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Friday, August 31, 2007
Now I won't ever have to miss my love!
8/31/2007 03:33:00 PM http://blogs.usatoday.com/popcandy/ - NBC.com is now streaming episodes of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Hooray. Monday, August 27, 2007
8/27/2007 12:15:00 PM Holy crap. So much not blogged about. Canada. Friends. First week of school. Becoming Jane. Ditty Bops Concert. Irish Film. ONCE!!!!! Once Soundtrack!!!! Power Outtage. Will's Floor. Drunk Pancackes. Post-drunk Pancackes. Man-cakes & Degrassi. Lucy Lawless/Xena Cats humping blankets. Thursday, August 09, 2007
8/09/2007 02:04:00 AM I thought this sounded absolutely retarded. A Jazz routine, to the story of a business meeting? Wtf? But I gotta say...add some Annie Lennox....these lifts and a cold steel table... That was HOT! Even Debbie Allen goes a little overboard in her euphemisms...I mean comments.
8/09/2007 12:03:00 AM Really good day with Rachael today. Went with Dad to pick her up from "school" (daycare) and we went to the park. Last time we went, I just kinda watched while she dragged Dad all over to go on things with her, so it surprised us both when she grabbed me and made me go on every single thing in the park with her. At least twice. Then we grabbed John and went out for family dinner at Mi Ranchito... Came back to the house, watched So You Think You Can Dance with Stacey, whilst playing with Legos and building strange (but pretty damn good) lego animals for Rachael, and dangling her upside down in about 50 different positions (you'd never guess she hates rides, and even swinging). Then, amazingly, she actually was great hanging out alone with me while Stacey went to shower (Dad was outside attaching my new bike rack to my car). She didn't even notice that neither Mommy or Daddy were at her side, and MORE she started crying when Stacey came to take her for her own bath. I promised her we'd have "one more play" after she was done with her bath, and in her jammies, and we played "Buzz" and "Woody" with her giant tiger "Haddy".
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Monday, August 06, 2007
8/06/2007 11:32:00 PM I like it when my dad and I bond over wierd pop culture. We just watched two episodes of the Singing Bee, laughing the whole time at the absolute ridiculousness of the show. Then he started playing me some of his ringtones he's been making on the computer. These included some polka tunes, and even some mash-ups. Some of the same ones we had watched on YouTube at the beginning of the summer. And it comes full circle. Now I'm downloading a few albums of random mash-ups to make us each a cd of just mash-ups of 80s songs with rappers (the 50 Cent/BeeGees ones are our favorites). Sunday, August 05, 2007
Last Day
8/05/2007 10:45:00 PM So today was my last day at the hotel. And that shit was Cuh-RA-Zee! I was the only one working, got in at 1:00pm, housekeeping was still there...didn't even have all the beds stripped until 4:00-ish. Normally when I get in all the sheets/pillowcases/bedding is done and folded and I just have to do all the towels/handtowels/bathroom stuff. Yeah, I ended up stuck with ALL of the laundry. I mean, all, out of every room (55 total) that were all sold out last night, so every room was cleaned. On top of that I had my 'actual' duties, which require me doing everything that isn't laundry for running the hotel on Sundays. Which normally isn't a whole hell of a lot, because...it's Sunday. But when you have Sturgis starting on Monday, that means lots of bikers coming through on Sundays. And that means Steph sold every damn room in that hotel again tonight. Alone. And did all the laundry. And ran my ass around running errands for people, putting rollaways in rooms, changing dead batteries in smoke alarms, and handing out new lightbulbs and/or lost remotes. What a last day, eh? To be honest I didn't mind it all that much. It went soooo freakin' fast. I felt like I clocked in, and then half an hour later Gary the night auditor was there. There was still one load of towels and the half load of cleaning rags to wash by the time he got in, but still...I did pretty damn good. I should've just gotten done with the bedding and had all 7 loads of towels just starting when he got in. At least on my last day I felt like I really did bust my ass, and did a damn good job. They will miss me. Not just cause I'm conceited and assume it, the manager told me and re-iterated (after a few guests have mentioned to her in the mornings when they check out) what an asset I was to the hotel, and invited me back whenever I have a spare weekend or holiday break if I need some cash. That's one good reference I can count on for the future ;) Saturday, August 04, 2007
RENT
8/04/2007 12:53:00 AM Yay! My girl Tamyra Gray is now starring in Rent on Broadway as everyone's favorite heroin addict, through Nov. 25th. And chica has a whole new Mimi-licious haircut to go with her new role....I love it.  PS: 2nd Yay! for friends supporting friends. I hope these two get to work together again soon. So cute.    Also, for a brief 6 week stint Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp (of the original cast) will be back as Roger and Mark. If you're a fan of Rent, Adam, Anthony, or Tamyra this is a great video to watch. It's interviews from after Adam's & Anthony's first performance back and includes several clips from the show that night. http://broadwayworld.com/videoplay.cfm?colid=20449 The first half is mainly Adam & Anthony, the second half features other cast members including Tamyra singing in a precarious position and Tamyra up and close with Adam. It's a bit long but it's good, and only makes me want to see it. Plus Adam is so damn hot. I can't not stare at his eyes. I may just have to talk Beca into squeezing this into our already packed schedule. It's either this or going to a taping of the Conan O'Brien show (which might sound less appealing to some of you, but creates a very difficult decision for Steph). Friday, August 03, 2007
The Ditty Bops
8/03/2007 05:17:00 PM Weee! They're on tour again, and they're stopping in both Lincoln and St. Louis, so one way or another I WILL catch them. MySpace Link They're a little different, but I love their music (crossing genres from folk, bluegrass, blues, western swing, and yes--ragtime) and can't wait to see a live show. I hear they're really entertaining with costumes, and all sorts of crazyness. In fact the shows in St. Louis are actually going to be at the Mad Art Gallery...so I don't know if they're being booked as 'performance art' or just a concert and this is their venue, lol. After all, the Lincoln gig is at Knickerbockers, which sounds pretty standard. Anyways, for a sneek peek into the girls and their music (though you might have already heard it, they've had 6 songs featured on Grey's Anatomy), here's a video from their last tour---which they did on Bicycles all the way from LA to NYC. Thursday, August 02, 2007
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8/02/2007 06:57:00 PM Okay, so I've got a few things here that I'm going to split up into a couple different posts. First of all, I think I've finally come down to a final two options of what I want to get for a tatoo. I just have no idea how I'm going to decide between the two. Maybe eventually I'll have both. One is the phrase "Universal Soul" which I became instantly infatuated with, when Abby, Beca, Erin and I stumbled upon this stand in Camden Market the final weekend before we left. By this point I was almost out of money, and couldn't afford to buy the homeade t-shirts that this group was making for charity (so they were like £25-£30, which is understandable to pay for the materials and give enough to charity, but in my bank account would have taken $50-$60). All of the sayings and images they had were so cool though, and the other 3 girls all got one. The dude working the stand was super nice too, I felt so guilty. The other option, is "Gra Dilseacht Cairdeas" an Irish-Gaelic phrase that's generally reserved for Claddagh rings either as wedding bands, or very serious friendship rings. Literally translated it stands for Love, Loyalty, and Friendship, which I think would also be appropriate for a serious reminder to myself of what's important in life, so I wouldn't mind making that commitment to myself rather than a partner. Of course it looks much cooler written in Gaelic script than whatever font this is in, and I think would be cool written around my wrist (still in a circular band form).
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8/02/2007 06:40:00 PM I'm so glad that I've got to reconnect with so many friends this summer. It really does just make me feel incredibly happy. I finally feel like a year after I got back from the UK, I'm finally coming into my own again. I definitely went through a much larger culture shock when I got back, than the standard 2 week period they tell you you'll go through when you arrive in your new host country. Of course following that, came depression for a few months. But I think part of my struggle internally was that I just didn't know how to deal with myself, coming back and feeling so different as a person. I couldn't just go back to being who I was before (ugh, I wouldn't be able to handle the ignorance, haha) and I didn't yet know how I'd changed, and who the me that had started to form was gonna be. Over the last semester things finally started to shift around to make room for the new adapted Steph qualities, and now after they'd begun settling in, I'd finally come to terms with realizing that there's still plenty of room for the better parts of old Steph. A few days ago I had a really good conversation with Will (who I think I only spent 4 minutes with total last year), and said how that would have to change this semester. I really miss hanging out with him, so I can't wait to get back to that. Then Tuesday, my friend Kayleigh (who'd been my best friend in Sidney for most of my life...well, from 1st grade ever summer until we graduated) came down to visit. I hadn't seen her in literally years, but somehow things still kinda felt the same. Of course we're both a lot different. Kayleigh's living in South Dakota now had a BEAUTIFUL little girl name Skylar last October. I still almost can't believe she's a momma. But it's great. And we hunted down our friend Chelsea who was the 3rd part of our trio growing up. I got off work at 10pm and Chelsea at 11pm, and K stayed the night in the little cottage, and had to leave early in the morning but we still had a good time until 5am, before she had to get up and leave three hours later. It just feels good re-connecting with my past, and forging new friendships with all my old friends (and their new friends that I've gotten to meet and hang out with, who have all been pretty cool too). I'm a week away from my reunion with Beca and Noel, and I can't wait.
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8/02/2007 04:33:00 PM Just some random things that have been lingering in my brain since I've come across them recently. From a reply to some post I read the other day: JULY 26, 2007 - 10:00PM — CARAMELTEDDY A quote from an article I was reading that interestingly points out something pretty powerfull in regards to history. In a lot of my classes we've talked about how history is written by "the victors". In my Sociology classes and Women's classes, the victors are men. In History classes, the victors are generally "us", as whites, as colonists taking over the land of the natives, as Americans in world history...or as Spaniards if your talking about ancient Mayan/Aztec history, haha. http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/People/ I just love that. I remember last week seeing some big story on the news about a library that was opening in some city, causing a bunch of controversy, because it was strictly a library full of either literature written by or about gay culture, including fiction, non-fiction, articles, autobiographies, and of course history since the beginning of time, concerning homosexuality. I think that's brilliant for the reason stated above. If you want your stories told or heard...or even just available for those who might want to hear them, then why not have a place with the sole purpose being to do so. White America sure isn't going to tell them for you. It's the same BS that people start spewing about "Why do the blacks need their own month to celebrate their history...we don't have a white history month" or "Fine, they can celebrate it, but why do the rest of us have to be made aware of it". Or you know, whatever else you might have heard. These are just some I recall coming from my own family. I'm not even gonna get into the "invisibility" of dominant cultures, or "what it means to be white" because we're never going to know what that experience is like until we're no longer the ones in control of how 'others' are defined, viewed, and treated in regards to our "normal" standards. Which, lets face it, isn't even the truth of what 'normal' is in America. We still paint that ideal image of the wholesome American family, when today 'normal' by statistics would be divorced two-parent homes, where both parents work out of necessity, not because the mother isn't feeling completely fufilled by her main duties at home. And soon (though dominant culture won't reflect if for much longer I'm sure) 'normal' in America, won't be white families. I think statistics give it 20 years or so from now before whites will be the minority by population. Not to get too sidetracked, but I'm really going to miss discussing/debating that kind of thing in the classes I was mentioning before. I love questioning why I believe the things I do, or how I've come to form those beliefs, and challenging myself to look at things with different perspectives, even if only momentarily. If education were free, I would be a scholar throughout the rest of my life. I still intend on trying to do the above on my own as often as possible, but it'll be won't be as easy when the people to discuss with will most likely be fairly similar, with shared cultures, either by work/economics/geography, etc. Webster is so incredibly diverse, and I'll really miss being surrounded by that. It's definitely part of why I fell so hard for London (I could probably count the English people I met there in a period of four months on two hands). and then un-related to the above, but still in my brain, once again the lyrics of one Mr. Ray LaMontagne, in his song "Burn" which I've fallen in love with all over again via Brandi Carlisle's cover:
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