http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid56094254001?bctid=64733944001

Thoughts?

ANNIKA. GUS. MARIAM. Cinna and I want you to come join Plurk and talk to us so we can have chatty funtimes like the days of old!

... Other than that this is kind of a useless post, but it's 4:30AM; what did you expect? Oh God I have to get up for class tomorrow.

School starts again on Monday (I know, I know; late compared to most of the rest of my flist), and I don't want to goooooo. I enjoy being lazy.

I'm especially not looking forward to Statistics in Sociology. SOMEONE SAVE ME FROM THE MATH.

Mr. LaForce: [of the flutes playing badly on a section of "New York Hippodrome"] "This is like the first day of band at Mastway [Elementary School]."
Doug: "I went to Moharimet [Elementary School]."
Mr. LaForce: "Okay, second day at Moharimet, then."

So I signed up for an account on Formspring a while ago, but then never actually did anything with it. Go ask me questions? Either anonymously or not; I have both enabled. I LIKE FILLING THINGS OUT AND ANSWERING STUFF; DON'T JUDGE ME.

In other news, winter break is awesome so far. I've accomplished absolutely nothing. 8]

Go spam us plz. 8|

Doug: [of The Sopranos] "I love that show because they kill people."
Monika: "This coming from a kid wearing a Livestrong bracelet."

I can't stop watching this.

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Or this.

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Tell me about some of your favorite movies, people. Link me to trailers if you can find them!

Mrs. McGlinchey: [of lab procedure] "Don't wear jewelry, tie your hair back, don't wear any loose or dangling clothing..."
Leslie: "So you're saying I should come in wearing a tight bodysuit? I don't believe it. I think you just want to see me in Spandex."

So people who have paid attention to my journal for a while might remember that I have this weird thing with getting really shaky when speaking/performing in public. It's especially annoying during our orchestra concerts, because it gets so bad that I can't even hold my bow properly and my fingering gets all messed up. The most annoying thing is that I don't actually feel nervous-- it's purely a physical reaction. I don't even know.

So this past Sunday, we had a concert. Guess what?

No shaking.

Thank you, Lexapro!

Zoe: I'm going to go jump off a cliff; I'll be right back." [walks out of the room]

I have one more paper to write, two tests to prepare for, a few sociology videos to watch, and then I AM DONE. I'm actually pretty relieved for winter break this year (though I still don't know what class I'm signing up for for J-term). OTHER THAN THAT!

1. I spent far too much money at the mall today. And I haven't even been to Barnes & Noble yet. Oh, dear.
2. People on my flist who RP: GO DO THIS. 8) I know you know that you want to.
3. Because I told a few people I would: this is for you, super_pineapple!

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We're going out for Japanese food tonight to celebrate my sister's birthday! (The people who run the tables are ~*firebenders*~, too; it's a hibachi restaurant.) My mom is frantically cleaning the house because a bunch of people are coming over tonight-- it STILL looks pretty bad, but more like "as to be expected from a home with three slobs and a million animals" than "OH MY GOD WHAT THE HELL IS THIS".

... raserei_hojo, I owe you tags like woah. DX I WILL GET TO THEM TODAY, I PROMISE.

Eli: "Where's Djibouti?"
Cam: "Right next to Ass-mara."

I have so much work it's not even funny. I can't wait for finals week, because all my papers and projects will be over by then and I'll just have tests, which at least only take a couple hours each as long as I understand the material. But until then, I'll be slaving away. This is why I hate being sick enough to miss school; when I get back there's always SO MUCH TO DO.

On the plus side, I'm SO GLAD that Statistics in Sociology is being offered as an online course for J-term. 8D I wasn't at all looking forward to taking that during spring semester, but now it's awwwwwright.

Thanks to Norry I now have a Google Wave account (and... am still trying to figure out how it works, haha), and at the moment I have eight invitations to give away. If anyone on my flist wants one, let me know I'll shoot one off to you!

(ALSO: this is unrelated, but JOIN PLURK. It's like IMing only at lot easier to keep up with.)

Today I walked into Spanish class for the first time in close to a month, and the general reaction was "OH MY GOD HANNAH, YOU'RE ALIVE". I was amused. (I'm also so far behind it's not even funny, buuuuuut I'm not going to dwell on that for the moment.)

I also love how this year I've gotten SO LAZY at keeping up my room. Last year I kept things pretty sparse, but neat. This year, I went all-out with the decorating, but in terms of tidiness I'm just like, "FUCK IT *uses the floor as a dresser*". Seriously.

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Neil: "What was Shakespeare's inspiration for A Midsummer Night's Dream?"
Miss Bavier: "No one really knows."
Neal: "... Did they have opium in his time?"

I went to my sister's Spanish play today. It was weird walking past Madame's room. It was also weird being confronted by a janitor when we went up to wander around the second floor afterward (... no one ever used to have a problem with students hanging around after hours; that's my only excuse). I also stuck my head in a classroom door and shouted the name of one of my sister's friends who was in there, and even though it *looked* like people weren't really doing anything but bumming around Jenny maintains that she thought they were in the middle of something. I'm hoping she was wrong, though, because even though no one actually takes those skits seriously I'd still feel bad if some people got theirs interrupted by some random girl walking by and yelling "SONJA PAPE!" at them.

Anyway. The obvious real reason for this entry:

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Aren't my shoes awesome?

emilyyousay ------> banerry

Just so you don't go "wtf who is this person commenting to my entries".

Mr. Zottoli: "It's fun to say 'Vagina Monologues'!"

This is literally all I've been doing for the past two weeks:

- reading
- watching TV/movies
- using the computer

I've been out of the house twice to go get blood drawn at the doctor's, but that's it. 8| I AM. SO BORED. Hopefully I'll be going back to school next week, but if the mono test comes back positive they'll want me to stay out longer. As it is, the doctor recommended that I only go for half days for at least ten days after I start going back. I hope my teachers don't flip out.

ANYWAY. In other news, I've been marathoning Dexter online and am currently in the middle of 4x07. I LOVE IT, and I have some theories about something but I don't want to get into it here because I don't feel like spoiler-cutting, so ask in the comments if you really care to know.

AND LASTLY, AS PROMISED, my list of excellent kids' books for lovesnotwisely (the ones that are starred are especially amazing):

( I read kidlit too much but I don't care )

It's like I'm the Gus of DDD!Plurk.

... And saying that reaaaaaally makes me want to go fool around on AFC now, but instead I'll be somewhat responsible and go do Spanish homework or something.

Kaitlin: "Any ideas for what intramural sports we could add?"
Dan: "Ultimite frisbee."
Leslie: "Football!"
Marshall: "Killer tag. With knives."

So I watched The Day After Tomorrow yesterday. I wasn't really expecting much, but I love disaster movies so I thought I'd give it a go. The first half-hour or so was really jumpy and choppy, but then it settled down a bit, and really, it was much better than I had expected storytelling- and writing-wise. I thought the ending in particular was very well done.

The only part I thought was really hokey was the wolf attack; that was pretty dumb. But all in all, it was actually a fairly solid film. I don't even have to classify it as a guilty pleasure!