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  <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 03:33:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Busy bee = me</title>
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  <description>This term is a maelstrom of craziness.  I turned 21 just 2 days ago and took my first trip into the Winco Beer Closet today... it didn&apos;t have as much as I thought it would... kinda like the magical fairy-tale land where all of your missing socks go in the drier...&lt;br /&gt;I am also working on becoming a producer for my friends&apos; show on KBVR 88.7fm Corvallis Sunday mornings.  Can you believe it?  Me, on the radio.  Haha.&lt;br /&gt;The time came last Tuesday (a week ago... can&apos;t believe it&apos;s already gone by so fast) to say our goodbyes to Ginger.  She was a great dog and I couldn&apos;t have wished for her to have been any different.  My standards are set pretty high now, and even my cute little bunny, Matilda, can&apos;t come close.  She was like a sister, and led a full long life.  There aren&apos;t many regrets, mostly just that I wish I would&apos;ve spent more time with her in the past few years, but when you&apos;re at college 100 miles away, it gets hard.  I&apos;m glad I got to spend Christmas and Spring Breaks with her.  I think she and I had something special.&lt;br /&gt;I am also swamped with midterms and group projects this term.  I don&apos;t think I&apos;m going to take 17 credits ever again.&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m taking some classes this summer.  Drugs, Violence, and Society; Children and Youth with Special Needs; Lifetime Fitness lecture; Step Aerobics.  Should be fun.  And the best part is that I get two mini-summer vacations as well, so I can still have fun!&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;m also extremely happy with my new apartment; it&apos;s cozy... but so huge, it&apos;s a bit lonely.  I really appreciate it when people come to visit and they let me cook for them.  It&apos;s hard to cook for one... so I end up snacking or just forgetting to eat.  Hmmm.  Today&apos;s been a snacking day... and so has the rest of this week.  I need to go to the gym more often.  Anyway, lots of studying to get back to.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:06:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Moved</title>
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  <description>I&apos;m almost completely out of Kings Landing now.  Just have a few things I left behind for sake of saving time.  I&apos;ll just clean the place tomorrow and take the last stuff with me.  Hopefully I&apos;ll be able to turn the keys in on Monday.  I am so glad I have so many friends that love me that are willing to come and help me move, or at least relish in the new environment... :)  I realize I have a lot of stuff, but it&apos;s not my fault.  When something breaks, and the thing comes in packs of 4, or 10, or whatever, you get stuck with a lot of extras that you could end up using someday but haven&apos;t had to yet, so it seems silly moving it around when you&apos;re not using it.  Oh well.  It&apos;ll take another couple days to get everything unpacked and put into its place; one of the great many things about this new place is that there is a lot of closet space, so my junk kind of disappears once I get things situated.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went to see Grindhouse with Thomas tonight, but an hour into the first movie I had to leave; I was getting sick from all the blood and shooting, so I took his car and came back and put more things away to get my mind off of it.  I&apos;m gonna go pick him up from the theater soon, and ask him how the second feature turned out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&apos;s been a long day, filled with lots of pizza.  I have 6 slices of leftovers which will be perfect lunch this week with classes going on.  Oh yeah!  And now that I&apos;m basically on campus, I can sleep in another extra 15 minutes every day!  Yay.</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:39:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Moving</title>
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  <description>Yep, moving.  Out of this dump into a nice place just across the street from campus.  Horray!  Moving this Saturday, so I can definitely see the light at the end of this nasty, ant-infested tunnel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and I got a bunny.  Her name is Matilda.  She&apos;s a dwarf mix, and only about 8 weeks old.  So cute!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:28:46 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Because Carl did it for me...that&apos;s what she said.</title>
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  <description>1. I&apos;ll respond with something random about you.&lt;br /&gt;2. I&apos;ll challenge you to try something.&lt;br /&gt;3. I&apos;ll pick a colour that I associate with you.&lt;br /&gt;4. I&apos;ll tell you something I like about you.&lt;br /&gt;5. I&apos;ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you.&lt;br /&gt;6. I&apos;ll tell you what animal you remind me of.&lt;br /&gt;7. I&apos;ll ask you something I&apos;ve always wanted to ask you.&lt;br /&gt;8. If I do this for you, you must post this in your journal.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Spring Term schedule</title>
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  <description>Exciting... I almost feel like a business major... you&apos;ll see why.  Check it out:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Mondays &amp; Wednesdays&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EXSS 324 (Exercise Physiology), 2-4pm&lt;br /&gt;H 449 (Health Risk Communication), 4-5:30pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;Tuesdays &amp; Thursdays&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;H 320 (Intro to Human Disease), 8-9:30am&lt;br /&gt;H 220 (Intro to Epidemiology &amp; Health Data Analysis), 9:30-11am&lt;br /&gt;COMM 218 (Interpersonal Communication), 11am-12:30pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&apos;s it.  No class on Fridays... woo hoo! 16 credits, but so little in-class time, I&apos;m really excited.  Plus the professor for H320 is my boss for my internship, so that should be interesting, to say the least.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:16:54 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>&lt;table width=&quot;350&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#EEE9E9&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif&quot; style=&quot;color:black; font-size: 14pt;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;You Are Ready to Get Married&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor=&quot;#FFFAFA&quot;&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.yournewromance.com/areyoureadytogetmarriedquiz/ready-married.jpg&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; width=&quot;100&quot;&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#000000&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;ve done more than dream about the dress and the honeymoon&lt;br /&gt;In fact, you spend a good deal of your time thinking about what makes a relationship work&lt;br /&gt;And from your answers, it looks like you have the skills to say &quot;I Do&quot; and mean it&lt;br /&gt;You&apos;ve dated enough, learned your fair share, and you&apos;re ready to settle down.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ynr.blogthings.com/areyoureadytogetmarriedquiz/&quot;&gt;Are You Ready To Get Married?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sure hope someone will finally make it happen soon.... maybe it will.  I don&apos;t know, I&apos;m just too in love!</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 06:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>If only</title>
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  <description>If only this was how everyone would be.  I am tired of being afraid.  I want to know that everyone cares about something or someone.  I want the pain of one person to become the pain of all; the joy of one person to become the joy of all.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4&amp;mode=related&amp;search=&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4&amp;mode=related&amp;search=&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:00:13 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Okay fine, I haven&apos;t posted yet this year.  Hooray 2007.  I am busy with an internship and lots of classes with professors that load up the curriculum with reading.  Just a quick update on my life: &lt;br /&gt;* Thomas and I have been dating for 2 years now.&lt;br /&gt;* My roommate is moving in with  her boyfriend and his friends (they have a house) so I&apos;m gonna be all alone, and I&apos;ll be looking for a new place to move into around June.&lt;br /&gt;* My parents are gonna be moving to Arizona for my dad&apos;s job for 6-8 months, and I get to go down with them for 3-4 days (and Thomas gets to come, too) during Spring Break... and they&apos;re going to fly us down again for Christmas this year.  Cool.&lt;br /&gt;* Our apartment smells funny, just as a general rule, and for no particular reason.  I keep it clean, but it will always smell funny.  Not always a bad smell,  just a smell.  Ugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:28:04 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hussein faces the consequences of his actions</title>
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  <description>Saddam Hussein was executed Saturday morning (Dec. 30th) in Iraq.  Maybe 2006 wasn&apos;t so worthless after all.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:08:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>looking ahead, i know i&apos;ll be wishing i&apos;d done it differently</title>
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  <description>I get to register like a mad woman Wednesday night... then a thought hit me like a brick: what should I take?  Now, let&apos;s see... oh... oh no... this could be bad.  Technically, if I were to be on track to graduate June 2008, I will need to take 18+ credits next fall because of all the fall-only classes offered in the public health department.  Oh well, looks like I&apos;ll be sticking around for at least another term longer than I expected.  With any luck, I&apos;ll have a really kick-ass roommate by then....... &amp;lt;3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS- Just for credits in my major, I have already completed 82; I have at least 89 to go, not including a couple baccalaureate core courses I&apos;m sure I&apos;ve been forgetting about.  Maybe I won&apos;t go to nursing school... this stuff interests me enough, it&apos;s gonna take a long time anyway.  I love school, but I just wanna get out there and do something, you know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;:P</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:32:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>employed... yay!</title>
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  <description>I got my first job yesterday as an intern in the Public Health department.  I get to work with a PhD student on a study in partnership with the Good Samaritan hospital in town.  I&apos;ll be getting some money for fun, finally.  But I&apos;m way busy with tests and papers so I can&apos;t say much about it now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:12:23 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>Aw shit.  China and North Korea are at war... and N. Korea is planning a second nuclear test... on China&apos;s fucking ass. :P&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is it, we&apos;re all fucked.</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:54:39 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Where does one begin?</title>
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  <description>Corvallis exploded this week.  Although, to tell you the truth, I&apos;m a bit disappointed with the selection of activities for students this year during Connect week.  Not nearly as much free food or barbeques, or giveaways or contests to win stuff (you know, the useful kind of stuff).  Today was the first day of classes for me, but I have been here all summer so nothing is that surprising, except for the surprise I got Saturday night when I came back from the football game.  I have told the story to too many people already, &lt;a name=&quot;cutid1&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The guys (which now includes Preston, so that makes 4) did not want to get tickets with us a week ago to go to the football game.  We don&apos;t know why, probably because that meant they would have to leave their house.  So the rest of the week we [Thomas and I] are trying to get them to do things with us, but are repeatedly getting shut down.  We&apos;re getting a little fed up with it, but have other friends so the football game wasn&apos;t boring.  When we got back Saturday night after the game (about 11pm) Thomas unlocked the door - but the deadbolt was already unlocked.  I know for a fact that I lock the deadbolt whenever I&apos;m gone more than like 5 minutes.  I saw that the fan in my window (because it was hot that day) was pointing the other direction, and my curtains were messed up.  I tend to be fairly tidy, if not a little anal about keeping things orderly, but when something is off just enough, I know someone else was responsible for it.  The strange thing is that Jessica was gone for the weekend at the beach.  Only Thomas, Jessica and I have keys to our apartment.  The couch cushions were messed up, there was a piece of Canadian bacon on the floor... then we noticed that there was a pizza box and some cups from Pizza Pipeline in the garbage - when I had just taken out the garbage before the game.  Someone had broken into our apartment and ordered pizza  ---- the guys!!!  I was so furious that they thought I wouldn&apos;t mind if they broke in &lt;i&gt;through my bedroom window&lt;/i&gt;.  Aparently, after Jessica got back Sunday morning-ish, she told me that when they called her while she was on her retreat, she said that they could come over to our apartment to watch the football game (the one for which they refused to get tickets with us) as long as they called &lt;b&gt;me&lt;/b&gt; to make sure it was okay.  Neither Thomas nor I were contacted at all.  Nothing, not even a text message or a missed call.  I thought we were friends, but then they act like they couldn&apos;t even call us to let them in.  Hell, if they had called, Thomas and I would&apos;ve left the game to watch it at the apartment with them.  It wouldn&apos;t have been that big of a deal, but the fact that they didn&apos;t even try hurt our feelings a lot.  Jessica talked with Sam, and I talked with the rest, for the most part, and I think they understand that Thomas and I want to be their friends and we&apos;re only a phonecall away.  They just need to call us and we&apos;ll be there for them.  Technically, what they did was illegal (a felony, actually).  But if they think they can get away with it again, they are wrong.  Yesterday I went to the craft store with Thomas and bought a dowel to put in my window so no one can sneak in anymore.  I feel foolish for leaving my window open, but they could&apos;ve hopped the roof and dropped down on the back deck to open the back door like they did before when Jessica had forgotten her keys. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I&apos;ll probably end up looking for a one-bedroom apartment to live in for next year; I hope I can right all these wrongs between myself and the guys (mostly Sam) or else I will have to look a little faster.  Hopefully I won&apos;t have to live alone for too long...Thomas and I are celebrating 20 months of dating tomorrow.  I can&apos;t believe it hasn&apos;t been longer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am taking 15 credits this term, but I am done every day at 2pm, so I&apos;m applying to get a job as an intern at the Benton County Health Department.  It&apos;d be a pretty sweet job, if I can land it.  If I can&apos;t, it&apos;ll be one easy term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:37:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Send me a fish, I&apos;ll end its life / I had my Cake and ate it, too</title>
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  <description>I am cursed when it comes to keeping fish.  But it might not be entirely my fault, since I buy them at Petco (almost typed &quot;WinCo&quot;... I bet they&apos;d have good deals, but just as crumby of a selection).  It started out like this:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Large tank: 3 tetras, 1 dwarf african aquatic frog, &amp; 1 spotted cory&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Small tank: 1 male betta, &amp; 1 spotted cory&lt;br /&gt;Here&apos;s what I have as of tonight:&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Large tank: 2 tetras, 2 spotted cories&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt; Small tank:... what small tank? :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So yeah... things like to die.  I think I&apos;m much better with mammals, so when all of these fish are gone, I&apos;ll just wait to get a dog or rabbit again or something.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went with some friends to the Oregon State Fair yesterday to see The Decemberists, Violent Femmes, and Cake.  &lt;br /&gt;* &lt;b&gt;The Decemberists&lt;/b&gt; were amazing and funny.  They are horrible at the inter-song banter and know it, so it just made them more human.  They all look just like regular Joe Shmoes but are actually pretty talented because they play together in a way that you can&apos;t imagine the song being the same without one of the parts.&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;b&gt;Violent Femmes&lt;/b&gt; would have been better if their speakers had actually blown out.  At one point the volume was so loud that the bassist&apos;s amplifier wasn&apos;t even registering a tone, just growling loudness.  When Thomas and I left the room to get a drink of water, I could only hear him if I plugged my ears - that&apos;s how ridiculously loud they were.  They could&apos;ve been the best band I&apos;d ever seen, but if their volume would&apos;ve been that loud, I would&apos;ve hated the concert.  A letdown.&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;b&gt;Cake&lt;/b&gt; was blindingly awesome.  The way the singer stands when he&apos;s just talking reminds me of Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.  The guitars are clean and wonderful.  The drums are defined and smooth.  The bass is thick and powerful.  The trumpet is appropriate and melodic.  Everything fits into place.  I was trying to decide what kind of genre to classify Cake, but just gave up and have pledged to call them Cake, and Cake only.  They were funny and they got the crowd involved by making us sing with them, which is easy because their songs don&apos;t have a difficult melody.  Even Thomas was singing along - I love to see it happen, because he&apos;s not usually confident about it, but he was smiling the entire time. It was a good day.  I&apos;m glad I went, and I&apos;ll definitely see Cake again when they come to Portland Metro area again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:33:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Dream</title>
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  <description>I also had another weird dream, like I normally do, if I dream at all, last night.  I woke up, for some strange reason, having a crush on a young Alec Baldwin...... I know, weird.  I was like, a young actress, and he was giving me tips, and he ended up falling for me, and I for him.  He acted more like Gerard Butler though, so I think I really fell in love with &lt;i&gt;him&lt;/i&gt;, but he looked like Alec.  Weird.  There was also cookie-stealing-from-a-refrigerator involved, and hiding behind some cabinets in the basement of a church whilst Sunday school kids go by.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I love Thomas, but who is this soul that keeps popping up in my dream that I can&apos;t get out of my head?</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:25:59 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>it&apos;s been a while</title>
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  <description>I got fish.  A betta and a spotted cory are in my 2-gallon tank on my desk; three serpae tetra, an african dwarf frog, and another spotted cory in my 5-gallon tank on my dresser.  None of them have names, but the tetra look like they&apos;re hiccuping when they swim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I applied for a couple jobs here in town but no one has called me back yet.  I really need some more fun money, because I have some concerts coming up that I&apos;m going to, and I need to pay people back for tickets.  I saw Brand New on the 12th of July in Portland and it was okay, but the other show I saw two years ago was way better.  I am going to see Cake at the state fair on the 26th of this month, and maybe see Muse in Portland in early October.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am taking a couple classes, one of them is Statistics for morons, and the other is Body Sculpting.  I like both of them because I have a lot of free time; I especially like them because I can do basically whatever I want whenever I want and get credit for it.  I&apos;m not losing any weight exercising, but I&apos;m getting muscles I haven&apos;t seen in a long time in my legs and butt... it rocks.  And speaking of rocks, my abs are almost as hard as one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My days go by so slowly until about 5 or 6, when Jess gets back from her day on campus; then before you know it, it&apos;s 8:30, 10:00, 12:30 at night, and I rush to bed so I don&apos;t sleep through class in the morning.  I think I&apos;m gonna go watch a movie... Phantom of the Opera also rocks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2006 00:42:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>new apartment</title>
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  <description>We finally got a new apartment and we&apos;ve been moving everything like mad.  Right now I&apos;m sitting on my floor with a Subway sandwich sitting in front of me.  The two things left in my room are my bed and my dresser... everything else is just mish-mashed junk strewn about my floor.  Gotta tell ya, being excited about moving makes the whole process so much easier than when you&apos;re tired and cranky and think it&apos;s all just too much work.... Thomas....  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2006 22:07:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Rejection never felt so good</title>
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  <description>I finally got my OHSU letter today.  Rejection.  But now I get to be in Corvallis for another two years and get a degree.  Maybe after that I&apos;ll do an accelerated nursing program to get a BSN for one more year.  It would be the same amount of time and junk... but anyway, I&apos;m happy. :) Things were gonna work out either way, but I&apos;m glad I get to be around friends for 2 more years before going back to Portland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS- and I get to get a new apartment with Jess again!  Yay!  No more train, no more Althea!! :D</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2006 22:29:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>I too had a dream, Sean</title>
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  <description>Things went wrong, something happened; I don’t remember what.  Things needed to change, so I went back.  Went back all the way to the beginning to rip out those pages.  When I got there, it took me a while to realize how many pages I actually ripped out; all that was left was the binding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My life was different before.  It was my life as I remember it today, the way my memories tell me how it has been.  But to change this one thing and not change all the rest was in impossibility, one I did not think of before returning.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the re-lived past, the one I altered having moved through life, Thomas and I were only beginning a friendship.  He had a life of his own, but no girlfriend.  I thought we were going to get together soon and that all my movement had done was shift the date later in life.  I saw Matt (my old boyfriend from highschool who used to be my best friend).  He looked good and we were getting along.  For some reason I went to a lingerie store earlier and so I had a cute red lacy camisole that he asked me to put on.  I was a little disturbed but I didn’t know what else to do and before I could think of something to say, I was already wearing it and letting our lips dance.  When I closed my eyes, I was in the present, my real life.  I opened them, expecting Thomas.  Those eyes were Matt’s; I pulled away abruptly and tried to play it off as a joke until I could figure out what was going on.  After some things I don’t remember very well, I ran into my cousin, Heather; I knew somehow she was the one person I could go to for help.  She could tell me the truth.  I asked her, “How long have Matt and I been friends?”  She said, “Heh, friends?  You guys have been seriously dating for 6 or 7 years, since your senior prom.”  That’s when I realized the magnitude of my mistake.  The tears came, and so did the apologies, but damage was done and there was no going back.</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 01:08:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>okay so i got bored and it&apos;s 90 degrees outside</title>
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  <description>1.) Put your music player on shuffle&lt;br /&gt;2.) Press forward for each question&lt;br /&gt;3.) Use the song title as the answer&lt;br /&gt;4.) NO CHEATING!!! What you get is what you get!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.) How am I feeling today?&lt;br /&gt;Stupify - Disturbed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.) Where will I get married?&lt;br /&gt;Attention - The Academy Is&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3.) What is my best friend&apos;s theme song?&lt;br /&gt;Do What You Want To Do - Adema&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4.) What is/was high school like?&lt;br /&gt;Out From Under - Incubus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5.) What is the best thing about me?&lt;br /&gt;Holy Water - Soundgarden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6.) How is today going to be?&lt;br /&gt;Girls Don&apos;t Know - Keepsake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7.) What is in store for this weekend?&lt;br /&gt;The Zephyr Song - Red Hot Chili Peppers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8.) What song describes my parents?&lt;br /&gt;Why - Stabbing Westward&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9.) How is my life going?&lt;br /&gt;Giving It Away - Mae&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10.) What song will they play at my funeral?&lt;br /&gt;Spoonman - Soundgarden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11.) How does the world see me?&lt;br /&gt;Ruled By Secrecy - Muse&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12.) What do my friends really think of me?&lt;br /&gt;Follow You - The Tories&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13.) Do people secretly lust after me?&lt;br /&gt;Vent - Collective Soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14.) How can I make myself happy?&lt;br /&gt;Sleep - Keepsake (lol!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15.) What should I do with my life?&lt;br /&gt;Rock of Ages - Def Leppard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16.) Will I ever have children?&lt;br /&gt;Plush - Stone Temple Pilots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17.) What is some good advice?&lt;br /&gt;Crowded Head - Collective Soul (so true, look up the lyrics)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18.) What do I think my current theme song is?&lt;br /&gt;Heaven Beside You - Alice in Chains&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19.) What does everyone else think my current theme song is?&lt;br /&gt;In The End - Green Day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20.) What type of men/women do you like?&lt;br /&gt;Cabron - Red Hot Chili Peppers (lol, not really)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21.) Will you get married?&lt;br /&gt;The Colony Room - The Sea and Cake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22.) What should I do with my love life?&lt;br /&gt;The Beautiful Letdown - Switchfoot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24.) Where will you live?&lt;br /&gt;Dose - Filter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25.) What will your dying words be?&lt;br /&gt;No Attention - Soundgarden&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26.) Hows your day going so far?&lt;br /&gt;Where the Wild Things Are - Metallica&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27.) Hows your love life?&lt;br /&gt;Digital Bath - Deftones</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 00:29:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>So I was wrong</title>
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  <description>It appears that I assumed wrong in my assumptions that my parents would be moving to Arizona.  Seems like they decided to not go afterall, so I don&apos;t have to worry about living alone in Portland - ever.  But, still, I need to look for a new place in Corvallis in case I don&apos;t get into a nursing program this year.  Maybe a 3-bedroom place with Jess and Christy?  I want to be close to Thomas, and it seems like getting a place in that complex is the only way to do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 04:05:47 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>To Move or Not To Move?</title>
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  <description>So, this entry is based on the assumption that I won&apos;t get into OHSU&apos;s Nursing Program this year (which is still undecided, and I won&apos;t know until as late as June 1st).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a gorgeous apartment complex west of campus a few miles in the country on a hill that Thomas and two of his friends have been thinking about.  We visited them yesterday and I fell in love with them.  I realized all of the things I absolutely hated about my current apartment and how I wanted to move so badly.  But some of my thoughts seemed like I was just getting caught up in it too fast and wasn&apos;t thinking rationally... so I tried to convince myself by writing out a pros and cons list of moving there as opposed to staying in this apartment (if I am in Corvallis for another year).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cons:&lt;br /&gt;* More expensive - and by more expensive, I mean almost twice as much as I am paying now.&lt;br /&gt;* Farther away from campus - and by farther away, I mean like 3 miles as opposed to 3 blocks.&lt;br /&gt;* Smaller/shallower kitchen sink - making it difficult to wash large pots and pans which I am very fond of using in cooking&lt;br /&gt;* No garbage disposal - oh well, I guess I&apos;d have to just deal with gunk and throw it away myself&lt;br /&gt;* Electric space heaters - yes, my current apartment has them, too, and I hate them, but it seems like something I can&apos;t avoid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pros:&lt;br /&gt;* Living alone - don&apos;t get me wrong, I love Jessica but I think I need to try it on my own for a while.  I mean, I need to get used to it if my parents are going to move to Arizona for a few years, and moving to Portland and living alone would be a big shock (even though Hillsboro isn&apos;t all that intimidating).&lt;br /&gt;* Bike to class - yeah, more exercise, that&apos;s a huge plus; walking to class is lame, I barely walk like 2 or 3 miles a day.  This would be at least 7 miles of biking every day - awesome exercise!&lt;br /&gt;* Stay close to Thomas - yes, I have a soft spot for my boyfriend... give me a break.&lt;br /&gt;* Very new/nice - clean, everything is clean; no stains, no smell, no quirky things with the faucets or roudy bathroom fan... just a normal place to live&lt;br /&gt;* No Train - oh man... just think.......&lt;br /&gt;* No Althea - my manager is a bitch, really, she yelled at me for putting newspapers with the cardboard recycling, then stalked me down looking at the mailing address of the newspapers to bitch and Jessica and I... ugh.&lt;br /&gt;* Pool is heated, and has a hot tub - wow, swimming all year long, I&apos;d love that!!&lt;br /&gt;* Safe community - it&apos;s too often that I walk outside to go to class and see a dirty stepped-on condom or broken beer bottles on the sidewalk Friday mornings, or wake up to police lights flashing from across the tracks in the parking lot late Thursday nights arresting MIPs.  I&apos;m sick of worrying about whether or not I locked enough doors.&lt;br /&gt;* Garage - a safe place for the lezmobile; whether you think it&apos;s worth it or not, it&apos;s the car I will have for a few years at least, and I want to keep it nice.&lt;br /&gt;* Washer and Dryer - in my apartment complex, there are 6 washers and 6 dryers, they all cost $1.00 to run one load, which is at max like 3 pairs of jeans or a couple towels, or maybe my shirts and undies.  These are brand spanking new, huge, and I don&apos;t have to spend any more money than it costs to use warm water in the washer and buy my own detergent (which I already do).&lt;br /&gt;* Large water heater - yeah, we have the smallest water heater available in our apartment for two... the ones in these new apartments are &quot;standard&quot;... meaning they are at least twice the size of ours (which, by the way, lasts at most 20 minutes hot).&lt;br /&gt;* Patios/Decks - so our current place kind of has a patio, but Althea doesn&apos;t let us non-end-units put anything out except a doormat; I&apos;d love to keep a little grill out or some chairs for sitting to look at the view; speaking of which, the apartments west of campus have a spectacular view.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that about sums it up, and I&apos;ve basically made up my mind.  I just have to convince my parents that this is what I want to do, and what would be best for me.  When I get the news about OHSU, I&apos;ll know exactly where I&apos;m going.  When that happens, I&apos;ll also let my lj friends know, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2006 00:25:27 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I hate the AP Board, and I hate paperwork bullsh!t.  I just want to get into the nursing program, I don&apos;t want to track down these losers who mess up everything and take my money to send a little piece of paper with some ink on it to some other people.  So really, I pay them to print something off, stick it in an envelope, and send it to who I tell them to.  But no, they don&apos;t do the last part of it right.  The stupid AP Board sent it to Ohio University... as if OHSU&apos;s address in Portland, Oregon (that I sent to them) was fake.  URRRG.  If I don&apos;t get into OHSU, I know whose fault it is.... damn AP.  Good for &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mom&apos;s weekend coming up though... and don&apos;t forget May 6th is also Pet Day, and my birthday... so buy me a pet! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:56:07 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>meandering mumbling monotonous me</title>
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  <description>Wishing I had something to say, I can inform you that I did, in fact, pull off the 4.0 I was looking for this term.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of things go on in my life, like my sister getting married this summer, me continuing my struggle with OHSU to get accepted (they always want my transcripts, so greedy), my continuing affection for family, friends, and Thomas; yet nothing seems worthy of writing about.  No one ever comments on my entries anyway, so who am I really writing for?  My memory is a good enough journal for my own purposes... but the people that I&apos;m supposedly staying in touch with...do they read this?  I suspect they do, since mine are usually short... yet boring, so no way to count on it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a few weeks, I will be as old as my mom was when she got married.  A few weeks later,  I will turn 20.  Thomas turns 20 on Thursday... buying him a present today.  I fit in her wedding dress, and hopefully, if I don&apos;t grow too much, I will be wearing it at my wedding, too.  But hey, that&apos;s years from now.  But hey, not like I can&apos;t think about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the Daily Barometer, the OSU newspaper, every week they have a column called &apos;Yeas and Nays.&apos;  I was gonna try doing something like that here, but motivation leaked away before I could get a start.  Seems like a lot of what I do....like calling the dentist to get a new retainer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone should enjoy their break and stop reading this.  Get a tan, or go somewhere where you can get one.  I envy all of you who got to go out of state, at least for a while, then I will hate you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PS- Wondering whether I would be a better Campfire chick or Nature babe.</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:43:08 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>So it&apos;s almost been a month; I feel kind of foolish about that.  Anyway, things have been going well; I anticipate a 4.0 this term, or maybe an A- somewhere.  Either way, this term was good.  I have two finals on Thursday this week, then three next week (the &lt;i&gt;real&lt;/i&gt; finals week).  I&apos;ve been anxious to get my summer staff application forms in the mail.  It&apos;s about time to start thinking about the summer.... wow.... that&apos;s cool.  I&apos;m also looking forward to hearing back from OHSU (in May, arrg) so I can start planning on where I will live next year, and what Thomas and I will do about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should get studying for that 35-point psychology final on Thursday.... bahhahaha... I&apos;m a hoot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-Karla-</description>
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