Karna's Blog

Sincere apologies

2008-07-02T13:38:00.000-07:00

My apologies go out to Zieak, Cena, Tiffany, Sara, and Genia....and apparently, from what he told me last night, occasionally Kyle, for not posting for a month. The end of school and inmate graduation and whatnot was crazy busy. I am back now, though.

Back in the great white north

2008-07-02T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here I am in Alaska. It is surprisingly beautiful out. Sometimes I admit I judge this place too quickly; and now that I have a boyfriend who is down south and I am staying more or less out of the social scene (ok ok not always, I do go out sometimes), the drama has lessened and life here is not really so bad. The Elks is proving to be a great job; I like it so much more than Kitos. I don;t have to put up with cannery workers who don't tip and bark orders at me in either Spanish, Turkish, Romanian, Yugoslavian, etc...and my customers at the Elks are all good tippers, fun to talk to, and out of there by ten at night. Good stuff really, nothing to complain about.

Alrighty

2008-05-29T17:38:00.000-07:00

Ok, I have two committed readers so I shall press on with the blogging. Plus I do believe Cena and Zieak are out there in my cyber world somewhere too. I swear I will put up some Memorial Day pictures of the beach trip and of course my hottie man. So I am JEALOUS that Tiff got to see Elton. That is awesome. That guy is cool. Circle of Life, my fave Elton song.

Mayfest was fun...I will put up a pic or two from then too. Honestly there isn;t a lot to say about it because it was one big alcohol-induced mess, but a good mess, with minimal drama. The same as Mayfest always is. Good times. My men should be here anytime....ugh I wish they were running late today...I can't wait til the end of the year. I love teaching my guys, but my night class is crazy and very trying on the patience. Good thing I have no kids yet because there is NO patience left in me at 8:30 every night.

One month and counting

2008-05-28T17:50:00.000-07:00

I'm getting sick of my blog cause I think no one reads it. But, anyways, one month of school to go. Graduation is June 18th. Yes, we have graduation in prison too. For Memorial Day me, Laura, James, Billy, and Shannon went to Ocean Shores area to my boyfriend Dan's house. I will post pictures soon. It was fun. I came home yesterday morning before work. I love no school Mondays cause the week goes by much faster, like it is almost Thursday already. Thank God, I am getting burned out. IT will be nice to go deal with drunks this summer and take a break from prisoners. Wow, I pick my work crowd well huh. Convicts and drunks.

May

2008-05-05T17:39:00.000-07:00

May will be an easy month of work for me. Should be, at least. Last week I took Friday off and Billy, Shannon, Laura, James, and Dan and I went camping, so I only had a 4 day week. This friday we have "Building Community Day" where we pretent like we are bonding with the other instructors and we do not have class. Next week I only have school Monday and Tuesday then off to Mayfest I go. The week after, I have *gasp* a five day work week. Then the next week, no Monday for Memorial Day and off camping we go again. Hmmm what else...This Friday night is Chelsea Handler's show in Tacoma that Laura and I are going to. Her show is on the E! Network every night at 11:30, she is freakin hilarious, watch it. Hmmmm then P-town. The 31st Dan is taking me to the Canada/Brazil soccer game in Seattle. Soccer isn't much my thing but pro games are ok, I went in Italy too. That's about it....camping was fun, too much booze, not enough sleep, so that is the perfect recipe for great camping.

Spoiled

2008-04-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

I have reached the conclusion that my life is charmed, and if I bitch about things that are trivial and stupid in this blog, you can tell me to shut up. I have been on, seriously, 5 dates in the last two weeks (I just cannot pick ONE right now, haha). I live in an apartment with two friends (even if allan cannot do a dish to save his life). I am looking for a house to buy for the fall. I love my job. I am going to the Mariners game Saturday, and my little bro is coming to visit. I am going to Alaska in May for Mayfest, I went to Vietnam in November, Mexico in March and also last June, I am going to Canada this summer for softball. Spoiled. La Vita e Bella. (By the way, that is a great movie in Italian).

Leavenworth Conference

2008-04-22T19:51:00.000-07:00

I just got back from my first work conference as a fully employed, (almost) self-sufficient adult. Makes me feel old. But, the conference was pretty fun. Two days in Leavenworth, the town, not the federal prison, although that would have also been appropriate given my work. However, Kristyn and I (coworker, fellow youngster on the job, and fellow Whitman grad) decided that as stuck up as it sounds, we are much more intelligent than anyone who presented, and we are going to present next year. We already got permission. I mean really, no one was well-spoken and one guy just read his power point out loud to the group. EVERYONE knows that you make bulleted points and then elaborate during the lecture. Geez. So we, the youngest in the Prison Educators Association, will present next year and show them how it's done.

Calmer now

2008-04-16T17:15:00.000-07:00

Ok, internet fixed. Turns out comcast has not sent us a bill since January. They don't know why. They told us that the mailman has likely been giving our bills to someone else. would have been nice of that person to pay them for us, huh?

Tonight I am going to dinner with a bunch of my sorority sisters. I know I know, I am not in college anymore, but as was POUNDED into our head during that four years, A THETA IS FOREVER. So there.

I will post Mexico pics soon. I found that blogger has made this a much easier thing to do since, say, my Italy days.

Speaking of Italy, I had a dream the other day where I was speaking all Italian, and I think it made sense, so maybe I know more Italian than I thought.

I will be in Petersburg in ONE MONTH! And the hobag, you know who you are now, shall go drinking with me.

Fucking Pissed

2008-04-15T17:12:00.001-07:00

I'll tell you ab out MExico soon, but for now, I can only write at work because my roommate, and NOT the female one, has not been paying the goddamn tv and internet bill apparently, since JANUARY, and it got shut off today. He says he has been. Hopefully it's a mix up. But all I know is we have been giving him money to pay it and it has not been paid. Grrrrr

Mike and me up a mountain

2008-03-28T12:28:00.000-07:00

The final product, 1274 balls

2008-03-28T12:26:00.000-07:00

The First bag of 8 total bags

2008-03-28T12:25:00.000-07:00

It's like Easter egg hunting!

2008-03-28T12:23:00.000-07:00

Sneaking through the poorly locked fence

2008-03-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Being Sneaky

2008-03-28T12:20:00.000-07:00

got my game face on

2008-03-28T12:17:00.001-07:00

got my game face on
Originally uploaded by karnavore

Getting ready to go on the great golf ball adventure

Great Golf Ball Adventure, Part 2

2008-03-28T11:48:00.001-07:00

Sorry it's been two weeks, bad Karna. Last night we went out to BB McGraws to go dancing and came home and had the GGBA, Part 2 (see the title of my post for the translation haha). Seanne, Laura's cousin, joined us this time. We wore some sweet outfits and snuck under the fence to the driving range next door. There is a double fence, and in between the two fences there are tons of golf balls that never get collected. We got 8 garbage bags full. The pics are on my myspace. I will try to remember how to use Flickr and put some on here. We got 1274 total golf balls. amazing. Laura and I leave for Mexico tomorrow, so I imagine I will have tons of adventures to tell you about next week!

House hunting

2008-03-15T20:09:00.001-07:00

Mom got here last night as I already said, and today we went house hunting. I have a decent job, only a school loan payment (car is paid, no other bills), so I figure it is time to stop paying rent to someone and pay it to myself, in the form of a house payment. I want something on the Cedar River, which means 1) I wait patiently for someone to have a foreclosure disaster because that is the only way I will be able to afford one of those houses, or 2) Mom and I win the lottery with the ticket we bought tonight in hopes of making this house hunting business a whole lot easier. 59 million from the Mega-Millions lotto would certainly broaden my options a little.

Words of wisdom

2008-03-15T20:06:00.000-07:00

Here are my words of wisdom for Saturday, March 15: Never let a white person do your eyebrows, and if you must, then at least make sure she is not over 60 years old with penciled-in brows.
There has been no recent disaster, but I caved out of desperation back in June and let someone fitting the aforementioned description wax my eyebrows, and she 1)burned the crap out of my face with hot wax and 2) made my eyebrows freakishly thin and scary. took three months to grow them back. Ugh. Watch out for those old white ladies armed with wax.

In other news, mom is here and going to prison with me Monday. If my prisoners screw with me or leave anymore damn dead bugs on my desk when she is there, I am going to rack them in the balls.

Home alone AGAIN

2008-03-13T21:47:00.000-07:00

I suddenly find myself with no roommates. Laura is always out with James and Allan has not been home in two weeks and one day. Literally, he runs in, grabs clothes, and runs out. We have not yet broken the news to him that his new little woman is a huge ho bag....oh well, eventually. Once she is gone we will tell him that she is less than virginal. TOMORROW IS FRIDAY! Mom is coming to visit me woohoo.

curb stomping

2008-03-13T21:43:00.000-07:00

is what I wanted to do to my students last night. They got the best of me. I admit it. They made me cry but luckily I pull off a good "mad" face until I get out of the room and lose it, cause it would be all over for me if they had seen me cry. They fought tooth and nail against me ALL DAMN NIGHT for two hours straight, and when I was at the END of my rope, they left a goddamn dead huge beetle on my desk. Sad to say, but a beetle was the straw that broke the karna's back. The officers kicked them out for the night. Tonight they apologized in their felon way..."you know we were just fuckin with ya right? We didn't mean to make you mad, we were fuckin with ya". Haha. That's the best apology I could hope for out of them so I am happy.

Where are we going?

2008-03-09T16:07:00.000-07:00

To hell if we don't change our ways. That has gotta be on my list of top favorite quotes. Haha. I was DD last night. It was not too bad really. I had fun. I got a DAMN cute dress yesterday. I guess I already told you that. I was on a mission to find a Seahawk last night but I failed like usual. One day, I will hook my pro football player.

Happy birthday to Ginger

2008-03-08T18:45:00.002-08:00

we are going out in seattle in about half an hour. I volunteered to drive, I bet that's a shocker for you petersburg people who know a Karna that does NOT drive because she ALWAYS drinks. Well, look at this mature move I just made. DD. Haha. I got new dress today which I am wearing and is SUPER cute, look at my myspace tomorrow and I will put up pictures. I really should start putting pics back on here too for those people without myspace. So, laura and I leave three weeks from today for Mexico. We have been on a diet for a month now...well since the 29th of Jan, so over a month. That's because we leave the 29th so we had exactly two months to diet. I have currently lost 7pounds. Just for fun I tried on a pair of size 7 jeans, and I can nearly squeeze my fat ass into them. Just a few more pounds to go. woohoo. ok then, I'm off to drive us to seattle.

Happy birthday to

2008-03-08T18:45:00.001-08:00

Attack

2008-03-06T17:48:00.000-08:00

Well life in the prison is exciting lately, and not in a good way. Staff attack yesterday so night class was cancelled. Got off work two and a half hours early. I would say that this part is nice but then I just sit in I-405 traffic so that is not so fun. One of the counselors got the tar beat out of her...apparently he broke her temple and tore her cheek. Other offenders helped pull the attacker off her. Poor lady. She is one of the only counselors I have not met yet but I hear she is nice. Major bummer. She will be ok though.

Hmmm I had something to tell you all this morning but I forgot it. I will write again when I remember. Damn. What the hell was it....I must be getting old. Almost a quarter of a century!

I had to kick a guy out of class today who just would not shut the hell up and stop arguing with me about how he should not have to be in school. The nice part is that other inmates were listening, and once he was gone, they said they thought I handled the whole thing nicely. One inmate said "you gave him 19 chances to shut up and listen to you and on the 20th you did what you had to do. That was done very well." this was from another pain in the ass student so it's nice to hear that they don't disapprove of me involving officers once in a while. As long as you give them ample chances to improve their behavior and they still don't, the inmates don't give you the lable of a nark. Not that I care. If they deserve it, they deserve it.