On the train again movin' away from you

i've been a slacker lately. september will be better, i think. right now i feeling the beginnings of sickness starting to form. so i am going to keep drinking my tea, wait for the meds to kick in & make some raviolis. hopefully i am no longer sickly or just less sickly by the time work comes around...fucking changeover.

so while the water boils...listen to jaymay.



Still, the whole time there's this light
It wont let her say goodnight
Some white beam of hope in the sky
Has her questioning why
Has her constantly tryin' and lyin' inside

anything to make the time fly

days like yesterday are really what count most in life.

i'm paralyzed by fictitious eyes

i haven't been here in a week. there isn't much of a reason for it. i haven't really even thought about writing anything here either. it's really been a lot of the same ol shit since my last entry. here are any exceptions to that:

- i went back to work. having a paid week off is too much of a great thing.

- hung out with my girls a lot. i have made some great friends at 2216 & i would be totally lost without them.

- i returned my ipod due to the specualtion of a new model coming out the first week of september. i have a $400 (upgraded thanks to some extra bday money) in an Apple giftcard just waiting to be used.

- tomorrow i am going on a massive food trip - cici's, cracker barrel, sonic & dairy queen. sometimes the life of a fat girl proves to be adventurous.

that is all for now.

just a random set of objects

so my birthday week is over & i am very happy with how everything went. i'm even going to front, last years brithday wasn't good at all. but this year the whole time really proved to be more than amazing.



yesterday was my actual birthday. i spent the morning eating a breakfast wrap & doing laundry. then i went over to sharkey's for a fabulous time. it was full of badmitton, water balloon fights, my own pizza pie, a pinata, fudgie the whale & movie hangs. my friends almost made me cry by surprising me with an ipod touch! they gave me the gift recipt so if i wanted to up grade, i could. i think i am going to so i can make it my main music device. but i'm going to have to wait to get some more birthday money over the course of the week to be able to afford it. hopefully i can hold out until friday...because last night i was really itching to open it.

today will be spent watching it's always sunny, eating left over pizza & enjoying an empty house.

it might be a quarter life crisis

happy 26th birthday to me.

dreamt this dream a thousand times

i have been super busy lately. this week is filled with doing so much & then trying to get some rest.

day three of my birthday week was spent in west chester, pa. i could always write volumes about going to kevin shows, so i try not to. those shows are always something that i don't think i could ever explain to someone who doesn't really get it.

but the long & short of it is that i drove out there with jess & bex. we met up with kinja. i got a bangin' chicken hero thing. we finally found jackie. fred mascherino was really good live, but i have always loved him since breaking pangaea. kevin's was beyond amazing. i didn't get my song ("the three you asked for...i don't even know") but this box is empty & confessional was worth the trip & more.

we did pub on the way home. i love that place. it is just a diner but it somehow feels like more. i guess it is that pavlov's dog association type deal. it is always the post pennsylvania show hang where we reflect or just try to be revived from the death music can cause. we left, got back to piscataway & then i drove home. i pulled up to my house at 5:15. it was a full day and it was everything i could have hoped for & more.


day four of my birthday week was spent driving all over the island. hana & sharkey joined me seeing nightmare of you's instore performance at looney tunes. i enjoy them a lot. live they aren't always a winner to me. it isn't that they are bad, they sound good, but it doesn't hit me like other acts do. while i was there, i picked up their album that came out the day before. it is very lovely. they rerecorded two of their early demos. they sound good and i'm happy to have better quality of two of my favorite songs of theirs.

i also got a cd by the gay blades. it is outstanding. this is one i am going to pass around & makes sure everyone listens to. i saw the lead singer play an accoustic set when i was at looney tunes for record store day. i was impressed but never picked up the album. since i was finally out in east bumblefuck again, i thought it was time. i'm happy i found it & it rocks pretty hard.

after our looney tunes experience was over, it was diner & a long ass movie hang in sharkey's basement. i left my house at 4:30pm & then i got home at 3:30am. needless to say i was pooped.


day five of my birthday week was spent seeing blondie/pat benatar/the donnas in a park at coney island. i loaded my car with snacks & popcorn chicken and then headed over to hana's place. we loaded her car with food, drinks & lawn chairs and we were on our way. we were there super early but it ended up being good becasue we got a nice spot & things filled up super quickly. the two hours before was filled with super amounts of people watching. laura showed up just in time for the show. two fights almost broke out behind us during the donnas. pat benatar was great live & totally played the jams. seeing blondie made me so happy. debbie harry looked so old rocking out...but even at 64, she was phenomenal.

i always want to see acts that i haven't seen but i know i should see before they are at that stage where they don't play anymore. earlier this year i saw fleetwood mac, and last night i knocked two more acts off my list.


today is day six, but all i am probably going to do is hang around. i was going to go out shopping like i normally do onmy fridays off...but i haven't showered yet & don't feel like rushing around so i am back by babysitting. then again, i might get some boost of energy & leave my humble abode.

just sees what he wants to see

day two of my birthday week was lovely.

i worked for 9 hours and then jammed with the loverly ms. helen. i then came home to lounge around & have a deep conversation on AIM. i also learned how to play ace of base's the sign on my uke.

so over all it was a good day.

the girl at the rock show

Dear Thomas Matthew DeLonge Jr,

i was at your show tonight at jones beach. now that i have finally seen a band of yours live, i can officially say that you are every bit obnoxious in real life as you have been in my mind for the last couple years. you are 33 years old. talking about fucking dads & constant penis jokes during your set is just sad.

travis flawlessly played his drums hanging in the air & sideways. you fucked up a good amount of your songs tonight with your feet flat on the ground.

not cool my friend, not cool.

love always,
katharine.

i can't walk through my own life

i miss these boys. the memories i have involving these guys are beyond amazing. they are one of the reasons i miss philly & northstarbar. why can't they be on tour? it is summer, travel north. it is cooler up here than mississippi. promise. i'll let you use my b&n discount.

i’m going to go rock out up in my room for a couple hours. and hem some pants.

boo to life & me never fully absorbing reality.

now the days go by so fast

after a pretty sad moment in the history of my life occurred not more than 30 min ago, i moved forward & realized that my birthday week is going to be awesome. i had this feeling a couple days ago that i wanted to go into hiding. not talk to anyone or see people outside of a work setting. but that would be impossible since the days are filling up very well. so far, i have something to do 5 out of 7 days.

sunday - blink 182 at jones beach
monday - (opening at the store)
tuesday - lunch with mary in nj (maybe) & kevin in west chester
wednesday - nightmare of you at looney tunes (perhaps)
thursday - blondie/pat benetar at coney island
friday - (babysitting)
saturday - my birthday at sharkey's

i have to work monday morning & babysit friday night. so it won't be like i'm sitting home doing nothing. and even some of the moments i'm sitting home doing nothing, i'll be getting paid for it. god bless vacations days.

this year's birthday is already better than last year's (it wouldn't take much at all for it to be better than last year).

then again, i'm going to so much more broke than last year. but for me, it's worth it!

it was our destiny

tomorrow i will order on of these & my life will be awesome.
(somehow v-necks have been taking over my life. but i like it.)

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Now playing: Dusty Springfield - No Easy Way Down
via FoxyTunes

all the couples have gone

i think i am going to listen to 'brother's blood' tonight until sleep thankfully takes over me.

then tomorrow, i look forward to a chinese food lunch date with sue.

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Now playing: Regina Spektor - Poor Little Rich Boy
via FoxyTunes

don't trust a ho

in my head, i have a well overdue big post brewing. but i know it isn't going to work out on screen as well as it is currently forming in my brain.

but today was a good day.

one of the managers & i went to the new crepe place in the shopping center we work in. i am going to get so fat & broke. but it is worth it. but it was a good time. i know people out there don't like their jobs. but for as much as i can complain about the bookstore, i really enjoy some of the people it has brought into my life.

now i'm leaving to finally check out tina's new apartment in brooklyn. then is once again off to hoboken to enjoy food/tunes at maxwell's. it always, without fail, rains when i go there to see a show. it can be before i leave, in the car on the way, while i am actually in the city of hoboken or on the drive home. it doesn't matter when, but it always happens. i will never understand it.