Because I am so awesome, I have done the following things this past week:

broke a window on my head, resulting in little cuts on my forehead
developed a rash around said cuts

I am contemplating going to a doctor because I don't want this thing to continue to spread over my face, but I also don't want to pay a doctor if it will just clear up in a few days anyway.  Currently putting benedryl on it.

I'm trying to shed a few pounds for summer.  I've lost 2 lbs after a week of Slimquick, but the caffeine is making me CRAZY and increasing my anxiety.  I feel a bit nuts.

Also, I was having scary dreams about spiders last night, and then I found one in my bed this morning.  So maybe he was there while I was dreaming, using scary spider mind control to manipulate my dreams.  So I killed the scary mind control spider.  I killed him dead.

Help to anyone computer savy who may read this!  How can I find out why I have so many popups and make them go away?  They are so annoying.  I have a popup blocker, and it is turned on.  I did have some kind of spyware, but supposedly my norton anti-virus made it go away.  

Dear Livejournal,

How are you? I am fine.

(I used to start all letters like this when I was young.)

Did you know it has been almost a year since I have written to you?  So, what has been happening in 2007?  Well, I am going to a new school.  It's an acting conservatory in Washington, DC called the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, and it is full of wonderful people.  Jeff has decided he is buying my parents' house so he can fix it up and rent out the apartments.  I still have mixed feelings about this whole situation, at  least with the way things are right now, but it's ok, I guess.  However, I am still moving to California some day, and don't you forget it, livejournal!  Other than that, nothing much has changed.  I am going to do a crazy diet over the weekend.  That is if I can get myself out to the store to buy protein powder.  But it is cold outside!  And it's almost time for 30 Rock, The Office, and Scrubs!  

Well, that's all for now, Livejournal.  Maybe I will write to you again soon.

Sincerely,
Dena

Went to the Kurt Halsey art show in Philadelphia today.


My top two choices were sold out before we even got there, not even half an hour into the opening reception, and there were only about five pieces left.  Now I just have to wait till the show ends so they can send it to me.  What a happy birthday week it has been.

This is not putting off writing my paper.  No.  Writing in my livejournal is merely a way of warming up to the paper writing.  Getting the words flowing in my brain and the fingers a-typin'.  This is in no way procrastination.  Because I don't do that.  Right.  But I haven't written in here for a long time, so I figured some pointless rambling about my life would be a good way to get the juices flowing.  And I can't seem to think of a way to start my paper.  I'm really not sure what I am going to write about at all.  I am tired.  Maybe because I had to stay at school until midnight helping to strike the set for the play I am now not procrastinating writing a paper about.  I have four papers due by tuesday, then the semester will almost be over.  I am so ready for a break.  I mean, it's been good, but it's been tiring,  and I am looking forward to winter break and Christmas, even though I'll be a little tight for money this Christmas.  My brain feels so empty.  I probably need food.  I should make some food.  Not as a way of procrastinating writing my paper, but to nourish my body so I will have the energy and concentration needed to write a good paper.  I am so studious.

It just hit me, that today being August 1st, I have to go back to school THIS month.  And I haven't even really had a vacation.  Unless you count working and rehearsing for two different shows a vacation.  I'm kind of excited about starting a new school, meeting new people, but nervous about it all the same.

I'm getting better about going to the gym, not every day, but at least every other day.  And I'm feeling a difference in my body, maybe even seeing a little bit of a difference, though the visible results are not very profound... yet.  

My life is kind of in a lull, a pattern of work and rehearsal, and I don't know what do do with myself when I get free time outside of that.  

Side note:  Francesca Lia Block's latest book is about a redhead.  Yeah, that's right.  Redheads are the best.

I am giving this journal a new beginning.