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I've decided to make my journal almost sort of friend's only. Some of the stuff is very personal, and while I don't consider myself a "private person," it's stuff I wouldn't normally share with a complete stranger. If you want to friend me, let me know and we'll do the add thing.

Hey everyone, I got a new Livejournal. I've been sick of this one for a while and decided instead of getting a name change, to just make a new journal. I'm gonna move some entries over and stuff, but if you wanna stay friends add

my_three_cents

which is a play off of lyrics from "God's Country" by Ani Difranco.

There's nothing on it yet, but there will be once I get some spare time.

This picture scares the shit out of me for some reason.

Instructions: Open up your iTunes and fill out this survey, no matter how embarrassing the responses might be.


How many songs total: 4567
How many hours or days of music: 11.6 Days
Most recently played: Not the Doctor- Alanis Morisette
Most played: Nine in the Afternoon- Panic at the Disco
Most recently added: Overlap [Re-recorded Version]- Ani DiFranco (finally got Canon \m/)

Sort by song title:
First Song: A-Punk- Vampire Weekend
Last Song: ***- Regina Spektor

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: (Four Seconds of Noise)- Hot Hot Heat (4 seconds, obviously)
Longest Song: Tereza and Thomas- Bright Eyes (25 minutes and 47 seconds)

Sort by album:
First album: Abbey Road- The Beatles
Last album: ( ) - Sigur Rós

First song that comes up on Shuffle: Do You Know What I'm Seeing?- Panic at the Disco

Search the following and state how many songs come up:
Death - 12
Life - 44
Love - 198
Hate - 15
You - 528
Sex - 34

You are a Social Liberal (61% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (16% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on OkCupid.com: Free Online Dating Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

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I look like crap.

It seems like I've been starting every single entry lately with "Wow, I haven't updated in forever."

This school year is intense, ahha. My classes are crazy (but still awesome) and, as always, rehearsal is taking over most free hours of my day. I suppose I'll start with classes.

It's the first semester of my senior year. Technically, I have three semesters to go, though, so I don't really know how to classify it. Maybe a senior-lite? Who knows? Anyway, I decided to load up with some difficult courses as to make my final two semesters less stressful. I'm strugglign with that decision now, ahha.

I'm taking, Drama, Early American Lit, my Senior Seminar in English Lit, Scene Design, and History of the Theatre. No performance classes :-( So far, they haven't been too, too bad. It's been a whole lot of reading and discussing in my English classes and WHOLE LOT of note-taking in my History class. I know, though, that as soon as I need to take a test in History (which, incidentally, is next week, I believe) I'm going to want to cease existing. It's been about two years since I've taken a lecture course with regular tests. I'm not looking forward to it. At all. I'm more worried for work to come. I have 10-20 page papers due in 4 of my classes and 20 minutes presentations in each of them. One fo the presentations is in front of the entire English Dept. Eep.

Moving on to (currently) less stressful things. I got cast as Lord Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, our first production. It's pretty exciting, if only because it's finally a character with actual emotional depth and emotional scenes. We don't really do tragedies or dramatic works, mostly comedies, so I'm obviously lacking in the "sad stuff" category of acting. It's nice to finally do somethign different. Plus. Romeo and Juliet is one of my favorite, if not my actual favorite, of Shakespeare's tragedies.

Hmm... what else is there? Oh, yeah. Last Tuesday my car was towed. I was unbelievably angry. I went to take a friend to a Verizon Wireless store and instead of my car, found road construction equipment. I angrily shouted, "Where the fuck is my car?" and one of the constuction workers told me there was temporary n parking signs posted and it was towed. My friend said that the sign defintely was not there when I parked Sunday and he told us that drunk college students ripped all of the signs down on Saturday night and they were replaced Tuesday morning. Oh, ok. SO my car was towed after signs were re-attached after being torn down. Oh, yeah. That makes total sense. I went to the police station and they told me where to find my car. My dad had to drive to my school to get my car back since it's in his name and also had to pay $175 to get it out. He wasn't exactly happy. Then, to top it all off, when I got he car back there was a ticket on the windshield. I told my Dad I'd take of it and go and tell the police I wasn't paying cause it was bullshit that I had one to begin with. Cut to today, a week later, when I finally got the chance to go to the police station. Since last week I'd lost the ticket, so I asked them to look it up. The woman came back and told me it was $10. Mind you, it staretd at $25 and that by now with late fines it should've been around $75. I kind of looked at he in disbelief and she told me that since I'd paid all of my other fines on time, she woudl only ask for $10. I decided not to protest it and finally it's taken care of and done with.

I think that's all for now.

Step 1. Put your playlist/library on random.
Step 2. Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. (You can skip songs that are instrumental).
Step 3. Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
No Googling! That's what they call cheating.

Who knows if people'll guess, but it sounds like fun, so give it a shot! Plus, it took a loooooooong time to listen to 25 songs, ahha.

1. Well, show me the way to next whisky bar
2. You cease to smell the steal plant after you've lived there for a while
3. Who gives a fuck about an oxford comma? (easyyyyyyy)
4. Attract me, until it hurts to concentrate
5. I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade
6. In the dark we are without her empress light
7. My baby's got a heart of stone
8. I know you are another planet miles apart
9. My eyes are so bleary, I guess I'm young, but I feel so weary
10. That's my cigar... You'll steal anudder
11. Watch you on the one's and two's through a window in a well lit room
12. God, I dreamed there was an angel who could hear me through the wall
13. Ramblin' where to begin, I taste the summer on your peppery skin
14. If I am alive this time next year, will I have arrived in time to share?
15. You don't love me the way that I love you cause if you did, girl, you would not do those things you do
16. The bass, the rock, the mic, the treble
17. Passed out on the overpass, Sunday best and broken glass
18. She broke down and let me in
19. You say that it's over baby, you say that it's over dear
20. Some days go by, I wish I was famous
21. You think that we connect, that the chemistry's correct
22. As I was walkin' down rubadub square
23. Humming to himself as he is thinking of his latest debts
24. (spoken) Well that's all very well, but what are we gonna do about the Italian?
25. Elope with me, Miss Private, and we'll sail around the world

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page twenty-three.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next five sentences in your journal along with these instructions:
--Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
--Tag five other people to do the same.

The trees falling with shrieks as real as human screams.

It would have been wonderful to sit down and think for an hour about the past, but there was no way to think about the good parts without having her mind drift to terrible things.

"We have to rest," he said.

"No. We'll keep moving until dawn and then sleep." (It's mid-quote, but I can't just NOT close the quotation mark)

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy

I tag whoever wants to do this. It's way fun. Come on, you know you want to.

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)



1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (I just never got around to them, though I have started them a few times)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (parts)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare(Half bolded. I haven't read ALL of them yet, but about 13 maybe)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (I'd like to super bold this, since it's required in practically every single class I've taken so far)
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (I've started this a bunch of times, but never got past the first hundred pages or so)

I need a shower.


I lost my soap.


:-(

you are mediumvioletred #C71585

Your dominant hues are red and magenta. You love doing your own thing and going on your own adventures, but there are close friends you know you just can't leave behind. You can influence others on days when you're patient, but most times you just want to go out, have fun, and do your own thing. Your saturation level is high - you get into life and have a strong personality. Everyone you meet will either love you or hate you - either way, your goal is to get them to change the world with you. You are very hard working and don't have much patience for people without your initiative. Your outlook on life is brighter than most people's. You like the idea of influencing things for the better and find hope in situations where others might give up. You're not exactly a bouncy sunshine but things in your world generally look up.

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The description fits, but it's a little too pink for me. Not that I have anything against the color pink.

Anyway, in real life news, work is well under way. It's alright. Definitely better than last year. It's just a lot easier and more laid-back and I'm not working for a douche. The thing that really makes me angry is housing. At the end of the year I went to Bro (the theatre chairperson) and said I'd like to work again, but had nowhere to stay. He went to Residence Life and got us all places to stay for the summer. Now, by "all" I really only mean the seven of us who had nowhere to stay. They said we could stay for free. Much celebration. Anyway, Bro apparently got a bill from them today for 15,000 dollars. Turns out it was free for the students, not the depatment. Way to be upfront about that, you asshats. Now I could see that price being slightly fair if we were given private rooms, free meals, and sexual favors whenever we wanted them. But no. I have a tiny closet to live in which I SHARE with someone else. It's practically a 6 x 8 cell. We figured it out and it rounds out to be about 200 bucks a WEEK for each of us out of the department's money. Last summer I was living in a HOUSE forr 300 a MONTH. I hate this school sometimes.

I've been having ridiculous anxiety attacks right before bed for the past three nights. It's really not a good time.

I'm currently over halfway through The Chronicles of Narnia. They're so great. I'm about half done with The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and I seriously have no iea how I've never read these books before. It all came about because after I saw Prince Caspian I went to Wal Mart and they had one of those huge collection books for twelve bucks, so I bought it. Of course it's an annoying movie cover version, so I'll need to replace it eventually, but it's good for now. Speaking of Prince Caspian, has anyone seen it? I loved it, btu I've also read a lot of reviews from fans online that practically despised it. Just curious.

S'been a while since my last "real" update. I just got back from Canada this morning. Every year, after graduation, the theatre depatment takes a trip to Ontario for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. It's fun times. This year lacked something, though. Last year it was all about drinking legally, making and cementing friendships and, of course, theatre. This year seemed off. There were double the people going, so that could have affected it. It was a hassle to organize anything. Imagine walking into a restaurant and asking for a table for 16. On top of that, it was hard and annoying to get everyone to go to one place. Not to mention the fact that I just didn't wanna be around a couple of them. Oh, well.
I should've realized it wasn't going to go as well as last year when the trip took around 13 hours. It's supposed to take around 8, but we hit ridiculous traffic at the border. Five hours of ridiculous traffic. We finally arrived and all basically just fell asleep. The one thing that was not different this year was the qualities of the productions, though I did have a few problems with a couple of them.
First we saw "The Trojan Women." It was solid and the lead actress was phenomenal. The only tough part was it was presentd without an act break. Still, all around, it was a great show. That night we saw "Hamlet." I didn't really care for it, which sucks because it's such a great show in general. They tried to make it funny. Yeah, you heard me, they made "Hamlet" a comedy. The other problem was Act 1 ran two hours long. I understand that Shakespearean plays are long, but to break them up into two hour and a half segments makes it so much easier to sit through. It had its moments, but overall, it was lacking in my mind. The next day we saw "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Cabaret." "The Taming of the Shrew" blew me away. They somehow managed to make Petruchio LIKEABLE. I don't how they pulled it off, but he seemed to genuinely care for Kate. They also made Kate very human and sympathetic. It was phenomenal. "Cabaret" was alright. I dont' really care for musicals, but I can appreciate what they did. Thursday we saw a matinee of "Love's Labour's Lost.". It was one of my least favorite's. I just didn't care for teh show at all. It was slow moving and boring. The bad news is that our director is considering it for our Fall Shakespeare. Kind of makes me wanna die. Last night we saw "The Music Man." It was alright. I don't like musicals, so it was hard for me to get into it, plus it was so patriotic I almost vomited. Or maybe that was from dinner.
No, seriously, a group of us went to the "Boar's Head Pub" for dinner last night and it made me very, very sick. I had the Shepherd's Pie, which was delicious, but ugh. Imagine an eight hour drive home from Canada, leaving at 11 oc clock at night wiht an upset stomach (upset doens't even begin to explain how bad it felt) and intertwining fevers and cold sweats. It was awful. We got back this morning at around 6 and I went right to bed, slept till 5, got up and felt a bit better, had some dinner and got sick again. Ah, well. I guess I won't be eating Shepherd's Pie anytime soon.

I was just outside having a cigarette and witnessed one of the dumbest conversations I have ever had the pleasure of eavesdropping in on.

College Moron #1: It's like I don't even try to hook up with girls, it just happens. Like I was at this party and then I was just banging someone.
College Moron #2: What do you mean you don't try to hook up with girls? You've been here two years, you should try. You'd get laid a lot more.
College Moron #1: Yeah, but you know the girls here. I don't wanna end up with an std or something.
College Moron #2: Dude, you gotta lower your standards. Stds are just a normal part of college.

STOP EXISTING.

Ugh, I just want this paper done.

I should really start doing work. It's not that I have a lot of work to do, I should just really start doing it. I have to perform a comedy sketch on Tuesday and I'm not off-book. I have to have soem Medieval stuff read for class on Tuesday and I haven't read it. I'm supposed to do a scene from Shakespeare for Wednesday, but I might just forget about it and take a written test cause it's easier. I need to fill out a form for the Honor's Society on campus and turn it in tomorrow and I haven't finished filling it out. FAFSA's are due March 15 and I haven't even looked at it yet. My Play Analysis log is still due form last semester. I think that's all. There's a bunch of stuff from Scene Painting, but that isn't due until Friday.

Still, I should probably get started on all of that. But I don't want to. How am I ever gonna be a big person?

The Oscar's tonight kind fo annoyed me. I agreed with most of the winners, but nto many of the "big" ones. Ah, well.

There're call-backs tomorrow for the one act plays. I don't know if I need to go or not. They didn't really explain it well. First, I thought we were gonna get an e-mail if we needed to go back in, but the e-mail was just a general call for people who wanted to audition. Maybe I'll see someone tomorrow who might know more than me.

My head just got suddenly clear. Very, very clear. Not like "everything suddenly makes sense" clear, just nothing in it except Amy Winehouse from my headphones and the beginnigns of a headache.

Meh.

So, I'm still alive, ahha.

It's been just about forever since the last time I wrote anything in this. I've been mad busy. In December I spent three weeks in Georgia. Three of the longest weeks of my entire life. I could talk about them, but that means I'd need to think about them and I'd rather not.

Tonight the show I've been wokring on for the past month ended. Final run. It was Dead Man Walking by Tim Robbins based on the book by SIster Helen Prejean. I'm sad it's over. I'm in the minority feeling this way, but I really enjoyed being a part of it. The character I had was also pretty challenging. I was Chaplain Farley, the 50-something year old right-wing priest who was all for the death penalty. Basically, the exact opposite of who I am. It was interesting to portray someone so completely not me.

That show's basically consumed my entire semester so far. I mean I have classes and all, but who really has time for edumacation when you're spending about ten hours in the theatre every day between rehersals and shop.

I'm actually pretty happy with my classes this semester. Not with the schedule, but the classes themselves. Every day I have a really early class and hten one at 2 in the afternoon. Meh... here's the schedule:

MWF at 8 a.m.- Shakespeare
MW at 2 p.m.- TV Drama
TTh at 9.30 a.m.- Medieval Literature
TTh at 2 p.m.- The Art and Technique of Comedy
F at 2 p.m.- Scene Painting

They're all really fun. Our first assignment in TV Drama was to recreate a commercial. We were split into two groups and both inadvertantly picked the same commercial- the Orbit one with the people who are cursing, btu aren't really cursing. I'm sure you've seen it, just think "You lint licker." In Comedy we have to do a comic sketch that's already been done, but wiht our own spin. My partner and I are doing the "Whitest Kids U Know" sketch about the gallon of PCP. For a good laugh, go look it up on YouTUbe. I play the one who works at Binko's.

I think that's all for now. I'm gonna try to update more often, ahha.

( I hope I remember how to do one of these... Cut for memes I stole from Shannon and Sarah )

Sometimes I can't help but feel like a third wheel.

I haven't updated in a while. It's not that I haven't had anything to say, I just haven't had time to say it. It's not even that a lot has happened, I've just been very busy with little things.

All little things, that is, except for my current show. It opens on Wednesday. WEDNESDAY. For those of you keeping track, that's in four days. FOUR DAYS.

We're doing Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. I play Dromio of Syracuse. It's a fun, albeit time consuming, part. I haven't had a night off in a month. It's crazypants. I also have huge bruises on my left leg because I have to jump up on the stage. To make it funny, I do more of a belly flop. It gets laughs; I get bruises.

Because of the show, I have basically no time for anything else, including school. I really feel like I'm slacking off this semester. I guess I kind of am. Once the show's over, I won't be so bad about it. It's just a big part and it's SHAKESPEARE and I've never really done Shakespeare before. Slightly intimidating.

I have no clean clothes as of right now. It's kind of annoying. I can't even re-use those shirts you wear for one day where you do nothing but lay around becuase I haven't had a day like that. Rehearsals pretty much kill that dream. I sprint the entire second act. Sprint in, sprint around, sprint out. Repeat. It's exhausting.

Sorry I'm basically just rambling on about the show. But in case you haven't figured it out, it's basically my life right now.

Oh, and I need to pick a one act play for my directing class to direct. I either want a drama or a dark comedy and I don't really want more than three characters. If anyone knows of any or can point in a direction to look, I'll be your best friend for forever.


That's all for now.

I can't sleep. It's not that I'm not tired. I just can't sleep.


I'm just sittig here chain smoking and aggravated about everything and nothing. I can try to write. That might make me tired. I don't know.


I should probably read Heart of Darkness, but I don't know if the tone of that particular novel will sit well with me right now. I still need to read it. Maybe I will.