la boheme

so...i went to the opera with my mom and my sister last night. we went to this italian opera called la boheme.
basic plot: guy(rudolfo) meets girl(mimi). the two of them aren't exactly in a great place economically, but they still fall in love. then, rudolfo finds out that mimi's sick. it's not that hard to guess what happens, but i don't want to spoil it for you(hint, "rent" is based off it).
anyways, it was one of the best shows i've ever seen. the four leads all had amazing voices and were absolutely perfect for the parts they played. my personal favorite was the person who played musetta(the on again, off again girlfriend of rudolfo's friend, mascetto). she was really good and acted just like i imagined the character would act.
i can't even explain how amazing it was. by the end, i was sobbing because it was so sad and the music was so beautiful. all of you should try to see la boheme at least once. after you watch it, you understand where a lot of musicals get their ideas/theme musics from. it's just that good.
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i did it!!!

omg....i did it!!! i made it to 50,000 words on my novel for nanowrimo. actually, i went a little above. i made it to 50,068 words. does this mean that the novel is done being written? of course not. i still have a lot of writing left to do before my roughest of rough drafts is even close to being done. but it doesn't matter. i did it. i beat nanowrimo. i am a "winner". i have collected my "winner's goodies"
i'm actually rather proud of myself. when i began, i was all "oh. 50,000 words. how hard can it be?" actually, it is hard. there were days when i wanted to give up because my characters just wouldn't do what they told me to or when i was frantically typing in an attempt to write 250 words in a minute so that i could meet the deadline. but in the end, i made. i reached 50,000 words. and i am proud of myself.
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did you know...

you can't buy the beatles on iTunes??? doesn't that seem oddly messed up and unfair to you??? it's the beatles for goodness sakes...not allowing on iTunes is a crime...and it's all EMI's fault...Paul Mc Cartney is willing to let the Beatles be on iTunes...
although, i guess it's a good thing. my mother always complains that iTunes is destroying cds and record stores and whatnot...i'm actually rather conflicted about the whole beatles thing.
i like iTunes. i only use it for the free songs(they had Christmas songs! i love christmas songs!) and for the weird iTunes radio...but i don't really buy stuff from iTunes anymore. considering i only have fifty four cents left.
that's all folks.
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just to clear things up.

"arthur read": obviously, some people think that cillian murphy is attractive and people can have opinions. in my opinion, he may not be the hottest guy alive, but he's still good-looking.
okay...i'm make a petition to have my mother add actual applications on to her new touch. i'm going to start out with trying to get 10 signatures...if you want to add a signature, just post a comment saying "i add my signature to the petition" or something like that...
um...no. i don't have a boyfriend. why do you ask?
male celebrity for this post: james roday. he plays shawn spencer on "psych" and is amazing...it's not so much that he's cute but that his character has an amazing personality. also, he is one of the funniest tv actors out there(hugh laurie is a little more funny). two of my friends got into a fight over which one of them he'd like better...long story...
tata...
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100th post

oh my golly gee...this is my 100th post.
pretty exciting, huh???
and i'm going to spend it talking about tetris.
might i just say that tetris is the most fun game ever. not to mention the most addicting...and i suck at it, but it's still so much fun to play...i wish my mother would let me download it on to her iTouch. along with that bubble wrap and light saber application...might i just say how much i love that light saber application???
um...maybe i should start a petition to force my mom to download the lightsaber app. if you are at all interested, please sign up...
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sorry but...

um...sorry but i don't think i'm going to talk about guys on this blog. i've learned that it's not the best idea to talk about people who i personally know online. long story. but there will be no gossip about guys that i know on this blog...don't kill me.
but i will, however, talk about male celebrities...
to "mary ellen": i totally agree with you. cillian murphy is a god among men...he was so amazing in "batman begins". he was the best bit of that movie...i'm glad we have something in common...
um...my sister qualified for the jr. olympics for fencing(epee). i'm really happy for her. i bet she did a pretty good job(i wasn't there).
um...i'm trying to retype my short story that won the short story contest for palo alto weekly. basically, i need to send them an electronic copy, but i kind of deleted it off my computer...long story...
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10,000

o.m.g.
i am so close to finishing nanowrimo. i have just over 10,000 words left...that is almost nothing... i remember when i had over 30,000 words left and i thought i'd never finish the thing. but now i think i will finish it. and as much as i love it, i'm kind of getting sick of my attempted novel. why can't my characters do what i want them to? it's not that hard. sometimes, i'm tempted just to give up and let kayla and del and aaron and all the rest just run rampant in my imagination. and then i realize that by doing that, i will have given up. and i don't want to give up on something this amazing...i'm going to finish this novel, even if it kills me.
and the lovely thing is that i have until next sunday to finish it. and i can easily write the remaining 10,000 words by next saturday. now i'm getting all anxious...
cheers!
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