Today was one of those days

I've been going craft crazy this week. It seems like very person I know has a birthday near the end of October. I know it can't actually be every single person, but I sure darn feels like it. I have been trying very hard to no procrastinate this week or at least for my procrastination not to take place on the computer. Yeah, I don't know about great, but it's going okay. The amount of time reading fanfiction and Cracked.com articles has significantly decreased, so I guess that's a plus. I'm also really glad that Stumble Upon isn't compatible with Chrome. It makes life so much easier.

Speaking of procrastination, because of it I have the coolest new shoes ever. They're not actually new per say, but about three years old that I got for a performance I was in. Plain white Keds that I finally dressed up a bit. One has a guy floating up to the sky with a balloon. The other has a fire breathing dragon on it. I'm really happy with how they came out. Plus, my new Vans finally came so I actually have two "new" pairs of shoes.

I'm so excited for Monday. Seriously, so excited. *does a happy dance* And it's not even to do with the shoes. Okay, it's a little to do with the shoes, but mostly not to do with the shoes.

Last week I spent all afternoon watching 15 episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show on Hulu.com. That's probably a record or close to it. I've also watched obsene amounts of JAG, West Wing or Studio 60 at a time, but probably the record is Dick Van Dyke.

So today I had a Drama class with my Senior class. We were doing this skit where we had two people standing up there and we gave then Superhero names. So I shout out, "Peripheral Vision Man" from Studio 60. The one guy literally takes it and runs with it. Looking off into the distance and shouting how they need to save the cat from out of the tree and pointing over his shoulder. It was so much fun!

Then this afternoon I went to see the Wizard of Oz 70th anniversary edition. O.M.G. It was phenomenal. Of course it was the same story, and the same everything, it was just really exciting to be seeing it all over again and on the big screen. It's been a really long time since I saw it and there were a few things I had forgotten. It's still a great movie and probably one of my all time favorites ever. Love, love, love. Oh, and I never got how that winged monkeys were so creepy. Did you guys read the book? Didn't you know they were coming?

The other exciting thing is that I just figured out how many tv shows on DVD I have. I didn't know that I had 15. This is of course including the newest additions. Studio 60 for my birthday. Two seasons of The Nanny from my friend, and season 1 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show because it was only 20 dollars. TMTMS is one of my new favorites. I even convinced my friend to buy it for herself. It makes me sad though that there's literally nothing about it. All I've found is a little site that had some behind the scenes pictures and episode summaries. NO FANFICTION! Can you believe it? Not even on FF.net! It's such a great show. And it has the favorite relationship that never happens too! Well, I guess there's not all THAT much tension and what-not, but I rather like to think of Mary/Lou. Though I suppose that may just be me.

I really don't know what to say about lately. There are some days when i feel like everything is going right. Then the next day everything will go wrong. That and I have a nasty habit of watching my bus roll away as soon as I am in sight of the bus stop. It's slightly annoying. Today was especially bad. I got off the bus about five stops early and almost beat the bus to my train station. It was so packed. And a wheelchair was getting off. Why would I want to deal with that when I could just walk. Plus walking is nicer. And healthier.

This week is slightly odd. Seniors have calculus, then drama some days, or senior essay work other days. Today was probably the weirdest out of all the days because they pretty much wouldn't let us leave, but didn't give us much to do. it wound up being great for me. Because facebook was blocked I got TONS of college app stuff done. I can't wait to be over with that.

I got my hair cut today. It's a pretty interesting story actually, because the only reason I got a haircut is because someone took Taylor's seat in my first class. He was playing with his scissors that he had because of a sewing class we have this afternoon. It went something like this:
Me: Taylor, you shouldn't be cutting things other than fabric with fabric scissors, it will dull the blade.
Taylor: But these aren't fabric scissors, they're regular scissors, they're just really sharp so they work on fabric too. Watch, I can cut paper. And tissue. And your hair... can I cut your hair?
Me: Not right now.
Taylor: *sadface*
Me: You can cut it at lunch though.

So for the rest of the morning there were people telling me that I shouldn't do it because Taylor dosen't know what he's doing (which I found out later was the real truth compared to what he was saying that he'd cut SO many people's hair before).

Then we got to lunch and we went out by the parking lot and he cut my hair. There's actually about two inches cut off and my mom didn't really notice. I really like it. And Taylor keeps saying that it's not done yet, and he has to finish cutting the back because the layers aren't right or something. But I think it looks great. Pictures under the cut to protect any with dial-up. (p.s. does dial-up even exist anymore?) Also under the cut: my birthday crown per-request.

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Glee tonight!

Birthday so far has been pretty great. I spent a half hour about two weeks ago making myself a birthday crown using a box of cheese crackers, tinfoil, and tape. I think it's gorgeous. Of course, my sister disagrees, but we don't really care about her. I was considering wearing it on Friday, but it being September 11 it didn't feel appropriate. (Not that anyone at school actually acknowledged that it was 9/11, but I digress.)

I wore the crown this morning to church where I had to stand on a chair and the youth group sang Happy Birthday (BOOM-ching-Cha Cha Cha!). I opened presents at lunch and the one I'm most excited about is The complete series of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. IT'S SOOO PRETTY!! Plus, now I have noise-canceling headphones to watch it uninterrupted. I can watch JAG with them now too. Super excited.

Tonight I got to choose dinner--gorgonzola and ricotta risotto and molten chocolate cake!

The first week of school has been pretty good. I'm taking this amazing elective class with my favorite teacher that's basicaly going to be about movies. It's great. I'm not sure how open to suggestions she is, but I'm difinately going to be suggesting. Oh, and it may include tv. !!!!!!! A dream come true. Then there's a writing class where every free write we've done so far has wound up with me talking about a tv show or sophomore year of high school. *shudder* Though I suppose that that's reasonable takeing into consideration what I know about them now. Oh nevermind.

I'm still sort of lamenting that I can't be a normal person with normal friendships with people my own age. My best friends are all sophomores and college kids and grown ups. I guess I just don't understand why age differce is always considered such a big thing to people. Or maybe it isn't and it's just a thing to me. Ahh, well.

Spent all of Saturday watching tv. Mostly The Nanny, then I burned through a whole disk of JAG. I LOVE harm/mac.

Yesterday I went to a movie with my youth group. We went to see a sing-along version of Mary Poppins (hence the Mary/Bert icon). I forgot how awesome that movie was until yesterday. I spent the rest of the day yesterday reading fanfiction for it, and looking up videos on youtube. I know, slightly lame. But still ridiculously fun for the dork I am.

 I was just makeing a list of the tv shows I plan on following this year, and wanted to see where pther people were on the list and if there was anything I'm missing.  I'll go by day and show because I'm a dork like that.  Any time slot that's not listed I don't have a show for yet.

Sunday
8:00 p.m. The Amazing Race --  I don't really fandom this show, but it's kind of a family thing that we all watch.
10:00p.m. Cold Case --  I'm still toying with this one because I don't know weather it's always going to be on at 10 or just is because I think Amazing Race has a two hour premire.  But it's a great show.

Monday
Nothing!

Tuesday
8:00 p.m. NCIS -- Do I really need to explain this?
10:00p.m. The Good Wife -- I'm kind of excited for this one.  It has Julianna Margulies being a lawyer again after her stink in Cantubery's Law which was an amazing show that no one really paid attention to because of the writers strike at the time.  It had an unfortunate airtime and premire season and didn't make it.  But I love her and can't wait for the premire.

Wednesday
9:00 p.m. Glee/Criminal Minds -- I'm kind of debating about this time slot because it seems to be the only one in my mind compeating with two shows.  I'll probably start with Glee because it's new, I loved the first episode and there's a few people at school who will watch it with me, but I'm definately keeping Criminal Minds on as well.

Thursday
8:00 p.m. Bones -- I can't wait to see what they do with this.  I mean, the finale was phenomenal if you ask me, even with the endding.  I'm excited.
9:30 p.m. 30 Rock -- I know it dosen't premire for a while, but whatever.  This show is amazing.  End of story.
10:00p.m. The Mentalist -- Love this show.  I can't wait to see if they stick with the red theme this season or do a different color or what.
Then there's this new show, Flash Forward that I don't have a time slot for, but looks interesting.

Friday
Nothing!

Saturday
11:30 p.m. Saturday Night Live -- If I can manage to keep myself up this late, I'm watching SNL.  It really needs to be a part of my television education.

And then we have Chuck.  Of which I am overjoyed it got renewed, but am disapointed that we have to wait til mid-season to see.  Whatever, still excited because that finale was epic.

So justspaz, with her epicly long summer post inspired me to make my own. Considering that I start school stuff on Tuesday today's as good a day as any to get all my summer stuff out there. So here goes...

July 5th was my first day of camp. The first week was a canoeing and backpacking trip that can basically be summed up in one quote from my friend Marina, "Hey Bean, if I fall off the cliff would that be an automatic fail?" The answer of course was yes. Other than that week one was the creator of so many you-had-to-be-there type jokes it's a little ridiculous. We pretended we were the cast of That 70's Show and went around the circle saying random crap. We went through an amazing amount of riddles and just overall had a great time.

The second and third weeks were filled with lessons on how to deal with misbehaving children, how to recognize abuse, and how to be an overall awesome camp counselor. We planned activities and lessons for little kids classes and it was overall amazing.

The fourth week was probably the most interesting of all. I think I cried every single day because I was so stressed. I was finishing assignments that were epicly late, but I got it all done. I did more Sailing and ropes course elements that I thought were possible in a week. The best part of week four was having my own cabin of ten-year-olds. For 4 days I was totally in charge of them. It was exhausting, it was terrifiying, but most of all it was immensely exciting. It's amazing how they were looking up to me and even more amazing how many questions they asked. Sometimes they asked reasonable questions, but sometimes they were just random. So then on Friday I graduated the program that makes me a counselor now. So next year I will be there for 8 weeks and I will have all the exhaustion and adoration that was my last week this year for at lest five of those weeks. I can't wait!!

And so cam the last day of camp where I swore to my friends that we would see each other over the year.  When I literally begged and cried asking my mom to let me stay, and I really do with she would have let me, buuut Mom and I had to drive our car from New Jersey to California since we live in San Francisco now.  So we drove.  I thought it was going to be horribly awkward, but it wasn't so bad.  We stopped in Chicago where I visited the college that I think I'm going to go to, then my Uncle came out of nowhere and practically attacked me.  It was so great to see him since it's probably been three years since I've seen him.  So we walked around Chicago, then we went and ate a whole pizza just between the two of us.  Best day ever.

And this post is getting a little long soo...

( Follow the dancing cake... )

Since my last post I have....
-become a senior
-moved apartments
-had awkward moments
-unpacked a lot of boxes
-not found the blender
-rediscovered 30 Rock
-rediscovered Sweeney Todd
-gone to a baseball game
-gone to a pool party in Marin
-played Apples to Apples

Most of that is good. I love, love, love the new apartment. I didn't at first, but it's grown on me. Especially since we got our stuff and it looks like it might actually all fit. Plus--we just found plates, like literally ten minutes ago I found the box with dinner plates in them. Almost a week and I just find them now. Don't judge me. I am somewhat happy with my room for the moment. I say for the moment because my sister is going to be sharing it with me and once she gets home (she's been out of town) there will be hell. It's tiny. She's going to be demanding what she wants in a room. She's going to want everything to match, and so on and so forth. Bah.

Anywho. I love 30 Rock. My dad got a disc of Season 2 30 Rock from Netflicks. I'm like, "Oh, I love that show" and he's like, "should you really be watching that show?" Then we proceeded to watch 5 episodes in one night. I love that show like crazy. Jack and Liz need to get together. It's just something that needs to happen regardless of what actually can happen. *sigh* I've also rekindled my love of Sweeney Todd. Mostly the song "No Place Like London" It's a short song, but a really great one. I love it. I've watched the You Tube version at least 4 times today. I almost have it memorized save a little bit of the end.

Today I went up to Marin to a pool party. It was so fun. Marin and the East Bay are to San Francisco what New Jersey and Connecticut are to New York. I took the bus there so much fun. I wound up taking a taxi to the place even though it was only two miles. I could have walked, but it wasn't worth it. The taxi guy rolled his eyes that I was only going that far but what can I say, damned if you do, damned if you don't. It was fun though. We played the most epic game of Apples to Apples I've ever been a part of. With the best "That's what she said" ever. Seriously, it's was just epic.

savvyleartist got me totally sucked into this, but whatever. I still love her.

1. Reply to this post with 'Icons!', and I will pick five (or more, damnit) of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

( Follow the dancing cake )

I would also like to take this moment to tell all my friends who have not watched Glee to go and do so now. It is a very squee-inducing musical moonlighting as a one hour comedy. It's fantastic and I'm telling everyone to watch it because of it's fabulousness. *points at icon*

This one is just to good to pass up. I have lived in seven places (make that eight). An apartment in downtown Chicago for a short time after I was born (so short I don't even remember it). Then a condo/house thing on Chicago's south side for about 4 years. We moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin when I was turning 5, and I did Pre-K and Kindergarden there. I was totally devastated when we moved from there to the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City (looking back I have no clue why). We lived there for two years (First and Second grade) where I went to a minuscule school (my class of 14 was the largest in the school) where we wore uniforms and went on field trips every Thursday in order to get out of the building we were renting. The next time we moved to Washington D.C. and lived in Maryland for two more years (Third and Fourth grade). Then to New Jersey where we lived for 6 and a half years (as you can see a record. Last January we moved from there to San Francisco, California, and next month we will be moving into our permanent apartment here (compared to the furnished apartment that we oh-so-lovingly call the Ikea Showroom) and we will (hopefully) have all our stuff.

Wow. I would cut that rant, but the last time I tried an LJ cut Live Journal ate my post, so I'll just leave that the way it is.

I wrote this whole long, rambling post about how awesome summer is going to be and Live Journal deleated the whole frakin' thing. *sends LJ death glares*

So. I just finished watching the Bones finale which was fantastic in sooo many ways. I don't really know how much of that was real, but who cares? It was like, the best Alternate Universe ever and Zack was there. Zack. And Sweets and the whole host of replacement Zacks were all there too. Never mind that Booth and Brennen were... Well, I don't want to spoil anything more than I already have. Lets just day it was orgasmic. Which is a word I don't use very often, but love to pieces.

What I actually want to talk about is something that's kind of universal to tv lately and is kind of bugging me. Has anyone else noticed how a lot of strong female characters have been trying to get pregnant/adopt a kid lately? Three that pop out immediately are Temperance Brennen from Bones, Lisa Cuddy from House, and Liz Lemon from 30 Rock. I think it's interesting for a few reasons.

Fist of all, I find it kind of out of the blue that these characters wish to have children. I haven't watched House in a while, but from what I've understood (correct me if I'm wrong) none of these characters really wished to have children in seasons prior. Brennen in particular sticks out in my memory as saying in season 1 that she didn't even want kids. Why the change?

Second, I must state that I look at television as a medium of art that is very readily available to the public. Therefore I believe that, like art, television reflects the society it comes from. That makes me wonder, are more single, independent women wanting kids now? Why?

Has anyone else noticed this? Is anyone else bothered by it? I truly am curious to know what other people think of this. Are the three, parallel plot lines linked in some way? Or are they all completely unrelated and independent from each other and the real world? Is it a real-life phenomena as well as a television phenomena?

Such random things today I shall have to number them.

1.) I was on the way home from school today when I saw this girl looking at me. She looked vaguely familiar. I was looking at her and she was looking at me. We both knew we had seen each other before, but neither of us could think of where. Finally she remembered. She was the one who gave me a random hug last week at the bus stop. So we talk. She goes to one of the schools I considered going to when we were transferring, but didn't because they were going to be too strict on the transition. She was saying how she hates it because she has to find a bunch of service hours and if she doesn't soon she's screwed. When she got off the bus she said over her shoulder, "Bye pretty lady." It wasn't until just then that I realized I didn't even know her name. I hope I see her again, she's cool

2.) Founders Night. And the overall weirdness of my school, but mostly founders night. Founders Night is tomorrow and it's the concert night for music things in school. It's the thing I spent way too long looking for a black shirt for yesterday. I'm actually really excited about Founders Night even though James tells me not to be. The only thing I'm mad about is how I won't be able to see the choir. But I have art projects. And singing. And James says he has a bow tie with the F clef on it which is ironic because he plays cello.

3.) I found out my art blocks for next year. I'm kind of excited. I have Sewing and Design which my friend Taylor is really excited about, Modern Art (meh), Metal arts which should be interesting, and Senior play. Which brings me perfectly to...

4.) Senior Play. And the overall weirdness of my school. The Senior class as a whole does a play at the end of the year. I'm kind of excited because my class is small enough so that it's actually going to be fun whereas this years class is kind of big and their play is just going to be one big blob of chaos. Though I suppose based on the amount of time given for rehearsing it will be a well rehearsed blob of chaos. Still excited about my play most of all.

So I went on a shopping trip by necessity today. I need a black button-down for the Founders Night concert on Thursday. So, shopping for something that specific basically sucks. Seriously. I went to six stores. Two didn't have any, one was too long, one was too short, one was too loose, and one was too expensive. I gave up. Totally. I went to Starbucks and ordered myself a frapachino.

I was sitting on a chair watching one of the Starbucks people wipe down the display case. I must have sat there five minutes before it occurred to me that she was wearing a black button-down shirt. So I asked her where she got it. Two hours of shopping and a chick at Starbucks was able to tell me where to go in two seconds. I should have hit Starbucks first thing.

In other news I can't decide weather or not to be excited about Founders Night, our schools music concert/art show/science fair. I'm singing in the choir, plus I have my books from bookbinding in the art show part. I think the choir is pretty well rehearsed. The thing I'm most upset that we wont get to see the Orchestra though. The way they have things set up there are two rooms of music performances and a few shows and if you aren't in the same room as them then you don't see the group. I get to see drumming and guitar. I want to see Orchestra and Jazz Band. FML. Kinda. Still kind of excited.

I can't believe I went to Prom either. The shoes were painful, the dresses were gorgeous, the dancing was awesome, the food(what there was of it) sucked, and the chocolate fountain was a bad idea for my dress. My school had Prom at school which was lame, they didn't have a theme, which was lamer, but they did a pretty good job of decorating.

I think the best part was probably before I even got there. I was looking on the newsreel thing to see when the next bus would come (yes, I took the bus to Prom) when this girl who was balancing on the bench said, "Oh, you're so pretty, I want to give me a hug." What I am assuming is her boyfriend pulled her down off the bench and she came over and gave me a hug. It was hysterical. She was almost afraid of wrecking my dress, but she was just so excited to see someone all dressed up.

I actually loved going to Prom. I'm really not the prom type and back in Jersey I would certainly not have gone to prom. But I did and it was fantastic. I loved seeing all the kind-of hook ups that were there and it was so funny how almost half the school was trying to get these two together all night. At first I was like, "Are they together?"--"They will be." Hahaha!! I loved dancing. I didn't know what I was doing, but nobody gave me any really weird looks, so I couldn't have been doing that much wrong. Overall a fantastic night.

Because seriously anyone saw that episode?

( Spoiler warning for those who haven't seen it. )

BTW--Does anyone know where I can find bigger pics of the event they were at in my icon. I want to see what she wore with that dress (it's kind of similar to my prom dress).

I'm sooo hyper right now!! And in a very Shakespearian mood--mulitipule reasons for that. So many I don't even know where to begin. I guess I'll start at the very beginning(a very good place to start).

Today I had to make sure that my teacher got the money for our class trip. We're going to Ashland for the Shakespeare Festival (though from what I understand it's pretty much an all year Shakespeare celebration). I'm so excited for the trip. We're going to see Hamlet, Macbeth, and The Music Man (go figure). It will be the first trip I make with my new class and I'm just overwhelmingly excited. So excited that I will probably sleep in the car on the drive up... but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

I just looked up the dates and performances for The Public Theater in New York for their Shakespeare in the Park. I've gone to them for the past two years in a row. Last year I saw Hamlet with my friend Kerith and the year before I saw Romeo and Juliet with my mom. I literally fell asleep for part of Hamlet because Kerith and I stayed up until one in the morning the night before. So much fun.
Anywho, This year's play in Twelfth Night which I'm studying right now. It's fun in an awkward sort of way and is showing me more and more that Shakespeare was a sicko. Seriously. Him and Diseny. *nods* But Anne Hathaway is going to be Viola which I find hilarious because Anne Hathaway was the name of Shakespeare's wife. So I decide that Kerith and I are going to go see Shakespeare in the Park again. Yes really. I'm all the way over here on the West Coast and I've decided that we're going to go see it. Not sure how that will work out, but it will.

Third reason I'm excited is for my awesome part time job idea which I also told to my English teacher and she told me that she would try to find more about it for me. I want to work for the Shakespeare company that comes to Golden Gate Park at the end of the summer. They come at the very end of August through the begins of October and I'm hoping to get a job. Not as an actor (that would just be too cool), but as someone who sells t-shirts or hands out Playbills--something. That would let me see the show every night for a month--how awesome is that, plus, I would get a cool t-shirt out of it. Maybe even a sweatshirt.

Went to a concert yesterday. Van Morrison. It was awesome. It was in Berkly so I was one of the youngest ones there. There were only two kids I saw that were younger than me and they looked like they were just there because their parents couldn't find a babysitter. That and the whole theater smelled like weed. Pretty great. The show was good though. At the end he literally walked offstage singing, got in the back of a car, and drove away. So the whole crowd was still cheering and everything, but Van Morrison was gone. So funny.

I so badly wished that I could have been in two places at once last night though. The cast party for the musical was yesterday. We went bowling, then to somebody's house for karaoke and to watch Robin Hood. I couldn't go to the second part though which was so sad. Bowling was still so much fun. We had like, 20 people in two lanes and doubled up. Pretty much if it was your turn you went. If it wasn't your turn--you went anyway. Insane. I scored a 90 which I thought was pretty cool. I was winning the whole game until the very last round. Everybody was like, "Do you do anything but bowl in New Jersey?" I've never won a game of bowling in my life.