It's all just makebelieve
Monday, January 31, 2005
we have people wh put our pants on one leg at a time...
i have alison to thank for this:
www.mcsweeneys.net/links/black
go there. read everything. laugh a lot. you will be happy.
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Sunday, January 30, 2005
happy first birthday, farah!
knox-check
I AM ALL DONE APPLYING TO COLLEGE. FINALLY.
i went to farahs birthday party today. there were billions of babies there and it was weird.
i had to redo my entire common app because i lost my origional. it was soo sad. i thought i was done the first time... but i did it while watching the glass menagerie, so it wasnt too bad.
but then i was looking at all my stuff, and i found some typos, and it was really upsetting. once i said 'or' instead of 'for', and once i forgot a period. im really afraid that there are more that i havent found, and im worried that i wont get accepted into college because of them. that would suck.
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Saturday, January 29, 2005
delia, if i were attracted to girls, id be attracted to you
my so called life is brilliance; it died too young. i just spent all day watching it with batia, and it was wonderful. im in love with jared leto.
i also ate lots of food. namely, ice cream and kosher tea crackers. and i drank some sour chocolate milk, and it was the worst thing ive ever tasted, i swear. i swallowed it, and then i realized that it tasted aweful, and i got up and ran to the sink and spit it out. and i think im traumatized, because i tried to drink milk, and i couldnt stand it. it reminded me of the sour milk. it was just so terrible.
some days just sitting around watching tv ALL DAY feels really good.
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Friday, January 28, 2005
any time of the day is a good time for pie
finally, friday.
i set up a visit with slc, so all i have is a tour. yay. and i also discovered that henry and ariel are visiting beloit on the same day as me. oh, so many visits.
in seminar today we talked about uni, and i started getting really nostalgic about my school. ive been doing this a lot lately, perhaps because im about to graduate(man, i already feel like im about to graduate..i think its a little premature). but i just thought "man, uni is the best school ever..."
at ayeshas house i watched the last half hour or so of "before sunset", and it was BRILLIANT. its just a real time conversation of two people talking and walking around paris, but it manages to be so interesting and so good. and at the end, ethan hawke puts on the cd, and i recognized the cd from a little tiny image on the cover, and i was so proud of myself.
so i came home to alison watching pulp fiction. i like how in this movie, butch says his name is american, and american names dont mean anything, but butch is one of the few american names that does mean something...
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Thursday, January 27, 2005
a diffrent kind of poverty
so:
i watched alias
then ER, which made me cry
then the daily show(yes, lots of tv for me)
i choked on a paer skin, which made me cough for ten minutes. but i think im getting sick anyway. ick.
succesfully schedualed a visit w/ sarah lawrence. it will be fun.
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how are we going to stop the war if you cant sing any louder than that?
ugh. today felt like friday. tommorrows the real thing though. and i luckily have no homework! so ill watch alias.
mr b stopped me after school to remind me to come to the movie night, and i feel really bad. i told him id try to come, but i really dont want to because hes showing a scary nuclear war movie, and i dont like those kinds of movies. but i want other people to go or else ill feel bad. i want it to be a succesful movie night, or else poor mr b will be sad. and i dont want that to happen. but at the same time i really dont want to go. i hope other people go. next time, if he shows a good movie, im going.
last night i was talking to maayan, and it turns out tom stole my best option for a visiting date. but i think ive found an alternative; it just means quick planning and a two day week. and i wont get to go to her cuba class. but you cant have everything.
also: im currently experienceing a drought.
in anthro were talking about hunter-gatherers, and i really wish i was a hunter gatherer. i think it would have been awesome to have been a cave person, with all that beautiful unhurt land, and it sounds so idyllic. and peacful. when i read clan of the cave bears, i felt the exact same way. maybe i should start a hunting-gathering commune. too bad its not the sixties. or i could become one of those park rangers in national parks who wanders around on a horse wherever they want to go and takes care of the land. but im not sure thats a real job. and its also more lonely than a commune. what will i do?
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005
marching to the concord war
i just got myt very own copy of dads woodstock cds. he burned them from me and they are wonderful. im listening to richie havens right now, who my dad first described to me, very accuratly, as a black guy with no teeth and huge thumbs. but hes excellent. and im feeling surrounded by good music, so its hard to write my english essay. i can also smell my moms banana muffins from downstairs cooking, and i really want one.
plus: i correctly guessed the daily show moment of zen tonight (it was john ashcroft singing). [imagine me licking my finger and drawing a line in the sky, because i love it when people do that]
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gimme an F!
im trying to self-submit my grades to uchicago, and you have to do it online. so i went to the website, and im on the applying site, where youre supposed to apply online, which i didnt do, but you can only do a midyear report online, so im doing that. but i cant find the midyear report form. i have been scouring this site for fifteen minutes and i think it doesnt exist. but i dont really want to call and ask because ill sound stupid. maybe theyre trying to weed people out. wish me luck.
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here i go out the window
i wish i was a unitarian. they sound like they have so much fun.
today i felt bad about my inability to remember dates of any sort.
and mrs suzuki changed from "mildly annoying" to "evil incarnate" when she all the sudden got really pissed and gave us a quiz on something she knew we couldnt do, and then didnt give us a chance to try it. i hate her.
shocking story of the day: so while driving home me and alison called in to 107.1 to request a song (los angeles im yours. but i wanted to ask for album of the year). anyway, they didnt play it, and i wanted to hear them play it, so i put the radio on when i got home. so im listening to it, blah blah blah, and then he puts on this dude calling and saying "can you play such and such they might be giants song? its from mike to kate" and i was like 'that sounds really familiar...' and then i remembered that as we were driving back, he had played that same clip, and the song! HE PLAYED THE SAME SONG TWICE AND WASNT EVEN SUBTLE ABOUT IT! and he didnt play MY song. hmmph. i want to let him know that i know, btu the request hour is over so he left.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005
oh, sloane...
dude, im watching alias, and i forgot what happened last season, so i went to the website to look up what happened. then i got caught up in looking at the character profile, which are hilarious because theyre so detailed. but the most exciting thing is: dixon went to sarah lawrence! in other news, hes also color blind in his left eye and knows kung fu (who writes these things?). but mostly: HE WENT TO SLC!
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be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box
i just read max schnuers away message and it made me laugh.
today we sang titanic in math class and talked about how the catch-22 dude looks like a swastika. and i looked up the oscar nominations. and listened to modest mouse in the lounge, which just made my day.
i also figured out the country joe and the fish song. i was confused because they werent counting correctly, but then i figured out, it goes like this:
"and its 1,2,3,
what are we fighting 4?
dont ask me i dont give a damn
next stop is vietnam
and its 5,6,7,
open up the pearly g8s
etc etc"
i was confused because i thought theyb skipped 4. but its really very clever. it made me like the song even more, which is remarkable considering that ive had it stuck in my haed for days.
now im going to watch alias because im way behind.
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Monday, January 24, 2005
freakin idiot!
o how i love anthro. it is so much fun and it made me remember how much i love ancient history. im such a dork. but im also reading all this stuff about so-called primitive cultures, like the !kung, and i really want to go live with them because they sound awesome. is that condescending of me?
and today i remembered the word stigmata. i was sitting in my dads office, and i went "stigmata! ive got it!"
i had so little homework tonight that i went home and watched love actually, which made me so happy. i LOVE unrequieted love stories, and the one with keira knightly and that bloke(oh, i love the word bloke. im trying to adopt it into my vocabulary) is really good.
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Sunday, January 23, 2005
its pretty much my favorite animal
quick recap of my weekend:
winter formal was fun. im glad i went. im excited to see the pictures online, because some people looked REALLY cute, and some people were wearing not enough clothing and looked like jellyfishes. there were also tons of weird people who didnt go to uni and didnt hang out with anyone from uni there. some of them werent even dressed up. and becca basset was there. no one wanted to talk to her, but everyone was really curious. it was weird. but fun.
watched sex and the city
went to moonstruck
saw house of flying dagger w/ mom and eli. it was good, and as i ws told, the sound was awesome.and so were the costumes. in fact, it was all good except for the ending.
then: i just realized that i have an essay to write for anthro. the essays short (1-2 pgs), but the reading i need to write it about is long.
(also: some guy i dont know commented on my last entry. its sort of scary)
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Saturday, January 22, 2005
where is my mind
i took the sat iis this morning. it sucked. but eli and shruti and batia were there, so that was sort of nice. but: if all goes well, those were my last standerized tests EVER. im so happy. i my writing essay topic was "courage has many faces", and so i wrote about how in "the things they carried", tim obrien says that it took more courage to evade the draft than to go to war. i hope i get a good reader. at leat i didnt write about how terrorists have courage, like eli.
then alas, because of me, there was no mscl. so ive been sitting around watching vh1 and feeling useless. i did stop by uni on a rescue mission for my horn, and luckily unique was there, and ms majerus just so happened to have a key to the 4th floor, so i was very happy.
now: im going to prepare for the winter formal. yay.
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Friday, January 21, 2005
this is how the story ends
today wass bad. i dont know why. i ate a snickers bar and it made me feel sick, and then i couldnt go to the roe v wade rally because of 3 people in anthro, which was angering. and it just was not a generally good day. but in math class i got a text message which made me feel loved(thanks therese). phones are so ingeneous.and i found out that more people read this blog than i thought... that was fun.
me and lauren and ayesha and alison went shopping at circles, and then we had the MOST akward and strange conversation ever at cafe kopi. but we tried on pretty dress and coats and it was fun.
at dinner tonight i talked about philosophy for a really long time with my parents. it was fun, especially because my dad gets really into it. but then i realized that i had left my horn at school for the second week IN A ROW. i suck. im going to try and retrieve it tommorrow, because if i dont my teacher will know i havent been practicing, and ill feel terrible.
tommorrow: sat iis, winter formal, my so called life. oh boy.
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Thursday, January 20, 2005
hey little darlin, dont shed no tears
instead of the daily show making me happy as usual, it just made me really deppressed about bush. but now im listening to bob marley and its helping a little. but i really cant believe that were only half way done with him. i dont know what were gonna do. this makes me wish i was some important person, like a politician, so i could do something, but i feel like theres nothing i can do.
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and the plot thickens
i forgot a bit of my "loosing kassies car keys" story. so i was at the game, and janet was there, and she was talking to me and kassie and ben and a few other people, and she was like "moms arent happy when they loose their car keys, especially when someone else is involved" and i thought "thats a bit uncalled for, its not like i ment to do it", and then she said "maybe you should realize that hes just going to be with us for another four years...face it"
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around some corner where its been wating to meet you
our vigil went well, i think, except we left our "vigilantes for peace" sign at school, so no one knew what we were protesting. then i drove to school to get it, and it was snowing and hard to see, and by the time i got back with it, everyone was leaving and i missed the nice moment of silence. :-(
kassie gave me her keys to the school, and apparently i lost her car key, because when i got the the baseketball game, she was like "i hope my key is in your car!" nwe lost the game, and kassie and ben and me dug through my car but we couldnt find it, and i felt really bad. then i drove past my street because i was listening to "everybody wang chung tonight". ive done a lot of driving today.
but for the most part it was a good day.
sometimes i wish that blogs had a friends only post type thing so i could talk more about people. even though i know that only about 3 people read this...
i have some actaul work to do now, and im also having some dilemas about my weekend plans... hmmm.
but tommorrow: dress shopping! woohoo
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005
reeee-cola
im watching "i love the 90s" par duh, and theyre making fun of the counting crows, which makes me sad... but im rejoicing over the return of "i love the". they also have a section called "jay and silent bob: guys wed go gay for"
but isnt it nice that i have so little homework that i can do this? i think so. technically, i have english, but ill read it later, and i have to apply to knox and study for my sat iis, but i can put that stuff off. yay.
today during my extra free period i drove annie to planned parenthood, and now i know where it is. then i went to strawberry fields, and YUMMY.
alas, my coup has not yet happened.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005
youve been coloring in the lines since you were 4...
being the dork that i am, and since im bored and dont want to do the small amount of work that i have, ive been looking at prom dresses online. actually, i was looking at vera wong dresses. i found the most beautiful dress ever, and i really want it for prom. and its not quite as expensive as i expected it to be(thought it is very expensive), so now im fantasizing about wearing it to prom. i cant link to it, but if you go to verawong.com, and click on "maids" ad then on "full length", and then go to #13, thats it. isnt it beautiful? actually, i would love to wear any of those dresses... sigh. when i was in NY i looked at vera wong dresses in barneys and places like that, but i felt outclassed by all the rich women.
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the plays the thing
more badness about my class: we dont get along in groups. i like almost everyone in my class individually, but when certain people mix i have a really hard time hanging out with them. 5th period used to be a lot of fun, but a few new people have 5th period free this semester, and theyre changing the chemistry and im angry.
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if your head could talk, what would it say?
man, i miss the senior trip. im sore from sitting on laps and sleeping in a pile on the last night, and i miss being around people all the time. im lonely. is it weird for me to get used to something i only had for 4 days, cause i really got used to being around my class, and i was actually sort of happy to go back to school today cause i missed them last night. im starting to realize that ill miss my class when i graduate. i used to think that i would keep in touch with the people i wanted to, and wouldnt care about the rest. but im realizing that there are lots of people in my class who i really like but will probably not stay in touch with. ill see them maybe when i come home over breaks, but it wont be normal. this is so sad. i really want to be able to talk to everyone in my class all the time when i graduate. but im so terrible at staying in touch with people. hmmm. even the people i used to hate im starting to like. on the bus on the way up i was watching everyone and i realized that ive known these people for about a third of my life, and soon im gonna leave them.
on the bright side, im now a second semester senior, which means i can SLACK OFF!!
also, i got an A on my seminar paper which made me happy. and, everyone should come to our "pro-democracy"(aka, anti-inauguration) vigil on thursday. it will be fun.
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Monday, January 17, 2005
badonkadonk!!
omg the senior trip was AWESOME! my cond was so much fun. we had good food and had a formal dinner and then all the other condos came in to take pictures of us all dressed up, and we made awesome shirts that were way cheaper than everyone elses shirts, and we watched 13 hours of queer as folk. i didnt get any sleep. last night me and allison and hannah and emily bonded by staying up ALL NIGHT and being really loud, but we mystereously did not wake up the other members of our condo. and we watched both kill bills yesterday. ooh, it was so much fun. i took lots of pictures and i cant wait to have them developed. we also spent a lot of time in the hot tub, and one of our tvs( we had 3) we right in front of the hot tub, so we were really lazy all weekend. and i got a beautiful henna on my foot courtesy of meredith. i slept the entire bus ride back, so it felt much shorter than before.
last night i was doing this thing where i drifted in and out of sleep, so i would sleep for a minute, and have a quasi-dream about whatever they were talking about, and then id wake up and be like "whoa". me and hannah also reminisced about germany and how she was sick. yay. i think i might go to the basketball game to continue my uni spirit.
i fell like a lot of people on the trip just hung out with their normal friends, and i think that sucked. but i dont think i did. i spent a lot of time just sitting in my cond with my condo-mates, and it was fun.
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Thursday, January 13, 2005
you take your car to work, ill take my board
im so sad. my "new"(aka, newly fixed) computers internet doesnt work at all. not like before, when i had to go and restart the airport odwnstairs and then it would magically work. now its doing this thing where everytime it shuts down or goes to sleep, the airport card mistereously stops work, and i have to go to the tv room and pluq it into my eathernet cable. then, mysteriously, if i try to hook it back up to the airport a while later, it will start working like magic. i dont know whats going on. plus, it takes the primary joy out of having a laptop: doing stuff in my room. im still exiled to my makeshift office thing downstairs. which is snazzy if i do say so myself, but slightly extraneous now that im done with my paper, and also less private.
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be my yoko ono
today i: turned in my seminar paper, danced in the snow, got marked late to math by mr russell, looked at beautiful costa rica pictures, went to activism club, hurt someones feelings, ate chocolate chips, did badly on an english test.
its refreshing to see your day broken down into such small components like that. now: off to go shopping to CONDO 2, which is less than 24 hours away! YAY.
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our president lives in the truman show
i finished my paper. yay for me. its 16 pages long. tommorrow: 2 college essay, one of which ive written 2 paragraohs for. oh boy.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005
now we can swim any day in november
the craig thomson book is so good! now i just need to read "goodbye chunky rice".
i really liked the parts where he was in morrocco and talked about just feeling like a stupid tourist, because thats totally how i feel when i go outside the US, and it makes me really sad.and i also really loved the panel where he was floating in the river a week after 9/11. it made me very sad and i looked at it for a long time. i kept trying to figure out if his "lover" was raina, because it looked like her, and then he talked about how she was seriously ill and it made me sad. but i love the way he draws women. he makes them look so beautiful, but in a really simple way. i wish i could draw like that. i think when i draw, i try to go into too much detail. when craig thomson draws, he makes beautiful things with very few pen-strokes. sigh. i am in love with his drawing.
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let em all go to hell except condo 2
in case the suprise hasnt already been ruined for you by alisons comment, TODAY IS MY BLOGS FIRST BIRTHDAY! i went back and read some of my first entries and theyre...dumb. mostly because i cant really remember what i was feeling at the time, so i cant interpret them. but its cool. i cant decided whether that stuff seemed like it happened more than or less than a year ago.
also, i discovered today that me and eli are taking the same sat iis on the same day. itll be awesome.
plus, im ebing overwhelmed with books. cordelia gave me the awesome new craig thomson book, plus i got the books i ordered from amazon with my "gift certificate" today. i have so much good stuff to read.
but im frusterated because mr murphey is intent on making us do a bad musical. i really want to do cabaret. REALLY. but iw ould also be happy doing gypsy, or chicago, or anything interesting. but mr murphey only wants to do happy, sexless musicals, and those are so boring. and this will be my last real uni play. it better be good. but i was talking to people like kassie, and she said that she suggested chicago, and he said no, because these are the things he doesnt want to have in a musical:
whores
murders
strippers
etc.
basically, we cant do anything good. im mad.
but: im almost done with seminar. i just have to write a conclusion. YAY! and im loking forward to the senior trip which is gonna be great and im gonna bring talk to her so we can watch it, and in february annas gonna sneak me in to see bad education and it will be a PARTY
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
lord anthony but hey it could be worse
my computer is working! i(actually, my dad) got all the glitches out. he installed word and got my internet to work. woohoo.
also: i found my umbrella.i was in a closet in the pantry (heehee. i didnt know what to call that area on our stairs. i like the word pantry).
i finished my math poster, so i have at least a reasonable amount of work to do. but you can tell that its still a lot, because im procrastonating. thats why this is my 3rd port of the day...
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i sleep in ze middle, im left und im right
man, im so tired. i do not handle sleep deprivation well at all. how will i survive college?
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it kinda suits you anyway
my condo is the best! we had a meeting today, and we already started bonding. and were bringing good food, and were going to have a formal candle lit dinner and watch qaf and IM SO EXCITED. EEEEE!:-D
i just want this week to be over because this week is hell. argh.
and by the way, who is this kid jason he? i want to write a very eloquent, polite letter to him explaining that 50% does not constitue a majority, and then include a little snide remark that says "by the way, who on earth are you?"
also: i was looking at senior ballets, and it makes me really happy whenever somebody botes for me for something. is it bad of me to keep a tally of votes ive been getting, because i totally am. i hope i get voted something, cause that would be awesome, but i probably wont, because the votes for me that i saw were pretty spread out in catergories(though i did see TWO sepereate people vote for me most likely to be in the mafia! wouldnt that be exciting!) ok, enough of me being vain about senior ballets. on to
GRADUTAION. we got graduation packets in english today! im so excited because we get to order cap and gowns! i wonder what happens if you loose/gain a ton of weight before graduation? well, prob wont happen to me so i wont worry about it. i also need to decied how i want my name on my diploma. oh, this is so great!
we also had a mini "take a walk on the wild side" sing along in seminar. sort of. but it was great.
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Monday, January 10, 2005
a whole new world...
i just got my computer back, all fixed. oh my, where to start.
it now had mac os x, which is very snazzy, but i do miss my old one.
i had to resetup my email, which took ages, and ive now lost all of my old emails...
all my sticky notes are gone, including my quotes and my list of books to read.
my quick links on my internet is gone! that means i had to re-find everyones blog. but, if you are therese, arielle, or caitlin, can you send me your links again, because i dont know anyone else who knows you...
after chacking billions of old emails(i forgot how long i havent had my computer for), i realized that ive been missing lots of senior trip beef. at least my condo is good. were gonna make shirts.
i still have to write my seminar paper on the other computer, though, because i cant get it off that one. oh well. im all set up in the tv room.
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Sunday, January 09, 2005
im all lost in the supermarket, and can no longer shop happily
my seminar paper is only 7 pages long. i havent started my english paper. i havent worked on my 3 remaining college apps. i havent worked on my math project. it will be a long night.
who said senior year was easy? i guess it is still technically the first semester. next one will be easier.
i had to get up early this morning to go to my horn lesson, but my alarm clock was broken. luckily, my internal clock wakes me up when i need to get up in the morning. so i woke up early, but i didnt have my contacts in and couldnt read the clock, so i thought it was 1:30 or something, then wnt back to sleep. and i kept on waking up and thinking i had missed my lesson. but then i finally decifered my clock and realized that it was before 9 still. sigh.
as much as im looking forward to the senior trip, im sad its next weekend, because after this weekend, i sort of want one where i can just sit around and do nothing. ah well. the weekend after next will be a my so calle life marathon. yay.
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my soulmate, manolo blahnik
im waisting my time watching sex and the city. im so sad. i love sex and the city, but i really have work to do... margaret cho had a cameo and i was happy.
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Saturday, January 08, 2005
on the wheels of a dream...
today was nice. did i say that yesterday? well, today was nice,too. i went to piccasso at the lapin agile, which was really fun. in this one part, einstein was at the cafe, and he introduced himself as einstein, and the bartend said, 'no way!', and then he went down and grabed a program and said 'look, cast in order of appearence: einstein, 4th', but he had come on 3rd. then a couple minutes later a woman rushed on and said 'sorry im late', and one of the other characters said 'third'. it was funny. it lagged a little in places, mostly because it was one long scene, but the big problem was the lighting.it was terrible. the whole front strip of the stage wasnt lit, and characters would step out there all the time, and give these beautiful speeches, but you couldnt see them. i mean, it was not lit at all.
and ragtime was AMAZING. id seen it before, but i forgot how much i loved it untill it started, and the opening is so good. and then i was like "oh yeah..." we cheered really loudly for john rooney, and i was in love with coalhouse. and i cried at the end. a lot. me, who never cries in front of people. it was great.
then i went to hannahs brithday celebration, mooched off their food, and then left cause i had to work, but i felt bad. and im not working. bleh. but i will be soon.
ooh, and i got a letter from beloit that said they had gotten my completed application, but that they didnt have my supplement, which pissed me off because i efinatly did do the supplement on line.
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welcome to champaign urbana, home of santa claus
today was fun:-)
i went to the origionality workshop, which sucked because instead of creating origional characters we created bundles of quirks. then i went to character voice which didnt really teach me aything new, but i came up with some good ideas.
i directed theaterfest people to the attic at uni, and i took tickets and talked with them before the show, and it was fun and THEY LIKED THE SHOW!! our tickets were a hot commodity, and it made me so proud, because people were like "ill give you 10 bucks for a crucible ticket!" and then we were good.and people clapped. yay.
then me and sara and batia and cordelia went to the "improv jam" at the union, which was fun. they did skits like that one david ives play, where people have a conversation, and when the bell rings, you have to resay what you said. but no one understood, and so when the bell rang, they would just rephrase it, which isnt funny at all. but then me and cordelia did one and we were totally good. and then the brave new workshop people did some more improve, and were much more funny than they were on the opening performance. and after we recited crucible lines very loudly and welcomed people to champaign urbana. yay.
im hungry but theres no food. i thin ill watch tv. tommorrow: steve martin play, "picasso at the lupin agile". im excited.
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
im a 5, which on a scale of 1 to 10 is a ...2
ugh. the internet wasnt wroking yesterday but i still got no sleep. i did eat some mochi with red bean sauce yesterday, though. its amazing how the most disgusting foods can taste so good.
thankfully, mrs suzuki moved our math presentations till next week, which means that i really have to do no work at all this week. and i made up a little schedual for theaterfest. if i rememebr, it goes like this:
friday-
character voice
theater games
saturday-
that one play written by steve martin
this way im done by 11:30 everyday. sound good?
crucibel today was good, except i(and matt) messed up the clearing-of-the-stage-before-curtain-call bit. oops. at least it was just a dress. but im really sad because me and sarah and nick dont get to bow, because its not professional enough. :-( i really liked getting to bow.
also today, i talked about movies in the hall with brad and billy vaughn, and it was weird but mr vaughn had excellent taste in movies.
kinzie drove me and alison and cordelia home from the play and we had to scrape the ice of her car with id cards.
then i watched the daily show and got in a fight with my parents over something that i just feel guilty about now.
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Monday, January 03, 2005
that was the most fun ive ever had without laughing
ah, today has been wonderful. just last night i was thinking "man, i really dont want to go to school tommorrow". and then i didnt. dad woke me up to go to schoool, and then 5 minutes later he came in and said "schools been canceled" and i said "youre kidding", then rolled over and went back to sleep untill 10:30. it was wonderful. i only hope that we still graduate on time.
but ive been wroking on my paper, and its now on its 4th page. just 11(at least) more to go and ill be done! i also went to the library to get an article i needed and felt very academic. i wasnt sure where the main library was, so i parked near where i thought it was on campus and then walked around for 10 minuetes before i found it. then i thought" oh no! i dont know where im parked", but as i was walking in the door, i saw it on the strteet right in front of the library. then i felt stupid. but the woman helped me find the article, and then she was like 'well call you in 15 minutes when weve got it",and i had to sit for 15 minutes in the library with nothing to do. but its all good, because it was just what i needed. my paper is quite good, if i do say sop myself. its vert academic sounding, and it has footnotes. and one of the footnotes isnt even a citation, its an anecdote! im very proud of it.
the only downside of today is that i have to go to tech week, which is interuppting my paper writting. but then again, it will be fun, because i can sit backstage for hours while everyone does the courtroom scene, and do homework and talk to batia and emilysha and sarah bial, because were the only people backstage for most of it. itll be great. ooh, and im gonna have a four day week this week, because of theaterfest on friday. oh, things are looking up, if only i didnt have an insane amount of work to do. oh well.
my one sad thing of the day: i cant find my umbrella. when i went to the library it was raining, and i looked for my beautiful umbrella, but couldnt find it anywhere. then i had an awful thought: i think i remember loaning it out to someone, and them not giving it back to me. i mean, i just realized now that they never gave it back to me. only i cant remember who it was. so : if you are reading this and you have my little green polka-dotted umbrella, i would like it back please.
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Sunday, January 02, 2005
now dont go selling your soul
i just read this sentence in one of my books:
"i was 'outed' as a 'bitchy dyke from new york'. my assailants got it half right: i can be a real bitch."
i enjoy that, and i really like this book because it has a differing opinion.
ive been reading AIDS books all day and im writing my introduction in my head and its beautiful. i think ill write it up after dinner. my cats also been trying to distract me. she has this shoelace that shes in love with, and shell drag it into the room, set it right by the door, and then meow for me to throw it for her. the other day she played fetch with me for 10 minutes, but she forgot how to do it today, so i kept on having to get up and get the string. but she was very cute.
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Saturday, January 01, 2005
if you want to destroy my sweater
i just read hillarys away message and it says: "my seminar paper grows longer...but very, very slowly (10 pages down, 5 or more to go)...save me!!"
10 pages?? mine is 0. i havent even finished reading all my books. im screwed. though im making lots of progress on this one really good book. maybe i can just talk about it and the 3 others ive read so far for 15 pages... i am formulating a good thesis in my mind, though.
ive also discovered a wonderful plan for this summer.
i went to go see the life aquatic with steve zissou with my family and annie, and it was quite good. especially willem defoe. and bud cort. and cate blanchet. ok, they were all good. and i saw two really good trailers: be cool, which like a pulp fiction reunion party, and millions, which looks like a very happy movie about kids with cute accents.
back to reading my AIDS book. im too easily distracted.
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happy new year
its very early in the mornig but im strangely enough not very tired. i went over to maayans house, and it was wonderful. i hadnt seen her in ages and i was so happy. shes taking a course on cuba next semester and sometime in the next 3 years shes going there. im very jealous. ah, but if i go to slc, i, too can go to cuba. we also looked and racy pictures of people from slc and watched napolean dynamite and la confidential, which is a wonderful movie. me and maayan spent the whole time being in love with kevin spacey and everyone else thought he was weird. they just have no taste. we also watched a REALLY long usher video on tv that had bad music but classy colthing.
also: its now my graduation year.
i heard a really good song on the radio during that show where songs battle. it was by a band called omg, just as i was typing this the name completely left my head. AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD! it was tropical and the initials were p.t. or t.p. or something to that effect. i think it was p. thieves. pineapple thieves? maybe that was it. it was a really good song that i liked a lot, so i want to remember what the bands called.
i think i may stay up and watch tv because i really dont feel like sleeping. ooh, and i can put up my bob marely calander :-D
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