I am very drunk. It feels nice. I am watching Glee. It is hilarious. I wish I had weed, but Bacardi is nice too.

So drunk. I feel so incompetent. I found out today that I need to drop my Theatre major, and just be an English major, Theatre minor. Feel so dumb.

Typing while drunk is hard.

Quick post asking for my flist's opinion. I'm getting a new apartment for next year. Do you think I should get an apartment on the second floor for $725, or on the fourth floor for $745. They're the exact same unit, only on different floor, they're even in the same spot on their respective floor. The view would be about the same, but the fourth floor would obviously be a little better. Elevators, so being high up isn't an issue, and four floors isn't even that bad for stairs. The building is supposed to be very soundproof, so it's probably not that much worse on the second, but it'll probably be a little better on the fourth. Do you think the extra $20 a month is worth it?

ETA: One other option, probably. Also on the fourth floor. This one is a one-bedroom as opposed to a studio, so it has about 100 extra square feet. Has a better view than the other two, but it doesn't have a balcony. I think a balcony would be pretty cool, but not really necessary. Both the fourth floor properties are the same price. Opinion?

I finally did the Photoshop project. It's a set for on one of the seven deadly sins, Greed. I decided to do The Nutcracker, and displaying opulence. I haven't actually seen Nutcracker in a while, and don't really remember it. At least I think it conveys greed okay.



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Ugh, I have this Photoshop assignment that was due last Wednesday for my scene design class, that I just can't seem to do. My Photoshop skills are negligible and it's just not working for me.

Other than that, everything's great right now.

Holy hell, it's like 85 degrees out, nice!

This is mainly for my own benefit to just talk to something concrete, but if you're just fascinated by the minutiae of my sleep schedule and academic planning, feel free to read.

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Insomnia sucks big time.

Spring Break started yesterday. I have a few days of a roommate- and dog-free apartment. I had planned on going to New York to hang out with a friend of mine I haven't seen in two years, but she's too busy with school and work, so that's a bust. I guess I'll try to get ahead on schoolwork, really put some effort into the take home midterm for one of my classes.

I'm working on a scenic design for Into the Woods for my design class. I'm thinking it wasn't probably the best show to pick, since it's this giant sprawling musical, and I need to make it fit into a tiny black box theater. If I can pull it off successfully, I think it'll be really great. This whole semester has been pretty good so far, as soon as I got into the swing of things. I'll post some of my scene designs and the end results of my makeup labs later.

My melatonin is starting to kick in somewhat, I'm going to try and sleep now. I don't think I have actual insomnia, something more like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

I should be going to bed, but I'm so not tired it's bugging the crap out of me. I should be exhausted: I got up a lot earlier than I normally do, and then spent the day scene painting and applying makeup to fidgety actors.

I've been trying to work on a scene design project that's due on Friday. I'm reconstructing part of Rievaulx Abbey for the stage, but I can't seem to get the proportions right. BUT HOLY CRAP--after I typed that last line, I Google image searched for some pictures to show you all what I'm doing, and I found something that will make constructing the model super-fucking easy!! OMG that made my night. I'm so happy. Too excited to work out how to embed a pic into LJ right now.

Side note, the Oscars were pretty damn good tonight. I missed the first half hour of so because of the aforementioned makeup application, but it wasn't as boring as usual. I really liked the little panels of past winners they had talk about the nominees for some of the categories-- Best Actress standing out in my mind as the most interesting. And of course Slumdog Millionaire won a shit-load of statues, can't say I'm surprised. I remember reading about that movie back when Dev Patel was first cast, and I distinctly recall saying to myself, "a movie about Who Wants to be a Millionaire? In India? Who's gonna want to watch that?" Shows what I know. I love how the most underdeveloped and unappreciated character/actor from Skins is the one to go on to have the most success following their tenure on that show. I must go back and watch some episodes over and pay closer attention to Anwar.

Tomorrow is my birthday, I turn 22. I hope it's a snow day, we had classes off today because of snow. It wasn't even all that much snow, but a lot of the professors have to come over the mountains to get to campus.

Watching United States of Tara. Much better than Juno, which was completely overrated. Slumdog Millionaire was also overrated, but still pretty damn good. The new season of Skins started. It seems alright, but I miss the old cast. Love Pandora though.

Man, I am having the worst time scheduling this semester. My current classes are:

Technical Theater
Scene Design
Survey of African American Lit
Shakespeare's Comedies and Histories
Theater Make-Up
Renaissance and 17th Century British Drama

I'm almost certainly going to drop the Shakespeare class, and I would like to drop the Make-up class, but I can not find one class to take its place. I guess I'll just have to keep my eye on ecampus over the next couple days to see if anybody drops anything I might want.

Gacked from shocolate.

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I certainly dropped that happiness meme pretty quickly, didn't I? Eh, whatever.

One thing that has made me happy in the past week was an amazingly awesome generous early Christmas present from my parents.




I HAVE A CAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!




I'm so ecstatic about it, I have been sans auto for 14 months now, which has completely and utterly blown. It's a '99 Honda Accord. It's fully loaded, was the top of the line Accord for '99. It's got a few dents and scratches, and my Dad put a lot of work and money into the engine, which still isn't perfect, but it runs really well, and I LOVE IT.


This fantastic news was ruined the next day when I got my grades. I was sort of expecting a horrible grade in my acting class since I've basically ignored the paperwork required for the class, but I was expecting a B or a C for my African American Lit class, which I instead got an F in, because of absences. And yes, I admit my absences were excessive in that class, but I so don't agree with the practice of failing a student based on absences. I got A's on the two papers, B's on the two tests, and a C on the journals. I hate that even though I was doing good work in that class I failed because of being sick a lot this semester and not showing up a few times. I can understand making attendance part of a participation grade or something like that, but not for outright flunking. Ugghhhh. I don't know how I'm going to tell my parents. On the bright side, the class I thought I was getting a D in I got a C instead. My other two grades were an A- and a B+. Ugh.

I am the worst fucking student. I can't maintain constant interest and work ethic fora class for three months straight. I do fantastic in my summer classes that only last a month, but my attention span is too short to care about a class for an entire semester. That's the main reason I've decided against grad school. That and not having a particularly scholarly bent on life. Plus the shitty grades. Ugh.

I can update the happiness meme for today: I watched the movie Zerophilia, which always makes me happy.


I guess that "goodnight" four hours ago was a bit premature. My sleep's been so screwed up for the past few weeks. The howling last night certainly didn't help. My roommate was out all night, and she left the dog in its crate. I let it out a couple times, since, even though I hate him, I think it's cruel that she leaves him alone for thirteen freaking hours. I've been working to gently manipulate her into getting rid of him for a while now, playing on her guilt and weaknesses. Sure, I'm a terrible person, but maybe I won't have to hear him howling any more.

No happiness today to report. The day was pleasant enough, I suppose, but nothing that actually made me happy.

JMU lost its national semifinals game to Montana tonight, glad I didn't fork over ten bucks to see that one. It was pretty exciting though, I watched it with my roommate while we played with the horrible dog. The dog is actually kinda nice when his owner is there to keep him in check. I just hate it for all the times Kate isn't there and it's a horror.

Now I'm going to make a mid-night snack and watch a movie. Goodnight!

Something that made me happy today was my LAST freaking final. Finishing it left me so light happy, which should last for a week or so until I get my grades. Something else that made me happy was getting fat cash for two of my textbooks at buy back. Now I actually have money to buy my family some Christmas presents.

I finally got around to watching Twilight today. I downloaded a cam copy of the movie like a week ago, and I actually had some free time today to watch it.

It was... okay. It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be and had heard. It was pretty much what I had been expecting before I heard all the awful reviews. I thought that it was actually pretty good up until the point where Bella and Edward are out in the woods, which I thought was just fucking ridiculously, hilariously, bad. The baseball scene was vaguely dumb as well, but everything after that wasn't that bad either. I thought the acting for the most part was good, though I thought Robert's portrayal of Edward was a little too human. All the other vampires I thought did a pretty good job, and I particularly liked Rosalie for some reason. I couldn't get past the fact that the kid who played Jasper looks just like Johnny Depp in my opinion. He's playing Sokka in The Last Airbender live action movie, so I better get used to him, I guess.

All in all, glad I didn't pay ten bucks to see it, but if I had, I probably wouldn't have been too upset.

I don't know if it technically counts, since I couldn't do one yesterday, but something that made me happy today was not having any exams, so I slept in until 3:30 (yes, I know I'm horrible). What was not happy-making was being woken up every few hours by howling as my roommate left her dog behind in its crate, while she went off doing God knows what.

( The dog )

Well, I'm going to study for my African American Lit final I have tomorrow afternoon. I really should have studied more much earlier, but I'm pretty confident in that class, and my grade's ok. I have great analytical skills, so I'm not worried about the essay section, but I'm not great at remembering titles and author names and dates. Ugh. At leas when it's over, I'll be done and able to stop worrying. Can't wait to get home for Christmas, I may be getting a car. It was supposed to be contingent on me getting all A's and B's this semester, but I let my parents know a while ago that that was not going to happen, and they didn't shut down the idea immediately, so I'm still hopeful.

jaxadora tagged me in a meme to post things that made me happy over the next 8 days, but I don't think I can do it. I'm totally effing depressed right now, I had to turn down my offer to attend a semester in London this summer. I just couldn't make the money work.

I'm really sad, I really wanted to live in London for a while when I didn't have to have a job. To really enjoy living there without freaking out about rent or anything. Having to dig up $6000 for two months over there sort of defeats that purpose.

Everything just sort of crashed down on me today. I'm exhausted, in every sense.

Luckily, most of my end of term work is done, I just have this little BS acting thing tomorrow, that I so don't care about. I'm doing awful in that class, and I just want to stay in bed tomorrow. I have no idea what to do for it, it's supposed to be some sort of creative thing that reminds me of the class or something. It's so... elementary school. I don't have anything to bring in, I'll probably end up making some lame speech.

But after that there's only one more final, African American Lit on Thursday, which I desperately need to study for.

Plus I'm starting to feel sick, and I think I'm dehydrated. I did the skin pinching thing, and it freaked me out so much now I'm drinking glass after glass of foul tasting water. Perfect time for me to be out of Brita filters.

In the realm of the less whiny, my model was well received by my professors, and our group as a whole had one of the best responses. They simply raved about my partner's costumes. So it's nice to know I'll have at least one A this semester, even if it's offset by shit grades in Acting and Creative Writing.


I'd forgotten how therapeutic writing on Livejournal can be, it's been so long since I'd last made an entry. It seems like I only ever write on here to bitch about something.

The two Theater History papers are done... sorta. I ran out of time and one's not very good. Well, neither are very good, but one is very short.

The model is mostly done, I'm just piecing it together. It's rather wobbly, but it looks all right. Plus I have until 3:30 to really put the finishing touches on it.

One more paper to go, and I have to find some drafting vellum somewhere, but I am good.


I hate not having a car. If I had a car, it'd be BOOM drop off papers, come home and finish work. Instead, it's long, tedious bus ride for me. Oh, and I'd be able to go to the store to get that freaking vellum. Urggg.



ETA: So instead of long, tedious bus ride home, it was long, tedious, really buttfucking cold walk home. But I got my vellum!