ahh, you guys have to read get fuzzy, the tension is killing satchel and me. what will become of bucky tomorrow?!?!?!?!?!?!?

well, i'll have to do a happy birthday bern too, even though i already talked to you to wish you happy birthday. and greg, nice work on the interview. keep us updated.

s&m(that's shannon and michelle, get your minds out of the gutter)-you sound like such busy and well-adjusted real people with real lives. i love hearing your updates and the drama (i'm assuming there will be some). i'm a smidge jealous i must admit. i'm just this strange, jobless, moody girl mooching off my family. apparently i'm so stressed i got shingles. i guess you usually get it when you are sick or your immune system is run down. not only do i have shingles, but it's on my left jaw bone, very visible, and it's GROSS! but forever onward, i'm inspired by you all to get a real job and i keep plugging away at these coverletters.

a-i didn't go ask the guy out in burlington. i didn't have time on this last visit, so do what you will to me.

love you all and miss you.
Julie

just a quick lil post before i run to the mountains. CDs are still being made. you'll get them soon.

i've finally started unpacking from the move to spokane.

two articles i thought were interesting from todays papers...

from the observer (the guardian's sunday version), a story about how america has changed in the past several years: Farewell America.

and from the new york times, an article on those crazy gays, those crazy straights, and what happens to us all when we live in close proximity. i think the opening anecdote is among the more adorable things i've ever heard: The New Couples Nest Door.

love you all. catch you on the flip side of banff.

[a.ho]

well, it's official, i'm some sort of strange adult loser. well maybe loser is too strong, but i did spend 5 hours today cleaning the inside and outside of my car. and i found it so satisfying. who does that on a saturday? i'm clearly an old.

but all of my last weeks angst about missing everyone and being bored has passed a bit as i now know i can at least keep myself busy. and now that i pulled a bern and am working in my mom's office, i find i enjoy my time sitting around the house again.

m-what are your plans for the weekend? yes, malone is the best place to send a postcard to. i should be here through september. i'll try giving you a call sometime soon to catch up. i think i've talked to everyone else now.

hope you all are having a good weekend.

love, julie

well, it's official, i'm some sort of strange adult loser. well maybe loser is too strong, but i did spend 5 hours today cleaning the inside and outside of my car. and i found it so satisfying. who does that on a saturday? i'm clearly an old.

but all of my last weeks angst about missing everyone and being bored has passed a bit as i now know i can at least keep myself busy. and now that i pulled a bern and am working in my mom's office, i find i enjoy my time sitting around the house again.

m-what are your plans for the weekend? yes, a postcard to malone is the best place right now. i should be here through september. i'll try giving you a call sometime soon to catch up. i think i've talked to everyone else now.

hope you all are having a good weekend.

love, julie

well, it's official, i'm some sort of strange adult loser. well maybe loser is too strong, but i did spend 5 hours today cleaning the inside and outside of my car. and i found it so satisfying. who does that on a saturday? i'm clearly an old.

but all of my last weeks angst about missing everyone and being bored has passed a bit as i now know i can at least keep myself busy. and now that i pulled a bern and am working in my mom's office, i find i enjoy my time sitting around the house again.

m-what are your plans for the weekend? yes, a postcard to malone is the best place right now. i should be here through september. i'll try giving you a call sometime soon to catch up. i think i've talked to everyone else now.

hope you all are having a good weekend.

malone is so ridiculously small that when i called today to set up an interview for substitute teaching, the woman on the phone told me that i could skip steps 2 and 3 of the interview process becuase i'd been highly recommended and that the board would approve me as a sub at tuesdays meeting. she didn't tell me who recommended me. help to have parents that golf with school administrators? i think so. do i feel guilty? nah, i need money.

shannon are you going crazy packing?

ok. since i've been so bad about my news blog, i thought i'd just post this article here, since i suspect it is of interest to all of us: Oregon, in Crisis, Finally Balances Budget. thank goodness!

B - yes, we should try talking on the phone. perhaps something good might come of it. it probably wouldn't change my cynical saying, though. oh, and carmelo msg'ed me on friendster. i haven't written him back yet, though.

J - if you don't go ask the bike boy out for a beer, i will personally show up in another one of your dreams and then leave again without saying goodbye. so there. and yeah, i read about the naked hiker. how great is that? i thought the funniest part was the naturists who denounced him.

G - mmmmmmm. pbr. fjv. do it. i haven't met the new spokane house. you know how i am with strangers. but maybe soon. maybe aaron can take me down. things are less scary when he's around.

two parting thoughts - i've reinvited michelle, and i'm really beginning to enjoy alaskan amber ale, which we didn't much partake of during the year. but my parents had it at their anniversary party, and which we recently got a case of at costco. tres bien.

love you all.
[a.ho]

ok fellow mac housers, here is my blog-a-day. burlington was ok, suz and i got bored and had free movie tix, so we saw american wedding and it was awful.

i brought my bike back to where i got it for a free tune-up and i saw the cute guy that sold it to me last year and he remembered me. do you think i should go back next week when i'm in burlington and ask him if he wants to go out for a beer? i can impress him with my great knowledge of the malt beverage. give me suggestions.

other than that, the trip was quiet. although i did get to watch boy meets boy (not impressed) and queer eye for the straight guy (i love it!). it was good to spend time with j and d, and suz, but now suz is off to texas and i'm in malone with parents and the dogs, and now i'm antsy. but i talked to bern tonight and she talked me out of current crisis of being weak for checking the damn blogger all the time and talking to one of you at least once a day. then i got to talk to greg and now my day is complete. i'm ready for sleep soon.

but before i sleep i wanted to make mention of prince william looking quite dashing on this months cover of vanity fair. A, you have to meet him and bring along smashing pictures of me when this happens. also, did you all hear about the man hiking naked from the southern tip of england to the northern tip? he's raising awareness about nudity. his name is steven gough if i recall correctly. there is an article in monday's new york times about it.

i think that's all for now. i get to see dan shu tomorrow hopefully. and which one of you will i talk to tomorrow???? look forward to finding out.

i sleep now.

i'm glad ceci is alright, bern. scary larry, though.

i'm mostly writing this morning to apologize for being useless. i forgot my cell phone charger in seattle, so it's out of commission. if you need to get in touch with me, try 50-97-440-784. isn't it confusing when you write phone numbers the wrong way? i don't leave for banff until saturday morning.

becky left for denver today with my parents. bobsforth and i miss her already. so does the dog.

sappo-masochism is my new favorite word. favourite.

heirress. arras. ha.

must make housemates' CDs. i'm all over it. now if i could just find where becky hid the blank CDs.

oh, my gramma is teaching me to knit. it's great. i'm making the bobmeister a hat right now. it's, um, a valliant effort. a failing one, though. i have no knitting pride.

oh, and apparently, in knitting, i'm a catcher rather than a thrower. i'll have to tell aaron that. he'll laugh.

are you all packed, shannon?

i think i'm going a bit nuts.

and my mom made a great curry dish the other night. my eyes are still watering from it.

[a.ho]

alright y'all (that's for you greg), here is my first blog in a while. i've been keeping up with the reading, but the computer was being a bit persnickety, and then i was being a bit persnickety. or was it the other way around?

but i'm home now. i've been home since saturday afternoon. i had a bit of a crisis my first day back, big surprise there, but then i realized that was because i'd only had 5 hours of sleep the night before, before driving home. i also got reassuring voice mails and blogs, so i'm calm now.

suz and i have been palling around malone. the car is finally unpacked and my body is sore from running and weight lifting. i can't get my cavities filled here because it's going to cost $630, and my stupid portland insurance won't cover it! but, suz and i are going to burlington today, and my mom agreed to pay for us to have fancy haircuts! yes i am a fjv, non-jv now, but until this haircut happens i'm still shaggy. i'm thinking of growing my hair out to about bern's length, but keeping the layers and the curl. feedback?

so life has been good so far. my boredom hasn't kicked in yet, but suz is leaving me tomorrow for texas and then burlington and then it's just me and my 'rents. and they don't seem to appreciate my antics nearly as much as you all and suzanne do. and there is no one in Malone, i mean NO ONE! but i know there will be plentiful trips to burlington. not to mention potsdam, where my friend dan shu (airport guy) will be for a few weeks before heading back to upenn, to finally finish his BA. but speaking of boredom, for all of you who claim that you are experiencing this, have you been reading what you write? doesn't sound boring in the least to me kids. you lie!

other plans now include continuing to look for jobs in chicago while hanging out in malone (a micropolitan area of aproximately 11,000 according to a local newspaper article). i have filled out a substitute teaching application and apparently those are in high demand in the area and it pays well ($70/day), so hopefully that will help sustain the bank account and allow me to make a deposit on an apartment in chicago in the fall. as well as allow me to gallavant to nyc sometime in september. i looked into flights and can fly jet blue round trip for 90 dollars! but if i drive then i can see Uncle Arthur and take a train in, and maybe stop in philly after. S and A, you really should meet the old Ant Eater.

i think i've rambled for long enough now. i'd love to talk to you each sometime soon. i'll be at j and d's tonight, but if you call me when i'm at my parents- 518-483-2341 - i'll call you back because they have flat rate long distance, which is really a lovely thing to have.

like anthony, i am now hungry, so i go eat breakfast now. more soon.

love you and miss you,
j. lo

goodness gracious st ignatius. sounds like quite the time in LA, shannon. and i'm glad you missed the power outage.

bern, i think i'm jealous of you. i'm beginning to get quite bored, and i'm wishing i had a bit more spending money in my pocket.

generally, i'm good. bored. went to seattle this past weekend and had a grand time. went to a big gay birthday party friday night and met a stranger editor and a stranger writer (both gay, the writer, eli, absolutely adorable, jewish, and a 1999 columbia grad. super nerdy. YUM). so that was a good time. then i walked from the party back to rob's condo with this guy jesse who was up for an adventure. we made the 8 mile walk in 3 hours, arriving at rob's at 4 am. it was fun times.

saturday i went to a dinner party thingy at cyrus's house. that was fun. it was good to see him. he wants me to go to egypt, tunisia, and morrocco (sp?) with him this january. i told him i'd consider it. after dinner, we went to this unbelievably trendy bar (the pampas room) and had unbelievably expensive martinis and listened to jazz. it was very un-JV. then i went to gay bars and danced the night away. perfect saturday night.

an interesting addendum to the weekend was meeting an AMAZING guy who knows my friends rob and kyle and my cousin michelle. he's from spokane, but he's currently a phd/md student at berkeley/ucsf. he's spening the upcoming year living with a migrant farmworker community. completely fascinating. a rare find. so that made me happy. and now i'm going to eat. big surprise there.

am i mistaken in thinking that shannon was headed to new york today? shannon, are you there? how's power free metropolis? tell us what's going on.

that's really alls i'm curious about.

peace out.

shannon, i'll call you later, i want to hear more about, um, yeah...

hey kiddles--

i called julie ridiculously late last night. whoops. i've spent the last couple nights drunk as a skunk...saturday at my parents' anniversary party (the haiku toast was well-received) and last night at my friend allison's little sister's boyfriend's going away to college party. i stumbled home drunk from allison's house, so now i have to take a shower and walk back up there to pick it up. i just got in from the sun. yes, me. i'm a tad hongry. perhaps i'll eat. i hope y'all had a grand weekend.

good morning! i'm taking advantage of internet access while i still have it. shannon and anthony, it was good talking to you last night in my sleepy haze. just wanted to let you know, in case you were worried, brandon called me with his number, and he's in chicago, so i'm all set.

off on the road again...

j

one more thing, guess who i got an email from and who i'm going to see in potsdam on august 21st???????

DAN SHU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (the airport guy, shannon)

i'm in fargo! i tried wake boarding today and my forearms are sore! suz and i got pulled over last night but the cop let us go, and i'm exhausted. chicago plans aren't working out at all for a visit because no one is really there, but i am excited to see bern. and suz and i have our ups and downs, but we're working things out pretty well. she is patient with me as i drone on and on about you still, but sometimes i know she gets a bit bored with it all.

there is so much to tell alnd i don't know where to begin and with my sore forearms typing is an effort, so i'm heading to sleep soon to rest up for another big day of driving tomorrow. but i'll end with a few bright spots. glacier, bannf, and fargo! they've all been amazing. and i just watched teh most fabulous new reality tv show-the restaurant. you have to check it out. it's all about a new restaurant in nyc. shannon, we need to find men to take us here when i visit!

other bright note is i'm really excited to go home. my parents sound so excited to have me home for a bit. i can't wait to apply to graduate programs and look for a job. does that make me weird? as if i wasn't before.

i miss you all and wish a ho would reply to some of my voice mails because i need brandon's number!

more soon.
love j

NEW NEW NEW.

look to the right ------------------->
get fuzzy linked from everyone's favorite mac house blog!!

methinks posting is just putting it in that little window at the bottom of the blog control panel. to make your post viewable at machouse.blogspot.com, you need to both post and publish. but i could be wrong about that.

amanda has packed up her computer, so now i have to wait until my new computer arrives to make y'all your CDs. but i've got it ordered and everything, so it shouldn't be too awfully long.

i drank red wine and played scrabble with my parents last night. i've developed a crush on a boy named ryan who i found on friendster. crushes are so much fun. still haven't written my haiku toast for my parents' party tomorrow night, but that will happen soon, i hope.

other than that, life in spokane is boring. my lats are getting damn hot, though, if i do say so myself. and i met my new baby cousin, zoe, today. PLUS, my other cousin, karen, just had a baby yesterday, catherine da-yuen. i LOVE babies. and burritos. but i'm getting better at distinguishing the two.

[a.ho]

do you want to buy a duck?

oh, and one more thing. suz and i could not start a fire at the olympic peninsula. we need you bern! it was so sad, and our not dogs and our marshmallows thought so too.

hello, hello!

happy flying home day bern. and shannon i'm sorry i didn't call last night. it was late, we were tired, a phone didn't seem to be in near proximity.

now bubba is making pancakes and suz and i are lounging in the House house. it's been lovely, but shortlived. we must get back in a car soon, but we're heading for banff and what can beat that? i do miss you all though, and am struggling with reinventing myself. who am i without the context of jvc? hmm. i think i'll figure that one out pretty soon, but without you guys...? ok, i'm getting a bit sappy, so i'll stop.

i'm excited to get on the road and explore new territory. i am looking ever so forward to chicago and seeing friends, and whatever else comes about. i'll post more and update on my travels when i get internet again. it may be awhile. i'll call when we get back in the states too.

love you all, jules

la la la. mini mac house reunion tonight. i'll make sure julie reads the blogs, if she hasn't already.

spokane, as always, is lovely. it actually rained here sunday for the first time since may. that was nice. we work out every day at 3 pm. it's nice to have a little bit of structure in my otherwise free floating days.

i need y'all to post what CDs you want so i can make them before amanda disappears to DC this weekend.

oh, other structure in my life: becky, bobbo, and i watch american gladiators at 2 pm every day on TNN (that's the first network for men, apparently. whatever that means).

my friendster addiction continues. and my website's server is still on the fritz, so that upsets me.

ok. on to the news blog.

cheers.