swirls of color

i got a new place in north park.  it's got a pool and all that sweet jazz.  you should come visit me in my new home. 

xoxo

So I am graduating in a few weeks and I am participating in a two separate graduation ceremonies. If any of you are interested in coming to show some support, please let me know. I'm super excited about finally completing this long journey and would love to share it with as many loved ones as possible. I know I've told a lot of you this information already, but I figured I would throw it out there again.

Here are descriptions about the separate ceremonies, followed by the dates of the ceremonies.

First of all, I will be attending the Rainbow Graduation, which is a ceremony acknowledging those who are active in the LGBT community. This ceremony is going to be much smaller and will be the most important to me. I am encouraging all of my friends to attend this ceremony. However, I will also be walking in the official UCSD graduation ceremony for my college (Eleanor Roosevelt College). UCSD does not have a graduation ceremony for everyone, instead it has separate ceremonies depending on which college within UCSD you attend.

Rainbow Graduation: Saturday, June 7, 2008 at 4 PM at the Great Hall
Official UCSD Graduation: Sunday, June 22, 2008, at 1 p.m.on RIMAC Field

Unfortunately, I have to leave my current place due to construction (if any of you had ever been to my studio, you understand how upsetting this is!) and am looking for a place. I’m open to roommate situations or studios. If you know of anything or are interested in looking for a place together, let me know!

~Teresa

After 2 1/2 years, I have finally fixed my broken 3rd generation Ipod. And what's more, it only cost me $8 on ebay to purchase the new battery plus 10 minutes of my time taking the Ipod apart. This just seems so silly to me that I thought I would share.

a new year is coming soon. this time of year always brings back so many memories. past friendships, past lovers, great mistakes, great adventures, and all of the in between. i am feeling sad tonight even though this new year brings many new hopeful beginnings. if i close my eyes tight enough, can i please go someplace warm? xoxo

i guess sometimes you can put things out in the universe and get what you want.

originally posted sept.7th: i feel done with men. i want a hot lesbian lover. and perhaps if i throw that out into the universe it will come to fruition.

:)

i had a GREAT birthday party! it was definitely memorable and fantastic. thanks so much for those who came and made it an amazing time! i will be hosting art parties throughout the year. they will be on a MUCH smaller scale (just a few people) but will lots of fun art, music and laughter. let me know if you're ever interested in one!


xoxo,

Teresa

i was just reading through my older posts and realized i had something else exciting to tell.

in a posts a few months ago, i talked about a paper I had written:
( Women in the Ku Klux Klan )

well, it turns out the my paper won the showcase and I have to give a speech on my birthday about my. i think it's kind of exciting. makes me feel good about myself.

oh, and I am for sure getting a tattoo and it will be sexist thing EVER. it even includes a pierced nipple as part of the whole artistic piece.

I know it's completely absurd and ridiculous, but my mom and dad bought me an extremely over-priced ticket to see the Spice Girls on December 7th.

In other news, school is in full swing and while I'm stressed out, I couldn't be happier. I love my place, my classes are invigorating and exciting and I'm in love with my job. For those of you who don't know, I am the Resource and Events Planning Intern at the LGBT Resource Center on campus. I am absolutely in love with my position, the people and mostly, my advisers. Already we have had some amazing interactions and conversations. I shake my head at how happy I am with things. And did I mention that I love my classes, even the lower division history course I've been putting off? The other two classes are photography (in which I am hopefully buying a sexy Digital SLR camera this weekend) and Computing Arts (which I am LOVING!). I am also taking Spanish at Mesa and while it is at 8am on Saturday morning, which is an ungodly time, I love it.

Ok, that's enough. Someone should beat me for rubbing in all of my good news. But I don't mean to flaunt it, it's just exciting to feel in such a good space after so much pain. My medication and therapy are helping more than anything. It's been 7 months of about 3 hours/week of therapy. And it's been more helpful than anything else I've ever done. And while I have a hard time putting all of the DBT skills ( that's the type of therapy I'm in) into practice, I have a strong grasp of the ideas and end up coaching a good friend of mine a lot. It seems to help her, so perhaps I should take my own advice.

Anyways, there's my update.

You should all come to my party on Nov. 3rd and feel free to bring guests. It should be a lot of fun!

xoxo,

Teresa

To celebrate my birthday this year, I am going to host an all day event at my house in Mission Hills. This will be an entire day/night affair, so people can come and leave whenever. During the day we will being doing arts and crafts, including a batiking workshop, stencling, side-walk chalk, tote bag making, frame decorating, mosaics, gardening and much much more. I will have an assortment of vegetarian and vegan snacks throughout the day and a barbecue at night. During the evening we will have dancing, gaymes (notice the awesome spelling), a bonfire, movies and a sleep over. You are welcome to come any time during the day.

Please try to bring snacks and/or art supplies to add to the fun. But mostly, I want you there!

Details:
Teresa Fest 2007
Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 2:00pm

Location:
My humble abode
3006 Dove St
San Diego, CA
858.344.6471

i know its cheesy but fiona has my heart tonight, as my new mixed CD is accurately labeled.

"And I'll be your girl, if you say it's a gift
And you give me some more of your drugs"

i feel done with men. i want a hot lesbian lover. and perhaps if i throw that out into the universe it will come to fruition.

if anyone cares, my backpack got stolen and in it was my phone, so the only way to get a hold of me is through the internet.

smiles,

teresa

ignore last post.

i found my own studio. it's sort of perfect and i'll be renting from a super awesome friend of Bryan's, so it's a solid situation.

i'm very very excited, to say the least. i'm excited even despite the fact that there is some sort of bug infestation in my house and i am covered in bites and little bugs are crawling all over me making me! ug.

Hey guys,

I have a room for rent in Normal Heights and just thought I would check with all of my friends to see if they or someone they knew needed a place to live starting in August.

Here's more info (lots of info!):
http://sandiego.craigslist.org/roo/370433271.html

Thanks,

Teresa

just found out the spice girls are going on a reunion tour. how incredibly awesome is that? *laughs at own silliness* seriously.

things are good at this moment. i'm working the summer as a camp counselor on campus. my name is T-Rex so the kids call me that all day. today a kid told me that i was "the best arts and crafts teacher EVER" and another made a purse that said "T-Rex rocks". it sort of made my week and made the fact that i'm stressed out a little easier. but the kids are great. and i've been working out with a really cool girl, which is already making me feel better.

my roommate is moving, which is cool because now i don't have to move. and my friend kira is probably moving in, which is rad because she rocks. i became a vegetarian again about 4 months ago and since she's a vegan, it will be nice to have someone around with a similar diet. my current roommate eats a lot of junk food.

i did well in classes but the most exciting thing that happened last quarter is that i wrote a paper on the women in the kkk in the 1920's and since there is almost nothing written about them, i did a lot of intensive research. i ordered a copy of the klan's newspaper from the year 1923 and read through the entire year on microfilm in order to get a sense of the way in which played a role in the klan as represented through the media. i had to do this since there is are no historians who have written about the WKKK and only one sociologist who has done any intense research. and yet the WKKK was huge! and so i got really excited and spent days in the library researching. i didn't think the paper was the great, but i was proud of my research. and my T.A., who is hard ass on papers, not only gave me an A, but submitted it to the MMW showcase and said it was the best paper he had ever read in MMW. i mean, i'm being compared to lower division students so it's not the highest honor in the world, but it sure did validate the horribleness of last quarter and gave me a bit more confidence in my writing, which i need right now.

dude, i'm going horseback riding this weekend. how fucking cool is that?! i haven't been since i was 14. i'm stoked.

that's about it. things are good at this moment.

I need possibilities for a new email address name. What should I do? Something without "teresa" is it. I seem to do that a lot.

note to self: my body cannot handle multiple all-nighters in one week, especially when combined with an excess of caffeine and a high degree of stress.

reason #145 why DBT is helping me. i think i would normally be freaking out about the fact that i feel like i'm dying right now and have to take a final in a half an hour even though i haven't studied enough for it because i was sick/stressed/passed out all night. where as my wise mind has assured me that my physical reaction is in response to stress, lack of sleep, dehydration and too much caffeine. and after having called a paramedic friend, was assured that my heart rate is not out of control. and thus i will take my final to the best of my ability and if my symptoms are still persisting in a few hours, i will go to student health.

( stuff about therapy )

for the past year or so, every time i get my period, i get frustrated because yet another month has gone by and i have yet again forgotten to buy a DivaCup (lunapads.com) and must continue the use of tampons. and so i swear that before my next period, i will buy one. and a month later, i realize that i have failed to do so.

but no longer.

world, i refuse to stick dry cotton up my vagina any longer.

plus, i'm really looking forward to painting with my vaginal blood. i mean, i'm going to be collecting it in a cup! what else is there to do with it?!?!?!