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it's officially been 45 days since my last post apparently. I think that might be a lie though cause I can't even remember the last time I put anything on LJ. I really don't even know who would read it to be honest. Emily, are you out there, comment if you're alive.
I'm sitting in my news media law class and I literally want to throw myself out the window. We're talking about the Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Act... fascinating I know.
So for spring break I'm getting my wisdom teeth out. I know how jealous you all are, so relax, I'll share my Vicodin (for 5 bucks a pop, so be aware of that).
I applied at the state news... again. Hopefully, this time, they'll actually look at my portfolio. Last time I had taped the CD shut with a sticker that said my name, address and shit on it, but when I got it back they hadn't even broken the seal.
what?
Apparently they don't actually want to hire anyone, they just put out wanted ads as an obligation.
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It's 4:30 in morning, I'm watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and, at the risk of sounding like a total pot-head college student, I really have to say that I'm loving this movie.
I've watched it about 4 times in the past month, but I still love it. It's really amazing, because each time I watch Fear and Loathing, it's a very unique experience.
As I'm watching it, I'm pouring over people's old entries trying to catch myself up on their LJ lives. LJ lives, of course, being in now way related to people's real lives. That might not be true, but it just seems like the things people talk about in their journals are never actually brought up in vocal conversation. Maybe I'm just missing the point of journaling, IDK.
I have to live someplace hilly, for future reference. I can't fucking stand how flat this god forsaken state is. And flat means windy, which just cruel, really.
Jack's here, passed out on my futon, and snoring like my Grandma. Which is weird because I didn't think he was spending the night, and then he just passed out. But whatever, I'll just throw something at him before I fall asleep so he stops snoring.
I really don't think you could fully comprehend how loud he's snoring though... seriously. I want to record it for you. It honestly sounds painful, the way he's snoring. I don't know how he does it.
Ok, I'm getting a little loopy now cause it's 5 and I'm still up. It's weird how it took me 20 minutes to write this.
Hmm.
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| I never thought of LJ as a blog. |
[Mon, Apr 02, 07 / 7:18pm] |
See, this is what I don't understand about blogs; who the hell cares?
Sorry to say it, but honestly, besides some close friends and few random creepy people, who reads a livejournal? I've never gone on LJ and just poked around on peoples journals! I'm pretty sure that's like randomly adding people on FaceBook--just not acceptable.
Wes Thorp, this huge blog guy in Michigan (wrote a book, etc..), is here and talking about how important blogs are, but I hate blogs. I hate citizen journalism, because people think it's real journalism. How offensive, that people think they can just do what I'm spending $15,000 dollars a year to learn how to do. They don't let some fucking hack from Gay, Michigan walk in and start performing surgery on people, do they?
no.
So why let untrained douche-bags pose as journalists?
I'm considering, though, now that he's talking about it, starting a blog that denounces blogs. It seems counter-productive, I know, but it's just a little upsetting.
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[Wed, Mar 21, 07 / 5:20am] |
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Huh... so that's what livejournal looks like now. Awsome.
I never update on this, but I have to get in the habit cause I have a feeling it may be the only way I'll be able to keep in touch with some people over summer.
So I'm going on study abroad to the UK and Czech Republic in June, July and August. I couldn't be more excited. The class is PhotoCommunication, and it's literally just us taking pictures and meeting "world-famous British and Czech photographers". Although, if any of them actually are world-famous, I've never heard of them.
The coolest thing, which I just found out, is that we're going to stonehenge. I know what your thinking, "oh stonehenge, it's just a bunch of rocks. Not worth it." That may be true most of the time, but for me it's different. It's different because A) we're going to be there at dawn and B) we're going to be allowed inside the actual structure and allowed to touch the stones and walk amongst them as apposed to standing 30 feet away and just looking at them. I'm looking at pictures of stonehenge on the internet right now to get some inspiration. What I really need to do is start reading some British media because our portfolios have to have informational content as well as conceptual. So I have to find a story, which I love. I might just wait until I go there and talk to the locals to find a real story. As the editor of LSJ told us last week, "the only thing a journalists needs to do to get a real scoop is put down the phone and walk the halls". Which is precisely what I plan to do.
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[Fri, Feb 09, 07 / 8:50am] |
(still ange)
So my best vacation thingy whatever.....fucking sucks. Well it's good couse I'm here with Alec....but it SUCKS because my car was towed. It cost me $152 to get it back. We were stopped by a homeless man who had THE longest prolouge EVER to "I want some money"....Went through a ridiculous amount of things to get into this place to watch open mic night (which it was alright, but very short) AND THEN to top it off I got a motherfucking MIP last night. I have to show up in court today i guess and blah blah. It all just fucking blows. Shoot me in the face.
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[Tue, Feb 06, 07 / 4:50pm] |
So this is Ange on Alec's livejournal....I haven't used mine in a year--I don't remember my password.
Present:
Watching Alec play his game.
Sitting on the couch playing with his laptop and my iPod.
My toes are frozen.
Near future:
Might go eat at the caf after they sneak me in.
OR we might get sushi if that's what Marc and Amanda want to do.
Hang out....fun conversation.
Tonight:
Alec is taking me to some meeting.
It's a good time....so far best week/vacation thing ever.
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I missed battlestar galactica.... i'm so pissed. I can't even speak. It hurts my brain to know that somewhere out there someones watching it and I'm not.
oh well, I'll get it off iTunes eventually. its been 2 days and its still not up though, which is also upsetting.
I go see regina spektor next week. so cool. I'm excited. Everyone went home this weekend but not me cause I had to wrk thur.-sat. and then tomorrow is dedicated to school catch up.
translation= spending 4 hours playing SWBF2 and then staring at a wall for 4 hours.
no not really.
I miss everyone. I hope they come to visit soon. and we can discuss BSG.
is it just me, or does heroes kick serious ass?
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[Tue, Aug 01, 06 / 2:51am] |
first things first, I hate work.
I wont bore you with the gory details, but it bloooows. cock AND balls.
but on the upside, I only have 4 days and...2 and half hours left. so I'm thinking I'll just suck it up.
But its amazing how your mood can change so rapidly. One minute I'm more pissed off then I've ever been in my entire life just at the thought of being at work and how I had 8 hours left of a 12 hour shift, and then suddenly I had some SunChips, and my life just turned around. I was just happy all of the sudden and not particularily caring that I was at work. I think it was half that I was really hungry and needed some carbohydrates, and half that I just cam to the realization that getting pissed about it wasn't going help anyone.
the other good news, I go back to school august 11th.
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ok, so I took these pictures for this online magazine at school i was a part of for a little while, so I figured I'd post them, cause I'm a loser like that. enjoy...
they're all of the UP, mainly houghton and surrounding areas.
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I just want to say thank you x1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.... well whatever a googoplex is, that many times... to araceli_maura for pimping my LJ. Its roxors and I will love it foreer. especially my awsome doctor icon. Love it! woot. now I need friends to look at my beautiful lj.
hmmmm. I'm an lj Loser.
I'm at work and about 6 minutes away from throwing myself into the pulpers which will boil my body and then churn it into paper.
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| the wonderful world of words... |
[Thu, Jul 13, 06 / 1:25am] |
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So, since I've been working at the Mill, I've had A LOT of free time to read and so far in the past month or so, I've cleaned off 9 books. and this is where I'll inform of what they are and tell you whether or not you should read them. These are ranked worst to best:
A Friend of the Family:
I'm not entirely sure of who decided to publish this book, but I wish they hadn't. I usually dont finish books I dont like, but for some reason I kept holding out for a hero in this case. The story was blanned, unfunny and totally all over the place. The characters were kind of lame and depressing and nothing all that exciting and/or sad happened. Nothing even really happend at all. Just a bunch of really mundane events that kind of bored the shit out of me. Less than impressed. Dont suggest it as a good read.
The Undertaking:
This book wasn't bad, but I certainly wasn't that great. The first was that I didnt' like that it was a bunch of stories by the same author. It just got kind of boring to read because all it was, was a bunch of different voices talking about their lives as poets and undertakers. It was depressing half the time and the other half of the time it was out-right preachy. the author is old though (can tell by the picture) so I guess its to be expected I would read rants about the good old days when people cared and word cold and callous. it was funny in most parts and kind of interesting to learn about undertaking and all. plus it took place in michigan and mentioned the UP so that was kind of cool. I'd read it, just if you have nothing else to read.
Requiem for a dream:
Just fucked up. thats all. No punctuation (or grammar at all to be honest) to speak of and therefore very difficul to read. super depressing, but ultimately attention getting and interesting if not a bit of a slow read.
Into the Silent Planet
This is a book by C.S. lewis. it was weird and the third book in a trilogy, which I didnt' realize til I finished it, so I didn't really get it, but thats my fault. It was pretty cool.
The Glass Castle
This is the book that we have to read at MSU for the "one book, one community" thing. It was actually really good, a lot better than the kite runner I thought (which was the book we read last year for that). It was this memoir and it was really good. I just finished it and I'm kind of spun by it. I was impressed. I seriously recommend picking up a copy.
Trainspotting
I read this because I recently watched the movie, which was completely fucked up. I liked it, because it was really close to the movie with the exception of a couple minor details. if you've seen the movie with ewan mcgregor than you know the plot.
Porno
This is the follow up to trainspotting and its 10 years later and its about how the gang gets together to make a porno movie. Its really funny, the only problem is, like the first book, its told form a bunch of different perspectives and some of the perspectives have extremely thick scottish accents and everything is spelled phonetically with a scottish accent so its REALLY hard to read at points. I ended up skipping over some chapters, but I didn't lose anythign from the story. It was good. I also strongly reccomend picking this book up.
Extremely loud and Incredibly close
THis is by the same guy who wrote "everything is illuminated". I LOVE this book. its about a little kid whos dad dies in the world trade center and its just like... heart tugging, giggly funny and extremely enlightening. I loved it so much. Its really tied with the number one, they're interchangeable. if you read one book ever, make it this one or the next, you wont regret it.
Survivor
Chuck palahniuk strikes again. This books is so funny and dark and sad and amazing I can't even begin to describe. I just loved reading every word so much I tried to read it as slow as I possibly could. READ THIS BOOK, YOU WONT REGRET IT. I LOVED IT.
and thats all really, those are the books I read this summer. I need to find a new one though. damn.
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ok so I had the fucking most TERRIFYING dream... scratch that, nightmare, i've ever had. It started out realy normally. My grandparents have been staying at my house a lot because theirs burned down, so they've been squatting places a lot (thats actually true), and so my grandpa stayed up in my bed and me and my grandma were sleeping on this pull out chouche, which doesn't actually exist and I woke up and went upstairs and emily and chris had come over, and so we went down in the basement and my grandma was gone but we didn't think anything of it, and so we're sitting on the couch that was, at one point pulle dout, and we hear this like wimpering under us, and we look down my grandmas hand is like, sticking out of the fucking couch and so we open it up and sure as shit, there she is except somethings wrong and Im like trying to make sure she sok and nothings broken and shes like all fucking satan possessed and shit.
SO i'm sitting there trying to like... assess the extent of my posessed grandmothers injuries and shes spouting off satanic nonsense and emily and chris are both in seperate corners crying and praying like little pussy bitches, and I"m holding her down and shes like hitting me and telling me creepy things about how shes satan. THen my grandparents walk down and my grandma (who is not in the pull out couch) is holding this stick wiht her dog skewered on it through its asshole and she and my grandpa and mom are like "who would do such a thing" and then grandma sees.... well, grandma on the couch and they start freaking out mean while satan grandma has a vice grip on my throat and then my mom came and in and woke me up and that was it.
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| "I was ritualistically sacrificed by a fallen angel.." |
[Thu, Jun 29, 06 / 9:33pm] |
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So I'm watching Hex, which is like... a british version of "Charmed" except honestly a lot better, mainly because they dont try to do too much of that bullshit CG magic shite. The basic plot is that there is this girl (can't remember her name) but shes this reincarnation of a witch from 17th century and theres this fallen angel, Azazeal or some bullshit like that who is like reintroducing her to what she is and showing her what abilities she has and what not and then theres this thelma character who was ritualistically sacrificed by Azazeal in an attic. Shes a lesbian and in love with the witch girl. Its not a bad show. I might watch it some more. maybe.
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| "...I'm a total lame-ass..." |
[Wed, Jun 21, 06 / 6:30am] |
So uh, I haven't updated in like six years cause I'm a total lame-ass, or maybe its because I havne't updated that I'm not a lame ass. I dont know, the point is its been a while. so whats new, huh? well I'm working at IP soon to be Appollo Paper Company because this place gets bought and sold like young girls virginities on ebay. I'm not entirely sure can you pluralize virginity, nor do I think pluralize is a word, but it is now bitches.
I'm actually at work right now. Its not a bad set up, actually. Theres a computer and a fridge, and the computer has MSN, which is nice, but you can't go to fun sites like myspace or facebook. they're blocked for some unapparent reason. So this is the lengths of my desperation, that I have to fart around on LJ. I just said "fart around", I sound like emily's mom, Nancy.
so I got in this morning and one of the giant rolls of paper i have to pick up with the crane got stuck on the rails so I had to pick it up, but some douche tilted it to pick up a roll that was lopsided and didn't bother to put it back in working order so I went to pick up the roll and i was lazy so i didn't check to make sure both sides were hooked in (which is completely lame-ass of me. I'm gonna use that phrase a lot)and I only picked up one side of the 44 ton paper roll. the best way to imagine the sound it made is to go to hell and listen to the roaring moans of souls being ripped apart in the fire pits. Great start to a shitty day, but on the upside, I have 8 days off after 5 30 today. oh yeah thats the other thing, I work 5:30 to 5:30. 12 hour shifts. yeah. on the upside of that my last paycheck was $990 so that was fun.
Emily is like the crack dealer of TV shows cause I'm now officially addicted to Dr. Who in depressing and yet oddly-pleasing ways. Why can't they just release it in america on time so we dont have to watch it on emilys lap top.
Oh yeah, before i forget, i think everyone on my very short friends list already knows about this, but check out our shweet band, the umbrellas.
Myspace.com/theumbrellasband
if you didnt know.
umm... thats all I got for now. fun hey.
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[Sat, Apr 22, 06 / 5:37pm] |
So, me and savannah went to a drag show last night, and she took pictures. so here are some drag queens.
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[Wed, Feb 22, 06 / 2:22pm] |
I dont even remember the last time I looked at livejournal. this is weird. so yeah, I am alive. I dont know why I'm writing in here cause none of my friends on here care, but oh well, I felt an update was in order. so here it is.
Second semester sucks, I hate all of my proffessors. Especially my pretentious PLS professor who is black, and yet the whitest man since peewee herman.
I'm applying to be a mentor cause its free room and board and I'm broke and most importantly cheap, so I'm really hoping i get it. I've had my two intervies (the first of which was like a lab test for mice cause we had to fucking build a toewr out of tinker toys it was retarded) and now I play the waiting game.
Yeah, I'm seeing ben folds the sunday of spring break and then to EL the next morning. should be fun.
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I got my grades back:
French- 3.5
Journalism-3.5
Math-2.0 (BULLSHIT)
Writing- 4.0
mens glee club- 4.which all equals up to .... 3.4! YAY. I thought I was gonna do so much worse. it was sick. I was worried so bad. That math class still fucked my asshole but hey, its math, i'm retarded at math, so its to be expected. I wish they'd tell me what my actual grades were though instead of just the grade point for the class. but apparently thats all that matters. oooh well.
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| next year all our troubles will be out of sight.... |
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so its really christmassy here rght now cause it is softly snowing
giant snow flakes and everything looks relly pretty and cozy and me and
sarah walked to starbucks before my french class and she treated me
too a delicious christmas hot chocolate thing. it was fun, they played "have yourself a merry
little christmas" I really just wanted to like rape santa or something
it was so nice.
and then I actually got to french and I had to do my oral exam today
because I was scheduled for tomorrow, but I'm going to ann arbor (I
think anyway if we can get our shit together in time to actually go)
tomorrow so I had to take it today. it went reallly well when it came
to me speaking. Here was how it was set up: Nicolas paired me with this
girl leslie and gave us two pieces of paper with topics to discuss and
I had to convince leslie to stop studying and go to "un boite de nuit"
(a night club, or night box if you're being literal) and then we had to
talk for 5 minutes, that was super easy and I got full crediit, but
then Nicolas asked us all these questions and I had 6 questions and
leslie only had 4 and mine were so hard to understand whwat he was
saying. afterwards lesliie was like "what the fuck did he say to you"
and my only response to 2 of the 6 questions was "je ne comprend pas"
cause I had no Idea what the fuck was going on. it was terrible. I felt
violated and a little dirty afterwards. and now I have to write an 8
page paper in 5 days and it has to actually be good. which is gonna
blow cause I have no idea how to even start it, so amanda and marc, I
hope you know you'll be helping me with that this weekend. if you love
me you will anyway.
mmm... I can smell christmas....
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I just let go of something that I've been holding onto for a very...
very long time, and now that its not here I just feel this huge
sense of relief and utter joy that its gone. I mean, I won't lie, I
wish I didn't have to, but now that its gone I just feel complete now.
I just feel like I can move on. I mean its not like what I let go of
was inhibiting my ability to live as a whole, but it was keeping me
from moving on in one particular area of my life. I'm sad still though,
some part of me really really wanted it to just magically work out and
be like some movie fairy tale bullshit, but.... life isn't a
movie/fairytale so I guess I just got a really good lesson in reality.
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