...and

2 zoner kilpper kort

2005-07-26T18:53:26Z

i was thinking about that bus card. a bus card with 4 clips that gave me the ride of my life then took it all away leaving me with nothing and everything. a tourist gave me the rest of that card when i first started working at the hostel. it had 4 clips left, and i was saving them. then i used 3 on kevin and i when i took him to the airport, and then the last for villi. that card was in my purse so it was everywhere that i was in the last completely insane 1.5 months. like everything was in fast-forward, but i didn't know where i was fast-forwarding to. amazing. it took 2 away, but left me with an unforgettable experience.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-07-25T16:44:00

2005-07-25T15:11:09Z

click here click there unclick doubleclick clickety click clack. plans are forever changing. up in the air right now. i'm not in the drama i'm outside. i'm totally open for suggestions and random crazy ideas. i'm gonna go somewhere soon. here we go.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-06-29T11:16:00

2005-06-29T09:35:37Z

i had a weird dream last night:
it was my first night living alone in my grandma's house which was decorated with antiques, old fashioned toys, dolls, and all the holiday decorations. all the holidays at once. christmas mixed with halloween and whatever. the lights were all low and i bumped into the christmas tree. there was a party next door and the people kept coming in my house to use the bathroom. so i got really pissed and screamed and kicked them all out. there was a few kids who i kicked out who were drunkenly mad. i thought they were still in the house trying to kill me. so i was collecting all possible weapons around the house and then i noticed i was bleeding everywhere cause i had cut myself with the knife by accident. (clumsy me) so then i was freaking out and took a shower trying to stop the bleeding. (wtf?) but it didn't work. so my towel was all bloody and i was running around the creepy house.
then i woke up in a sweat. but the worst part was that it was so realistic. usually when i dream, the image is as if i am at an aerial view. but this was a normal viewpoint.
strange.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-06-06T13:43:00

2005-06-06T11:45:30Z

woohoo... new flat. furnished. and basically all my own. my cousin will come once in a while and have one room for an office. we're going to paint it this weekend.

sweet deal.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-06-01T15:36:00

2005-06-01T13:38:07Z

i'm moving into my new place tomorrow and don't have a computer there. =( so i can't be an internet addict anymore. totally disconnected.

starting again- this will be an adventure.

bike trip like a village girl

2005-05-30T10:38:22Z

on Bornholm for a few days

2005-05-29T13:37:15Z

i rode a bike 41 km in 1 day! considering i have only ridden a bike a handful of times since i was about 12 years old... that's pretty damn impressive. i rode with my friend Agi to the other side of the island to stay in my families summerhouse for a day. we took the southern route and took all day just riding and being annoying tourists looking through all the towns. at the beginning of the trip the weather wasn't that nice. we got rained on a little bit. but then at around 1 it was perfect warm sunshine. some parts of the trip was with a view of the yellow rasp fields on one side and the sea on the other. i don't know what rasp is in english. and other parts of the trip was through the lush forests. this island's not so bad after all.

the last few km was pure struggle. our asses hurt like nothing i have ever experienced but we managed to get there. it's a really cool little house- the whole back side as a giant window with a view of the rocky coast. we just relaxed outside with some beers and talked about guys and complained about our soar bums. the next day we made a huge breakfast then sunbathed the rest of the day like turtles on the giant rocks. we were planning to ride our bikes back to the other side of the island, but we couldn't even look at the bikes. so when a guy came to the house to cut the grass, he gave us a ride back. that was nice. it would have been cooler if i could say i rode a bike 82 km in 2 days, but i'm not that cool.

i came back to the island to take my final exam tomorrow. wish me luck! there's a group of irish kids being exchange students at my school for 2 months. they're in a different program that lasts longer than mine. so i went out with them friday and they are so much fun! probably the most friendly people i have ever met before. completely easy going. it sucks that finally after i am finished with school and moving away, some new kids come to freshen it up a bit. why couldn't they have come when i was so bored with this island a few months ago?

i feel like such a tourist now that i don't live here anymore... and it makes this island a much better place. i suppose the weather has something to do with that. Bornholm isn't sleeping anymore. there's cafes outside now and sooo many tourists. even the Bornholmish locals are acting like normal people. it's great to see this place alive. it makes me want to stay here for another month or so.

hooray for clean underwear!

2005-05-23T20:24:48Z

i saw the birdman yesterday in the park. he's a famous weird guy in copenhagen. he's unemployed so he can hang out with the birds all day and thinks he can talk to them (herons particular). so he goes all over copenhagen feeding these birds... they follow him around. strange. but surprisingly these birds really do love this guy. they sit so close and eat from his hand... maybe he really can talk to them. no, but seriously, it does take a special person to be like this guy. i was wondering if he ever thought when he was young, "hey, i wanna be a crazy-man-with-only-birds-as-friends when i grow up."

but i was actually really happy this guy was entertaining me as i laid in the grass enjoying the sunshine.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-22T01:45:00

2005-05-22T00:09:43Z

oh yeah, another exciting event of the day which i didn't mention. i became a non-vegetarian today and i'm sure all my friends are proud of me. thanks to mcdonald's mc-tasty-dead-cow-between-buns-sandwich. i forgot how good cows taste! but i think it will be a just a one time thing. i feel soooo guilty now.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-22T01:24:00

2005-05-21T23:52:51Z

saturday nights alone suck. just so you know. i was thinking that i wanted to stay home to study cause i have exams soon and haven't done anything about it, but all i'm doing is thinking about people who are out and how much fun i'm missing. therefore i got no work done anyways.

i check my horoscopes everyday on mymsn, for some stupid addictive reason which i don't know. it's surprising how super close they actually fit. i always thought they were just such general things that it could fit anyone, but these horoscope things aren't so general, they say specific things which happen... but really happen. and i'm starting to believe either
A. there just might be some truth behind that star stuff
B. i attract amazing coincidences
C. there's someone spying on me (give yourself up dude, i'm onto you)

one more thing.... HA HA HA.... Bush Poopies

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-20T14:42:00

2005-05-20T12:41:05Z

Lazy Line-Painter Jane.

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i never considered myself brutal. or a real rebel... or lazy (only sometimes). but sure.

i went to a really cool cafe with my friend yesterday. i can't remember the name. but there was doll heads for lamps and stuffed animals everywhere. my favorite was the man in the 70s track suit with a gazelle head who was riding the ostrich. the whole place was pretty grotesque actually. but i got the best sandwich ever! with fried goat cheese =D (and i remembered to eat it with a fork and knife.) then we ran into some people we knew, went to another cafe and had the biggest beer i've ever seen!!! i handled it nicely i must admit. we all sat outside and enjoyed the summer-esque weather. we were right under a heater lamp, so i really felt like i was getting a tan but wasn't. but i need one.

i jump-roped today. i think i might be addicted. then i had an interview and got a traineeship at the copenhagen city hostel! it's new, 5 stars, 1020 beds, designer furniture. all together now- oooooooooo aaaaaaaaaaaaahhh.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-19T15:06:00

2005-05-19T13:04:46Z

today's exciting. i got a call from a lady about a job so i have an interview tomorrow. =D and later today, i get to meet someone new- thats always adventurous!

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-17T19:28:00

2005-05-17T17:51:44Z

i was on the edge then i was just punched in the face. as i sunk down in the sofa, so did my stomach. blood rushing out of my face. blank face. blank eyes... blue and green. i looked out the window framing the smokestack in the square. too fast, too sudden. blank. all blank. my mind tripped and i didn't know how to say it or what to say. but i knew the truth this time. hands soothing over my back and i didn't know how i should react or how i wanted to react. the song suddenly fit the silent situation and i hated the cd player for that. thoughts clouded over. a few tears, but i didn't know exactly what for. a million questions sitting in my head, but only i had the unknown answers. it's all too much. too much.
who to tell? who to trust? how to react?? what's next?

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-17T13:07:00

2005-05-17T11:07:18Z

i got a new camera yesterday! pentax mx. this will be fun!

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-11T17:02:00

2005-05-11T15:14:59Z

the event for the day: visiting the visa office. HA. doesn't "visiting" imply that i am the guest? that was hardly the case. packed ina room with other foreigners like unwanted jews in a train-car. it smelled of sweat, perfume, hair products, and toilets. people just sitting with grimm looks on their faces from waiting while listening to babies cry and mumbling voices of mothers trying to hush them with foreign words. #316...waiting waiting my ticket said #405. after 3 hours i got to the counter and the lady couldn't help me so she gave me a phone number to call tomorrow. it's the ugliest place in copenhagen.

so when i got home i was jump roping to cheer myself up. or as brits say, skipping rope. it worked. i felt like i was a 5 year old girl at recess. =)

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-11T17:01:00

2005-05-11T15:00:14Z

cool bike, but not exactly functional. but if it were, i'd sport it.

I found it in Wallpaper Magazine.

2005-05-10T11:43:13Z

YELLOW is high visibility for a sunshine state - it's the first colour that the human eye registers.

PURPLE reigned supreme from the Roman Empire to Jimi Hendrix - now worn by the employees of Taco Bell.

ORANGE is renowned as an appetite stimulant. Elvis loved orange silk pyjamas, and orange togas were the garmet of choice for prostitutes in ancient Greece. Go figure.

RED signifies danger, dominance and decadence. Deep in the mists of time, red-bearded youths were sacrificed in Egypt to ensure an abundant harvest - sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind.

GREEN the healer: suicides dropped by 34% when London's Blackfriars Bridge was painted green. More to the point, green M&M's are said to be aphrodisiac - that's good enough for us.

BLUE Pantone Inc. says is the world's favourite colour. Seamen and airmen everywhere must be doing something right.

PINK when US Marines were retained for an hour in a pink detention room at a correctional center in Seattle, disturbances decreased to nil. We love the fact that eight out of ten Marines prefer pink.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-10T13:11:00

2005-05-10T11:23:44Z

the new Spoon album came out yesterday. i should get that. oh, no money. ok. maybe not. i got a letter from the Visa people (i've been waiting on my visa since last october)... and they are just now telling me that i have to have a bank statement showing that i have 50,000 krone in my account. umm...yeah sure. fuckers. of course i don't have that much money anymore if i've been living here for the past 8 months. anyways, now i need to come up with 50,000 krone. i feel like a desperate character in one of those suspense movies who's on the verge of doing something criminal. where's my red wig? Run, Katie Run!

now that i'm in copenhagen, i don't really know what to do with myself. i was/am excited and happy to be here, but i don't know where to begin. it's like i'm starting my life once again. but this time i'm not too sure how to start. it would of course be much easier to just go home and not have try hard. i consider it sometimes, then i always feel so guilty for having thought about that. i wouldn't let myself give up so easily.

i just go with the flow. how do i make the flow flow?

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-08T15:27:00

2005-05-08T13:39:32Z

it's a boring day, without a hangover this time and it's raining. ok, now it stopped. well, it just rained for 2 minutes anyways.

i'm in copenhagen now. last night i went out to Rust and saw a band play. i forgot the name of them though. nobody special, they were from canada. good music/beats, but terrible lyrics. one of their song titles was "mickey mouse motherfuckers"... that should say a lot. and when the guy was playing that song, he had mickey mouse ears on his head made from cardboard circles stuffed inside black pantyhose. yeah he was pathetic actually. but it was a fun party anyways.

i wanted to write, but i guess i'm not as inspired as i thought.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-05-01T21:50:00

2005-05-01T18:33:45Z

i just laughed at agne and my gum fell out of my mouth. gross. last night i went to a roof party. we had a barbeque on the roof of my friends appartment building. it was pretty cool. as danes say, det var meget hyggelig. i got my ticket to copenhagen yesterday, and it got me thinking about what it will be like to revamp my life for the millionth time. i like changes and adapt really well, but still it sucks a little to pack my life into one giant red suitcase. i miss all my things that i left at my moms house. and it sucks to keep having to buy things that i already own in the usa. of couse i have to, but just the fact that i already bought one and now i have to buy it again. i'm not complaining that i'm tired of moving cause i'm not at all. i love it.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-04-29T11:55:00

2005-04-29T10:12:52Z

coffee coffee coffee. it's a little stale. i need sugar. can i borrow some? the cleaning lady wants to vaccuum now. fuck off. the worste noise at the begining of the day. and he doesn't talk to me much. i'll see him. what difference does it make? they all seem the same.
off to the loppen market.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-04-27T20:26:00

2005-04-27T18:28:13Z

fucking awesome! i found out today that my cousin is opening the cafe on a boat at the new beach- amager strand, and i got an traineeship there for the summer! and also, i for sure have the flat for the summer too. the 2 things i was stressing all week. and so now, i'm stress free. well except i have the project still, but that's going good now too, so i'm actually motivated to work harder on it. and it's for certain i'm moving to copenhagen next week. and since i'm renting the flat from my cousin, and doing a traineeship for her, then i get free rent in august and september... =) so copenhagen here i come!!!

plaidcrayons @ 2005-04-27T11:46:00

2005-04-27T10:11:59Z

I woke up today after not having enough sleep, and felt like i was hit by a bus- body hurting everywhere. i forced myself to get up. made coffee to wake myself up, but i made it wrong and got watery coffee instead. i walked out of my house, with dandy warhols singing into my head, and the weather woke me up completely. the air was so warm and fresh. the past week, bornholm smelled like a giant turd cause the farmers had put shit on the fields, but today it was gone.
on my way to school, i saw an old woman struggling to slowly cross the street. when she reached the other side, she stopped and just stood there like she was tired of walking and needed a break. i thought that i will one day be like that and it made me smile to her as i laughed to myself. she saw me and smiled back and she started laughing outloud. probably laughing at herself for having to take a break after the dreadfully long walk across the street. she was so cute.

Subject: DARWIN AWARDS

2005-04-26T17:57:47Z

"Yes, it's that magical time of the year again when the Darwin Awards are bestowed, honoring the least Evolved among us. Here then, are the glorious winners."

Darwin Award Winners:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim during a holdup in Long Beach, California, would be robber James Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked..... And now, the honorable mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat cutting
machine and, after a little hopping around, submitted a claim to his
insurance company. The company expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for himself. He tried the machine and lost a finger. The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shoveled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman had taken the space, so he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone waiting there a free ride. He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 ! bill on the counter,
and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer, the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which the clerk promptly provided. The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer...$15.
(If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime committed?)

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher. Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied, "Yes, officer, that's her. That's the lady I stole the purse from."

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 a.m., flashed a gun, and demanded cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings, the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast. The man, frustrated, walked away.

A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER!
10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled sewage. A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake. The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges, saying that it was the best laugh he'd ever had.

plaidcrayons @ 2005-04-23T22:09:00

2005-04-23T20:16:05Z

yet again, sitting here in my most unfavorite situation: another lengthy project and allergies and peeing every 10 minutes because i drank too much coffee and tea today. procrastination kicks in as always. avoiding work by wasting many hours doing junk online that i usually save for the last resort when i'm desperately bored- like changing this page. i told myself yesterday that today i would get to school and work only on my project and be effective. yeah right.

i'm totally stressed out, but not about the project... about the end of the school year, my internship, and moving, and money, and a million other things. and i am realizing with each passing day how i need to get off this island asap before it ruins me permanently.

on a better note, i talked to my mom the other day for about 2 hours. it was so happy and sad at the same time. and i didn't cry. i'll probably go back for christmas, after more than a year. i think it won't feel like home anymore.