WHATTUP

2009 isn't living up to my expectations

2009-01-05T22:59:07Z

01. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Got accepted into college, quit a job, worked as a receptionist, worked for a corporation, went to college, lived in NYC.

02. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't do resolutions.

03 Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.

04 Did anyone close to you die?
Matt Choiniere, love him.

05 What countries did you visit?
None--it's driving me bonkers.

06 What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
For everyone I love to be happy, comfortable, safe, and satisfied. And booty.

07 What dates from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
The day I quit NARAL--it sucked and felt weird. Moving into my apartment--it's near the ghetto, and i'm there for another 2 years. My birthday--it was a festival of love. Other hilarious moments, big and small.

08 What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting into college, I guess.

09 What was your biggest failure?
? I have no clue.

10 Did you suffer illness or injury?
Nope, just disappointment every now and then. Chris was at college, so no bruises, thank god.

11 What was the best thing you bought?
My faux fur throw? Music? My chandelier? Aveda products?

12 Whose behavior merited celebration?
All of my friends, most of the time. My family.

13 Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
A few friends suffering from some middle school-like moments. And a few people I no longer speak with.

14 Where did most of your money go?
food, booze, music

15 What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Finally getting college over and done with, working at aveda, having an apartment, and all of the people in my life who i love.

16 What song will always remind you of 2008?
I think anything by Devendra Banhart and Lykke li.

17 Compared to this time last year, are you:

a) happier or sadder? Happier most of the time.

b) thinner or fatter? I think I weigh the same, but I dropped a size in jeans--how does that work?

c) richer or poorer? poorer, my job pays a little less than what I was earning at NHPR and i work way fewer hours. also, NYC is insanely expensive and our economy is in the shitter.

18 What do you wish you'd done more of?
interesting and worthwhile things when i had the time available to do them.

19 What do you wish you'd done less of?
Wasting time on nothing very worthwhile or interesting. And drinking. And second-guessing myself.

20 How will you be spending Christmas?
Spent it at home with the fam and grandparents, but without emily (she's a ski instructor in CO and didn't get time off to come home).

22 Did you fall in love in 2008?
Nope.

23 How many one-night stands?
I think none. Weird.

24 What was your favorite TV program?
the office.

25 Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Unfortunately I'm not a fan of those few aforementioned people and cut them out of my life, but I'm cool with it.

26 What was the best book you read?
Nothing very outstanding. Rings of Saturn was pretty interesting.

27 What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing very outstanding.

28 What did you want and get?
A job, acceptance into college, incredible friends at said college, and a nice apartment.

29 What did you want and not get?
A man/booty.

30 What was your favorite film of this year?
Russian Ark--it was made in 2006, I think, but I love it, I always cry at the end.

31 What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 20, I went to have Ethiopian food with my girls and sister downtown, and then my friend threw a party for me at his apartment which escalated to the point where the fire department showed up--I was pretty proud.

32 What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A man/booty.

33 How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
? Lots of skirts, heels, feathers, gold, dresses, belts, boots, flats.

34 What kept you sane?
My girls, my parents, the ellipticals at the gym.

35 Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
David Beckham

36 What political issue stirred you the most?
The election, gay rights issues, our environment.

37 Whom did you miss?
Nicholas, Bea, Jai, Concord kiddies.

38 Who was the best new person you met?
All of my friends at Pratt and the people I work with at Aveda.

39 Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2008.
You can't expect to always be understood, regardless of how long or how well you know someone.

40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
That's how strong my love is.

omgyrsohott @ 2007-06-16T01:10:00

2007-06-15T05:09:47Z

i always lose track of how much more growing up we all have to do. i don't like walking around with this "now we are adults" kind of attitude. i guess when i think about it i worry about how out of touch with reality i can get. i'm sure this doesn't make much/any sense, and i don't know what triggered that thought, but it needed to be shared nonetheless.

ohkla ohkla homo homo!

2007-02-06T03:11:51Z

matty just reminded me that this weekend is our one year anniversary of oklahomo and the worst night of our lives!

cheers!

omgyrsohott @ 2007-02-05T05:48:00

2007-02-05T22:50:14Z

so, i got rejected from hampshire. kind of. it was like "we think you're great, but we don't think we can trust you to committ to academics. get in touch with us when you've got some proof that you can do school". so the options are either make them meet with me again so i can talk them into reconsidering (because they should), go take summer courses all summer long and try to get good grades and reapply, go to some place like UNH and try to get good grades and reapply, or not go to college. it's also really awesome that mrs. bourgoine doesn't return my stupid phonecalls so i have like a week to get my shit together for a last minute marlboro application.

it's also really awesome that my ipod had a seizure and deleted all of my music.

and that the CAN alert that i'm being held accountable for (but did not write, or send out) doesn't have any useful information regarding locations, dates, and times so now i have to individually tell each person interested details for 12 different phonebanks, and the PNR Hearing on Thursday.

and my russian teacher thinks i'm not dedicating enough time to studying.

i love my life.

p.s: 2007 fucking sucks. it kind of creeps me out how quickly things have turned for the worse in nearly no time at all.

matty's hips don't lie.

2007-02-04T03:25:26Z

yeahhhhh. life at home. you know.

things that put me in a foul mood:

2007-01-14T03:09:42Z

--being in malls; all related items

--no coffee.

--boys who don't know what they want, but pretend that they do.

--the grandparents.

--linda.

--no more friends.

--EMT's waking you up at 3am to take your dad to the hospital.

--college applications.

pretty much this past week in a nutshell!

omgyrsohott @ 2007-01-03T23:26:00

2007-01-03T22:26:44Z

i just remembered a moment from this new years ever where i had ben nicholson, garrett vanacore, craig levy, micah fuller, someone else (dan cassell???), and grayson putting on a performance by all doing pelvis thrusts in a line in front of me in synchronization. it was pretty fantastic.

also, i miss maciek.

Maciek88siema: sry i have a bad transer tonight;/
yothisisallison: it's okay
Maciek88siema: im downloading porn
Maciek88siema: so its slow now

dumb survey because it's 2007

2007-01-01T16:22:31Z

1. what did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
Legally bought cigarettes???

2. did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
nope, resolutions suck.

3. did anyone close to you give birth?
Pretty sure no one did.

4. did anyone close to you die?
My parents’ close friend did.

5. what countries did you visit?
England, Ireland, Italy, Albania, and Greece. Shit son.

6. what would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
Confidence, Assertiveness

7. what date from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Oklahoma, Fundon ’06, Parliament, The worst night of our lives, finding my family in Dischnice, Roe v. Wade anniversary event, and stuff.

8. what was your biggest achievement of the year?
Figuring out what the fuck I’m doing in my life, somewhat.

9. what was your biggest failure?
Disorganisation, not trusting myself.

10. did you suffer illness or injury?
I got sick a few times; Chris gave me a huge bruise that existed for like a month on my arm.

11. what was the best thing you bought?
There are a lot of things that I was given that are awesome, in terms of personal purchases I would have to say my itrip????

12. whose behavior merited celebration?
Deathcab!

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Linda Gilbert. The ten day trip to Albania excluded. Except the times she was drunk while we were there. Nigel and Jean from Parliament.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Music, living in London.

15. what did you get really, really, really excited about?
Champion for Choice Award, my book, traveling, not working for Nigel any longer, Getting a paid position at NARAL and potential position as a board member.

16. what song will always remind you of 2006?
anything from the mixes kath, monka, maciek, and dan made me and anything from Oklahoma.

17. compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder?
Happier! Things finally started to work this year.

thinner or fatter?
The same, slightly more slender, perhaps.

richer or poorer?
Poorer, I have to pay for stuff in London and Russia and additional travel while in Europe.

18. what do you wish you’d done more of?
Reading, Doing stuff, spending more quality time with friends/talking to them while we were gone.

19. what do you wish you’d done less of?
Holding back.

20. How did you spend Christmas?
Bapa and Darie came, I slept on my sister’s floor, we bickered, and at Christmas dinner we made fun of the bible, our church, and the minister at our church—my grandparents were horrified and disgusted.

21. did you fall in love in 2006?
I don’t think so?

22. how many one-night stands?
one half.

23. what was your favorite tv program?
Stella and It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.

24. do you dislike anyone now that you didn’t dislike this time last year?
Nope, generally if I approve someone, it’s unlikely that they’ll turn into someone I won’t like later on.

25. what was the best book you read?
I don’t know, I read a ton of non-fiction. How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America? Mainly because the author and I are on the same page with eliminating polarized dialogue.

26. what was your greatest musical discovery?
No idea.

27. what did you want and get?
Being able to graduate, My turntable was finally replaced, ipod, itrip, traveling, a boy.

28. what did you want and not get?
????????

29. what was your favorite film of this year?
Snakes on a Plane, Little Miss Sunshine, and my usual favorites.

30. what did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 18 and I got 4 bottles of champagne from different people, Elyse, my flatmate, took me out for drinks with some other people and I got a ton of free drinks, and came home and ate cake and drank champagne with Sara and Michele, my other flatmates, got so drunk that I didn’t get into work until 1 the next day, but it didn’t matter because my boss wasn’t there and it was Friday so Jai and I had lunch for like 3 hours and made fun of James.

31. what one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not holding back so much.

32. how would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
dsajdsajidsawhat?

33. what kept you sane?
deathcab, portsmouth, music, annie, molly, grayson, dan laf.

34. which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
???? I don’t know?

35. what political issue stirred you the most?
There was the expected bullshit with the war, but in some ways this year was really good, we had a good election, some anti-choice legislation wasn’t passed, rumsfeld left.

36. Who did you miss?
Deathcab when I was in London/when everyone was still gone and I was in Concord. Jai, the big Indian intern from Parliament.

37. who was the best new person you met?
JAI.

38. tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006?
Don’t hold back!

39. quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
-------I have no idea.

ho ho ho.

2006-12-25T06:01:18Z

so this year emily, matthew, and myself all decided that 2 of us would buy a combined gift for one another. in emily's christmas shopping, she actually came up with something meaningful for us to buy matty and for matty and her to buy me. unfortunately matty and i are stuck at the age of 7.

rather than trying to think up something that would be meaningful to her (ie: something related to the environment, or john mayer or something), we were assholes. so we bought her a 4 pack of red bull because apparently she likes it, and 2 $15 itunes cards. we're also taking her laptop and wrapping it and the battery charger while it's plugged into the wall downstairs. we haven't stopped laughing all night long. we're going to go to hell. basically.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-12-10T01:28:00

2006-12-10T00:28:07Z

Deerhoof's 'The Runners Four' makes me think about riding home on the Jubilee line from work. I miss London so bad.

But! Christmas! And friends! So it's okay for now.

But I want to move to England as soon as I can. And bring Deathcab kids with me. There are a lot of grassy knolls in England that we can chose from to make our own, it'll be cute.

SHIT SON.

2006-12-05T20:00:07Z

NARAL JUST OFFERED ME TO TAKE ONE OF THE MAIN POSITIONS. I'M GETTING PAID. WHATTUP SUCKAS.

it's a community organising/political organising position for a comprehensive sexuality education campaign awareness thing. so i get to go all over new hampshire and start getting us into the media and hold discussions and stuff. basically i get to do PR. and a little bit of lobbying. and sex education. and talking to legislators and newpapers. and round up volunteers and activists. I'M SO PYSCHED. and it's convenient because they're planning on changing the position and what it entails and stuff as soon as i leave for russia. and i get to choose how much i get paid, it won't be much though.

anyway, things seem to be better than they've been in a while. and by a while i mean years. about 6 or so.

i won't complain if there's more change in store for me, though.

p.s: the new beck album is pretty badass.

p.p.s: i'm excited for christmas and deathcab.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-11-29T22:20:00

2006-11-29T21:20:46Z

so matty filled out the "Letters to santa" thing in the concord monitor. it's a little form letter thing kids can fill out and "send to santa" and have published in the paper.

Type your cut contents here.

Dear Santa,

It’s Christmas time again and I want lots of presents. There are lots of presents I want. My mom told me Santa isn’t real, but I don’t believe her because she’s dum. I want a Gameboy DS Lite, a new bike, some nice color pencils, a toy Darth Vadar, shaving ken doll, and a nice football. I also want everyone to have good holidays. Thanx Santa Claws! I <3 u!

Name: Matthew Gilbert

Age: 10 Town: Concurd

omgyrsohott @ 2006-11-27T04:22:00

2006-11-27T03:22:34Z

last night i had this really vivid dream, it's the kind where you feel it as it's happening, like anxiety or happiness and your heart rate pick up and stuff. when i woke up i could remember it all and i decided not to forget it, but then i came downstairs and made some tea and i couldn't remember a thing. bummer!

now i'm back to being the only kid in concord again.

i'm going to start making college visits to everyone soon.

A Terrible Story By Matthew Vasil Gilbert

2006-11-22T21:14:19Z

My little brother had to write a stpory based on details he was supposed to gather from his classmates about the main character and their life.....this is what he wrote....

Matt Gilbert

Per. 8

Gleason

11/19/06

Wynter the popular teenager

As Wynter awoke one Friday morning, he had no thought in his head other than his big football game versus his rival South Texas High. Every decision, every thought, was somehow related in a complex web, to football. When he arrived at school, everyone greeted him like a king.

“Hey Wynter, throw a lot of touchdowns!”

“Yo Wynter punish those southies!”

Wynter was really popular at school considering he was the starting quarterback of the varsity football team. It took him a while to be respected by his teammates and the rest of the school though because in middle school, he was short and really skinny. The kids would all make fun of him at football and try to purposely hit him harder than needed at practice because it was hilarious. He eventually grew to a good height, but was still really skinny. He worked really hard and got to be really good at quarterback and earned the starting role his sophmore year. He came from a normal American family, but was half Mexican and half Korean. His mother died when he was a very young boy due to her getting cancer from a serious case of HPV.

On the way down to the game, the boys had noticed a bunch of fancy black cadillacs driving by their bus and next to it. It could only mean one thing, the Mexican mafia was on the highway after someone. Since the football team was merely a group of boys they never considered that the mafia was after one of them. The team watched in awe as the black cars created a formation around the bus, and forced it to the side of the dry, empty desert road. The air was sucked out of the bus. Three small scraggly loking guys dressed in black suits climbed out of a car and entered the bus.

“Wynter Jones, identify yourself”

All of the heads turned to the back of the bus where Wynter sat frozen, his body glued to the seat. Two of the men went back, forced him up and took him off the bus. He was forced into the back of a small car which prompted the cars to turn around, and head back the other direction.

After traveling for a solid 4 hours in the desert, they drove up a mountain to where a massive mansion was located. In the driveway was a Mexican man who looked to be in his 40’s.

“Wynter, I am your true father. I left your mother shortly after you were born because she had an affair”

“Say it aint so pap!”

“I’m sorry I never went to get you after all these years. I feared that you were too young and it would create a negative impact on your life. I hate to tell you this, but I am very sick and I need you to take over the family business for me.”

“I would gratefully accept this daddy”

“Good son. Lets go inside and chat over margaritas and enchiladas”

“You got it pops.”

Football no longer was important to Wynter anymore. His team lost the game to South Texas Highschool and no one would ever treat Wynter with respect if he were to even peep his head out in his hometown again.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-11-16T04:24:00

2006-11-16T03:24:55Z

i've got this awful feeling in my chest, it's like the kind that you want to get rid of so bad but there is nothing you can do about it. i don't like it when people influence the way i view or value myself, i dislike it even more when it's a negative influence, and i hate when i want to make those individuals feel worse than i do. it makes me want to crawl out of my skin.

things will lighten up when everyone comes home.

maciek, you are drunk

2006-11-11T23:38:42Z

Maciek88siema: im drunk bitch
yothisisallison: shit son
yothisisallison: did you party tonight?
Maciek88siema: i did fucking party tonight
Maciek88siema: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
yothisisallison: was it fun?
Maciek88siema: it was wicked fuvking super turbo mega awesome
yothisisallison: hhahahaha
yothisisallison: i'm jealous
Maciek88siema: u should be
Maciek88siema: it was very hot
Maciek88siema: óóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóóó
yothisisallison: hahahaha
yothisisallison: what made it so hot?
Maciek88siema: my gf
Maciek88siema: sges hot
yothisisallison: hahaha well, that's good, because it would suck if she were miserable
Maciek88siema: whats that
yothisisallison: mean and ugly
Maciek88siema: fucken bitch
Maciek88siema: she s not likje that
Maciek88siema: she shot tall.nic ekind nad gorgeus
yothisisallison: i know! thats why i said it was good that she was not like that
Maciek88siema: shes damne goo
Maciek88siema: d
yothisisallison: hahaha
yothisisallison: so did you go to a club?
Maciek88siema: no
Maciek88siema: i went to the club yesterday
Maciek88siema: yesterday i got home at 4am
Maciek88siema: today we were at my friends house
yothisisallison: ohhhh that's fun
Maciek88siema: lots of people
Maciek88siema: sauna, swimming pool, quads
Maciek88siema: it was cool
Maciek88siema: shit load of alcohol
yothisisallison: hahaha sounds like it
Maciek88siema: fucken yeah
Maciek88siema: alright
Maciek88siema: im goin sleep
Maciek88siema: i m tired
yothisisallison: okay
Maciek88siema: seeeee u later in june
yothisisallison: yup!
Maciek88siema: fucken yeah
yothisisallison: i miss you!
yothisisallison: have a good sleep
Maciek88siema: it ll eb very hot dream
Maciek88siema: haha
yothisisallison: hahahahaha
yothisisallison: you dork
Maciek88siema: sry i just had lots of sex tonight
yothisisallison: yeahhhhh i didn't really need to know that
Maciek88siema: whatsup?
Maciek88siema: when rr u coming to poaldnA?

yothisisallison: i'll be going around may 10th ish and can stay for like a week
Maciek88siema: veyr coooooooooooooool
Maciek88siema: im out
Maciek88siema: cy alate r
yothisisallison: alright
yothisisallison: goodnight!
Maciek88siema: tu tooo

omgyrsohott @ 2006-11-09T20:19:00

2006-11-09T19:19:19Z

WHAT DO PEOPLE WRITE COLLEGE ESSAYS ABOUT???

omgyrsohott @ 2006-11-07T00:10:00

2006-11-06T23:10:43Z

matty took my camera and filmed him waking up ben brodbent and jake van berkum when they had a sleep over. he is a strange strange boy.

....but it's okay because it's acutally really funny.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-10-26T19:59:00

2006-10-26T18:59:13Z

MOST ANNOYING BRITISH COMMERCIAL OF ALL TIME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXApiDulnoc

omgyrsohott @ 2006-10-12T00:22:00

2006-10-11T23:25:23Z

HEY ROOMATE.

STOP TALKING ABOUT HOW HIP EVERYONE KEEPS TELLING YOU YOU ARE. BECAUSE YOU AREN'T. TALKING ABOUT IT MORE ISN'T GOING TO MAKE ME WANT TO VALIDATE YOU.

It bums me out that this is how London has turned out to be. I love it here, I love living here, I just hate my job and the people I live with I find irritating. I miss deathcab.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-10-11T22:42:00

2006-10-11T21:53:25Z

Today rataher than going to work, I went on a tour of the BBC, which is a pretty cool place, though the tour itself was terribly stimulating. I kept thinking about Mr. Morrison haha. I really want to work there.

Anyway, I listened to Sufjan Stevens, it rained, I ate soup, I talked to Betsy (from NARAL), the rain stopped, I went to Chelsea and Kensington and wandered around and took some photos at Kensington Park. It was nice to have the day to myself, though Kensington Park is a place that's nice to share with someone else.

I feel almosted elated just from not having to be at work for even just one day, which is good, but if missing just a single day of work feels this liberating and beautiful, then there is probably something severely wrong with it.

Whatever, it was a good day and I just had wine and Treacle Tart with my flatmates.

My plan for this winter is a bit up in the air. I want to work and live in the UK though I'm not sure how to go about making it happen. If it doesn't work out I want to work and live in Portsmouth. Maybe a feminist health centre. We'll see.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-10-08T09:56:00

2006-10-08T10:00:49Z

yesterday on the busride home from Bath I was listening to the shins and it made me miss the fall back home, and portsmouth, and deerfield, and apple picking, and halloween, and friends, and foliage, and everything. and it made me miss monka! the shins are our fall jams.

in other news, i really want to move to england.

and i want a really really nice, old, copy of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

THIS IS JAI:

2006-09-26T22:27:00Z

He has been interning with me for the past 2 weeks and now he's gone and I'm sad because kevin isn't very pleasant. Jai's name is pronounced as "jay" not "Jie".

BABE ALERT.

2006-09-24T13:40:34Z

I just had a brief encounter with an adorable Italian boy who is moving into the flat where Enrique lived! I came to England hoping to meet British boys, but instead most of my interactions are with Spaniards and Italians. For some reason British boys are terrified of approaching women and cannot get beyond eye sex. Boooooooo.

In other news, my flatmate, Kristin, is the biggest pain in the ass. And it feels like a nice spring day that was made for hanging out on the grassyknoll. In order to do that however you'd all have to fly out here and go to St. James Park with me.

omgyrsohott @ 2006-09-23T22:23:00

2006-09-23T21:23:13Z

second hand smoke becomes addictive and don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.

also, i'm a lot more naive than i thought i was.