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Name: Kate
Gender: Female
Interests: Above all, i love being with my friends. I also enjoy horseback riding, photography, and playing my saxophone
Expertise: I know a lot of random facts.... i've also been told that i'm really good with horses, which makes me very happy :-)
Occupation: Student
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Member Since:
1/23/2003
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| Every time I come back to Xanga I forget how to do a new blog entry, then it takes me 5 minutes to figure it out. I think this either means that I need to ditch Xanga, or write more often. We'll see which one happens.
It's December now, and I can't believe I've been in Chicago for almost a year. And most likely will be here for another few years, depending on Nate's job and my jobs and what not. If you would have told me in high school I was going to be living in Chicago, I probably would have laughed at you. Oh well. If Nate has a good job and is getting an MBA for free, I say stick with it.
My Idea of not selling out and working at jobs I love but don't pay much is going interestingly. I love both of them because of the people I work with (both co-workers and supervisors), what I get to do (talk about stuff I actually care about all day) and other random perks (playing with a rabbit and tame squirrel and birdwatching top the list). The only problem is one of my jobs is ridiculously seasonal, so during the winter I pretty much only have one part time job. That's fine, except for the fact that my expenses are going to be VERY tight for the next few months. At least Christmas falls in there, where I get normally a good chunk of cash from relatives. Nate keeps telling me to get another part time job, like retail or something, but I just don't know about that. We'll see how it goes. I think three jobs is a bit overkill. But again, we'll see. I just wonder how long my "not selling out" thing will go. If only there were a full time job with benefits doing exactly what I want in Chicago.... apparently this does not exist.
Got my Dog. Love her to death. She's stubborn, spoiled and holds a grudge against me everytime i go to work, but I love her. Trying to make her not so spoiled (those foster homes can be oh so good and give her whatever they want!), but it's hard cause she's still got a bit of a bum leg that's recovering from her surgery back in July. But I have my greyhound, something I have wanted since I was little, and she could not be a better dog.
I want to go somewhere warmer.... stupid snow.
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| what warrants my return in length to xanga? Well, I just had to comment on possibly the most important and amazing movie I've ever seen: Wall-E
A lot of people will vouche for me in saying that ever since I saw that little robot roll up in a preview, i've wanted to see the movie. And I wasn't too worried about it being awful, since it's pixar, and lets face it, they seem to be able to do no wrong. I started getting excited about it even more when i started reading reviews this week. things like "I don't see how pixar can top this one," and "they will be teaching courses on this movie in the years to come." I sure hope they do.
Seeing the first trailers, I wondered why pixar didn't do this movie earlier, since it's story was essentially concocted the same time as finding nemo, Monsters, inc, and A bug's life. Now I know. It's like one review put, Pixar was working up to Wall-E as their defining moment. They needed not only to wait to get the better animation through computers, but they also needed to wait for the right time for their story to actually mean something to the general audience. I think they picked the perfect time.
It has one of the most memorable openings of any pixar movie. Not because it's funny (to a point it is), and not because it's sad (to a point it is), but because it is simply genius. It sets the tone for the entire movie as a dark satire but reminds us that this is also an uplifting movie: a unique paradox that works throughout the entire picture. The beginning portions of the movie give us a glimpse into Wall-E's lonely life as the only robot left on earth, with only a cocroach as company. If there had been a bit more talking, I would have almost thought I was watching "I am Legend" or another movie like that.
The movie remains without any major speaking parts for most of the movie, and again, that is part of pixar's genius. who knew that so much could be conveyed by beeps, chirps, and the occasional saying of a certain word or name over and over? It's simply amazing. And it works not only for adults, but for kids. Every little kid in that theater was in did not utter a word during these times when they could have so easily gotten bored.
Wall-E's love for Eve is literally one of the most believable, geniune things about this movie. I really can't put into words how adorable it is and how genuine it feels. It's honestly nice to know that some people still know how to grab the audience and tell a romantic story and have it believable as strictly romance. Very refreshing.
Once Wall-E follows Eve back to her home, the Axiom, a floating cruise ship full of overweight humans being catered to by hundreds of robots for their littlest need, the dark satire is complete. The corporation that takes over the world (BnL, or Buy n' Large) as we get glimpses of during the first part of the humanless movie through the BnL ultra store, gas stations, banks, and cruise liners, becomes even more complete aboard one of these last flying vessels. Being escourted around by floating recliners and talking with each other only through screens right in front of their faces, humans have in all senses become useless. Sure, it was hilarious to even think of the world coming to that, and the scenes of humans falling out of their floating recliners and not being able to get up had the audience laughing. But how far off is it?
I almost became a bit sad when first seeing this new human world pixar has created. But then you realize that these are not just lazy people: they are people who do not know any different because this is the lifestyle they were brought up in. In a sense, Wall-E is the little robot who shows humans how to be human again. After knocking one man off his recliner, he introduced himself, helps the man up, then is on his way. The man, John (of course voiced by the pixar guru John ratelsburger himself) is almost taken aback by the robots personality. Later, when Wall-E is following Eve to the captain's deck, he needs to have a lady on the train let him by, so he almost has to force her to get her attention, rocking her recliner until the screen in front of her face turns off. He introduces himself, then asks to get past. She utters "sure" as though no one has ever spoken to her before. With the screen gone from her face, she sees the world for what it truly is, a high tech world blanketed by BnL ads, and then blurts out "I didn't know we had a pool!"
The funny thing is, you want to be upset with these people for having themselves get like this, but you can't. They're not the bad people: Like i said before, they don't know any different. Wall-E awakens their spirit, as well as almost shows the other robots that they have it in them to have personalities too: He does it with Eve, and in a comical scene, a button pusher robot who learns how to wave.
I really cannot say enough good things about this movie. I really could go on and on, but I know I already have to a point, so I will not say much more. This really is the best movie of the year, and also one of the most important. It puts a face on what happens to the next generations if humans mess up the earth. It shows the consequences (even if they be hilarious, such as the captain asking what an "ocean" is). I laughed, but at the same time could not stop thinking of how important this movie was. But I knew what it was about before I went into it. I expected it. I almost want to, and hope, that it affected people who did not know much before going in.
If you do not come out of this movie and feel like Wall-E has taught you again what it is to be human, how to feel, and how to love... I don't know if anything could save you.
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| OK.... so it literally just took me about 7 minutes to figure out how to write a new blog in this new Xanga. craziness!!
Still in Chicago. Got a job working at a kennel dealing with dogs. Technically don't need a job, but it's a good thing to do and i figure 6 months doing nothing would be really boring. So i work about 4 days a week, and for the most part it's fun. It's good cause it's flexible and my boss knows that i'm only going to be there for a few months and is cool with it. So that's the job thing.
I've heard back from the U of A, and I technically got in, but with no funding. So in other words, i'm sort of on a waiting list: if money can be found by the fall, I have the possibility of getting in. If not, oh well.... Still waiting to hear back from Montana, and hoping that I'll get in there. If not, Nate and I have decided to stay in Chicago but move further out west (closer to his job) for another year. Right now, I just want to know what i'm doing....
oh yeah.... and today is Nate's and My Anniversary  Can't believe it's been a year!! Still love him!
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| In Chicago settling in... the apartment's really nice and i think this is gonna work. Now to find a job....
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| me having nothing to do = return to Xanga. Not necessarily a bad thing. My being gone for so long has made it so i'm sure no one ever checks this thing anymore. I was never doing this for anyone else. I was always doing it with me. Besides, i can't ditch the longest time i've ever had a journal. I've never in my life been able to keep one, and here I am, almost 6 years later, and xanga's still here... scary.
At some point today, i think i'm going to go shopping. I have over 100 dollars in gift cards, and i feel like i should put them to good use. Otherwise i'd forget about them.
So... I feel like ever since wooster, I haven't been myself. It always takes me a long time to warm up to people and to trust people, and after being with people that i could be myself with without even thinking, i'm suddenly i'm away from all those people that i trust, and meeting new people (which honestly is one of my least favorite things EVER), and i feel like i can't trust, or i can't be myself. Glen Helen felt like that, except with like 2 people.... one because I knew him from wooster, and the other just because i ended up spending so much time with her. And I liked that. I need to get over this. Nate will hopefully be a huge help to this, and i'm just thanking him for being able to deal with me and all of my weirdness.... especially since after wooster, it's become 2-fold. grrrrr.
Grad School apps almost done. I'm going to try and get them out before sunday. Or at least all put together. I'm actually Glad i decided to go back to school, because I miss it. And I feel like if i get in with an advisor that's doing something i'm actually interested in, I'll love it. And I'll admitt, I kind of only want to go to Arizona. My mom wants to make sure there's a legit reason for that, and there is. The advisors i want to work with the most are there, and the degree is more what i want than the one in Montana. But yeah... I do want to go back because it's Tucson. It's always been home... and I need to see if it still is. That means staying there for more than a week just visiting people. I've never been so attached to a place.... and the fact that the most important person in my life understands that I need to go back and is willing to go with me... that means so much.
Ok, i'm going to get dressed and try and get to target. Hopefully my life will pan out. I just need to learn not to worry so much....
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