The Last Five Years always seems to be the perfect music for when you're sad. It's late and I'm listening to "Nobody Needs to Know." I'm tired of talking.

"Look at us, lying here
Dreaming, pretending"

Oh yeah!

I did not go to civ. class more than a handful of times this quarter and got a freakin' A- when 30% of the grade is participation. I got a B+ in Alexander the great which i actually went to but usually slept through cuz it turned out to be boring beyond belief. Still waiting on evol. mind/morality but I don't have high hopes for that one. My last paper just didn't want to come together. We'll see.

I got a job!

At the Bubba Gump shrimp restaurant at Navy Pier! I also got a job at the BiBop cafe at navy pier, but I'm not gonna take that one. They don't do the volume and their plate is much cheaper. I have orientation tomorrow! NO MORE LIBRARY!!!!!!!

Guess what world? I got waitlisted by DePaul! They only accept 10 students, and I got waitlisted! Next year I'm gonna rock their socks!!!

I woke up today!

Civ. today was actually rather interesting. We were discussing Roman persecution of various religious sects. I think I might write my paper about it. I especially liked the Roman description of christians. Basically they called them cannables (that even ate babies!) and said that they practiced a lot of incest (more than likely because christians called each other brother and sister). It was fun. Then I worked at the library all day. In the afternoon I did some sweeps (you know wondering around looking for book just left around in the stacks) and I was dancing harder than I have in quite a while to all the non-dancing sorts of songs on my shuffle. :p Then home, dinner, watched Rent with some people in the lounge, spent too much time online, then Jon and I watched some Gargoyles ( i just downloaded it ;), and then jon, kate, and I talked for a few hours about random stuff. So now it's late and I should go to bed. But I haven't actually written anything for a while so I thought I change it up a bit. Anywho, vale!

Ok, I have to pass this along

Kate sent me this link. It's amazing sometimes!

http://www.overheardinchicago.blogspot.com/

Blah on Kate for getting me hooked on this show!

Izzy Stevens

53% confidence, 82% compassion, 62% dedication

Isobel Stevens is anything but a dumb blonde. In fact, she’s a very intelligent, determined woman. Her strongest point is probably being able to comfort her patients. However, her compassion can sometimes be her weakness. She also isn’t the most confident of the interns. But, she’s definitely the hottest. ;)

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

	You scored higher than 25% on confidence
	You scored higher than 84% on compassion
	You scored higher than 24% on dedication

The Which Grey's Anatomy Intern RU Test

How on earth did they manage to guess my favorite type of chocolate?!?!?!?!

Razabelle

You scored 62% Dark, 77% Crunch, and 65% Chewy!

You are a razabelle, from Godiva's Platinum Collection: Refreshing raspberry layered over sweet vanilla caramel and decked in dark chocolate.


What a great mix of fun, creativity, and sweetness you are...with just enough tang to always keep things interesting. There's never a dull moment with you around, you are truly full to the brim with new ideas (the more outrageous, the better!) There's not much you shy away from, plus, you're usually careful to take others into consideration and not step on anyone's toes. One of the coolest in the box.

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:


You scored higher than 77% on Dark

You scored higher than 95% on Crunchy

You scored higher than 48% on Chewy

Link: The Box of Chocolates Test written by weerediii on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Guilty Pleasure

Jackie you should especially check out this website:

http://www.cuteoverload.com/

Go me! Go me! It's almost my Birthday!!!

Yay!! Music is back!!! Enjoy!

Wahoo!

Ok!! So I got an A- on my Civ. paper, B+ on my super crappy Alexander the Great paper, Dan Stearns is letting me take his Shakespeare in Performance class, I just sent off my application for the 500 Clown class, and Jackie might be coming to visit the weekend after I turn in my final papers!?!?!?! Hootey-Hoo!!

Fun new band

Listen to some stuff here:
http://myspace.com/nousnonplus

You can get the lyrics in english here:
http://www.nousnonplus.com/nnp_lyrics1.html

I especially liked the lawnmower song. So silly!

Vale!

"And I can't sleep. I need to tell you... Goodnight."

Bah on the world. I have class at 9am and I am so not tired. I tried to go to sleep and it totally failed. So now I'm gonna read mamet's True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. We'll see how it goes. Vale!

Change of Plans

I think I am going to stay at UofC for my final year and not graduate early. My BA is a mess and there are a bunch of acting classes being offered next quarter and next year here at UofC that I would like to take. So I went and talked to David Spatz who didn't want me to just forget about my BA and goof off, but said it would be fine for me to do. I just have to talk to my advisor and preceptor. Yeah, so I think I'm gonna do it. I am meeting with my BA and academic advisors tomorrow and working it all out. Hopefully, it all goes well!! Only sad thing to note: I can't pre-register cuz i forgot to meet with my advisor. I'm such a space case sometimes. Thank God auditions are OVER!!!! Vale!

"Nobody needs to know"

How many times can I listen to this song? Why is this the song? Right now I find myself in need of a little morale. I did my last audition this past weekend. It went very well, but they only take five girls, so there's not much hope really. But I have plans set in place for next year. Patience and hard work. I can do this.

The Best Valentine's Day Ever

Jon, my oh so awesome valentine, gave me the nicest card. It said: "Roses are red, Violets are blue, but not even lime green egyptian theatres are as groovy as a chic like you!" He also gave me raspberry Lindt chocolate and godiva raspberry ice cream!!! I wanted to get Jon some manly stuff for valentine's day, so I gave him 2 cards (one tacky one that played music ;), a KING sized snickers, and a manual can opener (I mean what's more manly than a manual can opener???) :p

Memories

So I'm watching eternal sunshine for the millionth time, and all of a sudden i started thinking about where I would hide memories, and you know just random childhood memories. It's dumb the stuff we remember. So here are a few of mine:

~Running all over the house with lame excuses like i need to clean my stuff in the kitchen, so i wouldn't have to keep watching Jurrasick Park, but invariably I'd come back, freak out, and make another lame excuse to leave.

~Sitting on a stool in the kitchen as my mom cut my hair short for the one and only time i had my hair cut short.

~Playing in my mom's room at her dresser with the big mirror. One time I kept brushing my bangs to the side to make them look like Ariel's from the little mermaid.

~All my barbies, my barbie comforter, the alladin stickers on the wall.

~Ultimate Hide and Go seek

~Putting on my old purple clothes to go play in a big pile of dirt they just brought in for building a new house.

~The little boy named Eric who lived across the street.

~following a creek to a lake no one knew existed

~getting caught in a storm of bits of dandelions when i was walking in the woods

~jamming to alanis morsett for hours while walking my dogs

~performing skits for my mom on the tile entryway to the house

~the christmas room! our extra living room became a christmas room. Lights everywhere and the little village that my mom made. I remember sitting on the couch in there just enjoying the lights.

~my mom's big closet that was filled with tons of craft stuff. she always had just what you needed.

~falling off the monkey bars and having the wind knocked out of me for the first time. i thought i was dying.

~my too perfect first date/first kiss under the stars at my first homecoming dance

~the huge argument that same night with my mom because everything fell out of my purse during that kiss and i didn't notice. My mom got all pissed that there weren't any pictures and we were screaming and i was crying. My mom decided she wanted those pictures so she took some of me crying in my dress. I don't know what ever happened to them. My mom never remembered to develop film. I remember thinking this was the most "perfect" way to end such a great evening.

~crying in the bathroom to my dad when i finally decided i had to leave

~crying in my dad's arms when i found out my parents were getting a divorce

~my dad hitting me so hard my mom called the police. the next day when all my teachers kept asking my what happened.

~exploring every inch of every neighborhood i ever lived in

~birthday cakes. my mom always made the best birthday cakes. green ones, pink ones, ones with trolls, one shaped like a worm. whatever i wanted. green icing with pink cake.

~spending summers at my dad's and reading all day and all night

~hours spent volunteering in the library

~kick ball

~the fire drill that lasted an entire day cuz they couldn't figure out what had tripped the alarm

i guess that's enough for now.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

I don't get why everyone is so anti-valentine's day. It's like one of the silliest, funnest holidays every. This just goes to show that people take themselves too seriously! I mean it's so cliché to hate Valentine's day! Anywho, I picked Jon to be my Valentine so I would have someone to lavish my affection on, and I've been having waaay to much fun with it. And it's so nice to be done with mid-term papers. Since Saturday I have done the following:

Saturday: 8pg paper on ethics and evolution
Sunday: 7pg paper for Civ. on Roman attitudes on slavery.
Monday: 2pg paper about Male vs. Female long-term/short-term mating strategies
Tuesday: 5pg paper refuting the relevance of the entire topic for my Alexander the Great class
Wednesday: 7.3pgs of introductory material for my BA

Total: 29.3pgs in 5 days, including all the research for each paper. A Personal Record!

Anywho, yup. I'm glad to be done writing!?!!!

Thank God it's Valentine's Day!

One Down, Six to Go!

So I did the Illinois Theatre Association open call audition yesterday, which was crazy. I only had two minutes, and neither of my monologues really worked in that format... Anywho, I got in there, told them my name, and they started the timer!!! Normally the timer starts when you start you actual pieces so you can take a moment to breathe and then start, but no such luck with these people. I led out with my smaller, emotional, personal piece cuz that's the one that usually gets people, but my heart was racing and my whole body started shaking and I couln't center my breath! Bah! So I think I need to lead out with a very active piece, where I can use that energy to propel me forward. So I think I'm gonna start with Violet ;) The cool thing about this audition was I got to watch the other 12 people in my group audition and I can sum up their work in three bullets:

~No one used the space
~No one was really personalized
~No one had a sense of humor!

And violet has all of those things. So, I'm doing it! lol. Let's hope for the best!

In other news: My BA is a disaster!

Vale!

OMG!!!

Harry Potter 7, July 21st. I want to die!!!! ;alskdjf;alskdjf;alskdfja; lsdf I want this weekend to be over already! Vale!