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[Jul. 7th, 2006|01:23 am] |
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I'm going to China.
For three and a half weeks.
To teach.
And I am
very
very
very
excited.
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[May. 6th, 2006|12:25 am] |
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Everything is going to be ok. |
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[Feb. 25th, 2006|08:08 pm] |
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Rest in peace Pancakes. |
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| I'm pregnant...apparently |
[Jan. 11th, 2006|11:22 pm] |
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Since 7:45am on January 5th, I have been sitting in a chair until 1am each morning writing papers and not eating or blinking, and then getting up early and doing it all again. I have written 13/13 pages of a literature paper due the 6th, 7/10 pages of a sociology paper due the 14th (that I have to finish tomorrow because of an exam), and 10/12 pages of a paper that is due tomorrow. I literally have not moved for an entire week, and I get out of breath just walking to the bathroom. Out of the necessity to do something else for a mere 2 minutes before my head exploded, and out of curiosity and amusement, I took the "Am I Pregnant?" quiz that was advertised on gmail. Much to my surprise, I am.
Just call me Mary.
Note to self: never take a pregnancy quiz when writing final papers... "Are you more sleepy than usual?" ...duh. "Are you feeling moody?" ...do nervous breakdowns every five minutes count? "Are you having weird food cravings?" ...that's just normal for me, I can't blame that on the papers. "Are you having more frequent headaches?" ...technically no, it's been one looooong headache.
Am I Pregnant? Quiz
You answered 8 items out of 12 Yes.
Your score is 67%. You're probably pregnant, see your doctor or midwife!
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[Dec. 7th, 2005|01:25 pm] |
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This is BY FAR the most HILARIOUS myspace message I have received to date:
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Subject: Pretty Claudia
what's up Gorgeous..
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here is something you deserve.......
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I'm going to join a convent. I think I am abnormally offended and scared by all of this. |
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[Dec. 6th, 2005|03:27 pm] |
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I am working fervently on a self-designed research project for psychology that I can't stop thinking about (out of sheer excitement), and I just got an A on my sociology paper. It is times like these that I actually love academia. It won't last long, but when I'm staying up 5 nights in a row next week to write 3 papers in between all-day dress rehearsals and performances and cursing myself out I hope I can look back on this entry and remember that I'm doing it all for a good reason. |
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| Say...what's in this drink?... |
[Nov. 6th, 2005|11:04 pm] |
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Baby It's Cold Outside is definitely one of my all-time favorite songs.
Not to mention it's a charming little ditty about date rape.
Ahh, the holidays :) |
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| boo |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|02:29 pm] |
Happy Halloween!
My friend ran by me earlier today wearing nothing but a t-shirt and shorts. It is so beautiful today. |
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| Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow... |
[Oct. 29th, 2005|03:43 pm] |
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| | Tchaikovsky's Snow from Nutcracker, of course | ] |
*****IT'S SNOWING!!!!*****
...and it's supposed to be 65 or 70 degrees on Monday. I don't get it.
I have also set a new personal record of listening to Christmas music before Halloween. Usually I at least make it to Thanksgiving.
~C~ |
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| Would you do this? |
[Oct. 11th, 2005|03:37 pm] |
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Recently I have been corresponding with someone who had initially friended me through myspace...at first I thought he was just another weird, misguided solicitor, but I decided to message back asking his intentions, and started up a conversation. It turns out he is in the Marine corps, he is taking night classes at Harvard, and he will be deployed to Iraq in March. I have never had direct contact with someone involved in the military, and I asked him why he had chosen this path and what his views on the war were. His responses are incredibly insightful and his selflessness is indescribable, so I thought some of you might want to read them to gain another perspective on Iraq. As I admitted to him, I have a very vague and uninformed knowledge of this issue that I gather from the limited news I read or watch...I am sure that many of you are angered by the war as well but are still psychologically removed from the situation. I hope you find these excerpts interesting.
"My deployment is scheduled like this. On december first our unit will mobilize. We'll be doing administrative clean up and mobilization papers for the month of december. January we will go to 29 palms, california, to train. In february we'll partake in a training syndicate known as mojave viper training that will take 28 days to complete. At the end of training we'll be given time to see our families before we deploy. Afterward we'll be headed to somewhere in the Al Anbar province. If you're unfamiliar, that encompasses a chunk of the Euphrates river along with Al Ramadi and Fallujah. Where exactly we'll wind up isn't disclosed, but we know it's somewhere in this province.
At the earliest I'll be home next November.
If you've been following the news then perhaps you remember the 6 man sniper team that was killed mid august, followed by two car bombs that killed another 44 marines. Those men were all from a unit in Ohio. That's our sister unit, we'll be going to replace them. Recently the heat is turning up in Baghdad and on the Syrian border where snipers are doing the most damage.
I joined the marines because I wanted to be a part of something.... that same stupid save the world mentality that gets people killed. I've been opposed to the war on Iraq since day one, but I don't put that on my brothers in arms, I put it on our commander in chief. The way I see it is if I tow the line for six months, then I send someone home who would have had to tow that line in my place. I'm a fire team leader so I'll be responsible for the lives of four men.
If you ask most, they'll tell you they want to come home alive, or with all their limbs. My greatest fear is that I'll come home just fine, and that one of my men will not. I suppose that's something that the public can't understand." |
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| wow I feel old |
[Sep. 26th, 2005|12:46 am] |
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Happy 19th Birthday to me!! :) |
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| vale |
[Jul. 19th, 2005|09:41 pm] |
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Much has happened in the first 2.5 weeks I have been here. But all I want to say is that you know you're in Barcelona when your proctor gets drunk and then tries to get you to drink, and then a classmate drunkenly proposes to you (in Spanish, of course). Viva España. |
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| Adios! |
[Jul. 1st, 2005|11:47 pm] |
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I leave for Spain tomorrow! See you all in 7.5 weeks!! |
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| * * * <--stars |
[Jun. 7th, 2005|08:38 pm] |
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I was in The Plum Tree in New Canaan tonight with my mom when I saw Harry Connick Jr. sing Happy Birthday (quite loudly) to his little daughter a few tables away from us. And on a completely unrelated note, I recently found out that my godfather is good friends with Larry King. Paired with Sunday's findings, that's a lot of celebrity for three days. |
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| Ballet, Confetti and Seacrest |
[Jun. 5th, 2005|11:55 pm] |
Caitlin and I (and our families) saw Peter Boal's last performance with New York City Ballet tonight. It was absolutely incredible and he received an amazing send-off from the company and the audience. Kelly, Sebastian, Oliver and Sarah came onstage amidst hundreds (thousands?) of flowers, and Peter lifted Sarah into the air and twirled her around, sort of a la Sleeping Beauty. (She's 2.) It was adorable. Afterwards we went to Rosa Mexicano (I still can't figure out why the grammar is wrong) and had an amazing meal (after Mom ran back across to the theater to help Kelly with all the flowers). And we saw Atoosa Rubenstein (the editor in chief of Seventeen) and Ryan Seacrest there. Four feet away from us. That was really cool.
Peter Boal, in addition to being one of the best male ballet dancers of all time, is a genuinely nice, sincere, honest, and amazing individual. I have nothing but the utmost respect for him.
Good night. |
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[Jun. 2nd, 2005|08:15 pm] |
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Another gem of wisdom sent from my mother:
Apples and Wine
Women are like apples on trees.
The best ones are at the top of the tree.
Most men don't want to reach for the good ones because they are
afraid of falling and getting hurt.
Instead, they sometimes take the apples from the ground that
aren't as good, but easy.
The apples at the top think something is wrong with them, when
in reality, they're amazing.
They just have to wait for the right man to come along,
the one who's brave enough to climb all the way to the top of
the tree.
Share this with women who are good apples, even those who have
already been picked!
Now Men.... Men are like a fine wine. They begin as grapes, and
it's up to women to stomp on them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.
~c~ |
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| cute! |
[May. 28th, 2005|02:06 pm] |
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There's another goose egg in the nest! It must have been layed there last night. Soon there will be at least six of this:
...waddling around and swimming in my backyard. :) |
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| This is so surreal |
[May. 27th, 2005|11:01 pm] |
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So apparently Kelly and Peter Boal told Damien Woetzel about me, and Damien will be looking out for me when he gets to Harvard in the fall. SCHWEET. I'm just worried I'm going to wake up sometime soon and realize it's all a dream.
Evan and his friend Alejandro are here for the weekend, and we're going to a Yankees/Red Sox game on Sunday night. OH YES OH YES OH YES
There's a very shallow hole in the backyard near the house where there are five eggs -- three are dirty and two are completely white, and they are larger than chicken eggs...I think they're goose eggs. I can't figure out why they would lay them so close to the house or why they weren't been tended to, but it's cool nonetheless.
I don't think I'm getting back home until August 22nd because I'm staying in Barcelona an extra week after I finish the program, and then we're going to England to visit family. I'll be home for almost a month after that though -- It's a good thing classes start so late!
I've recently gotten into making earrings. It's fun and I think if I make enough I can start selling them. I hope I can find a bead shop around here.
That's enough disjointed rambling for now.
Peace. |
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| YES!!! |
[May. 22nd, 2005|03:52 am] |
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OH MY GOD!!!!!!!
DAMIEN WOETZEL IS GOING TO THE KENNEDY SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT AT HARVARD FOR THE NEXT TWO FALL SEMESTERS AND HE IS GOING TO TEACH MY BALLET CLASS EVERY SINGLE WEDNESDAY!!!!!!
SOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED :) :) :) |
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| almost there |
[May. 15th, 2005|12:17 am] |
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10 days 10 days 10 days 10 days 10 days
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| so close, and yet so far away |
[May. 10th, 2005|10:55 pm] |
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I am so ready to come home. 2 more weeks. Ack. |
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| WOOOT |
[May. 1st, 2005|02:22 pm] |
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I haven't updated in forever because this month has been one of the craziest times of my life. Dancer's Viewpointe V was beautiful, the Harvard Ballet Company performances went great...the piece I choreographed went unbelieveably well. I got so many compliments and amazing comments from people, and a picture of it was published in the Harvard Crimson. Last night was opening night of The Oresteia, and I love being in it. It's such an innovative way of integrating acting and dancing, and it turned out to be fantastic. Click here for some pictures of us dancing in some of the scenes:
The Oresteia dancers
Click here for additional pictures:
The Oresteia
I will try to update more often once the insanity has died down.
~C~ |
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[Apr. 21st, 2005|02:26 pm] |
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In sociology class today, we discussed the Pope and religion and its effects in the United States, in addition to gays and their ability to be accepted or accept themselves as part of the Catholic religion. There is one guy in class, a white jew, who I know to be gay though he has never said it outright in class. There is another guy in class, BJ, who is a black, large football player with an annoying habit of perpetually hitting on me. In class guy #1 spoke about religion, Catholicism, homosexuality (never talking about himself), etc. Then BJ made a comment during class that he didn't think gays could be considered actual Catholics because they didn't adhere to the doctrines of the religion, but they could say they adapted their practices and traditions. This struck my professor and some of us as a little odd, but no one paid much attention to it. After class, I walked out of Sever Hall and he pulled on my arm and said hi, asking how I was and such. Then he said, "Is that dude in the front row gay?" I said yes, and he said "Yeah that made me really uncomfortable." I assumed he meant that he felt bad about talking about gays in such a way during class. He asked, "Where are you from again?" I responded New York, and he asked "Do they accept them there and whatever?" I said a general yes, and he nonchalantly replied, "I can't stand them. I'm from the south -- we HATE faggots!" While I fell into a silent state of utter shock, he added, "well I guess you can't say that here or whatever" and continued to say how he said it just wasn't cool, no one likes gays in the south, and it was a huge culture shock to come up here. I didn't know what to say. Never, ever in my life has anyone ever told me to my face that they were homophobic. But it wasn't even in those terms. He explicitly said, "We hate faggots!" I am still in disbelief over what happened earlier, and as much as I wanted to slap him in the face with all my might and scream, I couldn't. I just said "see you later" and walked away. It makes me sick to my stomach to even think about how someone could be so bigoted, so myopic, so stupid. Some of the people I cherish most in my life are gay, and that makes it not only offensive, but personal as well. I have nothing more to say. I am simply dumbfounded and furious. |
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| Help. me. |
[Apr. 20th, 2005|10:47 pm] |
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My life has been both wonderful and absolute hell for the past month, and it will continue this way until the second week of May. I just pulled two consecutive all-nighters that led into a dress rehearsal for the ballet company tonight, and now I have to stay up to study for my exam and write expos letters. I would write everything down that I have been going through recently, but you would still have no idea what this has been like and I don't have time to. I had three Dancer's Viewpointe V performances last weekend that went wonderfully, and the Harvard Ballet Company spring performance is this Thursday and Friday. I decided to name my piece Hors de portee (accent on the first e), which means Out of Reach. It turned out much better than I expected it to, and the feedback that I have received from other members of the company has been incredibly enthusiastic and complimentary. I am also dancing in Saudades, a piece I also performed during DVV, and as an Indian Maiden in an excerpt from Peter Pan...the costumes were rented from Cincinnati Ballet and they are very pretty -- short red halter dresses with green suede paneling and intricate beading all over it, along with beaded armbans and beaded green and gold headdress. After HBC wraps up, The Oresteia will take over my life, as if everything else hasn't already. My roommates have become increasingly worried about me and won't accept the fact that I can't just call in and say "hey I'm not showing up to rehearsal today so deal with it" or not try hard on a paper. All I know is that there are nine more performances and three more weeks of classes to get through. Must. Breathe.
~C~ |
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| oh gender equality.... |
[Apr. 10th, 2005|11:37 pm] |
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| | Andante Op. 75 | ] |
This was forwarded to me from my Mom. The fact that it was sent to me by my mother is hilarious. If anyone knows my mom...you will think it's funny too.
Once upon a time,
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in a land far away,
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a beautiful, independent,
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self-assured princess
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happened upon a frog as she sat,
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contemplating ecological issues
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on the shores of an unpolluted pond
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in a verdant meadow near her castle.
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The frog hopped into the princess' lap
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and said: Elegant Lady,
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I was once a handsome prince,
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until an evil witch cast a spell upon me.
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One kiss from you, however,
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and I will turn back
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into the dapper, young prince that I am
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and then, my sweet, we can marry
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and set up housekeeping in your castle
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with my mother,
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where you can prepare my meals,
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clean my clothes, bear my children,
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and forever
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feel grateful and happy doing so.
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That night,
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as the princess dined sumptuously
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on lightly sautéed frog legs
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seasoned in a white wine
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and onion cream sauce,
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she chuckled and thought to herself:
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I don't fucking think so. |
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| OYE!!! |
[Apr. 9th, 2005|04:05 pm] |
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I'M GOING TO BARCELONA!!!!!
I just found out from the Language Department that I was accepted into the Harvard Study Abroad Summer Program in Barcelona, Spain :) I am ecstatic beyond words. Not only will it be an incredible experience, but it also counts for two citation credits and a foreign cultures requirement, which means I get a core out of the way, I can complete my spanish citation before entering sophomore year, and I can start a new language when I return in the fall. I may start Catalan when I'm there too. I can't wait!
~C~ |
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