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I FAIL AT BEDA...I FAIL.

Okay, so really though...HOW MANY DAYS OF BEDA HAVE I MISSED?! Sad news friends. Oh well, the lovely Maureen Johnson said it was alright if we missed a day (or few..) and that we could just get right back on track.

Here to start off is some quotes that were said in class today by my amazing theatre professor!

"I think the medical term would be 'she got knocked up!'"

"Act like kings and queens in charge of the lower class! You are the pimp in charge of your street women!"

"You really just asked how you should start the assignment? Well I would say you should start at the beginning!"

ANYWAYS...

I have a cold so that pretty much sucks. On the other hand I just got a whole bunch of books I need to read! The sad part is that I have too much school and work at the moment to read as much as I'd like to.

Question...do your little brothers wear your shoes? I walked out of my bedroom this morning to find my little brother (he's 11) playing x box and...WEARING MY UGGS! This is not normal! Who steals their sisters' uggs?! WHO DOES THAT?! Clearly my brother.....so weird.

The past couple days I've just been watching more and more Freaks and Geeks. Not gonna lie, I'm definitely addicted.

I just filled out my info to get a BEDA BUDDY! YAY. I'm so excited! Maureen is such a clever cat.

This entry is lame and my mind is all over the place due to my heavily medicated self right now...I really need some nyquil right about now. Hopefully I will have improved before dance and work tomorrow!

Off to do some film homework.

DFTBA :)

TODAY WAS GOOD.

De Anza= awesome (besides the NOT SO AWESOME parking situation). Really though, it took me like 20 minutes to find parking which is just stupid and waste of time. But Theatre Appreciation was fun and dandy...and hopefully I'll get added to the class.

Then I finally got a job! I found out tonight (after my 2nd interview) that I got hired. And they told me right afterwards and it was all fun and dandy. So I'm working tomorrow...hahaha. YAY FOR JUMPING RIGHT IN.
Good things about my work:
-I get to play with children between the ages of 2 and 5.
-My uniform consists of fun t-shirts and sweats/basketball shorts.
-I don't have to wear shoes.
-My coworkers are all my age-ish.
-I get to teach kids how to walk on balance beams and do fun exercise stuff and teach them gymnastics and play in a ball pit.
-It's just very fun where time goes by fast.


Even though tomorrow is my first OFFICIAL day of work, the two interviews I've had are "working interviews" where I was basically actually working...

So all in all, even though it took me a while to find a job I like, I now have a job I like!

Then tonight Tracy and I got coffee and talked about our fun lives at the moment. REALLY THOUGH on the life happiness scale my life went from like a -27 to a 7 over the course of a day.

Who gets excited about school and work? REALLY LAUREN, REALLY?

Well it's off to reading and sleepy time because I have classes in the morning (ballet and jazz) YEAH I KNOW FUN STUFF :)


I've also decided I freaking LOVE Urinetown. The music is so good!<3

So tomorrow I have my first class at De Anza. I have never been to the school before/have no idea where my building is that my class is in/have no clue what parking is going to be like.

FUN TIMES AHEAD.....

not.

But my class is intro to theatre, so I assume it won't be too bad...considering I like the subject? eh eh?

THEN in the afternoon my neighbor is going to come over and fix my bedroom window that my little brother BROKE! that's right folks, Lauren Noel Horst has had a piece of cardboard as a window for almost three days now. I have six blankets on my bed at night.

THEN I have my job interview #2. Basically a callback to see if the people I would potentially be working with like me as much as the people who I will never work with do.

My brother is listening to music in Spanish very loudly from his room....so distracting.

So fun story for the day:
My mom made pancakes this morning but accidentally left them on the stove cooking so three pancakes are now charcoal and are completely cooked onto the pan and won't wash off. HAHA. The whole house smelled like it was burning but luckily the fire alarm didn't go off (wait, that could be a bad thing...fire alarms are supposed to alert one that one is about to die...)

I have so many interesting things that go on at my house/with my neighbors on a daily basis. If you are in a bad mood, just ask me to explain my day at home to you, because my house is insane.

dftba<3

Today:
-I had a job interview for almost 3 hours
-I washed my newly fixed car
-I went to office depot
-I watched memento at Chris's
-I ate half a pizza
-I got a massage from Nich for picking up him and my brother
-I played the guitar



This entry is short and sweet because I'm in a bad mood and don't feel like writing extensively about my life at the moment. Happy blogs to come tomorrow hopefully!

So, since De Anza starts on Monday...this is one of my last official days of the beloved SPRING BREAK. I guess I can't really complain since I've had two weeks off of school. Can I just express my love for the quarter schedule as opposed to the semester schedule? Quarter > semester. pwnd.

So far today I have accomplished:
-reading updated blogs of my favorite bloggers who are participating in BEDA.
-sorting through/responding to a bunch of e-mails.
-making some green tea.
-doing some laundry.
-watching all my youtube subscriptions that I hadn't seen yet. I'm sure in like 2 hours my feed will all be full again.
-watching John Tucker Must Die (I'm watching it right now since I've never seen it before).

Don't be jealous of my ultra fun life..SARCASM.

I swear I really do, do things with my life. But this is spring break, the times of sleeping in and watching movies and reading all day will soon be over. Ho hum.

I have a job interview tomorrow morning that I am a bit nervous for. Why am I nervous? Who knows. I feel very very qualified for the position but ya never know! We'll see how that goes.

So, I think I'm at the post office like EVERY DAY of my life. Why? Because I like writing letters/selling textbooks off of amazon/bookmooch/etc. I think I actually need to go AGAIN today and send some stuff off. Wouldn't it be great if the government decided postage fees were eliminated? I think that would be fabulous.

SO ANYWAYS, moral of THAT story is that we should be pen pals. I like writing/receiving letters and if you do also, then let's write each other all old school with like, ya know..envelopes and paper. Some of my friends and I so much like writing to each other that since we live in the same city (and can't really be pen pals) we just write notes during the week and switch them on Sundays/Wednesdays/whatever. It really does make your days a little bit better.

Let's all just take a moment to appreciate the little things in life....like letters and notes and green tea and lame movies that are cheesy but still make you laugh.

On a less positive note:
I really really want to move to LA for the spring/summer. Unfortunately I don't have money to do that at the moment, so I wish I could just get a job and then life would be dandy and great. Stupid economy and having to give jobs to old people with college degrees instead of young fresh faced 19 year olds who have big city dreams. Since Tracy is moving there in May, hopefully I can save up, finish school at the end of June, and move out there (with her?) in Julyish? Then again, my plans change every week so it's very hard for me to plan into the future.

What are your ultimate dreams? I have roughly about 6,462 but I don't think you would want my blog to be consumed by all those.

Wow, this movie is getting worse by the minute hahahaha. I love Brittany Snow but GOODNESS GRACIOUS this movie is so dumb.

DFTBA<3

Naturally, as any typical teenager, I enjoy waking up late in the morning. I pride myself on the ability to sleep at least 9 hours every night and still feel tired (har har har NOT).

This morning was different. This morning I woke up at the crack of dawn (7:13am) because of a dream I was having. It was one of those dreams where your reflexes start freaking out and your body just wakes you up. In this dream there was a martyr in a Jabbawockeez mask, Denzel Washington as my brilliant teacher, and a man who was the white version of Denzel Washington (this man looked EXACTLY like Denzel but with white skin. Rather odd).

Yes I know, this all sounds very strange. But the point of the story was that this white Denzel, the real Denzel, and a group of kids were all at my old high school being shot at by these crazed student killers. And they were dying for some cause (in my dream I didn't know what the cause was, but I guess it was an important one). They were running out and knew that they would be killed (I was in the far back of this escapade) and it was all just very exciting. Sure, being awoken at the crack of dawn because your bodies natural reflexes to the sight of people being shot and blood exploding everywhere isn't the ideal way to wake up, but I thought it was cool.

If you have a cause, and you are willing die for it, hey.....gotta give you props. I'd rather have one passionate person in the world than 100 people who aren't doing anything with their lives.

MOVING ON.

1. I found this really great website where a bunch of filmmakers have submitted short films that all have to be about a certain topic (I think there are five different ones-humility, forgiveness, freedom, joy and redemption). Now we get to vote on them for the month of April. Click here to go and watch some of the films (there are 97, I believe). I already have a few favorites, so feel free to ask me which ones I like. And yes, I'm planning to watch them all.

2. I am going to finish a book today. Yay. Now I can start on one of my new ones that Ally let me borrow.

3. Spring quarter starts on Monday (I'm on the waiting list for some classes, so hopefully I get in). I was going to take the quarter completely off of school but then I wouldn't have health insurance and yadadada..... so I thought, if I'm going to be in school semi against my will, I'm going to take: intro to film, ballet, jazz, film genres, and theatre appreciation. Two points for taking classes that you enjoy (instead of taking math/english/science/important classes).

Peace up buttercups, and DFTBA :)

Thanks to Maureen Johnson, I am participating in BEDA (Blog Every Day April). Some people are doing VEDA, but that's just too intense, so I'll stick to BEDA.

Anyways,
lots of stuff going on in my life.

1. First of all, I am back from Seattle for the time being. I decided to take the quarter off of school and work and it's better to work here at home where I have a car. Then when I got here I decided I might actually take a couple classes at De Anza. Still not sure about that.

2. My good friend Tracy just introduced me to this amazing show called Freaks and Geeks. It's SO AMAZING.

3. I love bookmooch.com! Go check it out.

4. I have quite a bit of random errands to do today, including the post office, rearranging my bedroom, figuring out school stuff, oasis tonight. That's what's up.

5. I really miss my SLR camera which happens to be in Seattle right now. Dang it. Dang it. Dang it.


Hopefully April will be a month of fun happy times, since my life has been all sorts of chaos the past yearish. NEW START! Maybe I should take up yoga or something...