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....... ;)

Jr Year Begins

Well this semester is most certainly off to a good start. I'm aiming for a stress-free semester or as stressfree as I can possibly obtain to get it. So happy to be back with my loves. Classes are going most fantastically too Here's what i am taking:Biology and Society: Lauren was so right about Eric Simon. He's an awesome teacher and while science may not be my strongest subject area I think this class may end becoming my favorite one. The labs are going to be fun too. Next week we get to go to the supermarket and compare different food labels.Feature Writing: Some of the people who were in Media Writing with me last semester are back and I have a feeling it's going to be an awesome class. It will give me an oppotunity to polish up my writing and try new styles of writing I may not have tried before.Journalism 2: ummm..getting credit for the articles I write about the theatre shows? Clearly amazing. Who could ask for more? I am sure not gonna complain :D Oh and a shout out to those in CTE who read this (if any of you do do) if you suggestions for things you want to have me write articles feel free to shoot them my way.Intro To Poli Sci: We didn't have class yesterday because my teacher got stuck in a long meeting but i am looking very foward to this class and the debates we'll have. Oral Communications: This class should be interesting. I've never written a speech before well unless you count writing campaign speeches for when I ran for student government. I look foward to see what other people write their speeches about and what kinds of interesting things I come up with for my own speeches.So hopefully my stress level will be reduced to nothing this semester and I can reach my ultimate goal of getting on Deans List. Tuesday was Founder's Day and they celebrated the 60th Anniversary of the college. I found it intensley interesting to learn about the founding of the colllege and how it has evovled since the opening. Now it's time to talk about auditons.. oh the wonders! Suprisingly the musical auditions were a lot less painful then I was assuming they would be. I sang Hero by Mariah Carey as my audition song and I think it went over pretty well. I'm still a bit nervous about getting into the musical because of things I have previously stated about the stakes being set to high as far as the singing part of the auditions go becausse as always I will be pitted against people with better voices than me. The auditon for Zach's play was a breeze for the most part. I think I have a better chance of getting into Zach's play than I do the musical but I guess we'll see where the chips fall for casting,won't we now?Well either way wish me luckl (again) I find out sometime tomorrow afternoon wheater or not I get in so here's hoping.

Reminding myself how awesome my friends are.

excerpted from an entry i wrote in my old journal (dreambigdreams)in October....Another interesting concept I have found out is that I don't seem to settle on one group of friends but hang out with a bunch of people from different groups of people. I'm not big on the whole "clique" thing and never really was in high school either. One example is my core group of girl friends Ahn,Marion and Martha. We all have fun hanging out together. Then there's the whole theatre crew where i most certainly can't go wrong.. love all of them dearly and have a blast hanging out with all of them. Then there's a bunch of freshmen that I've made friends with like Bobbie Jo, Mollie, Ali and Jessie. Heart them all.going off that point.......Well yes, for the most part I do enjoy hanging out with my theatre friends and I certainly can't go wrong there. I know recently i have been complaining/ranting about how I think certain people from that group don't like me/think I am annoying but you know what? I don't give a crap because basically that mindset only relates to two or three people, one person i was concerned about told me she didn't think i was annoying.. i just hope she really meant it because generally she is pretty awesome. The two people that I still get uncomfortable feeling about are people i don't see a lot of, actually i see one more than i see the other because I barely see the second one at all because she lives off campus in an apartment. For the most part though, I get along well with most of the people from theatre and the seem to like me so it's all good. They kick ass. Though sometimes I still think that the fact that I asked out Zach may have messed up our friendship a little bit but that's in a whole different ballpark from what i am talking about so let's not talk about that.All in all my friends kick ass and i love them alll WOOO HOO!!!Today I went to go to the Boys and Girls Club in Milford to talk to the volunteer coordinator about doing some volunteer work when i am home for break. I start volunteering tomorrow afternoon from 3:30-4:30 and i am wicked excited about it. It will definitley add some variety to my schedule for break.. which so far really hasn't amounted to very much. The Boys and Girls Club is an absolutley gorgeous facility it seems like a fun place to work and i can't wait to start... I really hope i can get a job there this summer.Valentines Day is in a little bit over a month. I was really hoping to have a boyfriend by valentines day but i haven't had very much luck with boys so far this year. Doesn't look anything is going to happen in the realtionship department for me between now and valentines day unless by some miralce i meet a guy at school when I get back on the 29th and somehow magically hit it off. I don't think that will happen though. Meaning it will be another lonely valentines day for me. I'll most likely be really mopey all day long because that's the day where people who are in realationships go out and do stuff with there signifcant others and since i don't have a signifcant other i will be shafted like i always am. I hate Valentines Day.. always have and always will except for that one valentines when a small message of friendship touched my heart... that made my day. I wish I had told that person how much that made me happy but i never did and now i never talk to him anymore. oh well c'est la vietime for dinnerxoxoxJanine

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

Fall 05- Dealing with finals stress

Can I honestly say how happy I am that i didn't go to new york this weekend? Last week was so stresful for me and sure new york is a fun time but if i had gone to New York I would have been been overwhelemed with even more work than I would've known how to deal with. I mean I realize I missed a good time but I will have other opportunities to go see shows in New York... that's why it's good to have a mom whose job takes her to new york every now and then then she can take me to see Rent or any other in particular show that might be play whenever we go. The creationism paper for science wasn't so bad after al... even thoughj I had to retype my entire outline because I lost the version I orginally had of it because my computer crashed on Wednesday and being the moron that i can be on occassion i forgot to save it to disk. I am realy hoping that they find out what is wrong with my computer very soon. It really upsets me that this had to happen right before finals week tres annoying. Hopefully not everything will not be totally erased from my hard drive because I had the rest of the 37 chapter novella that I finished writing last year saved on my hard drive and it would suck if my hard drive got erased because i can't find the disk that I saved all my chapters on. And naturally all my homework from this semester is also saved on my hard drive but a lot of that stuff is backed up so i'm not too worried about that. Well the next couple of weeks will definitly be quite insane with preparing for/taking finals. Let's see if I can survive the next 2 and half theree weeks without having a breakdown much like the minor one that I had Thursday morning after I got out of Multicultural Ed. My finals schedule consists of one project two tests and one portfolio for media writing so that shouldn't be too much to stress out on.. well at least i'm hoping so. But then after that I'll be home free and back in Amherst for a monnth of relaxation at home.. though I'll still be working because I need to start doing research for jobs and internships for the summer over the break. Last Tuesday when Keri did her performance the people from WMUR were up her to interview Keri and I was standing right next to Tiffany Eddy at one point during the performance and I should've said to her " Hey I'm looking for internship at your studio for this this summer." but I didn't and thought to myself 'Oh darn, there goes a golden opportunity.' Aw shucks, oh well. This semester has been one hell of crazy one and honestly I can't wait for it to be over because then I can relax. Honestly, so much has gone on for me between my uncle passing away in September, classes,homework; being overwhelemd about being in too many clubs, stupid boys, being nervous about asking a guy out...then actually telling him that I liked him and later regretting it because I thought it would somehow mess our friendship up.. my life has somewhat resembled that of hurricane. But as the short entry below this quite lenghty one states I have awesome friends up here at school who have been there for me through all the rough times I've been through this semester. It's always a good thing to know you have people on your side to bring you up when you are feeling down and to cheer you up. So to everyone... wheather you read this or not... Tim,Erin,Christina,Ali, My suite three girls (Emily;Amy and Megan) Anh; Marion; Sarah; Jennie; Rachel; Darren; Zach, Amanda, Keri (Thursday primarily) and anyone else.. i don't think i'm leaving anyone out if i am feel free to yell at me later and to all the Amherst kids who comment on this journal still and leave me notes on my facebook page thanks for being there I love you guys, you all kick ass.*end of mini sentimental rant... but i think it's important to let my friends know how much they rock my socks off and how i much I appreciate them. * moving on........Showcase is on Friday. Honestly I'm not really sure if I want to perform in it anymore because I don't really think what I am going to do for it will be ready for Friday. But naturally I will go anyway to support my other friends from theatre who are in it. And take some pictures because taking pictures is fun :D Next Friday is the semi formal. I am really excited about going to it but I am having trouble finding a date. I have already asked someone but he said he wasn't sure if he was going to go yet and that he would get back to me. I'm not sure how long he's going to take to get back to me but I should let him know I need to know what his answer is by a certain time so that way I have enough time to ask someone else to go with me if he says no. If I strike out with finding a date then I will just go stag because it is more fun that way on occassion. I do have a few people i mind just in case this person says no so i am not going to give up. I'm going to predict my end of the semester grades just for kicks because it's always fun to predict things though most of the time when i predict things i am wrongScience B-/CMulticulutral Ed CMedia Writing B+Politics Bso we'll have to see where things end up with that. Wish me luck.. I'll need it moreso for science than the other classes because I think i'm borderline in that class gradewise and quite honestly i'm worried that i am going to fail it. But maybe I just jump to conclusions too much. I'll just go with the flow. back to finishing my science paper~Janine

Week in Review

+ Most productive weekend ever homeworkwise.. got a lot more done than I did the weekend before+ Got my schedule for next semster just the way I like it. -/+ Minor friend troubles but they worked out well enough. + Went to the hockey game with Megan on Saturday. We kicked butt. Go NEC Women's Hockey + The song from the play which the crows dance to Side By Side is stuck in my head it's so much better than having Come Clean by Hillary Duff stuck in my head. Added Note 3/31/11: This song still remains one of the top rated songs on my ipod even today. + The play was amazing and I heart my fellow theatre geeks/ ? Still indecisive as to wheather or not I should send in the editorial i wrote for media writing into the New Englander. I guess I shouldn't be too afriad as too how people will react to it. I mean it's pretty general so i don't really think it should generate that much of a reaction. + I don't really worry too much about what is mentioned in the entry below this one. Quite honestly for the most part most of my friends from theatre like me and there's not much I can do if there are people in that group that don't like me. So i'm not going to worry about that anymore + DEposited my money for the CAB trip to New York last Wednesday. i'm stoked and i can't wait to see Rent :Dand the best part+++++++++ I more day til I go home for break!!!

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.