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Name: Ally
Country: United States
State: Mississippi
Birthday: 6/3/1987
Gender: Female
Expertise: I am an expert at....(whatever you want to be an expert at may be inserted here). envy me.
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
2/13/2004
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| xanga. it's been a while. i feel like i should bring my xanga up to speed with where my life is at right now, but i really just don't feel like it. I will say this (something i never thought i'd say), i really do miss oxford a lot. being at home has been...hard to adjust to. i'm not used to working all day and then coming home and doing nothing. i'm not used to having no one to really hang out with. i'm not used to telling my parents where i am at every moment of the day. i'm not used to my older sister. i'm not used to any of it, the only thing i have...the one thing that i'm totally comfortable with is my bed. imagine that. my 200 year old bed that creaks every time i roll over, or sit up, or even turn my head. there's something comforting in that creak, i guess. something in it that let's me know i'm alive and that i'm still heavy enough and present enough to have an effect that is real. that little creak let's me know i'm not just a shell.
something that i do love here. spending 8 hours a week downtown at the MS Dept. of Archives and History. i've made a new friend there. clinton. he's about 60ish and loves to talk about all things southern, particularly the delta. he told me his favorite Barry Hannah story was the one where "that guy is trying to break up with his girlfriend and he goes in the gas station and that other guy gets shot in the head and smears it everywhere. and then the guy (the one that isn't shot) comes back out to get in the car and can't think of anyway to get of this situation with this hoochie and blames the murder on her." then he laughed. this long, old laugh and said, "i just love that. so clever." then we went and looked up death certificates for 2 hours...helping someone piece together their family history. and who knew you could learn so much from a tiny square on microfiche. those little squares from 1913 on up...so much there, it's like reading an abbreviated biography, only better. anyway, i love searching through those certificates on the microfiche machine. that room is very dark and very cold and the microfiche reader is very bright and warm...and when you finally find what you're looking for, you know that you've just filled a tiny hole in someone; you've helped someone else discover a little more of themselves. that's a good feeling, you know.
anyway, oxford tomorrow. and i honestly cannot wait. | | |
| it's been a while. I've been slammed with the yearbook and school and shiz so I haven't had the time or desire to write. I still don't. I have an exam tomorrow and I really need to do well on it.
On Sunday, I'm going to Birmingham with Dr. Husni and 4 other students to meet with the Design Editor and the Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living. I'm not really excited because I don't think I want to have anything to do with journalism in the future. Husni said for us to be prepared with an answer to the following question: What area are planning on going into in the magazine world and what new stuff will you bring the table? My answer: Ummm. No area, nothing new. Ole Miss has killed my desire to have anything to do with your industry. Will this go over well? No. So I'll lie and make something up while I'm standing there.
I'm seriously thinking about Grad School...need to get on that. I'm about to start studying for the GRE...we'll see how that goes. I'll write what I want to get my Master's in after my friend Kristi comes for a visit this weekend. Because I want to surprise her and then watch her reaction. She's going to think I'm a mega nerd and it's going to be amazing.
That's another thing, Kristi is coming to stay in Oxford with me on Friday night! I'm so excited!
Also, I don't get Twitter. Why in the world would someone want to get minute by minute updates on someone else's life. I don't care if you're eating a wheat bagel with strawberry cream cheese right at this very second. So dumb. My life just isn't that interesting and I don't think there are many other people out there whose lives are so awesome that the rest of the world wants a play by play of their day. so weird. | | |
| so, i've been pretty good about not updating. that's not what i wanted to do, but i'm pretty good at not doing anything so i may just keep doing it. haha.
anyway, i don't really have anything to write about.
today, my friend rachel and her husband paul are coming into town for the film festival. i may meet up with them for some grub, but i probably won't go to the film festival.
ummm. so far, this is the easiest semester i've had. the only class i'm kind of worried about is my Magazine class. last semester we made the business plan, this semester we're actually designing and laying out the entire thing. So by the end of the semester i'll have a prototype for a 68 - 100 page magazine. i'm trying to do really well so that mine will get chosen for competition. Dr. Husni will choose the 2 or 3 in the class (class of 7 ppl) that are the best and send theirs off to compete. at the competition, publishers and other mag big wigs will be there looking and it's likely that if your mag places in the competition you'll get paid a few thousand $ for your idea and some publisher will buy it and start to publish it. so i'd be down with that.
my other classes are Southern Lit (which i'm loving), Public Relations, Pop Culture and Leisure (sociology), low impact aerobics and weight lifting (which isn't as manly as it sounds, we basically just work out in the turner center for an hour and get credit for it). So by the end of the semester, I'll be looking like MK Olsen (only cleaner) and have a degree in my hand. yesss. | | |
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it's 12:35. i'm still in my bed. feels good-ish (i need to shower and i'm getting kind of hungry haha). Anyway, while i was just laying here i started thinking how it would probably pretty fun to work in a museum. you get to walk around and show people cool stuff all day long. And can you imagine the details you'd know about stuff? and you're surrounded by history all day. awesome. art museum would be cool too, but it's so subjective i'd rather look at it and think my own thoughts then talk about it all day. you know?
Anyway. I'm obsessed with designspongeonline.com. and when i have a home of my own and some money to spend my home will resemble one of their sneak peeks. i've also gotten addicted to leblogdebetty.com. that little french girl can put an outfit together. i wish we had better shopping here.
umm. it's exam week. justin and i finished our magazine take home exam last night. it took us four and a half hours. we rewarded ourselves with funfetti cupcakes. today i'm going to try and finish up my business plan portfolio (it's only taken the entire semester to put together) for my magazine and write my paper for barry hannah. we'll see how far i get. haha.
If you aren't listening to christmas music you should be. i've got my christmastime mix on repeat...it's makes exam work more bearable. i'm going home wednesday!!!!!! i'm excited. my dad got a wii for his birthday yesterday (he was really really excited) and he thinks he can school me at tennis. we'll see about that.
also, the leaves don't look like this anymore, but i enjoyed them while they did.
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| the semester is almost over and that means i'm that much closer to having to enter the real world. im a little intimidated by the thought. anyway.
i left my phone in my bed at home on thursday morning. my dad woke me up at 4:30 that morning so that we (my dad, my older sister and i) could drive to oxford in time to pick up my mom and molly on our way to my grandparent's for lunch. i was in a daze and scrambling to get all of my stuff together and in the car. evidently i made my bed up and my phone was still in there somewhere. it's been kind of nice though. im on day 3 with no phone of any sort and i've kind of enjoyed it. aside from not being able to talk to drew, it's been a nice break. really nice. i've been wanting to just turn my phone off for a few days anyway, but i couldnt ever bring myself to actually do it. you should try it.
tomorrow i plan on spending the entire day in the library. i have a pretty huge load of work due this week and next week and i want to try and get as much of it done tomorrow as i can.
i read Barry Hannah's book, RAY, and I'm afraid to write the report on it for him because i hated it. not that i thought it was poorly written or anything like that, actually quite the opposite...the man has insane talent (and that's an understatement), but i dont know. i was really just grossed out most of the time. anywayyyyyy. we'll see.
this is boring.
OHHHH! So since Thanksgiving is over it's officially the Christmas season. Best believe I've already busted out my Hanson-Snowed In album and decorated my balcony with multi-colored Christmas lights. AND wrapped the headboard to my bed in white lights AND lit the cinnamon apple candle in the kitchen. yessssss. | | |
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