Improv Everywhere is everywhere!

I could not be more excited that these cats are getting a huge break!

NBC announces their pilot pick-ups as shown here in
Variety!

Three years ago, in a NY bar, I told Charlie Todd that he was hot. Then I pinched Zach's nipple...

he retaliated by doing the same.

Now Charlie Todd is friendly but awkward towards me...I wonder why.

Congrats you guys!

boredom anyone?

so i have chosen to stay in tonight because i have to read a textbook called Beginnings & Beyond. it's not going so well.

i am taking an exam to test out of two credentials courses i need for my job. everyone says this test is really easy - but i am feeling a little overwhelmed by having to "study." which brings me to my point...

thank god i am not in school.

there, i said it. i hate school. i didn't used to hate school, but somewhere between my junior year of high school and my sophomore year of college, i got burnt out. i felt less inspired, less creative, even less motivated. i am so happy that i love my job because i feel like it is really shaping a lot of my personal philosophies on therapy, care and teaching. i had studied inclusion for so long, and now that i am actually involved in it, my experiences seem so much more valuable than reading articles or textbooks. most of my therapeutic rec courses centered around all of these theories on recreation within the confining environments of hospitals or structured schooling programs.

i believe deeply in the idea that "play" can teach learning and heal individuals from physical or emotional wounds. this is a method that may be on its way out because of the demand for children to come to kindergarten already knowing how to write, do math, and have advanced socio-emotional skills. WHAT? it was not like this when i was a kid - i was playing soccer and the ever-so-popular "house" with my sister. i just truly believe that play can teach children anything.

anyway, enough about work, lets talk about beauty. i am intrigued about the big insurge of shitake mushrooms in face creams. there are commercials, magazine articles, ads...the whole nine yards. i might try it out. i have also become obsessed with my Origins ginger body scrub. i have tried many great body scrubs/exfoliators including Clinique Body Exfoliator and The Body Shop Almond Scrub...none of them compare to the ginger. i wasn't originally crazy about the smell of ginger - but it turns out - it's very refreshing.

ok, back to reading about children...

just real quick...

because im tired...

HOLLER to my iO class for their successful win tonight as DEAD MAN PINATA at the DSI CAGEMATCH! I'm so excited!

Come see us next cagematch, March 8th, 8PM, DSI Comedy Theater.

soon.

markedly thickened membranes with occlusion = me. great.

holy crap.

i just cleaned my entire condo. i mean the works. vacuumed, mopped, washed dishes, did laundry, scrubbed the tub, toilet and sink, reorganized my entire hutch, washed linens and remade bed, folded and hung clothes, took out the trash, and finally purged a ton of old magazines and chatchkis.

this is all in an effort to avoid reading the textbook i need to go through before i test out of one of my nc birth-kindergarten certifications. boo.

i finally got to meet zach's friend serge, which has been a highly anticipated event after two years. and he was great, he surpassed my expectations. it was also great to hang out with sandy and bret. holler!

Innovations in hCG detection and other things

1) ClearBlue...

Oh. My. God. The ad for this pregnancy test is out of control. It actually shows a stream of "urine" peeing on the tip. The advertising for the digital screen that reads "Pregnant" or "Not Pregnant" seems like it's for Star Trek, not a pregnancy test. The commercial is literally the most hilarious thing I have seen on Television since the Pop-Tart that said "I'm hot for you."

2) The festival is over, and all of our guest are now gone...I'm happy and sad. It was awesome to have four venues this year, though it limited the amount of shows I got to see personally. I still got to see The Josh&Tamra Show, Death By Roo Roo and Bassprov...so it all worked out goooooooood. The best part of the festival was that Lo stayed with me. I love meeting people at festivals, but it was nice to have my BFF there to get my back.

3) I have a show Friday, and fun plans for the evening. Hopefully this Breakroom show will be as fucking kick ass as the last, though that may be tough since we hit the ground running last time and ended flying.

4) I'M PSYCHED for Dead Man Pinata to play Cagematch. Hobert was so excited about taking the picture for the video that he wore a fake mustache and glasses from 1980. It may be a hodge-podge show, but it is definitely going to be fun!

5) Also, I was so happy last night to play characters I never play. Along with the workshop I did this weekend, character development has been on my plate a lot lately. And I feel like I really have been working hard to ROCK it. Using actual Susan Messing suggestions is also really fucking hilarious. I love that woman. One of my endowments was Tyrannosaurus-Rex arms and winking after every line. Though I am also fond of G.I. Joe hands as a trait that defines a character...ahhhh.

6) I am really excited to be getting back to working on my life, without other bs going on (mainly concerning my mom)...it's great. Though I'm going to NY in April, that's still 2 months away. Lots of changes are taking place, and they are all wonderful.

7) Happy Valentine's Day!

one more thing about Mark

today he wrote me and said, "Hope you're kick'n ass and tak'n names, improvisationally speaking."

awww.

Mark

My dad just wrote me an email where he used the word "fehkokt."

ha!

try'n to play me out like as if my name was Sega

update: for those of you concerned, the situation with nin and vin has turned out great! vin is moving into nina's [parent's] house, where she lives. this is fantastic for all involved, even nina's parents. i am so excited for them! thank goodness. woot!

i miss them. even when vin does ridiculous things like buy houses and mercedes. they might come visit this spring after nin gets comfortable taking vacation days at her job. keep your fingers crossed.

two random stupid things:
1 - i heard house of pain on the way home. it was awesome.
2 - the fantastic satc episode where berger breaks up w carrie on a post-it, miranda wears skinny jeans, charlotte and harry get engaged and they all get in a bar fight with some ladies from brooklyn because of samantha is on.

happo ken?

having been out of ninjutsu for a while, i am psyched to finally be back! the people at the quest center are awesome. i am very happy to report there are a bunch of twenty-something ladies who have joined in the past few months, which is fantastic. i can actually partner with someone my own size...though i kind of like fighting big guys, because most likely, that will be the type of person to attack me on the street - but still it's nice to share some fun with women like me :)

i really hope that if i ever was attacked, i would be able to have enough strength and piece of mind to put the moves i know into action. we practice so many sequences, that i think some combination would come out...whether or not it was exactly appropriate, eh who knows. at the very least i hope it would let me get away from the attacker.

i also realize that i have been itchin to play soccer. now, if you know me, you know i have a love/hate relationship with soccer. i love the sport, the game and the fierce exercise, but i despise my own career of 17 years. when i chose not to play in college, it was a conscious choice. i love the intense workout, the teamwork, the group mind. i hate the cut-throat competitive try-outs, the asshole coaches, the over-zealous parents. regardless, i want to play right now.

*ps* - i'm watching wife swap, and one of the fathers has said [fuck] like eight times and abc has had to mute it out and blur his mouth. he's mad because his thirteen year-old son is banned from doing motocross. HA.

SSHS

"Well, um, actually a pretty nice little Saturday, we're going to go to Home Depot. Yeah, buy some wallpaper, maybe get some flooring, stuff like that. Maybe Bed, Bath, & Beyond, I don't know, I don't know if we'll have enough time." (old school)

ooooh man, i love being reminded of hilarious things that happened in high school. this was one of my favorite quotes. along with, "why you trippin off him, derek?" (save the last dance) it reminds me of beer pong tournaments and long walks home. it's funny because in college i felt like i walked home drunk plenty, but the walks always seemed shorter than when i walked home in my own town, when really my town is smaller than chapel hill.

i have been thinking a lot about my varsity soccer team in high school. rituals, routines and behaviors that have now shaped my life. i'm thinking of changing the structure of my novel to include these aspects because i am realizing how important they were to making me the person that i have become. here are some stats from the county championships on long island, south side won states most of these years except for 1999.

Girls Soccer
COUNTY CHAMPIONS

Nassau Suffolk
2006 - Class AA: Massapequa Sachem East
Class A: South Side Islip
Class B: Wheatley Center Moriches
Class C: Friends Academy xxxxxxxxxxx
Catholic AA: Sacred Heart Catholic A: St. John the Baptist
2005 - Class AA: Massapequa East Islip
Class A: South Side Islip
Class B: Wheatley Mattituck
Class C: Friends Academy Mercy
Catholic: St. Anthony's
2004 - Class AA: Massapequa Commack
Class A:South Side Huntington
Class B: Cold Spring Harbor Babylon
Class C: Friends Academy Mattituck
Catholic: Sacred Heart
2003 - Class AA: Massapequa Whitman
Class A: South Side Huntington
Class B: Cold Spring Harbor Eastport/S. Manor
Class C: Friends Academy Mattituck
Class D: none Mercy
Catholic: St. Anthony's
2002 - Class A: South Side Smithtown
Class B: Lynbrook Islip
Class C: Friends Academy Mattituck
Catholic: St. Anthony's
2001 - Class A:South Side Sachem
Class B: Garden City Rocky Point
Class C: Cold Spring Harbor Center Moriches
Class D: none Mercy
Catholic: St. Anthony's
2000 - Class A: South Side Whitman
Class B: Valley Stream South Islip
Class C: Cold Spring Harbor Center Moriches
Catholic: Sacred Heart
1999 - Class A: Massapequa,South Side Whitman
(co-champs)
Class B: New Hyde Park Sayville
Class C: Cold Spring Harbor Mattituck
Class D: none Smithtown Christian
Catholic: St. Anthony's
1998 - Class A: Massapequa Whitman
Class B: South Side Sayville
Class C: Cold Spring Harbor Center Moriches
Catholic: Sacred Heart
1997 - Class A: Massapequa Northport
Class B: South Side Harborfields
Class C: Cold Spring Harbor Mattituck
Class D: none. Smithtown Christian
Catholic: St. Anthony's

also, i bought some pink gerber daisies to go in the new vase sandy and bret got me for my birthday, and they look awesome! they have been my favorite since middle school. and they were the only flowers my friends and boyfriend ever bought me in high school. even though i'm poor, one extra expense i will not cut is fresh flowers. i really believe they make a huge difference in my mood. that makes up for the small burp in my day today. great!

ilovecheesymoviesmorethaniwouldliketoadmit.

My Dad and I LOVE the movie Ten Things I Hate About You. Love it. I'm not as interested in the main storyline about the high school romance as much as I am the storyline about the father being an obstetrician and forbidding the girls to basically do anything involving boys. Walter Stratford, played by my fellow Long Islander and super-cynic Larry Miller, is a character that reflects my father in so many ways it scares me. The only difference is, obviously, that my father doesn't win the battles with his two daughters, we pretty much tell him he's crazy and walk off. But for those of you who don't know my father, he says things exactly like Walter Stratford...and it's hilarious. In honor of my dad, here are some quotes, courtesy of iMDB:

Walter Stratford: [Bianca and Chastity are sneaking past Bianca's father] Shoulda used the window.
Bianca: Hi Daddy.
Walter Stratford: Hi... where're we going?
Bianca: Well, if you must know... a small study group with friends.
Walter Stratford: Otherwise known as an orgy?
Chastity: Mr. Stratford, it's just a party.
Walter Stratford: And hell is just a sauna

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Kat Stratford: We're going now.
Walter Stratford: Alright, wait a minute. No drinking, no drugs, no kissing, no tattoos, no piercings, NO ritual animal slaughters of any kind... oh God, I'm giving them ideas.

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Bianca: Can we for two seconds forget the fact that you are severely unhinged and discuss my need for a night of teenage normalcy?
Walter Stratford: What's normal? Those damn Dawson's River kids, sleeping in each other's beds and whatnot?

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Walter Stratford: I delivered a set of twins to a fifteen-year-old girl today, and you know what she said to me?
Bianca: "I'm a crack-whore who should have made my sleazy boyfriend wear a condom"?
Walter Stratford: Close, she said "I should have listened to my father."
Bianca: She did not.
Walter Stratford: Well, that's what should would have said if she wasn't so doped up.

in addition...

to my earlier post...i just deposited my paycheck. it's confirmed, i'm poor.

grrrrr...i hate being an adult. it's stupid. i still hate you, consequences...tonight i'm calming my body down (due to the stress of my recent poverty) by watching ghost whisperer.

it's funny because i went back and read my earlier post and realized that it seems to have really harsh emotions behind it. i don't think that the friends that it relates to will ever read this blog, but if they do - i love you nin and vin! but seriously, vin - get a grip, right?

ok, just wanted to make a mends with the blog king lest nin and vin ever read this...mirage, anyone?

mygoodness!

[GUILTY SPIDERMAN.]

I just got back from lunch and it seems that some of my Butterfly friends have forgotten the rules of the Butterfly classroom. This includes sleeping during naptime and not talking to each other while they are laying on their cots. Right now, CeCe is blowing her nose very loud to try and wake other children up and Ruthie is complaining that "Gabriel is messing with her." Really, Gabe is just talking to himself about being Spiderman. Super. I love these children, but sometimes I think they have lost their minds.

I have almost finished my MS application for UNC, thank god. I swear I have filled out more applications to Universities than anyone in the world. I transferred three times and applied to professional school and graduate programs...and now I am applying to a different graduate program...which will be FREE. FREE. FREE!

I have also been stressed lately about money. Filing my taxes is ANNOYING. BOO TO YOU REAL WORLD. BOOOOO. I had been in the hole after Christmas, and I have quickly dug myself out, but still...money is bothersome. I hate bills. Most of all, I hate paying insurance bills.

It brings me to the point of this blog post, which is: consequences. One of the main concepts we are constantly teaching the children in our class is the idea of consequences. If you are an adult, you should already know that your actions will inevitably have consequences. Children learn this quickly when a consequence for hitting a friend is that they are not allowed to go out on the playground or read a book at naptime. However, I think somtimes adults need to go back to preschool and relearn what a consequence really means to them. Example: I spent a lot of money at Christmas on gifts, albeit generous, now I am poor and must eat english muffins, cereal and peanut butter for 2 more weeks. I can deal with that. What I cannot deal with is people who call themselves adults, and do not understand that when you fuck up, you have to deal with the consequences. Usually, consequences are shitty, sometimes they are much worse than we anticipate and there may even be a time that they make us regret a decision we have made so deeply that it feels like we cannot take it. The point is, humans make mistakes, and it's o.k. but it still doesn't excuse us from dealing with our own actions.

Ask my friend Corvalen how it goes...he punched Layla during Circle Time and he was asked to leave the area and calm his body down in Book Center, where he was not allowed to look at the pictures in the story Meredith was reading. Sometimes we all need to calm our bodies down in Book Center and we are forced to miss out on things we want to do. Personally, I am missing delicious Carrburritos and tender Filet Mignon. I hate you, consequences.

boo.

Thanks, Lily Allen.

WHY? Why, did my tub just break? Why?

Seriously.