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Tomorrow is Extravaganza 2.5, which basically means that Ryan, Maria, David, Amy, Katie, Natalie and I are going in to Manhattan for a late lunch/early dinner at Veselka before we head over to see John Cudia in Phantom. Only Amy and I have seen Phantom, Natalie's never seen a Broadway show, this is Ryan's 2nd Broadway show, and I don't really know about the rest, but damn I'm excited. We have the right side of the 2nd to last row in the rear mezz. entirely to ourselves as we bought 7 tickets, and they were $25 each. And there's going to be John Cudia. You have no idea.
School ended Friday; that night I went to a bonfire at Natalie's house, which turned out to be quite fun. Saturday was the ITW "reunion", aka six of us going to Megan's house to play board games and eat take-out. Sunday I went in to Manhattan with my parents to do a shift down at God's Love, and my hands literally just stopped smelling of onions.
Sunday night was also the season premiere of The Next Food Network Star, and all I can say is that I'm hoping Shane will win. Lisa needs to go like yesterday, though I understand why they got rid of Cory so soon, but really. Lisa. Stop it. There is no reason for you to cook in 3 inch Burberry heels and to speak in French and Alton Brown hates you already and the Food Network stars have no idea what you're talking about so please just leave kthx. I'm betting Nipa gets kicked off next week, as they show her walking out of the evaluation room, which leads me to believe that she'll either withdraw from the competition or just be kicked off for lack of stamina.
And yes, I know Shane cried, but stfu. He's 19. He lost over 100 pounds by learning to cook properly and he graduated from the CIA and he already has his own company centered around fine food and I would actually cook what he did (not like Lisa's ldkf;hgalksdfj or whatever she did. I don't want to talk about her.) so plz Food Network don't be stupid like you were last season, kthx. [I'm still a little bitter about last season, because I'm convinced that getting rid of Paul was the biggest mistake they could have made.]
This morning I went into Manhattan again to have my eyes checked (they're fine and I don't need to change anything, yippee) and then went to school for an 08/09 Eucharistic Minister meeting. I spent the rest of the day at home, most of it in my basement looking for Russian novels. Specifically, I'm looking for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich because it's apparently on my reading list for AP Comp Gov.; and, of course, I found pretty much every single book ever written by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky but no Solzhenitsyn. I'm working on it.
For my own personal use, here's what I have to do this summer:
NYU App/Common App
read:
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Crime and Punishment (which I'm now in the middle of)
The Red and the Black
Reading Lolita in Tehran
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Three Cups of Tea
watch:
Dr. Zhivago
The Killing Fields
Hotel Rwanda (which I've already seen, thank goodness)
Munich
+ a foreign film (maybe, I'm not quite sure)
And that's just so far. I had to email Casey to ask about summer reading because I'm taking two classes, and she asked Cherry and Mott, but I still haven't heard a definite answer. Hopefully the above are all I'll have to tackle...and thank goodness I a, like Russian literature, and b, have been meaning do do about halve of the stuff on that list for ages. Maybe that'll make things go by faster...?
And I thought the summer before junior year was busy.
All for now.
School ended Friday; that night I went to a bonfire at Natalie's house, which turned out to be quite fun. Saturday was the ITW "reunion", aka six of us going to Megan's house to play board games and eat take-out. Sunday I went in to Manhattan with my parents to do a shift down at God's Love, and my hands literally just stopped smelling of onions.
Sunday night was also the season premiere of The Next Food Network Star, and all I can say is that I'm hoping Shane will win. Lisa needs to go like yesterday, though I understand why they got rid of Cory so soon, but really. Lisa. Stop it. There is no reason for you to cook in 3 inch Burberry heels and to speak in French and Alton Brown hates you already and the Food Network stars have no idea what you're talking about so please just leave kthx. I'm betting Nipa gets kicked off next week, as they show her walking out of the evaluation room, which leads me to believe that she'll either withdraw from the competition or just be kicked off for lack of stamina.
And yes, I know Shane cried, but stfu. He's 19. He lost over 100 pounds by learning to cook properly and he graduated from the CIA and he already has his own company centered around fine food and I would actually cook what he did (not like Lisa's ldkf;hgalksdfj or whatever she did. I don't want to talk about her.) so plz Food Network don't be stupid like you were last season, kthx. [I'm still a little bitter about last season, because I'm convinced that getting rid of Paul was the biggest mistake they could have made.]
This morning I went into Manhattan again to have my eyes checked (they're fine and I don't need to change anything, yippee) and then went to school for an 08/09 Eucharistic Minister meeting. I spent the rest of the day at home, most of it in my basement looking for Russian novels. Specifically, I'm looking for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich because it's apparently on my reading list for AP Comp Gov.; and, of course, I found pretty much every single book ever written by Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky but no Solzhenitsyn. I'm working on it.
For my own personal use, here's what I have to do this summer:
NYU App/Common App
read:
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Crime and Punishment (which I'm now in the middle of)
The Red and the Black
Reading Lolita in Tehran
How the Irish Saved Civilization
Three Cups of Tea
watch:
Dr. Zhivago
The Killing Fields
Hotel Rwanda (which I've already seen, thank goodness)
Munich
+ a foreign film (maybe, I'm not quite sure)
And that's just so far. I had to email Casey to ask about summer reading because I'm taking two classes, and she asked Cherry and Mott, but I still haven't heard a definite answer. Hopefully the above are all I'll have to tackle...and thank goodness I a, like Russian literature, and b, have been meaning do do about halve of the stuff on that list for ages. Maybe that'll make things go by faster...?
And I thought the summer before junior year was busy.
All for now.