And I can't wait to have tales to tell!
This week was my training week at Bocci's and tonight is my last training shift. Let's not talk about the bar training or how I actually tried every single wine that the establishment offered; without spitting. Needless to say, I got a little more than tipsy in the three and a half hours that I was working. Graciously, the bar tender fed me afterwards.
So now I have to clean out my car for the trip. Four twenty somethings in a tiny Honda Civic doesn't seem like it would be that fun, but I'm sure we'll have a blast. I just have to check the air in the tires and my oil. Not sure how to do either. I'll bet that Meredith will help me in the morning, though.
And then its a fun filled weekend that I'm sure will include lots of giggling, champagne and hairspray. And Hollywood tape, perhaps. I'm looking forward to getting away for the weekend and escaping the limbo that I've been in in Charleston for the past couple of weeks. I'll be able to clear my head and set things straight. At the moment I'm feeling antsy and just want to go to work and get the weekend started! At least I'm not pining for New Jersey anymore. Such a roller coaster of emotions that one goes through before one makes a big life changing move!
Ah, wanderlust.
Love,
Clellan
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
No Pride, but some Juice.
I was sick this morning. No, I'm not pregnant. I had a crazy, feverish, alcohol induced beach weekend and silly me though that I could continue living my life and go out for a few drinks, as if I were a pro. The contents of my stomach staring back at me this morning prove that to be unwaveringly untrue. If you tear up your stomach one weekend, you don't keep aggravating it later. That's what causes ulcers.
So, since I spent three or four days acting like a crazy rockstar (minus the cocaine, it was really the only thing missing), I didn't actually do any reading on the beach like I thought I might have. So my endeavor will start today. With Pride and Prejudice. Come on, its a shame that I haven't read it before.
In other news, my roommate got a "real" job working as a secretary of sorts from 8am-5pm M-F, while I got a job waiting tables at an Italian place. I'm taking care of her tiny poodle/mixed with something else dog, who is adorable, while I sit around as if I were still a college student, typing away and waiting to drive to singing lessons.
I should be scoring my sheet music...
Off I go.
Love, Clellan
So, since I spent three or four days acting like a crazy rockstar (minus the cocaine, it was really the only thing missing), I didn't actually do any reading on the beach like I thought I might have. So my endeavor will start today. With Pride and Prejudice. Come on, its a shame that I haven't read it before.
In other news, my roommate got a "real" job working as a secretary of sorts from 8am-5pm M-F, while I got a job waiting tables at an Italian place. I'm taking care of her tiny poodle/mixed with something else dog, who is adorable, while I sit around as if I were still a college student, typing away and waiting to drive to singing lessons.
I should be scoring my sheet music...
Off I go.
Love, Clellan
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Job Interviews and Rumi
My new books to read endeavor has already left me the wiser. Examining the list, I noticed the author of "Mathnawi" was the Rumi that someone had quoted to me once. I researched him and read some of his love poems. Beautiful stuff. Here is a quote I randomly came across and loved:
"Don't be one of those merchants who won't risk the ocean."
Life today is full of challenges, but my commencement speaker said three days ago, at my graduation, that for the confident, hard times are present as challenged to make things better. I feel as if going to graduate school is this kind of confidant leap; after all, I certainly feel like I am setting sail to a treacherous ocean, bound for shores I can't even see yet, millions of miles away. I am confident, and can be courageous, and I want to make things in this world better. So here I go. It doesn't feel real yet, actually, with Rutgers being quite a distance away geographically. I'm sure it will feel real enough when the course enrollment e-mails really start rolling in around June/July, when they told me to expect them.
For the summer, however...I need money, and money to save. Thanks be to God for these two interviews on Thursday; I actually hope that I get them both. I also am lined up to House Manage if I can assure them by next Wednesday that I have time in my schedule, and I also have some interest from a Children's theatre company in town to be a Stage Manager...we'll see about both of them. If I get BOTH of these jobs on Thursday, which I am actually hoping for, then I won't need anything sporadic like that. Maybe I'll get neither and I'll be scrambling and glad for two little temp jobs in the theatre.
I am working a *little* right now, helping Susan Kattwinkel, my former theatre professor, edit and put together a text book. This book will be geared towards First Year Students in our First Year Experience program, an area I worked in as a Peer Facilitator for three years. I'm getting paid for about 40 hrs total for a time span of about a month. It's not a bad paycheck, and it will probably cover my utilities for the summer (maybe, depending on the heat) and that's not bad, but I need something to cover rent and then some.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be this concerned about money and jobs. I was probably delusional. I also never thought that I would be completely and totally excited about moving to New Jersey! Can't wait until August!
"Don't be one of those merchants who won't risk the ocean."
Life today is full of challenges, but my commencement speaker said three days ago, at my graduation, that for the confident, hard times are present as challenged to make things better. I feel as if going to graduate school is this kind of confidant leap; after all, I certainly feel like I am setting sail to a treacherous ocean, bound for shores I can't even see yet, millions of miles away. I am confident, and can be courageous, and I want to make things in this world better. So here I go. It doesn't feel real yet, actually, with Rutgers being quite a distance away geographically. I'm sure it will feel real enough when the course enrollment e-mails really start rolling in around June/July, when they told me to expect them.
For the summer, however...I need money, and money to save. Thanks be to God for these two interviews on Thursday; I actually hope that I get them both. I also am lined up to House Manage if I can assure them by next Wednesday that I have time in my schedule, and I also have some interest from a Children's theatre company in town to be a Stage Manager...we'll see about both of them. If I get BOTH of these jobs on Thursday, which I am actually hoping for, then I won't need anything sporadic like that. Maybe I'll get neither and I'll be scrambling and glad for two little temp jobs in the theatre.
I am working a *little* right now, helping Susan Kattwinkel, my former theatre professor, edit and put together a text book. This book will be geared towards First Year Students in our First Year Experience program, an area I worked in as a Peer Facilitator for three years. I'm getting paid for about 40 hrs total for a time span of about a month. It's not a bad paycheck, and it will probably cover my utilities for the summer (maybe, depending on the heat) and that's not bad, but I need something to cover rent and then some.
I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be this concerned about money and jobs. I was probably delusional. I also never thought that I would be completely and totally excited about moving to New Jersey! Can't wait until August!
More on books
I wanted to check off some of the books on my list:
Wuthering Heights
Medea
Oedipus
Faust
Iliad/Odyssey
Recognition of Sakuntala
1984
Hamlet/ King Lear/ Othello
Pippi Longstocking
The Aeneid
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All of these were great reads.
I tried to read Moby Dick a while back, but it was a no-go. Maybe I'll try again at a later date. For now, I'll probably stick to something shorter.
Love,
Clellan
Wuthering Heights
Medea
Oedipus
Faust
Iliad/Odyssey
Recognition of Sakuntala
1984
Hamlet/ King Lear/ Othello
Pippi Longstocking
The Aeneid
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
All of these were great reads.
I tried to read Moby Dick a while back, but it was a no-go. Maybe I'll try again at a later date. For now, I'll probably stick to something shorter.
Love,
Clellan
This Has Absolutely Nothing to Do with Wal-Mart
This summer I am faced with quite a few fears:
1. I have no money
2. I have no job
3. I am about to be accumulating a very large sum of debt for graduate school
I have a job interview on Thursday, and put in a dozen applications yesterday. But it would be nice to have a steady source of income already!
Instead of completely despairing, I decided to give myself a nice, COST-FREE challenge this summer. I searched the good ole 'net for lists of 100 books that "you must read before you die." Most of them were crap. I found one that the Guardian in the UK put out, and the admissions were made/ voted on by reputable authors around the world. This one is the list that I chose. I liked it especially because it includes Eastern authors, not just the white guy who wrote "Memoirs of a Geisha." It was the smartest list out there, and I highly recommend it.
My challenge is to read as many books as I can from this list throughout the next three months. I put in bold each of the book titles so its not so confusing:
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
1. I have no money
2. I have no job
3. I am about to be accumulating a very large sum of debt for graduate school
I have a job interview on Thursday, and put in a dozen applications yesterday. But it would be nice to have a steady source of income already!
Instead of completely despairing, I decided to give myself a nice, COST-FREE challenge this summer. I searched the good ole 'net for lists of 100 books that "you must read before you die." Most of them were crap. I found one that the Guardian in the UK put out, and the admissions were made/ voted on by reputable authors around the world. This one is the list that I chose. I liked it especially because it includes Eastern authors, not just the white guy who wrote "Memoirs of a Geisha." It was the smartest list out there, and I highly recommend it.
My challenge is to read as many books as I can from this list throughout the next three months. I put in bold each of the book titles so its not so confusing:
Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories
Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice
Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot
Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions
Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights
Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger
Paul Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote
Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales
Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories
Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo
Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy
Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations
Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov
George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch
Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man
Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea
William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), Absalom, Absalom; The Sound and the Fury
Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), Madame Bovary; A Sentimental Education
Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads
Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), One Hundred Years of Solitude; Love in the Time of Cholera
Gilgamesh, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust
Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls
Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum
Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands
Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger.
Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea
Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey
Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House
The Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC).
James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses
Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), The Complete Stories; The Trial; The Castle Bohemia
Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala
Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain
Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek
DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers
Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People
Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems
Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook
Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking
Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC).
Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi
Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), Buddenbrook; The Magic Mountain
Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick
Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays.
Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History
Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved
Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji
Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities
Vladimir Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita
Njaals Saga, Iceland, (c 1300).
George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984
Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses
Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet
Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales
Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past
Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel
Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo
Jalal ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi
Salman Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children
Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard
Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North
Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness
William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet; King Lear; Othello
Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King
Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black
Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno
Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels
Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War and Peace; Anna Karenina; The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
Thousand and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500).
Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana
Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid
Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass
Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), Mrs. Dalloway; To the Lighthouse
Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian
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