mathieu

mathieu524 @ 2007-11-28T02:37:00

2007-11-28T07:53:31Z

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod etc.)
2. Put in on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool

Waking Up: "Suddenly I See" KT Tunstall

First Day At School: "I Wish I Could Go Back to College" Avenue Q

Falling In Love: "If Ye Love Me" The Tallis Scholars

Fight Song: "We're Not Sorry" Urinetown

Breaking Up: "A Perfect Lie" The Engine Room (The nip|tuck opening credits!)

Prom: "A Step too Far" Aida

Life's Just...: "Praise, My Soul, The King Of Heaven" The Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Mental Breakdown: "Globes and Maps" Something Corporate

Driving: "My Girlfriend Who Lives in Canada" Avenue Q

Flashback: "Popular" Wicked

Getting Back Together: "Bend and Break" Keane

Birth Of Child: 'Panis Angelicus" Josh Groban

Wedding: "Never Give Up on the Good Times" The Spice Girls (Bahahahahaha).

Finale Battle: "Second Chance For Max Headroom", Sum 41

Death Scene: "Miserere Mei Deus" The Tallis Scholars (hm, "Have mercy upon me, o God" how fitting, lol)

Funeral Song: "Booneral" LOST Soundtrack.

End Credits: "One Night Only (Effie's Version)" Dreamgirls.

wow...that's crazy.

mathieu524 @ 2007-10-04T22:57:00

2007-10-05T02:57:25Z

For the first five people who reply to me and re-post this challenge, I will send you something. It might be something I've made just for you, or something cool from my collection, it might be a mix CD or a book I think you will enjoy, a graphic or something else that I think you might like. Whatever it is, I promise that I will get it to you in 365 days or less or you are allowed to beat me with a wet noodle.

The only thing you need to do in order to participate is to be one of the first five to reply to this, AND post this entry on YOUR live journal - 'cause it's fun to give people stuff.

mathieu524 @ 2007-09-29T18:59:00

2007-09-29T23:13:56Z

so apparently i slept through a fire last night. no, not a fire drill, a fire.

mathieu524 @ 2007-09-26T09:09:00

2007-09-26T13:12:45Z

Today is the day that I turn in my Berlin Application materials. I'm still waiting on my letter of recommendation and my dad's letter of financial support, but I have everything else finished.

This morning I need to run to CVS so I can get a sheet of passport-sized pictures taken because I need a ton of them for the application.

Because I'm mildly busy on wednesdays, I decided I would wake up at 9 so I could be at cvs by 10.

I had a dream that I woke up this morning at 11, meaning I would never be able to make it to CVS on time.
Then I woke up an hour early.

wtf? haha.

WHOA CREEPY.

2007-09-14T20:04:03Z

So I went to this lil site where they ask you a TON of questions and then tell you what sorts of careers you may be interested in and it was freakishly correct. here are the top ten suggestions it gave me:

Anthropologist
Psychologist
Professor
Clergy
Political Aide
Historian
Actor
Foreign Language Instructor
Interpreter/Translator
Addictions Councilor

The first two should probably be closer to the bottom of the list, but all these things (except maybe addictions councilor...) interest me. CREEPY.

dreiundswanzig.

2007-09-08T21:41:20Z

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Death,
I shall fear no evil.
For thou art with me, thou shalt comfort me.

...why Fairport?

mathieu524 @ 2007-09-01T19:59:00

2007-09-02T00:00:15Z

Things have been going well.

I love my room, my roommate's awesome, my neighbors are cool.

My classes are fucking fantastic. The final list is:

Advanced French,
Advanced German Conversation and Composition
Theatre: Principles, Plays, Performance
Life and Death in the Middle Ages (700-1500)
The Formation of Islamic Societies (500-1500)
Voice Lessons with Doug Bowles

I love all my professors, my theatre class might be a little below my level, but it's ok.

Auditions for the Rude Mechanicals' Variety show are on tuesday and I'm excited to see people audition, etc. I'm going to be directing a scene from The Scottish Play - it will be wonderful.

ummm what else...

Esther's wonderful to have around. She, Janice, and I have taken to lazy days sprawled out in the sun on the quad - which is wonderful.

anywho, I'm off now.

It won't be easy, you'll think it strange...

2007-08-21T04:47:05Z

Well, I'm in the process of packing everything up yet again. I've decided I don't like packing for school (or for coming home for that matter). Because inevitably, everything gets all messy with crap strewn about the house and boxes all over the place. On top of that, I always wind up sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time because I just don't want to pack. Like today. I woke up, pulled some books to take with me off my shelf and then promptly began procrastinating by calling people up and talking. Thankfully Andrew said "Aren't you supposed to be packing??? You should go do that now." heh.

I then proceeded to use The Project Runway Season 2 marathon, chocolate chip cookies, The Sims, and Ina Garten to help me avoid any actual packing.

To be fair though, I did wash all the clothes I'm planning on taking with me (as well as all my sheets and towels and stuff) AND I went and pulled all the stuff that was still in my boxes from when I came back home out of the boxes and sorted what I wanted to take back out. So really, it isn't going to be too much work after that.

What else...not much, really. Andrew and I went to the mall which was INSANELY dull. Thank God I have shopping in Georgetown, Bethesda, and Friendship Heights to look forward to. (the andrew part was fun, lol, and I'm very happy there's no awkwardness between us.)

I need to be fully packed by tomorrow night, when we will put everything in the car so we can leave wednesday night. I'll be moving in on thursday.

I'm crazy excited and a lil sad and nervous.

mathieu524 @ 2007-08-11T10:36:00

2007-08-11T14:45:52Z

well, I don't really know what to write about.

I only have 3 more scheduled work days (this afternoon, monday, and tuesday).

Then I'll need to pack and buy things for my dorm - stuff I forgot to buy before last year and never got around to buying until now, and things I ran out of, etc.

I also kind of feel like buying clothes...haha, wow I'm a homo.

Tomorrow's Andrew's birthday/grad party. When asked what he wanted he said "anything for college, alcohol related, gay-related, or for decorating a dorm room, I guess" sooooo, I figured "hey, what about unbreakable martini glasses and a shaker?" After all, it covers 3 of the 4 things he mentioned - college and alcohol for the obvious reason, and the gay thing because, I dunno...I always figured cocktails were kind of a gay sort of thing anyway.

I threw my summer reading list out the window, and have been fully absorbed by Amelia Peabody once again. I'm enjoying them a lot. I've already made it through 2 in the past 3 days. (one of them involved Ramses spying for british intel during wwi!! very exciting).

Oh, and for those who don't know, while I was in high school, I never had time to learn how to drive. And on top of that, my father's been dragging his heels on teaching me. But, I finally drove on real roads with traffic and everything last night and it was wonderful. I didn't have a single problem (except for the part where I almost ran into a rock, but that was dad's fault anyway). I even parked in a parking lot with cars in it and everything. wewt.

oh, and Sylvia (my computer) is frustrating me more and more every passing day. She's so sick and slow. aghhhhhh. I miss when she was young and spry.

our congressman.

2007-08-08T23:15:38Z

what is this!?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/08/gop-congressman-thought-_n_59677.html

mathieu524 @ 2007-08-05T11:39:00

2007-08-05T15:40:48Z

ah. at the end of my last entry I said "I'm not set to get the fuck back to DC"

what I actually meant was:

"I'm NOW set to get the fuck back to DC."

mathieu524 @ 2007-08-05T00:09:00

2007-08-05T04:16:35Z

well then.

we broke up. Luckily, it was an amicable break up, meaning we both agreed it was time to go ahead and break things off because we would need to in 2 weeks anyway, so it would be better to do it now and have time to cope/deal with it so we wouldn't ruin our friendship.

I'm going to miss calling him my boyfriend...but I'm not really all that upset.

I guess because I knew it was coming. So I've been preparing myself for it for weeks.

The biggest issue is going to be figuring out how to act around each other...it'll be awkward for a little while, but we'll be fine.

I don't know if it's because previous experience has "hardened my heart" to breakups and whatnot (all my previous ones had been bad) or because I knew all along it would get to this point. Still, it feels weird to think that I feel fine aside from feeling "generally sad" and I mean, we were joking before he left, and we had a good long hug. So I dunno. It's weird, I guess.

I can say this for sure: I'm not set to get the fuck back to DC.

mathieu524 @ 2007-08-01T23:02:00

2007-08-02T03:06:38Z

Oh man...I need to think of a meal for saturday night.

Andrew's coming over...so I need to make something that's impressive, but not so complicated it looks like I went out of my way to be impressive...and it needs to be affordable too...sounds like Rachael Ray to the rescue!

I've decided to minor in International Studies...with a focus on "Peace and Conflict Resolution" so I'm excited about that.

I also think it's interesting that the day after I decided to add this as a minor, I saw an episode of the West Wing where the President reads the Beattitudes at a funeral...and he pauses when he says "Blessed be the peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God." it's just...interesting timing, I think.

I'm looking forward to getting back to DC. I like the people here in Fairport ("the people" meaning my friends and family) but I like DC better than Fairport. I miss my metro, and my parks, and my monuments, and my museums, and my capitol building, and my white house.

And if they try to stop us Seaweed, we'll call the NAACP!

2007-07-30T00:50:18Z

Yeah so...my last update turned out to have been pointless - nothing was wrong at all, everything was just a misunderstanding that has since been entirely cleared up! WHOO!.

Anyway.

Lovely time friday night. Margaret, Ellen, Stephanie, Andrew and I headed over to Vanessa's house. It was great fun (except for that disturbing tv show that involved a mango and a hamburger). A great time was had by all. And everybody approves of Andrew! wewt!

What else?

OH!

I saw Hairspray with Andrew 2 weeks ago and was, at the time, not all that impressed...but then I thought about it more and bought the soundtrack on friday (before heading to vanessa's!) and I am in love with it, haha. I don't think I like the movie itself so much as I love the music and the costumes, if that makes sense (Andrew is of the same opinion, so at least I'm not entirely crazy).

I've been watching The West Wing like it's my job lately. I've also been watching Scrubs as often as possible (I LOVE THIS SHOW!) and it's making me very happy.

ALSO I've started a Ravenclaw scarf - simply because I like the design and color combos. Great fun.

I don't think there's anything else...

agh.

2007-07-29T04:58:27Z

What the fuck is wrong with me?

Why did I ask that?

birthday thingie.

2007-07-28T20:20:23Z

1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year.
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)

Events:
1) The New York Public Library Opens, 1911.
2) Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, 1915.
3)A group of 80 reporters and cameramen are the first Westerners allowed to leave Saigon in South Vietnam since it fell to communist forces on April 29.
4)Section 28 is passed as law by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Birthdays:
1)Julius Caesar Germanicus, 15 BC
2)Queen Victoria, 1819

Death:
1) Duke Ellington, 1974

Holiday:
1) Buddha's birthday in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea

mathieu524 @ 2007-07-25T22:42:00

2007-07-26T02:48:08Z

I open today with one of my favorite quotes:

"But marry who, Your Grace? For some say Spain, and other France, while some cannot abide foreigners at all. I do not know how best to please you but to marry...one of each."
--Queen Elizabeth I

ANYwho.

Had a lovely day - Margaret came over for a rousing afternoon of listening to music and cooking delicious lunch. (OH MAN. SO GOOD. beef, garlic, rosemary, and red wine reduction. OH MAN.) I seriously wowed myself with my culinary skills (which I already viewed as admirable...meaning I feel damn good about my cooking, haha!).

What else...not much, really. I LOVE I, Elizabeth it is outstanding. It may be that I'm more in love with "the glorious complexities of Tudor England" as I like to call them...but still, the book is pretty good.

Bonus points to anyone who can name the 6 wives of Henry VIII in order (including children!).

OH! AND WONDERFUL NEWS! Looks like Andrew FINALLY has internet access while at camp! HOT DAY-UM!

mathieu524 @ 2007-07-24T00:56:00

2007-07-24T04:57:00Z

Oh, and here's the trailer I saw the other night. It made me bounce in my seat and make some sort of excited noise (which, of course, made andrew make fun of me).

Ah, and for those who are wondering yet haven't been able to figure it out (somehow) Andrew and I are doing wonderfully. He's an incredible boyfriend. It makes me smile just thinking about him.

mathieu524 @ 2007-07-24T00:35:00

2007-07-24T04:50:49Z

~~Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice~~

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ~~by JK Rowling~~

Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen by JK Rowling, Trans. Klaus Fritz.

Paula Deen: It Ain't All About the Cookin' by Paula Deen

The Falcon at the Portal by Elizabeth Peters
He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
The Lord of the Silent by Elizabeth Peters
~~Red Land, Black Land by Barbara Mertz (AKA Elizabeth Peters)~~

The Life of Elizabeth I by Allison Weir
I, Elizabeth by Rosalind Mills

~~The Language of God~~ ~~by Francis Collins~~

~~The Book of the Acts of the Apostles by ??? (AKA Luke)~~

Ok well, as HP just came out etc, I felt I ought to update my summer reading list. I've just started on I, Elizabeth. I may read The Life of Elizabeth I simultaneously (for those who don't know, the former is a fictitious autobiography of Elizabeth Tudor, while the latter is non-fictional).

Andrew and I went to see Hairspray with a couple of his friends on saturday. I enjoyed the movie (though I was not thrilled with Travolta. I loved queen latifa, though. I dunno why - but any time she came on screen I got excited - something for which Andrew promtly made fun of me).

What I really enjoyed about the movie outing (aside from the fact that the whole evening, which consisted of dinner before the movie was an excellent date) was that one of the trailers was for Elizabeth: The Golden Age.

Some of you may know that Queen Elizabeth has always been one of my favorite historical figures - in fact it was while reading about her that I realized I had enough of a passion for history that I could consider it vocationally. She and the period in which she ruled remain my most favorite historical subjects. (I dunno why I sounded so formal there, haha). As a result, the movie Elizabeth, staring Cate Blanchette, has been one of my favorite movies for a long time (for one thing, while it was certainly romanticized and touched by hollywood, it was actually quite surprisingly historically accurate, not to mention the acting was fantastic). SO when I found out that the director and core cast were going to be making a second installment (which would cover the Armada and the Mary Queen of Scotts situation) I got rather excited.

So there I was on saturday, where I finally got a first look at it. And it looks FANTASTIC.

Anyway, I wish to make it through Henry's VI wives before bed - so I should get back to reading. (I just realized that sounds mildly dirty...m'oh well).

mathieu524 @ 2007-07-23T01:36:00

2007-07-23T05:39:02Z

I LOVED Harry Potter.

SO good.

I'll write somthing to put up here eventually....but just now I'm just enjoying how good the book was (and trying to figure out how to dispose of all these tissues).

mathieu524 @ 2007-07-14T00:38:00

2007-07-14T04:50:15Z

Herm...long time no update.

I don't really know what to write about, but I figured I needed to update.

Actually, that's not true - as soon as I wrote that I thought "umm...Andrew and Harry Potter?" so yeah.

For those of you keeping tabs who don't already know, things between me and Andrew are going swimmingly and both of us are ridiculously happy (and probably obnoxious to be around). Vanessa had the pleasure of meeting said young chap and they both like each other a lot. whoop!

In other news, Harry Potter.

So the movie. Vanessa, Ellen, Margaret, and I had a lil party and went to see it at midnight on tuesday. I loved it. I dunno why...I just did. I thought it was a great movie while also capturing the essence of the book (even though it left various plot points out). Additionally, I flet the trio's acting improved markedly, and Umbridge was fantastic. The music and effects were, by far, the best in the series - and the cinematography and editing were top-notch. wheee!

I'm very much looking forward to the 7th book, of course. I think I've decided I'll read it slowly - I rushed reading HBP and wound up not remembering half the plot 3 days later...so I'd rather take my time and savor every page pretty much.

I'm currently plowing through Chamber of Secrets in my effort to re-read everything by next saturday. I'll be fine, of course. I just need to stop getting distracted by pointless things which I deem vital in the moment (for example, this afternoon where I was reading and then decided I needed to draw myself a lil map of the Hogwarts grounds...which took an hour. why did I do that!?).

anywho, that's it I suppose.

so...I'm not as up on my reading as I might like...

2007-06-28T03:55:59Z

bored.

2007-06-27T04:09:01Z

You Have Good Manners 82% of the Time

You manners are perfect. You always carry yourself with class.
You know how to be considerate toward everyone - even if they aren't considerate to you.

How Are Your Manners?

through all the nations has gone forth the sound of their words.

2007-06-24T05:47:16Z

So ya know.

Working at Target is not nearly as glamourous as one might hope. </understatment>

hmmm what else...

I'm loving Interview With the Vampire. The writing isn't really all that spectacular - BUT - the story's excellent. I like it muchly.

In other news, I have rediscovered my love of French, and so have decided to drop one of the elective history classes (yes - as a history major I'm dorky enough to have ELECTIVE history classes, lol) and add Advanced French (wouldn't it be kickass if Esther and I were in the same class???). But I'm very excited for that. It also means I'm going to need to rethink Berlin in the spring - maybe I'll want to do the Paris semester instead (which might make more sense anyway...as Paris is a lot closer to my area of study than Berlin is - despite the whole...Reformationhappenedingermany thing. Idunno. I need to figure it out by mid-september, though. as the forms are due by mid october.

Esther's going to live at the other end of the floor above me in Anderson next year. That's going to be SO COOL. I love Esther!!

umm...I keep running into Tayloire at the mall/target!?

Ok so, true story. Today I was like "hmmmmm...what should I do this evening. OH CRAP it's Lexi's grad party!!!" so I go out to dinner with my dad, do a lil shopping, and then I'm like "ah time to go to lexi's so I can show up late, blah blah blah." we drive up. Oh. the driveway's empty. why? OH THAT'S RIGHT. the party's NEXT weekend. who feels stupid in this situation? me.

hmmmm. yey for American Eagle polo shirts being on sale.
and in the same vein...yey for debit cards.
oh, and make that "yey for AE polo shirts that look amazing on matthew being on sale"

Tomorrow I'm going to FINALLY get myself to an Episcopal church. You have no idea. I've been going into high church withdrawl. (for those that don't know, 'high church' means a service which uses a lot of ceremony, like processing, bowing, crossing yourself, etc). I'm looking forward to it very much.
It'll also be my first time going to a new church on my own (poppa, rhona, and clifton will be at Immanuel down the street).

and lastly - I get to see Andrew tomorrow!!!
It's very exciting because, with him being at camp where they don't have the computers set up yet, during the week, I hadn't heard from him since last sunday. And with this weekend being Shroeder's graduation, I was afraid I'd not only not be able to see him while he's home, but that I wouldn't be able to talk to him either.

Thankfully, both proved very false, and we're going to watch either The Princess Diaries or Love, Actually tomorrow night. maybe even BOTH. lol.

anywho, there's your dose of matt's life for a while.

enjoy.

mathieu524 @ 2007-06-15T20:32:00

2007-06-16T00:36:18Z

hehe! my boyfriend was on the news!

Anybody wishing to know what he looks/sounds like, here's the link:

Andrew!

I will warn you though...he doesn't normally talk...or even sit/stand quite like that, he was pretty nervous - but you get the idea.