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Jan. 29th, 2005 @ 03:22 pm (no subject)
i'm so excited for noteables auditions! it's the first time i've been on the other end of the audition process. woot! any smithie who reads this should really come try out for us.

i'm also extremely excited because elle is coming to amherst with the party crew tonight. and it is going to crack me up so much because she's this relly wholesome midwestern girl but when she gets drunk she becomes incoherent and laughs a lot and makes me happy.

i got married. lindsay and i got married on facebook then we went to walmart to buy wedding bands. no joke guys :) .

so things are good, classes are good, friends are good. that's all.
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Nov. 20th, 2004 @ 07:28 pm (no subject)
monday:
9-9:50 Chemistry 222 Organic Chemistry
10-10:50 Chinese 111 Intro Chinese (II)
11-12:10 Calculus 112 Calc II
1:10-4 Chemistry 222 Lab
Then...
4:10-5:45 Choir Rehearsal
9-10:30 Noteables Sectionals

Tuesday
10:30-11:20 Chinese 111
1-4 History 218: Art and Thought in China
Then...
8:30-9:10 Choir Sectionals

Wednesday:
9-9:50 Chemistry 222
10-10:50 Chinese 111
11-12:10 Calc 112
Then...
4:10-5:45 Choir Rehearsal

Thursday:
8-8:50 Chemistry 222
10:30-11:20 Chinese 111
Then...
6:45-9:45 Noteables Rehearsal

Friday:
9-9:50 Chemistry 222
10-10:50 Chinese 111
11-11:50 Calc 112

so that's my next semester
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Nov. 4th, 2004 @ 04:19 pm (no subject)
my adviser just made me so happy i was about to cry.

my adviser is a chemistry professor who happens to teach my philosophy of biochemistry class. i'm doing very well in that class, but today i needed an extension on a paper because i'm so stressed out with my other classes (especially chemistry) and i didn't sleep on tuesday night because of all my work. anyway, i spoke to him after class about setting up an advising meeting and thanked him for giving me the extension. he said he understood, and i told him it was chemistry that was killing me.

then he said "well, i heard through the grapevine that you're doing well in that class"
i told him i wasn't and he just told me "well i have my sources and they say otherwise"
i told him that i was getting a c in chemistry
he says "well, maybe that c isn't the criteria they're looking at. it's more due to your willingness to learn and your understanding"

i'm still beaming. chemistry is the one thing that's bringing me down right now and having professors talk about me (his wife is a lab instructor for 111 and probably talks to my lab instructor) just makes me feel so much better.

that's my story of the day
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Oct. 30th, 2004 @ 04:24 am (no subject)
it's times like these when i love being in college.
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Oct. 6th, 2004 @ 04:30 pm (no subject)
it's strange going to a womens college.

most days i love being around girls, and it feels so comfortable. but on weekends when i want to have fun, it seems like guys just aren't available. most days i thank myself for choosing to be in a situation where i won't be distracted from work, because i really do get so much work done here. other days i hit myself... all of my friends from my home tell me what fun they have with the guys in their halls, their dorms, their schools. i've kissed one boy since i've been here and it was only because we were incredibly drunk. now, if i transferred, i would never get work done during the week. but i feel like i'm missing out here. bah.

that's ot to say i don't have fun here. i love it. especially on wednesdays, when michelle and i jump around in her room singing along to living on a prayer on full blast.

i feel like chorus and noteables keep me sane. and i have noteables rehearsal tomorrow and that is such a happy thought. happy happy happy! i really love those girls, they are amazing and fun and talented. i really do look forward to these three-hour rehearsals all week.
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Sep. 26th, 2004 @ 03:04 am (no subject)
what i really need is to be that girl who's completely fine with being single.

i need to not want guys anymore.

boys are dumb.
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Sep. 21st, 2004 @ 02:12 pm (no subject)
ok so here's a continuation of the last entry.

on saturday i spent most of the day at callbacks for the noteables... there were seven of us there and i was the only soprano II (yay!). then they told me that i should be in my room around 12 for the call. so at 11:45 i go up to my room. then 12 rolls by... then 12:15... the 12:30. i'm getting incredibly anxious. then i hear this pounding on my door. my door flies open and there are all of the noteables (including frances in a fro) singing and hugging me. they hand me candy and a bottle of champagne. i was almost pissing myself i was so suprised. so we go and fetch the last girl who got into the group (there were 4 of us that got in) and proceed to sing the group's entire repertoire at different places on campus (remember, this is between the hours of 1-2 am). and then we had a little get-togehter meeting that explained some of the noteables' crazy traditions. i was completely won over. i had a callback for the smiffenpoofs on sunday but after being with the noteables all day there was no turning back. they're incredible.

anyway, my door looks awesome now thanks to my big sis. it really brightens up this dim little hallway.

quad riot is tonight. i'm avoiding it like the plague. there's no way i'm gonna get gross smelly food all over me. so hopefully some of us are going to find a way onto the roof for a much better view of the festivities. as fun as the food fight sounds, i'm afraid i'll probably get sick from the stench. yuck.
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Sep. 19th, 2004 @ 10:30 pm (no subject)
who knew that the cvs equivalent of nyquil is less than the brand name, but the equivalent of dayquil


oh my god i just got the most rediculous message EVER. apparently the vibes had called me back, and had their callbacks today... got the message a little too late. weeeeiiiiiirrrrdd.

and some amherst guy just called me a fat bitch. and called me shallow in the same conversation. weird.

anyway, i'm a noteable now. more on that later. being bitched out by a little amherst boy kind of put a damper on this entry.
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Sep. 17th, 2004 @ 12:12 am (no subject)
woot woot. i'm back in the game

after 2 rejections last night, with a callback (the news of which i heard at 1am), i just got a call saying the noteables are calling me back. good thing i decided to try out for them at the last minute.

here's the count:

vibes: rejected (boo on them)
groove: rejected (boo on them)
smiffenpoofs: callback
noteables: callback

i have a chance again!
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Sep. 15th, 2004 @ 11:15 pm (no subject)
two down, one to go. i hope this one brings good news. bah.
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Sep. 15th, 2004 @ 08:09 pm (no subject)
today was the longest day EVER

chem at 9, chinese at 10, calc at 11, came back to the house to eat lunch until lab at 1, then rehearsal at 4, dinner at 6, then audition at 7. i'm so tired now, but at least i don't have much work to get done. score.

anyway, if i haven't mentioned, i'm in chorus now, and it's pretty fun. i auditioned on a whim and got in, so here i am. and in the past two days i have auditioned for the smiffenpoofs, groove, and the vibes, all a capella groups. *hopefully* i'll get some calls tonight about callbacks, but for now i'm incredibly nervous. all i wanted to do in college was a capella, and now it's done and mostly out of my hands. hopefully those calls at 10 will be positive ones.

by the way, having a cold during auditions sucks.

that is all
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Sep. 12th, 2004 @ 12:46 pm (no subject)
i <3 luaus
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Sep. 3rd, 2004 @ 03:21 pm (no subject)
wow, i can't believe i'm here. this is really strange.

i've been bombarded with a massive amount of information in the past two days, and though i feel prepared enough, it is still ver overwhelming. but my room looks pretty, so it's all good. it's a single too... which just rocks. oh and the quad is cool too. can't wait for convocation

to the smithies that read this, come on over to wilson, room 234 (morrow maids :) ) and visit me. or just leave a message on my board.
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Sep. 1st, 2004 @ 09:29 pm (no subject)
all packed! i am bringing way too much stuff. it's good my grammy insisted on coming, cause i had an extra trunk to put stuff in. now the trick will be getting it in my room...

my mom and i picked up some cards for ian and his mom today, and i almost cried picking one out. i didn't know his dad well, but i did spend two months with him in china and i really feel for him. this sucks.

talked to mike for the first time since... january. just caught up a little. interesting.

haven't talked to andy since he went back to school. he's such a busy kid. i did, however, buy myself a tiny little webcam and microphone. no, not for that you pervert. it's so i can talk to my chinese friends (mostly andy). we agreed to both get them... i don't even know if he got his yet. i miss him so much, i can't wait to see his face and his smile again, and to hear his voice. even if it's not in person... it's the next best thing. plus it will come in handy for my chinese class... i can practice speaking it with him!

now my room is quite empty. i never really gave a lot of thought to how it will feel to finally be at school. i guess that's why i'm not nervous in the least. a little excited, but not nervous. it just hasn't hit me yet... but it will when i check in, i'm sure.

that's all for now.
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Aug. 30th, 2004 @ 02:44 pm (no subject)
i just found out that ian's dad died yesterday... got thrown off his horse into a stone wall.

i can't even imagine how he's feeling right now...
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Aug. 29th, 2004 @ 05:00 pm (no subject)
got a pretty printer today, and wrapped up my school shopping. i'm really set to go now.

can't wait until thursday!
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Aug. 27th, 2004 @ 10:28 pm (no subject)
i've been waiting all summer to say this but after the conversations i've had with people this week i can finally say (and justifiably, i think)....

I REALLY FUCKING HATE WHEN MY SO-CALLED FRIENDS BLATANTLY EXCLUDE ME FROM THEIR PLANS.

come on... the last person i saw this summer was nick. give me a break... i ask them to call me if any plans arose, and they don't even think to include me. i don't mean to be a whiny bitch, but when it's in my face it annoys me. i hate feeling like a tag-along, but at least give me a chance.

i can understand why they don't like me... i kind of tried to elbow my way in in the past... oh... 3 years. but give me a break... there were 100 people in our class, the least they could have done was humor me and invite me to tag along without me inviting myself.

ok now i'm about to cry. i feel like i wasted effort befriending these people. and i just can't wait to get to school. i've always gotten along so much better with people from outside of d-s.

for fuck's sake i don't even have anyone to say goodbye to when i leave.
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Aug. 26th, 2004 @ 11:51 pm (no subject)
wow. cirque du soleil was absolutely amazing. it almost makes me want to put on a leotard and start dancing around.

almost.
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Aug. 24th, 2004 @ 07:43 pm (no subject)
wow. it's hard to believe that my chinese friends are at school right now, taking tests *shudder*. and they got out of school in july. yuck. well, this year of hell then they'll be free to a more normal schedule.

anyway, i'm reading "i know this much is true" by wally lamb right now. so sad. one of those books i got a long time ago and it has been sitting on a shelf for ages.

hmmm only ten minutes to extreme makeover. even though it's a rerun. wow i'm such a loser.
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Aug. 24th, 2004 @ 02:53 pm (no subject)
went out to northampton on sunday. showed catherine the campus... she's the only one in the family who hasn't seen it yet. anyway, northampton was BEAUTIFUL. there were so many people out and about, which may have been because of the great weather.

anyway, tried to look in the windows of wilson... didn't work too well. but the quad looks beautiful and the walk to center campus really isn't bad.

anyway, the whole trip made me all that much more excited to go next thursday. a lot of people have already left, and i'm getting pretty anxious.

i've been using up my little salon coupon thingy over the past two weeks. i got this thing at work for all this junk for $40. so now my nails and eyebrows are pretty, my hair is shorter and a little blonder (i kind of regret that... i picked light brown, but my hair took the color too easily). anyway, that's all the fun-ness

nothing else new really. oh, except the terrible dog next door. this big chocolate lab comes in the yard and just by barking cinnamon goes into a hissy fit inside the house. once he came up to the door and cinnamon ended up slashing the screen with his claws, and on a different occasion he bit me when the big dog got too close and i tried to pull him away. it's the first time in the 11 years i've known this dog that he's ever bit me. stupid neighbors.
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