to work now. in time, check out my film blog...the sunset boulevard link.
i'm peachy.
5.29.2007
5.28.2007
well golly gee.
i had no idea so many people read this on such a consistant basis. i'm rather pleased. thank you.
so, i have declared this "the summer of megan". not in the david burkowitz way, but in the "this will be the summer i never forget" way. i'm living in a fantastic city, especially for a history nerd like myself. there's culture everywhere. rittenhouse square, shopping, food, shows, museums....and the people. some of my favorite people in the universe live in the area, so i can actually see them this summer. last summer, i just sat at home doing nothing (because that's what we tend to do in enola) and wishing i could be at fun parties with my friends in philly. now i can do that! i can have dinner with them. go to movies! meet new people! solidify friendships! have a lovely time.
i'm also taking a cue from one sam fran and i'm watching the afi movie lists. i started this about 10 years ago, when they first did the AFI 100 years 100 movies list. there are so many lists to choose from. i'm also attempting to read one book a week. granted, until july 21, some of these will be re-reading the harry potter series. however, i'm 3/4 done with the first new book on the pile. "surrender the pink" by carrie fisher (yes...that one). i wanted to have a "postcards from the edge" weekend, by reading the book, then watching the movie. however, the la salle library does not have either the book or the movie...sooo...yeah.
i spent the last week watching star wars alot, because the 30th anniversary of the release of "star wars episode 4: a new hope" was on friday. if you want to waste some serious time AND feel like the kid in wet hot american summer who wears the cape (you know..."a douchebag is a hygenic product". that kid), go to www.wookieepedia.com. it's the star wars wiki...wikipedia, only entirely about star wars. its creepy, but really intense.
i watched "hannah and her sisters" the other day. it was great. really. i really do enjoy a good woody allen flick. if you have any suggestions, please pass them on...i've seen a lot of the ones from the 70's, such as annie hall, love and death, manhattan, sleeper. however, i don't know which other ones to watch. suggest away!
that's really it. i love comments from you people.
i'm peachy.
so, i have declared this "the summer of megan". not in the david burkowitz way, but in the "this will be the summer i never forget" way. i'm living in a fantastic city, especially for a history nerd like myself. there's culture everywhere. rittenhouse square, shopping, food, shows, museums....and the people. some of my favorite people in the universe live in the area, so i can actually see them this summer. last summer, i just sat at home doing nothing (because that's what we tend to do in enola) and wishing i could be at fun parties with my friends in philly. now i can do that! i can have dinner with them. go to movies! meet new people! solidify friendships! have a lovely time.
i'm also taking a cue from one sam fran and i'm watching the afi movie lists. i started this about 10 years ago, when they first did the AFI 100 years 100 movies list. there are so many lists to choose from. i'm also attempting to read one book a week. granted, until july 21, some of these will be re-reading the harry potter series. however, i'm 3/4 done with the first new book on the pile. "surrender the pink" by carrie fisher (yes...that one). i wanted to have a "postcards from the edge" weekend, by reading the book, then watching the movie. however, the la salle library does not have either the book or the movie...sooo...yeah.
i spent the last week watching star wars alot, because the 30th anniversary of the release of "star wars episode 4: a new hope" was on friday. if you want to waste some serious time AND feel like the kid in wet hot american summer who wears the cape (you know..."a douchebag is a hygenic product". that kid), go to www.wookieepedia.com. it's the star wars wiki...wikipedia, only entirely about star wars. its creepy, but really intense.
i watched "hannah and her sisters" the other day. it was great. really. i really do enjoy a good woody allen flick. if you have any suggestions, please pass them on...i've seen a lot of the ones from the 70's, such as annie hall, love and death, manhattan, sleeper. however, i don't know which other ones to watch. suggest away!
that's really it. i love comments from you people.
i'm peachy.
5.23.2007
renovations
so, i got bored and decided that it was time to revamp the blog. i hope you like your link. if a link is not working, please alert me to this fact, i'd appreciate it.
i'm peachy.
i'm peachy.
5.16.2007
blog sweet blog.
I started a blog for my family that's not filled with my angsty drama and stupid stuff that's just about what i'm doing at school and what i'm up to. it's the "Philadelphia, PA" link. It has pictures and only one entry. :)
i'm peachy.
i'm peachy.
5.11.2007
week one: harry potter and the sorcerer's stone
summer has officially begun.
in addition to that, i have vowed to read at least one book a week for the entire summer, which i started with the re-reading of the first harry potter book. i have decided to re-read all six books before the final installment of what is easily my favorite book series of all time. i finished it yesterday at the park, and now i'm reading jane austin's 'pride and prejudice'. i'm trying to alternate harry potter with other new reads.
so, this week has been frought with anxiety. first, i had to wait on my grades from the second semester from hell. i was petrified that this was the semester that i was going to have to explain away to my parents and work extra hard in the fall to make up my gpa. i really did. i'm never that kid who always does well and fears doom every year. most semesters (since elementary school), i'm confident that i did my best, or that i knew i screwed up already. well, when your independent honors project doesn't go quite as you expected it to, you're bound to have some worries. well, i did fine. in fact, and yes i'm going to brag, this was my best semester (grade wise) so far at la salle. four pure A's and a B+ (from leibiger). i now have a gpa of 3.62. woo. and phew.
with that, my mother reminded me, i should be looking at the requirements for grad school and start getting ready for that, if it's really what i want to do. i went in with full confidence. a year long project that i got an A in, good grades, honors program, leadership, involvement, etc. i look better on paper than i did in high school, with the exception of grades and test scores (i haven't taken the tests yet). i went on google and just typed in "american studies graduate programs". i clicked on george washington university and went into the home page for american studies graduate programs (probably museum studies or american material culture) with full confidence that they would beg me to go there.
*SLAP*
well. suddenly it occured to me that i would have to apply. and that there are other people applying. and i would have to pay for all this. and i would be doing 2 more years of papers and classes and all the things that this semester made me hate. so i clicked the red circle at the top of the page (i have a mac) and went to bed. a restless night with lots of clockwatching and infomercial viewing. after the most relaxing day of the year so far, i was brought back into stress mode in a rude way. i worry that stress will never go away and that this obnoxious eye twitch i've had since december will just become a "charming" little quark that my future acquaintances will have to politely ignore. not only do i have to apply for grad school, but i also have all the things in the masque that i want to do. loads of records keeping, better communication with the alumni, and some other stuff.
ugh. i think someone up there enjoys watching me have a meltdown everyonce in a while.
back to ar&r work. somehow, this relaxes me.
i'm peachy...
in addition to that, i have vowed to read at least one book a week for the entire summer, which i started with the re-reading of the first harry potter book. i have decided to re-read all six books before the final installment of what is easily my favorite book series of all time. i finished it yesterday at the park, and now i'm reading jane austin's 'pride and prejudice'. i'm trying to alternate harry potter with other new reads.
so, this week has been frought with anxiety. first, i had to wait on my grades from the second semester from hell. i was petrified that this was the semester that i was going to have to explain away to my parents and work extra hard in the fall to make up my gpa. i really did. i'm never that kid who always does well and fears doom every year. most semesters (since elementary school), i'm confident that i did my best, or that i knew i screwed up already. well, when your independent honors project doesn't go quite as you expected it to, you're bound to have some worries. well, i did fine. in fact, and yes i'm going to brag, this was my best semester (grade wise) so far at la salle. four pure A's and a B+ (from leibiger). i now have a gpa of 3.62. woo. and phew.
with that, my mother reminded me, i should be looking at the requirements for grad school and start getting ready for that, if it's really what i want to do. i went in with full confidence. a year long project that i got an A in, good grades, honors program, leadership, involvement, etc. i look better on paper than i did in high school, with the exception of grades and test scores (i haven't taken the tests yet). i went on google and just typed in "american studies graduate programs". i clicked on george washington university and went into the home page for american studies graduate programs (probably museum studies or american material culture) with full confidence that they would beg me to go there.
*SLAP*
well. suddenly it occured to me that i would have to apply. and that there are other people applying. and i would have to pay for all this. and i would be doing 2 more years of papers and classes and all the things that this semester made me hate. so i clicked the red circle at the top of the page (i have a mac) and went to bed. a restless night with lots of clockwatching and infomercial viewing. after the most relaxing day of the year so far, i was brought back into stress mode in a rude way. i worry that stress will never go away and that this obnoxious eye twitch i've had since december will just become a "charming" little quark that my future acquaintances will have to politely ignore. not only do i have to apply for grad school, but i also have all the things in the masque that i want to do. loads of records keeping, better communication with the alumni, and some other stuff.
ugh. i think someone up there enjoys watching me have a meltdown everyonce in a while.
back to ar&r work. somehow, this relaxes me.
i'm peachy...
5.05.2007
with the lights out, its less dangerous
my junior year has come to quiet close. this causes me to reflect on the year that was and finally anticipate the year that is to be.
in general terms, my junior year was not good. my classes were stressful, i took on an honors project that was just too big to handle, my romantic life was less than it could have been, and the relationships with my friends changed. things that used to make me happy didn't anymore. even the masque got knocked down a few pegs on the happiness scale. i constantly was evaluating and re-evaluating the decisions i made in my sophomore year (which i recently discovered means "wise fool", so it was a good year to screw up). now, a large chunk of the friends i've had at la salle are graduating and i'm a senior. i always like having people to look up to, but the prospect of being that person to someone else is kind of thrilling. now i'm sitting in my empty apartment, just waiting for someone to tell me to move to my summer housing, as i'm staying here this summer. this year is the year that la salle has made me the least happy, yet this is the summer i stay. odd, but hopefully a good decision none the less.
tomorrow my parents are coming to spend the day with me. i wish my sister was coming, but she has two proms this weekend AND work, so therefore she is not able to come visit. she's graduating high school in about a month, which is another thing that scares me about next year. she'll be nine hours away and my parents won't have anyone at the house, other than the cats. when i do go home this summer, the week after, my sister leaves and it will just be the three of us, something that hasn't existed since sarah's birth 18 and a half years ago. granted, she has left for week trips to the beach and to youth group conferences, but she's always back in a week. and that week is always very weird.
senior year does look to be a whole lot better. my senior year of high school was that too, after the suckiness that ws junior year at epahs. the shows for our masque season, whether it be two shows or three, looks to be pretty fantastic. eboard...well, i've discussed this with a lot of people and now i'm just determined to do my job better and to make the best of it all. my class schedule AND my classes are great, with not one honors class among them. that was one positive of junior year...i finished the honors program, and with flying colors (i hope). anyway, the class schedule is pretty sweet:
Monday: 2pm religion in america
Tuesday: 8 am religion in philadelphia, 11 am ethnic american literature, 6pm american literature from 1900 (drama queens)
Wednesday: 2pm religion in america, 4:30pm women in america
Thursday: 8 am religion in america, 11am ethnic american literature
Fridays: OFF.
two of my four housemates also have fridays off, which is the final awesome point of my senior year. my townhouse is going to be amazing and it will be that place that everyone goes to to hang out. its me, sara, michele, amanda, and liz, which is only a recipe for awesome. it is also an old masque townhouse (a-15), so i'm very excited about all this.
ok...that's all. i'm bored, and i figured that other people had to be bored as well.
i'm peachy.
in general terms, my junior year was not good. my classes were stressful, i took on an honors project that was just too big to handle, my romantic life was less than it could have been, and the relationships with my friends changed. things that used to make me happy didn't anymore. even the masque got knocked down a few pegs on the happiness scale. i constantly was evaluating and re-evaluating the decisions i made in my sophomore year (which i recently discovered means "wise fool", so it was a good year to screw up). now, a large chunk of the friends i've had at la salle are graduating and i'm a senior. i always like having people to look up to, but the prospect of being that person to someone else is kind of thrilling. now i'm sitting in my empty apartment, just waiting for someone to tell me to move to my summer housing, as i'm staying here this summer. this year is the year that la salle has made me the least happy, yet this is the summer i stay. odd, but hopefully a good decision none the less.
tomorrow my parents are coming to spend the day with me. i wish my sister was coming, but she has two proms this weekend AND work, so therefore she is not able to come visit. she's graduating high school in about a month, which is another thing that scares me about next year. she'll be nine hours away and my parents won't have anyone at the house, other than the cats. when i do go home this summer, the week after, my sister leaves and it will just be the three of us, something that hasn't existed since sarah's birth 18 and a half years ago. granted, she has left for week trips to the beach and to youth group conferences, but she's always back in a week. and that week is always very weird.
senior year does look to be a whole lot better. my senior year of high school was that too, after the suckiness that ws junior year at epahs. the shows for our masque season, whether it be two shows or three, looks to be pretty fantastic. eboard...well, i've discussed this with a lot of people and now i'm just determined to do my job better and to make the best of it all. my class schedule AND my classes are great, with not one honors class among them. that was one positive of junior year...i finished the honors program, and with flying colors (i hope). anyway, the class schedule is pretty sweet:
Monday: 2pm religion in america
Tuesday: 8 am religion in philadelphia, 11 am ethnic american literature, 6pm american literature from 1900 (drama queens)
Wednesday: 2pm religion in america, 4:30pm women in america
Thursday: 8 am religion in america, 11am ethnic american literature
Fridays: OFF.
two of my four housemates also have fridays off, which is the final awesome point of my senior year. my townhouse is going to be amazing and it will be that place that everyone goes to to hang out. its me, sara, michele, amanda, and liz, which is only a recipe for awesome. it is also an old masque townhouse (a-15), so i'm very excited about all this.
ok...that's all. i'm bored, and i figured that other people had to be bored as well.
i'm peachy.
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