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Semana Santa: a quick and easy lowdown of the week.   
11:48pm 14/04/2009
 
mood: lazy
So the past week or so I've been on vacation with mi madre. I met her in London, we flew from london to Athens, and slept (kinda) in the airport until the next morning when we flew to Corfu, Greece, then we few from Corfu to Athens to London again and we spent a day in London, where I got to see Judi Dench perform live, and I met her afterwards. Then the next day we flew to madrid, spent the next day explore Madrid a little with my mom but the weather sucked so she didn't see as much as london and I think we were both getting a little worn out. She also broke her foot, really bad over christmas so even though she was pretty much healed, there still a small crack and her foot would swell. To be far we did a lot of walking especially for a broken foot, I was pretty much used to the walking but she wasn't obviously. It was really nice to take a vacation with my mom. She says we hadn't done a real vacation together in like 13 years, so it was very much deserved for her. I hope we can do it more often for her sake! And I love traveling. I figure I need to write in here more, I'm also keeping a hand written journal so I've been trying to keep up with that, I'm still behind, but I'm much closer than I have been so far in Madrid.		  
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Madrid   
12:14am 16/02/2009
 
mood: content
So I'm in Madrid right now, I'll be here until July, minus traveling, if I get any time to. I've been here since the 2nd of January. I'm doing my placement here all my classes are in Spanish and we're fully integrated with the Spanish students. I'm taking acrobacia: lunes-viernes (Acrobatics: Monday-Thursday) in the mornings. I'm also taking Interpetacion del teatro de Gesto on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This is an acting class based in mime and gestures. I'm taking Mimo y pantomima on Tuesdays and supposed to be Fridays, this class is all technique, at least right now, all we do is isolate parts of out bodies and make lines and whatnot. I'm not going to explain right now. But its like interesting. I also take a class called Expresion Corporal, body expression, which is not as technique based as the rest of the classes. So far we've walked in the class and let the walks turn into characters. Then we've acted like different animals, cats, insects, birds, and turned the animals into humans. Well this is all I'm getting: my Spanish is somewhat limited so we could be doing something completely different, jk, kinda. I mean what I explained is right, I just know I'm getting my own experience and my own thoughts for what I'm learning, which actually makes it better because I create my own education, I don't know. All I know is I don't really get the full lecture from the teacher because I can't understand a good majority of it and from what I understand its not like a right or wrong type of class, so its good that I can make my own Judgements on how what we do in this class can help me in theatre.

I've also started taking some night classes, one is a Comedia De'll Arte class, and the other is Buffones, which is clowning and based off of Comedia, I'm also going to take a choreography class but it hasn't started yet, it starts this week.


Anyway. This weekend was beautiful, it was a perfect type of weekend. Friday night I went out with Brandon and two other Spanish students we had a couple of beers and chatted in Spanglish. Saturday Brandon and I saw slumdog millionare in English with Spanish subtitles. So whenever they spoke Indian it was with Spanish Subtitles. I understood it more than Brandon and explained to him what I could. Luckily it was a movie and we got the gist through the visuals. Then today we went to the big market called Rastro, and randomly met up with RESAD (knickname of the school) students. It was really relaxed and we just drank beers and ate tapas. The weather and the sun was so nice. London can really make you appreciate the sun. :)

Oh and Brandon and I saw a weird-ass opera on Wednesday. It was called "Faust-bal" Faust was a woman, and from what I gathered with my limited spanish skills, is that she had a lesbian lover, and had I think (a) clone baby(ies) and then got arrested. I don't know it was the most abstract opera I have ever seen and the first modern opera I had ever seen. Ok well I'm going to go I just really wanted to talk about my great weekend.		  
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10:53pm 10/09/2008
  Hmm Maybe LJ's going to make a comeback?

If you didn't already know we leave for London on Saturday, unless the weather changes our itinerary!

I'm excited but slightly nervous and stressed!

I'm going to try and write in a real journal while I'm there so I can remember things, I have a bad memory anyways it will help!

Um I will try to update this later before I go, but at the moment I'm going to go do things.

Obama's on Letterman right now...that's more interesting at the moment!		  
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You know what?   
06:22pm 22/05/2008
  I think that either High Schools or Colleges need to add some mandatory classes for just basics of life, and how to survive in the world. Such as teaching people how to do taxes, and maybe teach all the importance of taxes, at least how it works and what one needs to do to get them done (i.e. going to an accountant if thats the best way). I mean my mom does mine/gets mine done but I think it should be something that I need to learn how to do and something that I will be doing once I'm out of college. I'm sure most people know how to do their own, they figure it out, or their parents teach them. I mean (some) parents also teach their kids about sex, and schools are starting to teach kids about that so kids are better aware (although I'm sure that's a better thing to do with safety and growing up and what not). I don't see why some kind of real world survivor class wouldn't be a good idea, or a good thing.

Also about how insurance works, buying a house, getting jobs (well we did get that in school, for the most part) Anyways just basic stuff that parents usually teach you or you figure out. I just really think it would be beneficial to people if there was some kind of structure to learning this stuff, and if you get a really smart cookie of a teacher s/he can teach the kids some tricks and loopholes. I've thought about this for a while, especially the taxes thing, (I've always thought how does the gov't expect me to know what I should do with this W2, although their could be some directions with it, I haven't gotten that far myself). I know there are some other things I had in mind for this type of class but I can't think of it now.

It should be a high school class (Maybe college if high school is just too full) called "Living in the Real World"

Oh god I'm bored.		  
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Annual Summer Goals   
10:42pm 14/05/2008
 
mood: optimistic
Okay so I know I'm working on Driving Miss Daisy so my obvious goal with that is to do the best I can and not screw up, because this is just an honor and opprotunity. But I have minor goals since I'm only doing 3 hours of Rep, that means I'm going to have some free time when I'm not memorizing lines, going over character stuff (which I've already started to an extent), or figuring out what I'm going to do for High School Workshop.

Goals:

Get Ready to go to London (another obvious goal)

Reconstruct old clothing

Read: (Started) The last couple of hundred of pages of the 5th Harry Potter book
The 6th and 7th HP books

Reread The life of Pi in which I got close to finishing but never did

Reread Crime and Punishment which I don't think I finished (it was a senior english reading assignment)I also think I can appreciate it more now, if I feel like I can't then I won't reread it yet.

Reread "The giver" I never really read it, it was read to me in like 6th or 7th grade but I bought it for book club in high school, and I really really liked it, sometimes it was the reason why I wanted to go to school.

Read The Diary of Ann Frank

Read (I doubt it will happen this summer, The hobbit, and the Lord of the rings books)

Finish Putting together my NY and London Pictures in an Album

Put Production Pictures/news articles from Community theatre, High School Theatre, and College/Huron theatre in Albums/scrapebooks

Um thats all I can think of now, hopefully this is all doable, I've already started some of them

Oh yeah and exercise so I can be in decent shape for Rose Bruford!!!		  
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Excuses Excuses...   
12:18pm 07/05/2008
  So I'm dumb...My spell check sometimes doesn't work in word for me, and it wasn't working for this particular paper I just finished writing and due to wanting to be early I didn't proof read the paper very well. OH I probably look so dumb... I hope I at least get a high C or even hopefully a B, even better would be an A but I highly doubt it, there was so much I wanted to say and I barely said anything...Well at least I did well on everything else that I know about. Only two more test left YESSSS!

I did a dance today it went well. Even though I got off time and skipped a few steps, one of my favorite actually, I think I still pulled it off, at least I hope I did, I really wished I could do it again but I guess that wouldn't be fair, I should have taped it like I wanted to but I don't think time would have allowed for that.		  
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10:24pm 27/04/2008
  STRESS! don't have time to write. didn't help.

Contributing to voyeurism...		  
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State of my life   
03:51pm 02/02/2008
 
mood: happy
Today is such a beautiful day, I took Fosse on a long walk and listened to music, it was just one of those feel good about nature and the world walks, where the weather gives you positive energy.

My life has been great this semester, I've been busy, in a good way, but really not too busy at all, I'm about to get really busy, but I'm sooo excited for this. (that was an awkward sentence but I don't want to change it)Anyway, I've been busy, I've been socializing, I've been dancing and exercising, I'm eating healthy, I'm acting and most importantly, I'm happy. There's somewhere deep down where I'm scared it's all going to go away, but I'm not going to dwell on it, because dwelling is part of what makes it go away. Now I think I'm going to go do something that isn't on the computer because the computer just wastes my time when I have other things to do. I want to get as much stuff done as I can, so I can continue to be unstressed by school work. I really do think its the exercise, I need to keep myself doing it because when I stop I think I become unhappy, super-stressed and I guess almost depressed. Well at least I'm taking a dance class...so when it gets tough I'll still be exercising.		  
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So I've been Dumb Lately...What's new.   
08:10am 16/01/2008
  So I wrote an email to my com 170 teacher Monday night, and then Tuesday morning before I even looked at my emails, but as I was getting into my email, I realized I emailed my Dance professor...DUMB...So of course the dance professor said she didn't work in Communications and I sent her an email back telling her I just realized I sent it to the wrong professor and that I hope she had a good laugh, I wonder if she'll ever realize I'm in her class, and the one that sent the email.

Dumb mistake number 500000 which actually occurred before that and I just thought about and realized last night. In my essay for my internship, I put ATA instead of ETA...EVEN DUMBER... I can't believe I didn't catch that, and I didn't even have to look at my essay again to realize I made the mistake, I didn't want to last night, but I looked this morning and it was true. How I made such realization: Someone wrote about European Theatre Arts and I thought "Oh shit, I think I kept putting ATA." Oh my gosh, that really shows I want to be in the program and I can't even get the program name write...right. UH I also realized last night, I didn't sign the contract, not like I didn't want to I was just never asked. So I don't want to get in trouble and I'm going to talk to Shattock (I think that's how you spell it) or someone, about both of these problems. I feel like such an idiot, but hopefully its just one of those laugh at Cathy idiotisms and hopefully no serious repercussions. (Yes I realize I can be a worry wort at times, oh well).

Of course there is always something else that I did stupid I just can't remember anything.

So far I feel fairly good about the semester, I don't feel like I'm going to kill myself or anything, that's an exaggeration, I've really never felt that way for those of you who care ;) but I do usually feel pretty depressed, and I don't right now :)		  
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Bored in Conroe, Wishing I could speak to Barcelona   
02:45pm 06/01/2008
  I'm bored, and I have things I can and should do... Hmm I'm going to make a list, its more economical that way. Oh and London was freaking awesome, I spent like almost all my money but I was smart and put a few hundred in my savings so I would have some money when school starts for like books and food, and I paid January rent early. Anyway London trip, on the top of my list of favorite trips, if I had a list of favorite trips. It was really nice to see everybody, especially Thomas but I really enjoyed spending time with Josh, Jub, Chris, Britney, Nic, and Liz and Tim when they were there.

Ok so here is my make me do something productive list(s).

Write Alumni Scholarship Letter
Write Application Letter for Internship
Find Monologues for 2-3 various things
Do re-Application for Partners scholarship
Finish reading Sideman
Restart rereading Harry Potter part 6
Steal pictures and order prints and make Photo Albums
Finally Sew that skirt I designed and pinned spring break of 2005
Umm I'm sure there are other things, oh Get dressed, clean up the house, do Laundry.		  
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London!   
02:36pm 23/12/2007
  So I'm here in London, Using the internet in the Lauderette, because thats one of the few places Thomas can get it for free.

I came in
Tuesday, went into London, Thomas showed me various historical buildings, then we met up with Tim, Liz, Jub, and Josh and we ate fish and chips then they went to see Spamalot. Thomas bought me a really yummy beer-like drink that is sweet called a fruili and then we walked around some more, kissed right under Big Ben :)

Wednesday we saw Wicked, it was awesome

Thursday we (plus Nick, Britney, and Chris) went back into London, did a lot of stuff. (Saw Tate Museum, and the National Gallery) You know I was so excited when I saw a (few) real life Monet painting, and picasso, among others . That night we went to Nick's and hung out and got drunk at his flat.

Friday, Thomas and I stayed in and relaxed, went to the grocery store and watched part of Pirates of the Caribean and hung out with people.

Saturday, we went on the London eye, walked around alot, ate at an American style dinner which was fun to entertain the waiters and cooks, it was fairly good burgers too, then we went to Convent Garden and looked around all the little shops. Thomas and I got to see Mary Poppins and it was awesome. However if we see anymore shows I hope they're not musicals because I really want to see one of the shakespeares, or just a good straight show, but I got to go my computers battery is about to go out!!		  
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Raw!!!   
12:40am 11/12/2007
  I was doing so Awesome this afternoon/early evening!! NOW: I can't focus!!! It's been this way since about 7:00 I've tried so hard and got so close but the focus isn't staying there. I want to get this done before tomorrow night because, well why not!

And I wish Wikipedia were a better source so I could use it, ah so tempting but so off limits for using it in a paper/project. Le Sigh, I'm learning interesting stuff at least, I just can't get myself to write it down, or figure out how to say it in my own words.		  
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That's Great.   
01:02pm 07/12/2007
  So I turned in My theatre history Paper
I payed my rent for two months
I lost my scholarship (I didn't turn in my sheet on time and she won't take it late)

I'm not optomistic today, I should be though.

I did get a wonderful "I love you" from SBT and an eager boyfriend wanting to talk about what we were going to do when I visit him. Those are the things that have made me happy thus far today, I need sleep, but first to clean the apartment, I was a neglectful mother, so paybacks a bitch of urine.		  
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Funerals make me sick   
02:31am 19/11/2007
  Literally, I think I've gotten sick either right before, or right after I've been to a funeral, ok, I haven't been to a lot, and I'm not sure if it counts for the first funeral I've been to, I was 7 years old, and never met the guy, he was a great uncle of mine.

Anyway, I think I have a phobia of funerals, and I think that's why I get sick. I remember I got really sick for my grandma's funeral, like a really bad cold, For my Grandpa's it was like a cold and a stomach virus, or something, For my dad I think it was a cold and for this one: stomach-like problems, I eventually threw up, but that was last night after I was in Nac. They probably don't have much to do with it being a funeral, really I think it has to do with the traveling part with the addition of the stress from it. I really do think I have a phobia, though I only go to funerals if they're someone close to me, I know I've missed a couple from people I knew or should have gone to for support of someone, ok enough of that.

I'm wide awake I have things I need to write for playwrighting, but I don't want to write, because I'm not entirely inspired, I have an idea of what to write about I just don't want to use the characters I have to use, I want to make up new ones, or at least change some things about the one's I have. I guess I could I don't think it's that big of a deal. It's not like he grades for being wrong.

I just want to drink some peppermint tea to make me sleepy and go to sleep but I should get this done tonight, since I'm awake, and in a way, focused.

Wow if you read this, I'm sure you became slightly bored... :)		  
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I lost...   
08:02pm 12/11/2007
 
mood: excited
my turkey making virginity!! I made a turkey today for the first time by myself EVER! It was a scary process but it turned out yummy. Funny thing is I really didn't eat much of it 'cause I wasn't that hungry, I think my dinner was whatever I ate from carving it. I think that was the first time I've ever carved a turkey by myself too, I may have helped last year so I can't make any promises.

I think cooking, if it wasn't before, is now a hobby of mine. I also think its funny I cooked a whole turkey before I've ever cooked a whole chicken (I mean I've helped at home with chickens but I mean where I'm in my own place doin' it myself, plus I don't think I helped that much when they cooked a whole chicken, or turkey for that matter) I always picked the skin off.

I almost started to get freaked out by the turkey when I was washing it and taking all the things you have to take out of a packaged turkey. I was thinking, this is a carcass, and I would get weird thoughts about how its a cold carcass, like when things die they become cold, although this was frozen. I almost became a vegetarian, but I kept reminding myself why I disagree with becoming a vegetarian, (Not that they're wrong, I have many friends who are or were vegetarians, I just don't think we were made to be vegetarians, you know unless you have some kind of illness or allergy, or dislike of meat, that makes you a vegetarian. I love meat too much anyways)

Anyway who has time to make a turkey and write a LJ entry about it? Not be but I did it anyway, Oh God I should be doing everything else but that, at least this turkey will save me from having to cook a lot for the next... week.		  
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I don't know   
12:08am 04/11/2007
 
mood: depressed
I think I need to go to church tomorrow, I haven't been in a long time and I feel really lost and lonely right now, even if it doesn't help everything, I know that it will most likely make me feel better, Church has that effect. It really does give me peace and I really need peace right now, I've been reverting to old ways of weirdness and isolation, it's messed things up a bit.		  
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Food break   
01:16am 01/11/2007
  Yum! I made some yummy chili (on tuesday)
I shared with Sarah and Zane
This chili made my day
And now its all gone
I need to make more dishes that remind me of home and that are real hearty healthy meals.

On the plus side to my not eating big meals: I think I've lost the weight I gained this summer, almost 15 lbs, you know how weight fluctuates, I know at least probably like 10. Anyway I should go back to finishing up out Epic Power Point slide, I'm just adding a few things, filling in gaps and making sure things are eligible, I couldn't have done this presentation with out Sarah!! She's worked so hard, and I'm back on track (at least tonight) but my brain has been crap for a while.

I really think the chili helped me, or at least having a good hearty meal. I only ate like candy and one meal on Sunday, and Saturday and Monday weren't much better.		  
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MY OCDness   
11:59pm 29/10/2007
 
mood: frustrated
Ok I've been having problems focusing for the past few days, I always have problems focusing. So maybe its motivation? Whatever it is, I think its a mental block and I'm frustrated because I thought maybe it had to do with turning in my internship choices, but I did that today and I'm still having a lot of trouble unblocking whatever it is.

Normal I know why I'm having a mental block and I can fix it but I can't figure it out right now. This is part of my ocdness (if you would consider me to have such a thing.) That is I can't move on to something else unless I finish what I was planning on finishing or something. I don't know, its really hard to explain, but this is basically why I take so long on tests or even projects and homework. It takes me a lot of time to focus on it. Right now I have a huge Epic presentation (haha I like the pun, if thats what it is) and I can't seem to get focused on it, its really pissing me off, no matter how I try my brain starts thinking about other things, it's like I'm not interested at all. But it goes further than just the presentation I barely want to cook or clean, or anything else. I don't know what I want to do that's letting me do the other stuff. I guess you could consider it like a senior-itis type thing but I want to get these things done I just can't motivate myself. I told Sarah I think it's because I'm out of ham and cheese and I need other groceries, she just laughed really hard, I did too, but it may be very possible. Ham and Cheese tortillas are like my staple snack.		  
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Bedtime   
12:54am 18/10/2007
  I don't want to go to bed late, Geeze I was never one to go to bed on time or early, I wish I was I think I would be so much more energetic if I got an hour or two more of sleep and I was so tired today too. I just don't get why I can't focus myself enough to get what I want done and then go to bed at a decent hour, it's like I have so many goals that however hard I try, I ignore my goal of getting a really good amount of sleep whenever it's available. I know I shouldn't be complaining because there are a lot of people who wish they could go to bed early. I just don't get it, I've always been like that, maybe if my parents were stricter about getting me to bed early. They didn't completely ignore it, I just could tell that other parents were more strict about going to be by certain times, my parents tried it but I would still get up because I wouldn't go to sleep right away anyway I always thought a lot before I went to sleep and sometimes that would be hours, not all the time just sometimes. They didn't always know I would get up when I should have been sleeping. Whatevs, I'm going to bed now instead of continuing to bitch why I don't go to bed when this is a perfect time right now.  
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Britney Spears   
07:54pm 04/10/2007
  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_en_ce/britney_spears_custody

It's like she really did sign a contract with the devil. Her life is shit, but she's still famous and has a song that's in the top ten. That actually kinda just sucks, if I were her I would try to find a place where nobody could find me, until I got my act together.

I don't really know everything about the crap that's going on in her life but from the article I just read, I feel bad for her, it's like she doesn't have any control and everybody is keeping a close watch, yeah I agree she made some bad choices and did some bad things, but that's not my point. My point is she's a human and people have bad things happen in their lives, it just sucks that hers are being scrutinized under the public's eye. I'm sure she asked for a little bit of it, but I'm sure she's regretting it now.		  
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