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Monday, January 16th, 2006
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2:53 pm - woohooo, my first post in months
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Hey kids, if your address has changed from last year, reply to this post and let me know. A couple times this year I've been inspired to send people letters, but then I realized I had their old addresses and it spoils the surprise to ask people for their addresses. If you'd rather not have all of cyberland know your address, just email me at r-freking@northwestern.edu. Woohooo, thanks
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| Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
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4:12 pm
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summer's been good :) i'm getting quite ready for it to be over, but so it goes. good luck with classes to all those who are already back. my address this year is the same as last year, although the room number has changed, so i'll post that in 3 weeks when i go back and remember what it is.
( summer pictures )
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| Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
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12:03 am - BEST DAY EVER
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| Saturday, May 14th, 2005
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3:36 pm
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| Friday, April 15th, 2005
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3:44 am
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So everyone in cincinnati who is cool should buy tickets with me to l5y... except let's not go until june 10th or after... yes? maybe? okay great.
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| Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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11:32 am
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So, it will come as no surprise when i state that i am a complete moron who put her camera on the wrong setting in the dark, and therefore all of sarah's birthday pictures look like they are on drugs. Oh well, happy birthday anyway :)
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| Sunday, March 27th, 2005
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10:04 pm
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It's my last night in cincy for spring break, and my mom and i went to see Retreat From Moscow at playhouse tonight. I thought I wasn't going to like it, or that I was going to have to pretend to like it, because the title and the advertisement looked really boring. But it turned out to be really good. It was really sad, but funny; really thought-provoking, but understandable and not preachy at all. Anyway, before I delve into things too deeply while I'm on my "finally, good theatre!" high, just thought I'd share and suggest that those still in cincy go see it, since it doesn't close until April 15. It was exactly the kind of play I want to write someday. Tis nice to know I am sometimes passionate about things after all. Only at times, of course.
Right, anyway, I feel lame updating my lj, so... the end.
p.s. break was fun and i'm glad i got a chance to see most of you, if only for a little while :)
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| Friday, February 25th, 2005
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4:24 pm
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My roommate is wonderful of course, but I'm not gonna lie, I love that she is gone so many weekends. It's great having the room to myself.
Sooooo life is going well. I had to register today for next quarter, and I didn't really even start looking at the classes until last night since I had such a bad registration number, but I'm actually pretty happy with what I ended up with:
French, of course. Last quarter!!!
American Government and Politics
Intro to World Systems
Topics in Christianity: The Child in Christian Thought
Should be pretty cool. There's a chance the Christianity class will be booted if I can get into this Media Contexts class, cause all my friends are taking it and it sounds fun. ANYWAY, not much going on... The OC was pretty much amazing last night, as was The West Wing on Wednesday, but then you expected that. Mr. Bryan Young is visiting me tonight because he is auditioning tomorrow for the voice department here, so that should be fun.
All in all, life is going well and it's weird for me to picture going back to Cincinnati. Spring break won't be so weird, since it turns out I'll only be there for a week now, but the idea of summer is very strange. Well anyway, as usual I have nothing to say. Call me and perhaps I'll tell you what's actually going on in my life. Until then, so long.
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| Saturday, February 12th, 2005
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4:57 pm
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Man i love weekends. I love sleeping til noon and going to the gym and spending an hour walking around my room getting ready and then spending the afternoon wandering around evanston and then staying up til whenever and eventually falling asleep in Telly's room. It's the life. :)
Last i night i pretty much just sat around crying because i wasn't at the tag show. actually, i stayed in and watched jason mraz with friends and ate pizza, but i was crying inside, to be sure. i'm really glad to hear that it went well :) hooray for keeping tag alive!
I'm really excited, because I get to go to Switzerland over spring break! My dad is taking a deposition there, and I don't have any finals during finals week (they're all during reading week) so... I'll be in cincy by the 11th, spend the 12th-20th in europe, and still have the 21st-28th in cincy. it doesn't get better than that.
that's all i've got. so long
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| Friday, February 11th, 2005
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12:51 am
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BREAK A LEG TAGITYTAG!!!
I was going to be really cool and post a picture of me in my TAG shirt and a supportive thumbs-up, but alas, my camera has no batteries. But you're all actresses, you can use your imagination...
I expect many posts about the fun and wouldn't object to random phone calls. :) sorry i can't be there!
lovelovelovelovelove,
becks
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| Tuesday, February 8th, 2005
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9:17 pm
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Oh, college.
Today was my first real sick day at NU. A cough and a fever- really, it's more annoying than anything. I'm not dying, I just don't feel well enough to do much other than alternate between homework and sleep. And I feel bad being around people, because I don't want to get them sick, nor is it pleasant to listen to me cough. So, despite my hour nap in Telly's room when I got lonely, I've been trying to avoid people for their own sake. Therefore, I will be taking vitamins and eating healthy and sleeping and skipping classes until this silly thing is gone, because otherwise the weekend is going to be SO BORING. And I need to be in good health to make it to Michigan Ave for the Merz.
Let's see, other than that...
CREW IS OVER!!!
The parents visited Saturday, which was cool. It was kinda weird because it was such a short visit, but oh well. Though I am incredibly bipolar lately, overall the weekend was good.
I'm a little peeved, because iTunes has let me down today. I go through the trouble of actually writing down when Michael Buble's new CD is coming out, and they don't even have it in their music store yet! Grrr. Instead, being the cool kid I am, I visited his webpage and have been listening to the 3 songs they let you play over and over and over and over again.
And I got a TAG shirt today in the mail!! Props to Chrissy for having the innate ability to have it delivered the day i needed a little cheering up. :) Break a leg this week kids!
current mood:  groggy
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| Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
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1:03 pm
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Today is clearly my lucky day.
I had to give an impromptu speech in Public Speaking today, which i was really nervous about. you get a prompt, have 4 minutes to prepare, and then you give the speech. that really freaks me out. so i'm sitting in the hallway getting all nervous when my teachers hands me my prompts, and guess what one of mine was?!?
"Why has The West Wing become such a popular show?"
Mwahahaha. Needlessness to say, the speech was an inspired feat of genius.
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| Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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1:25 pm
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If you don't count the first hour of the day where i would rather lie in bed and neverever get out instead of forcing myself to start another day, life is going well. :) Once I get past that first hour and put on some country music- can i just say that there is nothing better than upbeat country songs? seriously, i have to force myself to not break out into a little dance when i am listening to these songs on the way to class- then i'm good.
Crew is annoying as hell, but I don't have the right to complain. It's obnoxious because i go over at 6:30, fill up beer bottles, and then at 11:30 they tell me i'm allowed to empty the beet bottles now. Which is clearly a waste of my time and it gets reeeeally boring after 5 hours in the makeup room, but the other scenario would be having to do all my homework after crew, which would suck. So, yeah. I CAN'T WAIT until it's over, but it could be worse.
Um, yes, that is all you get. My little habit of sleeping in Telly's room is catching up with me and i need nap. so long
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| Saturday, January 22nd, 2005
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5:09 pm
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Oy. FREAKIN A, SNOW.
Clearly the weather gods just don't want me to be friends with ccm kids. First it snows on our christmas party, then the one night Aiken and I were going to go have a birthday dinner on Michigan Ave, it snows like 9 inches and just keeps snowing. I feel HORRIBLE that i cancelled on her, but mother of pearl the snow is just not stopping!! :( I hope i made the right decision and i'm not just being a hyper-worrier.
So, the week went fine. Watched lots of tv in the room across the hall. Still didn't get to see In Good Company :( Basically i tried to be semi-social to make up for the next two weeks when I'll be on crew. Crew actually doesn't sound like it'll be that bad, though. I'm on run crew, but there are NO SCENE CHANGES. So, basically my job is to fill up the beer bottles every night. And then chill out backstage through the one and a half hour show with no intermission (woot!) and then leave. Not too exciting, but at least i think i'll get out early, and this is good news indeed.
Oh, and alas, no spring shows for me. I wasn't too disappointed since I wasn't expecting to get a part anyway. It's all good.
Okay due to my late night last night my brain is out of order so i should stop typing now.
lovelovelove
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| Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
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1:11 am
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Haha. I bought "He's just not that into you" on a whim today because it's finally 30% off, and it's so great. Every woman in the world should own a copy. GO BUY IT. IT'S 30% OFF NOW!!! :)
So, my life. Life is good, actaully. College finally feels like home to me. I'm handling the work fine, I'm hanging out with cool people, and I still have time to read every single night and to pluck away on my guitar. I still suck, by the way, but I'm not giving up yet! Mostly because i look so damn cool with a guitar. man.
Saw "Million Dollar Baby" because "In Good Company" was sold out (and we got there over a half an hour early!!). So if you need a good cry, go see that movie. Also had auditions this past weekend.... I seriously considered not showing up for them, but I figured then I'd feel like a massive loser, so I made myself go and they actually went okay. I got some callbacks, which was very cool. I really don't think I got a part (I'm not just saying that, I could feel the vibes) but we'll see. I probably won't find out for a couple days. The coolest callback was reading for Ophelia in Hamlet- 1, because I love that part and that play and 2, because the director was so cool! I would looove to work with him!! Sadly, I don't think that will be happening, but so it goes.
The downside to life right now is that it is SO DAMN COLD. Mother of pearl, they weren't kidding when people told me to prepare for a winter in Chicago. The cool thing is that one of my classes is on the top floor of the library, and from the window you can see that wayway far away the lake has frozen, because there's a band of white between the blue of the lake and the blue of the sky.
Off to bed, friends. Kudos to Lewis for making me a new icon! Apologizes to those who find it offensive. Mental note to myself to stop letting people take really creepy pictures of myself.
current mood:  content
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| Thursday, January 13th, 2005
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11:37 pm
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Ah, I had such a Becky Moment today...
I was standing with my coat on and i felt something weird in one of the deep pockets and i wondered what the hell it could be...
guesses, anyone?
yep, that's right, you don't even need a car to make a mess, you can smash a banana in your coat pocket and not realize it til a good week later!! oh man it was gross. i've got to be more careful... with my bananas...
uh, yeah. watched part 1 of Angels in American tonight, but i need to see part 2 before i can say anything about it. during the movie, i got like 4 calls in a row, and i actually started to get nervous, like maybe something bad had happened and people were trying to get in touch with me. so i left the movie, my heart was actually pounding a little, and i listened to a voice message from my dad:
"becky, geez... i hate to leave a message like this on your phone..."
at which point the heart beats faster
"it's a sad day..."
WTF DAD
"chipper... chipper hasn't been doing so well, as you know..."
mother of pearl. don't get me wrong, i love chipper and i am sad that he is being put to sleep tomorrow, but i thought that something horrible had happened. anyway, quite the relief. sorry to all those out there who may have really liked chipper.
i'm out
current mood:  energetic
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| Wednesday, January 12th, 2005
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11:44 pm
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THE LONG AWAITED UPDATE.
I see you constantly checking your LJ friends page all day, hoping that maybe this time there'll be an exciting update of dafreek's freakin awesome life. Well, kids, this is your day.
Today is obviously also West Wing day. It was good, one shortshort scene with Donna and Josh that broke my heart, but alas.
Sooo you are lucky i am posting today and not yesterday, for yesterday i was in a really restless/annoyed mood. all of a sudden I was just really bored with life and frustrated and feeling like i don't know anyone here and not excited about anything in the future and feeling just generally BLAH and dying for an exciting, personal conversation and i couldn't sleep...
but then today it was warm and i got birthday packages in the mail and i walked in the rain with people from my dorm and laughed really hard about squirrels and wandered evanston. all in all, feeling much better and more optimistic.
I also got my crew assignment: Juvenalia, starting next Friday. So the good news is it'll be over fast and there's a better chance of me getting back for the TAG show. Bad news is I miss seeing The Glass Menagerie with my American Theatre & Drama class. :( i love that play!
Auditions are this weekend and i'm so damn unprepared, unlike last time where i had like my outfit picked out two weeks in advance. i actually considered just skipping them altogether. IM me and be like, BECKY!!! WTF?! YOU PROBABLY WON'T GET CAST, BUT HEY, GET OFF YOUR UNMOTIVATED ASS AND HAVE FUN AT THOSE DAMN AUDITIOS!!!
Well, shucks, what happened to all the stuff I had to say?
tuesday i went to tutor and ended up playing an interesting game of manacala. i'm not sure whether i simply overlooked a young child's ignorance of the rules, or if i blatantly indulged cheating. either way, i lost really bad. and then a kid asked to look at my bracelet, and i ended up having to force it off of his arm when the room supervisor wasn't looking.
OH!!! PAIGE, I WORE THE PURPLE RAINBOOTS TODAY! i only got about a milliontrillion compliments on my keen sense of style.
okay, i'm done.
p.s. after The West Wing, my dad texted me "Santos for President!" so cute.
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| Sunday, January 9th, 2005
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7:16 pm
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So, I'm 19 now. woooot. Nothing's different except that I've realized in a year I'll be 20, and THAT'S scary.
The day started... yesterday, with a fabulous call from paigeitypage at 11:59 to wish me a happy birthday. Thanks to everyone who called/IMed/taught me how to make party hats/made me a picture. You made my day, and I really mean that. Don't know what I'd do without you guys. :)
Other than talking to people from home, all I did today was hang out and watch the west wing, because I did more of my homework yesterday in order to sit around today. It definetly paid off. And with that, I leave you with pictures of my absolutely WILD 19th Birthday
(kudos to chrissy for helping me to figure it out)
( PAR-TAY!!!! )
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| Monday, January 3rd, 2005
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7:55 pm
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THE FACEBOOK IS SO COOL!!! Recently I have contacted my fourth grade lover, and today I got a message from my fourth grade best friend!! Oh, Molly Kartholl, those were the days. I wish cool people would not move away so often. ::cue violin music::
So, THE FIRST DAY BACK.
7:59am: wake up spontaneously, look at the clock in amazement as my alarm clock will go off in exactly one minute
8:00am: turn off alarm clock
8:15am: get out of bed and go shower
9:00am: go get breakfast as i have no milk
9:25am: nothing to do... nothing to do... why the hell did i get up so early...
10:00am: public speaking class, seems pretty manageable. get let out early.
11:00am: The Passion & Theatre class. eat hershey kisses and talk to theatre people i actually know, woot. cry inside as the class looks like it will be a pain.
12:00am: French class. the novely of taking french has worn off, i'm definetly not continuing it past this year.
1:00am: eat lunch by myself and cry a little inside. ::violin music swells::
2:00: American Theatre & Drama class. Slightly intimidated as i am the only freshman, but the teacher looks cool and so do the people. and we are reading so many awesome plays!!! i am excited!! Plus, my teacher is "philosophically against giving grades." so, eventually i will get a letter grade at the end, but until then i will simply get extensive comments on my papers, instead of just a letter grade. i think that is really cool. this class will be a challenge, but it will also rock i think.
2:30: get organized and caught up on little things. spend 15 minutes looking for a bottle of cherry coke that is sitting behind my laptop.
5:30: visit Jess and greeted by, "AHHH THE WEST WING IS SO AWESOME!" Clearly people here have wonderful taste.
5:45 Dinner, the place smells really disgusting and we are so mature we can't stop talking about it all through dinner
Sit around...
7:00: go with Telly and Ahern to get my packets for class (TWO VOLUMES OF OUTSIDE READING FOR "THE PASSION AND THEATRE." freakin a! i'm going to have to actually work hard this quarter!! blast!!)
8:00: ignore homework and update lj in an annoying fashion. waits for jess to start watching the west wing again in order to join the fun. promises to never update her lj like this again. wonders what her cincy friends are up to.
and... scene.
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| Sunday, January 2nd, 2005
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3:24 pm
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PICTURES!!! FINALLY I GOT IT WORKING!!!
http://homepage.mac.com/madcraziness/PhotoAlbum6.html
Anyway, I leave for NU in an hour. Not gonna lie, at the moment I would rather stay in my newly re-arranged room and hang out with the people who I feel I did not get to see enough over break. Alas, there is really nothing I can do about that now, and I'm sure it will be fine, but at the moment i am having a bit of a hard time getting excited about going back.
Last week went well, however. Went skiing again, dominated a completely brutal game of disney trivia, watched some good Gilmore Girl episodes, survived work... New Year's was fun, also. Cheryl Merz gave me my frist kiss of the year, mwahaha, and then i pretty much once again dominated a game of Celebrity. "4:00", man i am a genius.
it occurs to me that some people might think i'm being serious, so just to clear it up, when i say "dominated" what i mean to say is "despite my incredible skill, somehow i managed to lose... twice..."
I'm gonna have to get a game of Celebrity going at college, it's just so damn fun. Great way to start the year, despite the fact that the competitiveness may have ended a few friendships. And i used to get annoyed with the ccm kids for getting so into that game! Me= HUGE HYPOCRITE.
anyway, yesterday we had an exciting dinner with my great-aunt at her nursing home, and then i saw Phantom of the Opera with the parents. Considering how hard it would be to make that "musical" into a movie, i think they did a pretty good job. And I thought the phantom did a nice job, i feel as though people were a bit hard on him. his voice was just right for the part, as was christine's.
My room is so freaking cool right now, because I put my desk by the window. I feel like my bedroom now doubles as an office with a view, and i LOVE IT. something to look forward to when i get back, i suppose.
OH! and i got a guitar as an early birthday present (i turn 19 a week from today) so my apologies to those in CRC who shall have to hear me plucking away at horrible sounding chords for the rest of the year.
Ooookay, off to help the sisters rearrange their rooms. See some of you tonight and some of you in June!
-b
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