I hate it when i can't come up with a good title for these entries and it's even worse that you this computer won't let me save the entry without attaching a title to it.

So anyways this semester... hmmm lets see I can't exactlty judge if its going to be easier or harder than last semester.. right now I would say its about midrange. Over break I was worried that I didn't do that good on my dramatic theroy final presentation I went to to talk to Wally on Friday and I ended up doing better than I thought. I hate worrying about my grades for no reason. My schedule is pretty dull this semester because they are basicallly all classes I need for my major. So far I think I am liking my Voice Articulation and Presence in Broadcasting Class the best. That class i is is interesting and I am learning a lot about various ways to improve my public speaking skills. My second favorite class is Freedom of Speech.. I like the discussions we have in that class they really get my mind going. Not looking incredibly foward to writing the Postman reaction paper for a second time but at least time I'll bear in mind not to wait til the last minute to start writing it as I did when I had to write it for Media Writing last year. Besides those classes I am also taking American Lit Survey 2, a directed study as theater editor for The NewEnglander and Interperting Contemporary Affairs.

Oh now I remember why the title of this entry is significant.....
I broke up with Gabe on Saturday night. The break up was mutual in the fact that both of knew that the relationship was not going to work out. We're still going to be friends but he doesn't go to this school anymore so I'll be seeing a lot less of him. I've been dealing with the break up realtively well, however I am still a little hurt at the way it had to end and heartbroken as well. But when it all boils down to it it's time to move on. I'll try not to remember the fact that Valentines Day is in 14 days and i'll be loenly yet again. I'm going to try not to be my typical emo self and not let my loneliness get in the way so much.


I am looking foward to volleyball starting as well as doing stage crew for the mainstage play. I think this is probably going to be my last semester in Womyn's Network because I find myself to be too busy and not have enough time to go to the meetings ( because they are in the time frame when i work at the gallery and it's hard for me to leave) and sometimes because of various ither obligations its hard for me to make the events. Makes me feel guilty sometimes.


*sings*
stronger than yesterday
now it's nothing but my way
my loneliness ain't killlin me no more
I'm I'm stronger

gotta love B Spears!


class time

adios

End of Winter Break 07

So I haven't posted in a couple days. A lot has gone on so I figured you all deserve an update.

First of all my laptop crashed on Tuesday morning so I will be computerless for the first two weeks of school while it is getting repaired. It is partially because of hard drive faliure which means all my work from last semester and all my pictures will be erased and partially the fact that my computer got a virus from a bulliten somebody posted on myspace. I will be deleting myspace very soon for a couple of different reasons:
1. I don't feel very safe on there,never really have.
2. My friends list is pretty much the same on facebook so it won't be to deterimental to anything
3. The fact that I was on it so much last semester when I should have been doing my homework was deterimental to my grades.
4. In my opinion the whole top friends aspect of myspace is quite juvenile. Your life should not be totally consumed or defined by who your top friends are on myspace and if it is well then that's just plain immature. Hopefully no one takes any offense to that, as you shouldn't because that's not directed at anyone particular. Just a general comment.

Winter break has reached its climax and I couldn't be happier. I have been so bored at home it has been almost unberable. My friends are going to start to think I have nothing else better to with my time than to go on facebook and myspace all day long. Once I get back into the swing of things with classes and homework and going to meeetings I will have less time to waste on myspace and facebook. I am looking foward to this semester for many reasons including spring weekend because that is always something to look foward to. I am not auditioning for the plays this semester but will most likely do stage crew for mainstage because I'll be more adjusted to my academic schedule by then.

Yesterday I had a job interview at New London Barn Playhouse in New London NH for a summer job as a theater technician. While it seems like it will be a pretty intensive schedule I am looking incredibly foward to what this job has to offer me if I get it. The job will consist of doing publicity stuff for shows during the day time ( writing press releases etc) and doing tech stuff for the shows they put on during the evening hours. I am keeping my fingers crossed for getting this job because I think it will be an awesome experiencee for me!


TTFN
Janine

SHS People: Does anyone know the dates of Beauty and The Beast so I can mark the dates down on my calendar?

Vacation thus far

The +/- List of my vacation
I've been home since Decmeber 21st. I can't wait to go back to school.
+ Christmas was awesome. Gifts were not all that extravgant this year. Laid back nice and relaxing
- My grades were not that good for this semester (which i have already touched upon)
+ Went to New Jersey to visit my new baby cousin Collin. He is sooooo adorable
- Amherst is boring as hell
- I miss my boyfriend and all my NEC friends
? Indecisive about weather or not I still want to play volleyball
-/+ Not auditioning this semester but still doing stage crew for Mainstage because i'll be more adjusted to my schedile by then
+ Roommate situation is all squared away.
? Still brainstorming ideas for Fundraising for Henniker (Ellery, did you get my submissions yet?)
? Nervous about my job interview at New London Playhouse on Wednesday.
+ Looking foward to my classes this semester
+ Looking foward to the new season of American Idol starting next week
? I want to do something fun for spring break. Who wants to go to Florida?
? Trying to figure out the rooming situation for next year? Apartment or Suite? Apartment or Suite?

+ 4 - 4 ? 5 total: 13

Junior Yr 1/2 Way Over

So my junior year of college is rounding into its second semester. I am in awe at how fast everything has passed by. Before we know it it will be the end of another school year and graduation will be upon us. I have a ton of friends who are graduating this year and i'm going to miss them a ton when they leave.. that's why it's important to make this semester count as far as hanging out with them goes *nudges certian people... they should know who they are* Time seems to fly by pretty fast. It seems like just yesterday I was a freshmen looking to find my place in the college world. Now I found my niche. I have kept in groove with what i love to do (theatre and poetry) while at the same time being willing to open my world to new and exciting things (such as playing volleyball)

It is quite daunting to me that I will be a senior next year. It's daunting because I honestly have no idea what I intend to do with my major after I graduate. I mean I love to write poetry but I don't think I can really make much of a living off of that. I have found that I really enjoy writing for the school newspaper. I write articles about the theatre shows and next semester I am going to be theatre editor. I am very excited about that. Over the summer I had an internship with the Milford Cabinet and I really had a lot of fun doing that as well. I found it very interesting to see what goes on behind the scences of an actual newspaper and going on assignment with the various reporters was fun. For this summer I am planning on applying for an internship @ WMUR. I think it would be neat to see what goes on behind the scenes of a tv news room. I also really like theatre stuff so I could see myself doing public relations stuff for a local theatre company somewhere down the the line. There are so many options. It's mindboggling really.

Once I graduate I definitley plan on moving out of Amherst. New York seems like too big of a place. I'd like to maybe live in Concord, Boston or Manchester. Amherst is boring and there is nothing to do when you think of the job market.. except maybe work at Souhegan as a journalism teacher. We'll have to see where my path away from NEC leads me once I graduate next year.

Finals Stress Fall Semester 06

Finals are going to kill me if they haven't started to already. Let's recap all the work i have to do in the next couple weeks:

Interpersonal Communications: 7-10 final paper on Family Interaction Patterns (bascially expanding on thoughts from my chapter 10 reaction which I got a 75 on.. best grade i've gotten on any of the reaction papers... including the extra credit assignment for research night )
Creative Writing: Portfolio of all the stories I wrote this semester
NewEnglander: Portfolio of all the articles I wrote this semester and a final article which will go into the first issue for next semester... which naturally previews what shows are going to be put on next semester.
Symbolic Logic: Test!! The only test i have and it's gonna fuckin kill me
Dramatic Theory: Research paper and final paper on my own theroy of comedy and tradegy. That will need a lot of expanding.... even though i haven't even started to write it yet. I can already tell it will need a lot of expanding though...

I am not sure how many sources we need for the dramatic theory research paper. So far I have got four including the textbook but i am not sure if we need more than that. I don' t want to end up having too much information... but then again i do need something to work with and I think I should have enough.

*cue theme music Eye of The Tiger*

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