Brief Summary

It's been awhile since I've done an actual update so here's one in bullet list form:
Academics:
My classes are going pretty well so far. The work load is somewhat heavier than the last couple semesters combined but at least my time management skills have been somewhat better then they have been in the past couple semesters. I think that the class I like the best so far is Interpeting Contempoary Affairs. While some of the articles we've been reading have been hard to analyze for the most part they are pretty interesting. Doing the reaidng journals is a very interesting thought process . It's interesting to see how the stuff we read about in the articles can relate to my life and whatnot. We have a lot of interesting discussions in Freedom of Speech class too. The Postman reaction paper is a pain to write though. I just started to write it last night naand I hope I willl be able to get it done by Friday and that that I will get a better grade on it than I did when I had to write for media writing last year. My directed study keeps me on my toes. I'm theatre editor for the newenglander. Hopefully the theatre people will give some ideas of what I can write about for articles. The two other classes i'm taking this semester are American Lit Survey 2 and Voice Articulation and Presence in Broadcasting. Voice Articulation and Presence in Broadcasting has been an intersting class. It's the first time i've taken a first seven week course since I've been at NEC so the workload is somewhat heavier than the workload of my other classes. We had a midterm in that class last week and quite honestly I think I bombed it.

Extracurriculars:
The amount of extra curricular I am in has drascitcally cut back since last semester. I decided to eliminate the clubs which I didn't find myself very interested in and that has done wonders for my time management skills. Volleyball started last week and I am so very estacic about the season. We're going to be playing against NHTI and Colby Sawyer and scrimmaging against the John Stark high school volleyball team. We have a tournament in April @ Colby Sawyer but i see a time conflict with doing that alreafy because that's during the same weekend as Under Milk Wood and I hope it won't mess my schedule for crew hours but I don't even know the time of the tournament yet. The clubs i am still in at the moment are Henniker Review, New Englander, CTE, SEC WNEC and Volleyball. I am not sure if I am still going to do my radio show next year or not but let's jus focus on the present ,shall we. Just a reminder that my show is on the air from 1-2 on Fridays so be sure to tune in to WNEC 91.7 FM!!
I am excited about doing crew for Under Milk Wood. I am thinking about doing sound design but I haven't decided yet. I'll have to talk to Darren to see what kind of stuff he has avaiable for me to do.
Friends and Social Life outside of extracurriulars
So basically my friends continue to be awesome and stay amazing. This semester is going to be a ton of fun I have a feeling. Friday Night Movie Society in full swing and we have some pretty crazy times Friday Me, Erin, Jacci, Judy and Sondra all went to go see Norbit. That movie is the most hillarious movie I have seen in awhile.


Miscellanoues Notes
~ Tomorrow is Valentines Day and its going to suck..... again
~ We're supposed to be getting a really huge snowstorm tonight and I am sincerley hoping it will cancel classes tomorrow.
~ I am looking so foward tp , my job at New London Playhouse this summer
~ I had a meeting with the director of the New England College Press yesterday and it went pretty well. Looks like something I might be definitley look into for next semester.
~ The president of our college suddenly resigned on Thursday. When I first heard the news I was shocked because I thought he was doing a really good job.
~ Grammys on Sunday night were amazing. John Mayer is a sexy sexy man!

Pre-Fall 06 Finals Stres

So here' s another one of those entries where I focus different sectors of how my life is going. Enjoy and feel enlightned by my varying empotions at the current time

Academics: I am honestly pissed off that they got rid of the midsemeter break. I feel like I have been working non-stop since the beginning of the semester on paper after paper and assigment after assignment. Midsemster break allows for a little relax time so that way you can regenerate your mind and revitialize your spiirt. It's that time of year where the work keeps piling up and piling up. After thanksgiving break we only two weeks of classes left until we have to start preparing for finals that's it just two fucking weeks. As I've previously said some classes this semester have been harder than others but for the most part my schedule is pretty evenly balanced. I learned that you should never schedule six classes in a given semester it's just too much and it leaves you physically and emotionally drained. When I had my surgury at the begining of October I was wicked nervous that I would fall behind on my schoolwork so when I got back I felt the need to push myself to reach a certain level in certain classes so I wouldn't fall too behind. This semester i have done suprisingly a little bit better than last fall with time management stuff but it honestly depends on the class. Right now I think i've reached the point where I am going to into nervous breakdown mode... the stress is beginning to build and build I just wonder when I am going reach the breaking point.
Extracurriculars: I still feel like I'm in way too many clubs... but honestly at this point I don't know what I want to stay in and what I want to quit anymore. I still feel like i'm constantly rushing around to meeting after meeting and feel like I have no time to breathe inbetween. I just don't want to end up sacrafing doing the stufff I love to do because I feel like there's too little time to do important things
Love Life: I broke up with Sean and we are still really good friends. I have a new boyfriend. His name is Gabe. I hope this relationship works out a lot better than the first one.
Friends and Social Life: My friends continue to be amazing and the good time keep rolling on. Not enough random quotes have accumulated in order to generate a list yet.. in fact I don't think there have been any quotable moments so I still have last semester's gems such as " I'm eating cake and my lips are on fire" and I'm your imgination run away with me." My friends have been keeping me sane throughout the insane times and the stressful ones and I truly appreciate them for it. :D I did stage crew for Mr. 80% and that was some awesome times. My theatre friends kick ass. Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams was this weekend and it was amazing. Good job to all my fellow theatre geeks. < 3



4 more days til break I can almost TASTE THE GLORY!! or maybe just the glorious turkey my mom will cook on Thanksgiving :D

Lost In This Masquerade

Basically We;re All In This Together from High School Musical is the best song ever and is my favorite songs at the moment Disney Channel Original Movies with awesome soundtracks= love :)

School is becoming such a drag. My brain is becoming fried and mutilated from all of the homework I have been doing. I'm sure that does not paint a pleasant image and all of your reader's heads. At this point I am practically runnning on empty. I do not know how I manange to stay awake in my classes anymore but amazingly somehow I do. It's ironic because when I was doing crew for mr 80% I felt like I didn't have enough time to balance my homework.. which is why bringing homework with me to do backstage was quite a helpful investment but now that the play that is over I have been having a really hard time focussing on my homework. Probably because my schedule of assignments seems to be becoming quite monotonous papers, papers, more papers, reading for dramatic theory and still more papers. The reaction papers I have to write for interpersonal commuications are really starting to annoy me and drive me nuts. It seems like no matter how many times I reread the chapters the information doesn'tseem to be absorbing very well into my brain and then I have to tie everything we talk about in class into my reaction paper which can be easy or hard depending on the throughness of my notes. I am really worried about passing that class because I didn't do very welll on my midterm and it is crucial that I do well in this class since I need it for my major AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Saturday night was the Masquerade Ball hosted by SOUP. It was the most fun I've had at a dance in a really long time... being single isn't so bad. Lots of good times to be had for sure. Last night was midnight madness which was equally as fun ... quite insane as always. I can't wait for the winter sports season. It's gonna be a good one. :) The Mainstage show Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams goes up this week and I am pumped to go see it it should be awesome.

Course registration for next semester is tonight at 9pm. Here is what I have decided on taking
Video Production
Directing 1
Freedom of Speech
Advanced Public Speaking
Sex and Power Roles in Film
Directed Study (NewEnglander) if it fits
Back Ups : Play Anyalsis; Evoloutin of Folk Rock and Country Music; Sociology Through Film; The Disney Version; Survey of American Literature II


Peace Out
Janine

Brief Summary

have a few weeks off from work while they change over the exhibit at the gallery so that's always good. Now if i could only devote some of that time to doing homework instead of writing in my livejournal.

so here's another list that is a breif summary of the past few days
~ Saturday was Keene Pumpkin Fest. That was absolutley fantastic minus the long line we had to wait in for fried dough
~ I got in a fight with my roommate on Saturday night. Luckily we worked things out.
~ I am pissed at myself because I should've have been more perpared for my interpersonal communications presentation yesterday. If I had been more prepared my grade would have been a lot better. Now I am worried about doing well in that class because my midterm grade in that class was an N for needs improvement. :sad face:
~ Nervous about my dramatic theory midterm tomorrow. Hopefully all my studying pays off.
~ Loving Mr. 80% The play is going well and stage crew is awesome as always. Love my theatre crew! Stanis Johnson has got to be one of the funniest people I have ever met. Love her to death.
~ I'm hating the academic part of school right now. I can't wait for thanksgiving vacation when my brain can have a week of relaxation from writing papers.

Happy As Can Be

I am quite content with my life right now and cannot complain at all. This year is going to be amazing! Here's why...

First and foremost: I have a boyfriend! I am very happy and excited about being in my first relationship. My boyfriend's name is Sean. I met him last year when I did stage crew for the Apple Tree the most amazing play NEC has ever done nonetheless. We get along awesome and have a lot of stuff in common. I am very happy that I met him. :)
Secondly: My classes are awesome this semester. I decided to stick with my gut feeling and stick with taking Dramatic Theroy. I think I am going to like that class the best. Intro To Symbolic Logic seems like it will be pretty interesting too. Hopefully that class won't be too hard to do well in because I need it in order to fullfill my math credit. The rest of classes are writing classes which is awesome because I will be doing with I love.
Thirdly: Extracurricularwise I am cutting back on clubs this semester. I was in 11 clubs last year and now I have cut that total down to 5 to be able to manage my time better. I eliminated the things that bored me to death and stuck with the things that I like to do.
Finally: My friends are amazing as always. This year will be awesome with them. I plan on embelishing the friendships that I have now and hopefully hanging out with Keri Amanda and Zach a lot more since they are all graduating in December. I also plan on getting to know some of the freshmen that I met at orientation better includng Beth, Jen and TJ. Oh and my floormates are awesome. I've been through the list of the awesome people on my floor already and Jen Harty is my RA. Connor 3rd floors rules face!!!


Time to start heading to bed. I still have a bit of homework to finish before I turn in for the night

~Janine

Fall 06 Semester begins

So another birthday has come and gone as has another year in this jounrey we call life. I can't beleive I am finally 21. Where has all the time gone? I'm still in shock... just generally speaking!

Last night I went out to Jillian's in Manchester with a bunch of my friends. It was a ton of fun. It was nice to see people I haven't seen in a while or people who I haven't seen very much of this summer. Jillian's is cool becaiuse there is so much to do there. They have pool tables, air hockey and video games. They even had DDR but it was a different version of it than I am used to playing so it was a bit harder. I got a ton of cool presents too which was awesome. Thanks to everyone who came to my party you made my 21st night very memorable. I will never forget it.



Today my family came over for a barbeque. I wish the weather had been a little bit nicer but other than that I was a good time. My aunt just got back from Italy so we got to see pictures from their trip and pictures of my family's house in Italy. It's so pretty I can't wait to go there and visit them.

Good birthday all around! Thanks again to everyone who made it memorable! :)



Well I head back to Henniker on Tuesday for Orientation Leader Stuff Part 2 and helping the freshmen move into their dorms. I seriously can't wait to get back to school. This year is going to be a total blast and the fact that I am 21 adds extra incentive because now I can go out to the bars with my friends on the weekends. Party like a rock star and kick a little ass if you know what I'm saying. :)

This semester is going to be harder than the past two as the intenstiy of my course load gets relativiely harder. In order to achieve my ultimate goal of getting on Deans List this semester I have to take extreme focus and really buckle down on my homework as soon as I start to getting it. Last fall I had a huge and i mean huge problem with time management skills. Balancing homework on top of all the meetings and events I was going to was a bitch and needless to say when the semester ended there were grades for a few classes that I wish had been a lot better than they had essentially turned out. Last semester was better time management wise but I still ended up being disappointed with certain grades for certain classes because I knew I could've done better in them, especially my writing classes. I already know that a few of my classes this semester are going to be really hard and I will have to work harder in those particular classes to get a good grade or just to pass in general. Intro To Symbolic Logic is a key one to do well in since that is counting as my math credit. In order to reach ultimate sucess there are a few things I have to do.

*Find a good balance between doing homework and having fun to reduce stress levels

* CUT BACK ON THE AMOUNT OF TIME I SPEND ON FACEBOOK MYSPACE AND LIVEJOURNAL!!

This doesn't mean I won't be updating livejournal but homework has to take top priority. My mom has already warned me about this and has threatened to take away facebook and myspace. This is mostly due in part to the fact that I spent every waking moment when I wasn't at work on myspace or facebook (or onetruemedia updating my slideshows) and she doesn't like that i spend so much time on both of these websites. This means when school starts I will most likely be updating my livejournal once or twice a week or on the weekends depending on when I have time to get online. As far as myspace and facebook go I'll check both sites every so often during the week but will respond to commments on weekends.

* Cut back on the amount of clubs I am in so i can balance my time more effeciently.

Last year I found myself to be in far too many clubs for my own good. That was bitch for my schedule. Rushing around to meetings and trying to balance that and going to events on top of my homework.. Last year I was in 10 clubs on campus. As of now I currently in about 5 or 6.

The ones I had to drop out of were..

RHA

ISA ( well i haven't decided if i am quitting that yet but i am most likely going to)

Student Senate

Radio ( I'm indecisive about this one too because I am not sure if I am going to be able to to fit doing my radio show in between work and homework so I might end up not doing it just for this semester and pick it up in the spring)

and the ones that get to stay because I can't live without them because awesome people are in them....

TEACH

CAB

Henniker Review (though there reallly aren't any meetings for that.. or at least none that I was aware of last semester)

Volleyball (gotta stay in shape dontcha know? :) )

CTE ( Well, you all know how my decisicon to stay in this club has fluctuated over the past few months but for the most part I'm most likely sticking with it YAY)

New Englander



I am also considering starting up a poetry club. I am not sure how many people will join it or hard it will be to find an advisor for it but I am going to give it a shot and see how things work out. I am also considering joining yearbook because I was involved with that kind of stuff a lot in high school and I loved it. I actually don't really know if they even have a yearbook at our school. Last year I wanted to join but they never put signs up anywhere for meetings. We'll see what happens with that I guess.



I'm peacing out for now

Janine

Apple Tree = Love!

The play is over. :( I always get so sad when ever a good play ends because it's always so much fun. This play was so fantastic and I enjoyed being able to be part of such an amazing show. I got flowers from Cooper's mom and Keri's boyfriend Luke. Thanks to the cast and my fellow techies for allowing me be to be part of an awesome show. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!THE APPLE TREE = THE BEST SHOW EVER!!!< 3 to my fellow theatre geeksRandom Quote "That's some cold emotion." Ford



5 years later and I still have amazing memories from that show. Random quotes and all :)

One Acts

Well I have to say I walk away from seeing the CTE show this afternoon quite impressed with what I saw. It was my first time seeing a CTE performance and I was quite impressed with it all. All three shows were good but if I had too choose a favortie I'd have to say I really liked Today's Special the best though Finger Food was quite hillarious. I was a bit confused by certain aspects of Zoo Story but overall I thought it was good. Horray for awesome directorial debuts for Darren Zach and Jen Wooot!!!I heart my theatre friendsWhat a beautiful day!!!

BEST Freshmen and Sophmore Year Memories

i paging through my old lj that i crossed over to this one and i was lost on the over bearing nostalgia of last year and last semester

Top Favorite Memories

1. Theatre Department Christmas Party at Keri's 2. Showcase last spring ( GALOSHES hee hee i heart Zach) 3. Improv show last semester 4. Hanging out with the theatre people and celebrating Darren and Vivian's birthdays (which was after the improv show. I was really hyped up on sugar that night due to too much soda and pie which caused me to leap clear across the common room of the theatre suite and scare the shit out of Darren) 5. Spring Weekend6. Native American Lit class field trip to DC (despite the rain) 7. Haunted Hayride 8. Salem Witches Muesem Field Trip 9. Laramie Project 10. Tartuffe 11 being on stage crew for Betty's Summer Vacation Honestly with memories such as those you can't go wrong. This semester is shaping up with many good memories too. I can't wait til the second half of the semester it's going to be awesome and less drama filled. Sometimes I really think i am one of the most overcritcal person when it comes to myself. I am way too wrapped up in the affect i will make on people if that makes sense. I put too much preassure on myself to good grades which doesn't make the academic part of school too much fun for me. Last semester that was a really big pain in the ass because i was so paranoid with getting good grades where i almost reached nervous break down mode a couple times. I get annoyed with myself that I can't seem to get out of the mindset of worrying about what other people think of me... like that whole thing I went through during christmas break when I thought the theatre people thought i was annoying.. that showed me that i was overly worried about what certain people in that group thought of me.. i spent th firsr couple weeks of this semester trying to figure out if i should bother comforting the people who i thought i annoyed but afterwhile i didn't really deem it to be that worth it to worry about because if they don't like me then that's their problem but i think for the most part they like and don't get quite as many dirrty looks from the person who was giving me dirty looks so that works for me. Something that i also to find that bugs me a lot is that i haven't really out grown my shyness factors around guys... I was laughing at how immature i was last year when I gave Ford that flower for valentine's day which in the end he didn't end up recieving. I felt like such a shallow person last semester when I was nervous about telling Zach that i liked him and then i was worried in the days following telling him that I liked him that it ruined our friendship but that was really dumb to worry about because there's a slim chance that it did. I think the main reason why i am so shy around guys is because i am afraid of rejection. I've been like that since high school and i think i need to get over it. For some reason it's hard to get over.... I'll need to get over this eventually because there's no way in hell i plan on being single the rest of my life.and on that note i leave you with a song*sings*through all kinds of weatherwhat if the sky should falljust as long as we're togetherit doesn't matter at allwell they've had all their quarells and partedwe'll be the same as we startedjust travelin along singing our songside by side*makes like a crow and flies away*

2nd reminder of the awesome friends I have.

Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or fogotten." Lilo and StitchLately I've been thinking a lot about my friends up here at NEC and how much like a family they've become to me. Especially, with all the shit i've been through this year between my uncle passing away in September and all the shit i've had to deal with with my issues with Christina. Quite honestly I don't know where I would be or how the fuck i would be kept sane without my friends to keep me laughing and smiling. I think a lot of the time I don't give them enough credit where credit is due.. so this is my salute to them all of them.....Jennie, Darren, Zach, Emily, Megan, Amy, Alli, Erin L, Tim, Lauren (though i haven't talked to her in awhile); Erin R, Jackie, Keri, Sarah; Chris, Cooper, Marion, Anh,Amanda (bitch at me later if i forgot anyone but i don't think that I did.) I love you guys dearly and I honestly don't know where I would be with out you. loveJanine

Frat Party Advenutres

Well i survived my first frat party.... and it'll probably be my last one too. I had a decent time but the whole partying thing is not for me at all. Too much craziness to absorb all at once. I did have a few drinks but only two beers so I really don't feel wasted at all. It helped me to forget about this whole feeling uncomfortable around certain people from theatre thing but only for a few minutes.Frat guys are realllly cute....... ;)

While getting ready for the semi

So doing my laundry today took longer than it really should've for various reasons. I went down to my laundry room @ 1:10 to go do my laundry only to disccover that the all the washing machines were out of order. So i got on instant messanger and imed various people to see if the washing machines were working in their dorms. I didn't get many answers so i got off my ass and walked over to Charter to investigae. Once i found out that the washing machine was working i did my laundry. After the 26 minute wash cyccle was completed i put my clothes in the dryer only to find out that the was not even plugged in. So i went back to East in order to find salvation but i found none because all of the dryers were out of order too. So i went over to Union to see what the situation was over there i saw the washers but i didn't see dryers so i left an went to Connor where i finally found a working dryer and put my clothes in that dryer. When i got back to charter i realized that two socks had fallen out of my laundry basket so i had to blowdry them because i didn't really feel like going over to connor to put them in the dryer. I watched tv fr an hour than went back to Connor to get my clothes out of the dryer and went back to my room to put all my shit away. Most horendous day ever.I'm rather afraid to tell my mom this story because i have a feeling she'll get really mad at me... but then again she may find it kind of humoours as i am hoping most of you will. this is my thrid entry today oh welloff to get ready for the dance. toodles much love

Broken Bed

My bed collapsed. I went to sit down on it and the supporting boards underneath the mattres gave way and i've been spending the last two hours trying to fix it. This is the second time that this has happened in the past two weeks. The first time it happened my roommate and I were able to fix it. This time i don't think it will be able to be fixed which most likely means i will be paying for it out of my own money. I will probably be sleeping on the floor tonight but don't know how well things will go over with my roommate because my mattress is now on the floor next to my bedframe and i'm not sure if we will have enough space to move around in. The room is already small enough as it is. This is really killing me because i still have quite a bit of homework to do and attemping to fix my bed is taking time away from the work i should be doing... at this point i might as well predict I will be in the libray till 11:00-11:30 tonight yup..... I really hope i will be able to fix my bed.I guess u could say it's posivite reinforcement that my ra lives right next door to me but i don't think she'd be really able to fix my bed... i think it's reached the point of no return.