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california was amazing! i can't go into it right now but i'll write again soon.
i got back and on sunday morning woke up and had a severe pain in my right leg. it turns out that i pinched the sciatic nerve doing a bunch of stuff so i'm out of commission for a few days.
hope everyone is doing well...
ellio
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YAY!! i'm going to california today!!!!!
see you in a week!! MWAH(you)!
ellio
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[06 Mar 2005|07:35pm] |
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i'm completely exhausted...
last night was soo fun!! smirkus kids rock!!
stork, bret, logan and i drove down to Wilton, NH for the Hilltop Circus Alumni Reunion show. it was soooooooo freakin' amazing!! OH MY GOD!!!(HAHAHAH!!). can i just say...HAWT? i'm soo impressed and inspired now!
after the show, we went to tobin's house for a party with everyone and played some entertaining games(logan's fantasy!! haha!). then we went to david graham's house to crash but didn't really end up going to sleep cause people decided to do hand-to-hand and other fun stuff until 5am. somehow everyone calmed down enough for me to fall asleep for 2 hours on a mat and then wake up to drive back to work....i had a really great conversation with my mom about my plans for the upcoming months and moving on the way from Montpelier to Essex.
ok i'm working on very little sleep and the caffeine has worn off 5 hours ago....
zzzzzzzzz
love ellio
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| ben!, camp, england, mardi gras, lack of money... |
[26 Feb 2005|07:17pm] |
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yay! vacation is soo nice!! i've seen ben more than 5 times this week, which is soo nice!
this whole week i work at Smirkus Camp. that was pretty fun and remarkably easy compared to this summer...ahhh horrible memories... the kid's show was pretty good too. it was supposed to be 1 hour but somehow we managed to get it down to 30 minutes. neato! all the good kids signed up for classes also so that'll be mighty fun!
i found out that i might be going to England from August 8th -22nd. my dad found tickets for ridiculously cheap(like 400$ roundtrip). this means that i might need to move earlier or i don't know...we need to figure it out. i'd love to go but i also don't want to leave ben there right after we move...hmmmmm dilemma.
today was fun! i slept in!!! then ben and i went to the academy and helped Kerren set up her trapeze and then hung out while she came up with her act. it's really good! and i'm going to see the show next weekend. then after we went to the Mardi Gras parade which was exciting. we dubbed around Church St. for awhile and then went to dinner at Three Tomatoes...yum!!!
so on a darker note, i might have to quit Smirkus if they don't pay me more. i just got my pay check and i was shorted 4 hours of pay...also, i worked camp this week and only got payed 250$ which is 200$ less than i should get if i'm getting paid 10$/hr. that's 5.55$/hr... if that's what i'm getting paid this summer, i need to quit and maybe move right after graduation. that would be cool...then i can go to England!
that's it for now...off to watch Harry Potter...
MWAH!
love, ellio
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hey hey!
sorry i haven't wrote in a while...i guess my plans of writing more often fell through! all i have to say is I LOVE BEN SOOOO MUCH!!! this week has been so nice!!! on Thursday we had faux Valentine's Day which was lovely! on Friday, i slept at his house...yay!! yesterday, i left my phone at his house and so we went out to dinner at Sakura..yum!!! and today! is our TWO MONTH ANNIVERSARY!! WOOHOOO!!!!
for Valentine's Day, he got me, my mom and himself tickets to see the broadway tour of Phantom of the Opera!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOT!!!!!! i'm soo excited!
this weekend i worked a total of 20 hours...so i'm pretty tired. next week i don't have school but i am working at Smirkus Camp which should be fun! the birthday party i did today was soo weird...the kids were so quiet and well-behaved...i don't think i liked it.
i'll write soon...probably.
17 more days 'til i go to California!!!!
39 more days 'til i go to Florida!!!!
love, ellio
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[14 Feb 2005|09:35am] |
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ugh! this sucks...it's Valentine's Day and i'm fucking sick!! I LOVE YOU BEN SOOO MUCH!!!!! i'm soo happy right now...but i can't stand up cause i'm so dizzy. i don't know what else to write....
MWAH BEN!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!
Happy Valentine's Day everyone!
love ellio
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[08 Feb 2005|09:17pm] |
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wow! what a great day! i feel really good! school was short and then circus went amazingly. I GOT MY FUCKING BACK HANDSPRING!!!!! FUCK YES!!!! zina also told me that my front handspring looks great! i also got to work on cradle and lyra, which was really nice. i learned shoulder-stands on lyra and Zina told me they were really good after yelling at some girl because she couldn't do them. i also started to work on eccentric which i really enjoy. i'm doing a good combination of "boy" and "girl" circus stuff, so i'm not getting yelled at for doing exclusive "girl" stuff. yes, i work with some of the most sexist people in the world. but it's ok i suppose if you know them.
i'm also soo excited for Talent Night! my part is super cool!! i'm not going to be dumb and reveal any part of our script though(*cough* *cough*). YAY!!
i have one more day of school this week! and then i go to Districts for three days!! i LOVE districts!!! and i get to go to Khoppy's house for the first time on Friday!! HOORAY!!!
what a great week!!
love ellio!
p.s. Vitamin Water(the dragonfruit flavor) is AMAZING!!!
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i'm really tired and sore but happy. i had a really great weekend which is really refreshing. the weather was soo fucking amazing, i can't even handle it!
on sunday i went sledding with ben and my mom and then while i was at work, they went to see Finding Neverland...lol kind of odd...but cool!
i'm listening to A Chorus Line for the first time. i really like it! i've been finding all these new musicals lately! i feel really gay...but they're really good heheh.
if this shoulder thing doesn't go away, i'm going to be really upset...ugh!!!
i'm so excited to do talent night!!! yay!! and even more excited to go to California with Ben!!! YAY!!!!
love, ellio
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[02 Feb 2005|03:22pm] |
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ugh! i'm really tired. i think i'm getting sick again. this sucks...
i decided that the yoga class is too much because the ride situation is too much of a big deal. my dad is going to use his parental power and try to get me out of the policy so i can just take a yoga class here in b-town. hehe. but now i can't see Ben on wednesdays. hopefully he'll get a car soon and can come down and maybe take a yoga class with me here. that would awesome!
i got my report card back today! it was soo good!! my GPA is a fucking 3.8!!!!!! oh my fucking god!! that's soo great!! hooray!!
i'm such a Wicked kick lately...it's such an amazing musical! hmmmm
i think i'm completely right side-oriented. i'm surprised i don't limp around on my right leg cause my left side completely hates me. my left shoulder is fucked up and my left foot is all torn up from trapeze, even though i was doing one-footed toe hangs on my right foot(and it's not hurt at all...)
i guess that's all for now...i'll try to update sooner.
ellio
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[27 Jan 2005|04:41pm] |
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ugh! i'm soo sore...
here is a list of things that hurt on me right :
-my right ankle from landing a round-off incorrectly
-my left big toe from my accident(still)
-my legs in general from weight lifting
-my right hip from falling over on the ice yesterday
-my left hip from stretching
-my left shoulder from falling on it on the ice
-both forearms from doing russian roulette on trapeze
-my back from stretching a lot...
owwww
so yesterday i was supposed to go to my first yoga class in st. albans and then the fucking bus was late by 2 hours so i decided not to go...i miss ben! :( i'll see him tomorrow though!! YAY!!
my new classes are really nice. it's very easy which is nice. in GSA, we're doing this huge Love Is A Family exhibit for two weeks in april and so i'm working on coordinating that right now. everyone should check it out, it should be really cool. i can't really think of anything else right now.
have a great night!!
love elliott
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today was soo good! i don't really know why but i had a great day. it was the first day of Semester 2 which means i am this close to graduating and being done with this shit for the rest of my life(haha wow "this" and "shit" have the same letters). anyways i got done at noon and went to Sara's to watch Margaret Cho. oh the hilarity!(great new word).
auditions for Smirkus went amazingly! everyone did such a good job...it kind of made me sad i wasn't auditioning though. i got to do the music, which was fun except when the music didn't work and we had to be creative...haha. i think Chelsea and Ben Bonds will defintely get in. yay! good luck to the others!!
yay! my dad bought tickets for me, Ben and him to California for March 9th through the 16th!! i'm soo excited. i've also narrowed/expanded my college search to four colleges(San Francisco State University, UC Berkeley(dream school), New College of California, and University of Marin). i don't know if i really want to waste my precious time in CA looking at colleges though. i'll probably narrow it down to two to look at and then spend the rest of time showing Ben everything.
yoga starts on Wednesday! the trek to St. Albans will be interesting but i get to see Ben and take yoga instead of gym(bleh!)
i want my First Night show pics!!!
have a great evening!
eelliioo
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[20 Jan 2005|12:35pm] |
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YAY!! i'm officially done with exams as of 9:40(+2 = 6 points yay!)this morning. they went really well, all of them were too easy. oh well, no more PIWA(YAY!!) or Journalism :(. we'll see what my grades are next week...hmmmm
i was going to go to yoga today but i decided that i didn't want to because i still don't feel well and i just wanted to do nothing. i got into the consortium class in St. Albans for yoga so i might not need to take gym at all. this fucking rocks!!
tomorrow i am going to see The Revealers with ben and my mom. i helped design the set, hot stuff!
ok i'm going to go lounge and do nothing for a good 10 hours until i fall asleep and then wake up and do nothing for a whole day until i get to hang out with the one i love...yay!! what a fucking amazing week!!
love ellio
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[17 Jan 2005|04:20pm] |
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wow it's been a while since i've updated...oops
umm i can't really remember what happened in the past week but i'll update you on the more recent stuff.
i spent the entire weekend(friday, saturday, sunday and monday) with ben! YAY! it was really nice, besides the minor car issues...not a great week for cars. ben's car blew up on monday on his way home from Burlington and then on friday we were in his mom's giant SUV and we ripped the arm-thing off at the parking garage. oops...
anyways, last night we went to the winter ball. i had a great time except for the people staring at us. right before we left, this one freshman girl came up to us and asked if she could take our picture(in a way that obviously wasn't "oh that's a cute couple") and then told us to kiss and stared laughing. so i told her no and she tried to anyways so i grabbed her camera and tried to throw it but she held on. ugh!! it was really emotionally-draining trying to have a good time and ignore all the fucking dumbasses at my school.
i went to ben's after the dance and we just chilled out which was soo nice. i got sick though. i always get sick right before exams...ugh! luckily i don't have a real chorus exam this time so being sick won't be a problem.
i've just been wanting to get out of here lately. i hate vermont in the winter and just get really depressed. this year seems to be worse though because i have the hope of california to look forward to. ooh yeah i forgot, i'm going to California with Ben and my dad in february for a week. yay!! we leave the second to last day of february vacation and then miss a week of school.
in other news, i'm done with PIWA and Journalism for the rest of my life!!!!! my schedule for the rest of the year is soo easy!!
1. Concert Chorus
2. Gym(Q3) and Driver's Ed (Q4)
3. Peer Leadership
4. Prob/Stats
5. Chamber Singers
5. Literature of the Holocaust
6. Nothing
7. maybe Gym(Q4)...hopefully not
8. Nothing
soo easy!!
i have to go sort of look at my PIWA notes to study for the exam...maybe the school will "accidentally" spontaneously combust...
that's all for now. have a good day and be optimistic! things are good.
love ellio
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| all-states |
[09 Jan 2005|10:16am] |
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it's been about a week since i've updated. not much has happened. i hung out with Ben a lot. yay!!!
we had a coffee house which went amazingly. we made the most money we've made on a coffeehouse ever. it was sponsered by GSA and Chamber Singers and each group(which i happen to be in both) got about 100$. i also tried Bikram Yoga with Krissy on wednesday. i really liked it a lot. it's kind of expensive to do regularly but i can definitely see myself doing it every once in a while. i hung out with Alexa which was awesome. i love her so much, we always have such fun times.
yesterday was all-state auditions. kp, emma, joe and i practiced quite a bit and sounded very good. once we got into our room, we completely fucked it up. i had to sing for every other group because i was the only bass who auditioned. my sightreading sucked soo much. i could of went in and screamed at the top of my lungs and scratched my nails down the board and done better. oh well. we'll see. i just want a better score than i got last year. after my audition was completely over i went to proctor one of the vocal rooms. the girl who had been proctoring before me had no control over it and the hallway was so insane. so basically i just had to organize everything and eventually, even though we were an hour and half behind by the time i got there, we ended early for most of the rooms. so that was sucessful.
i was supposed to spend the night at Ben's after all-states but he got in trouble for coming home late on friday so he couldn't come pick me up and the roads were too bad anyways. oh well i have to wait til tomorrow to see him.
have a great sunday, enjoy the fucking snow...ugh!!
love elliott
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR!! |
[01 Jan 2005|08:03pm] |
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FIRST NIGHT WAS AMAZING!!!!
our performance was incredible!! good job guys!! it was soo fun and i have this great feeling of accomplishment now. i'll put up some pictures when i get them. thanks to all those who came, especially Ben!!
oh my! i am so madly in love!!! Ben and i hung out for all of First Night, which was amazing!! it was definitely one of the best new years i've had yet. after my show, we walked around Chruch St. and went shopping. i go three pairs of pants from GAP for $60. we went out to a great dinner at Three Tomatoes(soo good!) and then went to see Syd play three songs at Memorial Auditorium. after that we went to the Hokum Bros. Honky Tonky Vaudeville show, which was ok. i wanted to go see Gemini Trapeze but their act wasn't the best. then we went to watch the fireworks. after the fireworks we got on the shuttle bus to General Dynamics which turned out to be another General Dynamics than the one near my house so we walked about a mile back home.
today i've just been putting CDs on my iPod and hanging out. YAY!!
happy new year!!
i love you ben!! MWAH!!
love, ellio
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[30 Dec 2004|08:21pm] |
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wow what a fucking amazing vacation!! first of all, ben and i are officially going out! HOORAY!! i'm so excited for that!! second of all, i got amazing stuff for christmas(esp. ben) and got to hang out with my mom and just chill-out for once. third of all, i'm performing tomorrow at First Night!!
the show is going to be soo fun! it's going to be kind of choppy but it'll still be fun. everyone has to come! i know i've said it a million times but it's 3:30-4:30 at memorial auditorium on south union and main st. yay!! ben's going to be there also. anyone who wants to hang out with us to do first night stuff, come to my show and we'll figure it out after.
hmmm, i'm not in a really typ-y mood so i'm not going type anymore.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!(GOOD BYE 2004!)
love ellio
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| merry slacker christmas!! |
[24 Dec 2004|08:54pm] |
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hooray for slacker's christmas(aka chilled-out christmas)!! we didn't get a christmas tree cause it's always too cold and it turns out no one likes getting one. we used a grapefruit tree my brother grew from seed instead. we also opened presents tonight because clel is going to DC tomorrow. so far for christmas i got...
· 20$ from my grandparents
· Lindt chocolate
· A necklace from Rwanda to support Harwood’s trip
· A blue long-sleeve Circus Smirkus t-shirt
· A greenish crew neck Circus Smirkus shirt
· 120$ to Church St. Marketplace
· 200$ towards buying an mp3 player
· Two pairs of SmartWool socks
· 75$ from my grandpa (for Hannukah)
· Lottery tickets
hooray!! today i cooked a lot too. i made a pumpkin pie, carrots vichy, and broccoli. i watched Elf and Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas also. it was a very eventful day.
oh yeah, and i talked to a very special person...MWAH!!!!! yay!! i can't wait to hang out with you!!(all i want for Christmas is you!)
( merry slacker's christmas 2004 )
i love you!!
ellio
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| update on car crash... |
[22 Dec 2004|08:35pm] |
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ok so john's out of the hospital. it turned out he had a really severe case of the flu which caused his blood pressure to lower, causing a lack of oxygen to his brain, causing him to faint. the other driver, Chris, is fine also...he has a few seatbelt injuries but nothing serious. my lip went down and i just have a cut inside my lip but that'll heal soon enough. i've noticed that when i drive i've been incredibly jumpy and all drivers scare the fuck out of me. oh well i guess you'll have that.
i want to apologize to friends that i didn't tell about the accident until recently but i was really shocked from it and didn't want to make it a big deal...sorry if you found out through my livejournal.
here's some pics my mom took of the car
yay!! i'm on vacation!! i hung out with Q, Ben and Khops today. that was really fun! we lost Brittany and Tim accidentally but it was fine. sorry guys! i finished my Christmas shopping..thank god...
tomorrow i'm heading to my mom's until Sunday or Mondayish but i'll talk to y'all. if not, i love you all and have a great Christmas...or if you don't celebrate Christmas, then don't... :)
hooray for vacation!
ellio
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lovely day yesterday...
after work, my stepdad picked me up and we were driving to waterbury. the roads were really bad. every once in awhile he would roll down his window and take deep breaths and cough a bit. and then we were on Route 2 in between Williston and Richmond and i was dozing off and he rolled down his window all the way which woke me up. we had just gone down the hill past Pine Ridge and he started coughing a bit and muttered that he felt like crap. and then i thought we started to slide into the other lane and narrowly missed this one car and i looked over and my stepdad was passed out. i grabbed the wheel but a split second later we hit another car head on. if i hadn't grabbed the steering wheel i would have gotten hit dead on with the other car so that was good. i got hit in the face with the airbag and the impact woke John(stepfather)up.
i jumped out of the car and ask the other driver if he was ok. he was fine and i called 911 but they were asking me all these questions and i was freaking out so i made the other driver talk to them and i checked on John who was puking out of his side and then lied down across my seat. both of the cars hood were bent up and there were parts of the headlights and John's EMT lights all over. it was snowing really hard and i was really cold and so i put on John's EMT jacket. i called my mom and she apparently knew somehow that we had gotten into a crash. she and Claire talked to me while we waited for the ambulances. and then called my dad. john said he just felt nauseated and couldn't get out of the car. after about 10 or 15 minutes Essex and Williston ambulances came and a bunch of police cars and firetrucks. they asked me a whole bunch of questions and then got John out of the car and onto a stretcher and into Essex ambulance. i rode next to him because they were going to check me out at the hospital.
when we got to the hospital they put us in a room and started to check out john. they kept asking me what happened and give john all these tests. i'm not really sure what they were testing for. at one point he said he felt nauseated and the doctor rolled him onto his side towards me and he vomited all the way across the room. some hit me but there was a doctor standing in between me and john so he pretty much got her completely. she glared at the other doctor and left the room.
some other doctor came over and checked me out for internal bleeding and anything else i might've hurt. i got a fat lip which is just really sore and a few scraps from i'm not sure what. my dad, mom and claire all came in at the same time and i thought i was going to break down and start crying uncontrollably but i just cried a little. after about an hour i got discharged and left just as John went up to x-rays. apparently he might have an ubstruction in his bowels which caused him to pass out and vomit everywhere.
as soon as i got home i called Ben cause he had been calling me and he made me feel soo much better. it was so nice to talk to someone who wasn't asking me millions of questions and freaking out. my mom also called and said that john might have appendisitis and he was in the ER but passed out from drugs. they stayed there last night and i'm waiting for my mom to call me now. last night i couldn't sleep at all cause i kept having flashbacks of the accident. ugh! it sucked so much...
i'll keep you all updated when i find out more. i love you all!!!!
ellio
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| amazing night! |
[18 Dec 2004|05:59pm] |
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oh my god, last night was amazing! i had such a great time!!! we ended up going to American Flatbread and then to see the Machinist which was intensely creepy, but really good! i can't wait to see you again(you know who you are)!!
today i had to work from 9 to 11 and then i had rehearsal from 1 to 4...ugh! it was really long especially cause i'm in the first act and then the last act. it's a pretty good show though. i highly recommend you all come see it...December 31, 3:30-4:30pm at Memorial Auditorium. apparently you might want to get there for the previous show because they're not clearing the theater, so get there at 2:30 instead.
tomorrow i have rehearsal from 9 to 2 and then i have this huge Christmas party to do with 30 kids. and then i get to go to my mom's! HOORAY!! i never see my mom so it'll be really nice. i'll be at her house for all of vacation also because my dad/everyone else in my family are going to Washington D.C...yeah i wasn't invited.
i'm home alone right now cause everyone else in my family went to a party for my dad and aunt.
have a good night.
ellio
p.s. yay!!
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