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Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:09:24 GMT

http://heathershae.tumblr.com/post/28808000

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:33:58 GMT

Tomorrow I leave for California for 6 days.

For anyone interested I'll be posting pictures and other things
here: http://heathershae.tumblr.com/
and here: http://flickr.com/photos/notatwinkle
throughout the trip because I can do so with my phone.

my second post in a week!

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:51:17 GMT

Original Post: http://heathershae.tumblr.com/post/23361748

High Fidelity (and my OCD organization) has always made me feel the need to put everything into lists

My Top 10 (or 5) Lists of 2007

Top 10 Movies
1: Juno
2: No Country for Old Men
3: Lars and the Real Girl
4: The Darjeeling Limited
5: Knocked Up
6: In The Land of Women
7: Superbad
8: The Ten
9: Transformers
10: Waitress
Honorable Mention: The Lookout

Top 5 Concerts
1: 8/3 Kevin Devine/Jesse Lacey @ Nashville
2: 11/9 Steel Train/Ace Enders/Kevin Devine @ Water St
3: 10/19 Saves The Day @ Water St
4: 2/22 Jack’s Mannequin/Head Automatica @ Water St
5: 10/16 Matt Nathanson/Melee/Ingrid Michaelson @ Water St

Top 5 Podcasts
1: This American Life
2: BWE
3: Radiolab
4: SModcast
5: Diggnation

Top 5 TV Shows
1: Flight of the Conchords
2: Gossip Girl
3: Weeds
4: Californication
5: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Honorable Mention: Curb Your Enthusiasm & Dexter

Top 10 Songs
1: Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
2: Baby Girl, I’m A Blur - Say Anything
3: Where There’s Gold… - Dashboard Confessiona
4: Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
5: Stronger - Kanye West
6: Red Hands - The Dear Hunter
7: One Two Three Four - Feist
8: Four Winds - Bright Eyes
9: So Much Love - The Rocket Summer
10: Detroit Waves - Matt Nathanson
Honorable Mention: Of Confidence - The Dangerous Summer

Top 10 Albums
1: Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2: Radiohead - In Rainbows
3: The National - Boxer
4: Paramore - RIOT!
5: Matt Nathanson - Some Mad Hope
6: Paper Rival - EP
7: The Rocket Summer - Do You Feel
8: Kanye West - Graduation
9: Matt Pond PA - Last Light
10: Band Of Horses - Cease to Begin
Honorable Mention(s): Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, Dashboard Confessional - The Shade of Poison Tree, Saves the Day - Under the Boards

All these lists were made with much discussion and debate between myself and all my friends but particularly Zack.

I am losing my mind.

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:09:47 GMT

Does anyone else ever wake up in a complete panic for no reason? This morning I was *snap* awake just like that at 6:30 (15 minutes before my alarm is due to go off) and just completely afraid, not in the ‘afraid of life’ way but in the ‘afraid there is a killer in my closet that is going to jump out and stab me at any moment’ way.
This is a completely insane and irrational fear… I’m well aware of this - I live in a really nice neighborhood with no crime that I’ve ever been aware of, I live on the 3rd floor of a house with 3 locked doors (count them.. THREE) between me and the outside world so the chances of a killer in my closet (or behind the curtain to my fire escape where I am more inclined to believe a killer would hide) are pretty slim. I tell myself these things but it doesn’t help. I’m a 23 year old who is pretty much just afraid of the dark. I think I’m insane. At night I don’t like there to be dark spaces behind me… I will occasionally jump into my bed because for some reason I’m freakishly scared of something. The thing that really confuses me though is that this is not an all the time thing. Sometimes I will not be scared at all and can walk around fine at night without having a freak out and the weirdest part of all to me is that this happens most in places I’m familiar with (ie. my apartment, my parent’s house). I am insane.

I will always find it necessary to have my bed in an area where nothing could possibly hide behind it.

Original Post: http://heathershae.tumblr.com/post/23187672
(that is more likely where I'll be posting random blog entries. for whatever reason I feel like when I'm updating livejournal I need to sit down and write a novel... and to be honest my life is just not that interesting. I do still read my friends page every day though.)

With that said here is a mini post:
For those of you that don't know (although most of you should by now) I graduated from RIT in August when I finished up my co-ops at RIT and Democrat & Chronicle. I took a job as a web designer at a company called Dawnbreaker in North Chili (a suburb of Rochester) I still live in the city and ummm other than that... I watch a lot of netflix movies? so come visit me. Also I'm turning into a lizard.... seriously - you should see my hands.

my post for me

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 20:46:21 GMT

*EDIT* happy leaked cd week to me.

much as dan warned that brad would be the only one that cared about one of his recent posts... i will likely be the only person who cares about this post. and i don't care what you say so there. *i'm sticking my tongue out at you now.

my most anticipated upcoming cd releases:

Artist	Album	Release Date
The Counting Crows	Saturday Nights, Sunday Mornings	Nov 2007
Jack's Mannequin	[Title TBA]	TBA
~~New Found Glory~~	~~From the Screen to Your Stereo Part 2~~	~~September 18~~
~~Saves the Day~~	~~Under the Boards~~	~~October 30~~
~~Dashboard Confessional~~	~~The Shade of Poison Trees~~	~~October 2~~
The Postal Service	[Title TBA]	2007-2008
~~Jimmy Eat World~~	~~Chase the Light~~	~~October 16~~
Sigur Ros	Hvarf/Heim	November 6
~~Rogue Wave~~	~~Asleep at Heaven's Gate~~	~~September 18~~
~~Matt Pond, PA~~	~~Last Light~~	~~September 25~~
Nada Surf	Time For Plan A	January 2008
Alkaline Trio	[Title TBA]	Winter 2007
No Doubt	[Title TBA]	2008
Weezer	[Title TBA]	Late 2008
~~Ben Lee~~	~~Ripe~~	~~September 18~~
~~Cobra Starship~~	~~If the World Is Ending, We Are Throwing the Party~~	~~October 23~~
Andrew WK	[Title TBA]	2007
Patrick Wolf	[Title TBA]	2008

my ... falling off the face of the planet for awhile?

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:10:56 GMT

so i feel like i've been MIA for a bit. but it has been a long/crazy summer. i spent the good majority of my time working on my co-ops - spliting my time between democrat & chronicle (working on this - http://www.rocloop.com) and at RIT (working on random things). i have also had my fair amount of fun there was hitball, i went to kentucky to visit sarah, i got a tattoo, ashley had her bridal shower, i saw the forecast, kevin came here to visit, i went to the renaissance festival this past weekend, and there has been a lot of movies and learning rubik's cube as of late. my grandmother also passed away a few weeks ago which was less fun but i'm doing fine.

so my co-ops are ending this week and next so i was recently beginning to freak out about being a hobo - but i accepted a job offer in rochester last week that i'm pretty excited about. i start there on september 4th and i think i'll really enjoy it. it's at a company called dawnbreaker and my title is a multi media designer. i'll mostly be doing web work but some print and user interface design as well. they have some government clients like the navy and department of energy as well as some other smaller private clients. i'll have to spend a week or two a year in washington DC working at conferences which sounds more like fun than work to me and the people that i've met there so far seem pretty cool. i can't wait to have real health insurance and actual money. i miiiiight be home a weekend in the near future if anyone is still around let me know. for now that's all i just wanted to update in case you thought i'd disappeared.... cause i kind of felt like i did.

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:39:38 GMT

so i lost my student ID at the very beginning of the summer so i sucked it up and paid the $5 to get a new one. so just now i put on a pair of jeans (mind you a pair i wear like every single day not some pair i had stuck in the back of my closet) and my ID was in the pocket so i go to put it back in my wallet but there is already one in there!!! so this ID appeared out of nowhere... i'm fairly certain it's the jerk ghost that lives here.

by the way the new matt nathanson cd blows my mind.

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:07:14 GMT

i need home.

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:53:21 GMT

so i've been running regularly lately and i plan on continuing to do so but my shins are effing killing me. i've just been running around my neighborhood and i think i'm just not used to running on pavement b/c the rest of me is doing totally ok (except the one day that i spontaneously got asthma). i'm pretty sure all i need to do is invest in some new sneakers (being that the ones i currently run in are my track sneakers from 10th grade haha). but i am poor to the max and don't want to spend like $160. so i just wanted some input what are comfy running shoes that are not super expensive? any ideas?

Fri, 11 May 2007 02:51:03 GMT

me: what are you doing this summer
aaron: making sweet love you to
me: lies
aaron: and maybe drinking less
me: well i better start drinking more

On Vox: stickers and organization!

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:57:11 GMT

today icon factory's freeware release is the second set of sticker icons from david lanham, which may be my favorite icons of all time. i can't wait for a set 3 of them that includes things like creative suite, office,...

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On Vox: so this will be incredibly geeky.

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:16:12 GMT

so to start today - yesterday panic released coda. it's kind of beautiful. i've only had a small chance to play with it today but i'm fairly certain any other editor i've ever used will soon be out the window....

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On Vox: ok. so this past week...

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:56:00 GMT

ok. so this past week sucked but i'm back now reading blogs and keeping up with my pop culture addiction.for starters.... i hate frenzic. and by hate i really mean love but it is owning my life. i can NOT...

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my new blog

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:25:42 GMT

ok so i sucked at giving advice b/c i don't have that much to say but i actually think i'll keep this one up

http://heathershae.vox.com/

i'm going to use it for all my geeky musings etc. so bookmark it if you'd like. i'll occasionally cross post i'm sure but i don't know that everyone wants to read about my geeky insights on a daily basis and i'll probably update that more than this.

in other news mike doughty is playing lilac fest FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE mike doughty!!! yes!

this is how bored i am

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:37:00 GMT

Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle.
Say the following questions aloud, and press play.
Use the song title as the answer to the question.

How does the world see me?:
i wasn't prepared - eisley

Will I have a happy life?:
island - ben taylor (ouch)

Do people secretly lust after me?:
moan - cute is what we aim for (no kidding!)

How can I make myself happy?
rooftops and invitations - dashboard confessional

What should I do with my life?
the taste of ink - the used (son of a bitch someone really wants me to be in the printing industry... mostly my ipod but this ipod is also filled with hate)

Will I ever have children?:
sexual healing - marvin gaye (i'm really unsure if this is a yes or a no...:/ i'm giving myself a bonus point for having this on my ipod though)

What Is Good Advice for Me?
of all the gin joints in all the world - fall out boy

How will I be remembered?:
reunion - stars (fricken A my ipod loves this song!)

What is my signature dancing song?:
this is not an exit - saves the day (dear ipod, i love/hate you all at the same time. love, heather)

What do I think my current theme song is?:
jukebox breakdown - saves the day (!!!)

What does everyone else think my current theme song is?:
what's left of me - nick lachey (haaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahaha amazing)

What song will play at my funeral?:
boston - augustana

What type of men/women do you like?:
debate exposes doubt - death cab for cutie

What is my day going to be like?:
baby it's a fact - hellogoodbye

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:37:31 GMT

so the beginning:

saturday - i got up and decided that if i didn't have an ipod on this trip i was going to die. (i now know that probably would have been the case) so i got a red nano and i am in love with it.

kevin, sarah and i left rochester around 1 with lots of caffeine. so then on the 6 hour drive we kept getting car sick/having to go to the bathroom a lot so it made for a longer (more eventful) trip. we had to stop in sketchville, USA at one point.

we got to leanna's apartment around 9 after (realistically) not ALL that many problems... grrrr new jersey... keep adding to the reasons i hate you. we then went out to leanna's restaurant and hung out for awhile. we then wandered and watched leanna hit on some boy she still isn't sure is taller than her.

sunday - sarah, kevin and i wandered all day. ate in little italy, saw trump towers, twisted my ankle, etc. i have never twisted my ankle before this part particularly sucked.

monday - heewa came to hang out with me. we again wandered (limped) all day and then meet up with reed, leanna, and heewa's friend whose name i can't remember for dinner

tuesday - i ventured (limped) out on my own to go shopping, mostly on 5th ave. i had a few things i need to buy like a hoodie because somehow in my packing i thought it'd be a good idea to forget one. but i also bought the new love of my life

for real i'm in love with my computer <3

wednesday - i woke up just in time to see a freaking CAR EXPLODE! coolest thing ever. i hear all these people yelling and so i am getting mad and just want them to shut up. but then i hear the police come so i'm like aaah i better at least look out the window. i see there's a quite a crowd and they're all looking at something but i couldn't see it from where i was. so i go and look out another window and there is a cadillac on fire (there was no one in it). so i'm just watching it wondering 'what the heck why is this car on fire'... then it EXPLODES... movie style. it was NUTS there was so much black smoke i couldn't see the building across the street and then other little things kept exploding like the tires (which were really loud) and the mirrors (which were AWESOME). it was by far one of the coolest things i've ever seen.

so after that excitement i went to time square to meet up with adam before he went to work. we got pizza and hung out... and had gigantic margaritas. back to wandering.. it was really cold we we went to another bar haha. i met up with leanna when she got out of work and we went and met up with her friend who works at the wilhelmina modeling agency and he gave us a quick tour (which is the agency that the vh1 is doing their reality show 'the agency' about). we then went out for drinks followed by going somewhere else for more drinks and then somewhere else and somewhere else.

thursday - i took the chinatown bus to boston, which pretty took me all day and has seriously killed my ankle because my suitcase is gigantic and i was lugging it up and downstairs and whatnot. i'm really hoping that it'll just stop hurting anytime now.

so today i am doing nothing (which is probably good for my ankle) and by nothing i mean trying to finish a website so i can get paid. tomorrow i'm going into boston to meet up with jamie & calle and possibly liz, sarah, and kevin. i'm going to tewksbury with jamie and night and then colby is picking me up bright and early (extra so with daylight savings time) to head back to rochester. then my spring break will continue because kelly and jarrod are coming up to go to the hit the lights show with me. yay.

in other news my mom was in the hospital on wednesday night. she was having chest pains and other heart attack-esque symptoms but they kept her overnight and ran tests and everything came back fine. they *think* she was hyperventilating?? which seems really odd to me but they're doctors.. so oook. but they let her go home yesterday afternoon and she seemed fine when i talked to her and she said she felt a lot better so that's good.

now onto that website nonsense...

my spring

Fri, 16 Feb 2007 20:33:59 GMT

http://schedule.csh.rit.edu/?s=lRivqcg

finally.

i also had an interview at blue frog and partners and napier. so i still don't totally know what's up.

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:57:49 GMT

jack's mannequin makes me excited like a school girl. i don't remember the last time i was this excited for a show. booyah.

oh yea... aaron - suck it.

my witnesses

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:11:52 GMT

(11:07:54 PM) azwethinkweiz11: i hate.... you.
(11:08:31 PM) jax63: what the FUCK
(11:08:32 PM) jax63: i'm PISSED
(11:08:35 PM) jax63: ROAR!
(11:08:39 PM) azwethinkweiz11: shut up
(11:08:46 PM) jax63: vdsaHSIOHK:DFKUSDB SKAufdviabj
(11:08:50 PM) azwethinkweiz11: next week the oc is going to be mega tense to the maximum capacity
(11:08:53 PM) azwethinkweiz11: just so you know
(11:09:53 PM) jax63: listen
(11:09:57 PM) jax63: all i care about right now
(11:10:03 PM) jax63: is planning the perfect murder
(11:10:04 PM) jax63: of this bitch
(11:10:06 PM) jax63: who said she hated me

you all are my witnesses when i go missing.

my doctor hate me

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:14:22 GMT

so i went home this weekend for a 5 minute doctors appointment. that's not really why my doctors hate me... that's more or less why my health insurance is terrible. the REAL reason i think my doctors hate me is the fact that when i went to get my prescription filled for my shoe insoles they told me that more or less what is wrong with my hurt foot is converse. needless to say my general plan is to ignore them. he also tried to scare me by telling me that if i keep wearing converse i'll have to wear shoes more or less like this when i get old

i then informed him that i work at a retirement home and pretty much everyone there has those shoes and somehow i don't think that they all wore converse so i'm pretty sure that just by getting better shoes i will not avoid this ugly shoe fate. he just looked at me after that.

[he was also weird and looked like he was from new jersey and had too much chest hair sticking out of his shirt... i'm pretty sure that any is too much but you get my drift]

[i just drank my latte significantly too fast and will likely start shaking in the next 5 minutes]

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 03:51:06 GMT

so ok... RIP my ibook. paul has currently loaned me one of his computers that he uses as a shelf so i do have regular internet access currently. in general things are fine, school is boring, etc. as of late i've been knitting and reading a lot and that about covers it.

things i'm looking forward to in the future:
.home this weekend (who will still be home/wants to go to trivia if i come home thursday??)
.the forecast!! in albany
.groundhog day
.the possibility of lupe fiasco
.the possibility of mysterious mystery
.jack's mannequin!
.the possibility of gym class heroes

that's pretty much about it from me. i'm pretty boring as of late. i think it's all the knitting...

my new account

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:27:25 GMT

advicetoyou.livejournal.com

that's my new journal i am going to try to keep doing... go there and read it and add me as your friend if you would like.

my thank the freaking lord!

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:07:12 GMT

i slept the entire night last night (ish) for the first time since i've been back from colorado. yesssssssssssss 12ish - 7:30 i could not be happier... well i could be but i'm taking what i can right now.

ok and seriously... i know sometimes you assume people are dead when they're not online... but i'm not dead... although close b/c i act like a 67 year old person (i knit, read, and eat soup). so call me or email me or something.

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:28:09 GMT

http://rit.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=2226249424&created&suggest

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:00:49 GMT

my favorite paragraphs of the past day:

"What happened to you?" asks a man I often eat lunch with. "Are you supposed to be an indie rocker now?" I cannot overstate that cultural impact of untucking ones's dress shirt while wearing a sweater; if you haven't tried this, you totally should. "This is probably a good direction for you," my lunch companion continues, "but this untucking is going to erode your outsider appeal. Plus, now you have to listen to Superchunk."

Now, I know what you're asking yourself: How do I know the difference between my nemesis and my archenemy? Here is the short answer: You kind of like you nemesis, despite the fact that you despise him. You will always have drinks and--privately-- you might shed a tear over his or her passing. However, you would never choose to have a cocktail with your archenemy, unless you were attempting to spike the gin with arsenic. If you were to perish, your archenemy would dance on your grave, and then he'd burn down your house and molest your children. You hate your archenemy so much that you keep your hatred secret, because you do not want your archenemy to have the satisfaction of being hated.
If this distinction seems confusing, just ask your girlfriend to explain it in detail; women have always understood the nemesis-archenemy dichotomy. Every woman I've ever known has at least one close friend whose only purpose in life is to criticize their actions, compete for men's attention, and drive them insane; very often, this is a woman's BEST friend.

not having a computer has upped the amount i've read and knit quite a lot.