:: Nietzsche kNew Nothing ::

:: Saturday, March 29, 2003 ::

Up yours!

I didn't know that Erin took down her website. It makes me sad.

Vivé tacos!

Here's something for the Froggies...

Stupid Saturdays

1 ) Best Frog: Keslie or Dax? Hmm, that's a hard choice, since both are traitors...But I'll say Dax. Kelsie's Frog looked at me funny.

2 ) Favourite vegetable: Corn, hands down.

3 ) Person you most like to see dead: Hmm... Sara Lee or Kristen Adkins , it's not like they'll contribute anything to society anyway.

4 ) Worst smell: Raoul's Breath. (I hope Gilbert doesn't read this)

5 ) Favourite crayon colour: periwinkle.

6 ) Would you rather be probed by an alien or Druck? Alien, at least we know it's hands are clean ;-)

7 ) Star Trek or Star Wars? Oooh Trek, Star Wars was great until episode one, two, and probably three.

8 ) Steal Wacky Wednesday type questions or make your own: Your own. You should try it sometime Kels ;-)

9 ) Who smells better: Kelsie or Ricky? Hard one, Kelsie, although Ricky always smells like clean laundry...

10 ) Thought provoking question of the day: If you could only save one person, your husband or your child, which would you choose? I think I've asked this before, but why not ressurect an old question. Get it, ressurect? I kill myself. LOL. Anyway, I would choose Child. You can always marry more men. Damn. That is a hard choice.

:: Jennifer 3/29/2003 07:43:00 AM [+] ::
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Seeing in the Dark. Night vision rules!

If I had $2,500 to blow

I want to get some night vision goggles.

Can't you tell?


Anyway, I had a weird dream that I was in 24, second season. I think I was Jack, but the actor playing Jack was Michael J. Fox. Weird. Anyway, the plot was that there were 3 hostages being held by some Arab radicals and I had 48 hours (It's a dream) to free them. I remember that I was talking to the President (The Senator from Season 1) and telling him in a press conference seeting that he was in danger and abotut he hostages. I told him that there were guns pointed at him right now. He had to play it off and then someone started shooting at us. We ran to a white surburban and jumped into the back. The President was laying on the floor, unhurt and i jumped into the back with him along with some black kid. I told the kid to lock the door because he might fall out. He didn't listen at first and when the car lurched forward the door swung open and the kid almost fell out. I grabbed the door and shut it then locking it, saying to the kid, "I told you so." Weird dream, eh?

It's a first, but my short posts for this week have created empty space at the bottom because of my side pictures. Weird.

:: Jennifer 3/28/2003 09:16:00 AM [+] ::
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Grrr the Play Mash thing didn't work for me. I think it's the browser I'm using. Damn Mozilla/Netscape. Speaking of Netscape, they seemed to have integrated with AOL a LOT. I now have a Hawkeye13x@netscape.net e-maill adresss that i never signed up for. Weird to say the least. Well, it's 5 MB of space, but do I really need another account to not check?

ARGH! My eye is doing that jumpy thing. it's really bothering me.

Last night the fire alarm went off at 3am, while I was on the phone with Ricky. No, it wasn't my fault and Ricky laughed at me. It wasn't my fault, although I was afraid ti was though. You know, burn one pot of rice and it's with you for the rest of your life.
Well, work work or rather sleep sleep.

:: Jennifer 3/27/2003 08:24:00 AM [+] ::
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Weird how Amerilia Earhart didn't come up on this list.

Another reason to hate college sports. Paying Football Players for extracurriculars?!??! If they pay college football players to play sports, somebody better pay me for surfing the net. Both are hobbies. Damn sports...fucking hell....

:: Jennifer 3/26/2003 12:43:00 PM [+] ::
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Let's go to Belize. Anyway, I hate class surveys and I fille dout 3 today. :-P Must do work now, but shopping for some food is nice too. Good luck with your stuff people.

:: Jennifer 3/25/2003 10:37:00 AM [+] ::
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Woo hoo! I found the hotel that Yelle's parents are staying at, thanks to Jeff. :-) Yelle called me last night and I got her password and now I can use her computer. I cooked a veggie stir fry celebration for Trisha, Jo, and Anna and we had wonderful cake for afters. It's kind of going ok. Almost done with the reading for my film essay, but I feel it's going to be a load of BS. Oh well. I don't care at this point. Life seems good for the moment and I might go out clubbing on Friday night with Trisha and Jo if I'm not bogged down in work.

Hooray for comments, you guys come of the wood work.

Well, work work work. Might also do some eating too ;-) It's beautiful weather here in London. Sunny, warm, makes me think of Texas. Well, maybe not. 80 degrees already? Dude, I'm happy that it's hitting 60 here. I love Spring!

:: Jennifer 3/25/2003 05:27:00 AM [+] ::
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Blah. Here's some stuff to tide you greedy bastards over. ;-)

I want to clean my gutters out when I get home.

Road Trip baby!

Improve your mind.

I really want to do a road trip.

:: Jennifer 3/23/2003 01:57:00 PM [+] ::
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The Life of Jennifer Elliott

Well, I'm screwed and it's sort of funny. I feel like I'm in The Life of David Gale. I have 3 days to find the hotel that Danielle and her parents are staying in in order to find out her log on password for her computer that I'm using. My lively hood depends on it because I need her computer in order to finidh the 3 essays due next Tuesday. It's really funny (ironic funny) to have the thing that can make my life possible in front of me, but no way to use it. It's dripping with irony here.

I also had 2 chances. I should have asked Yelle if there was a pw on it and I also should have listened to her telling me her parent's travel plans.

Well, anyway, if you see Danielle or her brother Jeff online PLEASE TELL THEM TO CONTACT ME!*

I will meanwhile soak up the irony until I feel physically sick and puke. I'm getting there now and it's only DAY ONE.


* These Screen names have been removed because Yelle is as Paranoid as me.
P.S. I learned another html thingie. Guess which one.

:: Jennifer 3/23/2003 11:51:00 AM [+] ::
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This is a time wasters post.

I do have a funny story to tell though. Jo, a flatmate of Anna's, was singing some song and I asked her who's song it was. She said it was Mariah's (Carey) new song. I said, "She's still alive?" Jo then got all huffy and said, "She was washing up and broke a dish and cut herself." I started laughing my arse off. I remembered all the rumours of her suicide attempt and it was funny that Jo bought into the lie and insisted that she cut herself on a broken dish. It was fun to take the piss out of Jo and tease her about Mariah's suicide attempt. Really funny. Anyway, here's to procrastination.

Snubbed Films by Oscar

The Marx Brothers

Actor Quiz

Waste Time

Dude, I want one of these. Incidentally the army uses them too.

:: Jennifer 3/22/2003 08:45:00 AM [+] ::
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This is the post of cheese. Speaking of cheese, I tried Red Leicester, Wensleydale, and Cheshire cheese today. Red Leicester tastes like Sharp Cheeder (American coloured) and Wensleydale and Cheshire taste the same, kind of. They're both crumbly and soft and a bit bitter like the rind of Brie. I also tried Double Gloucester (I think) at Yelle's and that also tastes like chedder. So we came to the conclusion that British cheese all tastes like cheeder with a twist. My next cheese choices will be Lancashire, stilton, and gouda.

I got my borken computer back today. Fun fun. Well, at least that ordeal is over. :-/

So on to the cheese.

The first category is ghosts.

Ghost Pictures (supposed proof)

Another ghostly site (I killed the pun)

Haunted Places (They're just trying to sell you stuff)

Lame Monster Article

Toliet Train your Cat (By far the most entertaining and informative article, Save Mischa too.)

It's time for dinner and a nap. I'm soo knackered :-(

:: Jennifer 3/21/2003 01:02:00 PM [+] ::
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AOL.com had been changing the format of it's website again. Weirdness. They're trying to incorporate all the AOL tools into one convenient sign-in page. Interesting, not opposed to it, but I question how how simple our lives can be considering the effect of technology...

:: Jennifer 3/20/2003 08:19:00 AM [+] ::
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Well, since we're at "war", I'd thought I give something unrelated to distract you. I want to be distracted. I might give a more serious and reflective view later.

Before the fun begin, we had a great discussion on the female condition in MPT today. I can't believe that there are so many people (Espeically women) in my class who beileve that there is no gender inequality or just don't care! Most of the class thought that way, with the exception of like 3 people. One person even thought that the role of woman was to serve man! Damn. What's happening? It surprised the teacher too. I've been going to a liberal school so it's refreshing/shocking/weird to have people think like that, and so many!

It's really scary and weird to have lots of Paddy wagons go by and I can hear demonstraters against war. There'a big rally in London tomorrow in Hyde Park and there's one right now at Queen Mary. :-/

About my computer. I'm going to pick it up today, unfixed! They think the motherboard is bad and they want to charge me £300 ($475) to replace it. I told them to just give it back to me broken. I hope it's not been dismantled for parts. I don't trust them after a month of not fixing the damn computer. Asses!

Fun stuff for you. :-)

Quizzes to pass the time

Is this from Iraq?

Check all your e-mail at once

Urbans Legends (Not the crappy movie)

More Urban Legends

:: Jennifer 3/20/2003 08:15:00 AM [+] ::
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So war begins tonight...

Here's a little something to lighten your day.

*Spoilers*
Well, The Life of David Gale was a tolerable movie. I guess it could have been more than decent, but the ending! Terrible. It made me doubt everything. Seriously. It ruined his character and didn't make him a marytr, but a jerk. did he set up the rape? Dude. I really disliked it. Kevin's performance was decent, but then again it's Kevin Spacey. I expected more out of him though. I would like to fire his hairstylist for choosing that dead mouse brown for his hair. Blah! Kate Winslet's performance was good, but still couldn't stop singing My Heart Will Go On, while she was crying because she coudln't run fast enough. I think the best performance definately goes to Laura Linney. I don't recall seeing any of her work, but damn she was good. Kudos to her. I didn't like the transition scenes. It made me dizzy and it kind of made the film cheesy. It didn't reate suspensxe, but I found myself annoyed everytime the shot would start spinning with those written words. There could have been a better transition scene, prehapos something jmore somber and less Hollywood. Speaking of Hollywood, the film is fictional and not based on reality, like I thought. That makes me feel better, but it doesn't justify the crap ending. I wouldn't give it zero stars, but something along the lies of 2 1/2. Perhaps 2 because his hair really sucked, but Linney saved it and perhaps makes it a 3, but that's a long shot. The Christ metaphors were also annoying. I hope that Spacey isn't getting a big head and thinks he's God like Kenneth Branagh in Hamlet. Another thing I noticed about Spacey is that when he acts angry or sarcastic he tends to behave very camp. Further supporting the "rumor" that he is gay. I think he is :-( well, I guess all in all I was disapointed by the film, but I don't regret seeing it.
*End of Spoiler*

A film that was good and didn't compromise ethics was The Magdalene Sisters. It was well done and the acting very good, but a depressing film. It's about an Irish "sinners" convent were the condemned women are made to work like slaves in order to repent for their sins. It's very dramatic and depressing, but it a good story. I would reccomend it, but it is sad and a bit disturbing once you realise that there were many convents that abused these women until 1996. So go see it.

My weekend in Cambridge was fun. Yelle is priceless and she got lost an unprecendent 5th time to the train station ;;-) LOL, it's funny in retrospect, but I was a bit of a twat while we were lost. Sorry Yelle. I learned a new taunt from Oxscum. "Tabs are pants!" Yeah, it's weird to call your rivals underwear.

Well, lots of work I haven't done and no computer to do it on. Such is my life. Ah yes! I got my exam schedule today. I have an exam on the 7th of May and the 15th. So I don't think I'm coming home in April since I'll be flying back on the 16th :-) Sorry. But I'll be home when everyone gets out of school. Woo hoo! I saw Harry today. He's a legend, if only in my mind. At the end of this post will be a Harry e-mail update.

I got my essay back on the English Civil War. I scored a 69 (No lewd comments please), but i get 5 points off for being a day late :-( I think they grade pretty easy here. I really don't try hard enough on my papers. :-/

Anyway, here's a film to miss, The Rules of Attraction. It's based on a book by Bret Easton Ellis, the guy who wrote American Psycho. It's a crap book and I don't expect much more from the movie, which includes the talent(s) of James Van Der Beek (talent is arguable). It's like American Psycho, but with teenagers. It's not worth seeing nor reading for that matter. So don't waste your time or money and give it a miss.

~It's Harry Time~


Subject: (Fwd) HOLLOWOOD STAR CONFESSES LOVE FOR ARSENAL

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
From: Self
To: Associate_students_updates@qmul.ac.uk
Subject: HOLLOWOOD STAR CONFESSES LOVE FOR ARSENAL
Date sent: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:38:03 -0000

For our American associates....

In an interview with 'Four Four Two Magazine', Freddie Prinze Jnr
has revealed his support for Arsenal Football Club.

Why Arsenal...

'It was eight years ago. There was this upper echelon team whose
stadium had this history of excellence - marble halls and all that.
But they sucked and I thought that was fantastic. Once they
brought in Arsene Wenger and he introduced a new style of play,
they became great again and now they're awesome.

On Manchester United...

'I really dont like Man United. Nobody likes the favourites.'


He seems like a decent enough chap.

Regards

Harry Gibney
_____________________________

Subj: Exam Timetables

Ok folks, time for a stampede.

You can collect your exam timetables from the Admissions Office,
Room CB02, Queens Building.

If I am not here, remind the person you speak to that you also need
a copy of the blue notes.

Please note, your tiemtable will contain exam details for ALL
classes you are registered for - you may have been told that for a
particular class you do not need to do an exam - but the exam
details will still be on your sheet. You can ignore these but please
do double check with individual departments to ensure you are not
expected at the exam.

See you in about 30 seconds.

Harry Gibney

~End of Harry Time~

Yeah, it's been a dry season for Harry e-mails. Well, have a nice day.

:: Jennifer 3/19/2003 09:44:00 AM [+] ::
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Well, will critique David Gale and Magdalene Sisters tomorrow when I don't have class.

More important is the state of war. How many people I know will get drafted? How many will die? The waste of war... But we can't back down now. We've, W rather, has painted us into this corner and we have to get out of it the messy way. Shame.

On a britgher note, exam schedules come out tomorrow or Thursday. I might be coming home for Easter :-)

:: Jennifer 3/18/2003 03:47:00 PM [+] ::
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Grrr. Achives love to screw up eh? Anyway, will update later. I should be in class right now, but oh well. I also should have gone to lecture this morning, but it was nice and warm in bed.

I saw The Life of David Gale last night. Yeah, I hated the ending. I understand why critics blasted it. I'll have my go at it later. :-/

On a cooler note, Anna comes back from Austin tonight with American candy :-)

:: Jennifer 3/18/2003 08:34:00 AM [+] ::
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God is Dead!

Well, just something to make you say "Gee Whiz, Marx was right. Religion is the opium of the masses."

Well, not really, but you know I'm a philosopher king person. ;-)

I saw The Magdalene Sisters on Saturday and will review it when I get a chance. It's a good film, you should go see it. it's better than Far from Heaven and as good as The Hours. I still fancy Adapatation better, but that's only because it had more action. I also want to see the new Pierce Brosnan called Evelyn. It's along the lines of the Irish movies that accomplish something, are ground breaking, or rebellious, kind of like Michael Collins.

Anyway, the film that I'm wanting to see the most is Love Actually. It has almost all the (British) actors I love (who are alive). I'm also interested in Dreamcatcher turns out because Stephen King movies normally suck. Sad to say :-(

Check out what kind of car Yelle wants. Dude, she would so die in it in America. Can you imagine a Ford Excursion running into her? I would get a mini with a UK flag design on the roof.

Well, Yelle fell asleep on me and I have an early monring train to catch back to London, so I bid thee adieu.

P.S. We didn't make it to Nottingham. I slept in till 2pm. :-) We did have fun in Cambridge. Although Cambridge Castle is a joke. (Yes, it's just a grassy hill over looking the town. Very small too. I think the people were midgets in those days)

:: Jennifer 3/16/2003 06:50:00 PM [+] ::
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"Go Robot it's your Birthday. Go Robot it's your Birthday.

Your one year older, one year wiser. Rock n' roll star, King, Czar, and Keiser. A room full of friends, a mouth full of cake. Every present is for you and it feels pretty great. Your the man of the hour, the VIP, you get the first slice of the PIE. But first blow out the candles and make a wish. Put a smile on cause it's your Birthday Bitch!

Go Robot it's your Birthday. Go Robot it's your Birthday."

Happy 34th Birthday Graham!!!!!!!!! Woo-hoo. 4 years and counting.


P.S. Will tell of dream when I get to London. I might be going to Nottingham tomorrow. Perhaps I'll run into Q. ;-)

:: Jennifer 3/15/2003 04:06:00 PM [+] ::
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Well, I'm just waiting for an announcement of war. I know it's coming. The day I see the headline that W's war is declared on Iraq will be a sad day indeed. But let's enjoy these last few days of peace. I'm off to a day of siteseeing in Cambridge i.e. looking at colleges :-/ Also must update about the crazy ass dreams I had last night. They involved, Hannibal Lecter, Jack Nicholson, flying, Ricky, Judi Dench, Popping ballons, bats, and a video game. "All in all, a good night."

Mmm I'm hungry. Damn this war. >:o

P.P.S. You know it's our friends, and brothers who will be drafted, unless you move to canada and dodge it like Clinton or join a reserve service and then don't show up like W.

:: Jennifer 3/15/2003 06:51:00 AM [+] ::
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MY PICTURE IS IN A MAGAZINE!!!!! There's picture of me talking to Graham Norton in HEAT (15-21 March). I'm on Page 105 in the middle talking to Graham. I didn't even know they were taking pictures. I remmeber the guy who was doing the article thiung though because I saw him leave halfwy through the show. It's so cool. I'm in a tabloid and it's not scandalous!!! LOL. Anyway I was perusing Graham's site and here's something interesting I came up with.

Dumb Laws

Anyway, I wwent to the London Transport Museum today and it was really cool. I saw a lot of old buses, horse carriages, trams, and Tube stuff. I love the history of the tube. I learned that the oldest line is the Metropolitan with is 140 years old!!! I also did the tube driving simulation. Man it's hard to get the train to stop in the station at the right place and everything. Very cool, although I was rushing a little bit. I did see everything though and read most of the stuff, but I will go back to go buy stuff from the shop because I didn't really have enough time to look around the shop. I did buy a Tube map poster and temporary tatoos. I learned so much today. I'm happy. I also saw the development of the tube map, and how they look in real life on a geographic map. I also figured out that Wootton (Not my prof) is a town in Oxfordshire. Coolness. Emmm. I also the futurist plans they have and laughed at some, but thought others were cool. I saw a model for a monorail and I was singing that song from the Simpsons. Also the amount of memory it would take to store someone's body, like for transporting like in Star Trek would take up more memory than there is computers or rather availbe in the world. :-) Speaking of computers and data i got an e-mail from Seti today. I haven't done my Seti thing since last year because it's only on my computer at school. :-( Seti is cool. Freaking Mrs. Treanor and not liking Seti and making up take the paper out to the recycling bin when it was 100 degrees out. Brandon Bailey laughing at us because we couldn't get the lid of the bin to stay up and Ricky smashing Mrs. Treanor's box. ;-) Grrr!!

Well, Hang is coming over so I better get going. I'll tell you more tomorrow. I do think I covered everything...

Oh yeah, I think it would be super cool to dye your hair the colour of your eyes. It would acutally only be super cool if you had blue eyes and hair to match. It's also so easy to push someone out in front of a bus or train. I hope no one ever does that to me, or I do that to anyone else. But stabbing someone with a fork is justified. In the head...

:: Jennifer 3/13/2003 02:35:00 PM [+] ::
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Wow. Blogger has been slow today or it's just this shit school's internet service. Class was acutally interesting today and I felt reinspired to do philosophy. it's been a while since I've really given a damn. Nietzsche is wonderful like that.

I found a museum that I like a lot. it might be the best in london. The Imperial War Museum is soo cool and yet, creepy as hell when you're alone in the scary exhibits. I was very afriad to walk through the trench experience with all the wax figures and stuff. It was dark, loud, smokey, and I was alone. Not good. Needless to say I walked through the exhibit fairly quickly with my fingers in my ears hoping that the wax figures were indeed wax figures and that no one was going to jump out at me. TWhe musuem was empty and going through exhibits like that is really fraky to me. Even the 1940's war time house scared me. It didn't help that it was playing war music and I was again alone in a house. Anyway, I might go back today, but I'm not sure I want to walk through the Holocaust exhibit on my own. I hear it's pretty gruesome. I saw the ground floor, which had all the airplanes, tanks, missiles, etc and some of the basement. I got through the Korean war, WWI, the interwar years, but I still need to do WWII, and post 1945 conflicts. Then I get to do the art museum and holocaust exhibit adn the poetry thing that#s on the top floor. It's a very big museum. Oddly enough there were a bunch of german tourists. A great museum and must see in london. I am probably biased since the IWM really appeals to my love of history. There's also a submarine simulation for kids that I love. :-)

Anyway, Hang came over last night and I did a stir fry. She met Trisha, Jo, and Jason too and we watched Graham Norton. He's soo funny.

Umm some guys next to me are dissassemblying a computer and opening the case and stuff. Weird.

I'm off tyo Cambridge tomorrow. YEa, but I have so many papers to do... Boo! And I'm also worried about my exams because I saw the essays questions from last year and I couldn't answer them. :-( I need to do my reading during break. Blah.

I got my CD from Kelsie today and Hang agreed to take my Life of David Gale poster back to Swarthmore. Hooray! Anyway, i'm hungry and I have work to do.

Later.

Oh yeah, my computer isn't ready yet. The part didn't come in today. Go figure. Not really surprised. it's been 3 weeks tomorrow. Asses.

:: Jennifer 3/13/2003 08:30:00 AM [+] ::
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Send me pictures of you and I'll post you on the side. Clothes are optional, but strongly suggested for the safety and consideration of our viewers.

:: Jennifer 3/12/2003 07:07:00 AM [+] ::
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Why does my Blogger button disapear everytime I make a cahnge to the bloody template. I have to add it in each time or it just goes away like teen's baby's father. :-O

:: Jennifer 3/12/2003 07:04:00 AM [+] ::
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That's better. I rearranged the pictures. I will get around to resizing them, but you know how I am. I will hopefully get my computer today. Dude, it ust seems like everything is wrong with it, or else somethig really fishy is going on. I'm leaning towards Kelsie's theory that they are selling off my computer one part at a time. They very well might be because haven't seen it in over 2 weeks!

This will be a short post because they're very annoying and loud people in the lab right now and I don't want there to be an international "scene". Seriously.

Anyway, nothing new to report, but I had another set of weird ass dreams last night. In the first one, My mom was accusing me of smoking marijuana. I was totally shocked and I told her no, but she didn't believe me. I remember we were in the car driving on Eisenhauer road and they replaced the electrically towers with weird black glass towers that looked like the old ones, but with a fountain like quality black glass in the middle. It was supposed to be less visible than the old towers. She apparently found a joint in a glass or something. i told her it wasn't mine and it was was Michael Ansley's. I don't know why she didn't believe me. I told her that I didn't do drugs or smoke. i did drink, but I was of legal age to do so. I don't know what her deal was. I probably shouldn't get angry with her though since it was a dream... Nor should I tell her that I do drugs, because coming out of the blue like that it would make her really suspcious.

I also had a weird dream this morning that was kind of real life. The cleaners kind of woke me up this morning so I dreamed that the cleaners were angry with the new steward. I think subconsciously don't like her. Anyway, it was a weird dream.

Perhaps I will make it to the London Transport Museum today. Well, I'm off to post a letter.

P.S. Why do the British say ate like "et"? God the accent can be really fecking annoying. Cockney sucks.

:: Jennifer 3/12/2003 06:58:00 AM [+] ::
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Hooray I fixed the Blogger tag thing too. I'm on a roll today. Oh yeah, big thanks to Ricky for the tip on the anonymizer thing so I could add the beautiful (and useless) pictures. :-)

:: Jennifer 3/11/2003 03:45:00 PM [+] ::
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I've added pretty pictures just for you.

Wootton was sick today so all my classes with him were canceled. :-D But I felt really, really sick so I didn't even go to my film class today :-( I did stop by to tell Mark that I wasn't going to be able to stay for class because I was sick. I also had to give a presentation today, but it doesn't count for a grade so it doesn't matter. He didn't seem like angry, and he seemed to understand, but I hope he doesn't think I was trying to get out of my presentation, but i think he knows me well enough to not think that. So I slept for most of the afternoon because Hang didn't call me and tell me to meet them. I had a nice nap and I'm feeling much better but I had a freaky ass dream while napping.

So first I dreamt that I was in a pub with the actresses from The Life of David Gale. It was premire night and kevin Spacey didn't show up [Sheesh even in my dreams :-( ]. I was sitting next to Laura Linney, who was nice to me and some other actress, who turned out to be a bitch. Natalie Portman was also there and she wasn't nice. I didn't see Kate Winslet though. Anyway, we chatted and then they lef tot go to the bathroom. Weird. Then my dream changed.

I was in a computer lab and they were testing something then i remember going outside and I was outside my house in my neighbourhood. I don't know why, but I felt that people were chasing me, like government people. Either Kevin Spacey was chasing me or I was Kevin Spacey being chased. But anyway, I had 2 very powerful flashlights that helped me fly? Well, I could fly, and I was flying around hiding in trees to escape from the bad guys. The trees were super bending and they would bend with my weight while the bad guys were looking for me. I would fly from tree to tree. Why i didn't fly away from my block can only be answered in dreamland. it never makes sense. But what i do remmeber is hiding in the Chance's huge oak tree and then Mrs. Chance seeing me and them shouting to the men that I was in her tree. [bitch] Well, they never caught me, but i did an awful lot of flyinfg around. After a while I get tired and I find it's harder and harder for me to fly. Like I might jump out of a tree and fly straight off, or fall to the ground then slowly gain altitude. It's really weird. I guess yo'd have to have done it to understand. I love my flying dreams, but I lost one of the magical flashlights because I think i hit the ground. The men never caught me and why they were chasing me is beyond me. Interesting dream though. Well, it's way past my dinner time. I don't have class tomorrow. Yea!

Let me know how you like the pictures and links.

:: Jennifer 3/11/2003 03:02:00 PM [+] ::
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He he he, it's Druck.

:: Jennifer 3/10/2003 12:19:00 PM [+] ::
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News of the Day:

I'm not violent...

I bet Republicans promoted this belief.

Anyway, Vertigo is one F*CKED UP movie. Weird as hell, but I liked it. Jimmy Stewart as you've never seen him before. Wow.

So, I didn't do much today, just slept late and went to film class. I spent most of the night talking to Ricky, Kelis,e and Lan on the phone. I think I've spent over $500 on phone calls this year. :-O Yeah, It's scary.

Yesterday was cool. Well, I slept for most of the day then met Hang and her friends in Leicester (Pronounced 'Lester') Square to go to dinner in Chinatown. Well, there was a big crowd around the Empire theatre with lots of police and barracades and low and behold it was the premier for the filme, The Life of David Gale. Yeah! So I waited for an hour and a half waiting for Kevin Spacey to Show up, but alas he couldn't because of "unforeseen circustances". Yeah, that kind of pissed me off. I did see Laura Linney, but not Kate Winslet. Well, since I was waiting for over an hour I had made my way up to the front of the barricade, where they were the movie posters hanging from them. Nice think cardboard ones. So when they said that Kevin wasn't showing up and it was over, people started to rip off the posters and take them. I took one too. It's in my room. it feel off the wall last night and scared me. It was scary because i woke up before it fell and it looked like my closet door opened and something was coming towards me, then I heard the poster fall. Weird! I still believe they are ghosts in my flat that smoke, but Ricky suggested that it was aliens. Like they smoke, but then he pointed out the ghosts don't either. I'm skeptical, to say the least.

This weekend I get to see Yelle at Cambridge. I also hope to get my computer back and write a paper. Blah. Send me mail people. :-(

So on Saturday night I wated two videos with Trisha and Mary. Raging Bull and Sheakespeare in Love. Well, I liked both films, but Raging Bull wasn't all that it was hyped up to be. Martin Scorsese has a thing with fog, mirrors, violence, and Robert De Niro. The cinematography was good in Raging Bull and it's pretty much in all Black and White. That was kind of weird. It's a film to be seen, but I wouldn't worship it. I liked Taxi Driver better.

Shakespeare in Love was cute, but I liked the historical implications and viewpoints better than the love story itself. Really interesting depiction of Late Elizabethan England and the insinuation that Marlowe wrote Shakespeare's plays was really cool. I think Ben Affleck gave a good performance too. Worth watching. :-)

But I've been reading a lot lately, and not for class. ;-) Here's a link to the book that I mentioned in my last post by Philip Dick. It's called The Man in the High Castle and it's an alternate reality of what would have happened had the Nazis won WWII. Interesting historical science fiction, but it has that unresolved ending thing that's been plaguing me lately.

Another great book is Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs. It's a memoir of this crazy gay guy's childhood. Really entertaining and it makes you feel better about your childhood and mental health. Seriously this is worth a read and his writing style is engaging and funny. His sequel to Running with Scissors is coming out in May. I'm goign to get it. Well, enough book and movie reviews. I have to get going and eat dinner before they kick me out of the lab. Enjoy and remember Procrastination pays off Now. ;-)

:: Jennifer 3/10/2003 12:14:00 PM [+] ::
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OMG how did I forget that yesterday was the 1 year birthday of this blog? I also missed out on extra Coldplay tickets for Earl Court. I just don't think I'm meant to ever see Coldplay.

Well, it's probably because I went to go see 2 movies yesterday. A double feature. I saw The Ring and Far from Heaven. The Ring was good, but not excellent and the more you think about the ending the more confusing it kind of gets or rather less plausible. I don't understand why the little girl was evil and how she was you know... I don't want to spoil it for everyone, but seriously. It didn't make that much sense. I thought it was pretty cool though and it did scare me a lot through the movie. I jumped a lot espeically when they showed the girl in the closet. Anna and Trisha were laughing at me, but that's ok because it was pretty funny. The screen that we watched it on was as big as Ricky's big screen tv at his house. Isn't that sad? Man, Genesis (the Movie theatre) sucks. I wonder if the Japanese version Ringu was better.

Far from Heaven was to say the least, painfully slow. Slower than the Hours. :-O Yeah, exactly my thought. I did learn that it's better to be gay than involved with a black guy in 1950's Conneticut. Dennis Quaid was pretty good and Julianne Moore's performance was decent. Her role was kind of ike the Hours one, so it wasn't "amazing" or anything. the best performance by far was Dennis Haysbert. He's really talented. But overall, I was disapointed with the film, but I should have known better. Come to a film with expectations and be prepared to be disapointed. I like the Ring better than Far from Heaven. I think FFH would have made a better tleevision movie or something because it wasn't really film quality. It also didn't have a good resolution. I've been reading books and seeing movies that don't really resolve themselves latyely and I wonder if it's a growing trend or something. I read The Man in the High Castle last jnight and that book didn't have a resolution either. The characters really didn't change much and ultimnately nothing changes. I guess it's closer to reality, but I don't really go to see films and read books for reality purposes. It's more of an escape thing, you know? So I find these books and films a bit disapointing. The Man in the HIgh Castle did seem promising until abouit 3/4 through then rien. :-(

The film that I do reccommend is ADAPTATION. It's fresh and resolves itself. It's not a chick flick or slow, but rather fairly well paced, but the end picks up the pace which is good. Nick Cage's performance is amazing and the screenplay itself it as orignal as Being John Malkovich. Charlie Kaufman is brillant.

My next film to watch is The Life of David Gale which most of you have already seen. You also know about my Kevin Spacey thing and well, let's hope I'm not disapointed by this film because of that expectation thing. But then again viewers bring to expectations of the star to the cinema. Just a laspe into film class and star studies.

Hey did you know that Cary Grant took lots of LSD before it was illegal. Man Cary Grant on acid. Scary. He had lots of problems being both Cary Grant, international film star and Archibald Leech, Bristol bloke.

Hang was supposed to call me when she got in today. Haven't heard from her, I hope she's not dead or something because that would suck. I might go take a nap or something. I'm still tired. Oh yeah, I didn't get my computer back, it's been over a fortnight since I dropped it off to get repaired and my M*A*S*H Season 3 DVD and the book I ordered from Amazon.com came in, but I had to pay a £8.23 ($13.41) custom's fee to get it. BLOODY COUNTRY SUCKS ASS. Anyway, I have M*A*S*H, but alas nothing to watch it on :-( It's probably better this way because I have lots of work to do.

I saw Miguel yesterday and he's leaving for Spain today. :-( I told him about this blog but didnt give him the URL. I might not because I just rememebred all the specualtion about his sexuality that I did on this site. Hmm he probably shouldn't read it, thus I shouldn't send him the link.

I should start writing down all the paranoid nothins that go through my head and turn them into a horro screen play or soemthing. I won't do it on this post because I'm tired of looking at this screen and my butt's hurting from sitting too long. Also this post is getting pretty long. So adieu.

:: Jennifer 3/08/2003 09:03:00 AM [+] ::
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Third time's a charm. I made the blogger list again. Anyway, I'll probably send these files to you Rick because there isn't a photo editor on this computer and I can't upload large files onto freeservers. >:o

:: Jennifer 3/07/2003 03:55:00 AM [+] ::
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Blah. Stupid freeservers. Well, if the last link didn't work for you, you should have guessed what it was. It's soda.jpg the precurser to cookie.jpg. Anyway, the foot notes didn't show up in my essay. Oh well. So kiddies, if you;'re plagerizing and want the footnotes, you will have to send me money :-)

:: Jennifer 3/07/2003 03:52:00 AM [+] ::
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I could do this after college

So I finally did it. I stayed up for 26 hours straight!!!! I finished a paper that waws a day late :-/ I was up from 2:30pm Wednesday Afternoon to 4:30pm Thursday afternoon. I also went without food for about 23 hours. And turned my sleep patterns around 180 degrees. I woke up this morening around 430am after sleeping about 11 hours. I'm going to be dead tired tonight.

On a bright note. Hang and her friends will be here on Saturday morning for Spring Break. I have another paper and presentation to do for Tuesday :-( So thus is my life. Again questioning whether to come home for Easter break. I could stay here and travel. I have yet to see Ireland, Scotland or Paris. Decision, decisions, decisions.

Anyway here's the apper I worked on for yesterday. Read it if you want (it's 2,149 words long) and tell me what you think. The English Civil War

Oh and here's some dessert and a little something to wash it down with.

:: Jennifer 3/07/2003 03:36:00 AM [+] ::
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When will be ever get phones like these in America?

Anyway, I hate authors who don't use short sentences, but ultilized ; and : and hellish puncuation to keep their sentences alive? I freaking hate Rossi because he makes his sentences paragraphs. PUNK! GRRRR enough of that.

Short entry because of reading and witing :-( Computer still insn't ready and they didn't call me back about the staus of my computer. I think they're up to something. I'm really getting pissed off because it's almost been 2 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, maybe I'll mess with the colour of this blog and update my web pages. I better find out if freeservers offers remote linking else I better figure out how to use my sccs account. :-/ Wish me luck. I hate writing papers.

:: Jennifer 3/04/2003 01:47:00 PM [+] ::
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He he he I did it again. I rule! I should also look into posting these pictures somewhere.

(In case you didn't figure it out, I made the updated list again)

:: Jennifer 3/03/2003 01:32:00 PM [+] ::
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Let's drool together. The newest gadgets that I want now.

Anyone want to buy my Iriver SlimX 350?
It also comes in red. Which colour do you think is better? My SlimX 350 is silver...

I'll probably get this one first.

Anyway enough of that. I have a blog to update and a paper to write. :-/

Today is Patty's 50th birthday and I called her at Windcrest to wish her a Happy birthday. At first she didn't recognize my voice or who I was :-( But she eventually figured it out. :-) It was cool. She was busy though, they're putting in a new phone line or something in the cafeteria.

Anyway, film lecture was boring, but the movie rocked! We saw North by Northwest. I love Cary Grant and it was a great film. In colour too. That was weird. I don't get why Hitchcock did Pyscho in black and white if he did North by Northwest in colour the year before. Hmm somehow I don't think i could work in the name Cary or Grant for names. I could always go with Archibald Leech. LOL. Cary Grant was quite a character. He ran away to join the circus at age 9 and became an acrobat. Weird. He doesn't really get old looking either which is also a bit odd. But you can tell that he's kind of old in N by NW because of his back posture. He's got the Mister Roger's old man back hunch kind of going on.

I got bored the other day and rearranged my room, although it's seems to be a standing tribute to Coca Cola. I think that I'm a product of advertising. I am now buying soda on the displayability of it's label in my room. Soda is more then a drink, it's a statement.

Speaking of products I can't find honey roasted peanuts. I mean without cashews. Weird. Also Red Delicious and Idaho russet potatoes don't exist here.

I've been thinking lately and I've come to the realisation that I forgive people and forget about the irritating things they do as long as they don't continue to annoy me. i.e. I don't see them. e.g. I could have forgive Joanne...still might. no animosity towards her, just don't know why she has to be talking shit about be long after I don't give a damn. Nice person, if not a bit self-centered. I kind of pity her. It must be a lonely world when it's all about you. Hell, I don't really dislike Sherri Watts anymore, granted it's been like 7 years, but I suppose it's more of a general apathy I hold for people who are not my friends or family. I still even have a soft spot for Melissa, as difficult as things have been. Although bringing Matt Turner into the situation was uncalled for. Oh yeah, he still irritates me although I was very open to forgetting everything, but you know how bitter people are. So in short, I love you all, well almost all of you. Nobody's Perfect.

I;ve been thinking of a new business venture and I wonder if it's illegal. I know it's ethically questionable and morally dubious, but has that every stopped me before? I was thinking of selling my college papers on the internet for kicks. Or just writing college papers. Lazy kids now a days and I write pretty damn good papers, or at least acceptable. I would polish them off a little more than the orignals. You know like fixing spelling mistakes and word placement, but overall you don't want something that is too obviously a plagerized paper. I was also thinking of giving teachers free access to the paper, you know to be kind of ethically fair or something. Anyway, any thoughts on the venture. I'm sure I could sell your papers too. Well, maybe not everyones paper...

Well, it's to the workhouse for me. If i don't come up for air send in the hounds.

P.S. Was also thinking if I disapeared it would take about a week or two for anyone to notice here. That's a super scary prospect.

P.P.S. I updated the Links on the side. Kind of spiffy eh?

:: Jennifer 3/03/2003 01:26:00 PM [+] ::
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WOO HOO I finally made the freshly published blogs list. (Without timing it) GO ME! Picture forthcoming.

:: Jennifer 3/02/2003 01:57:00 PM [+] ::
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AHHH!!!!! I MUST GET A NEW TEMPLATE! So many people the same. I'm starting to feel un-unique here. :-(

More counterparts. :-/

One of Greg's Bloggie Buddies. At least I existed before this blog.

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Not a counterpart.

Dude! It's Peter David, the guy wrote Imzadi and it's crap sequel. Weird. (Heh heh I'm still older than his blog)
Always something new...on your shoe in London.

:: Jennifer 3/02/2003 01:50:00 PM [+] ::
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Grrr does anyone know how to fix the blogger tag on the bottom? My links been broken for a while and I think I might have deleted some of the scrpit on the template, but can't figure out which. :-(

:: Jennifer 3/02/2003 01:17:00 PM [+] ::
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Last night I dreamt I was at Manderlay...

Actually I couldn't sleep for the longest time. But I remembered that the night before I dreamt that I was in 24, the first season. I was the Presidential candidate and Jack and everyone else, but not at the same time. Oh I hate the Senater's wife with a passion. BTW did I tell you guys that the papers here ruined the ending for the first season of 24? I know what happens and now I'm kind of disapointed. But I'm still going to finish the series and stuff. Blah I have a paper to write and no inspiration. Also questioning whether to go home or not. I just realised that if I want to go home I will have to finish an additional 1-2 papers before I leave. >:o That might not be possible and I don't think I will have access to the right books if I go home. So I'm thinking about I'm staying. I wish I wasn't so wishy washy. I'd like to go home, but it's going to cost at least $500 for 3 weeks? I'm better off watching all those films I've been listing in the library. Well, I'll let you know how it goes. Grrr. I'm going to make some linkos changes. Oh yeah The Homeless guy blog was mentioned in that article I read about blogging in the Guardian Weekender.

:: Jennifer 3/02/2003 12:48:00 PM [+] ::
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:-O Bloody hell I need to design my own template because stuff like this happens and it confuses me. I discovered my male blog counterpart and this at the same time. Anyway, what's with Blogger. >:o Always giving blogs of note to newbies or people who don't deserve it. Seriously their quality of choosing blogs of note is really deteriating. I blame Google for this. They should choose Erin and not some blog with the same template as mine, although mine is better anyway. I was here first, acknowledge me!

Well, I'll never make blogs of note anyway because I bitch too much about their system. The price we pay. I haven't been updating because I feel like I should improve the quality of my blog postings and only post important stuff, or the real reason is I'm too lazy to go check my mail because it's rainy and I like to sleep. But both are valid reasons why I've been quiet lately.

I went to the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday and I saw the Titian exhibit going on at the NG. I finished the NPG and went back to oogle Laurence Olivier's Bust. I discovered that I also like the works of Giovanni Bellini, who was a huge influence on Titian. I'm liking renaissance art. :-) Well, I didn't go to Bath this weekend because I realised how much work I have and have yet to do. :-( I saw the Hours on Tuesday and liked it better than the book which I read on Thursday and I'm going to go see Adaptation tonight. It was going to be Far from HEaven, but it wasn't playing at West India Quay. So it's a Meryl Streep week. Fun.

I baked American chocolate Chip cookies with Anna the other day. Yum. I miss cookies. I like baking. But how did Miguel get a box of Duncan Heinz cookie mix here? It was american because they don't sell that here and the directions were only in Farenheight. Weird. Damn I can't spell either.

I read an interesting article on the Blog phenomena in the Guardian Weekender. Blogs apparently started out at paper newsletters traded at cafes or something. Weirdness. But anyway, also in the Guardian was an interesting article on the (in)famous Ink Blot Test. I'm going to take it right now.

Well, there's a tonne of links in today's blog. Perhaps I will write something more informative when I get a chance to think.

Oh I have been thinking about names and I've come up with some I like, although it mostly boy names. It seems I might have to have 5 children to use all the names. I might just skip the children and have pets. LOL

So here they are.

William Alistair
Alan Orion
Jonathan Olivier
Elizabeth Anne

and the only name I haven't sussed out yet is Emily. What goes with it? I was thinking Emily Leigh after Vivan Leigh, but to name your kids after a husband and wife is way too suggestive to me. Help me out and find a name for Emily. I thought Emily Clarice, but I'm not too fond of Clarice unless I can have a Hannibal too.

Oh and I thought of multiples. If I had boy twins they would be William Alistair and Alan Orion. So when I called them, they'd be William Alan. I'm silly I know. Fraternal, Elizabeth and any of the male names would work. Alan cou7ld always go by Rion (Ryan). I would seriously cut my children out of the will if they ever changed their names. I think it would be cool to have a pair of parrots and anme them Clarice and Hannibal and teach them to say things from the Hannibal Movie. It's a bit creepy, but hey. I think Hannibal would be a good name for a dog though...

:: Jennifer 3/01/2003 12:43:00 PM [+] ::
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