on my lunch break. I did not, of course. I googled him instead. Seems he does this to EVERYONE. Creepy.

Working working working

2008-08-18T15:56:00.000-07:00

Dan was up here for a week, so I got behind on updating this thing. That's only an excuse; I also just have been forgetting. I'm working at java hus today and tomorrow, then chelan wed and thursday, with the elks every night of course. And Ginger gets here Thursday. I feel bad cause i am going to be a shitty hostess cause I have to work. Nothing I can do, though. Over Labor Day I am going to Sitka for softball. The 7th I leave for Seattle again. I'm getting about ready to go. Laura and I are looking at two houses right now to rent. One on the river, with weird bedrooms, where she will have to take two small rooms and I take the big one. Or this other house that Grandma found, that is apparently amazing. I will let you know what we take. Let's see....we are going to Carrie Underwood on Sept 19, a baby shower Sept 20, the Seahawks game Sept 21, and WSU's homecoming Sept 27. Should be a good upcoming month!

Mexican

2008-07-30T00:05:00.000-07:00

It seems that everyone these days thinks i am mexican. My Coast Guard friends got in a fight with some Mexicans a couple weeks ago because the MExicans were harassing me, and speaking to me in Spanish, thinking I am Mexican. Today takes the cake though. Here is the conversation:

Karna walks into Cena's store to visit her. Weird guy is in there.
Weird Guy: Hi.
Karna: Hello.
Weird Guy,talking to Cena but still standing right next to me: Oh thank God she speaks English. Most of them don't.

WHAT THE HECK. Haha. Not a very politically correct statement plus just a little rude, but it was goddamn hilarious. I had to just nod and stand there, I was so shocked. Haha.

In other news, Jagar makes me mean. No Jagarbombs for me. My hubby Laura is in town FINALLY after two months in the Bay. She bought me a sweatshirt. It's red. I love her.

Whitehorse aftermath

2008-07-25T00:09:00.000-07:00

To begin with, my liver hurts, and my kidneys are crying. But the week in Whitehorse rocked, and we took first place, and I was pitcher. I love pitching. I have a sneaking suspicion this is because I like being the center of attention and lo and behold, everyone watches the pitcher. But I actually really do love pitching too, except when I get hit by line drives, which, knock on wood, has not happened this year yet. We also got to go to the Red Onion Saloon and Brothel, which was started in 1898 during the Gold Rush in Skagway. That was cool. Obviously it is no longer a brothel(although I suppose you never know) but it was still cool. I am glad to be home now though, where I am drying out for a while. You know, til Friday. :-)

Christian the Lion video

2008-07-25T00:06:00.001-07:00

This is like the coolest thing ever...I want a lion. Research shows that this story is actually really true.

Christian the Lion

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Off to Whitehorse

2008-07-16T14:40:00.000-07:00

Hey all, I am off to Canada for a week. Softball tourney in Whitehorse. It starts Thursday and goes til Sunday, but given the shitty ferry schedule we are leaving today and get back late next Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. I will give a full update when I get back.
In other news, Dan gets up here August 6th til Aug 12. That should be fun. I have lots of plans, camping, canoeing, all sorts of alaska shit.
Work is good, the Elks rocks, it's pretty slow some nights, but the old guys tip well.
I am going to Vegas for my birthday this Oct., over Halloween weekend, since my birthday and Halloween are so close. So far me, Dan, Laura, James, Tyna, her boyfriend, maybe Brandi I hear, and Zieak and Cena are going. Should be awesome!

I hate....

2008-07-06T00:01:00.000-07:00

....that guy who does the oxyclean commercials. He yells the whole time. Why? I don't understand the need for screaming about how great his stain removal products are.

Sincere apologies

2008-07-02T13:38:00.000-07:00

My apologies go out to Zieak, Cena, Tiffany, Sara, and Genia....and apparently, from what he told me last night, occasionally Kyle, for not posting for a month. The end of school and inmate graduation and whatnot was crazy busy. I am back now, though.

Back in the great white north

2008-07-02T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here I am in Alaska. It is surprisingly beautiful out. Sometimes I admit I judge this place too quickly; and now that I have a boyfriend who is down south and I am staying more or less out of the social scene (ok ok not always, I do go out sometimes), the drama has lessened and life here is not really so bad. The Elks is proving to be a great job; I like it so much more than Kitos. I don;t have to put up with cannery workers who don't tip and bark orders at me in either Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Yugoslavian, etc...and my customers at the Elks are all good tippers, fun to talk to, and out of there by ten at night. Good stuff really, nothing to complain about.

Alrighty

2008-05-29T17:38:00.000-07:00

Ok, I have two committed readers so I shall press on with the blogging. Plus I do believe Cena and Zieak are out there in my cyber world somewhere too. I swear I will put up some Memorial Day pictures of the beach trip and of course my hottie man. So I am JEALOUS that Tiff got to see Elton. That is awesome. That guy is cool. Circle of Life, my fave Elton song.

Mayfest was fun...I will put up a pic or two from then too. Honestly there isn;t a lot to say about it because it was one big alcohol-induced mess, but a good mess, with minimal drama. The same as Mayfest always is. Good times. My men should be here anytime....ugh I wish they were running late today...I can't wait til the end of the year. I love teaching my guys, but my night class is crazy and very trying on the patience. Good thing I have no kids yet because there is NO patience left in me at 8:30 every night.

One month and counting

2008-05-28T17:50:00.000-07:00

I'm getting sick of my blog cause I think no one reads it. But, anyways, one month of school to go. Graduation is June 18th. Yes, we have graduation in prison too. For Memorial Day me, Laura, James, Billy, and Shannon went to Ocean Shores area to my boyfriend Dan's house. I will post pictures soon. It was fun. I came home yesterday morning before work. I love no school Mondays cause the week goes by much faster, like it is almost Thursday already. Thank God, I am getting burned out. IT will be nice to go deal with drunks this summer and take a break from prisoners. Wow, I pick my work crowd well huh. Convicts and drunks.

May

2008-05-05T17:39:00.000-07:00

May will be an easy month of work for me. Should be, at least. Last week I took Friday off and Billy, Shannon, Laura, James, and Dan and I went camping, so I only had a 4 day week. This friday we have "Building Community Day" where we pretent like we are bonding with the other instructors and we do not have class. Next week I only have school Monday and Tuesday then off to Mayfest I go. The week after, I have *gasp* a five day work week. Then the next week, no Monday for Memorial Day and off camping we go again. Hmmm what else...This Friday night is Chelsea Handler's show in Tacoma that Laura and I are going to. Her show is on the E! Network every night at 11:30, she is freakin hilarious, watch it. Hmmmm then P-town. The 31st Dan is taking me to the Canada/Brazil soccer game in Seattle. Soccer isn't much my thing but pro games are ok, I went in Italy too. That's about it....camping was fun, too much booze, not enough sleep, so that is the perfect recipe for great camping.

Spoiled

2008-04-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

I have reached the conclusion that my life is charmed, and if I bitch about things that are trivial and stupid in this blog, you can tell me to shut up. I have been on, seriously, 5 dates in the last two weeks (I just cannot pick ONE right now, haha). I live in an apartment with two friends (even if allan cannot do a dish to save his life). I am looking for a house to buy for the fall. I love my job. I am going to the Mariners game Saturday, and my little bro is coming to visit. I am going to Alaska in May for Mayfest, I went to Vietnam in November, Mexico in March and also last June, I am going to Canada this summer for softball. Spoiled. La Vita e Bella. (By the way, that is a great movie in Italian).

Leavenworth Conference

2008-04-22T19:51:00.000-07:00

I just got back from my first work conference as a fully employed, (almost) self-sufficient adult. Makes me feel old. But, the conference was pretty fun. Two days in Leavenworth, the town, not the federal prison, although that would have also been appropriate given my work. However, Kristyn and I (coworker, fellow youngster on the job, and fellow Whitman grad) decided that as stuck up as it sounds, we are much more intelligent than anyone who presented, and we are going to present next year. We already got permission. I mean really, no one was well-spoken and one guy just read his power point out loud to the group. EVERYONE knows that you make bulleted points and then elaborate during the lecture. Geez. So we, the youngest in the Prison Educators Association, will present next year and show them how it's done.

Calmer now

2008-04-16T17:15:00.000-07:00

Ok, internet fixed. Turns out comcast has not sent us a bill since January. They don't know why. They told us that the mailman has likely been giving our bills to someone else. would have been nice of that person to pay them for us, huh?

Tonight I am going to dinner with a bunch of my sorority sisters. I know I know, I am not in college anymore, but as was POUNDED into our head during that four years, A THETA IS FOREVER. So there.

I will post Mexico pics soon. I found that blogger has made this a much easier thing to do since, say, my Italy days.

Speaking of Italy, I had a dream the other day where I was speaking all Italian, and I think it made sense, so maybe I know more Italian than I thought.

I will be in Petersburg in ONE MONTH! And the hobag, you know who you are now, shall go drinking with me.

Fucking Pissed

2008-04-15T17:12:00.001-07:00

I'll tell you ab out MExico soon, but for now, I can only write at work because my roommate, and NOT the female one, has not been paying the goddamn tv and internet bill apparently, since JANUARY, and it got shut off today. He says he has been. Hopefully it's a mix up. But all I know is we have been giving him money to pay it and it has not been paid. Grrrrr

Mike and me up a mountain

2008-03-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

The final product, 1274 balls

2008-03-28T12:26:00.000-07:00

The First bag of 8 total bags

2008-03-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

It's like Easter egg hunting!

2008-03-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

Sneaking through the poorly locked fence

2008-03-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Being Sneaky

2008-03-28T12:20:00.000-07:00

got my game face on

2008-03-28T12:17:00.001-07:00

got my game face on
Originally uploaded by karnavore

Getting ready to go on the great golf ball adventure

Great Golf Ball Adventure, Part 2

2008-03-28T11:48:00.001-07:00

Sorry it's been two weeks, bad Karna. Last night we went out to BB McGraws to go dancing and came home and had the GGBA, Part 2 (see the title of my post for the translation haha). Seanne, Laura's cousin, joined us this time. We wore some sweet outfits and snuck under the fence to the driving range next door. There is a double fence, and in between the two fences there are tons of golf balls that never get collected. We got 8 garbage bags full. The pics are on my myspace. I will try to remember how to use Flickr and put some on here. We got 1274 total golf balls. amazing. Laura and I leave for Mexico tomorrow, so I imagine I will have tons of adventures to tell you about next week!

House hunting

2008-03-15T20:09:00.001-07:00

Mom got here last night as I already said, and today we went house hunting. I have a decent job, only a school loan payment (car is paid, no other bills), so I figure it is time to stop paying rent to someone and pay it to myself, in the form of a house payment. I want something on the Cedar River, which means 1) I wait patiently for someone to have a foreclosure disaster because that is the only way I will be able to afford one of those houses, or 2) Mom and I win the lottery with the ticket we bought tonight in hopes of making this house hunting business a whole lot easier. 59 million from the Mega-Millions lotto would certainly broaden my options a little.

Words of wisdom

2008-03-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

Here are my words of wisdom for Saturday, March 15: Never let a white person do your eyebrows, and if you must, then at least make sure she is not over 60 years old with penciled-in brows.
There has been no recent disaster, but I caved out of desperation back in June and let someone fitting the aforementioned description wax my eyebrows, and she 1)burned the crap out of my face with hot wax and 2) made my eyebrows freakishly thin and scary. took three months to grow them back. Ugh. Watch out for those old white ladies armed with wax.

In other news, mom is here and going to prison with me Monday. If my prisoners screw with me or leave anymore damn dead bugs on my desk when she is there, I am going to rack them in the balls.

Home alone AGAIN

2008-03-13T21:47:00.000-07:00

I suddenly find myself with no roommates. Laura is always out with James and Allan has not been home in two weeks and one day. Literally, he runs in, grabs clothes, and runs out. We have not yet broken the news to him that his new little woman is a huge ho bag....oh well, eventually. Once she is gone we will tell him that she is less than virginal. TOMORROW IS FRIDAY! Mom is coming to visit me woohoo.

curb stomping

2008-03-13T21:43:00.000-07:00

is what I wanted to do to my students last night. They got the best of me. I admit it. They made me cry but luckily I pull off a good "mad" face until I get out of the room and lose it, cause it would be all over for me if they had seen me cry. They fought tooth and nail against me ALL DAMN NIGHT for two hours straight, and when I was at the END of my rope, they left a goddamn dead huge beetle on my desk. Sad to say, but a beetle was the straw that broke the karna's back. The officers kicked them out for the night. Tonight they apologized in their felon way..."you know we were just fuckin with ya right? We didn't mean to make you mad, we were fuckin with ya". Haha. That's the best apology I could hope for out of them so I am happy.

Where are we going?

2008-03-09T16:07:00.000-07:00

To hell if we don't change our ways. That has gotta be on my list of top favorite quotes. Haha. I was DD last night. It was not too bad really. I had fun. I got a DAMN cute dress yesterday. I guess I already told you that. I was on a mission to find a Seahawk last night but I failed like usual. One day, I will hook my pro football player.

Happy birthday to Ginger

2008-03-08T18:45:00.002-08:00

we are going out in seattle in about half an hour. I volunteered to drive, I bet that's a shocker for you petersburg people who know a Karna that does NOT drive because she ALWAYS drinks. Well, look at this mature move I just made. DD. Haha. I got new dress today which I am wearing and is SUPER cute, look at my myspace tomorrow and I will put up pictures. I really should start putting pics back on here too for those people without myspace. So, laura and I leave three weeks from today for Mexico. We have been on a diet for a month now...well since the 29th of Jan, so over a month. That's because we leave the 29th so we had exactly two months to diet. I have currently lost 7pounds. Just for fun I tried on a pair of size 7 jeans, and I can nearly squeeze my fat ass into them. Just a few more pounds to go. woohoo. ok then, I'm off to drive us to seattle.

Happy birthday to

2008-03-08T18:45:00.001-08:00

Attack

2008-03-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

Well life in the prison is exciting lately, and not in a good way. Staff attack yesterday so night class was cancelled. Got off work two and a half hours early. I would say that this part is nice but then I just sit in I-405 traffic so that is not so fun. One of the counselors got the tar beat out of her...apparently he broke her temple and tore her cheek. Other offenders helped pull the attacker off her. Poor lady. She is one of the only counselors I have not met yet but I hear she is nice. Major bummer. She will be ok though.

Hmmm I had something to tell you all this morning but I forgot it. I will write again when I remember. Damn. What the hell was it....I must be getting old. Almost a quarter of a century!

I had to kick a guy out of class today who just would not shut the hell up and stop arguing with me about how he should not have to be in school. The nice part is that other inmates were listening, and once he was gone, they said they thought I handled the whole thing nicely. One inmate said "you gave him 19 chances to shut up and listen to you and on the 20th you did what you had to do. That was done very well." this was from another pain in the ass student so it's nice to hear that they don't disapprove of me involving officers once in a while. As long as you give them ample chances to improve their behavior and they still don't, the inmates don't give you the lable of a nark. Not that I care. If they deserve it, they deserve it.

hey hey hey

2008-03-02T23:22:00.000-08:00

Well another successful weekend come and gone. Hmmm I wonder what an "unsuccessful" weekend would entail. Friday we went to the Yellabeak. Super fun. Danced a lot. Met a 6 foot 6 white guy who can dance. Wow. That hardly ever happens. He can swing as good as Venise which is pretty impressive. Saturday was my uncle's 50th birthday party, that was fun, then we went *gasp* to the Yellabeak. We are a little obsessed. Tall cowboyish guy was not there, sad. IT was ok....but not as fun as Friday. I lost at that stupid ass goddamn game, pool, tonight. I hate that game. Laura's whatever-he-is James made us dinner tonight, sweet. I love it when I don't have to cook. Back to work tomorrow. We are GED testing on Tuesday and 12 of my 15 pretesters qualified to test Tuesday! Amazing. My men are so smart.

shoutout to Joel and Mom

2008-02-26T17:26:00.000-08:00

Mom, Tiffany thinks you're a good mom. I concur.

Joel, we will all miss you. You were a good friend. You used to give me shit in high school about how much I wanted you for your body. Haha you are great.

In happier news, I gave 15 GED predictor tests (they have to pass that in order to be allowed to attempt the real GED), and had 9 pass. Excellent ratio. I have such a good little class of inmates.

My Bad

2008-02-22T17:30:00.001-08:00

I accidentally "felt" Zieak. My apologies, Cena.

Blogging for money

2008-02-22T00:26:00.000-08:00

I was reading Zieak's blog, and although I am well aware that my blog is not popular enough to every try that blogging for money thing myself, I decided to check out the site and the rules to see why someone as brilliant as Zieak would be rejected. No fucking profanity allowed?! Even if I were that popular, I would be rejected in a heartbeat. Zieak can't capitalize or puncuate, I can't refrain from cussing. I feel you, Zieak.

The secret

2008-02-22T00:12:00.001-08:00

Sorry it has been a week. I did mostly nothing exciting over the three day weekend, but the fact that I had no school Monday was exciting enough. Tuesday there was a staff assualt that resulted in an inmate broken arm and my students weren't allowed in class until 7 (instead of 5:45). Wednesday one of the other teacher's students threw a table at the wall. Thursday, today, another student was having problems getting along with his teacher (not my student) and somehow I talked him into taking the test he was supposed to and keeping his mouth shut. I realize that since he is not my student he thinks I am "nicer" since I don't have to be the one disciplining him on a regular basis, but nontheless this brings me to...drum roll....the secret. I have discovered the secret to teaching inmates. Which really is 1)very common sense, 2)applicable to all fields of life and 3)therefore really no secret at all, but here it is anyways. Be nice to them and they'll be nice to you. These guys get treated like shit most of the time, and I'm not saying that sometimes they don't deserve it, but I've found that when I am nice to them, or allow them to talk occasionally about non-school related things, or joke with them, I get much better results. As a result of this epiphany of mine, I have not yet ever had a student throw a table in MY classroom. I only had one guy want to punch me in my face, but even then (and this might be stupid but hey it's done and over with now) I chose not to turn him in and to keep being nice and now he asks me for help almost every day and is working very hard. I believe the urge to punch my face has subsided.

Love note

2008-02-15T17:20:00.000-08:00

So Valentine's day sucked some royal ass. I got ditched by my goddamn female date, how pathetic am i. In happier and yet more disturbing news, I got my first love card from Washington State Reformatory. I got a couple when I worked at Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla but this was my first WSR one. Sweet. "God and I have something in common....we both love you! yours 4eva. " How sweet.

I'm a democrat but....

2008-02-14T18:03:00.000-08:00

Either way this is still funny to me. Call me immature. I work with prisoners all day, and last year it was 8th graders. I need some "grown up" friends.

Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, almost exactly 60 Yearsago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with fivealiens aboard crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well-known incident that many say has long been covered up bythe U.S. Air Force and other federal Agencies and organizations.

However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of March 1948, ninemonths after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer

Geez

2008-02-13T17:44:00.001-08:00

I promise that this illness is airborn (does that have an "e" on the end?) and I am not making out with my students. Promise. Sooo....what's new.....hmmm...I am going to come up for Mayfest. Laura and I are going to get a companion fare and come up for the weekend. I haven't been there for years for it and I am STOKED! I am also going to Ensenada, MExico, with Laura next month. March 29th WOOHOO!! It is a three day weekend this upcoming weekend and we were gonna go to Portland, but decided to wait I guess. I guess I will just be hangin in Kent for three days.

tired of rain

2008-02-12T17:13:00.000-08:00

I am tired of shitty weather. ready for spring. let's fast forward to march 29 when I leave on a romantic vacation with laura. hot.

P.S.

2008-02-11T18:05:00.001-08:00

I am not crazy. I just realized that post went up twice. The computer, the sick one in need of a new battery, told me the first one couldn't publish so I wrote another one. I swear, I am not crazy. Just sick.

The guard told me i suck

2008-02-11T18:00:00.000-08:00

Well one of my corrections officers who reads my blog says i suck for going almost a week without writing anything, and he is right so here it is. Turns out i have the flu, a cold, and an ear infection all at once so I have some antibiotics that are not working. I woke up this morning barely able to move because my back is so sore. I have NO idea what I did to it but I hear there are 3 employees over at twin rivers unit that had the flu too, and they all had to get on muscle relaxers because of the back spasms so this must be some weird back-hurting strain of the flu. cool. I love not being able to move my back. I feel like i'm 90. Class tonight still, but I think I shall send them home to their cells early because I hurt.
In other news, I joined the Obama campaign. Officially a volunteer, just haven't done anything yet.
In more news, I infected half my students and both guards.
In even more news,my computer is also at the doctor. It needs a new battery.

Sick

2008-02-05T21:57:00.000-08:00

I have the damn flu. I had a cold, I thought, while I suffered through work yesterday (sick days are for vacation, duh) but then last night I started puking all night so that points to the flu, not a cold. Damn. This sucks. Luckily, some guys decided to fight tonight at 3:15 and it took so long to get it all wrapped up that my classes were cancelled and I got to go home early. Perfect timing, thanks guys, appreciate it. ;-)
Glad to see a comment from Tiffany, makes me feel a little more popular. haha.
In other news, I am moving towards hating men again. I thought, momentarily, that maybe there was one that was not pissing me off, but he is starting to annoy me. I hate men.

Flu

2008-02-05T20:03:00.000-08:00

I have the damn flu. Well, I am assuming it is the flu. I thought it was a cold all day yesterday when I was suffering thru work (sick days are for vacation, duh) and then I puked all night (I know you wanted to know that) so I guess the flu is more likely. Luckily for me, some dudes decided to get in a multi-person brawl at 3:15 and movement got locked down for the night, so my class got cancelled! Yay! Couldn't have asked for better timing. So I got off two and a half hours early, so now I can watch lots of law and order and go to bed early.

Tiffany, glad to see your name on my comments ;-) makes me feel more popular! haha.

Life

2008-02-02T15:31:00.000-08:00

Well I'm not going to go into too much detail, but one of my students tried to hang himself...didn't succeed, luckily, but still, he tried. Makes me feel like I drive my students to suicide, sheesh. That sucks. Hmmm. Well, not much I can do about it. I'm going to the mall to buy shoes right now, that's what I'm going to do about it.

Yep

2008-01-31T17:16:00.001-08:00

I am so glad tomorrow is Friday. I didn't even work Monday because of the snow. So this four day week has been looooong.

Holy Shitballs

2008-01-31T17:15:00.000-08:00

I need a drink. This job is too much. One of my students did something horrible. I'll write about it later.

FRIDAY NIIIIIIIGHT

2008-01-25T17:37:00.000-08:00

And I am still at work. til 8:30. But, I have nothing to complain about, because my 12:30 to 3:30 class didn't actuall start until 2:40 because there was a fight, so there was no movement (meaning no one can go anywhere in the prison, therefore cannot leave their cells to come to class). So I sat around and bs-ed with my coworkers for two hours. I am guessing I won't be so lucky tonight...the 5:30 to 8:30 class doesn't usually start til 6ish anyways. Not so bad, really. No big plans for the weekend...finding Laura a job is on the top of the list. OH so grandma gave me a week of her timeshare and I used my $50 companion fare, so Laura and I are spending a week in Mexico March 29 to April 5 for like $400 bucks each total, airfare AND condo. WOOHOO. I love being a teacher. Same schedule. Two week spring break. Summers off. Life is tough.

Holy Shit

2008-01-22T17:28:00.000-08:00

Holy shit Heath Ledger is dead. I have an overwhelming urge to call Mamie. I can't believe it. I'm sorry to all you homophobes out there, but I loved Brokeback Mountain. I loved all his movies. He was a hottie. Damn now he's dead. I think I am in shock here.

Thank God this week is over

2008-01-18T17:31:00.001-08:00

God damn it I just wrote a blog and it deleted it. That pisses me off. Adds to this amazingly wonderful week. Well the talk/lecture went ok. I have trouble staying mad at them and they know that, but they did realize I was at least momentarily very angry, so that in itself is something new for them. I am never mean to them, ever. Even though I should be. Nothing got done the rest of the night because they all wanted meetings with me, but at least a bunch of them apologized and explained themselves and begged for a second chance before I gave them the boot. Tonight I have one inmate who is going to be HELL because he is mad at me. He deserves exactly what he gets though, because he has been copping a real damn bad attitute the last few days. Ok, the last four months to be exact. I am so happy that monday is MLKJr day so we have three day weekend. Gonna be a LOOOOONG quarter if it keeps going this way.

preparing....

2008-01-16T17:48:00.000-08:00

for battle. Going to yell at my class tonight. Im tired of getting lied to and stolen from. Mean Karna must come out so I stop getting walked all over. I'm excited to tell them like it is, but also nervous. Have you ever lectured 18 convicts? Probably not.

The many faces....

2008-01-15T16:41:00.000-08:00

I've decided "teacher" is just too simple of a title for my job. Teacher/policewoman/psychologist/counselor/preschool teacher/semi-friend is a better title. I say semi-friend because I am not allowed to "befriend" my inmates, but a certain amount of something resembling friendship has to be present for them to do what I ask. I guess it's more trust, since there exists a general rule of "don't trust anyone with a badge" be it an officer badge, a teacher badge, or a volunteer badge. A badge in general indicates we are in a position of power over them. Which is true, but some abuse it, some don't. It's true that I have the authority to tell them what to do, and they have to listen. I try to be fair, though, and listen to what they have to say to me. Yes, if someone is being an asshole and wants to leave early, I am generally an asshole back and make them stay just to be vindictive. That sounds evil. But like any school, like with my 8th graders last year, it's a "give respect get respect" expectation around here. I do find myself in the position of counselor as well, more and more now that they know me. Not that I can do anything to help their situation, but just like the "friend" thing, although I am not supposed to be listening to their life story, they have to trust me for me to be able to teach them, therefore I must become temporary shrink once in a while. I am rambling, but these were my random thoughts for the day.

Heartbroken

2008-01-14T17:10:00.000-08:00

Sorry, I was too depressed to write all weekend. The hawks got their asses handed to them after a promising 14-nothing lead FOUR minutes into the game. Damn packers gave them a handicap and we still blew it. Today has been just lovely at the prison after all the shit I talked last Friday about my team winning. oops. I got to school to find that my classroom had been busted into and my corkboard thing was covered in pictures of packers tackling hawks, headlines such as "Lack of passing game dooms seahawks", and pictures of cheese. Goddamn cheese. You've got to be kidding me. Damn teachers aids/clerks that work for me. I should fire them all haha. Nah at least there is a sense of humor around here, even if it revolves around making me look stupid.
On a happier note, Laura and I went out and bought an entertainment center, two dvd wall mount shelves, and a huge mirror for the end of the hallway so we now have a catwalk to check outselves out. Sweet.
It is snowing in Monroe all of a sudden, so if I have to stay at the prison overnight due to closed roads, I will write more to kill time tonight. Haha that damn well better not happen.

Deep thoughts

2008-01-10T17:37:00.000-08:00

well, not really that deep. sorry it's been three days. I DID figure out who Mark is, he works with me, I have just not known him by that name so I was confused...turns out for a smart person, I am confused quite frequently. So, last night I was feeling sorry for myself because I got to thinking how my life is boring. I came to this conclusion because of 4 people I was thinking about:
person 1) lives in a party city, bartends, and meets famous people all the time
person 2) lives in ITALY with her ITALIAN boyfriend and travels europe all the time. Couldn't possibly be more jealous of her life right now.
person 3) married with a baby
person 4) married and quite prego

Now I am not saying that I want to be married and I CERTAINLY do not want to be knocked up. IT's just that their lives are all fallen into place where mine involves a lot of debt and two roommates. hmmm. This morning, though, I decided that in fact my life is not that bad. I just went to Vietnam. Then Alaska. Although I do not live there with my italian boyfriend, I DID live in Italy for 6 months. Longer than most people. And I work at a prison, which is rarely boring. So, quarter-life crisis averted.

In the prison world, not a lot is exciting right now. Which is usually the way we want things. My class shrunk to 5 students by the last hour last night, one of the rare times i was BORED beyong belief. Today's morning class....hmmm....yep nothing big, just school. Tonight's class is coming up, though, so maybe something fun will happen. By fun, I mean either "dramatic", "exciting", well basically stuff that is not supposed to happen. Keeps things interesting when things happen that are not supposed to happen. Mark, don't get mad at me for wanting your job to get harder tonight. HA!

Now I Get It

2008-01-07T17:49:00.000-08:00

First day back to work at prison. Woohoo. I think I overuse the phrase "woohoo." Morning class I have 15 but only 4 showed since I was not here Thursday and Friday so they assumed they did not have class today either. I used my new guy who is 6'9" or something ridiculous like that, like my bro, to help me hang my new math posters. YAY math posters. Only a nerdy teacher would get excited about math posters. Tonight I have 18 registered, but I'm guessing the showing will be low since once again they do not know I am back...oh well. I better not complain about lack of work since by the end of the week I will be back up to 25 inmate students. And it is not always easy to keep 25 inmates, ages 18 to 60, interested, quiet, and working. 8th graders were often more cooperative.

Too much wedding

2008-01-06T13:53:00.001-08:00

Too...hungover....to blog....right now.....

Wedding day tomorrow

2008-01-04T21:53:00.001-08:00

No, not my wedding day. If I was old and married you wouldn't want to read my blog. My cousin Tonia and Brandon (he's not my cousin haha) are gettin hitched at 7 pm at the Elks Lodge. Should be a good time. The reception follows immediately in the same spot as the wedding, and seeing as my family, ahem, likes to drink, it should be quite the party. My half sister also rolls into town tomorrow, who I have not seen in 5 years. Whom I have not seen? Hmmm. You'd never guess I'm an English teacher. So, tomorrow I will possible try to think of something interesting to write about. OH MY GOD I NEARLY FORGOT tomorrow at 12:30 is the Hawks first playoff game against the Washington Redskins. GO HAWKS! I have no bet on this game for once, but my dignity is at risk. I get a lot of shit for being a Hawks supporter.

My blog does not suck, Mark

2008-01-04T13:21:00.001-08:00

I'm not sure who Mark is, I know a few of them, but to you Mark, my blog does not suck. It HAS sucked recently, I admit, but now I am a blogging machine and it will be fantastic. Prison news, travelling news, making plans to go abroad to somewhere and finding out 6 hours later that there is a mass genocide going on in that country...what could possibly be more interesting?
So, that said, I really am going to have to reconsider my Kenya trip seeing as there are a lot of people currently dying there. I imagine by the time I get enough money and time off to get there the genocide will be over. In the meantime, I will think about Australia instead.
Bachelorette party was last night. Good time. Penis hats, penis straws, penis cups, penis cake. What more could a bride-to-be ask for.

Hotel Rwanda

2008-01-03T02:30:00.000-08:00

Look at that, two posts in three days. Already I'm all over that resolution. At this rate I'm gonna kick this resolution's butt. So I watched Hotel Rwanda tonight for the first time. I took a few African history classes in college. Africa interests me. So, being the activist and world traveler that I am, I already found multiple volunteer organizations for various African countries. Kenya interests me the most. I would LOVE to do some sort of volunteer thing about Female Genital Mutilation, and I swear that does not make me creepy, but seeing as I am not a medical professional I have been looking at teaching positions, of which there are a ton. Nairobi and all the towns surrounding it. So, now I need money and time. Karna has a mission.

Happy New Year!

2008-01-01T16:14:00.000-08:00

damn i suck worse than ever before. two months! no post in two months! New Years Resolution: Write a blog post once a week, if not more. well new years eve was pretty fun last night, danced for like 4 hours so i am not even hung over. woohoo. I spent two weeks in Vietnam with my friends last month. also a very good time. prison is going great, i love it. I will give moer regular updates on the goings-on in the prison, that oughta get me some readers. everyone loves prison. so, give me shit if i don't keep my resolution. harass me.

damn people

2007-10-23T17:55:00.000-07:00

someone stole my damn wallet straight out of my purse friday night. I cancelled the cards and there was no cash in it, but mostly I am pissed about the ID and the wallet. Coach wallet. I hate people sometimes.

Hawks again

2007-10-15T10:59:00.000-07:00

I gotta go to work in a few minutes, but a quick update since it has been three weeks again...went to the hawks game last night, they sucked. work is good. Kalen turned 21, that was last weekend, I flew over there and we went out. It was fun. Uhh...the new apartment is great. I'll have to put pictures up sometime. Only like 5 weeks til Vietnam!

Go hawks

2007-09-23T10:52:00.000-07:00

I am off to the football game. Yesterday I was hungover as all hell, thought I was going to die, and had to do my apartment walk thru. Then Allan and I bought me a bed. Queen. My first bed, I suppose, since the others have all been like my one at home growing up. We moved it into my new room and then went tot he Puyallup Fair. Allan won a ball-rolling game and got us a neon beer sign for our living room. Then we hung out at Gloria's, and this girl who didn't even work there started clearing tables and took my drink which I had JUST got, hadn't even drank at all. So i asked her extremely politely where it was, and she flipped out and started telling me I could get out and go home. Keep in mind she doesn't even work there. So Laura the peacemaker is telling me that she is not worth it, don't freak, walk away, so I do, and I am talking to Laura and say "Let's go find Bill and Allan and go home" and bitch girl says "You do that, slut" and Laura, being very protective of me, turns around and says "excuse me?" and bitch says "You can go too, whore. and find yourself a hair dresser." This all considering Laura JUST got a haircut and it is very cute. Bitch girl, though, is fat, had greasy hair, and was ugly as sin, so we just left. Apparently the guys are even scared of her since she is fat and can beat up anyone, so I thought it best not to throw a punch. Ok, off the the hawks game with allan. Tomorrow I get my first prisoners!

New work, etc

2007-09-20T18:08:00.000-07:00

I'm almost done with my first week of work. This week was planning week and boring meetings week. Monday I get my inmate-students. Yesterday I got my Edmonds Community College Faculty badge. That was weird. They looked at me like, oops, you checked the faculty box instead of the student box, better redo it. And I give them the "I know I look 18 but I am faculty, you ass" look so they gave me my college instructor badge. sweet. Teaching for a college. Feeling pretty cool. I move into an apartment with allan and laura saturday and start my 1230 to 830 hours on monday, thank God. Cause at noon it takes 40 minutes to get to work. At 8, like all this DAMN WEEK, has taken me an hour and a half each way, nearly shot myself in the head til I realized I had no gun. Bad news. Let's see....saturday we are going to the fair, sunday allan and I are going to the seahawks game, and sunday night pool league starts. lots to do. And I am travelling alone in november to vietnam...tried to refund my ticket one last time but there is no hope, so I guess that's the plan. That's about it. oh, and my inmates are all male, maximum security, ranging in age from 18 to death. I'm sick of answering that questions (not that I mind people being interested, just sick of that question). There ya go.

Leaving P-Town

2007-09-11T22:50:00.000-07:00

So sorry it's been like a week and a half. I was in Sitka for almost a week for Mudball. We sucked some royal ass at softball, but let me tell you, our drinking team, had there been a competition, would have kicked some booty. It was a good time. I just worked nonstop from last Tuesday when we got back til yesterday, Monday. Today was my one day off to pack and stuff, and tomorrow I leave for Seattle. I am apartment shopping with Laura from Wrangell, and maybe Allan. We wanna live in Kent. We found a nice place that includes a fitness center and a couple pools, which would be awesome. We have an appointment to look around on Friday. I took the prison job. It starts Monday. The commute from Maple Valley is an hour; I'm hoping that from Kent it will be shorter, like 45 minutes. That is how long it took me to get to Renton last sememster for student teaching, it's not so bad. That's about it. I'm kinda sad to be leaving, actually. I think I could ALMOST handle all winter here cause I have good friends. Oh well maybe another winter. I must teach convicts this winter. I'll give frequent updates on the happenings within he prison walls :)

Job

2007-08-29T11:28:00.000-07:00

I'm currently trying to make a decision about what I will do this year...the plan was sub, maybe bartend on the side...but now I have a job offer for over 40,000 for three quarters, teaching GED to inmates at the prison in Monroe. The problem is that it is an hour commute each way. I'd have to get up at like 5 every day....but I might take it. I just don't want to get trapped into working for the rest of my life yet...I'm 23, I have lots of travelling and living in random places to do still.

Vietnam

2007-08-24T10:35:00.000-07:00

I can't remember what I have written about lately, but if I haven't already said it, I am going to Vietnam in November! For two weeks. Zieak, Cena, Ailis, me, Levy, Seth, and Mike are confirmed guests. That's awesome. I have a shitty shitty trip back, hitting like 35 stops, ok really just 5, but at least I will see lots of places. I fly from Ho Chi Mihn City to Singapore, spend a few hours there, then fly to Jakarta, spend a few hours there, then to Tokyo, spend 12 hours there, then fly to Hawaii, spend 6 hours there, then to Seattle. Luckily the Tokyo hours are 8 am to 8 pm so I can go explore hopefully. Last night at the Elks I met a guy who fishes here in the summers and lives in Honolulu in the winter so he said he would take me to the beach in Hawaii to kill time if I want. I'm not allowed to go out of the airport in Jakarta, says mom and various friends, cause they like to mug people in taxis and beat them up. I'm gonna see if it is possible to redo my ticket and do an Ailis-style straight shot there and back, but if not, it's ok. I'm just happy to get to go!

Busy Busy Busy

2007-08-24T10:29:00.000-07:00

I've been slacking again, cause I have too damn many jobs. I worked all day for Chelan yesterday, from 7 to 4 then went to the Elks at 5 to bartend. Usually we are done and closed by 930 or 10, but wouldn't you know it, the owner/manager/whatever his title is was there drinking and we were there til 1230, cause how do you go about kicking out the head honcho? You don't. You stay. Now I am at the Church job, and go straight to Java Hus after this. Luckily I talked my way out of working tonight so I can go to the Friday night weekly gathering...it might be beer pong this week, if we can get organized. Doesn't really matter though, I just want to be there, cause I am ALWAYS showing up three hours late and I miss everything and everyoen and everyone is drunk by the time I get there. So tonight I get to hang out with my friends finally.

visitor

2007-08-13T10:18:00.000-07:00

sorry it's been almost a week...I have a friend up here visiting from seattle! His name is Allan. And yes, he has a girl in Seattle, and is just my friend, since that is everyone's first question, nosy people. Thursday I had to work at the Elks so he hung out there all night. Friday we drove out the road and looked at places and looked for animals. Saturday we had softball against Wrangell all day. Sunday we went upriver. The weather could not have been better since he got here. It is totally beautiful and he even got burned upriver yesterday! I have to work til 6:30 today which SUCKS and maybe even tuesday and wednesday, and he leaves thursday so that totally sucks cause I want to be able to hang out! My brother might take him fishing today, we will see.

success

2007-08-07T11:29:00.001-07:00

I didn't fuck anything up on my first night as a bartender all by myself....I was left to fend for myself at the elks...haha i just typed "elfs" on accident...and I had 9 whole customers all night. But i did make over 50 bucks in tips from my 9 customers. They tip much better at the elks than at kitos, that's for sure. I made my mom and irene come up cause I was bored, and not ten minutes later who walks in but my dad and uncle bruce, who is in town til tomorrow for Benji Lucas's service. sheesh of all the luck....poor mom. haha.

makes me angry...

2007-08-06T11:34:00.000-07:00

It is damn annoying that alaska airlines charges one cent a mile to transfer miles from one person to another. I am about to transfer 30,000 miles from my dad's account to mine, and if my five years of college has paid off, that is 300 bucks. still cheaper, I suppose, than buying a ticket to Vietnam, but still. Sheesh.

sitcom/drama

2007-08-03T12:15:00.000-07:00

I can't decide which my life has been like lately. Situation comedy? drama? both, I think, in a weird hybrid show. starting with my return from mexico, my life has just been weird. not a very descriptive word, but weird is all I can think of. Ridiculous works too. And my work schedule is just weird too. 5 jobs, yet the middle of my day is empty and I live at the gym. However, I have lost 10 pounds in 5 weeks so this schedule is working well for me for now. 6 more weeks in town...
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE: Star wars? when?

Girl's night...

2007-08-01T10:43:00.003-07:00

Zieak is out of town, so Cena, Ailis and I hung out last night. We went on a bike ride, stopped at kito's so they could eat, and then went to Cena's so we could watch a movie. We wanted Now and Then, a simply amazing movie, but the unorganized movie rental place couldn't find it. We watched Empire Records instead...which is fine cause I had never seen it, and I feel like it's one of those movies everyone has to see. IT took us forever to get the projector working but Zieak walked Cena through it and she got it....then me and Ailis had to ride our bikes home at like midnight haha. That was fun. Now I'm back at work...clearly being productive...hmmm what else...I did nothing but work and work out yesterday. I walked the dogs, then spent two hours at the gym, then went for an hour long bike ride with the girls. Good stuff.

personal bubbles...

2007-07-31T11:21:00.000-07:00

some people need to learn to respect my personal space. I won't name names, but one lady comes into my office every damn day wanting me to do shit for her, comes behind my desk to look at my computer screen, and I am not kidding, her fucking cheeck actually touches mine she comes so close. I want to punch her in the face. oh my god. I can't handle this. I lean as far away as i can and she doesn't get the hint. aaauugghhh. it's gross. I might freak out.

Weekend past...

2007-07-29T19:17:00.000-07:00

another weekend come and gone, and I worked the whole damn time. all day saturday and today at Java Hus. I didn't really know what I was doing, but it was fun. good tips too. worked at kito's last night. it was totally busy, and some guy wanted to beat up another guy and I got to call the police so that was exciting. He was a scary, tatted-up dude who apparently just got out of prison so maybe he is not one to mess with. Friday I accidently got really really drunk with Cena, Zieak, Mike, and Josh. Saturday morning sucked royally. Oh today mom and I and Sage went and visited Ailis's kittens and mom was talked into getting one! woohoo I love kittens. if the other potential kitten parents decide not to get it, we are getting the runt, who seriously looks a little mentally challenged but is super cute. Yay a kitten!

busted already

2007-07-27T10:46:00.000-07:00

sheesh I missed a day adn already got called out on it :) so here I am again. I am very cleary working my ass off at the Lutheran Church right now, since I am blogging haha. I started at the Elks cocktailing last night, and so far I like it. Its good money, and although the cooks, waitresses and bartender all said it was crazy up there and really busy, I guess I'm used to Kitos, so it was really easy. People don't grope me and spill drinks on my and try to covertly grab my ass when they think I'm not looking. nice. And everyone tips at the Elks, unlike the damn cannery workers. I think I will like this job. It's only Thursdays though. And tomorrow I start at Java Hus, with no training to speak of, so if you want to see a fun show, come get coffee between 11 and 6!

Chelan!

2007-07-25T14:02:00.001-07:00

come buyfruit!! We are here today and tomorrow. keep me entertained. I shall now blog every day, except maybe the weekends, cause at my boring church job i do jack shit all day, so I will write deep, entertaining, mind-provoking thoughts on this, my brilliant blog. So I was recently told by someone who is an idiot that I need more self confidence, and I was told today that perhaps I need less self confidence. sheesh. what's a girl to do?

the people demand posts...

2007-07-24T21:57:00.000-07:00

...so I hear. So here is one. I now have five jobs. My goal was to stay below last year's four jobs, preferably 1 or 2, but here i find myself at 5. Kito's, Elks, Java Hus, the Lutheran Church, and Chelan. Sheesh. That's too many. I can't say no. Well, hopefully I will make lots of tops since three of those jobs are tipping jobs...I am being yelled at to come watch CSI so I will write more later.

slacker

2007-07-18T12:20:00.000-07:00

ok i;m back. i was in mexico, then i had a shitty few weeks, now i am in alaska working at a boring ass job but havning a better time. i shall update more regularly now.

shit

2007-05-31T19:47:00.000-07:00

boys are big f-ing pussies when they are sick. at least women are tough.

in AK

2007-05-23T18:18:00.000-07:00

Man i suck. Student teaching is almost done so then I will have more time to write on this thing and keep whatever few readers I have left entertained. I am in alaska for Sage's graduation right now. Til sunday. Then, 10 days of student teaching left. Then Mexico. Then CJ's birthday, then home for summer to work at Kito's. Woohoo. It is BEAUTIFUL here right now. like 65 and sunny.

long time

2007-04-27T16:39:00.000-07:00

sorry it's been forever! I've been full-time student teaching, teaching five class periods a day, and this week has been WASL testing and last week too. that's like the Alaska version of the exit exam only they take it almost every grade level. takes two weeks. so much teaching time lost on it. oh well, make my job easier haha. Not much else in my life besides teaching teaching teaching and planning planning planning. So excited for June 6 when I am done. It was gonna be june 1 but i am missing three days to go to alaska for sage's grad so I will make them up in june. then, Mexico! Going with mom. Graduation present. pretty sweet deal, I say. I won't look like a white person anymore at least. Bad weather here now. Well, I don't want to go that far, cause it is not raining. overcast and chilly. Well, I shall write morelater. must go to the gym.

send karna to psg

2007-04-13T23:49:00.000-07:00

graduation is may 23. My cousin Sage is among the upcoming petersburg escapees. I need to go. Zieak, how do you start an online paypal account for donations? haha. this is such a good idea. I'm brilliant.