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Writer's Block: Musical Affliction [avr. 27e, 2009|11:35 pm]
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[Humeur actuelle | bored]
[Musique actuelle |"Another Night" Real McCoy]

Have you had an earworm lately? Exorcise it by inflicting it on your friendslist. Post the lyrics or - even better - a video.


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So I heard this song last night at Rugger's bar in the South Side which is odd because it's usually more of a screaming metal music kind of place. But by some chance some God out there blessed me and Brittany with a jukebox playlist of perfect drunk people music including this classic from the early 90's. It reminds me so much of wheels of 8 which any Uniontowner who had a birthday in the mid 90's surely remembers. All I can think about when I hear this song is couples skating in that dark dingy, brown carpeted roller rink with old skates, pinball, strange gummy candy and no more than 3 birthday parties going on at any given time. Incidentally, I was couple skating there with Brittany since she and I had huge crushes on each other in 2nd grade so the song was really appropriate. Granted I like the European version better because it's got a bit more beat going on and the video is fucking glorious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iOdmb8BnIw but it didn't allow me to imbed that one, so I chose this version.

I decided since 2 different people actually did this on my friends page I might as well do it since it's easy to answer and I haven't posted in this thing yet this year. Last year I posted 4 entries total which is sad because I'm really on this site 365 days a year checking out communities and reading my friends page, I can never find the motivation to write though.

Anyway, enjoy Real McCoy and pretend you're at a dark roller skating party in the 90's getting all clammy handed with your 2nd grade crush.
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(pas de sujets) [nov. 23e, 2008|11:57 am]
[Musique actuelle |"Jailer" by ASA]

( An Outline of What I am avoiding while writing this entry (PS LJ killed my formatting, deal with it!) )


This last week has been interesting. Very time consuming. As you can see from the list, my life is more consumed by teaching English than learning French. It's weird how that worked out, but also cool.

Last weekend I planned out my life a bit. I'm thinking about what to do when I graduate in a mere year and a half. So far here is my plan:
1. Apply for Grad school at Middlebury College in Vermont. It looks like the best possible grad school for me. I'd do the graduate option where you spend one summer in Vermont and then spend one year at the Sorbonne in Paris. I love Paris and I've not yet lived there, so it would be interesting. I'd have my masters degree 1 year after getting my Bachelor's degree. The school is expensive, however it is comparatively cheap when you look at private school's of equal quality.
2. Since Middlebury is a pretty good school, it's also hard to get into. So if I don't get into it I'd be applying to the French government's Teaching Assistanceship program. Since I'll have some pretty serious experience, I should get in no problem and hopefully get a good city. I decided that if/when I apply these would be my city choices: 1. Nice 2. Strasbourg 3. Lille. They're all pretty good cities and I would like to check them out. After that, I'd likely apply to Middlebury again and see if they like me better once they find out how much the French government likes me.

Speaking of the French government: Lycée La Salle sent some sort of document to the French government and told me to expect my French Social Security number to show up any day now. Yes, really. I'm going to have a French social security number. WTF?

So that's my currently life and my future plan.
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you've heard it all before [nov. 15e, 2008|10:54 pm]
[Musique actuelle |"Les Limites" by Julien Doré]

I don't know what to say to you, LiveJournal. It has been so long... I feel bad, like you're my pet fish and I forgot to feed you and then you died. But it's worse than that. If I forget a fish, oh well. I can get a new one. If I forget my life and don't document it then it just sort of fades off into nothingness and all that will remain are my memories which will also eventually fade off into nothingness.

I think I only ever write in here when I'm avoiding doing something. In this case I'm avoiding filling out a journal with lesson plans and reflections for the ESL class that I'm teaching. Our professor is collecting it on Monday and so far all I have is "Day One: 30/9/08 Objective:" I have a lot of phonetic transcriptions to do as well. They're fun though. I also have to work on a presentation of an article from last Friday's Libération about the possibility of a politician like Barack Obama in France. I also can't forget about the article on Rachida Taha that I have to read and "react" to. On top of all that I have Thursday and Friday's copies of Libération waiting for me to read about the French Socialist Party congress in Rheims for my own personal pleasure.

With all that I, of course, chose to upload photos to Facebook, have coffee with my host parents, chat with my mom and Leah online, and play board games with my host siblings all day. I'm really responsible like that.

I started a paper journal of my travels here in France when I went to visit Justin in Spain. Perhaps after I finish writing in there I can post it in here if that would interest anyone. And even if not, it'd be nice to have an account of it up here. I've had this thing for about 5 years of my life and the last couple have been really underrepresented. I'd blame it on being busy, because obviously I am, but it's more just me being lazy.

I'll make an effort to feed you more often. This time I mean it.
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(pas de sujets) [juin. 30e, 2008|11:50 am]
So today is my first day off in a while from K-mart, so I guess I'll write in this thing.

Mini update on my life: had my sophomore year at Pitt, still majoring in French and doing a minor in Italian, officially added the Art History major to that as well as the Western European Studies certificate and still thinking over doing the Studio Arts minor. I'd love to but I may not be able to fit that in as well as extra language study. Umm...So after school let out in April I sat around for a month occasionally working with my dad painting houses and then applied for a job at k-mart, got it and have been working there. It's actually not bad at all. I enjoy cashiering for the most part and I'm pretty good at it. My co workers are all really nice and fun. It's good to have something to take up my day as well instead of just masturbating and watching tv.

So for my day off I had hoped to actually like, leave the house and do something. But all my friends are working or sleeping. Which is totally lame. So I figured I'd just listen to music or something since I haven't listened to my iPod since I left school and I thought I'd really enjoy hearing the songs again. But for some reason they're just not doing it for me. I think I hate all of my music now. Which is a bad thing. Maybe I'm just not in the mood or something but songs that really used to do it for me are now leaving me feeling nothing but a desire to hit the next button.

I'm just so sick of being in fucking Uniontown. I can't stand this place. It robs me of all feeling and just leaves me sickly, tired, and depressed all the time. There's nothing to do here and even if there is I'm always working on the weekends and I'm off on weekdays when all my friends are working. So I'm screwed. All I can do is sit around and talk to Justin online. But when there's nothing going on around me, I'm left with nothing to talk about online either. Moral of the story is I'm sick of Uniontown and after this summer I will never live here again. I just can't.

My future plans are this:
1) Make some money at k-mart and pay for things that I need to get to France.
2) Study abroad in Rennes, France this fall, hopefully travel a bit but since I'm poor and my parents don't give me tons of money *coughEveryoneElseWhoStudiesAbroadAtPittcough* I probably won't get far. My goals for now are Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
3) Come back home for Christmas break then move back to Pitt.
4) Do my semester there and look for an apartment for the summer.
5) Live in Pittsburgh for the summer working some shitty job so I can pay rent and enjoy living in a place that doesn't suck my cock.

And last but not least here are some fun things about work:
We have a Ukrainian Janitor and he and I exchange Russian salutations because his English is really terrible.
A woman has come through my check out line twice who not only has a full mustache and beard, but chest hair all over her cleavage.
My managers look EXACTLY like John Mark Carr and Will Forte with a mustache.
An old man came through my check out line to buy vagasil and only vagasil.
We have a set playlist of songs which includes such gems as "Don't Mess with the Radio" by Nivea, "Get Over Yourself (Goodbye!)" by Eden's Crush and a weird No Doubt cover of "Come on Eileen"

I don't know. I guess that's all I've got going on in my life right now. I'll write again soon if something interesting happens, but do not count on it until like July 11th-ish when I go to DC.
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(pas de sujets) [juin. 7e, 2008|11:54 am]
I feel like it's impossible to write in this journal again since it's been so long. I really should, though. I have things to say. Maybe I will...just not now.
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(pas de sujets) [nov. 11e, 2007|03:50 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | content]
[Musique actuelle |matchbox twenty]

This weekend was pretty awesome.

Friday I didn't have French Civ, so I didn't have to read any of "Le Gone du Chaaba", so that was nice. At 6:30 on Friday I had to go watch the auditions for the Redeye Theater Project 3.2. It's the third RTP that I've done. For those unfamiliar with the concept, I plan on posting an entry later today with info about it as well as the play that I wrote for it last time.

Anyway, after the auditions, I went with Brittany to see a horror double feature at the Melwood Screening Room in North Oakland for the Three Rivers Film Festival. The films were:

and

Both were absolutely hilarious. If you get the chance to see either, please do so. They're both on DVD so that facilitates things. Murder Party was the funniest film I've seen all year and ranks up in my favorite comedies with Wet Hot American Summer. It was really quite perfect. Blood Car was also great, but since it was on after MP it was hard to live up to it. It did, however, contain the fisting and piss drinking that MP lacked. So...that was interesting.

The Melwood Screening room was in a sort of ghetto area, but near to Pitt, so I'd like to go see more films there. It's part of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers school, so that's kind of neat. It was full of scene kids wearing the biking messenger bag with the flashing reflector that they all have. Because they're so scene that they have to ride their bikes to sketchy places in like 30 degree weather. But anyway...it was fun to go there.

Saturday I had to wake up at 7 to do RTP. I directed an awesome play all day and then it went on stage that night. It went really well and I was very pleased. More about this in a later entry. Today I've done almost nothing. I don't have much homework so I'm just sort of relaxing, listening to music and trying to find out who I can convince to buy me a copy of Murder Party on DVD...
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(pas de sujets) [nov. 7e, 2007|06:59 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | cheerful]

The idea of writing a retrospective on Nantes is insanely overwhelming. How do you properly capture the best 2 months of your life in words and photos for a small audience? I wish I could sit down and write it, but I don't think I'll ever get around to doing it. That said, I really just want to start doing some mundane entries when I feel like it

So yeah, today was a really good day for me. One of the best in the entire semester actually.

I woke up early to read for my French Civilization class. We're reading a French language novel by an Algerian-Frenchman called "Le Gone du Chaaba." It's difficult to read because he uses a weird Lyonnaise/Algerian dialect of French, but from it's still understandable and good. It's one of those autobiographical novels and the author's story is quite interesting and impressive, but his writing is whiny. I guess I'd be pretty whiny too if I grew up in a shantytown and was oppressed because of my race, but, you know. ça va.

So anyway, I finished my reading assignment and did my homework before class, which is rare for me. I'm a good student, but also a procrastinator. After my homework I went to my Modern Art class and we discussed art produced under nazi rule. The propaganda is disgusting and I'm offended by the whole concept of oppressing expression. But it was interesting. We also got our exams back. I messed up on an essay when I was taking the exam, but I guess it didn't matter because I only got 1 point off the entire exam and I ended up with a 96, so clearly I rock.

Italian was bland. It's never really interesting. I hate my teacher because she's one of those people in our Italian department who is like "I was born in Italy and I know Italian fluently so you should too! what? you don't? you've only been studying it for a year? oh well!" So that sucks. but I rocked the discussion in my French civ class, so it evens out.

I had to meet with my advisor for my Western European Studies certificate today and we discussed what courses I should take and things like that. Stephen Lund, the advisor, is so crazy nice that I would probably marry him if I could. He's seriously just like Mr. O'Neil on Daria.

Speaking of that certificate, I don't know if I've actually addressed my majors and so on here. I'm double majoring in French and Art History, getting a certificate in Western European Studies and a minor in Italian.

Back to my day, after that I went to my Brain and Behavior class, which I started out doing poorly in but I'm now kind of kicking its ass. I'll probably get anywhere from a 3.6 at the lowest to a 4.0 Italian is kind of a waste of my time, so...we'll see. But yeah, that class let out early so I got to go to Crazy Mocha for the first time this semester for French club conversation tables. I talked with my French teacher from last semester and had some good french conversations and learned how to play a weird west African game that is like mancala, but different.

Anyway, after that I ate and now I'm in my room watching tv and retreating from the cold. Tonight I have to decide whether I'd rather watch ANTM or go to the college democrats victory party for our Luke Ravenstahl's win yesterday. It's fun to vote in a local election that matters.

Anyway, I'm going to conclude our update with my potential course schedule from last semester. I'm not too sold on "explanations of humans and society" but...we'll see.

Monday:
11-11:50 Asian Art
12-12:50 Italian 4
1-1:50 French Lit
4-4:50 Explanations of Humans and Society

Tuesday:
11-12:15 Contemporary Art
2:30-3:45 The French Atlantic
4:00-4:50 Explanations of Humans and Society Recitation

Wednesday:
11-11:50 Asian Art
12-12:50 Italian 4
1-1:50 French Lit
4-4:50 Explanations of Humans and Society

Thursday:
11-12:15 Contemporary Art
2:30-3:45 The French Atlantic

Friday:
11-11:50 Asian Art Recitation
12-12:50 Italian 4
1-1:50 French Lit

So yeah, next semester promises to be rather good. Art + French = happy Nikos.
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(pas de sujets) [juil. 19e, 2007|03:56 pm]
[Musique actuelle |"Time is Running Out" by Muse]



( photos and some short stories about Paris behind the cut... )

So that takes care of that for now. Look out for my photos and discussion of Nantes in the near future.
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(pas de sujets) [juil. 18e, 2007|12:08 am]
[Humeur actuelle | content]
[Musique actuelle |"Ce Soir" by KYO]

I have a new layout! I wanted to do a layout that paid tribute to artists that I really and truly love like Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Damien Hirst, or countless others, but unfortunately Andy Warhol is perfectly commercial and therefore translates quite well to any and all lj, myspace, or desktop layouts. So there we go. I guess I'll sacrifice my tastes in favor of a slightly cooler layout.

Anyway, I'm obviously back from France and I'd really like to make some sort of retrospective post about it on here. So I'm going to attempt to do that in the next few days before embarking on my trip to Washington DC on Friday.

I've always wanted to do some sort of posting of interesting things with some sort of frequency, but I always fail. Maybe this time I can make it work? Wish me luck.
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(pas de sujets) [mai. 23e, 2007|01:06 am]
So, I'm going to be headed to Paris, France tomorrow. I'm leaving the country for about two months. I'll be living in Nantes, France until July 7th. Hopefully I'll be accessible online and I'll be posting some pictures maybe or at least interesting things about my travels.

Apparently last time I almost wrote an entry, I almost included that myspace survey that everyone does. I finally did it and I guess I'll post it since LJ saved it as a draft.

I love and will miss you all!

( survey )
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(pas de sujets) [mai. 1er, 2007|12:43 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | bored]
[Musique actuelle |"Walk like a Zombie" by HorrorPops]

I feel like I should write something in here since it's been quite some time since I've done that. I've finished my first year of college and it was totally amazing. I made tons of friends, learned a lot, and had so many fantastic experiences. I wouldn't change anything about it at all. The last few days at Pitt were amazing as well. I got to spend a lot of close time with my homies and I even had another piercing party with Ali. She got her lip pierced and I got a double helix cartilage piercing. It seems to have stopped hurting, so I'm very pleased with it.

Now I'm stuck in Uniontown with nothing to do for four months. And I'm hours away from all of my college friends because almost none of them are from Pittsburgh. I keep in touch with them on AIM, but right now Leah and Bill are in Jamaica with Pitt's Jazz band and tomorrow Justin is going to be in Italy for over a week and I'll probably not get to talk with him at all so that's quite depressing.

I got completely moved into my mom's house now. I don't know if I mentioned that she moved at any time in here, but she moved in like March so that she could have a smaller, more comfortable place. My room is perfect for me. It's very very nikos. Red and orange paisley bed spread, lime green leather chair, lots of my art work and random worldly knick knacks. It's very organized and pleasing to me.

I recently got my schedule worked out for next semester and it is MESSED UP LIKE WHOA. I love all the classes and I desperately want to take them all, but unfortunately as they are configured right now, it is just messed up and would be difficult to do. So I'll have to make some changes. Hopefully adding some studio arts classes, since you know, that's my second major and all. I will hopefully be auditing a Spanish course to increase my proficiency in it so that I can talk to Justin and Ali in it.

Monday:

10-10:50 Intro to Modern Art
11-11:50 Intermediate Italian 1

1-1:50 Introduction to French Civilization
2-2:50 Intro to Modern Art Writing Practicum

4-5:15 Brain and Behavior


Tuesday:
11-12:15 Written French 1

(6-8:30 Elementary Spanish 2)

Wednesday:

10-10:50 Intro to Modern Art
11-11:50 Intermediate Italian 1

1:00-1:50 Introduction to French Civilization

4-5:15 Brain and Behavior

Thursday:
11-12:15 Written French 1

(6-8:30 Elementary Spanish 2)

Friday:
11-11:50 Intermediate Italian 1
12-12:50 Intro to Modern Art Recitation
1:00-1:50 Introduction to French Civilization




Overall that's 16 credits and an audited 3 credit class. Ideally, I would drop Intro to Modern Art (even though I'd love to take the class, it's just too much work to deal with right now) and add Foundation Drawing Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00-2:40 and then Foundation Design on Tuesday and Thursday from 3:00-4:40. It will severely decrease my work load on Mondays and really even shit out. It would be an 18 credit semester, plus an audited Spanish class, but I need to do that if I want to double major. I'm sure it will be do-able all semester and even into finals week because I know 2 of the classes don't have finals (design and drawing), 1 has an optional final (brain and behavior), and the other three are languages which are generally simple finals. If it all works out like that, it will be an amazing semester and if not, I will cry and stab everyone.

I feel like there's probably more to say, but I'm going to stop here before I get even more long winded. In short: College was awesome, I'm going to miss Justin like crazy while he's in Italy, My schedule for next semester is great, but hard and if I change it, it will be amazing.

The End.
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(pas de sujets) [avr. 3e, 2007|11:08 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | tired]
[Musique actuelle |"On Top" the Killers]

So....If Ann Coulter comes to your college, I HIGHLY recommend that you go see her. She, for some reason, came to Pitt and that bitch was sooooo crazy. Even more crazy and skeletal in person than you could ever imagine! Some of my favorite quotes were "Anyone who equates the 'F word' (Faggot) with the 'N word' (Nigger) is a racist!" in response to a student's question about whether or not she would call a black student the "N-word", since she was okay throwing around the "F word". Also "The Crusades were not that bad..." She often quoted Joseph McCarthy as a political idol and kept calling Bill Clinton a rapist and mocked Hilary Clinton's "fat" legs. (Hilary Clinton has a medical condition that causes her legs to swell) Bitch was CRAZY!! It was fun to clap for things that she didn't support and give a standing ovation to good questions that shut the bitch down. At the end, as she was leaving, I took the opportunity to shout "CUNT!" many times as loud as possible. I was in the 5th row, so I feel like she probably heard.

Pitt has a pretty constant flow of celebrities of varying statuses rolling in and out. Since coming to Pitt, I saw some random bands that I didn't love (Relient K, Plain White T's, etc) at the Fall Fest, Senator Bob Casey, B.D. Wong from Law and Order: SVU, Frank Warren aka the Post Secret Guy, Jodie Sweetin aka Stephanie Tanner, Ann Coulter aka Crazy Bitch, and in a week or so I'll be seeing the band Live at Bigelow Bash. Pitt is pretty awesome.

Scheduling right now is retarded and I don't know that I'll be getting the Studio Arts classes that I needed/wanted. So far my schedule is like so:

Monday/Wednesday/Friday:
11-11:50 Intermediate Italian 1
1-1:50 French Civilization

Tuesday/Thursday:
11-11:50 Written French 1

So as you can see, I need 2 more classes or so. I'm hoping for 2 studio arts classes (Design and Drawing, specifically) or some history of art and architecture classes (like the class on Frank Lloyd Wright, or Contemporary Art). My advisor is a douche bag and I hate him soooooo much.

But on the good side of things at Pitt, I got a sweet room for next year. I'll be living in room 318 Pennsylvania Hall with the wonderful Justin Cardinale. The room is significantly bigger than the other doubles on our floor, so I'm excited about the extra space as well as about living in one of the nicest dorms on campus with an awesome roommate.

I'm coming home this weekend for Easter, but Pitt is lame and doesn't have an Easter break, so I'll just be home for Friday night, Saturday, and Sunday. But I'm bringing Justin because he's not going back to Virginia for 3 days. So, that should be relatively awesome. Umm...I don't really know what to say, because it's been forever since I've written in here, so I'm just going to stop talking.
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(pas de sujets) [mar. 11e, 2007|03:14 pm]
[Musique actuelle |"On Top" by the Killers]

I haven't made a real post in here for thousands and thousands of years. I'm sorry about that anyone who cared to read about me, but I've been busy. So here's the most exciting thing in my life right now.

I've decided to do a double major in French and Studio Arts and I'm still doing a minor in Italian. So, as part of getting into the serious part of my French major, I'm going to France this summer for a study abroad program. Here's how it will go:

On May 23rd, 2007, I will get driven to the Pittsburgh airport by my loved ones.
I will take a plane to Newark, New Jersey.
From there, I will board a plane to Lisbon, Portugal.
I will have what promises to be an annoying trans-Atlantic flight.
Upon arriving in Lisbon, I will have about 2 hours to look around the airport and get ready to get onto my next flight.
From Lisbon, I will fly to Paris, France.
Once there, I will be transported to a hotel where I'll be staying with my program mates for a few days in Paris.

On May 28th, 2007, I will take a train to Nantes, France and move in with my host family.
I'll be living with some family, eating their food, and going to the IES Center to take Intermediate French 2 as well as French Conversation on Monday-Thursday.
On the weekends, we are free to do whatever we want.
Supposedly, my homme gurrl Deb, who is going to be going on the trip as well, knows some people who are going to be in Spain, Italy, and Paris this summer, so there is a good chance that she'll be visiting them and I will hopefully tag along with her. Or at least that's my understanding. I'll offer sexual favors if necessary.
There will be included trips to the Loire Valley as well as Saint-Malo. So...those should be fun.
I hope to be checking out London, since it should be a relatively simple trip from Nantes.


On July 7th, 2007, I will board a plane from Paris.
I will arrive in Lisbon, Portugal (again) to go back to Newark (again)
Then I will go from Newark to Pittsburgh, and then I've got what will surely be a long car ride home due to the exhaustion I assume that I will be suffering.

So yeah, this should be pretty awesome.
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In all sincerity... [fév. 8e, 2007|03:58 pm]
RIP Anna Nicole Smith. Her death, much like her life, is really tragic and nobody deserves that. I don't think she was a bad person at all and it's a miracle she lasted as long as she did. The birth of her daughter should have been the re-birth of her career and life and she's been plagued by horrible event after horrible event with relentless media coverage. She may not have been a classy woman or the most educated, but no one deserves what she had to go through and her death is seriously tragic. So in all sincerity, RIP Anna Nicole.
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(pas de sujets) [jan. 11e, 2007|04:09 pm]
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[Humeur actuelle | busy]
[Musique actuelle |"This River is Wild" by the Killers]

First semester of college was amazing. Christmas break was nice. I'm back at pitt and I will never get back into the habit of writing in here unless I get over the whole "people who read your journal want to know an exact recap of absolutely everything you've done for the past weeks that you haven't updated!" thing. So..here's some stuff that's going on in my life.

I've gotten back into the groove of being at Pitt. Leah and Julia B have a new room mate, her name is Ali and she's quite fun and fits nicely into our group. The first Friday back, we had a going away party for our friend Jacqui. She wants to direct and write films and Pitt is just not the place to go for something like that, so she only spent a semester here. Her party was VERY laid back and fun. It was really quite nice...and it was funny to see John drunk off of vodka and jones soda (genius combination, am I right? I only had a sip, but it just tasted like yummy Jones -y goodness).

Here's a mini recap of the films I've watched so far in 2006:
My first movie of the new year was L'Auberge Espagnole because I love the movie and I'm hoping it sets a nice tone for the year. When I got back to Pitt, I watched The Prestige with Justin in the Union. It was really quite excellent and I must say that I loved it. Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan should always do movies together. I'd love to see Christopher Nolan remake American Psycho so it could reach its full potential. Anyway, the next day I went up to Deb's room to watch the sequel to L'Auberge Espagnole, Les Poupees Russes. It wasn't nearly as good, and it honestly didn't have very much to do with the first movie at all. On Saturday, I watched Little Miss Sunshine with Leah, Julia B, and Ali. It was good, as it usually is when I watch it. Then later, our entire posse went to the South Side to see Children of Men. That movie was AMAZING. I absolutely loved it. It was perfectly realistic in its futuristic depictions and it easily climbed to the top of my best of 2006 list.

So, my new classes started as well.

Intermediate French 3 has been good so far. Our teacher is a nice guy...a bit geeky, but nice. I feel like I'll enjoy it.

Elementary Italian 2 has been relatively boring, but I'm really loving the Italian language these days, so...I just have to deal with having it 5 days a week.

Seminar in Composition: Film is going to be very limited. We're only going to watch documentaries by or about Werner Herzog. But I like our professor a lot. Today I totally kicked ass with our discussion. I was REALLY into it and I was quite pleased to be doing such a good job.

Foundation Sculpture has been quite fun. So far I've only had to buy shit and do sketches. But My sketches turned out to be very nice and I think I'm going to like it. Our teacher is very fun as well. I did a great job in discussing today in that class as well. I think I'm going to love my Monday-Thursdays.

But...one class rains on my parade of awesomeness: Intro to Korea through Films.

I only had it once so far, because it's only on Fridays. But it extends my day from 11-3:30 with the only breaks being for getting from one class to another. When I got to the class last week, I had basically run there, it was 60 degrees out, the classroom was about 80 degrees because it was messed up, and I was tired. So I fell asleep a lot, sweat a lot, and got a headache. Hopefully this week will be better. And if not, I will drop it for intro to Asian Art. (I'm wondering why I didn't take that in the first place, actually. I'd be really far behind at this point if I add it.)

So things are going well. I'm the webmaster for the Pitt chapter of the college democrats now. So I get to edit our website, which is sort of fun, I guess. Umm...well that's really about it. Overall I'm quite happy, but let's just hope that my crazy Turkish Korean Film teacher finds ways to make the class more interesting. All right, well, I'm off to speak Italian at La Tavola Italiana at Crazy Mocha.

Oh, I'm going to try to start using tags, just because.

And wow, my spelling must have gotten much better lately since the only typos that the spell check found were foreign words. Go me!
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(pas de sujets) [déc. 11e, 2006|07:55 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | cheerful]
[Musique actuelle |"Black Balloon" by Goo Goo Dolls]

Okay, so...I haven't written in here in a really long time. Sorry about that. I just get fairly busy and I really like writing long things in here so I just can't sit down and write in this with any sort of frequency. It just feels like a chore. But since Deb and Emily keep complaining, I'll appease them. :-p

So...Lately I've been having some amazingly good times. Most excitingly, I went to the Mattress Factory which is easily the best of the carnegie museums. I highly recommend going there as much as possible for as long as possible. And bring a camera.

My classes are over and I'm currently in finals week. I only have two finals and I don't actually need to take either of them to get A's in those classes. I should have 3 A's and a B this semester and that's fine by me. I have finalized my schedule for next semester and it should look a little something like this:

Monday:
11-11:50 Elementary Italian 2
12-12:50 Intermediate French 1

Tuesday:
9:30-10:45 Seminar in Composition: Film
11-11:50 Elementary Italian 2
1-2:40 Foundation Sculpture

Wednesday:
11-11:50 Elementary Italian 2
12-12:50 Intermediate French 1

Thursday:
9:30-10:45 Seminar in Composition: Film
11-11:50 Elementary Italian 2
1-2:40 Foundation Sculpture

Friday:
11-11:50 Elementary Italian 2
12-12:50 Intermediate French 1
1-3:50 Intro To Korea Through Film

It's pretty orgasmic. Like, really...I'm not kidding...I get sexual pleasure from the idea of 2 language classes, 2 film classes, and an art class. I'm really looking forward to my sculpture class because I get to make art and receive credit for it, woo! Also, I am going to be doing a studio arts minor in addition to my french major and italian minor because with my sculpture class and the art history class I took, I will already have 6 credits towards a minor. So, my schedule for next semester fills 1 requirement for my major, 1 for each of my minors, 1 for my eastern culture requirement, 1 for my composition requirement, and my sculpture class also gets me credit for my creative expression requirement.

So that's boring, I know. But I'm excited! I'm going to try to make more frequent updates in here (I know I say that every time I post in here, and then I don't post again for a long time. Like I'm an abusive boyfriend saying that I won't do it again and I hit you again ASAP, but anyway..., hopefully with more complaints about things than just recaps of my life. Because I'm sure those are more interesting posts than life recaps anyway. And I'm FULL of complaints. So..yeah. I'll attempt to make another post this week, since I don't have anything to do this week. Okay, I'll quit rambling.

P.S. I think this LJ icon may be one of the most complimented EVER. I can't make a post with it without getting at least one comment on how awesome it is. The truth is...I don't really like it very much. :/
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(pas de sujets) [oct. 29e, 2006|10:51 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | elated]
[Musique actuelle |none]

This weekend was pretty goddamn amazing. On Friday, after I finished my Art History class, I received a phone call from a frantic Lissa Geiger who is the college democrats officer in charge of Freshmen and she needed people to hold signs to support Bob Casey. I was very happy to help so I held some signs on Fifth Avenue for about an hour. I then went to a "SECRET ANNOUNCEMENT!" from the chancellor. I met up with Deb and her room mate and we enjoyed free popcorn and beverages. The announcement was really disappointing, but at least we got commemorative chocolate and some free t-shirts. After that, I went with Deb and her other room mate to the Bob Casey rally. It was really fun because Deb was singing along with the pre-rally songs, including, for no apparent reason, "Fighter" by Christina Aguilera. We kept randomly holding up the "Workers for Casey" sign that they gave us, despite the fact that neither of us work. The opening acts, Mayor Luke Ravenstahl (who I got to hold the door for on my way out!), Mike Doyle, and Chris Heinz were all exciting and at times funny. I had to leave at 5:30 because I was going out with Justin, so I barely saw any of Bob Casey, but I got a blurry cell phone picture!

At 5:30, I met up with Justin in his room and gave him a free t-shirt and some commemorative chocolate. We then got a bus to Shadyside. It was rainy and cold. We went to this really weird Asian store in Shadyside and we each purchased a giant microbe. Mine was Tuberculosis and his was the Ebola Virus. They're pretty freaking adorable. After that we grabbed a bus back to Oakland and waited forever for a bus to Squirrel Hill. I then took Justin to Eat n Park for his first time at what is a true Pittsburgh treasure. I don't know if he loved it as much as I love it, but I don't care because it was effin delicious. We then went to the Barnes and Noble to kill time. After killing time, we went to go see Marie Antoinette and it was pretty darn good. We had a good time discussing the movie as it went along, too. After the movie, we jumped on a bus to Oakland and ended up hanging around his room until like 3:30 AM doing just about nothing.

Saturday morning I went to Avalon Exchange with Justin and I bought some pretty effin sweet green doc marten oxfords. We also went to McDonald's. I ended up spending two hours by myself in the Carnegie Museum of Art viewing each and every painting that I could choose for my "Looking Paper" for my Art History class. I still have to narrow it down to at the most 5 paintings to take notes on and then decide which one I can write an entire paper on. After that I had just laid down in bed to watch Seinfeld when Justin called. He invited me to come to a Halloween party with him and the posse. I was like "hellz yeah" in so many words. So boring stuff happened and then eventually everyone was in costume except for me. I did my patent-pending red and black thin sharpie cutter wounds and went as a cutter. People marvel over how real the look. So we inexplicably took a bus from Central Oakland to North Oakland and then walked to the party down in South Oakland. Justin, Julia B, Julia S, John, Jacqui, Jacqui's room mate Caitlin and I all went to a party at Julia S's brother's apartment. When we got there, Justin, both Julias and I all did a tequila shot, because, why not? And that sort of loosened us up enough to have a really great time.

After the tequila Justin and I sipped on some rum and coke which was surprisingly delicious. I believe everyone drank something with the exception of perhaps Caitlin and John. We sort of danced around a bit and I think Julia S and I were the only ones to get tipsy. We all danced like fools. They had a costume contest and Jacqui won. The prize was a can of Reddi Whip, which was excellent and fun. It totally made my rum and coke like a float. At one point we all piled on top of Justin just because. There are pictures, and they are probably some of my favorite photos of me ever. I will make a photo post soon. We left the party around like 2:30 maybe and headed to Sutherland to watch a scary movie. I held onto Justin during the walk for both stability and warmth. When we got to Sutherland, we all got signed in and went up to Jacqui and Caitlin's room. Julia B, Justin and I took over Caitlin's bed for the movie. I didn't really watch it because I was mostly just cuddling with Justin and drifting in and out of sleep. It was really nice. At one point, Jacqui and Caitlin's suite-mate's friend jumped in the room and scared everyone..and woke me up. So they brought over honey nut cheerios and watched the rest of the movie with us and I actually watched the rest of it as well.

When the movie finally ended we just all sat around until someone suggested that we go to our rooms and sleep. We rode the shuttle back down to lower campus and all went to bed. It was about 4 AM when we got back (but we had that extra hour in there so it was really like 5) and I woke up around 9:30 this morning. Brittany came over today and we hung around my room and walked to the south side looking for a costume for her. We then walked back to oakland, ate, and then came back to my room to exchange stories of our Saturday nights. It was fun. After she left, I went out with Justin, both Julias, Leah, Sam and some ho who was not introduced to me for some Chinese food. We all then went for ice cream at Dave and Andy's because that's just what Pitt students do. I came home and now I'm just basking in the afterglow of what was an amazing weekend.

I love college so much.
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(pas de sujets) [oct. 25e, 2006|03:45 pm]
[Humeur actuelle | cheerful]
[Musique actuelle |none]

I tried to use txtlj a few times but I failed and was disappointed because I'd like to be able to make updates on here when I'm bored and not near a computer. Oh well. The past week hasn't been too exciting...unless I'm forgetting things. Oh yes! I am forgetting things.

On Thursday I went over to point park and watched the Mets lose with Jeanine and Ryan while Brittany was elsewhere. I went with Jeanine to get some food and we ate it in Ryan's room. Eventually Brittany arrived at Point Park and we all went down to the Point Park radio station and did a Radio show. We played some choice jams like "Thriller", "The Thong Song", "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", and had strange on-air conversations about horrible things. We declared it the worst radio show that point park has ever had even though we had tons of fun doing it. After the show, it was like 2 AM so I went up to Brittany and Jeanine's room and we sat around and talked for a while and we eventually all went to bed. I slept on their extra bed.

Friday, I hung out with Justin for a bit and we got some food up at the Pete. Shortly thereafter, Brittizzle came over to Pitt and we went to Veracruz for some yummy Mexican food. Then we had some free coffee for the homecoming festivities at Pitt. There was a big fireworks show with fireworks shooting off of the cathedral of learning. It was way awesome. I loved it. After that, Brittany and I went and got free tarot card readings from some lady. And I didn't even have to "Call her now!" for my free readin'! I got a whole bunch of cups cards and really positive things. She said it was one of the best card spreads she ever had. There were lots of good things like I will have a good relationship soon, I will get a scholarship, and crap like that. Brittany's reading was less fantastic. She had lots of swords cards and she was told things like "you will have lots of heartache soon" but they also told her that she would have a new career opportunity. After that we went into the union and got free pop and popcorn! Then we came back into my room and played on the computer and watched tv. Eventually we went to bed. She slept in Marc's bed. Hopefully he doesn't mind! If he had been here she would have just slept on the floor with a pillow.

Saturday, Brittany left early and I went for Coffee with Leah in the morning. Later in the day I watched Mean Girls and that was all I did Saturday.

Sunday, I went to Shadyside with Brittany and Jeanine. It was pretty excellent. We went to the Apple store so they could check out Jeanine's iPod. They said it was broken and they'll just give her a new one, but they didn't have any black 30 gig iPods in the store so she had to come back later. We also found this amazing little Asian store that sold Giant Microbes and really elaborate food shaped erasers. It was orgasmic. We then waited for the bus to get us downtown and we all rocked some hot flowers that I picked in front of "The Diving Dolphin" mexican restaurant. Once downtown, after an odd bus trip, we went to Ephesus for pizza. Ephesus is AMAZING. It's this creepy pizza place in an old office building that is clearly owned by the Turkish mafia. They always have on weird foreign Soccer on their big screen TV with a big patriarch watching it. And when we went there on Sunday, two black muslims were working there. It's so strange. So while waiting for pizza, Brittany and I played Ping Pong because that's just what you do at Ephesus. After the Pizza, I went home.

Sometime last week there was a French and Italian department Open House so I went and found out a lot of info about the department that is most important to me. Most excitingly, I found out that next year they will have 2 floors in Pennsylvania Hall for French and Italian department students where you would live in complete French or Italian immersion. So obviously I can't wait until next year.

Yesterday (Yesterday you said you'd call Sears! I'll call today! YOU'LL CALL NOW! ...I'll call now.") I was supposed to go with Justin to see a free preview screening of Running With Scissors, but he's a douche bag and ditched me so I rode over to the waterfront to meet Jeanine and Brittany for the movie. On the bus, I ran into Drew, who I kind of knew through Justin, so I said "Hi" and he was nice enough to hang out with me until Brittany came around. While Drew, his homies, and I were waiting for Brittany and Jeanine, the theatre filled up. So I felt like a douche. I ended up going shopping with Drew, and his friends Nikolai and (I think it was...)Kashi(?). Eventually I met up with Brittany and Jeanine and said bye to Drew and co. We went to Eat N Park, which is always delicious. After that, we went to Target and did nothing for a bit. There, I ran back into Drew and co. so I went with them to get a bus back to Oakland.

So yeah...that's all for now. I'm headed to the French Club conversation table now.
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(pas de sujets) [oct. 17e, 2006|02:35 am]
So, I haven't made a real update in quite some time. So I'll just give you a nice sampling of my weekend.

Friday, October 13, 2006

I didn't have my Art History recitation so I was way excited and celebrated by...doing nothing until 8:30 when I went to the Obscure Move Group meeting. We meet every Friday at 8:30 to watch a strange movie. This week it was the Italian film Zombi 2. It was pretty bad. And not even bad in a good way. After the movie, Justin, Grace, John, Bill and I met up with Leah, Julia and Leah's friend Catherine, who was visiting. Every week we all meet up, watch the movie, and afterward we stand around in a circle talking about what to do and then we end up doing something fun and/or lame. We decided to go to the WPTS dance party in the student union and it was more than a little lame. But we got free energy drinks, so yay. After that we got in a circle on some couches in the union and we decided to take the shuttle up to Sutherland but not before being bothered by some strange peeps. This guy who knows Justin through facebook came and talked to him. He and his drunk friend were headed to the "Diversity Formal" aka the Gay Prom. They were really drunk and really...out there.

So the first opportunity we had, we exited. We got on the bus to Sutherland that always has CHOICE drunk people, and tonight was no exception. People were actually drinking beer on the bus this time. I was impressed! One of them was from my French class and he gave me a high five. How nice of him! After that Grace, Bill and John fought over who would have to sign me, Leah, Justin, Catherine, and Julia into their rooms. After we all got in, we sat in the lobby and apparently our discussion of blood orgies was too much for the security lady so she asked us to tone down our language. We went up to John's room and watched a fantastic You Tube video about shoes. After that we just all sort of broke into mini conversation groups, occasionally doing things on the computer. Around 2 AM or so, the non-Sutherland residents left and we went back to Tower B and Holland Hall.

Saturday, October 14, 2006
I woke up kind of late and around 12:30 or so, I met up with Leah and we started on our hot zombie looks. We got our faces well made up and our zombie outfits on and we looked HOT! So at 2 we met up with the other zombies for the First Annual University of Pittsburgh Zombie Walk. We did a nice walk through the campus and eventually ended up in Schenley Plaza where the Zombies rode the carousel. Leah, John, Justin and I were by far the best zombies there. The other ones were hardly dead at all. In fact, one was wearing an astronaut suit for some reason. There's a picture of me on my myspace all zombie-like and there are many others available on facebook and a photo gallery that is available if you're interested. Just let me know. After the zombie-ness, I took a shower and went downtown to visit Brittany.

We hopped on the T aka Pittsburgh's pretend subway that is almost never underground and went to South Hills Village. We shopped around and tried on some clothes that we didn't buy. I almost bought the new Killers CD but I'm cheap. After the shopping, we went to Eat N Park and got the usual. Mad delicious. We hopped back on the T, listening to fantastic music, like "Pop" by Nsync, "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" by Jermaine Stewart, and "Uh Huh" by B2K. When we got back downtown, we visited Jeanine, Brittany's room mate, at her radio show. Her friend Ryan was there and we all got to talk on air and have fun during songs and stuff. I discussed a news story about a 40 year old man who made out with a 10 year old girl! It was really a good time. After that, we had planned to have a cleaning party for Brittany and Jeanine's room because it's filthy, but Ryan and I were the only ones cleaning and we gave up pretty quickly. For some reason we started dressing up Jeanine and Brittany in crazy clothes and decided that we should go down by the water at the point for a photo shoot. It was pretty ludicrous, but pretty fun. We saw a sign that said:
"Gyros
Chicken on Pita" so I decided that I was a pornography, Brittany was Chicken and Jeanine was Pita and the movie would be called "Gyro's Chicken on Pita" and we took a photograph of some hot Chicken on Pita action. After that, we went back to their room, they got re-dressed and then we all walked to my bus stop and I rode back to Oakland.

Sunday, October 15th, 2006
I did just about nothing until I went to eat with Justin. We ended up at a place in the Union with free pizza and pop and the steeler's game projected onto a big screen. After that I went block shopping with him and then I went back to his room to watch a really hot you tube video for the song "Danger! High Voltage!" by Electric Six. Then I stood around talking with him for a while and eventually came back to my room.

Today!
My classes were relatively lame. After my Art History class I visited Megan at Duquesne and we ate in their really cool underground pizza place. We also walked around their campus and checked out their disappointing Lourdes Grotto. I came back, did nothing for a while, and then did some more nothing. I've been peeing like crazy today because I'm drinking tons of water. I've also been checking out classes that I want to take next semester and I'm almost certain that my schedule will look something like this:

Seminar in Composition: Film Tu&Th 9:30-10:45 (In this class, I will watch movies, and then write about them and satisfy my seminar in composition requirement)
French 3 MWF 11-11:50 (In this class, I will speak and learn French and work towards my major)
Italian 2 M-F 12-12:50 (In this class, I will speak and learn Italian and work towards my minor)
Foundations in Painting Tu&Th 1-2:40 (In this class, I will learn how to paint and satisfy my creative expression requirement)
Intro to Korea Through Films M 2-5:50 (In this class, I will watch films in Korean and discuss Korea and satisfy both my international non-western culture requirement and one of my international culture requirement)

So there you have it. I'm going to attempt to do more frequent updates so that I don't have to do a life dump post every so often.

P.S. I've found that facebook and you tube are suprisingly important to the life of every college student.
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(pas de sujets) [oct. 11e, 2006|09:43 am]
[Humeur actuelle | confused]
[Musique actuelle |"Small Town Boy" by Bronski Beat]

Okay...so I'm studying for my art history test that I have in a few hours and I have to write an essay connecting these two "works":

it's a penis!
A gigantic Roman phallus.

all dried up and nobody wants it
And some dried up gourd that this African woman is carving.

I'm going to have a good time BSing my way through this Calabash vs. Column of Trajan essay!
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