EPIC SUMMER Event #4: Pottercast/Wrock

EPIC SUMMER Event #4: Pottercast/Wrock

Last week Alison and I went to the Santa Monica library, where we saw a live Pottercast and performances from Darren Criss of starkidpotter and the Remus Lupins. Melissa, John, and Frankie were funny as always as they led a few rounds of Harry Potter pictionary, took comments from the audience about Half-Blood Prince and gave their own opinions. (Though I do have to say that Sue was missed - there was a bit of a lack of Hufflepuff representation in the room.)

It was epically awesome and fun and I'd love to go to wizard rock shows again. Basically how I felt (and still feel) can be summed up in this video. The worst part of the night was the look on my mother's face when she had to sit through the Remus Lupins. They're not exactly quiet.

Picture! Blurry but still fabulous.


Here's a video of Darren Criss from the show. This is basically the angle I was watching from; that might possibly be my shadowy head in the edge of the frame.
(Here's another video from the same night if you're interested.)


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EPIC SUMMER Event #3: Yale!

EPIC SUMMER Event #3: Yale!

I briefly mentioned a few days back that I had an amazing three weeks at Yale, met lots of amazing people, and learned lots of amazing things, but I will now expand on that to give a better idea of why I deserted the online word for 21 days.

At Yale, I took classes taught by college students who do not attend Yale but are intelligent nonetheless. Two of the classes, personal essay writing and film studies, lasted the entire three weeks, and I also took two mini-courses in city planning and famous musical scenes. I loved my two main courses, and while my mini-courses were a bit weird and kind of dumb, all the classes were overall a good experience.

I lived on Yale's Old Campus in a dorm for the entire time I was there, which was cool. Old Campus is basically a bunch of buildings around a quad and it was basically the home of the program. Everyday there were a bunch of activities going on on the quad, as well of groups of people just chilling.

The people were basically the highlight of the program. To give you an example of the diversity, my suitemates were from France, and there was also a girl in my living group from Belgium and one from Lebanon. And there were people from all over the country. I made some amazing friends.

Pictures, anyone? Probably more interesting than my yakking.

Playing cards. I learned a lot of new card games. I'm not very good at any of them, sadly.

A bit blurry, sorry. Rubbing the lucky toe of a Yale professor on the quad.

One of my favorite pictures from our trip to the wax museum in New York City. That's Woody Allen.

Four of my favorite people ever: Megan, Ellie, Alex, Megan.

A bit of Yale's gorgeous architecture, and three of my favorite people, waiting for me, of course.

Conversations Part 2

Conversations Part 2

6/5
via skype instant messaging
regarding sylar from heroes (possibly spoilers if you're not through the first season yet.)
Ali: :(
Me: god dude. don't get all emo on me.
Ali: stop me before I stop myseeeeelfff
Me: Alison. step away from the scissors.
Ali: and the snowglobes?
Me: exactly. those are dangerous.
Ali: BUT I LOVE HIIIIM
Me: but his hair was once shaped like a cereal bowl. and now he's a serial killer.
Ali: whatevs. i'll cure him.
Me: and end up like his mom? surrounded by fake snow and blood?
Ali: NO. i'll mother our adorbale child. i think sylar is gay though. JUST SAYIN. oh wait. he has sex with that one chick. hmmm.
Me: or does he?
Ali: OH DAMN. no he definitely has sex with mohinder. XD
Me: that must be why mohinder was on the ceiling.
Ali: kinky.

6/11
via skype
Ali: Is marshmallow a flavor?
Ali: Actually I think it's a state of being.

6/21
via skype instant messaging
Me: we weren't totally stalking him
Ellie: weeeellll you know its a possibility
Me: haha i suppose
Me: knowing me
Ellie: it's ok, i would totally do it too
Me: well duh
Me: i mean, you've seen him
Ellie: it's chris pine for goodness sake
Me: exactly
Me: he's basically the only reason to watch princess diaries 2
Ellie: OMG, but if it were zach! i would be serenading him on his doorstep!
Me: we will meet him
Me: it's a when, not an if
Ellie: DEFINITELY
Ellie: i wish i could like take him home, he could stay in my guestroom
Me: he could totally come shopping with us
Ellie: OMG YESSS
Me: and give us inside heroes info
Ellie: and he could teach us how to give ourselves sybrows
Me: of course. he's an expert.
Ellie: we could pause heroes at all of his lines and have him do them live
Me: that would be epic
Ellie: absolutely.
Ellie: we could also give him our own suggestions for the show - i bet he has clout when it comes to the scripts
Me: nice sat word there
Ellie: thanks, i thought so
Me: ZEITGEIST

6/25
via skype, while discussing my love of David Levithan's novel The Realm of Possibility
Me: It's written the way that it's thought and it's not over-thought in the way that it's written.

7/22
via text message regarding the epicness that is John Green
Ali: Ahaaa he's listeneing to wizard rock xD
Me: And singing along. John is the epitome of cool.
Ali: For real. He's like the god of nerds. I hope my husband is a mix of him and CPine. I'm jizzing my pants just thinking about it.

Overheard in a public restroom

Overheard in a public restroom

Tonight I was in the bathroom at the Santa Monica library (if you could call that giant a library - wow) when I overheard an older woman talking to a twenty-something.

"My third husband, he was a Protestant," the woman was saying, "and he would take me out to the disco and our friends would ask me why I married him. But I didn't know, because it's not like he was great in bed or anything." Meanwhile the twenty-something was drying her hands and smiling and laughing at all the right places and looking around for a quick but polite exit.

I was laughing about it before, but now that I think about it, the humor's in assuming that these two were total strangers - but what if they weren't? What if they were distant cousins, or members of the same book club? How much do you really divulge to someone that you meet in a bathroom?

(And it's also funny how dated and cliched the conversation seemed - her THIRD husband was a Protestant specifically, and he would take her out to the DISCO. I love people.)

And randomly that just reminded me of how much I hate people who talk on the phone in bathrooms. How hard is it to say, sorry, I'll call you back in five minutes? Do you really need to talk so bad that you'll carry on a conversation while you're peeing? Phone mics are loud. I'm sure the person on the other end can hear you flushing the toilet. I hope people don't go to the bathroom while talking to me. Gross. And a bit creepy.

Anywho, I'm working on a report of both my time at Yale and the wizard rock show I attended tonight, to be posted soon. My epic summer must be recorded!

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Hello Again

Hello Again

I've been home for two days already and have yet to blog - I'm sorry. I did miss blogging while I was gone, but I guess not having constant access to a computer was overshadowed by having so much else to do. Yale was amazing, despite lack of Internet access, and I loved everything I did there and everyone I met. And I am now equipped with a Yale t-shirt and sweat pants so I can sufficiently rub the fact that I lived at an Ivy League for three weeks in people's faces.

Basically to sum up my experience, I took classes in creative writing and film and city planning, all of which were interesting, met people from all over the world, visited various East Coast schools, and had an awesome three weeks. I'm going to try to reequate myself with the online world in the next few days and get back into blogging. How's everyone been while I've been gone?