Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Elizabeth's LiveJournal:

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006
9:18 am	Am I really a girl scout? Just a little inquiry... Do I really look 16 or something? Because everyone I meet lately (who is older) seem to think I couldn't possibly be a college graduate. Take for example on the tube to the airport. This middle aged couple was talking to us. I said we had just graduated and the woman says, "From high school?" I kinda dumbfounded. Plus she actually is a high school teacher! And the other day I was out with two friends and I was the only one who was carded. It's getting annoying. Then there was of course the girl scout incident. Really now... Everyone keeps telling me I'll be happy about looking young when I'm 40, but for now it's just annoying. Current Mood: frustrated (Comment on this)
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
1:18 am	World Travels So far on my post-graduation European sojourn I've been to England, Ireland, France, Italy, and Croatia. I'm currently in Athens, Greece and in a few hours I head out to the islands. It's so nice and warm (unlike everywhere else in Europe we went where it was raining!!). I think I'm starting to lose my mother tongue from speaking wierd english/many other languages for so long. One week left. WEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Current Mood: happy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
9:55 pm	bleh I am so completely over school. My thesis is due next Friday and it couldn't come soon enough! I just don't care anymore. I have more important things to worry about now, like what I'm doing with the rest of my life. But this angst could also have to do with the fact that I haven't left the house today. :( Anyway, come Friday I'm getting crunk on cock and tail. On the upside...my Europe plans are finally finalized! We've bought all the plane tickets and our eurail passes. It's happening! And in less than a month! I'm super stoked. It's getting me through this week. That's for sure. Wow, I'm such a whiner. :) Current Mood: listless (Comment on this)
Monday, March 20th, 2006
5:53 pm	I'm finally done! I just finished my all-day Teach For American interview and I think it went pretty well...? I've totally bought into their propaganda and I really really want to be accepted. Here's hoping! I don't find out for another 3 weeks though. Poo. Also...SPRING BREAK STARTS ON FRIDAY...WOOT! Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Rachael Yamagata...who else would it be in our apartment? (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 1st, 2006
10:37 pm	Update...now it's pouring rain suddently when it was sunny earlier. WHAT'S GOING ON? I'm seriously starting to get a wee bit nervous here folks. Current Mood: distressed (2 Comments |Comment on this)
10:22 pm	Am I Being Smote? 3 earthquakes in one day! I'm really starting to worry here people. This is not okay. Is the big one coming for real this time? The first one I thought was just someone downstairs slamming their door really hard, but then the second one came and it almost knocked me off my chair. It totally took my breath away. And now, just as I realized I forgot to go to church for ash wednesday, it's quake #3. Connection? Okay, probably not I know. But still wierd yes? I'm a bad little Catholic girl. :( But I am giving up chocolate, that counts for something right? My current stance on Catholicism is not something that I want to get into right now. But I digress...rant is over. On a happier note, the professor I assisted with research last semester volunteered to teach how to do oral histories for my thesis. He's totally going to help me with my thesis because his project was postponed and he still wants to work with me! And he introduced me to another professor who has already done some interviews with people involved with my topic and she is going to help me also. Yay! I feel so supported. :) Current Mood: of earthquakes! Current Music: Coldplay...to calm the nerves (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
4:44 pm	Happy Groundhog Day! Luckily I did not relive today over and over again. Wheh! I am perpetually sore these days. But hopefully it will pay off soon. :) The ol' thesis is going better. I sat down with my professor today and we hashed things out. And...he told me that the professor that I do research with at the Regional Oral History Office wrote an email to tell him how great I am. It's nice to be appreciated. :) Plus my professor also had a Clio's Scroll (I'm editor-in-chief) in his office which was cool too. Anyway, I just feel like I'm really part of the department and it makes me feel cool. YES I am a big nerd face. So I'm going home next weekend, to Vegas for Lauren's b-day the next weekend, and sking in Tahoe the weekend after that. Yeesh. I'm gonna be tuckered! But I better have fun now before I become a slave to the library/my computer. Oh yeah and I went to Coldplay on Tuesday. Amazing, but too short. It was really fun though. Chris Martin was rocking a Justin Timberlake popcorn fro look. Wierd. And we realized naming his child Apple was simply selling his first born to Apple computers in return for an Ipod/marketing. Thoughts? Supabowl on Sunday. Shall be fun. Current Mood: jubilant Current Music: Rachael Yamagata...she rocks my world (Comment on this)
Monday, January 30th, 2006
10:05 pm	Yada Yada I <3 Augustana!! New addiction alert... My thesis research is not so hot so far. Hopefully it will get better. I mean of course it will! Positiveness. P.S. I think I'm coming home the weekend of Feb. 10 so watch out SD! Current Mood: chipper Current Music: "Wasteland" Augustana (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 28th, 2006
4:44 pm	Strange Dreams... My head must be pretty messed up lately because I've been having some pretty wierd/disturbing dreams. Here's the one I had two days ago: Somehow I found out my Dad had sold me to the Devil so I was going to hell. I was crying uncontrollably because I didn't want to die and I couldn't believe my parents would betray me like that (my mom wouldn't help me either). I was yelling at them and saying that I hate them and I would never forgive them, but they were passive and didn't care. They then were trying to plan how they could make my death look like an accident so I could go to hell. I was trying to avoid doing whatever they thought of to kill me, but I ended up dying by having a porceline figurine fall on my head. So I had died and went to hell. Interestingly, you get there by an escalator. I don't remember much about what hell was like, but I remember I was really depressed more because I wanted to live than because I was in hell. For some reason I had an advisor type person to help me get used to hell I guess, but he was actually really nice and decided to sacrifice and help me escape hell. So he got me some sort of fake passport and this ticket thing and I had to pass through security and act natural. I passed security and I was free. Hell's escalator only goes one way, so I was running as fast as I could the wrong way down the escalator past the people with nervous and uncertain expressions going into hell. Suddenly I was alive again and had to put my life back together and figure out what I had missed. Any ideas what this could possibly mean? I woke up pretty disturbed. :( Current Mood: contemplative Current Music: Imogen Heap (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 11th, 2005
11:24 am	15 richest fictional characters http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/forbes/P137998.asp?GT1=7471 (Comment on this)
Monday, November 7th, 2005
10:19 pm	YAY! Europe this summer is sooo a go! Jessie and I started planning yesterday (a highly enjoyable form of procrastination). We're thinking Paris (To visit a few parisian buddies of mine), then Italy, Croatia, and Greece. We're doing the Mediterranean baby! Oh so excited. This will definitely be good motivation whilst I'm slaving away writing my thesis next semester. On another note I feel like there so many cool things I still want to do in college but don't have the time. Curse me and my multitude of interests! Plus I finished my paper today and I don't have any others for at least a week! Oh miracle of miracles. YAY indeed... Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: The rainy dripping down my windowpane (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
11:28 pm	La De Da "I'm looking at the end of the tunnel, but I can't see the light." -my depressed sentiments about being a senior at Berkeley with no established post-grad plans But I know it's really not all that bad, right? Being a senior has so many more worries than before. I miss my carefree days. ;) haha. As if I have it bad at all. I'm such a whiner. But I digress... I was an 80s jazzercise instructor for Halloween. Muy fun! Homemade costume...oh yeah always the best! I went to a co-op party with half naked people (and got the VIP service) and then to a physics GSI party which was actually really cool. It's wierd that I can relate to GSIs as regular people now instead of older authority figures. I'm guess I'm growing up...maybe?? I played hooky today and was rewarded. ;) I can't belive Thanksgiving is sooo soon (And that means RENT movie!!)! November already. I'm a poor little match girl without a working heater. It's another double comforter night. Gotta love Berkeley housing. Anywho, back to the ol' francais. Current Mood: dorky (Comment on this)
Monday, October 24th, 2005
9:13 pm	Ca va bien Friday night was really fun. I had my first real experience going to an SF club as a 21 year old! And I got to shake my stuff and meet some new friends. I still got it. ;) I didn't go to bed until 5am and then I had to wake up to teach 6 years old musical theatre at 10! But it was all in the name of good fun. And we finally won again on Sat. night! Go Bears! Maybe you don't suck that much. j/k. I <3 the Bears. And I read over 200 pages in less than 16 hours for class. Yes, my name is Ms. Productivity nice to meet you. I watched the Govenator on tv tonight talking about initiatives. I guess he's not as bad an actor as I thought. ;) Anyway, off to watch the Sorrow and the Pity, a 4 hour documentary about the occupation of France. (A favorite of Woody Allen in Annie Hall) Let's see how much of it I get through. I need to get a Halloween costume!! Peace. Current Mood: peaceful (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
6:39 pm	I'm a silly kid. Quickie update: I'm quite foolish in the ways of the heart. Will I ever know what I really want? My French teacher sucks. :( I just did my last telebears registration ever and signed up for the degree list...OMG!!! Where the hell did the time go? Scary... I got to watch Felicity today! It made my day. :) I want to go home to San Diego...thinking mayhaps the first weekend of November...hmmm who else will be there then? ;) C'est tout pour maintenant. Current Mood: drained Current Music: Seulement mes penses (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
10:07 am	Berkeley moment of the day: Just finished an essay and eating pizza for breakfast while reading about the most fuel efficient cars of 2006. P.S. Bush made a law supporting hybrids? Whaaaaaa????? Current Mood: nerdy (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
4:41 pm	Oy vey! (In honor of the Jewish holidays) Why is life so complicated right now? Figuring out what I want to do with the rest of my life isn't as easy as it once seemed. I'm a freaking senior and I still don't know and it's stressing me out! Well I guess I'm in the process of trying to figure it out. I do have some ideas, but nothing concrete. Career counselor here I come! Oh a different note... student universe keeps sending me emails about cheap flights to europe just to tempt me! The bloody temptress! But I'm currently in negociations with the parents for a post-grad Mediterranean trip (say Portugal, Spain, France, Croatia, Greece or some combo of them). A few weeks of sun, languages, and culture. Yessssss!! That so would be motivation enough to get through my thesis next semester. I <3 Europe beaucoup! Current Mood: optimistic Current Music: Rachael Yamagata (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
5:09 pm	OMG The RENT movie soundtrack is out today!!! It's getting sooo close!!! :) Oh man, am I the only one excited here?? EDIT: My mom ordered the CD for me 2 weeks ago and it still hasn't come! :( Amazon is lame. Current Mood: giddy Current Music: ITunes preview of Rent soundtrack (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
11:33 pm	Week from HELL! Okay, maybe not that dramatic, but hella stressful! Summerschool is eating me alive right now. And it doesn't feel good! Oh the upside, it's almost over. On the upper side (no, not drugs!) my boyfriend made me yummy dinner! At my place! It was all kinds of awesome. I find myself being more conscious of english grammar now that I'm thinking in french grammar all the time. Wierd... This whole french/english switching is messing with my head! What still sucks is I'm so bad at spelling in both languages. Well okay, not actually that bad, but I'm a perfectionist, so it really bugs. Plus I keep spelling english words in a french way. ha. I guess I bet get used to it. By the by, the Kaiser Chiefs rule. Especially live. Their concert was amazing! But I heard they're now on an Arizona jeans commercial! Soooo not amazing. And it's Na Na Na Na Na! Roisin, they've raped our song! But they're still awesome, even if they did sell out. ;) **Major Change of Topic** I've begun to realize that there are far fewer solid answers to life's questions than I once thought. Well actually I never gave them that much thought when I was younger. I guess that's the point. Endless debate about a single topic can be exhilerating, but frustrating at the same time. I long for answers, but they don't exist! Okay so I'm a total nerd, but sometimes I don't want class discussions to end because I'm so engaged in them. Other times, it just frustrates me to no end how futile our talking about the injustices in our society are when it seems they will never be fixed. Going to Berkeley one can never escape the issue of inequality and racism because they practically drill it into our heads every chance they get (they being professors) that this issue practically defines our nation. Being a history major, especially one specializing in US, it's just so apparant that race defines so much of what our country is and could be. That is my random rant for the day. Too much essay writing for me. Why am I writing for fun now? I'm crazy I guess. Je veux un vrai ete: plein d'amusement, du soleil, et du rire! Current Mood: tired (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, July 31st, 2005
6:37 pm	Bleh My hair is the color of diet cherry vanilla dr.pepper...pretty sweet Summer school makes life seem very sad indeed :( I want beach...now! I'm sick of NorCal in summer, it's effin' freezing! I miss Europe. Putain! And certain pair of Parisien friends! 2 weeks left! Then back to good ol' SD. And my POOL! I CAN'T WAIT!!! I have somewhere to live next year! YAY! And my landlord is crazy/funny. And my new neighbor seems really cool. I'm not ready for summer to be over, but I'm ready for it to start where I left it in San Diego. Summer school feels like this wierd fake bad dream. Where did my real summer go? It's wierd that it started in Europe for 3 weeks and SD for 2 and now I'm back in Berkeley. Yes, Europe is full of stinky cheeses, but I prefer that to stinky bums! Summer is wasting away, but not in a good way. Current Music: Jack Johnson (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005
9:52 pm	First Entry So...new journal. Haven't had one of these for awhile, but I figured it was one more good way to procrastinate right? Just returned from a semester in Paris a month ago. I miss it like crazy! It was a really magical time in my life and it will always be really special in my heart, as will the great friends I made there. But I will be back Paris! Mark my words! I'm currently attending summer school at good ol' UC Berkeley. Back in my old apartment complex which is wierd. But I only have about a month left to go. Man, summer school goes by quickly! (That's right, "quickly" not fast. haha I'm a nerd.) I'm enjoying my classes which make the days go by faster. One would think a 4 hour class would be murderous, but it's not really that bad at all. And le francais is going pretty well. I might just be double-majoring in it...we'll see. I guess it's wierd to decide on a double major my senior year, but I have room so why not? It's better to be too ambitious than not ambitious enough right? I guess you could say Paris inspired me. Okay, yeah you can definitely say that in more ways than one. I guess I'm having what one might call an existential crisis right now. Where are my existential crisis detectives when I need them? :) I think I had some of the sort last weekend, but they're gone now. :( I'm kinda floating between knowing where I want my future to take me and being like Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate." There are no middle aged men in my near future though. ;) I've already got me a man and I'm pretty happy with him. I feel like this summer is definitely a transitional period of transferring what I learned about myself studying abroad into my "normal" life in Berkeley. I've been told that France is just a dream and this is my reality. But you know what? That was my reality too and I don't need to let it go just because I'm back here now. I'm really hoping that this is going to be a great year for me. It better be! It's my last one! That's so scary to say... Ewww, the "real world" is coming too quickly! I am trying to improve myself. I think that's what life is all about right? Making the most of everything. Maybe this is a bit intense for a first entry. I haven't had one of these babies for awhile. But whatev, these are my thoughts of the moment. They've got to go somewhere right? "Vivez, si m'en croyez, n'attendez a demain: Cueillez des aujourd'hui les roses de la vie." (4 Comments |Comment on this)