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Everlong

Hello, I've waited here for you... Everlong.
Tonight, I've thrown myself into,
And out of the red, out of her head she sang.

Come down and waste away with me, down with me...
Slow how, you wanted it to be,
I'm over my head, out of her head she sang.

And I wonder when I sing along with you,
If everything could ever feel this real forever.
If anything could ever be this good again,
The only thing I'll ever ask of you.
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when.
She sang.

Breathe out, so I can breathe you in,
Hold you in, and now, I know you've always been
Out of your head, out of my head I sang.

And I wonder when I sing along with you,
If everything could ever feel this real forever,
If anything could ever be this good again.
The only thing I'll ever ask of you,
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when.
She sang.

And I wonder,
If everything could ever feel this real forever,
If anything could ever be this good again.
The only thing I'll ever ask of you,
You gotta promise not to stop when I say when.

Your Preppy Name Is...

Willoughby Teller Freeborn the Third But most people know you as Bitsy

What's Your Preppy Name?

Oh Timothy...

timjw05: shoot me, but don't castrate me
calliefornia 05: why not?
timjw05: because I think I could deal with a bullet more than losing my balls.
timjw05: we're attached okay? haha

I am not 12 years old

I vividly remember my mother telling me when my family was visiting my grandmother during my senior year of high school that your age doesn't matter, because no matter how hold you are, you will always be treated like a child when you're at home. She promised me that she would do her best never to do that to me, because it's always been frustrating for her. Apparenly, my father missed this memo. I will turn 20 in July. The problem is that I'm apparently still 12 years old in my father's eyes. I was watching Garden State on IFC, which is fast becoming one of my favorite channels, and one of the characters yelled "Hey, get the fuck in the pool!" My father happened to be walking by at the time that this occured, and he gave me a dirty look, and said "Callie, I can't believe that you watch this filth." It's very frustrating. And I'm sick of it. I'm planning on spending a lot of time in Raleigh this semester. And in August, I'm moving into an apartment, and declaring my own residence so at least I don't have to put up with this shit much longer.

Dirt

I just watched the series premiere of Dirt, the new show on FX. I was curious about this show because, as an avid fan of Nip/Tuck, I've been seeing advertisements for it for months. FX has been promoting this show since the season premiere of Nip/Tuck, which was aired back in September. Basically, I just wanted to see if this show lived up to the hype. I also am in search of a show to fill my Tuesday night opening while Nip/Tuck is over for the season. Overall, I felt that the pilot of this series was just average. My main concern is that I felt quite confused at the end of the episode. I didn't feel that the characters were introduced very well. The way that they just seemed to come in and out of the episode was confusing, and I found myself using the rewind feature on my DVR on several occassions in hopes of clearing up my confusion. Also, The storyline with the basketball star just seemed to end. He did appear in the scenes for the rest of the season, so I am hopeful that his storyline will be resolved, and his character's place in the big picture will become clear. Although I had some complaints about the pilot of Dirt, there was a lot that I liked about it as well. I really like the way they're visually shooting this series so far. I really enjoyed the way that the photographer's schizophrenic episodes were shot. One of my favorite parts was when he finally visited the pharmacy to have his prescriptions filled. The photographer could see the pharmacist's words coming out of her mouth as she spoke them. I also liked the part where he went to take his pills, and as he opened each bottle, a new musical tone escaped. Overall, the photograher is definitely my favorite character thus far. Finally, I really thought that the guy that Lucy slept with (and later used her stun gun on) was very attractive. I was unable to find his name or any information about him for this blog, but I will continue my search, and hopefully I'll come across some useful information. Overall, I'm not impressed with Dirt as of yet, but I'm planning on watching a few more episodes. Hopefully the next few episodes won't disappoint.

Callie -- [noun]: An immortal 'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com

The Holidays

I had an amazing Christmas. It was definitely one of the best in the past few years. I got to see some family members, and got some really cool gifts. I hope everyone's holidays were as excellent as mine.

This is disgusting, but it was too funny not to repost...

Your Girl Parts Are Named:

Breakfast of Champions

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Oh there's no place like home for the holidays...

I took my final final yesterday, and I didn't study as much as I should have, but overall I think it went pretty well. When I finished, I rushed back to my dorm room, cleaned, did 4 loads of laundry, packed up (while Timothy supervised), put everything in my car, and came home! I was really boring last night and I went to bed at 8 because I was exhausted. I was trying to finish the last of my Dane Cook CD, but I fell asleep before it went off. I'm just so glad to have this semester over with. It was a living hell on more than one occassion. I'm not really happy with my performance academically, but I'm determined to do better next semester. I didn't do bad academically, but I have high standards for myself, and I didn't do as well as I had planned. I'm also planning on working in a research lab next semester so I can start getting hours for my DVM/PhD program I'm hoping to do. Today I helped my mom with my little brother's Christmas party at school. I was not happy about it, but I was a good big sister, so I went and tried to make the best of it. People that know me know that I do not like children, and I don't plan on having any when I get older. Overall, they were pretty good, but I know I could never teach. I have no patience for stuff like that. I get frustrated when my animals misbehave, which is not very often because I raised them all to listen to me. I'm not really sure what I'm doing tomorrow, but I'm sure that my mother will find something for me to do. I haven't really gotten to enjoy my break because she's been working a lot lately so I'm doing everything she doesn't have time to do. I don't really mind, but at the same time I feel like I deserve a few days to lay around and do nothing. Oh well, such is life. I had a lot more to say, but I keep gettting distracted, so I think I'm going to end this here.

Ugh

I have to take my final final in the morning and I am having such a hard time concentrating. A major change in my life is occuring, and it's exciting, but a little scary at the same time. It's going to go slowly, and if it doesn't work, it can always go back to the way it was.

Whoo!

I've never been a huge hockey fan, but it has always been one of my favorite sports to watch. Last night, my good friend Timothy invited me to go to the Carolina Hurricanes game @ the RBC center here in Raleigh. I took him up on the invitation, and I had a wonderful time! Let me begin by saying that hockey fans are crazy! They really go all out for these games. I'm starting to think that I'm bad luck when it comes to going to sports events. Every NC State game that I go to, we lose, and when I went to the hurricanes game last night, they lost too. I need to do something to break the curse! Anyhow, I had a lot of fun, and I was glad that I got to go to a real live hockey game! I now leave you with one of the quotable moments of the evening.

Tim: "Hit Darcy Tucker! No one likes him anyway!"
Me: "Don't say that. I bet someone likes him. I'm sure his mommy likes him."
Tim: "No she doesn't. If she liked him she wouldn't have named him Darcy."

Jessicaism

I was looking through my friend Heather's facebook photos a few minutes ago. Heather goes to Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA. As I was looking through her photos, I noticed that many of the Liberty kids had a lot of piercings. I turned to Jessica and said "Man, these Christian kids have a lot of piercings." She answered, "Yeah, because they want to be holy."

I found this very interesting...

You Have A Type A+ Personality

You're driven to succeed every single second of the day And you don't let up on your goals, no matter how tired you are You've already acheived a lot in your life... but it's not enough for you Always on the go, you tend to get things done quickly and effectively You have the personality to be a successful enterpreneur Just remember to play a little too, even if play is the most difficult thing for you!

Do You Have a Type A Personality?

Thoughts...

Lately, I've found myself contemplating life more so than usual. I'm really not sure what brought this on. All of my girl friends here at State are now in relationships, or about to be in relationships. For a while, I was a little bummed about it, but now I'm starting to realize, that I really enjoy being single. I enjoy being out on my own, making my own decisions, and not having to answer to anyone. For the first time in my life, I'm embracing my independence, and as a result, this is becoming one of the happiest times of my life. I love having the freedom to go out with different groups of friends every night, and making plans at the last minute without having to inform anyone else of what I'll be doing for the evening. I love being able to make my own schedule and not having to coordinate it with anyone else. I never really went through that whole self discovery phase. I've always been pretty comfortable with who I am, but I've never taken the time to enjoy being myself. I've come to realize that right now, it should be all about me. I'm glad that I don't have to lean on someone else to see my worth as a person. I don't need someone else to plan my life around. I'm going to do what I want with my life, and I'm going to do it on my terms. If I end up falling in love, I believe that things will fall into place, but if not, I'm doing just fine on my own.

Long time, no blog..

So I haven't blogged in nearly a month.. There are several reasons why this has happened. First, I haven't really had anything to write about. I don't really like to write about nothing, and I like for my blogs to have purpose. I think that this makes them more interesting, and I try to make my entries as interesting as possible so that people don't feel like they're wasting their time when they visit my blog. Another reason why I haven't written in so long is because I've been so busy with school work. The end of the semester is fast approaching, and here at NC State, that means that it's time for the professors to pile on a ton of work that we need to get through before we take finals. I have a full week of school this week, and then 2 days of school next week. I had a test on Monday, and I have one on Thursday. That's the first time this whole semester that I've had 2 tests in one week. I've been pretty lucky this semester with having my tests nice and spread out. However, the week after the wonderful Thanksgiving break that I'm really looking forward to, I have 3 tests and a quiz. I have a feeling that by Friday, I will be hating life. Anywho.. I'm off to work on my organic chemistry prelab! Consider this your update that nothing fun is happening in my life.. haha.

A recent development

So basically, there's a new man in my life. I'm still a big fan of Adrien Brody, and his work, but I think it's best that our one sided relationship ended. After seeing the Jacket, which I thought was horrible, I began to have doubts. Plus, I'm pretty sure he was cheating on me with Elsa Pataky, who played the woman with the baby in Snakes on a Plane, as well as Rebecca, my roommate Jessica's little sister. Things declined gradually over time, and fortunately, there was no messy breakup. I'm not sure when during this time that it was that I began to notice Joaquin, but I certainly feel in my heart that he and I are much more compatible than Adrien and I were. As I'm starting this new relationship, I wish Adrien all the best in his career and in life in general. If it's meant to be between us, we'll find each other again someday, but for now I'm enjoying my time giggling over my new obsession. My only hope is for Adrien to treat Rebecca with the same love that he and I once had...

Suprise! (Not.)

I just finished watching The Village. I missed this movie when it was in theaters, and had planned on seeing it when it finally came out on DVD. I actually went to the video store twice with the intention of renting it, but I was always distracted by something else, so I've missed out on this movie up until now. My fabulous roommate Jessica's birthday was a week ago, and she went home this weekend to celebrate with her family. She got this movie for her birthday, and I was thrilled when she asked me to watch it with her tonight. As my blog layout shows, I am a huge fan of Adrien Brody's work (and his sexy body) and I've wanted to see this movie for a while because I've heard a lot of different opinions of his work in this movie, and I was eager to formulate my own. The movie focuses on a 19th century village, which is located in an area called Covington. The villagers are taught from a very young age that the woods surrounding the area are inhabited by dangerous creatures that should be avoided at all cost. Sometimes, the creatures cross the border into the village, and when they do, the villagers all disappear into underground bunkers that they access through trapdoors in the floors of their homes. Every house in the village has one of these safe areas. The villagers are also taught to avoid the "bad color," red. They bury everything that they come across that is red, because they believe that red things attract the creatures which they are so desperately trying to avoid. The beginning of the movie basically focuses on delievering this vital background information to the audience. The plot picks up when Ivy (played by Bryce Dallas Howard) and Lucius (played by Joaquin Phoenix) announce that they plan to get married. The situation is complicated because Ivy has a special relationship with Noah, (played by my future husband, Adrien Brody) who is mentally handicapped. Noah is actually in love with Ivy, and he doesn't understand why she plans to marry Lucius instead of him. In his anger, Noah goes to Lucius's house, and stabs him. Lucius is seriously injured, and he contracts a serious infection from his injury. Because Ivy is deeply in love with Lucius, she begs her father for permission to leave the village to seek medicine that will heal Lucius so they can get married as they had planned. Ivy's father reveals the truth about the creatures in the woods, and gives her directions on where to go. Ivy then ventures out into the woods in hopes of finding medicine to cure her beloved. I'll not post spoilers here, in case people are reading this that have not yet seen this movie, but I will say that if you have ever read Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix, you will probably be able to guess the ending just as I did. I noticed several striking similarities between the movie and the book, and just before the suprise was revealed, I asked my roommate if what I suspected was actually about to happen. She didn't answer, but I was very pleased when my prediction turned out to be true. Immediately after the movie was over, I went online and found out that there was a controversy over where the idea for the movie came from because it was quite similar to Haddix's book, which was published 8 years before the movie was made. The publishers of the book and the author even wanted to sue the movie producers, but in the end, the dispute was settled out of court. Even though I guessed the ending, I really loved this movie, and I was very impressed with my boyfriend's acting abilities. The Village was a fabulous movie, and I hope to add it to my DVD collection very soon.

Hooray!

I had my dreaded first Organic Chemistry test last Friday. I was very very nervous about the test, but I took it, and I survived. I got my grade back today, and I was thrilled to get an 86!

At last!

The long awaited season premiere of the most provocative show on television debuted tonight. I've been a huge fan of Nip/Tuck since its first season, so naturally, I've been counting down the days. One thing that made my wait easier was the fact that FX played the old episodes every Saturday night starting in May. This made me very happy, because I somehow managed to miss every episode of season 3, except for one or two here and there. I also missed the season finale, which meant I had to wait nearly a year to find out the identity of the Carver, the serial rapist that was terrorizing the two hottest (fictional) plastic surgeons ever, Drs. Sean McNamara and Christian Troy, as well as the Miami area. I didn't want to find out the Carver's identity without seeing the episodes that I missed, so I avoided all Nip/Tuck related websites. Season 3's finale aired Saturday night, and I was most intrigued with the way the Carver's identity was revealed. It turned out that the Carver was actually a brother/ sister team working together. The brother was the plastic surgeon hired by Sean and Christian to lighten their load, and the sister was actually the lead investigator of the Carver case. The plot would be nearly impossible for me to explain in its entirety here, so I'll leave it at that. Anyhow, tonight's season premiere seemed to be sort of a fresh start, with the beginnings of several plots. The Carver subplot went on for two seasons, so I'm glad the writers decided to start something new. In this first episode, Christian has been dealing with a lot, mostly due to the stress over his situation with Kimber, so he decides to visit a therapist. The therapist asks him to think about the possibility that he could be in love with Sean. Christian initially refuses to even consider this, but then, as he realizes it could be a possibility, he becomes very distant with Sean. Christian's distance from Sean only adds to Sean's already upset emotional state, as he's just found out that his unborn son will be born with a birth defect (that Julia says she can't pronounce, and I can't spell) that causes deformities in the hands. Julia has lunch with a woman that is living with this condition, and she tells Julia that her life has been hard, but she's managed. Julia is already in her second trimester, and she has already decided that she's going to have the baby regardless, but she begins to have second thoughts when she finally gets the final diagnosis. Finally, the client that this episode follows wants larger testicular implants, as he's had his removed due to prostate cancer. After the surgery, he and his young wife decide to purchase the McNamara/Troy practice. When Sean learns that his new son will be handicapped, he decides that selling the practice would be best because he'll have more money and time to care for the child. The first episode was a little slower than I would have liked, but at the end, the previews for this season were shown, and it looks amazing! I can't wait until next Tuesday!