I know, I know, it has been what feels like forever since I have even touched this blog. I have never been great about blogging just like I am awful at long distance regular communication, but that doesn’t mean that this blog and those of you who read it (I’m not sure there is any of you left hehe) haven’t been in my thoughts! Well…not so much this blog, maybe once every couple months, but those of you who started me on the blogging thing waaaaaay back when of course. I still check my friendslist a couple times a week usually, although I admit to being too lazy to sign in and often miss locked entries.

There has been too much that has happened since my last entry and if I tried to recap it would read like a dry biography, so suffice to say I am basically the same person as I was, with however many months more of life experiences.

This may be surprising to some of you who knew me back at my most determined, but I have decided to change my career path from social work and am currently working on finishing my undergrad degree in sociology. I have one more quarter and then the plan is to go back home and finish the couple classes I need left to graduate online there. After graduation, I have absolutely no idea what I am going to do! I know totally unlike me and shocking, but I figure that I’ll work for a while saving up money while figuring out what I want to do with my life. But rather than a certain career I have realized that the things I need to make me happy are:

-being able to help people

-positive interactions with people

-some degree of structure and control in/over my environment

-some use of creativity

-making some kind of difference

and the truth is I can get that in pretty much a lot of areas and jobs, so for now I’m waiting and seeing.

I am the end stretch of my second year as an RA, and I have many stories, almost none of which are suitable for such a public venue as my blog, so next time you see me feel free to ask for my RA stories.

My family is doing well and is basically the same except that Derek is being independent and moved to Fresno where he’s living with a friend and roommate while he tries and figures out what he wants to do with his life.

Jason is very popular at his school, and he’s totally famous for going around with half of a beard (and he grew into a hairy teenager, let me tell you.) I am related to a school urban legend! He is as geeky as ever, recently he won a under 16 (I think?) magic tournament and won a 1000 dollar scholarship and is going to the nationals this summer, he’s really excited. His schedule this year is like 3 science classes and 2 math classes including AP, Honor and Calculus classes.

My mom is the same as ever with the exceptions that she has recently developed the habit of hosting poker parties occasionally (I know, very shocking.)

I am still writing, although I admit, with school and RA-ing, I don’t often find the time and energy to write as much anymore. I haven’t given up on my ambitions in that direction however, and the more I write the more I am improving I think. I have even managed to write a couple of short stories (Shocking for me, I never was able to make stories that were under novel length which is why my first projects were so often abandoned as the effort required to finish them was just too much)

I also have a new email account that I use, the old one is still around but so inundated with constant junk I rarely sort through it, so if you want my new one let me know J

Anyway, I normally don’t go in for the random blogging crazes, but reading this on a blog I read is what inspired me to blog at all today, so I’m including it for your light reading amusement.

From what I understand what you are supposed to do is type your name and needs after into google and see what your top results are. I did it just for fun and was amused enough to find it worth sharing, so without further ado, in counting down order, here is the list of things that Alisha needs (with some reactions from me J )

Alisha Needs (top ten results):

…10 Alisha needs to improver her elocution

Okay, I admit, I wasn’t 100% sure what elocution meant, so I looked it up: according to dictionary.com it is:

el·o·cu·tion  /ˌɛl əˈkyu ʃən/ Pronunciation Key

 I guess its something I could work on J I still have that nasty habit of turning red whenever I think I should be nervous or embarrassed, actual emotions not required.

…9 Alisha needs the 2006

uhhh…. Okay?

…8 Alisha needs to fire her stylist

I think Alisha would need a stylist in order to fire her

…7 Alisha needs stictches

owwie

…6 Alisha needs to come back!!!

Yay! Alisha feels the love!

…5 Alisha needs to understand what God is trying to say

*shudder*

…4 Alisha needs Prayers!

Knowing Alisha’s extended family, she is sure she is getting more prayers than she needs

…3 Alisha! Needs a New Home For Spring

Alisha will gladly accept a free new home for any season

…2 Alisha needs some meat on her skinny ass

  
clearly not talking about this Alisha...
 

And the number one result for what Alisha needs:

…1: Alisha needs to be crunked

well, being totally not cool I had to look up what being crunked is, and according to wikipedia its:

Traditionally, crunk meant a hoarse, harsh cry.^[1] The term is often used as slang to mean intoxicated. Folk etymology suggests the modern usage of crunk originated as a portmanteau of the words "crazy" and "drunk", or of "chronic" and "drunk", referring to the state of being both drunk from alcohol and high on marijuana, at the same time

So… uh…. Alisha doesn’t think she ever wants to be crunked x.x

And that’s all for today, I wont make any promises about any return posts since everytime I do I never follow through, so maybe if I don’t say it I will.

Hope everyone is doing fantastic!

Warm fuzzies to you all,

-Alisha

I know I have been a terrible terrible updater. I'm not going to promise to update more than my random once every few months thing that I do now. Every time I say I will, I end up not doing it and looking like a liar. But I am going to update now hehe.

Lets see... well I am in the winter quarter of my junior (second) year here at UW. I'm in the social work school, working as an RA (which is a bit of a soul sucker when you dont have a handy off campus place to escape too, you always feel like there is something more you could/should be doing to be a better RA) and basically puttering around. I worked so hard to get to where I am last year, and now that I am here, it feels... I dunno kind of empty. Not really as fulfilling as I expected it to be. I think its becuase I have a weird attitude about it, kind of expecting things to fall into place becuase I reached my goals as opposed to going out and actively pursuing hapiness and all that junk. Hopefully I will be able to turn things around and start enjoying where I am more, and worrying less.

I've also lost certaintity that social work is the career for me. I am definately going to finish out my BSW, but I dont know if I am going to get my MSW anymore. I think I might go into counseling instead. Its kind of weird not knowing exactly what I am going to do, not having an exact plan. It's just not what I would have expected at all. I don't know if losing that certitinty is a result of growing up, or a result of something else. In any case, I am finally okay with not being certian, although at the time it was a bit of a big deal.

I'm writing a new story, I like it, even though its not exactly territory I have ever really touched before (just a hint, its YA chick lit, and aphrodite is a main character...) but I like it in any case.

TV really sucks your brain, I turn it on so I have backround noise, but it really does suck all your brain power out, but it takes effort to just turn it off. Maybe Mom and the boys have the right idea in not having any channels :)

I guess I dont really have anything interesting to say haha. Thats all for now :)


(p.s. erica, if you are reading this, I need your new lj, for some reason I never friended your new one and lost your new name, I need to add you!)

Thanks to awesome friends and awesome family, this has been a fantastic birthday so far :)

3 of my friends sent me a 3 banana stress reliever toys and I enjoyed their letter so much I have to imortalize it :)

"The Historical and Cultural influence of Bananas in Groups of Three:

Single Bananas are powerful indeed, but they cannot compare to the power of mulitple bananas. This is especially the case with bananas in mulitples of three. indeed, three bananas is believed to be one of the most powerful fruit and number cominbations in the entire universe. This powerful combination is blamed/credited for many famous histrocial events, such as the fall of rome, the building of the Pyramids, the creastion of Disco and the OJ Simpson murder trial. A great philospher had this to say about the powerful yet fleeting nature of the fruit.

Banana in threes
Yellow flame, like morning sun
Soon will fade to dust

(And they're squishy!- (friend 1))
-----
Banana Squishy
For stress relief squeeze deeply
Fun other ways too
-(friend 2)
______
Head pounds and asplodes
An unsupsecting Student
Feels banana wrath
-(friend 3)


<3 my friends!

I know I have been an even worse blogger than usual, but I have been super duper busy and exhausted all the time. Only 2 more days of training then I get into all the fun stuff of being an offical RA, then school starts, weee.

I will be brief, becuase as always, I am super tired today, but of note:

Mandatory fun with our staff today (cheated at minature golf, played with go-carts, kicked butt at lazer tag (go top score for the winning team! weee! take that brothers who used to kick my bum!)

driving home to really loud music, everyone in van dancing, passing large military convoy (including multiple tanks with really big guns) on freeway...

and not one but two helping of my residents as an RA (one sucessfully, one not-so-much-but-hopefully soon) I fear the computer issues...Im so not good at helping people with those :/

But I have to go crash now, gotta wake up early for more training, plus praying that my medical history shows up so I can go get shots at my allotted time in a place very far away *cries*

Wow, I know its been forever since I last updated, most the summer I think. Summer tends to fly away from me like that, even though if you asked me to tell you what I did, the list wouldn't seem too long or impressive. Lets just say it was a lovely relaxing summer and boy do I want it to last forever (okay, maybe not, but the no-responsibilites sleep in late every day and have fun all the time thing is definately appealing.)

After a year away it was really easy to step back into the habit of being home. My mom is doing great and is as awesome as always. Plus she has a top secret project going on during which I can only sit at the sidelines and cheer as her awesomeness only astounds me even more. Derek is doing great in his new job, has a social life, and is as beemy happy as I can remember. Hes going to school, working full time, and even applied for a job as a police officer (I'll keep my fingers crossed for him, but I dont expect anyone will hear soon, beauracracy is sloooow) Jason is always out and about with his equally (if not more than him-- yes its possibile) geeky friends, is taking two math classes, a science class and an engineering tech class. Needless to say hes pretty much in heaven and Im happy for him. (Of course he has yet to get over the teenage snarkiness thing, which can get annoying, but I forgive him. I can remember what its like to be full of hormones and stuff)

So I fly back to Seattle tommorrow night. Im going to spend one night at my dad's, the move all my stuff into my dorm room. (although Im not allowed to actually *live* in my room since I will be the only RA in the building for 4 days, Im being shippped off to some unknown destination. I hate the unknown...) Friday will be training, weekend off (I think) and start full fledged training on monday. Hopefully they will let me live in my room then. A couple weeks of training, Social work school orientation, floor decorating etc etc lies before me, then school starts. Soon I will go from having no commitments to being super busy. Especially as part of being offically in the social work school means that I have to volunteer at least 8 hours a week at a site. (More unkown! yucky!) I only hope its somewhere I can get to and back without too many navigational difficulties. Needless to say, Im not all that thrilled with the one night and part day I have left, the time definately went by too quickly. But it will be nice to see friends again and it will even be nice to be doing stuff again, just as soon as I get used to it. (Not to mention get used to waking up much earlier than I am now)

on a happy note, I do get TV in my dorm room which I havent had all summer, yay tv! rot the brain! go go go!

Ill let you all know how the flight/trip/move in went as soon as I get settled in. (Assuming my temporary living space has an internet connection...and outlets....)

Take care all!

p.s. Happy belated birthday Rachel!

Date:	2005-06-22 15:52
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Mood:	calm
Music:	Caruso- Josh Groban

Umm... Haven't really updated lately, but thers not much going on when I spend all my time lazing about doing nothing.

Yet another trusted friend has read through Shadows of Mystia, making the total 3 people who have read the whole thing. She was really enthusastic about it and told me I *need* to get it published. So thats good. The ethusasim is encouraging when its so easy to get disheartened and overwhelemed by the huge task of getting published.

Umm the brothers were actually thoughtful yesterday, it's nice to see them growing up some. Although Jason is defintely lazy grumpy teenager now, time to ship him to the cane fields!!!

Hmm.... can't really think of anything else interesting to say, so I guess thats it for now. :)

Date:	2005-06-16 17:23
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Mood:	bouncy

I know I havent updated in forever, but I fully meant to, but then I disappeared into nothingness for a couple of days in my first real stress-free days off in a while. I have in the meantime read tons of books, watched tons of movies and even beaten a video game and pretty much ignored the world.

Anyways, I am home! The trip home was totally stressful with the packing and the cleaning and the almost getting into an accident on the way to the airport and the almost missing my flight after waiting in a 5 person line that took over an hour and the being asked to coffee by some random guy and the running across the airport to make it to my gate only to reach the line in time for it to be closed due to mysterious mechinical problems only to be delayed two hours and end up arriving in an abandoned san jose airport at 1:30 in the morning. So yes...very strange and crazy day.

So yes, I am home yay! It's nice although I do miss the company of some of my roomies. But own room, own bathroom, no responsibilities! Woho!

Although I am already slightly getting sick of doing nothing, but I will figure something out soon I'm sure.

And I do have peoples to visit :)

Other than that I got my grades today and I got credit in RA class, a 4.0 in philosphy, a 4.0 in american ethinc studies and a 3.6 in english. So all As yay! I find it kinda funny that I am actually doing better at UW then I did at De Anza...

Anyways enough for now...

Date:	2005-06-08 13:22
Subject:	Yah...so umm....
Security:	Public
Mood:	indescribable

Well I finished my last final today (yay I guess) so I am offically done with my classes for the year...

I thought I would be super excited, I certinaly have been waiting for this long enough, but oddly enough, I'm not really excited. I am going to miss it here, which is weird becuase it's not exactly loverly living.

I have been emailing back and forth with my new advisor for social work school (which I FINALLY got the letter for) and she is really nice and super helpful, so thats good.

Umm...basically I am sitting around until tommorrow when I finish packing. (and boo I dont get to sleep in! Roomie is showing up before 10 to move out ; ; but whatever, I guess) and until then and my flight tommorrow night I dont really have anything to do but sit here in transition.

Transition sucks..

that is all...

Date:	2005-06-05 22:09
Subject:
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Mood:	sick
Music:	Fighter- Christina Aguilera

It is not an unusual occurance, but today I managed to totally make a complete embarrasing spectacle of myself. (sigh)
Oh well...It's what happens when you are as hopelessly clutzy as me.

In other news I think I am sick :/ baaaah! Bad timing as finals are only a few days away and I still refuse to start studying, this will only make it worse.

Roomie, whom I thought was not going to spend any more nights here as to she thought she was being stalked and some strange man was going to come rape her, is back, apparently for at least the night. I don't want to tell her I am feeling ill becuase she can be pretty hypochondriacal and I don't want to plant any ideas in her head. So I am pretending not to be sick. But at least I had a fun day yesterday...

Which reminds me, Sisterhood of the traveling pants is a very good movie, go see it. Try not to cry, I dare you (myself, I cried three times)

Yesterday while wandering around downtown seattle we encoutered hordes of little promlits which only served to reinforce how much I do not regret not going to mine.

As of tommorrow the offical count down to home is four days. Two finals left (neither of which I have sufficently studied for, both of which are essay finals booooo) and then the last day of packing and cleaning, bah.

For those of you who are interested and have noticed my lack of updates on the writing end there hasnt been much going on. I sent out the one querry letter, got the rejection letter, did some more revisions, totally rewrote the letter, did lots of lurking in writery type places and wrote more in book two. I have not given up on the publishing goal yet and plan on launching a full on hunt for an agent as soon as I get back home. Lets see how that goes, probably will just garner myself a whole new series of rejections, but it's still worth a try.

In other news, I have decided that I probably wont be able to find a job. Considering how early I have to go back to school due to RA-ness, I would only have 2 and a half months to work and thats if I got a job the first week I was back. No one is going to want to hire me for that short amount of time. Sigh. Oh well, if I *do* manage to get an agent, then I can write like crazy all summer :) Probablly will attempt to do that anyway.

Anyways I suppose that's more than enough of an update for now, 4 more days!!!!

p.s. I *STILL* haven't gotten my letter from social work school x.x I don't know what I would be doing if I hadn't gotten a phone call over two weeks ago telling me I was in, dying of nerves and anxiety I suppose, but I WANT MY LETTER! *cries*

When I had to do this in highschool (for those of you who knew her, think Ms. Stimson) I hated it, even for the most part I hate doing it now. But today, I must be crazy, for I am taking pleasure in writing my philosphy paper in proper format (with footnotes, block quoting, bringing in outside sources when I didn't have to, all that fun stuff) Every footnote, I'm like yay! another footnote! look at that pretty little writing! And I don't think I have ever block-quoted before this paper before I was supposed to. Yep yep yep, total and complete weirdo....

maybe it's just becuase I can't imagine that half my class knows the proper formatting, let alone turning in a paper with it (plus footnotes and outside sources!) So my paper will totally stand out in a cool way...

Or maybe it's becuase this is the first college paper I have written that actually looks like a college paper...

or maybe I've just offically lost my mind...

Or, why my cluster stinks (Literally)

5. Even though in the past 4 days it has gotten up to 90 degrees and 50% humidity the heater in my room (over which I have no control) is still on.

4. Drunken peoples exploits wake me up throughout the night, either from outside my window or outside my door

3. One of my roommates and her boyfriend had sex on our balcony (and stayed out there the whole night...naked!)

2. Same roommate, same boyfriend had sex several times in our COMMUNAL shower this weekend

and....the number one reason why I'm ready to move out of the dorms (or why my cluster stinks)

1. There is a trashcan in our cluster common room currently full of water and vomit, which smells worse every time I walk past it.

Date:	2005-05-20 21:25
Subject:
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Mood:	annoyed
Music:	Bridge To Paradise- Mehdi

Dear Network executives,

You suck.

Why do you always have to cancel the only shows on television I like? Sure I get a floofy brainless enjoyment from watching some reality tv (which I have a love/hate relationship with and refer to soley as junk tv) but I really like shows with plot, characters I can care about and that make me forget about everyday life.

So thank you network executives for cancelling all the good shows....

Makes me not want to watch tv anymore becuase if I get attached to a show, it will inevitably be canceled before there is any resolution. Stinkers.

Date:	2005-05-20 15:01
Subject:	YAY!!!!
Security:	Public
Mood:	ecstatic

I got into social work school for the BASW PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


YAY!!!!!!!!!

I am happy happy happy happy :)

Everything is finally starting to fall into place :)

All my stress is worth it, yay!

Anyways....yay!

I got a 97% on my philosphy midterm....


aaannnnnnnnd


I GOT PLACED AS AN RA IN THE BUILIDING I WANTED!!!!!!!!


that is all...

Date:	2005-04-22 16:39
Subject:
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Mood:	contemplative
Music:	Breakaway- Kelly Clarkson

Have you ever noticed how awkward elevator rides can be? I mean seriously... everyone stands their uncomfortably, backs pressed against the walls of the elevator refusing to meet anyones gaze staring at their feet, or the doors, or the little number counter which slowly shows what floor the elevator is on.
You think that a dorm elevator in a college would be any less awkard, but no it always is. Sometimes I just want to stand in the middle and twirl in circles, or actually talk to the people just to see how they react. What is it about being in a little box that makes people so much more awkward than they would otherwise be? I dunno....

Date:	2005-04-21 22:37
Subject:	Top 5 ways my life resembles reality television....
Security:	Public
Mood:	crazy
Music:	All You Wanted- Michelle Branch

5. All of my recent "confessionals" (aka lj entries) are about how crazy everything is driving me. They even sound crazy. Seriously.

4. I moved into a small space with 9 girls I had never met before. And we share one bathroom. (Yep, one toilet, two showers, three sinks....an easy 1,2,3 to total insanity)

3. I can't have a conversation with any of the above 9 girls without some gossip or junk talk about someone else occuring. I am not a gossipy mean person normally....

2. I have bi-weekly "competitions" disguised as RA class. Every moment is about presenting yourself in the best way possible, every assignment has to be perfect. Not to mention there is the impending feeling of doom and sadness as you know that less then half the people you are working with are going to be hired. (And the odds are against you too...)

annnnnnnnnnnnnnd (drum roll please!) the number reason my life resembles reality televsion...

1. I CANT GO A SINGLE DAY WITHOUT DRAMA! (seriously, can someone take the drama away? or my roommate away? preferably both.....Donald Trump, if you are looking for someone to fire and kick out, you can always come to my dorm and get rid of my roommate, I promise I wont even comment about your hair. Or giggle. Much...)

It has occured to me (like at some point last night when I wasn't sleeping) that my recent posts have made it seem like I went totally crazy. Never fear, this is not the case. I usually only post when I am in a crazy mode, which is generally after long hours of yuckiness. I am really fine, just things are occasionally extremely draining/tense like, but all is good.

.........KABLOOM!!!!!.............
caplat.......
.....squish.......

sorry, please excuse the brain exploding.

x.x

In other news:
-Roomies are all going crazy
-That is causing me to go crazy
-My roomie is driving me crazy
-other peoples roomies are driving them crazy
-life is crazy......

annnnd school is stressful, just got done editing and re-writting a very evil paper....evvvvIIILLlllllll
plus I hate revision......EVvvvIILLllllll.... My brain is dead ; ; mourn the brain!

7 more weeks *cries*....

plus I need to get a job when I get back for the summer....thats going to be hard *cries*

ummm and for those of you who are interested, started up a livejournal for writing stuff mostly as motivation to keep me motivated...I dont update much, but umm...some. If you add it with the amount I update here, you might get an acceptable amount of sum. Anyways lj name: alylynne


eeeeek more drama going on *runs away*......actually *runs around aimlessly like a chicken with her head cut off*

RUN AWAY!

I've offically lost my sanity tonight. Instead of just getting stressed about the stuff like I should be, Im just totally craaaazy tonight.
Literally my brain thought process:

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

boingyboingyboingy

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

obviously I need help

Date:	2005-04-04 20:28
Subject:	I know, I know but I couldnt resist this last one...
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused
Music:	Boadicea- Enya

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