i always knew i was smart and hot....you know you want some of this.


You are Dana Scully. You're a doctor who believes
firmly in scientific explanations for
everything, yet you're also a fairly religious
Catholic. You support Mulder and his ideas,
and accept that you have seen things you can't
explain. Yet, you remain his foil and
"keep him honest", forcing him to not
get too delusional. You never get your own
desk for some reason.


Which X-Files character are you?
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tonight i watched two really good movies: the royal tenenbaums, and scotland, pa. you should watch these movies. they are wonderful. and maura tierney is so fucking hot i can't even think of words to describe how hot she is. i am speechless....except for dirty thoughts.. and they don't count as speech, right?

it occurs to me that i missed the friday five, and i know you hate it when i do that......

1. What is your most prized material possession?
i have my parent's wedding pictures, they were divorced when i was 6. they are irreplaceable. i also have a collection of playbills that my grandparents collected during their theatre-going days, including some pages from playbills that my grandmother's mother collected and framed. some of them date to the 1890's.

2. What item, that you currently own, have you had the longest?
i wasn't really sure at first, but i looked around and saw that i have a stuffed koala that's covered in koala fur, that i've had literally as long as i can remember, meaning i can remember having it when my parents were still together.

3. Are you a packrat?
incurably so.

4. Do you prefer a spic-and-span clean house? Or is some clutter necessary to avoid the appearance of a museum?
i would like to keep my house cleaner than i do, i'd like to have a place for everything and everything in it's place, but that never seems to work out for me... i suppose i would probably get nervous if my house was spic and span....

5. Do the rooms in your house have a theme? Or is it a mixture of knick-knacks here and there?
i have an expertly arranged, aesthetically impeccable, visually inspiring and exasperatingly enviable collection of random knick-knacks that are all special for some reason or another.

well now, i know you've been waiting for an update... don't lie, you know it's true.

the truth is that i've been sick for a while now, and not really interested in life outside my apt., though others in my life (read: work) forced me to acknowledge it's presence and even participate in it against my will. i had a fever, i've had a persistent cough, and even some dry heaves! it seems to be over now, for the most part, and so i return (albeit reluctantly) to the more conventional routine.

friday night i went down to school to see pentecost, although i was too sick to do it (i didn't discover this really until i got there... not so good). it really was a great show. the cast did a nice job with an intense script and some powerful issues, and the design team really came together in some nice ways. i got back yesterday around 6, went to bed at 9:30 and slept until 11:30 this morning...

tonight i am watching the grammy awards, and i have to say that coldplay's performance of politik, backed by the new york philharmonic was in-fucking-credible. three musketeers opened officially on friday night, and at some point i'll try and find a review to link to. i assume it went well.

that's the nutshell... i had it, and you knew you wanted it.

i just got back from grocery shopping at walmart. i saw a couple, like mid 60's, with 10 heads of lettuce in their shopping cart. i couldn't see any other salad related items - dressing, croutons, bacon bits, other vegetables, etc....... just the 10 heads of lettuce.

what does one do with 10 heads of lettuce?

and here's my friday five, finally; a day late, but i got your dollar right here beeyotch:

1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
yeah, becky, jess told me to, too. quite the little tyrant, that one.

2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
actually, no. well, my sister knows. and she reads it every day. hi jackie! nobody i see every day (read: at work) knows about it, and i hope to keep it that way forever and ever 'cause somtimes i bitch about work and it just wouldn't do for them to read it. it's not necessarily because i care what they would think about what i write, but since my livelihood (sp?) depends on maintaing a good working relationship with these people, it would be bad news for me to write something really offensive and then be confronted about it at work.

3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
i don't think so. unless you count the reference to the fact that i'm hearing impaired in both the title of the blog and in the url itself.

4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
omni

5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
links to all my favorite blogs can be found in my links section. that's the extent of my pimpin.

went to an icehogs game tonight, and had a great time. they won 5 to 1, vs. the kalamazoo somethingorothers. i finally got an icehogs hat, and am hoarse from all the screaming bob and i did. friday night i went to see three musketeers, to see how all the painting i did this week looked under lights. it looks more done that i thought, and that's a load off my mind.

i feel generally better as a person today, i've had a day off, and most of the day on friday i painted by myself. i stayed home all day today, and only went out for the hockey game, which was a lot of fun. tomorrow i plan to go grocery shopping in the morning(ish) and then rent spinal tap and stay in all day, with my cat and my box of water. i don't remember the last day i had off, meaning a day that i haven't gone in to work, and two days in a row is such a treat.

later in the week i plan to head down to school, prolly on friday, so i can see pentecost, which i feel like i've been working on after hearing so much about it. dan conley will be down on thursday, for work, and is also staying for the show.... so all y'all down there... buckle up, it could get exciting :).....

also, i got a valentine today from my nieces... it's cute.. it's a happy valentine's to an aunt card, and now i feel all warm and fuzzy :). i'm diggin this niece thing. my sister comes to visit the first weekend in march, and chicago had better watch out, 'cause we got an agenda.

yup, that's all.

"love is for tiny people with tiny lives."

- parker posey as 'jackie o' in the house of yes

well, i got nuthin.

i spent the weekend in tech, and am still painting major set pieces even though we're in student matinees. we haven't officially opened though, so really it's not a huge, gigantic deal (even though i feel like it is).

for the past few days i have been in an extraordinarily foul mood... just evil and petty for several days on end now. i think it's because i haven't really had a for real break since like new year's. more recently, i haven't had a day off since i don't remember when, and i'm extremely tired of people in general. i'm in serious danger of actually telling some people just what i think, which wouldn't be wise, for so many different reasons. hopefully, i will be finished painting by friday so i can have the weekend to myself. this would be good for anybody that has to come into contact with me, at all.

on the whole, things are okay, i'm just tired i think. i got offered a job at apt for the summer, but only as a props intern. ha.
it sounds like a sweet job, and i would definitely take it if they weren't only offering $260/wk.. i can't afford to make that little = looks like retail for me this summer. maybe that wouldn't be so bad..... i dunno.

i should go to bed now, as lack of sleep isn't generally proven to help shittymooditis, as i'm sure many clinical studies have shown.

updated my webpage again, this time adding a page of musketeers process shots... the most common comment seems to be "it's big".....

some say it's not the size of your set that matters ;)

again, courtesy of the random slogan generator,

i wish i were a musketeer wiener.

1. What did you have for breakfast this morning? If you didn't have breakfast, why not?
i am having brunch today, and it's mac and cheese.. with an extra slice of american cheese just like jessie taught me.

2. What's your favorite cereal?
that's a tough call... sometimes it's lucky charms, sometimes it's cap'n crunch w/ crunch berries and sometimes it's cracklin' oat bran....

3. How often do you eat out? Do you want that to change?
it depends on the calendar. if it's tech, like right now, i eat out almost all the time. when i'm not in tech, i'm pretty good about eating at home... i would like to eat at home more during tech, but i never remember to stock up on crock pot stuff before hand.

4. What do you plan on having for dinner tonight? Got a recipe for that?
my dinner will prolly come with a medium fry and a coke. i got nuthin'.

5. What's your favorite restaurant? Why?
famous dave's at the moment........... buffalo wings... hoo daddy!!!!!!!!!!!

You are red. You are impure, but noble. You are precious and true to yourself and others. When you love, you love entirely, and will do anything to make your love happy. You are sure of your identity, therefore, you cannot change others or be changed. You are a true prince, you may be forgotten, but without you, none of us could go on.

What inner color are you?

and then, i tried the random slogan generator; i entered 'janine' as the word to 'sloganize':

we'll leave the janine on for you.
australians wouldn't give a janine for anything else.
gives a meal janine-appeal!

what would you classify as 'janine-appeal'?

i painted all day today. i got home at 10:30. pm. 30 seconds after i walked in the door at work this morning, two of my three flying buttresses fell over and broke in half. how was your day?

more painting today, but still not sick! fish are all alive, cat is fine. i updated my webpage tonight, you should go check it out if you haven't already.. it's more of a pain to update than blogger so i don't do it as often..

we're about to go into tech this weekend, and for anyone of you who's wondering "janine, does tech get any easier once i get out of school and into the 'real world'?" the answer is.....yes. even on the stressful shows, the atmosphere is a little more laid back.
i certainly think some of it can be attributed to the fact that we don't have other classwork and projects to attend to. i think mostly though, it's the sense that because we're all professionals, we all trust that the other person is doing their job. and the idea that we're all working to make whatever show it is be the best one it can be is just assumed. it's nice. we're all responsible grownups, and we act like it. i have a lot of work left to do on 3M, but we all know it will get done, and that it will kick major ass when it's finished. so we carry on. happy teching to anyone involved in pentecost; i know that's coming up soon.

and.....i'm spent.

didn't blog yesterday, kinda busy.. started junk painting.. so now the pieces that are up are a lovely shade of lavendar. it makes me think of the musketeers in a whole new way ;).

today should see some major additions to the set, i'm hoping to see most of it up, 'cause some of it i can't paint 'til it's up.
i really don't have anything else to say.. half of rockford (this includes our theater staff) has the flu, and i'm trying really hard not to catch it; it took bob out for 4 days. i'm trying to think of some witty closer here, but am currently wit free. so, later.

well, we struck arsenic and old lace tonight. it was a good show, but i'm ready to move on. three musketeers is next, and it is gonna rock. i watched a run through tonight, and am very glad i did for several reasons:

now i'm excited about the show, and want to work on it even more than i already did.. i got re-energized.

there is an upper level that's held up by legs, surrounded by these pillar lookin' things of sonotube (a giant toilet paper roll) and tonight i discovered, much to my dismay, that people get head-butted into them, and shoved into them. this is not good.

cool swordfighting!!!!!!!!

if you can, you should come see this show. it promises to be a good one. i may or may not be alive when you get here, but i'll be with you in spirit. the next two weeks could prove very hazardous to my health, indeed. let's just say that things like materials ordering and prop master responsibilities have not been going according to plan.......

ugh!!

the greedy grim reaper has made yet another stealthy, creeping, visit to my humble box of water. we've lost another, gentle reader. the other silver tipped shark, may he rest in peace (somewhere in the plumbing/sewer mazes of rockford), passed at some point in the night.

fear not, for i am on the case! i have secured a water sample from said box of water and am, at this very moment, readying for the journey to my local petco for a free water test. i will keep you updated on the latest developments as they occur. keep it tuned...

update: turns out it was my bad.....sort of. nobody told me they like salt in their water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. so i got my water tested, and everything is fine there, my nitrates are high but i just need to vacuum and do a water change, so no big deal. no new fish for a while i think...

today was pretty eventful i suppose. of course, there were the events of this morning; very sad. after i finally got out of my pajamas, i went to work and painted for a little bit. then i went and saw chicago which i loved. when i got home, i found that one of my new fish had died. i'm not sure why, but one of the silver tipped sharks was floating at the top, stiff as a board. it was kinda bizarre, as everyone seemed fine when i left the house and also, aren't dead fish usually floppy? so i flushed him, and plan to take a water sample in for testing tomorrow to make sure i didn't kill him with bad water in the box. two of my other fish have been acting wierd for quite some time now, so i fully expected one of them to be the floater.. sadly, not so. hopefully it was a fluke - in which case i plan to get another one tomorrow. poor fish.... poor fish...........