Lincoln Center

Inside Lincoln Center

Lincoln Center.... I think you can tell how high up we were at, but it didn't matter because the ballet was beautiful.

Outside the Time Warner Center

Inside the Time Warner Center

Thanksgiving 2006

I am currently drinking a glass of Cabernet Savignon and enjoying a slice of flan after two long days of walking in New York City. I hope everybody is having a great Thanksgiving dinner. I know I am. I miss everybody.

Thanksgiving Preparations

I can't believe November is more than half way over. We are preparing the house for our annual Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. This will be the house's 32nd Thanksgiving dinner which isn't much for a fraternity, but for a special interest housing, it is amazing. And I hope that it will continue for many more years. I am a little bit sad. Ever since I have been here at Rochester, I have been going to the D-House's Thanksgiving dinner and now, I am a Senior, I will be attending my fourth and final dinner. It breaks my heart. I am so happy that I will be giving the opening speech. I have always dreamed of it, however, I am afraid I might break out into tears. Well, I am cooking today for tomorrow's festivities. I am making a white past with mushrooms and a Mexican style stuffing. Oooohhhh, nice! Oh my goodness, which reminds me that I have to go to Wilson Commons and place an order for a sushi platter or else we won't have appetizers tomorrow. Gotta go!


She's a lover, baby and a fighter
Should've seen her coming when it got a little brighter
-The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, "Dani California"

It's raining

The rain hasn't stopped since last Thursday, and I literally feel that I am being poured on. I have so much work to do like always, but this time I really have to buckle myself down and try to finish it all by next Monday. I will be leaving to Diana's house on Monday afternoon once again to celebrate Thanksgiving with her and her family. Since I can't go home, I am going to the second best thing that I know. And not to mention, that we are going to THE CITY. You know what I mean when I say THE CITY.... oh yeah, New York City, the grandaddy of alllllll cities. I am so excited to go; all the Christmas decorations will be up (I think) and the Christmas Tree in Rockefellar Square will be lighted. Oh, and I can't wait to do some shopping (with what money, I don't know, but it will get done).
My good friend Nick will be celebrating his 21st birthday. Finally, he is the last one of us to turn 21 and we can finally go to bars and clubs without any problem. This really excites me because Nick is one of the few people that will go out with me and actually dance the entire night away. Plus, not to brag or anything, but we make an excellent hip-hop, pop, get your booty down, dance couple. I am still teaching him how to ballroom dance, but I think that might take a while. hehehe I think him and I will be going out to lunch tomorrow and might have a little party in the third floor lounge tomorrow night, but first, I must study for a test I have on Wednesday and another on Thursday..... Ay, caramba!!!


Don't you want to come with me?
Don't you want to feel my bones
On your bones?
It's only natural

"Bones"
The Killers

Not the Same

My room is overly clean how I like it
I have regained space in my closet
I can concentrate on my work once again
And I have stopped tripping over some enormous shoes

My desk has enough room to stretch my arms
I can choose what to watch on t.v.
And I don't have to shave my legs every once in a while

But it's not the same
Something doesn't feel right

I miss walking into my room and seeing your smiling face
There's none of your clothes lying carelessly upon my bed
There's no one to make me laugh

I fall asleep crying to Heaven for you to hold me
But my request is rejected
I must console myself with your picture
And pretend that you are by me, holding my hand







...I miss you

Some Favorite Pictures from the Last 5 Weeks....

Senior Night

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Oh so tired....

I need a nap


Midterm tomorrow

and Niagara Falls and Toronto on Friday




woot!!!


but first some sleep

Don't Turn Off the Spotlight Yet...

I went to Todd Theater last night to see the opening nigh of The Lower Depths. It was a fantastic production, but as much as I tried to enjoy myself I couldn't. I would look unto that stage and all I could think was, "I wish that was me up there. I wish that light would shine on me." Nigel (the artistic director of the theater) didn't help my situation either. He kept telling me that him and the theater missed me, that I need to come back, that I have to return to my love. It has been over a year since I have set foot on a stage and I feel like a piece of my heart is missing. What bothers me the most is the fact that I tell all my loved ones and family about my passion for the theater and acting, and they brush me off as if it were some unattainable fantasy of mine. The only person (besides my theater friends) who has truly expressed his belief in me has been my cousin Ely. The last time that I saw him in Brighton he told that I should chase my dream no matter what obstacles are in the way. "If you don't go for that dream, you might wake up one day and regret it," he said. Ely also said that he would be the first one in line to buy tickets to my first show or movie. It's that kind of support that I wish I had from everyone else. *sigh*

It's Been One Week....

Since Renke has arrived. I have never felt this happy before and I don't want it to end. We went to Senior Night last night at Nathaniel's. It was sooo much fun. All of my friends that met him thought that he was great. Everytime he left everyone would come up to me and ask, "Where did you find Him? Please tell me so I can get one myself." hehehehe (Now, don't get a big head about it, Renke, because I know you are reading this.) Renke and I played beer pong and I have to honestly say that we completely sucked at it. But we didn't look at as losing; we thought to ourselves, "Oh, more beer for us to drink!" lol I do have to say that I made more shots than him. =)

A Nice Visitor

I am sooo happy right now. Renke is here. Yes, here.... as is here in the United States visiting me. Although I have had to get used to a couple of things, I am so happy that everytime I walk into my room he is there. I am a bit concern though that he might be dying of boredom, but it is so difficult for me to get off campus and do stuff with him because 1.) the campus is a world of its own, 2.) I have a midterm tomorrow, 3.) I do not have a car, and 4.) the public transportation system sucks. Hopefully, after this week I will have some extra time so Renke and I can go about and hit town.
Well, so far everyone has been really nice and very welcoming of Renke. Everyone was just as excited as me before he arrived and even after. It was quite funny, because the night that he arrived we walked in through the front of the house and into improv auditions. Everyone just stopped what they were doing gasped and then there was somewhat of an awkward silence, followed by Nick running up to Renke saying hello and giving him a big hug. I think Renke was a little freaked out after that. But after that, I think he is slowly been growing accustomed to all of my friends' weirdness. lol

Just a Bit More...

A couple of more hours, but in the mean time so much work I must do. I am going to be so relieved when I turn in my 3 homework assignments and literary analysis paper for Hoffmann's Der Sandmann tomorrow. And then...
And then....

Well, we'll see....

Digging my Own Grave...

I am in lab right now and there was this really annoying cell phone ring going on about every 5 minutes. Everyone was getiing annoyed, especially myself. We started to look around the room, when I finally realized that the sound was coming from my bag!!! Everyone looked at me, especially the T.A., but all I did was laughed it off and got really red. Oh, me! That's what I get for changing my ringer last night, and not rememberring what it sounded like.

Team X-treme before leaving the fort in order to look and hunt for some treasures. I can't tell you where we went or then I would have to kill you. Yes, we are totally bad ass and pleas don't mind the retarded Sean on the bottom left-hand corner of the picture.

The treasures that I found. But believe there were alot more... this is just my bucket.

Getting the beach balls ready for some fun and everybody else is hanging out.

Nick and me....I look scared and Nick looks like he came out of an 80s movie.

Nick smelling and getting high off the Play-Do

The Boys before contemplating to eat the sour ugly Play-Do balls

Ewww. A little bit too sour, but you can totally tell that Mitch enjoyed his piece of Play-Do.

Play-Do definately should not be taken with beer or it should not be eaten at all.

Sean spitting the Play-Do into the trash can.

Nick didn't feel so good either.

X-treme Power Hour!!!

Nick and his lovely lips

I guess his lips got depressed and fell. Oh no, Nick!!!

Mitch and Sean were excited to be expecting a little baby girl

Trying to play baseball in the third floor lounge...

Strike 1

Strike 2

Nick...extreme Dodgeball. Too bad that I kicked his ass!!!

Outfit for Senior Night Number 2.... Like the shirt??? It's my favorite. I bought it in Holland!!!

Band that sucked at Thursday's senior night. Luckily, Diana and I left and went to another bar.

Le Weekend

Last Friday I went to the Little Theater with Liz and Nick. We watched "Half Nelson" starring Ryan gosling (the guy from "The Notebook"). It basically deals with this seventh grade teacher who does cocaine, gets caught by a student, and from the on there is a bond created between both of them. Yeah, it's a little bit on the weird side. We got back to campus, rested for a bit, and then hit the Frat Quad. Like always, the Frat Quad was a big let down. There were a bunch of people outside, but everybody who was inside the houses were playing Beer Pong. Not my idea of entertainment. Nick and I were looking for a dance party. However, Uncle Dickie's showed up and Nick and I bought some chili cheese fries from him. While we were waiting in line some guys were trying to harass us, but then something was said and we ended up laughing and talking to them. During that my phone rang and it was a friend of mine. I started talking in Spanish to them. The guy that was in line with us was so mesmorized by my rolling of my "R"s in Spanish that he practically started orgasming right there. He kept on saying, "Do it again, again, again!" Yeah!!!
Saturday came and I was lazy as a bum till about 11:30ish, but I had told Courtney that I would help clean (aka scrape off all the nastiness from) the kitchen. However, Courtney went to the Farmers' Market and was late. So, I decided to make pancakes for Nick and I. Then Dave Lu joined us. When we were done, Nick's mom called and said that she was about 10 minutes from the school. His parenets dropped off some cans of paint and painting supplies. They donated these to the D-House. After that, Courtney arrived and Sean came down the stairs. We all started to clean which took about 2 1/2 hours. Unfortunately, I think Sean got the worst job during the cleaning process. We have 3 refrigerators, and one of them is the beer fridge. Well, in that particular fridge there had been some watermelon, meet, and bread left over the summer. Yup! He cleaned all of it. I must say it was quite a smell.... Just the thought of it makes me dizzy. Even further, there was this horrible liquid forming on the bottom of the fridge because of the watermelon. OH, but that's not all, some of that liquid was turning into nice gooey slime. Ewwwwww!!!
But enough of that nonsense. After cleaning, Nick and I were inspired to paint. So we painted the ugly "bar" that is downstairs in the basement. It now looks like a checkerboard. The hard thing about this was taping off the wood in order to get the correct size of each square. We were quickly approaching 9pm and rememberred the Frat AEPi was having an event. We rinsed off our brushes and headed off to the Eastman Quad where we were greeted by the brothers. I had never gone to any of AEPi's events (wait, I think I went to a party sophomore year, but I don't like to remember that). So let's just stay with I have never been to any of AEPi's events. I met alot of the brothers which were either named Mike, Zach, or something else. The awesome thing of this was the consumption of Hummus with Pita bread and Hookah smoking. OMG, it was sooo good, especially because the tobacco was flavored. For example, I had some apple-mint, mango-orange (yeah, I know, Mango!), cherry, cocktail, and strawberry. Nick and I were hookah-hoggers. We didn't want to give up our hose. We were soooooo relaxed. We were so selfish that Nick and I said that he had Oral Herpes and so he couldn't share it with anyone else.... and I eventually was going to get them because I was fooling around with him the night before. hehehehe The brothers invited me to a party in their suite after the hookah smoking. But I nicely declined and said I had other events to attend to first, but if I could I would stop by. BTW all of that was BS because Nick and I wanted to finish painting. Yeah, I am a great big loser.

Friend: So Gaby, what did you last Saturday night?
Me: Oh, I went to the hookah smoking, got invited to a party, but I decided to stay home and paint.

Sunday was pretty much wasted. I went to D'Motions to dance, but then I came back, fell asleep, woke up, and thought it was 3 in the morning. Ay carramba!

The Top 20

In lieu of legitimate successful jobs (and basically lack of skills as so we were told yesterday by a Career Center Counselor) , Diana and I have composed a Top 20 List of our top 20 "dream"/ backup jobs after graduation. Please feel free to comment on which one you would like to see us in or which one you would think we would be best at.

Top 20 "Dream" Backup Jobs

1. Work at McDonald's
2. Exotic /Burlesque Dancer
3. Drug Dealer
4. Date a Drug Dealer***
5. Arms Dealer
6. Sell "products" on the Black Market
7. Porn Directors*
8. Professional Assassins
9. Rappers
10. President (b/c we know that any idiot can do that job)
11. 'Coyotes' (helping illegal immigrants cross the border and charge $1000/illegal)
12. Fruit Picker
13. House Cleaner
14. Nanny
15. Actress
16. Fishe(wo)men
17. Join the Armed Forces
18. Mary rich-must be over 65 years old
19. Sports Athlete Wife (who will take his drinking, drug abuse, general infidelity)
20. Cook

*** job that we really really really want
*job that we would love

The Hartlett Within Me

Don't worry the complete whore in me will not be coming out any time soon. However, I did take up my job once again. Yeah, the place which I wrote so vehemently this past summer about. What can I say, desperate times call for desperate measures.... real desperate measures!!! But its ok, I don't get to see my boss (and the boss of everyone) who bitched me out this last summer just because I let her 18 year old daughter cross the street all by her lonesome self. Well, let's not get into that because the pure thought of it makes me scringe with annoyance. Also, working at this office is such a conveniance because I only have to work Monday-Friday, it's never after 5pm, I can choose my own schedule, and it's at school. I can literally see my office from the window in my room. I guess I'll just have to see how this goes. *sigh*

But on a brighter note, last night I conducted (for the first time) the first D-House meeting of the semester. It was great! Well, it was actually an amazing feeling to be leading instead of being quiet. Don't worry I am not gettig a power high. It was just nice to see that I could actually pull this off, especially with all the drama that has been going on in the Drama House. Oh, the irony?!?!?! I still don't know how I feel about being the only female on the executive board, well at least, the boys can't manhandle me. =) I was overwhelmed with emotion when last night one of our members in the meeting said, "I am really happy about the new officers this, especially with Logistics. I think that she will do a great job!" I can't wait to get this year started. There is so much that the D-House is planning to do. We got a Open Mic, Talent Show, a play by a house member, the Thanksgiving Dinner, an awesomely amazing party, and other stuff lined up. And btw, I am thinking of throwing a Prom at the house, hopefull, this semeter. I just need to figure out the quirks and details. It would be so much fun! Just like Senior year of high school.... all the girls in their dresses and all the boys in their tuxes.

Last night was our first Senior Night...it is soooo sad to realize that I won't be here at this place with these amazing people in about nine months. But as sad as that was had to get over our sadness with our faithful companion Bacardi 151...hahaha The senior class went to Saddle Ridge Bar and danced the night away. Sorry that there are not any pictures at the bar, but we were having so much fun that we kind of forgot. hehehe Great stories from the night. Like the Senior class president got into a fist fight, then the bus driver lady threatened us with a broom. And oh yeah, I was almost killed by rampaging herd of drunk seniors into the wheel of the bus. Oh good times, good times.

Posing for Senior Night!!!

Somebody mentioned alcohol and dancing, and Nick and I went wild... Diana just laughed at us....

Two HOT SEXY chicks!!!! Ow, ow

Nick and I posing....Geez, it felt like prom all over again.

Nick and Diana were ready to tear up the dance floor!

We had fun our first Senior Night...

Now I am just being silly.... Oh, where did I put my bottle??? Diana is trying to play it cool.

I think the following picture pretty much sums up why women go crazy for a man in a uniform. I guess we just want to be kissed with the same amount of passion the woman in the picture is feeling. 1,2,3, sigh.... I am hoping I will be in about a month ;)

Thank God it's Wednesday....

I was walking to class and I suddenly rememberred one of the reasons why I love this school sooo much.... Wednesdays!!! Wednesdays are the days when the Navy ROTC members were their uniforms. So one sees Navy men all over campus and they are oh so handsome. I was walking into my building and one of them opened the door for me, took off his hat, and preceeded to say, "Goodmorning Ma'm". I nearly melted. hahahaha Oh, I can't wait for spring so they can wear their white uniforms.

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Let the Games Begin....

Ahhhhh!!!! It's true (and sad), today, has been my first official day as a SENIOR!!! It is so weird to realize that three years of my life have gone by and now, in a matter of 9 months my whole life will change.... Ha, nine months, I could have a baby, but I rather not get into that subject matter. Fortunately, I only had two classes this morning. I am still a little bit perplexed as to what I feel about them and the professors. Oh well. But oh my, the best thing that happened today was that I had to go to the doctor. Can you say akward. Yup, it was bad and shameful.... let's just leave it at that. The whole expedition to the doctor's started going wrong when I missed the bus and had to walk over to the clinic, which is not a bad walk. But for some crazy idea I decided to wear high heels today. So, I walked allllll the way to the hospital in my high heels. Yeah, not fun!
I finally to finish decorating my room and unpacking, but once again I have managed to make it a big mess.

Ha, this is a bit weird... I dont know what to write, probably because I am still so tired from Saturday's/Sunday's 24 Hour Play Festival which I was involved in. It was so much fun, but oh so tiring as well. Must shut eyes....aaaaaaa

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