So, for those of you who dont follow on FB, I've been searching for a job, and I've sent out a lot of resumes, some from friends' recommendations.  I've had several interviews, one call back for a second interview (which I have yet to hear back from, fuckers) and three job offers.  All three I've taken.  One of them I gave up officially today (a job selling wine in stores as a private contractor), and another (selling pearls down on the Warf) I'll have to give up sooner rather than later...probably next week some time. And the third I got today!! I'm so very proud of this new one, I really am!  I had the interview today at 10am and was late due to GPS malfunctions, but he was charmed by me none the less apparently since he called me at 1pm (as I had just parked my car to get on BART for another job interview at 2pm) and told me that I had the job, and asked if I wanted it.  I'll basically be a cross between a secretary and an administrative assistant since I'll be dealing with his clients, filing, and putting things in to data bases.  He said that I'll have to be licensed in a few things, but the company will pay for that.  It's only a part-time (about 20-25 hours a week) job for now, but eventually he wants someone full time.  And as the pay starts at $15 an hour, I'm fine with part-time for now, and eventually working up to full-time.  I'm super excited about getting this job since this is one that I really wanted.  He called me so fast that it makes me think that he already knew that he wanted me for the job based on talking to me on the phone.  It's right around Union Square, on Sutter Street, kinda close to the Paul Frank Store, so I'll be right in the middle of  things, which will be nice...tough I'll have to get used to taking BART in.  Going to have a celebratory dinner tomorrow night with Maimone, which is exciting to be able to have!

As I said, tomorrow/Friday is dinner with Maimone, and possibly a movie or something. Dont fully know what all yet.
Saturday will be the Winchester Mystery House with Maimone, Michaela and a few others.
Sunday is working at the Pearl place...not overly excited about that, but it'll be over soon, so might as well make money while I can yes?

Thank god for not having to stress out so much any more! It'll be nice to know that I have a job in a stable company (that is NOT retail/Warf based) and that I'll be making enough money where, if I want to save up, I can...which I will be doing.  With the new job will hopefully come a new apartment...one by myself for now.  One where Lon Chaney can run around freely and I'll be able to have parties on the weekends if I want!  A job where I can save up money to travel again...maybe Europe in a few years??

Today started off kinda suckish, but ended beautifully.  Walked the Comcast guys around for a bit and let them in to the buildings and the apartments they needed to get to, and one of them hit on me...it was awkward.  I had to call the psychology department to see what times I could go and get my academic standing petition signed, found out I can get one part (out of three) signed tomorrow afternoon, which is exciting!  And then I sent an e-mail out to the Chair's secretary to ask for an appointment with the Chair so that SHE could sign my petition (part two of three).  Got a rather nasty e-mail back from the secretary (all very professional, but still with that underlying nastiness that just makes you feel like you're stupid), and called her the second I got it.  She was still nasty on the phone and told me that the school, because of budget cuts, wasn’t allowing any more of the petitions to be signed, but it's really up to the department itself if they sign any more...this woman has no real say in WHO gets signed, yet she wanted to sound important so she was telling me "no, they wont sign it" when she didn’t, in fact, know if they would or not...eventually she put me through to the Chair herself, who, after I had explained my situation a bit, said that she'd be happy to sign my petition, and she looked on her calendar personally and put me in for Tuesday.  Stupid fucking secretary scared the holy shit out of me for nothing...or maybe because she felt like she COULD, so she should.  I plan to give her a dirty look when I have to see her on Tuesday...because there's nothing else I can really do to her.  Evil evil woman.

After work was an impromptu dinner at Joreth’s...where he had to test the spring rolls on me (oh how I HATE it when people test food on me...it hurts so much!-notice the sarcasm) and then gave me yet more food.  God, I left there even MORE stuffed than a stuffed whale...if that's possible.  God, everything was so good! And then a cherry gallette to top it off! Oh god I was in heaven!  I plan to bring Sage with me soon so that she can finally taste of the wonder that is Nona's Restaurant.  She's excited, as is Michaela.  I'm still a bit tired from all the food, but I figure I need to stay up a bit and work off SOME of the food when my stomach can handle the crunches...at the moment it would hate me to no end if I tried crunches.  :-P

Instead of helping Michaela move last Saturday, a few of us (Joel, Joey, Charles, Michaela and me) went to Cherry's sushi in San Jose, which was GREAT!  Then there was a great small party on Saturday night, some of the pictures are up on FB by Michaela.  A small impromptu party turned in to a party that filled my room with people.  The party was for Michaela because she didn’t have to move, and she still wanted to see everyone, so she and I decided to use my room (yes, only my room, my roommates were home and wanted the living room) as the party place.  Sarah, Monica, Sage, Sam, Joel, Joey, Michaela, Maimone and me all crammed in to my little room...thank god for the round chair!  I had a great time, and I hope everyone else did as well...they seemed to for the most part.

Life seems to continue being great for me, it actually seems to keep getting better, if that's possible.  I've got what I want out of the new year, or at least one thing that I want, let's see if I keep it.  Here's to hoping and working for it I guess.

My one and only real new year’s resolution...to get off of academic probation.  This means getting as close to all As as I can get.  Everyone that reads this, I give you full permission to ask me and bug me about how school is going, and to bother me about doing the reading and everything else where school is concerned.  I give you full reign to bother and pester and e-mail and text me about it. 
I've no idea what my classes are as of yet, since I haven’t been able to sign up for them, but I really REALLY want the espionage fiction class, the World Myths class, the Literature in English I class taught by Avery (who is the English department's advisor...SQUEE), and the Jane Austen class (which I will beg for on my hands and knees), but if I don’t get in to the Jane Austen Class, I want to take a class called "Judaism, Christianity, Islam" which is described as: Beliefs, practices, social organization, and history of the three monotheistic religious traditions; importance of these traditions for European and Middle Eastern civilizations.  Sounds REALLY interesting...but the Jane Austen class comes before it.  I kinda want the one unit class on James Bond as well, which would be lovely.  So I guess we'll see what I'm able to sign up for on Wednesday (at the latest...hopefully I'll be signing up on Tuesday night).

Schedule (see how little there is on it!!):
Tomorrow/Friday: Part 1 of 3 signed on my petition.  and Waltz! Bringing Amy B with me and we're both working the door, yay!
Saturday: gobs of work...sadly
Sunday: going to see Defiance with a friend (hopefully...praying everything works out fine and no extra work is needed)
Tuesday: part 2 of 3 signed for sure, hopefully 3 of 3 signed as well and turned in to the registrar's office
Next Friday: FNB again! With Sage! And possibly Michaela!
Next Saturday: NFP cast party! YAY! Don’t know if I'm bringing someone or not yet, we'll see

HOPEFULLY there's work in there SOMEWHERE...they don’t have me scheduled for anything, so I guess we'll see.

Life seems to keep getting better for me, and I hope to god it stays this way. 

Christmas break went well enough, had two Christmas dinners - one with my step-dad, and the other with my grandmother…who cant seem to be in the same room as each other.  Both dinners went surprisingly well and I got some fabulous things for Christmas.  A shot glass set, new pots and pans (which work GREAT! nothing seems to stick to them!!), and a book called "Perfume" by Patrick Süskind being my favorites, above all.  Dyed my hair a light auburn when I was there, with the help of my sister…it turned out surprisingly good.  Played darts while really quite tipsy, which was interesting, and once I began to sober up a bit, I played better than ever.  Watched Tropic Thunder as a family and found it quite amusing.  My kitten got along famously with my mother’s two cats (who are now more than a year, and are technically cats, though they wont stop growing for quite some time), which makes me really happy. 

Since I’ve gotten home, the roommates and I have been civil.  We seem to be getting on quite well in fact…though I guess we’ll see how long that lasts.  I’ve promised to stay until August if things continue to go well, so that should be good.  Again with the whole idea of we’ll see how long it lasts…hopefully until August.  We talk at night now and we laugh and gossip a bit, which seems promising. 

New Years Eve was really quite a great night.  Slightly frustrating at the ball…mostly because I didn’t get some of the dances I wanted, but Christophe’s after party was great.  Most of us were up till about 8am, at which point we all fell asleep, only to get up a few hours later for brunch!  What a night though! There was waltzing at the ball, then a bit of blues afterwards at Christophe, where Christophe, Lauren and I tried to help Maimone with his blues dancing…it kinda worked.  Some silly fun pictures were taken, and lots of fun was had.  Quite a lot of giggling with Michaela all night, which was grand fun!  Only person we seemed to have missing was Aaron.

New Years Day all of us got up at about 10am to get to brunch on time, some more tired than others.  Went up to see Aaron (since he was only a few floors away from Christophe’s apartment) and had a bit of tea…him serving me tea was grand fun since it’s usually the other way around :-D  Michaela got happy when she found out Aaron was babysitting rats and practically ran up to see them…quite cute, I must say!  Then there was brunch at Joreth’s which was GREAT!  I was surprised by the amount of people that were there, wasn’t expecting that.  The food was great, which was to be expected, and more giggles were had with Michaela at the table.

Then there was FNW which was great.  Didn’t dance as much as I could have, but I enjoyed the socializing almost more.  Yet more giggles were had all night, which was great.  Had quite a few great dances, including my last waltz.  Went to afters, and then there was after afters with Maimone and Christophe which lasted much too long, but was great none the less…lots of talking, and we even ended up going to another café over in Oakland.  Michaela was supposed to join us, but never made it, and we didn’t get the message until it was too late sadly. :-(   Eventually we all parted ways and went to our separate homes.

Dear god, then there was PEERS!  I think that that might be the most crowded I’ve seen it (other than the Vampire Ball) yet, it was almost too hard to dance…so again, it became mostly socializing for me, which I didn’t mind at all.  LOTS of giggling ensued throughout the night, and quite a lot of cute pictures were taken.  Joreth gave the girls this fabulous chocolate drink that was all spicy in the back of your throat and fabulous.  I think it might well have been orgasm made in to chocolate.  We had Maimone hold me up while I made yummy faces because it was so good I had to fall on top of someone almost.  Had some great dances, a few with favorite people, and again, a great last waltz.  Again there was afters, which was fun.  Michaela and I talking under our breaths half the time and talking with others the rest of the time.  At the end of afters when everyone was leaving, Maimone, Sam, Michaela and I weren’t as tired as we could have been, so Maimone offered up my place to watch movies which amused me though I had no problem with it.  So that’s where we all headed. My DVD player decided to hate me and turn everything a greenish tint and the boys couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it.  So we watched Serenity with a greenish tint to it.  Michaela and Sam fell asleep almost right away and Maimone and I stayed up to watch it.  Soon after there was the both of us just falling asleep as well…we really couldn’t help it.  Maimone left before everyone else and I went back in to bed after letting him out.  Once Michaela and Sam left, I went back to bed and didn’t get up for quite a long time.  The perfect end to the perfect weekend.

Things seem to keep getting better and better, they really do…lets’ hope that they continue in this pattern.

Friday is blues, which I’m excited about, as are the people that know they’ll see me there.  We’re all very excited I’m back at blues after almost a two month long absence.

Saturday is helping Michaela move stuff in to a storage unit.  Maybe helping Scott out at waltz, though I’m hoping we’ll all just be able to relax a bit after moving her.  Lots of things could happen, not sure of what all I'll be doing after…I could just go home after :-P

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 of these films, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, paste this as a note. Then, put x's next to the films you've seen, add them up, change the header adding your number, and click publish at the bottom.

My total: 191
( some of these I should have seen, but havent...cut for the sanity of your pageCollapse )

So, this weekend didn't top last weekend, but it got damn close! 

Friday I had my party, which went great for the most part (I think), which I'm happy to get to say.  It was rather well attended and the apartment was quite full, though Google sucks ass at giving directions to my place, so please, from now on, use Mapquest!  Just a few problems throughout the night, though I only found out about them the day after (though I couldn’t do anything about either problem, I wish I'd have known, I could have tried to help things a bit).  Still, a great night, with great pictures and great video!  Got a lap dance from Jordann, and had to kiss several people (such a silly dartboard)!!  FABULOUS night, even if the bottle we were using WAS slightly off!  Funniest moment of the night...Sam knocked on the door, Joel opens it up, squeaks, slams the door, and we all ask who it is...Joel says Sam and we start laughing hysterically for several minutes while Sam waits on the door step (poor man)...Monica looks as if she wants to open the door several times, though each time she reaches for it, she pulls back her hand, not sure what to do...eventually it got opened on to the stunned face of Sam, who did NOT look happy about it, and yet we were all still laughing hysterically (sorry Sam, but it really was just that moment of 'oh my!')...the night was just full of awesome.

The audience at Postcards was fabulous on Saturday, got quite a lot of laughter and 'oohs' and 'awws'.  Audience keeps getting better and better each day and each showing, which is great!  Serving tea was quite a lot of fun, and it's nice to get to know some of people's tea choices (mostly the people who drink it black, but I think I've got a few others down).  Got a bit of time over at the AC after our last show, ate a bit of cake, which was fun, though I was in normal clothing.  Came back after a bit for Participant's show, which went GREAT!!!  Had quite a few guests, including Mr. Dickens himself(!) and Mr. Poe (who had on sock garters and black boxers with sparkly red hearts...fanTASTIC) and even Autumn and a few of her girls!  We had the best audience we could hope for (well of course we did, it was all of you!) and got quite a few awesome comments to the dialogue as well as the tableaux themselves.  Was great fun and I've been getting comments since our show on Saturday...some of them I'm fine with, some not so much, but 'eh.  Had a great time during the break between shows, and some great shots were taken of all of us (during the show and in the back).

Sunday was fun, a few more awkward moments, but again with the 'eh.  Robert left early so we had to replace him, which was sad because he's awesome to get to go on stage with, and it just wasn’t the same without him!  I'll be sad when we're done next Sunday.  But Sunday was awesome all over as well though fucking COLD.  Got to snuggle next to warmth before the first show, which was great because again, it was COLD, and even though I was in a robe and a jacket, it still wasn’t helping, though guy warmth DOES seem to help!  MUST remember this tactic next time I get cold!  :-P  After the last show, got to see Jordann briefly, which was nice, then went home because I was ungodly tired and went to bed...didn’t even hear the roommates get in!

Today...full of fail, and I'm happy I'm at work with the day over with.  Roommates are full of fail and I'll be happy once I live on my own.  Had a huge screaming match with Katherine (the female roommate), which was quite a bit of awesome since things got said and a bit got worked out, though sadly not enough.  Might be looking for a new place to live as of January 22nd, but we'll see...I'm hoping to stay until the summer when I'll be doing a bit better and wont have to worry so much about everything...but it all kinda depends upon them (since THEY'RE the ones on the lease) and if they feel the need to end things before summer-time.  One should NOT be happy to be going to work (at least not when it's what you do to get by, rather than what you want to be doing), though getting to watch 'Hellraiser III', 'Hannibal Rising', and 'High Tension' at work DOES rock!  Aaaahhh, Pinhead, still one of my favorite movie villains (if not my favorite), he's just TOO awesome...now all that I need to get is a functioning Box (yes, capital B), rather than the stenciled wood one that I have. *sigh*


Schedule for the next week:
Thursday I have two finals (crying will happen afterwards)
Friday is Hubba Hubba Review (you should go too, you know you want to) where Leeland will be performing
Saturday and Sunday are the last days of Dickens, sadly
Monday one more final, and then driving home to SoCal!
SoCal till the 30th, woot!

I haven’t been on LJ for some time now, and it's amazing how little I really missed.  Joel and Lee's posts and were the only things that I really missed apparently.  Sorry
Not much going on in life at the moment.  Roommate trouble...but is that new at this point?  Meh, clearly I'll be looking for another place as of January :-( though I'm STILL hoping that it gets better enough for me to be able to wait until summer...but oh how I doubt that.  School is going well enough, no complaints there.  Life has been interesting as of late, it really has...and it only seems to get more interesting the further in to the season I get.

Some highlights
Vampire Ball was quite a bit of fun, it was lovely to get to see people that I never get to see.  Scott's party after the ball though *sigh* was AWSOME...oodles of fun! with whipped cream involved...who woulda guessed?

Dickens workshops went well, had quite a hoot.  If you haven’t been talking to me recently...I'm in FIVE tableaux (though that might change a bit since she's re-working the list a bit to try to get people other places) in the Naughty French Postcards show.  I am Sleeping Beauty and then the Miller's daughter in Rumpelstiltskin...two tableaux where the only other person I share the stage with is a guy.  Needless to say I'm stoked, and I think you should all come out to the show (it promises to be a great show, even without me there!).  *happy dance*

Blues this past week was fun, if just a bit creepy (had some REALLY creepy dances sadly).  Most of my favorite leads were gone up to Seattle for the blues exchange up there (I'm MOST jealous of them!)
Waltz for first weekend was pretty awesome.  Got some really fun dances in, and sadly the last waltz ended much before I wanted it to end, but there are other nights I suppose.

Was kinda seeing someone, but we're both UBER busy at the moment, and sadly in totally different ways, so it seems as if that's at an end, though it was casual, so it's not that sad of a thing and being friends with him is so much better anyways.  Kinda wanting to see someone else (someone specific), though who knows how that'll play out with this season coming upon us rather quickly.  I know better, but eh, I was never really one to follow what others say. We'll see.

Schedule for the next few weeks...or the next wee and a half or so
Monday through Thursday - School (ick!) and work
Friday - waltz.....who else is going??
Saturday and Sunday - Cow Palace for dress rehearsal - splitting my time between NFP and the AC
Tuesday - NFP rehearsal at Cow Palace at a very late time....and then leaving for SoCal for Thanksgiving at like midnight (cries)
Thursday - Thanksgiving
Saturday - oooh, ANOTHER Thanksgiving (where I help cook...maybe not their best plan ever?)

Now on to pictures!

I don't know why I find this quote so interesting, but I do.  It's in a book we're reading for my Holocaust class.  A real updatey post to come eventually.

"In 1940, when I was eight or nine, the local movie theater showed Walt Disney’s Snow White.  I loved movies.  I had been weaned on Mickey Mouse shorts and traded pictures of Shirley Temple with classmates.  I badly wanted to see this film, but since I was Jewish, I naturally wasn’t permitted to.  I groused and bitched about the unfairness, until finally my mother proposed that I should leave her alone and just go and forget about what was permitted and what wasn’t. 

I hesitated a bit at this unexpected go-ahead, for it was a Sunday, we were known in the neighborhood, and to go to a movie right there in broad daylight was a kind of dare.  My mother couldn’t accept the absurdity of blatant discrimination.  She assured me that no one would care who sat in an audience of children.  I shouldn’t think I was that important, and I should stop being a coward, because she was never a coward, not even when she was my age.  So of course I went, not only for the movie, but to prove myself.  I bought the most expensive type of ticket, thinking that sitting in a lodge would make me less noticeable, and thus I ended up next to the nineteen-year-old baker’s daughter from next door with her little siblings, enthusiastic Nazis one and all.

I sweated it out for the next ninety minutes and have never before or afterwards understood so little of what happened on the screen.  All I could think of was whether the baker’s daughter was really glaring at me, or if I was only imagining it.  The wicked queen of the film merged with my neighbor, her fairy-tale malice a poor imitation of the real thing, and it was I, and no innocent princess who was lost in the woods, offered poisoned apples, and in fear of glass coffins.

... The baker’s daughter put on her gloves and coat and finally addressed me.

She spoke firmly and with conviction in the manner of a member of the Bund deutscher Mädchen, the female branch of the Hitler Youth, to which she surely belonged.  Hadn’t I seen the sign at the box office? (I nodded, what else could I do?  It was a rhetorical question.)  Didn’t I know what it meant?  I could read, couldnt I?  It said “No Jews.”  I had broken a law.  She was using her best High German-none of Vienna’s easygoing dialect for this patriotic occasion.  If it happened again she would call the police.  I was lucky that she was letting me off this once. 

The story of Snow White can be reduced to one question: who is entitled to live in the king’s palace and who is the outsider.  The baker’s daughter and I followed this formula.  She, in her own house, the magic mirror of her racial purity before her eyes, and I, also at home here, a native, but without permission and at this moment expelled and exposed.  Even though I despised the law that excluded me, I still felt ashamed to have been found out.  For shame doesn’t arise from the shameful action, but from discovery and exposure.  If I had got away with my transgression, I would have been proud of my daring.  But I had been unmasked.  …"

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FNW was quite a bit of fun, possibly the most fun I've had at one lately.  Got in some GREAT dances with some of my favorite partners, and got to see the hot Australian towards the end of the night, and even danced quite a few dances with him (including the last waltz).  We ended up going out for food afterwards, which was quite a bit of fun and didn’t get home till rather late.

I still miss James, cant help it, sadly don’t think my heart is going to change its mind any time soon.  But I had way too much fun with the Auzzie, so maybe he can take my mind off of James a bit?  I hope so.  I need a nice distraction.

It feels great to be home in Southern California.  I drove here in about 6.5 hours yesterday morning/afternoon, and met my mother and sister at Victoria Gardens (a huge outside mall) since they were there shopping for my sister's graduation dress.  My mother ended up getting me a few things as well (including my first pair of skinny jeans, and an awesome pair of red high heals, oooh), which was lovely since I haven’t had new clothes in I don’t know how long.  It was fun getting to walk around with them and see my sister act all grown up (ok, kinda).  I miss them so much when I'm not home.  From there we came home and watched "Fido" which was REALLY funny.  Sleeping on the couch (no matter how comfy it is) sucked, didn’t get much sleep.  How I've missed the heat down here, it feels so good!  Their kittens have gotten so HUGE!!  The little girl looks like a full grown cat, and the little boy could eat a small dog (he takes up my entire torso!) and they’re the cutest things ever.  I’ll be going over to my step-dad’s place tonight for a bbq and darts and then my sister’s graduation tomorrow.  I feel more relaxed already being down here, it’s amazing.

So, I actually smiled a bit today, which was a nice change.  It only lasted a bit, but a bit is more than I've been doing the past week.

Truthfully, if anyone reads this that I don't know about, at the moment, I just don't care.  I should probably friends only this, I should, but, um, yeah, that would take me caring if you saw it...

The only schedule I have at the moment:
Tonight will be FNB (without James there, and without me taking him home *sad face*), with me bringing fudge (which I promised Ben)
Saturday and Sunday will see me, hopefully, writing a paper...along with lots and lots of moping in there

On June 12th my little sister graduates high school.  I'm so proud.  She's really excited to see me, I'm happy to say.  Not that it really matters at the moment, but it's something happy in my life, so you get my tentative schedule for it now :P I'll probably leave June 11th (a Wednesday) and probably wont be back till the 18th, or however long I can stay.  I really want to stay down there at least a full week, but I'm not sure if work will allow it...eee I hope so!  I'll probably drive down there, so if anyone else needs to go down that way for any random reason, let me know :P  (you know, by that point, I kinda wanted to make it a bit more serious with James...bring him down for her graduation and all that...kind sad I dont even have that option. meh)  I really cant wait.  By this point, I'll have made up my mind about getting my hair cut for sure (if I haven't already done it by this point), and will do it when I'm down there...though I have a feeling if I do decide to do it, I'll do it while up here with the woman Rene loves so much.  My goodness...I can still remember when I used to beat my sister up (I was kinda a mean older sister...thank goodness I grew out of this!) when we were kids, and when we used to have to share a bed :-D I miss her like crazy when we're apart...it'll be kinda nice to have her closer to me (since she's decided to go to Davis!!!!) so that we can see each other more often XD