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Nov. 25th, 2007 @ 07:10 pm I would still be on my feet...
Current Location: back in 350
Current Mood: relaxedrelaxed
Current Music: Joni Mitchell
Just returned to Madison a few hours ago. It was a good break, all in all. Nice to see everyone. There are a few people it would have been nice to see more of, but it was a pretty short time. I didn't drink quite the quantity of coffee I was expecting, which was a disappointment, and I guess I'll have to make up for it at Espresso Royale this week. I had some free time and realized I didn't really know what to do with it. I've forgotten how to not be busy. Did some good writing, and some good thinking. Had some quality meals and higher-quality conversations. Taught Greta how to crochet (and she's awesome at it, let me tell you). But overall, I'm okay with being back here, too. Cleaning, making dinner, and listening to music. And contemplating a bit of homework, but that might just have to wait. See you all in three weeks! (Except you Tasha, because you're coming to visit! Remember that part?)
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Nov. 7th, 2007 @ 04:54 pm Emily Dickinson knows how I feeeeeeeel
Current Location: Futon
Current Mood: happyfreeee
Current Music: Cake
Today I have declared myself a hermit. A day of working on monologues, lazily writing my english paper, daydreaming, attempting to get advised (and failing), and eating falafel....pure glory! And now, finally, this Dickinson poem that I'm writing about makes perfect sense to me. Rehearsal in an hour, for the scene I actually have a significant number of lines in (being the flag-burner is not so exciting when there's no flag to burn yet). This day is beautiful!

And: home in 2 weeks!
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Oct. 21st, 2007 @ 10:10 pm The Absurdity of Madison
Current Location: 350
Current Mood: cheerfulcheerful
Current Music: Quadrophenia
I just went to a movie theatre that had assigned seats. Yes, assigned seats. They show you the monitor and ask you where you want to sit and then your ticket has a seat number on it. And there's a $2 "amenities fee" added onto your ticket...I don't even know what that means! The concession stand sold pastries and $8 sandwiches along with popcorn and candy. The ticket counter was labeled "concierge," and the hallway that led to the movie screens was labeled "auditoriums." The seats in the theatre look like airplane seats, but twice as wide, and they rock back and forth. Oh, and before the movie started the usher came in and made a speech.

But hey, Across the Universe is a pretty good movie.
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Aug. 11th, 2007 @ 03:43 am Thunderstorms make me feel agitated
Current Location: Dad's study
Current Mood: awakeawake
Current Music: The weather outside
I work at 10 tomorrow morning. It's currently 3:45. I haven't slept yet. 

There's a huge storm outside. It's the kind where the lightning is constant and restless, like a strobe light. The thunder is more intermittent, but loud and jolting. I don't think it's possible to feel calm during weather like this. It' not a relaxed, easy kind of thunderstorm with little flickers of lightning; this storm has energy. It's giving me energy, too. I'd probably feel invigorated, only I'm very tired so the effect is more agitation than anything else. My bed is by the window, and the energy of the storm is much too intense there, so I moved in here to try and escape. But in here, the fan is squeaky and sounds like crickets. I'm hungry too, but food would mean going downstairs, and that would almost certainly frighten me more. The lack of food and the lack of sleep makes me feel jittery. My eyelids are getting heavier and heavier. The storm may be calming down a little bit--I think I might try the sleeping again. Yes, I think I will.
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Jun. 15th, 2007 @ 02:57 am Employed times three
Current Location: my wonderfully comfy bed
Current Mood: happyhappy
Current Music: the paul simon loop playing in my head
All I want is to stay up ridiculously late without the threat of an early morning looming over me like a ski-masked killer in a bad horror film. Is that too much to ask?

I hope New Boundary finds their new office manager very, very soon.


Sometimes, I am ridiculously incoherent late at night. Ridiculously, ridiculously incoherent.
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May. 16th, 2007 @ 03:17 am Life is full of simple pleasures...
Current Mood: ecstaticecstatic
...like remembering at 3:15 am, while in the midst of writing a truly awful paper, that you have leftover Chipotle.

I don't think a burrito has ever tasted so good.
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May. 13th, 2007 @ 02:22 am It's dentist time!
Current Location: 6th floor den...again
Current Music: cars and drunk people on the street
It's so terribly characteristic of me to wait until less than 12 hours before my final to really do any hardcore studying for it. Yet I think I can (knock on wood) still manage a full 8 hours of sleep tonight. I think a 12:30 final is the way to go. It will also probably be my most fun final--comm arts. Writing essays about media and gender roles. If I study too much, that will take all the spontaneity out of it, right?

It's weird being one of the few St. Paul folk to still be in school. The number of people to talk to online while I procrastinate has been dwindling--now you're all home and have lives and stuff. But soon, so will I. That's a funny thought, that in like 5 days I'll be out of here. It's a double-edged sword, I guess. White Rock is calling my name. So is Izzy's. And the comfy couch at Dunn Bros, all filled up with friends. What does everyone say to going on more adventures this summer? I think that would be an excellent thing to do!

We also have to go dancing!! We tried to go salsa dancing last night, but the place was carding. We were all dressed up with nowhere to go. Twas a sad day, to be forced to go back to Chad at the sad hour of like...10:30.

Maybe I shall go to sleep--it might be good for me. I've been spending entirely too much time in the den lately in the interest of not waking my dear roommate. If only she would remember to move her backpack out of the middle of the floor at night in the interest of me not falling on my face...since I never turn on lights so as not to be too obnoxious. I was carrying the computer in here and tripped on the backpack and almost went flying into the door, computer and all. I was not a happy camper.
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May. 8th, 2007 @ 01:23 am The numbers are in...
Current Location: the den
Current Music: clack clack clack
Days until I go home: 10
Papers to finish: 4
Exams to take: 3
Messenger bags to put the finishing touches on: 1
Lofts to take down: 1
Things to pack: 4 million
People to say goodbye to: far too many
People to look forward to seeing: a lot!
Chaf meals to eat: roughly 20 (most likely less than that?)
Reasons I'm making a by-the-numbers summary of my life: 1 (I'm procrastinating)
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May. 3rd, 2007 @ 12:25 am (no subject)
My mind is all scattered.

I don't know where I'm going to work this summer.

It's funny, job applications make me feel like I'm measuring my self worth on paper. I don't like that... I didn't feel nearly so strongly about it on college apps. I think those reflected more positively...

I have papers to revise, and another one to write. I don't like revising things. I'm not as good at writing as my grades would have me believe...

I don't really know where I want to be.
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Apr. 23rd, 2007 @ 02:34 am It's that time again...
Current Location: 6th floor den
Current Mood: tiredtired
Current Music: clack clack clack
I've noticed that I most frequently post on here when I'm up late writing papers. And usually it's something ridiculous. I guess I don't have a lot of ridiculousness to share right now. Except that Hershey's Special Dark contains 45% Cacao. At least, that's what the wrapper says. I don't know why I'm eating dark chocolate tonight. I'm not feeling specially bitter. My legs hurt. I'm not sure I'm planning on getting any sleep tonight. On the other hand, I don't absolutely have to get up for class til about 9:45--I don't need more than 10 minutes to get dressed and wander across the street. I think I may cash in a few karma points and skip theatre lecture/discussion since I haven't really missed any of it yet this year. That's when I'll be finishing my paper. Ideally it will be done by 1 or so, and I can see Jennie Barry! Yay! So even if I didn't go to bed til like 5, I would still have almost 5 hours of sleep.

I'm in one of those school sucks moods. You know those? I mean generally I like school--I take classes I like and read cool stuff and write way too many papers but they're about things that I care about unless they're about air. But see, I have all my assignments for the semester on Google calendar, which makes them all look much prettier than they actually are. And when I scroll through week by week, there are some weeks where there's absolutely nothing on the calendar, and some weeks where there's like 3 things every day--like this week. There's no balance! Next semester=less classes and maybe even less credits. Next semester also=(hopefully) happier Julie. If only all math were that simple...

Something occurred to me tonight as I was sitting here not writing my paper. I feel like I'm not the most well rounded person in the world. I mean, my interests all kind of overlap and fit neatly into a little Julie-sized package. You'd think that would make it easier to figure out where my life is going. I guess it does, to an extent. But there's still so many ways to specialize within my interests. I pretty much want to do everything. Everything within certain parameters, but everything nonetheless. I mean, I want to teach high school, I want to teach college, I want to act, I want to write, I want to own my own theatre, I want to direct. I want to go to grad school, for sure, but I want to get my masters in EVERYTHING. I've been moving into this theatre criticism phase lately, where I would rather talk about theatre than do it. But after being back onstage tonight, even just for a small audience, I'm remembering what is amazing about performing and why I do it. I think I will have an interesting life ahead of me--I have NO idea where it's going to go.

But I probably shouldn't be a writer because I'm bad at just sitting down and writing.
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