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[19 Sep 2006|01:45pm] |
Hey, I've decided to start a new livejournal account. If you happen to read this and want to find me, I will be found at ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) epic_amazing.
I feel like I'm a completely different person from who I was in January, 2004, so for some reason in my mind this meant I should have a new journal. Maybe I'll actually update the new one more regularly than I do now. This journal will still be around, as a sort of archive of my life or something to that effect. I just won't be updating it anymore.
So, that's that, and this is my last update here.
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[05 Aug 2006|12:12pm] |
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I never use this anymore. Probably because I have nothing of note to add, since my summer has been mostly been spent working and being anti-social.
The first week of August wasn't a good one. A really close friend of my parents passed away on Monday. It was a shock and it was sad, as all deaths are. No one could believe it, and my dad felt really weird about it, since he had seen this guy maybe 45 minutes before he died. The whole week I spent a lot of time with his family at their house. I also went to both days of the wake, and the funeral and burial yesterday. It was a stereotypical Irish wake, by which I mean I ended up getting kind of drunk after the funeral. At the reception right after the burial (I wasn't drinking at this point), they ran out of food, but they did not run out of beer. I didn't actually start drinking until after the reception, when one of the sons whose father died invited me to his house. I went, since he genuinely seemed like he wanted me to come, but I made my sister drive. I also brought my sister, so that I wouldn't be sitting there awkwardly. The group of former Albertus Magnus students who were there was random for me to just be hanging out with (most of them were in older grades than me, so I don't really know them). I don't know, the whole day was both sad and weird.
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| Reading. |
[11 Jun 2006|06:53pm] |
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So, I'm working now. It's ok, kind of boring at times. I have a tendency to do the stuff they give me insanely fast. And then when I'm done, they don't have anything ready for me to do, which results in a lot of time in which I have nothing to do. So, I read a lot (which is more productive then the one day where I made a rubber band ball. In the past two weeks I have read:
The Last night of the Yankee Dynasty by Buster Olney
Boys of Winter by Wayne Coffey
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Upcoming books to read include:
Catch-22
The Other Boleyn Girl
Under the Banner of Heaven
A Clockwork Orange
And probably moreif I keep going at the rate I'm going...
I love to read as much as possible during the summer, since I never really read for fun during the school year.
Also, yesterday a friend of mine from Jersey came up and we hung out for a while, and then the both of us went down to the Boogie Down Bronx to stay over with our friends who are staying at Manhattan College for the summer. It was great fun, I've missed the whole routine of staying up until 4:30 in the morning on weekends. I want to go back again next weekend, because there might be a bathing suit party.
Oh, and while down at MC, I was introduced to Salad Fingers. I was forced to watch all seven episodes. I was confused as to what the point of it was, though I thought it was funny. Creepy, but funny.
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[28 May 2006|12:14am] |
Hello anyone who reads this! Time for an update from the life of Kaitlin!
I finished my freshman year of college. How ridiculous is that? Yes, I agree, it's extremely ridiculous. Moving out of my dorm and watching everyone around me leave was very depressing. I was on the verge of tears for about 24 hours on the day I left. I miss Manhattan College life.
However, Manhattan College is screwing me over again. I was going to take French 101 next semester, since I haven't taken French in three years and I don't remember enough of what I learned from Ms. Sauer to do well in anything higher than French 1. But NOOOO...The stupid dean sends me a letter that since I already took French at a higher level blah blah blah, I can't be in French 1. Which is now screwing up my whole schedule. GRR. But wait, this situation seems very familiar to me... A school, in its boundless greatness, informing me that I can't take French anymore. OH WAIT! I seem to recall a very similar thing happening to me 3 years ago at a certain Catholic high school named Albertus "Flaming Garbage" Magnus.*
I had some pretty good grades this semester. Personally, I wish a few of them had been slightly higher, but my parents weren't screaming at me, so I guess I did pretty well.
I start work on Tuesday! I'm going to be an intern at UBS. I don't think it will be very exciting, but hey, I'm making money!
*Basically I couldn't take French 4, mostly due to the fact that I was in AP US History, and since there was only on class of AP US and one class of French 4, they couldn't really switch anything around. Therefore, I didn't take French junior year, and haven't taken French in 3 years, which is the cause of the current stupidity. The point here is that the stupidity of Albertus still haunts me, and I graduated almost a year ago.
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[06 May 2006|06:04pm] |
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So The Mikado went amazingly, except for one incident in our last show where I visibly fell over on stage. I'm going to the cast party tonight.
I'm very excited about my living situation for next year. Initially, when they were doing the housing lottery, they ran out of rooms for next year's sophmores (aka ME). Because they basically closed off a ridiculous amount of rooms, in order to accomedate next year's freshmen. I'm pretty sure everyone on campus except Residence Life realized that there was going to end up not being enough rooms for everyone. So the day of the lottery comes and about 3495782349578 people ended up not having rooms. Because Manhattan College can't count apparently.
Because of this, the school had to open up this building called Overlook to sophmores. Overlook was only for juniors and seniors, and has apartment style dorms (each room has it's own bathroom and kitchen!). Since there were about 9,000,000,000 open rooms, I guess someone finally realized that they could put sophmores there. So they did a second housing lottery for people who either a)had a room, but wanted to switch to Overlook or b) didn't have a room yet. So, it ends up that I get to live in what is basically an apartment with Erica (my roommate from this year) and my friend Maura. I saw a three person apartment last night, and we have a kitchen (which comes with a regular sized fridge and stove), and a little living room, and a big bed room, and a nice little bathroom! IT'S GONNA BE SO COOL! Plus, a bunch of my friends are living in OV also, and some other friends are living over in these townhouses the school has, so next year should be good.
However, the whole situation seemed very Albertus Magnus-esque, and even thought it all stressed me out, I just kept thinking of things like the flaming garbage in the Albertus parking lot incident, and had a good laugh.
Also, I've been listening to the soundtrack from Les Miserables like non-stop for the past few days. It's kind of ridiculous. I heard it's coming back to Broadway for a while in October. Maybe I'll actually get to go see it, since I haven't been to see a show since I saw Phantom in 7th or 8th grade. I'll add it my list of shows I want to go see.
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| The Mikado! |
[28 Apr 2006|03:48pm] |
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Our first performance of The Mikado is tonight. This show might be better than Felix Festa's performance of Bye Bye Birdie back in 2000. I'm excited, because I get to look like a pretty geisha.
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[17 Apr 2006|04:09pm] |
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My parents bought me an iPod! As a late birthday present, to make up for the fact that they spent about $4563456 on my sister for her Sweet 16, and not as much money on me. YAY.
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| Rambling on and on about my life |
[05 Apr 2006|01:17am] |
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Life is pretty good right now. There's no one specific event that I can say has made me just go, "Wow, I'm happy!" Everything is just really great right now. I feel that for the first time in I don't even know how long, I'm just happy. I mean, yes, I've been happy before, and I'm not happy every single moment, but at the moment, I just have a prevailing sense of happiness and well-being.
Some of this probably comes from the fact that this semester I've become really content with who I am as a person. I feel so much more secure with myself now than I ever did. I've always been really insecure, shy, and didn't have much self confidence. In the past few months I haven't really felt this way at all. I've become friends with a lot of new people this semester. I think once I began to realize that other people appreciated things I had to say, and my sense of humor, and just me as a person, I've begun to open up and just be myself in front of others. I used to either vary from the extreme of "I don't care what anyone thinks of me" to "I want people to like me." This semester I've stuck to not really caring about anyone's opinion of me, and this helped me be myself, and other people got to see me being ridiculous and really liked it, apparently.
This semester, I've really stepped out of my "comfort zone," so to speak. I mean, I joined the musical, for one. I'm also a member of the Lasallian Collegians, which does all sorts of volunteer work and other cool things. Plus, there's the whole not caring what anyone else thinks things. I guess I just feel like I'm doing something, and I don't feel bored. Also, I went to Relay For Life the other day, and I stayed up all night to fight cancer, and that was a fun night.
I really like the group of friends I've made in the past few months. They're pretty ridiculous, like me. I have friends I can pretend to play the keyboard with, like a five year old. I have guys who I can have an entire conversation with about the exact way we're going to punch each other. I think my one friend likes talking to me, because he can say the most obnoxious, sarcastic, insulting comment to me, and I will not even miss a beat and respond with some amazing come back. I have another friend who felt like tackling me on the pole vault mats during Relay. To which I responded by tackling him, which evolved into an actual wrestling thing. I totally won. Etc.
So I'm basically at a really good place in my life at the moment.
Also: BASEBALL IS BACK. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY.
Also: THE NEW YORK RANGERS ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS! YAAAAAAAAAAAY.
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| "Forget aboot it."-Dominic Moore |
[24 Mar 2006|12:36am] |
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I just got back a little while ago from seeing She's the Man. Ok, basically the best movie of all time. Alright maybe not, but seriously, I totally loved it, even though it's ridiculous and definately has plot holes and is stupid. It's just great and everyone should see it. Also, Channing Tatum is in it, and GOOD LORD he is hot. Go see him shirtless. It is a decision you will not regret.
Also, on the subway ride back, two of my friends and I read excerpts from Great Expections aloud. In foreigh accents. I apparently did a very good upper class British accent, and a good accent that was Russian or Czech or something. Also, our Canadian accent was a really good interpretation of how Canadians actually talk since we just added "Eh?" to the end of oh, I don't know, every sentence. And said aboot a lot.
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[22 Mar 2006|01:31pm] |
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So the past two nights I had rehersal for the musical. I really enjoy doing it. Most of the time when I inform people, such as my family, that I'm going to be in the musical, their response is something like, "You? Singing? Hah." Granted I'm in the chorus, since I am not good at singing, but still, I am enjoying myself.
Next Friday is my sister's big spectacular Sweet 16 party. It's "Black and White Attire required," so that everyone will be wearing black and white, and she can wear this amazing blue dress. I guess it's pretty clever of her, that she's found one more way to be the center of attention. Ha. My dress is just black, but I like it, it's pretty.
12 Days (I think) until the 2006 baseball season! Yay!
I still have not gone to look for the bass that I'm going to buy and learn how to play. I really want to do that soon. My mom doesn't think that this will happen at all, but I really would like to prove her wrong.
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[20 Mar 2006|01:22pm] |
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Maybe I should update this more often...
But then again, I have a fairly boring life, so maybe not. Seriously, here is a basic summary of how I spent my spring break, which was last week:
-Watched all 10 hours of Band of Brothers
-Watched spring training games
-Watched some of the World Baseball Classic
-Watched college basketball, and I don't even like watching basketball
-I most especially watched hockey, and generally made my mom watch with me while telling her stories about the players that I'm sure she didn't want to hear.
I also managed to actually leave the house everyday, so I wasn't too lazy.
Now I'm back at school, procrastinating, which is nothing new.
Woo.
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| MANIFESTO! |
[08 Mar 2006|04:31pm] |
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Today, I had to do a presentation on the Communist Manifesto for history. The whole class struggled to contain their enthusiam, because I was so good. (HAHA, I hope you all caught how witty I am.) Really, I did really well on the presentation I think. I knew what I was talking about. I wanted to get the whole class to join together and revolt against the teacher and march out of class in the middle, because I feel that's what Karl Marx would have wanted. Sadly I was unable to organize this.
Today is Freddie Prinze Jr's 30th birthday, in case you were wondering. Coincidently, it is also my 19th birthday.
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| Musical! |
[05 Mar 2006|11:23pm] |
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So, I am going to be in the Spring Musical here at Manhattan! Since I pretty much can't sing, I didn't really bother to try out, I just joined the chorus They're doing The Mikado, which means I get to wear a kimono!
I'm excited to be making my return to the stage after a 6-ish year absence. I mean, I had to take a long break after my stellar performance in Bye Bye Birdie. In which I was in the chorus with about 345345345 other people. Ah, Bye Bye Birdie, those were the days.
I also haven't sang real music since I was in chorus in 8th grade. I was a soprano for some reason, even though I am definately more of an alto.
But really, this is going to be fun, and probably stressful, but mostly fun. YAY!
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| Ash Wednesday. |
[01 Mar 2006|05:02pm] |
Today I went and got ashes, because apparently now I voluntarily go to church occasionally for some reason.
Happy Birthday Melissa. You know what this means? Exactly ONE WEEK until my birthday. I'm actually not really that excited by this fact, for some reason, but eh, whatever.
Someone in my hall is watching Titanic at an abnormally loud volume.
I think I'm going to go pass out in my bed for a million years.
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[23 Feb 2006|09:21pm] |
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Even though I have no musical ability AT ALL, apparently I'm going to learn to play guitar or bass. My friend Amanda (she's from Long Island) and I are going guitar shopping this weekend. It's gonna be great. I've also been sort of teaching myself to play piano using my friend Christine's keyboard. I'm not very good. I'm pretty sure I annoy everyone within a 10 mile radius with my lack of skills. Maybe I'll get better, and also be a really good bass player. Then I'll start a band.
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[15 Feb 2006|07:14pm] |
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Ok, so on Sunday evening, I walked through the snow down the street to go to mass with some of my friends. Apparently I go to mass now. It was quite an adventure because they had obviously plowed the streets before the snow was finished, so there was still several inches of snow on the streets. I also saw people helping people they didn't even know dig cars out of snow. This made me happy.
Valentine's Day was yesterday, and I basically ran around and did various things. To start, myself and 3 friends were stood up by Manhattan College. Yes, we were stood up by an entire institution. We were supposed to go on a trip to the movies, but they cancelled it and didn't bother to inform us of this. It was quite disappointing, so we went and ate pizza at Broadway Joe's (because Bronx Pizza=THE BEST PIZZA EVER). So we went back up to campus, and I did some homework. Then at 8, I had to run down the hall to watch Gilmore Girls. At 9, one of my friend Erin came in and asked if we wanted to go the the Valentine's Day Cabaret that was supposed to be on Sunday, but was cancelled, so they were having a free show. I said I'd go, but then I was informed that it was starting at 9. Which was right then. So we hurried over there, but it didn't start for a while. So we sat there and between the two of us we drank an entire bottle of sparkling cider. Then when it did start, we would tell each other how every single song was a symbolic representation of our relationship. When that was over, we left, because there was nothing else to see there. On our way out, we saw a poster hanging up advertising the trip to the movie we were supposed to see. So we stole it. Because "it symbolizes our oppression." When we got back to our dorm, we walked to the rooms of various people we knew to show them our poster. Then I watched an episode of Saved by the Bell.
Today, I took a 3 hour nap, and that was pretty much the extent of what I accomplished today. I know, I live an excting life.
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[12 Feb 2006|06:27pm] |
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AH THEY'RE CANCELLING SCHOOL TOMORROW!
I didn't know college had full offical snow days. I mean sometimes individual teachers cancel classes, but there's no class at all tomorrow! WOOOO! Except that I only had 1 class tomorrow, so I'm not really missing much, but hey!
I guess I can thank the near-record amount of snowfall in NYC for this.
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[12 Feb 2006|11:59am] |
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Dear Snow,
I think you've proved your point. You can stop now.
Love,
Kaitlin
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[10 Feb 2006|09:02pm] |
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Ahhh! The Winter Olympics are starting TONIGHT! I love the Olympics. I'm excited. I'm also watching it with Melissa, even though she is in Geneseo and I'm in the Bronx. Amazing!
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[05 Feb 2006|11:12pm] |
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That bowl was really super.
My roommate and I did homework with football on in the backround, though we were going for the Steelers. And they won! Then after the game was over, some guys, including one of the RA's knocked on our door and said that they had extra food and asked if we wanted some. UM YES I WANT FREE FOOD. So I ended up with a free bowl of ziti, which was the highlight of Superbowl Sunday.
Ok, so now that the Superbowl's done, I can put my full attention and all my energy into the next big upcoming sporting event of the year. That's right: WINTER OLYMPICS. I'm excited, because the Olympics are one of my Favorite Things Ever.
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