Don't Stop Believing

So tonight was a party at Ryan's house. The theme was "80's style aerobics." Everybody was dressed up. Kat, Nikol, and I danced a lot. At one point we climbed up on the couch and sang to Journey's "Don't Stop Believing." The entire house was singing to it. It was so much fun.

The outfits that people were wearing were so cool. It makes me wonder where they get stuff like that. Thong leotards? Hot pink tights and spandex? Neon high top shoes? Oh yeah, that's right... "they got it at Ross" (Remember those old school "do you like it, i love it" commercials for Ross? Amazing).

Too bad the party got broken up early. And by early, I mean like, before midnight. But it was still fun none the less.

Even after that though we had a blast. We went back to Kat and Nikol's with a bunch of people and we made chocolate chip pancakes and watched half of "She's The Man" which is such a ridiculously dumb movie. The fact that it is so ridiculously dumb makes it so much fun to watch with my group of friends. Mark especially enjoyed it.

Next Amanda Bynes movie to watch? Sydney White. Check it out.


Enough said.

My clock says it's 3:39 a.m. right now. It's daylight savings time. It should only be 2:39. Oh well. I'm going to bed none the less. I'm exhausted.

Love.

redecorating via the internet

Since I have started writing this blog, there is no need for my Facebook page to be so cluttered. This blog is just a list of all the quotes I had posted on my Facebook page. Lets be realistic... nobody looking at my Facebook page is going to read all those quotes. Maybe I'll keep one or two of them on there, but for the most part I'm just going to move my quotes to my blog. I have some time to myeslf this afternoon so after I post this blog, I'm going to redecorate my blog and make the appearance say more about me.

Anyway, here are the quotes I have posted on my Facebook page as of now. I have so many more quotes and stuff saved on my computer, I love quotes so much. I think the words of singers, poets, television shows, and books can say so much about life. I love them. I will include more in my blog at some other point. As for now, here is what I've got so far...

"It's twilight," Edward murmured, looking at the western horizon, obscured as it was with clouds. His voice was thoughtful, as if his mind were somewhere far away. "It's the safest time of day for us," he said. "The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way.... the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don't you think?" He smiled wistfully.
"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."-Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, p 232

"You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. How old do you have to be before your love is real?" -Haley's dad, One Tree Hill

If you're lucky, and I mean the luckiest person in the world, the person you love decides to love you back. -Nathan, One Tree Hill

Nathan: You were right Peyton, people always leave.
Peyton: Yeah, but sometimes they come back
-One Tree Hill

Things will happen in life that you can't control but that's no reason to shut out the world - Crazy Pete, Now and Then

"I came here, because I have to tell you. You have to know. You're smart and funny and sweet, and your eyes make me melt, and I feel something with you I've never felt before, ever, for anyone. Something real. " -Becca, Bass Ackwards and Belly Up by Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain

George Michael: I have Pop-Pop in the attic.
Michael: What? The mere fact that you call making love "pop pop" tells me you're not ready
-Arrested Development

Unfortunately the hard part isn't making the decision, the hard part is living with the decision you make. - Casey, Greek

Casey: I know where I want to be in ten years, do you?
Cappie: Yeah, I want to be with you
-Greek

Polar bears are the einsteins of the bear community! - Charlie, LOST

I would rather fight with you than make love to anybody else - Nick Mercer, The Wedding Date

The perfect words never crossed my mind because there was nothing in there but you. - Snow Patrol

The best kind of love is not always an easy road because life will throw you curve balls- people change, people grow and sad things happen sometimes. I think the greatest loves are those that have overcome obstacles because they have withstood those things that life can throw at them. That kind of love is beautiful. -The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. Love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones that don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it and if it changes your life, let it. no one said it would be easy, they just promised it would be worth it. - Unknown

It's not that I can't live without you, it's that I don't even want to try. -Unknown (I am trying to remember where this one came from, when I figure it out, I'll post it)

Education... through comic books?

So this week has been kinda stressful for me. I found out on Tuesday that the six page term paper I spent 4 hours writing for my British Literature class was just the rough draft. The final is due tonight at midnight. Also, I spent Monday-Wednesday worrying about my take home Media Law mid term that was due about 8 minutes ago.

I know what you're thinking, take home mid term? That's easy!
No. It's not. I spent about 8-10 hours working on a 6 question mid term for that class, and I probably won't even get that great of a grade on it. Ha ha... oh well.

These are actually two of my favorite classes. Even though Media Law is an extremely hard class, I am learning so much about things that I would have never even thought about had I not taken this class. Yeah, the grades on the first mid term were not very good (everybody I know got below a 70...) but if I were to take the class again or from another teacher, most likely I would be bored and I would definitely not learn nearly as much as I am in this class. The lectures are pretty long, but he includes random little jokes that give them comedic relief (I won't write them her... he has his lectures copyrighted... no joke). Even if I don't understand some of his jokes, I can't help but laugh at them.

My English class, on the other hand, is always interesting. It's a British Literature class, but not the type that you'd think. We don't read Shakespeare, Jane Austen, or Charles Dickens (although I would love to read some of their books at some point in my life). Instead, my class has a theme. The theme my professor chose to teach this quarter is "Dystopia and Apocalypse." Every book and poem we have read this quarter has been about the end of the world, destruction of government, etc. Even the forms the books are published in are not your normal English books. We have read chapter books, short stories, poems, and eve comic books.

I highly recommend reading the books that I've read this quarter:

• The Last Man - By Mary Shelley (1800's, harder to read, author of "Frankenstein")
• The Time Machine - By H.G. Wells (very short, movie adaptations- "The Time Machine" and "Omega Man")
• The Chrysalids - By John Wyndham (religious commentary, creepy, but good)
• I Am Legend - By Richard Matheson (haven't read it yet, this is our book for next week)
• V for Vendetta - By Alan Moore (comic book, creepy, movie adaptation)
• Watchmen - By Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (comic book, very interesting, in theaters now! - I'm going to see it tonight!!!)
• --Other books that people in the class are reading as their assigned small group readings--
• The Children of Men - By P.D. James
• A Clockwork Orange - By Anthony Burgess
• 1984 - By George Orwell
• Memoirs of a Survivor - By Dorris Lessing

I have greatly enjoyed my English class. I love the stories we've read. I love the class conversations we have. I love the way my professor gets us to think about what we have been reading. I love when I say something in class and he gets a look on his face like he hasn't thought of it that way, and then thanks me after class for my participation and contribution of my ideas. I love that a requirement for our final is to go see "Watchmen" in class. I love that he has the opportunity for extra credit; beyond that I love that the extra credit opportunity is to watching one of the movie adaptations of one of the books we've read.

Hopefully I'll get around to reading the other groups' books at some point. I've seen the movie "The Children of Men," but I would really like to read the book.

I enjoyed reading these types of books so much (even though they gave me nightmares). I hope that I will continue reading these types of books on my own time. Maybe I'll go invest in some comic books of my own. Don't worry though, I'm keeping the ones I bought for this class. They were that good!

As for tonight, I'm going to see "Watchmen" with Brett, Luke, Gideon, and Mark. I'm not sure if Nikol, Kat, Cassie and Brian are coming, I hope they are, but it would also be okay if it was just me and the boys. I'm excited to see how closely the movie follows the comic book. It's supposed to be very true to the novel.

As for now, I'm done writing. After my term paper and my Media Law mid term, and then this blog, I think I've written my fair share in the past few days.

I will most likely post another blog tomorrow or Sunday about the movie tonight.

I also have other blog ideas but I don't want to overdo it and write so much that people don't want to take the time to read my blog (even though I'm pretty sure that Nikol is the only one who has actually ever checked it out). My blogs up until now have been pretty long as it is. Hmm... maybe I'll work on making them shorter.

Love <3 http://watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com/

oh yeah, just an afterthought. Yesterday, Luke and I went with Kathryn to "Boot Barn." I love that place. I want a cowboy hat and cowboy boots so bad! Sucks for me that they are super expensive!

another thought... I cancelled our spring break trip to Mexico yesterday. So sad :( Oh well, at least I'm getting $300 back. I could definitely use that kind of money.

thing's I've discovered

So the other day, Nikol taught me how to add things to my blog and make it interesting with things called "gadgets." I'm able to post blogs that I read (so far, only Nikol's, but I'm hoping to read a lot more once I get used to the site). I also added a "photo tips" thing so that I, and any one of my readers who is into photography, can check it out and maybe try something different with their photographs.

I also flipped through the gadgets I can theoretically add in the future, some of them look pretty cool. I really like the photography ones so that I can have a slideshow or whatever on my blog. That was really cool because the only other place I have to post my pictures is on Facebook. I feel as though my blog is a more artistic place to post photographs. I'm looking forward to going out more and taking pictures, of anything and everything. I'm not on my computer now, but when I turn it on later I'll look through my pictures and start a slide show of photos so people can look at them.

On another note, I was extremely productive the past few days. Yesterday, I started and finished my 5 page term paper for English. It is based on John Wyndham's science fiction novel The Chrysalids. The book was very good. My paper was about how the book is a polemic aimed at the reader which makes comments about the intolerance and malfunction of the way our society is run today. I think it turned out pretty well... I'll just have to wait to see if my professor thinks so too.

I also wrote my "statement of purpose" for my application for studying in Spain during fall quarter. That didn't turn out quite as well as I'd hoped, but I only had a page to put down EVERY reason I think studying abroad would be productive. One page is definitely not enough.

Kat's best friend Eryn came this weekend. I had so much fun talking to her and getting to know her a little better. We had a very funny conversation about parents and their advice to us. Her mom's advise: Eryn, be a lady. My mom's advice every time she can relate it to the conversation (and even sometimes when she can't): Now honey, you know you never leave your drink unattended at a party, right??
Yeah... thanks mom.

Last night was also a lot of fun. It was my friend Kathryn's birthday so we went out to dinner and went to her boyfriend's house afterwards. It was so much fun to hang out with those girls like Kathryn, Stephanie, Brittany, Christine, even Claire was there (which was great because I could thank her AGAIN for giving us a ride on Friday night when we were still out at 4 in the morning and didn't want to walk all the way home from Taco Bell).

Last night I also talked to Ashley for a while in the car because she wanted to borrow my snowboarding gear so we were going to pick it all up. We had a really good conversation and I'm glad I got a little bit of time to talk to her because I normally don't.

I know probably nobody else cares about this, but it is kinda a way for me to let loose and reflect on what happened this whole weekend. I guess when I start writing more, I'll be able to figure out what I actually want to write about. Until then, I'm just going to write whatever comes to my mind while I'm sitting in front of the computer.

That's about it for now. I've got a little bit more to do tonight so I can say I was 100% productive this weekend. That would include:
1. Reading my Ethnic Studies book "A Different Mirror"
2. Getting the Media Law book from Nikol so I can read before tomorrow's class
3. Proofing and e-mailing my essay to my Brit Lit professor
4. Reading "Watchmen" for my English class (yes, we are reading coming books in my Brit Lit class, more on that later)
5. Finishing my Spain application so I can turn it in tomorrow

Until next time <3

oh yeah... Last night I stopped by Kat, Nikol, Ashley, and Cassie's apartment to give Ashley the boarding stuff. Cassie and Brian were playing around on a cool website. Check it out: www.sporcle.com

another great one is: www.fmylife.com (this one is super funny)

It all starts somewhere

So, I started this blog as a class project for my "Writing for the Media" class with Dr. H. I never thought that I'd actually continue it but here I am, writing in it.

I've been reading my friend Nikol's blog and it has really inspired me to start writing in my own.

I have a hard time getting my thoughts out, and generally I just end up stressing myself and other people out when I'm really thinking about something. Maybe this will be a good outlet for me.

I should be writing my English term paper, but I've already done so much today. I went grocery shopping, registered for classes for next quarter, wrote my "statement of purpose" for studying abroad in Valladolid, Spain for the fall, and wrote a short response for my English class. I'm all out of energy to work on anything else having to do with school.

I'm not really sure if anybody will read this, but that's okay because it's more for me than anybody else anyway. If you read it, thanks for taking a look, I hope at least some of what I write about it interesting.

I'm sure this blog will be a combination of a lot of different stuff as I continue to build it and write more. I'm not a very political person, but the issues I do know about, I'm very passionate about and I will probably include them in my writing sometimes. Maybe my opinions won't change your mind about what's going on, but at least you'll hear someone's perspective who might not have the same ideas as you. I'll probably also write about classes, friends, family, shoes, music, poetry, quotes, or anything else that comes to mind. There's a lot of things that I always mean to write down but never actually do. This is my opportunity to do so.

As for now, I'm going to crawl into bed. Maybe I'll read for a little bit. That's something that I've been wanting to do more. I want to read more books that are for adults. Maybe some classics. I've read a bunch of teenage girl books, Twilight is one of my favorites (I love Carlisle, Alice, Esme, etc... not Edward). I haven't read old literature though, like Jane Austin, Shakespeare, Mary Shelly, and other classic writers. Maybe sometime soon I'll come up with a list of books I'd like to read. I'll probably post it here so (assuming I have at least one person reading my blog) whoever reads the list can add other books to my list that they may think would be good. I'll probably do it with movies too. Who knows what will end up happening with this blog, it's only the beginning.

Okay, off to bed to read "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch. This is a good book. I also read Ender's Game a few weeks ago because I had remembered reading it in my high school freshman english class with Mr. Johnson. I enjoyed it a lot the second time around. It was very well written and very advanced for it's time. I guess you could say I'm sort of a nerd... reading scifi books and all... oh well, that's just me.

Good night for now. Hopefully I will write another post soon.

Love.