Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Pros/Cons
I WANT TO LIVE IN PHILLY THIS SUMMER!
I am just SO READY to move out of my parent's house and never return.
I love them, but I can't live with them. Anymore.
PROS
1. Living in Philly would be awesome and I would be with my friends.
2. I could live in an area other than North Philly and see how I like it.
3. My mom seems to be okay with this idea, I just need to figure out the $$$ situation.
4. If I get a house with "The Great Place" girls and the lease starts in May, I could start living there before London. And if I don't get to go to London (PLEASE GOD LET ME GO TO LONDON!) then I could have a place to look after while my study abroad girls are gone.
5. Maybe I could take summer classes and then my grandparents would pay for it?
CONS
1. I need to get a job in Philly. How do I get a job in Philly?
2. My parents are more for me living at home fo' free.
3. I almost definitely have possible jobs lined up for me in NYC, sooooo I should probably take advantage of that.
4. My grandparents currently pay for all of my school stuff but this is not school stuff :(
5. My BESTIES will be in NYC and I would miss them more than life itself.
I feel like part of this decision is riding on whether I get to go to London or not.
Honestly, all I really need is a paying job and then I could probably convince all parties to let me do it.
I am just SO READY to move out of my parent's house and never return.
I love them, but I can't live with them. Anymore.
PROS
1. Living in Philly would be awesome and I would be with my friends.
2. I could live in an area other than North Philly and see how I like it.
3. My mom seems to be okay with this idea, I just need to figure out the $$$ situation.
4. If I get a house with "The Great Place" girls and the lease starts in May, I could start living there before London. And if I don't get to go to London (PLEASE GOD LET ME GO TO LONDON!) then I could have a place to look after while my study abroad girls are gone.
5. Maybe I could take summer classes and then my grandparents would pay for it?
CONS
1. I need to get a job in Philly. How do I get a job in Philly?
2. My parents are more for me living at home fo' free.
3. I almost definitely have possible jobs lined up for me in NYC, sooooo I should probably take advantage of that.
4. My grandparents currently pay for all of my school stuff but this is not school stuff :(
5. My BESTIES will be in NYC and I would miss them more than life itself.
I feel like part of this decision is riding on whether I get to go to London or not.
Honestly, all I really need is a paying job and then I could probably convince all parties to let me do it.
Current Goings Ons
AH stuff to talk about! I shall organize this stuff with bullet points!!
-This week sucks for many reasons but one reason is that I'm sick. GOD DAMNIT. I usually don't get sick that often but this is already the second time this school year! It's okay though, because this song has been helping to heal me. It has also just been stuck in my head all day.
-I made this video for my videography remix project. The assignment was to use at least 2 video and 4 audio sources to create a remix of 90 seconds using ripped YouTube footage. The project itself was a horrible affair and I am not particularly proud of the result, but my professor gave it much praise and if it gives me a good grade then I am happy! The concept behind it was that society loves it when bad things happen to people, especially when love and sex is involved. Or something like that, I totally I made up some stuff :)
http://vdgrphyspring2010-2.blip.tv/
-I got a nose ring! I visited Tessa in Baltimore and we both got piercings. (This is a MICA tradition.) The visit itself was really fun. Ate some good food, met some great people, went to a pUnK party!!!
-I got a bicycle! Adam went with me to pick it up so I wouldn't get raped. So cute and small. Embarrassingly small, but I can't do anything to help that fact. I rode her all the way to South Philly and back by myself in the cold in the middle of the night. I have only ridden her that one time though because of my being sick and I have yet to purchase a bike lock. Also, I have started calling her Pocahontas. I must like names that begin with a 'P' for bicycles! My Cape Cod bike's name is Penelope.
-LONDON! I want to go soooo badly! I just handed in my application today! I'm still waiting for 1 professor to submit his student evaluation of me. Hopefully I will hear back in 2-3 weeks. Three people who live down the hall from me have already been accepted and I am NERVOUS!
I JUST WANT THIS WEEK TO END!
-This week sucks for many reasons but one reason is that I'm sick. GOD DAMNIT. I usually don't get sick that often but this is already the second time this school year! It's okay though, because this song has been helping to heal me. It has also just been stuck in my head all day.
-I made this video for my videography remix project. The assignment was to use at least 2 video and 4 audio sources to create a remix of 90 seconds using ripped YouTube footage. The project itself was a horrible affair and I am not particularly proud of the result, but my professor gave it much praise and if it gives me a good grade then I am happy! The concept behind it was that society loves it when bad things happen to people, especially when love and sex is involved. Or something like that, I totally I made up some stuff :)
http://vdgrphyspring2010-2.blip.tv/
-I got a nose ring! I visited Tessa in Baltimore and we both got piercings. (This is a MICA tradition.) The visit itself was really fun. Ate some good food, met some great people, went to a pUnK party!!!
-I got a bicycle! Adam went with me to pick it up so I wouldn't get raped. So cute and small. Embarrassingly small, but I can't do anything to help that fact. I rode her all the way to South Philly and back by myself in the cold in the middle of the night. I have only ridden her that one time though because of my being sick and I have yet to purchase a bike lock. Also, I have started calling her Pocahontas. I must like names that begin with a 'P' for bicycles! My Cape Cod bike's name is Penelope.
-LONDON! I want to go soooo badly! I just handed in my application today! I'm still waiting for 1 professor to submit his student evaluation of me. Hopefully I will hear back in 2-3 weeks. Three people who live down the hall from me have already been accepted and I am NERVOUS!
I JUST WANT THIS WEEK TO END!
Monday, January 25, 2010
Dream Journal Entry#1
I've noticed since I got back to school and have been sleeping in my school bed that I have been having some really crazy dreams. For the most part, they are anxiety dreams but they have been disturbing and detailed and just plain strange. Annie and I like to try and analyze our dreams based on Freudian analysis (thank you Mosaic 1!) and various websites about symbol interpretation. I am going to start a segment of this blog titled "Dream Journal" where I can document my dreams and maybe people can give me their own interpretations of what they mean.
WARNING this dream isn't particularly interesting, but even if it is the most boring dream in the world I am going to write it down to keep as a record.
Dream
Basic gist of dream is I am me but I'm living in the suburbs, not the city, and I'm in a house that I know is mine but is altogether unfamiliar to me. I am ruthlessly trying to get a job at a fancy corporate building but every time I go to get interviewed I get blown off by the boss, who finally tells me to meet him at 6pm for an interview. My step-mom works in the building and while I am there I visit her and she hands me an autographed play and then a potential book list for Mosaic 2. On the list, 3 books are remembered: Walden, something called HUMAN SEXUALITY, and then a series of children's stories about Michael Jackson (??????). Then in the dream in turns out I am dating the ex-bf of a friend of mine, but in real life I am currently not so fond of this person (at least right now), and even though I feel that it is right for me to be dating this person I simultaneously feel guilty. I ask him to take me to a sort of sorority formal? He says he'll think about it which makes me angry and nervous and I take out a cigarette to smoke but he says "don't smoke that now, save it for later." So I put it back in my bag. Then later in my dream I am showering to get ready for the evening even though I do not have to and I put on a red dress/skirt ensemble and when I go downstairs to talk to my mom about not being sure if my bf is taking me or not she gets a phone call from a neighbor asking if they've seen me today and they describe me as wearing a red dress and having my spine totally twisted around as if I had been hit by a car and I was dead. I look at myself and sure enough I am twisted around and I realize I am dead and a zombie and I start crying hysterically but my mom doesn't seem to understand and then my step-dad comes home and says, "look who's here!" And I go out and expect to see my bf but instead there are 3 large African-American guys in tuxedos all holding flowers and telling me that they want to be my date. Eventually I realize 6pm comes and I do not go to the interview. I also tell the guys "I'm sorry but I have a bf and I cannot choose between you three." Then I woke up. THANKS A LOT ALARM CLOCK!
Important Dream Symbols/Elements
1 lost job interview-basically I need a job/need to sort out my priorities
being dead/zombie-To see or dream that you are a zombie, suggests that you are physically and/or emotionally detached from people and situations that are currently surrounding you. I can sort of interpret that as me feeling torn about spending time with my different friend groups. It can be hard to balance everything.
wearing red- Red is an active, affective colour, full of passion and emotion. Red can mean luck, joy, happiness, energy, action, but also hate, blood, greed, irritability and will power.
wanting to smoke but not-To dream that you are smoking or offering a cigarette, signifies your need for a break. It may also points to issues of dependency. This could also be due to the fact that with having 2 smoking roommates I occasionally smoke with them and I do not want to develop an addiction.
having to choose between 4 guys, 1 being a friend's ex-bf-this directly relates to something going on in my life right now/was going on in my life a few weeks ago
WARNING this dream isn't particularly interesting, but even if it is the most boring dream in the world I am going to write it down to keep as a record.
Dream
Basic gist of dream is I am me but I'm living in the suburbs, not the city, and I'm in a house that I know is mine but is altogether unfamiliar to me. I am ruthlessly trying to get a job at a fancy corporate building but every time I go to get interviewed I get blown off by the boss, who finally tells me to meet him at 6pm for an interview. My step-mom works in the building and while I am there I visit her and she hands me an autographed play and then a potential book list for Mosaic 2. On the list, 3 books are remembered: Walden, something called HUMAN SEXUALITY, and then a series of children's stories about Michael Jackson (??????). Then in the dream in turns out I am dating the ex-bf of a friend of mine, but in real life I am currently not so fond of this person (at least right now), and even though I feel that it is right for me to be dating this person I simultaneously feel guilty. I ask him to take me to a sort of sorority formal? He says he'll think about it which makes me angry and nervous and I take out a cigarette to smoke but he says "don't smoke that now, save it for later." So I put it back in my bag. Then later in my dream I am showering to get ready for the evening even though I do not have to and I put on a red dress/skirt ensemble and when I go downstairs to talk to my mom about not being sure if my bf is taking me or not she gets a phone call from a neighbor asking if they've seen me today and they describe me as wearing a red dress and having my spine totally twisted around as if I had been hit by a car and I was dead. I look at myself and sure enough I am twisted around and I realize I am dead and a zombie and I start crying hysterically but my mom doesn't seem to understand and then my step-dad comes home and says, "look who's here!" And I go out and expect to see my bf but instead there are 3 large African-American guys in tuxedos all holding flowers and telling me that they want to be my date. Eventually I realize 6pm comes and I do not go to the interview. I also tell the guys "I'm sorry but I have a bf and I cannot choose between you three." Then I woke up. THANKS A LOT ALARM CLOCK!
Important Dream Symbols/Elements
1 lost job interview-basically I need a job/need to sort out my priorities
being dead/zombie-To see or dream that you are a zombie, suggests that you are physically and/or emotionally detached from people and situations that are currently surrounding you. I can sort of interpret that as me feeling torn about spending time with my different friend groups. It can be hard to balance everything.
wearing red- Red is an active, affective colour, full of passion and emotion. Red can mean luck, joy, happiness, energy, action, but also hate, blood, greed, irritability and will power.
wanting to smoke but not-To dream that you are smoking or offering a cigarette, signifies your need for a break. It may also points to issues of dependency. This could also be due to the fact that with having 2 smoking roommates I occasionally smoke with them and I do not want to develop an addiction.
having to choose between 4 guys, 1 being a friend's ex-bf-this directly relates to something going on in my life right now/was going on in my life a few weeks ago
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
SPRING SEMESTER!
Oh em gee first day of class! Wasn't too bad, considering on Tuesdays I have 4 classes from 9:30am-5pm! Hot dayum. Also I'm already participating, which is one thing I usually have trouble with due to laziness or just intimidation. But the classes are interesting, for example:
1) VIDEOGRAPHY. I will be learning how to use various camera and sound equipment (including HD) plus have access to lighting kits and a mock TV studio complete w/ green screen and monitor. Pretty high tech stuff and really interesting. (Also I got mad friends to hang with.)
2) MOSAIC 2. Teacher seems pretty good and the books we're reading seem WAY BETTER than the stuff we read in Mosaic 1.
3) RELIGION IN THE WORLD. Love my professor, he's very old and reminds me of one of my all-time favorite high school English teachers Mr. Illman. Within the first 10 minutes he had made a joke about alcohol and imitated terrible phone service. He's a charmer. Plus the topic is of interest to me AND it's a GenEd so I'm getting that out of the way AND there is such a cutie who sits in the front row.
The 2 classes I have yet to take are Brain Matters and Web Art and Design.
NO CLASS ON FRIDAYS!
1) VIDEOGRAPHY. I will be learning how to use various camera and sound equipment (including HD) plus have access to lighting kits and a mock TV studio complete w/ green screen and monitor. Pretty high tech stuff and really interesting. (Also I got mad friends to hang with.)
2) MOSAIC 2. Teacher seems pretty good and the books we're reading seem WAY BETTER than the stuff we read in Mosaic 1.
3) RELIGION IN THE WORLD. Love my professor, he's very old and reminds me of one of my all-time favorite high school English teachers Mr. Illman. Within the first 10 minutes he had made a joke about alcohol and imitated terrible phone service. He's a charmer. Plus the topic is of interest to me AND it's a GenEd so I'm getting that out of the way AND there is such a cutie who sits in the front row.
The 2 classes I have yet to take are Brain Matters and Web Art and Design.
NO CLASS ON FRIDAYS!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
Caitlin posted an entry about her New Years resolution and I realized that I had made my New Years resolutions but posted them in my tumblr and not my blog. (PS tumblr is really fun too and I think everyone should get one!)
New Years Resolutions!
This year I will:
1) stop being superstitious
2) paint/draw more
3) eat healthier
4) make more movies
5) wear red lipstick often
6) stop swearing like a sailor
7) sew mad shit
8) go to London
9) grow a beard
10) get straight A’s
11) rebel against my parents
12) learn to speak English properly
13) live everyday to the fullest
14) get a job
15) wake up on January 1st, 2010 w/ my BFFs and get a hangover breakfast
16) get a bicycle
17) cook for my roommates more often
18) go to more concerts
19) develop superpowers
20) make things happen
21) get my NEW YORK STATE driver's license
22) drink more water
Friday, January 1, 2010
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