Never Lose Your Cell Phone April 16, 2008
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Especially if it is your only phone.
I am obsessed April 6, 2008
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This really is quite sad, but I have become obsessed with Wicked. It all started Spring Break. But I’ll go further back. The summer after my senior year of High School, my then best friend and I went to New York City. Her grandparents live in Brooklyn and we stayed with them for a week and took the subway into Manhattan nearly everyday. We decided that we wanted to try to see Wicked, but lacking a time machine or a butt-load of money we were left attempting to get tickets through the lottery, they were $50 tickets at the front. We never did get them. But bought the book, and read it on the plane. The next summer I was getting ready to go to England and Wicked came to Portland. I was going to be out of town during the performances (If I remember correctly we went to the Farm that week. And as I wouldn’t see any of my family for 9 months I needed to go). So I didn’t see it. But the following week was the Beaverton City Parade, and some woman by the name of Shoshana Bean was in it. We found out she had just played Elphaba in Wicked, and was from Beaverton.
Anyways jump to spring break. I had been hearing some of the songs from the musical and I had tried to fit together what I knew from the books with the songs and it wasn’t working so Kristin told me that she had downloaded a video of one of the performances of Wicked at the Gershwin. I watched. Then I listened to the music, and watched it again… you get the idea. It was Wicked Week! I friggin love that show. And I heard a rumor that it is coming back to Portland next March. Mommy is taking me, and Kristin will probably come. But I wish it ended there. If it ended there I might be considered sane. God help me.
No, as a few of you may have figured from my earlier entries, I get a little obsessed, a little singular. Anywho… I search on the internet for stuff… So I find out not only is Shoshana Bean from Portland she graduated from my High School. Her and Megan Hilty (From Bellevue, WA) were co-stars for about a year at the Gershwin, and actually requested that they get to perform the Pacific NW shows for the traveling show. And not only are they co-stars, they are friends, watching interviews or other performances they did, it is clear that they like each other and have a ton of fun together. I find lots of videos… I’m obsessed its bad. I am going cold turkey on the internet crud (Great, now Kristin is going to hold me to it…). But I still want a copy of the soundtrack from Kristin (*Cough*).
Update March 30, 2008
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Kristin, you wanted a new blog entry. Here.
I’m a whiney little bitch March 11, 2008
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So here I go. Before I start I will fully admit that this is the combined fault of Kristin and I both, not that I’m blaming Kristin. We’re just both in the same boat now because of our combined stupidity and laziness.
Wah. So last night I was up until four am working on my blasted Women’s Studies Zine. I am really tired, I walked into my Business class (a 2 hour class) about 35 minutes late because I slept in (shhh if anyone asks, I had a doctors appointment and they said it would only be an hour but went two hours). Possible suckiest of all I don’t get to sleep later. I am a girl that likes, no loves, her sleep. I need sleep. I do not function well on less than six hours a night. I feel like I am dragging through wet sand if I get less than six hours of sleep 
a night. On that note, I do not mind sacrificing sleep for most of my classes. I would not be studying Engineering if I didn’t mind occasionally sacrificing sleep. But it’s Women’s Studies. This stupid class has been a thorn in my side for the entire term. I do not enjoy Women’s Studies. While the suffragettes were cool, and I would even go as far as to say a few of the second wavers were great, these days feminism is generally little more than a few over privileged bitches crying victim. And don’t even get me started on Eco-Feminism. Basically this class is “We will convert you to Feminism 101″. So am I happy to sacrifice my sleep for Women’s Studies… HELL NO!
On the flip side, Kristin is awesome with whatever Mac program she is using and our Zine looks more like a magazine. Totally professional. Oh, anyone have A4? Because we formatted it in A4 by accident, and it just looks too cool like that to change it to dorky 8 1/2 x 11.
I’ll take it as a good sign March 4, 2008
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I haven’t heard back yet on my internship. I thought it was bad last week, just sitting and waiting. No, this is worse, I am pretty much totally anxious anytime I think about it. I was told I would hear back early this week. Maybe it’s just me, but I took that to mean Monday or Tuesday. Granted, tomorrow would still (kinda) be the first half of the week. So here’s my thinking so far. If I were to be just discounted early on (because, let’s face it, there really wasn’t any type of selection process for interviewing, you just kinda sign up.) I would have (maybe?) heard back early. So, I sit here waiting, with the stress contributing to a nasty annoying condition I have. It really is all a… joy. I really really want this, but right now I think I just want to know if I have it or not. I am not a patient person.
Top 10 reasons to crawl under the bed and die January 16, 2008
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10. I’m tired.
9. There is never enough coffee or hours in the day.
8. The kid behind me in the coffee shop that insists that the table next to him is not in fact a table but a drum.
7. Walking to and from campus is turning slowly to me crawling back and forth
6. Womens Studies even more unbearable than normal because I don’t have my sister smirking next to me.
5. It is cold. 27 F this morning when I woke up.
4. The joys of Initiation week, fun but long.
3. 12 hours on campus today.
2. Math quiz tomorrow and once again, I am lost in class.
And drum rrrrroooooollllllllllllllllllllll……..
1. Because it just sound so good.
Quarter Past One November 26, 2007
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I have the urge to write. I should be asleep. Sunday night I have class at 9 am. Instead I’m sitting in my dark room, not wanting to unplug the space heater to deprive myself of heat in the -3 C cold and fog, oh, and listening to Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! (Best thing on radio). And I’m putting my mom’s Dixie Chicks CD (stole it, she doesn’t know yet) on to my iTunes Library. Why is it I always want to write at this hour. Two nights past it was on my story. The scene when a certain military leader comes to a certain adolescent girl trained in medicine to tell her that the medicine won’t come. Then the scene later (4 years later) when he talks to her about that conversation and first hints that his loyalties may not lay where many may think. I thought it came out well… but then again it was quarter past one.
About to cry November 20, 2007
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This sucks balls. I am in AutoCAD. It’s just been a bad last 18 hours in general. I had to go get a shot. It is the type you can feel go in and hurts like a mother. I go home and work on AutoCAD for a while before I left for chapter. Got back from chapter and worked on more AutoCAD. Couldn’t get my alignments to work and gave up after an hour Realized that the work I had done earlier for ec was now worthless becuase I some how never did one of the homeworks and I have to do that now. So I nearly cried then at my own idiocy of somehow not remembering to do the homework and not remembering it being turned in. Since I was just then remebering that it existed. So I work on the homework… long and convoluded. Got it drawn and go to insert a layout and plot and it crashed on me. Three times. Gave up went to bed, set alarms for 8:30.
Wake up. It’s 10:20. No memory of turning off any of my THREE alarms. I have missed Math Recitation. Really not doing well in Math, but have been working my butt off to get caught up and now this. I sit there and cry, call my mom and cry. And get ready and into the lab, becuase then I can at least fix my stupid AutoCAD. I get one fixed just in time after a bit of trouble. The other I have a few minutes to do. Then it starts going bizerk. Not going to explain what happened but I eventually fixed it 20 minutes after class started. Walk to the front to hand it in and Jina (not her real name) says to me: “Next time wait til I’m done.” I understand I get it. But I am sooooo worn down from AutoCAD, math and business, then work on top of it all that all I want to do right now is cry from it all.
Because Phillip Morris hates kids… And apparently Oregon does too. November 6, 2007
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Disclaimer: I am a hypocrite by most measures. I didn’t vote this time. I moved in August and I forgot to re-register… until 1 day after registration closed. In my credit I did vote while I was abroad. I did the whole absentee thing.
It is an Oregon mark of the fall. Kids go back to school. High School football games. And the election time advertising starts… This year was a record year for advertising spending, apparently. And I have to say it reached a new low. when you actually have Phillip Morris paying for advertisements you know it’ll be bad. What more, apparently we listen to them.
So, Measure 50. It was an amendment to the Oregon Constitution that would have created a new tobacco tax. This tobacco tax would have helped fund health insurance for uninsured kids. Granted the measure was kinda flawed but we would have worked out the kinks… it’s kinda what we do. Make a measure, implement it then pass 4 more measures over the next 10 years to amend it because the original was kinda flawed. Of course Phillip Morris didn’t want to pay for it in lost sales so they spend 20 million on advertising in Oregon (And we’ve had to watch it… Just for that I hate them) against this measure. And as I write this 60%-ish of the votes are counted and Measure 50 is failing by 60%. OK. I get some of the objections but does anyone actually think about who is paying for the advertisement???
Sims October 28, 2007
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I love The Sims 2. It is my friend. A friend I really should not be seeing anytime before a midterm. You see once I agree to hang out with the Sims it becomes needy. They’ll start popping up their little pixelated heads and demanding more and more time. Pretty soon I spend all evening with them and the better part of the next day. When I have a midterm on Tuesday this is a friend, distracting, annoying and altogether kinda slow and frustrating to be around, should not be hanging out with me. So why, oh, WHY did I put in that disk? Stupid stupid girl.
