Intern With Oprah?

I am a huge Oprah fan. In fact, Melissa, Jen, and I are calling on Friday in attempt to get tickets to her show. Anyway...in recent searches for a summer internship, I decided to email Oprah to see if she offered any internships for her show, then her people from O, The Oprah Magazine to see if they do. I know it's a long shot, but who wouldn't kill to work for Oprah? She basically rules the world! Tonight I received an email from one of Oprah's people!!!! She said she hasn't started interviewing yet but will probably begin in March and to please send her my resume! How amazing would that be?

Semester #6?

Yikes. Today I started my second semester of my junior year. This is very weird to me. It doesn't seem like I can possibly be almost done with my 3rd year here! I actually just received an email from the university registrar stating that they have not yet received my request for graduation... WHAT? After this semester I should have 125 hours. You need 120 to graduate. That is insane. I still have 8 classes to take for my major and 1 for my minor so I can't actually graduate, but it's crazy to think I have enough credits to do so!

I'll do a quick run down of my classes. First I had Music Theory II which hopefully won't be too bad, but I took the first semester last year so I'll need some serious memory refreshing. Gender in the Humanities should be pretty interesting and my teacher is super young and cool but there's a ton of reading and writing in that class (I should have known since it's an English class)... Mads will be another usual spring semester of awesome chamber music. Apparel Design is going to be so much fun! It's basically a drawing class with a lot of projects, 1 quiz, and no tests! That's my kind of class. Tomorrow I have my voice lesson, a visual arts class, and Practical Problem Solving in Family and Consumer Sciences...not looking for it to be a very exciting day...

In other news, I need to start working on all of my stuff for my recital and the fashion show. I have a lot of work to do before then! I'm still a little apprehensive about starting another semester but here goes...And no school on Monday for Martin Luther King Day! (which I misread on our syllabus as "MILK" day!)

The End is Near...

...At least the end of break. It's sad really. It was going really slowly at first, but now it's going too fast. Of course I want everyone to come back so I'm not all alone anymore, but I am really not looking forward to the start of another semester. I'm not even sure about what this semester will entail in terms of classes and outside work, other than the fashion show in April and my recital which will be scheduled sometime in the near future. I just don't think I'm ready to start everything again. It's a little scary that right now I have enough credits to be considered a senior, though I am far from graduation. I'm hoping to be done in another year, but we'll see how my classes lay out. I really do want to go on to grad school, mostly because I am not 100% sure of what I want to do and I definitely do not want to go out into "the real world." All I want to do for the rest of break is paint, which I did a little bit of tonight :) And really all I want to do for the rest of my life is travel :P Wouldn't that be nice? If only I could win $100 million and have the resources to do so... I wish someone would just figure out my life for me! Any volunteers? Go on...I'm open to suggestions...

The Orphanage

I thought it looked dumb at first, but Ben was insistent on seeing it. Produced by the same director of "Pan's Labrynth," Guillermo del Toro, the "El Orfanato" is also in Spanish. Knowing this, my expectations for the film were raised slightly, but I was still a little apprehensive about seeing a movie about a supposedly haunted orphanage filled with the ghosts of tortured disabled children. Despite my initial thoughts, the movie was suspenseful, chilling, and tragic...and really really good. Here's the synopsis:

"The Orphanage centers on a Laura (Belén Rueda) who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her sons imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists for help in unraveling the mystery that has taken over the place."

See it.