St. Patty's Pictures and Birthday Pictures

Hi,

I really want to get home today. I have a couple things left and then I'm off to get some shopping done, packing for a weekend excursion to a park to play with some bears, and enjoy a drink!

Anyways, here's some pictures that haven't made it to Facebook.

http://picasaweb.google.com/mloesel/StPattySDay - Fun and awkward. Oh, and drinking here and there.
http://picasaweb.google.com/mloesel/MyBirthday - Fun though none of you were able to make the short drive over. I understand.

And Lauren came up with the blog idea. I just enjoyed setting it up.

Mark

Creepy Men From Lives Past

Hey kids,

So sometimes in life you have experiences that are so perfect you need to tell all of your friends about it, but how can one do so? Well this is the dilemma I just faced until I remembered the group web blog. (Thank you, Mark. Your genius will not go unnoted. I will be nominating you for a Nobel Prize in Physics this year)...

I was driving home from campus today and thought I'd grab some lunch, and what do you know but right in front of me was The Burrito Joint - a hardly noticeable, less than notable 1 table restaurant on Packard (I swear this all was fate). So I walk in to get some food to fill me up and guess who the cashier was...

VERADAY!!!! (i have no idea how to spell his name for real... or pronounce it)

You'll all be happy to know that he's doing quite well, splitting his time between The Burrito Joint and whatever else it is that he does. And you'll also be happy to know that the burrito he gave me sucked. It was like T-Bell but bigger and soggier.

and he has braces.

i'm not kidding, all out braces, top and bottom, it's awesome. It has already made my day, maybe even my week.

Other than that moment of perfectness, life has been quite alright. Turns out grad school is only hard if you have PhD research to do, so no complaints there. And my 2 man Euro Trash Pop Dance band has been coming along quite swimmingly - our repertoir now includes originals such as "Tiger Dance" and "Sex on the Dance Floor" as well as a stunning cover of Gina G's "Ooh Ahh Just a Little Bit."

Now I see there have been a lot of posts, and frankly, I think there are too many back-posts to read. So sorry for all of the bad things that have happened and HOOORRAAAYYY!!! for all of the good things. I promise to actually read this thing and post on it from now on.

Farewell one and all! Hope things are going great. Now that 2:30 is approaching I have a premature birthday/binge drinking celebration to attend. I hope not to die.

SOAY!

It's Springtime...

Hello Friends...

A lot has been going on lately! We finally hit above 70 degrees for a day or two here in New York. I've already purchased more spring clothes and shoes than I can afford, so hopefully I can wear them consistantly soon!

I'm finally moving into a new apartment (well, finally going to live somewhere for longer than 3 months...). I'm moving out of Manhattan and into Astoria, Queens. It's a great area with a Beer Garden (which someone told was about the size of a football field or larger!! NYC kids, we GOTTA go....) and a fantastic park on the water over looking manhattan. The apartment is a three bedroom, but we will be using one of the bedrooms as a living room. I'm so excited! My parents will be out on friday to help me move and to visit since they haven't been here since i moved...

It's also nick's birthday coming up!!! the big 2-3! Hopefully we can celebrate all weekend long....so excited that Lo and Amy are coming out to play too. I'm hoping to be all unpacked and moved in so that I don't have to worry about that when they are here.

Another highlight of my week was shooting an "afterschool special"-like video that will be used at colleges around the country. They paid me $100 for about 15 minutes of work.....and it was HILARIOUS. These were SERIOUSLY some of my lines...

"I used to go out five nights a week, hooking up with different people. The next morning I’d wake up and be like, 'Who are you?' I got tired of it. Now I’m holding out for a real boyfriend."

and....

"There’s a reason they call the trek back to your room in last night’s clothes “the walk of shame.” From now on, when I have sex, it’s not going to be something I’m ashamed of doing."

haha, awesome! my life is so funny. :)

Hope you all are enjoying the semi-warm weather!

IM coimg to NYC!!!! APril 4th- April9th in the morning!!!

YAY!!!!

nothin else new here. Trisha came to visit this weekend...good times:)

Feminism, St. Patty's Day, and Mark

Can I just say that I love that this billboard just went up next to my place. haha, HOW redic is that!?!?! now, i KNOW leslie has some good ol social commentary to make on this, so i will just leave that to her..

hope everyone had great drunken st. patty's days!!! we celebrated here starting with green pancakes at my place (yum) and then literally covered the four corners of manhattan in search of good times (which we happened to find at all) Highlights include:

• Green pancakes (obvi)
• Listening to good ol Irish music at my place like Madonna and the first NOW CD:)
• The Domino's pizza guy doing a keg stand
• Our friend Lindy (who is disgustingly nice) getting in a fight and SPRAYING beer all over this 50 year old man
• Thinking it was a "good idea" to finish the night with a car bomb. yep, finish it did

Alrighty I'm going to bed since i just got home an hour ago (yep, 11pm). oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARK!!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Hey Everyone,

I'm off soon (I hope) and won't be online tomorrow so have fun, be safe, and get drunk. I expect pictures on the facebook and let everyone know when they're up. This is my social activities coordination at its best.

Personally, I'm off to Monterey which is south of here on the ocean. I'll be a block off the Pacific hanging out with Jonathan and some of his undergrad/childhood buddies. I've met almost all of them multiple times so it should be a good time. Oh, and Kerry's showing up so that'll be awkward. Yes, I'm still not happy with the current non-situation. But alcohol and very high-strung tension? Woo!

Oh, yes! In honor of you, my friends, I'm pulling out the Catch Phrase and introducing it this weekend. No, it won't be our exclusing room in Dominick's but it'll remind me of home, being A2.

Take care,

Mark

Hello strangers

Hey Friends,

First thing is first. HAPPY BIRTHDAY LESLIE!!!!!!!!!!

Now that i got that out of the way...OK I know, I know. i too have lacked on the blogging. but that all changes. TODAY! (and so i'll write a rediculously long post to make up)

So last I left off, I had just returned from my voyage to ann arbor. Since then a couple important (some fun, some not so fun) things have happened

Fun:)

• Hoboken St. Patty's Day: essentially Hobokonen, New Jersey celebrates St. Patty's day every year 2 weeks early. So yes, I was up at 7, drinking by 8:30 in Jersey, wearing all green. Amazing to say the least. It was so funny to see all these people in green, drunk of their asses, and it not even be st. patty's day. weeeeeeee.
• Went to see Phantom last thursday w/mr. blake. I was so excited to see it on broadway finally. funniest thing was that i had surprised him with tickets at like 7:53 and the show was at 8. good thing he lives half a block away from the theatre!
• I had my first client meeting at work 2 weeks ago. I was so nervous b/c i put the book together and got to speak and everything. And it was kind of a hilarious company to have my first meeting with. good times all around
• Boy Aaron came to visit for a short 30hours last weekend. tons of fun and i got a lil bit messy;) we also ran in central park and i discovered that i'm yet again, out of shape and out of breath. haha.

Not so fun:(

• Blake heard back from China again. They gave him what looks to be their final offer. Its a pretty good offer and so i have a feeling he might take it. i am of course, not the most excited about this, for selfish reasons. I think he's gonna have to make the decision in like the next week or two, so i'm getting really nervous. oh well, i guess we'll see what happens...
• Parents and I got in another big fight again. Same issues as always. However we talked again this past weekend and kinda patched things up, so again, i guess we'll see
• Work has been insanely busy...lots of hours. but as you can see by the timing of this blog, today is a rare exception (and delight!)

So yeah, that's that. Looking ahead, Blake's mom and sis are coming into town tomorrow. so since they can't know about me, i plan to secretly stalk them (with blake knowing of course). I'm thinking it'd be hilarious if on st. patty's day, our group (with our green matching t-shirts) tried to drunkenly stalk them! speaking of st. patty's day...CAN'T wait! its gonna start off at my place with green pancakes. weeeeeeee.

Other than that, i'm currently looking at different apartment buildings to possibly rent from with kyle. always good times.

Aight friends, i think that about wraps it up. whew. that was a long post.

Big 2-3

Happy Birthday Leslie!!

Its been a while

Hey kids!
Im ashamed to say that I have been forgetting to check the blog for a few weeks!! I agree, we must step it up:) Lo thanks for the shout out, call me and we will play, how about a movie during the week? Im actaully sick again! booo, but hopefully will get better after stayin in this weekend. I start training for a new job next week! Its testing 5-6 year olds in schools individually on their reading and speech skills. It pays $17 an hour! yea so im excited (too bad it only goes till the end of the school year). I'm also doing gymnastics bday parties all day saturday and sundays which is fun and exhausting at the same time (especially when i go out the night b4 I have to work with little kids all the next day). Recently Here are a few highlighs: (im stealing Lo's bullet format...cause im cool like that)

• went to see bodyworld2 at the science and industry museum where they have real cadvers plasticized and u can see their organs, muscles, bones, nerves.... (Very cool)
• Found out another highschool friend is engaged (crazy!)
• Realizing the drama of juggling boys is indeed fun ( yes quasi-slutty amy is back!)
• Missing my ex-boy a lot still, but realizing it is less painful if we dont contact eachother very much
• Completed my application to Northwestern! ---- its the only school around here that accepts late applications soooo if i dont get in ill just take some undergrad classes in the city next year and apply to tons of schools all over the country next year (exciting!)
• Just watched the move "Y Tu Mama Tambien" ... a mexican movie that is really good and i highly reccomend it (but dont watch it with ur parents.... sexual explict scenes...)
• found out the guy who ive been letting take me out a few times a week for the last month (Chris) had a girlfriend the whole time! (i found this funny... I know im weird... didnt really like him)
• umm and i have to work on st. patties:(... (total bummer)

Miss u all tons... it took me a while to scramble up a post, but hopefully will be doing it more often!

Happy Bday bre if u see this!

St. Patty's Day!!

ok guys! it's about that time of year.... any fun plans this year?

and new york kids, what are we doing? i mean, OBVIOUSLY, we are getting up early, but after that.... nick? maria? anyone?

ooo I'll blog too.

Mark - I have a question for you. Is it possible to set up the blog so that it alerts your e-mail address when there is a new post? Because I think that would be WONDERFUL. It'd be like Facebook telling you helpful things like "you've been tagged in a photo" or "so and so has written on your wall." I direct this question to you because you are savvy.

To Everyone Else (well I guess Mark can read the rest too) - Chicago is sort of warm today. This has made me happy. Unfortunately it is very rainy and I feel like I'm in Seattle hanging with Kurt Cobain and the grunge crew.

Highlights of my last week included:

• Going to a comedy show with Justin and 2 of our other friends where the theme was drinking. And it was 100% BYOB. So we all got drunk and laughed at the improv skits.
• Two birthday parties to attend on Saturday. The last one was a co-worker's and everyone got drunk and gossiped about people at work. I loved it. I even learned about a budding co-worker relationship that I'm totally not supposed to be privy to.
  
• Went on a double date with Steve and his boyfriend on Monday at a bowling alley. It was lovely because I love bowling (and $2 PBR).
• I rebelled on Wednesday and wore jeans to work. I figured...my director left the company, my boss was in training, and I, too had training so what the hell. Whenever people said "whoa, what up with the jeans" i said "I'm taking a PJD- personal jeans day." Yea. That's how I rock out in Corporate America - hardcore rebellious.
• I just got the new Nelly Furtado cd - Loose. FAN - TASTIC. Really. It's so good.
  

Call out to Devesh - Um. You are back from India. I didn't return your phone calls last week because I'm a total flake. I'm sorry. Try again. I'm ready to play.

Call out to Amy - Let's play soon.

Call out to everyone - Breanna's birthday is March 9th. Next Friday. You should all call/e-mail her a happy birthday. :) She never reads the blog so she'll be so surprised!

That is all. Work, Life and Love are all wonderful on my end. Hope you can all say the same!

-Lo