it's good for you.

6-2-04 Wed. 03:57 p.m.
New hair cut, although it doesn't appear to be too different than what i had before. Basically what she did was cut maybe an inch off the length, and then reshape it so the weight was more in the middle of my head instead of at the bottom so I looked like a trianle-head. Also, the girl that cut it had it styled much better than I've been able to do so far. I think it's the type of spray gel stuff she used. She had it a much more smooth looking curl instead of stringy springs like i always end up with.

*I look kind of mad in that first picture...... eh.

6-2-04 Wed. 03:40 p.m.
Maybe this is selfish or something, but I really hate when bums, that are smoking, ask for money for food. If you're poor enough that you have to ASK for money, you should actually buy FOOD and not cigarettes. Maybe he has a habit, but you know, buy some gum. It's cheaper to stop smoking anyway. How can a bum afford to keep a smoking habit?

6-2-04 Wed. 10:48 a.m.
While looking through old Word files, i found this:

During my freshman year of high school we were told to rewrite the prologue to Romeo and Juliet in more current language. Mine was really good, and I was the only one in my class that made it rhyme.

Here's the original:

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whole misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Here's mine:

Two families with the same social base,
In Verona where the story takes place,
In forever feuding families, a rebellion breaks through,
Their pure children's death brings guilt unto.
Fate by birth to make them rivals,
Which limits chance of their survival,
Whose innocent love brings more to contend,
Only by death does the conflict end.
Their doomed love would never be cured,
As long as their parents' battle endured,
They could not fix this tragedy,
For within two hours you will see,
For your attention we do yearn,
And to listen for the moral to learn.

6-1-04 Tues. 05:12 p.m.
Do you think if I wrote out my parking ticket check to "The fuckers of Milwaukee" that they'd cash it anyway?

5-25-04 Tues. 12:11 p.m.
I'm in the process of signing a contract for an apartment! It's really nice. It has everything i wanted in an apartment including a balcony, hardwood floors, in Milwaukee, closer to the lake. It's a studio, but it's really big. It's also way cheaper than I was expecting to pay. Here's a page of pictures. They're in order of how it is when you walk in pretty much. There are little rooms off of the main hall. One is an office or storage type room, one is the bathroom. There's a huge walk in closet, and around the corner of the main living room is a dining room and kitchen.

5-24-04 Mon. 04:44 p.m.
skeletons are always smiling. it's so creepy.

Ghost in the Shell 2 trailers.

5-21-04 Fri. 08:57 a.m.
I find it difficult to study for subjects like this:

"The ancestor of the family of Atreus was Pelops, son of Tantalus, who came from Asia Minor as a suitor for the hand of Hippodamia, daughter of Oenomaus, king of Pisa, whose territory included Olympia."

not only that, but everybody get's the same damn prophecy from the oracle saying their son is going to kill them.

5-19-04 Wed. 01:02 p.m.
Saw Troy last night. I liked it, inaccurate as it may be. It was still entertaining and had cool, limited cg. The cityscapes were impressive and they didn't even have a bird fly by to show the vastness of the cg creation.

my sister came by yesterday (i saw Troy with her) and then left this morning before my poli sci final, which i think i did decently on. i've got my audio final tonight and mythology final on friday, then i'm done.

i've been talking to two different real estate companies in hopes to find an apartment with a balcony and by the lake.. at a reasonable price. we'll have to see about that.

5-17-04 Mon. 11:24 p.m.
I just heard someone on Jay Leno say "Divas wear 5 inch pumps." I'ma have to get some of those.

Made a lot of progress on my video tonight. should be done by 4 tomorrow. Then on to studying for real tests.

5-17-04 Mon. 04:40 p.m.
anime central pictures and stuff

wow, the camera guy sure can't get the exposure half the time.

for those of you that don't want to look through all the pictures. (but really, WHO WOULDN'T!?!) here are some highlights

looks best in costume

and

... looks worst in his costume.. sorry dude.

some.. sort of pepsi dude..

5-14-04 Fri. 11:37 p.m.
Jeremy gave me some free tickets to the Times theater because of my coming in for no reason. so it's somewhat better.

5-14-04 Fri. 10:04 a.m.
so fucking pissed. it seems like i always start out with that here.

i got a call TWO or THREE days ago about screening Troy this morning at 9:30 to see if the print was good. and i was all excited to do it because i was getting paid to watch a movie i wanted to see.
so i get up and go in at 9:30. morgan calls the projectionist to tell him i'm here and he says "all the movies have been screened, someone watched it last night"

great. thanks for telling me. not only do i not get to see the movie, but i've just wasted a lot of gas that won't even be made up from working tonight.

i'm so quitting... as soon as i get another job. fuck. i hate working there so much. and it's not even a problem with the people. morgan didn't know he had been watched. she was pissed too and is going to give a talk to whoever watched it.

and it pisses me off because i wanted to see it largely because i have a mythology test next week and it would have been cool to see, and to have seen so that i could remember names and stuff easier. now i probably won't ever see it because i can't go to movies on nights i ask off for, but i have to work every night that i could see it. and then everyone else will see it without me so that i won't have anyone to go with anyway. example: kill bill 2. i'm sure i'll never see that now.

i guess i'll go take a shower now and maybe work on my video again.

5-12-04 Wed. 12:47 p.m.
second interview with the person i met with monday.. that i thought i was going to be interviewed about something else with.. they called me back yesterday for a second interview. i would say they like me. if i don't get it it's probably because of my schedule. well i said next semester i have classes in the morning and at night mostly. so there's a gap in the middle, which is good. and then they're like "and you can work this summer?" "yeah, but i'm taking two classes at such and such times from this date to this date" and they're like "hmm.." and then i said "i also sometimes get calls for other production assistant jobs in the summer for a three day shoot or so that i'd probably take" "and i'm also between interviews and i'm waiting to here from someone else as well, although that probably won't go through"

i feel like my taking lots of classes and being a good student is ruining my chances for having a job. bah.

5-11-04 Tues. 12:21 p.m.
well anime central is this weekend. i'm not going and it's kind of sad. i wasn't that interested in going several months ago, and then i forgot about it until today when someone asked me about it. but since it's this weekend i REALLY can't go. too much to do for school and apartment searches. looks like the hotel is sold out. the guests are fairly cool too. although, not real up to date, i saw azumanga daioh almost a year ago and the character designer is one of the guests. and apparently it's the year of the read or die series.. which i have yet to watch. i should. i should watch all the anime i meant to watch so long ago this summer. i should make an updated list. in fact, perhaps i will make the list right here and now.

Read or Die: series
L/R (Licensed by Royal)
finish Argento Soma
finish Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (why the hell have i not finished this when it's supposed to be so good?)
finish Haibane Renmei
finish Soultaker
somehow finish Kodoma no Omocha
watch all the Ranma 1/2 cds dave gave me
and while i'm at it i should finish buying the Noir dvds and the Cowboy Bebop dvds.
and while i'm at all that, i should get a new ddr pad and start playing again. if anything, it keeps me in shape.

on another missed event note, Skappleton was on April 18th, so i've already missed that. It doesn't look like it was that exciting. Mustard Plug, Catch 22 and then they always seem to have I voted for Kodos and Something to Do. Local bands.

5-10-04 Mon. 04:28 p.m.
interviews and meetings etc. i had an interview at school which turned out to be for a different job than i was expecting. i guess that's what happens when you've applied to like 10 jobs through school that don't all reply right away. i applied to this job taking care of lab animals and then a few hours later i got a call about an interview. she said something that completely convinced me that it was for this job and i had no reason to believe otherwise.. then i got to the interview and it's apparently for some clerical job completely unrelated to the lab animals job. whatever. it didn't even go bad, she seemed to like me anyway and she gave me a schedule for when i'd be working.. which most of the times i can't anyway because of classes..... but whatever. i'm not thrilled about getting that job, so i don't even care if i don't.

meanwhile, i went to the temp place again and had an interview with their office division. i took word, excel, and typing tests which i did really well on (according to the guy). i got 82% on both the word and excel (which i know almost nothing about excel, but i knew enough). and if you get 88% percent than you qualify to get microsoft office certified. so i was up there. he said they don't have anyone there right now with the skills i have because all of them got jobs. so that's good.

man, i really need to buy food, and do some editing. that's the next thing that's going on today. i've been at class, interviews, and meetings since 9:30 this morning.

5-9-04 Sun. 05:08 p.m.
It feels a little bit more liberating to be getting out of the film program now that my mom just informed me that my neighbor who went to NYU for film is now teaching math to middle schoolers in the Bronx. way to make your degree work for you, man.

5-9-04 Sun. 01:34 p.m.
it has just occured to me that i need to buy books for my summer classes. or the one book, if there is one, for my music class. i doubt there's one for the special effects class, although that would be cool.
eh, i'll put it on the list.

right now i'm basking in my non-working for i got a call this morning saying i didn't need to come in.

now to try and not fail basic video.

5-8-04 Sat. 09:45 a.m.
Stupid damn cop. i came out to my car and he was driving away after giving me a $30 ticket for parking too close to a driveway. first of all.. they NEVER ticket for that because they don't give a damn. he probably just had to make his quota. but when you drive for 10 minutes around the block to find a parking spot and all you could find was one where you're only 2 feet from the driveway instead of 4, you're going to take it.

5-7-04 Fri. 06:29 p.m.
i have all kinds of interviews set up. today i met with a temp agency that might get me a job. i have an interview with someone on campus on monday, and i have to go back to the temp place for another interview and some typing tests.

i'm probably screwed on my video project because the guy that i borrowed the camera from to record my sound who "doesn't need to shoot anymore" asked for it back. he aparently got shot down by cecilia and has to record a new soundtrack for his video. so, i have no way of recording mine again. and it's kind of due on tuesday. so very screwed.....

i don't know whether to take this apartment on capitol yet. it's really nice and comes with free roadrunner and stuff, but it doesn't have garage parking, doesn't have a balcony or anything, and truthfully, i kind of wanted to move into the actual city of milwaukee. but they've already rented one of them there, so they're going fast and i need to decide soon. david may or may not take the cool loft on mitchell. he's going to see a different loft tomorrow, which happens to be above a club, which is pretty cool.. and by the time his lease is up on maryland, i'll be 21.. so i can actually go there. woo!

yay, i can register for classes on tuesday. although i just got an email that my advisor is leaving the school in june.

5-6-04 Thurs. 11:53 p.m.
i'd just like to note that i'm watching this movie called 9 Deaths of the Ninja, and the opening sequence is a choreographed song called "keep on dancin'" and it's girls doing like modern dance and this guy moving around a katana... all moving and dancing together.. it was really.. great.

also, i need to remember to watch all of TNT Jackson. it looks positively kickass.

5-6-04 Thurs. 12:25 a.m.
We passed a bunch of the cups in mariokart gcn in 150cc tonight, including the "all cups" one which is a series of 16 races. unfortunately i didn't get anything else done. not that i could do much. i just got a camera to record sound tonight. so i couldn't have gotten sound, nor could i have recorded the voiceover because my voice is only half here from this cold. i couldn't do laundry because everyone was doing it during the only time i had time to do it. i couldn't shoot anything. so, i guess i didn't really waste that time playing video games.. but it pisses me off that i couldn't do anything just because.

my video is due on tuesday. i haven't done anything with it but shoot 30 minutes of bugs.

5-4-04 Tues. 11:01 a.m.
david once sent me this picture of him with a bunch of baseball players from the early 80s. then i showed him the picture of me at my 6th birthday party and he mentioned that picture of him was when he was six. so then i wondered what it would be like if we were friends when we were kids. so here we are when we were six. ah, the good ol' days.

so cute.

5-2-04 Sun. 11:08 a.m.
i've noticed i see much fewer movies now that i work at a theater. it might be because i don't really want to hang out where i work. or also because i work nights when i could see the movie. i can't see movies on nights i ask off, and i can't get people free tickets while i'm working. it doesn't really work out for anyone. and i used to get free tickets before because a friend already worked there. so i probably won't ever see kill bill vol 2 because david already saw it and i don't really feel like going myself.

my nose is sore from the cold i a have, and my hands smell like koolaid from prerna's victoria secret liquid hand soap.

4-30-04 Fri. 01:15 p.m.
yesterday and the day before it's 70, 75, or 80 degrees. sunny. today, i can see my breath, and i have a cold.

this is a pretty cool bug .

4-29-04 Thurs. 08:31 a.m.
something about the smell of the air this morning reminded me of marble season. (for those of you that don't know, marble season was when i went to highlands elementary and our principal assigned a time for all the kids to play marbles in the playground. it was soon outlawed when we got a new principal in the last year or so of going there. along with many other cool things)

my god it was so nice yesterday. so nice that i got my first sunburn of the season. after playing mariokart double dash for a few hours we went to sendiks and got some food from their deli and ate it at lake park; sitting at a bench with an overview of the empty beach.it looks like it's going to be similarly nice today.

i'm starting to get paranoid about aparments. i went to see a bunch at 1428 capitol (i live at 1900 capitol) and they were really nice. they have hardwood floors, fairly large for one bedroom, lots of windows, and free roadrunner. i don't know yet if i want to take them for sure. i want to look around for other ones maybe ... on a different street, maybe closer to the lake, and maybe with a balcony. the problem is, i don't know if i'll find any like that. and i keep hearing other people talk about getting an apartment and i'm afraid they're going to steal the one i want!

4-27-04 Tues. 01:33 p.m.
random picture of the day.

actually it's not so random. i was thinking about how dumb a 5-year class reuinion would be. most of the people i that i still see around from school look and act exactly the same. that girl on the left on the couch. she's in my advertising class (apparently). hard to believe we were once best friends. but that was back before school. i remember meeting her at my sister's t-ball game. we were both playing with barbies in the sand and she had this really cool all chrome barbie. it was really cool.

actually, i was once best friends with almost all of these people. the girl next to the one i was talking about. i was best friends with her in preschool. i'm not sure when we stopped being friends. i think she went to a totally different elementary school than me. then i saw her again a few years ago. she was in my SAT testing room. we said hi, i think. i didn't even recognize her. my mom did.

the girl next to her was and always will be a jerk. likewise the two girls up top except the one directly behind me in the red. that's rebecca slye and i was best friends with her until she moved when i was in like 6th grade. then i stayed friends with her a little afterwards, but she lived pretty far on the other side of town. i saw her last year. she apparently goes to school in like waukesha or something. i gave her my number. she has yet to call.

by the way, for anyone who knows them. they are:
top row: Katie Bus, Elizabeth Lhost, Rebecca Syle.
couch: Lauren Muench, Allie Kellog, Katie Wagner, and me. it was my 6th birthday party. we all seem to have had the same white socks with the lace on the edge.

*sorry about the comments lauren.

4-25-04 Sun. 12:22 p.m.
is it really the 25th already? shit. that's really cool.

i've been looking at some apartments the last few days. i looked at one on beverly. it's slightly closer to school, i think, and is in a neat building with only 8 apartments in it. things i don't like about it are the low ceilings, making the whole place seem like a hobit house (not to mention the doorways are arced design, but that's one part i like) the bedroom is kind of small and there are few outlets, which aren't grounded. it's hardwood floors, which is nice and plenty of windows. but the kitchen is set up weird. not very convenient.

then we went to this enormous loft compound downtown called the boston lofts. one place we looked at was $999 a month. and one was $1094 a month. they were both fairly disappointing. i think the lofts we looked at in the 3rd ward-ish area with all artist work areas in it (like a dark room and a wood cutting place) was way nicer. (we looked at that one last september or so.) but these lofts were nice enough, although carpeted. there's something too new and fake nice about carpet. but yeah, the place was pretty average. it had a bar and a washer and dryer in the unit (so do the ones in 3rd ward) and then the walls to the bedroom don't go all the way to the ceiling. and there were no lights in it, so people had to install track lighting when they rented the place. all in all, not worth the money.

i'm going to see a place on newton at five. it's supposed to be similar to the one on beverly. same owners. same kind of building.

4-22-04 Thurs. 02:37 p.m.
quote of the day. the day being yesterday... because i forgot about it until now.
this guy got off the bus and said:

"shit, my pants fell down!"

4-22-04 Thurs. 11:50 a.m.
i have officiall changed my major. i wish i could sign up for classes now. i have to wait until may 11th.

i forgot that i was going to get a check in the mail for $300some for that pa job. too bad i got an email from them today saying "just so you know, we charge LESS than standard for milage, so you need to update your invoice." so that just means i have to wait even longer to get the money because they haven't put it through yet. curses.
on the other hand, i get paid from the theater today. all like $100 of it.... guh.

4-21-04 Wed. 01:58 p.m.
i need to start looking for apartments and continue looking for a better job.

i'm so very tired. i got up at 6:30 (and went to bed at 1) so i could finish all of my papers for my 9:30 class. i have so much to do right now, 2 hours before class to do it. but i really want to just go to sleep for two hours.

4-20-04 Tues. 08:42 a.m.
uh oh, 4-20. i hope i don't get shot. eugh.. come to think of it, i walked out of david's apartment, looked one way and then went the other and this guy rode by on his bike and was like 'bad day?' and i said no, i'm just trying to find my car... and then he insisted on helping me find it. and that alone could be nice, but he kept insisting i was having a bad day or night. he was like "you had a bad enough night that you can't remember where you parked your car?!" ...no... i just don't remember where it is.. eventually he had to leave to go to class. it was kind of creepy.

so anyway, divas.

well, the problem has been solved. i went to talk to the director of the program yeasterday and he figures i can do it in 2 years. and it's not even going to be a stressful load of classes. it's basically the same track i'd be on if i were in film, but with things moved a little bit around for the junior and senior project. he found ways to use the film classes i had taken and count them as divas core classes or electives. and he substituted some classes for others, so i have to take a lot less than i would if i were just starting. so this summer i'm taking the music 101 class i have to take.. and then this special effects class. and then next semester, my schedule should be:

art 227 design workshop: dynamic typography
art 118 digital arts: culture theory practice. which is like sort of a history of art up to computer technology, and then we start with basics of photoshop..
music 220 introduction to computers and music
finearts 211 time space 1 (An introduction to temporal and spatial structures as applied to art practice.)
and this divas forum thing, which for those of you in RSA, is kind of like common experience. we meet fridays, all the divas majors and have guest speakers, talk about projects etc.

those are all the divas classes, i'm not sure if i'll be taking any other core classes or anything. i think that's 13 credits, but many of them are studios.

oh, and i don't have to be past portfolio to take the post portfolio classes because since it's a new program, no one is ready to go up for it yet. although, he said i could go up now if i had the work, which i do except i need to do a specific web project. but otherwise i have the video, audio, and something else (my film).

so yeah, i'm excited. it looks like a really cool semester. and the rest after that are like that too.

and oh yeah, i cannot fucking believe prerna is STILL smoking in the apartment when i'm not around. i can't WAIT to catch her doing it. it's going to be sweet.

4-19-04 Mon. 08:41 a.m.
ok, so the divas vs film thing:

the one major difference in them is that the film degree will only take me 2 more years to finish while the divas will take at least 3. now, i already really dislike school, so another year would probably be hell. on the otherhand, if i take a bunch of really cool classes.. then it wouldn't. so..

divas pros:
i'm more interested in it then film right now.
i will get farther in real life with this major than film.
i'm really excited about the classes.

divas cons:
an extra year of school.
won't see any of my school friends anymore.

film pros:
only 2 more years (hopefully)
will still be able to check out film equipment.

film cons:
won't really be learning anything new for the rest of these two years that doesn't overlap with the divas curriculum.
as usual, i have no particular ideas for films to shoot.
doubtfully will get anywhere with a film degree that i can't already get now.
i hate film studies classes and so far a lot of my film classes have taught me nothing.

so the big issues here are that an extra year for divas is a long time, but i'm learning jack shit in film.

so i don't know what to do. i'm meeting with the divas director today to talk about whether or not i could cram a bunch of classes in one semester so that i can go up for portfolio after this next semester. although, i need to ask him if i can go up for portfolio now because i already have everything for it, i just haven't taken the official divas related classes for making these things.

i think right now it's even split of opinions from friends. thost that vote film do so because of the extra year of school. that was their immediate decision when they heard it would be a longer program. and those that vote for divas do so because of the better, more interesting classes and that it will get me farther in the end.

ps, prerna left the window open again.

4-18-04 Sun. 01:54 p.m.
oh my gosh, this is just... funny. so i come back from appleton, walk into my apartment..
prerna has erased the note, and left the window open. ... it's more amusing than annoying. she just can't seem to be responsible. either that or she's trying to defy me by leaving the window open.. which is just stupid because if the rain comes in and fucks up my turntable, records, and ddr pads that are sitting by that window, she's going to REALLY wish she still had a job. which by the way makes me wonder whether she can pay rent this month...

i'm more pissed, however, at the video shoot i had last night. i was shooting my friend mia, who lived in spain for 3 years or so and just got back.. she learned to play the accordian and i was shooting her go up and down the main drag of appleton talking and playing to all the drunk people.. who then gave us money. well she was just being an asshole the whole time about it. "i don't want to do it, i don't have any stories to tell, i can't work when there's a camera there, you're scaring away the people, i'm the only one doing work why should you get any money? especially since i'm getting no compensation for your video" etc etc etc. well, the camera wasn't scaring away the people, they were more likely to come up BECAUSE of the camera, and whatever, i don't care if you give me any of the money we made, but keep in mind you weren't even going to go out tonight if it weren't for my video shoot.
she wouldn't do anything i wanted her to. i asked her to walk along and talk to the camera about spain and she kept being like "oh, we can't do it here, it's too loud, other people will be annoying walking by, i don't have any stories to tell, this is stupid." and she was being enough of a prick that before we went out i couldn't ask her to change into something more colorful because.. she wouldn't have done it.. so she was wearing all tan and grey and now the footage is really monotoned. i guess i'll have to look at it tonight and see if it's usable.. cause if it's not.. i'm kind of screwed.

4-17-04 Sat. 01:05 p.m.
seeing as how i never see prerna because whenever i'm here she's asleep.. i left her this note instead:

prerna, don't smoke in the apartment. i've asked and told you many times not to.
but if you're just going to do it anyway, at least shut the window afterwards or the rain will get in.

it doesn't have as muich of the impact as me walking in, seeing her do it and then telling her off would... but what can i do...

i'll post about the divas/film major dilemma later.

4-15-04 Thurs. 10:55 p.m.
i got a call monday from some company about the marketing intern i applied for. i guess i'll call him tomorrow or monday if i don't here from him... he said he liked my application because of my artistic abilities.

tomorrow i meet with my advisor about the divas major and about setting up a time to register for summer classes. i might take the fundementals of music class that goes with the divas major and then maybe the make your own special effects class. later tomorrow i'm driving back to appleton, again, to shoot my video project. hopefully it will work out this time. i've also got a camera checked out to shoot my titles for my film. i really need to get the soundtrack fixed soon so i can start putting it onto mag and then double splicing the cuts and stuff.

oh yeah. after talking to my parents about the divas major and explaining to them that the film department was pretty much done teaching me what it could, they agreed and said switching would be a good idea. not only that, they suggested i maybe think about transfering even. i'm not sure where that came from... my mom said that this arizona school with a film department is supposed to be good and it has cheap out of state tuition. it was just weird that they'd ever bring that up. still, i would never want to move to arizona. so i looked at the film department at nyu. they have a lot of cool classes. but i think i'll still just look at the divas major first, before i consider transfering.

4-12-04 Mon. 10:36 p.m.
i went home and got a new phone today. it is radtacular. it's not a flip phone, but the front slides up a little to reveal the keys. it's a color display and has web browsing. it also has speakerphone which is pretty sweet. and it was free! i also got an adjusted plan so that i only have 400 minutes instead of 600 cause i wasn't using that many, and it's also nation-wide so i won't ever get roaming charges, in theory.

4-12-04 Mon. 08:57 a.m.
the theater job is very jobby. i look forward to finding a different job.

baseball was fun. they lost, but eh.

i was looking at the ny auto show pictures on msn. the new mustang just rules. the carbon fiber hood makes it a hundred times cooler. if i were to buy a new car right now, i would totally buy this one. the only problem is that i bet EVERYONE will have one, assuming it gets made.. it's just a concept car. but EVERYONE has the current mustang. at least with the mini or like the new thunderbird, very few people have one so it remains cool.

4-10-04 Sat. 10:56 p.m.
three day of shoot was fun. i'll admit it was kind of exciting leading up to the proposal... which i didn't actually get to see because i had to guard the path of rose petals in the hallway. but everything went well and after wrap we went to the bar for a few hours.

everyone on the shoot continues to be really really nice. they were all about keeping in touch and asking questions and getting references. the mind reader, featured during the proposal, gave everyone a copy of this booklet on how to read minds with a little note in the inside cover for everyone and the guy that was proposing wrote everyone a thank you card which was really nice.

there was a second camera guy there today and he and i set up the lighting for the mind reader show. that was cool.

now i've got about $70 worth of left over junk food and drinks to get rid of. and yay, tomorrow we're going to a baseball game!

4-9-04 Fri. 08:54 p.m.
also
i continue to be annoyed an saddened that i didn't get that vet job (for no apparent reason by the way) because i was really looking forward to working with animals again. i miss animals, specifically dogs. but i can't even get the guinea pig i was going to get if prerna keeps smoking secretly inside.

4-9-04 Fri. 08:44 p.m.
second day of shooting was cool. i passed "the test" of whatever.. production people i guess, in that i could fold up the flexfil thing.. which is this big circle of a silver reflective side and a white side for redirecting light. it's one of those things where the edges are all bendy and it gets stored in a cirle so you have to try to fold it that way.

uh, i can't remember what else happened that was interesting or different. nikki, the host of the show, mentioned that her husband played a demon on Angel named Skip, which i thought was pretty cool.

*shrug* i sure am tired though.

4-8-04 Thurs. 06:19 p.m.
alright. the first day of the shoot was pretty cool. i got to set up and take down lights and the audio guy was telling me all the production companies around the city that hire most often. there are only 5 people on the crew including me and then the guy that's going to propose was with us all day. the show seems like a real legitimate, though low budget, show. unlike elimidate which is just raunchy and a set up. there's nothing phony about this show (called Perfect Proposal). the guy is really cool and well off and good looking in a non slutty kind of way. he was all smiles when he was talking about how him and his girlfriend met. he works as some kind of corporate sales guy for jack daniels and some other liquor companies and he said he'd get us some of the jack pens that when you push on the bottom it vibrates. :o hopefully he'll remember. :D
at the restaurant for lunch they were all excited to see my fake id. and all of them were surprised i was only 20. :o

all the crew is really nice and they're all interested in talking about backgrounds. almost all of them asked me where i was from and blah blah. the company is based out of philly although the producer lives outside of manhattan in jersey. i was in charge of bringing snacks so i brought in $60 worth of candy and chips, apples, and water and then they told me to get a few other things like m&ms and a styrofoam cooler. it's cool to out with someone else's money and spend it.

it seems like i was going to say other things, but i can't remember them and i'm really tired. now i just have to go up to mayfair and get pants for my OTHER job... blah. i hope i can make most of my money doing PA jobs instead of at the theater.

4-7-04 Wed. 08:00 p.m.
there's this guy that's almost always on the bus who's somewhat mentally disabled. well he's always mumbling and i happened to catch part of what he said. first he walked past me and i heard him say "...to have sex with..." and then he say behind me while i was rubbing the scuffs off my wallet. i'm pretty sure he was mumbling kind of ..to me. i heard him say baby a lot and at one point he said "...you can't make any decent money in milwaukee baby..." it was kind of creepy...

and oh yeah. the new mayor was elected and yay! it was tom barrett. you know, i wasn't really following any of the issues and i can't even vote for him because i live in shorewood. but i wanted him to win because he's a good guy. he shows that he cares. he has been at uwm at LEAST a half dozen times and that's at the low end. i've shook his hand at least 3 or 4 of those times. i don't think pratt ever showed his face on campus let alone stood in the union shaking hands. i have never seen that man in person. kind of makes me thing he doesn't like me, and hey, i don't want someone that doesn't like me telling me what to do. fuck that! i'll make my OWN city!

4-7-04 Wed. 02:45 p.m.
great.

Dear Kimberly,
Thank you for your recent interest in employment opportunities with Shorewood Animal Hospital. We appreciate blah blah blah. You suck, you are not hired.

and it's signed "very truly yours" what is this? 6th grade valentines day?

thanks for the letter, i will not be your valentine.
sincerly, Kim

so.... WHY CAN'T I GET THE FUCKING JOBS I'M MOST QUALIFIED FOR?! i'm doomed to work with fresh out of middle school working world newbies the rest of my life. the kennel job was a step up from the "anyone can get this job if they can walk and talk" jobs.. looks like i'm going back down the slope? i think milwaukee hates me. and what's funny is the job i got, the theater job, is in wauwatosa.

4-7-04 Wed. 10:42 a.m.
yep. it just keeps on happening. everytime i come back the windows are open and the ashtray filled with cigarette butts is in the window sill. she just doesn't get it... but it'll be fun when i catch her again. ;D

4-5-04 Mon. 10:19 p.m.
ok. ok. so now i officially work... in a movie theater.. in a mall. who'd of thought. but now i have pins. and they might train me as a projectionist at some point (soon i hope). still waiting on the vet job, which i would be very very happy to have... godamnit. and i just got a call for a P.A. job for some show for TLC. so i'm working that, i do believe, thursday, friday, and saturday... which actually kind of "t-ed" of some people at the theater because i can't work this weekend except sunday.. blah. i felt bad. but i can't turn down the PA job or i won't ever get it.

4-5-04 Mon. 08:45 a.m.
i forgot i had that tripod site for uploading pictures. this will work for now. gc, here are your pictures.

so, the coats were the good deal as i said before. i got this anne klein coat (which didn't photograph well) for 60 bucks from $90. and i got this ralph lauren jacket for $50 from $140. i have a feeling the black one was originally more. i got them at tjmaxx and on their tags they have the "compared at" price, which isn't always the original price. for example, the red one says compared at $100 on the tjmaxx tag, but they left the original tag on which says $140.

and then i also got these shoes.

4-5-04 Mon. 02:33 a.m.
he walks in front of me when the wind blows.

i forgot i had the window open, no breeze is coming in. weird.

well i do believe i officially work at the amc theater, 30 miles from me at mayfair mall. i sure hope hope hope i get that other job as well.

4-4-04 Sun. 01:18 p.m.
I'm going fucking insane..

i recently discovered that, not only is my roommate one of those people that doesn't like to use a dishwasher... either she doesn't know how or just doesn't like them.. but she also doesn't hand wash the dishes clean.. so now i'm going back and recleaning things i want to use.

only two more months..........................

4-4-04 Sun. 11:06 a.m.
i talked to morgan (from the theater) last night and i'm going to some paperwork thing tonight and a orientation thing for a couple hours tomorrow night. and i'm still waiting on the vet job, but for now i made it so i could possibly have both.

in other news, i walked up to the apartment about 10 minutes ago and the door was wide open... presumably that way all night cause prerna sure hasn't been up yet... and then there are more cigarette butts in the ashtray in the apartment. why can't i fucking get through to her?

4-3-04 Sat. 05:08 p.m.
the good part about prerna: when she makes a mess, she cleans it up.. unlike all of my other roommates..

4-3-04 Sat. 03:22 p.m.
the latest gossip:

so steve is back to being a psycho, and prerna broke up with him finally.

i told her to stop smoking in the apartment, she said she thought i wasn't coming home so early and the smoke usually goes away in a few hours. i told her to do it outside because it's nice out, she gave me a sad confused look. ...and then she didn't put it out until she was done and left... and left the tv on.

my god i want to live alone.

4-2-04 Fri. 09:54 p.m.
hey great, i was officialy rejected for the lab assistant job, even though i've already worked specifically with the bacteria they're studying.

um.. hopefully i'll get ONE of these jobs............................................................

4-2-04 Fri. 10:15 a.m.
i can't get the smell of dog off my hands, but other than that, i believe i had a good interview with the shorewood animal hospital. it sucks that i won't get an answer until like next wednesday at the earliest. the interviewer has jury duty until then. i need to tell jeremy something for the theater job. if i'm going to work there i think i have to go to some training thing on monday. i suppose i could do both. the hospital closes at 6 every day, noon on saturday. bah. i wish i knew whether i was getting jobs within a day of the interview.

oh yeah, this vet assistant job pays $8 an hour to start. that's so sweet. the kennel job i had which was pretty close to the same job paid $5.65 an hour.

4-1-04 Thurs. 01:15 p.m.
so prerna took my alarm clock last night.. and i saw that it was gone this morning.. which is just.... really fucking annoying. she said she didn't have her cellphone (because she accidentally left it with her friend) and steve and her had to get up early... so she came into my room while i was gone and took mine.

also, i'm afraid she might burn down the apartment while cooking.. cause she apparently doesn't know how. and DAMNIT! her friend was using a metal fork on my new teflon lined pans!

3-31-04 Wed. 12:40 p.m.
"W is for Whore!"

i saw an article about bush coming to appleton. and there was a picture of protesters on the next page. way to make bush feel right at home, appleton!

oh, and best theme for a new tv show:

Late Business Man.
He's late, so you don't have to be.

we saw some business man leather guy running across the street and that's what david said about him. and then i laughed all the way home.

3-31-04 Wed. 10:36 a.m.
well despite him being a psycho, prerna and her boyfriend seemed to have gotten back together.. again.. whatever.

i'm going to go in to the advising office tomorrow and talk to them about this divas thing.

i talked to the person who needed a lab assistant yesterday and she's going to get back to me later this week.
i just applied for a marketing assistant job for $12/hr! i don't know why i apply for these.. they're probably out of my league. but they always make it sound like something i could just learn real fast and then be good at.
i also met with morgan at the amc theaters... i guess i can just work there, except it's $6 an hour, 25 minutes away, and not the greatest job in the world... *sigh* i'm going to go down to this animal hospital on capitol (like 3 blocks from me) and get an application there. i saw at school on a flier that they're looking to hire a vet assistant.

3-30-04 Tues. 05:38 p.m.
i'm thinking of switching my major to DIVAS
it has kind of a dumb acronym... but whatever.. it sounds pretty cool. i don't know why i JUST heard about it today. it was apparently offered since the last semester..

3-29-04 Mon. 07:51 p.m.
class is once again boring.

but it was interesting tonight when prerna's new EX-boyfriend rang the doorbell and then proceeded to circle the building 7 or 8 times. seems they broke up because he's psycho. psycho like he punched in her friend's windshield psycho. she's gone now, hopefully he won't show up again tonight.

3-27-04 Sat. 12:27 p.m.
i just got this letter in the mail from a place i apparently applied to on february 13th:

Dear Ms. Huston:

Thank you for submitting your resume for the Human Resources Internship position at Quarles & Brady LLP. We recently made an offer and received acceptance from a candidate. Thank you for your interest in our Firm. We wish you success in your future endeavors.

it's the most vague letter i've ever received. i especially like the We recently made an offer and received acceptance from a candidate. line...

oh yeah, the onion has some particularly funny stuff in it this issue, including online dating tips

3-27-04 Sat. 10:54 a.m.
that guy's story was that he was locked out of his house and was just crashing here. sandy drove him home in the morning.

i'm so glad that after repeated emails and kind replies back from the webmaster at the wisconsin film office site about updating my profile... it has still yet to be updated. good way to get a job, having them not know my experience.

3-27-04 Sat. 04:08 a.m.
so.. i come back from chicago.. like 15 minutes ago.. walk into the apartment. smells like smoke. prerna and apparently her friends have decided that they'd smoke in the apartment and just open the windows to let it out.. great.
then i walk into my room.. some guy is asleep on my bed. (he still is currently even though i turned on the light.) he pushed all my stuff onto the floor, which would be fine except it's a bunch of video equipment and tapes and stuff that i don't want to be stepped on. and then... for some reason he took my camera battery out of the charger.

ugh, such a headache.

and what's more annoying is i told prerna exactly what was going to happen. 1. i was going to chicago tonight. 2. two of my friends were staying on the couches. and then 3. we were leaving in the morning for appleton. ...so i don't know why she had a bunch of people stay over too.. and on my bed.

it also pisses me off that she's smoking in the apartment. i could smell it heavy as soon as i walked in, and i told her that she wouldn't be able to smoke in here. she even did the ol' "well what if i just leave the window open and my door shut" and no.. because it doesn't all go out the window. so she does it while i'm gone... jen did this too, and now there's a cigarette stain on the entertainment center.

i guess i'm going to wake this guy up now...

3-25-04 Thurs. 12:11 p.m.
i've decided i'm going to post all the places i've applied for here. that way, ain't nobody can say i'm not trying.

i just called someone at school about being a lab assistant. it's kind of a long shot since i'm a FILM major (it's going to get me far, i can tell already), but you know.. it's something i could be instructed to do and then i'd be just fine. i've done lab stuff before.

or if i run out of ideas, i could be a hip hop dance teacher at the YMCA

3-25-04 Thurs. 11:11 a.m.
David bought us both bikes, so i've been trying to mine without breaking my legs off.. i never remembered riding up a hill to be so painfull, but i'm honestly NOT that out of shape. i need to get a new seat for it though. we both do. and i need to get my breaks fixed. i look forward to biking to classes when it's warm. well it's warm now, these past two days.. but school is down a hill and then up a hill.. so it might be a while before i can make it there.

Prince and Motion City Soundtrack are playing at summerfest, both at the amphitheater though. no free show for us. and i was told Fountains of Wayne were playing again.. but i don't see it on summerfest's lineup.

i should set up a portraits table at summerfest in attempts to make money. hmm....

yesterday i dropped off an application for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and slipped a resume under the door of a financial something something company that said they were hiring a receptionist.. i also applied to *sigh* the theater where we go for free movies.. i realize at this point that i can't be picky about a job.. even if it's an awful job that's more money for gas to drive the 20 minutes one way than my paycheck will allow.. but at least i'd no longer be the last film student to work at a movie theater. we'll see how that goes. maybe they won't even give me the job! that'd be just peachy..
interiew monday.

3-21-04 Sun. 06:14 p.m.
with my $15 from the accordion night, i bought the Maroon 5 cd: Songs about Jane
it's pretty good.

3-21-04 Sun. 03:48 p.m.
i just ran for half a mile on the treadmill. i wish i had one in milwaukee. and i also wish i had done it BEFORE i took a shower.

*later i walked another mile on it.

3-21-04 Sun. 03:16 p.m.
here's my site translated into cockney. press "dialectize"
also try swedish chef and hacker!

3-20-04 Sat. 02:32 a.m.
so i just got back from making $46 and i know what i'm going to do my final video project on.

we were walking down the main avenue drag with my friend mia who was playing the accordion. sandy and i were holding a hat and people just kept giving us money. we got like 20 bucks in 5 minutes at one bar. some guy from new york gave us a 5 (as well as 2 other people, one by accident shh...) two people took our picture.. and a bunch of drunk guys hit on sandy and i, including some guys from columbia. i was so pissed i didn't have my camera. it was great. and mia has all these stories to go along with the accordian and the songs. and people kept requesting songs. it was great. so now i'm 15 bucks richer, and we're going to come back next saturday and do it so i can shoot. hmm.. although it does say we're supposed to have showers next saturday.. uh oh...

oh, and mia can play the lord of the rings theme on the accordion. it's so great.

3-18-04 Thurs. 02:08 p.m.
Did you know that rap and COUNTRY are the two most suicide enducing genres of music?
i'm listening to the radio for examples of self promotion commercials so i can fix mine.

is there a distinction of groups between the goths that are geeks and the goths that are morbid don't want to talk to anyone? are the geek goths afraid of the morbid goths? that should be... something. i guess it could be an amusing teen movie. but who would be the demographic? i guess people like me that think all versions of goths are amusing.

also, am i the only one that thinks a wine glass of blood would be goth? there's a guy in my video class who had this sort of picture in picture thing with some guy all twitchy and sped up, superimposed in a wine glass. it was pink when we watched it, which i think looked really bright and rich, but he said it was supposed to be red. i said it'd be dumb because it'd be too goth. and he didn't know what i meant.. nor did anyone else, who all thought it should be red.
whatever.

i think i just missed a commercial.. i'm too used to tuning them out.

3-17-04 Wed. 02:06 p.m.
"He ate the staaarfish"
it's the Johnathon Wilcox concert on minidv! god that was a stupid song. julia, remember his crazy polkadotted bowtie?

i'm filling out the 2003-2004 fafsa to see if i can get work-study aid.

3-17-04 Wed. 11:37 a.m.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:26:50 -0600
From: Wendy Pribbanow <***@uwm.edu>
To: Kimberly Huston <******@uwm.edu>
Subject: Re: office assistant job

Hi! I read over your resume and it certainly looks impressive! My one question is whether or not you have work-study funding for the summer. This position does require it. Please let me know. If you do, I would like to schedule an interview with you.

sigh... nope. no work-study funding here. actually, i don't know what that is specifically.. but i know we did the fafsa thing and we either were offered pointlessly small aid, or none at all.

3-16-04 Tues. 08:14 a.m.
Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, and Chingy are playing at summerfest. lame.

oh, and by the way, apparently i'm not "qualified" to be a receptionist. probably because nowhere on my resum� does it say that i can write and type and know what a computer is.

i'm tired of my parents telling me i'm not trying to get a job. it's not like morale is real high.

after this it just gets whiny, feel free to skip. it's mostly for my own organization and spite.

i've made a list of jobs that i got to the interview for, and their dying words to me on why i didn't the job. it's been recently updated as of yesterday!

veterinary assistant: interview, "ok, so now all you need to do is call [so and so] monday about wages." when i called they said "who are you?"
receptionist at doctor's office: interview, "i think you're over qualified for this job, you wouldn't like it."
entry level job at stein optical: interview, and otherwise met with manager like 3 times, "alright, well we need another part-timer, i just have to see if the corporate offie will let us hire someone."
kennel staff: interview, working interview (which was basically just to see how much they'd pay me based on experience), and was in contact with them for over a month, "oh, we were going to hire, but someone came back from college and wanted more hours, sorry."
assistant to the union director: interview one, "sorry you were not selected for the second interview, but we'll keep your resume on file." (this was a long shot though. they wanted a business major and the job was all confidential stuff)
receptionist for school of education: i called them the day before and they said "oh we'll be looking at the resumes tomorrow and then calling people in for interviews," got an email "sorry, you're not qualified."

this is fun. maybe i'll live in a box after my lease is up, 'cause i sure can't afford to pay the difference on a one bedroom. at least i'll have a legitimate halloween costume next year. hobo.

3-15-04 Mon. 01:37 p.m.
i've been capturing my past video and film stuff onto my computer so i can make a demo reel. it's funny to see the raw of some old stuff. i'm watching the "live" versions of candice and my fight scene we chorographed. so funny.. and bad. and in between the shots there keep being clips from the VIDEO CLUB horrible movie.. the part in the "dungeon" where we're "torturing" the taco bell dog. some of you know what i'm talking about ;D ;D maybe not..

this tape also has the raw for our film noir "Rainy Day Money" which i still think is the best title i've ever come up with.

and watching my music video and films later, i appreciate them more. despite my music video being really dark, i think it was quite well done.

now it's footage from the amnesty coffee house. hey look, it's Keely reading poetry... great.... boy, she sure was in ellen kort's poetry class. but then.. so was i. ... oh sweet! i didn't remember that *The Exhibitionists played this show. too bad it's really dark. oh my gosh.. i forgot about the song "La" or whatever.

*footnotes: The Exhibitionists were a local ska band in appleton. They had one official album, often could be seen at Skappleton, and once opened for Reel Big Fish. then they broke up to go to college. One of the members went to school with Prince William in Scotland for a while.

3-15-04 Mon. 12:15 p.m.
i feel like i should post something.. but i got nothin'. i've got a "you ate too much candy, fool!" sore in my mouth and "Da Dip" just started playing on winamp. "round and round that rump go, where it stop, nobody know."

YOU JUST GOT SERVED!

3-12-04 Fri. 10:23 p.m.
best simpsons chalkboard quote ever:

Sherri does not "got back".

3-12-04 Fri. 06:14 p.m.
oh my god! John Kerry is a terrorist and unpatriotic! the Bush ad said that Kerry wanted to weaken the patriot act that protects america and HOLY FUCK he wanted to delay defending american by waiting for the United Nations to approve!! WHAT THE FUCKING HELL!?!?!

ps, vote for Kerry.

3-10-04 Wed. 02:46 p.m.
take the Physical Challenge!
it's a physical attraction test from match.com. take the test! everybody's doing it!

the highlights of my results:
ok. so i took the test. i�d say it was right on for somethings, off on others.

it says: You seemed interested in dating a man at least 25 or older

-so it seems.

Sharp, narrow chins
Narrow and pointed �triangular� faces
So-called �Ectomorphs,� or thin angular faces
Dark brown hair
Curly hair
Straight hair
Medium-length hair

-the hair thing.. i really don�t think i have a preference in hair.. especially since it said i prefer curly hair AND straight hair. whatever works for the guy.

This report highlights your �unique� tastes, or what makes some men personally attractive to you but not to everyone else.

Interestingly, a lot of the features you liked are not especially popular. They�re not what usually defines �mainstream� attractiveness for men. But who cares what the mainstream thinks?!

-totally true.

Sometimes, you like men over 5 years older than you
More unique than �mainstream� appeal
Glasses and the sophisticated and smart look that goes with them
Bald or shaved heads on a sexy guy :o

-i�m not posting the turns offs, but let�s just say they�re all wrong.

Unique Tastes In Men: You are open to seeing a variety of men as handsome. Sure, men with �movie star� good looks catch your eye, but you are often equally wowed by more normal �cute� guys. You�re not one to judge people based on their looks. In fact, you�re genuinely drawn to men that others might dismiss. Maybe it�s because you don�t buy into society�s checklist for �mainstream� attractiveness. Instead, you notice unique features like a strong nose, beautiful eyes, or a cute butt, that make some men special in your eyes. For you, attraction is about the total package.

-mmhmm mmhmm. ;D

Another of your favorite body types would probably be a leaner version of the drawing and photo below. Scientifically, you appear to prefer �Ectomorphs,� which is a fancy way of saying you like �skinny� guys. You�re a realist, though, and appreciate guys who still have this basic frame, but like most of us, have added some pounds around the middle. Still, he�ll always have a long, narrow frame and look good in or out of clothes.

-and then it said something about me liking the clean shaven guy� which is all wrong ;D scruff is good.

a lot of this describes david, especially the beautiful blue eyes. (even my mom pointed THAT out)
so that's cool. but they were off on some stuff too. i'd say i don't have a particular type i'm looking for other than what i put here that was right on. but i mean.. just by me picking certain pictures, they decided i'm turned off my guys under 25... well they didn't really have a whole lot of pictures of guys under 25 to pick.

3-9-04 Tues. 12:36 a.m.
i think Beck was in Eurotrip:

beck:

guy from Eurotrip:

Introverted (I) 75.86% Extroverted (E) 24.14%
Imaginative (N) 51.52% Realistic (S) 48.48%
Intellectual (T) 62.07% Emotional (F) 37.93%
Organized (J) 54.05% Easygoing (P) 45.95%

Your type is: INTJ

You are a Planner, possible professions include - management consultant, economist, scientist, computer programmer, environmental planner, new business developer, curriculum designer, administrator, mathematician, psychologist, neurologist, biomedical researcher, strategic planner, civil engineer, intellectual properties attorney, designer, editor/art director, inventor, informational-graphics designer, financial planner, judge.

Take Free Career Inventory Personality Test .

3-7-04 Sun. 01:45 p.m.
we went to the zoo yesterday to feed the rhinos and giraffes. one of david's ex-girlfriends works there so we met up with her (which was weird in itself) and she let us feed the animals. and she showed us the new baby camel they had there that was really cute. its humps were all floppy. i was shooting while there and some of it is alright, i don't think it's usable for class though. so now i have to think of a better proposal.

we ended up going to the duvall concert anyway, i used my sister's id to get in and it worked.. although i think it was because david distracted the bouncer dude while he was looking at my id.

then on the way home my car starting sounding like the muffler was going to fall off again. midas REALLY does a good job of fixing things..

3-5-04 Fri. 12:10 p.m.
i was watching a friend's video/film project online (seen here (it will start downloading and is about 8 minutes)) and it made me want to look at old videos i have and edit them together. or at least, it made me want to edit SOMETHING. which is good because i'm going up to school in a minute to capture my old videos and films and edit the into a demo reel.

3-3-04 Wed. 09:53 a.m.
ugh. people have been hammer, sawing, and sanding since about 8 this morning. they're either fixing the roof (which just happens to be the worst just above my room) or still fixing the apartment below me after people moved out. i think it's the roof though. so VERY annoying.

i had a dream with britney spears, christina aguilera, and david boreanaz. we were playing softball and it was the chess club versus the cheerleaders. all of the three were on the cheerleading team, and i assumed i was too because i was standing by them at the time. i kept asking the teacher what team i was on.. she wouldn't tell me. and then they finished the game before i got to bat and i was really pissed off. so then i had someone pitch me a ball anyway and i hit a homerun. then david boreanaz kept trying to "woo" me or something. well not really woo.. more like he was one of those guys where they just won't stop talking to you until you like them... and there was a big outdoor fridge with like a giant octopus or some kind of other seafood in it dripping juices onto the floor.

makes sense. Prerna was looking at a magazine with britney spears in it last night, i've been watching buffy season one and yesterday saw the one called angel, we were going to go to the batting cages this weekend, but didn't go, and i don't like seafood.
also when i was in elementary school i got left out of stuff all the time. there was this one time in music class when kelly mcbride was for some reason making a song out of all our classmates' last names... and i was the only one she forgot. that happened a lot as i recall..
well fuck you! i was the first prize winner in a coloring contest in kindergarten! i won a teddy bear and i remember milking it like the oscars when i won.

3-2-04 Tues. 11:29 p.m.
yay for doing laundry!

yay for passing zelda!

Prerna is speaking in hindi to people on the phone and it sounds like she keeps saying BEEBEE?! BEEBEE!? it's really weird.

man, i'm so excited about the possibility of having my own place. (this, not having anything to do with past or current roommates, well maybe morgan.)

3-1-04 Mon. 03:26 p.m.
this is what i learned today in political science:

the correct pronunciation of the word "ghoti" is fish.

gh like in rough
o like in women
ti like in contribution

fish.

3-1-04 Mon. 01:08 a.m.
so it was an interesting weekend.

i was going to say first off, or most noticably.. but then, everything was pretty widely apparent this weekend...
well it was mid and high 50s friday, saturday, and sunday. so in honor, david and i played catch in a park, took some long walks, admired $800,000 dollar houses on lake drive and just enjoyed the nice weather.

on satuday, the new roommate started moving in. quite unexpectedly. as you may have read in the last post, she was supposed to come on monday, or so jen told me. but then, there are lots of important things that keep popping up that i should have been informed of. for example, the fact that Prerna would not be staying through the lease. she's going to be moving out at the end of july and won't be there for june. ... so slowly things are being discovered.

saturday we managed to do none of what was planned. we were going to go to the zoo but the girl that was going to let us in and feed the animals and stuff had to train interns so it wasn't a good day for her.
and i also ended up not going to jen and collins' wedding party, which i feel really bad about. but not entirely bad.. especially with all the ways jen kind of screwed me with the apartment thing... but i wanted to see my friend andy again and collins and jen too. haven't seen collins in a while. and for the most part jen is a fun good person. but yeah, i missed it because my parents came down to take david and me to dinner. we ended up finishing around 7:30 or 8 and by then the party was going on for 3 hours. i didn't know how much longer it'd be, not to mention waterford is like 45 minutes to an hour away.

and now i'm awake when i should be in bed to get sleep for a class tomorrow at 9:30. but i was talking to prerna for a while about where stuff goes and about jobs and stuff. she's pretty cool. i like her. it's exciting, however, that she'll only be here for 3 months, and in 4 months i'm hopefully going to get my own apartment. it's going to be so awesome! but that's where the job needs to come in. prerna said one of the best places to look for a job is to just ask your professor. she said she did that and got a lab job helping her professor hour, and then was offered a TA job. she was the only undergrad TA.

so anyway now i sleep.

2-27-04 Fri. 11:48 p.m.
so jen moved most of her stuff out of the apartment last night. the rest she's picking up monday and that's when Prerna moves in.

tomorrow is jen and collins' wedding party, plus possibly a visit to the zoo, but i guess it's becoming more and more unlikely. it IS going to be like 53 degrees though. and sometime my parents are dropping by to have lunch with me and david, although it might turn out to be just me.

i'm sick of this job hunting thing. that interview i had last tuesday. not the one from this week, but the one from last week... well they haven't called yet. they said they'd call everyone, whether they made it to the next interview or not, to let us know what was going on. they said they'd call this week. i'm sick of employers lying to get out of doing things. somehow i thought maybe they were more responsible than that.
i'm wondering if THE POST, one of our school newspapers, got my application about the assistant production job. i put it in the correct person's mailbox.
and i got an application to a pet spa place on my street... but not only did it take them 10-15 minutes to print out a decent, full copy of it from their computer.... it had typos. still, i need to fill that one out.

2-24-04 Tues. 04:03 p.m.
the apartment manager said shoreline (the new owners) told him none of my stuff that got ruined when the roof leaked was their problem.
so there's a few more things i have to buy.

and wow, i just looked over at my printer.. i need a different table for it. it's both leaning forwards and sagging in the middle. i guess two crates stacked on top of each other with a board on top doesn't cut it for a really heavy printer.

2-23-04 Mon. 07:57 p.m.
gc, i stole your layout for the tagboard on the side. :D

2-23-04 Mon. 06:53 p.m.
so i was talking to julia about her sister possibly rooming with me. then i talked to her sister today and she said she was already looking for places with two of her friends. fine. i consider making a "roommate wanted" flyer for the school.

then jen messages me about 6 and says "hey, it turns out that girl IS moving in... this weekend" "uh... ok.. are you going to have all your stuff out by then?"

this should be.... hectic. i'm not even sure what day specifically she's moving in. jen has ALL of her stuff here still..
and i've got stuff going on this weekend.

2-22-04 Sun. 08:08 p.m.
here's a picture of the new haircut that some had mentioned wanting to see (after i layered the front).

2-21-04 Sat. 05:20 p.m.
all dressed up and nowhere to go.

last night i dressed up all nice but couldn't get into the bar where david's friend was playing. they were apparently pretty anal with the carding at the door.
6 more months until i'm 21...

it reminded me of this time when we were in chicago and went to a japanese restaurant. alan had ordered sake for the table and so the server had to ask if we were all old enough to drink. "are you all at least 20?" "yes, we are all at least 20."

2-18-04 Wed. 11:37 a.m.
here's the video of the edwards rally: the second link down

you can see all three of us. i'm in blue behind him, matt is to my right, david is to matt's right and lower. you can kind of only see david after he says the part about the mirror.

2-17-04 Tues. 10:55 p.m.
we (david, me, and a friend from school) were at the john edwards rally when they announced who won wisconsin. we were chosen to stand behind him on stage, so we were on national tv, cheering. we're all standing pretty much right behind him in the last row. then he shook out hands and i got him to sign my edwards sign.

addition: as of 11 pm, we've been on pax, cspan, and nightline.

2-16-04 Mon. 11:34 p.m.
do the flowers sicken you?

went to a john kerry rally today. it was neat.
we tried to get him to sign a kerry sign but he left before he got to us. but on his way out david said "mr. president!" and then he said "call me john!"

2-16-04 Mon. 04:15 p.m.
working on changing this around a bit.. will have to get back to it later.

2-16-04 Mon. 02:15 p.m.
i think friends gives a false idea of apartment living. i remember after seeing it i was all excited about moving into an apartment of my own and painting it all cool.

and saved by the bell college years totally gave the wrong impression about dorm living. kelly's dorm room was bigger than a hotel room. they each had their own large bed (no bunk beds) and a couched living room area.. and i think they even had a little kitchen area. what the HELL?!

2-15-04 Sun. 10:42 p.m.
ugh, and now to throw away this giant bag of jen's expired food. "best if sold by sept 13 03" yeah....

2-15-04 Sun. 06:18 p.m.
valentines day went as follows:

got up, had waffles and eggs and bacon with david.
took a shower. got all prettied up, with a skirt even.
went to david's mom's house quick.
went to get my valentines day gift, a guinea pig. (and cage and accessories)
found out it was going to be more expensive than i remembered/would have thought. although, i think that store was just more expensive. so either the guinea pig idea is gone, or on hold.
came back to david's, had a car bomb, went to eat at izumi's. it was awesome, but really expensive. bet you can't guess. it was a hell of a lot of food for the money though. and david learned to use chopsticks after so many years.
came back to david's, went and got dan (his friend from new york who is visiting), came back to david's, had a car bomb, walked to a bar called henry's.
up until 4 am, got up this morning more or less at 11.

all in all, it was a fun valentines day.

2-13-04 Fri. 01:37 p.m.
i realize now that i miss by back log posts. it almost makes me want to keep a paper journal. ...almost.
i was reading back posts on david's log. it was both amusing and enraging to read his comments about underground film class. what a huge fucking waste of time and money.

right now i'm listening to the apartment managers bang and saw away at the apartment below me.

looking at the giant pile of film equipment i was going to use for shooting david's friend's audition tape, but am not using any more since he didn't come up from st. louis, makes me want to shoot on film again. wish i could think up a good, solid, tangable idea. and had money for film.
maybe i'll go shoot something on video afterall with it. i've got an extra tape.

i need to take the gigantic printer box out of my room.
i need to put away various boxes and books and clothes that are currently covering my bed.
i need to know if the snow, melting and coming through the crease in my closet door is going to ruin any more of my shoes, so i can put my stuff back into my closet.
i need to empty out the fridge of any food three months expired with jen's name on it. i don't think she's coming back for it, and i don't think she's going to throw it away herself.

and my fucking god, stop banging on the walls!

i wish it were summer.

2-12-04 Thurs. 02:18 p.m.
updates of the week or so:

i haven't seen jen in a while. i wonder if that girl she talked to is actually moving in in march. jen never returned my call about it.

the roof to my apartment flooded and damaged some of my stuff, so i had to give a list to the apartment managers. this was.. i think monday.. or sunday. they have yet to tell me whether or not the roof is fixed.

it seems i officially didn't get the kennel job because some old employee came back from college and wanted more hours...... so that's just really fucking annoying.

we might be shooting a friend of david's' (david's'?) audition tape for the next season of The Apprentice this weekend. so that could be fun. i'm making up a list of equipment i need to check out now.

2-11-04 Wed. 11:57 a.m.
um.. well i made another archive that worked... it goes to the last 5 or so entries i had...

i think it may have gotten fucked up because i just called the page archive.html... and this one i just called whatever was default in the creator i think.