oh googlisms. i missed you. and i'm procrastinating. and my finger hurts.

ashley is a pita?
ashley is first expelled
ashley is such a card
ashley is the coolest
ashley is second wku football player to win gateway award
ashley is going to states
ashley is the best
ashley is new county council member
ashley is brave
ashley is 6
ashley is also cool too
ashley is seen in this undated family handout photo
ashley is an atheist
ashley is reinventing the law practice
ashley is such a bitch
ashley is racing to the altar
ashley is married
ashley is improving rapidly
ashley is filling in for us until we contact our model for this shirt
ashley is going to states and i got a new boarder
ashley is in a very strange mood right now
ashley is hidden from most of the world
ashley is at a current estimated population of 850 people
ashley is a very strong little girl
ashley is wearing a pretty blue summer dress
ashley is on top of a mountain
ashley is in grade 5 and she has many friends and everyone looks out for her
ashley is built upon the floor of charity
ashley is back to action this week in the qualifying in bratislava
ashley is hot too
ashley is our newest office resident
ashley is a direct descendant of the charles ives/henry cowell/john cage
ashley is in the process of looking for record companies and distributers for the album
ashley is our angel
ashley is an expert on computer modeling of legal reasoning and cyberspace legal issues
ashley is a wonderful
ashley is an excellent student who is self motivated and in the top ten percent of her class
ashley is 18 and will be a freshman at johnson & wales university in the fall
ashley is located in eastern gratiot county just a mile north
ashley is twelve years old
ashley is welcome
ashley is president of ashley & associates
ashley is a 4th grader who has always enjoyed school
ashley is now 9 years old
ashley is at the emergent reader stage
ashley is treated by the young players with respect usually reserved for professional athletes or rap stars
ashley is the oldest child in a family of three
ashley is way *curse*in hotter than justin
ashley is like comparing the black plague and ebola
ashley is left in the dark
ashley is a masterful storyteller
ashley is having difficulty maintaining adequate oxygenation and has high pip
ashley is on the soccer field
ashley is the 584th most popular male first name in the united states
ashley is a great passer who sees the floor extremely well and is especially good at setting up her post teammates
ashley is a junior instrumental music education major with an emphasis on clarinet
ashley is healed of her cancer
ashley is definitely going to go far in life and gymnastics
ashley is successful
ashley is energetic and takes direction very well
ashley is a guy
ashley is awesome
ashley is a small village in northeastern delaware county on state routes 42 and 229
ashley is my boyfriend's little sister
ashley is a human
ashley is a character
ashley is the essence of what our program stands for
ashley is a very affectionate 10 year old cat
ashley is not speaking
ashley is the kind of friend that i can tell secrets to and have secret codes with
ashley is a pygmy with short light brown hair
ashley is a c1 quadreplegic paralized during birth
ashley is an extremely even
ashley is quiter
ashley is interviewed by a television reporter after her appearance as a special guest during the public relations presentation at the 1999 imperial council
ashley is a bitch
ashley is the baby at age 15
ashley is booted out

so weird.

and i'm not talking about the disney channel and alexzzzzz johnson.

i think danny said it best when he said, "how did this happen?"

what am i speaking of?

Tomorrow is the first day of classes for the 2005-2006 school year.

What does this mean?
...It means I am a third year, a third year. It means I have lived and breathed UChicago for 2 years of my life. It means I attended a Dudley house meeting tonight, and saw tons of unfamiliar and young faces, who all blindly accepted candace and me as associate members... I remember saying, "someday when we get our own apartment, we'll have to be associate members..." It seemed so far off, and distant. It was also probably said during first or second week and therefore viewed by all as unlikely to hold true, given general o-week optimism, but that's just details. In fact, my first year roommmate and I have very few optimistic o-week wishes and "maybe"s that we havent already passed the milestone on and/or accomplished.
...It also means that two years later, two years after meeting Chris Martin, Anthony Hopkins, Gwenyth Paltrow, and others, Proof has finally been released in Chicago and viewed by Candace and I (and many others) and we adored it. I'm not so sure how our fellow patrons felt about our yelling and pointing, "look, it's Blake! it's Owen! it's crazy shoreland guy!" But we all made it through. Moral? Go see it, no matter where in this fine country you live, or school you attend, it was a delightful movie experience. Just know that is MY school, and the extras are MY people, and at any shot I am most likely on the other side of the camera, watching like a huge dork, instead of going to my first week of classes, first year.

so, tomorrow it all begins. another year of joyousness, and after that one remains until graduation. Assuming I graduate in four, which who knows, it could easily not happen, and it really wouldn't be the end of the world, at all. Somehow I have grown to love it here, and everyone that goes it here as well. Although I miss some people, and cozy hyde park won't be the same with certain people gone, or with not living in the dorms, or many other things, but I think this year will be just as good or greater than any other.

And so it goes...

meh.

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i thought about blogging tonight. and then i did.

i'm slowly coming down...

my first weekend doing promotional work...

...was amazing.

(the 'i' list...)

• i made money
• i had fun
• i got into the farm aid concert free
• i got to be a VIP at the farm aid concert
• i got to meet and see farm aid artists
• i got to make a new friend
  
• i got to give away 17,000 8.25oz organic and soymilk samples, pelting one person in the head and forcing an EMT to come to their aid
• i met kenny chesney, willie nelson, and their managing and bus driving staff (including gator and pooty)
• i watched two girls attempt to break-in to dave matthew's bus, flash the security man (dean, or stage name, "break daddy"), and two guys beg to go smoke weed with will nelson, as their lives would then be complete
  
• i got to have dave matthews squeeze my hand for over five minutes, "i married an ashley..."
• i got to have dave repeat my name more than necessary
• i got to have dave sign my backstage pass
• i got to do this all while getting paid to give people free milk
• i got to write this blog to simply brag about it, but not care how annoying it would be to others
  

...did i mention my fifteen minute conversation with dave matthews after watching him, wilco, john mayer, neil young, john melloncamp, and so on, perform?

good god i'm being so annoying. i apologize, and promise to get over myself.

first weekend back in the lovely windy city...

friday? went downtown to go shopping and see a movie, didnt get there in time to shop except for at borders, across from the theatre, where i saw greg weintraub. unpleasant? mildly, it proved to be a delightful founding of the game, "don't let greg weintraub and his woman see me, even though knowing greg, he wouldnt even know who i was." I won. I saw The Constant Gardener and it was very good, i liked it a lot. I saw it all BY MYSELF. No, i was not in fact saving any seats for anyone. No, none of these seats are taken. thank you for asking though. really. Brad picked me up on his way home, as he was on the north side as well. that was a delightful and welcome surprise.

saturday? went grocery shopping at jewel. then out with bradley to a house party in wicker park, which was fun, and interesting. it was nice not to be the only person who didnt know anybody, it was a much more mixed crowd than the usual gatheirngs i tag-a-long on, so that was enjoyable. i was actually feeling quite up to be social and had some good fun. until i fell. and now have a foot that is nicely swollen, a knee quit bruised, and a big toenail that only has the very tiniest thinnest layer of nail left on it. not pleasant, especially not with my run coming up tuesday. the bruised lump on teh arm has only gotten worse, im thinkin doctor here soon. it took us 47 and a half hours to get home last night. and the jj hit me hard. this morning was rough, but i'm feeling quite delightful this eveing now. john told me two Student Directors got robbed and held at gunpoint last night at 54th and ellis. comforting news as always.

Monday! we shall see.

"at the moment..."

http://www.funnysign.com/

i spent awhile here this evening, until i looked at them all, and became too concerned with the rapidly growing lump on my arm. that is okay though, cause i have my future fiance Jaime in India. he knows computers. hott.

he's back!

oh to what greatness do i owe this blog entry? the fact that our english friend (well, i dont actually know that, but i like to think so) has reinstated his blog, "things i hate about my flatmate" with a new and different flatmate. this pleases me, and having things that please me these days is quite the treat. so, i'm glad for this, and you should be too.

do i go on and begin to truly update this blasted thing with something of substance about me for the last week or two? I don't think that is quite appropiate, nor possible, so for now I shall just go on attempting to be absent from my social world. and playing fridge roulette. the end.

it's been awhile...

the wisdom teeth came out last week... lots of meds, pain and blood, and about a week and a half later my gums are still quite bothersome, and i have quite the permanent hospital taste in my mouth.

i have had a crazy couple of days, a whirlwind of things happening that i had not planned to have nor expected, well i suppose all of inevitable, but still totally surreal and its definitely only the begining. I was supposed to move back to chicago monday and it is now friday and i still have no idea when.

I bought a dresser today, a bunch of bedding yesterday, and i might be getting a bed before i go back as well. i was at "the farmhouse" (falls into such boven family namingisms as "the raney house," "taft," etc.) and helping out for the first time since they bought it. I finished demolishing a closet that had been plastered, and found some 1920's business cards which was cool. My aunt Denise was there for awhile in addition to the mom, corey and christine usual crew. Which was super nice since i rarely if ever see her anymore. Turns out there is a toatlly groovy desk in the barn which is just perfect (not to mention what i have been looking for ALL summer but my parents failed to mention to me existed) for me to redo, which is something that would be kind of good to do before going to chicago, as redoing furniture sounds like a complicated thing to do in a chicago apartment. Who knows.

i happened to come across this when looking something up online tonight for christine, and it turned out to be one of the no-doubt more humorous things i have found online as of late... and its not even supposed to be...greatness

i hadnt intended on having much to say, and i didn't, which makes me curious as to what exactly this rather long entry consists of. all i know is i should have worn a mask the whole time i was demolishing instead of only partially, as i am going to have black lung and snot disease for life now i feel. or at least a few days.