Having Fun with Sara and Princess Tutu

Hey All,

So it's winter break and my best friend Sara and I are having one of our ritual 48+ hours sleepovers where we just discuss what ever has been going on in our lives in the past few days since we last saw each other. When we were done with that, we decided to watch one of our favorite anime, Princess Tutu, which is absolutely fabulous, btw.
But about three minutes through the first episode, we had a brilliant idea!

Watch and see:

Disclaimer: I do not own Princess Tutu nor the english/ADV/Funimation dub of Princess Tutu.
All comments and opinions are not made to offend, but out of a loving and deep affection)

That's all,
Thanks for reading and watch!
Amy Liz

Trying to Forget That I Have Finals to be Working On....

Hello All,

I don't want to do my projects and study for my finals today, so I'll make a new blog post -YAY!
So let's plot out some things for me to write about so I don't have to run out of steam too early and go back to finishing my "Religion in Eastern Cultures Take-Home Test."
Today I'll talk about a bunch of things that distract me from getting my work done during the day:
1. Pokemon
2. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (shut up, I know I'm a geek, get over it)
3. Facebook (but we've talked about this before, I think)
4. Tattoos
5. TV shows I need to catch up on
6. Online Shopping
7. StumbleUpon (I'm pretty sure we've talked about this, too, but oh well!)

Dammit, I even got distracted from writing this blog. I just found out that my favorite Google+ game that's not working right now is on Facebook -with less time to wait for your next round. So I was playing that for about, oh twenty minutes or so. NBD.

So Pokemon.
I found out earlier this semester that you can Google search "play pokemon online" and do just that! I've been playing Pokemon Yellow and Crystal and reliving my childhood for quite a few weeks now, and it's actually quite time consuming. Maybe that's why I wasn't cool in middle school...
So there's Pokemon. Very distracting. Very time consuming. Very worth it.

Oh goodness, this next one is both very difficult and yet very easy to explain.
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
It's just so wonderful, and adorable. Both a blast from the past, and a look at contemporary television (plus like a thousand pop culture references slipped in!). There is always a lesson learned and the good possibility of a not-so-annoying song. Plus, the ponies are actually kind of smart, with "real world" problems and not super silly and ridiculous things. Well I mean, it's still a kids' show...about talking colorful ponies.
Anyway, the characters are well-developed and the story is never trite or repetitive. Just watch it, and you will understand my obsession with The Ponies.

Also, Pinkie Pie is my favorite pony, and she sings the very first song of the season.
...and there goes another 20 minutes to watching that first episode all over again...
(Also, if I could be any pony, I'd want to be a Faust version of a Flutter pony, from the original My Little Pony series)

Facebook
What isn't distracting about FB? It has games, it has everyone you've ever known your entire life, it has messages and chat, and now it has skype video chat, and that dumb Tickr thing that lets you know what everyone is doing THAT INSTANT. Even if you don't care.
Like right now, I'm still talking to my friend FB Chat, and I'm writing this, and talking to my suitemate. It's a mutlitasker's paradise. You can check out your current boyfriend's past girlfriends, spy on how your ex is dealing with the loss of you, and update your own status to show how much you've gotten over him!

Tattoos
This might seem totally random, but it's not, I promise. My suitemates just got tattoos today, and I went along with them for moral support. We didn't have an appointment, so we had to wait a while, and I got a good look at the facilities and the different kinds of tattoos people can get. The whole day (it was a good chunk of time that I wasn't at my desk doing my finals work, so this counts as a distraction) got me thinking that, if I were to get a tattoo, what would it be? Where would I put it? What would it mean to me? Because both of my suitemates' tattoos had really personal meanings for them, and the only thing I could really think of that would be important to me would be a Shamrock, for my Irish-ness and for my VERY Irish grandpa, but all of my cousins have that, and I'm "the rebel" of the family (yeah, okay, me a rebel :P) so I don't want the same thing as all of them.
I finally decided that if I was going to get a tattoo (I don't know if I ever will, because I don't know if I'll ever be prepared to cope with the fact that it's FOREVER) then I would get something like this:

I wouldn't get it very big, and it would be in a place that I could easily hide it, like on my inner upper arm, or on my shoulder blade.
I want the feather for a few reasons. I really like the way these look, first of all (these were done by George Motta, one of the apprentices at Stingray Creations in Boston, MA, and my suitemates' tattoos were done by Chris DeBarge -super nice, and he really makes you feel relaxed, especially if it's your first time. He was really chill and I would recommend him, because my friends' tattoos came out beautifully).
I like the way that feathers can be really soft, but they can belong to something totally badass like a falcon, or an eagle. Maybe it's a stretch, but I like to think of myself like that -everyone tells me I look sweet and innocent, and then I bust out my super sarcasm and dark humor, and they're like "ummm, wtf just happened?" (where's my sweet little girl gone?) 
heh heh, Black Swan reference ^^^
Also, I like to think in great big metaphors, so a feather or two could be like a talent, and I'm not really fantastically amazing at any one specific thing except writing (well, I've been told I'm a good writer, but we'll see what the rejection letters say lol). Mostly I'm just mediocre at most things, not bad but not really great at it, either. It would take a lot of feathers to make a wing, so I like to think that, if talents were feathers and I only had one special talent, then I could never have a wing and start to fly with it, but because I have a bunch of mini talents, like knitting, rollerblading, and drawing, then I can gather all of those small feathers together and make a wing and "fly." It's really corny, and it sounds a lot better in my head (hmm, maybe I'm not so good at this "writing" thing), but it makes sense to me.
Also, I hate birds. So getting a feather would mean that I wouldn't have to get a bird for the metaphor of flying/success.
Feathers are cool, too.

TV Shows I Need to Catch-Up on
I'm not really that big into cable shows, but this season a few new shows have premiered that I really wanted to get involved in. I'm finally all caught up with ABC's new show "Once Upon a Time" which is pretty cool, but as far as modern society meets fairytales, I will always prefer NBC's "The Tenth Kingdom." I also just finished watching the newest episode of The CW's "The Secret Circle," which is actually really different from the books, but it's still really good, and it's at a really tense and awesome part right now, so I'm very excited for the season to start back up again in January. I'm also a little miffed, though, because all of the shows this year started their seasons late, so I'm wondering if they're going to have less episodes in the season, in which case I will be very upset because that means Hollywood is getting lazy, and I know there are plenty of television writers that would be more than happy to write a full 26 episode season for a show they really cared about.

There's also a new show called "Grimm" which I plan to look into once finals are over, but I have no clue what that's about except, I'm sure, a vague theme of the Grimm fairytales. So I guess this is fairytale season for television this year.

Online Shopping
I spend way too much money now that I have my own credit card, and that's just not cool. WAY too much, and it's all stuff I like but don't really need, you know what I'm saying? But I get a discount, or at least that's how I console myself, and with the fact that I would have gotten it, anyway.

Finally,
The ever wonderful StumbleUpon. I can always count on you to keep me from doing what I should be doing.
Confessions of a Disney Employee
100 Greatest Movie Insults
4 Chord Song

Well, now I actually really should be getting back to my test, because it's due in 10 hours, so...
Thanks for reading,
Amy Liz

P.S.
I think I'm going to change the title of the blog. Just so you know.

Small Update

Hello All,

So I was flipping through my StumbleUpon in class this morning, and I found this, I wanted to share it with y'all.

Life's Instructions

1. Have a firm handshake.
2. Look people in the eye.
3. Sing in the shower.
4. Own a great stereo system.
5. If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.
6. Keep secrets.
7. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.
8. Always accept an outstretched hand.
9. Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
10. Whistle.
11. Avoid sarcastic remarks.
12. Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 per cent of all your happiness or misery.
13. Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.
14. Lend only those books you never care to see again.
15. Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.
16. When playing games with ! children, let them win.
17. Give people a second chance, but not a third.
18. Be romantic.
19. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
20. Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
21. Don't allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It's there for our convenience, not the caller's.
22. Be a good loser.
23. Be a good winner.
24. Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
25. When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
26. Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
27. Keep it simple.
28. Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.
29. Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
30. Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets
31. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you'll regret the
32. things you didn't do more than the one's you did.
33. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
34. Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.
35. Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you.
36. Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only stay a few minutes.
37. Begin each day with some of your favorite music.
38. Once in a while, take the scenic route.
39. Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, 'Someone who thinks you're terrific.'
40. Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.
41. Keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 a.m.
42. Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
43. Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.
44. Make someone's day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind you.
45. Become someone's hero.
46. Marry only for love.
47. Count your blessings.
48. Compliment the meal when you're a guest in someone's home.
49. Wave at the children on a school bus.
50. Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on your ability to deal with people.
51. Don't expect life to be fair.

I don't know who wrote it, but it's awesome.

Thanks for reading,

Amy Liz

A Little Frustrated

Hello All,

It's the day before Thanksgiving break here in Boston, and I'm a little frustrated. First of all, I didn't remember to update my blog when I said I wanted to. I'm almost three weeks later than I said, actually, so that's a pretty big fail.
Secondly, I didn't go to my British Literature class today -because it's pointless. We don't do anything in that class except discuss the reading, and it's not even insightful discussion, so anything I missed I probably figured out on my own, or I could have figured out from reading the summery analysis on Sparknotes.com. So I emailed the assignment that was due today to my teacher, and she says that she always sends back a "receipt" email letting me know she at least got the email, even if she hasn't read it yet. I sent this assignment last night around midnight, and I still haven't gotten my "receipt." So that's frustrating because I don't know if she has my assignment or not, and I really don't want to lose points on my final grade because she didn't check her email.
Thirdly, my little work minion on Mondays and Wednesdays is useless. I gave her stuff to do yesterday, and it wasn't even a lot, like something I just did in 10 minutes -TEN MINUTES! I gave this to her yesterday and told her I wanted it done while she was still here because there was still stuff that needed to get done before the break that I'd finish with my other assistant tomorrow. I come in to work this morning and low-and-behold, the work I gave her yesterday sits, untouched, exactly where I left it. She didn't even try to do it. So I asked some of the other people that work around us what they thought of this particular assistant and they tell me she never does anything that they can see. So I may be looking for a new assistant next semester. We'll see.

IN OTHER NEWS:
Pizza is a vegetable, according to Congress. I'm really glad Congress felt that the vegetability of pizza was a matter so pressing that it needed to be solved above all of our other problems in America, like homelessness, the national debt, and the failing education system, just to name a few.
Netflix has hit an all-time low in stocks this week. Not surprising, seeing as how Blockbuster's new commercials kick Netflix's ass!

And Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is carrying around a new Social Security plan he wants to initiate that will allow young workers to tap into their SS for private investment accounts. So far Gingrich is the top GOP candidate for the Republicans, with 23.2% ratings, closely followed by Mitt Romney, with 21%

In my personal news,
I handed in my second short story for my fiction class. My favorite part is the first paragraph. So here it is:

Once a month, my father would drive us out to this mall a few miles outside the city, and carry a yellow and green collapsible lawn chair to the lower level of the Macy’s there. He would set it up like we were about to enjoy a barbeque in the backyard, and sit down in it in the middle of the aisle between the shoe department and the bedding section. My older brother and sister hated these weekends, because they could have been out with their friends, or working or something, but Dad always made them cancel whatever plans we had to sit in the middle of Macy’s.

I don't have any personal affiliation with Macy's or any sort of special love for the store, but I thought it was a good place for this story, so I used the name...a lot.

I will probably not be working over the Thanksgiving break, which is a little sad because I like working, but it give me time to look into buying and learning to play the ukulele, because the ukulele is supposedly the simplest instrument to learn...we'll see if that's true. 

Go to 17:53 to watch one of my favorite up-and-coming bands, Lady Snow and the Laser Bears -they play the ukulele.

http://median.emerson.edu/player.php?mid=14109&p=1&n=10

--sorry I couldn't insert the actual video.

So I guess that's it for today. 

Thanks for reading, 

Amy Liz

--Happy Thanksgiving! <:>==

I didn't know Monday came in the middle of the week?

Hello All,

So I was having a pretty good day, until this happened to me, and I was just so mad that I needed to get it out.

But like always, Disney music made me happy again.
But I do feel bad because the stock assistant I do get to work with is putting away the rest of the stuff from our Emerson Stage show by himself. I just can't handle more right now.

So yeah, sorry for whining, or ranting or whatever, but hey, at least you get to see and hear me for the first time :)
Not like that's any great honor, or anything, but there it is.

Thanks for reading/watching/listening,
Amy Liz

P.S.
I've gone through a lot of trouble trying to figure out how to get this video to work

Getting Back on Track

Hello All,

Okay, so midterms are finally winding down and I'm actually getting a handle on some of the things that I'm supposed to be doing for school.
There's still a ton of stuff that I need to do and think about, and then there are things that I don't need to think about right now that I can't help but obsess over because it feels like it is life-changing...which it is, but I really don't have to think about it right now, not for a few months at least.

So yeah,
I just got through with reading Becca Fitzpatrick's newest book in her paranormal series Hush, Hush, called Silence. I think it was the best one in the series so far, the story catapulting onto a whole new level of drama, risk and threat. It was time well-spent, and I highly recommend picking it up.

Also discovered that I will be needing to locate an affordable apartment in Boston for next year because the people that run Housing and Admissions at Emerson College can't count, apparently. Which, of course, got me wondering how much money I could make off of a debut novel, which lead me to this information:
Writers are poor!

So... yes, it seems no matter what job I get, if it's in publishing, I'm probably going to always be dirt poor. Thank goodness I have that bartender's license haha

I've also been spending a lot of time working on and promoting my school's channel and the show I work most on, Good Morning Emerson. It's amazing and it airs live every Tuesday and Thursday, and every day I go in studio, I am just amazed by the professionalism that these college students show when they're working for this show (these roles don't pay, either, so that's doubly impressive).
We also have live performances or interviews every episode, like last week we had the Jacob Jeffries Band come in to promote their on-going tour around the country this year, and I also had Becca Fitzpatrick when she was promoting Silence in Boston a few weeks ago.
To see some episodes of Good Morning Emerson, including my interview with Becca (episode 7), click here.

Other distracting things going on in life:

• movies with roommates
• Brit Lit hw
• discovering Pokemon online
• re-watching old Adult Swim anime
• reading other books
• Bite Club
• Incarceron
• Living Dead in Dallas
• Eeeee Eee Eeee
• Meridian
•  naps
• late night yoga
• Google+ games
• Twitter (follow me, please)

That's it for now,

I'll try to update more often, but my distractions normally distract me from most things I'd rather be doing, including this blog, as well.

Here's shooting for a November 9th update!

Thanks for reading

-Amy Liz

Gay abuse, Business classes, dumb people and other, much less important, things

Hello All, 

  

 I just watched a CNN segment about a 14 year old boy who took his own life after being bullied in school for being gay. FOURTEEN YEARS OLD. He's barely a man, barely old enough to know what love is, and he, and thousands of other boys, girls, men and women are being abused and persecuted for being attracted to the people they like.

   I'm not gay, but I can't stand it when people are ignorant and cruel to people who don't deserve this kind of behavior. That goes for all inexcusable behavior, but being a student in the number one LGBT-friendly college in America has me around the gay population more than most other minorities. All of these news casts and articles about tragedies, brought to light by bullies, literally has me crying for these misunderstood students, friends and children facing all of this adversity. It's not fair to them -what have any one of them done to justify being insulted, assaulted and abused for every single day? 

   I wish I could do more to support the gay community, but all I can do at this point in my life is write, and love and support my friends in their fight for equal treatment and understanding. I just hope that everyone struggling with these issues knows that they are not alone, and that they can always find support, if not from their friends or family, then from other people who've gone through what they have:

   On a lighter note:

   I have a business class every tuesday and thursday, and while I greatly respect and admire my professor, I am a little underwhelmed by this class. There's seemingly no order or outline to what happens in class, and I know I'm not learning anything about business other than what Apple Inc is doing or has done or will be doing that has made them one of the number one businesses in the world right now. It's basically a class about Apple and Steve Jobs.

Dumb People:

   My school has an incredible variety of extra curricular activities to pursue on campus, and a lot of these are student run. This is great, but there is a downside to that -young people are idiots. 

   I know, I know, who's the pot, who's the kettle. 

   But seriously? 

   My friends and I have a year of experience working on this one particular club, learning different roles and gaining a better understanding of how everything involved in making this whole project successful (no, I will not be saying what ex. curr. this is about), and I, at least expressed enthusiastic interest in becoming more involved and learning even more about how to make the project better, but, like a used and outdated car in the parking spot of some big-shot CEO, I've been replaced by the newer, less vocal and less attitude-prone freshmen.

   dumb.

Writing:

   Before moving back on campus, I started writing what I think will be this really cool fantasy novel series, but ever since getting back, I haven't been able to motivate myself to add to it much. Then, when I got bored one night and decided to pull out a DVD to watch, I made the mistake of pulling out Funimation and Gonzo's "RomeoxJuliet," and now I can't stop trying to write my R+J story (so cool in my head, I hope it translates as awesomely onto the page).

Finally:

   Being a girl really sucks sometimes, just ask Viola, from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night." Not only did she have to dress up and act like a guy and work for the dude she was in love with, she had to pretend to not be in love with him AND fight off affections from the chick that Viola's boss was in love with. (We're reading that in another class of mine, so it's on my mind a little bit.)

   My life isn't exactly as crazy as that right now, but i fear this ugly blemish on my face will permanently scar me for the rest of my life, resulting in terribly insulting names, not being able to face all of my prettier friends, and never fulfilling my dream of being an international super spy. 

   Okay, so maybe the insulting names part was a little over dramatic, but still! Why do we have to deal with hormones and acne and other bad biology crap when we really don't need it? It's super distracting from what I'd rather be doing (aka: being a vain b**ch and staring at myself in the mirror.)

Well that's all for now, sorry this one was a little whiney.

Thanks for reading,

Amy Liz