heal over

we (dad + me) dropped off spartacus at the mechanic's because his radiator is leaking (or so we presume/fear), and went to the hardware store. where he proceeded to purchase items on his thought-out list and where i proceeded to drool and wander aimlessly while the people who work there asked if i needed any help. HARDWARE STORES OF THE WORLD- WHY ARE YOU SO FREAKIN COOL?!

yarr

john is coming home this weekend. x-3 comes out tomorrow. coincidence? I THINK NOT. sweet cuppin cakes- i am so excited for this movie!!!!

handset

i am a complete failure. macaroons elude me at every turn/recipe. same for corn bread. same for getting clearance to take the math and physics classes i have to take this summer. no placement test for those levels = long conversations with people who don't know what they're talking about. PEOPLE I WOULD NOT BE TAKING CALC 3 AND ELEC/MAGN IF I DID NOT FEEL PREPARED. actually, if i had my way i would not be taking these classes at all. but that is a different matter.

goodnight!

brownie cheesecake

i'm in new york, and am happy to report that this city is absolutely overflowing with firemen. i would say hot firemen, but that is too redundant, non? i think i will take some with me to scotland, i'm not sure if they have firemen there (gasp!)

however, there is an inordinate amount of pregnant women! everywhere you look- preggers! it's like embryotic overpopulation!! i mean, yay babies but seriously they're taking over.

and now i'm going to bed.

sloth

i got home, my dad was cleaning off one of the side tables by the pool and the glass fell in. john and i raced to see who could put on a bathing suit first (i won because i am what we call 'organized' and i found it right away), we jumped in the pool and after two attempts and multiple water-filled noses, I got the glass to the top (which was hard considering i couldn't grip it but had to bring it up vertically or the water pressure was too strong).

it's funny how the entire time i was thinking, "this *shiver* was a bad idea", but in retrospect and after putting conditioner in my hair, it was awesome. and i love being home for summer.

white ladder

today i went through an entire tank of gas, drank some champagne, smoked a cigar, and got two blisters. summer degeneration has begun.

strawberry shortcake

last night john and i went to dinner, and we went back to my apartment. and along the downstairs hallway there was this long cat 5 cable running from one unit to another one at the other end of the hallway.

john: "what is that?"
lindy: "a cat 5 cable"
john: "i know. what are they doing?"
lindy: "i don't know."
john: "they're probably playing a networking game online or something."
lindy: "let's detach it."

so i did. i knelt down, took it out of the connector socket, and RAN. up the stairs, fumbled with my keys, burst into my apartment, melted into laughter on my futon. because summer hits and i go NUTS. john said i sounded like a drunken hippo when i was running. so... not graceful? we'll work on that.

if only

this is my beautiful brother thomas:

he doesn't usually dress up like a little girl, this is just a special occasion - halloween (also his birthday!) he wrote a math song, i think it's to the tune of "wake me up when september ends" by green day (he's young, we can forgive him).

some notes:
1. ENTV is something they do before math, probably a district thing.
2. Joe is his best friend, and a very well-mannered 5th grader.
3. STAR testing is standardized testing at the end of the year for the district.
4. Skilled in math or huge ego? you decide.

Math Song III

Fractions have come and passed, Exponents went by so fast!
Wake me up when ENTV ends!
Like 5th graders before me, subtracting correctly is the key
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Chorus:
Here comes the test again, it's my greatest foe
See who's the best aain, and it's most likely Joe!

As my grade comes to an A, I'm very smart, believe what I say
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Chorus

Ring out the end of recess bell, so I can go to math or I'll rebel!
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Chorus:
Here comes the pop quiz again, I hope I get an A
see who's the class whiz again, and I am it's safe to say!

STAR testing is soon to come, all those snacks I need to succumb!
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Chorus:
Here comes the STAR test again, snacks included,
See who's the very best again, and I'm probably not excluded.

Summer Vacation is upon us, camp, hiking, smores and canoeing
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Now to Hillview Middle School, I can act older and really cool
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Like 6th graders before me, memorizing the mathematical important E [sic: e? euler's number? baby doll you won't get there until college. when it systematicall attacks you *points to self* case in point]
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

Onto college, the greatest school, to go to Stanford can't be a fool [sic: oh bay area kid]
Wake me up when ENTV ends!

This song written by Tom Liggett, if you want a song he is the ticket
Wake him up when ENTV ends!

Wake me up when ENTV ends!
Wake me up when ENTV ends!
Wake me up when ENTV ends!


I AM SO PROUD. MATHLETE IN TRAINING!!

prelude

tonight, for the first time ever, i ate the entire thing of carne asade nachos from chano's. is it possible that PMS gives me super powers?!?


and now i really want to see mission impossible 3... I AM INVINCIBLE!

cinnamon raisin

if you don't mind i'm going to be swimming in a little funk for the next hour or so. i got four flats of cookies. FOUR FLATS. that is 16 dozen is 192 cookies!! and about half of them went to charitable cause a.g.o. costs are about $100 with cookies, milk, ice cream, napkins, cups, etc.. I collected $13. net loss: $87 and cookies ate: 6.

ugh.

but on the bright side some girls in my bible study, and john, came by. i wish i had failure immunity. even better would be if awesome music played while i had it, like in super mario bros.

this is not a political debate, this is just lindy wanting some sweet-ass carne asade nachos

tonight john called to go out to dinner. "where?" says he. "bistango" says i. and we go. only to find (gasp!) a huge line at bistango. "where now?" says he. "chano's!" says i. so we turn around to the glory of the shack when-

CHANO'S WAS CLOSED!!! it was crazy. i wept bitterly. chano's is never closed! i go at high noon, it's open. early when i go running it's open. i don't eat then, but i could. theoretically. it's open when i go at 3 a.m.- chano's is never closed!!! but it was tonight. john looked down the street- fatburger closed, too (i wouldn't have gone there, i hate the name). i turn back around- la taquiza is closed!!

now, i'm not very political- but please please congressmen and women, do NOT let this immigration bill pass! i need my carne asada nachos!!! this was the saddest may 1st ever. go ahead, immigrants, protest and "si se puede" to your corazon's content- but just give me back my chano's!

most girls

tonight i put my hair up differently. yes, technically it was still a ponytail... but there was a side part and two (count 'em two) bobby pins involved. le gasp. it only follows that i change my blog template...

favor

hey guys/girls/crocodiles/whoever reads this blog,

i'm finishing my final project for my itp class, which is a website. so if you have some time, could you go here and futz around and check it out and stuff? I'm mostly wanting to know if links work, no formatting errors, etc. plus, you'll all be so much more informed about the indigo girls!


thanks!

arc of time

i was biking home from class today and in front of starbucks an L.A. Fire Department truck was parked right behind a North Hollywood Ice Co. truck.


DOES NO ONE ELSE FIND THIS HILARIOUS?! or at least like ironic? maybe a chuckle?


in other news, i rode the buzz lightyear ride at disneyland four times. which was AWESOME. but, as expected, three times out of the four i looked like a total doofus. here is the picture where we look ok. we posed and wanted to send it to gen as a "haha you couldn't come to disneyland today" but we forgot his email. dang. it would have been so funny.

luncheon

i'm going to edinburgh for the year. also, i hate/love pickles. they are like s & m for my mouth... but soooo good!! (and so horrible!)

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding.
To please the yelping of dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need a wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences mak good neighbors'.
Spring is mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me-
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

worldwide pants

cross your fingers/kilts, because at this point i need to get into the study abroad program simply because none of the classes i need to take are open anymore. yeah... that could be not so good...

they call me white chocolate

imagine this: a cute little hamster is walking/scittering (i may have just made up this word, but it sounds right) around his cage, munching on hamster food and little wood pellets, with this cute little eyes, mousy demeanor. and he climbs in his tube structure that he has- an orange and pink one, say.

AND THEN A HUGE STEAMROLLER RUNS OVER HIS CAGE AND HE DIES.

but instead of a hamster it's lindy, and instead of a steamroller it's all the work i have to do. can't i just go back to norcal/wood pellets? i feel overwhelmed.

fat wood

two more things:

first, if any of you were wondering, i had a fantastic time at the a.g.o. invite on friday. highlights include: mark ordering wine and smelling the wrong end of the cork, steve's and my awkward prom picture. it'll be on facebook soon probably. it's a winner.

second, i took my guitar to be fixed because i couldn't get one of the string pegs to come out to change my sixth string. and i take it in to gelb and i explain how the string mechanism works and i've tried a, b, and c, etc., etc. the guy takes it out of a case. takes pliers and just pulls the peg out. puts in a new string, tunes it by ear, proceeds to tune the rest of my strings, and hands it back to me. i think i just got served. which would make it twice now that the gelb music guy had taken pity on me and my guitar, and i got owned by the nice guitar playing man. it's like a burn... but a very musical one.

blessed soil

this one time we had a physics lab that no one finished. not that we didn't have enough time, but that we gave up after a while. no one knew what was going on: us, the lab notebook, the t.a.'s. we were all lost.

which is why it only follows that it is on the practical. WHAT THE HELL FATE.