i just saw this video and almost sharted myself….this. is. GOLDDDDDD:

i’ve been waiting for the right moment to talk about my 12~ years as a figure skater and i suppose now is the right time. i have friends i have known for almost my entire life who actually never knew i was an ice sk8er but it’s one of those things that is hard to bring up unless you’re like “oh, i have practice” or whatever. now, i am not very athletic (although back in high school, i used to kill it in gym glass. i was competitive, but not annoying competitive), but figure skating came incredibly naturally to me and for whatever reason, i was actually….good…..at it (not deliberately trying to brag, promise). i never got super competitive, mostly ISI kind of stuff, but before i stopped my junior year, i was “training” for the usfsa. i also kind of dabbled in synchronized skating. toward the end of high school, it just became too time consuming for me to continue, not to mention it is EXPENSIVE. skates can cost the upwards of $900, not to mention the outfits, which pretty much need to bought every time you are in a competition. i guess you could use the same ones, but a lot of the time you skate in the same circuit as a lot of girls and you don’t want redundancy! anyways, i can’t wait til’ the olympics when everyone falls in love with winter sports all over again, and then a year later they forget.

oh, and brendan, i cant hear this song without thinking of your video! dont ever change~

new jump off = chatroulette.com. its about 85% pervs, 5% /b/ros, 5%girls showing their mams, and 5% normal people just wanting to chat. i ran into someone from albany which was weird, real weird. talked to a few bros and showed em my blade

which i hope i never have to use but i know how and will if it means protecting myself. so far i only used it to cut cheddar cheese (mario batoli would be proud), but you never know when these rich, long island kids might turn on ya.

yahoo had this on their front page the other day:

lol, you think i would be an expert at eating alone by now but NOPE! i know i’ve mentioned before that i pretty much do everything by myself (more pathetic word: alone) unlike other females who would go in the same bathroom stall to take #2’s together if it were acceptable. i don’t mean to sound like ~my life as liz~, i hate girls and catty b.s., because i LOVE my girlfriends as i have said at least 400 times before, but i just don’t mind doing things like that on my own. people like my friend molly eadie, who i ate dinner with yesterday (which might be defeating the purpose of this entry, detailing how i eat by myself a lot, but we don’t do it that often!) will also be able to tell you that i SUCK at eating. i get food in my hair, i have to cover my mouth with my hand when i eat because salad leaves and spaghetti noodles like, fall out. tiffany’s table manners for teenagers totally gave up on me too.

i mean, it’s not like i deliberately avoid people so i can sit alone to eat gross diarrhea food (just kidding, it actually isn’t that bad. i enjoy it.), but if i am coming from class, i’m not going to call people, wait to see what they’re doing, and then if they have class or whatever, call someone else. i know people who actually do this and they’re usually the same people who go

when i non-chalantly tell them that i usually eat by myself. but it’s not like i do that allll the time. it’s just that a lot of people take 400 hours to eat something that could easily take 15 and…

start of a new semester = controlled chaos, so blogging will be limited BUT i wanted to share with everyone this gem i found in my “practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture” textbook. when this was done back in 2005 or whenever, i swore if i ever came into money i would buy this sculpture of the virgin mary britney spears giving birth to sean preston (out her butthole, apparently):

it’s still a new concept to me that textbooks can be cool. i’m still used to math textbooks from 1996 featuring solid basic t-shirts and basketball shorts on all of the “models.” i would flip through this more but i want each page to be a ~*surprise*~ if i find anything good, trust me, i will share!! if you haven’t seen it already, here is another textbook experience with a bunch of rastas

babysat for capria and sicilia the other night and took a bunch of pictures. i want children so badly. as long as they turn out like these two…

this was in capria’s bedroom. the minute she gets up the stairs, sicilia rips through capria’s undie basket and i always have to put it on a higher shelf in order for her to avoid it. i took a picture this time because she just kept flinging them (which made a nice neat pile for me to clean up. tidiness = essential

nothing burns energy like dancing with children. capria looks like a tornado or an irish river dancer:

my favorite…tying ballet slippers:

as much as i might hate the whole twitter bandwagon, social mediums such as that in addition to facebook and myspace have been a tremendous help in spreading the word around about giving aid & relief to the victims of the haiti earthquake. sometimes if you are bumming, helping others makes you feel better about yourself. ~think about it~

- Donate to Partners in Health, who are already located in Haiti and can be a more direct and immediate way of assisting those in need

- donate blood! find your local red cross here

- UNICEF!

- “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to Wyclef Jean’s Yéle Foundation;

- “Haiti” to 85944 to donate $5 to Rescue Union Mission and MedCorp International;

- “Haiti” to 25383 to donate $5 to the International Rescue Committee;

- “Haiti” to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross in the U.S.;

-“Haiti” to 45678 to donate $5 to the Salvation Army in Canada (Canada only).

- Donate to Humanitarian Coilition

- Artists for Peace and Justice, which was established after director/producer/writer Paul Haggis met Rick Frenchette, an American doctor and community organizer working in the slums of Haiti for 22 years, is accepting donations. Call 310-319-1394 for further assistance.

- Direct Relief is committing up to $1 million in aid for the response and is co-ordinating with its other in-country partners and colleague organizations. Their partners in Haiti include Partners in Health, St. Damien Children’s Hospital, and the Visitation Hospital, which are particularly active in emergency response. Donate to Direct Relief online.

- Mennonite Central Committee is responding to the Earthquake disaster in Haiti. MCC has been working in Haiti since 1928 in agriculture, reforestation, justice, health and AIDS work. MCC is responding with emergency relief supplies and will be there for the long term in reconstruction and trauma support and other work to be determined. Call 1-888-622-6337 to donate or for more information.

- United Nations World Food Programme is airlifting almost 90 tonnes of high energy biscuits — enough to provide more than half a million emergency meals. An income tax receipt will be issued for donations over $10.

- Don’t forget the animals in Haiti! Humane Society International

also, just as a mention, i know that times are tough (cliched term to all holy hell, but it’s true) so i don’t think anyone expects you to donate 1 million dollars like the jolie-pitt’s , or to even do it all at once. i plan on taking five dollars out here and there to different organizations until i can reach a respectable amount.

p.s thank you yahoo and ohnotheydidnt for most of the links provided!

http://formspring.me/laurenservideo!! i dont have a twitter so i am breaking even as far as trendy websites go. ask me stuff! i lahv, lahv, lahv questions. ~journalist. p.s peep the photo pic

found two old albums and needed to share these.

oversized white sweater with dancing ballerina cat. the early 90s make so much sense.

they found this in peewee herman’s room along with all those questionable magazines. this pose is standard in pictures i take today.

facedown in the water…so wrong, yet so right

that is RUDE

he is soooo creepier than polanski in this movie.

just finished watching 500 days of summer….total barf. sorry for anyone i am friends with on facebook who already saw my status about the love/hate relationship i hold with this movie that i will explain right now:

1) dudes like tom (joseph gordon levitt) don’t exist. i am definitely not a man-hater and one of those debbie downers who vehemently subscribe to the beliefs that LOVE DOES NOT EXIST and ALL MEN ARE PIGS. while the latter is maybe a quarter true, i know that there are kewl, nice guys out there. however, i really don’t think toms of the world are real (except for in my mind’s directors studio).

2) gals like summer are authentic, and they slit the throats of the very little amount of toms this sweet earth does hold. it should be a crime. they are distinguished by pretty (but not sexy) looks, having substance that appears to be genuine (“oh wow, you listen to the smiths? i love them!! i also dumped you for a guy who asked me if i was reading dorian grey in a cute little cafe. do you like my dress from anthropologie?”) but in reality are one-sided characters who like to hide under the guise of being independent. there is nothing wrong with being a commitophobe or just enjoying being casual but it is so mean to lead someone down that path with some vague, half-assed reference to not wanting to keep it serious. oh, and you would never know it but i have never been lead on. why am i so passionate about this?

3) put a summer with a tom and she breaks his heart and he is a mess. SSSPOILER ALERT so he starts dating autumn or whatever. guess what: in the sequal 501 days of summer, when tom finally thinks he is over summer and autumn is really happy in her relationship with tom, summer comes back in and realizes she loved tom all along and tom leaves autumn crying in the living room because ~life is tOo sHorT to be with someone you dont love~ and summer has a magnetic, hypnotic vulva. it’s a legitimate excuse but i think i just get scared sometimes that will happen to me (i watch too many movies and always see myself as the scorned one….it’s half-funny to me).

4) if i had a more disposable income, i would purchase this. jgl and zooey deschanel had such undeniable chemistry and it was a pleasure to watch (most of the time, anyway). not your typical romcom but still good none-the-less. but not as good as its complicated, which i saw with my friend justine the other day. we sat next to a group of golden girls who went buckwild at meryl streep’s hotness. if she looks like an unmade bed, it better be this one:

or this one: