Wine and Beer: 2005, A Year in Review by Kelly Hawkins
A Year in Review
JANUARY
Rang in the New Year slightly trashed at Andrews (+5). Was able to announce that I'd be playing Nurse Ratched (+2). Cuckoo's Nest rehearsals took a lot of energy and time (-1). Was really exhausted for Corrine's birthday (-1) but still got lottery tickets (+1). Diseased, had a blood test (-2). Got to wear a pink vest for my chest X-ray though (+1). Submitted this picture to the yearbook (+1). Had pink eye(-10). Was finalist for Shakespear competition (+5). LJ disappeared for a few days(-.5). Fencing club thinking our cast of thirty showed up to their meeting, haha(+2). YO, I got a 94 on my last Math final (+5). Boys stink(-1). Got a myspace(0). Discovered and liked a song that came up on random as I write this year in review(10 off-record creepy points).
January's Score: -4.5
FEBRUARY
Started month out babysitting and making cupcakes (+5). DROPPED MATH(+8). Crescitelli and Count Olaf(+3). Got my Nurse Ratched costume(+1). Cursed in front of audience during a monologue(-5), but it's a funny theater memory (+2). Lost my shit during Saw commercial at Mel's (-1). Clearance on handbags $2.99 (+4), and I bought two (+1). FUCK the Super Bowl (-3). My heart = open and shut (-5). SENIOR TRIP TWO-THOUSAND-AND-FIVE (+10): Dookie Disaster (-3). Slim Jim fight on the trip that will live on always and forever(+1). Tai chi, insect porn, and kareoke too (+1). OH, and proudly brewing starbucks whilst in boondocks (+3). [/trip] I have no idea what happened on Valentines, and since I usually do that can't be good (-3). Got Ursula in Birdie instead of Mae(-1). Did many college auditions and could've gotten into Emerson if it didn't look at grades (0). Wrote ambiguous slash that I'm still kind of proud of(+3). VELCROING MY NURSE RATCHED COSTUME SO VIN CAN HAVE EASY ACCESS(priceless/+5). Crazy busy week off(0).
February's Score: 26
MARCH
LOT of rehearsal (0). Mel and I shared a slice of salami with no bread for lunch (+2). CUCKOOS NEST (+25/not enough points in the world). Was a kinda-celebrity over being one of the creepiest characters Wagner's stage has ever seen (+3). Having to be called Rat-shit like you haven't heard it a millioon times in rehearsal (-1). Found Prom Dress(+3). Bistro times were had, the first of many(+3). Alexa's staring problem almost got us into troulble(-2). Pizza party by the Principle for Cuckoo's Nest(+2). FUCKED my Uarts audition up big time(-1), had a great time at the International Feast and Bistro though (+5). Drama(-3). Watching Hamlet and Jennifer Garner movie while menstrual (+1). "Boys suck - and frankly, it's cos they're too dumb torealize how dumb they are." goes down as the quote of March (+1). (+3) for the cryptic updates I don't understand. Never did learn how to tapdance(-2). No one say the Telephone Hour(-1), the director started calling it the Kelly Hawkins Show(0). I said "I'll be reading this like it was yesterday in no time" it's no time now(-1 creepy points).
March's Score: 39
APRIL
Went for Purchase interview(0), and was pretty confident about it (+1). Big stress over Bye Bye Birdie(-1). Random city outing(+1), and saw an armadillo* at the ferry parking lot(+2). God save the queen(+1). WORST SHOW EVER(-10), but I didn't care hat much (+5). Best after party stuff(+3). FINALLY got the word: Accepted to Purchase(+8). Wagner's Shakespeare festival(+1). Heh(+1). Made plans to do a play before we went off to college(+2), but that never happened(-1). Most Bistro times(+1).
Uneventful April's Score: 14
MAY
RIBBIT PHONE CALL extravaganza(+3). Star Wars and Ben & Jerry's(+1). Luau Version 1.0 (+4). My community service project(+1) and cute little kids(+1). FREE FROSTIES(+6). (+1). "Hey Paesano!" started(+2). Began writing a musical with Caela(+3), that never happened(-1). Luau 2 & the Mary Sunshine Extravaganza(+3)! Scariest mom experience, and waking up at 2AM for the rest of the day (-2). Alexa came over and we dueled(+2). PROM was overrated(-3), but I guess wasn't so bad(+5). My date got drunk, and I didn't(-2). But the limo driving around was fun(+4) as was swing dancing(+3). Six flags the next day went against the grain of Wildwood, and rocked(+4). Moses mountain was amazing(+2), although I haven't been there since(0).
May's Score: 37
JUNE
Won the Drama award I'd been going after (+7). Nice new hairdo(+1). CORRINE'S BROTHER AND COUSIN ROCKED THE FUCK OUT HAHA(+2). XxGodinatoRxX (+2). Pool days & Biceps(+5). Sisterhood was a bad movie, but we saw a fucking fish in the parking lot(+1). Fuckin' Blackout(-1).... Which was Baby Blackout(0). BATMAN BEGINS ENTIRED OUR LIVES(+7). ...More than once(+1).... Make that four times(+3). And IMAX(+2). Samantha turned one(+1). Atlantic City was fab(+1). My second annual/graduation pool party was pretty fly(+6). Saw the Glass Menagerie(+3). GRADUATED(+10). GOT SKITTLES(+8).
June's Score: 51
JULY
Old-lady sat(0). Never did get to see War of the Worlds(-1), but did PLENTY of shopping(+5). Chocolate Covered Almonds(+3). Batman Graduation cake(+2). Purchase Orientation was a blast(+5), although I had second thoughts about going away to college(-1). Met Devin(+2) AND Lauren(+2). Half-Blood Prince came out- and got it at midnight(+3). Oh, but I really hated waiting for it cos B&N was full of people I hate(-3). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(0). Half-Blood Prince made me cry(+1), like a BITCH(+3). Me and Charlie started a roleplay(+3), but that never happened(-5). BEE SCARE '05(-2). I was depressed, but now I can't recall why but sure let's deduct points(-1). Got permit - finally(+2). Girls night at Caela's place(+2). Went to the Beach(+1). Drove the Pilot for the first time(+1).
July's Score: 22
AUGUST
Kareoke at the Muddy Cup(+2). Went to the track(+1). Felt unloved?(-2). Wedding Crashers(+3). American Psycho(+3). My "i think your icons are real ugly" icon was born(+3). Got tickets to see The Killers(+1). Before our movie was "Wrong IM" me and Corrine's titles was this(+2). SPA DAYS make me happy(+3).
(+3). Didn't go to Mel's party(-2), but had good times at the Muddy Cup and Boozies(+5). Her party ended up in her alcohol poisoned(-2) and her friends beingbanned from her life though- not me(+7). Red Eye was hilarious(+3)/ Red Eye spoiler funny(0). Packing is a sad process(-2). I hated the 40 Year-Old Virgin(-1). Passed my roadtest(+5). Had to part with friends(-4). Went to, as I called it then The Big C(+4). The Dining Hall fucked with my stomach for the first and not the last time(-3). Ah, the days my room started hopping 'til the wee hours nightly(+5). Ah, the days I thought you really had to read for class(0). Kelly & Tina's Burlesque House was titled(+2).
August's Score: 31
SEPTEMBER
I seemed to have made friends with people who like Rocky Horror (+1), but didn't really sing along(-1). I made Tina think her laptop was stolen (0), so she never left the door unlocked again(+2). Ah, the days we couldn't find booze at school(+2). Telling Tina I got busted(+2). THERE WAS A BAT IN MY HALLWAY**(+1818118 WHAT THE FUCK POINTS). Me and Tina decided we live in Wicked, and looking back we were pretty right(+4). LARPER of LOVE(+4). Retarded(+8). Rockin' out to Wicked was what it was all about(+4). Staten Island wasn't home for a while there(-1). That night in the rain was the best half hour spent at Purchase still(+10)... even if I woke up sick(-1). After making my first drunken experience, Kiersten gave my drunken alter-ego a name: Eileen(+3). Ah, my good friend senseless angst(-2). DRAMA(-4). Hey, getting trashed after an emotional day = bad idea (-2). Denise made out with a garbage man(0). Ending September on an emotional low note(-4).
September's Score: 25
OCTOBER
Opened the month with The Killlers(+10)! Good naps were abound(+1). A lot of cryptic lj posts(0). Red pleather pants day(+3). I spent a lot of time sleeping and in rehearsal this month(0). Drunk(0). Batman Begins came out(+3). Mental Health Weekends(+2). I fell in love with a dancer(+3), but he was gay(-2). GROSS DRUNKEN NIGHTS ERASED FOREVER(-14). Eileen died and we had a funeral(-5). She came back to life two days later(+2). Saw didn't scare me anymore(+2). My Halloween costume rocked(+5), but the day ended kinda sourly(-1).
October's Score: 9
NOVEMBER
Iphigenia's War wasn't SO bad(+3). I got the part of Mary Magdalene(+3). Didn't get most of the classes I wanted(-4). Longgg weekend home (+2). Ouija boards abound(0). Played hooky with Devin(+4). One of the best birthday shindigs for me and not really thrown by me (+7). Love Actually was good(+3), but depressed the shit out of me (-1). PINK digital camera(+3) and a nice birthday(+4).Rent(+3). DISNEY OH-FIVE(+20): Best hotel room overlooking the Magic Kingdom(+4), Samantha(+2) and an overall great time with fam & Corrine (+3). Fuck delayed flights, though(-3).
November's Score: 53
DECEMBER
For the first time, snow got me depressed(-1). Dyed my hair for the first time (0). Night with the girls(+4). Secret Santa rocked the house(+4). I got cut from the play(+3), but later found out I was just cut from Mary Magdalene(-4). Quit the play(0). It's fun pretending you're still at the airport(-3). SNOW DAY, complete with Elf, candy canes, and hot chocolate(+6). Kiersten: my baby's daddy and Tina's father? (+1) Worst paper written(-2). Came home(+2). Cut and dyed my hair professionally(+3). SAW MEL AGAIN(+2). Christmas cookies(+4). Too many Christmas cookes(-2). Straight Bs(+2). It never did feel like Christmas(-3), but I still had a holly jolly(+5). SKETCHFEST 2005(+4). Saw Dick and Jane, Memiors of a Geisha and Kong with Corrine, three good movies(+4). Started writing again(+1). And here I sit(0).
December's Score: 37
2005's Overall Score: 286.5
(last year's was 95.5)
Best Months: November(53) & June(51)
Worst Month: January(-4.5)
*rat
**i really dont know HOW to score a BAT in one's hallway...
I feel I left a lot out, and some months' final score hasn't done the month justice... But here you go..
SEE ALSO(!):
2003
2004
JANUARY
Rang in the New Year slightly trashed at Andrews (+5). Was able to announce that I'd be playing Nurse Ratched (+2). Cuckoo's Nest rehearsals took a lot of energy and time (-1). Was really exhausted for Corrine's birthday (-1) but still got lottery tickets (+1). Diseased, had a blood test (-2). Got to wear a pink vest for my chest X-ray though (+1). Submitted this picture to the yearbook (+1). Had pink eye(-10). Was finalist for Shakespear competition (+5). LJ disappeared for a few days(-.5). Fencing club thinking our cast of thirty showed up to their meeting, haha(+2). YO, I got a 94 on my last Math final (+5). Boys stink(-1). Got a myspace(0). Discovered and liked a song that came up on random as I write this year in review(10 off-record creepy points).
January's Score: -4.5
FEBRUARY
Started month out babysitting and making cupcakes (+5). DROPPED MATH(+8). Crescitelli and Count Olaf(+3). Got my Nurse Ratched costume(+1). Cursed in front of audience during a monologue(-5), but it's a funny theater memory (+2). Lost my shit during Saw commercial at Mel's (-1). Clearance on handbags $2.99 (+4), and I bought two (+1). FUCK the Super Bowl (-3). My heart = open and shut (-5). SENIOR TRIP TWO-THOUSAND-AND-FIVE (+10): Dookie Disaster (-3). Slim Jim fight on the trip that will live on always and forever(+1). Tai chi, insect porn, and kareoke too (+1). OH, and proudly brewing starbucks whilst in boondocks (+3). [/trip] I have no idea what happened on Valentines, and since I usually do that can't be good (-3). Got Ursula in Birdie instead of Mae(-1). Did many college auditions and could've gotten into Emerson if it didn't look at grades (0). Wrote ambiguous slash that I'm still kind of proud of(+3). VELCROING MY NURSE RATCHED COSTUME SO VIN CAN HAVE EASY ACCESS(priceless/+5). Crazy busy week off(0).
February's Score: 26
MARCH
LOT of rehearsal (0). Mel and I shared a slice of salami with no bread for lunch (+2). CUCKOOS NEST (+25/not enough points in the world). Was a kinda-celebrity over being one of the creepiest characters Wagner's stage has ever seen (+3). Having to be called Rat-shit like you haven't heard it a millioon times in rehearsal (-1). Found Prom Dress(+3). Bistro times were had, the first of many(+3). Alexa's staring problem almost got us into troulble(-2). Pizza party by the Principle for Cuckoo's Nest(+2). FUCKED my Uarts audition up big time(-1), had a great time at the International Feast and Bistro though (+5). Drama(-3). Watching Hamlet and Jennifer Garner movie while menstrual (+1). "Boys suck - and frankly, it's cos they're too dumb torealize how dumb they are." goes down as the quote of March (+1). (+3) for the cryptic updates I don't understand. Never did learn how to tapdance(-2). No one say the Telephone Hour(-1), the director started calling it the Kelly Hawkins Show(0). I said "I'll be reading this like it was yesterday in no time" it's no time now(-1 creepy points).
March's Score: 39
APRIL
Went for Purchase interview(0), and was pretty confident about it (+1). Big stress over Bye Bye Birdie(-1). Random city outing(+1), and saw an armadillo* at the ferry parking lot(+2). God save the queen(+1). WORST SHOW EVER(-10), but I didn't care hat much (+5). Best after party stuff(+3). FINALLY got the word: Accepted to Purchase(+8). Wagner's Shakespeare festival(+1). Heh(+1). Made plans to do a play before we went off to college(+2), but that never happened(-1). Most Bistro times(+1).
Uneventful April's Score: 14
MAY
RIBBIT PHONE CALL extravaganza(+3). Star Wars and Ben & Jerry's(+1). Luau Version 1.0 (+4). My community service project(+1) and cute little kids(+1). FREE FROSTIES(+6). (+1). "Hey Paesano!" started(+2). Began writing a musical with Caela(+3), that never happened(-1). Luau 2 & the Mary Sunshine Extravaganza(+3)! Scariest mom experience, and waking up at 2AM for the rest of the day (-2). Alexa came over and we dueled(+2). PROM was overrated(-3), but I guess wasn't so bad(+5). My date got drunk, and I didn't(-2). But the limo driving around was fun(+4) as was swing dancing(+3). Six flags the next day went against the grain of Wildwood, and rocked(+4). Moses mountain was amazing(+2), although I haven't been there since(0).
May's Score: 37
JUNE
Won the Drama award I'd been going after (+7). Nice new hairdo(+1). CORRINE'S BROTHER AND COUSIN ROCKED THE FUCK OUT HAHA(+2). XxGodinatoRxX (+2). Pool days & Biceps(+5). Sisterhood was a bad movie, but we saw a fucking fish in the parking lot(+1). Fuckin' Blackout(-1).... Which was Baby Blackout(0). BATMAN BEGINS ENTIRED OUR LIVES(+7). ...More than once(+1).... Make that four times(+3). And IMAX(+2). Samantha turned one(+1). Atlantic City was fab(+1). My second annual/graduation pool party was pretty fly(+6). Saw the Glass Menagerie(+3). GRADUATED(+10). GOT SKITTLES(+8).
June's Score: 51
JULY
Old-lady sat(0). Never did get to see War of the Worlds(-1), but did PLENTY of shopping(+5). Chocolate Covered Almonds(+3). Batman Graduation cake(+2). Purchase Orientation was a blast(+5), although I had second thoughts about going away to college(-1). Met Devin(+2) AND Lauren(+2). Half-Blood Prince came out- and got it at midnight(+3). Oh, but I really hated waiting for it cos B&N was full of people I hate(-3). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory(0). Half-Blood Prince made me cry(+1), like a BITCH(+3). Me and Charlie started a roleplay(+3), but that never happened(-5). BEE SCARE '05(-2). I was depressed, but now I can't recall why but sure let's deduct points(-1). Got permit - finally(+2). Girls night at Caela's place(+2). Went to the Beach(+1). Drove the Pilot for the first time(+1).
July's Score: 22
AUGUST
Kareoke at the Muddy Cup(+2). Went to the track(+1). Felt unloved?(-2). Wedding Crashers(+3). American Psycho(+3). My "i think your icons are real ugly" icon was born(+3). Got tickets to see The Killers(+1). Before our movie was "Wrong IM" me and Corrine's titles was this(+2). SPA DAYS make me happy(+3).
(+3). Didn't go to Mel's party(-2), but had good times at the Muddy Cup and Boozies(+5). Her party ended up in her alcohol poisoned(-2) and her friends beingbanned from her life though- not me(+7). Red Eye was hilarious(+3)/ Red Eye spoiler funny(0). Packing is a sad process(-2). I hated the 40 Year-Old Virgin(-1). Passed my roadtest(+5). Had to part with friends(-4). Went to, as I called it then The Big C(+4). The Dining Hall fucked with my stomach for the first and not the last time(-3). Ah, the days my room started hopping 'til the wee hours nightly(+5). Ah, the days I thought you really had to read for class(0). Kelly & Tina's Burlesque House was titled(+2).
August's Score: 31
SEPTEMBER
I seemed to have made friends with people who like Rocky Horror (+1), but didn't really sing along(-1). I made Tina think her laptop was stolen (0), so she never left the door unlocked again(+2). Ah, the days we couldn't find booze at school(+2). Telling Tina I got busted(+2). THERE WAS A BAT IN MY HALLWAY**(+1818118 WHAT THE FUCK POINTS). Me and Tina decided we live in Wicked, and looking back we were pretty right(+4). LARPER of LOVE(+4). Retarded(+8). Rockin' out to Wicked was what it was all about(+4). Staten Island wasn't home for a while there(-1). That night in the rain was the best half hour spent at Purchase still(+10)... even if I woke up sick(-1). After making my first drunken experience, Kiersten gave my drunken alter-ego a name: Eileen(+3). Ah, my good friend senseless angst(-2). DRAMA(-4). Hey, getting trashed after an emotional day = bad idea (-2). Denise made out with a garbage man(0). Ending September on an emotional low note(-4).
September's Score: 25
OCTOBER
Opened the month with The Killlers(+10)! Good naps were abound(+1). A lot of cryptic lj posts(0). Red pleather pants day(+3). I spent a lot of time sleeping and in rehearsal this month(0). Drunk(0). Batman Begins came out(+3). Mental Health Weekends(+2). I fell in love with a dancer(+3), but he was gay(-2). GROSS DRUNKEN NIGHTS ERASED FOREVER(-14). Eileen died and we had a funeral(-5). She came back to life two days later(+2). Saw didn't scare me anymore(+2). My Halloween costume rocked(+5), but the day ended kinda sourly(-1).
October's Score: 9
NOVEMBER
Iphigenia's War wasn't SO bad(+3). I got the part of Mary Magdalene(+3). Didn't get most of the classes I wanted(-4). Longgg weekend home (+2). Ouija boards abound(0). Played hooky with Devin(+4). One of the best birthday shindigs for me and not really thrown by me (+7). Love Actually was good(+3), but depressed the shit out of me (-1). PINK digital camera(+3) and a nice birthday(+4).Rent(+3). DISNEY OH-FIVE(+20): Best hotel room overlooking the Magic Kingdom(+4), Samantha(+2) and an overall great time with fam & Corrine (+3). Fuck delayed flights, though(-3).
November's Score: 53
DECEMBER
For the first time, snow got me depressed(-1). Dyed my hair for the first time (0). Night with the girls(+4). Secret Santa rocked the house(+4). I got cut from the play(+3), but later found out I was just cut from Mary Magdalene(-4). Quit the play(0). It's fun pretending you're still at the airport(-3). SNOW DAY, complete with Elf, candy canes, and hot chocolate(+6). Kiersten: my baby's daddy and Tina's father? (+1) Worst paper written(-2). Came home(+2). Cut and dyed my hair professionally(+3). SAW MEL AGAIN(+2). Christmas cookies(+4). Too many Christmas cookes(-2). Straight Bs(+2). It never did feel like Christmas(-3), but I still had a holly jolly(+5). SKETCHFEST 2005(+4). Saw Dick and Jane, Memiors of a Geisha and Kong with Corrine, three good movies(+4). Started writing again(+1). And here I sit(0).
December's Score: 37
2005's Overall Score: 286.5
(last year's was 95.5)
Best Months: November(53) & June(51)
Worst Month: January(-4.5)
*rat
**i really dont know HOW to score a BAT in one's hallway...
I feel I left a lot out, and some months' final score hasn't done the month justice... But here you go..
SEE ALSO(!):
2003
2004