Yeah, something like that.
I'm just... laying here. *must get to work*
Ugh, the people downstairs and the girl across the hall from me are blasting their rap music. So I just put on Cabaret and turned it up.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
Snaps for you, jlc.
Emcee, what are you and your mom fighting about? You don't have to tell if you'd rather not.
*mails Allie a coat*
Frivolous, non-heavy banality: I saw an albino squirrel today.
Albino? Really? Weird. I saw my first actual chipmunk last week. SO CUTE!
Music from both rooms has now stopped, coincidence?
An albino squirrel? That's so cute! We have squirrels running all over campus here.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
Atrias, how have you gone your entire life without seeing a chipmunk? We used to have tons of them in our backyard and my dad set out traps (humane ones, they were little boxes that trapped the chipmunks without hurting them) and put them somewhere else. We called in the "Chipmunk Relocation Program".
There was an insane squirrel in my town seven or eight years ago. It attacked people.
I am peer editing a research paper that is so bad it has me in hysterics.
nia, my mom's mad at me because I she thinks I'm not being "aggressive" enough about trying to find something to do this summer. She thinks I should be making calls to the places where I sent applications and asking if I'm getting an interview, but I think to call and bug them like that, rather than, er, taking the hint, is kind of over-eager and annoying. I don't want to do that, nor do I think they'd be too anxious to hire someone who's obnoxious like that. I guess it's hard to find a balance between "selling yourself" and not being a bother. She keeps asking me if it doesn't bother me that I don't know what I'm doing over the summer, and would I rather sit around at home and have a boring job, etc? But I'm already stressed enough about it, without her berating me for it, too -- the housing deadline is coming up, and, understandably, my parents don't want us to lay down the money for housing unless I *know* I got something.
.... that was probably more than anybody cared to know.
Banal: I wish there were more hours in the day, and my tailbone is sore.
Was the albino squirrel cute? Maybe the insane one had rabies.
There are craploads of squirrels, but the chipmunks stay in the woods. The deer however, come up out of the woods that are behind our house and eat the flowers out of our front yard. The pretty flowers that we just planted yesterday. Aarrrgh.
I like chipmunks.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
It is typically recommended that you follow up on an interview and an application just to prove you're interested. Calling once or twice and asking if they've considered you is not a bother.
*patpat* That's a pain, Atrias. We have a lot of deer around here too, but they usually stay in their forest.
The albino squirrel was creepy. Like the opposite of a black cat.
Fantabulous, I feel your pain. I read an example IB paper the other day that would change topics three times in once SENTENCE. I hope it got a terrible score. It said "Symbolicized".
What, you've never used the word "symbolicized", nia?
I had to film a commercial for my school GSA that aired on tv today. I was too scared to watch it.
Symbolicized.... that reminds me of... my brother used to say "rememberized."
There are *so many* deer at home. They get hit by cars all the time; it's awful.
By Tuesday, I'm going to have to make some phone calls. Bleh.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
It's for the Day of Silence next week. It was basically just me screaming a bunch of ****e, but the audio was edited out. The sad part was, I only did that take to try to give the girl who was *supposed* to do it an idea of what to scream. I hate being on film when my hair is unbrushed!
Atrias, I'm sure you were great. :)
My right leg is asleep.
Fortunately, I'll never know. I had a sudden urge to escape to the bathroom during the morning announcements.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
Maybe I can provide some giggles.
First off, she spelled the author's name wrong. She has started waaay too many sentences with "and" and "because". She keeps starting paragraphes with quotes, not topic sentences, and ending them with questions, not her opinion. She's misquoted sources, and omitted sources alltogether.
This one pretty much takes the icing off the cake. She said:
"She comes back to haunt Roderick! Lady Madeline of Usher with her bloody, white robes (how scary!) "....quote..."
Yes. This is from a student of a well respected college. Oy.
*chuckle*
My neighbor is singing....
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The Fall of the House of Usher, right? I loved that, along with The Masque of the Red Death.
Yes. She just started a third paragraph with a quote. And a fourth.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/7/04
That girl's parents must have bought her way in. I could write better in first grade.
I love the Masque of Red Death too, Siamese. The ballroon sounds so cool; I wish someone would make it into a short film.
Larry Kramer compared that story to the AIDS epidemic: it snuck in, showed its ugly face and killed millions.
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