Last night I had the wonderful opportunity of visiting with one of my best friends who lives a plane ride away. As I got ready to meet her I packed both my video camera and my digital camera. The plan was we could take lots of photos to remember the good times. The end result was despite dragging my camera bag around, I didn't take a single photo.
It seems like my generation has an obsession with documenting our every thought and action. Whether it be in a blog, such as this, Facebook status updates, or billions of pictures and videos. Sometime I wonder if, in our obsession to document, we forget to really experience life. I had a fabulous time with Cody, and if I had been taking photos of us together, I wonder if I would have enjoyed the night as much as I did. While I do miss the opportunity of having new photos to up up on my wall, I don't wish the night had gone any other way.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Tech was my destiny?
Ever since I was a little kid I have loved drawing maps and blueprints. What I loved most was how everything fit perfectly into place. Most of the time I didn't move the furniture in my room around. The planing was what was important to me. Last night, I decided it was time to switch up my room again. Above is a "blueprint" of how I'm thinking of designing my room. The huge move is swinging the bed around to give me more free space in the center of the room.
Did you ever have any strange hobbies as a kid that you still do today? Leave your answer in comments.
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Hi I'm Jaine, not Jaine Torres.
Do you say Melissa or Melissa Anelli? Alex or Alex Carpenter? Does it depend on who you are talking to? Does it matter if you are friends?
I've been thinking about types of friendships a lot lately. I've personally had the fortune to be able to travel a lot lately and see a lot of my friends and make new ones, some more known than others. Yesterday, when I posted about my trip to LA, I refereed to Alex Carpenter as both Alex and Alex Carpenter in the same paragraph.
I've been thinking about types of friendships a lot lately. I've personally had the fortune to be able to travel a lot lately and see a lot of my friends and make new ones, some more known than others. Yesterday, when I posted about my trip to LA, I refereed to Alex Carpenter as both Alex and Alex Carpenter in the same paragraph.
Alex Carpenter played an awesome set, possible one of the best I've seen...
That's right, I got invited to my first hotel party. There were a couple locals, us Final Battle people and one of the Quiddtch teams for a while. Later Alex and "Katniss" came.What's interesting to me is why I used each name. In the first sentence I used his full name as a way to recognize his musician status. In that situation he was a star and I was a fan. In the second sentence, I refer to him as just Alex to show that in this situation we were equals. I think it's important to remember that no matter who you are talking to, be yourself. For me that's an intellectual with original ideas. How can I expect to be respected if all I see is the star not the human.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Quiddtch Party Forever
Right, BEDA.... all ready a fail. I think this month is going to be more like BAEDA (Blog Almost Every Day in April.) Saturday I couldn't post because I didn't have access to a computer all day. And Sunday I came home to butt load of house work that I didn't finish till 1am. The end result of this is no blog for yesterday and the day before.
On Saturday morning, I got up and drove to LA to attend the West Cost Quiddtch Cup! It was pretty epic, I must say. Most of the day I spent selling raffle tickets and running carnival games to fundraise for The Final Battle. I personally sold 44 tickets. It took me back to the days of girl scout cookies. I didn't get to see that many games Saturday, but the one game I did take time to watch was the kids Quiddtch match. It was honestly the cutest thing I have ever scene. They had a little kid snitch who was probably better than most of the college snitches. Snitches are devious speedy little things. The only rule for the snitch is they can do whatever they want. What was most impressive about this little kid snitch was he ran strait for about 20 minuets. The seekers would switch out, but he kept running, jumping over chairs, and running though the crowd. I might have some video of that on my personal youtube channel later in the week. I'm not sure if it came out because I was borrowing Amanda's flip which has a broken screen.
Later that night there was a wrock show at the local Barns&Noble. Alex Carpenter played an awesome set, possible one of the best I've seen (other than at con's). Tracy and Noa signed one of his songs, "APWBD". You can see a video of it here. After the show I bought Spells From A Broken Wand, the final Remus Lupins CD I've been missing. Dinner and then a party. That's right, I got invited to my first hotel party. There were a couple locals, us Final Battle people and one of the Quiddtch teams for a while. Later Alex and "Katniss" came. Honestly, it was epic and the most included and happy I've felt for a while. I didn't have to pretend like I was anyone but myself and that self was considered kinda cool. Mostly we talked about Buffy and Doctor Who, two of my favorite TV shows presently. It was honestly a huge nerd fest, butterbeer included. I didn't actually drink because I had to drive, and I'm finding I don't really like alcohol at all. I tried a sip of the butterbeer (which was freaking good) and I tried beer for the first time. I don't like it at all. All and all, a very successful night. Plus Rob promised me Star Wars marathon an to get me drunk if I wanted to. So I have that to look forward to next time I come to LA!
We got back to Tracy's around 3:30am preparing to get up at 8. Four hours of sleep for the win. Sunday, the plan was the same, promote The Final Battle and watch Quiddtch. Only today Tracy and Joe (Dancing Hagrid) had work. I helped set up but, I was exhausted from the night before and didn't want to deal with people/the booth so I spent most of the day watching the games with Amanda and her friend Brianna. The teams were as awesome as expected. I think the best snitch move was wen the two snitches switch shirts to confuse the seekers (two game are played at once). I told you they were devious. I stayed till the final, congratulations to ASU! Then drove home listening to really loud wrock and singing (shouting) along. Although it was only around 4pm it was pretty hard to stay concentrated without the really loud music.
Over all, this weekend rates up there on the list of the best. I think that in my last post I may have been suffering from some Post-Potter Depression. Whenever I get to hang out with such awesome people, its so hard to go home and leave it all behind. I think this is one of the reasons I want to move to LA, or any other major city. As much as I love San Diego, I just don't know very many hard core Harry Potter fans. It gets kind of lonely sometimes. Lucky and the most amazing of all is, Cody is coming to Irvine next weekend which means I get to visit her! Super ecstatic!
PS: How many wrock references did you catch?
On Saturday morning, I got up and drove to LA to attend the West Cost Quiddtch Cup! It was pretty epic, I must say. Most of the day I spent selling raffle tickets and running carnival games to fundraise for The Final Battle. I personally sold 44 tickets. It took me back to the days of girl scout cookies. I didn't get to see that many games Saturday, but the one game I did take time to watch was the kids Quiddtch match. It was honestly the cutest thing I have ever scene. They had a little kid snitch who was probably better than most of the college snitches. Snitches are devious speedy little things. The only rule for the snitch is they can do whatever they want. What was most impressive about this little kid snitch was he ran strait for about 20 minuets. The seekers would switch out, but he kept running, jumping over chairs, and running though the crowd. I might have some video of that on my personal youtube channel later in the week. I'm not sure if it came out because I was borrowing Amanda's flip which has a broken screen.
Later that night there was a wrock show at the local Barns&Noble. Alex Carpenter played an awesome set, possible one of the best I've seen (other than at con's). Tracy and Noa signed one of his songs, "APWBD". You can see a video of it here. After the show I bought Spells From A Broken Wand, the final Remus Lupins CD I've been missing. Dinner and then a party. That's right, I got invited to my first hotel party. There were a couple locals, us Final Battle people and one of the Quiddtch teams for a while. Later Alex and "Katniss" came. Honestly, it was epic and the most included and happy I've felt for a while. I didn't have to pretend like I was anyone but myself and that self was considered kinda cool. Mostly we talked about Buffy and Doctor Who, two of my favorite TV shows presently. It was honestly a huge nerd fest, butterbeer included. I didn't actually drink because I had to drive, and I'm finding I don't really like alcohol at all. I tried a sip of the butterbeer (which was freaking good) and I tried beer for the first time. I don't like it at all. All and all, a very successful night. Plus Rob promised me Star Wars marathon an to get me drunk if I wanted to. So I have that to look forward to next time I come to LA!
We got back to Tracy's around 3:30am preparing to get up at 8. Four hours of sleep for the win. Sunday, the plan was the same, promote The Final Battle and watch Quiddtch. Only today Tracy and Joe (Dancing Hagrid) had work. I helped set up but, I was exhausted from the night before and didn't want to deal with people/the booth so I spent most of the day watching the games with Amanda and her friend Brianna. The teams were as awesome as expected. I think the best snitch move was wen the two snitches switch shirts to confuse the seekers (two game are played at once). I told you they were devious. I stayed till the final, congratulations to ASU! Then drove home listening to really loud wrock and singing (shouting) along. Although it was only around 4pm it was pretty hard to stay concentrated without the really loud music.
Over all, this weekend rates up there on the list of the best. I think that in my last post I may have been suffering from some Post-Potter Depression. Whenever I get to hang out with such awesome people, its so hard to go home and leave it all behind. I think this is one of the reasons I want to move to LA, or any other major city. As much as I love San Diego, I just don't know very many hard core Harry Potter fans. It gets kind of lonely sometimes. Lucky and the most amazing of all is, Cody is coming to Irvine next weekend which means I get to visit her! Super ecstatic!
PS: How many wrock references did you catch?
Friday, April 1, 2011
Relationship Rant
I decided just now that I'm going to try to do BEDA (Blog Every Day in April). The ironic part of this is mostly that I have a viewer ship of 0 on this blog. None the less I'm going to try. Part of what makes this project so appealing to me is I really want to sort though the emotional chaos I have been feeling in relation to my life. In theory if I write about it perhaps it will make more sense.
All the emotional angst can be summarized by one word, "relationships". Typical, I know, though in this this case I don't mean just romantic relationships, I also am including friendships. First lets talk about my friends problem. Lately I've just been feeling a disconnect between myself and those I associate with day to day. I feel like I just sit around online, and they do things. I want to have time to have a social life. Most of my problems come down to time management. I've been flying around and doing awesome things all over the country for a month, but somehow the relationships at home have just slipped. Sometimes it's that I just don't want to deal with people that are petty and obsessed with their boyfriends. This brings me to my second problem. I've noticed over the year that whenever anyone starts talking about their boyfriend or see PDA, I immediately get annoyed. I have come to recognize this feeling as jealousy. I am jealous that they can love whoever they want and public and I have to hide because I am too scared to ask the girl I like out. This is stupid. I love her so much, I have for a long time. So today, I decided I would ask her out. I got all dressed up, then chickened out going to school. So I texted her to see if she wanted to hang out, and she's sick... Sigh, I have all this pent up energy. I want to go out and party, instead I stay home and write a blog because I have no one to hang with.
Yep this was defiantly a rant and also why people don't read my blog.
All the emotional angst can be summarized by one word, "relationships". Typical, I know, though in this this case I don't mean just romantic relationships, I also am including friendships. First lets talk about my friends problem. Lately I've just been feeling a disconnect between myself and those I associate with day to day. I feel like I just sit around online, and they do things. I want to have time to have a social life. Most of my problems come down to time management. I've been flying around and doing awesome things all over the country for a month, but somehow the relationships at home have just slipped. Sometimes it's that I just don't want to deal with people that are petty and obsessed with their boyfriends. This brings me to my second problem. I've noticed over the year that whenever anyone starts talking about their boyfriend or see PDA, I immediately get annoyed. I have come to recognize this feeling as jealousy. I am jealous that they can love whoever they want and public and I have to hide because I am too scared to ask the girl I like out. This is stupid. I love her so much, I have for a long time. So today, I decided I would ask her out. I got all dressed up, then chickened out going to school. So I texted her to see if she wanted to hang out, and she's sick... Sigh, I have all this pent up energy. I want to go out and party, instead I stay home and write a blog because I have no one to hang with.
Yep this was defiantly a rant and also why people don't read my blog.
Monday, December 13, 2010
For Esther
This song is to be sung to the tune of "If I Could" from The Final Battle.
For Esther
If I could speak to you one more time
I’d give you one last laugh
A joke or two to help you through
On NerdFighter’s behalf’s
If I could speak to you one more time
I’d ask to be your friend
A friendship of unrequited love
Brought to life in a smile
You are not alone, Esther.
You’ve touched all of our heart, Esther.
Although it may seem scary
You’re not really gone
You live on in us, Esther.
You’ll always be inside, Esther
And though the night we’ll carry you
Beyond the veil
If I could speak to you one more time
I’d say that you were brave
A young girl like you does not deserve to have
An everlasting fight
If I could speak to you one more time
I’d tell you it’s okay
I’ll be there ‘till the end, my chosen friend
I’ll follow you into the fray
You are not alone, Esther.
You’ve touched all of our heart, Esther.
Although it may seem scary
You’re not really gone
You live on in us, Esther.
You’ll always be inside, Esther
And though the night we’ll carry you
Beyond!
If I could speak to you one more time
I’d say that you never gave up (failed)
Although death may have loomed
The end of life isn’t doom
Your love will prevail
And you are not alone, Esther.
You’ve touched all of our heart, Esther.
Although it may seem scary
We’re all by your side
There through thick and thin, Esther
We know that you fought hard, Esther
Though the night we’ll carry you
Beyond the veil.
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