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1672 on Day 1! I can't believe I'm doing this and I have a first draft due wed.  

Sometimes you can have 71 views and other days you only have 2.

I did two quick entries yesterday both based off of news articles.

Project Gaydar: A computer learned who's gay based on their facebook friends

And The Catholic Church banned the practice of Reiki at their hospitals

I hadn't posted anything over the weekend and the stats show...
So I decided to post the story behind one or my story...

Its funny that I have almost NO confidence in my writings.

so I picked my first piece from last semester.


check it out here http://walshcaitlin.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/screaming/

Things that are bookworm2007

• my email
• my lj
• this blog
• vamb name (originally wanted it to be crohnie but didn't get mod approved)
• twitter

Things that are crohnie (or some variant) 

• AIM (crohnie2007)
• Trekbbs
• Star Trek boards(don't go on anymore) 
• travian game (don't play anymore) 
• and I think i have a Yahoo handle floating around somewhere

It is quite funny that I keep trying to switch over to crohnie but I can't seem to do it fully. I have no idea why my twitter decided to be bookworm. I do know that this blog was bookworm because it just made sense because its based off of lj.

Can't change my email although i do have a walsh.cmr for professional use. I love that hofstra's pride email is gmail based. I have everything bounce to my bookworm gmail

I guess at heart I'll always be a bookworm

Well take a look at my site.

I think the most interesting pieces are the two most recent ones. This semester I definietly think I improved.
The funny thing is that those two pieces probably have the most of me in them than the others.

Screaming started from an image in my mind. The funny thing is that image never made the final cut and instead i poured a lot of myself into that character.

and The trekkie story? well part of me is Mike and the other part is Cara. It was exhilarating to workshop that in class because I had this huge grin on my face. because it was about star trek and my class liked it.
 

Just posting this because I think this is only march in my memory that actually followed it. We had a snow day on March 2nd. Today highs are expected near 60. Go figure.

I am eight years old (at least I think I am). I am in a car with two other girls, whose names I have since forgotten. We are in the car, driven by a woman named Anne Fields (I forget if she had the e or not) and we are heading to Salem High School in Salem Massachusetts. It must be an early start in the show because it is still light out. Either that or its the end of the season and we are going to Finals.

I remember we were talking but suddenly Anne gets quiet. I think she pulls over to the side of the road (not easy to do in "downtown" Salem) and lets a few cars pass. She explained that she saw a driver with an open drink container behind us and didn't want to be in front of him. I didn't totally understand what she meant then. But she saw it was just a Sprite can.

Why do I remember this woman  over10 years later? She was in charge of our Winterguard. She never choreographed our shows but she brought people in. I remember that season we wore pink dresses and the choreographer was a man. I didn't like him very much because he always seemed busy. I don't think we had enough money to pay him. Looking back, maybe it was a favor to Anne? She was involved with the 27th Lancers alumni drumcore.

The next two years we had a woman named Judy come in. I don't think she was as expensive as the man was. She had a daughter who was our age (that's not saying much since our guard had 14 year olds marching with 7 year olds. We were the leftovers who wanted to march but were too young for the two guards)
I don't remember the girls name but she had blonde hair that was less curly/frizzy than her mom's but still looked like her mom's. After the guard had disbanded I saw her march in a rival guard the next year.

Now it is my last show. I am eleven years old and have just been diagnosed with Crohn's disease. I had no idea what this meant- only that i had to take medicine. My parents decide for me that I must quit because it wouldn't have been "fair to the other girls." There is many tears on my part but I still remember how I was so tired after going to practice only a day after getting diagnosed. I remember becuase I only went to school that wednesday and then went to practice. The next day I woke up and went back to sleep. and the next day. A colorguard mom who had a daughter and a neice marching with me mentions to me someting about having to fight like she(?) did with luekemia. I was too dazed at having to quit to remember what she actually said.

The day of my last show comes and I bring candy to share on the bus up to Salem. It is someone's home show. I think it is Blessed Sacrement's but they are from Cambridge. Why would they have a home show in Salem? I didn't really have any friends in our guard but I share the candy with them. They don't understand and I don't explain. As we make are way to our final destination - performing - I go through all the lasts. The last time we check in. The last time I put on my costume. (earlier in the day it was the last time mom used so much hair gel my hair got hard) The last time a guard mom (never my mom, she wasn't into it. "Winter guard was a dad thing" she said) put some light make up on me. I don't remember if we ever did the eyes, i think it was lipstick and blush. The last time we practiced one final time in the practice gym. The last time I line up with my guard right before we are to go on. The last time we enter the gym to applause. The last time we set up the show. The last time I hear (as a performer) "Is the color guard ready?"

I don't remeber much at all performing the show. Each season from the 15 or so times we perform a show in competition, I only remember bits and pieces. Probably because I am concentrating so hard. I do remember that Judy called me out for moving my mouth way to much when I'm counting out on the floor. I don't remember if I ever fixed it.

What I do remember is walking off the gym floor when we finished. I had a smile on while I was performing but I distinctly remember crossing the threshold of the gym floor and breaking down. It was my last show and I didn't want it to be. The reality had hit me. I must have been in denial until it was all over. Judy is crying. She takes my face in my hands and says something. I don't really remember but I think she and the rest of the guard thought I was really sick or dying. Or something.

I am in a daze but I get to be on the floor with the Co-Captians during the awards. Of course we don't win anything. What I do remember is mom telling me right before I leave with her and the family in the car that the announcer had said "We'll miss you Caitlin" right after we were dismissed. So of course I didn't hear it. I did appreciate that it was a nice guesture. The older girls and the guard moms had asked him to say it.

No. The weird thing is I remember forgetting to wear green in Boston. Because we didn't have school (Thank you Evacuation Day!)


Today I am wearing a light grean t-shirt that says Go Green and has some shamrocks on it. Mom sent it a few days ago in the mail.

 It comes from an email address I had. I think the original domain was hotmail (it could have been earthlink)

but basically it described my love of books and my year of graduation from BLS. two important things to me. When i was invited to Gmail nearly four years ago, i put it with the Gmail domain as well.
I've used it all over the internet. But when I needed a screen name for FHAO i went with something that I thought was a little less obvious. We were supposed to come up with pseudonyms for the class. Thats how I came up with crohnie. So if i am signing up for something and don't want to come off as a nerd/geek, I use crohnie.

But i'm still really a bookworm at heart! :D

The zOMG moment of this entry is COMIC CON! I went for a 1/2 day on Saturday and then most if not all of Sunday. I was able to hang with a few freshman friends, one of which had an uncle living in Manhattan so I was able to crash there Saturday night with them.

Pure awesome. Met Star Trek authors David Mack as well as Krad. (Keith R.A DeCandido) . Got Krad's latest book and had him sign it for me as well as a photo. Then I went to a couple of writing panels (star trek in print and writers on writting, which was very informative) Then I waited in line for an hour to get a good seat at the FRINGE Panel. Saw most of the main cast. Got some pictures. :D


just Pure Awesome. But I've been back to real life for a couple of days and have been isanely busy trying not to fall to far behind in mah classes. So Far So Good.

My computer is giving me hell though. It gets very uncooperative and slow. I began Defragging it more than the once a week it claims it does automatically. It has something to do with not enough memory left. I always try to keep it above 10 Gb free but right now that isn't possible. (READ : Caitlin either needs more memory or an External Hard drive)

You want to know what else is giving me hell? My Floor. There is a vandal living amoungst us and because no one has any info we all get in trouble. I can't believe Jen wants to homestead. Sure I like this room too but I hate the floor. I didn't bother to get to know anybody because what's the point? No one cares anyway.

Tonight we have a floor meeting with the RD (Residential Director, boss of the building and the Residential Assistants) I feel bad for my RA but there is nothing I can do.

I admit I was angry when Rick Warren came up. Mom said that his prayer evoked a sense of an exclusive club of  Christians.


Obama was awesome. And Human. Perfect combination. I helped elect him so I made sure I watched today.

Back online watching CNN with Facebook is an interesting combination!


And then Rev. Lowery was awesome. I loved his benediction. Much better than the Invocation.

History!

and trust me, you'll never get such a smart title/subject out of me again :)

But there was a few articles about obama's big day on Tuesday, and that got me thinking about what the Bush Compound is doing their last weekend (other than packing) I didn't bother paying attention to his last press conference last week because what i gleamed from watching Jon Stewart, he sounded as stupid as ever. I've never paid much attention to Bush. He wasn't my president. He got in on a technicality of having fewer popular votes but more electoral votes and was able to win outright only the second time around.

But I'm going to watch the ignaguration either on C-Span (they did good debate coverage : No color commentary what so ever) or Cnn.com.

I'm going to pay attention to Obama. Because I voted for him; he is my president. Also he is cool :D

due to being in Maine until Last night.

A storm came in on Wed. Debbie called a few days earlier to say she wanted to drive on Thursday morning.
So on one hand we missed out on a day of skiing. On the other hand, I was feeling so rotten earlier last week, I don't know if I wanted to go skiing Thursday.

So we got to visit Debbie and Tom's Friends and went snowshoeing on Thursday. I didn't think I wanted to go, but I had a blast.

Skiied Friday and Saturday. First time that I did not have to go off with Debbie while Shaun and Janelle stayed with Tom. Everyone was impressed at my skiing ability.

I am sick of limiting myself. There were some really rotten trails because the wind blowing the powder off!

Next thing i want to do is jumps. I kinda have a boarder philosophy even though I ski.

MSNBC Keith Olbermann comments on Calif. Prop 8, gay rights, marriage, love and more.

I <3 Him! Someone understands!

I can not write poetry!

2 pieces in a row have turned out more prosaic than poetic.
They lack flow
or worse, density.

Its not that I can't write, Its that I can't write poems!

This is one of my examples.

Honestly It was a wild night. I watched in the Student center. I saw McCain take Kentucky while Obama had Vermont and then I saw Obama take Penn, Ohio, and then counted down until 11 o'clock when HE WON. There was a small contigent of McCain supporters, but as the night wore on, they grew quiet. We grew more loud and exultant with each passing state. When 11 oclock came we erupted into yells. A lot of girls who were the same race as Obama were crying with tears of joy.

I am so happy. No Bush Lite. and more importantly NO PALIN.

*sighs contendly* waiting for his victory speech.

but i found a band that i have to share with my friends list.

they're called Apocalyptica and they hail from finland.
2 words: Cello Rock.

yeah thats right. they started doing Metalica covers a decade ago and have since branched out into symphonic rock and instrumental rock. WHICH IS RIGHT UP MY ALLEY

favorite songs (as in i already ripped them from youtube) are Hope and Path. The video is awesome for Path.