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November 22nd, 2025
09:42 pm - i follow the trend
Actually, I lied. I'm only semi-exclusive.
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November 28th, 2007
11:50 pm
I'm caught up with Heroes! It is so terribly exciting, and I'm super angry with the screenwriters for not writing more lovely stories for me. But the stagehands are back! Hurrah! Also, I managed to find a television, so I watched Gossip Girl as it aired tonight. It was a pretty darn epic episode. I can't wait for more!
I'm getting sick or something. This sucks, because I'm way too busy starting tomorrow morning. But I'm getting paid on Friday!
I wonder if I could take five classes next semester? I need a certain GPA, but I don't know if I have that. There is also a possibility that I could take Arabic with the same professor that I have currently!
I put up a string of Christmas lights in my room. They are very colorful and lovely, and they go well with my electric menorah.
Life is really nice when I convince myself that I don't have work to do.
Current Music: Liars - Sailing to Byzantium
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October 2nd, 2007
06:33 pm - Signs, you know I see them all the time
It's much cooler now. 72°F, which is about twenty degrees cooler than it has been for most of the week. Roommate & I are speaking again, although we don't actually have real conversations. I don't care too much: I've met plenty of other people who are fun to spend time with. Also, a girl in my Arabic class just moved into a room around the corner. She's next door to a girl from Egypt, so we'll be having fun Arabic parties.
I found some pretty decent hummus, which makes me very happy. I also got harassed by some Jews on the street who got me to say a prayer for Sukkhot. Shaking the lulav & etrog in Kenmore Square is only slightly awkward. After that I learned to avert my eyes and walk quickly by whenever I spot a group of Jews.
I got a job! I'm working on campus doing tech stuff, sound, lights, projections, etc. The job sounds pretty flexible, so I'll still be able to schedule concerts and things around it. Speaking of concerts...PATRICK WOLF! On Thursday! Kinda sucks because I'm taking the SAT II in Spanish right before that.
Here are some songs that I think you all should listen to:
1. Klaxons - Two Receivers
2. Ra Ra Riot - Dying is Fine
3. Patrick Wolf - Paris
4. The Unicorns - Emasculate the Masculine
5. Spoon - The Underdog
6. Schoolyard Heroes - The Plastic Surgery Hall of Fame
7. T.Rex - Cosmic Dancer
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September 25th, 2007
11:13 pm - Red Ripped Shirt
Current Mood: hot damn
Current Music: W/IFS - One For the Witches
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September 22nd, 2007
02:08 am - Look, and update!
Hi! It's 2am, and I just got back to my dorm. I haven't actually been to any parties yet, although last week there was an incident where I almost went to a party with this girl to provide moral support, but I ended up going back to my dorm and sleeping.
I really should sleep now. I've been trying to fight off a cold for the past week, and sleep helps.
I'm pretty exhausted right now. I was out of my dorm all day. I had classes from 9-1, then I went to a science tutorial to do my homework, and then I went straight to BU Central to start setting up for the show. I moved a shitload of equipment. Tonight was pretty exciting because the freight elevators were finicky, so we'd move stuff into one elevator, find out that it was broken, move to another, find that the door was locked above, and finally resort to the passenger elevator. The turnout for the show was pretty bad, but the bands were really fun to watch, and I ended up buying two CDs. I also got to help set up the merch table.
I might have a job! I had an interview today. Apparently I'm well qualified, and I'll hear from them next week.
I'm seeing Klaxons on Sunday, World/Inferno & The Subhumans on Tuesday, and Patrick Wolf the following week!
Check out this video, which is currently a YouTube phenomenon: Old Gregg. If you like it you might like the TV show that it's taken from: The Mighty Boosh.
I have a paper on God due Monday, and on Tuesday Professor Elie Wiesel is lecturing about the Book of Job.
Current Mood: dead tired
Current Music: Klaxons - Magick
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September 6th, 2007
04:19 pm - ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS!
I'm listening to it right now! I am so happy!!!! It sounds so full and orchestral and epic and lovely! It's so much better than the numerous crappy bootlegs that have been teasing me for the past year.
I want to dress up in a fur coat and go to a smoky, dimly lit cinema.
Current Music: The World/Inferno Friendship Society
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September 5th, 2007
10:46 pm - I feel a bit sick...
Hey Kids!
So, my dorm doesn't have the greatest food in the universe, but after 8:30 we have...drum roll...MOZZARELLA STICKS! This is amazing!
Both the Red Sox and the Mariners lost tonight. I'm pissed. I don't have access to a television, and waiting for score updates on ESPN.com is really unsatisfying, so next week I think I'll just walk over to Fenway and loiter outside during the game. I walked by tonight as the game was ending and everyone was leaving, but they were all sad because Toronto won.
I finished my mozzarella sticks and I feel sick. I'm going to sleep.
Current Location: boston!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/p/sick.gif) sick
Current Music: SexyBack!
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July 18th, 2007
11:25 pm - Heavenly Dainties!
The internet is back! How delightful. I feel ever so lost without it. I also feel slightly sick, but that is probably because of the spoonfuls of sugar and butter that I shouldn't have consumed at Gabe's house. The ensuing sugar high has been pretty amusing to whole family (although Sasha was not pleased when I pulled her iPod cord out of the computer), especially when I got fed up with Mom and cheerfully told her to "Get outta here!"
I'm also fed up with this war going on. Ma and Pa were watching the news when I got home, and I saw some of the lovely highlights: 176 Dead in an airliner crash in Sao Paulo (so excited for flying to and from Boston!), dude dying of a heart attack when a steam pipe burst in NYC, plus four US soldiers and one Iraqi translator killed by a roadside bomb. It's thoroughly depressing that kids my age are going to the Middle East to fight a war that is accomplishing nothing. But death's cool. I love action movies, horror movies, cop dramas, murder mysteries, CSI, and the occasional shoot-em-up video game. The more deaths the cooler I feel. Wow! That film was particularly brutal and heartless! Hurray for America. Hurray for the world.
Sometimes I hate humanity.
P.S. “You have to look at why sex was created,” Eric Love, the director of the East Texas Abstinence Program, which runs Virginity Rules, said one day, the sounds of Christian contemporary music humming faintly in his Longview office. “Sex was designed to bond two people together.”
Current Music: Knock Knock Ginger - Love Renee
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June 11th, 2007
June 6th, 2007
05:03 pm
Today was my last day of high school! The day would've been more enjoyable if wasn't staring blankly trying to breathe properly half the time. At least this cold/fever should be gone by graduation, and then to Amsterdam!
Yesterday I was very bored, so I switched between channels 44 through 48 for about five hours. To summarize: Libby's sentenced to 30 months, a girl in Kansas disappeared (supernatural!), Bush dissed Putin...I think that was it. CNN was the first to announce Libby's sentence, with Fox mistakenly reporting that he would also have to pay a $400 fine (try $250,000) at least two minutes later. I also watched some academics talk about whether they think China or Russia is a bigger threat to the US. Most believe Russia to be the bigger threat, with one professor mentioning Putin's past as a KGB agent as his reason. Good thing our Secretary of Defense formerly led the CIA.
I just got out of school and I'm bored already! I've progressed to the Evil level of Web Sudoku. That's about all I do now. That and glance at the news. When I feel better I'll dance around a bit.
I don't think I'll be able to upload my video to YouTube, so feel free to invite yourself over if you want to see it.
Current Mood: sick
Current Music: World/Inferno Friendship Society - Nothing You Begin
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May 30th, 2007
07:35 pm
Whoever designed the speakers for the IBM T41 never tested it on his or her lap, or else this person is deaf. Because really, why would anyone ever put speakers on the bottom of a laptop?
And speaking of laptop annoyances, I have some mad batch of spyware or Internet Explorer is malfunctioning or something, but it seems like my processing speed has slowed to half in the past few weeks. And I accidently messed with the middle scrolly button, so now it doesn't do what I want it to and it randomly clicks on links. Fuck this shit.
And speaking of general annoyances, I am completely fed up with high school. Get me out of here! And write my Film Studies paper for me while you're at it.
All I want to do is listen to catchy (yet slightly depressing) pop music and sleep. Let me know if you want my playlist, because it is amazing.
Prom pictures are up on my Facebook. For those of you who don't have one, now is the time! Seriously, there is no better way to waste away the hours. Except, perhaps, websudoku.com
Current Mood: fed up
Current Music: Knock Knock Ginger - Virginia Black
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May 16th, 2007
09:25 pm
Returning shows snagging official pickups: Laffers "Girlfriends" and "The Game," and dramas "Smallville," "Supernatural" and “One Tree Hill."
I don't know how official this statement is, but I think we have a reason to celebrate!
Hey, those of you coming over tomorrow can get here around 6pm and have dinner. Sarah, are you still not eating eggs? Deepa, bring lactase pills.
Oh, and Fuck You, America.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/p/content.gif) relieved
Current Music: Ghostland Observatory - Cause A Scene
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April 29th, 2007
05:44 pm
I am sad that Merchant of Venice is over. Two shows is the shortest run I have ever done, and it is definitely too few. Thanks to the cast, crew, and everyone who came to see it! It was good that you didn't stay for the post-play discussion, because it was pretty boring and dragged on (both nights).
Lopez Island was pretty fun. I was not too happy about waking up at 3:45am to catch a 6am ferry, but I had a nice nap when I got to the cabin. The "cabin" was actually a large farm with newborn sheep and crazy llamas. It was one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen, and I got to sit on the cliffs and stare off into Puget Sound, and even Sasha and her ten friends were silent. I didn't get any homework done.
I'm going to Boston University, for those of you who I haven't told. The prospect of moving across the country is exciting and slightly terrifying. It will be fun.
Stick to your guns
or perhaps an umbrella would work better?
Current Location: Home!
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/p/sleepy.gif) sleepy
Current Music: David Bowie - Fall Dog Bombs the Moon
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April 23rd, 2007
10:10 pm - it's time for a little Shock Therapy
As many of you know, I'm in the school play, The Merchant of Venice. This is extremely exciting and different as it is my first non-Bathhouse play since the summer of '04, so you must all come and see it. I play Jessica, daughter of Shylock the Jew, etc. It's fun.
The Merchant of Venice
Thursday April 26 & Friday April 27 at 7pm
St. Nicholas Hall
Tickets are cheap, a couple of dollars for students, a bit more for adults.
Also, R.I.P. Boris Yeltsin and Happy Birthday Willian Shakespeare.
Current Music: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Little Dawn
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April 20th, 2007
05:16 pm - not even the government knows what the fuck it's for anymore
I am outraged, and it feels good. I have been extremely apathetic for the past few months, reading news headlines and not caring. But now that is over, and there is an influx of shit going down.
Topic A: Guns
1. Gunman kills himself and a hostage at Nasa base
2. Student kills himself and 32 close friends at Virginia Tech
3. Man kills himself and ex-girlfriend at the University of Washington
plus, although not exactly gun related: The Eighth Anniversary of the Columbine shootings.
And an excerpt from an article from The Economist: "...when it comes to handguns, automatic weapons and other things specifically designed to kill people, we believe control is necessary, not least because the failure to deal with such violent devices often means that other freedoms must be curtailed. Instead of a debate about guns, America is now having a debate about campus security."
Topic B: Corruption
1. Wolfowitz
2. Gonzales
3. Abubakar
Topic C: War
1. Mogadishu: 113 dead
2. Baghdad: 171 dead
Not to mention the first ban on a method of abortion that omits an exception to protect the woman's health.
Current Music: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Timorous Me
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April 17th, 2007
02:42 pm
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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April 5th, 2007
08:24 pm
I'm going to see Ted Leo & the Pharmacists!!! I just bought the tickets, and I am so happy.
I hate iMovie. Crap program that has absolutely no audio capabilities. Grrr.
Tomorrow morning at 8:40 I will be on a plane to Washington DC, capital of our lovely nation!
Thank god for spring break.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/p/happy.gif) excited
Current Music: George Gershwin - Allegro From "Piano Concerto in F"
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March 17th, 2007
12:06 am - almost birthday
One week left as a child. What shall I do? Today I celebrated by walking to Maple Leaf Park and swinging and climbing and spinning. Kayla, Lily, Gabe, Sasha and I then went to find food. Unfortunately, it was 9:30pm and all the restaurants were either closed, empty, or unwelcoming to those under 21 years. After driving around Greenwood we ended up at Red Robin and I got two drinks with rainbow sprinkles! Lily told our waitress that it was my birthday, so all the servers came and sang for me.
Rummage was pretty fun today. I hate asking people to sign petitions, especially when I don't even know anything about the petition is about. "They are trying to take the hangar away from us." Who is they? Is this some sort of initiative or covert operation? Why are we more deserving than Arena Sports? So awkward. Thanks to all of you who signed it, though.
Walking around with the clipboard gave Kalpana and me time to browse through the sale, especially the VHS sections. I ended up purchasing many gems, including Die Hard: With a Vengeance, the Star Wars trilogy, and Dumbo the Flying Elephant.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/square/p/hyper.gif) bouncy
Current Music: The Avalanches - Radio
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February 16th, 2007
07:11 pm
No school for a week! Tomorrow we leave for Canada, where I will alternately ski, sleep and watch Supernatural. Last night's episode was amazing.
I'm Jessica in Merchant of Venice. I haven't been in a school play since eighth grade. This is quite exciting.
I inherited a camera for Valentine's Day, so check out my facebook for pictures of Hamlet rehearsal. Pretty darn crazy, those theater kids.
Current Music: Tiger Army - Atomic
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February 13th, 2007
08:26 pm - Lets all watch while Russia commits suicide
Recently I read an article about dedovshchina, the extreme form of hazing of new recruits to the Russian army. The extent of the violence ranges anywhere from verbal harrassment to physical torture, often resulting in serious injuries and even death. I must say I was appalled to read about this and shocked that I had never heard of this before. Just today I found an article on the BBC website about conscripts being forced into prostitution by more senior soldiers.
I also found a thouroughly depressing documentary, Death of a Nation, about the dwindling population of Russia.
Deepa, Alice and I baked cookies today.
Oh, and thirty two years ago on Valentines Day our good friend Alexander Solzhenitsyn was charged with treason.
Current Music: Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City
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