So the first performance of UBallet's spring show was last night. It went really well, though we didn't have great turn out. (The audience kind, not the ballet kind...we have all kinds of turn out when it comes to legs.) It feels wonderful to be on stage, and I really think we have a pretty solid show. So if you are in the Chicago area, you really might want to consider coming to tonight's performance at 8pm in Mandel Hall. Because tonight might be the last chance you ever have to see me "twerkin' it like a clock," unless of course you go to the cast party, which should be pretty spectacular.

My dad came up to see the show and took Matt and I out to dinner last night and brunch this morning. It was fabulous, so so so great to see him. And my mom should be on her way now, to see the show tonight. I feel so special and loved.

Okay seriously...you should see me twerk it. I don't even know what that means.

Labels: ballet, family

1. I hate doing laundry here.

2. Remember how it was like 90 degrees the other day? It is 43 today. Make up your mind, Chicago.

Labels: chicago, weather

I'm not going to go into detail about this, but May is National Masturbation Month, and I think everyone should be aware.

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Gilmore Girls is over forever. I just watched the series finale, and far from feeling free of the hokey script and terrible direction, I am sad. I don't know if there was ever a point where it was a good show, or even an okay show, but it was definitely a show that sticks with you. I am going to admit it, I cried when Rory graduated from Chilton. I'm glad I stuck it out till the end, I think I needed some sort of closure for it. But thank God it's over, it was getting so so so bad.

P.S. Why wasn't Christopher in the finale? That's sad.

Labels: tv

It is 86 degrees outside. Yes. That is correct. 86 degrees.

You know how it used to bother me when someone would ask me what school I went to and I said University of Chicago and they said, "Oh, it's cold up there" instead of "wow, that's a pretty good school?" Well, they were right. The temperature is much more commanding than the education. BUT IT IS 86 DEGREES OUTSIDE. It's almost...dare I say it...too hot.

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I am in a pretty good mood. I got my analysis exam back, and I got a lot of partial credit, so I ended up with a B. This means probably no A for the quarter, but I can live with that.

Also, I just took my third econ exam, and If I get 31 out of 40 points on it, I don't have to take the final, which means I don't have to go to that class anymore, which means essentially I will be taking only two classes. Which is probably a good thing, considering how much ballet has taken over my life.

Speaking of ballet, I totally won two tickets to see The Joffrey Ballet perform Giselle in October in the ballet benefit's raffle. Sweet.

Labels: ballet, chicago, school, weather

I am so horribly inconsistent at math. My first midterm, I had a huge party the night before, didn't study at all, and got the highest grade in the class. This exam I studied for extensively, but couldn't do much more than spit back definitions.
Damn.

Labels: school

Subject: French 103 grade change!
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 17:34:48 -0500 (CDT)
From: amclean@uchicago.edu
To: amclean@uchicago.edu


Bonjour Natalie! I hope you're having a good spring quarter. I wanted to let you know I'll be putting through a grade change for you for French 103, from an A- to an A. Félicitations!
Cordialement,
Alice McLean

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Sweet! It must be because of my recently acquired vocabulary.

Labels: school

French verb of the day: enculer

May I suggest Google Translate?

Labels: amusing, French