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Thursday, May 29, 2003

So... I graduated this past Sunday. As Ryan put it, the certificate they gave me cost $150,000 and 4 years of my time. Woohoo! It doesn't really feel different, though. I mean, maybe that has to do with me being here next year, as well, so I don't really think of myself graduating. I said goodbye to Helen and Vinny on Monday, and I'm really hoping that won't be the end... after all, Helen will only be in Rochester next year and Vinny in Queens. We saw so much of Herb and Bolcar this year that, well, I'm kinda hoping for the same for the new grads. But alas, I have to say goodbye to Adam tomorrow. He's coming back to Ithaca from Rochester for some festivities, and after that, I'll be going to New Hampshire for the summer and when I get back, he'll be all the way down in Nashville, TN! He says he'll be back a lot - after all, he has a NY wedding to plan for next June (yes, another of my friends getting married - will it never end?). I hope so. I hope this isn't goodbye for some of my closest friends.

I've decided, though, that I don't really like Ithaca that much. I'm started to get bored. It's really my excellent friends that make it good, and well, after next year, when most of them leave (not all, though, there'll still be some good ones to visit, if that's possible) I'll be ready to high tail it out of here. Someone recently said... 100 miles and 5 years makes a good Cornell alum. I don't know if I'll need the the 5 years, but I'll definitely need the 100 miles! And then some!

Looking forward to New Hampshire, I guess. I'm almost all packed up - I'll miss this apartment. It's felt the most like home of all the places I've lived in here. I leave on Saturday, head up to Corinne's and then do her bidding. Eventually get to the actual apartment, find a job for the summer and settle in. I hope it's fun. Lots of beach time, I think. And as long as I've got an internet connection, well, how bad could it be (then again, there's Connecticut to think about). One of my projects (hopefully) for the summer is to update my webpage (overhaul it really) so who knows, maybe you'll see a new design on here soon. But then again, maybe not.

- Lizzardie, at 7:56 PM Post Link


Monday, May 19, 2003

Countdown until Graduation: 6 days (how did that happen?)
Countdown until my parents get here: 4 days (God help me)

What a fun week this is going to be. I realized that in order to move all of the furniture to Heather's barn on Thursday, I have to pack up the contents of my desk and bookshelf by then. Whee! I'm really going to miss my couch for the summer, but no fear, because I will have it again next year! All right, so it's not really my couch, but I really like it and it has housed so many guests, Phi Sigma Pi and otherwise. And it will have a happy home next year with me, Cat and Anthony.

I did my only Senior Week activity last night.... the Dinner Cruise! It was fun, Seneca Lake was nice, Helen and I compared it with the Formal Cruise that we had just 2 weeks ago (on Cayuga Lake) all night. Food was good and Adam and I shared a bottle of wine! Yummy Wagner Pinot Noir (because when you're on a cruise in the middle of Fingers Lakes Wine Country, you had better be drinking Finger Lakes wine). I had a lot of fun, and we were soooo tired after dinner!

I've decided I'm going to do a lot of reading over the summer. Along with my summer projects, of which there are plenty, but all organizational in nature. And be dragged all over New England, I believe. So if you have books you think I should read and want to lend them to me, please do so! Fiction, non-fiction, as long as they're good, I don't care! I need to read more, because it's almost like I've forgotten how! Maybe I'll do lots of reading on the beach and get tan! Yay!

Ohh, and my lunch for the day consisted of a teriyaki chicken breast and chocolate milk. If you know me very well, you'll know that this is a very clear indication of how little money I have to go food shopping (as in none).

- Lizzardie, at 3:04 PM Post Link


Friday, May 16, 2003

So I had read the other day about the St. Louis schooltrip where the girl died in the Museum of Science and Industry (because I try to be a good kid and stay updated with my Chicago news). Anyway, I found it pretty upsetting - you don't think about something like that happening and it was just horrible, you know? I guess I should feel that way about all those South Side shootings, but it's almost an everyday thing... yeah, I should still feel bad, I'm just way too jaded sometimes.

Anyways, I was surfing through the blogs/livejournals (because why shower at 2:00pm when you've just woken up) and came across Andrew's friend Erin's livejournal. Her sister was on that trip (yes, six degrees of separation does seem to work very well). Apparently the kids were all locked in an auditorium for 5 hours and their cell phones were taken away until they got home. I don't know about any of you, but I would have tried to hurt someone if I had been one of those kids. First of all, no one takes away my cell phone, period. I try very very hard to have good cell phone etiquite - not letting it go off in inappropriate times by either turning it off or putting it on vibrate (the usual course of action, but it's still very polite). SO.... because I'm so good.... I really would not be pleased AT ALL if someone did that to me. Besides, don't those kids have a right to call their family members and let them know they were okay? Given how much media I'm sure it got, I bet the parents weren't happy until they AT LEAST heard the voices of their kids. But no, instead they took away their cell phones and stuck them on a bus. Great. It was supposedly so that they couldn't be interrogated or something, but hell, isn't there caller ID (nevermind that I don't have it)? And don't these kids have a choice in the matter? Granted, sure, they're high school students and here I am, 4 years out of high school, but I bet I would have felt the same way as I do now.

In other news... do I have other news? Other than being poor? Let me try and explain something. My friends know that usually I'm one of the first people to jump on the, let's go out! bandwagon. So maybe my presence is taken for granted. So lately, in my state of, I can't spend a single dime so don't even try, that hasn't been the case. I keep saying, no, I can't go out. And it's like everyone thinks I'm upset about it. I'm over the early-April breakdown, people! I do want to go out, it's just that I can't afford it, and I don't want to be in any more debt than I am. Yet Demetri loaned me the money to go to Olive Garden on Saturday and Aladdin's yesterday. And then I went to the State Street Diner, too, late last night. It has to stop! No more money spending! I don't have it! I'm glad that my friends want to see me but I wish it didn't always involve spending money. =(

This must be mentioned. Wednesday night, after I gorged myself on The West Wing season finale, I went out with Adam and friends for drinks. "Drinks" meant one drink at each bar in collegetown. There are 8 bars in Collegetown, for those that don't know this. A pitcher of beer at Ruloff's (there were 6 of us), a kamikazee shot for me at Johnny O's and tequila shots for everyone else, sparkling wine at Stella's, some shot involving whiskey and lime juice at The Palm's, Surfer on Acid shots at Dino's (read: jaegermeister and other things), 50-cent drafts at Bear Lodge, Jack Daniels on ice at Dunbars, and pints of some beer that I don't know the name of at The Chapter House. Amazingly I remember all that because I was pretty messed up by the time I got home (I will miss being so close to the Chapter House, though I will still be reasonable distance next year.... there's just that damn hill). I also made 3 dollars by kissing a girl on the cheek. Our offer to make out if we were paid 70 dollars apiece was not taken, nor was our offer to make out if two of the guys did taken. Stupid men.

In other news, I'm moving to New Hampshire for the summer! I'm going to be 15 minutes from the beach, and I've never even seen the Atlantic Ocean! I'm living with Corinne's boyfriend Ron, which should be interesting, in a two-bedroom apartment in Newmarket, NH. It's about an hour from Corinne, so I'll see her all the time. She'll be our third roommate, in fact. I'll also be a little more than an hour from Boston! I'm really excited to see Boston, because I never have! It should be a lot of fun. The plan is to move up there, and then find a job. How am I managing to do this, you ask? Well, Corinne and her friends that I'm subletting from are going to spot me for a little bit until I have the rent money, which is very nice of them and pretty much the perfect situation for me. So I'm excited. If you'll be anywhere in New England, let me know!

On to do more human things, like shower....

- Lizzardie, at 2:40 PM Post Link


Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Okay, yeah, so I haven't posted in awhile. I actually did write a post about Senior Night, but it got lost (short version: murder mystery, me: cocktail waitress from hell, i.e., Hoboken, NJ). And things have been a whirlwind since then! Finishing classes, mediocre Slope Day, Induction, Awards, Formal, Study Week, Finals... and now I just wait for graduation. And then.... yeah....

So, Slope Day was mediocre. Fenced in, catered slope with dreary weather plus no sleep the night before equaled me not wanting to go out to said slope. I was trying to sleep on the couch, though, when Cat, Kathy and Greg came by and kidnapped me. We went back to Greg's place (it was weird.... we headed down Seneca and then turned and all of a sudden, we were back on Cornell property!). Greg made us this drink with some Brazilian alcohol in it.... not bad, not bad. Kind of depressing being in Greg's room with all his ashened belongings.... but I'm glad he's okay and that I could be there to at least do something to cheer him up. He's really taking it better than I could possibly imagine anyone else taking it.

Induction... I am now officially an alum of Phi Sigma Pi. And we presented the new tablecloth! I'm really glad we were able to put together that gift. The roses pin corsages they got us matched my formal dress, so that was nice. BBQ was... okay. I had my make-shift dijon burger, and that's all that counts, right?

Awards... okay, this is where I try not to sound too conceited, if that's possible. The one award I got was the Chapter Service Key. It's the highest honor a chapter can give an individual member, blah blah blah (this really is important). I'm the fifth person to get it in our 9-year plus history. It's been a bit... overwhelming. I could describe why, but it would take far too many words to do so. Let's just say that about 3 days AFTER I got the award, I was finally happy and accepting of it.

Study Week, Finals.... not important.... but now I'm done. Though I have no job, no money and no place to live for the summer. And no desire to return home to Illinois. So we'll see. We shall see.

- Lizzardie, at 4:44 AM Post Link


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