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:: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 ::

Drool with me at the latest iriver products. These will definately be on my to get list.

imp-550 I'm glad I didn't buy the 400.

ifp-300 So sweet and it might be a removable drive!

Don't forget to wipe your chin. I'm off to eat. I'm so hungry that I could eat babies. I got a great recipe from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal.

:: Jennifer 4/29/2003 11:41:00 AM [+] ::
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I GOTTA HAVE A BABY! I GOTTA HAVE A BABY!

Heh heh. Not really, but probably. Damn biological clock. I am looking at baby names again.

Anyway, on another note, the Blogger people suck. They so totally do. They pick the shitties blogs for blogs of note. i think the poeple are paying off the Blogger people. I'm not even going to look at the Blogs of note because they are crap. Pure crap. I saw another blog of note with my template. A crappy one too. I think they only read the title and not the content. This template is coming down as soon as I have time. Asses. Also the only blog that was interesting enough in the last picks for Blogs of note was this one. I think the Spam Pal thing is cool. Considering the enormous amount of spam I get on my AOL accounts.

Anyway, Ricky has a corporation!

So, I'm back in London and I will be making a big long post about my trip sometime in the near future. I have an essay due on Friday and 2 exams coming up, but I WON'T SLEEP UNTIL I POST ON MY BLOG! Right Ricky?

Anyway, got lots to do. I'm also hungry too.

*End of Rhyme Thyme*

:: Jennifer 4/28/2003 11:11:00 AM [+] ::
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I'm alive and well in Budapest, so tell my mom. Emm my favourite city is by far Vienna, the least favourite is Bratislava, but I'll p[ost about that when I get back to London to Sunday. I like London and I'm already missing Europe. I'm really thinking about that Russian job... well, I should still be home on May 26th. Well, love you all will update when it doesn't cost me an arm and a leg. Just call me stumpy. ;-)

:: Jennifer 4/25/2003 02:15:00 PM [+] ::
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VIEN ROCKS! Well, I like it much better than Praha. I've met sooo many Aussies on my trip and traveling alone isn't that bad. Well, this internet is costing me a fortune. It's one euro per 12 minutes. What a rip off! Anyway, the train from Praha to Wien was ok. I'm getting lots of pretty stmaps in my passport. Is it worth going to Zagreb, Croatia? It's only going to be for 3 hours and it's a 7 hour train ride there anf 7 hours back. :-( blah I porobably won't go, but it's Croatia. I might take that job in Russia. It pays $550 a month and they provide housing and utilites.If they pay for my flight there and I don't get that post office job, which I haven't heard back from, I'm going to be in Ufa, Russia. Anyway, I got to get some stuff done. I relaly wish I had taken German. I really like the Germans and Austrians. Woo hoo!

:: Jennifer 4/22/2003 01:09:00 PM [+] ::
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So I'm in Praha now. It's ok. My hostel's in the shit part of town, kind of reminds me of Mile End ;-) I did go into the city center and I'm thinking of taking a tour tomorrow because I'm feeling kind of lazy and don't feel like finding my way around myself. Praha is supposedly "dirt cheap" but I spent $13 on an overpriced Chinese Restaurant next door to a strip bar. There's something going on here because the square is filled with stalls and decorated like Christmas, but it's like Easter. Cute city, I walked down the Praha equivalent of 5th Ave, ort Oxford Street. It was all Louis Vutton, Faberge, etc. Glaaass must be big here like in Venice because there are a tonne of glass shops.

My first impression of Praha wasn't good. I couldn't find the ATM at the train station, but I did find my hostel with relatively little trouble. I luckily have a good sense of direction. I have a 3rd floor room, which isn't so fun, but it's all about exercise right? The receptionist here is a big goofy. English, but pretty crazy or just jacked up on candy.

Speaking of candy. Germany has the best sweets. I love Haribo. The Gummi Bears are the best in Germany. Anyway, on the train I met 2 Aussie girls named Peta and Sarah, who were also on the way to Praha. They were really nice. Aussies are super friendly. We shared a train compartment and we all slept. We had great fun. Well, I'm tired and I plan to do an early day in Praha because on Tuesday I'm off to Wien. Yea! Oh yeah, someone call my mom and tell her I'm still alive.

:: Jennifer 4/20/2003 02:19:00 PM [+] ::
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Leaving Germany tomorrow. I'm off to Prague, Vienna, Bratislava, then Budapest. Maybe I'll update when I get back to London, but then again I might be too busy with my essay and exams. I will hopefully get my trip up before I leave for Ireland with Danielle and Paris. I just might make it to Amsterdam if I have enough money and/or time. I still have to fit in trips to Canturbury (Not Cunturbury, Millegan), Bath, and still do the touristy things in London. :-/ Where will I find the time or money. Blah.

On another note, Dachau was pretty sobering, but I still couldn't stop thinking of very poor and distasteful jokes. It was pretty hard to find, since the roads weren't well marked. I hear that the Germans walk away when you mention Dachau. The pictures were crazy. It makes me think do I really want to see Auschwitz, when it's a death camp? Dachau was only a work camp and very few, compared to everywhere else, were killed.

Dachau had a well documented museum with pretty detailed boards in English and German. Lots of pictures, pretty horrofic ones too. The focus was mainly on Dachau as a political prison, instead of a SS-work/tortue camp, but the last part of the exhibit did try to address this. PIctures can say somuch more than words. The crematoriums were disturbing and I walked though a gas chamber, that was supposedly never used. Anyway, I have to catch an early train tomorrow to Praha. I will try to update when I'm away. It's cheaper to e-mail than call anyway. Ta.

P.S. S-bahn is the tram system (surface rail). The U-bahn is the subway system. I think the H-bahn is for buses. all the bus stops have H's on them in a green and yellow circle. The auto-bahn are just normal highways with no speed limits. We were going 90mph and lotsd of poeple were passing us up. I hear epople go like 130-140mph on average and sometims you see a Porsche or something that streaks by. I've seen so many BMWs and Mercedes. I think that they only sell silver Mercedes here.

:: Jennifer 4/19/2003 03:45:00 PM [+] ::
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Yes, I know it's Friday, but I'm traveling so stuff it!

Traveling Thursday

1) McDonald's or Burger King? Hmm, McDonald's does the fake meat thing so much better.

2) U-Bahn or S-Bahn? S-Bahn, you get to see the city and it's faster than a bus.

3) Trainers or Docs? Trainers. My Docs, hurt my feet.

4) 4 or IV? Go Roman numericals. Rocky III plus Rocky V equals Rocky VIII. (I'm running out of ideas)

5) Do you need ten or can five work for a quiz day? 5, I'm taking my tired ass to bed.

:: Jennifer 4/17/2003 07:17:00 PM [+] ::
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Human Genome Complete at Last! Funny thing is that cabbages have a more complex genetic structure than humans... :-/

I'm back from Scotland and I loved it. I leave for Berlin on Wednesday :-O It's so close. I'm starting to worry a little, but I guess it's just nervousness. Don't drink the water! Don't drink the water! Game over man, game over. Stormy get a hold of yourself. I miss Sealab 2021.

So I went on a haunted ghost walk through a cemetary. What was I thinking? I don't even like graveyards in the day time, much less haunted graveyards at night! Anyway the tour, City of the Dead Tour was really good and I was pretty freaked out. I also went alone, although the group was large, like 50 people at least. I was number 69, so maybe they were more like 70 people on the tour. Anyway, freaky and nothing happened, I'm really glad that nothing did. :-)

Just puttered around on Sunday, wrote in a cafe for a while. I walked up the 287 steps up the Scott Monument and survived. it's not as bad as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. So in a nutshell, very relaxing, although my train was an hour late because of signalling problems north of Newcastle. :-(

I'm too lazy to write more so just ask to see the pictures when I come home. Loch Ness was cool, if not unimpressive, but the Scottish Highlands are soo pretty. Oh yeah, I hate BAGPIPES!

I didn't see Edinburgh Castle because it was charging too much to get in (£8.25) and I'm broke. These holidays are really expensive :-(

:: Jennifer 4/14/2003 11:28:00 AM [+] ::
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Edinburgh rocks, but it's really hilly. It hurts my legs. I went to all the free museums today. The National Gallery of Scotland was cool, but everything else was kind of lame, espeically the Dean's Museum. The second floor was closed off!!! Anyway, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery had the Lord Byron Exhibition for FREE. They were charging while it was in London. They also had more for the Scottish display.

The train ride was kind of long. I was in the smoking compartment :-( Anyway, I slept for most of the way because I on;y got 4 hours of sleep for 2 days and I got up at 6am this morning to catch my 8am train. The ride was really nice. I love the British countryside. The train goes right by the Scottish cliffs and it was so pretty to see the ocean. It was a lovely (non-raining) day. I think i could see the coast of France. Is that possible?

Edinburgh is an excellent small/large city. There are like 3 Pizza Huts in the centre of town, each a street apart. It's soo weird because it's not like Pizza Hut is good or anything, especially in Europe. Edinburgh is a manable size city. Lots of very hilly walking, like Italy, but worse. I'm going to be fit after my holiday, all the damn walking I get to do and the not eating because I don't know how to speak the language, any language :-(

I might teach English in Russia this summer, if I'm lucky. Bad thing, it's Ufa, near the Kazakstan border, in short, middle of nowhere Russia. Blah. What to do... But what an experience.

I love Europe and I'm already missing it. :-(

Well, since this is costing me £££ I better make it short. I'm off to Loch Ness and the Scottish Highlands tomorrow morning. I might go on a haunted ghost tour tomorrow night. I'm too knackered tonight to try to walk around haunted Edinburgh. Heh heh, Castle Rock Hostel is cool and it's right across the street from Edinburgh Castle. they're showing a movie tonight called Freeway. I though the lady said Three-way and I was like, they're showing porn? Whoa! It didn't help thatshe said it was a parody or Little Red Riding Hood. Hmm it still could be a porn movie...

Sleep is soo nice, since I have to get up early :-(

:: Jennifer 4/11/2003 02:50:00 PM [+] ::
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Ah yes, it's Thursday. That means it's:

Traveling Thursday

1) Shoe Size: 7.5 US; 5 UK

2) Drink the water or go bottle? Bottled, especially where I'm headed, but I always was one to favour water in plastic containers.

3) Posting daily quizzes like these later than the day advertised, Lazy or Lame? Both, but definately Lame.

4) Eating foreign food that can make you ill or eating boring MacDonald's? Do I want my head in a hostel toliet? Emm no. MacDonald's it is...

5) Motrin or Tylenol (No, Vicodin and Valium are not an option)? Motrin.

6) Train: Facing or not facing? Facing, I'll get sick riding backwards.

7) Window or aisle? Aisle, quicker escape route and you don't have to wake the fat guy to go to the toliet.

8) Take or leave Wishbone whilst in Europe? I forgot him for Andorra, but will take him with me this time.

9) Do you think I'm going to die whilst in Europe? Emm...no, but to say yes is tempting fate.

10) Thought provoking question: If I die, what possession of mine would you want?

:: Jennifer 4/10/2003 05:37:00 AM [+] ::
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Blah, I'm staring to realise that I really don't have that much time left here :-( Also, I wish I could spend more time in Scotland and Central Europe. I don't think I'll see much in Prague because I'll only be there for like 2 days and on those two days is the Easter Holiday (Sunday and Monday) where lot sof things are closed, and if they aren't closed for Easter Monday the museums will be closed because it's Monday :-(

Anyway, I think I got my classes sorted out for next year. I really hope I can get into the Utopias English class. I don't think there's another class that I find interesting enough to take. I might take religion with G-Dawg though...

:-O Panic time. I got an e-mail from my Senior Research Seminar Professor, who told me that I should be thinking of a topic for my research paper before I get back to Swat. I have no clue what I want to write about. It's so crazy. He advised me to contact Judson ::sigh:: or Weinberg to discuss possible topics. In short, Im screwed.

Dude, I leave for Scotland tomorrow! :-O

:: Jennifer 4/10/2003 05:22:00 AM [+] ::
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I'm getting ready for my weekend in Scotland and then my 11 day trip across Central Europe. Dude, this weekend I'll be in Edinburgh for 3 days, with one of those days to be a trip into the highlands. Then next wednesday I'm off to Berlin for 2 days, Nuremberg for 2, then Prague, Vienna for 2 days each, one day in Bratislava, and 3 days in Budapest. Oh yeah, and I'm doing this all Alone... WOW! Fun fun. I'll be flying to Berlin and out of Budapest, but to get around I'll be on trains for a long time. I hope that I will be able to see things in Prague since I'm going over Easter weekened. :-/ Wish me luck and pray I don't die.

Oh just in case your geography is not up to scratch, Berlin and Nuremberg are in Germany, Prague (Praha) in the Czech Republic, Vienna (Wein) in Austria, Bratislava in Slovak Republic (Slovakia), and Budapest in Hungary. I'd considered making a run to Zurich, Switzerland, but it's not worth the time and I don't have the money, I guess I'll go back to Switzerland to go skiing or something.

Umm other than making travel plans, (this trip is costing me $1000 without food already), I'm not doing much. Just cooking for the girls in flat 19, else they'd starve. Also have to plan my trips to Paris (It;'s pretty much planned out), Ireland (Cork and Dublin), and Amsterdam (Maybe). Well, if I survive everything and don't go totally broke, I'll see you when I fly home Sunday, May 25th at 10:03pm CST.

GARG! There's so much to do. I need to register for classes at Swat and figure out what to see in these places. Woe is my life. ;-)

:: Jennifer 4/09/2003 04:24:00 PM [+] ::
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So much to tell. Major update tomorrow.

:: Jennifer 4/08/2003 05:58:00 PM [+] ::
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Star Trek Meets Jane Austen

Arg! It's been a hell of a week, but now it's over. I got all my papers in, albeit late, but it's done :-) Super happy.

Anyway, what's been happening during my blog abscence:

The biggest news is that I stayed up 44 and a half hours straight from 6am Wednesday morning to 2.30am Saturday. Yeah, i think that's right. It's hard to count. but anyway, I survived with no bad effects, so that's good. It's really quite easy after the 20th hour. Your body just gives up and says ok, I'll stay up. But, you cn't blink for too long or you fall alseep. No joke. I fell alseep or passed out in the shower while rinsing my hair for a good 10 second. It was a very weird experience.

On Saturday I slept for 13 hours, woke up at 3.30pm and then did my laundry which i hadn't done in about 20 days. I still didn't find my missing sock :-( I think it's gone. My llaundry took a long time, but the only thing I hate about doing laundry is that once it's all clean, you don't want to dirty any of your clothes. I love clean laundry.

Then Sunday, I met up woth Yelle and we went to Kew Gardens which was pretty cool, but to be honest it's just a bunch of plants. Greenhouses are greenhouses. Also it was cold and rainy so everytime we stepped into a tropical greenhouse, our glasses fogged up. I did enjoy the orchids and the making of beer exhibit was interesting, if not a bit weird. They havd onions and potatoes strewn about and they were sprouting liek Onionmon. Freaky. I did learn what hops look like and that it takes 4 tonnes of wood to make 1 tonne of charcoal.

After Kew, we went to The Boat Race. It's essentially a 4 mile crew race between Cambridge and Oxford. It's a BIG DEAL here. It was covered by 2 helicopters and shown on 2 telly channels around the world. Anyway, not wanting to walk 3 miles from Kew to go to the race, we caught the Tube to Stamford Brook and watched from there with a jillion other people. The Boat Race is just a big party. People come hours ahead and party. Most didn't care a rat's ass about the race, and I think Yelle and I were the only ones who were watching and not drinking or rolling a joint. It was very crowded, smokey, and lots of pissed people. There were lot so fo people sitting in trees and it looked like some guys were sitting on top of this 10 ft hedge. A really drunk guy climbed this light pole and started to swing from the top with people trowing stuff at him. He fell, but I didn't get to see that. I just saw an empty shaking light pole, where the guy was earlier. Now, I understand why the people in New Orleans grease the poles. The race as lame and Oxford won, but the bright part for me was meeting these really nice South African Guys, who were laughing at us because Yelle wanted to get up near the wayy to see the race. Well, unfortunately there were a groupd of drunks sitting on the wall that have been there for a long time. teh Africans guys offered to push them into the river for us for money. They were cute. There was a tall blonde Germanic one with glasses and one with short borwn hair and a portable telly. The one with a telly had a nice voice. Yum! Anyway, they were older like approaching or past 30s, but you know me. I like older guys. I wish we could have spent more time with them, but not in the mood to get pissed and pulled, but in retrospect, it would have made an interesting story.

The funniest thing that almost happened was after the race. We were trying to find a way to get back to the road and there were these big 10 ft headges that made abarrier from the banks of the Thames from the road. Anyway, we thought were could cut through the hedges because we saw a lot of people coming in and out of the hedges. Well, we walked over there and then I stopped because i realised that all the people coming out were guys and they they weren't going through the hedge, but a few feet in and stopping. Then it hit me. They're peeing!!! I stopped around and noticed that in this 10 ft long section of hedge there were like 50 guys in the bushes peeing. I stopped and I was like, come on Yelle, let's go around. She was still walking towards the bushes and was about to walk into the bushes, when I grabbed her arm and was like, that's not an exit. So we walked away from the hedge and then I asked Yell if she knew what was going on in those bushes. She ddn't have a clue, so i told her and she kind of freaked out. In retrospect it woudl have been funny to see Yelle walk into a hedge full of drunk guys relieving themselves. What a Kodak moment.

So then we came back to my flat and i cooked dinner. I made the best Salmon ever. I also did a good job witht he broccoli, but I think I'm on a sugar kick becasue I've been adding brown sugar to everything I cook. It's so weird. MMmm Viennetta is brilliant! Anyway, we watched one episode of Daria and then Yelle went back to Cambridge.

I went to bed at 1am or so after talking to Anna, Trisha, Jo and Mary. Good sleep :-)

Woken up at 10am by the cleaning who brought a package for me. I got mail :-) Terri sent me Jelly Beans for Easter. WOO HOO :-) Thank you very much. I'll be sending postcards from my travels.

Oh yeah. Danielle made it to the Cambridge train station without getting lost on Sunday. That's a first. I'm very proud of her. It only took like 5 times to get it right ;-)

About my travels. Hopefully I can get my act together and book my flights and stuff. In about a week I plan to go to:
Vienna, Austria (2 days), Bratislava, Slovak republic (2 days), Budapest, Hungary (2 days), Prague, Czeh Republic (2 days), and Germany for 4 days, 2 in Berlin and maybe 2 with my Dad. Busy week. I'm also planning to go to Scotland, Edinburgh maybe Glasgow and Canterbury and Dover. Also going to Ireland, 2 days in Dublin and 2 days in Cork with Danielle. I also am going to Paris/Versailles for 3/4 dyas the week before I come back. I plan to fly home Sunday, 25th of May. I will also try to fit in a trip to Bath to see T-sa and a trip to the Cotswald. I postponed my return by a week because I realised I'm going to miss this place.

Amidst all this traveling, I have 2 exams, 1 or 2 paper(s), and I still have to see all the London sites. It's a very busy money and a half for me.

Well, I better start making these reservations and then I might go to the library to see a Cary Grant film before cooking dinner for Flat 19. The menu for tonight is Fettuccine Alfredo with Broccoli. Yum.

:: Jennifer 4/07/2003 06:46:00 AM [+] ::
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Here's some reading. You know You UT people. Why aren't you talking about the Final Four?!?!?!?!? Dude, BOTH of you're team are in the Final Four, but then again who gives a damn about Basketball. It would be super cool to bring home a douhble victory, but the Lady Longhorns are playing UCONN. Sorry guys, one trophy might be all you're getting.

Bill Gates and Google/Blogger?!?!?!?!

If Hannibal Lecter was a dinosaur

Tick Tock...It's a plant's clock!

Cars of the Future. Freaking Awesome Shit!

Cell Phone History

For Kelsie

You might as well name your kids Petrol and Levis

I think i need a new computer. Don't you?

Watch out for SARS

:: Jennifer 4/03/2003 11:04:00 AM [+] ::
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No, I'm not dead, just extremely fucking busy. I had 2 papers and exam this week. Well, 2 papers are going in 2 days late. I finshed 2 paper. My film paper got in on time though :-) On a related note, my sleep patterns have suited 3 different time zones. At the beginning of the week I was on Texas sleep pattern, then mid-week I changed to Thailand, and last night finally returned to old Greenwich mean time. I also almost pulled an all night, but it was 23 and a half hours from Midnight to 1130pm the next day. that was 2 days ago I did that. The days all blend together, but for the last 3 days I've been awake to see sunrise around 630 in the morning. It's pretty, but I'd rather be asleep.

Wasting time wise, I made meatloaf for the first time and it was pretty damn good. Don't ask me how I knew how to do it because i only had it once before and my Dad cooked and it tasted like crap. I think it's instinctual or something. I'm getting way too maternal here. I need babies. Dude, so when I come back this summer, I want to cook for you guys. Will you be my dinner guests a lot? I love cooking and I cook for 4 naturally, but ti's not a problem to cook for more. As long as you don't bring extra uninvited guests (sean dozier). Anyway, let me know. I want to cook for you! Oh i didn't eat the meatloaf by myself, Trisha and Laurel came over. they liked it too, so i'm not hallucinating about that. I do start to hallucinate and talk to myself a lot when I'm tired. it's scary because i also see like roaches running across my floor or desk. it's weird. I haven't seen a roach in the dorm yet. That's pretty good considering we live like slobs.

I had some whacked out dreams while i haven't been sleeping. It makes sense somehow. So expect a nice long update after the weekend or tomorrow. I still have another paper to write. Wish me luck.

Oh yeah. I've decided to call myself Elizabeth just to confuse the Freshmen next year. I'm going to use that name in my non-history classes, where people don't know me. I better get use to it. Besides Ricky calls himself Dax... I'll make the professor learn it. :evil laugh: but not Judson. He's coming back next year! I forgot how much i liked him. Still got the silly grin. LOL I'm going to minor in Judson. I plan to take his Sex class and Fascist Europe seminar. Yea, Sex and Nazis! Shut up Ricky!

:: Jennifer 4/03/2003 09:21:00 AM [+] ::
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