A great summer ahead...

Hello and WELCOME to yet another internship journal...
This summer I have an awesome internship at The New London Barn Playhouse in New London New Hampshire. I begin work on the 23rd of this month and work straight through the summmer through August 19th. I will be working in the publicity office and doing technical theatre work as a prop mistress. I am looking very foward to starting this internship. I have been very involved in tech theatre stuff since high school in various ways : set design; props and etc. I look foward to getting more experience doing technical theatre work and seeing if I will want to make a profession out of doing stuff like this after I graduate from NEC next May.
To check out what shows will be playing at the Barn this summer go to www.nlbarn.com/season and see what shows you might be interested in coming to see. I will post the box office phone # on here at a later date or you could always email me and ask me for it.
Looking foward to seeing those of you who follow along with this blog at the shows

Peace love life
Janine

Well folks... another school year has come and gone again. I cant believe it. I don't feel like being overly reppettive because i have already writen three very similar entries recently about how sad I am to see this year end. How much I am going to miss my friends who are graduating... i know that they will back to visit next year but it won't be quite the same as seeing them around campus everyday.
Some favorite memories with some of them include : (although i probably went through this in a previous entry as well)
* TEACH Holiday Party
* Semi formal at Daniels Freshmen Year put on by Music Club
* NACA Conference freshmen year
*Fun times in various classes I have had together with them (Freedom of Speech; Feature Writing. Way of Science though that class had its moments of bordem , Dramatic Theory and Theatre History I)
* Fun times in ISA...especiallly international night and preparing for it.
* JFJ!!!
*Halloween Party in the pub freshmen year.
*Theatre Department Christmas Party @ Keri's freshmen year. Which would be the first time I heard the song Over The Moon from Rent and I thought "WTF is this song?" To this day I still hate that song.
* Haunted Hayride
*Party for Vivian and Darren's birthday in the theatre suite Ultimate sugar high which led to leaping half way across the common room and scaring the shit out of Darren
* Working on Mr, 80% and the awesome cast party at Cynthia's that followed " Janine I love you but you can't rock out to Celine Dion."

Another door has closed on another amazing school year. I am very sad I won't be able to go to graduation but i;ll be there in spirit naturally :) I can't believe I am a senior this fall. I am totally freaking out. Where the the hell does the time go. Seems like just yesterday I was senior @ Souhegan and all of this years seniors were freshmen... and look at them now all pretty in the prom night splendor and getting ready to graduate. I'm gonna cry.. for serious. Time flies. I have no idea what I am going to after I graduate next spring. Communications is the broadest major ever and there is so much to choose from. I keep thinking of all the readings we had to do in Interpeting Contempoary Affairs about life patn and am wondering where my life path is going to lead me after I graduate. Will I end up really liking this internship I have at New London Barn Playhouse and end up choosing doing PR stuff for a theatre as a carrer? Or will I stumble upon something else that I like? Who knows? I still have a while to think about it.... a year.

Speaking of my internship at New London Playhouse I am looking so so so so so so foward to it. I have been looking foward to it ever since I found out that I got it after Christmas break and now the long awaited month is finally here. I have a feeling this is going to be the best summer of my life because I am doing something I love to do.. which is tech theatre and I will be meeting a whole lot of people from all over the US and working with professional actors. It's going to be a blast. I can't wait!!! If any of you want to come to see the shows check out www.nlbarn.com/season for a list of what shows they will be putting on so you can pick and choose what shows you want to come see. Starting at the end of the month I wil be atarting a blog for my internship on blogspot.com much like I did last year for my internship @ the Milford Cabinet. I will post the link here to it once I start it up and since nothing of interest is really happening with my summer I will probably not be updating this livejournal until school starts up again in... August... yes August the first day of classes is August 27th which means i am going to spend my birthday moving into my dorm room (room 224 in Connor Jacci Drummond is my roomie so stoked :) ) not exactly the best way to spend my 22nd birthday but there willl be many opportunities for celebrating afterwards but hey at least we finally have Labor Day off. That's the first time that's happend in my four years at NEC. That's usually when we start school and my friends from other schools are like " You start classes on Labor Day? What's up with that?" I just shrug and smile.

I am quite nervous about how my semester grades will turn out. I've given up with making deans list. That gets me far too parnoid with that to fact where its not worth it. I already know two of my grades B (Broadcasting) and C + ( Lit Survey 2) Sill waiting for three more Freedom of Speech; Interperting Contemporary Affairs and my Directed Study as theatre editor for the New Englander. My directed study should be an easy A even though some articles I wrote were better than others.. mostly the movie reviews.. I struggled a lot with those. Other than that though I think most of my articles were decent and I wrote my first play review ever which I hope everyone who was in Under Milkwood read and fully appreciated :) As you recall Freedom of Speech and Interperting Contemporary Affairs were the two classes I got Ns in on my midsemster grade report. I am hoping that I brought those grades up pretty decently because I had to make a lot of sacafices so I could bring those grades up, I had to step up my game a lot the second half of semester in both of those classes and I really hope it pays off. Two things were a pain in the butt for me the reading journals and trying to get my final papers to the apporpriate length requirement without having to bullshit what I was saying. I think both papers came out pretty nicely although my Freedom of Speech paper was 8-9/12 pages. But hey that's pretty close to 10 so I don't think that i'll get too many points taken off my grade. I just hope that all of my hard work pays off because one thing that hinges on my grades is the scholarship money I recieved thorugh Vocational Rehab. I also applied for one of the academic achivement scholarships the school was offering but I haven't heard anything about weather I got that scholarship yet... I have no idea if I was supposed to hear by now or not. *crosses fingers*

Bed time... tomorrrow is filled with lots of unpacking and doing laundry

good night my loves.

xoxo

Junior Year- almost over

I just feel the need to rant. I should be doing homework but my brain has already been fried from all the work i have been doing for the past couple days.

I'm sure all of you have been watching the news and have heard about what happened at Virgina Tech. The main question I have is WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with this world... with this country? I am in utter shock.. the last school shooting I remembering being discussed about in the news was Colombine which seems like forever ago. This shooting is far more worse than Colombine. The amounts of deaths and lives that were lost are amazing and I feel so bad for what the people down there have to go through. Something that makes me really mad is that it could of most likely been prevented if the teachers had taken more notice to what was going going on... or maybe if the kid who was the shooter had actually taken advice and went to counseling. What are everyone else's opinions?

The weather is finally starting to look a little brigther and it is finally starting for feel a bit more like spring! Thank the lord. Souhegan has had three flood days in a row and I hope the roads clear up soon. I blame all of the weather craziness on global warming.

This past weekend was a lot of fun. Heather came up to visit me and we had the best time ever. Friday we went to the movies and saw two differeint movies Ali, Erin, Sondra and Heather say The Perfect Stranger and me and Jacci saw Blades of Glory which was flipping amazing!! Jon Heder and Will Ferrell make an amazing comedic team. I can't wait for her to come back and visit spring weekend it's gonna kick ass because spring weekend always tends to kick ass

Speaking of things that kick ass one thing that is kicking my ass right now is school work. Everything's piling up and i'm suprirsed that i haven't had a mental break down yet. I decided not to do stage crew anymore because i just have a lot going on academically right now and I just want to focus on that so I can end this semester on a strong note... after getting two Ns on my midsemster grade report I'm going to need to end the semester on a strong note so I can keep my scholarship money for next year intact. I'm kind of annoyed that I don't know what my grade for broadcasting is. Judy posted them two weeks ago but for some reason the computer system won't let me see my grade. I am really anxious to know how that grade turned out espeically the grade on my final project that partially went to shit because of technichial difficulties. Overall this year has been my most stressful year and I can't wait for it to be over in a couple weeks.
Key factors that have made this year stressful as a whole
~ Having to get back surgury at the beginning of the year which put me behind a week academically
~ Two semesters worth of hard classes... some which potientially drove me crazy and made me want to rip my hair out ( ie Intro To Symbolic Logic; Interpersonal Communications and Broadcasting)
~ The never ending stress of being in too many extracurriculars ( good thing i've eliminated quite a few clubs so i can cut it down to the things I actually enjoy doing)
~ Boy troubles of varying degrees (Break ups and dealing with how stupid guys can be. Realizing how awesome my friends are because they were there for me to listen to me and put up with my various levels of complaining Love you all and hopefully you all know who you are)

So hopefully next year MY SENIOR YEAR (OMFG *eyes bulge out of head*) willl be seemingly less stressfull. My schedule for the fall is a pretty full course load . 5 classes plus an internship with New England College Press.
I am taking:
Mythology The God/Goddes and The Trickster
Meaning of The Moving Image (now that I know what to expect from Vicky Godwin hopefully I get on her good side and get a decent grade.. didn't do so hot in Interpersonal Communications)
Madness in Literature (Two classes with Sylva should be fun, i've never had her before)
Principles of Public Relations
Playwriting I

so since most of my classes for my major will be completed except for two or three my schedule for the spring should be a lot more relaxing. I'll probably take a few other electives maybe anothter theatre elective. It's still while til I have to think about that.


Things to look foward to in the coming weeks
* Under Milk Wood
* Spring Weekend
* Student Awards Night (Hopefully I get an award or two this year *crosses fingers*)
* Movement Concert
* Traces David show @ the Sad Cafe in Plaistow


time for proxying for my friends @ room draw and looooooooooots of homework
Peace out

Janine ( or J9 or J Lef what ever you wanna call me)

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!

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