Little Leah's Little Life

The Roommate Rules (part 1)

2010-02-16T00:00:00.001-08:00

So i'll probably add onto this later, but right now i'm seriously pissed off.

Rules:

1. DO NOT come in my room without my permission. Even if you know I’m inside you have no right to open my door. Or wake me up when I’m asleep, or demand things of me when you know I’m in bed.
2. Bills must be posted a week in advance or I will not pay them. I am not responsible for your stupidity.
3. No cats in my room. Your cats are your responsibility. If they make a mess, you clean it up. If someone is yelling at your cat, take care of it. They are YOUR pets, not mine.
4. If you’re working on a show with me in any capacity, you must e-mail me or discuss show matters on campus, NOT at home. Text messages don’t leave a paper-trail, dumbass. So learn to use your iphone in its proper capacity.
5. Stop eating and opening my food without permission. You’re not clever; I know you’re stealing it.
6. I pay more rent than you. Therefore I can have who I want over, when I want. You are not allowed to judge my company or tell me who is allowed to come over when.
7. You have no right to deny me parking rights just because I don’t have a car.
8. You’re a hoarder. Just because you’re mentally ill doesn’t mean you get more shelf/cabinet space than I do.
9. Stop copying everything I do/like/own/aspire to. It’s creepy and I’m cuter than you are. Get your own life.
10. Just because you earn a paycheck doesn’t mean you work harder than me. Once you’re in charge of 80 people (faculty, grads, undergrads) on a 24/7 job then come talk. Working 8 hours a weekend making over little girls is NOT equivalent to what I do, bitch.

So my blog is...

2009-12-07T03:08:00.001-08:00

Basically dead, but my twitter can be rather entertaining sometimes. (in my opinion anyway.)

you can follow me on twitter:

@soliajmartinez

besides, being a college student, a drama major and having honors in stage management really leaves me no time to blog. bleh. wish it did though.

Note to self, stage managing a show that closes the weekend before finals is a BAD idea. Especially if it's a show that the grads usually handle. I had an awesome time and every imaginable problem thrown at me (fire alarm evacuation, broken loading doors, sound shutting down, loss of control of the lights, spiders, ciggarette lighters, teenage pregnancy, annie...it really is a hard knock life. haha!), but i'm just getting better at what I do because of it.

Okay, i really must go study now.

And by study i mean, read Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher.

-Leah

$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 2)

2008-10-27T01:51:00.001-07:00

In an attempt to procrastinate and get as little sleep as possible for my 8am class tomorrow, here are some more camping survival tips!

If you're rock climbing, and you find a shoe and it smells like death, then you will most likely find a corpse nearby.
If you're rock climbing and you see a snake, stay where you are, panic and scream for your hiking partner and then calmly take another path back and return to camp.
If you are hiking alone nerves may make you panic and think squirrels are bobcats, and lizards are snakes.
Don't climb too high on the rocks or you may revert to a cat and get stuck. your camping buddies won't like it if you have to get airlifted out, and if you fall and break your neck...well, you break your neck.
When swimming in the shallows of the lake, If you look down while you're walking little schools of fish will scatter. It gives you the satisfaction of feeling like Godzilla.

That's all for now. Mostly because those are the only ones written in my sketchbook and i really shouldn't dig through anymore in my notebook until I finish this paper and get some sleep. Stay tuned next time for more hints!

-Leah

Ah Dorm Life: but not in the dorms...

2008-10-22T10:30:00.000-07:00

i hate pulling all nighters. I only pulled two last year, but between working on West Side Story, having drama 40 which makes me want to shoot myself (a paper due every class 2x a week, and 2x quizzes a week), an 8am class, no car and no time to do anything...damn. freshman year was hella easy compared to this.
so i figured the whole "ah dorm life" series thing, is basically just college, so even though i'm in an apartment now it's still sort of dorm life...just not so cramped and noisy.

I'm actually sitting in that bastard drama 40 class right now, but i figure i need to blog or i'll fall asleep. and at least it looks like i'm taking notes and not playing games or anything.

it's going to be random here for a bit. I'm basically just getting out what i need to get out so that i don't fall asleep.

it's 1 month to me being 19, and 1 month till west side closes and i get my life back before i start ASM-ing Book of Tink.
my sense of self is completely warped and i feel like i'm not myself when i look in the mirror because i've had so little sleep.
I want a pair of black skinny jeans for crew because they'll cover my ankles and i won't have to worry about wearing black socks.
i'm kind of glad i don't have a tv in my room right now, but eventually i need to get one...and figure out a way to get it because i still don't have a car/license.
i should have learned this last year, but pulling an all nighter and drinking too much coffee just makes things worse. at least there was no mint oreos this time.
speaking of coffee, thank god i have a coffee maker now and i don't have to travel all the way to starbucks at 2 in the morning. thanks mostly because it's a one-time cost, and starbucks is like a half mile from my apartment even though it's on campus.
I'm tagging this as insomnia because technically i haven't slept since 10am yesterday, so it's been about 24 hours.
I put makeup on this morning because i thought it would make me less tired looking, but i think by now i've ended up rubbing it all off.
kimya dawson freaked me out last night (this morning?) because i forgot i left my stereo on really quietly and i was basically home alone and i walked into my room and heard a voice, then i was like oh. it's my stereo, hello kimya dawson.
NEVER let me do an all nighter again.
SCREW THIS CLASS.
seriously!
30 minutes left. let me go now so i can sleep and be happy again and my head won't explode.

-Leah

Procrastination...

2008-10-20T02:02:00.000-07:00

It's 2:03 am. I have class at 8am. I still need to finish a paper, and yet i am here blogging.

how stupid am I?

I can't be that stupid, I'm in COLLEGE for crying out loud.

By the way, this show is ruling my life right now:

Oh yeah. I drew that. I figured it was better to use red construction paper than waste all that red ink. Plus, the logo's really just a bunch of lines anyway.

-Leah

2 days...

2008-08-09T00:59:00.001-07:00

...and here it is. I've been drawing a lot recently (check my Facebook Album), but i think this is my favorite one so far:

Yay!

-Leah

$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 1)

2008-07-24T21:45:00.000-07:00

So I just got back on Sunday from camping at Clear Lake, and me and my cousin Hobz decided to make a camping survival guide. She’s drawing the pictures, so they’re still under construction, but I figure until I type up all the survival tips I’ll just run this in installments.
So here we go, and in no particular order:
$1 for 8 minutes?!? Or How To Survive Camping (Part 1)

No matter what time of the day it is, if you’re in line for the shower you will hear very awkward things. The standards are: the male and female couple showering together, male only showering and moaning, and the ever popular screaming child and demanding parent.
It doesn’t matter how many quarters you use to shower. You’ll be dirty again in five minutes anyway.
Cheese in a can may sound disgusting, but pair it with some crackers and you have one of the best beach snacks ever.
Board games are cool again! But once you’re out of the woods they become lame again.
No one goes to bed until the campfire burns out, otherwise you run the risk of setting all of Northern California ablaze.
Big fish always show up when no one else is watching. You may seem like the ‘boy-who-cried-wolf’, but you saw a giant fish and no one else did! So shut up and stop bragging!
No matter your race, you turn into a redneck hillbilly when your camping because you get excited about “going to town!”.
Personal hygiene goes down the tubes. If you loose your toothpaste, you can go without brushing your teeth for days: just pop in a piece of gum! Your hair tangles into knots and children’s faces turn grey. Just remember that skunk will always smell worse than you without deodorant.
It’s easy to have a staring contest with a deer, but if you blink they will run.
No matter how much time you think you have left in the shower, your quarters will always run out when you suds up for the second time.

That’s all for this issue of our camping survival guide. Stay tuned for our next edition which will help with things like mosquitos, marshmallows and those fuzzy woodland creatures!
Love ya!

-Leah

Oh Disneyland, You Price Gouging B****...

2008-07-09T02:37:00.000-07:00

Well we all know that Disneyland, although the happiest place on earth, is also the MOST EXPENSIVE.

Conversation A:

Me: omgosh. never again

Mark: the public service announcement?
Me: no, i finished watching that like 45 minutes ago

I should mention that I was watching "The Secret Life Of The American Teenager" (waay too long of a title for a tv show, if you ask me.) on ABC

Family. Normally I steer clear of ABC Family because it's the second coming of The Disney Channel and we all know that Disney is just a huge money hungry corporation...which leads me back to the topic at hand...

Me: so i bought a popcorn bucket thing at Disneyland coz it had pirates on it...haha

Yes, we all know about my obsession with pirates. Not surprising. Oh, I should also mention

that this was an AIM conversation. Continue...

Mark: wtf? ok

Me: so it's like $5.50
Mark: DAYUMN
Me: i just made popcorn and only 1 bag fit in it and it was overflowing
Mark: all that 4 some small cardboard w/ a pirate logo on it?
Me: no, a plastic bucket. ><
Mark: ummm missin the point here kid
Me: point being
Mark: it's still 5.50 4 a piece of plastic w/ art on it
Me: yeah, $5.50 for a plastic bucket full of popcorn which only holds one microwave bag of popcorn
Mark: go0d deal? i don't think so
Me: well i like the bucket
Me: but that's expensive!

Yes. Those price gouging bastards sell about the same amount of popcorn in a microwave bag, inside a pretty bucket for like 50 Million times the price!

But then again, I like their popcorn better than even the movie theatres. They must sprinkle it with Pixie Dust.

Oh Disneyland, you may be the happiest place on earth but you are a cruel, cruel mistress who loves to inflict deadly pain upon my wallet.

CURSE YOU!

-Leah

Ah Dorm Life...part 6

2008-05-19T23:39:00.000-07:00

So I'm realizing that even though there's only a week left in the dorms you don't quite get the feeling that it's over until things come full circle.

All those posts I wrote at the beginning about light sleepers, whiny ANTM phone calls, they still apply. I mean, don't get me wrong, i love college. I like the freedom and all that shit, but at this point i really just want to go home. I want to be able to do what i want and not have to worry about a desk lamp being too bright, or having to get dressed in the dark or hearing that goddamned intake of air and movement of a pillow covering a face if i flip a page in a book. I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous.

yes. people say things. people get stressed and say things they don't mean, and they realize it and are sorry, but it's a two way street, genius.

yell at me, talk shit and send text messages like you're a playground bully wanting to steal milk money, but if the goal is to make me cry, to give me a "reality check", why don't you look in the mirror?

Anytime a conversation ends with the phrase "i hope this is a reality check for you" They don't really mean it. what they're really saying is "i want to look badass, so i'm going to try and make you think. i'm the bigger person, fuck you."

and this whole free speech thing? yeah, it doesn't really exist. it's getting to the point these days where you have to even cross examine the thoughts in your head because there's so much shit to 'avoid'. you can't rant without it crossing the line to "talking shit". people get angry, they get frustrated and they have the right to express that. people have the right to want to chill out after a hard day and when that's taken away they have a right to get upset about it.

dorms are...ugh. three people who are polar opposites are NOT meant to share a 50 foot room and get along without wanting to kill each other.

as i said before it's come full circle.

happy end of freshman year, leah.

ugh.

p.s. If you're really that upset about people talking shit, go back to high school. that excuse and that reason to be angry is childish, and so is the silent treatment. people get mad, they say things, end of story. get over it.

Best Music Video Ever...

2008-05-19T01:23:00.000-07:00

...I just rediscovered it.

So if New Kids On The Block (NKOTB) can have a reunion, can't *Nsync? I want my *Nsync reunion!! Waah! haha.

-Leah

Amy Adams on SNL...

2008-04-10T12:47:00.000-07:00

I thought her monologue would start the flow of Enchanted jokes, but no....something better. haha.

so cute! I love it. :)

-Leah

Well Today...

2008-04-01T15:02:00.000-07:00

Has not been good.
I texted flea to see how Leila was because she turns two today, and guess what.
Leila's in the hospital. I wanted to catch a flight back, but i don't think i'd be able to. now i see why going to college hours away from home isn't the best thing to do. She's going to be okay I hope. Flea said that they ran a bunch of tests and she's mildy dehydrated, and there's a possibility that she could have measels. I don't know where you get measels from, but i'm just hoping for the best with everything.
That's the serious stuff.
onto the not so serious UCI stuff:
I'm not really sure about my Drama 30c class. It's going to be fun, and nathan's awesome, but it's the other people in there i'm worried about. We'll see.
Writing 39b, I'm actually in the classroom now. I thought it was at 3:00, but it isn't until 3:30. I think I'm going to fail the quiz because I didn't understand one gorram page of Lysis and Nicomachean Ethics doesn't make since to me because of the way it's phrased and how it sort of just rambles and trails off.
Faak. We'll see what happens. I still wish I was reading Sin City like jennifer instead of Plato and Aristotle. NOT FAIR.

-Leah

Maan, Oh Maan...

2008-04-01T10:08:00.000-07:00

writing 39B is killing me and i don't even start the class officially until 3pm today.

all i want to do is sleep!

at least i have one thing to look forward to:

SWEENEY TODD COMES ON DVD TODAY!!!

-Leah

Recapping Spring Break ( 4.21-4.30ish)

2008-03-30T01:08:00.000-07:00

Vacations from school are always weird to me. they're a time when it seems like all you did was sleep and avoid homework, but when you look back you actually did quite a bit of stuff. I don't know, at least i feel that way most of the time. so what did I do over spring break? Let's see...

4.21= woke up late recovering from double days at Disneyland with Rachel, sunburn and doing laundry until 3am. Had about an hour and a half to shower, eat lunch, get cash from the ATM and pack my clothes before I had to get to the airport. Such a rush that I made (not on purpose of course) the taxi wait like 10 minutes. (They charge you so much for less than a 10 minute drive they can wait a bit, right?) Then I got to the airport, where I was NOT treated like a terrorist this time (that's a story for another day). Took an hour plane ride to Oakland, went home and threw my stuff down before I went to Berkeley to see Jukebox Stories at Impact Theatre with my blogger friend Prince Gomolvilas. AMAZING show. Both Prince and Brandon are hilarious and they leave you wanting more. :) ha. I got home and listened to Jukebox Stories: The Official Bootleg because it's all AWESOME. Ate some Lavalle's pizza and went home to a house with DUN DUN DUN: NO INTERNET ON MY LAPTOP.
4.22= i don't remember, but it ended with eating out w/ my parents and my sister.
4.23= once again, i don't remember.
4.24= BABYSITTING!!! yay! i missed my kids so much. leila's so cute, and she's not calling me hobbie anymore. now i'm "yeeyah" because she can't say her L's right in order to say "Leah". Jamar got a snake, which i am so creeped out by bringing me to...
4.25= more babysitting! they fed the snake and leila was so funny she'd look into the box with the snake eating the mouse and just go..."eww!", and tomas scared me hecka bad coz he grabbed my arm like two seconds after the snake pounced on the mouse, and i messed up my hand fighting with him over it. you'd think he'd learn his lesson because when i messed up my hand i'd scratched him, but he AND jamar started a pillow fight against me and I accidentally hit jamar in the face. then we watched I Am Legend, and we drag raced back to my house.
4.26= pizza with my parents. yummy pesto and olives. went to the mall, worked on my fanfic. two chapters done, but i can't post them yet because i have no titles.
- NOTICE: all that homework I have for Writing 39b has not been touched. see what i mean by sleeping and avoiding homework?
4.27= i was supposed to watch the kids, but everyone was sick so i ended up going to vicki's house and playing guitar hero. :) hadn't seen vicki since graduation.
4.28= went to SF with Nani and saw the CUTEST hello kitty bag but i didn't but it because it was like $50. then i realized i SHOULD have bought it because it was cuter than half the bags at Disneyland which is what i was going to buy originally anyway. there was this slutty blonde white chick on the bart that made me ashamed to be human. we got on the bart, it was RAINING and GREY outside and she was wearing a mini skirt that barely covered her, her leg all draped over her boyfriend and her butt hanging out. DISGUSTING. worst part is the only seats on the train were right across from her and her boyfriend who were making out half the time and asking hella loud for directions the other half. Orange Barbie doll almost made this guy miss his station too because she didn't know how to get to the Oakland coliseum. dude. it's SIMPLE. there's an entire stop just for it!
4.29= went to fremont with livi and jonathan to half price books at like 9pm, bought the BBC version of Sweeney Todd for like $9. it was good. really different than the musical though, darker, more blood and the story's different. Watch them both though.

OKay so here's where it gets tricky because it's only 2 hours into 4.30, so i have no idea what's going to happen. I'm going to try and predict though...

4.30= blogged for hecka long, slept in, went to newpark with my mom because they have a bunch of clothes stores i like and they have target because i need some stuff before i go back to irvine. go visit flea and the kids to say goodbye until june or sooner if i happen to make it back, go home throw all my stuff in my suitcases and head to the airport in order to go BACK to irvine.

wow. either i did a lot, or i had a lot to say about what i did. some other things i feel i should bring up before i go to bed are:

Enchanted- i've watched it about 4 times over break (because i got the DVD), and i've realized that i want to be Giselle. It seems like so much fun! maan. I want to be a disney princess and sing in order to get all of my animal friends to help clean my room. how AWESOME would that be? plus i'd get to choose between James Marsden and Patrick Dempsy. as we all know, i'm particular to johnny depp, but it'd still be cool, right?
Hip Hop- I've never realized how much I'm grateful for hip hop and rap music until i get a white girl overload like that incident on bart. we threw on some hip hop music after that and somehow it helped us get regrounded.
Blogging- I love doing it, but now that I have to do it for writing, i'm hoping it doesn't loose it's appeal.

Okay, that's all. Lots to say, too much maybe. oh well. Until tomorrow, or whenever. I'll be in irvine next time i blog with no MonaRonaDona virus blocking my way and making me shift computer windows around in order to see.

Later.

-Leah

Disneyland perplexes me...

2008-03-25T14:15:00.000-07:00

So me and Rachel went to Disneyland (YAY!) twice last week, and we still cannot figure out why there is a Sweeney Todd diorama inside one of the gift shops.

Even stranger still is that he looks like a twisted version of Commodore James Norrington (A.k.a Jack Davenport.)

Oh Disney. Why are you so confusing?

-Solia

Stupid College...

2008-03-18T00:16:00.000-07:00

gorram college. Homework over spring break was supposed to END in HIGH SCHOOL.

So, to summarize, here are the tasks that you must complete *before* we

meet for our first class on Tuesday, April 1st.

--Read Plato’s Lysis and Book 8 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics—pp 1-50

in Pakaluk’s Other Selves.

--Read the Introduction to the Student Guide to Writing

--Write two blogs in the Writing Studio

--Read and print out the Course Syllabus and the “Writing Studio Help”

sheet. Sign the forms in the syllabus and bring them with you on the first

day of class.

--Read all of the course information that I disseminate through

e-mail—course syllabi, writing studio information, etc. Check your e-mail

frequently.

--If you receive an e-mail from me asking you to do so, be prepared to

define a glossary term in class and give an example from Plato and

Aristotle or to give a headnote presentation. (Details will follow.)

--And try to enjoy your Spring Break.

BULLSHIT.

-Leah

Further Proof I'm Exhausted...

2008-03-03T09:25:00.001-08:00

I'm sitting in a bio lecture right now, and i went to my desktop to open up the next lecture.

i read my powerpoint icon wrong

"lec18 diab c.ppt"

and i'm like "why are we having a lecture on diablo cody?"

8am & 9am classes and rehearsals do not mix.

-Leah

p.s. : the lecture was actually on diabetes. i don't know what the c stands for.

i'm tired...

2008-03-03T00:53:00.000-08:00

of hearing about headshots, monologues and songs.

and not having any days to sleep in.

-Leah

Ah Dorm Life...part 5

2008-01-31T19:28:00.000-08:00

In Aldea we have just entered into this wonderful little game called assasins.

I have managed to fly under the radar most days, but i have suffered a near death experience.

it is driving me insane.

if i remain alive until monday, i will post again then.

-Leah

Ah, Dorm Life...Part 4

2008-01-16T22:58:00.000-08:00

It's Amazing. it's 11:00 and there are no crazy drunk people running up and down the halls screaming.

Then again it is only the second week of the quarter.

I have already had to adjust to many things.

1) all morning classes- Now, morning classes may not sound that bad, but it is. I have alternating 9am and 8am classes as opposed to last quarter where 2 days a week my classes didn't start till 3 and i was out all night. I'm still a semi-night owl, but I'm getting better about actually going to bed.

2) bio- 'nuff said.

3) spending more money on textbooks, and hocking old ones for cold medicine and rolling stone magazine. (see Ah, Dorm Life...The Broke Edition)

4) lots and lots of memorization in drama.

Overall, the amount of reading this quarter is ridiculous, but I have to admit, either people here have wised up to that fact, or i'm just too tired to notice people screaming anymore.

-Leah

Just A Peek Into My itunes: The Procrastination Edition

2008-01-11T00:36:00.000-08:00

I'm depressed over bio, so i figured I'd procrastinate some more and peruse my itunes. It must be the lack of sleep or the cold medicine that's making me use the word "peruse". Whatever. I'm in college. Here's another brief peek into the wonderful and exotic (okay, well maybe not exotic) world of my itunes.

25 Random Songs From My ipod

1. Little Bunny Foo Foo – The Moldy Peaches
2. Blue Jay Way- Secret Machines
3. Dilemma f. Kelly Rowland- Nelly
4. Wasted Years- Maroon 5
5. Jorge Regula- The Moldy Peaches
6. Love Hurts- Nazareth
7. Trynna Find A Way- Nelly Furtado
8. Do what u do- Pink
9. What’s this?- danny elfman
10. XR2- M.I.A
11. Only Hope- Mandy Moore
12. Get Smart Theme Song
13. Superfrog (it’s not easy being green)- elves gone wild
14. What’s the worst that could happen?- Brandon Patton
15. I have seen- Zero 7
16. I’ll Make A Man Out Of You- Mulan
17. That’ll Be The Day- Buddy Holly
18. Black Mamba- The RZA & Ol’ Dirty Bastard
19. Vindicated- Dashboard Confessional
20. All I Need- Radiohead
21. Our Love- Rhett Miller
22. Summer Love- Set the mood (prelude) – Justin Timberlake
23. It’s So Easy- Willy DeVille
24. Don’t look down- BBMaK
25. Greyhound Bus- The Moldy Peaches

Bio is...

2008-01-10T23:35:00.000-08:00

a bitch. and it's only the first week.

shit.

-Leah

Oh, Crazy Hamlet Guy...

2008-01-09T23:34:00.000-08:00

This would have made your class so much more interesting.

-Leah

Ah, Dorm Life: The Broke Edition

2008-01-08T20:50:00.000-08:00

So it's a new quarter here at UCI, and all of us broke college students have to buy books. So I sold the only books I had.

From the $45 I had spent on books, all I got when I sold them back was $5.50.

I've been sick since the last day of break, and being broke on top of that I decided when I went to buy some day/nyquil I'd buy the store brand instead.

So I did. And it cost as much as I got back from selling my books.

Awful.

I sold my books for cold medicine.

I despise the money-sucking venture that is the college system

-Leah

Boredom Strikes Again!

2007-12-30T00:24:00.001-08:00

Me and Cesar were typing with only one half of the keyboard and I have invented a new tongue twister. haha.

"Sad Ed was fed red feed."

I needed to put it down or I'd forget it.

-Leah

We Are...

2007-12-29T23:24:00.000-08:00

...dangerously close to a new chapter in my fanfic being posted.

(Click HERE or Have Faith In Destiny In the "Other Cool Blogs" section)

-Leah

Just A peek into my itunes.

2007-12-28T02:01:00.001-08:00

I love ipod myspace surveys because it shows me what a wide range of music i have in my itunes library. i found one that just said to list the first 129 songs on shuffle, so here you go. a peek into my itunes.

*129 Random Songs on your computer, MP3, or iPod*
1.:	I have seen- Zero 7
2.:	Cruella DeVil
3.:	Don't Let Go- Weezer
4.:	Harajuku Girls- Gwen Stefani
5.:	Numb- Linkin Park
6.:	You Can Stay, But No Suki Suki- Brandon Patton
7.:	Clean- Incubus
8.:	Scars- Papa Roach
9.:	Brave- JLo
10.:	Here We Go- Nsync
11.:	amor y dulzura- cafe tacuba
12.:	The muppet's show theme
13.:	life is like a musical- outkast
14.:	light and day- the polyphonic spree
15.:	new- no doubt
16.:	Baat Meri Suniye To Zara- Abishek Bachan & Aishwayria rai
17.:	burn the witch- queens of the stone age
18.:	The Twilight Zone theme
19.:	upside down- A-teens
20.:	Main Titles (Tim Burton's Corpse Bride)- Danny Elfman
21.:	Hey Baby- No Doubt
22.:	possibilities- weezer
23.:	positive- legally blonde the musical
24.:	Bonnie Portmore- lucinda williams
25.:	No Such Thing- john Mayer
26.:	Under The Water (deep dish underpressure remix) - Bjork
27.:	Rules and REgulations- Rufus Wainwright
28.:	Hot as Ice- britney Spears
29.:	Mission: Impossible- Lalo schifrin
30.:	(oh no) what you got- justin timberlake & timbaland
31.:	SOS (rescue me)- Rihanna
32.:	sundown- veruca salt
33.:	lithium- nirvana
34.:	everybody's everything- santana
35.:	augustus gloop- danny elfman
36.:	shooting star- elliot smith
37.:	stay now- jem
38.:	etiquette lesson- danny elfman
39.:	Get mine, Get yours- christina aguilera
40.:	no one else- weezer
41.:	material girl- madonna
42.:	cherish- madonna
43.:	pretty woman- shah rukh khan
44.:	army of me- bjork
45.:	you will you won't- the zutons
46.:	the day and the time (f. gustavo cerati) -shakira
47.:	enjoy- bjork
48.:	what the world needs now is love- the carpenters
49.:	easy tonight- five for fighting
50.:	overture/and all that jazz- catherine zeta jones, renee zelweger and tay diggs
51.:	take it from here- justin timberlake f. pharrell williams
52.:	la bamba- richie valens
53.:	no one mourns the wicked- wicked
54.:	lo imprescindible- shakira
55.:	gaa re mann- kavita krishnamurthy, alka yagnik, sudesh bhosle
56.:	don't look away- joshua radin
57.:	on the line- various
58.:	as the water- john williams
59.:	hello, i love you- the doors
60.:	you're beautiful (interlude)- outkast
61.:	wind it up- gwen stefani
62.:	aristocats theme song- maurice chevalle
63.:	what we had- handsome furs
64.:	life without drugs is tough- the super secret project
65.:	the train (f. scar & sleepy brown)- outkast
66.:	mad world- gary jules
67.:	the denial twist- the white stripes
68.:	99 luftballons- nena
69.:	hamesha tumko chaha- aishwayria rai & shah rukh khan
70.:	what's going on...- saif ali khan & preity zinta
71.:	i am john- loney, dear
72.:	forever lost- the magic numbers
73.:	the treason of isengard- howard shore
74.:	living in your letters- dashboard confessional
75.:	heaven- los lonely boys
76.:	talk show host- radiohead
77.:	just a little bit- maria mena
78.:	hand me down world- the who
79.:	do you want to know a secret- the beatles
80.:	les cactus- vanessa paradis
81.:	unpretty- tlc
82.:	institutionalized- suicidal tendencies
83.:	you send me flying (cherry)- Amy Winehouse
84.:	green finch and linnet bird- Jayne Wisner
85.:	冷井情深 - 夢喃 Mona
86.:	Baby it's you- smith
87.:	baby boy- beyonce f. sean paul
88.:	dracula's wedding (f. kelis)- andre 3000
89.:	what's left of the flag- Flogging Molly
90.:	intro- Outkast
91.:	this is halloween- danny elfman
92.:	the ballad of sweeney todd- 2005 broadway revival cast
93.:	burndt jamb- weezer
94.:	salaam namaste- saif ali khan & preity zinta
95.:	zorro (1957 tv theme)
96.:	i turn to you- christina aguilera
97.:	fired up (the unit theme)
98.:	what u see (is what u get)- britney spears
99.:	love for sale- ella fitzgerald
100.:	heaven on earth- britney spears
101.:	park city is not L.A.- brandon patton
102.:	happy- ashanti
103.:	up is down- hans zimmer
104.:	think about it, think about it- flight of the conchords
105.:	baby girl- nelly furtado
106.:	here comes my baby- cat stevens
107.:	ace in the hole- ella fitzgerald
108.:	mirror mirror- m2m
109.:	look at us (daddy dj remix)
110.:	shadow on the sun- audioslave
111.:	beautiful world- colin hay
112.:	the voice within- christina aguilera
113.:	the park- jan a.p kaczmarek
114.:	Friends Forever- Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke & the scrubs cast
115.:	let's do it (let's fall in love)- ella fitzgerald
116.:	fresh off the boat- nelly furtado
117.:	foolish love- rufus wainwright
118.:	my everything- 98 degrees
119.:	all together now- the beatles
120.:	heart shaped box- nirvana
121.:	pardon me- incubus
122.:	jigga what/faint- linkin park & Jay-Z
123.:	cat's in the cradle- cat stevens
124.:	going to school- john williams
125.:	world town- M.I.A
126.:	most girls- pink
127.:	truly madly deeply- savage garden
128.:	give it away- zero 7
129.:	i wonder- the willowz That doesn't even begin to highlight the weird stuff i have in my library. maybe i'll do this again in a couple of weeks... -Leah

4 Vicious Tigers, 3 Still Alive, 2 Injured People & 1 Unlucky Dead Guy

2007-12-25T18:27:00.000-08:00

Ah, Christmas day at the San Francisco Zoo.

How does that even happen?!

-Leah

I Never Realized That...

2007-12-25T02:57:00.000-08:00

Disney is so fucked up.

Now, I never saw The Hunchback of Notre Dame when I was a kid, and I haven't seen it to this day, but the song creeps me out...and the lecherous priest is even scarier.

-Leah

My Family Portrait...

2007-12-24T13:08:00.001-08:00

maan I love them.

-Leah

DDR

2007-12-23T19:20:00.000-08:00

I love Jamar.

-Leah

Wait...

2007-12-19T19:57:00.000-08:00

In less than 28 hours Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opens in theaters.

Being a bleeder, and already noticing the BUTCHERING of "God, That's Good" and the re-writes in "Poor Thing" (those being the most noticible) It's got me wondering if

(SPOILER AHEAD)

(highlight it below)

If Sweeney's going to Die at all. I'm almost positive that Mrs. Lovett still gets thrown in the oven, but unlike the broadway show, the new soundtrack doesn't include the part where Toby kills Sweeney.

(END SPOILER)

If that doesn't happen, I will officially loathe hollywood.

-Leah

All-Nighter Cuisine

2007-12-11T06:06:00.001-08:00

Dasani water: $6.00 a case.

Two Starbucks Venti Hot Brewed Coffees: $2

Mint Double Stuff Oreos: $3

Feeling Sick To Your Stomach, Delirious and Ready To Die: Priceless.

-Leah

I Could Kill Myself Because...

2007-12-11T04:28:00.001-08:00

1) I'm pulling another all nighter, and I MEAN all nighter. I know I said I wasn't going to do it again, but I'm a fucktard and I didn't really start the paper until 2am, and it's due between 10am and 12:30pm. grr.

2) I have no f-ing clue what time my plane leaves, I still need to pack and I'm flying on f-ing Alaska airlines which I hate because they treated me like a terrorist last time.

3) I walked to starbucks at 2am, bought two venti hot brewed coffees. Downed one, and am well on my way to finishing the second.

4) I'm blogging when I should be working on the aforementioned paper.

FUCK.

-Leah

Crumbs! Bottom of the Barrel! UGH!

2007-12-07T08:03:00.000-08:00

I HATE REGISTERING FOR FRIKKIN CLASSES.

My window is always the last one so I NEVER get to take the classes I want to.

Music theatre 1: FULL

Ballet Workshop: FULL

Jazz Workshop: FULL

Chicano/Latino Studies 62: FULL

Drama 35(voice): FULL.

And the worst part is I missed Chicano/Latino Studies BY A HALF AN HOUR. THREE FRIKKIN PEOPLE, MAN! it's a GIGANTIC LECTURE HALL!!! Whose going to notice if I'm there or not? ESPECIALLY IF half the people signed up don't show!

AHHHH!!!

I am FRUSTRATED.

My window better be earlier next quarter, or else.

-Leah

Into The Forest...

2007-12-07T01:34:00.000-08:00

I love the random myspace surveys that involve itunes. They never cease to amaze me in their inaccuracy, but they do, however, show me how crazy my music collection is and make me laugh.

1.Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.

1.) Are you a male or female?
Baby it's You

2.) Describe yourself?
Real Gone

3.) How do you feel about yourself?
You're The Top

4.) Describe your ex boyfriend/girlfriend:
Let's Make Love And Listen to Death From Above

6.) Describe your current location:
All Falls Down

7.) Describe what you want to be:
Happy Go Lucky Me

8) Describe your best friend:
Last Time Lover

9.) Your favorite color is:
Clear The Area

10.) You know that:
Just Friends

11.) What is the weather like?
Dog Eared- Page

12.) If your life was a television show, what would it be called?
The Walking Dead

13) What is life to you?
All Star

14.) What is the best advice you have to give?
Guy Love

15.) Describe your love life:
Para Obtener Un Si

16.) How are you going to die?
Ready Steady Go

17.) If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
Elephant Love Medly

18) What do your friends think of you?
Can't Take It In

19) What is your funeral song going to be?
Our Lady Of Sorrows

20) What are you going to repost this as?
Into The Forest

Don't...

2007-12-06T02:07:00.001-08:00

...try to redo your blogger template at 2:00 in the morning. I'll give you three reasons why not.

Reason #1.

You'll fuck it up, bad.

Reason #2:

You're most likely avoiding doing something else. STOP PROCRASTINATING and JUST DO IT!

Reason #3:

At 2am you should be sleeping. That's why you fucked up the blog, moron.

I'm so nice to myself. At least I fixed it.

-Leah

Boots

2007-12-05T00:29:00.000-08:00

Screw Uggs.

I want some Captain Jack boots.

-Leah

Mochi Wars...

2007-12-04T00:04:00.000-08:00

Haha. Not really.

But I walked to Trader Joes after dinner and bought mango Mochi!

Only I don't have cool pictures like Prince.

Hopefully when I go back downstairs to eat it tomorrow no one will have stolen it.

-Leah

Once Again Into The Breach Good Friends...

2007-12-03T15:00:00.001-08:00

...dismissed!

Maan. Back into crazy Hamlet guy's class. I figure getting more blogging done (even though not in a timely fashion) will assist me when I actually go to write down these journals for his class.

Why am I writing like this? I feel a sudden burst of insanity because I have a lot of stuff I need to do by tomorrow, that I haven't done yet. Plus, I went back to sleep after breakfast and I shouldn't have.

uh oh. He's starting to tell us about the final on wednesday.

I got an A on my midterm, so I'm not too worried.

DAMN IT! The final is a take-home. I DON'T WANT ANOTHER TAKE HOME EXAM.

Oh well. Grr. Damn it!

Oh wait. The final's going to be a scavenger-hunt type final because it's another multiple choice, but it's take home and we can do it with other people. I guess that's alright.

Jen said it might rain on friday. I don't want it to. I need to get my disneyland fix in before I go on vacation!

okay. I'm going to stop ranting and whining and not really attempt to pay attention to this class, but I may very well begin my essay.

Goodbye.

-Leah

It's Pretty Sad When...

2007-12-03T09:08:00.000-08:00

Pre-School shows like Dora The Explorer rip off hit movies like Finding Nemo in order to put on a 1/2 hour crappy tv episode.

"Can you find Meemo?!"

What's even sadder is that after being up all night I'm up at 9am.

-Leah

[By the way, this is from saturday night live, and not the episode that was on when I wrote this]

If Only...

2007-12-03T03:06:00.001-08:00

Now contrary to how emo and whiny this sounds, I'm going to list a few things I wish I would have done/finished/not procrastinated on/whatever I didn't do this quarter:

If Only...I hadn't left the journal for Kubiak's class to the last minute. I didn't blog nearly enough to fill in the gaps, and I realize I'm nearly a month behind.

If Only...I didn't have insomnia I would be asleep instead of sleeping in until 2 everyday. I could go to the ARC (gym), do my homework, go places fo a decent amount of time because I have to ride the bus which makes me think...

If Only...I could drive. Then maybe I would have a car. Then I would have a job, cash, and a way to Disneyland!

If Only...I had an I.D., then I could go clubbing with everyone instead of being a dormbody

If Only...I remembered what I was about to say instead of spacing out and watching The Ex (even though I love it! Jason Bateman's such a creep in it...)...

If Only...Zach Braff was my baby-daddy. He's so cute with kids, funny and in the words of Krizia fuckable. Haha.

If Only...I had a fridge because Prince has me craving Mochi.

Bleh. That turned out about as whiny as I thought it would, but not emo. Thank Goodness for that. I'm beginning to realize that I should embrace my procrastinating and insomnia. What would I be without them really? I guess.

-Leah

P.S. Friday, surprisingly, it rained super-hard, so we didn't get to go to Disneyland. It was the perfect stay-in, cozy, movie day. We tore through The Libertine, Vacancy (although I wish it had a better ending), Planet Terror, Death Proof, and Ned Kelly (Good, but a little on the boring side.) Anyway, this Friday, I hope it doesn't rain.

Ah, Dorm Life...- Part 2

2007-11-30T01:32:00.000-08:00

Now that I'm not in rehearsals 24/7 anymore I actually have a life. Since monday I've:

*Attempted to see a screening of Juno, but it was full so we ended up wandering The Block in West Orange and going to Downtown Disney at 10:00 waiting for fireworks that couldn't happen because it was too overcast.

* Done the swim to April March's "Chick Habit" with my roommates several times, and watched in amazement as my sober roommate danced down the hall sing/screaming "Too Drunk To Fuck" by Nouvelle Vague.

*Walked to Blockbuster which is like more than a mile away to rent movies that I probably won't watch. (Vacancy, Ned Kelly, and I bought Scoop)

*Planned a trip to Disneyland where I will ride the Haunted Mansion and keep an eye out for bone fragments and other forms of human remains (see the last post)

Things I've noticed, that are big things in college (or at least in Aldea, our hall):

Taco Tuesdays- Even if you've eaten dinner, EVERYONE drives or walks the mile to Del taco for taco tuesday where we can get 3 tacos for $1. I've also found out they do this at basically any Mexican place down here, even Rubios.
Soulja Boy- They played it a lot when we first got here, but in the past week or two I haven't heard it. Everyone knew the dance, and in one of the drama 30A classes they learned the dance as a warm-up.
Silence is Impossible- Unless you're in a lecture or an 8am drama class, no one will shut up. The noise in the dorms starts up around 10, gets it's loudest around 1 and pretty much doesn't disappear until after 4am
Dinner- Don't go to the commons at 6:00. You'll have to wait in line for hella long. It's not really worth it.
Sleep- will never be regular again. Even if you wake up at 6am, go to an 8am class and don't nap, I still can't get to bed until after 2am. midnight is considered EARLY.
Procrastination is Inevitable- 'Nuff said.
Double- Double- If you're going to eat one, you better have ketchup. If you don't know what I'm talking about, you're obviously not from the third floor. haha.

That's all I can think of right now.

-Leah

The Happiest Place on Earth?

2007-11-24T00:49:00.000-08:00

So now that I live in Irvine, my parents seem to think that I know everything that's happening in the Magic Kingdom. Needless to say I've been in rehearsals for the last seven weeks so I haven't been to disney since I first got down there. They said some ride was going to be shut down for the next year, and I didn't know what it was (it's a small world), so I figured I needed to do a little investigating and this is what I came across.

Dearly Departed - On Disneyland Rides!

The 999 ghosts at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion have apparently found room for a few more residents, according to master mouse sleuth Al Lutz at MiceAge.

Disneyland visitors have routinely scattered cremated human remains throughout the haunted house ride since the late 1990s with the most recent incident occurring in the past month, MiceAge reported.

Haunted Mansion ride operators, trained to handle the delicate situation, have caught visitors via surveillance camera dumping ashes from the doom buggy vehicles but have virtually no authority to stop the bizarre ritual, Lutz said. Disneyland security and Anaheim police can do little beyond identify the powder trails as human remains. The offending mourners often slip out the ride exit and disappear into the park.

The macabre last rites force the closure of the ride for hours while custodians clean up the gritty ash and bone fragments with specially filtered vacuums. Oftentimes the last vestiges aren’t found until after the park closes and the lights are turned on inside the dark ride.

I was joking to myself while reading thinking that if I was going to be scattered anywhere in Disneyland it would be in Pirates of the Caribbean. I thought that was pretty funny, but then...

And the Haunted Mansion isn’t the only affected attraction. An impromptu funeral ceremony shut down Pirates of the Caribbean just last week while crews cleaned ashes from the Captain’s Quarters scene in the caverns section of the water ride, Lutz said.

Disneyland has yet to comment. — Brady MacDonald / Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

(http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/?p=999)

Woo hoo. Now I'm never going to think about the Haunted Mansion the same way again, and I'm going to be watching out for ash clouds and bone fragments.

-Leah

Home For The First Time...

2007-11-22T16:44:00.000-08:00

Since college started, and...

I'm 18, which is awesome.
I realize if I wanted to kill myself for being back home with my family for less than 4 hours, there's no way I'm going to be able to handle a summer or a christmas break.
Everything's broken and messy in my house, and I'm still sleeping on the couch.
I went crazy at borders yesterday and bought a bunch of new dvds.

that about sums it up for now. any more updates and i'll post again later.

-Leah

In Other News...

2007-11-20T04:35:00.000-08:00

...it's amazing what you count as a priority when it's 4:30am, you have an 8am class and another paper to write for it.

I hate being nocturnal...and a procrastinator.

-Leah

Public Enemy Number Thirteen OR How I Spent My First Seven Weeks At UCI

2007-11-20T03:46:00.000-08:00

This is the performance review I wrote for Drama 30A. If you're in the cast of Anything Goes and you're reading this, please don't get upset. haha. I'm just doing my job as a student.

Being a production assistant on Anything Goes makes the task of writing this essay incredibly difficult as I have seen the process of bringing the play to the stage from the open dance call, to the first table read to the closing performance. I watched as the actors transformed into their characters physically, vocally and emotionally. Michael Doonan’s portrayal of gangster Moonface Martin in Anything Goes displayed the most growth from the beginning of the rehearsal process resulting in a strong comedic performance due to his emotional investment in the character despite a lack of preparation at the outset.

I’ve been told that many people were surprised by Doonan’s turn as Moonface, as he has been cast primarily in dramas, however I was not aware of this until after the play had opened. In rehearsals I was always laughing at him, so for me to picture him as anything but a comic is difficult. When approaching his character, Michael constantly questioned the directors, aiming for the best result possible. He created his character’s given circumstances and gave him life focusing on even the most minute details like why Moonface would know what a “mizzen mast” was if he had never been aboard a ship. Michael embraced Moon as a con man, sparking a few physical tools, like creeping around corners and his amazing facial expressions, to use in his ‘less than sinister’ arsenal. These tactics were used to his advantage, in his dealings with the conniving pair of Chinese, attempts to threaten the wealthy Evelyn Oakleigh, and fooling the ship’s officers with a simple costume. “...I know I’ll get into trouble in this get up. I don’t know how to act like a minister…” Mooney tells his cohort Bonnie, played by Ashley Moniz, as they sneak aboard the ship. Moonface’s unconfident approach to his disguise somewhat mirrors Doonan’s approach to the character. Michael was unsure how far he should take certain jokes, like how crass he could be when polishing the gun, or how much more he should pile on, such as his resemblance to a five-year-old when Moonface whines because Evelyn isn’t afraid of him. Every rehearsal Michael tried to explore new physical things, some would work and some wouldn’t. A constant factor however was his 1930’s accent.

Vocally, Michael was perfect, but his next step was to work on the physical and emotional aspects of the character. He had an idea of what he was aiming for, but all the elements weren’t quite fitting together. Physically, he needed to go bigger, and three weeks into rehearsals, while everyone else was off book, he still had his script in hand. I ran lines with him while the director worked on other scenes almost daily for a week or two, and even after that when I was taking notes he still missed or butchered many lines. It made everyone a tad nervous and illustrated the importance of learning your lines. Acting cannot happen while one has the script as a crutch, and once Michael had his lines down he was able to explore the character more physically, creating some of his character’s hilarious slapstick moments such as rolling around on the floor with his suitcase prior to “Bon Voyage” or being thrown back into the crowd during his speech before “Blow, Gabriel, Blow”. He better established his relationships with the other characters, almost forming himself as a sort of comedic glue between the plotlines. He kept the audience, and myself, in stitches. His chemistry with Bonnie (Moniz) was perfect. Her tough yet bubbly personality balanced out his childlike whining and made the duo even funnier. The trio of Moonface (Doonan), Billy (Lewis) and Reno Sweeney (Goretsky) couldn’t be anymore flawless as the three share the same goal: to take care of Evelyn and get Billy his girl back.

It was a really eye opening experience as an actor to be a production assistant because I was able to see the entire process from an almost omniscient point of view. I believe that Michael Doonan’s performance was one of the stronger ones in the show because he created a life for Moonface and he worked hard to make up for an initial lack of preparation, resulting in an amazing and hilarious performance, which will not soon be forgotten.

Ah, Dorm Life...

2007-11-15T01:48:00.000-08:00

so strange. just like college.
one good thing happens, and then something takes you back a step.
examples:
1) tonight i got off of rehearsals at an extremely early and surprising 9:45, so i figure i have more time to go home and study stanislavski. also good, around 11:30 i find out that the test has been turned into a take home quiz so i don't have to study right away.
here's the BAD
2) i'm still sick so my throat is itching like crazy, and just when i think i'm almost asleep my phone rings it's ty and he needs a place to stay. which is ok, but now i can't get back to sleep and everyone thinks that again. whatever. we both know what's going on.

and i'm still freaked out that i'm not gonna wake up for tomorrow and i need to keep my A-!

>>>from my last all nighter, and i mean COMPLETELY all night. damn, i'm never doing that again.

goodnight, i shall try to sleep. although i know it won't work.

-Leah

Are you F-ing Kidding Me?

2007-10-06T07:50:00.000-07:00

What's the point of having an on campus Starbucks if it doesn't open until 9:30 on the weekends?

Students have rehearsal, people! We need the caffeine!

And what's the deal with the commons being closed until 9:30?!? My call time is 8:30! And I don't think I get breaks!

The only thing that's open at 7:30am is a convenience store, and granted they take the zot bucks, that doesn't compare to starbucks or commons because you still have to come back and COOK whatever it is you bought.

GAAH!

See? I shouldn't be allowed to be awake this early! And for the record I've figured out if I have an 8:00 class I need to be up like 2 hours early to guarantee that I'll get there on time. Beings as I've realized that, OPEN UP SOME PLACES FOR COFFEE, DAMNIT!

That is all.

-Leah

Epiphany

2007-10-05T02:22:00.000-07:00

well, no, not really. I'm just psyched because the sweeney todd trailer came out today! woo hoo!

so i was trying to figure out what song Johnny was singing, and after many plays of the soundtrack (i just sort of let it play instead of actually looking for it) i figured out it was Epiphany. I also realized that hollywood is running out of music to play in movie trailers because the dramatic cues in the sweeney trailer were EXACTLY the same as the one in the trailer for Pirates of The Caribbean: At World's End...except the sweeney one is orchestrated and not sung.

see? haha.
anyway.
Other 'Epiphanies' i've had include:
1) sometimes posts on imdb are HILARIOUS, but i can't laugh because it's 2:30am and my roommates (see previous post for a definition) are sleeping.
in response to johnny sounding like jack sparrow in the trailer: "Just think of it as a Marketing angle.
POTC 3 and a half...Jack Sparrow goes to Barber College"
"attend the TRAILER of SWEENEY TODD"
2) All college bathrooms suck.
3) I'm honored that prince is reading my blog, because my friends don't even read my blog. haha.
4) No matter how much sleep i've had or how early i wake up, i'm still up until past 1am.
5) people are really open with their drugs here. I went to the ARC with a bunch of people and practically out of our front door (well not really, but on the patio across from it), there were two big groups at the tables smoking hookahs.
6)no matter what floor you're on, outside noise always sounds like you're at ground-level and people are 5 feet from your window.
7)Despite having the appearance of being very organized, half the things in college shows would fall apart without Assistant Stage Managers and Production Assistants (because sometimes the actual Stage Manager is MIA and spacing out, or the Director is nowhere to be found.)
8) Disneyland is the only answer to the question "what do we do this weekend?" because everyone's got season passes because either they live in so-cal, or are weird nor-cal people like me and buy them just because they went two weekends in a row.
9) not having a car or a license sucks.

In response to epiphany #9, i must get some sleep because pieces are breaking off of my laptop, and the only nearby apple store is in Fashion Island, and i have to take the bus. bleh. goodnight, or in all technicality since it is 2:50am, goodmorning.

-Leah

Despite Having No Sleep, I'm Still 20 Minutes Early To EVERYTHING

2007-10-02T18:32:00.000-07:00

Yeah. It baffles me too. I'm never on time for anything, much less EARLY. haha. Drama 30A I was almost 20 minutes early and studio 4 was still dark and empty. That class went awesome. Anyway. I should leave in case stage manager/director (who sort of scares me) comes in and needs me to work.

-Leah

My Welcome To College

2007-10-02T01:01:00.000-07:00

Granted I love life here at UCI, there are a bunch of things I would change. For example, my roommates. One is psycho and the other is boyfriend attached and constantly makes whiny quiet phone calls to him. You know, like the ones the girls make on America's Next Top Model? Yeah. Those phone calls.
I'm not a day person. I'm a night person, and everytime I've tried to correct this problem, nothing has worked. It is now 1:03am and I have an 8:00 class tomorrow morning. Sucks.
I'm still procrastinating like in high school.
I can't figure out time to go to the ARC (our gym) because i have rehearsal all the time. I'm a production assistant on the musical Anything Goes and even though my classes are light (i only have 3), it seems like I'm continuously swamped.
But
College life has taught me a lot so far, and even given me new vocabulary.
1) Foam Party-(n), A party where college students dance around in swimsuits on a loading dock in a bunch of foam. The foam itself is a mixture of soap and spermicide. yuck.

2) Sexiled- When a roommate has their significant other over for the night and decides to make things so awkward for everyone else that they leave so said roommate and significant other can have sex, makeout or just cuddle in 'privacy'.
3) Roommate-(n) person that you may or may not get along with upon first meeting, and who you are generally social with. some roommates like to play mommy and try to set curfews because they can't sleep when you open doors and do things like that. the best cure for a roommate who complains when you come in late are to buy a pair of earplugs, and toss them at said roommate while telling them to shut up and go back to sleep.
4) Middle Cal-(n)- The farmland between Nor-Cal and So-Cal where no one ever stays because there is nothing but gas stations and truck stops.
5) Zot- apparently, it is UCI's mascot's battle cry and not just some annoying misspelled word or anagram.
6) Hella- A joke to So-Cal people. They always laugh and then ask if one is from Nor-Cal when this word is used.

That's all I can think of right now, but I'll add to the dictionary as time goes on.

-Leah

Things I've Learned In College So Far...

2007-04-26T19:51:00.001-07:00

So I've been here at UC Irvine since monday night and these are the things i have learned about college so far.

1.) In order to be on time to most of your classes you have to leave your dorm at least 20 minutes early.
2) Flip Flops are nice, but for the amount of walking, sometimes it's better to wear sneakers.
3.) Most classes I consider roll-out-of-bed classes. You can just go to in your pajamas and nobody cares. Especially drama.
4.) Myspace is out. Facebook is in. Everybody uses facebook almost more than cell phones.
5.) Even if all your classes are within walking distances you NEED a car or you will be stuck on campus forever or paying insane amounts of money for cab rides.
6.) In order to keep on top of your tv shows, you watch them the next day online. If the show is not online, you can try to watch them in the main areas with tvs, but there's a good chance you'll miss it altogether.
7.) Sleeping during the day is normal.
8.) Your roommates are almost never there, and the bathrooms are always empty (in the dorms, anyway.)
9.) When you are first learning the campus, BRING YOUR MAP or you will be constantly lost.
10.) Bottled water is a must.
11.) Don't be late to your classes, or absent. It's BAD.
12.) Cell phones aren't really outlawed, but don't let them ring during classes.
13.) Gum is essential especially when you're in a rush and don't have time to brush your teeth in the morning.
14.) If you're planning to sleep at night, be prepared. It's way louder outside at night than it is during the day.

Babel

2007-03-04T01:18:00.000-08:00

was excellent. i was pleasantly surprised that i didn't hate brad pitt in it. and he didn't do anywhere NEAR as much squinting as he did in troy. i loved the cinematography and how they circled the stories. i give it 5 stars. i'm super tired though, but wide awake at the same time. i think i'm going to go watch little miss sunshine now.
i guess it's oscar night. midmorning? whatever.

-Leah

is it a crime that...

2007-02-27T21:49:00.000-08:00

everyday i wish i was somebody else?

To The Lighthouse...

2007-02-24T00:49:00.000-08:00

i tried so hard to like it, i really did. it was waay too confusing and the second half was completely in OPERA. i mean, i would sit through an opera, but a play that becomes an opera in the second half? no. it was random, there wasn't really any exposition and the subtext was spoken making it difficult to determine which was an inner voice, and which was actual dialog. The set was simple, but amazing as it worked well with the color and mood changes, but it didn't change my opinion overall. i really did try to like it, but i am ashamed to say that this is the first play i have seen that i have not been particularly fond of.

-Leah

Drowning.

2007-02-22T10:56:00.000-08:00

Too much homework. MAKE SURE I DO MY ESSAY THE SECOND I GET HOME. NO AIM, or SCRUBS SO THAT I CAN DO OTHER HOMEWORK AND WATCH THE NEW ONE LATER.

That is all.
oh, and read crime and punishment. damn. I'm never going to get to sleep.

-Leah

I think i'm contracting senioritis...

2007-02-21T10:31:00.000-08:00

tonight i've made the HARD decision and decided NOT to watch my new favorite show [scrubs] because i need to do a response paper, a poetry drill, make-up calc work and a bunch of scholarship applications to finish. Add in reading Crime And Punishment stirr in some spanish vocabulary,and LOST, let sleep an hour and you get ONE DEAD LEAH. oh well. I've come to the realization that i will fail my calc quiz next block and that's about it. i can't think of anything else to say except that i need some sleep and i'm sad because i can't watch [scrubs]. Oh, and i'm going to try and avoid that person during play rehearsal, but we'll see what happens. I might blog some more tonight. we'll see how i feel.
it's all overkill.

-Leah

The UCLA Audition went...

2007-02-20T00:05:00.000-08:00

surprisingly well, actually.

although freaking jamba juice almost made us late. we had hecka time and we ordered the drinks like at 1:15 or so, and we didn't get them for more than a half an hour!
but we made it on time.

i was pretty stressed at first because my brother, (who is always there for me), couldn't come b/c his dad got mad about him being out so much and spending a lot of money and going out so much
THEN 'oh i don't want to go so i'm going to give you a bunch of bs excuses so that you'll let me off the hook...' from someone else

so felice went with me and that went well

i didn't get my headshot until this morning b/c walgreens wouldn't reprint my senior picture w/o written permission despite the fact that i told them my uncle was the photographer but he lives in arizona (even though he didn't take my senior pic, he still senior pics in arizona)
then when i went to get my make-up done this morning it took FOREVER coz there was only one girl working the counter and she had to bounce between me and what seemed like the 50 million customers that she had.
so ms. daly gave me my headshot from the play last year and we made it out to SF without getting lost.

there was about an hour and a half of dead time from the time i got there to the time that i actually had to do my monologues, so in that time i ran over them in my head like 50 times, but somehow my monologue from the play last year (midsummer) kept popping into my head and i was thinking "in this same interlude it doth befall...." instead of "is he not approved in the height a villain?" but it worked itself out.

there was one judge that watched the auditions. and i think i did pretty well. I WAS CONFIDENT! you would have been proud and i wouldn't have had to sing the teapot song. so i did my first monologue and then went on to colorado and i got some laughs out of him, so that was good. i remembered to PAUSE and BREATHE during the beatrice monologue and i didn't forget any of my lines! woo hoo. then was time for the

interview
where they asked stuff like "if you could adapt any book for the stage, which would it be, why, and how would you stage it?" so i said either East of Eden or Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists because EoE had tremendous character development and the inner-play between adam and his wife would be compelling and Pirates! becuase it could be an excellent and absurd slapstick comedy. my interviewer guy kind of reminded me of bill nighy. just a little.

so afterwards me and felice wandered around powell and went to the disney store where there was cool stuff i didn't have money for, and then we went into tiffany's and pretended like we were audrey hepburn and i think this one lady that worked there thought we were rich girls because she asked us if we were interested in anything... it was fun.

anyway, it went well and everyone is telling me i'm going to make it in, and i really want to but i think as far as the theater goes i might be happier at irvine or SF state b/c they let you take acting classes freshman year, rather than waiting a year like they do at UCLA.

well, i guess we won't see how i did though until march-april. whatever. i'm not going to stress about it anymore.

-Leah

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN PREMIERE!!!

2006-06-26T02:29:00.000-07:00

I WENT TO THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN TWO PREMIERE AND IT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!

IF YOU SEE ANY COVERAGE OR PREMIERE PICTURES, LOOK FOR ME!!! I WAS BY THE RED CARPET RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE PAPARAZZI AND PRESS!!!

MORE PICTURES AND STORIES TO COME LATER!!!!

SITTING ON MAIN STREET SINCE 6AM TOTALLY PAID OFF!!! MY LEGS ARE KILLING ME, AND I'VE ALMOST LOST MY VOICE, BUT IT TOTALLY PAID OFF!!!

TONS OF AUTOGRAPHS AND PICTURES!!!

I SAW JOHNNY DEPP WITH MY OWN TWO EYES!!! OMG!!! HE IS FREAKIN GORGEOUS!!!

-sorry. i had to go into obsessive mode for a bit, but seriously! look keep an eye out for me!-

Love,
a very very excited and happy,

Solia

In A Writing Mood...

2006-04-11T23:04:00.000-07:00

but i'm blocked on Have Faith In Destiny. I may write an original one shot fic, but if I do, i can't load it on fanfiction.net. I may just post it here, and if i do, reviews are appreciated. Maybe the one-shot will clear me up enough to finish chapter 20 of HFID. who knows? I'll blog later.

-Leah

King Kong

2006-04-10T00:15:00.000-07:00

I like the 1933 version better. The new one's good, but it's too long. Blockbuster's rental periods are too short. If i want to finish the movie tonight (i'm about halfway through right now) i will be up till 2am. damn. well it's spring break, so i guess it won't matter, but here's the thing: i'm exhausted. oh well. hopefully i won't miss the end.
good night and good luck.

-Leah

God...

2006-04-05T17:42:00.000-07:00

Day by day my life is slowly starting to feel more like a movie.
I don't want it this way unless it has a happy ending.
-Solia

Universal Studios- A Miniseries- Part 2

2006-03-23T23:04:00.000-08:00

Round two of trip pictures. I can tell you now, these won't be pretty. Those of you with weak constitutions may want to leave the arena.
okay. anyways. here's more trip pictures.

First off, I'd like to introduce my famous counterpart: The wall of Mann's Chinese Theater.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

Even McVay looks scared.

WHAT?!? DINOSAURS?!? I don't think I signed up for this!!!

We just narrowly escaped that when a giant shark came!

Poor Ceecee almost didn't make it.

But luckily we all made it out of the Twilight Zone with the assistance of our badass time machine.

Wow. The trip was more interesting then I thought, and somehow lots of teeth were involved...wow.
Love,
Leah

Universal Studios- A Miniseries

2006-03-20T21:50:00.000-08:00

So here's just a few pictures from this weekend.

First things first, me and the crew in front of the Kodak theater where i will one day accept my oscar.

Johnny Depp's got his handprints at the chinese theater and i got to see them!

His hands are bigger then mine! (well, duh, he's a guy.)

Looks like johnny's got some new admirers.

Well, one day it will REALLY be Johnny. (cuz u noe, i'll be in a movie with him.)

The mule from SERENITY!

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you KONG! The EIGHTH wonder of the world!

We took a little break in Europe...

Katie got too drunk and fell upon some desperate times...

...While I found a Romeo at my balcony.

So we had a great trip, no? I'll post more pics later.

love,
Leah

A Midsummer Night's Dream...

2006-03-11T12:41:00.000-08:00

Closes tonight. AWWW. I am going to miss everyone so much. Opening night was AWESOME. Last night was pretty much SOLD OUT, and tonight i'm sure it will be also. It's crazy how the audience can disappear and it's just you standing there. Performing live in a play is such a rush. It was so hard not to cry when my brother hugged me just because i was so happy. Tonight's 'family night' beings as my mom's bought 16 tickets for mi tias y mi primas and some of her friends, and then i got two tickets for some of my friends and some of my other cousin/friends are coming too. Tonight promises to be a good one.

Currently: Relaxing, watching my happy movie Pirates of The Caribbean, preparing not to cry tonight after the play ends and trying not to burn my tounge on apple cider.

The show starts at seven! Don't miss it!

Love,
-lia

Faeries...

2006-03-05T23:17:00.000-08:00

man, that's tough. and anyone who steals my wings again, i will take my faerie revenge on.
opening night this week.
shows thursday, friday, saturday.
be there.

-lia

Now official?

2006-03-02T21:28:00.000-08:00

Sadly, not till next Thursday.

Solia Jacobs plays Tom Snout, Mustardseed and Wall in "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Age 16, she is a Junior at San Lorenzo High. She is in advanced drama and loves acting. She has been on stage since 1st grade, be it in music or in acting and has also been a model in a campaign for Girls Inc.. This is her first time in a play at San Lorenzo High. She is on the Varsity Tennis team and will be on the boy's golf team. She plays alto saxophone in the Jazz Band and writes in her free time. She was in the 3rd annual poetry slam, and wrote the advertisement for Midsummer that was used on Rebel Vision, SLz's weekly video announcements. Solia is the shortest person in the play. She would like to thank her agent for all the love and support. "If I ever want to be in a movie with Johnny Depp, then I have to start somewhere. I guess my starting place is a wall."

Sleep: America's Other National Debt

2006-02-28T00:13:00.000-08:00

yes, i am in debt, and i doubt i will ever recover. it's 12:12 am and i haven't even started hw for my other classes, just finished spanish and that's it. maybe if i loose enough sleep i'll die and won't have to do homework anymore! bleh. but on the downside, daly'd kill me for missing the play, and i'd never get to see pirates 2. oh well, it's a choice to make. gonna get back to work now, wish me luck. me and andrew are performing our scenes tomorrow, and we are SO NOT prepared, thanks to a certain someone *cough cough* eliza *cough cough*. whatever. we'll work through it somehow. goodnight and good luck.
oh, and as a p.s. pore strips suck.
-lia

Half A World Away...

2006-02-26T21:53:00.000-08:00

well at least i wish i was. now i think i'm getting sick again, and that sucks because the play's coming up soon. i wonder if anyone missed me while i was gone on saturday...
-lia

Veer Zaara

2006-02-25T22:33:00.000-08:00

it's amazing how long after the pictures from a movie fade, the emotions stay.
i need someone to carry me away.
-lia

sigh again.

2006-02-23T18:22:00.000-08:00

i feel all warm and fuzzy.

-lia

Sigh

2006-02-22T22:27:00.000-08:00

Dorine wants to tell him. Frankly, at this point, I don't care anymore. I just don't want everyone else to know. I wish there was sort of signal he could give me if he liked me back. Like "hey, how bout them raiders?" or something. Some sort of code that doesn't come up in everyday life (well between us anyway...) or sound totally awkward.
*sigh*
why is love so complicated?

-lia

What's Going On?

2006-02-21T01:09:00.000-08:00

One am finishing up homework on what should have been a day off. Here's what's new with me:
What's New:

A Midsummer Night's Dream I believe i mentioned it before, but i made it into the play. Rehearsals are pretty much every day now, saturday included. When i get more time i'll post some production pictures.
Crush No details on that. No who, what, when or where. To put it simply: i have a crush, and that's all you're going to find out.
Los Angeles It took lots of persuasion, but Anna's mom's finally going to let her go to L.A with me in march on the film club trip. More info and pictures later.
Screenwriting I am now an official screenwriter because I was asked to write the trailer for the play to put on rebel vision (school announcements broadcasted weekly). We will be shooting soon.
Fanfic Yes, people, I'm working on it, but as with all things when you go to school and act, it will take a long time. Relax, re-read it. Hopefully i can get the next chapter out before the end of march.
Quote "If I ever want to be in a movie with Johnny Depp, I have to start somewhere. I guess my starting place is a WALL." - Solia Jacobs 2/17/06

Well that's all for today, hopefully i'll blog more soon, and maybe some pictures too.

-lia

Stress Seems To Make Me Relax...But Only A Little Bit.

2006-01-18T22:40:00.000-08:00

Too much homework, too much chem. I have a week to finish 4 chapters, about (now it's) 6 labs in chem. a few back homework assignments in trig, and to read the entire great gatsby and write a 500 word essay on it. how much you wanna bet i'll pass chem with a c, bs the essay and pass trig with an a- ? i can see that.

Plan for Success
Thursday: Chem in fryer's till he kicks us out, chem at liz's till 6:30, trig, then gatsby till i pass out.
Friday: Play rehearsal till 5, chem/trig in daly's till 5:30ish when cooley gets there then more trig/chem/gatsby. 7ish basketball game chem/gatsby. 8:30ish Home, rest, gatsby till i pass out.
Saturday: chem, gatsby, work on lines for the play. do hw till i get sick of it, but keep on going till i pass out.
Sunday: chem/trig/gatsby till i pass out, work on lines for drama.
Monday: Rehearsal trig/chem/gatsby/lines till i pass out.
Tuesday: Rehearsal trig/chem/lines/gatsby till i pass out. (last time to work on chem)
wednesday: chem (till he kicks us out)/trig/lines till i pass out. (last day of chem)
thursday: rehearsal/lines for play/gatsby.
friday: relief, no school, yet rehearsal. 3ish to 5ish.

With a plan like that, there's no time to relax, but there's no time to stress. take it as you go, and leave it at that. i don't know what i'm doing, but hopefully i'll get it done.
wish me luck.
-lia.

i just realized...

2006-01-06T01:08:00.000-08:00

i haven't watched pirates of the caribbean in a very long time...

*big smile*

that will be my tomorrow.

-lia.

Chemistry...

2006-01-06T00:37:00.000-08:00

is frustrating as hell. what more is there to say about it? i tried. i've tried and tried. i don't understand it. no one understands it. the teacher won't help me. i'm going to flunk it. i guess that's just a fact. i mean, it's not like i want to flunk it, but the way this teacher is and how it's going, i don't see any other way to go.

saturday, hopefully, i am getting out of this house. i am getting out of this house and going to the movies. i am getting out of this house, going to the movies, and finally going to see memoirs of a geisha after 50 million cancelled plans. thank god.

i'm actually happy that monday is school. i just i'm sick of being at home. it'll be good. it'll be good to be back at school.

i'm going to try to get to bed early tonight. when i finish this blog i'm going to go take a shower, turn off everything and read a midsummer night's dream again.

Today's Random Thoughts:

i let my nails get long. i kinda like it though, but kinda annoying.
craig ferguson's reading the great gatsby, and i just realized i need to read it for honors english.
i can act, but i can't do public speaking. i can play the sax, but i can't sing a solo. that's weird.
ironically, shortening the chapter doesn't really make it short. it's 3 full pages right now, which is one of the (if not the longest) chapter so far.
how crammed is my schedule going to be next week? two basketball games (or so i've heard) and at least one play rehearsal...

well that's it from me today. goodnight.

-lia

The world has turned and left me here...

2006-01-06T00:31:00.000-08:00

The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place, an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face
*******
I just made love with your sweet memory
One thousand times in my head
You said you loved it more than ever
You said
*******
You remain, turned away
Turning further every day
*******
The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place, an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face
*******
I talked for hours to your wallet photograph
And you just listened
You laughed enchanted by intellect
Or maybe you didn't
*******
You remain, turned away
Turning further every day
*******
The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place, an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face
*******
You remain, turned away
Turning further every day
*******
The world has turned and left me here
Just where I was before you appeared
And in your place, an empty space
Has filled the void behind my face
*******
Do you believe what I sing now?

Weezer is so great. Their music is so great. No matter what you can relate to it. Happy, sad, angry, you can relate to it. The World Has Turned And Left Me Here This...this is kind of how i'm feeling right now. I don't know what it is, I mean you get sick, go on break and it's like everyone forgets about you. I don't know. Maybe I'm imagining it. Maybe I'm not. Like i said the other day, i've been out of my house twice over break. twice in two weeks. I mean, I know I'm sick, but have I been invited to do anything? Considered a Bandgeek, considered a friend, but it's funny. The people you wouldn't expect to be invited to certain things suddenly are, and you...you're left alone. I don't know what it is. During school...phone calls every day, different people...break? 4 calls. one on new years, one on christmas to brag about presents, andtwo to check up on me. I mean, I'm sick, but I'm still alive, right? I have difficult parents, but I can still get away with some stuff. Whatever. I mean it's not so bad being alone, like a friend said " I spent all that time by myself. that sounds sad for some reason but those had to be the happiest days of my life." It's true. I like being alone sometimes, but sometimes I just get sick of being alone. Sick of being bored. Sick of having to listen to what everyone else is doing while I sit there nodding. I mean, it's weird. I know I don't like being in a crowd. I don't like being with people I don't know that well, that's just me. You know what I think my problem is? I think i'm afraid of people. Too many people+Small Space=Freaking out=Depression. I don't know what it is. I like being home alone, with the quiet, but for too long, with the bragging, it gets to me and I get in one of these moods. Maybe it's all in my head, maybe I'm imagining it. Whatever it is, I can't stand it and I want out. I want out of the lonliness, out of the depression, out of everything really. Whatever it is, I hope I get over it soon. All this, ^^ these feelings, they're distracting. Everything in this house is distracting. I can pick up a scrap of paper the size of a penny and it can be distracting. I need to just get out, and maybe that's why I like to write so much. Hell, I know that's why I like to write so much. I can get out, escape from all of this be someone else just by using my mind, a pen and paper, or my fingers and a keyboard. It's crazy how much human life depends on words. I don't even know why I'm tearing up writing this. I've been through worse. I don't know why I'm putting this up here. Maybe someone can help remedy this, maybe they can't. I don't know. I just feel left out, left out of life. I don't know what it is. Whatever it is, maybe it doesn't even matter anymore. I feel like I'm just rambling on and on, but it helps, you know? I guess if I want to pass chemistry (oh that's another joke that makes me depressed and angry as hell) I have four days. Four days, four chapters and three labs. It's 1:45am. I can get started on a chapter now, maybe even finish one and a half. All I know is I have to get it done, if i want to do anything. I'm not used to failure, but i'm sick of this. I'm sick of everything.
-lia.

Actually, I wrote this 1.5.06, but it wouldn't let me post it.

Three Week Cold

2006-01-03T02:16:00.000-08:00

That is what the Doctor said I have. "This isn't a one week cold, it's a three week cold." Absolutely wonderful for me, isn't it? What a Wonderful winter break, no?
Week One:

Sleep
Watch Tv
Be Miserable
Chat with people online
Go to my Tia Lupe's house for game night
Doctor Visit on New Years Day

Week Two (So far...)

Twilight Zone Marathon (new years eve-new years day)
Sitcoms
Chat with people online
Be Miserable
Complain about taking NASTY medicine
Work on fanfic at 2 am
Work on Chem at 2 am

Well, that's been my break, OH! And try to convince my mom to let me go to that theater program in LA. That's a big job. It may take forever.

Oh, and you know what I found out? My cousin Donna (my favorite cousin. she gives me respect and treats me like an adult. she's great to talk to.) she told me that if her youngest son was a girl, they were going to name him Solia. My mom wouldn't let them though, "No! We INVENTED that name! You can't have it!" Bs. Search Solia on google, get a Million results. It's frustrating because i never heard about that until friday. My mom never told me that, and If Donna hadn't told me, I never would have known. It's my name, right? Once you name your kid it's their name to do what they please with it. I should have at least been asked, or told about it, you know what I mean? That makes me angry...
Oh well. I'm going to work on my fanfic a little bit more. For those of you who read, (which i doubt there's any) or in case your interested click the link in the side panel under links click on Have Faith In Destiny.

A Little summary on the chapter:
Solia and Jack finally make it into Tortuga. Her first time out of the posh town isn't quite what she expected. Pirates, men, aren't what she expected, especially, Jack Sparrow. Tortuga, isn't the friendly, picturesque pirate town she expected, and she'll have to learn to trust Jack, or face the dangers alone.

Well that's all there is for me today. I'm going to get back to work on that chapter. Good night, and good luck,
-Lia

sick of being sick...

2005-12-29T22:44:00.000-08:00

yes, i am tired of it. oh well, what can you do? i'm bored out of my mind, i should be doing chem but i can't focus. oh well. i'll do it next week when i'm better and can focus a little bit more.

on a lighter note...
my auntie had her baby! a little girl. aww. yelena danielle. that's pretty. can't wait to meet her.

Today's Random Thoughts:

I need more pajama pants.
I can't decide between Moulin Rouge or The Island. I think I'll watch both.
Divorce can get very ugly. (don't worry. it's on tv.)
Tomorrow I'm having tamales! Yummy!
Curly hair still sucks.

I'm going to make the next chapter in Have Faith In Destiny shorter then i wanted it, but at least it'll get the fans off my back.

Well, that's all for today. bye.
-lia

No Matter What Anyone Tells You, Curly Hair Sucks

2005-12-26T19:25:00.000-08:00

Yes, well my hair's been in a bun since friday and i have a feeling that it'll take at least 3 hours to get all the tangles out. And beings that my hair gets tangled the second air hits it, i guess my hair will NEVER be tangle-free. Oh well. It's been about a half an hour now and not even 1/4 of my hair is "brushed out." This may take all night.

Tomorrow, i may go golfing with coach. I need to get some practice before i join the team. The Boys Varsity golf team. I'll be the only girl on the team. Not only that, i can add "boys varsity golf" to my var jacket. how cool is that?

well, i need to finish my hair. let's hope it gets better.

-lia

Nine Year Olds And AIM

2005-12-26T12:02:00.000-08:00

they don't mix. they are a combination for more annoyance then a 3 year old watching barney. do you know why this is? because not only are 9 year olds annoying already, but now they can annoy you DIGITALLY. BLEH. that little aim window flashing orange for no reason, but the fact that they're bored and have nothing else to do but annoy you. grr. anyways, that's all i have to say about that.

Random thoughts today:

I kind of like blogspot better then xanga.
I still can't believe i'm a wall, and a guy. (oh well, least i'm a fairy too.)
Mom's not home for a while so i'mma watch corpse bride.
Christmas always sucks.
It was flooding weather last night, i woke up to HUGE rain drops, went back to sleep and this morning i thought i had dreamed it.

Oh well. That's that. I think i'll watch Pirates, too.

-lia

Ergh.

2005-12-25T16:03:00.000-08:00

I'm so sick right now. i don't feel like doing anything. no music, no movies, no tv. no noise. i just want to sleep and not feel so hot/achey. oh well. hopefully i'll be better soon.
-lia

Johnny Depp Arrested By CIA on Late Night Talk Show

2005-12-22T18:50:00.000-08:00

Johnny Depp And George W. Bush are guests on a late night talk show. George has just come out to the clapping of the audience. Johnny has just finished his interview moves to the second chair.

Host: [announcer type voice] Now our next guest, he’s a very powerful man, very powerful. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to introduce the president of the United States. Please welcome President George W. Bush! [ all stand. enter bush followed by 2 CIA agents; audience a mix of applause and booing.]

Bush: Thank you, thank you. [ waves to audience and bows slightly. Depp rolls eyes at agents]

Depp:[shakes bush’s hand] Nice to see you.[all sit]

Agent 1: [into earpiece] Perimeter secure. [stands behind president]

Agent 2: [into earpiece] copy that. [stands behind depp, who looks back nervous then to audience]

Depp: [to bush] is he going to stand there all night?

Bush: [laughs slightly] Standard pro-cedure, son. [Depp winces] They’re CIA. They follow me wherever I go. [childlike amazement] Watch this. [turns to agent 1] Agent Ryan, can you get me some coffee?

Agent 1: Right away sir. [into earpiece] The eagle needs joe. Copy that. [to Bush] it’s on the way. [ a few moments pass, stagehand gives bush coffee]

Depp: [feigns interest; sarcastic] absolutely amazing.

Bush: [sips coffee] isn’t it? [host laughs]

host: it’s a very big night for all of us here at the late show. The president, and Johnny depp on the same show. Now I know there was a bit of controversy a few months ago between the two of you, johnny you said some things...[Depp opens mouth to speak, hesitates, closes mouth, repeats]

Agent 1: He said America was an “aggressive dumb puppy.” [all turn to agents]

Agent 2: [advancing on Depp, hands on his shoulders] Anti-American! Terrorist!

Depp: [alarmed] I’m not a terrorist!

Bush: [as if heard for the first time] My country is not a puppy! We are fighting a war on terrorism! That doesn’t make us dumb! We’re trying to prevent attacks before they happen. That is essential to keep this country the way it is. Free.

Depp: And isn’t part of keeping this country free the right to freedom of speech? [disbelief] I exercised that right, I was misquoted, and now I’m being accused of terrorism?!? I said that because America’s not as established as other countries...[cut off by agent]

Agent 2: [leaning over depp, hands on his shoulders, intimidating] Those kind of statements can get you in a world of trouble.

Agent 1: Watch out, terrorists don’t get the red carpet experience in prison, Mr. Depp.

Agent 2: If that’s who you really are.

Depp: [tries to get out from under agent 2] Of course that’s who I am! Mr. President, with all due respect could you please call off these agents?

Bush: Now as I told you before, johnny, it’s standard pro-cedure. [changes subject] You called this country a dumb puppy. We’re in a war! We’re not dumb! Compared to the country you live in, we are actually doing something to keep our people safe. France is not in support of our actions, that’s preventing us from keeping the world safe...

Depp: One country cannot save the entire world. One country cannot be accused of terrorism, it’s stereotyping...

Agent 2: Do you have something to hide, Mr. Depp?

Depp: I don’t have anything to hide.

Bush: Your living in France to hide from this country, aren’t you? To hide from the government, to hide from the president?

Depp: [calmly] My family is in France, my girlfriend, my two children. Your family’s here, mine’s in France.

Agent 1: You know fugitives run, Mr. Depp. They run to other countries, countries like France...

Depp: I’m not a fugitive!

Bush: I’ve heard all I need to hear. [he motions to the agents, who each take one of Depp’s arms]

Agent 2: You’re coming with us. [depp stands, restrained by both agents]

Depp: Are you serious?

Bush: They’re the CIA. Of course they’re serious. [motions for them to take him away]

Depp: [in pure disbelief] You can’t do this...[being led off by the agents] Are you serious...[exits with agents]

Host: [shocked, almost laughs in disbelief] Well ladies and gentlemen, we are out of time. On behalf of the late show, we’d like to thank our guests, Johnny Depp, and President Bush. [audience mumbles in confusion, applauds finally] Thank you, and goodnight everyone.

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