If there is anything you need to do tomorrow (and I know it's Christmas Eve), drop it. Seriously. Drop whatever you are doing, be it cooking, shopping, wrapping presents, or whatever. It can wait. Seeing Juno, however, cannot.


I also saw Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. But I will save that for another post.

Until then... go see Juno! Do it now.

I've started a new blog over at blogger.

Here's the address:

http://hereforyourentertainment.blogspot.com

I will probably start posting on there more often. But who knows. We'll see. Just wanted to let you all know.

PS: You should check it out. There's big news over there!

Out of boredom, I decided to re-cut the Valkyrie trailer that's been on YouTube lately. Why? Because. That's why.

I cut about a minute off of it and set it to "Lacrimosa" by Immediate Music.

You all should go check it out!

Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNWV-zXzxlQ

It's the first cut that I had of it. I says that it runs 2:27, but the actual trailer is only about 1:37. The audio from the original trailer that I cut didn't delete when I was cutting it, since it was a separate track. Oh well. Go check it out anyway!

I had a long conversation with Jake last night about life.

One of the things we talked about was how difficult it is to just say hello. To just go up to someone and say hello. To introduce yourself when you know that there could be a connection with someone. Whether it's a new friend, a new acquaintance, or the future love of your life. It reminded me of a few weeks ago when I was on my way to chemistry. I had just gotten out of scene shop hours and, in my opinion, looked like I'd been run over by a large truck of some kind. But there was this guy that I passed and when we were walking toward each other our eyes locked. And I don't know what happened, but something did. We both turned our heads back to look at each other even though we kept walking in the opposite direction. What if we had stopped and said hello? What if we had not gone to our respective classes (or wherever he may have been going)? What if?

I realize that we are in control of our own destinies. I'm not trying to sound deep or anything like that. But what if we never tried? What if we never went for something? What if we never took that next step, be it with a job opportunity, school, or within a relationship/friendship? What if we never did that? We constantly want to keep ourselves from being vulnerable, but what if we had no choice? Why can't we be vulnerable more often? Why can't we take those risks? And I know what you're thinking: "But you can, Jenn. Why don't you?" Well, you try and do it. I know I will certainly be trying harder this time around.

We miss so many opportunities by not taking those risks. I will probably never see that guy again, but for that 30 seconds, something was there. Why did neither of us act on it? Who knows at this point.

I guess what I'm saying is to go out there and say hello.

Going home today. I'll be home in the afternoon. I'm so excited. I've been waiting for this day for weeks. I need to get out of Eugene.

I've been wondering when my printer turned into a prepubescent, rebellious teenager. All I want is for it to print stuff. You know, do its job. But when I ask it nicely, when I talk to it meanly, when I hit it, nothing happens. Nothing that I want to happen happens. Thanks for nothing, printer! We were so good our first two years of our relationship. Then when I moved a lot, you got angry and stopped working. I thought we had a connection. A new one is waiting at a store for me. I'll go and pick it up soon.

Dealing with printer issues, I need to work on my law school essays. I find that I don't like selling myself, which is basically what I have to do to get into law school. Dammit. However, I will write them because I do eventually have to apply. I have until February 1st, but I would like to get them done early. However, it looks like I will have to wait until winter break to really work on them. That should be okay though. I can deal.

I'm trying to find an internship for the summer. One problem with that is the fact that the family is going to Hawaii this summer. We're going at the end of July for two weeks. So, of course, this is hard to get a summer job with, especially an internship. This may prove difficult. I want to see if I can get a legal internship with the Giants. That would be cool. An internship with Pixar or Lucasfilm would be cool as well. It depends on what they want and such. The Giants internship (if they offer it) would be fantastic, as that's sort of the market area that I will be specializing in. It does deal with a lot of contracts with individuals and companies, individuals and individuals, and companies and companies. We'll see how that pans out. They don't have anything regarding a legal internship on their website, but I could call and/or email someone over in their office. Hopefully something will work.

But for now, on with Fall term.

It's weird the things that make one happy. Tonight, being Halloween, I decided to go with something different. I was Maid Marian and Craig was Robin Hood. It was great. But it felt off.

Then I changed into my Lost Boy costume from last year. I felt instantly better. People even commented on how I should never be anything else. Craig (looking like both Robin Hood and Peter Pan) happily changed to Peter for the rest of the night.

It's really odd that a change in costume would make me so happy and cheer me up so well. Thanks J M Barrie for making a wonderful play about a wonderful young boy that didn't want to grow up and the young boys that followed him!

It rained today. Today was the first day of the school year in which it has rained. I don't know why, but I always enjoy the first day of rain. I love the smell of rain. Everything smells so clean.

Now it just reminds me of when it was raining in London. Damn. I got all nostalgic now.

Thanks rain!

Ah, the obligatory first day of school post. I'll start with my schedule.

Monday/Wednesday/Friday:  French 201 9am-950am
                                                     Acting Shakespeare I 10am-1150am

Tuesday/Thursday: French 201 9am-950am (not on Thursday)
                                    Theatre Production I 10am-1120am
                                     Intro To Chemistry 2pm-350pm


Today was the first day of school, obvious by now, and I don't really know how I feel about that yet. I mean, how I'm going to do in the classes part. French kind of freaked me out, considering I haven't taken French since fall term of freshman year and that was 101. This will be interesting. Hopefully hanging out with Jean in London will help. If all else fails, I can just email Jean and have him translate. Hopefully I won't need to. I'd love to email Jean, just not about homework.

Shakespeare is going to be interesting. I need to find a monologue though. I want it to be something that I want to do, but also something that Bob would want to see me do. I'm going to look for some comedic monologues (Bob said to look at the 'wenches' roles in Twelfth Night, Merry Wives, and such. Thanks, Bob?) and some 'evil' monologues. But Bob did say to go with what the 'muses' will have me do. We'll see how that goes. I really should have brought up my complete works book, but there are plenty of internet sites that will have monologues/plays. Thank God for no royalties.

Not looking forward to tomorrow. Hopefully I can fill that two hour gap with lab hours in the scene shop. If not, I'll talk to John Elliott and Janet about it. They should be cool with it. Eh, we'll see. I'm going to go do French homework and watch some of The Office.