Twitter and myspace went the way of facebook: Gone. Now if only I could bear to get rid of lj.

You'd think that would be easier, since I never use it.....

But there's just too much old stuff on here.

We'll see :D

Yay! So here's the post I promised! Mostly to myself but whatever.

I've just spent the past three hours or so trying to decode what the heck this online class portal is supposed to be all about. 

I feel elderly.  Why am I completely incapable of understanding something that all of the idiots at my community college navigate handily?

Because I'm an idiot too, probably.

This is quite an epiphany.

I've spent the better part of my life truly believing that I was just as smart as everyone else.  Smarter, in fact, than most people.  I've never had any confidence in any part of myself *except* for the fact that I was oh so smart.  So the fact that I'm average at best means that I excel at nothing, and that makes me want to cry.  If I was ever as smart as I thought I was, would I still be living in Connecticut? In the same room that I grew up in? Not even close.  I would have gone to college and finished a masters by now.

I wish I could just drop out of school and be happy as a bank teller.  But I'll never be happy in school, I'll never be happy as a bank teller, I'll never be happy as anything.

So I guess I'm just at an impasse, and whats worse is that every day it gets harder and harder for me to talk to people I don't know, and I'm so afraid that within a few years I won't be able to talk to anyone. It all sounds so ridiculous, but I just don't know how to make myself feel better, but I don't intend on living life this way, either.

How's that for a post. Cheerful and stupid.

So, I think after a year and a half, I'm finally ready to sit down and write in my livejournal again. Coincidence that I've deleted my facebook and that we're between slams? I think not.  See you in a few days when it's not midnight :D

omg so funny!

Tandon: The year's most memorable quotes

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.....he would buy me a computer with a proper keyboard.

Aw, something really sad just happened!

I had written out a moderately long livejournal entry and then i bumped my touchpad clicker, and it steered the page away from livejournal and over to ebay (where I had been checking around to see if I could find the ATP Player calendar from this year, because Dmitri Tursunov is hot and shirtless and black and white in it)

In a nutshell, here is what it said:

Sorry about not updating for such a long time; school, work, life, and facebook seem to have gotten in the way.

When last we spoke, passing all of my classes seemed a dubious situation, I did pass. 
Statistics: A
Psychology: A-
English: C
Accounting: C-

We talked about how my major is still accounting, even though Logan thinks I should major in something that I really love to do. Apparently he's missed the memo about the spiralling downward economy and how not everyone gets to have a job that they Love.  My rationale is that work pays for the things you do outside of work, and for me, I like to play tennis, so if I have a job where I can afford to play tennis a couple of nights a week, that'll be worth it for me.  As I think long term about my career/life, several things stand out: I want to own a home eventually, and an accountants salary would help that some, and then I'd like a job where I'll have decent maternity leave and possible work from home opportunities.  Accounting strikes me as being exactly that fit for me.  And I'm a much better accountant than my grade reflects:  there was an internet financial projections project that I never turned in, as well as about half of the homework assignments that I just didn't have time for.  I otherwise did very well on my tests, barring the final exam which I BOMBED.  All in all, with work turned in I would have landed somewhere in the B range, that internet project instantly took ten points off the grade.

There have been some changes at The Bank.  Not great ones, but what are you gonna do, right?  My old north branch boss no longer works with the bank, and she was fantastic and I just adored her.  I was really sad.  I get to go to North branch this week, after spending two other weeks there recently.  It's so much more fast paced at North, time just flies by.

My tennis instructor told me that I was thinking like a tennis player!  I'm sure that that's just something that instructors have to say to their students to keep up morale, but it definitely kept up my morale.  Now if only I was a little bit lighter on my feet, my tennis time would be a blast.  I love tennis. Love love love love love.  Someone asked me how much it cost me each week and when I told them their eyes bugged out a little, but here's how I rationalize it:  It's probably cheaper than therapy.  It gets me out of my house on Friday evenings.  After a week of work and school, my legs LOVE an hour of chasing tennis balls.  I was toying with the idea of teaching my cousin's young children tennis this summer, kind of like a Big Sister/Mentor sort of thing.  Althought I might be sort of a bad influence.  I have a steady job, still live at home and have no children.  That's kind of a big deal for that side of the family.

Anyway, that's all I've got for now.  Oh, except to say *woohoo Alyssa Czisny, Meryl Davis & Charlie White, and Jeremy Abbott on your first national titles this year*

Oh yeah, and I'm a short step away from being a CrazyMUSEFangirl.  A short step indeed.

Peace out.

:-(

I'm a really sucky student.

I had all these high lofty goals at the beginning of the semester, like "woohoo I'm so going to be on the deans list."

And I'm so not.

If I pass all of my classes, it will be an accomplisment.  One which is looking unlikely at this point.

How can I even bear to tell my family when they ask how I've done with my semster???

I know they've pretty much been waiting for this to happen, and no one got their hopes up, but really all I've proven is that I fail.

I've got it.

I'm going to study accounting while I'm at NCCC

I'm going to transfer to Miami University and dual major in REEEA Studies (Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies) and either Finance (with a minor in International finance) or Diplomacy & Foreign Affairs (with a minor in PolySci) (mwahaha i'm going to take over the worrrrrlllllddddd).

What an interesting time it could end up being for the REEEA studies, with all this Russia trying to take over the oil pipelines in Georgia stuff lately.

I was supposed to be going to bed early tonight becasue I'm TIRED and I still have to finish my accounting test! But I'm still awake, sucked into the awesome vortex of the Miami University homepage! Aaah!!!

1.) Oh snap.  We're really screwed.  We should have passed that bill, buddies.

2.) I know where I want to go to college.  Maybe I'll even be able to afford to go there at some point.

If I went shopping with you earlier today, and you told me that the black leggings looked good with this stupid blue shirt...I'm a little annoyed with you.

I tried on this outfit with the shoes that I'm planning on wearing tomorrow...a blue one shoulder top and a pair of basic black leggings and a pair of heeled sandals....and I look --honest to god--like a half oompa-loompa/ half violet beauregarde hybrid.  Not in a good way.



There it is.  It probably wouldn't even be so awful if the widest part of me wasn't where the hem fell.  I mean there are a lot of wide parts of me, did it reallly have to hit my thighs? 

And the killer thing is that I should have known better after getting three so~so reviews from my family.  I should have known that this was a stupid choice.  But I freakin didn't, and now it's 11.30 and we're going to the casino tomorrow and I'm just going to have to wear a work outfit because I don't have anything else.  The sucky part is I haven't bought anything new for work in a long freakin time, so everything I have is old and looks like shit and doesn't even fit me well.

And I thought in my infinite wisdom that I was skilled enough to take off my own acrylic nails, and I'm so not.  Two of them more or less fell off on their own, but the one that I actually tore off left a pretty big freaking mess on my index finger, tearing apart the different freaking layers, so now I look like a total tool, and have to look like that all day tomorrow at work and everything and try and run to brio on my lunch if they're even freaking open and have my stupid fucking nails repaired.

I hate being a girl, long (disjointed) story short.

And my dad creamed me at tennis today AND yesterday.

Dilemma!!

Van Meer (My guitar) thinks I should clip my false nails down so that I can play him (uh oh, I was going to give you extra points if you could tell me why his name is Van Meer, but now I'm not so sure because the connection is thinner since I've decided he's a boy. Hm.  I'll figure something out.)

I can reach the fret board with my fingertips.  But I love having long nails, and I only got them done a week and a half ago, it seems absurd to clip them down so soon.  And I don't really have any time to work on the guitar until at least next wednesday, so maybe I should just wait until then?

I have no idea how my hands are ever going to stretch to reach the proper frets, once I begin.  I have such short, stubby fingers.

Woops.  It seems to have been about 2 months since I've updated.  It's been an intense and crazy past few weeks though, so I guess that counts for something...although if you ask me why I didn't update before all that madness, I have no clue lol.   This actually would be the perfect place for one of those bullet lists like sarah used that I lamented not being able to use last time because nothing I ended up saying ended up being fit for a bullet list.  But we all know I get a little too rambly for lists. So...*shrugs*

It all started out when FashionBex (who, btw, never updates her LJ anymore, she's even worse than me) called me up (Or I called her up...i can't remember.  Not that that's important to anything) and mentioned that she was looking for a new job since *squee*she is graduating this month.  Which is awesome and so exciting.  Seriously.  And so she was mentioning looking for work in Massachusetts (I ALWAYS feel like Massachusetts should be Massachussetts) and also in New York City.  So I said something along the lines of "OMG Count me in if you go to New York" And so for a while we were looking at all sorts of things like jobs and apartments and stuff in New York, and that was fun, but sort of stressful cos Miss Fashionbex wanted things to move along at a brisk sort of a pace.  And it was fun and exciting to think about and now its sort of at a standstill, but who knows how things could turn up.

And then I found out that I was going to be transferred from my bank branch to Main Office, and despite the fact that I had spent the previous week stoked out of my mind that I might be moving to NY, I then sat outside and cried my whole lunch break the day I found out, and periodically wept throughout the rest of the day.  And then periodically wept throught the rest of the next day, too, esp when I told my coworkers that I was going.  And then Spincerely asked me today how I liked the new branch, and I cried a little more.  Because I don't.  It's not that anyone is mean, per se.  But vastly indifferent. No one is happy with the move, including the girl who replaced me at North, and probably not the girl who I replaced at main.  I saw my former branch manager last night, and she asked how my reception was, and I said it was okay, and she sort of lifted her eyebrows and said "only okay?" and I said "Well, indifferent, more than anything."

And I'm thinking about it now and my chin is trying not to quiver and my eyes are trying not to leak, but its hard.  This was the first time that leaving a workplace was not my choice.  This was the first job that I could have seen myself working at forever, not being particularly at odds with anyone, in a nice quiet place where I could do my nice quiet work and have fun with my nice not-quiet coworkers.  This meeting that all the tellers went to last night was all about stepping out of your "comfort zone", and really, I was in my comfort zone at my old branch in a big way.  But I think a positive way. And now I'm uncomfortable and unhappy in my new job, and ultimately? I'll probably start looking for something new if things don't get significantly better in a month or two. 

I just feel so lost at Main. 

On a positive note (aren't you glad I'm ending with one of those?), one of my Mad Knitters (MKC) and I are going to be taking tennis lessons at Canton Raquet Club.  It's been sort of a debacle setting the whole bit up, since the woman who schedules times seems to only be in once or twice a week and then my communication with MKC wasn't really at its most efficient, mostly because I would call the Racquet club, and then forget to email MKC until the day before I needed the information.  Effective, n'est pas?  But anyway, next Tuesday at 6 at Canton Racquet Club, MKC and I and maybe-but-I'm-not-sure another woman are going to be learning all about forehands, backhands and serves. woot!  Anyone interested in coming along? I can give you details if you're interested!

Anyway, that's all for now.  I have a "picnic" tomorrow at work, and I don't really know what that means.  I hope it means that I can just leave and chill out at the very old cemetery behind town hall.  I took a walk through there today.  It's very old.  The most recent headstones I've seen are from like....1944? There was one I couldn't read that ended in -67 and I couldn't make out if it was a 1967 or an 1867, cos there are a LOT of old headstones back there.  There are even two benches, donated by St Francis School and Wal*Mart! Wow!  It's very quiet there.  It was one of the cemeteries that was vandalized rather recently, I think.  There's a whole section where all the headstones are knocked over and smashed, and it makes me so upset to see it.  Like have some respect, seriously.

But anyway...I'm going to go.  Tomorrow is going to be a long, long, long day. *sigh*.

<3

Nationals are going to be in Spokane Washington in 2010.  Anyone up for going with me?? ;-)  Charlie White will probably be there, curly hair and all!  Cherub look not your thing? Evan Lysacek will presumably also be there!  If you like the ladies, check out Tanith Belbin, often one of ESPN's top hot female athletes.  All event passes go on sale at the end of the month.  Think about it ;-)

....cos....well, id on't remember the 80s at all haha!

1. How old were you in 1980?
-6

2. How old were you in 1989?
3

3. Were you a Toys 'R' Us kid
Not really -- the closest one was in Waterbury, which is about 25 minutes from here but might as well have been in China -- we NEVER went to Waterbury. --agreed.  I didn't go to a Toys 'R' Us until I was in high school. and it was pretty effing awesome! lol

4. Did you watch Transformers?
No. I was vaguely aware of there being a toy of transformers, but i had no idea what it was.

5. Did you see E.T. on the big screen?
I'm sure not

6. Did you own a Lite Brite?
Yep!

7. Who is your favorite Golden Girl?
Ew. I've never liked the golden girls.

8. When someone says "Who you gonna call?" you think?
Ghostbusters, naturally, although i only saw the first few minutes, where bill murray (maybe?) was giving an esp test and shocking the dorky kid every time he answered, even if he was right, and not shocking the hot girl even though she was always wrong.  that's all I remember lol.

9. What was your favorite toy?
I loved Little People, and I played with them until I was a preteen, probably. Seriously. ---dude, Sarah, me too! remember when little people were just like the little cylinders  with a round head and a little hole in the bottom so you could sit them in cars? I had houses and a tree house and cars and a police woman and everything....  now little people are these weird round little things which sort of are like weebles without the wobble.  I also LOVED crashing my hotwheels cars.  that's right, I had the hotwheels cars in the family.  We used to have to dot the bottom of mine with magic marker so that I couldn't fight with jared over whose were whose.

10. Did you have a Pogo Ball?
...what's that?

11. Did you listen to New Kids on the Block?
no, I don't think i would know them even if i heard them

12. What New Kid did you have a crush on?
None of them, for reasons of i was way too young to even know who they were!

13. Did you play M.A.S.H?
Dude, all the TIME.  when i was in the fourth grade i went to sturbridge village with my class, and I bought a slate and a slate pencil thingie, and i played Mash on that all the time!  and it's Mash for Mansion Apartment Shack House :-)

14. Did you watch The Care Bears?
no, i've never seen the care bears

15. Did you have jelly bracelets?
not until i was in like middle school or freshman year...

18. Did you ever own a slap bracelet?
Only for a very short time.  I got it for being good at the Dentist!

19. The Breakfast Club or Sixteen Candles?
The breakfast club really is the only brat pack movie I like, and i LOVE it.

20. Did you have a crazy hair style?
I had a dorothy hammill before I knew what that was lol

21. What was your first bike?
well, i rode around on this purple plastic tricycle for YEARS. and then we went down to the bike store and I got to pick out my very own two-wheeler with training wheels!  It was red, and the name began with an s.  I wanna say it was a schwinn, but i don't think that can be right, unless it was second hand, which i don't think it was.

22. Name one thing you still own from your childhood?
My brown teddy bear.

23. Did you have a Cabbage Patch Kid?
I did, and I also  thought she was revolting and never played with her. my feelings on cabbage patch kids haven't changed much lol.

25. Rainbow Brite or Strawberry Shortcake?
Way too girly for me.  I was into hotwheels cars and legos and power rangers.  I know.  Seriously.

26. Did you watch Miami Vice?
no

28. Did you own a Trapper Keeper?
I ALWAYS wanted one, because I was ALWAYS the kid who was into everything in the stationery aisle.  I never got to have one, though, cos we were too poor or whatever.

29. Atari or Nintendo?
I will never personally own a game system that is not made by nintendo.  I am such a nintendo girl, seriously.  We've had the Virtual Boy, where my interest in tennis began because we had two games, wario-land and mario tennis; A Nintendo 64 where i LOVED Mario Kart and began to hone my sick Mario Party skills; A Game Boy pocket that was Jareds; A Game Boy Color that was mine, and I had pokemon and tomb raider; A Game Boy Advance that I got because Joe had one and I still only have like six games for; and the Game Cube, which is fun funfun.  And if the government gives me free six hundred dollars, $250 of it is going to buy me a wii.  I know, I know.  but it's a Wii, people. lol.

30. Did you play Pac-Man?
Not often, and certainly not well.  I'm rubbish at it.

31. Which was better: Jem and The Holograms or Barbie and The Rockers?
uh....who?

32. He-Man or She-Ra?
my answer of uh....who? works here too, but since i'm a feminist, I'll say She-Ra

33. What movie scared you the most?
I don't know, actually.

34. Did you try to dance like Michael Jackson?
Yep, when he did the music video for the song that they used in free willy.

35. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "flux capacitor"?
?

36. What other colors did Pepsi come in?
Brown, and for a while in the 90s there was blue...

37. Roger Rabbit or Howard The Duck?
Roger Rabbit.

38. Did you ever beg your parents to have your school picture taken with the 'LASER' background?
Yes, and i got it done at least once!

39. Do you know what the Ninja Rap is?
jlol. no but it sounds fun

40. Do you know why people cringe when they hear the word BUCKNER?
...no

41. Can you name the family members from the National Lampoon's Vacation movies?
....no....

42. Did you have pump sneakers?
I don't think so. I think they cost to much money.

43. Did you own HYPER COLOR shirts?
what is that? maybe? i don't know?

44. Did you watch Smurfs?
noooooooooooooo....

And that's all I have for you today.  *kisses*

Dear Alexei:

You are a Jerk.

There is no denying this unquestionable fact.  I had truly believed that we could set aside our differences and remain BFF...but now, I know the truth:

THAT YOU ARE A DIRTY PIECE OF CRAP DOUCHEBAG!

There was no reason for you to go and delete all of my music and videos off of you, except for on a whim you decided to.  You know full well that I changed none of the settings, and I find it heartless and cruel that you would put me through this misery.

I am quite livid with you, and do not know when I will finally be able to stand the sight of you again.

Most sincerely,

Nicole

I don't really have much to say lately so I decided to do this survey that Cheryl emailed!  woot!
1. WHAT TIME DID YOU GET UP THIS MORNING? the process began at 7 and ended at 8.30ish lol

The time has come. YOU GUESSED IT! for NATIONALS predictions!!  Last year I did ok-ish, i think.  This year I'm going to do better! I've learned a lot from the skatefans about how the judges are going to tweak the events to get things as much their way as they can, I've seen more performances by more skaters...this is it...the year that I will correctly guess at least 75% of the top five in each field!!!

haha. yeah, right.  But here it goes:

Ladies:

*Caroline Zhang
Kimmie Meissner
*Mirai Nagasu
Ashley Wagner
*Rachel Flatt
Alyssa Czisny

*Age ineligible for worlds. 

Basically, I'm calling the World Team to be Kimmie, Ashley and Alyssa.  There's the possibility however unlikely that Emily Hughes will try for an appointment to the World Team, since we have three slots available, but it depends on her hip and if she's healed.  Don't be surprised if US Figure Skating tries to worm her onto the team, is all I'm saying.  No matter how you slice it, it'll be my top three as the podium finishers, even if they're in a vaguely shuffled order.


Men:

Evan Lysacek
Johnny Weir
Stephen Carriere
Jeremy Abbott
Ryan Bradley
Parker Pennington

This matchup between Johnny and Evan is going to be exciting.  I promise.  Evan can pull off a BEAUTIFUL quad-triple combination when it REALLY counts, ie Nationals this year and Grand Prix Final this year.  His liability is his lack of musicality and his triple axel technique, being downgraded a couple times this season.  But Johnny has skated two FANTASTIC competitions, winning two Grand Prix golds in his first two competitions of the season, but then falling apart in a heartwrenching fashion at GPF.  Weir has the fire, but if Evan skates before him in the free and gets a roaring standing O right as Johnny is taking the ice, he'll freeze, and falter.  And if Johnny skates first, I think that Evan will up his game.   I'm really betting Evan, here.  Stephen Carriere had a great breakout season on the senior circuit...but the wildcard will be Ryan Bradley.  He hasn't had too great a season so far, but he was a silver medalist last year, and the judges might feel like dumping him down to fourth is a little harsh.  My guess is that it's going to Stephen, Jeremy, and Ryan in a fight for that third seat to worlds, but Carriere has international support already, so look for him to squeak out a win.  Parker had really fugly hair last year, so look for that this season. ;-)

Btw, mens is going to be my favorite event, I know already.  Exciting stuff!!


Pairs:

* Keauna McLoughlin/Rockne Brubaker
Naomi Nari Nam/Themi Leftheris
Brooke Castille/Ben Okolski
Rena Inoue/John Baldwin
Caitlin Yankowskas/John Coughlin
Tiffany Vise/Derek Trent

The US only has two spots available, and the best team at the event is age ineligible for worlds.  They had a breakthrough senior season this year, and they'll be rewarded if Rockne can shake off his injury.  And probably even if he can't quite, since the next three teams have sat out the season, Yankowskas & Couglin are brand spankin' new, and Vise&Trent are sluggish and slow, even if they did ONCE manage a throw Quad Sal in a major competition.  Nam/Leftheris and Castille/Okolski will be the team, but their position on the podium could easily be switched, depending on how well they each healed from their respective ailments this season.  Naomi's was her hip, and Brookes was I believe her foot/ankle.  We'll see.  Inoue/Baldwin have been National Champions what, like three times?  But they're old and sloppy and sluggish, and John Baldwin is a creepy sort of man.  They'll never place on the world podium, so there's a lot of talk that US Figure skating just wants them out of the mix, so barring an OUTSTANDING performance from them and very weak performances from my top three, look for them to fall off the podium this year.



Dance:

Tanith Belbin/Ben Agosto
Meryl Davis/Charlie White
Kimberly Navarro/Brent Bommentre
Emily Samuelson/Evan Bates
Jane Summerset/Todd Gilles
Lynn Kriengkrairut/Logan Giulietti-Schmitt

I will say, the only teams I've seen in action are Tanith/Ben, Meryl/Charlie, and Kim/Brent.  However, Kim is pretty old (28, I think) for a first placement, so it might be Emily & Evan, the wonder-juniors on their first trip to Senior Worlds this year.  My personal favorites Melissa Gregory/Denis Petukhov are out with injury, so look for Meryl & Charlie to fill the void and very competently place second.  This whole competition should be very exciting, with the depth in US Dance being so incredible coming up.  I don't really have anything else to add to this, only that Meryl and Charlie are a gift from the Skate Gods, and this year I actually have only really liked four free dances that I've seen, those from Meryl/Charlie, Tanith/Ben, Kerr/Kerr, and Virtue/Moir, and so three out of the four of those are from the Shpilband camp.  But it's going to be Tanith/Ben's year to finally wear the World's crown, I think, but we'll get to that a little closer to time.



The best performances that I have so far seen this season, and worth a visit to youTube for:

1.) Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg FD
NHK (best recording, very little audio commentary)

I've seen this performance something like 40 times (thank god for DVR).  It's moved me to tears, had me gripped by its beauty, the music has been so stuck in my head that I netflixed the movie so I can hear the full soundtrack.  This team is prodigious, look for them to take the podium in Vancouver in 2010.

2.) Tanith Belbin/Ben Agosto (USA)
Selections from Chopin FD
Grand Prix Final 2007 Torino

I have also been moved to tears and goosebumps by this program.  Wonderfully choreographed, a real change of pace for this team.  The first performance of theirs that I've really ever like, the serpentine lift is wonderfully fluid (don't worry if you don't know which one that is, the commentators tell you if you watch the ESPN broadcast).  It's about everything you think that falling in love should be, before you grow older and realize that it isn't. 

3.) Evan Lysacek
Tosca FS
Grand Prix Final 2007 Torino

He finally pulls out his magnificent Quad-triple combination, the one which has been eluding him all season.  The music is overused, and it feels like a recycled Carmen, but there is really something about his energy and dedication and determination that is really a step above everyone elses.  If Johnny Weir had half the determination and grit of Evan, he would have an Olympic medal around his neck.

4.) Stephane Lambiel
Flamenco FS
Grand Prix Final 2007 Torino

I don't, unfortunately, know the official name of this program.  And what is important is that if you're going to watch both Evan's and Stephane's, to watch Evan's first, because you will REALLY appreciate Stephane's artistry.  His musicality is unparalleled, his spins are aMAZING, and he has a real artist's soul out there on the ice.  His liability is his jumping technique, and if he can get his jumps back and solid underneath him, he could seriously challenge for World Champion this year.  No matter who you are, you'll love his footwork sequences.

5.) Daisuke Takahashi
Swan Lake SP
Skate America 2007 Reading OR NHK Trophy 2007

This is Swan Lake like you've never heard or seen it before.  It's mixed in a hip-hop sort of a way, and honestly, you'll love it, again, no matter who you are, because it's so fresh and very much not what you would expect out of a japanese male figure skater.  the first time I watched it I was like "eh" but then I saw it a few more times and it really is extraordinary.  he moves very well, but I don't buy into his performance as much as into Stephane's.

6.) Keauna McLaughlin/Rockne Brubaker
Romeo & Juliet FD
NHK Trophy 2007

This team is the real deal.  They've been together just over a year and a half I guess.  Their first year together they did the completely Junior circuit, from local competions earning them a spot on the international team, to their two junior grand prix events, the junior grand prix final, nationals (as juniors) and the finally junior worlds.  They're extraordinary, and age inelligible for worlds, so they can't go this year.  But she gets GREAT height in their throw triple twist, their lifts are big, their speed is good.  They're the best hope that the US has had for a world pairs medal since Ina/Zimmerman.

7.) Meryl Davis/Charlie White
Eleanor Rigby/Eleanor's Dream FS
Trophee Eric Bompard 2007

This is my favorite team.  They are just ADORABLE in their interviews, Meryl with her little baby-doll voice and Charlie with that mop of golden curls.  This is a really nice dance for them.  I put it all the way down here so that if you're watching these in order you won't watch them right after tanith&ben or tessa&scott and not like it.  Their lines aren't quite as soft, and they don't relate to each other quite as well, but they're fighters, and they'll be on the podium in Russia in 2014.  Their twizzles are fantastic (they commentators will let you know when they're happening, i promise) ; in fact, its said all over the place that they have the best twizzles in the business. 

8.) Caroline Zhang
Ave Maria FS
Grand Prix Final 2007 Torino

She's the next Michelle Kwan, if you talk to a lot of people.  She's cute, she can bend herself into terrifyingly frightening positions, and her jumps are iffy.  However, hang on until the last bit, and watch her last combination spin.  The layback.  You will hurt just watching it.  JARED is impressed by it.  JARED, the tool who is only interested in skating if I'm rewinding falls for him repeatedly.


This is my playlist of the best performances of the season thus far, in my own opinion.  There are those who will disagree with me....but they're just plain wrong! ;-)  If you watch any of them, please let me know what you saw, what you liked, what you hated, or why I'm a tool for thinking that this is the greatest sport ever.  And then let me know if you want to attend 2009 Nationals in Cleveland with me, since I SHALL be attending :-D

Sorry this got so long.  I do tend to run on.

Yikes. My foot is VERY much falling asleep.

For whatever reason, my contacts list seems to have dissolved into the bowels of GMail...but it has been giving me mad ishuus lately, so perhaps its just hiding them from me.

But I just have a quick quick question: Does anyone have an entertainment book for 2008 that happens to have a coupon for Stars on Ice tickets that you're not planning on using? I don't in fact even know for sure that such coupons exist...but there was one in the 2007 book, except 2007 is over!!!

Okay well my r.Fed is playing tonight, so i have to go clean out the DVR to make sure I have enough space for him!!!

*****

In a completley seperate note, something that happened almost five years ago may actually have been my fault, after blaming someone else for it for this amount of time. Go figure, eh?

<3
Nicole

I feel very sad.

Melancholy, almost.

No, melancholy is I think a  good word.  From the Merrium-Webster Online dictionary:

I need to update my icons like whoa. Maybe dig up a couple of tennis/Federer ones or something. Sasha Cohen is so two years ago ;-) We'll see, I'm sure I can dig me up something!

Behind this cut I'm posting the results of my free religious profile test. It's sort of interesting, and it's pretty much how i knew it would pan out.
 ( But here it is.... )I do find it vaguely interesting that I have more in common with Islamic beliefs than with Christianity. I mean I certainly wouldn't have put Christianity in my top spot or two, but even under Islam? I am actually very interested in this Unitarian Universalism thing, especially since I've never really heard of it before.  I always feel that if I were to seek out people with whom to share a spiritual experience I would seek out pagans.  l like the idea of freedom of thought and I think that the history of paganism is richer and more all-encompassing than many of the other religions, given that it takes concepts from religions all the world over.

Anyway, I'm tired and tomorrow is my long day, so I'm off.

Everyone have a sparkling day!

Hi JOURNAL!!!

I haven't talked to you in such a long time!!! Did you miss me?  I guess I mean to write in this thing like a lot more than I actually do.

Like it's been a WHOLE MONTH!!!  I feel like so much has happened!!

1. I read Special Topics in Calamity Physics, a fantastic book which places its hard-backed self into my top five or so books EVER.  It's not about Physics.  The best thing I can say to get what its about would be to go to Amazon or something.
2. I went to the Christmas party that I said that I wasn't going to.
3. I got a Personal Loan from the bank, and now my charge cards are completely paid off.  When i told Logan that I paid them off I got a :-D but then when I told him that i got a personal loan to do it I got a :-(, even after I explained that 14% interest is WAY better than 30% interest.  But he's a snot.
4. I have like 89% of my Christmas shopping completed.
5. Blockbuster totally broke my Top Spin X-box game, so now I have to buy a whole new one. I tried buying one for my Gameboy, but it totally sucks in comparison.  It's the equivalent of watching Pirates of the Caribbean in an Imax theatre, and then trying to enjoy it on your new iPhone. it sucks.
6. I work with people who don't know what a blogs are.  I think that that's so cute!
7. I watched that movie Amelie from a few years ago, and I LOVED it.  when I got it from netflix, my mom was like ew, why'd you get that, cos I guess she had seen it and hated it, but I thought it was ADORABLE and I loved it.  Aparantly, I really like movies with subtitles.
8. I did national novel writing month, i'm not sure if i mentioned or not.  I don't know if i won or not, since I never finished transcribing my handwriting into the laptop, since i only have 18 more uses of microsoft word before I have to commit and buy microsoft office lol.
9. I had forgotten how enjoyable joe's Dynamic's CD is. I'm listening to it now and I love it!  My favorite song from it is gone, though! Walk on the ocean or something like that.  It must have gotten lost in the transfer, so now I'm goign to have to try and find the actual CD itself.
10. I think I'll be getting an iPod after Christmas.  I feel like wanting one for seven years makes it a truly valid desire, and not just a whim.  I have a cruddy little mp3 player now, but it doesnt' hook up to iTunes, and I don't know how to load things onto it myself, so I have to have Jared do it. and it's just a little flash drive anyway, and I don't like it, by jove.