http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Jillibean-penguin&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Jillibean-penguin en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:43:26 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/26515956/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/26515956/ Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:03:18 PDT
Um... lets see, what's been going on?

I pledged a co-ed bio fraternity about a week after that last entry, and I absolutely adore the people. I've made some incredible friends, and it definitely made me come out of my shell. Sadly, not the best environment for DA-worthy photos, but we'll see what comes up this semester.

I definitely feel like I've chosen the right school for me. Aside from the lack of a folksy culture (or at least, a prominent one), I fit in perfectly here. I love it. I joined concert choir... most incredible choir director I've ever had. He's fantastic and I love him to death.

I've been working at the humane society near my town, and I love it. We're getting a third kitty tomorrow from there, which is SO exciting. He's on a trial adoption because we have two other older cats and we're not sure how they'll get along. But chances are really good that he'll just stay here. His name is JJ, but we're changing it to Charlie. I can't wait. <3

Okay I'm off to bed but I promise I'll get this thing back into gear.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/20289472/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/20289472/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:35:28 PDT
I moved into college last Friday, and I absolutely LOVE IT HERE. Sometime this week I hope to have some free time to walk around and take pictures, because the campus is absolutely beautiful. There are two lakes on campus, Mirror Lake and Swan Lake in front of the gorgeous new chemistry building (the façade alone is enough to make me want to have class in there haha), plus most of the other buildings are just really cool-looking.

I started my job in the library, which is awesome and really laid-back, and I get paid more than minimum wage. That alone rocks.

I've also made some amazing new friends here... I don't think any of them have dA, but they're incredible people. Some people are still saying "oh you know, I haven't really found that group yet..." but I was lucky enough to have met them all on like, the second night I was here. Plus my roommate is great, and we get along so well.

There is a downside, of course... I'm taking this animal science class, which is essential for my major (I'm pre-vet)... and right now we're just learning about meat processing and stuff. We went to the meat lab today and (GROSS WARNING) he showed us the guts of the animal carcasses we were looking at. Yuck.

But its still lots of fun. And I miss NHS a lot!!

Ok so thats about it. Hopefully some pictures will be up soon?

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/18517581/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/18517581/ Mon, 26 May 2008 20:02:46 PDT I guess that's fitting.
Spring is a season of new beginnings, and even though high school is over for me in five days, a whole new chapter is beginning right away.

Things really end in about two weeks, and its scary. I graduate on Sunday. Then a week from today I leave for Connecticut for orientation. So I don't really get a chance to think about high school being over, because after orientation I'll be getting set up to move out in August. I guess that's good, because if I think about it too much I'm going to get sentimental and depressed.

So now that its summer and I have yet to get a job (grrrrrr....), I have, for a couple of weeks, time to relax, read, and draw. Yes, draw. I've been drawing some wildlife pictures and hopefully I'll get them up soon.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17860897/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17860897/ Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:41:33 PDT
Well, when I left school I decided instead to walk the two and a half miles home, grab Dunkin Donuts on the way (because there are like ten of them in my town) and then ride my bike the three miles back to the library.

Now, it really isn't that long a walk, but... well, I've been home for about five minutes and now I need to leave again in order to be at the library on time.

...Whatever, I've had my coffee and its a nice day. :-p

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17726734/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17726734/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:00:57 PDT CRAZY.

I am [supposedly] doing an internship at the Metrowest Humane Society, which is AWESOME, so 120 kids of my class (including me, obviously) have been withdrawn from their fourth term classes to do said internship. SWEEEEEEEET.

I have to go back to school for my bio class and rehearsal, but effectively I'm done with school and have LOADS of free time on my hands. Which means I get to READ, and DRAW, and take walks, and sleep lots, and dance more, and AAHHHH ITS SO EXCITING.

Oh, and UConn 2012 is 150% official.


]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17369066/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17369066/ Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:14:23 PDT
Anyway. I found my camera cord [ps, I lost it awhile ago] and pictures will be up from awhile ago... like, lunar eclipse awhile ago.

AND AND AND AND.
One of the pictures is me with ANTHONY RAPP because I MET HIM LAST NIGHT. Amazing. He sang and talked to us at Northeastern last night, and it was incredible. Plus he and Adam Pascal are touring with Rent in the spring and will be at the Wang! Tickets aren't on sale yet, but I'm TOTALLY GOING.

Also, I only have nineteen days [12 school days] until I'm officially a part-time student at NHS. I'm leaving for an internship at the vet clinic near the high school, so my last day of school is April 4th. SWEET.

In other words, ANDY JACOBS GET YOUR BUTT TO THE CAF ASAP.
And spring is in like, five days. WHOOOOOO!!!!

Yikes, I need to sleep, I'm afraid of myself right now. I don't know where this is coming from haha.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17306145/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/17306145/ Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:17:44 PDT
Woooooooo!

In other news, I have NO idea where I'm going to school next year. UConn screwed me with financial aid, and despite my begging, my mom isn't going to move us to Connecticut for in-state tuition. So if UVM gives me more financial aid.... well, I might be in Burlington next year. Which wouldn't be TOO bad, except I've joined groups on Facebook for UConn and already made some great friends (including a potential roommate?) so I really don't want to give that up.

Oh well, we'll see what happens at the accepted students days.
(ps, I still haven't heard from Ithaca or Syracuse, but they're totally out. I have too much to worry about anyway haha)

And by the way, GO DAVID ARCHULETA!

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16928196/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16928196/ Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:13:28 PST
Last February, I went to New Orleans with my church to gut houses damaged by Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward. I know I just posted my college essay about it, but there's so much more that didn't fit into 500 words or less.

Mardi Gras was two weeks ago, so its been coming up in conversations a lot lately; especially since last year we happened to be down there during the final week of Carnival (and thus, got an authentic Mardi Gras experience, which was incredible).

I watched an episode of Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel, where Mike Rowe went to St. Bernard's Parish (another heavily damaged section of the city) to help a gutting crew. At first, I was like "cool, I might have driven on that street, and cool, I've done that. I know what he's talking about." Then they panned the interior of the house; the overturned couch, the mold spots on the wall, and the utter destruction absolutely everywhere, and it all came flooding back. (No pun intended.) I almost started crying, I got so emotional.

People keep telling me "come on, it was a year ago, get over it." But its not so easy. Every so often, I'll smell the air of the city, or see a run-down house in a not-so-nice part of town, and I'll immediately go back to New Orleans in my mind. Its not something I can forget.

The first few days of the trip were bearable... sure, the tearing down walls and ceilings and sweeping up moldy pieces of wood and floor was depressing, but we at least had the celebrations of Carnival to lift our spirits after a cold shower (there was no hot water). After Tuesday, we were on our own.

Friday was the worst day... previously, we had just been working with empty houses; all the stuff inside had already been moved out. We had split into two work groups, and Adam, our crew chief, pulled us over to give us an overview of the day. We weren't prepared for that terrible sentence: "We're doing contents today." That meant we were cleaning out a house that hadn't been touched since Katrina, 18 months previous.

The woman whose house we worked on had Hoarding Disorder - in other words, she couldn't throw anything away. She had kept every single edition of the New Orleans Times Picayune newspaper since at least 1993, as well as her childrens' old school notebooks and clothes and other possessions. Put all that junk under eight feet of water and let it sit for a year and a half, and you've got the house we were working on. Things had overturned, floated from room to room, and sat rotting for months. It was not a pretty sight.

You could smell the house from outside. Aside from the usual belongings one would assume to find in a house, keep in mind that food had also been sitting and rotting. The refridgerator had been broken since the flood, so milk, cheese, meat, and whatever was sitting in the fridge.

In previous years at Habitat for Humanity, our group would talk while we worked. Not here. We were completely silent, reflecting on the morose task we were doing. The brother and sister-in-law of the woman, who was comfortably residing in an assisted living home in Houston, were outside going through things that could have been saved. The pile on the sidewalk got bigger and bigger, and the pile of salvageables stayed more or less the same.

The clocks were the most sobering things; you could tell exactly when the water got high enough to short-circuit the clock. 9:45, 10:00... the clocks ticked, but didn't move. It was creepy.

It's not something, as you can imagine, that just leaves your mind. Walking through the Lower Ninth Ward, all you could hear was birds. There were no people on the streets. We got back to Boston and while we were driving back to the church to be picked up, a friend leaned over to me and whispered "It all seems so... alive here."

He was right. People here went about their daily lives, not even thinking about the thousands of people along the Gulf Coast that lost their homes, their past, and their lives and were still, a year and a half later, trying to rebuild.

We paid attention the first month or two after it happened, and then we just assumed it had fixed itself. I'll admit, I'm guilty of it too. But we were so wrong. Today still, two and a half years later, a group from my church is down there working. Sure, they're building now, rather than just gutting, but the fact is we're still working, and the reason behind our lack of action is sitting comfortably in the White House.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16524207/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16524207/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:05:55 PST They think he killed himself with pills.

Yikes.

[also, RIP to my friend's beloved chickens, Cotton, Martinie and Betty; they were killed by a weasel the other day and were her best friends.]

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16461420/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16461420/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:03:33 PST
I woke up this morning, and almost fell down in the shower like three times because I was really dizzy and nauseous. Sooooo... long story short, I stayed home today with a cold, a migrane, dizziness, back aches, nausea, and sore wrists, calves, and arm.

Granted, the HPV shot is only taking the blame for about three of those things, but, well, basically, I'm a mess. Stress is not my friend.

On the plus side, there are 73 school days left until prom/the last day of school for seniors, and I'm pumped for that. I've started becoming bored by the monotony of high school life, and I'm SO ready to get out of this town.
Being a senior definitely has its perks, aside from the normal priviledges like leaving school on a free period or getting out of school a month early (followed by a week of awesome senior activities). I only have two real midterms... my week next week is as follows:

MONDAY: Happy Birthday Martin Luther King (aka, no school.)
TUESDAY: English midterm/nothing period 2
WEDNESDAY: Bio lab (not a midterm)/theater mock-audition.
THURSDAY: Latin midterm/Chambers check-in
FRIDAY: NO SCHOOL!!!!

I'm babbling, procrastinating, and waiting for my dad to come. So...... I'll continue the inner monologue in silence.

[ps, I like how the mood "high" is under Daily Needs.]

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16356249/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16356249/ Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:13:01 PST
I'm also currently working on an ACTUAL drawing; I'm sketching a portrait of my friend Wheaton. Its about halfway done, so expect that up in the next few weeks or so.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16207860/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/16207860/ Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:47:55 PST (Scary to think that five months from today is graduation... yikes!)

Went to a contra last night in Concord, as usual, for New Years, which was insane. SO many people. Unfortunately I was too busy seeing long-lost loves to take any pictures, but there had to have been easily 600 or 700 people there. One could barely even move, let alone dance. (I even got beaten up by a friend when I bumped into his partner haha)

The new year is already turning out to be pretty good... its a big year for me; my last few months of high school, first few months of college, last year with youth group, last Habitat, my 18th birthday... oy! So much is going to happen in the next few months, its crazy. I can't wait, but at the same time I'm slightly terrified.

Yikes.

Oh, and Sweeney Todd is the most intense movie I've ever seen. Don't go if you're sqeamish, its ridiculously gory. But SO GOOD.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15394507/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15394507/ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:08:56 PST
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hartford's my safety, and I don't really want to go there, but its nice to know I have some fallback in case the other schools don't work out.
But yay!!!!!

(and ps, if you couldn't tell, I found my camera.)

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15332669/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15332669/ Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:35:54 PDT
And I haven't uploaded any of the pictures from New Hampshire or my walk through the cemetary. Plus I missed out on Halloween pictures, and I'll miss out again tomorrow at Ian's party.




........GRR to the extreme!

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15134074/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15134074/ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:25:41 PDT
I'm done applying to college.
Now all I need to do is wait.

And what better way to celebrate than spending an entire day dancing, seeing some of my favorite people ever (that i haven't seen in over a month!!), and visiting some cool cats at Brandeis.

I'm so excited.
Those cemetary pictures will be up soon, I promise, I just need to find my cord.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15005508/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/15005508/ Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:32:18 PDT
My UVM application accidentally got submitted, and I've been emailing one of the admissions reps. Apparently, I pretty much filled everything out, except for attaching my resume and the essay, so I think I'll just leave it.

Other than that though, I need to figure out my timeline for the next few weeks:

ASAP - Send SAT scores.
Also ASAP - Call Collegeboard and request to send my AP scores.
Monday Oct. 15 - Pick up recommendation from Hinne
Friday, Oct. 19 - Be done with essay.
Nov. 1 - UVM deadline
Nov. 15 - UHartford deadline
Dec. 1 - UConn early action deadline
Jan. 1 - Syracuse deadline, FAFSA is available.
Feb. 1 - Ithaca deadline, FAFSA deadline

I'm pretty sure though, I'll be sending all my stuff by the December 1st deadline, just to get it done and out of the way.
So I have six weeks to finish applying to college. YIKES.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14911888/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14911888/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:57:43 PDT
I'll have to weed through and find which ones are the best, but expect a small batch (maybe a big one, I dunno) of photos in the next few days.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14787927/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14787927/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:56:44 PDT After dancing three times a week for three months, thats kind of a big deal.
I miss it like nobody's business.
Alex is driving me on Thursday.
But Thursday WON'T COME FAST ENOUGH.

(not to mention it's a half day, so it'll feel even longer.)

That being said, I'm also super busy (I have a month before UVM's application is due, and then another half a month for everything else) so no opportunities for taking pictures have come up.
I do have a double priv on Friday though, so maybe I'll go over to the cemetary next to the school and take some pictures if its a nice day. That cemetary is gorgeous, I love it.

This was semi-pointless. Oh well.
Probably, by the next time I update, I'll have seen WICKED!!!.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14617112/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14617112/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:58:56 PDT
Anyway.
So my mom and I decided last night that the only other school that would make sense to visit was UConn, since UVM, Ithaca and Syracuse were too far for a day-trip and I'm going to Hartford in a few weeks.

I actually really, really liked it.
It's a huge school, which could take some getting used to, but I think I could do it. Size was my big issue with UMass, but UConn is a good 10,000 students less, so I think it's manageable.
All the buildings were really nice [and new, for the most part], especially the library and the student union. There are little cafés everyhwere, and the ID cards have your meal plan on them so you can just use those for everything. It's really nice.

Plus, all the extra stuff sounded really good as well... apparently some really big acts come to perform at the Jorgensen Center, like Jon Stewart, Bill Cosby, Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, Gym Class Heroes, Dashboard Confessional... all for like, $20 each. And there are a bazillion clubs to join (including multiple a capella groups).

So all-in-all, it's definitely up there on my list.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14591887/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14591887/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:45:56 PDT
I need a new ID.
Too bad I'm also feeling ridiculously lazy.

I have a quiz tomorrow on the Miller's Tale from Canterbury Tales, and.... yeah, haven't started it. Go me.


Definitely wish I were in more of an artistic mood lately... I used to draw all the time, but I haven't had the patience for it lately. Boo.

In other news, my mom's finally letting me join Boston Harmony, whic is this Concord-based Eastern European/folk choir. It's ridiculously awesome, go to [link] and give some of their stuff a listen. (Especially the Balkan stuff, because that's just SICK.)

Yeah.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14517646/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14517646/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:13:44 PDT
As it stands now, I'll be applying to:

University of Connecticut
University of Massachusetts (Amherst)
University of Vermont
University of Hartford
Ithaca College
University of New Hampshire
Rider University/Westminster Choir College.

I was originally going to major in music theater, but after lots of consideration, I decided I'd rather do that as a minor, and major in either biology, italian studies, voice performance, music history, or music education.
That being said, only Ithaca, Hartford, Rider and UNH have music theater at all, so I'm really rooting for one of those. Most particularly Ithaca, because their italian program sounds AMAZING.

So my top choice has been hopping around from Ithaca and Hartford, but I think I've finally figured it out and I'm happy. And very relieved, because a) I can stop stressing over auditions, and b) I've actually got things figured out.
Plus, I can do early app for Ithaca, which I was terrified to do before because it meant auditioning in November.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14491967/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/14491967/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:45:48 PDT
I guess its cause nothing happens in my boring life. Like, nothing.
Senior year has begun, and my schedule is fantabulous:

Block 1 - Honors English
Block 2 - Choir
Block 3 - AP Biology
Block 4 - Theater Arts
Block 5 - Latin 1
Block 6 - Band
Block 7 - Gym
Block 8 - Band (yes, again, don't ask.)

Soooooo I basically have no work until the summer review in bio is over. Which is totally fine with me.

Went to the Dawn Dance (12-hour contra in Brattleboro, VT) and got nooo sleep. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, which sucks because I could have gotten some intense shots.
I've been slipping more and more into the hippie stereotype (minus the drugs and tye-dye), which means lots of Simon & Garfunkel and Bob Dylan, and just chilling. It's a good lifestyle

There's an experienced Contra on Friday, so maybe I'll remember to bring my camera and show you all what contra dancing is all about.

]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/13594208/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/13594208/ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:28:31 PDT
After being incredibly bored, I stumbled upon my old dA account and figured I'd check in. Lots and lots has happened since November 23, 2005...

My church took a trip to New Orleans in February to help out the Katrina victims. It was such an intense week - in a matter of seven hours a day for four days, we gutted three houses down to wooden beams and a roof, and on Friday we threw a woman's wrecked life out onto the sidewalk.

I don't have many pictures from the trip, but I'll upload what I can.

Sunday I got back from a trip to New Jersey to do Habitat for Humanity, which is where the majority of these new pictures are coming from.

So anyway, I'm alive, and hopefully I'll be up here more often. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/7125257/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/7125257/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:56:33 PST
So, bunches of stuff have happened.

1. I was in Disney World last weekend with Chambers and Style, the mens and women's choirs at my school. Hence the new pictures. It was amazing.

2. We open Friday night, Pirates of Penzance. If you know where I live, ask me about show dates/times. It's gonna be good.

3. I made Senior Districts for choir! I also got an All-State recommendation. This is my first time ever doing any kind of choir aside from Chambers and in 4th grade. The cutoff was 55 points, and I believe I got a 63. Yay!

So. Um...yeah. I'm going to see RENT in an hour and a half. YAY!!!!! :-D

*scuttles off* ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6527115/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6527115/ Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:43:01 PDT
School
School's been going well so far; my teachers for the most part are really good, except I want to kill my spanish teacher. She's really boring. Six honors classes may have been a mistake, but I'm holding my own for now.

Drama
Well, drama technically still hasn't started. We're doing Pirates of Penzance, and the first "rehearsal" was Thursday, even though all we did was watch the movie. First real rehearsal is Monday.

Other stuff
Youth group is really the only "other stuff" of importance... I've actually started going to church, whoa. But its not a normal church -- no normal church would start an underwear collection for the victims of hurricane Katrina. ^_^ gotta love Unitarians. Oh yeah, and we get free food after the service.

We found out there's a chance youth group may be going to New Orleans for Habitat next summer, instead of Guatemala.

Oh yeah, and the band is going to Rome Spring 2007. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6317748/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6317748/ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:17:09 PDT
Anyway. Not much has happened since I got back from Colorado. School starts in 7 days, holy crap. Our schedules finally came, but they don't have teachers on them, and my parents are too busy to make an appointment with my guidance counsellor and find out. So I have to wait until Wednesday. Meh.

My grandfather gave me a CD of pictures he's taken, some of which I'm totally mooching off of him and uploading here. The last 3 pictures I uploaded were from his trip to Hawaii. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6220846/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6220846/ Sat, 13 Aug 2005 23:39:23 PDT XD

But anyway, expect photos soon. Probably not until after Thursday, since I don't want to upload all the pictures onto my grandfather's computer, then upload them again on mine, but have faith, they're coming.

And Natick people...er... person....er... Maria. Have schedules come yet??? ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6131609/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/6131609/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:08:57 PDT
We did, however, land when the sun was setting in the most perfect spot for an amazing picture. You can't even see the reflection in the plane window, its awesome. I admit though, I did get a tad camera-happy with the clouds... hey, what can I say, they looked cool.
Once I talk to my grandfather about where to put my pictures, I'll have a few shots up.

Camping at this point is up in the air-- Mesa Verde is still a possibility, but it'll be a 2-day drive up, a 2-day stay, and a 2-day drive home. So that's pretty much week 2. So depsite the cool history of the Anasazi that we would learn, and the fantastic photos I could get, it may not happen. I'll keep you posted. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5962952/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5962952/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:35:07 PDT
I'm also in the process of uploading a few very old pictures, from Christmas. Enjoy! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5934754/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5934754/ Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:18:16 PDT
Habitat was fantastic though...such awesome people and great times.

I'm coming home on Sunday, which means I miss the barbecue for the incoming freshmen at my youth group and I'm kinda bummed about that. Cause I was looking forward to seeing those people again. But its all the way in Northboro, and somehow I doubt my dad was going to want to drive me all the way there. I could have carpooled with Mike, but oh well. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5764494/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5764494/ Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:47:20 PDT
So Vermont was, as you can see, a very pretty place. We went to Lake Champlain, and hung out by the pond in my aunt and uncle's backyard. It was fun.

Its gonna be SO hot in Pennsylvania this week. But I'm looking forward to it, even though my brother is being an ass and won't find the laces for his boots. Which isn't good, because I NEED work boots. I'll be in a friggin construction zone for a week.

Ah well, I'm off to pack. Comment if you actually read this. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5665229/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5665229/ Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:31:56 PDT
Physics: Done.
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English: Done.
Spanish: Done.
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Gym: No exam.
Band: No exam. NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! XD
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History: Monday, 7:45-9:15
Geometry: Monday, 9:30-11:00

And Tuesday is Period 8/makeups, and period 8 is big band, so I don't have school. I'm going to the 8th grade graduation, then out to lunch with my super-cool 8th grade friends who I haven't seen in months! Next Thursday I'm off to Vermont for the weekend... my cousins are gorgeous and love taking pictures, so expect a few portraits (maybe an actual sketch if I get around to it?), then Habitat in Pennsylvania. Supposedly its a pretty location... then Canada, and off to Colorado again in August.
And you people have seen my Colorado pictures. We may actually go to Mesa Verde this summer!

My scanner's not connecting to the computer for some reason. Its really disappointing... because I got my yearbook, and there are some pictures that I wanted to scan in and make a collage of. But I need my dad to come over for that... oh well, maybe tomorrow? I've also got a few sketches going, believe it or not. Oh well, hopefully I'll have those done by the weekend, and maybe get a chance to scan them sometime.

So until then.... adios! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5441914/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5441914/ Mon, 23 May 2005 19:02:06 PDT
Lets get updated.
Quebec, in a word, was AMAZING. By far the best weekend I've ever had. If you want to know more about it, ask, but I don't feel like rewriting everything. Yeah. It was awesome. We got the equivalent of a low gold, which is great.

Some downsides however...
There's this kid at school who I've been friends with for awhile, and now apparently he's purposely trying to avoid people, according to someone else. And I know I'm one of them. But I don't know why, and its pissing me off.

But whatever.

ONLY LIKE A MONTH LEFT OF SCHOOL! Technically speaking, I am now a sophomore. The seniors are gone, so I guess that means we've all moved up a grade. *shrug*

Right. So not much else has been going on. I'll update more if stuff happens. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5237697/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5237697/ Sun, 01 May 2005 11:26:11 PDT
Today

Work on my english project, pick up Erin (hopefully) and go to youth group from 7-9, then come home and finish the project.

Monday

School until 2:15 (2:18 if you want to get technical), stage crew for "You Can't Take it With You" until SEVEN (its tech week...ugh), then Wind Ensemble from 7-8:30.

Tuesday

School, stage crew until 7, Community Band from 7:15-9:30.

Wednesday

School, stage crew until 7, Chambers meeting about Disney from 7 till whenever.

Thursday
School, NO STAGE CREW (its opening night), babysitting from 5 to 6:15, then Godspell at Framingham High at 7:30

Friday
School, call at 5:30, show from 7:30 to whenever.

And then Saturday I've got the show at 5:30. Plus a HUGE history project due on the 11th, a huge chapter test in Spanish on tuesday, and whatever other homework I'm bound to get. GAH. Why are there only 24 hours in a day???? ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5136897/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5136897/ Wed, 20 Apr 2005 07:45:57 PDT
Science:

Gr. 9: Physics
Gr. 10: Honors Chemistry
My sophomore friends tell me honors chem is a bitch, but I figure its easier to drop down a level than up, so I'll give it a try.

English:
Gr. 9: Honors English I
Gr. 10: Honors English II
...Yeah. Honors english this year was a joke, so I'll see what next year's like.

Language:
Gr. 9: Spanish II
Gr. 10: Spanish III
...Grr...no honors classes until junior year. I just hope I don't get stuck with another mixed class...this year was insanely slow. I should have been in Anya's class...

Wellness:
Gr. 9: Phys. Ed Sem 1/2
Gr. 10:Health Sem 1/Gym Sem 2
Oh, how I hate the NHS curriculum. For some reason, some freshmen had to take a full year of gym this year, instead of next year. So I've gotta take health next year. Not that I mind a semester off from gym...

Elective:
Gr. 9: Sym Band
Gr. 10: Honors Sym Band
Yes, our school has an honors band class. Its nothing different from regular band, but we have to do a solo concert at the library twice a year. Now all I have to do is get a damn lesson teacher...

History:
Gr. 9: Honors World History I
Gr. 10: Honors World History II
All I can say for this choice is this: If I don't get Blackburn, I'm dropping out. (Plus history is insanely easy.)

Math:
Gr. 9: Geometry II
Gr. 10: Honors Algebra III
YES! No more geometry! I'm so glad I took honors algebra in 8th grade...

Extra-curricular Activities
Gr. 9: Drama/Stage Crew/Wind Ensemble
Gr. 10: Drama/Stage Crew/Wind Ensemble/Flute Lessons/Voice Lessons/Chambers

*Sigh* Yeah... next year should be interesting. And really busy... I can't wait until junior year though--Theatre Arts, hell yeah! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5089819/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/5089819/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 18:46:19 PDT
1.) Tomorrow's Friday
2.) Its C day tomorrow, which means I have double band (which rocks)
3.) Assembly last period, which means I get to miss English to watch Jazz and Choir
4.) 2:18 tomorrow begins April Vacation!
5.) I MADE CHAMBERS! (For those of you who don't know, Chambers is an all-girls choir at my school that you have to audition for. And Chambers and Style [the boys choir] are going to DISNEY WORLD next November!!)

Yeah, so I'm happy. Plus, Quebec is in 28 days!!! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4958190/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4958190/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:00:29 PST
Everyone must go see Just the Two of Us by *barns... its a fantastic picture! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4882140/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4882140/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:25:08 PST Days till April Vacation: 27
Days till Quebec: 52
School days until summer vacation: 63/64
Days until summer vacation: 92
Days till Habitat: 98
Days till Peru: ....A lot

And...thats all I know officially right now. The best thing is the 52 days until Quebec. Because thats the one I'm looking forward to most. Its gonna be amazing. Plus, tons of pictures!

So. Friday I may be going to George's Island with Jake, Karl, Kelley and maybe Meghan (and whoever else wants to go *looks at Maria?*), if I can convince my mom to take Friday off (it IS a holiday, ignoring the fact that my mom's Jewish) and go with us, since even though Karl's 18 and a legal adult, my mom doesn't know Karl (...or Kelley, for that matter) and therefore won't let me go without an adult over the age of like 30 that she actually knows.

So yah. My scanner's fudged up, but once I get it working (I think its the software that came with it) I'll be putting up my art from 7th grade that I did in my art class. Whoooooo!

Okay thats all for now, pizza's here. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4861959/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4861959/ Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:28:17 PST
Now if DA would only cooperate and let me submit... ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4759092/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4759092/ Tue, 08 Mar 2005 10:07:19 PST
So anyway, I've got a lot of travelling planned for this year and next year:
-Quebec May 13-16
-Pennsylvania June 27-July 3
-Canada sometime in July
-Colorado in August
-If I make Chambers, competition at DISNEY WORLD in November
-PERU next summer for a month!!!

I dont think I've updated here since I heard about Peru. My high school is doing their first ever World Challenge Expedition, next summer, and its to Peru for 4-6 weeks. Since only 20 people can go, and they've got a whole year to plan and do fundraising (unlike our trip to Quebec), we might not even have to pay anything! And my mom said that it's OK if I go, depending on the cost! So if we end up not having to pay, that would be INSANELY amazing. Plus Anya's probably going, so we'd have like...the greatest time ever. :-D

And OH:
April 3, 2005
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
ROW: I
SECTION: ORCHESTRA

OMG. I'm SO excited!!!!
Though that' s the day of MICCA, another (free, thank GOD) competition in Hopkinton. We play at 3:30, so my schedule for that day is this:
-NHS at 12:30
-Get to Hopkinton High School and warm up
-Play at 3:30
-Clinic around 4
-After Clinic, me and mom racing into Boston to park at my grandmother's house and taking the T to the exact opposite side of Boston to get to the opera house. BUT OMG! Thats going to be such an amazing day. And if we get a gold, the next Saturday we'll be playing at Symphony Hall!

So yes, that's my band update for today. Adios! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4714364/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4714364/ Wed, 02 Mar 2005 19:22:18 PST
As some of you know, we've had a band trip to Quebec planned for quite awhile. Mr. Cice has been extremely slow in getting permisson to fundraise. And now its March 2nd. The competition is in May, and we'd leave May 13 and come back May 16th. Since he's neglected to mention it much since about a week before vacation, we all figured he'd given up on it since it would cost well over $15,000 for 100 people. For us to go, we'd each have to pay $400. So I hear from 's sister that the competition is still on, and we're still planning to go to Quebec.

MIGHT I ask you all how we're supposed to raise that much money in less than 9 weeks, PLUS register in advance? >_< This guy needs a reality check, seriously. I mean, he's got good intentions. I know he wants us to have the opportunity to go on a big trip like this, but without any advance warning, there's NO way we can do it. My feeling, and Maria's, is that we should go to Six Flags and Great East for a competition this year (because Six Flags is amazing anyway) and save up for next year. So that we'd have an entire 13 months to fundraise. Its really the only logical thing we CAN do. I feel sorry for the seniors who are looking forward to it, but really. Is there any possible way people can think of to raise nearly $20,000 dollars in 9 weeks?

Plus, when he told us about the trip in the beginning, it would be $300 per person. Which is a lot, but its relatively manageable. Now, since we've got so little time to fundraise, its $400. My parents are both struggling to make ends meet, even AFTER we moved a year ago. And now Mr. Cice thinks that we can all pay this money, no problem. And of course, there's no financial aid, since we've only got 2 months.

I'm definitely having a talk with Mr. Cice after school tomorrow. Maria, you should join me.

Anyway, I've procrastinated too much and now I have a buttload of homework to do. So much for sleep.
And OH! My birthday=6 hours and 54 minutes from now!!!! YAY! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4641766/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4641766/ Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:45:38 PST
What ever happened to those pictures I was drawing, I wonder? I apparently did one of Draco Malfoy (that I never finished) and one of Charlotte Church (...also, never finished.) I have a strange feeling they've gotten thrown out, since I've scoured my room a few times to find various things and have yet to come across either one of them.

So...maybe THAT'S what I'll do tomorrow.

...or perhaps not. Whatever works. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4641711/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4641711/ Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:36:46 PST
Does anyone have any suggestions? I'll do anything, except anime stuff (*looks at Molly*)... so drop a comment and let me know!

Alright, its 1:36 right now so I should probably get some sleep before I waste tomorrow away completely. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4628988/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4628988/ Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:09:46 PST
=A Few Hilights=
-Anya's sketchy blue whale story.
-"So, I've got a story to tell you about a blue whale."
"*Cough* Ben Schwartz!"
-Extremely delicious, deformed brownies

...Yeah, so it was a good day. The Ben thing probably won't be funny at all unless you know him...

Anyway. Not much else is going on this week, except for Friday being Buzzer's birthday party, it being 11 days before my birthday, 13 before my party, and seven days until Oscar night.

Okay...update later. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4548463/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4548463/ Thu, 10 Feb 2005 17:45:07 PST ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4501356/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4501356/ Sat, 05 Feb 2005 05:31:35 PST Ron761989: everything had magic
flyingpenguin390: *waits for the justification of that random comment*
Ron761989: then it'd be poor cat
flyingpenguin390: lol
Ron761989: sorry
flyingpenguin390: I was wondering where you were going with that
Ron761989: random comments are getting me places nowadays
flyingpenguin390: lol
flyingpenguin390: where exactly did you think that was going to take you? lol
flyingpenguin390: on a magical trip to Hogwarts for Christmas?
^ Me and Ronny

Steffe26: Psych is killing me, it has to be one of the most boring classes in the world
flyingpenguin390: lol
flyingpenguin390: physics too
flyingpenguin390: they should die
Steffe26: Yes we should kill them and sic the Band Geek Army on them LOL
flyingpenguin390: yes!
Steffe26: And hold both Dr. Cotter and your psysics teacher hostage in the tuba cases
flyingpenguin390: YES! I think Levy would fit, too
flyingpenguin390: he could curl up with his lack of vertebrae
flyingpenguin390: no idea where that came from
^Haha...yes, it shall be the END of Mr. Levy!

flyingpenguin390: we should plot to rule the world
DRIRETLANvampire: YES!
DRIRETLANvampire: WORLD DOMINATION!
flyingpenguin390: hmm....how should we start?
DRIRETLANvampire: Well first, we make all the men our slaves
DRIRETLANvampire: Secondly, we monopolize the pie factories.
flyingpenguin390: and then we put shannon and matt sullivan in charge of baking people into pies
flyingpenguin390: cuz...you know...they suck
DRIRETLANvampire: What do we do with THEM though?
flyingpenguin390: with who...shannon and matt?
DRIRETLANvampire: Yeah...or is the pie shop like a sweatshop?
flyingpenguin390: yes
DRIRETLANvampire: I see
DRIRETLANvampire: So, if we are to go about this world domination thing the right way, we need titles.
flyingpenguin390: and if matt starts to sing we do the thing that the dude did in that english thing we read and zap him with more and more electricity until he DIES a painful DEATH
DRIRETLANvampire: YES!
DRIRETLANvampire: *rubs hands together evilly*
flyingpenguin390: Moooohahahahahahahahahabah...
DRIRETLANvampire: It's like that Sideshow Bob episode on the Simpsons where they zap him, but then "accidentally" break the button that controls the zaps
flyingpenguin390: *whistles innocently*
flyingpenguin390: wasn't me!
DRIRETLANvampire: This thingy needs a thing for evil eyes
flyingpenguin390: it does
DRIRETLANvampire:
flyingpenguin390: >
flyingpenguin390: damn
flyingpenguin390: yeah urs works better
DRIRETLANvampire: haha
DRIRETLANvampire: so, I shall be the...
DRIRETLANvampire: Supreme...
DRIRETLANvampire: Ruler...
flyingpenguin390: we shall be the Supreme CO-rulers... what catchy titles
DRIRETLANvampire: Duhn duhn duhhhn
DRIRETLANvampire: OF THE UNIVERSE!
flyingpenguin390: complete with controversial penguin fur robes
DRIRETLANvampire: XD
flyingpenguin390: and shiny crowns
DRIRETLANvampire: kyaaay!
DRIRETLANvampire: *yaaay
DRIRETLANvampire: Kyay can be our battle cry
DRIRETLANvampire: Dorky as it is
flyingpenguin390: and we shall all have mr. bigglesworths and become doctor evils
DRIRETLANvampire: lol
flyingpenguin390: our kingdom shall be in a VOLCANO!!!
DRIRETLANvampire: Huzzah!
flyingpenguin390: except....you've never....seen Austin Powers, have yo
flyingpenguin390: *you
DRIRETLANvampire: No, but I know about it
DRIRETLANvampire: Just not everything
DRIRETLANvampire: *wails* YOU EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM ME!
flyingpenguin390: aww I sorry.
flyingpenguin390: now, back to our plot
DRIRETLANvampire: *rubs hands together evilly*
DRIRETLANvampire: You must usurp the Penguin throne from TJ
flyingpenguin390: ...I thought I already did when Gwen blew him up
DRIRETLANvampire: Oh yeah...and he seems to be ground into a pie anyways
DRIRETLANvampire: With A La TJ and everything
flyingpenguin390: *grin*
DRIRETLANvampire: So then we'll have our band of aquatic-ish mammals...birds...AND DOMINATE!
flyingpenguin390: MOOHA!
flyingpenguin390: whoa...wait where'd the birds come from?
DRIRETLANvampire: The penguins, Jilli!
DRIRETLANvampire: *taps head wisely*
flyingpenguin390: oh right...*cue Jilli moment*
flyingpenguin390: anyway...so... ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4429168/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4429168/ Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:58:43 PST
Physics: 87
English: Don't know yet
Spanish: 95
Band: Don't know yet
History: 39/50 on essay, 89 on objective (SO CLOSE to A-)
Geometry: 96

I'm insanely happy about Spanish, physics and Geometry. I thought for sure I'd do worse on physics. Spanish I kind of expected, since it comes really easily to me, and geometry just because I need an A average to get into honors algebra next year. History is okay... I thought I'd do better on the essay, but granted she DID tell us to prepare to be able to choose whichever civilizations we wanted, so I had this whole thing prepared comparing Rome, Byzantium and Russia, but you these were the choices: (pick one from each)

Rome OR Byzantium
Carolingian Empire OR feudal Europe
Abbasid dynasty OR rightly-guided Caliphs.

So as you can see, Russia wasn't even a choice, so I was sort of out of luck. Plus, I didn't know anything about the Abbasids, and I wasn't even 100% sure WHAT the Carolingian empire WAS (other than it was the empire in Western Europe controlled by Charlemagne), so I did Rome, feudal Europe and the rightly-guided caliphs. Rome surprisingly had a lot of marks (I forgot about the civil service), and feudal Europe was really good since I did this whole sappy bit about the peasants being the foundation of the feudal system, and then the Islamic stuff, much to my surprise, didn't have many marks at all. Amazing since I only knew like 3 things.

But anyway, English I'll find out tomorrow, and band I'm pretty sure I got an A on, since Mr. Cice said that there were only like 2 people who got lower than a B+. Its kind of annoying though; he's had over 2 weeks to get those graded, and all the other teachers had them done within a week. *Sigh* Whatever.

Anyway, I'm cold, and I have to get off the internet, so...yeah. Later! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4401999/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4401999/ Mon, 24 Jan 2005 11:32:45 PST
Of course, that's not going to be as easy as it sounds since my brother has safeguarded it in his room. He doesnt trust me to plug it into the USB port. ITS NOT THAT DIFFICULT, really! *Sigh* So now I've got to wait until "he's ready", which, since he's really pissed, could be days.

Hah, gotta love siblings. And I can't go see Phantom of the Opera (again) with Anya, Maria and Stef, for reasons unknown to me, so I guess this snow day, just like the last one, will be spent doing chores around the house. How fun. >_> ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4393228/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4393228/ Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:24:02 PST
Anyway, as you probably guessed, we didn't get stranded at TJ's last night... it was the funnest night though.
Some hilights:
-Billy and the Hershey's Kisses: Lol he was holding a Hershey's Kiss over a candle, WITH THE WRAPPER on, and TJ was like "BILLY!!!!!" and he squeaked. So then Billy humored him and took off the wrapper. And continued to melt the chocolate.

-Billy and the Scented Candle: Kelly blew out the little blue candle Billy had been using, so he stole the big red one in the middle (we were eating in the dark, since apparently TJ's always wanted to do that...) which he didn't know was a scented candle. Long story short, it was really funny.

-Kelly and Billy's Glove-fight: ...Kind of self-explanitory.

-Deirdre under the table: Lol she was being fed pretzels and candy canes by Kelly, and once we got cake, she reached up to put the candy cane back on the table (it had been licked already) and accidentally put it right into Kelly's cake.

-Me and Stef: Lol I <3 Stef. When I got there, we were watching I Love the 90's Part II, and Ben Stein was driving around the bottom in a really random green car. And the backgrounds kept moving. We got grossed out during the Olestra part, when Weird Al shouted "ANAL LEAKAGE!" and we had all been paying no attention...that was interesting. Then when we went on the computer we were looking at all of TJ's videos...he's got an amazing Disney collection. Its great. We're going to steal some the next time we go over there.

-TJ's Talking Pockets: LMAO. That was definitely the hilight of last night. They're Australian, too.

-The most annoying computer EVER: Whenever a page was minimized, it made this really annoying BANG sound. And every so often the desktop would go "PLAY BALL!!"...I would seriously shoot myself if I had that computer.

Quotes from Last Night:

"Mmm...it tastes like strawberry!"
"...Billy, that's an apple-scented candle."
-Billy and TJ

"ICE CUUUUUUUUUUUUUBES!!!!"
-Kelly

"Oh look! Its Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Boob!"
-TJ

"...Did you just ask which one was coke and which one was water?"
-Me (I have bad hearing lol)

*Walks to the door* "Oh look! Pizza's here!" *Walks away*
-TJ (lmao... we were all like "DUDE OPEN THE DOOR!" ...It was hilarious.) ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4384367/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4384367/ Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:28:50 PST
I was cleaning my room today, and I found like five pages of Disney fanart that I drew in February. I really want to upload them... Maria, mind if I bring them to school on Monday?

Oh and before I go,

Good luck to Anya and Maria at Jr. Districts! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4341610/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4341610/ Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:38:29 PST ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4340777/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4340777/ Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:13:54 PST
I've been amazingly busy lately; midterms start tomorrow (gah) and they've basically been taking up my full attention for the past week or so.

I NEED A SCANNER!!!!!

;_; I've been looking at these pencil drawings and I have this whole box full of old drawings and stuff that I did last year or the year before, and I want to put them up here!!! Gar.

So yeah I haven't posted a deviation in awhile either, which is what I'm going to do now. ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4152406/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4152406/ Sat, 25 Dec 2004 08:10:35 PST I got some awesome stuff, including the new Hilary Duff CD, the soundtrack to La Bohéme (yuhs-the accent works!), and A CD BURNERRRRR!!!!! Hallelujah!

Tonight I'm going to my grandmother's to have Christmas dinner, then sleeping over at my dad's and departing for Canuckland at zero o'clock tomorrow (probably around 5:30 or so)... I'm going to keep a journal like I did over the summer, so I'll have updates and stuff. I'm going to try and convince my aunt Sandy to take me to see Phantom of the Opera while I'm up there... somehow I doubt the rest of my family will want to go... my great-aunt and grandmother barely speak english, let alone trying to understand an opera... and the rest of my family is 2 50-or-so males, and 3 boys between the ages of 15 and 18....

yeah.

Merry Christmas! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4145173/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4145173/ Fri, 24 Dec 2004 11:33:43 PST Have a happy Christmahannukwanzaaka Solstice to you! ^_^

My dad FINALLY got the Canada pix developed, and as I said before I might be getting a scanner, so maaaaybe I'll have some up later!
Tomorrow's Christmas (yay!!!) and then Sunday I'm going to Canada for a week, so I'll talk to you all on New Years! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4073541/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4073541/ Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:28:03 PST
So I might have a scanner in 2 weeks!!!!!!!! YES!
That way I can finally put up the picture from Toronto last summer from Fort York that's really cool...its got the fort from 1812 in the foreground, and modern day Toronto with the CN tower in the background... its really cool.
That's my update for now...later! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4043424/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4043424/ Sat, 11 Dec 2004 15:25:14 PST

Tonight's the 5th night of Hannukah. So far, I've been home for all but Tuesday, which was the first night. I've been present for the candle lighting ONCE, and that was last night, and the only reason I was there was because I was in the living room at the time. I really want to know why the hell I wasn't called in from my room to light the menorah. Especially considering the fact that I was about 5 steps away from the living room. I walk in there and the candles are already halfway burnt out.


Yeah, just felt like sharing that with all of you. Happy Hannukah... ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4035866/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/4035866/ Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:01:11 PST
What I meant is that I'm both Jewish and Catholic, but I celebrate Christmas more extensively than I do Hannukah, and Sunday is the one day of the year I'm technically jewish, because I go to a Hannukah party with the rest of my mom's Jewish family who actually know the lyrics to the songs we sing.

Anyway, today was okay... had interesting convos during band and after school (read below), and had a battle with the loud and obnoxious pencil sharpener in Mr. Levy's room during physics. (I'm switching into honors--w00t w00t!)

Lets see... the play's been over for a week, and its really annoying waiting for an hour with nothing to do before my dad comes to pick me up, but I've become a jazz band groupie afterschool...I'm definitely going to audition next year. (So that means during the fall, if I get in, it'll be chambers mondays, community band tuesdays, and jazz wednesdays, with the play. Should be fun.)

Anyway. Le citazioni. (That means "the quotes" in Italian.)

"I think it randomly started to rain harder." "That's what we call the wind..."
-Kaitlynn and me

"You shove a pencil up its ass, and it goes MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"
-TJ

"Look, I can wring out my hat!" "Look, I can wring out my bangs!"
-TJ and Danielle ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/3947536/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/3947536/ Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:51:16 PST
No rehearsals until Thursday, w00t w00t! Opening weekend went really well, minus the few glitches Tasha had with the bird lol...

Day 1: No bird...fell off the string so we couldn't use it...>>;

Day 2: Had a bit of an issue getting up into the air, and once there, it froze... (Mike: Oh...that would be my cue, eh?)

So yeah... anyone in the Greater Boston Area should come see it next Friday and Saturday at 7:30 in the Natick High auditorium.

It feels so wierd to be home and have nothing to do.. its kinda depressing, really...drama was like my life for a few months, and its almost over, and its sad. I was reluctant to do the Student-Directed play in the winter, but now I know I'm definitely doing it.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say...tomorrow is Community Band unless I decide to skip it and go to Emily's house to cook for our history project. Faith and Leah are going, and I really need to talk to Mrs. Johnson about lessons, so I think I'm going to skip the cooking.
Eh...yeah. That's it... until next weekend! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/3923351/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/3923351/ Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:44:20 PST I've gotta be there at 5:00, which I find just a LITTLE excessive, since the show's at 7:30, but we have to run the bird scene since it keeps getting fudged up. (The string is SO well hidden, too...>>

Anyway I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving!

Oh right-before I forget:

HAPPY 18TH BIRTHDAY STEF!!!

Yay for Stef being legal to drive! ^_^ We can now bug her for rides! w00t to that! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/3914358/ http://Jillibean-penguin.deviantart.com/journal/3914358/ Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:11:17 PST
I've gotta go get ready for the football game, but Happy Thanksgiving everyone! ]]> ~Jillibean-penguin