Dear New Jersey drivers,

You really have no reason to complain about the driving of Pennsylvanians! 

Yeah, that's what I thought. 

;)

more pre-graduation pictures

Courtesy of Lori (similar to mine, but good!):

Jason & Me Senior Ball

Girls Senior Ball

Couples Senior Ball

Girls MTA Formal

The Five MTA Formal... I look like my mom

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Another picture of Noelle, Christie and me at Senior Ball... I like this one better than the one I have online :)

So, yeah, I'm home til August.  Or July 29th, to be exact.  I need a job....

Classes are over.

Finals are over.

Now I'm just waiting on Senior Week to begin!

Pictures of the MTA Formal can now be found here.

why AREN'T we there?

PURITY: 70% sex, 55% substance, 70% moral [67% total]
Well done! The higher your scores, the more "pure" you are. The lower, the more you've experienced.

This test was about done deeds, so your numbers will never climb. [It's interesting to think they all started at 100%.] But will your purity continue to fall? Will you OUTGROW or will you OUTDO your past experiences? It's up to you.


Advisory:

• Don't date anyone if your moral purities differ by more than 30%.
• Don't run a business with anyone if your substance purities differ by more than 40%.
• Do be friends with someone who has less than 1/2 your sex purity. You'll enjoy their colorful company.

Note: as for the "TOTAL" purity value - that's a weighted combination of your scores, indicating what a typical purity test might say about you.


My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 39% on substance You scored higher than 71% on sex You scored higher than 57% on moral You scored higher than 63% on TOTAL

Link: The 3-Variable Purity Test written by chriscoyne on Ok Cupid

job update: I have one

Yeah, so I'm interning with Milwaukee Rep for it's 05-06 season (August - May).  Should be a good time.  More details when I know them.  So, that's exciting... :)

The MTA Formal (Friday night) was lots of fun, so now I'm looking forward to Senior Ball!  I don't have any of my pics online yet, but Lauren Shetler has one of Jason and I up on her pics page.

Saw a lot of acapella final concerts this weekend, and got a little work done. 

Stuff still left to do:

-Latin history essay due Wednesday

-Latin final on Wednesday

-Philosophy final on Thursday

-Film final on Thursday

-Comment on Pop fiction stories on Livejournal by Friday

Not too bad, eh?  I will be happy when it's all done.

 

 

You Belong in RomeYou're a big city girl with a small town heart Which is why you're attracted to the romance of Rome Strolling down picture perfect streets, cappuccino in hand And gorgeous Italian men - could life get any better? What City Do You Belong in? Take This Quiz :-) Find the Love of Your Life (and More Love Quizzes) at Your New Romance.

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Instructions:
1. Grab the nearest book. Don't search for something cool. Grab what's actually closest to you.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Mine:  "Some even claimed to have glimpsed him on the deeper levels, where the chill was so profound it froze the piss in your bladder."

Hmm.  Good times.

The book is my Popular Fiction book, the short story in question being Clive Barker's "Down, Satan!"  Didn't have to read that one for class...

Also:

One hundred books. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you've read part of, underline the ones on your to-read list.

1984, George Orwell
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
The BFG, Roald Dahl
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
Bleak House, Charles Dickens
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières
Catch 22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher In The Rye, J.D. Salinger
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
Dune, Frank Herbert
Emma, Jane Austen
Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
The Godfather, Mario Puzo
Gone With The Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone, JK Rowling
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
His Dark Materials trilogy, Philip Pullman
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
Holes, Louis Sachar
I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
Katherine, Anya Seton
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
The Lord Of The Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blighton
Magician, Raymond E. Feist
The Magus, John Fowles
Matilda, Roald Dahl
Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Mort, Terry Pratchett
Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
On The Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Persuasion, Jane Austen
The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
Pride And Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret History, Donna Tartt
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
The Stand, Stephen King
The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Tess Of The D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
The Twits, Roald Dahl
Ulysses, James Joyce
Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
War And Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down, Richard Adams
The Wind In The Willows, Kenneth Grahame
Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

That was random.  Someone is clearly a Terry Pratchett fan.

Also:

 

You scored as Aidan Shaw. You got Aidan Shaw. You are a committed and comfortable person. You love animals and nature. Relationships with you are all about being comfortable and fitting with somebody else perfectly. You treat others with respect and expect the same in return. Affairs are things you can't stand and would never do yourself. You want to trust your life partner completely.

Aidan Shaw 92%

Charlotte York 75%

Steve Brady 75%

Stanford Blatch 75%

Miranda 67%

Smith 58%

Harry Goldenblatt 50%

Carrie 50%

Samantha Jones 33%

Mr Big 25%
Which Sex and the City Character are you?
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chastity belt?

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I talked to another woman at Milwaukee Rep today...she called and said that the first woman I had talked to had spoken highly of me, so she just wnted to have a little chat and answer any questions I had.  So that excited me...  I think that despite the VERY small stipend, it would be a smart job to take if it was offered to me...  The housing they would put me in is a Plaza Hotel, a little convenience apartment to myself with my own bathroom and kitchenette...that sounds nice...  And they are an Equity company, so I could get my EMC points and plenty of experience with Equity stuff...  She said I'll hear in about a week and a half, so I'm looking forward to hearing something!

Graduation is looming on the horizon

I guess it's been awhile since my last update.  So, let's see.  I went and did forensics one more time to make some money, and while I was there, my mom called to tell me that she was on her way to Alaska because my cousin Fisher had killed himself the previous day.  I really wanted to be able to go visit Aunt Michelle with mom and Beth, but couldn't get away from forensics, couldn't miss classes, really, and couldn't find any plane tickets below $1000.  So, that was very sad and upsetting.  I thought about Heaven a lot and I just hope that

a) death is not complete blankness, for eternity, which I won't even know is blankness because I just won't have consciousness anymore

b) that you can look back at those who are still alive and watch their lives happen when you want to

And I hope Fisher is happy, wherever he is, and feels how much he was loved.

Gandalf:  Death is just another path, one that we all must take.  The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all changes to silver glass...  And then you see it.

Pippin: What, Gandalf?  See what?

Gandalf: White shores...  And beyond, the far green country under a swift sunrise.

Pippin: Well, that isn't so bad.

Gandalf: No... No it isn't.

Okay, sorry for the deepness...

In other news, I've been sending out the job applications and the interviews are trickling in.  I have one tomorrow for Milwaukee Rep, which Charlie recommended to me, so hopefully it goes well!  Then on Monday, I'm going to the NJ Theatre Alliance Design Showcase, where I'll set up a little stage management display for myself and out my AGYG production book out, and then the 30 or so theatres who attend will all come around and interview me.  Wish me luck!

Last weekend was Honors Convocation, at which I recieved the Dorothy and Dexter Baker Foundation Award in the Performing Arts.  They give one to a music student, one to a dance student, and one to a theatre student.  I was really surprised and pleased to get it because I don't think these awards, since there's really only one to give in the whole theatre department, normally go to stage managers.  In fact, I'm sure they always go to actors or directors.  So it was extremely nice both just because and because included in the award was $300.  Then, what made it even nicer was that when I ran into Charlie two days later he came over on the front lawn (I was tanning in the beautiful sunlight) and congratulated me, and said he was sorry that he couldn't be there, and then said that it was a unanimous decision among the faculty members that the award should go to me.  I really don't mean to toot my own horn, but it was extremely nice.

Less than 40 days left til graduation ,and I've got lots of stuff coming -23 days, MTA Formal, the Accapella final concerts, all the fun of senior week, those interviews I mentioned earlier... and of course finals.  Don't my teachers realize that I'm a senior and it's not cool to assign me work?

This weekend should be fairly chill.  Go see Francine (my Film Acting teacher) in The Interpreter!

Your Inner European is Italian! Passionate and colorful. You show the world what culture really is. Who's Your Inner European?

 

Oh, and things with Jason are going really well.  I'm happy.  :) :)

 

Your Linguistic Profile: 55% General American English 30% Yankee 15% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?