what would i give to live where you are

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:18:38 GMT

I am having the most grand time at college, especially since I am no longer sick. Honestly, I probably had swine flu, and I am not fussed at all about it... except whatever I had, I think I gave it to Dan. My b.

Classes still totally rule; one of them has actually helped me decide what I want to do. Thanks to "Fossils, Primates, and Human Evolution", I think I want to do Paleontology with my life. Next summer, I want to go to the University's dig site in Wyoming and dig up stuff and party (and get credit for it!). I might even apply for a job at the Natural History Museum next year once I declare my major. I know it's really early to think about stuff like that, but it's something I've always been interested in! I know paleontology isn't really directly beneficial to society like nursing or law or something like that, but damn it, it's something I greatly enjoy... and that's what matters. :D

One of my roommates moved into an apartment as well, so I took the single. With two of us, there's almost too much space now, but whatever. It's not like we're ever home at the same time.

I have stuff to do, like always.

I Am A Big Girl

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:40:16 GMT

So I'm all moved in to my dorm. It's not in the neighborhood I wanted (North Campus, which is far from everything), and also the dining hall is (A) shitty and (B) has even shittier hours, but it's actually not that bad. I'm in a triple, and my roommates are very nice.

However, we are fighting a losing battle with gravity. We have a bulletin board, whiteboard, and mirror, and ALL OF THEM have fallen down in the middle of the night. The mirror broke, too, and it cut me when I was tossing it into the dumpster. D: Oh well. I might make an adventure down to the convenience area on the engineering campus to go get better adhesive stuff (or just nail that bitch down; I have a hammer and nails but I don't think I'm technically supposed to use them).

But yeah. I'm excited for classes to start; my earliest one is at 9, and that's only once a week (however, it's the day I have the most classes and work until 10-ish, so we'll see how that goes). But I have one class on Friday, so hahahahaha.

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:07:41 GMT

Oh my god ham is the most delicious meat. Dan and I have eaten so much pork product over the last few days! We bought an eighth of a pound of every kind of bacon the deli sells (11 kinds, plus Irish back bacon, jowl, and pancetta), and he picked up a 12 pound cured ham on his way home from Virginia, which we cut into tonight. OH SHIT IT IS THE MOST DELICIOUS AND FLAVORFUL HAM I HAVE HAD IN MY LIFE. AHHHHHH.

KITTY

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:30:20 GMT

I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but we had to put down my beloved Penny kitty in April, because she was wasting away from kidney failure. However, my parents decided that since I'm moving out in August or September or whenever, Nicholas is going to get quite lonely (not to mention the fact that Minnie, the other car, seemed lonely), and they said we could get another pet once school got out.

Fast forward to late June. We got back from visiting my dad's brother and his wife (and whom I've come to realize are my favorite uncle and aunt) in North Carolina, and Nick decided that he wants a cat. He'd thought about a dog, but my dad unequivocally denied it, because he didn't want to be responsible for it when Nick moved out in a couple years.

So one day, Nick and I went over to the pet store, and he was so excited. There were about eight kittens there, but only six of them were old enough to adopt yet. One of the two babies was a grey tabby, which Nick really wanted, but he was also down with a ginger tabby, which three of the adoptable kittens were. He also wanted a male, because apparently male ginger tabbies are super affectionate, and two of the aforementioned adoptable gingers were male. However, they both had long hair, which we knew the parents would disapprove of. (Minnie, now our alpha cat, is a calico but is mostly white, and she sheds enough for like three cats.) Enter the perfect baby:

She was sooooo affectionate in the pet store, and we were at a time in our summer where we had the time and resources to get a new cat. It was the time. We called mom. She said yes. We brought her home, and everyone agreed that she was adorable.

Nick decided to name her Lily. He had wanted to name a cat "The Good Doctor" so he could hand it to people and say "the Good Doctor can see you now!", and also we could call it "Doc". However, he decided that "you can't give female cats silly names". Mama calls her "Orange Tigerlily", because she is just so sweet.

She is adorable. Minnie has even warmed up to her... a little. Lily likes to chase her, which is hilarious. Lily also like to play a lot, and she is just too cute. Nick is also adorable with her. It is a good thing to have another cat. :D

not to pimp myself even more, but....

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:26:30 GMT

Dude check it out! http://www.nationalyouththeatre.com/reviews/reviews_pioneer_urinetown.html Aren't we cool. And I get a mention for being fierce and poor, awesome!

I am a movie star.

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:56:02 GMT

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1423995/ I am a "featured extra" in that movie, Stone. Literally eight hours after my last post, John Curran, the director, approached me at Zingerman's while I was getting coffee with mi madre, and explained that they needed a redheaded girl to wave at Robert DeNiro in a scene. I accepted, and you will see me in theatres sometime in 2010. I am ENTIRELY SERIOUS. :D

Yeah, and it's got me to thinking... I'm financially responsible for half my undergrad tuition and any and all graduate school I might desire, and I am getting paid for Stone (less than I make at Zingerman's, but still money). My hairdresser also mentioned the last couple times I've gotten my hair cut that I could do hair modeling. Ha ha. Oh well, I've watched enough ANTM on YouTube to model a bit. lolz.

In other news, I've kept busy. I can't believe it's July already! People are going to start leaving soon. This saddens me, but I'm really, REALLY excited about next year. I still don't know where I'm living, though.

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:47:45 GMT

Well, I graduated. How about that. Good job me.

... I am so excited for the ice cream cake I'm having at my party. :D

Tue, 05 May 2009 21:34:42 GMT

I am going to be a Wolverine! (... I decided on UMich.) I'm hype. Yeah, I'll miss vwampage, but he's only a train/bus ride away. Plus UMich lets me use my Michigan Promise scholarship. :D

In other news, Urinetown just closed... it was the first musical I ever really acted in; I played Josephine Strong, the main character's mom. It was an interesting experience, all in all. Sometimes fun, sometimes decidedly not, it was definitely worth it.

In other, other news, I have 12 real days of high school left. Hell yeah. I'm going to the proms of both my schools, my bff Dan is probably coming to graduation, for senior skip day I'm going to the zoo, and May is just an absolutely gorgeous month. Hooray.

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:07:03 GMT

So I just spent the last few days in Madison, Wisconsin with vwampage. I had fallen in love with the school when we went on his orientation in July, but I was still kind of holding out for the University of Michigan. Anyway, those few days were great (and yet somehow still typical days!). I thought I was supposed to get UMich's final decision on me yesterday, and since I had heard nothing, I assumed I got waitlisted, so I made a note to go talk to my counselor on Monday and inquire about it. Honestly, I have not taken state-sponsored standardized tests for the last 13 years only to not use the money I've won.

Anyway, I got home today and had some dinner, watched Jeopardy, the usual. I checked my email, and lo and behold... "CONGRATS! YOU'RE IN!", love from UMich.

...

...

*SQUEE*

Yeah, now I have a really, really tough decision to make. I made a huge pro/con list while in Madison... some of these are really quite petty, I know, but enough are legit.

University of Wisconsin in Madison
PROS
It's far away. It's got an exciting atmosphere. It's a completely new scene. Transport is easy. The scenery is beautiful! It's a very green-minded campus. It'll be an adventure! There's a lake. Midwestern friendliness is present. I love their dining plan. The science department is quite baller. There's a legit agriculture/life sciences school. I'll have freedom from my family. I'll have the chance to completely reinvent myself. There are many travel-abroad opportunities. I would be forced to learn independence. I'd be living in the Women in Science and Engineering learning community ("WISE"; probably). There are crazy research opportunities. It's a hella chill place. There's a great college-town part of town. I'd meet new people.

CONS
It's far away. It's a completely new scene. I'd be far away from Dan. I doubt I'd get much money from them (I'm out of state and with kinda average grades). It's not my home turf (and I'm kind of an elitist, cocky asshole). There'll be time difference from home. I won't be able to keep an eye on my brother. Midwestern friendliness is present. I couldn't keep working at Zingerman's during the year. I am unsure of the performing musical scene. I'm forbidden (by my band director and musician parents) to join the marching band (they got in a lot of trouble last year). I'd have to vote by absentee ballot. Red looks really bad on me. I wouldn't have my family around. I'd still be a Wolverine at heart when it comes to football. I can't use the money I won from state testing all my life. I'd have to transfer all my funds. I am unsure of the logistics of getting a teaching certificate (and even if I did, it would probably only be for Wisconsin). I'd be forced to learn independence. I feel like I would be riding on David's coattails by already having so many research opportunities open to me. I'd be forced to meet new people. WISE isn't a coed floor. I wouldn't be able to get home for things like my birthday and such.

University of Michigan
PROS
It's home. It's cheaper. I could keep working at Zingerman's during the year. I know the performing music scene well. I could chill with Dan. It's familiar. I could get scholarship money easier (I'm in-state). I could get a job at the Natural History Museum! I could keep an eye on my brother. There's the river and the arb. The science department is also quite baller. I could be in the marching band. I'd have some freedom. I look fetching in maize & blue. I'd have the resources of home (possible car use, etc). I already know the whole fight song. I could use the money I've won from testing for the last 13 years. There are travel-abroad opportunities. All of my money is already in a UM Credit Union account. I've only just started to appreciate town. I could get a Michigan teaching certificate and keep jobs here. The college-town part of town is baller. I'd probably be living on a coed floor. I'd be learning new things about town that I didn't already know. I'd be near Lizzie.

CONS
They're not the friendliest. It's home. There's so many people I can't stand here. It's snobby as hell. I can't escape my family. It's not as much of an adventure. There isn't a real ag/lifesci school. My parents would still be all up in my business. People know me. No real change of scenery. I already know so much about town. I'm not sure about research opportunities. It's kind of a good-ol'-boys network. It's the "safe" choice.

Yeah. It's gonna be hard. Honestly, it might boil down to who gives me more scholarships... argh. This is AWESOME, but totally annoying.

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:17:23 GMT

I got into the school of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison! I don't know yet if I'm actually going to go there, but I'm happy nonetheless. I initially got deferred from there and from U-Mich, but I haven't heard from them yet.

In other news, competition got all the way to States, and we placed second (Holland Public can go die in a fire-- they always do spectacles, and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" is the definition of "spectacle"). But all that I really cared about was the Golden Truck, which we won, and it was good. Check it out: http://ptguild2.aaps.k12.mi.us/ I'm the ginger one in the back on the front page. Truck crew ftw!

Right now we're doing Urinetown, which I'm actually in, lololololol. I'm the main character's mom: Josephine Strong. I have lines and solos and I'll get a mic and everything! It's pretty exciting... except for the part where I'm still the props designer and mentor and the girls haven't done shit about UT yet because they're worrying about our straight show, The Heidi Chronicles (which was absolutely nothing to do with a Swiss girl who raises goats). Ah well.

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:17:10 GMT

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1866661,00.html?xid=rss-health <-- Hooray, I have a future!

In other news, I finished applying to colleges before Thanksgiving, and I have already been accepted to Michigan State. I don't really want to go there, though; they were my fallback. Wisconsin at Madison will tell me by January 15, and University of Michigan does rolling admissions. I don't really expect to even get deferred at Cornell. Oh well.

Miss Saigon has been over for a while, and Competition is once again consuming my life. It is a delicious consumption, except for some initial tech drama, and now some classic relationship drama. It's my own fault, though, so I shouldn't complain.

My last registration at Community ever is on Friday... it's a bit weird to think about. Sad, too, because they're actually quite fun. But then I have a Christmas Rave later that night, so party on. Then I have a pancakes/Star Wars party with Dan, then I wave at vwampage</user> on a train. I have a sweet weekend coming up.

I really need to do my calc homework. D:

I'm not dead

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:27:13 GMT

I'm pretty excited for Forum Day. Our Forum is pretty tight this year. We're even going to my family's cottage for the trip. :D

School has been okay. Applying to college whilst being IN college was probably the dumbest idea of this semester. "A film class should be easy," I thought. "I'm pretty good at German." FALSE. I forgot so much German since last winter. It's been difficult because there's SO MUCH HOMEWORK. (I'm so glad I'm not working until December.) The rest of school is pretty chill, though. Calculus is a bit bumpy, but I am trying to shape up. I'm only making stupid arithmetic mistakes, which is annoying. Physics simply isn't that interesting, but Modern Western Civ and Anatomy & Physiology are super.

Theatre is doing all right. We're doing Miss Saigon right now, and props still hasn't got much of a clue what we're doing. We have like four new people, though, which is awesome.

Band is hype... we've had three games already and have two left to go. This is our week off, which is nice: for once, I don't have a game right after Forum Day. There's all sorts of hilarious drama in band, though. But it's entertaining and really only peripheral drama for me. The french horns are really quite awesome; we dance well, play well, march well, and are even approaching getting along well.

Band is really weird without vwampage, though. I miss him. But on the bright side, I get almost two weeks to monopolize him and do fake-siblings type stuff before his girlfriend gets home. I'm rather happy about that... he's one of those friends who you get so used to having around that it's very difficult to get used to not seeing him every day.

I miss Dan, too. And things are so complex between us... this summer was alternately angsty as hell and amazing beyond words. I'm not going to see him until probably March, too, which is unfortunate. But I've taken off his ring and re-learned how to harden my heart, so I'll probably be all right. It's just that our last goodbye was terribly difficult. I keep questioning everything. That probably has something to do with where I am in life... I'm going to be a legal adult in December, but I still have no idea what I want to do with myself and with whom I want to do it.

Ah well. I should get back to my blasted German homework. Yes, Olympic Propaganda in the 1936 Berlin Games is really interesting, but not when I have to care about verb position and article tenses.

Augh. My throat

Monday's a Bitch

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:49:07 GMT

Those Summer Nights
1. What song will always remind you of this past summer? That's tough. Maybe "The Last Night of the World" from Miss Saigon... or anything by Meshuggah...

2. If you had unlimited cash, where would you like to get away to spend your summer and what sort of things would you do there? ROAD TRIP! We'd hybrid-ize vwampage's van (that's where the "unlimited cash" comes it-- it costs like $3000), then he and I plus our respective lovers would go to the mountains in Vermont and hang out.

3. If you were stuck on a beach for the summer, how many days would it take you to get sick of swimming,what materials would you use to construct a crude shelter and what random celebrity would you want to randomly show up there and remain topless for your viewing pleasure? Probably about two days (but I would never get tired of exploring). Sticks and leaves. And any reasonably attractive one.

4.Did you suffer any heat stroke or sunburns this summer? Only one sunburn.

5.Are you looking forward to anything in the fall? MISS SAIGON! Also, the election.

Democracy.

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:05:36 GMT

BAWWW I WISH MY BIRTHDAY WAS A MONTH AND TWO DAYS SOONERRRRRR.

I want to vote so badly; I am enamored with Barack Obama. I so wish I could be able to vote. I just watched his speech, and I think he did amazingly. He is a wonderful speaker.

I am so excited. The election is on the Tuesday of Tech Week; we're going to be ~~whispering~~ heatedly discussing results over the tel-ex. HYPE.

GRARGH

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:13:08 GMT

AHH! COLLEGES! WHY MUST YOU FOIL MY EFFORTS TO BE TIMELY?!

Seriously. I was all geared up to register for three of the four colleges I'm applying to, and they're all like "haha, psych, the application for the time period you're going to want to apply to is going to be up in mid-August. LOLZ!". Thanks, the Big Ten. Maybe I should work on those essays for UMich, though.

In other news, the senior skit for band camp is going to be hilarious, the likes of which have rarely been seen before. The last legitimately good senior skit happened my freshman year; they ended theirs with a bang. We hope to end ours with a KABOOM!

*cough* Yeah. The fan or hard drive or something on my laptop is making quite a lot of noise. I'm taking her in for an appointment tomorrow (well, later today), though.

I'm done here.

These are a few of my favorite things...

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:20:29 GMT

I feel so happy right now. I had a great afternoon yesterday; here are 101 of my favorite things.

1. Misty weather
2. Forested hills/mountains
3. Moving water
4. Really good food
5. Cunnilingus
6. Languid lavishings of love
7. Burt’s Bees lip balm
8. British people
9. Drizzle
10. Tea
11. Teacups!
12. Finding a really cool band that I totally dig
13. Useful bags
14. Spike heels
15. Looking like a motherfucking femme fatale whilst still being mad hot
16. Hot glue
17. Modern Marvels (tv show)
18. Science
19. History
20. Platinum Weddings (tv show)
21. Whose Wedding Is It Anyway (tv show)
22. Beautiful dresses (historical, costume pieces, haute couture, prom dresses… etc)
23. Crepes
24. Travel mugs
25. Notebooks
26. Art supplies
27. The court of Louis XIV
28. Marie Anoinette
29. Elizabeth I
30. Athénaïs Mortemart, Marquise de Montespan
31. Versailles, France
32. Listening to my cat snore
33. Earth sciences
34. Secrets
35. Drama (the kind peddled by a certain Llama)
36. Power-tripping
37. The entire order Mollusca
38. Pokémon
39. Sun in the trees
40. Sunsets
41. Sunrise
42. The way the world looks on a spring morning
43. Cats and kittens
44. Sporking ‘Sues
45. The PPC
46. the Winter Olympics
47. the Provenance of the Musical Theatre Fairy
48. Trees
49. Flowers
50. My bike
51. Band camp
52. Castles and palaces
53. Natural History museums
54. Science museums
55. Dancing (pretending like I know ballet, funky jams, band dancing, etc)
56. Firefly (tv show)
57. John Williams (composer)
58. Classical music, esp. Late 19th- and Early 20th-century American and Russian composers
59. Napping
60. La Belle Epoque
61. Literature on Women’s Rights
62. My favorite pair of jeans
63. Pretending
64. Funk music
65. the 1968 Corvette Stingray
66. the 1969 Pontiac GTO
67. Thomas the Tank Engine
68. Fine things
69. The Romans
70. the Greeks (Athens!)
71. Alexander the Great
72. Star Wars (movies, more so the older ones)
73. Singing along loudly to musicals
74. the Roaring Twenties
75. Unions
76. Mermaids
77. Fairies
78. Vegetable gardens
79. the Summer of Love
80. Co-ops
81. Legos
82. Traditional music (dances, drinking songs, etc)
83. Naming things
84. Treehouses
85. Stormy weather
86. Antique jewelry
87. Hats
88. Stargazing/meteor showers
89. Props room dance parties!
90. The Friday Come-Together Rehearsal (night before we open: “We Have A Show”)
91. Spooning
92. Drumline music
93. Really nice opera halls (Lincoln Center, Royal Covent Garden, etc.)
94. Picnics (bread, cheese, olives, etc)
95. The sweeping vistas of the American West
96. Christmas Eve night
97. Les Misérables (musical)
98. Hair (musical)
99. British humor
100. Novels about 19th-century British high society
101. Myths and Legends

Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:16:38 GMT

Psych. Dan is probably not staying home for the year. Why should we let ourselves believe such things? Plus, we were hanging out the other night, snuggling on the couch. He remarked that he shouldn't have come back; he knew that we would just gravitate towards each other like that. Oh well; we still have about a month to figure this shit out. Hell, we could have years. We've managed to stay friends through three years of crushes, kisses, arguments, adventures, lonely nights and lovely days.

Art fair is this week. I'm hopefully going to go Art Fair It Up with my props girlies on like Saturday or something. Fun.

AHHH I AM SO EXCITED FOR BAND CAMP. I'm working on the skit, and meeting up with a couple more band seniors sometime this week. I have looked forward to being a band senior since I was a freshman.

I love the mountains / I love the clear blue sky...

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:51:17 GMT

(see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0)

<3 The world is pretty cool. Things might actually be okay with Dan and I ... we're kind of doing a horrible job of being broken up; we gave in and made out a while ago, and the other day, after I told him I was applying to Cornell, he kissed me. He also told me that he has been thinking about doing this work-for-credit thing here in Ann Arbor first semester next year, and then learning some welding and carpentry at our county community college second semester.

Holy crap, speaking of colleges, I've been starting to apply to them. I've got my list down to four: the University of Michigan, the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Cornell University, and Michigan State University. I've already started on my essays for U of M, and I might go with vwampage to go see Wisconsin. Whooo.

Yeah. All I have to deal with is the boys who have finally decided to be all "you wanna hang out sometime?". Too late; I am very distracted.

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:32:22 GMT

So I went to go watch the seniors graduate just now. It was odd; I know those kids pretty okay, but the whole time, all I could think of was next year. Maybe that's a little self-centered, but hey. It's just an odd thought.

... OH! OH! YOU WISH YOU WERE A SENIOR! 2009, fools.

Not much else of great note is going on, otherwise.

Thu, 01 May 2008 01:18:56 GMT

Band tour was hella sweet. I played Carnegie Hall, you guys. (I also saw the New York Philharmonic, Wicked, and about twenty minutes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.) But seriously, Carnegie Hall. I cried. I mean, my parents are musicians, and they've never played there. Plus I was having more White Man's Guilt about being so lucky and having so many opportunities. And I was the tiniest bit upset that Dan couldn't make it. But tickets were $40 and his car was still busted, so whatevs.

On the whole, it was very interesting. Almost all the other people got a little tiring after a while, though. I have a low tolerance for stupidity.

But seriously, it was amazing. I will put pictures on Facebook eventually.

I really need to do math homework. Seriously, probability is fundamentally interesting, but since I've missed most of this unit AND it's already rather challenging, it's kind of problematic.

Also, Willy Wonka is the first show EVER that I am not on running crew for. Even though I went to cue-to-cue, I called Lia today, and I was all "do I really have to be at brush-ups? I'm not really that needed". She said it was cool, so I'm actually going to sit in the audience for once. :D I'm excited.

Pickles the Drummer, doodily doo, ding dong doodily doodily doo!

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:55:14 GMT

So I got the job at Zingerman's. Yay! I am a Runner: I deliver sandwiches to people waiting. I just worked like six hours (from not-yet-even-bright and early to 1), and I'm super tired. But apparently one of the sandwiches got recognized in Esquire magazine (they did a feature on like the top ten awesomest sandwiches in the country), and somehow Oprah got wind of it, and sent out posses to go and see exactly how awesome they are. So today, her BFF Gail and a camera crew came to eat sandwiches! I might be on TV, you guys! Look for the girl with the black, white, and green earflap hat and the "RETURN OF THE FLOOFY MONSTAHS" t-shirt.

Yeah. The rest of Bands in Review is today. I hope it goes better than it did yesterday; I messed up the very beginning of La Fiesta Mexicana... the horn fanfare that I normally rock ass at. D:

I cannot wait for Spring Break, though.

IT IS TIME FOR AN EPIC ADVENTURE

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:16:48 GMT

Well, not quite yet. But over spring break it is!

Guess who's going to New York? Meeeee! I'm visiting Colgate (my #2) and Hamilton (my #5). I'm also visiting my dear Dan in Ithaca, so I'll kind of be de facto visiting Cornell, even though I'm not really thinking about going there.

I'm so excited. I haven't seen Dan in like two and a half months (it'll be almost three by the time spring break rolls around). And I haven't been able to call him for a week and a half and won't be able to for another week, because he is in China, singing. I admit I'm a little jealous... Carnegie Hall doesn't have 4000 years of kick-ass history behind it. But hey, I'm not complaining. We've video-chatted a bit before he left, which is cool. It's kind of bizarre, though, to see and hear someone you care so much about, but like he said, "it's not a hug". It's weird. But I will see him, feel him, touch him, and heal him in about two weeks! *is shot for gratuitous Tommy (http://broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/tommy.htm) references*

I also have about six hours of unpaid labor to do today. However, I'm going to do it with a smile, because it means I could get hired! See, I'm running sandwiches for Zingerman's today. If they decide they like me, I will become gainfully and deliciously employed. BWAHAHAHAHAHA.

Yeah. I should get dressed and figure out how the hell I'm getting there. It snowed four inches yesterday. It upset me: it's spring!

im in ur f-list, spammin' ur page...

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:16:18 GMT

It's everyone's favorite time: narcissistic meme time! It's the classic "Seven Random Facts About Yourself" one. I feel like not studying for my first Chinese Lit unit test and being self-centered.

1. I have the bad habit of not talking to people terribly often or keeping up with them and thereby losing them. That's happened with a few people (and one board) who I rather miss.

2. I have a very conflicting fashion sense. I'm into high fashion and I love pretty dresses, but I never really ever bother to own anything pretty myself. Most of what I wear is paint-covered jeans and grubby t-shirts. I clean up pretty nice, though. And oh snap do I love me some shoes. (Especially if they cost 300 fucking dollars.)

3. I pick up a lot of random cool stuff off the ground. Just these past couple weeks, I've found the key to a Honda Something; a "Dump No Waste, Flows To River" thing that goes on a storm drain (I've wanted one for years!); and some fluorescent pink lanyard string. The most exciting thing I've ever found was a rather nice diamond ring in the parking lot of my school, but since I'm a good girl/loser, I turned it in to the office.

4. I am a huge Star Wars nerd. I watched Phantom Menace for the first time in a while this afternoon, and I still knew like half the dialogue by heart. I also listened to the Empire Strikes Back soundtrack when I was trying to write an essay (music with no words = essay inspiration?), but it failed because I know that by heart, too.

5. Maybe I'm weird, but I like feathered hair with flowers and sideburns with aviators. I kinda dig the '60s and '70s.

6. I have many different life-plans, but I rather hope they all play out somehow: I want to live in a zany co-op with my theatre pals, I want to be a pretentious gourmet, I want to be fabulous, I want to be my friend's actually-quite-smart-trophy-wife, I want to get a fly job that has to do with rocks or dinosaurs or biology or something exciting like that...

7. I can't touch my toes, and neither can my brother. We look nothing alike, but that is the one physical trait we have in common: the exact same level of fail at touching our respective toes. It's pretty funny, actually.

Also, I took the ACT today and made it my bitch. Tomorrow and maybe Thursday are the Michigan Merit Exam, which if I do well on will get me $4000 to go towards a Michigan school. Holla! U of M, here I come.

I have found my calling.

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:21:31 GMT

So today in school we were having this "fill out your name and other important things on shit-tons of Michigan Merit Exam and ACT stuff" party. After all the "name, address, date of birth" stuff, the ACT packet asked us for our top 4 colleges to send things to (incidentally, mine are the University of Michigan and Colgate, with Beloit and Hamilton tied for third). Okay, normal. Then it started asking what classes we'd taken and what we planned to major in in college. A little obscure, but still normal. Then it started posing these "like, indifferent, dislike" statements, asking our opinion on things like "I like to watch for forest fires" and "I like to budget accounts. A lot of those questions were rather silly. But my very favorite was "I like to pack things into boxes".

Guys, I've found my life's calling. I am going to get my master's in Packing Things Into Boxes at the University of Cardboardia in Corrugate. (I think there might have been a University at some point. I can't remember.)

Also, I'm co-designing props for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Hype.

I'm alive.

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:38:32 GMT

Thought I might update. We lost at Regionals, which was very embarrassing. I want to stage manage next year, because even though I'm a power-tripping bitch, that exactly what we need to redeem ourselves.

Anyway. School is pretty exciting. In FOS, we're in the heat of epidemiology, and bacteria and viruses. It's pretty hype. I like biology a lot more than I thought I did.

I'm also in the midst of thinking about college. The only two that really, really interest me are the University of Michigan and Colgate. However, I also like Hamilton and Beloit. I'm actually procrastinating on a scholarship essay right now (as well as a ballad that's due on Friday).

Life is pretty weird right now. I'm trying to be the grown-up one in a friend's life, but it's getting kind of old. Next time she calls me to cry about her douchebag ex-boyfriend (who she wants back, which is a problem), I'm just going to stick it to her. Tell her she's gotta do her own growing up. And try to make her realize that said douchebag ex-boyfriend is exactly that.

I also miss Dan a LOT. He's singing my very favorite requiem this weekend (Brahms' German Requiem), and I can't go. He even invited me on Facebook. D: I have a week-long break starting Friday afternoon, and my parents won't let me go. I mean, I see where they're coming from: I'd be staying with him ... in a frat house. But still, he's my best friend and I trust him. And my parents are musicians! The recording I have of this requiem on my iPod? Both of them are on it. So are like six other people I know. But their other argument is that it's expensive, which it is. My very last resort to go see Dan's concert was to go with his parents (who I really like, and who apparently really like me), but they're flying. I can afford gas money, not plane tickets (plus I am highly averse to airports). And why I'm not going with MY parents is because they have gigs that day. And no trains from Ann Arbor go directly East; you have to go to Chicago to get to Rochester, which is still like two hours away from Ithaca. And bus fare is expensive.

... Hmm, actually, I just checked: it's exactly $103 less than it was a week ago. Hmmmmm. I think begging might ensue.

Yeah, I really miss that kid. We talked on the phone just the other day; we decided that we're best friends. I mean, it sounds kind of childish, but yeah. BFFs. And that means just as much or more than when we said we loved each other. This is just a different kind of love. But hey, our romantic love could someday be practically realized again.

HAHAHA, DISREGARD THE PRICE DIFFERENCE. I WAS TOTALLY LOOKING AT ONE-WAYS INSTEAD OF ROUNDTRIPS.

... But begging will still ensue. I mean, I have the $200 it takes.