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Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Winter Wonderland
12/21/2005 04:54:00 PM Well, I know Christmas is now past, but I forgot that I was going to post this video earlier, and since I did have a KC xmas song up, I have to give Mraz his turn. Plus I just love this performance, it's an oldie but a goodie, enjoy :) PS, if that just wasn't enough Mraz in the Holiday Spirit, head to my myspace (link provided on the right) to check out a custom tailored original xmas song by Mraz and Ms. Tristan Prettyman. Tuesday, December 20, 2005
I am soooooo excited!
12/20/2005 02:07:00 PM For Freakin' New Years! Yay! Break is here! I get to go home! I get to see friends! I get to see family! I get to play games, and laugh, and have fun, and drink sparkling cider! Oooo! And presents! Presents are fun too! I love them! Everyone needs presents! And London! I'm going to London, Baby! Whoo! Note: this is the side effect on too many of those happy mints I was referring to on the group blog Saturday, December 17, 2005
Fricken Fantabulous
12/17/2005 02:20:00 PM So last night ended up being freaking awesome, even though nothing went according to plan, and I should have been worried about much other serious badness. Anyways, so as you know, I got tickets for Brokeback Mountain, the added 11:15pm showing, which I thought was cool even though I knew I had to come in and work this morning. As I'm driving back down to the Loop to go wait in line, I get a call from none other than SamFace! Calling me to say she is home from London, and just landed on our fine shores in Chicago (if Chicago had shores), and that I must come pick her up when she gets to St. Louis. I was like, WTH? Damn, bitch! I JUST got tickets for Brokeback, and now you're gonna make me leave the movie early to go pick you up? Arghhhh! But of course I complied, and said that I would come get her, because..I mean...as much as I love my Indie Movies, and the Tivoli Theater, and Sold Out lines chalk full of gay couples(it was like a KC concert x 10)...I do love my Life Twin more. So, all through the movie I'm checkin my phone for time, and trying not to let my little flashy light distract the nice gentleman behind me (they were in front of me and moved cause they felt too tall, and didn't want to block my view..I heart them). I keep getting texts from Sam saying that she still hasn't left yet, so with each time her flight is delayed the more excited I get cause I get to see the end of the movie, and then finally go get her. Which I did. (Movie was fab by the way, go watch it) And so I finally get to the airport around 2:00 (or 2:30? I'm not sure) and call Sam as the Airport security harrasses me about leaving my car..even if it was only 2 steps away, just to look around to see my little londonite dragging her luggage from somewhere. Finally we realize that yes, I am at the right terminal, she's just at the opposite end from the passenger pickups. Finally she swings around the corner, and we rejoice and hug and knock over some luggage, before dragging it to my car so we can squish it all in. As soon as Sam's in the car, she demands that I put KC on (which is extremely odd, cause Sam hates KC) and we jam a bit to that, before tossing in Melissa Ethridge, and ripping our vocal cords out. We planned on going to IHOP, but Ivan was asleep and Abby was on a date...plus the fact that we got lost for about an hour and a half due to missing turns, exits, etc. from talking/singing. So finally we find a road that seems fairly decent, and not so ghetto-scary, and make the journey back towards the city (somehow we ended up hella far away). I take Sam home, play w/ Lucas (the cat) bid her goodbye and good break, I'll only see her once more for the rest of the year (when she takes ME to the airport to depart for London) and get home at precicely 4:00 am. 4 hours later the sun is shining brightly, and I'm reminded to get up and go to work. Where the network crashed and I was inundated with calls from students taking their finals online when it happened, right after the one other person working this morning leaves. So I'm by myself, dilusional (i swear I keep hearing e-mail beeps, and more phones ringing), but I don't care because last night was fun. Ihop or no. Thursday, December 15, 2005
12/15/2005 08:40:00 PM So much suck I can't even write about it. Today was horrible. Reid probably knows the main reason. Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Nice Soft Little Ditty
12/14/2005 05:28:00 PM Maybe you need some relaxing music to help sooth your nerves after an exam? Well, why not let our friend Jason here help you out ;)
Sometimes I Simply Cannot Believe My Luck
12/14/2005 03:57:00 PM Is it even luck? I don't know that that's what I'd call it. Regardless, I just got out of my Media Writing Final....yes the course I loathe the most, which I found hysterical cause my Cult. Diversity prof continually encouraged me to take a course like that or become a journalist. So, because I loathe this class, and make absolutely no effort whatsoever, I wasn't surprised to find myself let's say, a little more than lacking, the motivation to study for this final. My procrastination actually steam-rolled right over my intent to study, and I didn't. At all. Even after I got out of my Cultural Diversity class (which was awesome btw, I love that teacher, we got pizza for lunch during break. Imo's..mmmm) and had an hour to spare. I got on Myspace, checked some e-mail, but did not study. I just told myself, whatever, there's not much to study about how to write. You're told to do it, and you do. That's how it goes. Besides, I figured I'm already gonna fail this class, at least I know that by showing up and taking the final I'll get a much better grade than if I just completely skipped it. An idea that I actually entertained, if only in my head, for a few seconds. But after writing my final project this morning in about an hour this morning before class(it was supposed to be a feature article with 2 sources, and due to lack of time, and simply interest, I decided to write an Op.Ed. piece about whatever the hell I wanted to write about), I decided that was enough avoidance of the class, and so it was that I found myself sitting in front of a computer (we were in a lab for the final and just had to write 3 assignments given to us, and print them out for the teacher right there)at 2:00 for my Media Writing Final. Surprisingly I was much more interested in the crap we had to write for the exam than anything all year, and one of the assignments was a Press Release for the December Calendar of the Webster Film Series, which contained (nearly) all movies that I had seen, so it was effortless to add in some sparkling descriptives and just enough hook to make the movies seem interesting (even if they weren't) to get readers to come. The rest came along okay, although I felt like I was going to fall asleep near the end, writing my own final. And on the way out, the teacher handed us back a bunch of the assignments throughout the year, including the Final Project that we turned in at the beginning of class--he'd gotten mine graded. I was like, hmmm, do I even wanna look? Well, whattya know, that S.O.B. gave me a B! His comments consisted of telling me it was a difficult grading situation because, although he thinks it would make a great commentary piece (cause it is) for the Journal, and in fact encourages me to send it in to them, it doesn't have all the ingredients for a feature approach, includind 2 sources (which I knew I didn't include anyways). What the hell is that about? I even purposely do the assignment wrong and I get a B? Which I was really excited about, untill I read the grades back from the rest of my crappy articles all year to find out I had A's and A-'s...then I was like, dammit he shoulda gave me an A on my final project then! Alas, maybe I won't flunk this course after all. In fact, I'm actually considering doing the extra credit to make up for the articles I simply never turned in. Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Espanol Oral Exam What?
12/13/2005 02:02:00 PM Yeah, so today I was all prepped (well, I tried to be, I could be up too late last night, or I wouldn't have gotten up this morning at all) for my Spanish Final, and then I get to class having completley forgotten that there is supposed to be an oral exam following the test--yes I had known about it at one point, as I saw my name signed up for one of the times, scrawled in my man-dwriting. Yeah, didn't study for that at all. I couldn't even remember what the hell it was supposed to be about, and then I heard some--okay, fine, I eavesropped--on some classmates talking about it, and remembered that she was going to give us a situation and we would have to play counselor and giver our advice (the main idea isn't how good of advice we give but just to use all the tenses in describing the situation in preterit and imperfect and then use the indicative and subjunctive forms in the present to show our influence in the situation) I probably could have not typed any of that and just said, "which shouldn't have been too bad". Although for some reason I was hella nervous, and so was everyone else in the class so at least I wasn't alone. Then I went up to her office early to study, and had a lovely chat w/ Pam. I like her. She's nice. Actually I really enjoyed my entire Spanish class this semester. Too bad they'll all still be together next semester, and I'll be away in London. I will miss them the most. It was one of those classes that actually feels somewhat like a "class", kinda how they were in HS. Anyways, apparently I didn't do bad at all, I think she was a little impressed, and I got a 28/30 cause I messed up on 2 verbs (was supposed to say hables instead of hablas). So I'm happy with that. Now I just have to try and finish all my other crap since it's now 2:00, and I had planned on being done w/ Spanish at 12/1-ish after the exam (which I did suck on) I was gonna change the featured song of the week also, but I just can't. Jimmy rocks my face off with this bridge. I want to have his babies. Or maybe just his awesome guitar skills...
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Monday, December 12, 2005
London Schedule
12/12/2005 02:01:00 PM As the days draw nearer, I am growing more and more excited about my upcoming viaje. I got my "official official" schedule back today confirming my classes (some got cancelled to I had struggled to pick up a few---ironically most of the courses offered there I've already taken, so it's a good thing I'm going this early, and not like my Junior or Senior year) So here it is, sounds a lil odd yes? Don't laugh at the Business Math. I really am bad with finances, I need it. Sorry, but I didn't pay attention to anything we learned with Mr. Young, Kayla nd I just took that senior year so we could have a Mr. Young class. And then I ignored the class from then on, or used it to do my calculous homework, haha. MEDC 2200 Ethics in Media ANSO 1010 Intro to Sociology MATH 1360 Business Mathematics FILM 3160 Topics in Film Studies ENGL 3500 Contexts: Modernism & the Novel So Ethics in the Media I am excited about. And of course, Modernism & the Novel...just cause it sounds like such an appropriate course to be taken while one is living overseas, and perhaps I'll actually get my novel done now. Intro to Soc. and BM were my desperate courses. I took Intro to Psych last year, and it wasn't bad but I didn't love it. And since it was the more biogical sciency aspect of it, hopefully Soc. won't be that bad. Although one of my English courses that I was taking that got cancelled that I was excited about was ENGL Contexts: Leaving Home. What do I know more about in my life than leaving home? I mean really. I've moved to 5 different schools/towns before I was even in the 6th grade, and then after staying in one spot for a while I left again to Missouri. And now I'm leaving the continent to go to London. That class would have been perfect for me. I will miss it, but perhaps I would never have enjoyed it so much anyways. Besides that, I've kinda run out of steam now, so I think I'll end this post. Righhhhhhhtttt.....n...no.....now.
Las Cosas Pequeñas
12/12/2005 01:41:00 PM So after this last post, I was reminded of what some of the more meaningful things in life are. So here's a few. Y porque tengo un examen Español mañana, son en Español. Los Cosas Pequeñas un mirado de alguien especial o la vista de las estrellas en el cielo el sonido de la lluvía en los calles o la risa de un niño el olor de una mañana de la primavera o los flóres fragrantes el tacto de un mano suave o una brisa de verano que demora en el piel
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Sunday, December 11, 2005
Family
12/11/2005 10:20:00 PM *Sigh* So lately I've been feeling...pressure? to get closer with my family. I don't know if it's a guilt thing, or if it's just part of growing up and realizing how important they are to you, and needing to appreciate them before you lose them. Maybe it's just a pre-homesickness thing that I'm feeling before going off to London. Or maybe a pre-homesickness thing before I'm nearly completely detached post-college. I only have 2 years left, then I'm supposed to start my own life. But all of it has got me trying to have more conversations with everyone. My brother, and my dad in particular. I talk to my mom almost everyday it's scary. We're more like sisters than mother/daughter, so I don't really miss her much, haha. When I was home last weekend I went and visited the old ones (the fam's nickname for Marv and Annette), which was really really odd for me. In all of my 7 years of living in LC I've never just gone over to visit them, and I live like 2 blocks away. And this came about like 2 weeks before a holiday when I know I'm going to see them, so what made me suddenly decided to try and start slowly bridging a gap? I don't know. Maybe I'm tired of feeling so distanced from them, and things being awkward when I run into them (not on a special occasion) around town. Or maybe it's cause I've been hearing that Marv's not doing so well lately. But I went to visit my grandma at work, and then stopped by the house to see Marv. And after I'd done so I felt really good about it. I think they were both shocked to hell, but I'm glad that I actually am starting to make an effort to try and fix our relationships before it's too late. Speaking of fixing relationships, when it comes to my 'lil sis, I don't even know where to start since it's hard to fix something that practically never existed. I hate that I have a sister, and don't know her. I hate that I'm so far away from her that it'll be hard to ever get to know her. Things like this make me contemplate moving to a city like Denver, and finding something to do there, rather than following wherever my career could take me. I'd be closer, and get to see not just her as she grows up, but all my family more often in general. Of course, maybe I won't, and it wouldn't change anything. But part of me wonders how much of my own selfish needs/wants should be worth sacrificing for family and friendships. Like what if I love living in another country? I don't think I could make that decision knowing that it'd only make all of my existing relationships worse. I know that people become distanced with distance and time, and I hate that, but as much as I try not to let it happen it does. I recognize it even now with friends, only a year and a half out of high school, and it's most definitely obvious with how much I feel like I don't know my brother since we've lived apart, or how less attached I feel to my dad as I've grown up seeing him less and less over the last 14 years. It all sucks. And I want to know how to fix it. I just wish there were some clear cut way and someone would tell me what to do. Even then, I don't know how easy it would be to maintain the path of following that advice. Ughhhh.....thoughts. I don't know why people say life is short, and can make everything so simple. Life is the longest fricken thing you will ever do. It's difficult, and every little decision you can effect it, and you can never go back and redo it. You get one shot to make it great. I hope I can figure out how to make mine worth it.
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I hate Finals
12/11/2005 04:47:00 PM I should be studying right now. Or making prints and mounting them for my final photography portfolio. Or editing video. Or doing my Spanish Lab assignments. Or pretty much anything besides sitting here humming Oasis's "Wonderwall" to myself. But it's such a good song, really. ...said maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me and after allll you're my wonderwalllll
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Saturday, December 10, 2005
I'm really bored
12/10/2005 06:36:00 PM So take me to the river Dip me in the water Ow! I said, take me to the river Woo! C'mon put me in the water, yeah... yeah, so..bored with that already too. there is nothing left for me to play with on the internet. but I don't want to go home yet, cause I know when I do, I'll have to do homework, and then I'll want to play on the internet. so I have to get it all out of my system now. I think I'm gonna go download some shows and edit them. To my liking of course. And make a cd. Yes, I think I'm ready for a new bootleg concert disc. Who votes for Graham Colton Band? Im in the mood for some GCB Live Lovin. Motion Made. Motion Passed. I need a gavel.
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As much as it embarasses me to admit at times
12/10/2005 05:34:00 PM I heart Kelly Clarkson. I swear to God she steals my musical tastes, but it's awesome cause then when I go to a show I not only get to hear her stuff that I like, but lots of my other favorite genres. Some good 'ole soulful blues from B.B.King or Aretha, or some of the great country from like Reba or Garth, or some of my favorite songs from the 80s (and early 90s) rock chicks like Janis Joplin, Annie Lennox, Melissa Ethridge. You know, maybe on suprise occassion an Aerosmith, No Doubt, or Gun's 'N Roses (okay so that one was the band's surprise, but I still love Sweet Child of Mine--even the Sheryl Crow version). No I did not recently attend another show, but I read that last night she threw in the Joan Jett song "Crimson and Clover" as a lil treat for a Texas show. I love that song. Tangent: My dad went to a Joan Jett concert and didn't take me. Apparently she rocked his face off. I believe he and Jason dubbed it greatest live show either had ever seen. I think I'm still seething with jealousy. I don't know whether to be mad at her for stealing songs from my secret stash of old favorites or to just love her for it (I mean, psh, obviously we have good taste--I swear I heard her mention Muse and Keane once in an interview, and I was like, Biotch! I found them first! Back off KC...I think one of those covers would scare me...)Maybe I'm to blame for loving such a wide spectrum of music. I can't help it, I'm just awesome like that. Your just jealous of my mad skills
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Friday, December 09, 2005
I like...
12/09/2005 05:32:00 PM animal crackers. and really pretty ballads that make you cry (or something similar to crying).
12/09/2005 08:36:00 AM and my legs are getting weary from treading water in your pool of lies I'm trying to keep my head up to not be sucked into your undertow but one thing I know is that your pulling me down binding me with invisible ties and I'm falling under your gravity and I'm waiting for peace I'm waiting for release from your chains that are keeping me from the fear that plagues the heart of me because I'm drowning in uncertainty waiting for the heaviness to subside so I can breathe because this fear that I fear is exactly what I don't want to hear that your arms without touch are holding me; molding me into someone I don't...can't want to be but maybe that someone is the something I need
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Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Jigga What!?
12/07/2005 07:45:00 PM Current Mood: Giddy Current Song: Love Song - Sara Bareilles Yeah, so why am I giddy? I have absolutley no idea. I just am. Is there something wrong with that? What? You wanna step outside? Yeah, that's what I thought. Stay in your warm little room by your computer wherever you happen to be reading this from. Unless your in Hawaii or someplace warm. Then I'm sure it's very nice outside. It just happens to not be here. What was I originally coming here to blog about again? I seem to have lost it. Anyways, umm...so I got my surprise final back today. Apparently I'm not too dumb without previous studying. I got a B+ but I still seemed pretty upset when I got it today. I must have looked it too, cause my professor was like, "Steph? You alright?" haha. I got 44 1/2 pts out of 50, and I think the reason I was upset was because 5 of the points I missed were from my essay, which I wouldn't have been able to study for anyways, so I should have been able to do a good job on it regardless right? Overall it was just too short, and I'm kinda kicking myself because if you took a test you didn't study for, don't you think that you would have spent the most time on the more objective things like the essays to make absolutely sure that you could squeeze as many points out of it as possible, just in case you missed some of the one and only one acceptable answer questions? Yeah, I don't know. Just seems to be bothering me. Though I gave my presentation today and none of my media worked. And I seem to be okay with that. Strange, yes. 'Tis 8:00 and I think I'm gonna run to Best Buy on a spur of the moment thing, and then possibly go home and do my Spanish like a good girl.
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That is the coolest Winter Wonderland that i have ever heard. I love how they actually do the winter wonderland part, i've never heard it done that way but it sounds SO cool. Yay!! More Christmas spirit!! And only 350 days to go!!!
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