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[Jun. 8th, 2005|11:23 pm] |
Stole this from Elice :)
SECTION 1
+ Most hated nickname: When my mom e-mails me and spells my name Rachie instead of Rachy
+ Type of burial and location of burial: I have noooo idea, I try not to think about being dead too much. I don't find it particularly cheerful
+ Hopeful Death Year: umm never? lol
+ Lowest GPA ever: whatever it is right now i'm sure lol
+ Favorite evil thing to say or do: evil? ummm, I seem to make everyone stray from their diets lol
+ Is your tongue long, medium or short: long lol
+ Hair color: brown
+ Eye color: blue :)
+ Style: I'd like to think trendy- mostly jeans, sometimes skirts, I try to be stylish... I looooove accessories, especially scarf belts and big earrings
SECTION 2 - HAVE YOU EVER...
+ Cheated on someone?: Nope
+ Been Cheated on?: Not that I know of lol
+ Fallen off the bed?: I did, and I was dreaming that I was falling, it was freaky
+ Broken someone's heart?: No one's told me so
+ Had your heart broken?: Sure doesn't everyone?
+ Had a dream come true?: Many :)
+ Done something you regret?: sure
+ Cheated on a test: haha probably... we all used to whisper around during spanish tests in freshman year cuz our teacher was CLUELESS
SECTION 3 - CURRENTLY
+ Wearing?: a bikini top with a Gap purple T-shirt over and navy Old Navy terrycloth shorts (I was reading in the sun earlier)
+ Listening to?: the dialogue of Stand By Me, which is playing on my TV
+ Located?: My summer house in LA
+ Chatting with?: Everyone left me :(
+ Watching?: Stand by Me
+ Should REALLY be doing?: Ummm, I'm sure there's something productive I could be doing, but I actually can't think of anything right now.
SECTION 4 - DO YOU?
+ Brush your teeth?: of course
+ Have any piercings?: ears, nose, belly-button- I'm full of holes :)
+ Drive?: Yup
+ Drink?: Yup
+ Smoke?: Blaaaaaaaaaaah
SECTION 5 - THE LAST PERSON YOU...
+ Hugged?: Elice
+ Kissed?: haha how corny, but probably my mom on the cheek when she was here
+ IMed?: Joel, Drew, and Elice (I can't remember which I started talking to first)
+ Yelled at?: Probably my dad
SECTION 6 - PERSONAL
+ What do you want to be when you finish college?: Actress, of course :)
+ What has been the best day of your life?: There are too many to name
+ What has been the worst day of your life?: I can't remember particular days that i'd call the worst, but definitely times in my life
+ What comes first in your life?: Friends, family, my dreams, etc.
+ Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend/crush?: Not quite
+ What are you most scared of?: failing at acting... and spiders
+ What do you usually think about before you go to bed?: Oh god, it varies, my mind goes crazy before I go to bed
+ Love your family?: Of course!
+ Love your friends?: Of course!
SECTION 7 - FAVORITE
+ Movie: 13 Going on 30, Beaches, A League of Their Own, XF:FTF, Two Weeks Notice, Love Actually, Phantom of the Opera, etc.
+ Song: "Breakaway"
+ Band: Evanescence and Maroon 5
+ Store: What I can afford: Abercrombie What I can sometimes afford: BCBG What I can't afford: Coach and Versace
+ Relative: Mom, Dad, Dewy
+ Sport: to play: tennis (and skiing) to watch: baseball (GO SOX!!!)
+ Ice Cream Flavor: CHOCOLATE
+ Fruit: Strawberries, grapes, apples
+ Candy: omg almost anything
+ Day of the Week: Saturday
+ Color: blue
+ Name for a Girl: Sydney, Coral, and others I can't think of right now
+ Name for a Boy: Colin or Aiden
SECTION 8 - DO YOU...
+ Like to give hugs?: Depends on the person
+ Like to give kisses?: Again depends on the person haha
+ Prefer black or blue pens?: blue
+ Like to travel?: I would if I ever got to
+ Sleep on your side, stomach or back?: side, sometimes stomach
+ Have a goldfish?: I had one for like a week
+ Ever have the falling dream?: Yup
+ Have stuffed animals?: A bunch at home, only a couple here
SECTION 9 - WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT...
+ Suicide: sad
+ Smoking: Ugh, no point. Just don't do it.
+ Summer: Beautiful :)
+ Tattoos: Maybe someday.
+ Piercings: up to a point, I like them
SECTION 10 - This or That
+ Pierced nose or tongue?: Nose
+ Single or taken?: right now, single
+ MTV or BET?: MTV
+ 7th Heaven or Dawson's Creek?: Dawson's Creek
+ Sugar or salt?: Sugar
+ Silver or gold?: silver
+ Chocolate or flowers?: chocolate
+ Color or Black-and-white photos?: B&W for special occassions and natural stuff, color for candids
+ M&Ms or Skittles?: M&Ms, especially if they're peanut or peanut butter
+ Stay up late or sleep in?: Um both!
+ Hot or cold?: I like hot, I'm always cold
+ Mustard or ketchup?: Ketchup!!!!!!
+ Spring or Fall?: Spring
+ Happy or sad?: Happy :)
+ Wonder or amazement?: Both!
+ Mexican or Italian: Italian
+ Candy or Soda?: ohhh tough call
+ Pepsi or Coke?: I don't really care |
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[Jun. 3rd, 2005|05:15 am] |
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| | Concrete Angel -Martina McBride | ] |
God, it's good to be back! So, just weeks after my external hard-drive crashed for no reason and I lost all my music videos, my entire laptop crashed for no reason and I lost EVERYTHING. And right in the middle of finals. It was... awful basically. I stressed out a lot and struggled like hell to get all my final projects done. But I did it. And then, when I was finally forced out of the dorms, I went to Pepperdine and stayed there while the date to move into my house kept getting pushed back. But, finally, I got into my house. My mom came to help me move in. In one day, I moved in, started my internship, and found out that my cat died :(. I can't remember the last time urnsone of my cats died. And this wasn't just one of my cats- it was MY cat. The first cat I ever actually called mine. I picked her out when I was seven from the litter that her mother (also a cat of ours, who is still alive and healthy) and named her Stardust. But we always called her Dusty. She was my first baby kitty. Last time I was home, she had a little cough. We thought it was kind of cute. But it wasn't a cough after all, it was lung cancer. And while I was away, moving into my house, my dad had my baby kitty put to sleep. And no one even told me until afterward. I never even got to say goodbye. I never sought her out to kiss her goodbye the last time I left home... I just figured she'd be there the next time.
Okay so that was my depressing part of the entry. Otherwise, things haven't been too bad. I'm mean, I've definitely experienced my share of homesickness. Every time I call home my friends are all hanging out together without me, which is weird. But I did it two summers ago and I can do it again. I don't have my mom this summer, but I guess I gotta learn to live by myself eventually, right? My internship has been going well. I really like all the people there, they're really nice and they make me feel really comfortable. I've learned a lot about what goes on "behind closed doors" too as far as the acting world lol. And, go figure, now that I'm stuck in LA by myself and know almost no one here at all, I finally meet a nice guy lol. I barely know him so there's not much to say right now, but we're hanging out this weekend so we'll see what happens. If nothing else, it'll be nice to have a friend around here. Besides my dear Amy of course :). And Joel lol.
So I guess the only other thing I really have to talk about, of course is Alias! Okay, let's start with VAUGHN PROPOSING! If anyone EVER gave me a speech like that, I would be a puddle on the ground! God, he's amazing. The perfect man, I'd have to say. And their kiss right afteward was just so sweet. Of course, I couldn't stop watching it for days. And OMG the scene in the club "do you want to be rough or do you want me to be rough"... HOT! Definitely the hottest scene so far in Alias. And the look on Jack and Marshall's faces when Jack told Sydney she was on comms... priceless!!!! And GOD, Lena brought life back into the show!!! I didn't realize how much I missed her. I mean, it's not like the show didn't have life, because it's been amazing, but she just adds this extra element that makes the show that much better. She made the episodes perfect. So okay, let's just jump ahead to the finale. So they save the world blah blah blah, wonderful. SANTA BARBARA!!! I mean, the whole episode is revolved around one thing and then out of NOWHERE they're finally in paradise, crusing happily along in their Jag of course lol. And you think MAYBE for once JJ will give us a happy season ender... WRONG!!! But before I get into that more, can I just say that Jennifer has never looked so amazingly beautiful as Sydney as she did in that scene? Her hair and her smile and her face was just glowing. She was perfect. And when she said "Have I told you that I love you?" I literally nearly cried. She was so sweet and sincere, it was amazing. So then of course, they have to drop the BOMBSHELL on us. Vaughn might be a bad guy, there was a reason Sydney was brought to him with her story about SD-6, and oh yeah... his name isn't really Michael Vaughn. But do we get an explanation? NOOOOO!!!
WE GET A CAR CRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A car slams right into their side and it was so fast and so out of the blue, that I literally jumped like a mile high because it so took me by surprise. AND IT WAS SO MEAN!!! I mean, I literally sat there with my mouth hanging open for a full five minutes. And then I started screaming so much nonsense that my new housemate must've thought I was completley losing my mind. And what else is new? lol ;). So that's where JJ has left us for the summer and I'd have to say it's even worse than Syd being missing for two years and Vaughn wearing a mysterious ring. I mean... Vaughn's gotta be in bad shape after that, the car slammed right into his side. I bet they're going ot make him get amnesia and Syd has to somehow figure out what the hell he was trying to tell her when he doesn't remember. Wouldn't that be so Alias? The one silver lining in the whole Alias time change is that I don't have to wait until January. It'll be hard enough lasting until September lol.
Okay, anyway, it's almost three in the morning so I guess I should finish my OC episode (which I now have to give up thanks to ABC) and shower so I can get to bed. I'm seeing Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants tomorrow with Amy :). Thank God I'll be getting out of this house for the weekend! |
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[May. 13th, 2005|03:54 pm] |
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She's pregnant...
I didn't want to believe it, but she is.
My show is ruined!
And now she's tied to that idiot for the rest of her life.
Jen, you deserved so much better than this.
Whatever happened to taking it slow in your relationships?
I so hope this turns out better than I imagine it will.
Trying so hard to be happy for her, so... congratulations, I guess... |
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[Apr. 19th, 2005|04:20 am] |
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| | "Breakaway" so fitting :) | ] |
Los Angeles will be the place I call home this summer. I have to find a home this week and figure out what couple of weeks I want to go back to CT. It's looking like I'll spend part of July at home, get to do my camp, and spend the rest of the summer here: auditioning, interning, maybe working part-time and maybe taking summer classes. I have to figure out what's going to work, and fast. But my soon-to-be new agent wants to move FAST. And that's just fine with me. I've spent so much time not in the acting world, that I'm more than ready to be thrown back in head-first. She says she wants to get me SAG ASAP, but not have me sitting on my ass in the meantime. Besides interning, she wants to get me out for independents and plays and stuff like that. But hopefully a commercial will come along soon, I'll get my beautiful little SAG card, and the door will FINALLY be open :). I'm really going to miss home this summer, but I have a feeling it's going to be worth it. And come on, it's not like I could actually turn this down!
Did I mention they represent Barbara Eden?
The names just keep popping out at me :)
PS- MY ALIAS MARATHON FOR JDRF IS THIS SATURDAY! COME IF YOU ARE IN THE LA AREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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[Apr. 17th, 2005|11:57 pm] |
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEN!!!
haha, I made it by three minutes :) |
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[Apr. 15th, 2005|02:50 am] |
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| | the sox/yanks game from earlier today | ] |
And enters agency number three (Scott Stander and Associates), who called me late last night and who I called back this afternoon. They represent such names as Debbie Reynolds, Linda Blair, and Julie Newmar. They specifically said that out of the whole showcase, they were only interested in me. They flat-out offered to represent me for the summer *and* offered me a summer internship with them. I'm so utterly overwhelmed right now, I don't even know how to feel. |
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[Apr. 13th, 2005|02:41 am] |
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| | "Perfect" -Maren Ord | ] |
Two people today told me, "when it rains, it pours." One person was talking about bad things and the other was talking about good things, but either way, it's so true.
First of all, if any of you own "Uncovering Alias: An Unofficial Guide to the Show," check page 63. There's a couple sentences on my marathons :)
Second, my marathon is in less than TWO WEEKS!!! AHHHHH!!!
Third, the marathons have spread all the way to Australia!
Fourth, my future roommate Jess and I ended up on the top of the waitlist with our crappy-ass room draw numbers, meaning we'll likely get lower campus :)
Fifth... well, something I won't go into right now, but it makes me happy.
Sixth, my professor went on an audition for Alias today, for a scene with Jennifer Garner. If he gets the part, I very much intend on making sure all he talks to Jennifer about is me :).
And last but not least, I haven't had an agent mania in weeks and somehow I get called in by an agency, meet with the head agent, and get a whole lot of good feedback, including "If I weren't intersted in you, I would've already had you out the door" and "you've definitely got the look to be on TV and in movies." He wants to work with me this fall. This was yesterday. Today, The Morgan Agency calls again. Turns out what they said about wanting to see me after pilot season was true. I have a meeting on the 27th. And this time, they might just say yes. And this is such a dumb problem to have after all these months of wishing I could have a problem like this, but if they do say yes, I have no idea how to choose. But I don't want to get ahead of myself.
Right now, I'm just looking forward to closing out the year and having a fantastic summer filled hopefully with camps, Paris, theater, and THE BEACH. |
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[Feb. 23rd, 2005|04:54 am] |
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| | watching OC DVDs | ] |
Oh my GOD things are crazy here. If you haven't heard from me a lot lately, it's because our campus has almost completely shut down. Here are some pictures of campus to illustrate:
Right now, my dorm is one of two with power, but our internet is in and out. Except for BY and us, all the other dorms were provided with glow-sticks and food and left to spend the night in the dark. We also has classes cancelled today and just found out a while ago that they were cancelled for tomorrow too. And now, of course, everyone is going CRAZY! Most people are drunk lol and a bunch of my friends just ran through the quad in their underwear lol. Craziness! But I love it. We've had visitors all throughout the day coming to blow-dry their hair and charge their computer and we have a few people staying on our floor. IT's so funny, I feel like I'm really caught in some natural disaster. Our Rush has gone on, though lol. We had the first round tonight and second round tomorrow. But aside from that, it's relaxing, staying dry, and studying for Spanish for me :). So that's what's going on here. |
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[Feb. 14th, 2005|11:55 pm] |
Rachel feels like procrastinating for a while...
THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:
1. Rachel
2. Mattie (tried it for a while this year, wish it caught on more)
3. slut (my beloved roommates) lol
THREE NICKNAMES YOU HAVE:
1. Rach
2. Rachy
3. Jennifer/Sydney/Alias etc.
THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:
1. XGIRL333
2. SydGillyKC
3. Lenni4
THREE THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. my determination
2. my dreams
3. my hair :)
THREE THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF:
1. My shyness in certain situations
2. My stress-induced illnesses lol
3. my love handles :)
THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE:
1. Irish
2. German
3. Russian
THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS:
1. chocolate
2. Alias
3. procrastination
THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW:
1. a Gap sweater
2. Abercrombie jeans
3. my Live Strong band
THREE NEW THINGS YOU WANT TO TRY IN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS:
1. traveling
2. an internship
3. falling in love
THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP (love is a given):
1. Understanding
2. Comfort
3. Fun
TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE:
1. I don't love Alias (hahahahaha)
2. Last semester was the hardest of my life
3. Acting for the Camera is my favorite class ever
THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX (or same) THAT APPEAL TO YOU:
1. Face
2. Body
3. Hair
THREE THINGS YOU JUST CAN'T DO:
1. Trust people (most people anyway)
2. Cry during "The Notebook" (I tried, I swear! But it wasn't *that* sad!)
3. Admit how I really feel to certain people
THREE OF YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES:
1. Acting
2. Writing
3. Making music videos
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY RIGHT NOW:
1. Go to sleep
2. Cuddle with someone cause it's Valentines Day and I'm sitting in my room by myself lol
3. See Jennifer Garner :)
THREE CAREERS YOU'RE CONSIDERING:
1. ACTRESS
2. ACTRESS
3. ACTRESS (that sum it up?)
THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION:
1. London (next spring break to visit Whit, hopefully)
2. Paris (this summer with Whit hopefully)
3. Australia
THREE KID'S NAMES:
1. Sydney
2. Colin
3. Coral
THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE:
1. Become a professional actress and inspire people the way Jen inspires me
2. Have a family
3. Get a mansion in LA with Whit and decorate it together
THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO DO THIS MEME:
1. You
2. You
3. and you :)
Okay now it's time for some music video work and then "Medium" at 10 :).
PS- Can I please say how much this survey rocks because everything is in three's :) |
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[Feb. 14th, 2005|11:11 pm] |
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Wow, Valentines Day usually sucks, but it is a gooooood day for the Alias Marathons. First of all, I'm in the midst of putting together an advertising team to help me out so that I don't have to worry about that aspect of the project as much. And I'm sure they'll be able to do a lot better than I did last year :). And I got an e-mail from someone who's willing to make posters for all the different events, which is great. And then I got an e-mail from the owner of AllAlias.com (which has 18,000 members), saying that he'd love to help me with advertising and providing prizes. There's already a great blurb about the marathons on the mainpage, which is fantastic. And then I got an e-mail from a girl who is already interested in hosting a marathon saying she's been spreading the word to a bunch of different sites, including one that is apparently run by someone who works for the crew of Alias. She said he thought the marathon was a really great idea. And then last night and today I got e-mails from a girl who wants to host a marathon in Charleston, WV (where Jen grew up) at her church, which also happens to be the same church that Jen's parents attend! And her mom goes to bible study with Jen's mom, so apparently she's going to ask Jen's mom if she wants to help out in any way with there event. Um, I think I might be taking a drive down to West Virginia for their event haha. I mean, I already know Gillian's mom and Kelly's mom, I think it's about time I meet Jen's mom :). The moms always love me haha. Not to mention, the Dallas Marathon already got nearly all the actors on the show (except for Jen and Michael of course lol) to donate autographs for the event. So basically, I'm in a really good mood right now. I was originally scared to death that I wouldn't be able to do more with these marathons than I did last year, but now I have no doubt in my mind that they will be bigger and better. I'm finally excited again about the whole thing :). I mean, I built this thing from nothing, I should at least get to be excited amongst all the crazy planning. Sometimes I still can't even believe that I did it at all. Thinking to last year's marathon and hearing people now talk about their experiences at all the different ones, I can't believe I really pulled it all together. I hope I feel the same way after this round. Thinking about how much more support I have this year, I don't think there's much of a question that I will. So if you haven't checked out www.aliasmarathon.com yet, DOOOO IT!!! See what is finally making my life exciting again!
AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!!!!! |
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[Feb. 5th, 2005|10:22 pm] |
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JENNIFER JUST WON THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARD!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
That made my fucking night!!!!!!!!!
And God is she BEAUTIFUL:
LOVE the shoes:
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEN!!! YOU ROCK!!!
Unfortunately, I don't even get to watch it until it comes on the Internet because my stupid-ass dorm doesn't even get cable! But my parents played her acceptance speech for me over the phone and she was SOOO ADORABLE! not to mention I found out that she won at the same time my RA comes back from USC and says he SAW HER! THe same RA that always always ALWAYS teases me about her because he thinks it's hilarious. And he fucking saw her and briefly talked to her! NOT FAIR! Everyone sees her these days but me. Man! But I seriously cannot believe she won! I mean, she SO deserved it, but they never seem to recognize that! I LOVE THE SAG AWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, now i really have to start getting ready for my dance lol. |
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[Jan. 28th, 2005|08:51 pm] |
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| | Kelly Clarkson | ] |
Okay, so guess to came to campus today for the first time in many many years?
BEN AFFLECK!!!
And this would be really really cool if I hadn't have been STUCK IN CLASS. I literally found out at the very beginning of my "Acting for the Camera" class (which OMG what better class could he have come to visit?!) that he was hanging out in the marketplace talking to people. Of course, I had just been RIGHT by the marketplace and was now all the way on upper campus in the theater building. So the second someone was like "Ben Affleck is here" I went "OMG Ben Affleck as in dating Jennifer Garner Ben Affleck?!" and everyone was like "yeah, I guess." And I literally FLIPPED. Like my professor was like "Take a deep breath, calm down." And all I wanted to do was bolt out of there and go find him and tell him that I loved him, was a HUGE Red Sox fan, was from the East Coast as well, and I was obsessed with his "friend" Jennifer Garner and I loved "Daredevil" lol. But the class I was in has a total of 10 people. Half of them fucking saw him on their way up to class. One of them even exchanged "Go Red Sox!" shouts with him. NOT FAIR!!!!!! He hasn't been to campus in YEARS, we all say he doesn't have Oxy pride lol cuz he didn't graduate. And then she just shows up during the ONE class I can't walk out of. The ONE class I have to perform in, the ONE class which is aaaaaaaall the way up the damn hill (actually, I have two classes up the hill, but you get the point). So unlucky! Aaaand, I usually stop to get food in between my two classes which is exactly when he was there, but today I got food before my first class so I wouldn't have to walk around in the rain too much. DAMN ME! Poor choices, Rachel, poor choices! I seriously wish someone would have just told him that we just started an Acting for the Camera class and it was only 10 people so he wouldn't be mobbed and we would love him to come speak to us. If only! Even after my class, I came back to the room FLIPPING OUT and Rachel K and I went and walked around campus just to see if was still around or if we could get the scoop on why he was here. Apparently he just like wandered into one of our buildings and said he wanted to look around so some girl gave him a tour. I hate that girl! Lol. It's so not fair! This totally won't happen again while I'm still at school here. It's so completely random that it happened at all. ::Sighs:: Ok now I'm exhausted from all the freaking out I've been doing, so I'm going to go watch TV or something. |
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[Jan. 27th, 2005|06:35 pm] |
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| | "In This Life" Chantal Kreviazuk (sp?) | ] |
OMG ALIAS LAST NIGHT.... UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't get over it!!!!!!! I'm so sad that i have a meeting in like twenty minutes, because otherwise I think I'd type about it for hours. I don't even know where to start... let me get this out first
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Okay, much better. Okay, first of all, this episode was DEFINITELY "Arcadia" Alias-style and I LOVED IT!!! I love this former X-Files writer who's now writing for Alias, they are turning Alias into X-Files and giving me all the things that I never got in those beloved XF episodes, like that ::sigh:: shower scene I would've killed for in "Arcadia"!!!
But, wait, I'm getting ahead of myself... let's start from the beginning.
Okay, Syd and Vaughn and Weiss and Nadia all having dinner in Syd and Nadia's apartment, adorable! Loved it! And I love that Weiss and Nadia are totally hooking up, it's so adorable! They're really really cute together. But Syd and Vaughn are just plain hot. I love the whole bowling thing, we were all cracking up. And when I say all of us, I mean my room that was literally packed full of people so you couldn't even walk around lol. I even got a new person completely hooked last night :). I'm so proud of myself lol. Anyway, Syd and Vaughn talking when Weiss and Nadia left, priceless! "We *are* fun!" and "We don't analyze everything we do... do we?" So funny! We all said they were like an adorable old married couple haha.
Ok so they go on the mission yadda yadda yadda and their neighbors are so funny, so much like the neighbors from "Arcadia," but even funnier in ways because they wer so truly evil and acting like crazy brain-washed perfect neighbors lol. Loved how quickly Syd jumped in when Tom was like "you guys seem a little cold." Immediately, "We're not cold." Damn right they're not!!! And they proved it the next day!!! So when they're buying that car and the guy asks Syd how Vaughn popped the question (btw, how fucking amazing was it to see a ring on Vaughn's finger and for once to know that the matching one belonged to Syd and now COW?!), Syd kind of stumbles and then Vaughn jumps in with this speech that literally made me stop breathing, and I mean that.
"He took me to-"
"Santa Barbara, actually. I had this whole romantic weekend planned. Presidential suite at the Biltmore, candlelit dinner on the cliff overlooking the ocean. So we went into town, and she wouldn't stop talking about the zoo. So we went to the zoo. Figured I'd get it over with. Then I saw how happy it made her, and I forgot about my stupid plans. Here we had a personal chef cooking us this incredible meal back at the hotel and I proposed on one knee in sawdust in front of a giraffe with a crooked neck."
AHHHHHHHHH OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!! For any of you who remember "The Telling" as well as I do, when he told her they were going to Santa Barbara (where he was about to take her the night she disappeared for two years), she said she loved the zoo and the giraffe with the crooked neck and he said "no, I mean the beach, the Biltmore." In other words, THAT WAS REAL!!! HE WAS GOING TO PROPOSE!!! THEY WERE GOING TO GET ENGAGED!!! AND WE NEVER EVEN KNEW IT!!! HOLY SHIT!!!! Seriously, I was like on the floor, gasping for breath at this point. I cannot believe it!!! And the way Syd was looking at him, it was so sweet and so heart-breaking at the same time, because she knew. She knew they'd be married by now for real if she just hadn't disappeared. AHHH!!! This vicarious love-life of mine is taking me on a real rollercoaster.
So that night, after that whole "there's another couple wanting to buy the car, so we decided to make a competition. The winner gets to become part of our Liberty Village family, the other couple, well, dies" thing, they're in the bathroom and YOU KNOW what's coming!!! As soon as she pulls him to sit on the edge of the tub with her, I was like drooling lol. She starts kissing his cheek and of course you gotta take it farther than that. The making out starts, the clothes come off, and poof, they're in the shower :). I LOVE YOU JJ!!!! The two hottest people in the entire world, making out in the shower... TV has never been better, my friends. And so in between kisses she says "That story you told at the dealership today... we were supposed to go to Santa Barbara three years ago. We never made it" (duh, that was for all you new viewers lol) and he says "Karen and Dave did" (their undercover names for this mission) AWWWWWWWW!!!! Now can Michael and Sydney make it there sometime soon? PLEASE? Okay, so anyway, after that we see them sleeping in each other's arms ::sighs:: and it's just adorable. And then they're told they're being taken to America to use the weapon to take down some investment firm or whatever and then the bad guys discover them and there's some ass-kicking and then they escape.
In the meantime, Jack is being all sneaky with Irina's old books that had the messages the KGB used to send her during their marriage. He finds out that her former something or other from the KGB wants them back... iiiiinteresting. So of course he wants to know why and genius Marshall figures it out. She was contacting someone with the codename Sentinel with the books. Jack all too quickly tells Marshall that Sentinel is a dead operative and you know something's up. And so in the end, he's meeting with Sloane and he says "looks like our suspicions about Sentinel were right, which means the Russians are looking for Elena (Yelena?) Derevko" and Sloane says "We have to move up our timetable." WHAT?!!! Ummm right no idea what that was about, but I'm defintiely intrigued to find out!!! And I looked it up from when Jack asked Katya which of Irina's sisters she was and the other one was named Elena (or Yelena, whatever it was), so we're gonna get a new Derevko in the picture! Interesante!
Okay, so the last scene. Adorable enough to turn my insides to mush lol. Syd and Vaughn on the plane and Vaughn says it was nice not to be themselves for a little while. Syd says "I happen to like us, even if we are cold." And Vaughn goes "Don't forget boring" and they laugh. And then Vaughn says that they technically have control over the plane and Syd playfully says that their orders are to continue with the extraction and they'd get in big trouble if they used the plane for their own personal use. They both kind of go "yeah" and look away from each other. Vaughn asks her if she wants to have dinner in Paris and she says "absolutely" and then they kiss AWWWW and then it ends on a shot of their wedding rings sitting together. SOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!
Seriously one of the best episodes ever. And next episode!!! Can we say "Wetwired" and "Demons" with maybe a little "Kill Switch" in there? CRAZY! I LOVE IT!!!! I can't wait!!!!!!!!! If only the stupid presidential address weren't on a wednesday, we wouldn't have to wait two weeks! OH well, I'm still on a high from how much last night KICKED ASS!! I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!! |
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[Jan. 16th, 2005|01:35 am] |
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ELEKTRA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO SEE IT!!!!!! |
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[Jan. 13th, 2005|06:35 am] |
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I knew it... Somehow, I just knew this was going to happen. My excitement disappeared last night and I just knew something was going to happen. Why does this keep happening to me? When will something just go *right*?
I can't sleep now... |
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[Jan. 13th, 2005|02:53 am] |
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Okay so I just found out that all the places that list guests for Conan have basically been wrong all week... and I'm starting to wonder why Jen would come all the way to NYC just for one talk show... I'm really scared now. I watched Conan tonight to find out who tomorrow's guests were but he never announced them :P. Which scares me even more. So basically I wake up tomorrow and check his official site and PRAY that it says "coming up tonight: Jennifer Garner" or else this all will have been for nothing. And that would just really suck.
Deep breath.
Pray for me.
Time for what I'm sure will be a very restless sleep. |
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[Jan. 11th, 2005|01:17 am] |
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Oh my God. I just watched the movie "Dawn Anna" after recording it from Lifetime. I hadn't had a great day and then just before the movie came on I actually spent a while on the phone catching up with Ashleigh, which was really really great. And she cheered me up a bit, making me believe that there still might be a way to get me into the city to see Jennifer. I'm still praying. But anyway, I was on the phone with her when the movie was starting and I didn't want to hang up so soon because we hadn't talked in like a year, so I recorded it and just tried not to look at the TV lol. And then I went and watched "Medium" in my parents' room so I would have something to do until the movie was done recording. I just finished watching it on tape. Holy shit, I can't stop crying. That movie was incredible. I can't believe I didn't already know this woman's story. (If you don't want to know about the movie, don't read on because I'm going to talk about it). As if it wasn't amazing enough that this woman was raising four kids on her own without a job for a while, but then she finally gets a teaching job and soon finds out she has this condition in her brain where there's some kind of mass or something that has to do with the veins. So they have to do major brain surgery and when it's over, she has to relearn to speak, to walk, everything. And her kids are all high school age, except for the youngest who was probably middle school age, and they were just incredible. I mean, I'm sure the movie sugarcoated a lot, but I just truly believe that they were crucial in her recovery. They were so close and wonderful, it made me almost wish I had a bigger family lol. And so her condition wasn't completely cured, but after a while, she did go back to teaching and coaching volleyball. By this time, her kids were off in college or working except for the youngest one, who was in high school. So of course the movie kind of focuses on their relationship, which is such a close one. The girl is a really good artist and she's really interested in animals and wants to become a biologist, I think. She's upset because her egg that she's been incubating is late to hatch. It's really cute. And then her mom and her are talking about love and the egg suddenly hatches. A very Lifetime moment. And then the next day, she drops her daughter off at school and the daugther does the sign (with your middle and ring finger down) for "i love you" which I guess was their typical greeting/parting thing. And she just watches her daugther talk to this guy and walk into school and she smiles. And then as she drives away, they finally show the sign in front of the school, which says "Columbine High School." And until this point, you've had no idea that this is the high school she's been attending. And you just know right then. It was like I literally wanted to turn off the TV to keep it from happening. And it's not like it was just a movie, this was entirely based on a true story. So of course, she ended up being one of the 13, I think it was, people that were killed in the shootings. And the last 10 or so minutes of the movie are just devastatingly sad. It ends with Dawn Anna writing a letter to her daugther which makes you cry your eyes out. It was just a truly emotional and touching movie. I'm so glad I taped it lol. A great tear-jerker. And just a really inspiring story. If you didn't catch it tonight, I seriously urge you to check when it's playing again because it was really incredible. Just felt like sharing that :). |
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[Jan. 8th, 2005|01:50 am] |
Stolen from Martha :)
2004 In Review
1. Go to a party? Of course. I am a college student after all lol :)
2. Try something new? Yeah
3. Have someone change your life? Always
4. Kiss someone? Yeah
5. Tell your family and friends you love them? Of cousre
6. Buy something extravagant? I was given some extravagent things, I'm not sure I bought anything huge for myself...
7. Do something nice for you? sure
8. Do something terribly wrong? not that i can think of, but who knows what I've blocked lol
9. Move? into Newcomb dorm :)
10. Go to a concert? Yup
Best of the Year:
1. Party: hmmm... Splatter was really fun, so was Sex on the Beach, and of course the parties over breaks :)
2. Show: Alias :)
3. CD: Breakaway- Kelly Clarkson
4. Movie: 13 Going on 30 (Martha, I'm shocked this wasn't your answer lol)
5. Song: Breakaway- my forever favorite song, my life in lyrics :)
6. Experience: the Paley Festival and the Alias Marathon and the 13GO30 premiere. And, of course, my camps.
7. Concert: Kelly and Clay
8. Book: For the Love of Teddi
9. Month: September
10. Day: days of the previously mentioned experiences
Hopes for 2005:
1. Predict something that you think will happen in 2005? I will be happier. School will be better. I'll see Jen again :).
2. What do you hope changes about your country? so, so much
3. What do you hope for yourself? that all my dreams come true, of course :)
4. What do you hope for your family? That their hard work pays off and they're happy.
5. What do you hope for your best friends? That they all find happiness
During 2004:
1. Where were you when it began: My room with my friends
2. Did you stay up: Yes
3. What was your new year wish? I don't remember
4. How many boyfriends: 0
5. Broke up: 0
6. Have any crushes? yeah
7. Care to mention names? nope
8. New friends: Yes :)
9. Had to say goodbye: yes
10. Missed anyone: always
11. Win anything? Not that I recall.
12. Best place you went to: where I now live lol
13. Worst place you went to: upstate NY
14. Happiest moment: When Jennifer called out my name at the Paley Festival
15. How was your birthday: It was fun
16. Best present: My Uggs :) |
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[Jan. 8th, 2005|01:05 am] |
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I am sitting here, reliving insanely old memories and it just makes me so sad. Life has changed too much. I've fallen out of touch with so many people that I care about it. It goes so far back I don't even remember who stopped writing/calling/messaging who. It really sucks. And my friends here... I barely have any time left with them before we all scatter again. I mean, Whitney leaves on Monday. And if I really get an internship in LA this summer, this will be the longest we'll get to spend together for God only knows how long. At least until we graduate, we might never spend long periods of time together again. It just really sucks. I miss my friends so much. And of course I love my friends at school, but we're all so busy half the time that we never get to get ouf the dorms and do something fun. We never just hang out anymore. We just live in the same space. I miss high school. I miss freshman year of college. I miss the way things used to be. I mean, here I am trying to make plans to go see Jennifer on a talk show and all I can think about is the last time I did this sort of thing. May 2002. Almost three years ago, to see Gillian. With Diane and Ashleigh and Felicia. You know, I look at pictures of Gillian now and I don't even know who she is anymore. I have trouble seeing her as the same person that invited me on the X-Files set, the person I spent two long, unreal, perfect days with. It's frightening sometimes to think that the things you once thought you would be constant (not necessarily Gillian, just things), have completely disappeared and I can't even remember how or when. They say college brings out changes, but why is it that all the changes seem to happen now- in my second year of college? I don't even know what I'm trying to say. I guess I'm just in a really reminiscent mood. I'm like five minutes away from pulling out the photo albums haha :).
Now there's a preview for a movie that I was called in last year to audition for... ::sigh:: |
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[Jan. 6th, 2005|01:05 am] |
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| | no music, watching ALIAS all night!!! | ] |
OH MY GOD DID I MISS THIS SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't even think I realized how much I truly truly missed this show until tonight when I was watching the first new episode I'd seen in almost eight months. EIGHT MONTHS!!!!!!!! But not only did I truly miss this show, I missed the kind of episodes I watched in my first wonderful season of watching (season two) and the episodes I caught myself up on in season one. And tonight, I definitely got that. This episode was AMAZING!!!!!!!!! I mean, really, truly, incredibly amazing! I LOVED IT!!! And if this episode doesn't finally finally FINALLY get Alias the viewers it deserves then nothing can. I literally have tears in my eyes watching it again, because I'm so incredibly grateful that it's back. I realize that no matter what, this semester could never be quite as bad as last semester simply because I have my beloved show back. I get to see Jennifer every week again :). And I get to see her and Vaughn finally together again. That alone will improve this next semester, even if nothing else does (except obviously, my Alias marathons, checked out the site www.aliasmarathon.com, it's updated). AHHHHHHH I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS SEASON!!!!!!!! I MISSED YOU ALIAS!!!!!!!!!
Some classic lines:
"Fake quitting seems to be all the rage." -Syd
"Syd... Sloane's here" -Marshall
"You use brain, not hands" -Syd
"So, allow me to ask the most obvious question in the history of time..." -Syd
"We had eggs" -Marshall
"If you need to stay on my couch, since your house is... ashes..." -Weiss
"Am I dead?" Marshall
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!! |
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