i still try holding on to silly things, i never learn

in honor of this being my last week here, the rd has graciously allowed me tomorrow off. of course, that means i have to work today since i also had wednesday off. i mean, it's pretty chill - i haven't had to bust any parties or people with alcohol (or animals... ahem), so y'all made it a pretty easy summer for me, which i appreciate. (keeping this in mind, i ask that you please continue on, and not make this last night miserable for me. yeah? yeah, okay cool.)

so with that being said, here's an open invite to my going away party. i decided i was going to throw myself one because you all know you're gonna miss me. we could have it at the lounge between keaton and jannings, but if anyone wants to volunteer a space they have, that'd be pretty epic. then it wouldn't feel like one of those school parties where you're at school, but you're partying, so you can't really party. :P

yeah, that's all.

so, my birthday came and went and i didn't make a big deal out of it. i've been 22 for a week. doesn't feel much different to me. though my ra friends threw me a little party. nothing too crazy, because you know, we are ras and we have to set a good example and blah blah blah.

hehe.

but seriously. i dunno, after 21 everything seems kind of downhill from there. when did i get so old? i chill in my room being a bum, eating junk food and watching crap on youtube, or else i have to go deal with kids who lost their keys or someone stomping too hard (no dance parties, baby k, it had better not be you, i know all about your infamous dance parties ;D) or some other stuff. i guess i shouldn't be bagging on you guys, though. at least i haven't had to break up any parties... yet. ;)

so anyone want to do anything? i do get days off, you know. ;) and hey. i'm here for a limited time only... you should make the most of it before i peace out forever. (god, i sound like a commercial. fail.)

the series finale of lost is tonight. i wanted to turn it into a viewing party, you know, for all the new froshies that have nothing better to do with their lives here at mcd, but maybe i'll just start watching it in the lounge and see who turns up. every time i try to organize a viewing party nobody comes... so if i don't try, maybe it'll be a real party? who knows.

catch you in the lounge between keaton and jannings if you're interested (hot damn, i've missed this lounge).

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i've been watching the news a lot. i mean, more than usual (gotta get my broadcast journalism fix somehow). i mean, when i'm not harassing myself to finish my film. that's pretty much done, anyway (thank god, that was killing me!).

the oil spill in the gulf of mexico is fascinating, in a good way and a bad way. bad because, you know, all my homeboys aren't gonna have jobs, and all the birds and fish are gonna die. our neighbor, his dad works down at the coast, fishing. it's gotta suck to know you're out of work because some idiot didn't know how to handle his oil rig right. ugh.

anyway, part of me kinda wants to head home and go out there, film what it's like. it'd be cool 'cause i'd be closer to home, you know? with the footloose documentary under my boat, this could be the breakthrough of a lifetime.

or maybe i'm just exaggerating. at any rate, there's still graduation and a few more months of ra'ing to do (you know y'all want me around for the summer, i make summer fun again!). at least there's options now, for what i want to do after i get out of here. no doubt my mom is gonna be on my case for it, but whatev. it's all good.

damn. the only thing i was expecting at the nickelodeon was for the av equipment to fail and standing up there looking like an idiot going "o hai, no sneak preview tonight guys, sry."

i got a freakin' award! how epic is that?

no, for serious. apparently they thought all the stuff i've been doing for my project (hello, this is why i have had no life for the last two months) was pretty awesome and wanted to give me some award for it. it's a nice thing to know your school is behind you if you want to do something awesome like that. man. if i had known this was the way to go i would have done something like this sooner!

but it ain't over yet. i still have to edit the crap out of this baby. that's the worst part. anyone want to help me? :)

p.s., all y'all footloose people are incredible. just sayin'.

little known fact about myself: i am a news junkie.

wait, let me rephrase that. i like watching live, broadcast news on tv. think cnn, fox news... mostly cnn 'cause sometimes fox news makes me cringe. anyway, i like it when something major happens, and reporters ask the dumbest questions. seriously, lady, she said she doesn't know, don't rephrase your question in a different way and ask it again. it just makes me want to facepalm so hard. if i ever become a broadcast journalist (hence the minor), i swear i will be smarter than that.

this is how i spent my sunday (no pun intended, haha)... why do you ask? yes, there was an earthquake. that's the fourth one in four months. notice a pattern? (my favorite, though, was filming hilo bay after the chile earthquake. everyone sat around for the good part of an hour and... nothing happened. it was epic.)

ahem. moving on.

project's going alright. i might have to start cramming in more filming in the next two weeks if i have any hope of editing this thing to where it makes sense, and i haven't gotten to at least half the people i want. procrastination = my friend. sort of. anyway, if you haven't found me yet, i will start hunting you down. don't underestimate the power of a documentary... making... person-type (documentarian? whatev) coming at you with a camera. i will find you. (cue dramatic, maniacal laughter here)

on that note. have a great week everyone! :P

sup, homies.

so, this is directed specifically to those of you that are involved in the musical. there will probably be some sort of formal announcement like, 'hi, i'm sunday, this is my camera, we'll all be friends these next few weeks', but i'm popping in to inform you that i will be up in your personal lives throughout the duration of this musical. there is nothing you cannot hide from this camera of mine.

kidding, kidding.

seriously though. i've decided that my final film project is going to be documenting the production of this musical. why did the directors decide this one? why were the people cast as they were? what's it like being stage manager/leading lady/costume designer/musician/assistant director... you get the idea, don't you?

anyway. so yeah, i'll be around talking to people and filming and putting it together to make one kick-ass final project. if you're in the musical, and you want to be a part of this (i'm doing individual and group interviews as well as just filming rehearsals and stuff), let me know - you can comment here, or come find me during rehearsals (i'll be there as often as i can) or whatever. but yeah. just a heads up so you can be camera ready. ;) and no worries - i was really kidding about being nosy. there won't be anything in this documentary that you don't want filmed. seriously.

see y'all around!

god, i so fail at journaling. it's a good thing they're not like those e-mail services or whatever where they cancel your subscription if you don't log in after a while.

i mean, it's pretty lame if i say "whoo my team won the super bowl!" three weeks after the fact. you know? (but yes, my team won, it was epic, i wish i could have been home for that because i'm sure there was a party in the streets until god knows whenever. my idea of a good time. ;D) or telling everyone about the student i had that came stumbling in at 5 am and running into the glass doors because he thought they weren't there. it was pretty hilarious, except for the fact that i was still up trying to do some damn film editing and i was not amused (at the time).

yeah. i'm supposed to be in film production, not editing. but my final project requires me to be 'all around'. i've never been much for all around.

see what i mean? this is totally pointless. totally, utterly, and completely pointless.

couple more journal entries like this and i'll be outta here. i don't know if i should be excited, or... what. kind of hard to believe, though, either way.

peace out, mcd. p.s. anyone want to hang? i'm in need of some fun times.

hot damn. this thing has been sitting here since last year. last decade, even. it's been a month and a half. sorry, guys? you know you all missed me. besides, vlogging is better, anyway. you can see all of my ~*animated actions*~ and what not. haha.

i don't know. guess i haven't had anything exciting to say. merry christmas and happy new year and all that. hope all of you winter session people are having a good time. thanks for making my life easier during these three weeks. it's almost like free money, man. ;)

i know i sound like a sap and a little kid because the only movies i talk about are disney movies, but y'all gotta know that the princess and the frog takes place right at home. well, new orleans isn't that far from my stomping grounds, that's what i mean. (but i also did go see avatar. amazing movie. go watch it. i am not just speaking as a film major here.)

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joy of joys, thanksgiving. it hasn't been the same since... well, it hasn't been 'the same' for a while. i seriously considered staying here (again), but my mom and my brother guilt-tripped me into coming home. at least for two days. i didn't promise them any more than that. i tried to tell them there are lonely college students that will be here for thanksgiving and they need their RA, but johnson called me out on my bullshit. ...not that i don't want to be here for those of you who don't have anywhere to go. just... yeah okay, that came out bad, i'm sorry.

at least my cousins will be there. that might make things more bearable. i hope.

in the meantime, i shall continue spending the rest of my night frantically putting together the finishing touches on my project that's due tomorrow. who puts a due date on something before thanksgiving break? i mean, really? ...whatever.

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sometimes i wonder why i became an RA in the first place. i mean, really.

also? i really dislike being caught in the middle. seriously.

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chillin' in keaton - we just finished 'the picture of dorian gray' (creepy but not in a scary way) and we're gonna start on 'the blair witch project' here in a few. you know you want to come. we have candy. (and if we really get into it, we might even watch 'scary movie'. it'll be epic.)

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top of the 12th?!?! crazy times!!! i can't imagine all the little baseball fans that are falling asleep over here!!

i'm not necessarily a 'root for this team' kind of girl, but i can appreciate a good game when i see it. thank goodness they planned it for tonight because it helps me stay awake while i wait for someone to come to me all irritated for whatever reason and i have to go help them out.

now if only ralston came with tivo. guys, you can only drag me away when nothing exciting is happening. and considering that this is the twelfth and it's tied (and one of those angel people got onto second at the top of the twelfth)... stuff is happening. so please, if you have a problem, please wait until this game is over.

this a friendly message from your neighborhood RA.

also, if you hear screaming and jumping? don't come to me to report your roommate. it was probably me. ;)

...ooh. next time, guys, we'll have a watching party somewhere. what do you say? and if it goes on past midnight like this, we can make it a slumber party and you can all come in your PJs and bring blankets and junk food. dude. i happen to enjoy spray cheese. just so you know.

you know, it's easy to forget that we have some famous people associated with this school. you guys do a pretty good job of blending in and being regular people. but once in a while, something happens and a pesky photographer decides he's bored and wants to stir shit up, right? yeah.

so all i've been hearing about during fall break is speculation and rumors about one of our students. it's partly amusing, partly disturbing. what is up with all the fixation on being famous? it's not that big a deal, really. people are people are people. i mean, if i was famous, i wouldn't want people trying to figure out where i lived and camping out there. i hope there isn't a campout going on in one of the res halls. that would mean my break time would be interrupted trying to explain to freshmen girls (and maybe some guys) that it's kind of annoying to want to get into your room and find people in front of it. seriously.

in better news, however, halloween is coming up. i don't know what i want to dress up as yet, but i'm considering having a scary movie marathon in one of the lounges to celebrate. i don't want to do it in ralston because it seems like all the people here are too straight-laced for my tastes. you guys wouldn't mind if i crashed keaton or jannings (or both!), would you?

i think i'm going to start a 'sunday goes to the movies' tradition every week. paranormal activity looks pretty awesome. just because it's totally something i could have done and and gotten tons of money for. that's why i'm going to school, right? ;)

..damn, that was pretty rambly. sorry. ;)

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okay, hear me out. i know this is going to sound incredibly lame of me, but whatever. i don't really care too much what you think. what i do care about, however, is if you're interested.

so apparently there's a double feature out in theatres of toy story and toy story 2. before you get all 'omg that's a kid movie sunday, why would you want to see it?' on me, hear me out. toy story was pixar's breakout production. yeah, it's got disney influences in it, but seriously. it was released over ten years ago, but it's still an awesome movie. (okay, so i may have seen it once or twice and liked it.) i haven't seen toy story 2 yet, but i have faith in pixar, if the rest of their movies are evidence. it'd be interesting, now, since this is what i want to do, to go see it and try and figure out how it was produced and apply the stuff i've learned in school to real-life things. plus, you're paying for two movies without even having to sneak in. come on. you know you want to. and it's in 3d! how can you resist?

it's only out for two weeks, so let me know if you want to go!

i'm bored. being on duty suuuuuuuuuucks. someone come visit me. i hate being stuck here waiting for someone to ask me to open the door for them or that their roommate punched a hole in the wall or they got sexiled or organizing lame movie nights or game nights. i say next time we have game night, someone bring their wii and we all play mario party.

yeah. anyone want to hang out this weekend? i feel like i'm slowly losing my social life. is that what happens when you get old?

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whoo-hoo, parents weekend. i don't even know if my parents is coming, but even if she doesn't, it's cool. she's busy, anyway. she's been here enough.

i am pretty stoked that my cousin's coming up, though. his sister comes here (sup, baby k), and we were like bff when we were younger. i haven't seen him in ages. we are so going to go crazy this weekend. you might almost forget i'm an ra, too.

...crap. speaking of which. i get to show all the lost parents around. if you have insane parents, let me know now, so i can brace myself for the crazy questions and don't give too snarky a response. if i let one slip, i apologize in advance. i try not to piss parents off. (it happens occasionally, though. but to be fair, they're pretty dense in the first place. oh well?)

professor fletcher, i did my first vlog. when do you want to see it?

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i have an amazing idea for my senior project. i was stressing about this, actually, 'cause srsly. any big projects are stress-worthy, i think. anyway, my suitemate got a new netbook, and it comes with a built in webcam and mic and it's super small and cute and you can carry it around anywhere. so i figured, why not start a vlog? you know. video blog.

it's easy, and i can blather on about random crap for who knows how long, and i can be pretty damn entertaining, don't lie. ;) and it's filming, isn't it? not only can i produce and direct it, i can edit and star in it. acting credits for me, too! (runs in my blood apparently. my little cousin baby k's got the acting bug, too, for all y'all that don't know.) i even have a catchy name for it: rainy days and sundays. you know, like the carpenters song, but with my name instead... never mind. y'all probably don't know who the carpenters are, anyway.

but yeah. so it's early saturday morning, and what am i doing? stealing my suitemate's netbook when she's not looking. hot damn, i want one of these. early christmas present, anyone? you can guest-star in my vlog. ;) maybe i'll become a youtube star in the process. heh.

this is also a friendly ra reminder to please don't get too crazy this weekend. i'm on duty. i don't want to have to bust anyone's ass. you are all adults and responsible, right? don't make me turn my vlog into a documentary about the life of an ra and all the stupid crap we have to deal with. (actually, that's not a bad idea... plan b, maybe?)

sup, homies. welcome... to welcome week.

hah. i crack myself up sometimes.

anyway. i haven't touched this thing all summer. i didn't want to stay this summer, just 'cause it was my last real summer vacay, y'know? graduating and all that this year. (hot damn, time flies.) so yeah, i'm back. chillin' in ralston this year - it'll be weird being my friends' RA, but whatev, i can keep them in line. ;)

if anyone needs help moving in, let me know! i'll hook you guys up. need to switch rooms? i'm your girl. i have some strings in that department.

going running now. say hi if you see me out there.

oh yeah. p.s. for all you newbies, i'm sunday. yeah, like yesterday sunday. sup.

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