| Post-College Apocalypse |
[19 May 2009|08:00pm] |
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I've spent the last four years knowing full-well that I would graduate college at the end of the last four years.
But that doesn't change the fact that it sucks.
I will miss living on a campus with all my friends so, so terribly much. And I will miss getting up every day to learn about and DO all the things that I love.
But it almost seems unreasonable to ask for more than four years of that.
Luckily I've managed to delay inevitable feelings of doom for the next month and a half by staying to do pit orchestra for the Church Hill Theater musical (THE MUSIC MAN BLAH FUCK EVERYTHING). While working part time at the switchboard, finishing the yearbook, and killing myself.
The good news is that I've applied for many theater internships, any of which I'd be totally thrilled to get.
The bad news is that I've been rejected from them all so far.
The worse news is that Tim got the one I wanted. And I didn't even get an interview.
BUT I'M NOT UPSET ABOUT IT OR ANYTHING.
Other than that, my five-year plan includes becoming rich and famous enough to buy a house and fill an entire room with blue jell-o.
PEACE OUT, senior year. I will miss how drunk I was for so much of you.
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| THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE |
[26 Jan 2009|06:20pm] |
So there was a guy in the dining hall wearing a green shirt that said "Free Sex" on it.
He walked by our table.
And Mary said,
"Excuse me, I'd like to ask about your free sex."
And, at some point, I think there was a cup filled with diarrhea.
I'm going to miss college SO MUCH.
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| HELLO, WORLD! |
[07 Nov 2008|10:11am] |
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TICK MY BOX
a performance thesis starring Aileen Brenner and Dorothy Johnson
Nov. 7-8
8:00pm
The Prince Theatre
drama_tickets@washcoll.edu for reservations
Attendance is free, but donations to the Prince Theatre are appreciated.
Go here:
http://news.washcoll.edu/events/2008/11/tickmybox/
for photos from the dress rehearsal
The show is really, really funny. You don't even have to like theater to like this one :D
Also, it's my thesis.
Ah.
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| i'm a SENIOR? (citizen) |
[02 Oct 2008|10:59pm] |
I just realized that this is about a month away...
Tick My Box
a senior performance thesis by Aileen Brenner and Dorothy Johnson
Nov. 6-7, 8:00pm at the Prince Theatre
e-mail drama_tickets@washcoll.edu for reservations
Come see Dorothy and me each play eight different zany characters in the whirlwind of a speed dating service.
*BONUSES*
- My singing Lionel Richie's "Hello"
- My cursing loudly in a New York accent
- My impression of Andrew Klish finally put to good use
- My seamless transition from frat guy to psychotic girl TALKING TO EACH OTHER IN THE SAME SCENE
- AN AMERICAN PREMIER!
OH MY GOD.
I just pooped.
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| I have been reincarnated as Danielle Steel |
[14 Aug 2008|05:48pm] |
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I'm not even back at school yet and I already feel like I'm going to explode. At least this year if I explode there will be cleaning ladies to help my roommates pick the little pieces of brain and skull from the carpet. I'm very considerate.
It's going to be an interesting year. A hot and sexy year.
Especially since I'm taking another Shenk course. I hope he hates my writing EVEN MORE this semester. From now on, I will only submit erotica. Because this year is going to be HOT AND SEXY. And full of erotica.
Also, my thesis is making me want to kill several people. All of whom are myself.
I'm going to throw up everywhere throughout the academic year. After graduation, however, I will be forced to stop vomiting. Because I will have no health insurance. And I will have vomited the entire contents of my stomach and most of my bodily organs by then. Not my skin, though. That's where I keep my youth.
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| it's an adventure, barnabee! |
[16 Jul 2008|09:01pm] |
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I'm posting! Because exciting things are happening! And if you can't share your excitement with livejournal, who can you share it with?
So I got this internship in Philadelphia for the summer working for PlayPenn, a new play development conference.
I haven't had a day off yet, so I'm tired! And they're making me do playwriting, which I'm sure will be much more painful for the audience than it will be fore me. But I get to hang out with Michele, and Tim is there, and it's been really cool to get to see the behind-the-scenes process of making theatre happen. We did a pre-conference retreat with the playwrights, directors, and dramaturgs, and everybody has been so nice to me. While I take out their trash.
But, still.
Famous people once cleaned toilets too.
The play I was assigned to is called A Human Equation. It's a docu-drama about the 9/11 fund to compensate the victims' families. In real life it was organized by a dude named Ken Feinburg, who is the main character in the play (he wrote a book that I haven't had the chance to pick up yet). I got to call to confirm his reservations, which was pretty cool :D
And for this four-year-old conference in PA, they got an actor of pretty high note to play the part.
I say "pretty high note," because it's David Strathairn.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000657/
And I'd say being nominated for a best actor Oscar gives you some note.
It's kind of hard not to be a little star-struck, especially since A League of Their Own has always been one of my favorite movies. He's been incredibly nice, polite, reserved. I think he might be the only one in the cast who knows my name.
But...he is very obviously talented. The moment he begins to read words on a page, he is very obviously talented. And it's just incredibly cool to get to be in the room with somebody who has succeeded so brilliantly in a profession that I want more than anything to succeed in, or even just to be in. It's incredibly cool to get to watch him work.
It's incredibly cool that I will be sharing a stage with somebody who has already achieved a goal I can only dream of achieving in my life.
I'm sure I'll have more thoughts later.
www.playpenn.org
if you want more info about the conference. The scripts are all very good! Tim even gets to act in one of them!
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| Hello dollies |
[22 Jun 2008|12:09pm] |
I haven't posted in an unnaturally long time.
So, naturally, I used old posts to steal from Beth and Molly and a make a Wordle. WORDLE. Not only is wordle a very cool word, it is also a very cool thing.
AND they had plenty of fonts without serifs to choose from. Including one called "coolvetica," which is probably the funniest thing I've seen in a while. I love you, wordle.
Notice how the only name bigger than Tim's is Harry Potter. It's difficult to say which I actually like more.
It also includes keepers such as: douchebag, friggin, ass, NUDES, nailpolish, muffin, and Shakespeare.
In other news, it's closing weekend of "Hello Dolly." It's been fun. But my throat tones have been fuzzy. IS MY CLARINET BROKEN?
more laterrr
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| lindsay got me the love actually soundtrack |
[14 Dec 2007|07:29pm] |
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I HATE UNCLE JAMIE
basically, i survived the modern age final.
THAT IS ALL.
oh, and i'm home!
with a ball of yarn and about 32948093280 lines to memorize.
and half a bag of pumpkin seeds.
hit it.
So, first notice:
Crimes of the Heart
Feb. 20-22
Washington College
come see me be old and fat and sing to myself on stage. fabbbbbbbb!
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| I feel it in my fingers |
[10 Oct 2007|10:06pm] |
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...I feel it in my toes...?
I'm freaking weird.
Show goes up in 8 days-ish. Good fun, good fun.
I'm probably about to go bother Mary and Blane. Bother bother bother bother.
This is what happens when Carin goes home and I have to be alone in my dorm room. CHAOS.
And really, really bad LJ entries.
So can we talk about how there's a character named Hermione in "The Winter's Tale?" That still doesn't make me want to read it, though. And according to Mary, the word "basilisk" is used. Okay. So obviously Shakespeare is the true author of Harry Potter (and Mary has much more patience than I do). Which honestly doesn't surprise me one bit. Because Hamlet jr. and Harry Potter are pretty much the same emo teen who see ghosts and have dead fathers. COINCIDENCE?
Rowling=Shakespeare.
My clarinet=awesome.
But I already knew that. I just thought I'd remind everybody.
I'm gonna play it later. YOU'RE WELCOME, MIDDLE HALL.
So yeah I'll do that once I get the spicy bloody mary taste out of my mouth. DAMN YOU, MIKE GOLZE.
but, seriously, thanks for the ice and such.
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| Update |
[29 Aug 2007|11:26pm] |
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The AC clicking was actually the AC from the room above ours DRIPPING on our AC.
LLLLAAAAAMMMMEEEE
In other news, it's been a while since I've had a green olive.
Also, I got English muffin in my eye yesterday.
And I'm not a guitar hero. But one day I will be a guitar hero.
AND poetry workshop is going to seriously damage my self esteem. Which was damaged today when my nailpolish chipped. A lot. Even though I just painted my nails last night.
LIVE NUDES
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| College? |
[27 Aug 2007|05:00pm] |
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I'm in it.
My air conditioner makes this constant clicking noise. Like quarter note = 75 speed. Enough to be super annoying speed. It was gone when I woke up this morning, so I didn't call to get it fixed. That was a bad move. Fucking click click click. I get it, air conditoner.
I'm also dropping the first class of my junior year. Because the first class sucked so much ass that I was afraid there would be no ass left to suck on campus by the end of the semester. And you know how much we need ass. To suck.
The air conditioner has slowed down to quarter note = 60.
I'll keep you posted on new developments concerning my cooling system's tempo.
Also, Mary has this awesome pen that's a pen on one side, and a highlighter on the other. She showed it to me yesterday and I got so jealous that I snuck into her room while she was asleep to try and steal it. But I couldn't find it. If I had one, I'd hide it pretty well, too.
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| Harry Potter. Spoiler-free. Except I say that there's death. And now it's in the entry title too. |
[22 Jul 2007|02:17pm] |
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Read it.
Finished around 9 last night, and now I don't know what to do with my life. Other than mourn the 32948032890 assorted characters that JK Rowling killed off.
I think that's all I'm going to say, other than that, of course, I friggin loved the book. I was trying to describe it to my mom (without actually saying anything about it, of course, because if I ruined HP for somebody I'd avada kedavra myself...is it possible to avada kedavra yourself?), and I told her that in the other books, when you get to the last 50-100 pages, everything happens very fast and gets super exciting and you can't stop reading until you find out what happens, unless you're about to poop your pants or your dog is on fire. She agreed. Well, I think the whole 7th book was that way. Which is really cool, except it made me have to get a sheet of paper to cover the page on the right as well as every line below the one I was reading, in case my eyes jumped ahead and caught some word that would give something away, which is easy to do inadvertantly. Except for at the very end of the book, which was fine, but I didn't like. And I'm sure most readers will agree with that to some extent.
Okay, so NOW that's all I'm going to say.
Leaving for Vancouver on Wednesday, then Alaska on Saturday, where I will be considerably less bored. And also considerably colder. Tim, please mail me a parka.
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| Snape. Snape. Severus Snape (Dumbledore!) |
[15 Jul 2007|11:52pm] |
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Just for good measure, and because I believe I will one day be a Weasley:
Find out your Harry Potter personality at LiquidGeneration!
I'm rather pissed about the movie. I very much enjoyed parts, and I thought they did a great job with the end (minus the fountain not coming to life, which I was waiting for) (also minus the business with the prophecy just going ahead and talking to Harry when he picked it up) (minus not getting to see that death eater's head turn into a baby) (minus the the room with the veil not being set up correctly) (minus I'm a big douchebag and I couldn't have made the movie any better myself, probably, so I should shut up).
The acting was friggin nuts. How do they get all these amazing friggin actors to do the potter films? (Minus Danielle Radcliffe) (Also minus Emma Watson and her non-frizzy hair) (Minus many other teen actors who didn't really have enough lines or screentime for me to truly insult)
I have information that this weekend in downtown Silver Spring, MD, they are turning a walking street into Diagon Alley. I would very much like to go, but I'm not sure if this is possible, as I will be strung-out Deathly Hallows style until sometime on Sunday, I'm sure. Why, God, why would they do this on the day the book comes out when they know very well that we will be in a death-like stupor all day?
Big thanks to Tim for sitting through the movie and suffering my constant sighs, gutteral grunts, painful moans, and "bull shits." But I stand by every one of them. Also thanks to Tim for the dark chocolate snickers. That was the tastiest candybar I have ever tasted. Also thanks to Tim for introducing me to the wonder of the narwhal.
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[10 Jul 2007|08:47pm] |
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I BOUGHT A TV
this is a big deal because it may be the first time in years i've actually been able to afford a tv.
News flash: Middletown is boring. The last exciting thing that happened here was the civil war. And that wasn't good exciting, it was bad war-type exciting.
Tim's coming on Friday! That way we'll at least be bored together. In Middletown. Where it's boring.
That's the backround on my computer for two reasons:
1) I LOVE HARRY POTTER
2) I love Harry Potter
3) I love Harry Potter. So much, in fact, that the section of my brain that used to have information about counting is now totally packed with Harry Potter love.
In other news, Middletown is boring, Tim on Friday, and I love Harry Potter.
That wasn't really other news at all, was it? No, it was a one-sentence version of my entire journal entry.
I'm cleaning my bathroom tomorrow and going to the mall to get my dad a birthday card for my cousin.
THIS IS MY LIFE.
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| Beth Creel = hot icon sex |
[27 Jun 2007|02:31am] |
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This entry is mainly to show off the wonderful hilarity of this icon. Made by Bethany friggin Creel.
icon_o_clasm
also,
sleeping late is nice.
like 50 first dates.
and the beach boys.
ohhhh, summer.
what's worse than finding a worm in your apple?
the holocaust.
also AIDS.
isn't this an uplifting entry?
Coming soon: the other icon i stole from Beth. it features rob schneider in a coconut bra. and that's about as classy as you can get.
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[19 Jun 2007|11:19pm] |
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In Middletown.
And 100% ecstatic.
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by ecstatic, of course, I mean bored. I got a book about Alaska at the library. That didn't help my boredom problem. Which is bad, because I've been home for a little over 24 hours, and I'm already sick of being here.
The book did, however, help me with my craving to see picture of birds. Which you wouldn't expect from a book about alaska.
Plus I have this killer headache. Probably a withdrawl symptom. From the crack. I gave it up.
Also caffeine, which I think I haven't had in days.
I'm jobless as of now, unless you guys can think of someone who will hire me for a month. Cool. Alright.
Hope everybody's been off to a happy summer start. Call me if you feel like it. Also, I'll be calling you. In the most stalker-ish way possible. I had to get a new hobby once I gave up the crack. It was either stalking or musical theatre. And I can't sing.
I'm gonna read harry potter.
GOOB
love you guys.
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| spring brizeak |
[10 Mar 2007|09:38pm] |
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Spring break. In Middletown. With my mother. Who is right at this moment on the phone with her cousin talking about what a big ho i am.
ok, well she's not saying i'm a ho. but i mean, let's face it, i AM a big ho. Especially because I have a lot of sex with different people. Sometimes for money.
Tim is not here. He's at home. Drinking. And probably smoking captain black out of his pipe like this little old man who works in OIT and leaves right at 4:30 so he can walk to his car and smoke a pipe.
Call if you're around. I've been in the same house as my mom for almost 24 hours now, so I'm about to my limit.
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| jungle fever |
[20 Dec 2006|11:33pm] |
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i've only ever dated one asian guy. but he was reallly asian. he was a panda.
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| swing life away |
[11 Nov 2006|11:04am] |
<3
look to your left.
make friends with Bill RAOUL in green and white.
Lucky number 7. Plus 1. This is where you find paint.
Keep going. You will learn a bit more history.
Here you will find it.
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