I've been too busy. Blogging is such a time commitment. Last time i started a blog i couldnt finish it and then gave up. So instead of struggling to finish that outdated one I'm gonna just start from scratch. Guys (readers), I met the most awesome people. From the drop dead sexy 18 year old freshmen I met at the pizza place to the girl under my room with the super cool guys in a triple across from her to the party chick in the neighboring building with the exact same tastes in guys as me to everybody. I learned the dutty wine and I'm in love with that song, and I met the most awesome sophomores (one of which went to poly but is still cool lol) and the most drop dead sexy junior ever. He is a knockout. The band guy is too. They are both too sexy to be true. lol
Um events, events. Let me see. overall I am having an amazing time. We went to PARTIES. The usual. There was the most amazing retreat in the boondocks lol where I had no phone service, but i did have an awesome room and awesome room mates.
Let me tell you about the parties. I'm sure that's what you'd like to hear about. Yesterday the BSU threw the most awesome party in the world. The BSU is pretty much like the cool people club. There are different races in the bsu but the one thing I noticed that we all have in common is that we are super fun people to be around. So last night I had the time of my life. Loud music and people who were dancing without a care in the world - my perfect definition of fun! Man when I get 18 I wanna go clubbing every night if thats what it's like. And I also am learning how to work out a charlie horse BEFORE it happens. Nice. Tonight a senior from like another club that knows a lot of people from the bsu threw a party in his off campus apartment. his apt was in the basement, but it was bad cause some lady kept saying our music was too loud and saying we had to cut it off. Besides the ratio of guys to girls was like 1 to a million. I mean there were literally no guys there. So it coulda been better but it was still an OK way to spend a few hours. Before that we (me and my close friends) were just chilling in the Wolman dorms. Its so cool how like the Wolman dorms have become like the spot to chill. I kicked some guy's tail today in Madden 07 and it was really fun. I hope I did not emasculate him or anything lol cause I want us to bond. There are some real cuties here by the way. I've only seen a few, but they're here.
Anyway I'm so busy all the time but I'm sure once classes start and there isn't an activity every 2 minutes I can write more often. I'm so excited for classes now ... I really love the ones I'm taking.
Going to a private college is cool, like going to a really selective boarding school. I couldn't be happier with JHU. It is AWESOME.
I haven't written in awhile but here's the deal
Fighting Lions and Hawaiian Bullshit
Not so blue anymore
So the title speaks for itself! I'm so not blue anymore! I am happy! I get to see troy this weekend( and I play sick at work *cough *cough) lol We are gonna have so much fun! Like I can't wait! I miss him terribly but much hasn't changed we still text all day and I don't have to force it to do it like other friends of ours had to do, but that's y they aren't together. tant pis...
alors... (for you Justin lol)
I got all my stuff for school, i felt so happy but then I realized that I don't have a book bag... lol so much for my outfit lol...
Idk... I'm really Happy now, but I have an headache... my mom is about to get us some subs from silver moon, and I cant wait I'm ever so hungry.
its weird cuz i don't have much to say....
I could talk about when I went to umes wit troy but that was kinda graphic, so... I'll just say we had fun until Melanie wanted to sleep all day and be up all right, but still we had fun.
his roomie seems cool, so I think everything is good.
so until next time my friends lol
Mia
XOXO
<3
The Original Metal Gear and Nintendo (and not the super one either)
okay so i have like two days out of funny and random events to blog about but im going to start with yesterday.
Canada is America's hat.
Vending Machine Tea and Cold Pizza
That's what I'm eating right now lol. It's funny how my first night on campus i would begin by eating the most stereotypical student dinner ever. But seriously a series of events that I couldn't control led to this.
Let me begin by saying all of this is surreal. I dreamed about moving out for so long that now that it finally happened it's not quite tangible. I keep staring at my surroundings thinking about how badly I want to hold on to them ... I'm so happy right now that I can barely articulate it.
So once I got here I basically just tossed everything everywhere and my dorm is sort of like that now. I was really lucky and got one of those corner dorms that are really large for no reason. I also got here early so my side of the dorm is bigger. here are some pictures (I tried to do a panoramic). Ignore how all the stuff is strewn all over the place. I figure I have plenty of time to fix it.
So after attempting to arrange it in here a little (I still have to get someone to loft my bed ... either the guy in the room facing mine who lofted his own , or through the maintenence office) it was close to 6 and I had to go to this meeting for SSS program members. SSS is basically like a little club where we are just here to bond and stuff. Tomorrow I have to get up at 7 a.m. and we go camping. In the mountains. I'm looking forward to the "bonding" lol. Hopefully "bonding" means team athletic activities. Whoo! Anyway so I asked my cousins to come and we geeked the entire time. Like the funniest quote from that meeting was a mockery of Maury we made up :
"I KNOW HE AINT HER BABY DADDY CAUSE I WAS ON THE PHONE..."
And I just had a great time in general. We had lunch at the meeting but it was not particularly filling. Everyone was with their family and parents and what not so I decided to head back to my dorm and grab some cash so we could go get some REAL food and chill for a bit. I'll meet the others when we "bond" in the woods lol. Im so excited because they're all really interesting. Anyway back to going out. We went to subway and ordered pizza, and I went to a convenience store and got a nine volt battery for my alarm clock, some light bulbs, and a pink powerade that was *SUPPOSED* to last me all night. except i ended up leaving it in the car. And I got like some folders and pens. We had so much fun. The most fun part was when a bunch of random guys came into subway while we were chilling. We were geeking so hard - and there was this one guy who was drop dead sexy. I totally had a crush on him the moment I saw him and that
VERY
VERY
RARELY
happens.
My cousin was trying to talk to him but one thing led to another and we ended up talking instead. He goes to a college down the street lol ... I'm so partying down there now.
Anyway so blah blah blah i gotta go to bed soon so lemme see if I missed anything. Oh yeah I met the guy across from my dorm. He has a gamecube and so do I and he lofted his bed himself which is cool. Other than him i think the rest of the dorms are all empty so far. Oh and once I got back at 10:33 and realized i had no beverages I had to go on a manhunt for a vending machine. grrr. The first one I found was totally broke and kept taking my money and then giving it bavk and finally cheating me out of 75 cents. But then I found a good one. I gotta go to bed now because tomorrow i'm gonna be up in the mountains
Goodnight! <3
(sigh) On my way....
Ok so here I am at home totally packed to go with troy and not prepared to leave him there. (sigh) So as i sit dreading this long two hour drive (nothing in comparsion to Justin) I wonder what's next. I wonder wut will it be like on Thursday when I come back home and can't call him and ask when he's coming over?
(sigh) idk
I'm kinda jealous in a sense... you all my friends are in college, staying on campus, know asap when the party's are or when they start, me... I'm mineaswell say I'm in graduate high school. Like its just like city all over again.... wake up at 7, catch the bus go to school, come home do home work... same crap... but everyone else, get to have variety in there classes, wake up go to class, go to the dorm, not have a nagging mother telling to u come clean up your daughters mess... (sigh)
I often try to find someone that could possibly relate to me, but no one i know can... here's what ppl say...
Miguel-"well you shouldn't had a child, don't go crying about shit you can't change oh well"
Troy- "well maybe your mother can, blah blah blah,"
Mother-"make sure you come home and do this wit your daughter or that with her," or "did you take your medicine, you don't need no more children" or "well if you wanna do that take her with you cuz I'm tired"
brother- "cricket cricket"
Miguel is like uber jealous of me i can tell because I'm doing something with my life and he ain't done shit with his.
Troy idk he helps but he can't relate cuz he don't have kids he can leave when ever the hell he wants to, me, I gotta ask, and beg, cry, and shout.
my brother, he says nothing, could careless.
MY MOTHER........ her....
I just don't get her, like I honestly don't like never before even when I first had Melanie did she ever pester me like she does now. Like I when I 17, 16 can do wut ever, now I'm 18 and gotta come home as soon as I get off... me and Troy go out one day, go take care of business the next (something like idk going to wal mart) and when I get home she's bitching about me never spending time with my daughter, I'm like
OMG ITS ONLY BEEN TWO DAYS I'M PRETTY SURE SHE'S NOT GONNA GROW UP AND BE A JUNKIE CUZ I STAYED OUT LATE TWO DAYS!!!!!!!!!
LIKE WHAT THE FUCK LADY, GEESH!!!!!
I just don't know any more, like I'm burnt out, I don't know what to do, cuz everyone is leaving, I can't do anything because my mothers being a bitch out the blue as soon as I turn 18, (mind you she didn't give a fuck previous years) I feel so damn dumb cuz I let some stupid nigga ruin my life (not Melanie I would never take her back I just wished I would've waited)
now here I sit, not know what is happening before me, or what happens next, all i kno is that I'm in for the ride of my life over the next few months..... (sigh) I think I need help.
The Big Move!!!
Okay well my first day wasnt as exciting as Jas's was (or as sex filled ... lol), but it was a big deal for me anyway. Although I always considered myself to be pretty independent there's nothing like the feeling of riding to the airport at 4 am in a cab and knowing you wont be back for a long time. As a sat in the back of the cab and watched all the buildings go by it finally kicked in that i was leaving and that I was now truly on my own.
The Plane Ride!!!!!!!
Well if people think that Hawaii is heaven then the plane ride to get there is definately HELL 16hrs, 3 different planes, and no one to talk to. the longest time of my life. but in the end that hell (and trust me it is hell) is totally worth because once you get off that plane and see all the palm trees and the crystal blue water nothing else matters. As i stood and waited for my stuff at baggage claim i realized that there is no one here to tell me what to do, that for once in my life i can finally do what i want when i want too!
My landlord, My roommate (1 of 3), and My apartment!!!
My landlord Mo came to the airport and picked me up she seems like shes a really nice lady (plus she bought me starbucks .... so we're cool) When i got to the apartment, i will admit it was smaller then i though it would be, but its mine (and 3 other people's) so im happy with it. I met one of my roommates Chris; he seems really cool. i havent met my other 2 roommates yet but ive heard about them...
My Other 2 Roommates (the early edition)
So one of them is named Jared and he is apparently gettting his masters from HPU. And he works at Gamestop which explains this huge as gamestop sign in the livingroom ill add a pic of it later.
The other one is Eric he is suppose to be really hyper, and kinda messy, but really good with computers.
So to sum all this up; this is gonna be one crazy ass experience i'll write more later hopefully i can get into some druken adventures too (nothing makes a better blog)
Opening Marathon: WE WANT FRESHMAN!
A Little Background
The Drama Department at Syracuse University is an interesting place: A bunch of horny, constantly drunk, wackos is the only accurate way I know how to describe it. But then again, theatre people do tend to have their own style. Well this style was unique and I'm so glad that I got to be a part of it. It's called "Opening Marathon".
"Every fall semester when the freshman move in
(Naa na na na naa na na na na)"
The very first line that is sung by the entire chorus explains the time of the event. But wait, let's rewind. Opening Marathon is a show, a picnic, a party, mixed with a bunch of drunk freshman and upperclassman all in one. It's called Marathon because of the house the party is thrown at. The house is name "Marathon" and the 6 guys who throw it are called the Marathon Boys. Of course it's called "Opening" because it's the first and biggest one thrown each year. Basically, Opening Marathon is like Opening Ceremony at the Olympics. It's pretty big in the drama department. Now, let's break it down.
"Don't need to read and write cuz we can dance and sing
(Naa na na na naa na na na na)
Don't need to walk to CORE or make a fuss
You can always get to class on the warehouse bus
Want to hear from them now
They're the freshest kids in town
R-R-R-Roll Call!!"
Now some of you may recognize the song from "Hairspray" (with the words tweeked a bit). That's because, Opening Marathon begins with a 5-10 minute skit, performed by the freshman of the drama department. It's written by chosen "Senior Reps", one from each section of the department (Acting, Musical Theatre, Design, Tech) and they write songs to already written melodies that are bashing or poking fun at things that Seniors did that were just plain stupid. Like for instance, one guy got head from two girls in the backseat of someone's car while he was driving. This is how that part of the song went to the already written Melody of the song "Telephone Hour"
"Did you hear about Luke?
In the back of Rob's car
Did you know there were two
Now he plays his guitar"
Now, all of the freshman perform this with choreography and everything in the Storch Theatre in front of drunken upperclassman. (Yeah, loads of fun). And when it's over, all freshman receive a card with either addresses or names on it and they hold them up as the upperclassman storm the stage to look for their names. Whoever you get, is your BIG (an upperclassman that takes you under their wing). We are called their LITTLE. It's actually a really big thing. Upperclassman will ask questions about their little (Prety, ugly, guy, girl, etc) or try to see what's in the song beforehand. THIS IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN! It's serious guys.
Opening Marathon.
I got to rehearsals that day in my jeans and a white t-shirt that I had borrowed from Josh, like all freshman in the drama department were supposed to wear for performance that day. I was giddy with excitement yet nervous to meet my BIG and nervous for the party that night. Everyone of my colleagues were dressed in their own version of jeans and a white t-shirt, excited for the day. The Senior Reps came in, taking charge, making us rehearse the piece 3 more times to tweek some things before we performed. The time was 3:30 when we stopped to break before the show. Many minutes passed as I sat and talked with my friends about who our BIGS might be. The Senior Reps made us practice one last time, quietly though, because upperclassman were already waiting in the hallways.
4:00 came. Banging on the doors began. My friends and I laughed because Ben, the Musical Theatre Senior Rep, told us that they would be drunk when they watched us. We just didn't take them seriously. 4:15 and the doors opened. We were forced back stage by the stairwell so they wouldn't see us. We heard the bumrushing of people, stamping, screaming and yelling as they sloppily made their way to their seats. My friends and I jumped and smiled and laughed as our adrenaline began pumping.
4:30 and the drunk crowd was getting restless. They began stomping and clapping to that famous beat
"(Clap clap clap clap clap)
WE WANT FRESHMAN!
(Clap clap clap clap clap)
WE WANT FRESHMAN!"
We couldn't hold in our laughter backstage. Stage managers continuously told us to get quiet. Soon the time came, 4:45 hit and we knew that it was game time.
"ARE THERE ANY SENIORS IN THE HOUSE," Jen, the Design Senior Rep yelled. The Seniors bumrushed the stage stomping and yelling. We still couldn't see but we felt and heard the noise. Soon the noise died down and we began slowly trickling out of the steps.
"Oh...wait, we forgot the freshman," Jen continued. "...ARE THERE ANY FRESHMAN IN THE HOUSE!"
When that was said, all of us ran on stage, white t-shirts and jeans everywhere. We yelled we screamed right along with the Seniors in the audience. Some seniors even hopped on stage. One of them was one of the 6 Marathon boys, who were drunk. They came to the show in their robes and boxers.
Once we began performing, we often had to stop for the talking, screaming, laughing, jumping on stage and ranting of the Seniors. One guy, who was sitting in the front row, realized that part of the song was about him, hopped over the railing, yelling drunkily.
"FUCK YOU!"
But it was all in good fun because he was laughed jokingly. Aftwerwards, we performed the "Grand 'Ol Flag" song with the drama department dance, the set finale to all Opening Marathon performances. The Seniors performed it with us. When the show was done, we held our cards up and got scared as the the Seniors charged towards us. They pushed, shoved and yelled to find their LITTLE. It was like WAR! Finally, I found my 2 BIGS. They were both female and one of the girls was a girl that we talked about in the show. EEK! But, she said she didn't mind, it was a joke anyway.
My BIGS took me to the picnic that followe. As I ate with my BIGS friends and her LITTLES, Nneka and Kimi, I laughed as I watched one of the Marathon boys walking in the middle of the street, robe open, boxers showing. They had no shame.
Before the actual party started, Nneka, Kimi and my BIGS took us to our dorms to get some overnight things. We all knew we would be too drunk anyway. They took us to their apartment where they gave us alcohol, weed and brownies.(I just took the alcohol, lol). Before we made it to the Marathon house, which was right up the street we were all drunk. Our BIGS made our Marathon shirts. Mine read
"Sorry I was late to CORE
I was getting Wasted at 604
Property of Jes and Ween"
CORE is my acting class and 604 is the address of the apartment. When we made it to Marathon, everything went crazy from there. As soon as everyone showed up, it got hot and sweaty all over the place. People took off shirts and pants (including me). And seeing as though half of the party was full of gay men, they walked around in speedos and Police hats. Drinks were being sold by the second and the place was moist with sweat. I don't actually remember every guy I danced with but it was hectic. I was grided against walls, touched in appropriate places, lifted up in the air, had my legs wrapped around unfamiliar guys and gays and stood in the rain, letting my weave disintegrate. And you know what...I loved every minute of it!
By the time I left the party, I had been baricaded in the bathroom by one of the Marathon Boys, I had flashed my boobs to some gay guy who liked me, taken my shirt off, broke my sandals, danced with Mike, John, Troy, Some gay guy, Some gay black guy, some straight hot guy, squeezed in the middle of two sandwiches, been in the back of a sandwich, danced with Milly and some other chick, danced with Kimi, danced on a speaker, slipped on some water, seen like 16 penises at one time, been drenched in my sweat and the sweat of others, and grinded on basically EVERY DAMN THING in the house. And I only stayed there for 3 hours because my BIG was uber drunk.
When I got back to her apartment she looked at me, laughed and said.
"You basically just had SEX on the dance floor"
I smiled, too drunk to comprehend....and passed out on her couch.