thought of the day

I hope never to write an anticlimactic novel. They are quite depressing. You’ll go days or weeks investing yourself in a novel, getting excited or scared at all the right parts, and then they’ll end on the brother’s cousin’s niece who supposedly saved the kingdom from utter peril, even though it’s what the protagonist has worked for all his life. Blah. My real problem is if they build up this whole beautiful romance that I’ve put my heart and soul into and they close it with an offhand word and the couple doesn’t even kiss! Stupid, stupid, stupid! If there is going to be any kind of romance in the first place, a novel should end with either a kiss or death, depending on the emotion to be evoked in the reader. Personally, I prefer a kiss, but that’s just me. If I ever write an anticlimactic ending that puts the romantic aspect out in the cold, I want someone to personally come and smack me with something hard near the back, flat region of my head. If you would be so kind.

back to y

Goodness, it's been a long time. I'm back at BYU for summer semester now. It's strange, especially since most my friends from winter are gone until fall. With the addition of unexpected housing arrangements this summer has gotten off to a weird start. I've changed my major...twice...and I'm beginning to see a new perspective for my life. I just hope it's the right one. I turn eighteen next month. It seems with each passing year, as I grow older, the world gets larger. Eighteen will be good, I think. I'll be able to vote, sign legal documents, go to the dentist on my own and people won't freak out quite as much when they discover I have the bad habit of dating guys between the ages of twenty-three and twenty-six. I don't know if I recommend going to college at sixteen and a half or not. It's exhilarating and it sure beats two extra years of high school, but it's scary being thrown into a college environment. It's the kind of place where everyone thinks they know everything and, as a freshman, you've just come from a place where you were reassured you knew nothing. Then you don't know which you know--everything or nothing. This may make no sense but I have just come from a fun date and it's 2 am. Is there anything that makes sense at 2 am? If there was, we wouldn't write nearly as well at such hours. I would write something deep and catchy here, but you'd be expecting that.

50 things i've learned from college...and i'm not talking about classes

1. You don't need beer to have a rock-awesome party
2. You don't need beer to gain the Freshman Fifteen
3. Never procrastinate to the point that you have to write fourteen papers in one weekend
4. Pulling all-nighters are so much better when there's someone around to make sure you don't hurt yourself
5. If you hear strange breathing under your roommate's bed, seek help immediately
6. If your roommate dies, you get all A's...there seems to be no stipulation about whether or not you kill them, causing temptation during finals week
7. If the HFAC (Harris Fine Arts Center, where the lowly theatre and film students dwell for most of their lives) burned down, there would be world peace
8. Just because your acting professor is brilliant, doesn't mean he won't be strange...actually, it's more likely that he will be
9. It's a lot easier to be awake at five in the morning than in the middle of astronomy class
10. Studies show a correlation between professors voices and ancient lullabies
11. The smaller your living area, the faster you lose your deodorant under your notebooks
12. Jeans can be worn at least five times before they need to be washed
13. Tide stain-remover pens are *amazing!!!*
14. One of the most priceless possessions in the world is a good pair of headphones
15. Thermostat battles can be bloody
16. Magnets are great if you always lose your keys
17. Receipts make great notepaper
18. Plastic bottles can be made into anything
19. Being domestic feels good, even if you only own two mugs and a set of measuring spoons
20. Not having a car stinks (kinda like your feet after not having a car)
21. Wal-Mart and Target are meccas
22. Jamba Juice has secret, underground flavors
23. If you freeze cream soda, then open the cap just a little, it turns the whole thing into a slushie
24. Never take WiFi for granted
25. Snow and heels don't mix
26. A good cell phone can be dropped at least two thousand, fifteen times before it breaks
27. Ice cream heals all troubles
28. Vending machine food deserves its own place in the food pyramid
29. Bread gets moldy really fast
30. Always check your bread for mold before eating it
31. Expired milk won't kill you, you might just smell funny for a few days
32. Eating cereal out of a mug with a measuring spoon actually works quite well
33. Everyone in the world should have a meal plan
34. After having a meal plan, when you go somewhere that doesn't accept it, you end up handing them your ID card anyway and taking at least half a minute to realize why they're looking at you funny
35. Showers are highly overrated
36. Dryer sheets degrease and make your hair smell nice
37. Ditto baby powder
38. Toilet paper is expensive
39. When doing laundry, you must remove your clothes from the machine within thirty seconds or they'll end up on the ground and you'll be ticked off, even though you know perfectly well you will do the same thing to someone else next time
40. Unfortunately, with the joy of independence and no curfews, you miss having someone wash your underwear and remind you a million times to take your medicine
41. The best place to get someone to ask for your phone number is waiting in line for lunch
42. If you go in winter to a school where men and women aren't allowed in the same building together after midnight, you will probably spend 95% of your dates trying to keep warm
43. When it comes to dating, "Age is just a number, baby"
44. Before you tell forty-five people you're dating someone, make sure it's going to be for longer than a week and two days
45. If naps are for babies, sign me up to be two again
46. Ninja Turtles and My Little Ponies are completely in style
47. Considering they're not drunk, people can still sound awfully stupid singing at the top of their lungs in the middle of the night...not that I'm not a guilty party
48. College is made up of a lot of stupid smart people
49. You think high school boys are idiots until you reach college...then you realize all boys are idiots
50. Magic leoplurodons know the way to Candy Mountain

hot stuff

Now tell me, that is not the hottest thing you've seen all day! Our church roadshow--I really wish you could see my green skirt, orange socks, blue shoes and the amazing picture on the shirt. C'mon, you wish you could look that good!

U2 said it right...

It's a beautiful day! Nothing feels better than getting a higher grade on a midterm than you were previously expecting, especially when it's over 60 degrees outside and gloriously clear! *sigh* Things are good, life is good! Now I'm on a computer kiosk and there's a bunch of people behind me...I will be better about posting later in the week. But life is good, thought for the day.

name that tune--calise style pt. 2

Okay, so it's bugging the heck outta me that no one has guessed what any of the songs in my beautiful cacophany of songs were. I know it was mostly rhetorical, but I still wanted at least one person to guess. So, I'm just going to tell you. Hah.

Collide~Howie Day
I Got You~Nick Carter (I know, I'm pathetic. It's a good song!)

A Little's Enough~Angels and Airwaves
How to Save a Life~The Fray
Boys of Summer~the Ataris
Natural Anthem~Postal Service

Surprise Ice~Kings of Convenience
Paper Airplane Dream~The Lyndsay Diaries
Always Something There to Remind Me~Naked Eyes
Just Can't Get Enough~Depeche Mode

Only Hope~Switchfoot
The Adventure~Angels and Airwaves
Bittersweet Symphony~The Verve
Speed of Sound~Coldplay

I Want It That Way~Backstreet Boys
Friday I'm in Love~The Cure
Perfect Situation~Weezer
Chasing Cars~Snow Patrol

Vindicated~Dashboard Confessional
Time Stands Still~All-American Rejects
You and I Both~Jason Mraz
You and Me~Lifehouse

From California~The New Amsterdams
Everyone~Backstreet Boys
Soul Meets Body~Death Cab for Cutie
Another Perfect Day~American Hifi

Embers and Envelopes~Mae
The Best of Me~The Starting Line
Sunshine~Keane
Song 2~Blur

Save Yourself~Sense Field
Such Great Heights~Postal Service
The Frog Prince~Keane
Spitting Games~Snow Patrol

Nothing in My Way~Keane
Is It Any Wonder?~Keane
People Are People~Depeche Mode
Crooked Teeth~Death Cab for Cutie

All These Things I've Done~The Killers

Man, I need to get a life.
In other news, I am making good progress on my happy little book. I'm going to break it into workable sections tonight then write like...like...dang, all the good similes are taken! I'm going to write like someone stuck at the bottom of a well, clawing desperately at the muddy walls with shaky fingernails and all she can do to get out is to write! Ha! Now tell me if that's a cliche! Okay, so it was a little weird and made absolutely no sense but at least it wasn't "like the wind."

the one minute blog

I'm writing this blog in one minute and I'm not editing it or anything. I'm having a crazy week and I really haven't had time to post. I'm trying to finish revamping my novel by March 12 (1 week).

(That's really all I could get to in one minute)

ah, the tangled web we weave...

The internet is driving me insane! I've been changing all my pages around so the domain names are in the right place and I started a Google Apps account which is, granted, really cool...but because you can't combine Google accounts, I have my pages divided between two accounts, my email on another...well, actually I have three emails which forward to that account...I'm not even sure which one my blog is on (not to mention that it's been down all day since I decided to switch my more professional looking page to caliseacree.com and my blog to blog.caliseacree.com (you can update your bookmarks if you like, but you should be able to use the old ones to get to the site anyway) but now you probably won't be able to read this for a day and a half because my stupid domain host is taking "usually up to 72 hours" to switch over!
This is crazy! I mean the reason I use Google in the first place is to have all my online apps together but now I'm juggling three and that's worse because I can't be signed in to more than one at a time! AURG!!
This doesn't mean, however, that Google will not take over the world as I previously theoriezed, it just means I'm an idiot for not getting one stinkin' account in the first place. Maybe eventually I'll move all my emails, documents, blog posts, pictures, bookmarks, rss feeds, calendar and googlepages over to one account...yeah, like that's going to happen any time soon :P

happy week

Just something quick tonight since I really need to cram for my midterm tomorrow and I've been using my blog and facebook to procrastinate writing all week! *Sigh* Procrastination is really a curse.
So here is my top ten good news of the week:
1) My new favorite song, for now anyway, is "Boys Don't Cry" by the Cure. I also love "Embers and Envelopes" by Mae and "I'll Follow You into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie, but I've liked those for a while.
2) I was able to buy said songs from iTunes this week! Yay! Plus a ton more '80s songs, more Death Cab, Angels and Airwaves and the Fray!
3) There was no school on Monday so the week was incredibly short!
4) I got to hear my one-year-old niece say, "Tick, Tock" on the phone when talking about a clock. Pretty much the cutest thing in the world!
5) I did reasonably well on my Monologues in Acting class this morning.
6) I taught a lesson on Physical Fitness for our church activity and it went really well!
7) My Empty-Water-Bottle Drawer is full! (Although I don't know if that's necessarily good news)
8) I have Tropical Starbusts and Sour Mentos that came in a pretty swirly mug I bought for myself! That brings my kitchen items up to two!
9)I aerobicized my butt off tonight! (I don't care that aerobicized is not a word. It should be!)
10) And, best of all, I'VE LOST 6 LBS SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you and goodnight.