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MY BIRTHDAY IS ON SATURDAY!! COME GET HARRY POTTER WITH ME!!! THEN GO DRINK!! YAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

it's been a long long time since i posted, i dont know if anyone still reads my lj. if you do, i'm turning 21 on july 21st and if anyone's in p-town they should call me up and hang out. i'm gonna go do the usual bar-hopping on saturday night, so if anyone over 21 wants to join, please do. otherwise, i just wanna hang out and catch up with old friends. 

give me a call @ 503-307-5207 or email me jonahmalater56@yahoo.com. 

 

so.... i haven't posted on lj for... years? my housemate got me re-addicted to it.  things have actually been happening in my life, it's weird. anyway, i gotta run to the bank. happy writing!

So i'm here in asheville, NC and i have never been so happy to be anywhere. the bus ride out was a nightmare; no sleep, no food cause i was really sick, the people were pretty much insane and bizarre, and what should have taken three days took FIVE. yes, FIVE days of misery. the only good thing is that i did make some friends that i hope i'll keep in touch with because they were really great, helping me and keeping me sane.

asheville is gorgeous, and the weather is perfect, 75 degrees and sunny. i'll be here till the end of the month and i'm really happy to see my sister, some friends from portland who have moved here, and to meet all the great people my sister has become friends with. i hope everybody back in portland is having a good time, because it's wonderful here. my sister and i are working at a construction site to make a few dollars and it's really rewarding work. i am SOOOOO sore, but it's a good sore because i know i earned it. we also did a shit-ton of hiking... and yes, it is "shit-ton." all the old-time musicians and punks here in asheville say it when they are talking about a lot of stuff. kinda like a shit-load, but funnier. asheville is a pretty liberal town, and it also has a college so there's a lot of non-southern people here, but there are still a lot of accents and it's really easy to pick up a little here and there.

but back to hiking! gabo lives in a little canyon surrounded by really big ridges, one of which has a fire/lookout tower on it and on tuesday we hiked up it. man that was tough! i don't hike. not that i don't like to, i just haven't in a really long time, so i just about died. we slept up on the ridge, and saw sunset, sunrise, moonrise and moonset (is it called that?) whatever, it was REALLY pretty and i took lots of pictures. it got kinda cold for a while, but just a little. everybody here says there's time for one last freeze, and i hope it happens while i'm here. so, the next day we hiked back down to her house and then some friends came to visit. (she lives about an hour outside of town) and we all piled into a little car, (6 people and a really big dog in a honda civic. that's an adventure!) and went to another ridge called "Max Patch." i have no idea why it's called that. it's not a very big hike because you drive most of the way up, but it's about 3 miles round trip. when we reached the top there was a huge wide open pasture on top of the ridge, and we all hung out there for a while. you can see all the ridges in the area, and you have a 360 degree view of the country. (tennessee is also within veiwing distance) it was incredibly windy but amazingly beautiful. there is so much amazing country around here, and there's also so much history in that country. you can barely go 100 feet without running into some old, beautifully built, abandoned house from the 20's or 30's.

on top of all the hiking and working, we walk all over town because i don't have a bike here. there are a lot of hills, and everyone here walks really fast (also, they're all really tall). damn tall people; they don't understand how hard it is to be 5'-4" (yay i grew!!) and have little shorty legs. seriously! all my pants are at least three inches too long.

anyway, i have a plane ticket back to portland on the 29th, and it makes me so happy to not take the greyhound.

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I'm going to North Carolina!!!! yayayayayayayayyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!! i get to see my seester for almost three whole weeks!!!

and then i get to go back to school the day after a three-day cross-country greyhound trip. ugh.

well, gee. it's been a long-assed time since i posted. i kinda seem to keep doing that.

anyhoo, the news for me is kinda boring. i don't really do much cause i'm not in school (don't worry, i'm going back.) it's been nice... but the real reason i'm posting is to see of anybody's driving to the east coast around the end of the month. i know it's a long-shot, but if you or anyone you know is willing to share a car, gas, and food costs with a nice girl all the way across the country, please let me know. my phone # is 503-307-5207, ask for joanna.

I hope everyone's lives are going well, with school and whatnot. happy late valentine's and president's days!!!

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ok, so this week officially sucks a lot. this whole post is going to be about that and i don't know how to create a link to the rest of the post so you get it all. if you don't care, stop reading now and skip on to the rest of your stuff cause it's fucking depressing.

Actually, life has generally just been sucking since the 6th of December. you know why? that's the day i found out my friend Joscelyn had died after being hit by a car. then, the gathering started and that was mostly all fun except that i can't really enjoy old-time parties cause i don't play an instrument, so jamming is kinda useless for me. and therefore depressing.

then, on friday the 13th, my godfather died. this was not quite so much a shock as joce's death was because he had prostate cancer and it was bad and he was pretty much just at home waiting to die. but still. i loved him as much if not more than my own father. (it's awful, terrible, etc, I know. and i don't care, it's the truth.) so i left the gathering and went to see all my family and cry a lot and sit with his body and generally be depressed. then today i went to joce's funeral. goddamn depressing, let me tell you. she was 18, amazingly talented, a brown belt in judo (they gave her mother the black belt she would have earned this april because she was just that cool.) she played a gazillion instruments, was a really good artist in lots of mediums, and a generally cool person. so I got to listen to an hour of people telling really wonderful stories about her and bawling my eyes out.

and now, my godfather's wake is on wednesday and his funeral is on thursday, and i don't know how much more of this i can take. the only consolation is that although i feel bad that i didn't visit him more while he was sick, now i remember him how he was before he got sick. before the drugs and the steroids and the way they made him look. before i realized that it was only a matter of time till we would all watch this father of six, grandfather of two (almost three), uncle to way too many to count, and godfather to me and my sisters waste away and die. at least it was peaceful, in his own bed, with his wife and children around him.

i miss him so much. i had a dream about him on friday night after going to his house, and he was happy cheerful and healthy. i hope that i can always remember him like that.

Rest in Peace, Patrick McNassar. i love you.

school sucks. that's the extent of how i feel right now except fpor tired. becuase of school. i'm taking a semester off because i can't handle it.

stupid school.

ps: i moved. i am officially out of my parents house and never going back.

i'm ill and sickly. everyone should pity me and send me yummy food. wait. i can't taste anything cause my nose is stuffed up. damn. nevermind, just be sympathetic intead.

also, school is lame. i have a paper and i REALLY don't want to do it.

i think i have officially (and sufficiently) contaminated this stupid little mac, so i'm going to moan and groan elsewhere while i wait for my next class.

so, it's been a REALLY long time since i actually updated LJ. i've become a myspace whore, i admit it. But i really want to know what's been up with everybody back in the land of ash, or who went to SOU last year. i hear girl Alex may be coming to portland. (you better call me! 503-307-5207) and that interesting things are going on in the halloween arena.

i love you all and i hope you are having a lovely 1st term of sophomore year.


psu kinda sucks, but i'm happier than when i was at sou, and i am moving this week into a house with my two best friends. i work at a pet store and supposedly make loads of money. unfortunately i'm still broke. how does this happen?

anyhoo, love to all and happy halloween!

~joanna

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he he. i'm a socialist. yay.

school starts the day after tomorrow. i'm scared. not really, but i'm apprehensive about spending that much time in a classroom again. and i don't know how PSU is going to work out what with my fin aid situation being what it is. (in other words, can i afford it? and if i can, can i also work enough to support myself?)

anyhoo, work and school and voice lessons (another expense) and a social life..... yeah, not gonna happen.

recital went well, though. i only screwed up a little on one song and not at all on the other. lots of others sucked big time, though. it was sad. but some were really great and i'm SO happy for them.

have fun at school, everybody......

OMG!!! this works sooooooo well, becuase i just recently discovered Firefly and mal and kaylee are my two favorite characters! i have two lucky (actually favorite) numbers and i tried both of themand got my favorite people!!! i'm so flippin happy!!!


umm... i haven't posted in ages, but i have news. i got a job. and i like it. and i have a cell phone, and maggie's boyfriend is an ass (in my opinion) and she's in salem so i'm lonely, and i get to do a trio and a solo at my recital and i'm just a happy camper except that i haven't gotten my books for this term yet and calss starts next monday. owie. and SOU sicks cause they just sent me a humongagungous bill that i have no intention of paying because i am not attending that asscrack of a school. no offense to you that are staying, but it really just wasn't for me.

well, love to all, and we should get together before all of you leave. wait, you probably already have left. damn.

PSU rocks.








OMG!!! this works sooooooo well, becuase i just recently discovered Firefly and mala nd kaylee are my two favorite characters! i have two lucky (actually favorite) numbers and i tried both of themand got my favorite people!!! i'm so flippin happy!!!


umm... i haven't posted in ages, but i have news. i got a job. and i like it. and i have a cell phone, and maggie's boyfriend is an ass (in my opinion) and she's in salem so i'm lonely, and i get to do a trio and a solo at my recital and i'm just a happy camper except that i haven't gotten my books for this term yet and calss starts next monday. owie. and SOU sicks cause they just sent me a humongagungous bill that i have no intention of paying because i am not attending that asscrack of a school. no offense to you that are staying, but it really just wasn't for me.

well, love to all, and we should get together before all of you leave. wait, you probably already have left. damn.

PSU rocks.

I WANT THE BROTHHERS GRIM!!!!!!!!!


they're so pretty.....

so, lots of alkehol + wes + maggie down the hall = .... no more talking for me.

i'm really sore because on sunday after breakfast, maggie took me to dishman to swim, and i forgot that it works every muscle in your body and that i don't exercise. at least, not since my parents have been gone. i have too much access to cars and no reason to bike. on the plus side, they'll be back by the end of the week, and then i won't have a car, and i'll really have to get a job and i'll be biking to school cause i won't be able to afford insurance.

heh. insurance, money? what's this thing you speak of?

so, i have a cell phone now. and you are all welcome to have the number and call me. it's 503-307-520? you have to comment and ask for the last digit. i'm not that stupid.

anyhoo, i have not been online in ages, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ROZ!!! sorry i missed it.

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.............. i'm tired. and still sore. and i have to put the garbage out and water the houseplants cause if they die my mother will never love me again. sratch that, she'll never let me house-sit again. bad plan. must water all plants. and feed the animals. wait, animals?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanyhoo, lots of intoxicants + little sleep and then tylenol PM makes me a silly girl. (we watched "raise your voice," one of the worst movies of all time while i was drugged and i couldn't stop yelling at stupid Hillary duff cause she sucks balls. seriously. then we watched "million dollar baby" and i was really irritated when it reached the 1 1/2 hour mark. by two hours i was yelling at the TV. not the movie, the TV.

ps: the only reason i took the tylenol is cause maggie is an insomniac with upcoming surgury (that means pain NOW) and she was nervous about taking it. so i took it with her. all we discovered: it makes me loooooopy and not ticklish, and has no effect on her. whatsoever. ridiculous, huh? it's very frustrating.

sooooo, on a different note, the garbage and recycling is calling to me, so i must be going. (got to get rid of the evidence, you know?)

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thanks jordan!

so , if you didn't get this message earlier, I AM HAVING A PARTY, it is on friday, the 12th of august, at 7-ish, lasting on until we all either fall asleep or have to go home or wake up the next day. please bring: movies, music, board games, anything else fun, and yourself. friends are welcome. this is a kind of really belated birthday thing in which NO PRESENTS are welcome, and all i want is your company. this is open to all portland area friends and sou-ites.

ps: california was COLD!!!! in AUGUST!!!! berkeley was fun and while i was cold i got sunburned. where is the justice, i ask you? WHERE IS THE JUSTICE!!!!

pps: i got to dance with all my favorite mcnassar boys and see dan get married to a wonderful woman he really loves. (he converted to judaism for her). that commitment. anyhoo, now i'm off to see said mcnassar boys father who is dying of prostate cancer and couldn't come to the wedding. mmm-mmm good.

so. my dad bought a cello at a garage sale. does anyone in my house or that we know need, play, want to play, or like the cello? no. no one needs or wants a cello. why, you ask? my thoughts are that 1) he's insane, 2) he's on drugs (not really because he doesn't even drink anymore) and 3) because he is so far unrelated and so un-connected from his children he thinks he has to give us presents to make us love him, or to show his love to us. it doesn't seem to matter if he says it every day, or if he hugs us every day, or if he gave us the best childhood he could. he still thinks he has to buy our love. and that drives us further and further away, every day. why a cello? why a FUCKING CELLO!?

for my birthday i asked for several VERY SPECIFIC things. did i get any of them? NO. not one. he got me some random sci-fi books, one Ursula leGuin book, (not any of the ones i asked for and one i already own), and several CDs of bands i've never heard of. And while he was explaining the CD choices, he blatantly insulted my sister and her friends and lifestyle (traveling musician) by calling it "intelligent" old-time, implying that she plays stupid old-time. he has no tact, no sense of what is ok in polite company, and no idea when he insults people. (which he does constantly). why does no one understand when i say that i wish my parents would just hurry up and get a divorce so i could chose when and where to see him?

i really need to get a job and move out.

ah, well.... *clears throat uncomfortably* that last post was made in the spirit of extreme emotional distress, and i am sorry if i was a little (a lot) vicious in my presumptions. turns out my friend and i were playing phone tag, with em leaving long depressing messages, and she forgot that i don't have caller ID, so when she didn't leave a message i had no idea she called. i'm technologically impaired, what can i say?

anyhoo, birthday turned out fine, went to see "lords of Dogtown" with my mom, then maggie picked me up and we drove around and got food and then she took me home and i read until an indecent hour and fell asleep to dream of.... well, that's not something i'd like to share right now, is it?

heh heh...

on another note, see you all later!