Hello ladies!!!
I apologize cuz I think this may be a long one, but so much has happened since I last wrote! The big thing is that my sister got married this last saturday!! It was a really wonderful ceremony. My sister cried so she made everyone else cry too. I was the maid of honor and gave a speech and everything. Luckily, I had more then a few drinks in me so the speech really went well! The reception was outside at Letchworth State Park (for those of you not from western new york, it’s a really pretty park with a waterfall and everything) It was a gorgeous day, really sunny but a little chilly. I enjoyed meeting her husband’s family cuz they are all from Ireland…and that accent is just so cute. Sam accused me of flirting with the groom’s cousin who was one of the groom’s men..he was 18 and really tall with blue eyes and knew like 5 languages….but we’ll say I wasn’t flirting so much as just appreciating a foregin accent and culture :)……I got completely drunk at the reception and can’t really remember half of it….i do remember sam having to take care of me and then somehow ending up in my bed at home …not exactly sure how i got there…but oh well….it was a blast!!

my other “firsts” include the fact that i have now completed both my full female and full male physical exams!!! let me tell you, these were soooo weird!! They pay people to come and teach you while you exam them. It’s kinda like a part time job for the people…but i don’t know how badly i would need money before i would let 4 people who have never done a pap exam do it on me!! and the guy one was really wierd…cuz you have to…umm…well….put your finger where the sun don’t shine! it’s soooo gross!!! So i beg of you all, please don’t be afraid to shake my hand when i see you (in vegas i hope!)…i promise i have washed my hands throughly 🙂

so those of you thinking about vegas….a reminder of the time frame would be some time period between Oct 29th and Nov 7th…i’ll try to let you all know asap what the exact dates will be…but everyone should seriously consider it!! a reunion is long overdue!

other than that things are alright here in Chicago…school is unbelievable busy and hard…but i am doing ok..Sam is living in my place…i don’t see him too much cuz he leaves between 5:30 and 6:30 in the morning and doesn’t get back till like 8…but at least we finally see each other every day!
i miss you all tons!! Think about VEGAS BABY!!!

HI EVERYBODY!!! I”m sorry i haven’t written in so long. Well, i did write but i kept deleting it on accident and then i got fed up. So, let’s see, what can i say. I went to california to see my sister and dawn. I had a fabulous time…it was amazing. I met dawn’s boyfriend tyler who is such a cutie. I was very impressed (good job dawn!). She also has a very cute apartment with a porch! Her, tyler, my sister, samantha (who came with me), and I all went to disney land, and although it’s not nearly as big as disney world it was so much fun. I miss california and dawn and theresa :(. I’m sure you all saw that frances and i hung out the other day. We had a great time. I think we walked every block in new york city :).
In kind of sad news…Tom and I broke up. I’m not going to go into detail really, and frankly i don’t know what’s going to happen with the whole situation, but i’m doing ok for now. I think that’s all…i know, i have’nt written in forever and then i write a tiny thing :). I hope everyone is doing well and i miss you all so much!!! I”ll talk to you soon!!

Hey Ladies,

I thought everyone should know that our innocent Jen is DEFINATELY not innocent anymore. We went out the other night. First she downs a Smirnoff Ice with dinner, while I had a Snapple. Then we head to a bar for drinks. We order the same melonberry fruity drink, which was pretty well made. She downs the thing like its water, and says she doesnt feel anything. While I am sipping and definatey in the happy place. When the waitress came to see if we wanted anything else, I said I was done and she agreed. But I am PRETTY sure she could have gone for a few more.

Times they are a changing!

I apologize for my obnoxious singing ALL the way to the train station. Love you!

I miss you guys! I feel like I just wrote here, but stuff is actually going on in my life, so I guess it’s ok, I swear I’ll keep it short… I’ve got a second job for a small millworker a couple towns over, I’m not crazy about it and I don’t know how long it will last, but it’s a little extra money at the moment. Jenn and Matt’s wedding is less than a month away, my dress is in so I just need to see if it needs adjusting, and we are all SOO excited about it (the wedding obviously, not the dress)!! I’m looking for a new apartment with my friend Jenny from work, she was talking about furniture the other day, so it looks like it really could happen! The guy I asked to the movies, Josh, said yes right away and we have been dating ever since (6 weeks-ish, and he realized when it was a month). we’re going camping this weekend in vermont (I’m supposed to meet some of his family then too) and he’s going to be my date to my sister’s wedding! he had to go and buy a suit and everything, but he didn’t mind, and he looks really great in it (hee hee). classes start next tuesday, I’m taking three this semester, so I may be bald from all the hair-pulling, but I am still a firm believer that busy is better than bored. I love you all and love to hear what’s going on with everyone. I would LOVE to have a reunion in Vegas, I think we deserve it!! hope everything keeps going well with everyone! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Hey Ladies,

I finally have my own hurricane!! yay! I could not stop laughing when I heard that on the news the other night. I guess I am Level 4 hurricane that is hitting the Carribean area. Whoa, watch out you hunky island men! 🙂 hee-hee! Everything else is going pretty good out here in NYC. Finished work on Friday. No more adorable 4 year olds. 🙁 Let the record show………I DID NOT STEAL ONE!! There were even younger babies in the building and I was on my best behavior!! Now I am just taking some time off and chilling. It feels so nice to worry about a thing! I am currently waiting to hear from the Director of the Children’s Unit at NYS Psychiatric Hospital on the Upper West Side. I would be volunteering to work with adolescents between 12-17 who have been taken out of public school because of different problems such as ADHD, anxiety disorder, or depression etc. They go to school at the hospital and meanwhile see their doctors. Oh boy this is going to be an experience. So I would do that part time and babysit part time. Plus I am thinking about taking a Spanish class…..watch out NYC latin lovers! 🙂 Speaking of men, not much going on. My mother’s friend tried hooking me up with her son’s friend. He’s 29 persian, jewish lawyer. We went out once, nice time, but NO chemistry. Now it seems like my mother’s friend’s goal to match me with someone soon! I feel like a scene out of Fiddler on the Roof. Oy vey! 🙂

Well that’s all for now! XOXOX

Oh, Bingo Girls! How I miss you! Caitlin has suggested a Las Vegas Reunion in late October, and I think it is desperately needed!! This city is corrupting me–I need some support! Or at least some fellow coruptees! Every single club here has poles, btw. And I went (on a date) tonight to this great place that has FABULOUS, delicious drinks!! And homemade infused vodkas!! Hellow! That’s not even the point. I just miss you all so much, and am sure that you could all use a nice, theraputic mini-vaca in the Mojave Desert. You can all stay here, so it will be cheap, and we can split a hotel room in the city one night so we can get Binghamton-worthy intoxicated. Just think about it, eh? We still have two months to plan…

Hello Ladies!!

Well I am already back at school…started classes yesterday…looks like a whole year of 8 a.m. classes…yuck!! And guess who gets to learn how to do a pap smear and how to exam the penis in less then a month?!? That’s right, it’s me!!! That will be such an interesting experience…did I mention that I get to do a rectal exam too!!! I know you are all a little jealous now!! I’ll keep you all posted on how it goes!!!

Thankfully before I got back here I got to see the NYC ladies…and let me tell you, they really know how to show a girl a good time!! I had soooo much fun girls!! Thanks soooo much for showing me a round and taking me out!! And for those of you who didn’t go, make sure you ask Caitlin L. about the finger down her pants!!! And by the way Ms. Crane and Eatough…we were a little offended you didn’t pick up when we called you drunk…now you both have to call all 4 of us back!!

Well i guess that’s about it for me…looks like my next break is Oct 30th thru Nov 6th….anyone up for Vegas?!?
Miss you all tons!!

I’ve got a box of wine, anyone up for going out tonight? Placido Calypso Flamingo misses you guys. I just booked a ticket home for the first weekend in August–yay! Sorry I’m going to miss out on the NYC reunion though! Shucks. You’ll have to have drinks for all of us who won’t be there. Are you all having fabulous summers?

Vegas is still great (except for the weather, which is heinous, but I suppose it could be worse, somehow…)! I just got a raise at work and am switching to a different shift (no more 3AM wake-up call: YIPPEEE!!). The new schedule does involve some weird hours though, two nights of 9pm-5am and the rest of 4:30pm-12:30am. The overnight one is a little tricky, but it’s nice to see something new. This schedule is only temporary, I’ll actually be starting to work normalish daytime hours in a week or two.

Starting to feel settled in here. I’ve been going out with people from work and even on a few dates (imagine that!), so Vegas is starting to feel a bit more familiar. I don’t think it will ever feel homey, it just doesn’t have that…feel, but at least it’s not so lonely anymore, ding!

I’m looking forward with extreme excitement to my weekend back on the East coast. Phoebe will be home that weekend too (that was her new baby on the main blog page the other day), as well as our foreign exchange student from Venezuela–so it should be one giant party. I can’t wait to see everyone and be cold again!!

Monsoon season has started here, which means it rains for 5 minutes every other day and feels exactly like a greenhouse outside. It was so exciting when the first rains came. I was driving home from work and it started pouring all of a sudden. I opened the window to see if it was real (unfortunately at the same time the truck next to me drove through a huge puddle) and got completely soaked. But it was nice to feel and smell water for a change! The temperatures are starting to shoot up–105 highs everyday this week, and it always reaches the high. At night it gets down to about 85.

I learned how to play black jack at a real casino card table last week! Woohoo! And while playing wheel of fortune nickel slots I won $34! I’m starting to learn where all the best places to go are, so I feel it’s time for you guys to come visit. There are so many amazing clubs here–the clubs we fantasized about in Binghamton!! The other nice thing is that it’s always Ladies’ Night in Vegas! Hellow, ding!!

Glad to hear that everyone is doing well. It has been about 3 weeks since I have returned back to NYC. Living at home hasn’t been as bad as I thought. I think I am just about unpacked and organized. Been working for like 2 weeks and love my job. I am working as a preschool teacher at a Montessori School on the Upper West Side. The kids are so cute. The other day, I had a small hole in my pants, this kid notices it and goes “Your pants are broken”. It is definately interesting seeing the world in a young child’s eyes. If I had a dollar for every “He pushed me” or “She won’t let me play”, I would be a millionare! But…….. I love it, so thats all that matters. What I dont love is having about half my paycheck go to taxes!! Why the heck do I have to pay social security NOW?!?! It is so cool……..Judge Judy’s grandson is in my class. She actually came to pick him up the other day. I think thats one of the few famous people I have met in my life. I have got this job until the end of the summer, so will have to be saving EVERY penny until I find out what I am doing with my life. What I would do right now to turn back the clock a few years to when we were all chilling in Bingoland! I know the best reunion…………a Thursday night at the RAT!! 🙂 There are some poles waiting with our names on it!! Speaking of poles…….there better be some pole dancing when Caitlin K. hits NYC at the end of the month. Funny thing….I was walking home from work and ran into Sam. Small world! Well thats about all! Good luck everyone. XOXOXOX

First off, Congratulations Jess!! I’m so sorry I couldn’t make it, emergencies do end up happening at the most inconvienient times. No worries though, everything has been straightened out, everyone is fine. Things here in Massachusetts at going ok. nothing stellar, but nothing too too terrible either. My summer session ends this week, I have my last Multiculural Ed. class tomorrow (I should be writing my final paper right now, but I’m writing to you guys instead), and then I have my last day of Intro. to Spec. Ed. on thursday (again, probably work I could be doing, but…). The classes didn’t seem too bad, I’m a little worried that this is not what I really want to do, but then, sometimes it just feels right, so I don’t know. I guess I’m wishing that I had some burning passion for a career, but that just hasn’t happened, at least not yet.
I have decided that my living situtation is not really all that I was hoping for, but I can deal until I find something better. It’s not just that I have been living on my own for so long (although I’ll admit that’s probably part of it), but since I’m renting a room in Pam’s townhouse, the communal space isn’t REALLY communal. I’m not really comfortable hanging out in the rest of the house, which kind of sucks. so, I’m thinking of maybe looking into a place with a person from work, or maybe another student. I think it needs to be more on the same level. Plus, the woman whose name the place is in, Pam, is gross. There was a pile of dirt under the dining room table for abount 10 days, and for almost a week of that time, there was a brand new vaccum in an unopened box not three feet from the pile of dirt!! and I keep going to grab a dish or a utensil in the kitchen, and there is “stuff” stuck to them. now, I hate to do the dishes, but when I do them, they are at least CLEAN!
and finally, on the boy front: there is a guy from Binghamton, Scott, who I hear from sporadically and only if I keep making an effort, so I don’t really think it’s worth it. He’s a nice guy, but I met him 2 days before I left… Then there is Brian. he works at EMS with me, he’s really interesting, and smart (finishing up his graduate thesis and applying for med school), and cute, and funny, and just really really great. HOWEVER, I am a terrible and horrible person for liking him because he (a) has a girlfriend, and (b) is one of my supervisors at work. if I ever went for him, I’m pretty sure Satan would visit me and hand me a VIP pass to hell. what’s worse though, is that I contemplate things, like the fact that his girlfriend is moving to Arizona for 5 years in aboutn two weeks, and the fact that people have been known to lie about relationships at work before… see? it’s just plain not smart. so I have to be satisfied with just having a huge and innappropriate crush (I have to be.) Finally, there is Josh. not my Josh who used to live in Binghamton and some of you guys met, but a new guy that I just met through my sister and Matt. They have been friends for a while, I met him at a party on saturday night, and I just sent him an email a little while ago asking him if he would like to go see Spiderman 2 with me. I’m rather nervous about such a bold and daring move from me, but as you guys can see, I think I need to try something. so we’ll see.
I guess that’s about it. I’m hoping that I can find out details about the mini-reunion going on in NYC, and hopefully I will be able to catch up with some of my girls!! Happy upcoming Birthday to Dawn-the-girl (I don’t think I missed it yet, but I really stink at remembering birthdays) and hello to everybody else. I love reading moltenchocolate and seeing what Shira is up to, have I mentioned how proud I am of you, by the way? and wowsers, that was QUITE the colossally bad camping experience, I can’t wait to come visit out west! hee hee. ok, love to everyone and hope things are going well.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo