EXCITING NEWS / RIVETING FOOTAGE

HAPPY LEAP YEAR!
This is one cool day to get to see every four years! My grandma died on this day four years ago, and I want to dedicate today's entry to her. I love you and miss you very much, Arvena! I wish I wasn't at my work computer, otherwise I could post some pictures of her, but alas, I am a work loser. On another note, I just spent like three minutes thinking about how cool the name Arvena is. Why has nobody talked about that before? I mean that is a cool name. It's like a super hero name or something. Wow.


So.
This is the first image that comes up when you google image search leap year:


I support that.









NOW ONTO MORE EXCITING NEWS!

THIS COULD BE ME!











OR THIS COULD BE ME!

Last night my friend Sean Kasey and I applied for the Tesol online Certification course! It comes with a great discount cause we ordered together and what we end up with is the online course with tutor support and a free certificate course in teaching small children or business adults. I haven't yet decided whether or not i want to kids or the businessmen, but I tend towards the kids even though there might be more work in the business department. But what's great is that it is just another certificate and is not necessary to getting a job with children or businessmen, but it could help!
So, I am very excited. The online course is so much more inexpensive and I am lookig forward to having a friend go through it with me. At first I was like, "Is this legit? It seems to good to be true!" But it is. I have talked to 3 real people on the phone already, 2 of which were incredibly helpful and nice, and definitely convinced me that this is the real deal.
Sean and I are very much looking forward to this great opportunity for work.
I was just noticing online the other day a few different jobs in Greece. I could work 25 hour weeks for 2000 Euros a month and 4 weeks paid vacation with health insurance and pension plans or something (there were two jobs one was for 800-100 euros and one was for 2000). It sounded insane! I don't really know where this will lead, but I do know that even being able to work in the US is a great thing for me. The pay can be really good, and I can work part time and still support myself and have the ability to travel the globe, and help people who want to learn!
I am really excited also about the idea of working with children. maybe not just young young kids, but even teenagers. The prospects of what this opportunity holds are vast, and I look forward to having this skill under my belt!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I seem to remember Marcus doing this in the past, Marcus maybe you and I could talk a little about this so i feel more secure in my preparation.

NOT KIDDING AROUND.

OK. I CAME HOME FROM WORK TODAY AND IT LOOKED LIKE BRODIE HAD EATEN PARTS OF HIMSELF AND LEFT HUGE PATCHES OF LEFTOVERS ALL OVER THE CARPET. LIKE BIG LOOSE WADS OF HAIR WERE ON THE CARPET. I JUST VACUUMED IT TWO DAYS AGO. IT'S BRAND NEW HAIR. FAST FORWARD. CUT TO. TONIGHT. RIGHT NOW. GETTING IN BED, GETTIN ALL CUDDLY WITH NOBODY EXCEPT MAYBE THE PROSPECTS OF CHECKING MY EMAIL AND, WAIT... HOLD ON A MINUTE. WHAT'S THAT ON THE BLANKET? WHAT COULD THAT BE? I REACHED FOR IT IN ALARM AND QUICKLY REALIZED IT WAS INDEED A HUGE WAD OF THE CAT'S HAIR ON MY BED. THEN I TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AND REALIZE THAT THERE'S NOT JUST A FEW HAIRS AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT ONE WAD. THERE IS A LAYER. ACTUAL LAYER OF CAT HAIR ON THE BLANKET.

I KEEP THE PAINTING IN THE DOORWAY CONSTANTLY.
HOW THE HELL (HELL!) COULD THE CAT HAVE GOTTEN INTO MY ROOM AND SPENT ENOUGH TIME ON MY BED TO HAVE LEFT AN ENTIRE LAYER AND ALSO A BIG LOOSE WAD OF HIS HAIR. SOMETIMES THEY SAY WE'LL NEVER KNOW. IN THIS CASE, I WILL DIE BEFORE I LET THIS MYSTERY GO UN-INVESTIGATED.

UNCOMFORTABLY SIGNING OUT.
NICOLE



THE CULPRIT

mixed bag

WORK IS SLOW. weird. for the first time in weeks. for me anyway. adam is really busy. but it's not stuff i can help him with. i don't know why. i am excited about the lunar eclipse tonight. me and my building buddies are going to get up on the roof and watch it with some beers maybe. i don't know. i guess i could drink a beer. i've got a lot cooking right now up in my noggin. couldn't possibly talk about it right now. i'll have to check back later.


those are the beautiful flowers justin sent. i still can't believe how awesome it was. the only problem with orchids is that when cut they don't last very long. mine are so close to the edge. it hasn't been a week yet!





this pic is just for fun. i love my mirror alexis got me for christmas. it looks great with my old vanity pouch that i think my great aunt gave me ages ago. i could post more pics of the apt, but i will just have to do that later. i almost feel guilty spending my whole day at work on the computer doing personal business.

on a separate note i got to meet rebecca miller the other day. i'm not really supposed to talk about work stuff outside of work, but this is not really anything special. i was still really excited though. and the next day i went to her house to deliver a dvd. i didn't go in, but i did see into the foyer. i think she and robin wright penn were working all day yesterday. and now the big cheese (cindy) is in LA. they're going to see a few more girls, but the big reason rebecca is going there to be with her hubby at the oscars (d.d-lewis). i want to die when i think about being married to him. and then i REALLY think about it and it is kind of weird. i know that they are very intimate. they are very close and try to spend as little time apart as possible. but he gets SO into his roles. and she is a mess about this movie. somehow they swing it. and have two children. i like being busy, but i also need to relax. like, most of the time.
anyway, i need to post his right now cause it just turned into tomorrow. i for got to publish his yesterday when he eclipse info was relevant. anyway, it was beautiful. it looked like the moon was wrapped in shadow and flame.

been a long time

yes, i know i haven't been around much. but i love you guys! while my mom tries to figure out how to comment, i am working on learning how to talk about non-boring things. i will say that i talk about justin a lot. but i guess i spend a lot of time in my head with him. and it's really exciting that i get to go to nepal to visit. so that's been on my mind. i had a great mail day the other night. i came home from work and kiersten came into my room with a handful of mail all for me! I got a card from Dad, a little package from Scott, a letter from Charlotte, and a letter from Justin! When I told Kruppy about the mail I got she asked me if I cried. It's true getting great mail is really unbeatable. But i've been so sort of good at it lately. Also, I want to apologize for my capitalization versus my non-capitalization. since the internship started i have had to write many an email with proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation. needless to say it has leaked into my home life, and i am now experiencing a frightening case of uncontrollable capitalization. sometimes it works out, and sometimes no.
so today is the day after Valentine's day. i want you all to know that justin sent me the most beautiful orchids from NEPAL! well the orchids aren't from nepal, but he is right now. when the delivery man came i thought they were for sure from my mom or something. anyway i read the card, and then i sort of broke down. like pretty hardcore. and then my upstairs neighbor heard me sobbing and came downstairs and i opened my front door and she was waiting there to hug me. it was really sweet. we made great valentines for one another. she cheered me up a lot. i just got so caught up feeling like i had no idea why i was away from the people i love. it's something i come back to often being here. there are people i love here. this is true. but certainly the most important people in my life are not really here with me at all. they are a bit scattered in fact. so i felt pretty hard about it all. anyway, jenna (my wonderful upstairs friend/ neighbor) and I ate tons of delicious snacks and drank wine and watched an episode of ren and stimpy, a dvd of radiohead videos, some portishead, and tool videos, and looked at vintage still pinup photos that scott chapman recently sent me in the mail day package i received. they are beautiful. i will have to scan some photos so you can all see.
i have pictures of the flowers justin got me that i can also scan. and i took a bunch of photos of the apartment as well. so give me a little time, and i'll have all that prepared for you.
love you all. happy doodoo day.
and HAPPY BIIRTHDAY KATIE!!!

Crisis Averted

I have now changed the settings on my comments so you do not have to be a google member to leave a comment. Anyone can leave comments!
So please, by all means, don't stop yourself.
I can't believe it took me so long to realize that I could fix that issue.
I kept wondering why my mom, dad, and Alexis had never commented on anything until Alexis was like, I tried to comment once but it wanted me to enter all this information and then my credit card number (joke) and i was like, oh god i hate that. so now nobody has to worry about all that mess.
ok, going to bed.
In closing, here is one of the first things I made on my creative quest with my printer scanner copier after moving to New York. I love it:

Barbados Dreams

i like to think of this photo as our john and yoko photo. but it isn't really.
anyway, i had forgotten about it, and i was organizing all my flickr sets and collections and looking around at all my lovely photos, and i stumbled upon it and thought, i ought to upload that for any of my non-flickr readers out there. or just people who may not look at my photos constantly the way i do.

so i was thinking about it, and what happens in like 20 years? do i still have my flickr account, or what will become of it? oh questions.

so, thinking about my life. what will become of me. i don't know. one thing i do know is that JUSTIN GOT MY TICKETS TO VISIT NEPAL!!!!!!!!!!! i leave April 5th and return May 6th. this is very exciting. i have no idea what i'm going to do in terms of rent or bills while i am not working that whole month, but i'm hoping things just fall in to place for me. i'm picking up as many shifts at the hotel as possible, and i got a few calls for some catering jobs this month, so i may yet get some work to save money. the thing though about catering that i am coming to terms with right now: I HATE IT. like, the thought of going to a venue and wearing that outfit is making me physically ill. i never knew i could hate something so suddenly and so vehemently. i don't know if i am going to be able to go back to it.

what i'm hoping, is that this internship will help me get one or both of these two things:
1. an agent. or a meeting with one so i can start trying to get some acting work.
2. some connections to get on a set as a PA or AD. (that's production assistant and assistant director, for those of you non-industry types out there). i just really wanna start getting some set experience. something i am coming to realize is that i'm too attached to projects to let them go before they even begin production. casting is so early in the game. i like the process of creating the film or the play. so, that's the next step i think.

and then the next steop after that is getting tons of money for doing either or both of those things. haha. whatever.