When you can't get through it...

Why wouldn't I make a whole new livejournal out of boredom?

That's what I thought. Don't judge me.

So long, old journal!

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UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDLKHNPOkndfiowhqophdq@GOIHCJewkdfhKLQGWEOEWOPIPO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL, I just noticed that my "weird" mood lemon looks like a little vampire, which reminds me of two things:

1. When Jim convinced Dwight he got bit by the bat and became a vampire on The Office.

2. EDWARD CULLEN.

...that might also be a reflection of my summer thus far. Oy!

I just... want to know where summer went. Because it's pretty much almost August, which means it's pretty much almost September. Wow.

I was about to embark on a look at everything that's happened this summer, but I guess I should give August a chance to get in the game. After all, it will contain my (lame) 20th birthday, right?

*sigh* Off to slave away at the Marina. Again.

So I think that under any normal circumstances, I would be nervous for my piano lesson today.

However, Trump Marina has had the pleasure of sucking the "nervous" emotion right out of me.

So I'm officially finished taking Italian at Loyola (besides Rome)?

...a little more depressing than I thought it would be. Maybe I'll buy Rosetta Stone for the summer ;)

SOOOOOOOOO CLOSE TO BEING FINISHED. SO CLOSE.

Sooooo I should be studying for my Italian test in two hours, but obviously I'm not :) Story of my life!

Today begins the last week of class this semester and it's kind of creeping me out. Because then it's summer, and then it's fall semester, and then hopefully it's time for ROME?! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. AND THEN SENIOR YEAR?!

I have to go home on Thursday for my interview for the Trump internship. I really hope I get it, I can't possibly fathom going back to work at Applebee's again this summer. I definitely need something new, something that's going to remotely entertain me while I save every penny I make for Rome.

It looks like it's going to thunderstorm superxcore, and I'm pretty sure it will start the second I step outside to go to class.

Also, I got my new Phantom Planet cd last week and it kicks so much ass :) I missed those boys. I wish their set at the concert I'm going to was more then oooh... six songs. Oh well.

Back to studying, I guess. Let's hear it for having zero motivation.

Today is Smile Day, or I Love Me For Who I Am Day, or something like that Day at Loyola. Someone gave me a free lollipop! And what do you know, it made me smile :)

Also, my "Getting in Touch with Your Inner Bitch" calendar says that today is "Stressed? Desserts! Day", because your Inner Bitch enjoys a palindrome. I might have to celebrate this at some point today.

And SINCE these things were successful in making me smile, I'm not even going to complain about the unreliable girl who was supposed to lend me her book, and did not, causing me to have to read a shitty summary online. Well...I won't complain much.

So I basically just spent an hour cleaning crap out of my computer, downloading Safari, and fixing up my iTunes and I must say...WHY haven't I done this sooner?! The wireless is working fantastically, for once. Everything is moving SO much faster, and the thing even woke up after going into sleep mode. I'm pretty sure that hasn't happened since the day I bought it. YESSS.

Katie says maybe it just needed a new technology friend because it was feeling lonely, and it's happy that it met my new iPod. She could be right.

SO, things have been going pretty well lately.   I suppose.  Pretty well, but also uneventuful.  Which is in a way even more frustrating than if things were going horribly.  I don't know, maybe I'm just being obnoxious.

Easter break was nice, I ate way too much chocolate, as usual.  And now I have a constant craving for it and feel like I have to pretend that it's still Lent so that I don't keep shoving it down.  Good times.

I would absolutely love to hear from Trump any day now so that I could figure out what I'm doing with my life this summer.  I guess I woudn't mind up going back to Applebee's, but at the same time...I want to change it up.  And interning in special events in a casino?  Def a step up.

I'm applying for Rome this week and SUPER NERVOUS that I'm not going to get in.  Ohhhhh man.

Hmmm, I was extremely frustrated, per usual, for a couple of hours now and it seems that a text has just uplifted my mood. :)

Oh yes, I'm also OBSESSED with Phantom Planet's EP.  LEADER <3

BED TIME!

HOME!  What a wonderful place to be :)

So far, Spring break has been going very well...not exactly eventful, but nice anyway.  I've watched a total of...well, a lot of movies.  I watched my MIKA dvd (fantastic), the ending of Harry Potter COS, Harry Potter POA, Cold Mountain, and half of Intermission, which is extreeeeeemely funny so far.  I also rented 28 Days Later and Girl with a Pearl Earing...do I sense I theme here?

We drove up past LBI yesterday and went shopping at the OC mall which was great.  I absolutely love driving when the weather is nice, I think it's one of my favorite things to do :)  Also went out to eat loads of times, with friends of the fam, my grandmom, and just my family yesterday to this new Irish restaurant that was amazing.  I also found out that while I've believed my whole life that I'm only 12.5% Irish, I'm actually a full 25%.  Who knew?

Hmm let's see, my puppy is HUGE.  I can't even fathom how much he's grown.  And yet he's 56473 times more gentle then my other dog, who is insane.  Oh well, I still love them both.

Today I went for a run outside because the weather wound up being beautiful!  I went down by the docks...I forgot how much I miss the smell of the water when I'm gone :(  Summer vacation is soooo soonnnnnnnn

Cobra is on Thursday and I'm PUMPED.  I'm going up early to spend the day in Philly with my twin :)  We're going to have a blast and dance it out superxcore.  And hopefully one of us will get to go on stage for the SOAP rap. 

...I would probably die.

In other concet news, I missed out on getting tix for the Rocket Summer...whoops.  But my mom made up for it by suprising us with tix to go see Plain White T's here in July, which should be a lot of fun.  And then there's the Honda Civic tour in May where I finally get to see Phantom Planet after FIVE YEARS.

Also, ticketmaster hates me and wants to deny me of seeing Hanson in May when it FINALLY WORKED OUT.  DAMN THEM ALL.

Well, nothing else new for now.  Just running around, picking up my sister, and trying to figure out a way to watch Lost since I missed it last week and my computer at home sucks.  And it was a DESMOND episode, which I've been waiting for pretty much the entire season. Wah!

Okay, off to do more of nothing, yay!

 I just wrote an entire entry about being home, and then the whole thing erased.  Oh well.

 I am SO OVER SCHOOL RIGHT NOW.  I'm tired of doing stupid, busy-work assignments that aren't worth the amount of useless thought I have to put into them.  They are NOT GOING TO HELP ME IN LIFE.  Or even with my MAJOR for that matter. UGH.

I also hate stupid teachers that assign stupid papers two days before they're due, when they know well that it's midterm week and their students most likely have a load of other things to do already.  And they don't care, and give out stupid grades like 16.6 out of 20.

HONESTLY.  WHY DO I EVEN CARE SOMETIMES.

I also hate irritating, rude people.  And people who can't tell when they're being rude and irritating.

And I am trying so hard not to let things get to me, and be the positive person during this week.






I just want to go home and see my family and dogs, listen to music, and dance it out at Cobra.  Now.

I always thought it sucked when people couldn't figure out what to major in, because...well, I guess I just felt bad for them.  Especially since I've been dead set on some sort of Writing/English for a pretty long time.

And yet here am I, in the middle of dropping my English minor to add either Italian or Studio Arts?  And stuck between which specialization my Communications major should be- Journalism or PR?  URGH.

My problem really is that there isn't enough time for everything I want to do, so instead I just have to settle for a couple of the things I like.  Which is pretty unfortunate, if you ask me :(

When I get into one of these moods, one of these "how is this even going to help me in the grand scheme of things" moods, I get absolutely nothing accomplished.  This usually happens when I am particularily stressed or contemplative.  Right now, I have an unhealthy balance of the two.

This cannot go on for two more weeks.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I had such a good time last night at Third Eye Blind, mostly because somehow we always manage to be attention  whores and attract the lead singers.  I love life :)


PS- I love these boys (Absent Star) because they were adorkable and crazy.  And from CHICAGO :)

I am SO excited to go out with my ladies and celebrate Valentine's Day  :)

I GOT AN EFFING A ON MY ITALIAN TEST.  TEST, not quiz.  I'M ELATED.

I had to double check that it was my name on the paper, actually, because I couldn't believe that I earned it.  Makes me feel kind of proud :)

At the end of class, we watched an Italian music video for a song that I can't remember right now, and it was kind of pretty.  Point is, I realized that I have very few songs in Italian on my iPod, and it depressed me a little.

Then I remembered that I actually have three or four Josh Groban songs in Italian, and I started listening to them.  Then I just started listening to all of my Josh Groban music, instead of writing my Advertising paper that's due in the morning (which I still haven't finished).

I've decided that he would be a really great person to see live, and that's a goal for the future.  His voice is so soothing, and you don't even realize you've listened to a number of songs until 20 minutes goes by and you haven't done anything.

I've also realized that he was just in AC this summer, and I definately should have gone.  Even though I thought it was the same night that Deathly Hallows was released.  Actually, I think it was the night after and I think I knew that in the summer as well.

And now I'm mad at myself.  Good times.

...I want to be his best friend.  Or his lover (even if he's gay).  Either is fine.


I feel a bit traitorous to, oh, Hanson and Aerosmith (to name a couple) when I say that MIKA's concert was (almost hands down) THE BEST concert I've been to.  And if not the best concert, then it was definately the most fun I've ever had at a concert...ever.

(And then I feel better when I always decide that Hanson is in it's own category anyway ;) )

Do you know how to tell you're at the best concert ever?  When you can look around at any person in the room and see a mile-long grin on each of their faces.

I think the thing about MIKA that really sets his apart from others is that he is completely genuine.  He's not like the typical singer who knows that his fans adore him.  Every time he got the audience to sing along to one of his songs, even if it was just a couple of words, he looked completely shocked.  Almost as if he had no idea we would even know any of his songs.  And then he would break out into this goofy, beautiful smile and start jumping around the stage again.

And did I mention that this man can sing?  And I mean SING?  His recorded cd does him absolutely no justice.  His voice is brilliant, his piano skills kick ass, and who knew someone could drum on a trashcan and make it sound THAT GOOD.  Even while doing it shirtless :)

I'm pretty sure I didn't stop smiling until I went to sleep last night and had to.  

Some choice moments of the night:
- MIKA's clothes.  Sequenced suspenders, silver shoes, blue/sparkle/polka dot jacket, and of course the shirtless moment, to name a few
- BIG GIRLS dancing to 'Big Girls (You Are Beautiful)', along with a 12 foot inflatable...big girl.  That MIKA grabbed between the boobs and dragged down onto the stage for a second
- The giant white M that he briefly danced on top of
- Every time he played his keyboard that had flowers attached to it
- The giant skeleton man that came out, swooped down over us, stood back up and was hugged by MIKA (sporting a white umbrella) that introed 'Love Today'
- The ENTIRE trashcan banging, shirtless dancing scene
- The life sized shadow puppet scene, titled 'Bad Bunny', and when they all came out from behind the screen and took their heads off but continued wearing the animal costumes, MIKA waving a plastic shot gun around and smacking people with it while cracking up
- When MIKA sang 'Grace Kelly' to my camera :)
- The 'Lollipop' encore- pounds of confetti, down everyone shirts and in all of our hair (I have no idea how he continued to sing during this), complete with huge streamers and giant balloons bouncing around
- Every time MIKA spoke in his adorkable accent

Some choice quotes of the night:
- "It's weird when you're testing out new songs with your mates in your living room, but testing them in front of hundreds of people- *grins*"
- "When I sent my demo songs to my producer, within two minutes he calls me and says (insert MIKA's fake American accent) : 'This song will NEVER be released in the United States' "  (Then MIKA sings 'Billy Brown')
- " I CAN HEEEEEEAR!"

- "I know we don't get much air time in the US, but I think our career in the US is based on live performances, and that's more honorable anyway"
- " I have to admit, this is our first show in the United States and we're FUCKING NERVOUS!"
- and later "I really want to thank you guys for making us feel so welcome here"

-"She's a player and a downright WHORE!"