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Name: Sara
Birthday: 5/11/1987
Gender: Female
Interests: TV, hangin' with friends, TV, DW (I've grown addicted...), sleeping, food, and TV.
Expertise: Stopping the coaster on the line, Buffy/Angel trivia, complaining, Invader ZIM ('nuff said)
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  RubberPiggy333
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| Wow, I really haven't written a Xanga post all summer. That's pretty crazy, but I guess I was pretty busy, pretty much with DW. It was a fairly stressful summer at work: physically, mentally, emotionally. Maybe especially emotionally, lol. Between all the things that happened, and of course those that didn't, it was definitely one of my most... interesting... DW summers.
But I'm happy that now we're only open on weekends and things are calming down. I'm starting to find my mind again, which I think had run off with my sanity sometime in June or July. Right now I'm at the end of my third day off in a row. Three days completely off. I tried that in early August and it kinda sucked. Yeah, I was off, but I was still stressing about everything while I wasn't there. Worrying about how I was leaving Uwan and Loralie alone for three days. Wondering if everything was getting done in my absence, and just feeling off to know I was missing things. Especially since that was right the the middle of... let's just say, a lot of drama. But this is so different. I got things DONE this week. Some things of more actual value than others, but still. It's a nice feeling.
And now I have time to think more about my life and my future. A year ago, my plans were quite different. A lot of things happened in the last year that I hadn't anticipated. And so my life didn't go the way that I thought it would. And now I have some new decisions to make as I decide what I really want to do with my life. I'm still working at DW through the end of the year. Uwan and I are running the GT show now, so there's plenty to do while the park's open. And I've gotten the opportunity to work on some other projects during the week, not to mention the upcoming HH/WW set-up/tear-down extravaganzas. And, assuming things finally go my way, I plan on being back to DW for the 2010 season. I don't know what else I'll be doing and how much I'll work it, but if I can, if things fall into place so it works out, I'd love to take one more year to go out on a good note, the way I've always wanted to. Not that there weren't some good times this year, but let's just say that this year isn't really the memory I want to keep of my DW experience, you know?
As for my not-DW life... I don't know yet. I'm going to a job fair next week where WROZ(and affiliated stations) will be "accepting resumes for future postitions". Might contact WITF. And I keep checking monster.com and a few other online resourses to see if anything appealing becomes available. But I really just don't know what I want to do. If I did get something at, like, WROZ or WITF, it would likely only be part-time, and honestly, I think that's all I want. Because I don't know what I'm going to enjoy. I'd kind of rather get a part-time job where I can test the waters somewhere, get a taste of the world, see if it's something I would like, and then I still have DW on the side-- my safety net, I guess. But really, I'm just still looking for my place in the world. I keep trying to believe that eventually, I will find whatever it is in this world that I'm good at. Find my spark. As time goes by, I can feel myself losing hope that I'm really meant for anything, but I guess I just have to keep on believing. If I can't find it, hopefully it'll find me. And soon.
I've been cleaning out my room. Re-organizing, getting rid of a lot of stuff, setting aside other stuff to be stored somewhere. Eventually, I'm going to end up with a clean, organized room, along with things stored for when I may need them in my own place, and a shizload of garage sale fodder. It's a slow process though. I really have a freaking TON of stuff, and I don't know what to do with most of it. It is starting to look more empty in here, though. However, I'm starting to get to the point where I don't know what to do with things, so I set them in the part of the room I've already cleaned to be dealt with later, so basically, I'm just going to end up needing to take another loop of the room. Oh well, I guess it'll work out eventually. Like I said, it's a long process. I have a lot of shit.
Then there's my TV life. For the summer, I mostly spent it watching Doctor Who and Torchwood. As much as Lisa would hate me for saying it, Doctor Who is completely one of my favorite shows now. I'm just so mad that these BBC shows are soooooooo expensive on DVD. They're on my list to buy eventually, but I've constantly got my eye to amazon in case of sales. For now, I'm just saving as many episodes as I can on my TiVo.
That's another thing! I got an HD TiVo! Freaking awesome. I can record Hi-Def! Sorry, but as someone who had a HD television for like, a year and a half, and had no way of recording HD programming... this is still pretty freaking awesome.
Anyway, the one new show that I found over the summer that I really liked happened to be another BBC show-- Being Human. You might have heard of it; it's the one about a vampire, a warewolf, and a ghost who live together as roommates and try to be normal. Sounds kinda cheesy, I know, especially with the ubiquity of vampires lately, but I actually thought it was a pretty great show, even if the first season was only six episodes. But if you get BBCAmerica, I'd suggest trying to catch this one in reruns-- it seems they're stealing Syfy's strategy of having marathons of shows on weekday afternoons, so this whole show could air in a day, lol.
Then we have the start of the new season. As far as returning shows go, I got Supernatural back on Thursday. Good premiere, glad to see Misha Collins in the main cast-- yes, yes, I've become a Castiel fan. I'm anxiously awaiting the returns of Bones, Survivor, Fringe, House, How I Met Your Mother, Heroes, Big Bang Theory, and Smallville. I'll be in for The Simpsons and Amazing Race, too (if less excited, lol). I plan on watching Medium as well, and I am very glad that CBS decided to pick up the shunned NBC show (ugh, don't get me started on Jay Leno). However, I was so busy in the spring that I missed the last... eight-ish episodes of last season. They were on my old DVR, but when I cancelled that I lost everything, so I still haven't seen them. So I guess I'm gonna Netflix the DVDs when they come out in a few weeks, and meanwhile, record and save all the new season and just kinda... slowly catch up, lol.
Then we have new shows. I've already seen the first episode of Vampire Diaries and the first two of Glee. Okay, yeah, shut up, I watched Vampire Diaries, leave me alone. It wasn't THAT bad. I'll tune in again, but if I'm running short on time for Thursdays (which is pretty likely-- I have, I think EIGHT shows on Thursday! And none on Tuesday!), this'll be the first thing to drop. Glee seems all right, though. Not sure it's as good as some critics seem to think, but I don't think that's any fault of the show. It's just been sadly over-hyped. But it's still worth watching. I'm also going to try Community, The Forgotten, Modern Family, FlashForward, The Middle, and V. Holy shit, that's three comedies-- that's a lot for me, lol.
That may seem like a lot of shows, but it's only 16 hours. To give you some perspective, my dad has over 30 hours on his list. Okay, maybe that's not the right point to make. I think I'm usually around 20. But there's a lot of good shows that don't come on/back until midseason, so I'll have plenty to watch then-- including Lost, Scrubs, 24, American Idol, Chuck, and a few new shows that look good. So that's exciting.
Okay, I feel like I've been typing for too long. Hopefully I'll have some more frequent updates here so I won't have to give huge life updates every time I make a Xanga post.
Until next time!
~S~
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| I like to get excited about things when the situation calls for it. And I believe that this particular situation is placing a call of that kind.
OMG, DW'S CLOSED TOMORROW! SNOOOOOWWWWWW DAAAAAYYYYY! 
Teehee.
~S~
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| Kris Allen referred to a guy who was operating a Ferris Wheel as the "Ferris Wheel Instructor". ...Yeah okay, I like that.  I'm rooting for him, lol. But WAIT! Matt Giraud shares my birthday! NO ONE shares my birthday!!! Okay, now this guy needs to win and become famous, so I can be like, "Hey, look at this totally cool famous guy who shares my birthday! Hell, YEAH!" I need that....
~S~
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| The awesome Michael J. Fox wrote some kind of inspirational book called "Always Looking Up". Then he went on the Daily Show...
Jon Stewart: "I appreciate this book, because I too suffer from shortness."
*audience laughs*
MJF: "That's it, that's what the title means."
Teehee. Love it.
~S~
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| Fo shizzle. There's so many different things running through my head right now, I'm finding it hard to focus on anything. Hence why I'm here writing this stupid post instead of working on one of the tons of schoolwork-related things I should be working on.
Right now I'm just thinking that I really really really need to graduate. I've got the bad senioritis, and I just need to get the hell out of here. Seriously, if you take away all the school shit it's just amazingly less on my plate to worry about. It's kind of like I was telling Lisa the other day: I can't fit anything else in my brain right now. Between everything that's happened and all the stuff I still need to focus on... nothing else can fit. We all know I get easily distracted simply by my own thoughts, so I really need to have less of them. Or... something like that, lol.
I mean... I'm fine, I'm dealing with reality, and I understand how things are as well as how the rest of my month is going to go. And I am okay. Just... overloaded. It's just too much. I find myself wondering when I get to stop to breathe.
Well, of course, it turns out the answer to that question is any time I should be doing homework. That's the natural trend. I should have been working on my accounting project today (as well as right now, to be fair), but I instead sat around watching Scrubs and eating Goldfish. And just thinking. But I need to stop that.
One problem, I'm sure, is just that I'm tired today. I didn't get to sleep early enough last night 'cause I messed up my sleeping schedule over the weekend. Friday and Saturday were two very long, very tired days (morning orientations thru post-anime night chit chat makes for a 20-hour day and a very sleepy Sara... even if it was nice to spend about 16 of those hours with Lisa  ), so then I accidently ended up sleeping till almost 2:30pm on Sunday (I know, Uwan-- normal for you, right? ), and that just totally messed me up. And with the second half of this week being all crazy due to the "Easter Recess", I'm not gonna be able to make this a week of any kind of normal sleep.
Sigh.
And I need to shoot video for my Senior Sem project. ...Next week, I guess. Giving me then, a week, tops, to edit the damn thing.
Sigh. I hate this month.
...Okay, I totally swear that this thought just randomly popped into my head at this moment: Laura is short. Seriously, just out of the blue. Weird... 
I wanna watch new Lost. If this were new Lost night... it would be awesome. Not that there aren't new shows, but I won't watch them till tomorrow morning, since I have this stupid radio show till nine. Not that I don't enjoy doing the radio show, but lately it really feels like it's imposing on time for work and sleeping that I simply do not have. And it pisses me off how nothing ever works. Seriously, this school just makes me angry.
OKAY. Enough with the melodrama for today. I promise, after this month, I'll get back to happier posts. Just not really feeling it now. But I'll leave with this Scrubs reference, for Lisa :
[Carla is dreaming that JD and Turk are trying to kill her. She inquires as to why...]
JD: Then I can spend the rest of my life with Turk, touring the world's greatest waterparks!
Sara: Omg, and maybe they'll even be open! Yay, let's do it!
<3!
~S~
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