smileyjess

a jolly good day

it didn't even start until around 1130/12. que dulce. to the thought of running, i said to myself, self, eff that ess. i was all ready to go for a bike ride, when lo and behold it was raining over here in lil rhody. surprise. so instead i plugged in the ol' electric and tried some new tunes. mostly beatles stuff. gotta love it. oh. which reminds me. ok, so did anyone (else) watch vh1's greatest 200 pop culture icons of all time? yeah, so of course i did. (it's not my fault! those shows just totally suck you in!!!) and the beatles were only #12. and okay those of you who know me, know that i have seen every single friends episode ever, and that it is my abfab favorite show of all time. they got #11. i love chandler monica joey phoebe rachel and ross, but there is no way they deserve a position higher than john paul george and ringo. ok, ill step off the soapbox now.

after i guitarred it up for a little while, the books were calling. i wrote another essay, this time on writing down the bones. i liked that book, so writing about it really wasn't that difficult. 3 essays down, 3 more to go. 4 books down, 2 more to go. 27 days. i can do this. i got this, i got this.

shower, then animal liberation (now here's a book that i don't even mind reading and am actually happy that it's required!) then mattie delivered los pictures de prom.

soon thereafter, racello graced me with her presence and laughs were had. i was starving and complaining about the lack of food in my house. but be relieved! liz joined us, and was armed with fruit roll ups! they held us over, whew. we decided to go to garden city (i needed to go to the express). on the way there, we passed krispy kreme. oh man. just forget it. the red light was on. we cut across 3 lanes of traffic for the freebies. chaos ensued. we all became enlightened (or maybe just me...) upon the thought of the sugary, dripping with fat doughnuts. i dont know what it is about that place. i don't even like doughnuts! i cant eat DD 'donuts'; they disgust me and i am left for an eternity with the taste in my mouth. blechhhh. but KK... KK is so very different.

we made it to garden city and shopped around. 'twas fun. i got a new sweater for fall (i looooooove fall... i can already envision myself wearing it at a football game or two..... maybe even a soccer one, when mah boyzzzz make varsity :)

we grabbed some quick dinner at panera a couple of hours later. yum. i havent been there in forever. the shopping continued and i bought some new stuff for my personal lair. physically and monetarily exhausted, we retired to my casa and viewed monsters, inc. liz had never seen it before! a cute flick. oh! i super want to see american wedding by the way.

so i don't know what else to talk about. kieran is still away until next wednesday now. matt comes home from nantucket tomorrow! :) or sunday? well, regardless of the specific day, i ubermiss him. (haha -listening to billie jean right now-)

now i'm bored. check back tomorrow for more shenanigans

so not much has been happening. my weekend was uberboring. the extent of it was spent painting close to every downstairs room in my house. ugh. the cali folks are coming sometime soon, so my mom is dead set on having everything perfect. which means jess has to help.what i dont understand is why we're doing all this when we're just going to go to new york anyways! oh people.

i also went driving for a bit yesterday with me mum. let's hear it for driving! 78 days until i get my license! oh! and.... 18 days until counting crows/john mayer. and... 35 days until dave matthews band #1, which means 36 days until dmb #2. i really should stop it with the counting though, because that means school is hovering ever nearer and we don't want that. i just want to see who's in my classes and have lunch.

also this weekend, i read a little bit more of animal lib, decided to become a vegetarian for real, and also started and finished little altars everywhere by rebecca wells, the same woman who wrote the divine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood, which i read last summer but have no desire to see that movie.

last night (actually this morning) i stayed up to watch girl, interrupted. what a good movie. i've been meaning to see it for awhile, and just havent. i really liked it. it was based on the book, which i think i'm definitely going to pick up sometime this week. as an added bonus, jared leto was in the flick. god he's so hot. seeing him made me want to watch requiem for a dream, which, if you have not yet seen, you must.

god ths entry is so boring. my sincerest apologies.

("it" = 2 day phish show in maine)

uh, that would be me

thanks dannnnnnnn and briannnnnnnnnn!!!!

feeling better than i have in a while

rachel is the first to be in here. a big congrats to her!

rach: can my brother come?
rach: yeah yeah
SmileyJess13: your brother can come sure
SmileyJess13: we've got room in the trunk
rach: nice
rach: his name is franklin
rach: franklin leopold actually
rach: he's dutch
SmileyJess13: sexy kinda
SmileyJess13: too bad he's not gerrrrmahn
SmileyJess13: i've got a thing for gerrrrmahhhhns
rach: well then im glad hes not
rach: hes too good for you, smileyslut

disclaimer: i have nothing for or against germans. why did i say german? 1 of 2 reasons. first, rach said 'franklin' which made me think of frankfurt, germany. second, in front of me were cali pictures on my computer screen, and one was of martin (a family friend) and he's from gerrrrrmahhhhhny.

ALSO
it should be noted that.....
rachel does not have any brothers... she used to have one, but he was viciously attacked by ice.

end.

sexxxxxxxy kinda

ahhh summer... yesterday was a most enjoyable day spent sleeping, reading, and guitaring. liz and joe picked me up around 4. we drove through the bermuda triangle. f bombs galore!! we picked up racello and headed over a la casa de tashash. fun ensued, exciting conversation with the one and only mrs. tash. watched a bit of conan (with *joshua jackson*). then later we wanted to go catch a flick, but we werent sure what to see. matt had seen american wedding the night before (i finally saw the first two last week!) and he had said that it was okay. if anyone knows movies, its matt. and besides, we were late for american wedding by the time we decided to see a movie, i think. and there was absolutely no way i was going to see gigli (aka giggly). soooooooooo instead......... we saw finding nemo!! oh man!!!! we are TOO COOL! somebody call the cool police. C-O-O-L. rach had seen it when it first came out, and loved it immensely (my little marine biologist/oceanographer). so she convinced us to go. i thoroughly enjoyed it, and highly recommend it. i laughed, i cried, i rode the full emotional roller coaster.

then it was off to chelo's para comida. yum. and then once again back to chez tash. we ate some of my scrumptulescent made-from-scratch chocolate chip cookies and chillaxed with nick and joe. good times. they're going to be seniors this year. thats nuts. frig. i'm going to be a junior. that's nuts. then home.

today started early... coughcoughearlierthanwasnecessarycoughcough. liz and rach picked me up at 10 or so, and off to the beach we went. i was a crabby bizzotch because i was tired. that's what you get for a) going to bed late (early am) and b) being hungover. jk. yeah really there's no reason, i just like to sleep late because im uberlazy. so liz drove us in the pickup (god, i love that truck!!!!!!!!!) and we met the scorpster and matty burnzzzzz a la playa at chair 5 (not my usual place between 3 and 4 but hey~) i was totally stoked to see them. hadnt seen them since la fiesta a la casa de los mollicones. the sky was a bit cloudy. and by a bit i mean: clouds everywhere, no sun at all. i admit, i was worried. but we set up the blankets in 30 seconds flat, and were in the water 10 seconds later. the water was unbelievable. wave after wave after wave, etc... i've never seen it like that at narrag.! usually, i like to go to mosquamicut bc there are way better waves there, but today i'd say these were even better than mos.! i got beach hair!!! god, it felt good and smells awesome. i love it. then we breaked to eat some more of my delicioso cookies and catch a few rays (by now the sun was peeking through) all five of us crowded onto the comforter. :) then scorps and matt tried to teach us to play a game with a round spongebob squarepants ball. it didnt quite work out. ("i dont understand it... the essence of spongebob is being square. yet this ball... is spherical"). so yeah the rest of the afternoon was beachy. we were going to leave around 130 but then the sun was completely shining and we were all sungoddesses (and a lone sungod) then after we headed to aunt carries. on the way home, we played 'straight gangsta' a la Joe. and every time we got close to scorp and matt in scorp's car, we pumped up the bass and it was just nuts. oh mannn it was good times. west side, baby, west side. GTAVCD all the wayyyy (GTAVCD = grand theft auto vice city dance) and we even threw in some BALL O' PAPER! and when we at a light, some other people that we didnt even know joined in!!!!! songs included the ever classic 'what's golden' by j5, 'hard knock life'- jay z, '*bleep* the police'- nwa, some big pun, tupac, no no no no notorious (!), snoop, and mah mannnn fiddy. it is just the perfect soundtrack fo' gangsta living. which is what we do best- live gangsta.

okay, that's enough.

i'll stop, i promise.

just thought of the time danny and kieran said that i should start a drug cartel named 'the smileyjess drug cartel'

haha speak of the devil.........

matt: she'll make him his bitch
matt: we should all be careful

ohhhh good laughs

not much has been happening went out with matt last night, saw a couple of my fellow lasallians.

i had another cali dream last night. they all seem so real. i wake up and i expect to be there, and then i'm actually in my room, here in rhode island. and it's raining. and there's no sun.

and it sucks

tyler durdin

it's been awhile since i've taken one of these things... what are the chances????!?? i am my favorite movie!

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isn't he gorgeous?

an evening of tom cruise can never be bad.

(andy gould)

it was a very nice evening spent in the company of matt and andy.

the day started around 1130 or so... relatively early (haha :Þ) due to a certain miss liz calling me. but it was time for me to arise i guess. she said she wanted to call at ten! craziness! after that, i just kind of hung out around the house for awhile, went for a bike ride, came home. tried not to smell too much for my first driving lesson! oh man! it was nuts! the guy kept his hand on the wheel the whole time! and its not as if im that bad of a driver! but whatever. it was for 2 hours. we mostly hung around cranston, practiced making sharp turns in small neighborhoods, three point turns, parking, back up along a curb... pretty standard stuff. then we ventured to the warwick mall and all the way to providence! w00t! i got home a little bit after five. and then i watched boy meets world. (yeah, ill admit it.) but it was one about how corey's older brother (derek? erik?) failed his drivers test. i got nervous and turned it off, began reading a bit of the canterbury tales. matt was coming around 7 so i had to shower and get ready to be somewhat presentable for the public. we were going to go to the odeum and see west side story. but then a series of events caused him to arrive a little late, and we still had to pick up mr. andrew. by the time we got to the theatre, we were about 20 minutes late. also, it was sold out. andy suggested we try to watch from the back of the theatre, so the 3 of us walked (very nonchalantly) through the door. immediately i was attacked by a very short and scary woman who demanded my ticket. i pointed to matt. lol! andy already escaped. i managed to pry her hand off my arm, and matt and i walked out of the theatre.

we were then unsure of what to do due to time constraints... going to a movie theatre or renting a movie was out of the question. we decided to hit up waterfire, en providencia. our soundtrack was, of course, straight gangsta. (what else for gangstas like ourselves? it's like my new soundtrack for life [lol liz]) then we realized none of us knew how to get there. so i was like, eh... water... fire... we really cant miss it. so indeed we did find it, parked, and just walked around. we were able to sit on those big stone stairs on the water (we probably scared the people previously sitting there or something lol). so we just kind of hung out there for a good hour or so. it was nice. i was mesmerized by the fire. andy remarked that it smelled like vermont. and matt liked the music, i could tell ;) there was talk of possibly filming there in the future. it was exactly 916 when we departed for thayer. grabbed ice cream and froyo at ben and jerrys. i was the one who got us to thayer, but then i realized i had no clue how to get back to the high way. i didnt even know which one i had to take to get home. this is really pathetic considering that i go to school in prov. so, me being the very nervous person that i am, had to ask someone for directions back home. i thought the person who served me at b and j's might know. but then the skeevy guy in front of me offered to tell me. now i'm figuring he can tell me right there in b and j's, where matt and andy are safely retrieving ice cream. but no. he has to take me outside. i was nervous. i mean, this guy was scary. tat's everywhere, long hair, ripped denim... the sketchy type of character that i would bet sells pot to kids on thayer. but he really helped us out and ended up being nice. which just goes to show you how stereotypical i am and how much i need to work on that. i'm just sheltered, thats all... [ matt was staring him down lol :) ]

nick's thayer theory proved correct because i did indeed see three people i know tonight. but not know know... just know by face.

i'm really stoked that i got to see matt tonight; he leaves for vermont for [about] a week tomorrow...

i was safely returned home by specified time. *wave of relief* i really need to be less uptight. i hate how i get so nervous about every little thing. i really do just need to chill. if i relaxed just a little bit, i bet i could add another 10 years to my life, or at least save myself from a heart attack or two. not totally and completely let loose... just a happy medium. i'd like to see what would happen if i came home late, or lied about my whereabouts (not that theres any reason to lie or anything), or was just somehow more carefree and easy going. kieran asked me the other day what would happen if i was ever arrested... like... how would my parents react? (it's a totally hypothetical situation) but seriously like i got scared just thinking about it. i didnt even want to think about it. ((shudder)) i know exactly how his parents would react though hahaha

so i'm sitting here, listening to canon (in d) by zox (which i can play on mi guitarra!) and i just got a wave of de ja vu.... i had a very weird dream last night. me rach and liz were going to see a talent show type thing.... and at the venue (which was by the beach), was a swimming pool, but it was full of snow... and we went swimming in the snow. like, diving and stuff in it. this makes some sort of sense, since rach recently suggested that she may join swim team this year. and then we met the guys of zox, but they were like, younger than us, which is not the case at all. and then there was the ocean, which was extremely clear and clean, not at all like the water around us. more mediterranean, or maybe carribbean ("welcome to the carribbean, love" - captain jack sparrow). yeah and there were tiki torches everywhere. and then me and matt were just hanging out at the beach, playing football in the sand. it was veird. ohhhhh that subconscious of mine!!

i guess that's about it for today... and it hasnt even been a 12 hour day yet.

I'v got a new cousin! Joshua Norman was born to very proud and happy parents, my (G)un(k)le and Auntie Trish yesterday (10 August 2003) at 11.19a

Of course, we went yesterday evening to visit. A (very) healthy 9 pounds, 4 ounces at 22 centimeters long. He's so beautiful. I caught the briefest glimpse of blue eyes, and, under the hat, gorgeous blonde hair.

p.s.- this is what my hair looks like after not brushing it. do i look as if i care though? :)

here's another one of josh!!! (with an appearance by my dad)

ahhh wonderful past day or two. of course, yesterday started off excellent. received a call around 830 that auntie trish was in labor, and the baby was due in a few hours! what a way to start the day! then i churched it up with the fam, followed by breakfast at t's afterward. saw julianne there- we'll be in ap chemistry together. she's good at science, maybe she'll help me. i hope i dont suck at chem. that would be awful, seeing as how i love it. i got caramel pecan pancakes that were- seriously- to die for. it was nuts (heh heh). then to nana and tata's to wait for 'the' call and also to hang out with jack n' matt. we didnt get to see joshua until around 6 last night. auntie trish looked great, and they'll be going home tomorrow.

came home, ate dinner, left for liz's. liz rach joe and i spent some quality time with homestarrunner, then headed to spikes because joe was hungry. haha he's the only one that ate, but he ate enough for all of us - oh those football captains. back a la casa de liz, we watched a bit of jerry maguire. i realize now that that's not that great of a movie, and tom cruise really isnt even that cute. like, i mean, i'd give him a solid b. but... eh. we decided to pick out the lesser popular quotes, including 'we live in a cynical world,' 'shut up jerry. just shut up,' and something about the stock market. ("stock market.... stock mocket.... stark mocket..."[liz ta$h]) but, oh man, then we watched the roast of denis leary on comedy central. that was just fucking hilarious. i mean, i'm not even a big fan of denis or anything, but it was sooooooooo funny. ("because of you.... meat.... still available! and cancer?...... still winning!") ("so a priest, a pedofile, and a rapist walk into a bar.... and that's just the first guy!") ("he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you've been bad or good.... folks, i could stand here and quote scripture all night.") ("how can you have a cocaine addiction and a weight problem?!?!") ("a roast? hey you're irish! shouldnt this be a boil?????") later, rach had to leave. liz was stuck with me for the night. we hung out and ate. yum, pizza.

then my mom (and the shelmiester) picked us up this morning (unfortunately, rach had to babysit :( and what an adventurous day it was for her...!) and we headed to trader joes in framingham, which is the closest one. ohhhh i heart trader joes. i wish they had one here. or i wish i lived in california (dont worry- not just because they have lotsa trader joe's there. haha i love food, but not that much!) after tj's we headed over to the wrentham outlets. i heart outlet shopping.

oh snap! highlight of my day! buying plaid pants!!!!!! they are just positively awful!!!!!!!! but i loooooooooooooooooooove them!!! i was so excited! i plan on wearing them to every single pep band game, simply because they will clash horrendously with my red hawaiian print pep band shirt! actually... yeah i've been looking for ugly plaid pants since last season- ill be honest with you. i also got a nice pink horizontally striped belt (of course to clash with the pants) and an orange tank top (which would also clash! hot!!!!). but yeah shopping is so much fun (just doing my part for the economy, guys) i got those pants, then another pair (dont worry- not plaid ones!), a couple of new shirts, and some capris.

we dined at panera bread. lowlight of my day! choking on a piece of panera bread bread! yeah! and no one thought i was seriously choking! (it's not like the boy/girl who cried wolf-i mean- who the hell fakes choking?! =Þ) so liz was just kdding around and tried to heimlich me, but that made it worse, because then i laughed, and it was completely lodged in my throat. i threw myself down on the ground (why? i dont know!!) yeah so when i was done choking, we dropped off liz and here i am.

bored.
missing matt.
wishing i drove.
wanting my phish t shirt. (haha dan)

later gangsters

these are the family pets! spectrum is the fishy to the left, and then you've got ginger on the right. i love how i'm allergic to the cat. shes so pretty though.

hey hey! so it's been a few days, not much has been happening.... ummm... oh! wednesday night was very nice- ryan's mom had two tickets to a play, and gave them to rye and me. it was the secret garden at theatre by the sea. first we went to grab grub at a really nice restaurant. unfortunately, all their meals were meat-based. oh well, i'm over it. let's not pretend that i could have afforded anything other than a salad anyway heh heh. the play itself was very good and i liked it a lot. the theatre was actually a very old renovated barn. very nice. during the intermission we went outside and walked in the rain and watched the lightening! crazy us. after the play, mrs. d. picked us up (ohhhhh license) and i went on home.

yesterday i didnt do anything. i read quite of bit of los canterbury tales (last one! ahhhhhh i'm never going to have enough time to write 3 more essayssssssssssss) (sorry, brief freak out moment) and then i had a driving lesson at night. it went a lot better than last time. i wasnt so nervous. i need to chillax more.

and now it's 1049a and i'm wondering why the hell i'm up so early. i hate that. when you want to sleep but you cant. also i hate just lying in bed tossing and turning and the sun is peeking through the shades and ugh. but maybe this is good because i get the run out of the way and then possibly do something this afternoon.

ahhhh a breakfast of tj's soy granola will cheer me up

this was so completely random that i couldnt help but share this news with you.

Aaron


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i seriously bet that i could easily kick the shit out of that shopping cart. just give it a couple of ninja kicks and bam!!!!!

jess hearts ninjas

(and funk licenses)

good night.

yesterday was a stupendous day-- it was off to the mcmani lakehouse (a 40 minute drive-- its in MA) with matt, kev, andy, g, greg, and larsen. we got there around 2 and chillaxed. then it was off to the waterslide park, where they all successfully managed to get kicked out. larsen was the first to go because he stopped on the slide, and caused g to catch up. off snipped his bracelet. later, andy, g, and greg all went on at once. right before we were to leave, larsen ran up the ramp to the slide. the 'lifeguard' chick on the ground was pissed off and radioed to the top of the slide. they tried to stop larsen because he didnt have the bracelet on. they told him to go back down to the ground and get it. he pretended as if he was going to walk down the ramp, but at the last minute sprinted back toward the slide, cut off a couple of little kids, and slid down one last time. matt and i were standing on the ground, and we could actually hear the sound of his flesh hitting the plastic slide. it was fucking hilarious--- the whole time we were there was great-- andy even made some friends heh heh (they were about 9). we were nearly escorted out. ohhh mannn, good times. this little paragraph does not do justice to the events that really occured.

back at the house by the lake, mr. mcman. took us all out on the boat. matt andy larsen greg and g all went out in the raft, buuuuuuut i didnt (i was finally dry and didnt feel like getting all wet again!!!) it looked like it was going to rain, so we headed back in and all changed. there was a bit of uh mooning going on. it was scary ((shakes head nervously)) yeah even the mcmanus' and their guests caught a glimpse......... how awkward for coughcoughlarsencoughcough. yeah-- and how small of a state is this-- my parents actually knew the people that were visiting matt's parents.

[[ i should mention that throughout the WHOOOOOOOOOLE TIME i was with these 6 guys, there was CONSTANT gay innuendo.... oh those hendricken men ;) ]]

kayleigh was due to arrive around 7, but that came and went and she still hadnt graced us with her presence..... so then we got a call from her; larsen and kev went out to meet her somewhere.

they still werent home at 9. turns out, she somehow ended up in webster, and, when she stopped to ask for directions, someone sent her to worcester. craziness. poor thing!

while dave and kev were out on the search for kayls, the rest of us played cards (i won! hahaha) and had a fabulous dinner out on the water. there was a thunderstorm occurring, but we just all sat out on the benches at the docks. it was really great. good atmosphere. ((andy controlled the lightening for us)) finally the other 3 came a little bit after nine. we tried to establish a game of monopoly, but i'd say that the 8 of us combined probably had the attention span of a 4 year old. ((we got as far as picking out our pieces...)) the rest of the evening is a blur. but good times were indeed had :)

i had to be home by 1130-midnight. kayleigh was taking me home (i was, admittedly, a bit nervous lol!!!) so she, andy, greg, and i climbed into her car (a mazda... a girl after my own heart!) and we followed kev to the highway. unfortunately, she didn't sing any opera for us :(

yeah so that was yesterday. like i said earlier, a mere few paragraphs do not do justice to all the laughs and shenanigans that took place in the 12 hours or so we were all together.

today kieran called me early this morning to tell me he could take me to matty b's house for la fiesta. so we got there around 11, and were soon joined by the scorpinator, ta$h money, and katie l. we piled into two cars, and drove all the way to bakers beach in wesport ma. i'd never been there before, but it seemed like a really nice beach. i wouldnt know; we spent all of 10 minutes there. on the way down, it started to rain. we all thought maybe (hopefully?) it'd go away by the time we arrived, but instead it merely escalated into a full-fledged downpour. liz lau and knasty went in the water, and it soon started to thunder and we saw flashes of lightening. me, being the nervous nilly that i am, got... well... nervous. so, after 10 minutes we left. (just enough time for everything- and i mean everything- to get completely soaked!!!)

we stopped at handy hill (nearby) and got grub. the rain still poured. then it was off to the movie store. we got the ring and watched it once we got back to matty's. it was okay, i know it scared a lot of people- so i think i was prepared for the worst... it wasnt that scary, and kind of extremely fake... that's what you get when you shoot down jess's selection (empire records!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

after that, we dined, and attempted to make smores. then we played a few card games (bullshit, spoons) twas muy fun. then kieran and i left around 730 or so. now im home, burning off all those calories of today and yesterday on the bike! ahhh! lol a whole 10 minutes hahaha

later gangsters

keep it real

(ben folds five)

yesterday was pretty mellow during the day, woke up around 1130. procrastinated writing a 500 word essay for a bit... but finally ended up doing it (finished around 2 oclock hah!)... ran... today's my moms birthday so i had to wrap gifts for her... played the guitar for awhile, practiced all pep band songs, already getting stoked for the basketball season (and homecoming, which is a bit sooner!)... matt called around 630ish. we both really want to see 28 days later but its only at providence place and somewhere in seekonk. and the ppm is a bitch about selling r rated movie tix. so we ended up just watching romeo and julet at his hizzouse, which was perfectly fine by me. i heart that movie. i forgot how much i like it. i've probably seen it well over 30 odd times. never gets old though. matt had never seen it (gasp!).

i told my parents i'd be home at 10 (relatively early because matt was heading up to the lakehouse for the night). i got home at 1007 and my dad was complaining. i mean come onnnnnnnnnn. whatever though. i wasnt going to let him ruin my evening over 7 lousy minutes. honestly! some people!

today i havent really done much. i woke up at 10 because i wanted to bake a bday cake para mi madre. d00d, i know it's redonkulus, but i actually had a headache from being up so early. i actually had to take 3 tylenol. frig... i go to school in 8 days. im so screwed. not to mention lazy- all i've done today is run, bake, read (not summer reading, either), sleep in the sun, and play my guitar. school is mos def. going to be a rude awakening.............

i cant believe summer is essentially over. i still have to read one more tale in the canterbury tales and write 2 more essays. no divertido

3 days until counting crows and john mayer (with liz rach and liz's cuz katie)

21 days until dave (with liz rach and rye)

22 days until dave (with andy)

all i really want to do is go to the beach tomorrow.

Your Name: Jessica Lee *o*a*
Your Date of Birth: 04/05/1987
Your Question or Information: school

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here's a classic convo

scene: jess is rummaging through the day's mail

jess: hey! bowdoin sent me some chemistry stuff! and a brochure! wow, the school really looks great!! (sighs) too bad it's in maine
(*reminder: i hate the cold*)
mom: oh, god, i know- if you went there, i'd never visit.
jess: bowdoin! suddenly back on the list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so not much has been happening as of late.

i finally received my schedule yesterday. it is as follows
a. spanish (perkins)
b. gym/free
c. AP chemistry (parsons)
d. analysis (sanga)
e. AP english (obadiah)
f. religion (albanese)
g. AP us history (carpenter)

seeing the schedule made me want to cry. i am not ready to go back. how the hell did i think i could handle three AP's? i mean, i've known since like february that i was taking three. (there was even brief contemplation of a fourth!) so this is not new news or anything. i guess before it was just a concept, something that seemed far away... something i didn't have to worry about (yet). but seeing it on my transcript thingy... in print... whoa. there it was. 3 ap. set in stone. yeah, needless to say that it's no longer a concept; it's reality.

and i'm shit scared.

i barely made it through last year without stressing over what color pen i was using. the future's looking pretty dim.

but then i think about how important it is for me to do well, and sometimes (...sometimes...) it's not daunting. sometimes it's exciting. i think about how if i get good grades, ill be able to get the hell out of rhode island and onto bigger, better things. less than 2 years at this point, and i will be gone. it is so important that i do well this year. i'm seriously considering early admission to stanford. that place was so perfect. in one direction, it is 20 minutes from san francisco, a half hour from mill valley (and the john muir woods), and in the other direction it's 20 minutes from santa cruz.

not to mention 3000 miles away from rhode island.

i really don't think about college as much as some of you may think- ive just got it on the brain, since a bunch of people i know are taking that next step in mere days, or already have.

but in other news

tomorrow is john mayer and counting crows!!!!!!!!!! spending the day with liz rach and katie (lizs cousin). sure to be a great time. then the concert at night i'm soooo stoked!! cc's recovering the satellites was among the first cd's i bought with my own money (hah, after los beatles), and john mayer is sooooooo hot. (understatement of the year!!!) i love how he has those heroin addict eyes going on... mmmmmm... so yes, in preparation for man~ana, i've been listening to jm and cc for the whole week. (alright alright there was a little ben folds five mixed in there, but cut me some slack! i listen to music a lot!)

....my hair smells like vanilla right now....

yeah. i guess that's all i've got for today.

check back later fools

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BUBBAS89: y dont you like jessica
BUBBAS89: the second or third girl i ever had a crush on
BUBBAS89: was named jessica
BUBBAS89: and i was convinced that it was the name the pretty girls had
SmileyJess13: ohhhhhh! nice save lol!
BUBBAS89: ie the girl in my 1st grade class........ and jessica rabbit from roger rabbit
BUBBAS89: lol not even lying to save my own butt
BUBBAS89: really did think......if you were pretty
BUBBAS89: ur names ganna be jessica

and that, ladies and gents, is why i'm just jess

your loves got me looking so crazy in love

is it okay if i like 'crazy in love' by beyonce and jay z? i heard it for the first time the other day... saw it on mtv... and i've been dying to hear it again ever since. the beat is so addictive... and the lyrics arent that difficult to remember... so ive had it stuck in my head ever since. but they don't play it that often on 95.5 bru. but this morning i was awakened to the sounds of be and mr. z. on top of my already stellar mood... so it's now downloaded, between the likes of beastie boys, beatles, beck, ben folds, ben harper, beyonce, bjork, black crowes, blind melon, bob dylan, bob marley... pretty eclectic, sure, but there is definitely one that does not belong.

i'm not a bad person for liking this song, am i???????????????

(just dl it, and try to tell me it doesnt make you want to get up and dance)

ah so yeah i've been up for about an hour. leaving in about an hour when liz arrives. then we pick up katie and rach. back to la casa de tash, then off to the tweeter center for jm/cc!!!! i can remember when we bought these tickets like, way back in april? i was at a volleyball tournament, liz scored the tickets, i was making plans for motta to meet the 'rents before junior prom (which was in about a week?), kelly's lil bro pulled the fire alarm (LOL!!!), i set my service record- 8 in a row, with 8 points, pulling us from behind to take the lead and progress onto the championship game. wouldnt it be cool if i could have done that more than once............................ ah well. hahaha wouldnt it also be cool if my coach actually said something as little as 'good job'? (scorp can feel my pain right now lol scorp scorp what what)

i leave you with some lyrics:

"Crazy In Love" by Beyonce
(feat. Jay-Z)

[Intro - Jay Z]
Yes!
It's so crazy right now!
Most incredibly, it's ya girl, Bee,
It's ya boy, young.

[Intro - Beyonce:]
You ready?
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no

[Intro - Jay Z]
Yea, history in the making,
Part 2, it's so crazy right now

[Verse 1 - Beyonce]
I look and stare so deep in your eyes,
I touch on you more and more every time,
When you leave I'm begging you not to go,
Call your name two or three times in a row,
Such a funny thing for me to try to explain,
How I'm feeling and my pride is the one to blame.
'Cuz I know I don't understand,
Just how your love your doing no one else can.

[Chorus - Beyonce]
Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's
Got me looking so crazy right now (in love)
Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch
Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch)
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss
Got me hoping you'll save me right now
Looking so crazy in love's,
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love.

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no

[Verse 2 - Beyonce]
When I talk to my friends so quietly,
Who he think he is? Look at what you did to me,
Tennis shoes, don't even need to buy a new dress,
If you ain't there ain't nobody else to impress,
The way that you know what I thought I knew,
It's the beat my heart skips when I'm with you,
But I still don't understand,
Just how the love your doing no one else can.

[Chorus - Beyonce]
Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's
Got me looking so crazy right now (oh crazy)
Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch (you're in love)
Got me looking so crazy right now (love!)
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss (hey!)
Got me hoping you'll save me right now
Looking so crazy in love's, (hey)
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love.

I'm Looking so crazy in love's,
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love.

[Verse 3 - Jay Z (Beyonce)]
Check it, let's go
Young Hov y'all know when the flow is loco,
Young B and the R-O-C, uh oh, (oh)
Ol' G, big homie, the one and only,
Stick bony, but the pocket is fat like Tony, Soprano, (oh no)
The ROC handle like Van Axel,
I shake phoneys man, You can't get next to,
The genuine article I go I do not sing though,
I sling though, If anything I bling yo,

a star like Ringo, roll like ??
Crazy bring ya whole set,
Jay Z in the range, crazy and deranged,
They can't figure them out they like hey is he insane, (oh no)
Yes sir I'm cut from a different cloth,
My texture is the best fur, of chinchilla.
(Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no)
Been dealing with chain smokers,
But how you think I got the name Hova?
(Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no)
I been realer the game's over,
(Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no)
Fall back young, ever since the label changed over
(Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no)
to platinum the game's been wrap, One!

[Bridge - Beyonce]
Got me looking, so crazy, my baby
I'm not myself, lately I'm foolish, I don't do this,
I've been playing myself, baby I don't care
'Cuz your love's got the best of me,
And baby you're making a fool of me,
You got me sprung and I don't care who sees,
'Cuz baby you got me, you got me, so crazy baby
HEY!

[Chorus - Beyonce]
Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's (oh love)
Got me looking so crazy right now (lookin' crazy)
Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch
Got me looking so crazy right now
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss (baby)
Got me hoping you'll save me right now (baby)
Looking so crazy in love's, (whoa!)
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love. (whoa!)

Got me looking so crazy right now, your love's
Got me looking so crazy right now (your love)
Got me looking so crazy right now, your touch
Got me looking so crazy right now (your touch)
Got me hoping you'll page me right now, your kiss
Got me hoping you'll save me right now
Looking so crazy in love's,
Got me looking, got me looking so crazy in love.

copyright, beyonce
azlyrics.com

i love johnny depp with all my heart *

*ok, there's a little room for the rest of you's

oh.
my.
god.

okay, so the concert was amazing. liz picked me up yesterday afternoon with rachel in tow, then we all went all the way to lincoln (hah, rhode islanders...) to pick up her cousin katie. then it was back a la casa de tash to quickly see joe before futbol (americano) practice, and jonathan! (aka the baby... he's 3 years old though) then lizs grandparents came over, i've met them before- so kind. and jonathan wanted to play guess who, hangman, and chess (playing chess was my favorite- you just try to stick the pieces on all of your fingers- he won that one... it's harder when your pinky finger is much bigger than his thumb). then we popped in beauty and the beast!!!!! seriously, my all time favorite movie. recited all the lines. we didn't get to watch all of it before aunt gin (jon's mom, mrs. tash's sis) i've met her many a time, twas good to see her. then mr. tash comes in for 5 seconds, breezes out armed with 8975891 gallons of gatorade for the football practice, jon and aunt gin leave, we chow down, mr. tash is back, we leave at 533 for the tweeter center. get suck in major traffic, dont even get there until just before 8!!! redonkulus!!! tshirts were purchased, opening band missed (which we hear sucked, surprise surprise...), seats located (section 9, row f, #1-4).

counting crows came on first. they were great. played rain king (and it rained!!! score!!!), hangin around, mr jones, around here, ahh a bunch of others that i cant think of right now. adam had an inverse mullet, as usual (long in the front, short in the back) the guys in front of us were so drunk/homosexual. (/=and) then... then... john took the stage.

sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i mean, i like him as much as the next person, and, sure, i was looking forward to this concert. but he's no jakob dylan or dave. so i wasnt as excited as in the past. but oh my god. he was amazing. guys with guitars always do that. amaze me, that is. he played so excellently, great riffs, hot voice, beautiful eyes... and those high notes? be still my beating heart. well anyways, here's the set list.

No Such Thing
3x5
Something's Missing
My Stupid Mouth ("a cross between an amateur stand up comedian and asshole" -jm)
Bigger Than My Body (this was an amazing song)
Come Back To Bed
Your Body is a Wonderland (::breathless:: left this one on my voicemail hah! itll be there for 14 days, baby!!!!)
Why Georgia
encore
Daughters
Love Song for No One
Back To You (and this was where my heart just melted)

if this is what jmcc gets, you just wait until my double dose of dave.

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my cousin jack and i- i call this one 'jack and jess long arm shot' (aren't we lovely?)

jack, me, matt, shel (with auntie denise in the backround)

i'm going to be josh's godmother!

p.s. why does my head look so freakin huge???

bored out of my mind and procrastinating having to write about the canterbury tales

ohhh! look at that zonkboard! i did it myself! w00t w00t!

leave a note.

i double dog dare you.

ah, so it's 1134. last week at this time i dont even think i was awake. but i've been up since 930 ish! craziness! yeah, so i start school on thursday, and i'm trying to wake up earlier each day because i have to go in for 830. So last night (er... 2 o clock this morning...) i set the alarm for 8. aaaaaaaand promptly slept through it.

so yesterday hmm... sunday... churched it up... came home, wrote the essay on the canterbury tales (only next is left! w00t!). too bad my essays suck. i hope obi's not a harsh grader....

my mom got to go to mahhthahh's vineyahhd yesterday. i havent been yet this year, and i dont think i'm going to be going... que triste. it's so beautiful there, and liz rach and i had so much fun last year when we went.

quick note- if you don't have the google internet explorer bar, i ghighly recommend it. it blocks all popups. i've had it since saturday morning, and it's already blocked 304 pop ups for me.

went over matt's last night after he got home from the lakehouse. decided not to return bill's rental, which is kind of late... hah a surprise for bill... met matt's cousin and felt stupid because he offered to shake my hand and i got nevous and fumbled with my cell phone for a good 5 seconds (which was in my right hand) before i was able to return the handshake. i get nervous way too easily. ah well.

came home a little after ten (grumble weeknight curfew grumble). did a little surfing on the net and found this. i NEED to buy it. (youth large, thanks.) god i love chemistry!!!!! it's disgusting, really, it is.

so does anyone want to explain to me what exactly is going on with this weather? saturday night i was so cold in the boxers/tank top combo that i actually had to put on my pj pants. it was august 23rd!!!!! what the hell. we get snow until mid april, and it's already cold again? no. no. no. no. i will not stand for this. give me sun. give me humidity. give me a tan! give me more summer!

i hate the cold! hate it hate it hate it hate it.
< / tantrum >

(if that's not the way it's supposed to be, i'm going to feel wicked dumb... cut me some slack, i'm new to html...)

bought me some school books today.

i got three books from my city- AP chem, spanish, and analysis. a friend of mine that is a senior this year provided me with 4 books in very good condition. so today i had to buy only a mere 8 books.

the total?
$298.55
bringing the cost of my education this year to over 8 g's.

on the way home from buying these books, i was pondering all the things i could buy with that money.

-5 tickets to dave matthews band, or 2 tickets two nights in a row, all in very good seats, with some cash leftover to get 2 t shirts and ponchos for everyone.
-30 tickets to see the dropkick murphys at lupos
-4 very good seats at a red sox game, with money to spare for food/drinks
-6 pairs of gap jeans
-2 coach purses + 1 coach change purse
-1 manolo on sale (lol)
-3 weeks worth of groceries from trader joes for a family of four
-20 brand new cd's, or countless used cd's
-16 charms for those italian style charm bracelets
-8-10 manicures (not that i get those done anyway)
-10 updos, which would be enough from now until senior prom
-a cheap guitar, or a decent used one
-small amp
-one third of a schecter pt custom
-3 weeks of landscaping for an acre of land
-6 weeks of a housecleaning service
-4 days of your own personal chef
-30 movie tickets
-44 matinee movie tickets
-2 tickets to la boheme on broadway
-68% of a round trip ticket to california over christmas vacation

oh. i should add that they didnt even have one of my spanish books in yet.

(long string of expletives)

any of my fellow lasallians reading this, how much did it cost you? what would you rather buy with that money?

so i've taken an extreme liking to the new fox show, the o.c.

god knows it's the closest i'm getting to california for awhile.

the acting isnt all that great, but i'm willing to stick it out until the chemistry really sets in.

so here's a quote

seth: welcome to a life of paralyzing self doubt

hah! i've got one of those!!!!!

but anyways, seth [adam brody] is the hottest. ((melts))

my last true day of summer
was spent very well.

i was awakened at 0900 hours by a mr. andrew l. doing what else but canceling on me for tonight lol. no worries we made plans to beach it up tomorrow (after my orientation [groannnnnnnnnnnn])

so now i was up relatively early, and it'd still be awhile before matt awakened, so i seized the opportunity and edited the 5 essays that ive written. yeah. mostly italicizing the books titles. they suck and thats that. i entertained the notion of doing my last one, then quickly pushed it out of my mind and instead picked up la guitarra. made plans around 1030 to go out to breakfast with matt. he got here a lil after 1130. we decided that neither of us really wanted breakfast anyways. we didnt even know what we wanted to do. soooooooooooooooo! we went to savers! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jess hearts savers! i've never been there, and so many people go, and i was eager to jump on this bandwagon! clothes that cost less than a tall caramel frappachino with soy? shit man i'm in! i ended up not buying anything, but matt got a sweet nirope film crew shirt lol. so if you see him wearing it... remember where he got it. then we went to target to look for top gun sunglasses. they were wayyy too expensive ($20+! redonkulus!) so we headed over to the dollar store, where i got 3 weird pairs of sunglasses and matt got... lunch lol. off to the movie store we went, returned the one we watched the other night (dirty rotten scoundrels) and rented requiem for a dream.

so if you've read my journal before, you know that this is a great movie. not a favorite, but it is just really well done. it is not enjoyable to watch. it makes me want to cry and turn it off. the first time (and only time, until today) that i saw it, it took me 2 days to watch because i couldnt take it. matt hadnt seen it, and i'm always raving about it, so we got it. added bonus: jared leto mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm but no okay it was easier to watch it this time (since i've also read the book). but the part that always gets me is when harry is in florida at the police station with his effed up infection (from shooting up way too much) and he calls marion in new york as shes about to go get some stuff and she wants him to come home and shes crying and hes crying and they were so in love and ohhhhhhhh... rent it. now.

hung out with kayls kev and andy afterwards... watched blind date. had to come home to babysit. looks like im in for the evening.

effing school tomorrow. damn.

later gangster

oh man, just had a good ol' cali memory

so i went on a hiking trip with [my cousin] matt and his two friends sean and jon. jon had had a dental cleaning just a few days before or something and was proud that he didn't have any more cavities. and welp, here's what went down.

sean: god i fuckin hate it when you're eating something, and it has the tiniest piece of tinfoil on it somewhere that you accidentall overlooked. and then you chomp down on it, and it has some kind of electric reaction with a filling.

matt: oh man! i know! that fuckin sucks! jess, dont you hate that?!?!

jess: [mumbling] ...don't have any cavities...

sean: marcia marcia marcia

oh man. if only my life was like the brady bunch!!!! we'd have a maid/cook, groovy clothes, and, as rachel commented one time- "all life's problems are solved in 30 minutes"

i bet i would pay jan to write that effing essay.

here are some back to school cool jess pics! haha. get it? oxymoron... cool... jess....

this is me on my front porch. typical first day attire. actually somewhat tucked in, no backless shoes. too many buttons unbuttoned but so it goes. liz is the model for dress code *hah!* i always prefer the blue shirts to the white... this one's from freshman year- i still have paint on the back from art class. it's a bit big... ((blake is this yours? i know i have one of yours...)) but it's been washed so many times that it's not that uncomfortable anymore! score fabric softener.

like the shades? matt got 'em for me yesterday!

so i definitely should not have stayed up to watch conan last night. but whatever. if i have baggy eyes in my pictures, ask me if i care... i've had them since i was like, 4. seriously.

i woke up this morning, stumbled out of my bed and immediately turned on the radio. and guess what song was just starting? bigger than my body by john mayer. i was sooo happy. i know it's a sign. this year's going to be a good one.

patty picked me up at 7 and she mike and i grabbed bagels at panera. yum. then we drove to la escuela and were able to visit with some people before we were due for homeroom. i got to see blake and dyldawg, both of whom i had not seen all summer ("i am unbelievably sorry i can't come today" dylan, 2003... haha also "she cried for three f*cking hours!!!! jess!!!! she cried for three hours straight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"). i gave blake the hackey sack i had picked up for him in mexico and we all hacked it up in the auditorium amongst a huge group of people. sooo many people. then hr- with fio! he seems chill enough. looks like a good hr this year.... mmmm and by good i mean smelly (in reference to you know who lol) got my locker combination and i promptly left it in my locker (for the second effing year in a row), which means i'm going to have to track down brb on tuesday so he can unlock it and he can ask me how the hell i got put in 3 ap classes. pictures. speeches.

then i went out with liz rach and katie. we grabbed food at applebees and i ate way too much. many laughs, as always.

now i'm home, hopefully going to the beach in a bit, or the brand new concert tonight. we'll see.

(weezer, el scorchooooooooooooooooo!!)

so i ended up going to the wbru concert thingy last night- m80 and brand new. andy called me around 2, and we headed downcity about an hour later. first stopped at thayer and walked around for awhile, noshed at paragon, yum. (yeah... i ate all three meals out yesterday. i feel like i probably gained 5-7 pounds) after a bit more walking, we hopped back in the car and headed to where we thought the concert was going to be (across from the providence place). but alas, it was by the waterfront. NBD! ("no big deal" liz ta$h) parked about a mile away, didnt bother to pay because we're pretty gangster like that. as we were walking toward the stage area, we ran into kelly (kelscorchooooooooo), flybriguy (not to be confused with the one and only flyryeguy), and dan and tom finnegan (insert nicknames here). the latter three were formerly known as 'finnegan's way' but have recently undergone a name change- the rule of 10 (wheck them out at the cvs downtown 5k on 7 sept!). chatted it up, further walked and met up with steph mc (she rocks my socks!!!) and bill mac (who actually remembers me [*shocked*]) later steve s. joined them. found michelle icantrememberherlastname... you know, andy's date to senior prom and her... boyfriend (?) i dont know who he was. neil king, greg sousa. ben caccia, my fellow pep band guitarist! with a (*gasp!*) goatee! (he let me pet it lol) he's going to berklee (school of musiccccc) and was telling me about how he cant practice in his dorm. (because, well, think about it... a school composed entirely of musicians... kind of makes sense) cant even bring his own amps. and... DAN GILCREAST was not at the concert (he's been asking for a namedrop, so there ya go dan!!!)

the concert got over around 830 ish. we wanted to go to the coffee exchange, and realized that neither of us really knew how to get there and called it a night. it was good to see andy. i havent see him since the day before i left for cali- that's more than 2 months ago! he leaves for college on sunday (all the way down to north kingstown- closer to the beach!!!) we're going to dave together on the 9th.

which reminds me! most unfortunately, there has been a change in the lineup for the 8th- racello can not make it...due to... cello... and instead matt's taking her ticket! this is sure to be exciting, for matt is a dave virgin. rye and liz are still on board, no body panic.

i have come to the conclusion that school makes me sick. already. and i've only gone for 2 hours. (well 3, because of the speeches). yeah. i really dont feel well at all. extremely cold (working on my second cup of green tea this morning, and it's only 1044), and sneezy. my eyes are all mehh. i didnt get a good nights sleep. hopefully if i go running ill feel better, usually that helps. we'll see.

also, right now, i have that song 'stacey's mom' stuck in my head

i know that i didnt sleep deeply because i had extremely vivid dreams. i cant remember what they were about exactly, but i can see them perfectly. it's veird. like, no matter how hard i try, i dont know how to piece the different pictures in my mind together. you try- here are two examples: scene one- i'm putting away silverware and cant close the drawer and start crying because i'm afraid of something, and in another scene i'm playing frisbee with a golden retriever (which i am allergic to) on the front lawn of a house i've never seen before in a neighborhood i've never been in before, and cars are coming and going at high speed, one pulls in the driveway (gray mazda) and asks me if i want to drive it around. i decline, and run away.

so yesterday was very boring. i wrote the last essay!! w00t! it sucks! but it's done! w00t again!!!

went to a pawsox game with the 'rents and sis. it was fun in the same way jumping in an empty in ground pool is fun.

steph mcguinness rocks my socks. "bring your party hat!"

contemplating running the cvs downtown 5k next sunday with rye and liz. why not right?

i have a lobsterbake to attend today with wicked extended family. something like 30+ people. it's funny that im going because i'm allergic to lobster, and besides that, i wouldn't eat it anyways. shrug. looks like it's BYOBB [bring your own boca burger] for me. also, i get to drag rye along.

finished the perfect elizabeth the other day. forgot to even mention i was reading it.

listening to jurassic 5.

yeah so i was out before i even began this i think

alright, so i've noticed that a lot of people watched the vma's on the 28th. i, personally, did not. it did not hold my attention span, and there are far too many commercials.

however, last night, on one of it's bajillion reshowings, my sister was watching it, and told me that coldplay was performing. i love coldplay. i think they are just fabulous. also, nice accents.

but i also like them because they are involved in different organizations around the world. they truly care, and are using their fame to have their voices heard. i was extremely happy to see that on Chris Martin's piano were the words 'make trade fair.' did you notice this? wonder exactly what it's for?

(photo courtesy of mtv.com)

Make Trade Fair is an international organization that "gives a voice to the farmers, labourers, and factory workers who are being cheated by the blatantly unfair rules of world trade. And it gives a voice to you, the consumer, if you want to join them in the call to end exploitation and make trade fair." (credit: MakeTradeFair.com)

please visit the website to learn more. it really is a wonderful organization, one that i've been apart of for a while now.

so i'd like to also invite you to sign Oxfam's petition. Oxfam's getting as many people as possible to sign a petition - the big noise - to stop people getting ripped off in poor countries due to unfair trade rules. there are thousands of supporters worldwide, but they still need your support and that of your friends, family and colleagues to send a strong message to our leaders that unfair trade is inexcusable.