"Make up your mind you have stories to tell...

Quote that made me tear up

2009-06-18T02:00:13Z

"You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn't true. I know a lot about love. I've seen it. I've seen centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain and lies. Hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But to see the way that mankind loves... You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful. So yes, I know that love is unconditional. But I also know it can be unpredictable, unexpected, uncontrollable, unbearable and strangely easy to mistake for loathing, and... What I'm trying to say, Tristan, is... I think I love you. My heart... It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I'd wish for nothing in exchange. No gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine."

I adored Stardust and, make fun of me if you must, cried during it. What a perfectly lovely fantasy-romance. And how she glowed when she was with him, lovvvvvvvvvvved it. And it poked fun at itself, allowing its own cheesiness.

B.A. in English/What is the world going to be?

2009-05-24T06:00:36Z

I friended an optimistic quotes community on livejournal.  This popped (not pooped as I originally typed) up yesterday, my graduation day. How perfect is it?!? We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass that still points to thee.-John Gay

So yes, I have a Bachelor's of Arts from Goucher College, cum laude, with Honors in English with a minor Communications & Media Studies. It feels good-I had my nice, long sob as my mom drove away from the college. What's nice is that I have almost no regrets. I worked hard and played hard and am glad I met every, single person I came in contact with. It's like Meg - our Commencement speaker and my roomie of 4 years - said: we can learn from everyone.  College is that highschool sweetheart you need to leave: I love you, you've been wonderful to and for me, but I need to see other places. I'll miss you, let's stay on good terms, wish you the best.

Goucher has been simply amazing for me. Not perfect, of course, but that's where the lessons lie. I really love myself, and want that for everyone. I realize my and others fantastic, unique, beautiful individuality. I haven't lost my optimism as I sillily (made it up) thought I might. It's just more grown-up.  Early this year at the beginning of the school, I talked to my mom about how her mom was tough. Not just strong, but tough. I said I wanted to be tough. I feel like I've gotten tough.

And I have it good for undergrad: To continue bragging but to keep readers updated: this summer I will be the development/PR intern at the DC Choral Arts Society and in August, I will begin my 40-week, paid internship in the Public Relations Department at CENTERSTAGE in Baltimore. And they're housing me.

So thank you, everyone. I'm so glad to have met you and that leaves no exceptions. Goucher kids: Goucher's beautiful but let's the try and bring that beauty to wherever we go (A tip from my counselor) :-)

Attention everyone!

2008-10-31T06:12:07Z

Puppies are awesome!

Yay!!!!

cool

2008-09-08T23:26:09Z

This dude approached me via email because he read my stuff from the Q and wanted a non-environmentally knowledgable perspective. http://www.plentymag.com/features/2008/09/greening_higher_education_curr.php
Scroll down!

Attention to all!!

2008-05-22T19:50:37Z

Nofish is a jerk! Say no to Nofish!

so i am a bit braggy-excited...

2008-05-17T05:27:36Z

from my internship supervisor.

"Hi Sarah,

I hope your gearing up for your time with us hear at Arena. I know I am getting ready for you, considering the season intern's last day was today. Eeek -- what will I do!?

So I a couple things I wanted to go ahead and let you know about....

The second thing is that June 5th we will have a photo run for our upcoming production of The Mystery of Irma Vep (like the Miller run you saw). I'd love for you to be there for that as well, so if you are not booked yet that night, please mark your calendar."

So, what is The Mystery of Irma Vep and who is in it, you may ask? OK so you probably won't ask. Well, the website says..

"Charles Ludlam’s hilarious Obie Award winner gleefully ransacks literary, cinematic and pop culture as it satirizes everything from Hitchcock’s Rebecca and Victorian Melodrama to The Mummy's Curse, the Brontës and Shakespeare...With dozens of lightning-fast changes, Brad Oscar (Tony-nominated on Broadway for The Producers) and J. Fred Shiffman (She Loves Me, Cabaret) portray all the characters men, women and monsters – in a gender-bending tour-de-farce"

Brad Oscar was the original Franz Liebkind (the Nazi playwright) and eventually went on to play Bialystrock. Oh my god, you guys...and I'm getting some money for this? Well, shit, if this isn't just heavenly...and what's more exciting is that in some years, I feel I could be really damn good at what my supervisor (her title is Media Relations Manager)

:-D

For my own sake, boring for you

2008-05-12T18:28:59Z

WED:
Psych Exam

By THURS I will be done with everything besides Shakespeare. What I have to do for that:
- Finish Henry VIII
-Error Log for Paper 2
-EXAM
*Study Group Tues afternoon
*Write notes for take-home question tonight

redstar402 @ 2008-05-05T00:52:00

2008-05-05T04:47:52Z

Dear Self and Friends who I love and are going through stresses,

The world is SO much bigger and SO mcuh more than you and/or I. Isn't that wonderful?

I was stressed the other night and that thought calmed me down.

Love,
Sarah

To-do list, discounting Final Exams

2008-05-05T02:17:12Z

Kinda, sorta stolen from Alison M.

ENG 232:
- Ponder/maybe take notes for the question Jeff gave us for the Final Exam
- Error Log

THE 103:
-Finish powerpoints for presentation Tuesday - DONE!
- Perhaps make mixed CD? for said presentation
- Perhaps Print out notes for students in the class

COM 365:
- Finish written part of PR Campaign
- Make a powerpoint?
- Convert campaign to speech format

ENG 307:
- Edit pieces for portfolio

PSYCH 230:
Continue reading, only one reading left! - DONE!

Hey, that's not bad! AND ALL OF MY PAPERS ARE DONE! Everything's better now, yay!

redstar402 @ 2008-04-30T14:17:00

2008-04-30T18:21:09Z

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as ‘unread’ by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish. Here's the twist: add (*) beside the ones you liked and would (or did) read again or recommend. Even if you read 'em for school in the first place.

Addendum
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22 (an exerpt)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi: A novel *
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey (again, the majority of it)** Any writer should be familiar with this, even if it's not my favorite piece ver
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
A Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler’s Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner**
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A Memoir in Books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales (A few stories in my 211 class)
Frankenstein**
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange -
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray*
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest*
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver’s Travels
Les Misérables (Does adapted count? for AP English)
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time******
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela’s Ashes
The God of Small Things
A People’s History of the United States : 1492-present
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners - I also plan to finish it over the summer!
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter**
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye*
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Inquiry Into Values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity’s Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield

lovelovelove my schedule! fall 2008

2008-04-23T01:06:47Z

SENIOR!

After a semester of all repeat professors, I have all new ones! Any hints, heads-ups, or classes we share?

Monday:
9:30-10:20: COM 312.002 – Children and Television - Zurawik
11:30-12:20: THE 202/ PHL 224 – Existentialism: Philosophy and Theatre - Rose(Audit)

Tuesday:
ANT 280: Anthropology of Performance - 10-11:15 - Rory Turner
MGT 370: The Arts Administrator 6:30-9 - Lohr

Wednesday
9:30-10:20: COM 312.002 – Children and Television
11:30-12:20: THE 202 – Existentialism: Philosophy and Theatre - (Audit)
6:30-9: ENG 208 – Journalism Workshop - Lynell Smith

Thursday:
ANT 280: Anthropology of Performance - 10-11:15

Friday
9:30-10:20: COM 312.002 – Children and Television
11:30-12:20: THE 202 – Existentialism: Philosophy and Theatre (Audit)

Dramaturgical Practicum (1.5 credit - pre-structured independent work w/ TBA professor, probably on Tuesday afternoon but to be worked out in the Fall)

redstar402 @ 2008-04-20T16:12:00

2008-04-20T20:11:35Z

SCATTERGORIES...it's harder than it looks! . *Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following... *they have to be real places, names, things...nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial.

1. What is your name: ....................................Sarah

2. 4 letter word:.................................................Sass

3.Vehicle: ..........................................................Subaru

4. A city:...............................................................St. Cloud (NJ)

5. Boy Name: ....................................................Saul

6. Girl Name: ....................................................Samantha

7. Alcoholic drink: ............................................Sambuca

8. Occupation:...................................................Substitute teacher

9. Something you wear:...................................Skirt

10. Celebrity:......................................................Sarah Jessica Parker

11. Food: ...........................................................Salmon

12. Something found in a bathroom: ..........Shoes

13. Reason for Being Late: ...........................Sick

14. Cartoon Character: ...................................Scooby Doo

15. Something you shout:…...........................Surprise! (SOO-PRAHZ)

16. Animal: ........................................................Snake

17. Body part:.....................................................Skin

18. Word to describe you.................................Smiley!

redstar402 @ 2008-04-13T16:09:00

2008-04-13T20:08:19Z

One word answers only...

1. Where is your mobile phone? purse
2. Your significant other? amazing :)
3. Your hair? aburn
4. Your mother? wonderful
5. Your father? calm
6. Your favorite thing? kindness
7. Your dream last night? books
8. Your favorite drink? sweet
9. Your dream/goal? happy
10. The room you're in? dorm
11. Your ex? lovely
12. Your fear? unsure
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? accomplished
14. Where were you last night? downstairs
15. What you're not? athletic
16. Muffins? yummy
17. One of your wish list items? music?
18. Where you grew up? fairfax
19. The last thing you did? read
20. What are you wearing? sweats
21. Your TV? off
22. Your pets? fish!!!
23. Your computer? okay
24. Your life? good
25. Your mood? tired
26. Missing someone? forever
27. Your car? noexistant
28. Something you're not wearing? socks
29. Favorite Store? online
30. Your summer? exciting!
31. Like someone? more
32. Your favorite color? turquoise
33. When is the last time you laughed? morning
34. Last time you cried? friday

nonapplicable to misanthrope kids (sorry!)

2008-04-08T19:05:34Z

ONE available, already-bought ticket to Gem of the Ocean at the Everyman Theatre on tomorrow April 9. $22 would go to me. Anybody interested?

theatre + english geekiness together!

2008-04-02T03:57:27Z

some pretty quotes.

"Why look for answers
When none occur?
You'll always be what you always were,
Which has nothing to do with, all to do with her." - Stephen Sondheim, Company

"Our doubts are traitors.
And makes us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt." - William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

redstar402 @ 2008-03-30T14:59:00

2008-03-30T18:56:03Z

I've been trying to resist writing a mushy livejournal, but I just really want to right now. Even at my most blowing things out of proportion, overthinkingish, he's amazing. Ladies and gentlemen, the man is a keeper. I say man where I usually say boy because he's incredbly mature. Resume your daily activities and regularly scheduled programming.

what am i doing this summer?

2008-03-20T19:26:26Z

Turns out I'm the MEDIA RELATIONS INTERN FOR ARENA STAGE!!!
"This position offers an opportunity to assist in creating and implementing initiatives to garner press coverage for the theater’s programs and productions, including a variety of administrative tasks and special projects."

Yes....press for theatre? Rock! WHEEE! Plus, a "modest stipend." wowowwowow.

redstar402 @ 2008-03-18T14:25:00

2008-03-18T18:23:32Z

"It [laughter] is of two kinds: existing in oneself, and existing in another person. When one laughs on one's own, that laughter is said to be existing in oneself. When one causes another person to laugh, then the laughter is said to be existing in another person." - A translation from an excerprt of The Natyasastra by Bharata

There's something beautiful about that.

redstar402 @ 2008-03-11T20:20:00

2008-03-12T00:21:58Z

so many happy coincidences lately! serendipity?
including an unexpected but delightful rooming sitch!
yay.

and now...shakespeare paper. whimper.

one more london post. places to visit

2008-01-01T20:29:22Z

I know we'll probably only be able to do about 3 of these max, but I thought it couldn't hurt to make a list. Prices are not exact.

DAY TRIPS
Buckingham Palace - 8.50 pounds ($16)

Westminster Abbey, which includes Poets' Corner: "Shakespeare himself is buried at Stratford-upon-Avon, but resting here are Chaucer, Samuel Johnson, Tennyson, Browning and Dickens. There's even an American, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as well as monuments to just about everybody: Milton, Keats, Shelley, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, George Eliot and others. The most stylized monument is Sir Jacob Epstein's sculptured bust of William Blake. More-recent tablets commemorate poet Dylan Thomas and Sir Laurence Olivier." (6 pounds for all of Westminster Abbey - $11)

Institute of Contemporary Arts: "London's liveliest cultural program takes place in this temple to the avant-garde, launced in 1947. It keeps Londoners and others up-to-date on the latest in the worlds of cinema, theater, photography, painting, sculpture, and other visual and performing arts" 3 pounds ($5.70)

Kensington Palace - 9 pounds ($17).
St. Paul's Cathedral
Tower Bridge - Frommer's calls it "possibly the most pohotographed and painted bridge on earth." - 4.25 pounds ($8.10)
BBC Television Centre - 6.50 pounds ($11)
Jewish Museum: "This museum tells the story of Jewish life in Britain." They were force out in 1290 and returned in 1665 during the reign of Elizabeth I. " 8 pounds ($15)
Kensington Gardens - statue of Peter Pan
*edits* Tower of London ($18)
Hyde Park: Includes "Speaker's Corner" - people make outrageous speeches on social and/or political issues!
*start edits* Covent Garden (on Kaylyn's recommendation)
Tower Bridge (on Kaylyn's recommendation)

MUSEUMS(on Kaylyn's recommendation)
Portrait Gallery
National Gallery
Tate Modern
Royal Academy of the Arts *end edits*

FRINGE THEATER
I'm looking mainly at the King's Head because there are matinees on Saturday and Sunday at 3:30 pm. Frommer's describes it as heavy on musicals, several of which have had success in the West End. $17-28
There's also: The Almeida Theatre, The Gate, and the Young Vic

NIGHTLIFE
Bar Code: A gay club that on Tuesday nights presents "Comedy Camp", stand-up comedy night. ($7.60 cover), 4pm-1am on Mon-Sat. Meg?

Anchor - a pub: "You can follow the footseps of Shakespeare and Dickens by quenching your thirst at this pub."

Lamb & Flag - a pub: "Poet and author Dryden was almost killed by a band of thugs outside its doors in December 1679..."

OUTSIDE OF LONDON
Windsor - ($15-18)
Oxford - 35 campuses

Stratford-upon-Avon: 2.5 hours from London, $53 minimum for a round trip. Very cool, but not likely

redstar402 @ 2007-12-25T00:33:00

2007-12-25T05:32:26Z

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

(Before anyone asks, I didn't do a Chanukah post because...home's about getting to know your computre more, ie more vegggg time)

PS: You all know that dressing up makes me happy. Even if I'm going with my dad and brother who certainly won't , would it be far too ridiculous to go to Sweeney Todd in Mrs. Lovett hair and makeup? I might just do it :))

Babies gravitate towards good Samaritans, study says

2007-12-14T03:06:36Z

By Tom A. Peter Wed Dec 12, 3:00 AM ET

Six- and 10-month-old babies are much more capable judges of character than previously thought. Not only can infants pick out a good Samaritan, they tend to identify with them, according to a Yale University study published in the journal Nature.

The study released last month presented babies with a diorama-like display of an anthropomorphic circle struggling to make it up a hill. Just when it appeared that all hope was lost, a heroic triangle appeared, and pushed the circle to the top. The round climber bounces, clearly elated to have reached the summit. The same scenario is played out again, only this time a square appears at the top of the hill and pushes the circle to the bottom.

The babies were then asked to pick a toy – the helper or the hinderer, as scientists called them. One hundred percent of 6-month-olds and 87.5 percent of 10-month-olds chose the helper. The results were consistent even when the triangle and the square swapped places as good guy and bad guy. In several other iterations of the experiment, the helper, regardless of shape or color, won out.

"Babies are very competent socially," says Kiley Hamlin, lead author of the study. "They can figure this kind of stuff out without people explicitly teaching what's nice and not nice and who's nice and who's not nice."

In another component of the study, researchers showed the circle choosing to sit with the helper or the hinderer. In this instance they found that 10-month-old babies were far more adept at noticing something seemed strange when the circle decided to sit with the hinderer. (They figured this out by how long the baby watched the helper or hinderer pair up with the circle, working under the assumption that babies, like adults, study something that appears out of the ordinary.)

While other research has shown that babies make assessments about people based on their physical appearance – they gravitate toward attractive people – these new findings show more complex levels of judgment.

"In any species that needs to cooperate as much as humans do … we always need to know who might be a good cooperator and who might not," says Ms. Hamlin.

Theatre makes my world go 'round

2007-12-09T08:58:43Z

it's all a droll rehearsal until the makeup's applied and the lights go up which amkes everything go crazymagic. quite happy with the revue. No, it wasn't flawless, but it was FUN. and it went WELL. goodnight.

I have never thought I was professional material in the fields of acting, tech, directing. But I belong in this big, beautiful world of theatre. I won't beam in the spotlight but I can use my own talents.

After all, every theater company needs a publicist/marketer...It was weird, on Broadway Sirius Radio they discussed the strike, and listed the affected careers - one of whcih was publicist. It made me feel like I can be useful and "live" in thie beautiful world in a more officey desk-job way, with which I have no problem.

Possible shows to see in London. will have to, of course, narrow down later.

2007-11-25T17:21:12Z

William Shakespeare's Othello with Ewan McGregor as Iago (Standing Room Only - but it's the cheapest way to see a show!)
William Shakespeare's King Lear with Ian McKellan in the title role
(hopefully Allison and Chrystelle will take us to see King Lear...)

Glengarry Glen Ross
Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap (the longest running play...ever)
Kander and Ebb's Cabaret
The History Boys
Blood Brothers

Let me know who's interested in what!

a lot of it's my and mom's itunes...

2007-11-17T20:07:30Z

. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod etc.)
2. Put in on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool

Waking Up: "Reconsider Baby" - Eric Clapton
First Day At School: "Intro (Gortengar Trail)" - Stephen Lynch
Falling In Love: "Someone Like Me" - Cyndi Lauper ("And as I stand inside I know that I/ Can't watch life through a window"..."take the first step/that's the first trick of it all")
Fight Song: "Flamenco Sketches (Alternate Take)" - Miles Davis...I'll shock people with my mad poor dancing skills
Breaking Up: "Cocaine" - Jackson Brown
Prom: "Nobody Does it Better" - Pearls
Life's Just...: "Lonely Mr. Broadway" - the Dave Bruebeck Quartet
Mental Breakdown: "Chocolate on My Tongue" - Wood Brothers (a good solution...)
Driving: "Make it Funky (Part 1)" - James Brown
Flashback: "Here on Who" - Seussical
Getting Back Together: "Down to You" - Joni Mitchell
Birth Of Child: "Your are so Beautiful" - Joe Cocker
Wedding: "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" - Billy Joel
Finale Battle: "When?" - Evening Primrose
Death Scene: "Jack Straw" - Grateful Dead
Funeral Song: "Perdido" - Duke Elegrant
End Credits: "Santa Fe" - Rent