Constant Vigilance!!!!

i've moved.
http://disneykid1.blogspot.com/
for various reasons some including mobile/gmail-related/and personal.
but don't think i still won't be here.
reading/commenting.
<3
-Joe.

I'm posting this b/c I'm gonna want to remember it.
Okay, so a teacher told me on youtube that he/she used my "dear body" video to show in their class. They wrote me:

"not only was it funny, but extremely intelligently made. thank you so much. i'm a teacher and have shared this with my students as well. you're awesome!"

Also, I noticed the video was getting a lot of links from a blog. Someone posted an entry about it for "east brunswick high school." Apparently it's some sort of classroom-oriented blog. I think it might be connected to the comment I wrote.
But they wrote really nice things about it!

"Title: Dear Body

Thursday, October 11, 2007

This video is hilarious and thought-provoking. It addresses beauty, ego, and self-confidence. Joe's satisfaction with his "delightfully scrawny" body teaches us to ignore all of the billboards, flashy commercials for diet pills, and other idealized images -- normal people's bodies have personality, which is more important that a flat stomach, muscular arms, or perfect hair. Societal standards and expectations are ridiculous, unrealistic, and virtually unattainable, which is why they are so easy for Joe to disregard and to be happy with his own scrawny body. While he acknowledges standards, he dismisses them. When he makes fun of his arms for not being muscular, he is acknowledging society's definition of beautiful arms, but he easily dismisses it and is happy with his tiny arms.
[video was inserted here]
I think you will pretty much answer this automatically after you watch the video ... Which body parts of yours would you commend? Which would you criticize?"

The comments were all nice, too, so I'm posting the permalink: http://itiehumans.blogspot.com/2007/10/dear-body.html

I'm glad it was thought-provoking!!!!

Last night was so exciting! I stayed up until 5 a.m. chatting on MSN which makes me sound like a TOTAL dork, but it was fun! Natalie introduced me to Courtney (sailme90), Molly (mememolly), Tom (frezned), Joe (vanawesome), and BRIEFLY Adam (whataboutadam) b/c he had to go. Actually, I'm not sure who added Adam to the convo box. But he had to go to some event I think. I was so excited, which is totally lame, but these are all people I've wanted to talk to for a long time (in a VERY non-creepy way, of course). It was great to find out me and molly had been e-stalking each other for a while now. <3
Anyway, now that my fanboy phase is over....I've been feeling extremely creative lately. I've already created stencils for five shirts and stenciled them with spray-on fabric paint. They're pretty awesome, if I say so myself. I'm also working on six paintings that I want to have done in two weeks. And I have eight ideas for videos I want to make. There are never enough hours in a day!
I also have to go to the dentist because I might have TMJ. I thought jaw-popping was normal. And occasionally my jaw has slipped out of place, but it's always popped back in! But the other day it kinda locked up and was kinda painful, and my friend told me about her mom having TMJ. So I told my parents and they think I should go, too. After it locked up the other day, my jaw's been sore, especially when I open my mouth to take a bite of something. Not like my lower jaw, but upper jaw. Where it hinges.
AND, I have to go to the eye doctor. But that's just a regular checkup and prescription renewal for my contact lenses.
<3!!!!

....b/c this hole is just getting deeper and deeper. lol.
When things are crap, you just have to laugh. So that's what I've been doing. I've just been laughing, not extremely unlike a crazy person. Oh, and I've been watching The Lizzie McGuire Movie a lot. Geez, I love that movie. Why can't I take a trip to Rome and become a popstar?
So what's new? Well, not a whole lot. Classes blow. I'm bored out of my mind here. I found out I won't be able to get the grants to travel abroad, which is okay because it's one less thing I have to mess with, and I'll have enough money this summer to do that anyhow. And now I don't have to go where they tell me! I can go where I want and stay with who I want!
I also practically boarded up my dorm room window. I got so sick of the sunlight, which is gonna make me sound like a hermit. But let me explain.
I have an east-facing window, so every morning at 5:30 or 6, the sun light somehow comes through the curtains and hits right smack dab on my bed. I'm one of those picky people who has to have complete darkness to sleep, so it wakes me up every morning. So I put a grass-mat over the blinds, but sunlight still manages to come through and illuminate my room in the mornings.
So today I closed the blinds, put up the grass mat, and then layered that with various cardboard posters. I think I have finally defeated the sunlight, but we'll have to see tomorrow when morning comes.
I need to find a way to easily remove the stuff though, because occasionally during the day I like to have my window opened.
Okay, I really should go to sleep now. Adios!

I feel like ranting about being depressed, so I should probably go to livejournal. I hear that's where people complain. lol.

So it's actually been a pretty good last few days. I don't remember what all I was going to write, but here's some stuff.
The class average in my Biology class for our big test was a 50. I was scared to death. I thought I made like a 23 or something, but we checked scores today and I was one of the FEW FEW people who got a B! An 87.3!!!!! I was so excited. It was the biggest relief ever.
Also, I finished my pillow last night in sewing class, and I think it turned out great! I got a 45/50, and my pillow is delightfully tacky. Maybe I'll do a video about it soon.
Also, all the clothes and stuff that I bought online last week should come this week. I'm so excited!
Yay, I used too many exclamation marks in this video, but whatevs.
Oh yeah, Big Brother ended tonight. I thought it was the worst season ever, but looking back it wasn't as bad as I thought. I'm actually sem-relating to some of the houseguests; how weird is that?! Daniele, the girl who got second place, just turned 21, and I'm about to turn 20. SO WEIRD.
In a year I can try out for the show. =D

So today I found out I'm about to close a deal to sell a video. It's the first video I've gotten paid for! And I'm getting a nice chunk of money for it, too.
So, in celebration of that, and for my big stipend check from school that I just got, I did a bit of online shopping! I'm justifying it because I feel I deserve it (having not been able to shop in FOREVER and on account of having no clothes I actually like anymore).
I have almost no clothes that I wear anymore. I wear the same few shirts over and over again. But I'm designing my own, now! Actually, I'm in the process of opening up a little store online for t-shirts. I'm using this extremely simple website that doesn't give you a lot of room to work with. But hey, you gotta start off somewhere, right? Hopefully someday I'll really be able to design some stuff.
So anyway, I bought a lot of shirts online. Next stop, jeans!

It turns out that even after everything falls through, good can still come out of it. A lot of good, too!
After all my plans crashed and burned a couple weeks ago, I never thought anything would come out of the opportunity. Now though, I might be selling my first video (of hopefully many more in the future) soon! Not only that, but I might get to help work on a project I've been wanting to!
I'm finishing up my video for PBS tonight, and burning the DVD tomorrow. It's going to be shown Friday at a volunteer banquet. I'm so nervous and excited!
Yay!! I'm in a really good mood!

Yes! It's finally raining. It hasn't rained in WEEKS! The leaves have been falling off the trees at my house b/c of the dry weather, so it's been looking like autumn, but except excruciatingly hot and dry and crispy.
But yes, it's raining now! It rained for a moment yesterday, but I woke up to lots and lots of rain this morning. I don't even mind walking to class in the rain. I get to wear my new jacket!
Also, rainy days = a good excuse to look like crap! Which I have been looking like a lot lately, but now it'll be acceptable!
<3 rain.

This has probably been the worse week since....last week. My blogs are always just so uplifting. lol.
Anyway, my car air conditioner is busted again, and apparently it's a serious problem that's gonna cost like $1,000-$1,500 to fix. That's probably worth more than that car. lol.
So my parents asked me if I could drive it until Spring, and then we'll figure something out. They said there's only going to be about three more weeks of this really hot weather (I'm guessing there'll be more though) and then I'll be able to use the heater when winter comes. With the way winters have been going here (hot), it's not going to be cool.
Just on the drive home from college I am DRENCHED with sweat when I get home because it's so damn hot. It's triple-degree weather!!!! I'm in a black car!!!! With no A/C!!!! I'm SICK of having to take a shower every place I go b/c I'm so disgusting when I get there. I can't go to work because work is an hour away. I can't get groceries for my dorm so I'm not eating right.
I don't know how the hell I'm going to get back to the dorms today because I have to take a shower here and then I'll have to just take a shower again when I get there because I'm going places today.
How am I going to get to the places? I haven't figured that out yet.
btw, money problems suck.