successful weekend :)

My parents, sister and one of my best friends from high school, Jamie, came to visit this weekend. It might have been one of my favorite weekends that I've been here. Had dinner with all of them Friday night, then went out with Jamie and some friends. Saturday we went to the game, an open rehearsal for the dance department, downtown Kalamazoo for dinner which was fun because I had also never been there. Then Jamie and I watched The Sandlot that night.It was one of the best things to just sit with her, catch up, and just laugh about the movie and great memories. We went out to breakfast this morning and they all left a little while later. Now I just got back from seeing Spring Awakening. Again, I was impressed. But going back, I find it so crazy that spending time with people you love goes by so quickly. So thanks to my family for everything and thank you Jamie Payne for being an amazing friend that I can do dumb things with but also know that I can come to you when things are rough. ♥ #besties

The Prestige pt. 2

Yup, my first idea for this paper wasn't working out like I thought it would so after thinking about it for days, I changed my thesis tonight. Typical. My new thesis is that Cutter (the narrator of the movie played by Michael Caine) is manipulating everyone and every action is pre-planned. I think I'm having a hard time with this because everything makes sense in my head but I have a hard time writing it all out with every detail that is needed for it to make sense to other people. I also feel like sometimes after I write it, it stops making sense or confuses me a little bit. I feel like this is on the way to being super confusing to everyone so I'm going to bed. Night.

funnyyyyyy

http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=36594

I found this gif at the end of senior year (probably when I should have been doing homework but it was second semester senior year, oh well.) and thought it was literally the FUNNIEST thing I had ever seen. I was laughing about it for a good fifteen minutes. This girl gets me every single time I see this. I showed it to a friend at school and luckily she thought it hilarious too. Anyways, I just remembered that and thought I'd share. I hope you find it at least half as amusing as I do.

The Prestige

The Prestige (2006) directed by Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite movies of all time. I'm a little (okay maybe a lot) obsessed with it. So, that is what I will be doing my second project for this class on. Getting points to watch my favorite movie? I'll take it. I don't want to give away the movie for anyone that hasn't seen it but I'm trying to make my thesis work around the idea that the entire movie is a prestige or illusion. The whole first and last scenes are EXACTLY the same so I'm really hoping that this will work out in my favor. So that's what I'll be doing this weekend, watching my favorite movie :) 

story of my life

I didn't realized till about Friday night that I completely forgot to post a blog for Thursday. Whoops, sorry guys. Maybe because my weekend started on Thursday for my first time here just hanging out and a having fun with friends because dance majors didn't have classes on Friday.  :) Anyways, it was pretty much a typical weekend in my life at WMU. ITM house Friday night (drama!), I went with my friend to her sorority dinner Saturday night (which just confirmed even more that I'm so glad I'm not in one.) And rehearsal and spending some time at the library today. I did see Sleep Deprivation Chamber tonight though which was incredible. My friend Nate is the main character, Teddy, and I was so amazed at how great he is. It was the first theater production I've seen at Western and I can't wait to see more!

homecoming weekend

I know most people are probably thinking that this will be about WMU's homecoming but its not. I went home to Illinois for the first time this weekend. It was also my high school's homecoming Saturday night. I saw all most of my younger friends which was so fun. I  can't believe I was in their place just one year ago, its kind of crazy. It was so nice to see everyone and feel completely at home. Good luck to all my babies, Acad and RDE loves ♥

peer review

I've never really done that much peer review of papers in my English classes before. It was neat to see how the other students in my class write and what has made them into the writers that they are. Reading their comments on my paper was helpful right then and I hope it will help when I write the second draft. I've also never been required to write multiple drafts of papers for English. We usually just had to turn in one paper and then we were given the option to fix it and turn it back in for more points. So I've always been the person that can sit down and just write a whole paper the night before its due and get a good grade on it and that's how I've always written papers for my English classes.