JKLM

I'm going to whine for a minute

2009-07-08T22:45:28Z

So. April of 2008, I got a panoramic x-ray of my mouth because I was worried about my wisdom teeth, and the dentist suggested that they would need to come out soon. He said that in a couple of years they might start hurting.
It took me two months before I could convince my parents that getting a *consult* with an oral surgeon was a good idea, and another month before I actually got the consult.
Through all of this, and the root canal I had in January of 2007, I attempted to convince my parents multiple times, maybe once a month or so, that I should have dental insurance.
Also, due to some screw ups on my mother's part when I was younger, I am relatively unable to hold or secure a job (she never allowed me to have a job until I got my second set of working papers and no longer needed her permission. No job, no experience. No experience, no job, not to mention I'm not used to having to work and do academia at the same time), so I can't exactly pay for insurance on my own.
Fast forward to yesterday morning. I woke up with my jaw in intense pain. I do have a history of clenching my teeth at night, figured that might be what it is. However, I wound up taking the day off because the pain was severe enough to affect my stomach and my mental capacities. I wound up going to UMass Health Services (uy, gotta love college/university doctors), where I was diagnosed with, well, clenching my teeth. The doctor prescribed cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant to take at bedtime. Kinda reminds me of the Hampshire doctors trying to prescribe me Valium for an upset stomach about six times.
I didn't actually take the cyclobenzaprine because I harbor a severe dislike for even slightly unnecessary medications, and I had a sneaking suspicion that that particular medication was more than slightly unnecessary. This theory was only furthered by the fact that the pain increased throughout the day. I began to believe that this pain had something to do with my wisdom teeth shifting, or with an infection, as the bottom of my jaw was swollen.
This morning, I wasn't in quite as much pain when I woke up. I actually went in to work today for about five hours, during the course of which I took six tabs of Ibuprofen (I usually take no more than two in four hours), and still wasn't feeling well enough to work.
After I went home, I got my dad to call the dentist's office (I could barely open my mouth to talk on the phone to him, let alone try to get them to understand me), and I got an appointment there. After waiting over half an hour after the scheduled time to actually get seen (typical, I know), I find out that yes, it is my wisdom teeth, and yes, it is an infection. Congrats, mom and dad, your refusal to let me get my wisdom teeth out because it costs a lot of money just cost you guys $70 extra ($60 for the emergency consult, $10 for the antibiotics, since I am allergic to penicillin and thus cannot get the Stop & Shop free antibiotics deal...not that I don't have my issues with the big "free antibiotics" sign and all that).
Just to add insult to injury, the clindamycin which I was prescribed absolutely must be taken every 6 hours. I need my 8 hours of sleep. I'm going to be even more grumpy than I am right now for the next couple weeks.
I called my dad to tell him that the dentist said that as long as I don't get my bottom wisdom teeth out, they will keep getting infected. He seemed pretty happy that the clindamycin would take care of the problem "for now."
So, still no dental insurance. My dad also wants me to go back to New York to get my wisdom teeth pulled, because apparently oral surgeons there are less expensive. I have no idea, but I really don't want to take more time off from work and lose more money.

So.
Does anybody know of any good oral surgeons in the area that aren't ludicrously expensive where I could get my wisdom teeth pulled?
Thanks.

Memetime!

2009-05-13T03:57:20Z

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3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
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7. In return, you must post this in your LJ. Or not.

Whoo!

2009-05-05T16:29:37Z

I have just about passed Div II - just need to edit my contract and then I'm good.

Anybody know of anywhere to get a 3 bedroom sublet for the summer? Been perusing craigslist, but that's about it...what other decent sites are out there?

Multicultural Perspectives?

2009-04-26T21:40:53Z

So, I'm less freaking out about things, and have a bit more confidence about being able to actually *do* all my final projects on time this semester, and even hand in my Division II Portfolio...I hope.
Question, though...What exactly *is* an MCP? How does one write one? o.@

Div III Questions, Summer, Etc.

2009-04-23T02:13:47Z

So, I've been attempting to finish up my Division II for next week, and I have a preliminary proposal for my Division III next year.
Problem is, it is nothing like what I really want to do.
I came to Hampshire more so I could study Social Entrepreneurship and learn Russian, not the other way around. I've been studying Russian literature now, and have a Division III lined up which would be in Translating Russian Futurist Poetry, essentially. However, the original reason (well, one of) that I came to Hampshire was to use the Division III as a semi-structured environment where I could open my own business. I have come to realize these past two years that business courses teach you nothing but common sense, and I already knew that you need no formal training to open a business, I just figured it might help. My issue now is - do I switch over my Division III to Social Entrepreneurship and attempt to actually open a business? I have had some positive response to this from other students, although I haven't asked any teachers yet - I don't plan on asking until I pass Division II (hopefully on May 4th if I get my shit together). The other option I have is to follow through with the Russian literature curriculum, do the Division III I don't really want to do, and attempt to open a business after college. Because I plan on opening a business in my life, it's just a matter of when.
Neither of these situations provide me with particularly viable options after college, so I'm really not sure which way to go. Would it even be possible to make that drastic of a change in my studies at this point? I have taken a single accounting course (Financial Accounting at Smith, which then overqualified me from taking Accounting at UMass...and the teachers I tried to learn from were less than wonderful), am currently taking Social Entrepreneurship, and plan on TAing Social Entrepreneurship next year, probably for the whole year.

On another note, perhaps an easier question:
Does anybody know of anywhere in the area that would be hiring for the summer? I have already picked up a Gamestop application and applications for CORC and Admissions at Hampshire, another friend mentioned ABT, and I have been in touch with a limited number of people about internships, but those seem to be going nowhere. I don't really know where else to look right now...also perusing craigslist....ergh.

Also, next year, I don't know how to manage classes.
I want to TA the Social Entrepreneurship course the entire year, and take Russian the entire year. If I wind up doing the translation Division III, I might want to take another Amherst course either semester (Strange Russian Writers in the fall and Poetic Translation in the spring). I would try to audit the fall course, but it gets so many applicants that I don't think the teacher would let me. As for the spring course, it would probably be useful for the work I'd be doing anyway so as not to completely destroy me.

*Sigh* And I have at least one thing each night to stay awake working on. This week is going to be crazy.

P.S. Burlesque show, back room of Saga, Next Thursday, April 30th. By that time I should be done with all my own work anyway...so it's my way of saying by to this year :P.

jk_lm @ 2009-04-11T16:29:00

2009-04-11T20:30:06Z

Anybody have any advice for passing Div II/writing a Div II retro, MCP, etc, etc?

Ick.

2009-03-14T08:50:41Z

I decided to start my laundry late tonight. There is only one working dryer in Enfield, which I managed to grab. I went back for my laundry an hour later (4:30AM) and looked inside, wondering where the fuck my stuff had gone off to; nobody had put it on a table, either. Turns out some douchebag had taken my stuff out of the dryer, while it was STILL FUCKING DRYING, shoved their own shit in, MOVED mine to the dryer that all it does is make your clothes smell funny (you know, the one which has "BROKEN" written in permanent marker on it), and then started both of them.
SO PEEVED.
Also going to be awake for at LEAST another half hour longer than I intended (which feels longer at 4:30 in the morning) because of Hampshire assholes. I have to wait for my stuff to, y'know, DRY now (I took their shit, which was dry, also only about three articles [I had a LOT of laundry], and put it on top of the dryer, then reclaimed the good dryer), and it's not like those dryers do what you ask them to. Why are Hampshire students such selfish pricks...
ROAR.
/whinebitchmoan
This story was too long to put on Twitter or as a Facebook status, so I brought it here. Oh jeez what's happened to me.

Eek

2009-02-23T22:11:53Z

Since I got my shiny new Blackberry, I have started using that as my primary source of internet, and have wandered away from other parts of the internet which are not so easily or conveniently accessible on it. Like Livejournal.
So, I haven't been reading or posting as much as usual. That's why.
I also don't think I have much else to say here for now. Wicked Faire was awesome. So was Arisia, for that matter, even though I was sick - I don't think I ever wrote much about Arisia here.
Life is strange and continues to be strange. Which is awesome.
/Random

I stole a meme

2009-01-08T04:57:02Z

I like this meme. I actually do think about this occasionally. But I think most of my answers fell somewhere in the "controversial" field.

"People often talk about what used to be controversial but is now perfectly acceptable, but rarely ever talk about what used to be socially acceptable and is now considered scandalous or unspeakably wrong: examples that come to mind include public killings (executions, gladiator fights, etc) and considering people to be property (slavery, man-owns-his-wife marriages).

Rules:

Name an uncontroversial, widely accepted current practice that you think might be considered immoral or outrageous in the future.

NOTE: Don't name something you already believe is immoral or outrageous, or is controversial. "I was right all along and will be vindicated" predictions are not allowed. The idea is to pick something that nearly everyone in our society thinks is ok or takes for granted that future societies will scratch their heads over."

jk_lm @ 2009-01-04T20:05:00

2009-01-05T01:06:16Z

I have been stressing out a large amount unnecessarily lately, and it has been making me feel like crap physically.
I suppose I should try to find my Prozac...heh.

Now it is allowed to be 2009

2009-01-03T18:31:06Z

Now that there has been sufficient contra dancing and chilling with cool people. And crashing on couches.
I <3 the Valley.

jk_lm @ 2009-01-01T16:35:00

2009-01-01T21:41:46Z

I am posting this from Becca's laptop (which is a mac...bleah!) - I am staying at her apartment, so this is fun. And quite a welcome change from being in New York.

Last night was not all too terrible. I was hoping for a moment of "well, if I hadn't gotten stuck in NY, then ____ wouldn't have happened," and that was that I spent New Year's with my neighbor :). No offense to said neighbor, I would have liked to be out of NY, but that was still quite fun =). Instead of contradancing in the new year like I had planned, I got to DDR in the new year...ha.

And I realized that break is over really soon. It hasn't felt like much of a break, honestly. Oh, well.

Semi-Incomprehensible End-of-year Rant

2008-12-30T06:58:04Z

The idea that "holy shit it's going to be a whole new year" hit me just as I was trying to go to sleep, and now I can't fall asleep.
I think it has something to do with trying to remember things, which I am bad at. I hate trying to remember things. It gives me a very unpleasant feeling in the pit of my stomach. I tried to think back to a year ago. I honest to goodness cannot remember where I stayed last December 31st. *That* is a very strange feeling. Shouldn't holidays and whatnot stand out a bit? Maybe I blocked it out...I know last year around this time was full of suck and fail. As for the year before that...I can't remember what I did my first year of college. I'm guessing I was back in New York and at a pathetic excuse for a party at the comic shop I used to work at or something.
I just looked over some of my entries from about a year ago and found absolutely nothing interesting. I am not surprised. I am a little surprised that *I* cannot understand half of what I wrote...(Apparently in one of my entries last January I noted that I should go contradancing at Greenfield. This amuses me. I believe I am going there at least for a little while this New Year's Eve.)
I also realized that I cannot remember my first year of college very well. Or much at all. Life for the past...two and a half? years has been entirely a blur. An awesome and exciting blur, but I'd like to not loose it all. I should start keeping a diary or something. (I know, I know, it's a bit late now...but some is better than none.)
I think time escaping me has something to do with the fact that the entirety of my life before college was the same damned thing over and over. Life before college for me sucked so much. But that is over now.
Time is a very strange thing. Everything feels like it was both a lifetime ago and a day ago at the same time.
Well, I do know that in the past year, I have had lots of fun and met lots of awesome people. I might have even gotten up the initiative to introduce myself...once? At least once, yes...
And all of the above lead me to trying to remember how I met people. I realized that I couldn't remember meeting Freya! That was also a very weird feeling. Most of the friends I have now I feel like I have known forever. I remember meeting maybe four people. (Damn, when did I get more than four friends?! You mean there are people that wouldn't rather me dead? Awesome! :D) I do remember that when I met Victoria, she was wearing a "Hugs Not Drugs" shirt, and I immediately knew I would like her.
Okay, friendslist. How did I meet all of you? =) :P

What is wrong with this picture

2008-12-29T15:00:42Z

First off, I just found this. http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/content/dontdivorce

What I was originally going to say was that my phone is now the only computerish device in this house that doesn't make me want to tear my hair out when I use it. My dad has a laptop and a PC, and they both suck. Maybe he will bring back his other (good) laptop from work today...hah.
Yes, I am slightly obsessed with the Blackberry. I will probably cease to be such in all of about two weeks.

jk_lm @ 2008-12-27T22:00:00

2008-12-28T03:01:51Z

I has a shiny new Blackberry phone!

And can't wait to get out of NY and back to MA.

That is all.

Don't think I ever did a thanksgiving post

2008-12-10T15:55:12Z

Hm. A lot has happened, but when I try to write about it, it doesn't sound very exciting.
Flew to VA that...Wednesday. Thursday I had turkey day dinner w/ gdparents' friends. There were lots of people, lots of dogs, lots of littluns, and deep fried turkey. Numnum.
Friday...I did...something. Hung around with folks, wound up seeing Twilight. Actually went to the mall for...about half an hour. Oh, and there was a second turkey dinner.
Flew back to NY on Saturday, saw a friend I hadn't seen for a couple years.
On Sunday, dad decided to leave early to escape the weather rather than the holiday traffic. We didn't succeed in escaping either.
Then I came back and had class for a week, yay!
Went to the Hampshire potluck, went to Haven, went to contra, went to the mall with Freya on her birthday, went to Repo (zomg that was awesome).
Finished that blasted paper, had the last damned blackboard post of the semester, and now have no more class meetings at Amherst. Only one left at Hampshire, and that's tomorrow, in which I have a presentation. x_x
Also I found out yesterday that one of my finals is due Monday. Joy.
Now I need to figure out what I'm doing over Xmas break. I do have places to stay in the valley (sweet!) but I need to figure out if/where I am working...

And, now that is is December, I don't feel like it's way too early to say - I am so excited for Arisia! :D (I swear, I've been looking forward to it all year...haha.)

Addendum: There is another weekend full of awesome, where I must pick only one awesome, in February (13-15). So far I know of Dance Flurry and Fetish Flea (between which, I think Dance Flurry wins), but I think somebody also said there's something else going on that weekend...damnit.

Too Much College

2008-12-07T22:24:07Z

Everything that's non-academic has been going abnormally wonderfully for me lately, whereas everything academic has been going abnormally horribly.
I will post more later - I realized I never did a Thanksgiving post, haha. But as for now - time is low. When did that happen? I'm only taking three classes, but...oh, right, I decided to have a social life this semester. That might have been a bad idea from an academic standpoint.

jk_lm @ 2008-12-01T23:36:00

2008-12-02T04:37:35Z

I have no time if I want to get all my work done.
And yet I continue to do things. For instance, I do plan on potentially getting to Haven tomorrow. And probably dancing on Friday. I know I'm going to the Hampshire potluck tomorrow and Repo on Saturday.
Edit: Apparently Haven is "meh". (Says Freya.)
How do I sleep?
I think I'm going to fail this semester on account of having a life.
Hopefully not, heh. Wednesday = work my fucking ass off day.

Addendum: Freya just said something about how I don't function like most other people. My brain makes different connections, she says. I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing - I'm not so sure she is either :P She says it's just "different," haha.

Found this in that "picturing food" community

2008-12-01T04:02:06Z

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1089160/A-feast-eyes-The-artist-turn-market-stall-masterpiece.html

It is full of awesome.

Addendum:
(11:03:25 PM) BejeweledCoho: Help me! I'm afraid of my own shadow. :( How do I go about conquering it?

Got this one from Flo - she's more unique than I am :P

2008-11-30T15:20:23Z

HowManyOfMe.com

There are
2
people with my name in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

I'm pretty sure there are a couple people in Germany or Russia with my name, though...haha.

Another meme. Apparently I am to post it as "Rock Is Dead" - alternately, "My Girl"

2008-11-24T23:10:41Z

One of those dumb music things. Alaina tagged me on Facebook. The answers entertained me to a large enough degree that I'll actually post it...I also got surprisingly fewer bad songs than I thought I would. I think I broke the "rules" with the last one ;P

1. Put your ~~iTunes~~ music player of choice on Shuffle.
2. Don't skip songs.
3. Answer the questions.
4. Add comments after each if you want.

If someone says, "Is this okay?" You say?
John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth
Sounds like something I would say.

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Rammstein - Wolt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen
Since I do not know what this means: Google translate says: "The Wolt your bed in flames Watch". Youtube says: "Do You Want To See The Bed In Flames?"
What a wonderful answer.

How do you feel today?
Depeche Mode - It's No Good
Iiiiinteresting

What is your life's purpose?
Randy Newman - Mr. President (Have Pity On The Working Man)
Heh, okay. I guess I can see that?

What is your motto?
The Dresden Dolls - Drunken Butterfly
Weird.

What do your friends think of you?
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
...aww =/

What do you think of your parents?
Prince - Purple Rain
o.@

What do you think about very often?
Spinal Tap - Hell Hole
I can see that...

What is 2 + 2?
Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams - Fumes
I think that's also oddly fitting...somehow my brain makes it work. I'm not sure how.

What do you think of your best friend?
The Dresden Dolls - Half Jack
I don't really have a "best" friend, but I can see how that would fit with...a large portion of my friends.

What do you think of the person you like?
Toto - Big Battle
...K then, Winamp.

What is your life story?
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
How true.

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
Hmm...

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
The Cruel Sea - Black Stick
Hnh. I suppose?

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Paramore - Fences
Hahaha, that's probably how I'd feel if I ever got married o.@

What will they play at your funeral?
Dobie Gray - Drift Away
Yeah.

What is your hobby/interest?
Fabulon - Love and Affection
Eh, could be? Amusing thought.

What is your biggest fear?
Hans Zimmer - Rain Main: Main Theme
I don't know what to say to that...

What is your biggest secret?
John Swihart - Suitwalk
Or to that. Besides, I don't really have secrets :P

What do you think of your friends?
Nintendo Smash Bros Kirby
...They are crazy and hectic a lot of the time, yes...And they do play a lot of video games.

What will you post this as?
Marily Manson - Rock is Dead
Errr....Alternately, Winamp? Okay, the next thing that came up was "My Girl" by the Temptations...

jk_lm @ 2008-11-20T06:31:00

2008-11-20T11:32:09Z

...To the extent that I have nightmares anymore, I think I just had one. This is peculiar and disconcerting.

Because I am a meme-whore

2008-11-15T00:00:35Z

"If you saw ME in a police car, what would you think I got arrested for? Answer me, then post to your own journal and see how many crimes you get accused of."

Birthday thoughts

2008-11-11T05:35:41Z

My mother called me today and I talked with her for about five minutes without wanting to strangle her. It was amazing. Of course, she f'ed that up when she called again later.
I have a disturbing amount of facebook wall posts from people I haven't talked to in a couple years. Eep.
About a half hour after I woke up, Victoria called me from Australia. Holy hell. That was the most wonderful thing to wake up to.
Best voicemail ever from Alaina today. Basically, "Julia! HappybirthdayHappybirthdayHappybirthday(repeat about 12x)Iloveyoubye! *pause* Alaina! *hangs up*" Weird and awesome.
Day keeps wanting to put my hair up in pigtails and make me look twelve. It's amusing and I want to do that for my 21st birthday and go to a bar.
Upon being asked how it feels to no longer be a teenager, my first response was, "like I'm seventeen, just with more back problems." Although I did get to chair massage today to get some help with said back problems, yay!
I can no longer use "Don't blame me, I'm a teenager." I suppose "Don't blame me, I'm a college student" works just as well. (As in, not at all.)
I got a horrible review on an essay for Amherst today. We have to post on Blackboard before every class meeting, and the teacher was like, "Your Blackboard posts make me think you can write. Why can't you write a paper?" I can do just fine in writing one paragraph. Five pages, not so much.
I am preregistered for one course: Russian at Amherst. Want to try to get into a poetry class at Amherst (requires a sample), want to try to get in to Intro to Writing at Hampshire which I am waitlisted for, and want to get into Social Entrepreneurship at Hampshire.
We are reading Mayakovsky in one of my classes tomorrow. And we were given Skhlovsky to read tonight. I got sucked into it and lost about a half hour...in class reading. So cool!

I got a couple material things for my birthday, but I have everything I want: friends who care about me. It's nice to feel like I'm worth something. *big sappy smile* /end cheesiness.

jk_lm @ 2008-11-09T00:32:00

2008-11-09T05:36:23Z

Mm. Got groceries today for the first time in about three weeks, thanks to Tom. I can eat again! Yay! :D
Also wrote most of the first draft of an essay (yay) which is due Tuesday (not yay). And read a bunch of a book I need to read for Tues.
Then I bounced around like an idiot at a concert (Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams) (very yay).
I did wind up going to the concert by myself, which was unfortunate, but it was still fun.

So.

Who wants to go see Richard Shindell with me next Sunday? (Iron Horse).

And - Fall Frolic tomorrow. Also very yay.