I need to figure out how to make Callie into a ghostly being, without it looking like a child's halloween costume. I also need to figure out why and how a person, and the ghost of that person, are in the same space at the same time. Both don't dance at the same time? A solo with two people?

Sometimes I worry about when I get old and stop dancing. They say your body just deteriorates faster and it hurts more. That sucks.

I don't know if my legs can support me long enough to take a shower. Well, I know they can, but they definitely don't want to. They're just going to have to, I guess. I wish I had a bathtub....that I could use.

I can't wait to live in a house. To live in a whole house. Right now, I live in a room, and borrow a kitchen. I sometimes awkwardly and uncomfortably sit in someone else's living room. This is the second someone-else's house that I've lived in. I'm tired of it. I'm just ready for a home. I haven't had one in a few years.

Open letter to Kodak, which I have emailed to Kodak:

I've been trying to charge this camera in my USB port for over 24 hours. I have read all FAQ that concern charging activities. It was plugged into my computer (which was on) all night last night. What's the secret combination? Turn it on, plug it in? Plug it in, push the scan button? Plug it in, push the power button? Plug it in, push the favorites button? Turn it on, turn it off, plug it in, push the scan and power buttons at the same time while quickly and repeatedly clicking the favorites button?

Do I have to do a camera-charge-dance? Should I chant? Paint my face with war paint? Light a candle? Pay alms to the poor? Do I need to sacrifice an SD card to the digital camera gods?

And what is this "The indicator Ready/Battery charging lights blink in sequence while charging."? Is that the flashy dance that the scan button is doing while the video and favorites buttons light up constantly as back up dancers? There are no other lights or blinkings happening, nor have they ever when I miraculously was able to charge this princess prior to tonight.

Is it giving me the cold shoulder because I haven't been putting it in it's Pelican Case? I already gave it my ipod touch's polishing cloth to rest on. What more does it want? Does it want my wiimote's wrist strap? Is that it?

I mean, I understand that it has 12 megapixels and that's pretty good and all, but it doesn't have to be a diva about it.

Can we make it like a cell phone? No matter if it's on or off, I just have to plug the darling little thing in, and he charges right away.

Well, I just had my first satellite phone disconnection. It was really good to hear Nathan's voice for four whole minutes, though.

I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to paint 6 paintings, write 3 papers, write an abstract, study for a final, and make cupcakes, all during a show week, with two extra shows..

However, I'm surprisingly calm about it. This may be because all of my muscles are rather shot and being stressed out would take far too much energy.

I'm going to go ahead and say it. I'm addicted to my heating pad. I sleep with it on my back, and it has a feature that turns it off after two hours. This feature may be intended to keep me from catching on fire at night, but in reality it just wakes me up every two hours. Once the heat goes away, my back starts to hurt again and it wakes me up. Every. Two. Hours.

I'm really looking forward to my ham croissant tomorrow morning from C'est La Vie!

The most exciting part of this week, thus far, was finding a new flavor of vitaminwater at Corner Market. Raspberry-Apple! I can't wait to drink it during Adjudication tonight. I'm pretty pumped about Adjud, and about showing my work, even though I'm not in love with the ending yet. I mean, it's a decent ending. I think it works, but I can do better.

My final assessments are happening again in a few weeks. That means it's been nearly a year since I've updated, because not too far back was my assessment from last year. I feel like it's going to go much better this year. I'm almost excited about it. It's more of a ready-to-prove-myself-excitement. I'm in a much better place now than last year at this time. Good lord, last year was ridic. And now the sophomores are going through it. They sound just like my journal entries from then, "I'm just so tired of being looked at!! Stop assessing me all the time!" What an insane thing to major in.

I really have to stop getting on Yahoo!Answers. It truly is forcing me to no longer believe in the human race, and it makes me be mean to people.

The main reason I have actual hatred towards some people on it, is because sometimes, people capitalize the first letter of every word. I really just don't understand. There's no way it's a mistake. You can't accidentally do it. Also, I refuse to believe that anyone seriously thinks that you're supposed to capitalize every single word. Do they do this at school? If I become a teacher, and someone hands me a paper typed like that, I'm pretty positive I would give them a 0. As annoying as TypING LiKe THiS iS, at least I understand why people do it. They're trying to look "cool." I personally don't think they are successful, but they do.

Is there some insane teacher out there that one day was just like, "UGH! I can't remember these crazy capitalization rules! Just Capitalize Everything From Now On!"

I don't really know why I'm updating again.

I've been sick and that's no good. It's causing me to feel very, unmotivated. It's also causing me to eat like a crazy person. My diet for the past three days has consisted of ice cream sandwiches, cinnamon and sugar pita chips, sweet tarts and ginger ale.

Apparently, I'm allergic to allergy relief eye drops.

It is SO frustrating that when you have a full black ink cartridge, but no color ink, you can't print in black and white. It makes me angry!

I hate printers!

I am LIVID.

I just bought a Wii!!

I just danced for 12 hours.

One of the most amazing experiences of my life.

I'm really not sure what to do with myself right now.

Sorry Sean, (but I am glad you liked the idea!) I've decided to do a pilates ball dance instead. The super mario dance idea isn't going anywhere though, don't you worry. It may come back in the future.

I still may whip out my super nintendo and do some "research" this weekend anyway.. ya know, just in case I change my mind.

I think I'm going to do a Super Mario dance. Well, it's a duet, so a Mario and Luigi dance.

Today has been no better.

In my first class, she announced that we are having a 12 hour final. We're coming to class at 7pm and dancing until 7am. She wants us to dance until we are so physically exhausted we literally can't anymore. That is semi-fucking ridiculous, but I'd have much less of a problem with it if I didn't have a community service thing from 7am to 5pm the next day.

And we were given 28, 1 page assignments today in comp.

I had a bad ballet class, and then someone asked me what was wrong right before modern and I, of course, started crying and had a breakdown infront my class.

This week is really awful.

Dancing hurts. I have 10a1oo832483430 floor burns and have spent like 20 dollars on bandaids in the past two weeks. It's like any time the top of my foot comes in contact with the floor there is a bright red hole in my foot. I also got my first concussion when my head was slammed into the ground friday at rehearsal. And today, while I was running on top of people lunged over, I fell on my face. hahaha. But, I'm having so much fun. I love it.

And I bought a foot-soaking-tubby and I am excited! It's the best thing I've ever purchased.

And my parents bought some land in texas. So, we may be living there within the next year.

AND! I got a private room last week. I'm super stoked.

And.. I just slammed my toe into my chair. So not dancing hurts just as badly.

My trip to minneapolis was fantastic!

( three pictures )

My phone broke on the way, so that is why I have not been answering calls/texts for the past.. 5 days.

Highlights are: Katie, Sam, Errika, Jason, CHINO LATINO, drag show, Mall of america= H&M and Rainforest Cafe (avec rainstorm and obnoxious light up glass), Grey's Anatomy, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Perkins, Kronenbourg 1664 beer, spoonbridge and cherry (Claes Oldenburg).

It was great to see those girls!

I bought the sims 2 yesterday online, and it needs to come ASAP. UPS estimates the 13th, which is a long time away, and I want to go back to usm the 12th, at least. But, white van has been coming and honking outside my trailer for the past two days. Today I thought it was the Sims so I looked outside. I don't know who it is, but I refuse to greet them in my pjs. And they wake me up, so I'm mad at whoever it is.

My car is also broken. I might walk to Cingular in a minute, and Subway. Because I have no food.

It's been awhile! Katie Meyer told me to update, and I decided I hadn't in awhile and I should do that. And lj is changed and I like it!

The semester is over and I am excited! It was stressful and busy and I'm pretty excited about the free time I've had. I didn't know what to do with it, so I slept a lot and ate and cleaned. YES!! I know, I cleaned... and I didn't even have anything to procrastinate! (except paying my latest parking ticket)

I finally got a parking ticket. I was doing an experiment with the usm parking violation ticket-ers to see how long it would take me to get a ticket for not having a decal. I almost made it an entire semester. Some say I beat the system anyway, because I made it a mighty long time parking on campus every day without getting one. I'm still disappointed, because I was playing grab ass in the library and if I had left like TWO minutes earlier I would have coasted through the rest of the semester, because when Nathan and I got to my car the ticket-giver was like, three cars down. So he got to witness my I-finally-got-a-ticket-and-im-mad-about-it-dance firsthand. boo.

I love love love loved my dance composition (I guess it's like a choreography class) final piece! I tried to create a dancing using design restrictions along with the choreographic restrictions and I think it came out pretty neat. It was called The Journey Of a Dot, and I made a costume that was a black leotard and tights with a big white dot on my tummy (i could have been a cat if I had ears :) and was based on the quote that "A line is a dot that went for a walk." It was also about making a drawing. I could explain it all in greater detail but that would take a long time. I just absolutely loved making it and showing it! I was so nervous before showing because I wasn't that comfortable with it because we usually do a lot of drafts and get really comfortable showing it before the final big-deal-showing, and this time we just showed it once and it was supposed to be our most inspired and best performance of the semester. It was stressful, but SO fun in the end. I'm kind of excited for advanced comp next semester. HAH, I say that now...

I really want to know my grades. I have absolutely no idea what I'll have in Design or Comp. I'm expecting a C in Design, and a B in Comp.. but I really have no idea. I'm nervous about my Comp grade.

OO! I'm going to Minneapolis after New Years to see Abbey Loves and I can not wait!!

I'm pretty jazzed about next semester! (again, hah, I say that now...) Tuesdays and Thursdays are going to straight up kick my ass. I have dance classes from 9:30 to 4:30 with a 30 minute lunch. BUT Monday I just have an 8am like, 30 minute class, drawing, and Modern, Wednesday I just have drawing, and Friday I have drawing and Modern. And some day I'll have to observe dance classes at a school somewhere(for that 30 minute class on Monday), and I WILL start my community service hours earlier so I only have to do it once a week.

So, community service. I volunteered at the girl scouts and made copies and bound things together and colored for four hours a week. and it was so hot in there. It sucked, but the girls were nice and one time they gave me cookies (thin mints and somoas.. jealous??) Next semester I'm going to do something that isn't so sucky where i get to play with little kids (hopefully teach them dance or how to color or something).

Soo.. I saw The Nutcracker for the first time today. Isn't that just ridiculous? Well, I know I've seen it before but I was little little. Being a dancer, it's just insane I don't like, have it memorized. To make up for it, I have done the spanish section and the flowers section in revues before.. I just forgot that was part of the nutcracker.

This has gotten mighty long. I'm going to decorate my trailer and make presents. Because I'm Buddy the Trailer Trash Elf.

So, two pretzels were walking down the street, and one was a-salted.

I guess I'll do my part in the revival of livejournal. (If we're being honest, I'm just procrastinating my design homework.)

Last week was stressful but it went by really really fast. I started my luckyday community service (which I should have done a few months ago) at the girl scouts. It's pretty fun. Sometimes I do bitch work, but its fun. Last time I got to design a tshirt for Camp Iti Kana, that Karen and I used to go to! I was so excited. I'll have to buy us some, they're really cute. Next time I get to make posters for father daughter camp out. It's like arts and crafts time and I really like it. The lady I work with is hilarious. And I got to use a mail machine thing, that stamps postage on stuff. It was one of the most fun toys i've ever played with.

Did you hear about the guy who's left side was cut off? He's all right now!

I spent about 20 hours at production this weekend. 33 more hours to go this week! And they always give us projects in our dance classes production week. I'll never understand why. I have no idea what to do for my bartinieff project. But after this, there's one normal week until thanksgiving week!

I hate design class a little more every day. If it wasn't at 8am I'd like it a lot more. Atleast lizzie is there! :) That makes it better. I'm excited about having a drawing class next semester. That's all I have time to take, which sucks a little.

Someone on my hall is blaring I'm Bringing Sexy Back.

Two atoms were walking down the street. One atom turns to the other and says, “Hey, wait! I think I lost an electron!” The other atom asks, “Are you sure?” The first atom replies, “Yeah, man! I’m positive!”

I'm on a cheesey joke roll!

IMPORTANT!!!:
There is a documentary about Lindy Boggs on PBS on November 7 at 3pm!


I can't see it because that's during community service time. That's a sad thing. Maybe ill tape it? If I know how to do that.

To add to yesterday,
I did laundry, someone took my clothes out of the dryer and jacked my favorite jeans (and underwear which is just weird). I'm thinking they didn't mean to and will bring them back because I don't believe someone would actually steal someone elses jeans (and really cute underwear).

EDIT:

False alarm. but i left it cause catherine's funny.

EDIT DEUX:

Just kidding about the false alarm. Jeans definitely gone. ;(