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[07 Dec 2009|10:20pm] |
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took a look at teaching programs today... wow.
UCI offers this program that both credentials you to be a teacher and gives you a master's in teaching.
intense.
this led to a discussion with my parents about my future...
they basically told me that i should get the master's, and if i wanted to get a master's in writing later, hey, the more degrees the merrier.
i can also go to cal state dominguez for their teaching program that will take about a year and a half (only available in summer, so i would have to stay here for 2 more years).
and i can even go to UCI for their non-master's degree intern-teaching program, that takes about a year.
it's an odd decision... feel like maybe i should have realized that i wanted to get credentialed to be a teacher sooner, but hey, it's only about a month ago that i realized that i do indeed want to do this.
i also looked at some phd programs... one of the best is in usc. it takes about 5 years to complete, as do most phd programs. these programs are geared towards getting you to become a professor, and teaching english/creative writing in colleges... in addition to creative writing, i have to study critical analysis of literature. not sure if critical analysis is something that i'm interested in, or whether i just want to write. i think i could do it, though...
of course, this leads to another question: do i want to be a professor, or do i want to teach kindergarten & first grade? i really, really love the children. but it does feel like it might be good to be able to make a living related to writing.
so my head is just... full of stuff. there's the money concern as well, of course. how much will phd programs and master's degrees and all this schooling put a dent in my parents' and my wallet?
honestly speaking, my parents are only good for one master's. hahaha. and really, i have to pay them back for all this education already!! i know scholarships and stuff are out there, but with this economy and such...
i wrote this list of all these things i want to accomplish by the time i was 26. now how do i get there, and what comes first? are two masters degrees indeed better than one?
and for gOd's sake, what do i want to DO with my life? hahahaha.
[edit://] just decided that some of my life, at least, has to involve being a kindergarten/first grade teacher. i adore le children. and it makes me very happy to be around them.
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| 3's the number... apparently. |
[30 Nov 2009|03:45am] |
3 things I've watched:
- White girls drunk-dancing. Hilarious.
- A man getting hit on a motorcycle. Sad =( I called 911.
- Del, in her sleep, apparently. With a "creeper face."
3 things I am looking forward to:
- PASSING THE CBEST. Hahaha.
- NY on my birthday!
- The rest of my life =)
3 things I've eaten and enjoyed:
- Bouchon. Drool.
- Daikokuya ramen. Fucking delicious.
- Asian food. Lots and lots of Asian food.
3 things on today's to do list:
- Study for CBest. Figure out graphs, and factors.
- Write coverage for CT.
- Write =)
3 things I need to fix:
- Um, I'm with Sean. Not exercising enough.
- Eating better.
- My sprained ankle.
3 things I should buy due to weather:
- ? This is a weird question.
3 things I will buy due to party season!:
- Koi fish.
- Bongos.
- Various other presents.
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[26 Nov 2009|10:02pm] |
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1. koi fish for mommy.
2. bongos for daddy.
hahaha. my family is funny.
note to self: think of something for friends & brother.
ask bff if she wants more hello kitty.
haha!
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[24 Nov 2009|12:13am] |
i like it
i like it
when all the color
leaks into the sky
i like it
i like it
when all the color
soaks into your eyes
i like it
i like it
when the colors are
mine mine mine, all mine
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| yo. YO. |
[11 Nov 2009|12:32pm] |
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magnesium, yo.
i've been taking it to help me with sleeping problems, but it has been giving me these CRAZY dreams. last night i dreamt that my mother and i were hanging on the edge of some bars, and she let go-- into the shallow swimming pool below us. she died, and i dropped in after her but i survived. then i had to tell my brother & my father she was dead.
i woke up a little upset.
a few weeks ago i had a dream that my brother was shot by the police and died. also somewhat upsetting.
it gives me these epic dreams, movie status. very vivid and dramatic. unfortunately, drama in my head always seems to end up a little bit tragic.
i've only had one dream so far where nothing intense happened, and i was looking at a very blue ocean and sky. it was beautiful.
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| resolution. |
[29 Oct 2009|01:04pm] |
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all right.
finally got some notes on my play, thanks to my boss at celebration theater, so i've decided to spend the next nine weeks or so re-writing it. woo hoo!
i've also decided that for my next session in the undeniables, i will be writing monologues.
AND, as a goal i'm setting for myself, i would like to write ten pages of my play a week, as well as one short. twenty-ish pages per week, not including the daily monologue.
i was talking to dellie yesterday, and i told her about my future plans to be a great writer. and i realized, in order to be a great writer... i must write.
i mean, come on!! at one point at school i was writing 30 pages a week, going to school (admittedly those 30 pages were for school, but...) and working at a part time job. twenty should not be too much to handle.
so!
here's to writing shit.
cheers.
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[08 Oct 2009|11:28pm] |
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back on the horse and fucking whooping it. what?
I WILL NEVER GO BACK!! OH PLEASE GOD DON'T MAKE ME
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| go away, writer's block! |
[05 Oct 2009|04:19pm] |
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i haven't written in a very long time. i haven't even been writing for the undeniables... yikes.
my life has become a sudden influx of things to do, things to take care of, classes to go teach, things to write, scramble! scramble! scramble!
i have also been feeling creatively stagnant. the things i write feel not as sharp, not as beautifully perverse, not as polished, not as good. i re-read some of the stuff i wrote last year, and compared to the stuff i'm writing now, wow.
i have to get back on the horse. i have to start writing my own things again-- my own plays, my own screenplays, my own personal projects (as soon as i start having time). and i have to stop doubting myself.
i know what good writing is. and i know how to do it.
i shall write and write until the worst is over.
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| whoops. |
[21 Sep 2009|01:24am] |
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today i was at the movie theater and had to pee. i was waiting for the show to start but didn't want to have to get up during the movie, so i ran into the nearest bathroom.
as i went it, i noticed how dirty the bathroom was. on my way out, i bumped into a man who gave me an odd look. i walked outside and realized that in my haste, i had entered the men's bathroom.
oops.
this was the first time in a while that i'd used the men's room on accident. usually i try not to do that at movie theaters.
i went again after the movie, and this time to the right one. it was much cleaner. less pee and pubes. get it together, men.
also, cloudy with a chance of meatballs = fairly good. pretty funny. i liked it.
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| Please.... |
[02 Sep 2009|04:24pm] |
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If you send a script to a publishing house, or playhouse, or anywhere that is important to you and where you want people to take you seriously--please follow this handy guideline to submission.
1. Please check your spelling.
2. Please check your punctuation.
3. Please check your formatting, and make sure it is READABLE and CLEARLY UNDERSTANDABLE.
4. Please send a draft that has already has all the changes made, and is not crossed out, corrected, or added to in pen.
5. Please check your grammar.
6. Please number your pages.
7. Please look through your script, and make sure that there are no random blank pages from the paper sticking together in the printer. (I do this one a lot, so... yes.)
If spelling, punctuation, syntax, etc. are not your strong suit, then please, by all means, have someone check it over for you before you send it. Please.
Also note: Sentences end in punctuation. Really. I'm not making that up. Unless you're Chay Yew.
And for the love of gOd, "your" is NOT "you're."
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| inflate my ego |
[01 Sep 2009|07:42pm] |
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Stolen from Seanie-poo.
"Because I'm curious, comment with a picture of a fictional character that most reminds you of me."
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| sweet frill of success, ha. |
[26 Aug 2009|01:13pm] |
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so lately i've been feeling like i drank that potion from harry potter--felix felicis. liquid luck.
not to toot my own horn or everything, but in the past few weeks i've gotten a lot of things i've wished for, career-wise... an internship at the celebration theater (whoop) where everyone is lovely, very funny and kind. another job editing college papers (this one might be a little more seasonal, but hey, it's money, which i need). i have four jobs, and still have enough elbow room to have time to write my plays, which is fucking fantastic. really. it's all i could ask for.
and then! i had a reading of broken english with tuesday night cafe (thanks nar!), lung online journal wants to publish one of my poems, and another book is coming out in print, with my poem in it. there's also other stuff going on, but i don't want to talk about it and jinx it, so... :)
the webisodes are finally in motion, and everything looks great. great, great, great. and the possibilities are limitless.
and vicky got her book published. whoop.
seriously. there's something in the air... :)
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| "Permanently" by Kenneth Koch |
[20 Aug 2009|09:26pm] |
One day the Nouns were clustered in the street.
An Adjective walked by, with her dark beauty.
The Nouns were struck, moved, changed.
The next day a Verb drove up, and created the Sentence.
Each Sentence says one thing--for example, "Although it was a dark
rainy day when the Adjective walked by, I shall remember the
pure and sweet expression on her face until the day I perish
from the green, effective earth."
Or, "Will you please close the window, Andrew?"
Or, for example, "Thank you, the pink pot of flowers on the window
sill has changed color recently to a light yellow, due to the
heat from the boiler factory which exists nearby."
In the springtime the Sentences and the Nouns lay silently on the
grass.
A lonely Conjunction here and there would call, "And! But!"
But the Adjective did not emerge.
As the Adjective is lost in the sentence,
So I am lost in your eyes, ears, nose, and throat--
You have enchanted me with a single kiss
Which can never be undone
Until the destruction of language.
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| Promises Like Pie-Crust by Christina Georgina Rossetti |
[03 Aug 2009|01:31pm] |
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Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?
You, so warm, may once have been
Warmer towards another one:
I, so cold, may once have seen
Sunlight, once have felt the sun:
Who shall show us if it was
Thus indeed in time of old?
Fades the image from the glass,
And the fortune is not told.
If you promised, you might grieve
For lost liberty again:
If I promised, I believe
I should fret to break the chain.
Let us be the friends we were,
Nothing more but nothing less:
Many thrive on frugal fare
Who would perish of excess.
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| locate yourself |
[31 Jul 2009|01:33pm] |
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so the lovely mary rose go is part of a project that is geared towards placing asian-american experiences in history. these include personal experiences... family history, memories, stories, whatever.
she needs submissions for the project--stories should be 500-1,000 words, and you can also record a video of yourself telling your story and put it up on youtube, and send in the link.
SUBMIT SOMETHING!!
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