cele_brindal

MCAT!

2006-08-18T17:56:36Z

So again, been a while. Oh well oh well. I just needed some sort of medium to let my stress out. The med school test is tomorrow, and I am fairly calm about it- for now. I can't believe that so much relies on how I do on this test. Tomorrow is going to be absolutely exhausting, but I am almost looking forward to actually being there and doing the test. Having it finished, or even TAKING it, is better than this crazy waiting stuff. I have been preparing all summer and I hope it is not all a waste. I'll see I guess. Maybe I will go home and try to do some meditations or something, think peaceful thoughts and all that. I can't believe it is tomorrow though, deep breaths....

cele_brindal @ 2006-01-15T21:09:00

2006-01-15T23:25:54Z

Classes begin tomorrow!! so nervous its crazy. England is pretty good so far, but i am homesick already. The nights are harder, and I wish I weren't here for so long. Classes are beginning to scare me lots, as the structure is so different here. And money is definitely an issue. But the people are wonderful- everyone is so friendly, although I have met mostly international students so far I think. Orientation went well, and I finally have my computer up and working. And we have already explored Norwich some, and even took a little tour today! It was great, such a wonderful city with an older feel, but still lots to do and to look at. The cathedral was awesome, and we go to listen to little british choir boys in the most beautiful choir I have ever heard! More later!

Leaving the Country

2006-01-10T19:03:33Z

SO, this is it, I am leaving my wonderful home, the good old USA, for exciting ENGLAND!!! I am leaving in about an hour for the airport, and am so nervous I can't sit still. This is probably the weirdest feeling ever- going to a foreign country for an extended period of time. Its almost like I am moving away. I can't wait till I am safely with my rose in heathrow airport. Or even better, Norwich itself. I hope I am capable of making friends still too, even though I am a lousy republican. haha, I am so excited to meet new people and have the experience of actually living in a foreign country. Hopefully England will be kind to me, and let me come home quickly.

cele_brindal @ 2005-06-16T21:27:00

2005-06-17T01:09:56Z

Ok really stinks that you guys have forced me to use livejournal once more. I have very successfully avoided it for a long time now

And whats more, I am now going to proceed to do what I hate livejournal makes me and many others do....complain, hehe

Where are you ROSE AND COURTNEY!!!! I have tried everyday to call and I can't reach you guys. It is very frustrating and I miss you and I want to see what fun you have been having without me!!

grrrr....keep working hard until I hear from you and I will do the same. I'll also keep trying to contact you guys and hopefully someday I will be able to reach you.

Haha, hope you guys are having a blast up there!!!!

cele_brindal @ 2005-01-31T15:39:00

2005-01-31T20:43:45Z

Hey courtney, I am your clone!!! but I guess hermione being 2nd was inevitable

You scored as Ron Weasley.

You often feel like second best and as a result don't have an awful lot of self confidence, but a truer more capable friend would be hard to find.
Ron Weasley
90%

Hermione Granger
75%

Remus Lupin
75%

Ginny Weasley
70%

Draco Malfoy
65%

Harry Potter
60%

Albus Dumbledore
55%

Severus Snape
55%

Sirius Black
50%

Lord Voldemort
0%

cele_brindal @ 2005-01-24T10:59:00

2005-01-24T15:47:25Z

We got insane amounts of snow!!! I think I am trapped here until at least Tuesday, maybe even late Tuesday night. I shovelled for at least 5 hours yesterday and I ache all over, but enough complaining...at least about that. They didn't even plow the road yet. They went down the middle a couple times, but that doesn't help too much with three feet of snow. Any because of that, we have to shovel like half of the road in order to get any car out. I hope I make it back to school alright. I am worried about getting back for classes and I probably will miss my Amherst class which I think starts Tuesday. I already emailed the professor, and I hope he is not MAD!!!!

Also, yesterday we smelled gas in my house so that wasn't very comforting. We borrowed the neighbors carbon monoxide detector, and we survived the night, but I am almost sure it will kill me eventually, hopefully while I am sleeping. I would hate to die of affixiation when I was awake. I am being dramatic though so I am going to go shuvel some more. Dad and Becky have been out there for a long time and I just got up!!!

Blizzard!!!

2005-01-23T05:56:00Z

OK. Again it has been a very long time. OH well.. I will have to deal. Anywho, just wanted to say goodbye to everyone because we are probably going to be stuck on the cape and I will never get back to school because of this blizzard!!! The weather channel is insane... 30 inches + expected by 6 pm tomorrow so i will be shuvelling all day (ok that has to be spelt wrong).

Hopefully I can go back to UMASS on monday night, especially cuz i might have a class on tuesday. I am so hooked on the tv series, 24. It is so addictive. Me and my sister just watched 6 episodes of it on dvd. It is incredibly good, and the main character is the guy who plays Athos in Disney's version of the Three Musketeers!!! SOOOOO EXCITING!!!

Courtney, I watched this new show called point pleasant cuz it was supposed to be made by the same people that did Buffy. I can't really tell if it is good. It seems a little too dramatic and silly, all played up already as the classic epic battle between good and evil. I wonder if you would like it? I am on the lookout for a new addictive show for you... 24 is very good, so I may have to convert you.

Also, Rose i did watch OC for you!!!!!

HAHA..bye for now as I am off to slumber through the raging snow

YAY UMASS

2004-09-04T20:29:04Z

getting ready to go back to umass!!! Yay!!! I can't wait to see my lovely roomie and the whole gang!! got to go cuz this computer is the only thing which needs some packing up!!!

Mary's Tirade

2004-08-08T05:07:11Z

ok... so this is like my third entry. Oh well. I am beyond angry and I need to vent. I didn't want to use a live journal because I new I would end up just complaining on it all the time, but I will make an exception. I just finished the most disturbing and provoking book I have ever read- oh wait...its a collection of short stories. Really, its just a book about one liberal extremist's views. It is in no way a bunch of short stories. It is Kingsolvers personal tyrade. Deans Book...what are these books they make us read....can't they pick something that won't enrage me to this degree. I seriously feel like the most cynical person right now, because I don't know what the world is coming to if Kingsolver's book, Small Wonders, is A NATIONAL BESTSELLER. People actually CHOOSE to read this shit.,....forgive the language..I am angry. She is absolutely horrible. Everything she says, for the most part, are absolute lies and I feel ashamed of her ideas. I agree that people need to express their opinions, but I find it outrageous that she could be so insane and so completely opposed to everything that I believe. I can tell that this year's deans book is not going to be too enjoyable, at least not for me. I am sure everyone else at UMASS will be quite pleased, although I hope that they will not be, as I hope they will see how insanely radical she is. Why can't people THINK. Or at least apply some common sense. I feel ashamed of what this book says. And I must say that I will argue with almost every point she makes. This book is a preaching attempt by Kingsolver to indoctrinate her extremist views into our country. That is fine....I don't oppose to the writing of this book. I oppose to the fact that my school would pick such a book, which I believe to be a serious attempt to delude us all into a certain way of thinking. Talk about controlling what we read and what we think and what we believe in. I just hope that my fellow students will actually think and investigate what Kingsolver writes and not just follow it in blind faith the way, I am afraid, many will. This is what makes me afraid for our country/world, for what people are listening to. I am enraged that UMASS would make me spend 13 dollars to read liberal propaganda. If this was an extremist right wing book, there would be absolute outrage, but the liberal viewpoint is accepted with open arms. Why couldn't we read a balanced, thought-provoking book that would present varying ideas and concepts.........ahhhhhh.....I am depressed with the world and I am going to put the book down now. END OF TIRADE.

cele_brindal @ 2004-07-13T17:49:00

2004-07-13T22:39:15Z

Alright... I am really bad at this live journal thing...talk later i am too lazy right now... but welcome rose!!

cele_brindal @ 2004-05-27T18:56:00

2004-05-27T23:54:15Z

Only been one week home and I am already bored. Mom and Dad are pretty crazy, but I can't imagine being home for 3 more months!!! At least I start work in a few days, so that will give me something to do. I want to go back to school!!!! Never thought I would say that. hahaha. But I do want to go back, although it would be nice if we didn't have school to worry about while we are at school. A necessary evil I suppose. Anywho, courtney if you read this we have to talk soon about me getting up there for HARRY! I will probably write you an email later if I don't hear from you. Hopefully you still want me to come!!! haha I am just kidding. anywho, I will talk to you soon and I am sooooooooo psyched!!!

Today mike and I went to the beach for a few hours. My first trip since i got HOME. But it was rather cold so we could only sit and read for a few hours. I finished the Da Vinci Code and I am now onto my second reading of the source. Everyone should read this book, especially Courtney!! haha Lots of love and now I am going to be bored some more. Maybe I will try cleaning all my junk which is literally eating my room up!

ughh

2004-05-22T04:53:59Z

Alright...I made it home at last. What an aweful day. So much packing and moving. I am so glad that I made it through alive. Moving STINKS! I miss courtney and rose and kathleen and sarah and my sarah!! I want to see you guys really really soon cuz I love you all soooo much! Harry Potter! I am so excited to see it with my best buds. I hope it all works out ok cuz I really want to come up to see it with them. Courtney and Sarah rule for living so close to me! Imagine if we had to travel really far to see each other. It would be aweful. Rose also can get up from Jersey pretty easily, as she is not tooo far! oh well so long for now. I have to go get some stuff from the car and then probably go to bed cuz I am sooo beat!

cele_brindal @ 2004-05-20T13:21:00

2004-05-20T17:28:24Z

Its me again...obviously it would be... Anyway, courtney and rose and I are having a sleepover tonight probably and I am soooo excited!!! YAY to being here at UMASS with my bestest friends!!! Except kathleen and sarah and my sarah are not here to have fun! I miss them already, and sarah hasn't even left yet...HAHA! She is now packing up and rose is in my room as usual trying to figure out her grades. She is soo crazy...I better go before she gets mad at me using MY computer for too long...I love it!!

MY first entry

2004-05-20T05:59:07Z

Yay!!! now i have a live journal that i have no idea how to use!!! Oh what fun... Now I can talk to courtney and kathleen because those are the only people I know, probably cuz I don't have any friends cuz i am such a dork... But I love you guys soooo much and I am going to miss you so this is a good way to keep talking and be goofy together when we can't actually be together....alright rambling now so I am going to stop

lord of the rings quiz..YAY I am a princess!!

2004-05-20T05:31:26Z

Your ideal Middle-Earth parents are Aragorn and
Arwen! They are the king and queen of Gondor,
which makes you a prince or princess. Not too
shabby, huh? Youll get to take over the
kingdom someday. Look at you, all
heir-to-the-throne-y! Oh, did I mention that
you are gorgeous? Your Middle-Earth mama is
practically a supermodel, while your
Middle-Earth dad managed to turn heads at
eighty-seven years old. Youve hit the genetic
lottery, my friend! Your last name is
Telcontar and you live in the city of Minas
Tirith.

Your Middle-Earth mama is Arwen Undomiel. She is
an elf but gave up her immortality to be with
your dad. If you do something bad she will
probably lower her head in sorrow and shed a
tear or two, which, although it may not be her
intention, is major guilt tripping. Through
Arwen you are related to Elrond and Celebrian
(your grandfather and grandmother) and Celeborn
and Galadriel (your great-grandparents). She
is also a link to your uncles Elladan and
Elrohir, who spoil you rotten.

Your Middle-Earth dad is Aragorn. Since he became
king he has been going by King Elessar, but he
has a lot of other names too. He is an amazing
warrior and will teach you everything he knows.
Some dads play football with their kids - your
dad gave you your first sword at the age of
three! Aragorn is the disciplinarian, and
since your grandfather Elrond raised him he is
very stern when necessary. Just behave
yourself and you should be fine.

Which Lord of the Rings couple would be your dream parents? Pictures and longish answers.
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