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Friday, May 4th, 2007
12:10 am	Me v. Stewie Griffin So! A few people have agreed that Stewie Griffin and I are in certain ways similar. To test the level of similarity, I have picked a few quotes. Some are Stewie. Some are me. You get to guess which ones are which! In a comment, say who you think said each quote, and I'll post the answers eventually. Enjoy!! 1) God is very theatrical, you know. Pestilence here, a plague there. Omnipotence ... gotta get me some of that. 2) Oh Machiavelli, you've taught me nothing I don't already know! 3) I hate cars where you need an oxygen mask and a Sherpa guide to get to your seat. 4) Liberal Protestants, oh that’s quaint. They don’t exist anymore, do they? 5) It's not that I have ideological differences, I'm just not a hat person. 6) Nothing says "Obey Me" like a bloody head on a fence post! 7) God is essentially a totalitarian bastard. 8) You’ve gotta love seeing a German win a RISK game by going through Europe first. 9) I love God. He's so deliciously evil. 10) I think I had a dream last night about World War One. 11) Defenestration! 12) This meatloaf is drier than Oscar Wilde. May the force be with you!! ~M. :-) Current Mood: cheerful (6 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
11:15 pm	The Pre-Frosh Weekend So, just got back from Pre-Frosh weekend!! It was crazily awesome, here are some of the highlights: 1) Saw the Harvard Dems' Club - it was awesome! Chatted with a guy whose name escapes me, but he looks like Jake Gyllenhaal so I doubt I'll forget the face. I can't wait to go into NH with the Dems to campaign in the primaries! 2) Saw the theater group - seems so nice! They claim that actors have all the power, and that the directors aren't scary at all. I am skeptical, yet cautiously optimistic about their veracity. 3) Met the captain of the Quiz Bowl team! YAY! This guy is legendary. So yay. 4) Went to an 80s dance! Gotta love the 80s. The music kicked ass - I don't care what anyone says. 5) Saw an a capella concert, which was awesome. 6) Went to a real college party with a group from said a capella concert, which was fun and very low-key - met someone who recognized me from the summer program two summers ago! 7) Went to a Noteables concert, where I met up with Mauro, who I haven't seen in a gazillion years! That was cool. 8) Went to a meet and greet for physics students present and future, which was amazing! Met Professor Georgi and a TA, which was so great. 9) Spent an unholy amount of time at the COOP, which is such a great bookstore. Found a book about Widener Library, which looked amazing, but it cost WAY too much, so I didn't buy it, even though I wanted to. But seriously. It cost way too much, there's no way a normal book with no special leather binding is worth 50 bucks. I mean seriously. It wasn't even that long. 10) Met great people, including my host, who definitely opened my eyes to the various cultures within our own very nation. It was interesting. 11) Audited a few classes. It was cool! The stuff wasn't too obscure either! So that's all I can think of for now, I'll re-update or edit if I recall anything else! ~M. :-) (1 red flag wave |join in our crusade)
Friday, April 6th, 2007
12:57 am	Inherit the Wind So I saw Inherit the Wind yesterday afternoon, and it was crazy! The crowd was mostly older folks (the woman sitting two seats from me was singing along with the gospel/bluegrass songs from 1925 as if she remembered them from the actual trial - plus she was probably on the other side of the debate, but that's another story). Despite being by far the youngest person in the crowd except for my brother, it was a great experience. First of all, the Lyceum theater is gorgeous. Second, we were sitting in the front row, so at one point we were literally four to five feet away from Brian Dennehy and Christopher Plummer. It was so intense! Those two actors have enough gravitas for a small nation. At one point, the two of them are questioning a 13-year-old boy on the stand in the play, and I was so jealous of that kid. Can you imagine at such an age to get to work with Broadway royalty? Wow. Just wow. Also, recognized Sherman Howard from the Shakespeare Theater as random townsperson with no lines. Gotta love how if you're a big deal top-of-the-line actor in a professional theater like the Shakespeare theater, you're still low man on the totem pole on Broadway. There's the ziggurat for you. ~M. :-) Current Mood: bouncy (2 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
1:28 am	Il Barbiere di Siviglia Just got back from the opera trip w/ Euro and the Italian classes. I have one word: Ohmyfreakinggod. It was so amazing I cannot describe it. After the first song, I was swept away. The theater at the Met - holy crap. Freaking huge, and gorgeous. Gorgeous. Amazing. And the size of a city block. You look at the stage from the nosebleed seats where we were (thank you Christine for letting me and Jamie use your bincoulars!), and you have no idea how big the stage is. Then you see people walking on it, and you realize it's about a city block and zillions of feet high. That curtain is HUGE in its own right, seriously. Also, I have had to reconsider my previous defense of the baritone voice against the tenor. The guy who played Almaviva had the greatest voice I think I may have ever heard. It was pure gold, just simply breathtaking. The guys playing Figaro and Bartolo (baritone and bass, respectively) had amazing voices as well, but for some reason the tenor struck me more. I seriously felt like I'd gone to heaven when hearing this voice. I'm being irrationally exuberant about this, I know, but it was that amazing. Seriously. WOW. It's continuing to sink in. ~M. :-) Current Mood: giddy Current Music: Various (1 red flag wave |join in our crusade)
Friday, March 16th, 2007
11:40 am	Snow Day, etc. Yayfor the snow day! I wanted this so badly I could taste it yesterday. It helps me play catch-up for my classes, since I was out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. I was out for filming Teen Jeopardy in LA, which was oodles of fun. And no, I cannot say anything about the results of the games. I want you suckers to be on the edges of your seats every moment that you watch! My quarterfinal game (everybody has a quarterfinal, if you don't know how the Jeo tournaments work) is July 16, the Monday. The semis are picked from the five winners and four non-winning top scorers. So that's about it. ~M. :-) Current Mood: sleepy (3 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Monday, February 26th, 2007
9:57 pm	Movies & NAQT Saw Babel - didn't like it. Saw Amazing Grace - loved it. But of course, it's a period piece. Also, I love NAQT - I love the competitions, the people, the everything. The questions are so delicious to answer. Went to a competition of 42 teams last Saturday, came in 6th-8th. Don't want to say anything else. ~M. :-) Current Mood: terse (join in our crusade)
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
10:14 pm	It Truly is Daunting I saw Spring Awakening with my family this weekend, and to be honest I fully expected to hate it. I wasn't a huge fan of the music from listening to it (correction: I loved the music, wasn't so hot on the lyrics). I LOVED the story, the characters, really everything. It was amazing. An experience. See it. Good lord, see it. The German names alone are worth it. Seriously. Do it. You know you want to. Anyway. I've officially FINISHED watching a 40-episode anime called "Rose of Versailles", which is historical fiction, set in late ancien regime France. Is this not so up my alley it's ridiculous? The main character is this perfectly androgynous girl who was raised as a guy by her father because he wanted a son, but it gets better from there. I actually really identify with the protagonist (how awful is that? I'm losing my mind), because I feel like I'm my own man. I really am! It's not that I haven't liked guys, it's just that I never want to depend on one of them. Just like this character. She's a sexless entity, really, someone who exists outside the arena of passion. When she faces it, she just becomes more intent on being her own person, and not falling in deeper than she is. I really need to get to college where the guys have major... cojones. Because this lack of plausible relationship material is causing my sanity to suffer, and I'm feeling solidarity with an anime character. Ha! It's all good! But seriously. When you're feeling like the protagonist of your own romance-less story, (the "Rose of Versailles" char waits until she's in her early 30s to act on love) things feel bizarre. See Spring Awakening! ~M. :-) Current Mood: contemplative (7 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Monday, January 29th, 2007
12:04 am	Maybe I am Normal After All! So I was reading my book, Fatal Purity, the biography of Maximilien Robespierre, and I came across Eleonore Duplay, the woman who was allegedly engaged to him. There's not a lot about her in the book, so I poke around online. I stumble across a livejournal user "Eleonore Duplay", whose lj is written from the point of view of the Veuve Robespierre (Widow Robespierre) herself. Then, I see this person is in the group known as historical_love, a group dedicated to historical crushes. My first instinct was "oh my freaking god I must get in on this". Then, I realized, there are actually people out there who started this group who are not me. This is a good thing! I am not as weird as I thought I was! Yay! I may still join the group of course... their motto is "it's not necrophilia... it's historical love!" I'm still kind of in shock. I'm kind of "I wish I thought of that" and kind of "holy crap that's a sickness". Oy Oy Oy. On another note, I just got a 145.5 on a practice AMC. Yes, that is 24 right and 1 omit. And I'm not giving up on that last question! Never!! ~M. :-) Current Music: Spamalot (3 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Saturday, January 27th, 2007
8:25 pm	Yay. Just Freaking Yay. Inherit the Wind is coming to Broadway in a limited engagement - with Christopher Plummer as Drummond and Brian Dennehy as Brady. Wow. Wow. Wow. ~M. :-) Current Mood: giddy (1 red flag wave |join in our crusade)
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
10:51 pm	You Like Me, You Really Like Me! So! I got into a show! Yay! I will be playing Shelley Keats, daughter of the main character in a staged reading of an original show Tennyson Anyone? at the Studio Players in Montclair. I'm so psyched! This is so cool! LHS Theater seems so far in the past it's laughable. I'm on cloud nine! Besides that awesomeness, today also marks the death of my innocence - I saw, on wikipedia, a bona fide act of vandalism. Apparently, Robert Hooke, esteemed perpetuator of the Scientific Revolution in England, LOVED THE COCK. Apparently. ~M. :-D (10 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Friday, January 12th, 2007
8:29 pm	Robespierre = Pelosi? If you're wondering, the title of this post comes from an interesting moment we had in Euro class today, when someone asked how Robespierre came into power, and Ms. Perez' answer was this: "He was the head of the party in power. Kind of like Nancy Pelosi." That prompted Dan Malinsky to ask what Robespierre's position on stem cell research (and everyone else to wonder how many thousands of Republicans Pelosi plans to guillotine). Had another interesting moment earlier today - between periods one and two, when Dancing in the Dark started playing over the speakers, someone came into our Euro room for his second period class, and just as the last people filtered out into the hallways, he said "isn't Billy Joel the man?" The answer is yes, yes he is. But does he even REMOTELY sound like Springsteen? I mean, Billy Joel is the PIANO MAN! And Springsteen doesn't have an audiable piano sound to his music at all. Good Lord. What a Lincoln moment - better to keep your mouth shut and have people wonder, you know? Anyway, three Springsteen songs not appearing on today's playlist were Born in the USA - it refers to "killing the yellow man", etc. Born to Run - something about suicide. Glory Days - refers to drinking (the people are almost definitely over 21). Human Touch and Thunder Road, to my delight, made the censor's cut. This past weekend, our Quiz Bowl team came in first in a competition of 90 teams, which rocked. Oh, oh, oh, I'm On Fire (another song not making an appearance on the playlist today, WAY too sexy). So our Quiz Bowl A-Team is undefeated so far this year (kena hura). I've been feeling insanely stressed out for apparently no reason - it's really weird, but I think it's the college thing. I want to be there! It's still not real to me, I still haven't had that jump up and down and scream moment. I have a reading list around 20-30 books long that I can't start until summer, and that's part of it. I want to just sit down and read, or do math competitions, but there are all these homework assignments, etc. I'm really psyched to be trying out for some community theater stuff in the next few weeks, which should be awesome if it comes through (I wish I had known about these places when I got passed over for La Mancha, maybe I could have done shows somewhere else as opposed to the oligarchical LHS stage). Even if they don't come through, I will get some snazzy experience. But as of now, with only homework to do, I'm feeling as stressed as ever, and I don't even know how to cure it. There it is. ~M. :-) Current Mood: bored Current Music: Bryan Adams (5 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
4:23 pm	Pros and Cons Well, as you musical people are doing your read-through, I am going to write up two lists of pros and cons. First pros/cons list: the pros and cons of casting someone like me in a musical: PROS: I sell ads. Fo' sho'. Lots and lots and lots of ads. My dad takes pics of shows that I'm in - REALLY GOOD pics. And he'll fork them over for the Rising Star file. I have some meager ability to act and sing. And I can fake dancing well enough. I'm a proven senior, having held down a tiny role last year decently well. CONS: Four conflicts, three of which are in March, plus one or two other negligible conflicts of 5-10 minutes. Well, we see how that turned out. SECOND Pros/Cons list: Pros and cons of NOT being in the show. PROS: Can try out for the Talent Show without being persecuted. Can see the Italian opera with Rabner's classes, assuming it isn't too late to get in on the trip. Don't have to listen to the mind-numbing candle speeches. Don't have to MAKE a mind-numbing candle speech. Can do other after-school activities, like Inner Voices, etc. More time to study for Jeopardy. Don't have to be personal witness to any fatalities that may arise from the dance captain feud. Only have to see this mediocre show once, as opposed to living it for three months. CONS: What the hell! I'm a tried and tested senior, and I get passed over twice in my final year?? Not even ensemble! 'Nuff said. Yeah, so I've been going in a rollercoaster from happy to really bitter with frequent stops at "completely indifferent". These lists are compilations of my thoughts throughout this journey. So yeeeeeeah. What the hell. Seriously. What the hell. Current Mood: pissed off (3 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
1:44 am	Life Is Good Right Now Hey people! It's finally official - Harvard has actually accepted me - it is no longer a bizarro, beyond-human-control piece of rumor clogging the hallways. It is now truth! Congrats to the EA acceptance pool of all LHSers, GovSchoolers, CTYers, and whoever else is reading this who happens to be in their first choice college right now! Congrats! You're still buried in schoolwork, but somehow it's all ok now, right? Anyway. Speaking of being buried in work, I just finished The Spanish Tragedy for my English midterm, and OHMYGOD. The ending is CRAZY! It's a Hamlet-style ending, with what I thought would be four deaths, but actually ended up being five, because a completely innocent person who's a really small role gets killed in the crossfire. Bonkers! And yes, I did just tag a random play onto a post about college, but hey, I don't want to be that crazy multiple poster with the six posts in one day. Especially since I don't post that often in general, so I'd seem completely nutty with my postings, and that's not quite a good thing. So yes! Multiple topics in one post, even the almighty college post! And The Spanish Tragedy is a very addictive play! And the book was small enough to carry around anywhere, which only feeds into the addiction. Got a copy of the old All the King's Men movie for Chankuah, as well as a Chris Daughtry CD! YAY! I love my life right now. ~M. :-) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Brotherhood of Man - audition got it stuck in my head! (7 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Sunday, December 10th, 2006
12:48 am	Oh the exhilaration Well, besides an erroneous rumor concerning my precognition of an acceptance into Harvard and the fact that I just spent 30 minutes of quality time getting through the door of my own residence, things are pretty freaking great. To the people who got into Columbia early - Congrats from the bottom of my heart - you guys rock. Seriously. The drama rocked! They both did! Alex Hare, you are one cold and heartless bastard! (You know I kid, man. It was great.) And, well, there's an interesting bit of news. I made Teen Jeopardy! The taping will be in March, the airing in June or July, not sure exactly (neither is the network). When doing some research into Teen Tournaments, I found out that the representative from the Harvard Quiz Bowl team who I talked to about Quiz Bowl was a semi-finalist on the Tournament two years ago! Things are awesome. Yeah. Wow. Teen Tourney! I'm psyched! YAY! ~M. :-) (5 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Sunday, November 26th, 2006
11:20 pm	November! Not that the month is over, but this post basically covers everything from the election to now, so it's a month update, essentially. Competition - actual events, and the phenomenon in general: First quiz bowl comp: Went 11 for 11 gamewise, so we won (it's the first time we've ever won this particular competition in recent memory). I also came in first place individually by an unholy number of points... that's what happens when your competition graduates, I guess. Seton Hall Math: Didn't break top five, despite being defending champ... it was a hard test, and the scores were painfully low. Z came in first, which was awesome! Our team (Z, me, and Ingrid) came in first too. Happy day, despite the scary hard test. Seriously, who asks for a four-variable system to be done without calculators?? That's just mean. And there were decimals!! Lots and lots of decimals! In a four-var system!! WTF!? The phenomenon of competition in general: Was reading the Lance, in particular the article on college stress. What a flaming pile of bullsh*t it was. Not to insult the author of the article - it's no fault of one person, and the article was certainly earnest in its attempt to show both sides. HOWEVER! There is one tiny eensy weensy problem!! Actually a few HUGE problems, but let's say there's only one small one for now - WE STILL HAVE RANK! Do I have to spell it out for ya? We have rank! How do you think they get those teasing little brackets, huh? By throwing our transcripts at dartboards?? They rank! They rank! They rank! They don't tell us, or schools that don't require it, but we still have a rank. It exists. They just want to coddle us by trying to soften the blow of those harsh, crushing numbers. But you know what? Colleges have their own weighting system. They'll discover if you're the type of student they want, whatever we do to aid or hinder that process. Another problem: the fact that LHS is "competitive" helps everyone in the school. It puts the name of a good high school on your transcript. If the entire top half of our grade dropped dead and the number one person in the bottom half became valedictorian, guess what? Still not getting into Harvard unless the last name is "Bush", ok? Competition isn't what's keeping these people out of college - it's what's keeping them from thinking they're the rulers of their own little worlds. Stay in reality! If you want Harvard/Yale/Pton/Whatever, then know what your goals are. Know who the people there will be. Know if that's the way you want to spend four years of your life! And if the answer's no, that's fine. Just stop whining, please, and get your head in the game - whatever game you want to play. It doesn't have to be the big Ivy game. Sorry about that. Didn't realize I'd go so nuts - please forgive me for not editing it to a more level-headed tone, I feel like I have to get that off my chest. Anyway. The rumors about the musical intrigue me, but I shall not speak to the issue until they are resolved. This weekend: Sondheim weekend! Picked up A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, and A Little Night Music. All fun, but a little hard to listen to whilst doing homework. Yes. Quite difficult. Sweeney Todd is creepy, just noticed that. Very very creepy. A Little Night Music is a tad light of plot from what I could tell... but whatevs. Sondheim knows his shit. Also picked up Jeff Shaara's new book The Rising Tide. It's about WWII, so it should be interesting. How he does his books is that he flips between POVs of the main players of both sides. So he'll actually have to do chapters that essentially focus on Hitler. And he does tend to humanize the people involved.... so it should get very very interesting, is all I'm saying. I also almost bought this other book when at Borders.... but I didn't. But the fact that I almost did shows how nerdy I am: It was called Fatal Purity, and it was a book about Maximilien Robespierre. How sick is that? Having family over, blahblahblah. Always interesting. ~M. :-) Current Mood: bored Current Music: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (4 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Wednesday, November 8th, 2006
1:27 am	Stuff I feel like such a delinquent lj-poster - I haven't had a substantive post in ages. Who am I kidding, this probably won't be substantive either! (Trying to do this in chronological order, so people desiring to skip to Election Day commentary can skip to the end right now.) First Quiz Bowl practice. I don't predict that I shall enjoy practices as much this year as I have in the past. I feel like I should only whet my skill on my opponents, not teammates! Plus, I have a lot of experience, and I practice at home, so practices are not as necessary as they used to be. I mostly just want to get to our first competition this weekend, where we can safely expect to kick some ass!! Saw Spamalot with Alex this past Sunday, it was really fun! I love all the allusions to other shows, especially since I understood a few of them (there was a reference to A Chorus Line and a reference to Les Mis, among others that I didn't catch, I'm sure). Quite the fun musical, though there was no plot. But lots of Monty Python weirdness, which is exactly what you go to Spamalot to see! Got a math problem set back from my online class - this class is seriously a religious experience. I worship these guys, they're so freaking brilliant! I practically have doubled my knowledge of math in the past months alone - and I started out with a sizeable amount of knowledge in that area to begin with. Saw The Prestige today with Justine - go see this movie, it's quite good. But go with a friend, because the only way we were able to figure out the crazy plot twists was to bounce ideas off each other until we understood what the hell was going on. It's so bizarre - in the first two minutes, you think, "um, so we know how it ends". But then you realize, "oh wow. we really don't." It's insane! After I got home from the movie, I fought a small battle with my parents on this issue: I think Bradley Whitford and Hugh Jackman share 99% of their facial structure. Seriously. They do. My parents disagree. I swear, if you're a West Wing fan and you watch this film (or even a trailer!), you'll see the resemblance. All right - Election Night! I'm not quite breaking out the champagne just yet, but it looks like the Dems can do it. I actually just heard that Webb pulled ahead of Allen for the first time just two seconds ago, so I'm quite psyched. Finally! The power of the subpeona. Let's watch the political defacation interface with the ventilator! Speaker Pelosi! On another note - did anyone else see Rick Santorum's concession? What a show... the 96 kids, all crying, the nice wife, the trite mention of God... the cheesy congratulations to the victor...everything so obviously manufactured. Clinton's victory address was much cooler - slick political rhetoric yes, but at least she was aggressive. And she clearly has Bill whipped. Just saying. John Stewart and Stephen Colbert once again kick ass in their snazzy coverage - I thoroughly enjoyed Colbert's angry walk-out once the House was called. I remember feeling that exact same way when I was trapped in a chem class with two arch-conservatives as Kerry conceded on TV (our sub let us watch). Doesn't feel so nice, does it, Republicans? I'd say the Dems can't do any worse than the Repubs have done recently, but we all know not to say silly things like that so I won't. ~M. :-) (4 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Saturday, October 28th, 2006
9:33 pm	CLICK THIS LINK!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfeuU0NB5lg Click!! If you have 3 minutes and 44 seconds, watch this youtube video. I almost cried from laughing so hard. It's insane. ~M. :-) (1 red flag wave |join in our crusade)
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
11:48 pm	Senior Year! Wow. This school year is awesome. Being a senior does the opposite of suck. Oh yeah. Getting nominated for Homecoming Queen WINS - it is Bizarre Moment Numero Uno on the Chart of Bizarre Moments that I am keeping as of last Wednesday. How freaking bizarre? BIZARRE. Have I mentioned that it was odd, weird, befuddling, and altogether bizarre? Because it was. For something completely different: Don't you hate having a class you enjoy during a really low-biorhythm time of day? I like Physics, but periods 8/9 are not good times for me. I feel like taking a nap, not doing calc and trig-laced physics problems! Which sucks!! Newell is a great teacher too. Good class - bad timing. Meepity meep meep. I pretty much have great teachers this year. Yeah. It's been good so far. Not struggling too hard in any class, not getting in a pissing match with anyone. It's been great. I think the light at the end of the tunnel is illuminating every part of this year with its enticing glow. Haha I just used imagery! There's your imagery, 8th grade English teacher who thought my writing was too dry! (True story) God college seems so close! I want to get there! NOW! NOW! NOW! I know this entry was spastic and short, but hey! It's late and I'm so wiped that I'm barely coherent, so it'll have to do. ~M. :-) (1 red flag wave |join in our crusade)
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
6:42 pm	Stuff Ah. Finally catching my breath after quite the interesting past few days. Friday was fun - I'm officially never going to be in an LHS drama again - part of me is upset, but part of me is happy to be nudging my feet ever so slowly to the back door of my LHS experience. Another plus - I NEVER, in the foreseeable future, will have to fake a Southern accent again. Besides, I can only be upset about what didn't happen, not what did, since the cast seems really good as it stands. Sigh. Oh, now I'll also be able to do my schoolwork, etc. Yeah. That. Whatevs. Saturday we drove up to Massachusetts because my dad had a Harvard Business School reunion, and it was pretty neat. I saw Grover Norquist (The Dark Lord, as some were calling him, because of his position as premier Republican lobbyist in the nation) in person, but didn't say hi. He looks really nerdy, way nerdier than you'd expect The Dark Lord to look. Also met people from Russia, Australia, and Mauritius. Bizarre grouping. After that lunch where I met those crazy Harvard alums, I met with a girl from the Harvard Quiz Bowl team, and she introduced me to the awesome world of college Quiz Bowl. It seems amazing, and I can't wait to get there. Seriously, I AM happy to be edging towards the door. I read Heart of Darkness while in Boston, and man oh man is it dark. Lovelovelove the characters, everything about it. But it's really dark. No mysteries in the title, seriously. Vive Kurtz! Seriously, I have to see Apocalypse Now now. (Haha, Now now.) On Sunday (still in Boston), we went to a matinee of 1776, which kicked ass. We had to get tickets from people who canceled, and David and I ended up in the front row. My parents ushered and got free tix! It was a great production, and just a great show. Since seeing it, my family has spent way too much time debating whether it could be done as a high school show and how much gender-bending would be appropriate (the one character we're not yet in agreement on is Rutledge, but you could totally genderbend the whole NJ, NY, and DE delegations). Today, we toured MIT, and didn't find out a lot of new information. Good college, etc. And yes, you read that right - I didn't go to services on Yom Kippur. So sue me. I'm not a religious person, and my family isn't religious either. ~M. :-) Current Mood: cheerful Current Music: 1776 - Duh. (5 red flag waves |join in our crusade)
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
11:05 pm	Senior Year Wow, wow, wow. Senior year rocks! That great bane of seniors, the college application process, barely increases my heart rate, to be frank. And the classes seem to actually be good - English is fun and interesting, French is up a notch entirely from anything we've done previously, and Euro is quite a good way to start the day. Physics is a tad slow for now, because we're reviewing Ch. 1 calc stuff that's a little old hat for the few of us who've had calc already, so it's not a fair assessment of the class. Gov/Pol is also good, but we haven't really gotten into the Constitution thing yet, so again it's too soon to jump to conclusions. But being a senior does rock... I feel so confident, powerful, and dare I say it, scholarly. Gah! This is so cool! I mean, for once being worked to the bone feels somewhat fun, oddly enough. So come on, let the year begin. Let's go out with a bang Class of 2007 - this building won't soon forget us. ~M. :-) PS. SEE RICHARD III AT THE SHAKESPEARE THEATER. SERIOUSLY. GO TO THE NJ SHAKESPEARE THEATER WEBSITE NOW AND ORDER TIX. IT WAS AMAZING. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: Ballad of Czolgosz (3 red flag waves |join in our crusade)