I've never felt pride for Philadelphia until very, very recently. When people ask where I'm from and I say "Philly" they're usually impressed, even after I tell them how dirty and mean it is and that we were the murder capital of the country and that I didn't even live in the city, just went to school there... they still think I'm some golden god. I think it sparked when I saw the Philly restaurant in Belmont. And now, I'm acknowledging it even moreso. Today the Eagles are playing the Bears here in Chicago. So far I've seen two yellow school busses drop off Eagles-jersey clad armies; there is a bar downstairs and I've heard the Eagles chant about 5 times in the past hour... regardless that I am 17 stories up.

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I worked on my first set yesterday. 9 hours, right by the lake. People started randomly jumping in and the AD got mad because pEoPlE nEEdz 2 be SeRiOuS!!!! Okay, on a fucking college production in 345678 degree weather carrying 50lb cases full of equipment... oh, did I mention we're all doing this FOR FREE? Yeah, stfu, I think they deserve a dive in the fucking lake.

Otherwise, it was actually pretty cool. I worked with the script superviser, taking notes and timing all the shots. When I wasn't doing that I was hanging around the art/makeup department. I met a girl named Mischa and she painted my face. And when I wasn't doing that I was doing whatever they fucking told me to do cause PAs aren't shit. I was supposed to go back today but I'm really sore and my pussy just exploded so now I'm even more sore. They won't miss me though, so I don't even feel too obligated to be there. We had like at least 15 PAs. There was always at least 5 PAs not doing anything at all times just because it doesn't take 30 hands to move a cart of C stands.

Setting up


Fucking sweet ass view


Camera rehearsal with the Mad Scientist and Colonel Kroach. The dude in brown was the director, Chuck.


Dani wearing the Colonel Kroach hat





Friday I went to the Field Museum with Breanna and it was fucking awesome! I love that place so much. We took a million pictures but I gotta get that bitch to send them to me. We saw the Evolving Planet exhibit which was the shit. And then we went to the Ancient Egypt exhibit and then McDonalds and then the gift shop where I got a Green Tara poster and a fucking sweet ass Mexican sugar skull necklace and like 20 postcards since they were 10cents each so if you want one gimme your address!!

COLUMBIA PRIDE!!!!1234

People that went to my school:

Kanye West and his writer Rhymefest
Andy Dick
Pat Sajak
Common
Jon Walker - bassist, Panic at the Disco
Nick Charles - Some dude from CNN
Janusz Kaminski - Steven Spielberg's cinematographer
Andy Richter
Genndy Tartakovsky - The animator for Dexter's Laboratory and Star Wars: the Clone Wars
George Tillman Jr. - The director of Soul Food (he also produced Barber Shop)
Robert Tietle - also produced Barber Shop and Soul Food
Dino Stamatopoulos - writeron Mad TV, Moral Orel, Dana Carvey Show, Conan O'Brien show and David Lettermen show
Jay Johnston - from Mr. Show
Tonya Pinkins - on Broadway, The Cosby Show, Law & Order, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, and All My Children
Darius de Haas - Rent on Broadway
Matthew Skiba - from Alkaline Trio
Michelle Monaghan - from Boston Public, Lay & Order SVU, and the movies Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Made of Honor, Mission Impossible III, the Heartbreak Kid, Gone Baby Gone, and current filming Eagle Eye with Shia La Beouf
Jan Terri - a musician who's opened for Marilyn Manson
James Verraros - he was a finalist on American Idol
Greg Glienna - original writer of Meet the Parents, Meet the Fockers and a Guy Thing
Matthew Santos - collaborated with Lupe Fiasco on "Superstar"
Michael Stahl-David - lead role in Cloverfield
Konee Rok - videographer for Rhymefest and DJ Jazzy Jeff
Pablo Martines Monsivais - photojournalist. He won the Pulitzer Prize
Maureen Herman - bassist for Babes in Toyland
David Cromer - directed a musical called the Adding Machine
Jake Lloyd - played Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars

Oddest mix of emotions yesterday.

I went to Belmont St. with a bunch of hoes and as soon as I got off the train I was just like HOLY SHIT THIS IS SOUTH STREET. And I just felt so weird, it was a little unreal to me, mostly because I wasn't expecting it. I didn't feel homesick, I think I was just reminiscing a lot, especially about sophomore year and that ugly group of homos I spent 90% of my time with.

Anyway, so I'm walking and thinking and got a little sad cause even though they were some ugly bitches I miss it sometimes and it's weird to think how much time has passed and how far apart some of us have grown and how farfarfar I'm from it all right now and then BAM I see this:

Motherfucker caught me off guard and I got a little upset but then I went in to see if they had cheesesteaks, not because I wanted one, but because I wanted to tear them a new ass hole if they were made wrong.

I had lunch with a drag queen today

So our gay club is called Common Ground and after every meeting a bunch of people go to Thai Spoon for lunch. Me and Breanna wanted bubble tea and/or sushi so we thought why the hell not. They put a bunch of tables together so we could all sit together and I ended up sitting with Charlie, Tasha and Jacob. We got to talking and Jacob kept mentioning this woman named Sally. "Sally's such a bitch, blah blah" and finally I'm like, who the fuck is Sally?

He asked if I'm a new student. Yes. And if I was at Convocation. Yes. He then asked if I saw the drag queen (not the one with the beard)? Yeah she was hot. "That was me."

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

115

SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 239 movies on this list.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
() Neverending Story
() Blazing Saddles
() Airplane
Total: 5

() The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
() Labyrinth
(x) Saw
(x) Saw II
(x) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 14

( ) Scream
(x) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
( ) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 21

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(X) The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
() The Village
() Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 26

(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
(X) The Grinch
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
(x) White Chicks
() Butterfly Effect
(X) 13 Going on 30
() I, Robot
() Robots
Total so far: 33

(X) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
(x) KingPin
(X) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
(x) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG
Total so far: 43

( ) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 47

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
(x) From Hell
(X) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
( ) I Am Sam
( ) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 53

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
(x) Seed of Chucky
(x) Bride of Chucky
(X) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
() Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 58

( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
( ) Ocean's Eleven
( ) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Bourne Identity
( ) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 61

( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
(x) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Korn
(x) My Boss's Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
(X) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 67

( ) Best Bet
(X) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
(X) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(X) The Terminator
(X) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 76

( ) X-Men
( ) X2
(X) X-3
(X) Spider-Man
(X) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(X) The Little Mermaid
(X) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
( ) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2
Total so far: 84

( ) Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(X) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 89

(X) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
( ) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
( ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 92

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
(x) House of 10,000 Corpses
(x) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
( ) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
( ) American History X
( ) Three
Total so Far: 95

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total so far: 99

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(X) Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
( ) Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
Total so far: 103

(X) Kill Bill vol 1
(X) Kill Bill vol 2
( )Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
(x) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 106

(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 112

( ) The Matrix
( ) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal
Total so far: 115

Now Add them up and......

So I had the procedure done today and it fucking sucked. But I'm okay now so it's all good in the hood. Probably not going to class tonight cause I'm pretty beat but hopefully tomorrow my vag will be in a better place.

Although I don't have MIP until tomorrow, my teacher Paul was at MIA today. I was early to class like always and took a seat right by the door. Paul saw me from outside and pointed at me with a big smile. I smiled back too because he's fucking adorable and I want him to love me so bad. He comes in asking how I am, how my weekend was, etcetc. He starts talking about the observation assignment to my MIA teacher, Jill, then turns to me saying something like, "Yours will definitely be used to exemplify this project to future classes, it was so in depth and (he places his hands against the wall, a foot between them) on the paradigm of student work, it was all the way over here (he points to his right hand). I'm so impressed, it was just, uh, uh.. (this is where he gets a bit anxious and adorable and fidgets between words). In the end he pretty much just said the same message but in different ways and even though I sat still in my seat my eyes and smile were huge and my brain was orgasming BECAUSE PAUL FUCKING LOVES ME.

We watched Citizen Kane in class and it was just a very good day. I started exercising every morning and I think that's also having an effect on my good moods.

This is why I get along with my room mate:

"What could Miley Cyrus even be nominated for? Landing some old guy in jail?"

I've been watching Scrubs online starting from the beginning of the first season. I'm now on episode 8 in the second season and Perry just called J.D. Sabrina.


YES. IT'S STILL COOL AFTER WATCHING IT FOUR TIMES.

So in my MIP class (Moving Image Production) our homework was pretty much just to people watch. We were to go to Millennium park and take notes on, uh, people. We were also told to discuss our observation with our production group, so Will Smith and the Bel Airs met up yesterday around 5:30. I seemed to be the only person actually interested in the assignment. Noone else had any good notes - one kid made his up and another didn't even do it yet. Okay, whatever. We barely talked about our observations and I almost punched the kid Eric. We started talking about script writing - because this observation project is going to lead into our first script - and it turned out that I was the only person with any experience with screenwriting. Eric turns to me and says "Well, I have a program that just formats it for me so I don't need to learn it." I tell him that's cheating and that there's more to screenwriting than just the format. He says "Bullshit" and I then ask him what a paradigm is. He doesn't know.

He also goes on to say that his ideas are strictly "full lengths" and that he hates "artsy" films and shorts. NO. SHUT UP. IF YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO WRITE A SCREENPLAY THAN HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOUR "IDEAS" ARE FUCKING MOVIE WORTHY TO BEGIN WITH? I HATE YOU, ERIC, AND I WANT TO CRACK YOU IN HALF. DIE.


Anyway, so I'm typing up my observations and couldn't figure out where to post them on Moodle so I emailed my teacher, Paul (who's fucking adorable, I love him so much.) I get a response within three minutes which starts off:

Sabrina, Hello
Your dedication and focus thus far is incredible...


YES I WIN.

Classes have been so good. There's too much for me to describe every little detail but today I had my first Biology of Human Reproduction Class. I think the teacher's name is Sharon and she's left handed. I read a while ago on ratemyprofessors.com that she looks like a mix of Uma Thurman and Joan Cusack and jesus christ she does! I leaned more toward Uma though I guess since she's blonde, so the entire time I just thought of Kill Bill and wished Sharon would bust out and rip someone's head off in the midst of discussing the scientific method. Someone after class thought she looked like Courtney Love but I disagreed because she wasn't dirty enough.

Anyway, so we did bullshit introductions the last twenty minutes of class. She wrote on the board what we should say:

major, year, from, work, interesting/fav sound

This was my introduction:

Hi my name's Sabrina and I'm a freshman film major. I just moved here from Philadelphia. I'm not working now but back home I worked at Panera where I gained a lot of weight. Before that I worked at a pet store cleaning up dog shit. Interesting? Well some people think it's funny that I'm Jewish. I also play drums and was in a punk rock band back in Philly but I played violin for seven years and for some reason people think that's funny too.


Sharon laughed then asked why that would be funny and then remembered she just laughed. Everyone laughed, and I felt good because I didn't even feel like being funny. I think I spoke in monotone the entire time. Today was a lazy day so I was just too tired to care about being funny, especially since it was a night class but hurrah, I seem to be a comedic genius regardless.


I have to have a "procedure" done on my vagina and since I'm not home to see my usual GYN Lori, I have to see someone new here - David A. Baum. I googled him and someone rated him on vitals.com. All stars except on his medical school, where he lost one star. He's been practicing for 19 years and looks like this:


Creep? Eh. I don't give a shit as long as those eyebrows don't fall into my pussy.

So my first class yesterday - Foundations of Moving Image Art - was the shiiiit.

Started off by getting into our assigned production groups. We were told to give ourselves better names than "Group 1, Group 2, Group 3." Noone could come up with anything so I told them about how upset I still am over the whole venus flytrap incident and said we should name ourselves in memory of them - Will Smith and the Bel Airs. They all agreed except one girl, who I don't even really think disagreed, I just don't think she understood why it was fucking hilarious. My group consists of Eric the tall blonde kid, Sam the jew, Dani who likes trail mix, and Britt the retard with no sense of humor. Jkjk, they all seem cool, but yeah. Eric is Will and Sam is Carlton and Dani is Jeffrey. I think I'm just "Philadelphia" and Britt is nothing because she just doesn't get it.

So we took notes about basic film language and blah blah, bullshit I already knew. A bit about the history of editing (this is for my own benefit/to see what kind of memory I have - Lumiere brothers, George Melies, Edwin S. Porter, DW Griffith, Soviet Montage, Kushtov Effect.. yeah that last one's probably wrong but HURRAH I WIN.)

Anyway, that took about an hour, then both pilot groups met in the screening room. We watched a clip from "High and Low" by Akira Kurosawa and discussed the editing and transitions, etcetc. Then we screened "Dog Day Afternoon" in its entirety which was fucking hilarious. Discussed it a bit afterwards and off we went.

We do all this online stuff on this site called Moodle and every week two people are paired to do this thing called "What Happened in Class" and it's basically the notes and then our perspectives on how the class went. Me and this douche nozzle Ryan were paired. He doesn't know how to share or work together so he just went home and did half of it and then told me when he was done and then I did the rest. Whatever. It turned out decent despite the fact that he's retarded and the coordinator of the program ended up emailing me saying what a good job I did and that we set "such a high standard" blah blah. I AM TEH AWESOMEZ.

So now I'm headed to my second class - Moving Image Production - which I'm so excited about because the teacher is god damn adorable. Even my room mate loves him. (PS - the whole room mate thing is going swell. We have too much in common and she's already trying to hook me up with a tutoring job. It's only 10 hours a week and fucking $12 AN HOUR. YESYES ROLLIN IN THE BENJAMINZZZ)

I have class in a little less than two hours and I'M SO FUCKING ANXIOUS. To the point where I'm nauseous and I can't eat, which is complete bullshit cause I went to bed hungry so wtf? I started freaking out that I couldn't eat so I decided to take a break from my generic frosted flakes to get ready. In mid eyeliner there was a knock at the door. She was a really fidgety blond girl who apologized a lot for showing up unannounced. "I'm Samantha, I'm on the 20th floor right now but I've just been reassigned to your room."

FUCK YEAH NEW ROOM MATE.

So I let her in and showed her the place, we got to talking and she said she works til 5 so she'll be bringing her shit afterwards. I mentioned my class is over then so I'll be here the same time. When I told her it was a class for the pilot program she flipped shit - she's a TA for the pilot program! HAH. Talktalktalk, she's a sophomore/senior - she's graduating two years early. I asked about that and she got "in" with Don Smith, who's the coordinator of the pilot program and by this time she was kind of doing mental back flips, saying how excited she is and blah blah, and before she left she said she's gonna get me the hook up in the film department and introduce me one on one with Don Smith.


YESYESYESYESYEYSHEIHGJVBDNGDFG.

So me, Marissa and Rachel went to the Canal St. flea market yesterday and I GOT A MOTHERFUCKING BIKE. So fucking cool. He wanted 45 but the back break is broke so I got him down to 30 HOLLA HOLLA. I also got a brand new alarm clock for 5.

Anyway, I'm so excited about Hercules. That's the bike's name and no we didn't name him ourselves, but it fucking says Hercules on the side of the bike which is hilarious.

Anyway, here it is:



I start classes tomorrow and I'm so excited/nervous. I can't wait to ride my new bike and wear my new back pack and write with new pens and on new paper in my new binder. YES.

And I still don't have a room mate. This school can get pretty unorganized so maybe they'll just forget I need one and I'll get to walk around naked ALL THE TIME. As I am now. I wish I wasn't fat or I'd be naked all the time.