i'm sure a few of you have seen the twilight trailers, and if you haven't, watch them right now:







now that you have watched both of those (you did watch them, right?) i would like to share with you all this amazing video:

spirit was truly an incredible and unique cat. i only knew her for 7 months out of her 18 year life, but i loved her so much.

she had the softest fur i've ever felt on a cat. every time i saw her, i had to smile because she was so beautiful. her green eyes were almost perfectly round and even with her weak back legs (which caused her to put a lot of weight on her front paws and almost drag her tail behind her) she was always alert.

she was extremely picky about her food. she would only eat canned cat food and if she didn't like what you put down for her, she would look up at you as if to say "what is this?? i didn't order this" she wasn't a very good liar though, as she would usually end up eating whatever was there anyway.

being almost deaf, she didn't mind it when the vacuum was being used and even enjoyed being vacuumed herself (with the proper attachment, of course). she was very vocal her last few months, a perfect alto; sometimes letting out loud meows, and sometimes small mews.

she didn't mind being poked and prodded, picked up, petted, cuddled with, kissed a thousand times on her nose.... she put up with it all like the dignified lady she was.

she loved to be in whatever room everyone else was in. she wanted her breakfast at a prompt time every morning, and if you weren't up, she would get you up by climbing all over you, poking her whiskers in your face, and standing on your head.

she loved to be in sheltered places, specifically underneath the covers of the bed. she was always there for anything you needed.

she was an amazing cat and i will miss her more than anything. she was found when she was 15 and adopted by neighbor and good friend, nic (her live-in, male nurse. because he worked for her, obviously). who knows what those first 15 years of her life were like, but for the last 3 and a half, she was loved by everyone who met her. it was impossible not to love her.

i will miss you so much, baby. i love you stinky-breath, fart-face, puzzles, queen no-teef-a, candy-head.... i will miss visiting you and having our "girl's night". you will be missed so much, sweetie. i love you.







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hey, guys! my friend and neighbor, nic, is in an awesome country band called "her and king's county" (myspace is http://www.myspace.com/her )

vote for their video at CMT:


http://www.cmt.com/interact/music_city_madness/vote/


it's on the left side, near the bottom.


thanks!!!

god help me, i'm working on three books. yes, three.

the bible of time (which i'm currently rewriting into a trilogy, so technically i'm working on 5 books), tyrrell (based on a character in shakespeare's 'richard III'), and a new one that i just started tonight....

i'm not going to put the title on here, because it would raise a lot of questions. in short, it's based on my life. actually, it is my life with the names changed. we'll see how it goes.....

trying to figure out what to be for halloween this year, which is crazy cause usually i know what i'm going to be 2 months in advance so my mom can make my costume lol


any suggestions?

if you're not a fan of family guy, too bad. i like it and i was watching it tonight and OHMYGOD they had gene kelly. (if you don't know who gene kelly is, shame on you. i'm a big old musical lover, i grew up watching them, and gene kelly is an amazing dancer/singer/actor)

there's a movie with gene kelly called "anchor's aweigh" and in the movie gene kelly does a dance sequence with jerry the mouse (of the cartoon 'tom and jerry'). in this family guy episode, stewie replaces jerry in the dance sequence with gene kelly.

i love it.

this deserves an entire post to itself... along with a bunch of other papers, we got this from the amazing jim demonic:

the voice and speech warrior's ten commandments:

1. i am the speech lord and the wrathful god of voice. i will lead you by example, and not just in theory.

2. i will treat you all alike - just like shit.

3. thou shalt not need to do anything i have not done before you, and thereby, proven its worth, and thus will you be created voice and speech warriors in my deadly image.

4. i shall punish thy bodies because the more thou sweatest in training, the less thou bleedest in combat.

5. indeed, if thou tireth in thy efforts and thou suffer sheer and utter frustration and exhaustion, then thou art doing it right.

6. thou hast not to like it - thou has just to do it.

7. thou shalt keep it simple, stupid.

8. thou shalt never assume.

9. verily, thou art not paid for thy methods, but for thy results, by which meaneth thou shalt be heard and understood all of the time by every member of the audience.

10. thou shalt, in thy warrior's mind and soul, always remember my ultimate and final commandment: there are no excuses.


i fucking love jim. he's awesome

today was officially the "first day" of school. didn't actually go to any classes, cause we didn't even know if we had morning or afternoon classes.

i have morning classes, which i'm happy about.

i had morning classes last year and for all of you that are thinking "i would prefer getting up at noon than at 7 every day" hear me out.... i'm not really a morning person, but if i get my ass out of bed and get to work in the morning, there's a lot i can accomplish. i'm home by at least 2 (class gets out at 1) and then i have the rest of the day to do everything i need. plus, on friday, i'm out at 1 and then the weekend starts.


today consisted of an "orientation" type thing where basically we were told the rules and what we're going to do 2nd year.

i already have homework, of course. a monologue to memorize by wednesday. WOOHOO welcome back to the academy.

i'm looking back at all my old journals and story beginnings (partly for fun and partly because i want to see if i can use any of it for future stories).

anyway, i knew that i could pinpoint the exact moment i knew what i wanted to do with the rest of my life, but here it is, on the exact day:

jan. 18, 2002
9:58 pm

i'm so tired! i don't know why because today was a half day and it's not that late. anyway, we had dress rehearsals for bugsy malone on wed. and thurs. after both rehearsals, while i was sitting in the car going home, i realized that this is what i wanted to do. i loved performing and becoming tallulah. i loved acting at that moment and that's what i want to do, act. i know that i've always wanted to be an actress but i just feel electricity when i act. and tonight i was watching the matrix: revisited (which was a behind the scenes thing) and it got me even more enthusiastic. i just thought: wow, this is it. this is what i am meant to do. not necessarily for the money or fame but i just love pretending to be someone i'm not. i love taking on a character and making up stuff about her life that isn't even mentioned in the script. i think about her favorite color, family history, unusual hobbies, etc. i love to act!!!


lol and what's even crazier is that i still feel the exact same way :-)

well, kinda lol right now i'm in nic's apartment cause mine isn't totally moved in yet. besides, i have to take care of spirit and it's better if i'm with her :-)

everything is moved into my apartment, i just have to continue unpacking and putting together more furniture that i got at ikea (kitchen table, coffee table, etc)

lol wow, so i'm finally here. my parents and grandpa are leaving on wednesday, hopefully i'll meet up with my friend, amanda, who is in new york until monday :-) sadly, nic is in LA for 2 weeks but i get his cat while he's gone! muah ha ha ha!!!

so i just have to unpack, order the harry potter book at the barnes and noble down the block, sign up and start working out at the gym across the street, hopefully meet up with some of my school pals.... hmm.... oh and shopping in the city lol

ahhh it's good to be home :-)

after a lovely thai dinner in my brooklyn neighborhood with my mom, dad, and nic, my parents and i went to see 'spring awakening' (even better the second time seeing it for me)

then i get a call from my sister as we're walking home. the letter came from the academy and

I GOT INTO SECOND YEAR!!!!!

oh man.... PHEW!! :-D

i could go on and on about how relieved and happy i am, but i think just saying "i got into second year" is enough


WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

i did my last show today. i'm officially done with my first year at school in new york :-D

i just went and got the keys to my apartment :-D

i got totally hit on by a semi-cute guy on the subway platform on my back to the city (which was flattering, but i turned him down lol)

tonight, i'm going to completely pamper myself (face, hair, nails, toenails, skin, etc), watch chick flicks, order in, and eat chocolate. :-D

i have NOTHING to do now. and i love it.

hey, guys. just wanted to let you know that i probably won't be online or able to check mail, facebook messages, etc. for a while because my mac crashed and everything's gone. whoopee.

of course this has to happen the week that everything else is stressing me out (school, rehearsals, etc) though i guess it's better this all happened now instead of a few months ago when i really would have needed my computer to write reports and such.

on the bright side, my cousin, jessi, who is getting married, asked me to sing at her wedding. so that'll be fun.

however, i'm fucking pissed about all this.

alyssa is really stressed. can't you tell???

ps
just in case you're wondering, i'm on my friend, nic's, computer.

this guy messaged me via myspace:

hi Alyssa Grace whats up, hun u look great ,its steven looking for an easygoing sugar girl to get married lol such as i can pay ur bills monthly and take u out shopping ,buy u new clothes ,i can take care of you financially and provide u Alyssa


made me laugh out loud LOL

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i now have an apartment in brooklyn... an amazing, sweet, apartment in a great location RIGHT across from the gym, close to everything and all in all, FUCKING SWEET

all thanks to nic :-D

today in class was fun.... lol in acting, my teacher, jackie bartone, told me that i have "nice girl syndrome". that i'm too nice and i need to 'show my emotions' and when i get angry or frustrated, to not be afraid to yell and complain lol so not me, but i'll try.... it's funny. i always thought that i was too nice, but no one's ever told me before.

in movement (aka, dance) we had our "midterm" where we basically had to know the warm up, across the floor, and had a short written exam. no biggie, i'm sure i did fine. but we also had to dress nice in clothes that we can move in.... so i wore black gaucho pants and a dark blue, slightly fancy tank top. i did my hair up and had a headband.... i was cute lol we had enough time after the midterm to talk about our "costumes."

so michael went through us all one by one and pointed out what we should and shouldn't wear or what we could do to improve on our "costumes." i should mention that michael is GAAAYYYY. i love him, he's awesome lol it was like queer eye for the straight guy. he had some girls adjust this shirt or switch that and then it was like voila. they looked SO much better.

his advice to me? wear a midriff and roll down my pants lol so my goal is to tone up and wear a bikini top and capri pants for the final. BOOYAH!! i am going to be so hot lol

haven't posted on here in a LOONG time i know... but that's mainly because i've been posting entries and such on facebook, and so i haven't felt the need to post on here.
however, i need sympathy right now, so i'm posting this on here and myspace and facebook.

for those of you that aren't academy students, we have to bring in our own sets and such for the scenes that we do. so this involves, sometimes, bringing a suitcase or bags or something to school. annoying? yes. but it has to be done so i don't complain.
today, we did the first half of my commedia scene, and we had set the scene in the kitchen so i brought a BUNCH of shit, like pots and pans, etc. i had a lot of stuff to bring. so i put it all in a suitcase (carryon size) and rolled it to school.
when i came back, i decided to get mcdonalds (don't ask me why, i had a strange desire for it, and i was really fucking hungry) so by the time i got back to the new yorker, i had mcdonalds (a bag and a drink), my suitcase, my purse, and my messenger bag that i always take to school.
there's a security desk at the new yorker, and you have to show your key card (or student id, for ehs students, including me) to get past them to get to the elevators to go to your room. so i'm going past the security desk towards the elevators, when this old guy (he must have been in his 70s, he was old) trips over my suitcase and falls down, really falls down, onto the tile floor.

i start apologizing like crazy and asking him if he was ok, etc. the security desk people come over to see if he's ok, and he fell down "on his bad hand" and also got a cut on his arm. so he's bleeding.

i'm still apologizing and kinda freaking out, saying i'm so sorry, is there anything i can do, etc. the security people pull out a first aid kit and start to take care of him. all while i'm still babbling an apology.

his response? he starts yelling at me.

"you cut me off!!!! why didn't you see me??? look at what you did!!!!" over and over. "you made me fall on my bad arm!!! look at this!!! you did this!!! you completely cut me off!!"

me: (stunned) i'm so sorry, sir, i didn't see you. i didn't mean to, i didn't see you.

i really didn't see him. in all due respect, he should have been looking the fuck where he was going, he RAN into me and tripped over my suitcase. there was PLENTY of room to go around me....

but of course i didn't say any of this.

i start crying.

and i mean CRYING. i'm bawling my eyes out cause this old guy has just cussed me out. i'm standing there, tears and mascara streaming down my face (for those of you that haven't seen me cry, it's not pretty. some people can cry and they're still attractive, not me. when i cry, i don't look attractive) and i'm standing there with my mcdonalds and my suitcase, crying while they patch this old guy's arm up, and i'm still standing there stupidly, cause i don't know what the fuck to do.

and this guy doesn't say anything else except for insults at me.

finally, the security people say i can go, so i do, still crying. i get up to my room, still crying, put my stuff down, and of course by this time i'm not hungry for mcdonalds. cause who wants to eat while they're crying?

what an eventful 15 minutes.

i've now decided to post my book, the bible of time, on a blog. so. if anyone would care to read it, i'll slooowwwwllllyyyyy be posting it at the site below. be sure to check it out and comments are welcome!

http://thebibleoftime.blogspot.com/

actually, that's a lie. i do have words. um, yeah, yay for only ONE MORE DAY!!!!! AHHHHHHH THEN I GRADUATE ON TUESDAY!! that makes me happy.

no more choir makes me sad, but i'm not going to go there. i don't want to cry or be depressed. only happy memories :-)

guys are frickin confusing. again, i won't go into detail, but let me just say that one in particular. a friend with benefits. definite benefits lol. i'm not complaining, mind you, just saying. hmm...

rehearsal for pigeon creek is going well. i love it :-)

senior breakfast, 2nd and 3rd hour exams, senior check out, senior banquet, dance rehearsal, zac's open house, and pigeon creek rehearsal tomorrow. PHEW busy day.

ps
i got zac a cool present. i hope he likes it. i like it. i want it lol.