Office Crisis NOT Averted!

I was looking at the last entry and I just want to re-emphasize that I watched 52 episodes of The Office between last Thursday and last night (Monday).

So even though I had all of that shit I had to do, I actually decided to by the next episode on itunes. FORTUNATELY I fell asleep before it finished. Then I did what I had to do today (bake sale, class (with test)). Then I decided, fuck it, I'm going to buy season 4 myself!!! So I actually go to Best Buy and they don't have it. I HONESTLY almost cried!!! Then I came back home and decided that maybe I would just buy all of the first disk on itunes. But then I decided that that was stupid. SO I changed my netflix subscription to 3 disks at a time to make everything go faster!!! Then I watched the first episode of season 4 (SOOOO GOOD) and bought the second episode on itunes and watched that. HOPEFULLY I will not buy any more tonight.
Also, I might still look into buying it at Newbury.

Please understand that this is 54 episodes. In 6 days.

(I'm not trying to justify it, but that's really only 9 episodes a day on average, and thats really only like... 3 and 1/2 hours...)

OMG The Office.

Here is the situation today:

It is 12:22am on Tuesday. I have a test at 1pm for which I need to read chapters 2-6. On Wednesday I have to have watched several episodes of Seinfeld (for real, I actually have to), read god knows how much for my quiz, solidly know the four story lines for our Sex and the City episode, pick out what I want to do for my HUGE documentary project (the final project for my scary class), and do something excessive for my talk show.

I have done NONE of these things.

However the REAL issue is, remember how I watched 29 episodes of The Office, leaving me at the end of season 2? Well, after my fun on Sunday ;) , I facebook posted on my friend who loaned me season 2's wall asking for the next season. After I posted that, I realized that I can watch season 3 in PERFECT quality online on netflix. After Chords, I watched about 6 episodes!! (Btw, I was EXHAUSTED and it was SOOOOO LUCKY that the Pam and Jim story wasn't progressing or I would have honestly never slept)! Then I got season 3 from my friend. I watched THE REST OF THE EPISODES TODAY!!! Which is a) embarassing, and b) INCREDIBLY irresponsible considering how much shit I have to do!!!

BUT THERE ARE 3 WORST PARTS!
1) We have FINALLY hit what I've been waiting for with Pam and Jim-- SO CLIFFHANGER-Y THAT I'M GOING TO DIE!!
2) even though I have SO much to do, I would still watch this next episode on netflix if it was available... but it's NOT!
3) MY FRIEND DOESN'T HAVE THIS SEASON!!! So no MATTER WHAT I have to wait for the individual disks!!!

Hopefully I can take this opportunity to experience discomfort and thus learn to self control... because honestly, this is getting out of hand!

29 Episodes of The Office

I have developed an addiction to The Office. I'm SLIGHTLY worried that it may parallel my former addiction to Friends.

Actually, let me give you a little run-down of what I've been up to:
On Thursday I got my netflix season 1 of The Office (6 episodes). I also borrowed season 2 (22 episodes) from a TV classmate (I've got the hook up now, ya'll). I also had a miraculous reboost of obsession in reading The Host.

Between Thursday and now (very early Sunday)this is what I've done:
1) read over 300 pages of The Host.
2) watched an astounding 28 episodes of The Office on dvd.
3) watched the season premiere of The Office (so now 29 episodes)
4) watched the presidential debate
5) watched The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
6) went to all of my classes
7) completed 6 hours of work (the paid kind)
8) completed 1 hour of class (which is all I have)
9) had Amanda and Alex over twice
10) hung out with Jenn O
11) did a four hour video shoot (no exaggeration)

What I'm saying is... I'm actually BREEDING time. I don't know how one can do all of these things whilst eating and sleeping... but I can. I. Am. Amazing.
(but seriously... 29 episodes of The Office in 3 days???)

Also, the end of season 2 has left me at a cliff hanger... and I'm about to die. WAITING SUCKS!!! And I know that after I finish season 3 and 4 (which, at this rate could be before the next ACTUAL episode), watching the show once a week is going to be TORTURE!! I have, I believe, LITERALLY never watched a show weekly that I REALLY cared about. I only watched House, which I loved but never thought about really, Top Model which is alright, and Project Runway-- I can do without them all. Not so much with The Office.

That being said, this was my dream-- I did have the mission of getting into The Office.

Also, I am in love with John Krasinski, obviously, and have done my basic search that I do when I'm in love with anyone. IMdb for all movies, trivia, and ESPECIALLY personal quotes. Then see any interview with Ellen Degeneres and Craig Ferguson. Letterman next. (I'm not joking, I do this with a LOT of people... it's my test).

Rodent Cat Marriage Dream

Before I forget, I have been having some pretty intense dreams that I DO remember when I wake up but have since forgotten... except the one last night which I'm going to try to tell. 

Ok, so I'm going to marry some man that I don't recognize in life, but obviously I did in my dream. So we're going to have this wedding and my fiance and I go into this basement to get stuff I guess and it's kind of messy, but there is also this tv that has this really interesting art on it... mostly in like black and red-- the art is kind of dark-looking. And the tv is rotating around the room, like moving and then pointing to an area for a bit and then moving to a different specific place. And then I see that it's pointing to a part of the room which actually has the art that's on the screen on it-- to clarify, it was art that was hidden in the semi-messy basement that was pointed out by this small tv screen and changed/enhanced in color. 

So as we're looking at this scene, I get sad and tell him that this was where I was going to have my other wedding. And then I realize I remember this place and my OTHER fiance (obviously only in the dream, not in life). 

Then I go to Walmart and in the middle there are areas with different kinds of pet rodents like guinea pigs and hamsters and stuff. So I pick some hamsters (that were bigger in my dream, but only a little) and I set them on the ground. And then I realize I should have put them back but they're already gone. Then I go to another one and I set those rodents on the ground and then remember I shouldn't have again. Then I go to a third one and I set those on the ground (only 2 or so out of each container). Then I decide this is ridiculous and I have to try to get these rodents back. So I catch one before it even leaves where my feet are. Then I see the other one a few yards away, and I'm about to go get it but instead I just open my arms to see if it will come to me. And then it looks REALLY SCARED and runs to me and I put it back. THEN I see this orange cat with like... a CRAZY FACE!! It looked REALLY messed up with big black eye-spots and the front looked smushed. So I run away to an aisle of Walmart and the cat comes too. So I FREAK OUT and start kicking the cat like... a LOOOT! The cat's not really resisting or anything. Then Julia Hodge, who I haven't seen since I graduated high school, comes and yells at me for kicking the cat. Then she tells me the cat is really famous and was going to be at my old wedding. Then she takes a MASK off of the cat and it looks pretty normal... and almost wise! And the cat is hurt but not in critical condition. He just looks at me and I feel TERRIBLE.

I don't know what happened, if anything, but I end up having the OLD wedding that I was going to have in the basement. This time I'm with a very tall, beautiful quiet man who is clearly very wise-- he's kind of the way I imagined Marcus Flutie from Second Helpings, because I never pictured Marcus with red hair. For whatever reason, I'm sad again. Then we're about to have the wedding and there are about 7 people sitting on fold-out chairs in this basement. When we sit down, the man and I are 3 or 4 people apart. Then we say at the same time "I wanna be next to Blane/Blythe" (this is when his name becomes Blane, which I knew in the dream). So everyone laughs because it's our wedding so we obviously want to sit next to each other. After we're next to each other, I hold him and he's so calm and ready and smells like matches and THEN I'm not sad anymore and I remember that I definitely wanted to be with Blane and it was lucky that I got out of my marriage with the other guy. 

Then I wake up and realized that I overslept my alarm. 

The ACTUAL End of Brad

Me: Sorry Brad, My mom didn't get your email. Here's her email address again: (email ommitted)

Brad: That's where I sent the e-mail--I will re-send it. Hmmmmm. And you didn't tell me whether I should add you as a friend or not.....

Me: I'm sorry, but I don't think we should be friends on facebook. Even though I'm sure you're a nice guy, I can't help but be uncomfortable giving my information to someone I don't really know (I've grown up in an age of extreme caution). But, I hope you're correspondence with my mom goes well.

Brad: You know what? Your mother raised you well. I always knew you would turn out great. Thanks for everything.

Netflix is My Personal Heaven

MOST IMPORTANTLY, I have made the wisest decision I could ever make today, which is to sign up for netflix. I just spent about an hour orgasming over the site (I'm sorry to be graphic... but there is no other way to describe the intense pleasure!)!

SO, I don't know if you know this, but I'm KIND OF obsessed with the amazon.com feature where the site recommends things you're probably going to like. So then I go through and say what that I already have it or if I'm not interested in buying it. You NEVER have to stop that game, btw, because they can recommend FOREVER! I've spent I bet, if I honestly had to guess, about 8 hours of my life looking through things amazon thinks I might like.

THAT SAID, netflix is EVEN BETTER and I'll tell you why!:

1) It's only movies. Amazon knows that I mostly like/will buy movies, but I bought 2 sarongs once and now it randomly thinks I'm into fabrics.

2) Because of the monthly fee, I can actually make these movie dreams come true! On amazon, the practice is just masochistic since I obviously can't buy said movies!

3) (and possibily the funnest part!!) Netflix actually GUESSES how much I'm going to like EVERY MOVIE based on a scale of 1-5 stars. Then I can go through and rate the movies the way I actually would! And the coolest part was that it wasn't ever off by much! Only by about a half a star usually!!! THAT'S SO NEAT!!!! Although I did think it was funny that they thought I would give four stars to the movie Blue's Clues: Blue's Big Band. That's a little awkward... I half believe netflix.

ANYWAY, I also decided to apply for my absentee ballot today. I know I ALWAYS write about this, but they do NOT WANT YOU TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT! I don't know who "they" is, but I can never find what district and ward and municipality I'm in. It's SO annoying! I wrote the PA voting site and told them that they need to put that information, AND what's going to be on the ballot, on the site. Especially since the site tells you that it recommends you bring a list of candidates and issues that are going to be on the ballot TO the voting booth. I was like "ummm could you just GIVE ME what's on the ballot?" Especially since the questions are different for each state. ugh.

That said, everyone should vote!!! Also, Obama's voteforchange.com was really really helpful (it makes sense that Obama would put money towards making absentee voting easier! That could be a third of his supporters!)! Even if you're not voting for Obama, you should use the site!

Also, I got an A on my first production project where I had to do the 6 shots. He said "This is a good story, well written with a lot of nice detail. it shows a talent for inventing a story and filming it with intricate details."

HELLZ YEAH!

Two days ago, I was looking through my camera case, and I found a check from this summer that I forgot to deposit for $287!!!!!! !!!!! That's AWWWWWWWWESOME!!!! It was my inspiration for netflix.

Also, I think I'm going to go to the Hanson concert in Providence, RI. It's in the works.

NATALYA IS STILL HERE!! We're having a shit-ton of fun!!! She just got a job for about $500 a WEEK!!! which she can start anytime between now and November. SO she might stay and get an apartment, or she might go to State College, or Polland... or Argentina. It's up in the air. I'll keep... my blog updated on that information...

Just Sayin'

"John McCain and his wife, Cindy own a whopping THIRTEEN cars, including foreign-made automobiles.
Why do they need that many cars?????
By contrast, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, only have one car to their name."
~Perez Hilton

Most Hilarious End of Brad

I told Brad my mom's email address again because she seemed disappointed that I hadn't replied (although I TOTALLY understand the curiousity). Today I asked if he wrote to her and she said:

No he didn't but I got this weird email saying that they wanted to have sex with me I figured it was spam and deleted it but then I got to thinking maybe that was him trying to be funny since he seems to have a warped sense of humor--anyway glad u like the pan and also that natalya is safe ttul, Mom

Nataaaaaaalya!

NATALYA HAS SPONTANEOUSLY COME TO STAY WITH ME!!!

On Tuesday she called me and we discussed how wretched H-town is and how she was rotting. I told her that she could obviously always come to Boston and so she was like "alright. I'll come tomorrow," (!!!)! Later that night she told me that she kind of wanted to see her fam for a little longer but would probably come before Saturday. Then YESTERDAY she called at maybe... 2pm and I called her back at 4 when I got out of work. The news: she was almost at Boston, about an hour and a half away!!

Anyway, we had a very good night!! And she's going to stay until next weekend when she has to go to NY, but then she might return!

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

In other news, we posted our list of people we want to join Chords this morning! So far 2/7 have accepted. I'm VERY excited!!! Although many got accepted to several groups... so it's all up in the air!!!

Wednesday-- Movie Day

Glorious day for a Wednesday! I have the most class on Wednesdays.

I realised, actually, that one of my classes ends at 12:30pm and the next starts at 3pm-- PERFECT for eating lunch and watching a movie!!! I watched D2: The Mighty Ducks 2 (I watched the first one a few days ago!)! After all of my classes and visiting Courtney and chatting with Caroline (who sadly had to listen to my life story and views on politics... again... ) I watched The Talented Mr. Ripley for the first time! SCARY movie! I almost had a heartattack. A lot like Matchpoint. I have to note that NOW when I'm watching movies, I feel a little bit like I'm studying for class. My life couldn't get any better!

Sleep, Comfort, Chords

Several fun things!
First: I have been getting SO MUCH SLEEP it's insane! This is possibly an adjusting period. I'm trying to compromise by love of nights with my new-found love of mornings. This is challenging since things happen in the DAY! I'm just all about siestas (I think). You can get your productivity done in the morning (a pleasure I'm learning to really love), take a snooze, and rock out the rest of your day.

Second: I was debating whether I would write this in my written journal (which is significantly more private (as I am the only reader (and I don't even read it too often))) or this one... but I've chosen this one. I am feeling VERY comfortable this year! I'm feeling like I think I did junior year of highschool... obviously besides all the stress of college. I just really like the path that I'm on, and I feel like I've been making the right decisions, and I didn't even realize I didn't feel like that before until now. I didn't realize that I hadn't come to terms with all that I've done. But also I feel like I'm doing a lot of activities that I love, and a lot of people know me, and no doors are really closed at all. I just know that when I was a junior in highschool, I really FELT like I could answer questions and take charge and be more assertive without being arrogant. I just knew how things went... or I had a good idea.

That said, I was wondering if next year will feel like senior year of highschool for me. I know that I remember junior year as being the worst, but I'm pretty sure that senior year was the most messed up. I just wonder if finding a job is going to be as crazy and overwhelming as finding a college was for me. I hope not. I'm not trying to be pessamistic. I just think that maybe I should prepare for that possibility. Start early. Make sure I have enough knowledge to get going, because I can definitely see the light right now. I'm just worried that my own insecurity or feeling of ignorance or sizing myself up to other people might get in the way as the time approaches. At least college turned out well. Hopefully I'll remember that.

In other news (third if you're still counting): We did call-backs for Chords today! It was pretty fun! Although we did the song that I solo in, and so it was surprisingly hard to listen to the girls and sing. But, I think we picked some good ones. I just hope that we actually get them, because they could get snagged by other groups. But I thought we were pretty fun. I would be hard-pressed to find a more fun group of ladies-- no joke!

More on Awkward Brad and some Critical Information

Not to keep dwelling on this, but here is what my mom told me in response to my email about how this Brad is being weird:

I just went through all my emails again and unless he used some other name or something then I rec'd nothing from him and I am so sory that your in the middle of this because it is weird that he keeps talking to you like your a friend of his or something when he's older than I am. you can give him my address one more time and if he can't get it right then just block him ok?! Thank you. Love MOM

BUT in other news, I finished my first video-ish shoot on Saturday. It looks hilarious, but it's supposed to look shitty so that's ok. But my actors (Caroline and Jenn) were very cooperative and wonderful!

Also, we had the preliminary try-outs for Chordially Yours (Chords (my a capella group)) which was KIND OF fun... but actually more tiring than you might think. BUT I have faith that we'll pick some gems out of our 60 auditioners. Tuesday is our call back!

It is important to note that I discovered (/was told by Rachael) that you can put pictures onto a disk (from ANYWHERE!) and bring them to CVS and they print them out like ACTUAL pictures for $.29 per picture. I've made 19 miscellaneous ones so far, but obviously plan on spending all of my money there from now on! It's just SO GOOD TO KNOW! I hope they never get rid of that feature! I've already made a new Chords poster!

I've Got Myself an Middle-Aged Man Pest

After NOT responding to his last message (when he wanted me to be his friend), I received this:

OK, I sent your mom an e-mail and she didn't respond. Give her a nudge for me will ya? Thanks, Brad

buuuh...

Busy Busy!!

So I've been running around like a crazy lady trying to get all of my stuff done. 

In fact, let me give you the low-down on my week.

Monday: 

-work from 9:30-11

-class from 11-12:30

-then i went home, ate lunch, and read a bit for my class the next day

-at 4pm i went to the Geddes lab to watch 2 videos for my writing class for Wednesday totaling in a bit more than 2 hours. 

-when i got home I decided to go grocery shopping and drop of a book at Jen O's place. However, I got side-tracked and stayed at Jen's until 8:20 (20 minutes after Gossip Girl started... I think that's right). 

-while going to the close grocery store, I see Caroline and Wolf going to Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I join them thinking I might get an air mattress. I don't because they are a million dollars but I stay to help pick out a comforter. Then we all go to the big grocery store. 

-I finally get home around 11pm, eat dinner, and sit down to start writing a treatment for a story due the next day. 

-I finish the story around 2am and go to bed. 

Tuesday:

-I wake up at 11am to get ready. 

-I leave the house at 11:50 to go and print my treatment. 

-at 12:30 I ate some sushi and read for my class more

-1-4pm video producing class

-from 4-5:45pm I visited Pat and ate dinner

-5:45 - 6:30pm I visited Elena and Brittany

-7pm - 9:30 (usually 10pm) Chords

(this is where I get to be a stinker)

-9:45pm- 1am... PUTZ AROUND! I read my own blog from 2005 for like... an hour. 

-1am-3am write radio story draft for the next day and then bed

Wednesday: 

-6:40am- wake up and don't take a shower. Email radio story. 

-7:10 leave to go to jury duty

-8am-1pm jury duty (which I'll tell you about)

-1:30pm I ate lunch a loaned a few movies to a friend

-then, since I was already excused because I wasn't sure when I would get back, AND I was exhausted,  I skipped the rest of my classes for the day. Thus from 3-7pm I napped. 

-then I PUTZED AGAIN!! This includes watching 2 episodes of Dawson's Creek and youtube-ing excessively.

-at 1am I started writing an overview of articles that I'd read earlier that day for anthro. 

-at 2am I took a shower.

-at 3:30am I fell asleep. 

Thursday (today): 

-woke up at 6:50am

-got to CAS to chalkboard for Chords auditions at 7:30am

-at 8am I went to the computer lab and finished my paper-thing. Then I delivered it to my teachers mailbox on Bay State. 

-at 9:45ish I got to the GSU for link tables.

-at 12: 40pm I left to go to work

-am currently at work until 4pm

-at 4pm I have to COM and meet with the TA for the class that I legitimately missed. It should be done before 4:30pm-- I should probably print another copy of my radio draft while we're at it.

-then I have until about 5:45pm to eat and whatever. 

-then at 6:15 I have to be all the way down at CFA to start the AUDITIONS!!!

-we'll be done after 10pm so I'll take the T down to Myles, stop by to say hi to Sas, and then visit with Elana. I don't know when that will end. 

-afterwards, I have to plan out my shots for Saturday and perhaps secure another actor. I also have to see if I need to finish anything for anthro. 

Friday (tomorrow) the plan is: 

-wake up by at least 7:30am if not earlier

-get to COM around 8:30am to get my camera for the weekend. Then I need to bring it all the way back home.

-I need to come back to Commonwealth again for work from 10am-1pm. 

-at 1pm I need to call my writing partner and read to him my draft, and he needs to read his to me.

-lunch around 2pm hopefully

-3-4pm is anthro

-then at night I'm hanging out with Claire C (from OCS). Also I might see Elana. Also I have to have radio notes emailed to my writing TA by midnight (but I should be able to get that done earlier). 

Wasn't that fun?

I was reading my journals starting in September of 2005 (and now I'm at December). I cannot believe I survived. Honestly, it was madness. I'm so glad that part of life is done. I MUST remember to help Meredith (my sister) when it comes time for college. If nothing else! I can't even believe how close I came to actually going insane. I may have been teetering on the edge, to be honest. 

I just need to mention that:

Saturday: MY FIRST CAMERA SHOOT!!! Also, fun at Harvard Square with Claire S and Elana!!!!

Sunday: MORE AUDITIONS FOR CHORDS!!!

Also, I need to talk about jury duty for a second.

I was SOOO impressed with how friendly and helpful EVERYONE in the courthouse was. They gave us a very nice speech about how they understand that jury duty is inconvenient but it's also very beautiful that in our country we get a legitimate chance to be tried by regular citizens. Also they reminded us that our country only calls on us twice and one is for the military and one is for jury duty. Also, every person that talked to us emphasized innocent until proven guilty! It was all very inspiring. Plus, no one really seemed pissed off to be there-- no one was short tempered and everyone greeted me with a good morning and a smile. I should write and tell them how great it was. 

So I walked into the court room and there were like... a jillion people there. And I saw the defendant and he was the scariest looking guy EVER and even though I didn't know what he was accused of, I felt sure that he did it. I felt like I'd seen him a million times on the discovery channel on like... a death row special. Anyway, he was being accused of raping and stabbing a woman to death!!! I was SO nervous being in the room with him... even though I knew nothing would happen. 

They asked us about a jillion questions related to being biased or knowing anyone involved or whatever. They asked if any of us or our families were involved in a rape crisis center and my mom was so I raised my hand, only for that one. A LOT of people raised their hands though. AND they told us that the trial would start on Monday and the evidence would probably all be presented by early next week... and then the jurors start deliberation. Then they took us away and I started to REALLY think they were going to pick me! Plus I couldn't decide if it was selfish to say that I couldn't give a week and half to this case. But really, missing two weeks would be irreparable damage! But also, it's not like I'm ever going to war for the country... but a trial by jury is a very beautiful thing and I want to be a part of that sort of system. 

When I was called in, the judge, who was the NICEST LADY EVER--I wanted her to be amongst my many grandmas-- asked why I raised my hand and I told her about the rape crisis thing. She asked if I thought I was biased and I answered with an honest "I don't think so." Then she asked if I went to Boston University, since I wrote only that I worked there. I said I was a full-time student and she said she didn't want me to miss 2 weeks of class and that I was excused. I was SUPER relieved. I'd really convinced myself that I was the perfect candidate for the jury and that they were going to pick me!

I'm exhausted. No more. That was LONG!

Non-Relative 40-Year-Olds are Not Friends

Yesterday's success: I spent less than $50 on my weekly shopping! Mission accomplished!

Today we learned some very VERY basics about a camera so that we can do some shoots!! FOR TUESDAY!! I'm CRAZY excited. I just want to NOT do all of my homework due tomorrow and focus on making storyboards for my shoot. It's only 6 cuts... which isn't 6 scenes. It's 6 different times that you turn the camera on and off. LUCKILY I wrote a story with only 4 characters, all women, and only two settings. One is a dorm room. And my scene is in a dorm room with only two people! That was LUCKY!

In other news, I have jury duty tomorrow, which I'm pretty excited to do. I am all about my civic duty. BUUUT I really hope they don't make me do any long trials-- I'm a STUDENT! And I can't miss ANY DAYS! I'm already up a creek with missing this day. I think they should make the system better. That's right. I'm going to willy-nilly declare that the system should be improved whilst knowing nothing about how it works. I say, let's shorten this shit up! One day of trial. And you just sit in the damn room until everyone decides on a verdict. Like 12 Angry Men. EASY! No getting out of it. No picking your favorite jurors. Everyone just gets one day. We can even do it per year. One day a year you go. Done.

But actually, we'll just see how I feel after I've experienced the whole shabang.

On a completely side subject, I get a message on facebook from a 40-ish year old man entitled "Is your mom Rebecca?" which is my mom's name. The message goes:

When I was in Med school, you were a little kid, and your mom and I were friends if she is Rebecca. I always wondered what happened to the two of you. Respond if you get a minute. Thanks! Brad

That sounded perfectly legit. So I tell my mother about the message and she agrees that she knows him. I ask if I can give him her email address and she agrees. So I write:

Hi Brad,
Thank you for contacting me. My mother is Rebecca! I told her that you messaged me and she told me to give you her email address, if you want to talk to her directly.
(email address omitted)

Have a great day! My mother will be excited to hear from you!
Blythe

We should agree that this should have been the end of our correspondence. But nay:

Gee, you couldn't talk her into making her own Facebook page so I could find her here?? Thanks for responding. Shall I add you as a friend?? Brad

Ummm... No 40-year-old stranger. I told my mom about this email and she said he hadn't emailed her yet. Awkward.
He obvs gets no reply.

Important date: Sept. 26-- Obama/McCain debate! Arguably the best part of elections!

Another Epic Email

note: I wasn't going to post this one too, but then I remembered that it's my blog and I can do what I want!

hey mom,

 sorry if these emails are annoying but you HAVE to know!

 So yesterday I had my first day of the rest of my classes. My first class was 11-12:30 and it’s television writing. Im basically the MOST EXCITED IVE EVER BEEN!!! Which is lucky because I THOUGHT it might be my fave! I mean… I haven’t done anything so we’ll see.. but the final project is to write an entire episode of…

 SEX AND THE CITY!!!!

 Does it get any luckier?? Also my homework for this weekend is to watch shrek (along with other things, obviously… but that’s AWESOME!!!) also, we have show-viewing homework… which is why I really needed a tv (forshadowing).

 My checks cleared, so after class I HAD to go grocery shopping. It was like $90, but a lot of the stuff I won’t have to replace that quickly like mustard and olive oil and stuff. Plus I got shampoo and conditioner and facewash… so it all added up. I feel alright about it.  But I got some frozen vegetables, canned vegetables, lunch meat, cheese, milk, bread… tuna. Not too much meat because I realized that I ONLY know how to make rosemary chicken and I didn’t want to get ingredients for that because who knows when im going to make it again. But I DID get granola bars because even though I don’t like them too much, if they’re in my bag when im out and hungry, they are INFINITELY more appealing!

 Anyway, I ate a turkey sandwich and then went to my food anthro class. It’s my biggest class by far… with about 60 students. The woman actually cooked for Jackie O! also she wrote 2 cookbooks in the 70s. it’s SO good though because the class is only an hour and I have 2 three hour classes and 1 hour and a half one… so it was almost like I had no class at all. Im sure its going to be fun. There are lots of field trips too! So when you come to boston maybe I can show you some really fun places to eat. Also our final project is a cooking project that we bring in.. so it’s nice that I have a kitchen! Also, pat’s old roommate, Justin, is in the class.

 After class I visited pat for a bit and ate a banana and read some of my book. Then I went to my 6-9 producing 1 class which I was REALLY afraid of.

 So it turns out, the two girls who are in my other producing class, the anthro/tv majors are BOTH in this class, as is one of the girls in my group from my writing class. So one of the girls is in 3 of my classes! This makes me feel like I was making the right, logical class choices.

 The lady was a little scary but alright. We have to REEEEAAALLY know current events. Luckily I don’t think it will be THAT hard for me to step it up a notch. But I have to read the NY times and the “trades” (which is like … variety or something) every day! It’s intense. Im glad I was already keeping up.. and also that I read perezhilton like… 3 times a day. He HELPS!

 After class (which was let out an hour early), I went to visit my friend Lorna, and then saw Amanda and Rachael for project runway. Then I saw lorna again, with saswato and Lynda. And then I went home and ate a can of peas and carrots and went to bed.

 Then today I woke up at like 11:20… which was pretty late, ate a turkey sandwich, and then went to my first day of work. basically it was VERY easy… I made copies and ran errands and stuff. But I felt very comfortable, which was nice. I might get spoiled by such an easy job.

 Then I went to best buy and got a tv. With the cable for cable and a dvd player it cost me $308, which I can’t complain about it. Plus it was easy as hell to carry. I looked at the tvs for a long time because I was a little embarrassed by just picking the cheapest one… so I pretended that I was evaluating them closely… but really, after you can't see the different screens next to each other… it doesn’t matter which screen has the marginally better picture! So whatever. Im pleased with myself.

 Im going to play cards with my friends tonight.. and then tomorrow im either going to go to a party-ish or see the drive in movie at bu which is the sex and the city movie followed by ironman!! So… we’ll see.

 Sorry I had to tell you about all of that… but it was important.

 -blythe

An Email to my Mother

hey mom,

i just wanted to tell you about my first day of classes... and i was going to call you but then i didn't and now it's too late.

background: i overdrew my banking account, as you know, and while i deposited all of my checks, they haven't processed yet so i can't buy anything (btw, in case you're curious, i overdrew because i transfered enough money to come home and buy all the crap i needed ($250 ish) but i FORGOT that i just bought my books so i overdrew by like $200 and they charged me about $200... so that SUCKS!!!... but i know it's in the past).

thus, i have NO FOOD!! i have $500 in convenience points, but i had to spend $35 on extra books plus i had to get folders... and then i needed mayonaise which was like $3.50 so i could eat tuna instead of pasta again! and i don't want to waste my meals because i only have 47 for the sememster... which is about 3 per week.

so this morning i woke up, didn't eat, took a shower, and went to see about this new job. now i got $1466 for work study, so i basically can only work like 8 hours a week. BUT the lady didn't make me have a recommendation or anything. and i get to work for like... a few hours at a time... so im working 3 hours at most and it's mostly just making copies and delivering stuff, and one of the days kelly told me you basically don't do anything. so that's GREAT!! and TECHNICALLY i could probably get another job because it's all during times that i COULD have class... so all my afternoons are free.

BUUUUUUT i would basically only get like $50 a week... which is like... JUST enough money to live on. so im a little scared. AND i don't WANT to get another job because i have chords and my classwork, which ill talk about in a second.

SOOOO after i got done at the office (10-12pm), i had to find something cheap to eat. i ended up getting a little $2 thing of hummus and crackers and a $1.50 tiny thing of tuna salad and crackers (im sure you know what im talking about) and a can of coke. it was actually filling though, and i sat outside. it's been BEAUTIFUL!

then i went to my first and only class of the day which is video production and it's from 1-4pm. so, i always get nervous with these television classes because i feel like im soooo underexperienced! BUT he asked us (about 20 in the class) how many had experience with cameras and like... 1/3 raised their hand. then my professor told them to try and forget that stuff because it's harder when you already have experience and that he works as though everyone is brand new to it. it made me feel SOOOO good!! and then he went around and asked everyone where they were from and what they were interested in, and everyone seemed just as unsure as me. AND we're all juniors. i just felt OVERWHELMINGLY good.. like maybe everything is going to turn out fine with my future career and everything... because i can just work really hard and then people like kelly will recommend me to a great position and that's how ill be fine!! it was SOOOOO GREAT FEELING!!!

then he started talking to us about terms and important stuff about film and cameras and i already knew a lot of the terms... and everything he said about this film he showed us, i THOUGHT!! i was ELATED!!

we also got a 15 minute break, and a girl came over to me and asked if i was in her sex and gender class last year (which i was), and then we started talking and shes double majoring in tv and anthro!!!!!! which is what i want to do!!! so she was telling me how i should do it, and then the girl across from me came back from the bathroom and overheard what we were talking about and SHE'S ALSO MAJORING IN TV AND ANTHRO!! it was SOOOO LUCKY!!!!!!!! PLUS the first girl is in my tv writing class too!!

PLUS, im taking TWO production courses this semester, and the other one im pretty scared of because the professor got REALLY bad ratings on ratemyprofessor.com and i tried to avoid her but the other professor quit so i got her. BUUUUT i think that even if i feel like i dont' have a lot of experience in her class, at least i feel comfortable in this other class and ill be getting experience from there.

after class i went to get the rest of my ocs checks and i actually had 3 instead of 2 so that was GREAT!! then i deposited them!

then i ate at hillel with rachael because amanda started her job there tonight.

then i did all the pre-work for my production class... i discovered that there was a south campus computer lab!! AND it has recycling so i can bring my recycling when i need to print something!!!

then i hung out with caroline!

it was a GREAT DAY!!

BUT im really worried about starving... running out of money. i have 5 video projects for my producing class, 4 with a group.. so that's OBVIOUSLY going to be a lot of time outside of class, PLUS i have a whole other production class. and writing is going to be weekly assignments... and anthro has field trips!!! (it's about food!). so i basically can't get another job, i don't think. PLUS i NEED a tv because my writing class has watching-tv assignments! so ... i for sure can't get the comforter i wanted... at most i can get a shittier one even though i wanted it to be like.. my investment. but tvs cost like $200 at the LEAST because they only sell hi-def now.. i mean $250 is the cheapest at best buy... and i don't know where else i could go.

im pretty excited by all of this money pressure... even though im also worried.

i hope you had a good day too!
blythe