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college quarter grades and SAT scores!!! I win. :D except, I'm going to take the SAT again in the fall because I wanna do better. >.< I think I'm also gonna take the ACT then too, which is like the SAT, only not really. LOL anyway, onto the scores...

( this quarter's grades )

( SAT scores )

oh, so, a random funny story about the SAT: the room I took it in was an English-as-a-second-language classroom, so there were alphabet posters and stuff that you might find in an elementary school. anyway. it's me and about 12 other teenagers, and we have to copy out this statement that says we won't cheat or whatever. except the rule states that it has to be copied out IN CURSIVE. >.< the funny/sad part: barely any of us could WRITE in cursive, and we had to use those stupid posters in order to write the letters correctly. LOL printing is so much better. and typing's even better than that. cursive is just... hard. lol it took us longer than the allotted time to complete the statement. >.< hahahahaha

( college search stuff )

also, an interesting and amusing tidbit: Tony's parents (and mine) all went to Georgia Tech, whose mascot is a yellow jacket; SCAD's mascot is a bee; and the place where Tony wants to go, Southern Polytechnic, has a hornet. I find that very amusing. LOL goes to show how easily amused I am...

also! thank you all for the feel-better-wishes and the prompts! am working on those now. and I do feel better. :) ♥

Current Mood: ecstatic

1) an email from my professor:

Thanks Jennifer. Ironically, I just found the grade recorded in my "old" grade book from the first half of the quarter - but thanks a lot for sending it! You've done wonderfully this quarter! You've received the best grades not only on the essays, but on the exams as well! Wish I could have you in all my classes.

at the moment, I'm at like 105% in that class, LOL! I can totally bomb the group presentation on Monday and still get an A+. *\o/*

and 2)

USA Today recommended that Dom get an Emmy nomination. (via

domweek)

also, 3) I got compliments from just about everybody at the shoot about my dress. *\o/* For the first shoot (my unit's), the teacher said something like "oh, you look cute," and for the second shoot, when I'd changed into my pretty Chinese dress, he was like "oh, that color looks really good on you," and all that and I was like *BIG GRIN*

annnd, 4) last day of shooting is tomorrow, and I also have another secret movie festival thing, and then a psychology final on Thursday and that's fucking IT. I'm so ready for summer omg.

god, the power goes out for one evening and I already have to skip back to catch up on my flist, lol!

the concert last night was fantastic, and I got a shirt, as did my sister (so hopefully we can share... hopefully.). I tried to take a video with my phone of "Roxanne", but apparently it doesn't record audio!! *facepalm* but anyway, I have a bunch of pictures from my phone, so hopefully I can DL the memory card soon and have a big picspam of everything.

also, I got an email from the ~~evil~~ producer saying that my call time isn't until 3:30, while the tech people have to get there at 2, which makes me extremely happy. I'm not completely sure why, since it's only an hour and a half, but it's just nice to know that I won't be going there and sitting around waiting for that hour and a half, y'know?

somehow, school is still kicking my ass. how is that possible? all my classes but one are pretty much over! >.<

( some stressful school stuff )

OH YEAH. I nearly forgot. Tomorrow, I AM GOING TO SEE THE POLICE IN CONCERT. *\o/* Which I toootallly forgot about until about a week ago, and even then, I thought it was next week-Thursday instead of tomorrow-Thursday. But yeah, that should be VERY FUN, and kind of a celebration for the end of classes. Even though I'm not completely finished until next Thursday. At least all of my stressful work is done, now's just a time for doing as much backdated work as I can before the end of the quarter.

Filming on Sat/Sun. Cute Guy is an idiot and forgot to return the light kit the other day; I'm hoping he didn't have to pay the $200 late fee, but then again, he kinda deserves it for being such a flake. >.< Oh, but on Sunday, I have to bring a dress suitable for being an extra in a prom scene. I only have one dress, and it's a Chinese dress that I wore to the last piano recital. Luckily, it fits and everything just fine. I just hope it's appropriate...

Psych final on Thursday, and then THAT'S IT FOR SCHOOL. omg I really really really really really can't wait. My mom even said, "Thursday evening, you can read whatever you want, write whatever you want, go on livejournal, and chat with whoever." hahahaha YAYNESS. but then she said, "but not until Thrusday evening." >.< ONE WEEK UNTIL FREEDOM OMG. There's gonna be a party, just you wait and see.

Current Music: VAST - Flames

( mini-rant about lost... well, more about the theorists, really )

ok, so anyway. last week of classes is this week and next week is finals (of which i only have one, i think), so OMGYAY.

( my schedule )

also, my mom and i looked at my grades so far for psychology and media & messages and if i can pull out a high-B or (hopefully) an A, i'll get an A in both of those classes. \o/ i got a 97/100 for my research project in psych, but none of the other students commented on it, which makes me sad. >.< and i have no idea where i'm at for english, because i can't even stomach looking at all the things i've missed...

i'll talk about my film shoots later, because OMG I HAVE TO STUDY NOW. and i know i say i'll do stuff later ALL THE TIME, and then never do, but it's the last week of classes, so after this, i'll have about ten years of free time. LOL

waking up bright and early tomorrow (have to leave by 6:30 WTF.) to take the SAT. which i've not stressed about AT ALL because 1) i'd forgotten it was coming up until about three days ago, and 2) because i'm honestly not too worried and i don't want to waste energy making myself worry and it should just be better if i just do it and try not to stress.

but now it's tomorrow and i'm a bit worried. not about the writing section (i've always gotten high scores there), or about the reading, really (i've gotten pretty good scores there, i think). and i know some of you will hate me for saying this, but i actually (usually) enjoy math, so i'm not even really too worried about that. even though i haven't done math in about a year. >.<

by the way, i went to take the math test at school to skip the lower math classes (so i'd have enough time to do physics before i leave the school), and even though i'd never had trig before, i reviewed 2 sheets of notes and tested into the highest level math. GO ME. it's just so logical and straightforward. i hate all the subtleties of theory-based stuff. with math, it's either right or wrong and that's it. which is nice.

anyway, the part of the SAT i'm worried about is the essay. not because of writing skills, because i can obviously do that, and i'm pretty confident in my essay-format, but WHAT ABOUT THE SUBJECT MATTER? that's the part where i think i'll be at a loss. i'm not good AT ALL at relating topics to everyday examples or literary examples or what have you. so. yeah. hope i don't fail that portion miserably.

and then after the SAT's over, i go straight to my film shoot, which i'll have to rant about later. BLOODY FUCKING ACTORS. *headdesk*

hope you're all well. wish me luck tomorrow. ♥

Current Music: Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out

*sigh*

I finally went to bed around 3am. *headdesk* I'm honestly not worried about my own journal and most of the comms that I'm a member of being affected by this mess. For some reason, though, I've been following the whole thing closely and I even made a link-post of my own! Why? No idea. I guess to make it easier for me (and hopefully you) to stay in the loop. So anyway, after an hour this morning of checking things out and updating links, I'm gonna do my usual random RL post.

Yesterday: had auditions - only two people came in (I'm not counting the two 5-year-olds, but they were so adorable), so we had to cast them. Filming starts on Sat, and we don't have half the cast set yet... >.< Also, the evil producer girl was acting decidedly un-evil, which unnerved me a bit. Maybe she was in a bad mood when she sent that email? Maybe her English is really that bad? Dunno. But she was acting perfectly polite and everything, so. Strange.

Today: ack, English paper due by tonight! Oh noes! Also, class today - meeting in groups (again, oh joy.). I still haven't taken detailed notes on the movie we're analyzing (The Butterfly Effect). I'll have to do that before noon...

3 more weeks of school (or thereabouts). I really cannot wait for summer.

also! At the end of my second week of Weight Watchers, I'm down another 2 pounds. I'm feeling rather good about this. :D

eta: OMG. I totally forgot that there was a test today in Media. Fucking hell. *facepalm*

ok i must've caught a writing bug or something, 'cause srsly, i've been writing like, non-stop all weekend. >.<

auditions went pretty well. we pretty much had to cast everyone that walked through the door, though, because we start filming on Sat and nobody was turning up for the auditions. >.< but oh, these two 5 year old boys came in to read for the little brother and omg they were cute. we couldn't stop laughing the whole time. oh, and evil bitch woman wasn't being bitchy at all. which kinda made me nervous.... O.o

i have an hour before class, and luckily class is going to end early today. i also have a quiz that i have to study for and take before 11pm. >.< how many more weeks until summer? only a few, right? right?

so here's my plan: go to the cafeteria, (or the cafe because it'll probly have better food), eat, study a bit, come back here and take the quiz, then write for the remainder of the time before class.

*headdesk*

eta: yes, everybody who's anybody is posting about this, but WTF LJ? it seems comms that feature "incest" and other "illegal" interests are being suspended. some mods are temporarily deleting their comms to get away from the whole purging business. i'm wondering if that's what's happened to

wewalk, the Charlie/Liam Lost comm? it has been pretty silent for a while, though.

so okay, that rant the other day? ~~all~~ most is better now. and Cute Guy showed up today! apparently he's been sick AND his car broke down. *pets him* *no really, because his hair is just lovely* ~~as is his chest hair omfg~~ also, the ~~evil~~ french producer girl has seemed to lighten up a bit and she's not as annoying about the storyboards ~~though she still is speaking french a lot...~~ and because I won't be available on the first day of shooting until the afternoon, I had to give over my duties to the french PA girl, who is very cute and reminds me of Claire on Lost. except, y'know, french. anyway, besides the whole language difference thing (quite a few "sorry? what was that?" in our conversation, LOL), she seems very sharp and she caught on quickly, so should be able to manage fine without me for half a day. and I didn't really get a chance to talk to the director, but he seemed very laid back today, so I'm guessing he's handling everything he's supposed to. and I kind of avoided the ~~annoying~~ DoP. hopefully the director and the producer will get on him for doing storyboards omg. I did complain to BOTH of them, so. *hopes* ALSO, nobody turned up for the auditions yesterday! so we're having auditions again next week or something, and the producer wants me to come, so yay. kind of. lol. it'll be interesting, to say the least.

whew. *takes a breath* also, I got quite a bit of Escaping Blame writing done while I was waiting around. ~~*should be working on RunAway omg*~~

things to do tonight: organize psych project results with my dad; read an essay for english; post in psych; email the script to the producer; email a few documents to the PA; hopefully watch Dom on that The Sauce show, which

txvoodoosays was really cute. \o/

oh, and tiffany? omg that piano in the student union building. SUCKS OMG. wtf half the keys won't even PLAY! the guy who was playing before me somehow sounded awesome, though, despite the stupid piano.

also, nearing the end of week 1 of my unofficial weight watchers thing, which is going alright. *shrugs* I do find myself wanting things I can't really have, though, like COOKIES. >.<

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and finally, I love you all. :) Thanks for being here and everything. /sappy omg >.<

♥

Current Music: The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

was about to reply to comments, but then realized i had to work on my essay some more. >.< so, will reply in person later, but for now, thank you for the "get well soon" type comments, they really cheered me up. ♥ :)

this is my predicament: i chose lotr to write an essay about. the assignment is to back up my opinion with facts and evidence. my opinion is pretty much that lotr is the best film(s) ever. so i wrote an essay and sent it to my mom for critique. and she says that i don't state my opinion at all, and that it's all straight facts, and that the essay has no personality or passion, and that if the class were a journalism class instead of a personal essay class, i'd get an A because i'm so succient and objective. >.< so that is one part of my problem. the other part is this: how do i write about lotr without getting TOO gushy and fangirlish about it? and without saying words like "fantastic", "stunning", and "awe-inspiring", etc. too much?

random note: today in the paper, there was a blurb about Lost's end date, which (of course) made me think of Dominic. right next to it was a blurb about PJ directing some movie that he and Fran and Phillipa wrote the screenplay for, which (of course) also made me think of Dom. there's no point to this little anecdote other than the fact that i found it amusing that they were right next to each other. lol i am easily amused.

a more completely random note: those Soup At Hand microwavable thingies are yummy and portable, and i want to take one to school with me the next time i'm on campus but not in class.

there are so many things i keep meaning to post about, but then i don't, because i just want to make this quick, but then i never get back to it and then it's so long afterward that i think "is it even worth it to post" and then i end up not posting, so then i have either no posts at all or a whole bunch of these meaningless type ones. and omg that was all one sentence. sorry. >.< i didn't mean to make this post so long, but it's just coming out that way. >.<

test updates: SAT2 went well, i think. it felt like i did okay. afterwards was a bruch which was good but also kinda too much, and then a meeting with the director and DoP, which was supposed to happen at a Starbucks but didn't at the last minute, and i was kinda counting on a drink to keep me from coughing the entire time, but anyway, the meeting went well. it's kinda weird though, the DoP kept like, looking at me, and it seemed like he was like... trying to reassure himself that i was laughing at his jokes? or something? dunno. that's what it seemed like, though. and he did it again tonight. or maybe he's just a weird, kinda creepy guy. >.<

and now, back to rewriting my essay. "again, with feeling."

I haven't had a real update in a while, so: a numbered list of my life. >.<

1) I must thank the lovely and generous

morebliss for giving me 2 months of paid LJ time. ♥ *bounces* That means I can upload a few more icons, like this one. *grin*

2) SAT2 Biology test is tomorrow at seven o'clock in the fucking morning, and I hate mornings with all kinds of fiery passion. Plus, am so not ready for it. Then a week and a half until the AP test. omg pls save me. *clings to f-list*

3) Today at co-op we skipped art class to do more biology studying. Which I needed and appreciated, no doubt, but the whole time I was just thinking "I wish I was doing art right now..." I'm in the middle of a Dom drawing! That so trumps biology.

4) Bit sick today and a little yesterday I think. Coughing and such. I felt like I had a bit of a fever earlier, but mom says not. Still felt like it, though. >.<

5) I had the loveliest dream this morning, but then I had to wake up and go to class. Not fair. ( cut for a little tiny bit about the dream )

6) Rewrote the script for the movie class. Now I just have to upload it. The director wants to meet with me and the DoP at Starbucks tomorrow to discuss storyboards. Somehow the rumour's been spreading that I'm a fantastic artist, which I am not. The only reason the pictures I draw come out well at all is because I copy them directly, no creativity involved. I have done a couple of storyboards before, but omg were they horrible. Anyway, now everyone's expecting me to come up with these great drawings. It's all the producer and Cute Guy's fault, I'm thinking, since only they've seen my sketchbook... >.<

7) On my little practice test I took just now, I got a 620, which isn't exact because the book had a fucking TYPO that kinda CHANGED THE ENTIRE ANSWER. omg. So. Not a horrible score, and I've certainly done worse. Not great either, but it'll pass. Hopefully I can recreate this score or better tomorrow at 7 in the morning. >.<

8) It's 11:00 and I still haven't done my psych online post that's due by midnight. fuuuuuuck. *hurries* Psych quiz Sun/Mon, hopefully I'll be able to pull through it.

9) I just wrote a little tiny bit of freakin' hardcore BDSM. Debating about whether or not to continue it. (you're all going to say YES PLS OMG, but I'm seriously not sure about this... >.<)

10) am tired. must finish psych, then go to bed and get some sleeeeeeep.

1) My dad is back from Scotland and Kentucky. \o/

2) Study group session should begin NOW, but nobody's here yet. *waits*

3) My sister brought home two rats from her humane society thing. She volunteered to foster them. I don't really want rats. One of them's kinda cute, though. They're named after the Baldwin boys, Alec and Stephen. Alec is the cute one. *g* I've yet to do anything more than look at them, though. It's kinda freaky to have them crawl all over you. >.<

4) OMG MY ROOM IS CLEAN. Well, you can see the floor now, anyway. It surprisingly didn't take very long to do. Probably because I didn't do that much. There's still piles of shit everywhere, but all the clothes are put away (finally). Perhaps I'll take some pictures and post them sometime. My room is actually clean - this has to be documented. Dunno how long it'll stay this way, though. >.<

5) Still no emails from my film group people. Which leads me to think that either Cute Guy gave out my wrong email address like I did (how hard can it be to copy straight text????) OR, he hasn't done anything at all, which is probably more likely. I'm gonna kill him on Tuesday. >.<

6) Raquel pointed out to me that the song Apple Candy is like, EXACTLY C-verse!Elijah. And it seriously is. The line "I want you and I want him." is almost a direct quote from Catalyst. And "So you said 'go find some trouble' / and you would do the same / and we opened up our hearts and we could change." Um, yeah, anyone who's read the story should get it. So, if you haven't a) read the story, you really really should, or b) heard the song, tell me and I'll upload for you. :) Maybe that's why I love the song so much, I just never realized it. lol!

7) How be you, f-list? :)

Current Music: Ben Lee - Apple Candy

apparently I wrote my school-issued email address wrong on the contact info sheet last night, so I haven't gotten any emails. well at least now I know that I'm not being ignored or anything... >.< so, have txted Cute Guy with my CORRECT email address, so he should be hooking me up with the group any time now. O.o

both essays are close to being done. 1 needs a final touch-up before 5pm, and the other needs a little bit of finessing before 11pm. and then I should be mostly caught up with schoolwork (except biology, because biology is a bastard). I'm hoping that once I get on my right schedule with all my work and stuff that things will go a bit easier, especially after the biology test, which is in like, three weeks. *cue major panic attack*

well, kinda.

I'll give you a list.

1) I got the Script Supervisor position in my production unit! *dances around omg*
2) I have Cute Guy from last quarter in my unit! *giggles* he is camera operator. dunno how that's gonna work out for him...
3) I do NOT have the scriptwriter or the annoying suck-up girl in my unit! \o/ (which is really good, because in this first production meeting, we TOTALLY tore apart her script. sorry! >.<)
4) it seems like my group pretty much agrees with me on the poor quality of the script.
5) I'm going to be the official script rewriter!! *dances around more omg*
6) the director, who I'm going to be working closely with, is both cute (\o/) and he seems like he'll be easy to work with, so yay!
7) even though the teacher switches from total wanker to awesome in the blink of an eye, he was mostly awesome today. and, he mentioned his wife, which totally surprised me, because he was acting a bit gay. LOL

so, other stuff:

my unit seems generally awesome. yay! the script = crap, but at least we all agree! one of the French girls (of which there are 4 in this class, I think) is the producer, and she seems very organized and on-task, so yay!

during the script read-through, I got assigned the LEAD ROLE. wtf! I am not an actress. >.< but the producer chose me because there are only three girls in the class (including her), and I'm the only one with English as a first language, therefore, lead character = me. >.< luckily, I think this was a one-time read-through, and we're not going to do that again until we have ACTUAL actors.

OH, at the beginning of class, the teacher handed out standardized tests! WTF! apparently our class was RANDOMLY CHOSEN to do a test on SCIENCE. we are a MOVIE-MAKING class. we do not do science. >.< I think I actually got a lot of the questions right (that I answered), and it did help being somewhat of a science-type-person, and also that I took Astronomy a while back.... but luckily this test won't be graded; it's just for the college's general... info or something or other. I dunno. I wished we'd gotten to take the writing section though, I could'a aced that.

UNFORTUNATELY, I realized that I have 2 essays due tomorrow: one just needs a conclusion, but the other needs to be written period. it only has to be 2 pages though (I was like "really? REALLY? YAY!"), but I still need to think of something to SAY, y'know? but anyway, 2 essays due tomorrow, and I'm gonna be gone alllllll morning doing biology. fuck. also, I hafta post stuff in psych tonight too. *headdesk* oh, and I gave my movie unit my school email address, which means I'm actually going to have to check that email address. >.< hopefully I can figure out some kind of rule to make it auto-forward to my normal one. O.o

1.5 hours until midnight. first order of business: psych posting. 2nd: Media & Messages paper, because it would be better to turn in a first draft than nothing at all. 3rd: English paper, because even though it's crap right now, at least it's partially written. *runs off*

omg, I STILL haven't gotten back to a bunch of comments. I'm sorry! I'll reply eventually, really.

Making Movies
( list + notes )

( non-spoilery comments for a Coppola film, The Conversation )

Media & Messages
( list + notes )

English Expository whatever the class title is >.<

um.. not much goin' on here yet.

readings to do, but haven't done them so far. >.<

Psychology

semi-yay for interesting textbooks! and I'd read about John Locke (Lost) being named after a psychology person, but now that this John Locke is in my textbook, it's phenomenally more interesting. lol

the prof sounds nice, but she seems to expect a lot. >.<

Biology

do I even have to say anything here?

approx. 5 weeks until death.

Other news: yay for flatscreen monitors. I have sooo much more room on my desk now, and I even organized my little bookshelf thingy with all my current textbooks instead of the ones from three years ago! \o/ Also, computer memory got fixed a bit, so my computer's much faster now. \o/ Also, WSU visit on... Friday. Dunno how it's gonna go, as I've never really visited a college before as a prospective student. O.o

Raquel news: She got off the plane and the locals immediately recognized her as queen and declared their loyalty. Revolt expected. ♥

Current Music: Moby - Porcelain

First day of class. yay! For the one "class" I have on-campus, I have the same instructor as my last quarter's scriptwriting class, and since he was my FAVORITE EVER, this is a Very Good Thing. The class is: Media & Messages, and he's gonna talk about things like how colour schemes affect emotion and stuff like that. Today, he talked about violence and censorship, so that was interesting. An interesting note that I kinda already knew: in the US, it's pretty much okay to show violence, but NO SEX WHATSOEVER, whereas in the UK, you can show sex, only no (or less) violence. >.<

My other two classes are both online, which is both good and bad. Today, I tried to go online to check everything out and get assignments, but there was a problem. A couple of Vista's servers are down, so NOBODY has access to the online classes. >.< This is what my tech-support email said:

Instructors are getting updates every few hours via the faculty list serve we have for them. Everyone is in the same situation, and the suggestion from my office staff is to "read chapter 1 and then try again later tonight or tomorrow."

LOL, good advice, techies. *giggles* Hopefully everything will be working tomorrow. >.<

My last class starts tomorrow; the Movie Making class, where we'll be making a movie from start to finish, using a script written by a girl in my script class (who also happens to be in this Media & Messages class). Dunno how that's gonna work out. Annoying Old Guy from last quarter's classes is apparently going to take this class, so that'll be a nightmare. Oh, and Annoying Superman Guy is in Media & Messages. OH FUN. I asked him about his grades from the last class (because I didn't really rate him very high on the peer review), and he said he hasn't even checked yet! I was very "wtf!?" because when your grades come out, you go check them ASAP, right? I certainly do. >.<

Biology is still teh suckage, so nothing new to report there. Other than class has been moved from Friday to Wednesday this week, because I'm gonna be gone on Friday. And Sat and Sun. Somewhere in that time, I'm going to take some kind of tour of WSU, which means I need to do a little tiny bit of research on their media/english program before I go. >.<

And I just realized I ended every paragraph with a ">.<" LOL and now it looks like it has ears. O.o

Also, I haven't replied to comments yet. I'm sorry! I'll be dealing with some email/comments shortly...

eta: oh, Billy, PLEASE DO THIS this year. thank you. *diez* LOL
ps: nsfw, btw.

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hello again
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mini-lost-rant and my finals schedule
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auditions
*flops*
highs and lows
a post of randomness
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things that make me very happy...

hello again

flops SCHOOL.

mini-lost-rant and my finals schedule

SAT

a non-fanish post

auditions

flops

highs and lows

a post of randomness

newsy news

a numbered list

oops

I am happpppy

class updates

school starts... again