Note to self: do not do laundry on Mondays. Mondays, apparently, are official "everyone do you laundry" days... and not only does everyone do their laundry, they leave it in the washer/dryer for HOURS so no one can do their laundry in a timely manner. I eventually had to move someone's clothes from a dryer (which was not fun, as they were very odd and tiny pieces of clothing that I moved with my fingernails.) And then, as I was taking some of my clothes out of the dryer, I stood up from putting some clothes in my basket and I banged my head quite hard on the door (of the dryer, that is.)

Today was all right until late tonight. Improv was pretty good, V&S was basically enjoyable (our mid-term is next Wednesday and we just learned ten or twelve new symbols- ahhh).

Concert choir was cool- it makes me very happy. I'm a little worried about Friday's performance- most of the people in the group performed the songs last year, so they know them already, but what about us clueless freshmen?

I was really looking frward to the Cabaret Club meeting because they're usually really fun. And while tonight started out that way- one of the guys proposed a rewrite of Circle of Life, replaced the African chants with "Weeeeeee're Cabaret Cluuuuuub and this is our show!", etc. It was hysterical- I think we all ended up in tears we were laughing so much. But honestly, it was a downer of a meeting. We replaced a few songs (Falcon in the Dive and What is This Feeling). There was a lot of semi-loud discussing. There was definitely no shouting or arguing- the great thing about this club is that we can discuss diplomatically. We usually get things done this way, but tonight, it just didn't go well. We did decide on the repacement songs- In His Eyes from Jekyll and Hyde and Out Tonight from Rent. The second song caused me to recieve a comment that I didn't know what to make of it- when we took a vote, I didn't vote and everyone looked at me. "Sorry," I said, "I'm sure it's a great song, I've just never heard it." Stares. "You've never seen Rent?" "Um... no?" Then came to comment. Bailey went, "But.. you know about everything." I was like, "What" I don't know what she was saying- either she was begin sarcastic, quoting some song lyrics or... she really meant that I knew about everything? But what is "everything"? I mean, I am a fan of a lot of obscure musicals- Chess, Tommy, Jane Eyre, Titanic,  Class Act, etc.- but when we wrote the list of songs, I didn't know most of them. I was very confused about that comment. But anyway.
In the end, the meeting just left us all feeling disgruntled. At the beginning of the semester, when we began our meetings, everyone was all, "We can take our time- who needs thirteen weeks of rehearsal?" and now everyone's panicking. Auditions are in a week. They decided to scratch the system they've been using or years, where there's a dance audition and then you try out for every song you want. They pointed out that this was a very long, drawn out procedure especially for the directors of the pieces (which I can definitely understand, as there are two days of auditions). However, I am not happy with the new system- you can choose whether or not to do the dance audition (a good idea)... but you sing ONE song for ALL the directors (it has to be one of the songs that we've chosen) and then they call you back if they want to hear you again.
This system seems faulty to me- I don't know much about Rent songs, but I am pretty sure they bear no resemblence to Seussical songs. What if I want to be in both? How can they tell if I can sing both genres? I am totally stressing about this. i don't even know what song to sing- I don't know most of the songs... and the ones I do know, I don't really like or they're not solos. Ahhhhh, I am freaking out!

But the worst part happened as I was walking back with Jackie, Amanda, and Jonathan, who are basically the only other freshman in the club. We were walking about the auditions and I said, "I kind of wish they were sticking to the old system of auditions." Jackie seemed to think I didn't understand how they worked, so she started explaining them in detail. I said, "No, I know how they work, I'm just saying I think they should have stuck to that system." And she said, "Well, I guess that's just to bad for you, isn't it?" Her tone literally made me stop with my mouth open. I couldn't believe the way she'd said that to me- it was so rude. Especially since I kind of consider her a friend. We have some good conversations and work well together in class... but then she said something like that, so off-hand like I was someone an aquaintance had dragged along to a private party. I am still pretty mad about that.

But tomorrow should be a little better than most Tuesdays- T&E is cancelled for our essay conferences (though my appointment might make the day bad... my peer edits weren't harsh, but I have no idea how to follow what they sugget). So I have a nice block to actually- oh, my gosh- eat lunch sanely (athough I don't have time for dinner and get out of class at ten, so that will be interesting).

Okay, I need to go to bed. I am very tired and need to stop thinking about these auditions. 

Quotes of the Day:

"What's wrong?" "I got kissed!" "What?! By who?" "Dean." "The new kid? You got the new kid?! Oh, my God! Where?" "Doosey's Market." "He kissed you in the market?" "Aisle three!" "By the ant spray? Oh, that's a good aisle!" -Gilmore Girls

"You invited Dean?!" "Yes..." "To our house?" "...Yes?" "This isn't Amish country- boys and girls usually date alone." "What's wrong with me inviting him?" "I can't hang out with Dean and my mother." "Stop saying 'mother' like that." "Like what?" "Like there's supposed to be another word after it." -Gilmore Girls

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This scares the fuck out of me, because on the one hand HUGE pay raise, but on the other...I probably will have to do stuff I'd really rather not do. Like handle dead animals and deal with abusers.

After a LOT of consideration and obtaining opinions from pretty much everyone around me...I've decided to accept the job under two conditions.

1. I will not actually perform the injection, or watch it being performed. I'm gradually getting more lenient about this objection, and at this point am uncertain whether or not I would cross that line.

2. I will continue to attend all of my current classes, and be allowed to take a reasonable amount of time off for future classes. This ties into my reason for accepting the job: My education. Working at the cleaners, I can barely scrape together money for rent, let alone school. With the new job I would be making literally hundreds more dollars per month, and could afford three or four classes a semester, not one or two, including the super-expensive biology lectures that are required for an associate degree. I could finish my education months or even years ahead of schedule...after which I could quit my job and get a career (not a job, a CAREER) in my chosen field.

Not to mention all the little perks like HEALTH INSURANCE (and not just the shitty Access Health kind, the GOOD insurance that covers, you know, dental and optometry and possibly even psychiatric medication!), and finally affording clothes from places other than Valueland, and sleeping in a proper bed, and weekends off, and all the other normal benefits that come for normal people in normal jobs.

So yeah. Plus if nothing else, it will be something to put on a resume other than "eleven years of working for blood relatives." And the fact that I got hired the very first time out in the very first job I ever applied for, must say SOMETHING about my hireability, yes? I can't suck THAT badly.

Title: Mom
Rating: PG for element
Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Mary Winchester
Prompts: SVS Drabble challenge – 100 words exactly, Home episode, Mary POV
Summary: Mary Winchester sees her sons for the first time since her death.
Author's Note: Simple drabble from one of my favorite episodes.
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Supernatural.

sun, it sinks out of view. stars, they shine changing hue, but bright lights have blinded your sights. they can't adjust when day turns to night and so you watched me wash away, but maybe we'll catch up someday. the castles we built were so tall. they only left us further to fall and still i see them far away, but maybe we'll come back someday. maybe we'll come back someday.

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Вселенная Twilight'a не дремлет, сливают потихоньку в сеть остаточные фотографии, и некоторые даже без водяных знаков.
Появляются новые промо, например, такие:

( ну и несколько старых, конечно.... )

А так же маленькое превью настоящей фотосессии в VMan со всеми мальчиками-вампирами и одним оборотнем.

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тут
бонусы
Спокойная музыка, с которой хорошо досыпать по утрам, и засыпать по вечерам. Самая славная для меня  -
Robin Thicke- You're My Baby.mp3

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Вышел отличный трейлер "Чернильного сердца", мне книжка не так понравилась, чтобы хотелось посмотреть фильм, но завлекли даже меня.

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ms_r_skeeter порекомендовала в одном из своих постов teen -драму. В восторге  от игры Jesse McCartney, для меня он раньше был сладким мальчиком-зайчиком и поп-певцом.
Для роли Кита полностью изменился, потрясающе просто.

Фильм снят по одноименной повести  Ron Carlson и получил награду Giffoni Film Festival (Italy)  за лучшее кино в 2008 году.