Sunday, October 4, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Summer winds are changing
Today I was thinking, shouldn’t I be catching up with things I've so easily dropped? This blog for example, an unfinished tale of nothing. Not that it will ever be finished since it has no beginning and no foreseeable end, but I digress, I cannot just leave it open and floating in space, so here we go.
Since the last time I updated [so very long ago] I have found a huge “fandom” in the recently ended Guiding Light. Let me just share exactly how this wonderful show has affected me. Finding it through a friend, I was so against soap operas. Not really against actually more like, I thought it a waste of time, but oh how I was wrong. I will get so much shit for this, which is fine, but I totally fell in love with this soap. Let me back up. What originally drew me to it was the storyline of Otalia. Oalia, if you don’t know is technically a couple, Olivia and Natalia. To me, it is more than that. This was a beautifully told and brilliantly acted story of two women, two OPPONENTS, finding friendship and eventually love with each other. In their process of figuring out their feelings, I figured out mine. For the show, of course. Let me just say here that I KNOW it’s a soap opera. I realize some people on soap operas cannot act, or over act, but let me just say definitively, right now, that Crystal Chappell CAN act, and she did, every week. Sure the production model was ghetto, but hey, it kept GL on the air, and gave birth to Otalia. Back to that.
I don’t really broadcast it, but I am a sickly sweet romantic person. I don’t think I’m ever going to find another to share that with me, but I’m totally fine being alone. It’s easy and it’s fun, and I can do pretty much whatever I want… but watching these two portray their characters and do it so well was just fantastic for me. As a young [really young D:] lesbian, life really isn’t that easy. To be honest things never look that good for us for the future, and unless you can social network online [like this site, or twitter or what have you] and find some support. I really don’t feel like that’s going to change any time soon, so getting to know the people of this fandom, chatting with them on twitter, and meeting them has been an immense pleasure. I know that I’ve seriously bonded over this pairing and that I have a support system if I ever need help with anything, or just hugs if something goes wrong. This group of people is sincerely amazing, and without the show I would not know any of them. For that Guiding Light, I Owe You One.
Now onto something else GL has introduced me to, Venice. Venice is not a location [ok, well it is technically] but it’s a new web series created by, whom I call on twitter the three musketeasers, Crystal Chappell, Kim Turrisi, and Hope Royaltey. These women are basically the trifecta of power. They have been interviewed on CNN & CBS, and have had way too many written interviews to even count.
{although, mindschmootz does the best.}
Here is the CC one: http://mindschmootz.net/2009/09/the-schmootz-on-crystal-chappell/
Kimmy and Hope one: http://mindschmootz.net/2009/09/the-schmootz-on-venice/
This new webseries has so much potential, and I believe Kimmy [the writer] has put all of her heart and soul into this project. Venice debuts in November, but please join the insanity on www.venicetheseries.com. Hope and Kim are both members of their brilliant online community [created by the web mastermind Hope], and they are both very friendly and eager to answer questions.
As one last shameless plug for Venice, here are videos that the Teasers shot while in New York a while back and have slowly been releasing…. Follow them on Youtube for updates!
Now, I understand I have said very little, but very much so I’ll wrap it up with what I did this summer, list form.
· Twitter & GL
· Spent time in the Bahamas for my birthday
· Spent time in Florida, NJ, Ohio, Texas, and drove through the hellish Pennsylvania.
· Now back at school.
Seriously, that is it. Thank you for reading and seriously, check out Venice!!!!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Let it Rock...?
Wait, what?!
Yes folks, religious. Personally I've had a crisis of faith for a while. Switching from Buddhist to Athiest, to nothing at all. It's all very confusing and anyway, who has the time to think about that stuff these days? To be honest, I love the song. I'm not sure this realization will hinder me listening to it, but I'll definitely be paying more attention to Kevin Rudolf, sneaky bastard.
Go ahead and take a closer listen, then YOU decide. Am I nuts?
Thursday, December 4, 2008
This bed is on fire with passionate love, the neighbors complain about the noises above... but she only comes when she's on top......
I don't eat. Pretty much at all... and my body is getting used to it! damn college. *bad Katie*
Also, i should be doing a paper due in, oh, 7 hours... but... meh.
i have no motivation!!! This legitimately sucks!! i have 12 days!!!!!! left of college this semester! Damnit Katie, get your ass in gear! and EAT SOMETHING!
christ woman. it's supposed to be the freshmen +15, not -15! which is close to what i've lost.
Craaazy!
ok, this was pointless except to procrastinate further.
Carry on.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Getting older is not always fun.
Growing up is hard. Getting older is worse.
Monday, November 17, 2008
This used to be a funhouse... now it's full of evil clowns
well, they were $90. really? for TWO MEDICATIONS?!
w/e insurance covers it, i just have to fill out a pain in the ass form :-p
so, there was this huge fiasco with my roommate and her friend... but it's way long so here's what happened, paraphrased.
*she and her friend went out/got really drunk
*came back-passed out in the **SHARED** lounge. if an RA would have come, they would have gotten citations.
* i went and helped these 3 other girls take them both into my room.
*we put breanna onto the floor [for a short amount of time...] so we could get daniela into bed
*daniela gets into bed, throws up in trash can
*breanna throws up all over herself and my floor... then proceeds to roll in it and pass out.
*we clean breanna up a bit, put her on a blanket and drag her down the hallway into the showers... cold water.
*cleaned up.. ish she whips her shirt off and we put her into bed- but she just curls up to daniela instead of the other end.
*dry-heaves over daniela into a trash can.
*flips around to the other end and passes out.
...i legit had to check out to make sure they were breathing, they were that drunk. it was disgusting. the sheer amount of puke on our floor was... amazing.
anyway, so i ended going to bed at around... 4:30-5:00, and i was supposed to get up at 9ish to get ready to go to melissa's.. woo! no sleep! anyway-i get back up, go through the motions of getting ready-leave... get to melissa's at.. what was it, 11:00?
so then we leave to g to NYC :) We walked WAY too much on saturday. i'd realized a bit earlier that the prop 8 protest was that day, so we decided [on a whim] to check it out... but we had some time to kill-so we walked. here's an outlined guide of where we went.
we walked from penn to times square *embarrassingly* got a map. walked up to Roc Center, went into the nintendo store, saw the tree [which is SHORT btw. ;)], went into the NBC store :-D, got melissa a pretzel, walked over to lexington [walked past Grand Central!!!!! ahh, smarch.], and walked down and over to broadway, then down broadway to city hall. saw gay ppl gaLORE [and we were worried we'd missed everything, b/c by the time we walked down there it was like, 4 ish....] then joined in kind of a protest march. it was AMAZING. we walked over to west broadway, and up it with the marchers... people were coming out of stores and clapping, and cheering we were chanting and there was an amazing flamboyant man whom we tried to follow b/c of his awesomeness... /end creeper of the day ... also some dude in a park we walked through stood up from his sandwich and cheered :-D. it was AMAZING. we both were amazingly happy. :) then we broke off from the pack when they turned toward a park by NYU [Wash Sq? i feel like it was after that.. Union Sq i think.] and kept walking up till 32nd, and cut over to mad sq/penn.
CRAZY day. OVER 130 BLOCKS. god, my feet are sore.
[FYI, they had dr. spaceman shirt too, total love!]
so we finally leave and we get back to the train station [i was sleeping the whole ride home, 3 hours of sleep will do that to you!] and it's DOWNPOURING.
so, we get back to her house alive and make a video message for Diane Neal's B-day... BTW, it's officially TODAY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Party it up Diane!
So, saturday night i FINALLY got to meet Melissa's friend Jimmy [she says we're exactly the same.. not that we look the same cause we don't but there's a LOT we have in common. we should have gotten a pic together.] he's AWESOME. and we definitely wore about the same thing-if only i'd kept on my jeans! we had on the SAME color shirt [maroon, WHO WEARS MAROON?!]. and it's just too hard to describe the rest... but we're the same person. Anyway, we played rockband [M, J, C, and a few friends of theirs] until like 12. i stayed at M's house overnight with coll and we watched stephanie march videos, fanvids, and the like. in the morning we ate yummy bagels, drank coffee and sat in her kitchen for like SERIOUSLY 4 hours. talking, eating and enjoying life. i think we'll be great roommates, guys. really.
that's about it for my day/weekend. now i'm screwed cause i still haven't done anything for CJ or English. oh well. :)
oh! just so you all know, P!nk's new album Funhouse is AMAZING. the song Funhouse is what my title came from, and Melissa happens to like Ave Mary A, kind of like Ave Maria.
Funny i mentioned THAT because Beyonce's new album, As I Am... Sasha Fierce isn't bad either! and Ave Maria is a song on hers too. i can't decide which i like more b/c both are totally different genre's. i have a feeling P!nk was going for hard rock [um, duh] and Beyonce is more for, christmasey. i can't decide on favorite songs on the album either b/c they are both far too awesome. if you're into either [or both!] download/buy them immediately. they are GREAT.so, have a nice night! and if you're a fan of diane and wish to leave her a b-day message head over here to her guestbook!!!!
http://pub13.bravenet.com/guestbook/1089283549
something to make me even happier- my dove candy has inspirational/cute things on the inside of the wrapper. my faves are....
♥Laugh Often, Smile Much, Love Always
♥Life is a painting, cover the entire canvas
♥Take a walk through frosty grass leaving footprints
♥Fly kites in an azure blue sky
♥Challenge yourself and seek inward peace
♥Be the change you hope to see
♥Belief in yourself is a candle burning brightly without end
♥The breath of Autumn is a whisper to the soul
One more thing, promise this is it! thanksgiving is in a week and a half then i only have two weeks of this semester left, OMG!!! i need to get crackin! haha. but seriously.
i'm SO excited to get to go home, i miss everyone! i'm in the drawing for secret santa this year [you have to be at least 18 and out of H.S.] and it's amazing.
you have no idea how happy i am. i don't think i've EVER been SO EXCITED for the holidays. ALSO, i AM going to see the Roc tree lighted. my friend Kaitlyn [ha!] and i are going. probably Ally and Alyssa too. btw, Kaitlyn is BISEXUAL! i came out to her and she did to me too!!!!!!! i'm so happy i could pass out. ok, for real-homework time.
