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11 July 2007 @ 04:10 am
insomniac attack!  
It's late and I can't fall asleep. It's actually 4:10 AM right now. In the name of all things holy, Laura, go to bed. I haven't even read any of my readings yet - I only read one selection. I think I'm skipping out on class again tomorrow, so I can catch up. But that would reflect badly on me, so maybe I'll go anyways?

Harry Potter came out today/tonight. I wonder if it was any good? I guess I'll find out on: Friday! We're going to the Loew's theater. "We" constitutes - Katie, Meghan, Chaviano, Mike, Shang, Patty, Little Italy, Maria, Miles, and hordes of other people I suppose.

I took a glance-over at the supplements and college apps today. I tentatively finished up some of my Common Application stuff as well, but there's definitely plenty more for me to finish. And supplements (groan), and teacher recommendations, and transcript requests, and counselor forms... will the agony ever end?

Cheers to that, bucko!

So, since this is a rather private journal ("semi-private"), and I don't really expect any Homo sapiens to be reading it in the near future, I'm going to toss around a few application essay ideas.

  1. ENFP - everything that relates to me in a personality test? Must be very tight and coherent and concise.
  2. Rumi - use that poem to describe the inescapable thirst for knowledge and the fountain from which all initiation stems from
  3. Experience - an enlightening experience of some sort?
  4. Rain - catharsis, ablution of soul, leaving essence of self and other Zen-ish whatnot


Yea, whatever, I'll worry about it tomorrow after I finish catching up on two chapters of Yuko Ogasawara's Office Ladies and Salaried Men, 1 selection by Robert Frank on "purely competitive" and discriminatory/hierarchical markets, and one other selection on "i-forget"... plus all the reading due for Thursday as well. Goodness gracious great balls of fire. That's about 120 pages of reading right there!

I ought to go to bed and pretend to be coherent tomorrow for class. =)
Peace, Love, and Happiness.
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Where at: once upon a mattress
Mood of: sleepy
Jam'n to: ratatat- seventeen years
 
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09 July 2007 @ 01:53 pm
Harvard, End of School Year, and Summer  
How do you do, mon bon-bon?

So I'm at summer school at Harvard and I just finished my midterm today. Which, surprisingly, I tihnk I did really well on. I got back my paper and made an A (what a great birthday present). And now I think I'm either going to (a) go run a couple laps around the Charles River, or (b) go to Widener Library and get some reading done and watch Pride and Prejudice (sadly not the mini-series version). Ew, and who else has gotten their AP scores back? Because I haven't, and I probably should go tell my parents to check up on it... but alas, they are moving stuff up to our place in Albany as I type.

I didn't end up taking the SAT IIs, and if I'm going to apply early to Yale, I need to get my SAT I and my SAT IIs done by November. Dang. Have I already mentioned Queen of Glass by S.J. Maas? Well, it's amazing and I seriously think it should be published.

So my days in a summary: clothes, cute clothes, karaoke, tempurpedic pillows, good friends, babo tea, skipping class, sunshine at the Charles River, good weather, Rocky Horror Picture Show (at the local indie AMC theater), dance-dance-dance-off-your-pants, good grades for third trimester, money wasting, straight thugging, fireworks in boston, rugby and monogrammed polos, and all over summer fun.

Cambridge has been treating me really well. I've fallen in love with the Meusli at Au Bon Pain and the Harry Potter-esque Annenberg Hall (even though I call it the "Great Hall" for kicks). I've fallen in love with Quincy House, and the brick sidewalks, and the Farnsworth Room in Lamont Library. I've fallen in love with the tomes of Houghton Library and chuckle at the Hagrid-looking security guard. I love the river, I love the "T"... it's great!

Guess who's finally 17? Haha, this is Jenny, Me, and Sharon (respectively) at P.F. Chang's. I took a couple fellow Quincy girls out to eat on my birthday night. The food was, of course, fabulous -- after all, who can resist those lettuce wraps? Nobody. So, all-in-all, it was a great birthday: in good company, good laughs, and we all left and walked into Boston Commons in a happy mood. Who could ask for anything more? Certainly not me.


Come to think of it, I spent about 5 hours on the J.K. Rowling website the other day, just getting the extra things on the site. Sadly, I can't do W.O.M.B.A.T, because I was a little.. held up? HARRY POTTER IS COMING OUT IN 12 DAYS! THE MOVIE IS COMING OUT TOMORROW! Life seriously rocks.

Oh yea, and I'm Head of House of Slytherin in Dumbledore's Armey. Editor-in-Chief of "The Stentorian" next year and Science Olympiad Captain. What else? Oh yea! LAX CLUB capitan (aye aye)!

So, I have a feeling that the rest of summer is going to be just as good, and next year is going to be killer... awesome. As soon as I get those standardized tests out of the way, I would say I'm straight up home free.

Reminder to Self: get Stephen Marley, more Ratatat, Cat Power, and Rocky Horror Picture Show songs all up in your iTunes. yay?

But, until next time, I bid you, adieu.
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Where at: B42 quincy house
Mood of: chipper
Jam'n to: blu cantrell - hit 'em up style
 
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11 May 2007 @ 09:50 pm
Oh man, OH EIGHT!!! (suckers)  

So I was browsing through some lovely things on the internet while trying to complete the killer ass webassign. And I realized, in just a few more weeks, I'm going to be a fuckin senior. This means college apps, graduation, diplomas, and 2008. ooooh, can't touch this na-na-na-na.

On the other hand, two APs down and three more to go. I don't think I did that horribly either. exhilarating. here's to hoping the apush and stat were fives. Now there's still english, enviro, and chem. Plus a few more finals, a WECs paper, and project here and there.

Honestly, what else could a girl ask for? SUMMER07 is almost here. Colleges were out way early. I'm going to Harvard for some summer schooling and then volunteering to knock off my rewuired 60 hours. I'm excited. Going to stay up in the new house in Albany this summer, probably. Animazement is coming on the weekend of Memorial Day. (who's excited? I'm excited!) I have SAT IIs on June 2nd that I will hopefully slap in the ass with an epic own.

So here's what I've got left on my palette:

  1. WECs paper on the idea of the countryside as a retreat and of land and the private estate as both a refuge/source of value - Marvell's Upon Appleton House and Jonson's To Penshurst to contrast with Austen's Pride and Prejudice.
  2. US History project on a time period (and the architecture)
  3. SAT IIs June 2 - US history and Math Level IIC.
  4. Clean up, buy my roomie a graduation present, finish up my APs, get As in all my classes, meet up with my miniterm dinner group, and peace out, brah.

Anyways, finally got around to reading New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. It's incredible, like expected. I really do hope Edward works up the courage to bite Bella soon. Honestly, suck up the chivalry and do the damn thing. Also, Final Fantasy remakes of I and II are csoming onto the PSP. You can bet I'm pre-ordering fool. And, CRISI CORE holy shit. I might not be able to wait. Like, order it express from Japan or something. Reminder to self. 

Barnes and Nobles tomorrow to study for that chemistry final I have on Sunday during Mother's Day at 5:00. And I need to study for Enviro and English Lang. coming on up this week. Exciting. And I need to finish re-reading Atlas Shrugged and Pride and Prejudice. Just because they're awesome books.

Alright. Time to go finish that killer webassign. I hate this yuck.
 

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Where at: home and thankfully not at school
Mood of: working
Jam'n to: Rob Thomas- Little Wonders
 
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22 April 2007 @ 10:08 am
Man oh Man  

I am so exhausted.
(aren't the little onigiri icons so cute?)

States yesterday left me sapped out of all the energy I have in my currently un-fit body. I have nooo idea how I'm going to fit into my skinny little prom dress.(But it's gorgeous!) From Saks Fifth, $50, "Laundry". I would say that is one. good. buy. It's like white chiffon over jersey, gold embroidery and embellishments. Prom next weekend? the possibilities of me fitting into that dress? noooooone! Because I'm currently eating a stack of oreos for breakfast. lol. oops.

Daddy left for NY today. I hope he drives safely with all his moving stuff. Mom's coming back later on today to send me back to school. And since I'm bored and I don't want to start crackin the AP eggshell (so to speak). So I will watch the latest Bleach and Naruto episodes (they both came out on Thursday this time right? hopefully?). Because the new Shippuden cycle is plain old amazing. Even though I still wish they animated the Kakashi anecdote. Kakashi without the face covering = yumyumgood.

Oh I need to go sign that MT sheet. And turn in my writing piece. oops. shit. and upload their CD.
Okay I'm out. peace bruthas.

Oh. I like the hot guys on MTV's new show: living lahaina.
that is all. peace and pesos for real.

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Where at: Oreoland
Mood of: exhausted
Jam'n to: Kings of Convenience - Misread
 
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15 April 2007 @ 12:55 pm
The Contemplative Life  
Is what I have decided to call this poor, unfortunate piece of the word wide web which will have to suffer my musings, rants, and general rambles. Except in Italiano. Glorious, non?

Seeing how I have already hopeless given up on yakiba.net, I decided I try to start up a LiveJournal. Hopefully it's as good as it's cracked up to be. And seeing how I've decided to start a new online endeavor (hopefully this one will last long), I figure I should put down long-term goals and see if I manage to keep them (in reflection).

I should be reading my APUSH review book, because I plan on getting to the midpoint - the beginning of WWI - by the end of today (along with doing many other things - le sigh. I need to do Stat and some SO stuff that I haven't started and my pad'na will probably be disappointed in me). But I haven't done anything except read fanfiction/watching densha otoko/bokura ga ita all this morning. Surely I suck ass. But I can't afford to fail these APs.

I emailed out my Harvard Summer School App yesterday. CROSS MY FINGERS HOPE TO DIE STICK A NEEDLE IN MY EYE! ><;;

Back to what I meant to talk about. goals, goals, goals. I had a talk w/ daddy dearest yesterday about what I need to do in order to not screw up my life while he goes on his merry way to Albany. (Oh yea! We went house shopping. I can post some pictures later of which ones we particularly have in mind.) Anyways, he was saying that I desperately need the following: 1. sense of crisis, 2. vigilance, 3. time management.

Seeing how I'm postponing everything that I'm supposed to do. I'd say I'm doing pretty well.

So. long-term goals like I was saying.

  1. get into them dang colleges
  2. preferably your #1 choice
  3. stop failing classes
  4. do something useful with your life
  5. get straight A's this trimester
  6. get only 4's and 5's on the APs coming up behind your ass this May
  7. and then do well on your SAT II's (aka "800" all around)

Anyways. That's about it for now. And I'm not doing too well in that department anyways. academics. no social. got it. On the other hand, we had a lovely bout of Mother Nature's tantrums here today and I got to go outside and enjoy the rain. And then breathe in clean air. It's going to gradually get hot here in the great NC and so I need to start preparing (clothes-wise) for it. Lovely.

I read a great fanfic today called "The Nietzsche Classes" by Beringae. You should all go read it if you enjoy DMHr Harry Potter angsty goodness.

Or this lovely fratty, fratty, fratty site which I found humorous: Frat Hard!

And I've been singing "Domo Arigatou, Mr. Roboto" all day long. Damn the stupid drama. I'm going to watch the movie later when I have the spare time (psh. I always waste my spare time anyways...) Oh yea. my laptop charger broke. Damn thing. Luckily CompUSA is going out of business and so I bought one for half the price $50! Cha-ching. And a cool, whirring fan cooling-down-system thing which has a blue light and cools down -go figure- my baby. Those Sony batteries get real hot sometimes. =/

Reminder to self: post mini-term pictures on facebook.
Further reminder to self: email your counselor and finish what you've got to do today or else SPARTAAAAAAAAAA!! And prepare for your RLA meeting with Newbauer. And Zoey. do it now!
Unless extenuating circumstances occur, Laura, you are definitely not. off. the. hook.

Alrighty. Time for lunch. Cheerio dahhling.
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Where at: home on my ass
Mood of: "meh."
Jam'n to: Styx - "Mr. Roboto
 
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