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I made a flickr. Lurking may begin.... now.

four days until beautiful white beaches, rays of sunshine, a best friend, and simplicity. oh baby. 

listen to '5 years time' sampler @ http://www.myspace.com/noahandthewhale, you won't be disappointed. 

you know how on facebook when you update your status, you're sort of doing it so that 1. people can know where you are and what you're doing at the moment, but also 2. for yourself to look back on and remember things. isn't it annoying how statuses disappear after a while? so.. ali showed me this cool website called twitter where you post updates..it's like a one-line journal. but you can update it as much as you want, 15, 25, 500 times a day if you want. every little thing you do can be recorded. and you can update from your phone as well. and it's so easy. and you can "follow" someone, and see their updates on your homepage. so.. my account is http://twitter.com/JenKnight

check out the way The Maine uses twitter (see top of page under pictures of each of them): http://www.myspace.com/themaine

it's pretty cool i think i'm definitely going to keep using it. make accounts!!!!

today at the diner for brunch, i went with tori, katie, and pasquale. and i wanted a wrap but since i wanted fries i wanted a somewhat healthy wrap, aka not chicken caesar that's dripping dressing. so i asked for a whole wheat wrap with no dressing with whatever vegetables they had. clearly all the waitress understood from that was i wanted 'wrap.' nothing else. 20 minutes later a plate was placed in front of me. it had a white wrap, dressing dripping out of the sides, and lettuce inside. only lettuce. hahahha. so she brought it back and added in some tomatoes and onions and then charged me for a chicken caesar ten dollar wrap. poor waitress lady struggling with english. 

tonight i'm going to lisa's house with marissa, we dont have any plans other than to 'hang out,' which i'm glad about. i just want to relax and talk and laugh like we did in high school. should be fun! 

I watched the fireworks at the fair tonight with Victoria, Kolby, and Diana. It was the last night of the fair but it was pretty lame anyway. Saw a few faces I haven't seen in a couple years, so that was fulfilling. Ali went over my bleach last night for me and it's so much better than before. 

Songs making me really happy at the moment:

The Most Serene Republic "Present of Future End"

Eye Alaska "Stop Me Now I'm Not Ready"

of Montreal "Heimdalsgate Like A Promethean Curse"

Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin "I Am Warm + Powerful"

EDIT: add this one to the list.. Noah And The Whale "Give A Little Love"

I'm really looking forward to The Dear Hunter show(s). I feel like once TREOS broke up I haven't been to any shows and I'm losing part of myself and starting to change. Lydia are always good everytime I see them, and Eye Alaska should be great as well. 

If you haven't seen it yet, I suggest you check out the new website www.thedearhunter.com. There's a video on there definitely worth watching, very funny. And the design is incredible. It's interactive and you can click around and discover little perks. So cool. 

I leave for Virginia Beach this Saturday!

ohhh boy, this is going to sound so dumb, i'm starting to get all emo with myself lately. everything's lost it's appeal, nothing is interesting. i hate this. i think it's maybe because i've just gotten adjusted to being back at home, and now i'm going to be ripped away from everyone in a month. and i keep thinking about it, it's too hard to just let go and have fun wherever i am. that used to be a simple task. now, no. and usually whenever i feel myself starting to get depressed i get emotional, but not this time. i'm not emotional at all, and i'm even on my period at the moment. what's going on with me? the only thing steady in my life now is a few good friends and going to the gym every day, which i really love. but whatever, so anyway.. i've gone to the fair last night which was alright.. it's not like i saw anyone i haven't seen in a while, because the people i went to meet up with (kelly, katie, tori, pasquale, anne, alicia) were the only ones i saw. im going again tonight and bringing ali along, and there are fireworks. i planned out the rest of my summer today. i normally don't like planning things in advance, but i feel so restless since i've gotten home from vacation, that all i want to do is go on vacation and vacation and vacation until it's time to go back to the real world, a.k.a school. so here's what i got (i have no idea how i'm going to ask for all of this off from work): august 2nd-9th, to virginia beach with anne. i go every year with her and her mother and sister and her friend. that's going to be a week of beach and pool and hot tub at night and meeting new people. it's going to be great i can't wait. august 11th is jill's birthday, so i haven't asked her yet but i'm hoping to go up with her and stay with her on that night. the next day (i haven't asked leigh yet either) but i want to go (maybe take jill, too) to stay with leigh in cape cod for a couple nights, hang out with her and hopefully go to the beach there too :) august 16th-18th i'm going to the summer house and bringing ali with me, and all my cousins will be there too so that should be a lot of fun. august 19th-22nd is HOPEFULLY stone harbor with marissa. stone harbor is a beautiful quaint little town on the jersey shore that not many people know about. my family used to go every summer for many years when i was growing up, and i haven't been in 4 or 5 years. must be back for the dear hunter/lydia/where the wild things are (!!) show at the loft on the 22nd. the next day is another TDH show at the school of rock in jersey. the next day is upstate again until the 27th, maybe someone will want to come with. the 28th i have to be back for my brother's show at the loft. and then finally i'll have about a week to prep for school and get all my things ready and get all new clothes. annnd lastly, next week tues-thurs i may be having katie, tori, and pasquale upstate, and jill will be up there too. if they can't come it's alright since i'll have jill and probably katy, who's got a house down the river. so that's my summer. i'm glad that i won't be home very much, and if i am home it'll just be to see friends or to work. i wanted to go to ft lauderdale to stay with jake and go to the beach everyday and party every night with him, because that sounds perfect right now, but i don't think that's going to work out. i wish it did because even though i'm unbelievably broke, the round trip airfare is only $234, and its not like i need hotel money. moving on, i can't decide what i think of katy perry's album. the girl is sooooo cute, the music's pretty catchy, but there's something about it that's stopping me from loving it. iiidkkk. sorry this was kind of a pointless entry, but that's what's goin on in ma heaaad righ now. nothing productive, really. byyyyye

westchester is lame as shiiiit. i just got back from doug's show. they did really good i think people dug it. the only thing i hate about driving is finding parking. i drove around for 25 minutes then parked in the ghetto then while walking to the show 5 men approached me in a group and started to surround me and were like "hey ma'am.. lookin good.." i thought i was about to get gang raped and ALMOST broke into a run. oh peekskill. now it's only 11 and there's nowhere to go. i cant even work out because the gym closes at 7 on saturdays. i wish virginia beach were tomorrow. 

HI. i wish i had more time to elaborate about my vacation, but my eyelashes are fluttering and soon i will be sound asleep with a computer sprawled across my lap. so, i'll shorten everything. day 1 was saturday (the 12th?) in which we boarded our ship 'explorer of the seas' in cape liberty/bayonne, NJ. that area didn't smell very nice. departed underneath the verrazano bridge at around 6 pm, the view was beautiful and i got some photos of underneath and the side of the bridge when we passed under it. i don't really remember what i specifically did on any of the nights, but i know that it mostly consisted of a lot of walking, a lot of going up and down the stairs, a lot of awkward conversation with fellow smokers on the 4th deck (i preferred my private balcony for that reason), a lot of food and i mean a lot of fucking food, shopping, sleeping late, room service, pool/laying out, karaoke, the gym, casino, random little shows and watching people dance at a club because it's funny and usually provides a good time, and other little odds and ends. they make it really impossible for you to drink on a cruise if you're not 21. we were supposed to have two full days in bermuda, but that quickly backfired when hurricane bertha threatened our seas (gaaahddamit). so we were told the cruise MAY possibly re-route to nova scotia, in which case we would have to pack a completely different wardrobe, which i refused to do because i firmly believed that i would not be let down like that and this isn't really happening. so, our captain decided that we would closely follow hurricane bertha's track, and stay 90-150 miles away from it at all times. even though it was going to be a direct hit on bermuda at the time we were supposd to be getting in. so, the swells were 5 ft and already people were getting nervous, i personally said my good-byes before falling asleep that night (half joking at the time, but wondering if i might actually die), the ship was very rocky and people got sick, someone must've eaten pink stuff all day and then thrown it up in our hallway.. that looked gross. the swells were going to go up to 15-20 ft that night, but invincible little me quickly assumed that the big bad 70 mph winds wouldn't affect our 200 ft tall ship that weighs like 200,000 tons carrying 4000+ people. i feel safe in numbers. anyway, when i woke up the atlantic had merged with the sargasso sea. aside from the fact that the water was calm and light blue and really beautiful, i was not comforted in the fact that this sea is also known as the "graveyard of ships." this is due to the large amount of floating seaweed and seaweed lurking underwater, where ship engines get tangled and are never freed and disappear to wherever else all the 50 ships and 20 aircrafts have gone to. doesn't even  matter if there's no wind or it's totally calm, there can be freak waves and other freak like occurrences that don't make sense to us humans, buuuut what can ya do. i still feel safe in numbers. and we've got more than 4000. thankfully we make it to bermuda. when we pulled into the dockyard the island looked nice, but the gray buildings on it did not. they would have looked fine in london or maybe scotland or paris or any other city in europe, but they were really out of place sitting on top of a shore. 

i forgot they drove on the other side of the road, as did most of the american pedestrian tourists who looked each way 14 times before considering stepping a foot onto that road. took a ferry to hamilton, the capital, and shopped, didn't find anything, what a surprise! then had  lunch atop a building, watching all the cars zoom by on narrow busy roads, making illegal lefts (or maybe then they were rights? i don't know, defnitely illegal though), and not stopping at stop signs. i was happy to be sitting on a higher level than all the crazy traffic and people crossing the streets and bustle of the area. had a legal drink, that was delicious but not worth the calories. after we got onto a bus to horseshoe bay. it was a really beautiful place but the 'red sand' was light pink at best. the black sandy beaches in hawaii beat this shit by 1000 percent. plus the beach was supposed to be empty because of the hurricane on the previous day, but that just made everyone want to swim more because they missed a day. so what the fuck, no one cares about some dumb rip currents, right? water is my favorite element and i like to be a little fish and swim so much, but i couldn't since my tattoo was still healing and can't have any sun or water. what a dumb time for me to decide to plaster a little flower onto my hip. after i sucked down an energy drink that i found in a local grocery store, we retreated to the boat. stopped in a little store on the way back where i bought 2 little knit hats, one green, one purple. i can't wait to put them on in winter! i don't know what else i did on this cruise. i think that's good enough. 

know what's so funny? to fly from NY to bermuda takes 1 hr 50 m. to cruise there took us 2 1/2 days. 

i'm wearing men's boxers to bed and they're SO so comfortable. 

today's been insanely long. woke up at 630 for kristen's soccer game. the girls play at this huge complex at waipio, about 5 min from pearl harbor, and the team they played today was hollywood.. which we beat 2-0 :):) from the game we went back to our hotel, the ilikai, i ate my sushi from this place across the street, aloha sushi.. the best sushi i've ever had.. packed our stuff and dropped it downstairs, checked out, went to the international market. i got a sick ipod skin and 2 more pairs of sunglasses. walked around, sucked down an energy drink of course, and then headed to the airport. we were all SOOOOOOO bummed to leave. i want to go on this cruise but not badly enough to cut the hawaii time in half. my friends get to stay til the 15th. so, had an 8 1/2 hour flight to atlanta, sitting next to this older man who would not say a word to me. it was a red-eye flight but i didn't sleep. from atlanta we got a flight back to laguardia, and here i am 3 hours later. actually like, 5 hours later because i slept as soon as i got home. so my body clock is 1030 am, but i have to force it to be 430 pm. tough. in one of the little smoking lounges at atlanta, this guy came up next to me and was telling me like his entire life story. he came from san diego, missed his connecting flight because no one woke him up when they arrived, and has to be the best man to his friend's wedding in pennsylvania. shittttty! i love flying but too much can really make you feel like shit. anyway, so hawaii was great. i learned so much about the culture and got to see some really incredible places. one day we flew at 4 am to Big Island, and i saw black sandy beaches because of how the volcano close to the beach had erupted years ago and the lava ruined everything- the sand, people's houses, people's lives.. it was the most beautiful place i've ever been. saw a lot of craters.. and we saw Kilauea while it was erupting. but we were too far to see lava, so we just saw smoke billowing out. went to a real luau with 1100 other people, drank mai tai and watched hula and a guy from samoa play with fire. went surfing on our first day there.. got up on the first try, but i was a little afraid so i couldn't go for very long. got a tattoo from hart & huntington! tori came with me and the guy who did it was great, we all had fun and i went back the next day to see him haha. it's a yellow and orange flower so i'll never forget the trip.. on my hip.. its hurting still and sore. i slept on it the night i got it and it left an imprint on the sheets.. not good. waikiki has rocky beaches! the water's beautiful but the sand's rough, but i only had to go to the beach one day, because i got such bad sunburn on my back and all down the back of my legs that i couldn't go in the sun for like, 3 days after. it still hurts. i didn;t go to my shoot because of the sun poisoning becuase i couldnt be outside. im bummed and the guy sounded wicked cool, but i didnt want to risk it. also i would have to be really discreet leaving, and he wanted to go to the north shore which is like, a 40 min drive, and ive never met him so i dont know if id just get in his car and go that easily. alright thats enough im going to the gym and packing.. leave for bermuda tomorrow at 11 am..