Wise Saws and Modern Instances

It's been a long time...

2006-01-19T19:58:50Z

...a long, long time since I've updated. And, to be honest, it's pretty embarrassing to look back at the old entries. I think journal writing is just not my thing - I always end up embarrassed by whatever I've written. (But I do love reading other peoples', so I'm keeping it for the Friends list! I'm an lj parasite...sorry.) And since it has come to my attention that people I haven't seen or talked to in years are able to read this thing and show it to their cats, mothers, and/or ceramic goldfish, I thought I'd update it briefly just so the most recent entry isn't quite so out of date.

Life is great. Williamstown is (shockingly) not covered in ice and snow. I'm singing my favorite song from Rent for my Winter Study class performance. 69 days till my 21st birthday. I love zucchini muffins. :-) Those are pretty much the highlights. I'd love to expound by email to anybody who wants to say hi - and I always want to hear about other peoples' lives! (lj parasite, remember.)

Well, that's it. Happy Birthday, Dolly Parton.

Spring is Bustin' Out All Over!

2005-06-02T14:42:09Z

Just because it's June, June, June!

Come on, I know someone else had to have once had a semi-unfortunate obsession with Carousel! A great, and, I think, highly underrated show. (The proud statement of a true theatre nerd.)

Well, I am back home. Only nine days until I leave for Tennessee, and only 13 days until this long, long 5-month wait is finally over. Thank God. I feel like I'm treading water.

Several people have done some very interesting memes lately, and if I work up the motivation, I intend to do them. But not now. PSYCH! (Is that how you actually spell that oh-so-cool, and so-like-ten-years-ago, slang? Hmm.)

And 24 days until I return to Williams, for what will, I am certain, be the best summer of my life. That's quite a nice feeling - to know that this will be the best summer ever. Of course, unless my anticipation has jinxed it, which would be very fitting for the fickle flow of fate. (Oh, alliteration. Hear me roar.)

And I'll end with the best line from the aforementioned showtune:

"All the rams that chase the ewe sheep are determined there'll be new sheep. And the ewe sheep aren't even keepin' score!"

Pretty scandalous for the 1940s. La di da. La di da.

Homeward Bound

2005-05-23T13:15:01Z

Well, I'm off! We're stopping in Greenwich to see friends (and going into NYC on Tuesday to see The Pillowman - frickin' awesome) then continuing on to good ol' Indy. I should be home by Thursday...and then it's back to Williamstown at the end of June. These next few weeks are going to be very very looooong...

I Like This One

2005-05-11T20:29:54Z

01. Reply with your name and I will write something about you.
02. I will then tell what song/movie remind me of you.
03. If I were to apply an o'clock to you, it would be...
04. I will try to name a single word that best describes you.
05. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
06. I will tell you what animal you remind me of.
07. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
08. Put this in your journal

This is frighteningly true

2005-04-29T16:14:58Z

Your Birthdate: March 29

Your birthday on the 29th adds a tone of idealism to your nature.

You are imaginative and creative, but rather uncomfortable in the business world.

You are very aware and sensitive, with outstanding intuitive skills and analytical abilities.

The 29 reduces to 11, one of the master numbers which often produces much nervous tension.

This is the birthday of the dreamer rather than the doer.

You do, however, work very well with people.

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Hooray, Room Draw

2005-04-20T11:58:16Z

...is finally over.

My new abode: Bryant A31. A big(ger) Greylock room. All things considered, I think it went well.

Now all that's left to do is begin stalking the current occupant of the room...and convince him that we must become "soul brothers" in order not to disturb the room's delicate spiritual Feng Shui balance when it changes hands.

I love college.

An Annie Life Record

2005-04-12T22:36:10Z

Tonight I intend to go for the record - the longest time I have ever spent awake without sleep. Considering that I will be starting to write my seven-page paper at roughly 12 AM (after a full day of class and a four-hour rehearsal), this should not be too difficult to accomplish. But can I make it all night with no sleep, and survive my tutorial meeting tomorrow? Only time will tell. Tune in tomorrow morning for further updates.

In other news, this summer is going to be fantastic. That thought alone will, hopefully, sustain me through the long night ahead. If only I could make myself not care about school. Someday, someday...

Dedicated to that Time the Phone Rang

2005-04-05T22:27:34Z

People keep asking me, quite naturally, how my trip to Dublin was. And I don't really know how to answer them - how can I convey how important it was to me, or how it was certainly the best week of the year, and probably one of the best weeks of my life so far? But something does keep popping into my head - it's one of my lines from "As You Like It," one that I've always thought was kind of silly and incomprehensible until now.

"O, wonderful, wonderful; and most wonderful, wonderful; and yet again, wonderful; and after that, out of all hooping!"

I now realize these words are genuis. Because nothing could better explain how it felt to be there, and how it feels whenever we're together.

And, now, my new favorite phrase: Bling-Blong! ;-)

Erupts with Joy

2005-03-22T04:07:54Z

I am leaving tomorrow. 39 hours and counting to Zero Hour. See title of post.

So Happy

2005-03-17T23:37:52Z

:-) I love this feeling.

Roberto Says It Best (especially the phrases in bold)

2005-03-16T16:28:13Z

Roberto's Best Foreign Film Oscar Acceptance Speech 1999:

"Thank you! Thank you! I want to be rocked by the waves of your beauty. Come here. Thank you! Thank you! This is a moment of joy and I want to kiss everybody because you are the (inaudible) of the joy. Here you kisses the joy as it flies - leaves an eternity sunrise - the said poet. And there to have happy wet things, and with yours and not honeydew. Who saida "honeydew?" I saida "honeydew!" Ah, the happy wet things everything can do with honeydews. The cheese is warm. The party is in my closet. I am dancing in my organs and have very much gratitude for the, uh, the cleansers. What cleansers, holding hands and smiling to black holes we all canna make, no? Only if and if only the dancing continues with appeasement and more carbohydrates. Who flogged the magistrate yesterday? I just have to tell you... Wonderful, I feel like, now really to, to dive in this ocean of demonstrative and irrepressible generosity, this is too much. You take-a it all back. I no want it. It'sa not for me. (pause) I just kidding! See my smile! I a big kidder! Who's got the Milk Duds? You got the Milk Duds? I no a'got the Milk Duds. Am I taking too long? Tell me my tailor is parked and ready to shave! Let me a'speed it up like a Dutchman. If I had a noodle to spare, I'd spare you my noodle without lummoxing. . Let me tell you about a noodle to have in my cheese parties. Joy cannot tingle my nerves when all there is to have in worlds colliding with singing is my teeth! Cheese and Phyllis Diller raised me from wolves! O, wicked wicked cheese. Thank yous. Thank you all without scraping the real estate, and remembers to have attic and plentiful rock dancings in the time of aging and to have back sores on top of Old Smokey, but I love you!"

From Roberto's Best Actor Acceptance Speech 1999:

"Thank you! This is a terrible mistake because I used up all my English. I don't know! (pause) Okay, okay. I'm faking it. So I don't speak Italian. (pause) Justa kidding! I a kidder! I hop on seats and heads and dance with Jupiter and, how you say, George Jetson? Egg salad sandwiches in the aisles of liquid Tuscany are to calling me happy raindrops of smiling packages! I besiding myselves! To joy is having much animals spayed and neutering wildly! Oh, I cry with self-aware, holding hands with the onions, my devilish me. I want to thank everybodily in the worlds about how much the winds of chance can make egg salad as well! You don'ta have-a to be from the Tuscany! Look into my face! Little girls cry like myselves and I floored to the roof with plentiful dancings! But now, I musta warn you all. Something is in transit from Hell, coming for all of us! Something sinister like blackness and evil and evil. Take-a cover, pray to God, do what you can, but it'sa coming for us all!"

Pure Genius. The prophet or our age.

Imagine Me Doing the Roberto Begnini Face

2005-03-16T09:32:54Z

Oh, my. I am done. I am intellectually and emotionally on spring break. I've been so excited for so long about the prospect of attaining this moment, that I don't quite know what to do. Unfortunately, I'm too exhausted to dance through the halls...but be assured, I am dancing in my soul. :-)

I googled "I Love Annie"

2005-03-14T23:19:35Z

...and this is what i found.

http://www.annieshomepage.com/

Wow. I have nothing else to say. Wow.

Read and be refreshed.

La vita e bella

2005-03-14T02:10:47Z

The world is so beautiful. Walking outside, across campus, at dusk, in the chilly air, listening to a great song and just soaking up how beautiful everything is...it sounds so trite and emo to say it, but it all is, really, so beautiful. I wonder if everyone else sees it to, but is just supremely cool enough to appreciate it without wandering, as I do, awestruck and bumbling, through the science quad, looking like a three year old who's just been promised a pony. I hope so.

On a related note (somewhat), I honestly think I could spend my life with Shakespeare. Reading it, talking about it, performing it. I am one of those true believers who finds it endlessly exciting, and fascinating, and malleable, and (hence the relatedness to above comment) beautiful. I'm certainly not making a career choice, by the way (that would infer that I've seriously contemplated career options, which is wildly untrue), but the observation is quite wonderful.

As is the fact that there are five days until spring break, nine until Dublin, and only two until my work is over.

Roberto was so right.

Ten days.

2005-03-13T04:48:52Z

I am profoundly alone.

Maybe Inigo and Westley and Fred Savage will make me smile.

According to Wilco, "That's how you fight loneliness...just smile all the time."

Well, I'm an expert. :-) :-) :-)

Not time for lunch yet...

2005-03-11T16:18:27Z

One week till Spring Break!!!! hehehehhehehehe (wild giggling)
One paper due Wednesday - 7 pages on the Brits in WWI - and I'm done.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock....

Hmmm...I actually think these are all very appropriate...

2005-03-10T04:09:14Z

What Movie Genre Are You?

Weird Independant Artsy Film

ex. Mulholland Drive

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Which Lost In Translation character are you?

Charlotte

"You're probably just having a mid-life crisis. Did you buy a Porsche yet?"

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Which Girl Interrupted character are you?

Susanna Kaysen

You are the main character, a Girl, Interrupted. You have a borderline personality and were admitted to Claymore after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. You ended being up a successful writer after your release, just like Sylvia Plath.

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I am slowly going crazy. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, SWITCH!
Crazy going slowly am I. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, SWITCH!

Shout out to the Elephant Show. Skitamarinkidink!

Yes. Yes, I am.

2005-03-08T14:06:46Z

Which Horrible Affliction are you?
A Rum and Monkey disease.

I'm Being Flushed Down the Toilet Bowl of Life

2005-03-07T20:15:37Z

Well, not really, but isn't that a great title?
Have you ever had the feeling that the longer and harder you work on something, the worse it becomes? Yeah. I'm there.

I'm Flippin' Out

2005-03-07T04:16:25Z

i wrote a longer entry, but then it was erased. this, apparently, happens quite often.
in summary:

bio test = will be failed
work in last 11 days before spring break = cruel and unusual punishment
american history class = hated
rant regarding above = saved for my room, alone and aloud
goal of convincing dennett 4 that i am a psychotic schizophrenic = accomplished

AH!

WWI or Meme...what a dilemma.

2005-03-06T15:55:36Z

1. copy and post this in your LJ
2. bold anything that is true (and undo the comments )
3. leave plain anything that is untrue
4. add something

01. I miss somebody right now. !!!!!!!!!!!! 12 days till spring break...
02. I watch more tv than I used to.
03. I love olives.
04. I love sleeping.
05. I own lots of books.
06. I wear glasses or contact lenses.
07. I love to play video games.
08. I've tried marijuana.
09. I've watched porn movies. only at queer bash! and not voluntarily!
10. I have been in a threesome.
11. I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.
12. I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
13. I have acne free skin. (hysterical laughter at this one...)
14. I like and respect Al Sharpton.
15. I curse frequently.
16. I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.
17. I have a hobby. hm. i guess i don't.
18. I've been told I have a nice butt. hehe
19. I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.
20. I'm really, really smart. come on, amy, you should bold this one if there were three really's!
21. I've never broken someone else's bones.
22. I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.
23. I love rain.
24. I'm paranoid at all times.
25. I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar free.
26. I need money right now.
27. I love sushi.
28. I talk really, really fast. at times.
29. I have fresh breath in the morning.
30. I have semi-long hair.
31. I have lost money in Las Vegas.
32. I have at least one brother and/or one sister.
33. I was born in a country outside of the U.S.
34. I shave my legs. but only when i have to.
35. I have a twin.
Where is 36?
37. I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
38. I like the way that I look. at times.
39. I have lied to a good friend in the past 6 months.
40. I know how to do cornrows.
41. I am usually pessimistic.
42. I have mood swings. oh. my. god.
43. I think prostitution should be legalized.
44. I think Britney Spears is pretty.
45. I have cheated on a significant other.
46. I have a hidden talent. hehe
47. I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.
48. I think that I'm popular.
49. I am currently single.
50. I have kissed someone of the same sex.
51. I enjoy talking on the phone.
52. I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
53. I love to shop.
54. I would rather shop than eat. (what?!? that's like saying "i'd rather spend eternity in Hell")
55. I would classify myself as ghetto. (now that's hilarious)
56. I'm bourgie and have worn a sweater tied around my shoulders.
57. I'm obsessed with my LJ.
58. I don't hate anyone.
59. I'm a pretty good dancer. this may not be true.
60. I don't think Mike Tyson raped Desiree Washington.
61. I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
62. I have a cell phone.
63. I watch MTV on a daily basis. (again, with the choosing Hell)
Where is 64?
65. I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.
Where is 66? (Man, they just keep getting abducted! It's like a bad slasher movie. "Oh my god, where's 66?" *They stumble across his corpse and scream.*)
67. I have never been in a real relationship before.
68. I've rejected someone before.
69. I've graduated college.
70. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (i know parts of it, but not the career)
71. I want to have children in the future.
72. I have changed a diaper before.
73. I've had the cops called on me before.
74. I bite my nails sometimes.
75. I am a member of the Tom Green fan club.
76. I'm not deathly allergic to anything.
77. I have a lot to learn.
78. I have dated someone at least 10 years older or younger...
79. I plan on seeing Ice Cube's newest "Friday" movie.
80. I am very shy around the opposite sex esp. when they are really good looking.
81. I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
82. I have at least 5 away messages saved.
83. I have tried alcohol before.
84. I have made a move on a friend's significant other in the past.
85. I own the "South Park" movie.
86. I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.first time, right now.
87. When I was a kid I played "the birds and the bees" with a neighbor or chum.
88. I enjoy country music.
89. I love my best friends.
90. I think that Pizza Hut has the best pizza.
91. I watch soap operas whenever I can.
92. I'm obsessive, anal retentive, and often a perfectionist.
93. I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
94. I love Michael Jackson, scandals and all.
95. I know all the words to Slick Rick's "Children's Story".
96. Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.
97. I watch Spongebob Squarepants and I like it.
98. I have dated a close friend's ex.
99. I'm happy as of this moment.
100. I have gone scuba diving.
101. Had a crush on somebody you've never met.
102. Kissed someone you knew you shouldn't.
103. I play a musical instrument. yeah, nose flute!
104. I strongly dislike math.
105. I'm procrastinating something right now.
106. I own and use a library card.
107. I fall in 'lust' more than in 'love.'
108. Cheese enchiladas rock my socks.
109. I think The Lord of the Rings is one of the greatest things ever.
110. I'm obsessed with the tv show "Lost."
111. I think Beyblades is the coolest show in coolsville.
112. There are more things I could be better at, if only I tried harder.
113. Sometimes I don't like food.
114. I worry sometimes that I'm not being the best friend I could be to the people I care about.
115. I desperately want people to respect me but it rarely happens.
116. I have never been able to say anything positive about myself and truly believe it.
117. I am bisexual.
118. I think Scottish accents are very attractive.
119. I'm very neurotic and suffer from acute paranoia.
120. I speak another language besides English.
121. I joke about eating, shaking, and kicking babies.
122. I dwell & worry a lot.
123. I know what an emo is.
124. I admit that Lawrence Chou is hot in the movie "The Eye," but the movie totally sucks.
125. I own more than 80 CDs.
126. I only watch Red Dwarf to get laid by nerd chicks.
127. Reality TV is more evil now than MTV was in its hayday. i'd say equally evil, actually.
128. I eat what ever the fuck I want to, I wear what ever the fuck I want to, I throw away whatever the fuck I want to, I keep what ever the fuck I want to, I SMOKE WHATEVER THE FUCK I WANT TO, I think whatever the fuck I want to, I say whatever the fuck I want to, I believe whatever the fuck I want to and I download whatever the fuck I want to regardless of what you, your churches, your political action groups, or anything else to do with the stupid, petty mechanics of distraction which rule this ball of illusion have to say about it. (.....)
129. I think intentions are more important than actions themselves.
130. I LOVE music.
131. My conscience is gnawing at me right now.
132. I read fanfiction.
133. I have swallowed coins and/or other small objects.
134. I have dropped everything I was doing to help a friend who needed support
135. I am good at science, but not math.
136. I think the realization that there are actually people out there, with thoughts and feelings and worries, is amazing. And they were there hundreds and hundreds of years ago too.
137. I thought twice before posting this.
138. I love Bright Eyes, no matter how shitty his voice is.
139. I am not yet ready to give up on what I love, to do what I should
140. I know I should be dealing with something that I haven't dealt with yet.
141. I am in love. (sorry, one track mind at the moment)

Thanks, Dad

2005-03-06T01:11:18Z

So I semi-stole the hereafter title of my journal from my dad (it was the title of his third book of poetry - which was dedicated to me, in fact, so I think that makes it okay that I'm borrowing his idea), who stole it from Jacques' "seven ages of man" speech from As You Like It. Wow, i just realized on how many levels it is appropriate for me at this moment...and the words are just beautiful. Say it out loud if you don't believe me.
See, i told you.

Today Feels Like Molasses

2005-03-05T21:53:26Z

i really hate it when i write a late-night email and then wake up in the morning with no frickin' idea what it said. at all. actually, this is the first time it's happened, but i can already tell it's not a good thing.

i’m having a very stupid day. i apologize to all I come in contact with.

one of the weirdest things that’s ever happened to me (thank you, nightangeca):
Open up MS Word
Type "=rand(200,99)" (without the quotes, of course)
Press enter

Step 1: Get your playlist together, put it on random, and play
Step 2: Pick your favorite lines from the first 20 songs that play
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song the lines come from
Step 4: Cross out the songs when someone guesses correctly
Step 5: No cheating (using search engines) seriously

1. Smoke on your pipe, and put that in! - amy
2. Such boundless pleasure/We’ve no time for later
3. Are you the sweet invention of a lover’s dream? - amy
4. ‘Cause, after all, he’s just a man. - amy
5. It’s from California…/Even so! - amy
6. I don’t wanna be a candidate/For Vietnam or Watergate
7. All the things that I used to say/All the words that got in the way/All the things that I used to know
8. Thought of changing my name!/Oh what’s in a name?!? - amy
9. Wasn’t it good? Wasn’t it fine? Isn’t it madness he won’t be mine?
10. She’s a restless woman on an endless flight.
11. I want another first kiss like this.
12. I’ve played all kinds of palaces, laid all kinds of girls. - amy
13. Much like pheremones for flies,/You will not avoid my eyes - amy
14. It’s the terror of knowing/What this world is about - amy
15. I never thought I’d love my life/I would have settled for another - amy
16. We’re dying in America/To come into our own. - amy
17. You shall have your monster;/I shall drink my fill! - amy
18. (I can’t narrow it down. Sorry. Any of them makes it pretty obvious, though) To going against the grain, going insane, going mad!....Is that it here? WINE AND BEER!...To bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, PeeWee Herman!...While accompanying herself on the electric cello, which she has NEVER STUDIED! - amy
19. You know I’m singin’ all my songs for you,/And it’s all right if you don’t understand.
20. I can’t take me lovin’ nobody but you for all my life. - amy

Subtle Submission

2005-03-05T00:14:45Z

so i've finally given in and have my own lj. *sigh* at least now i have a handy dandy friends page and don't have to surf through 20 sites before i find a juicy update.
having an lj makes me quite nervous (the possibilities for self-embarrassment are endless) so i'm not telling anyone i've started one. well, i say that now, but considering my special talent for compulsively mentioning whatever is on my mind (or just giggling stupidly and loudly about it while others look on in befuddled awkwardness), this plan probably won't last the night.
so...there you go. ta da. my first lj entry...to be continued, unless i get too lazy, which is a very definite possibility. hehehe

oh, and what the hell does "exanimate" mean? meredith, i'm lookin' at you! judging from the smiley, it looks rather...tired and dull. not really how i'm feeling, but i like how it sounds. very "night of the living dead." i'm in.

Wise Saws and Modern Instances

It's been a long time...

Spring is Bustin' Out All Over!

Homeward Bound

I Like This One

This is frighteningly true

Hooray, Room Draw

An Annie Life Record

Dedicated to that Time the Phone Rang

*Erupts with Joy*

So Happy

Roberto Says It Best (especially the phrases in bold)

Imagine Me Doing the Roberto Begnini Face

I googled "I Love Annie"

La vita e bella

Ten days.

Not time for lunch yet...

Hmmm...I actually think these are all very appropriate...

Yes. Yes, I am.

I'm Being Flushed Down the Toilet Bowl of Life

I'm Flippin' Out

WWI or Meme...what a dilemma.

Thanks, Dad

Today Feels Like Molasses

Subtle Submission

Erupts with Joy