La Ballerine

So...

Fri, 07 Jul 2006 05:25:50 GMT

I'm going to China.

For three and a half weeks.

To teach.

And I am

very

very

very

excited.

!!!

Sat, 06 May 2006 04:25:30 GMT

Everything is going to be ok.

Sun, 26 Feb 2006 01:17:38 GMT

Rest in peace Pancakes.

I'm pregnant...apparently

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 05:03:44 GMT

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!

hahahaha

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 18:28:48 GMT

This is BY FAR the most HILARIOUS myspace message I have received to date:

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Subject: Pretty Claudia

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I'm going to join a convent. I think I am abnormally offended and scared by all of this.

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:33:21 GMT

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.

Say...what's in this drink?...

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:10:24 GMT

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 :)

boo

Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:30:25 GMT

Happy Halloween!

My friend ran by me earlier today wearing nothing but a t-shirt and shorts. It is so beautiful today.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow...

Sat, 29 Oct 2005 19:48:00 GMT

*****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~

Would you do this?

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:04:33 GMT

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."

wow I feel old

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:47:54 GMT

Happy 19th Birthday to me!! :)

vale

Wed, 20 Jul 2005 01:43:23 GMT

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.

Adios!

Sat, 02 Jul 2005 03:47:45 GMT

I leave for Spain tomorrow! See you all in 7.5 weeks!!

* * * <--stars

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:49:59 GMT

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.

Ballet, Confetti and Seacrest

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 04:10:23 GMT

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.

Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:22:06 GMT

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~

cute!

Sat, 28 May 2005 18:13:11 GMT

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. :)

This is so surreal

Sat, 28 May 2005 03:24:35 GMT

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.

Fri, 27 May 2005 03:32:28 GMT

HOME

YES!!!

Sun, 22 May 2005 07:56:42 GMT

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 :) :) :)

Wed, 18 May 2005 03:28:40 GMT

Oh, and it's also funny to note that every time I took the Acela to and from Harvard in the past year my life could have been in danger. Look at me laugh. Ha.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/11/AR2005051102089.html

Where knowledge... equals power

Wed, 18 May 2005 03:20:53 GMT

This was just in The Onion. It made me laugh.

almost there

Sun, 15 May 2005 04:24:33 GMT

10 days 10 days 10 days 10 days 10 days

so close, and yet so far away

Wed, 11 May 2005 02:56:29 GMT

I am so ready to come home. 2 more weeks. Ack.

Come, my furies

Mon, 02 May 2005 23:26:52 GMT

The Harvard Crimson gave a great review of The Oresteia!

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