| In memory of George Chase |
[Mar. 19th, 2009|05:02 am] |
I just sent the following email to http://www.waiteforme.com/
The animation room was a sanctuary to me during high school, a place where life didn't seem quite so awkward. What was weird, and not particularly cool out there in the "wild streets" of Columbia, was perfectly acceptable once you crossed its threshold. It was Mr.Chase who made it that way. We all have had teachers in our lives that change us; that you think about long after others have become half-remembered blurs. Mr. Chase was one of those amazing and special teachers. I walked into his classroom with penchant for doodling and Japanese cartoons, and left with a real admiration for the skill and labour that goes into such work.
I loved his class. He could be really dry when he wanted to be, talking in a quiet level voice. If you weren't really paying attention, you missed the point-and that point was always one worth hearing. He answered questions patiently, and with good humor, even when he was frustrated. Everyone knew his when his wrath had been incurred, not because he yelled or lectured, but by the sudden, and extended appearance of sailboats on the TV screen. He didn't really like anime, preferring Mighty Mouse reels with Mr.Riccardi I suppose... But he tolerated our animation club meetings, when few others would have.
He believed in me when it seemed like no one else did. I still remember how he told my dad that I had ability- that I could be an animator if I wanted to be. My dad kinda laughed it off, but Mr.Chase was so earnest. I wish I could say that I returned that belief he had in me, and became the animator he thought I could...but even if I didn't, that simple vote of confidence meant so much to me...Still means so much to me, to this day.
I was unhappy, when he left Columbia. Though he found, in Mr.G, a wonderful successor who maintained the open and fun atmosphere that made the animation room a great place to be. When I saw Mr.Chase again, he seemed to me tanned, rejuvenated, and happy. I always imagined him sailing off into the sunset, happily ever after, and that's how he'll always be in my mind.
My deepest sympathies and condolences for your loss.
-Helena Mohit-Tabatabai ( Class of '01) |
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[Mar. 1st, 2009|05:47 pm] |
I really want to play the new Star Ocean game.
really
Really
REALLY.
Alas,it's on the Xbox .
:I |
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| An update |
[Jan. 6th, 2009|08:30 am] |
Sorta.
I think I'm a compulsive liar when it comes to updating LJ. I'm all HAY TOTALLY GOING TO UPDATE 4 REALZ THIS TIME and then promptly forget it's existence again. That's how we roll here in Lenatown.
So last major update was in september..Let's see what's happened since then...
1. Quit Staples for full time employment at Barnes and Noble, where they pay me in peanuts,books, and the occasional free CD. Because I work there I've borrowed, read and occasionally bought,the following books:
The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by Michael Davis
Inkheart by Corneila Funke
Inkspell by Corneila Funke
Inkdeath by Corneila Funke
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles by Pierre Bayard
Dragonheart by Todd McCaffery
Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate Dicamillo
Order of the odd fish by James Kennedy
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
Ender's Exile by Orson Scott Card
Going Nowhere Faster by Sean Beaudoin
The Twelve Kingdoms, Volume 1: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono
House of Many Ways by Diana Wynn Jones
Prince of Stories: The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman by Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, Stephen R. Bissette & Terry Pratchett
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Dangerous Alphabet by Neil Gaiman
The Day I sold my dad for two goldfish by Neil Gaiman
Mr. Punch : The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy by Neil Gaiman
Septembers in Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
Twilight (ugh) Stephenie Meyer
Breaking Dawn (yea I skipped Fullmoon and Eclipse) by Stephenie Meyer
Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Queen of Attolia by MEgan Whalen Turner
King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
That's all I can remember off the top of my head, but I'm sure there's a bunch in there I've forgotten, and that doesn't include all the comics....or the movies ^_^;;;;; Lemme know if you need some recommends ^_-
2. I crashed the PT cruiser. It was completely totalled. Thankfully, I wasn't harmed. Yesterday I finally bought a new car ( a 2009 silver toyota Corrolla)
3.Phil and I joined a gym. I go every day for about 1 1/2-2 hours. I really enjoy it believe it or not. I like to go early when noone is around. Sometimes I'll shoot hoops. Have yet to try the climbing wall or manage to go at the same time as Phil... :(
4. Christmas party was fun~ Great seeing everyone again. Reminded me how I'm really terrible of keeping up/in contact with people and should work on that more...;_;
5. I need to find a real job (but keep my barnes and noble one parttime <3333
And That's the itty bitty nitty gritty over on this end, hope everyone's new year is off to a grand start~
-Helena |
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| Best(not) Parts |
[Sep. 7th, 2008|09:16 am] |
So,
I work two jobs, Staples in Madison, and the soon to be opened Barnes& Nobles at the former Crypt headquarters for our area ( the Livingston mall)
During my time there I've masted a couple of new skills including but not limited to:
Staples-
Using the special hole puncher
comb binding
spiral binding
Wide formate Black and white copies
Wide formate laminating
Pouch laminating
double side, collated, stapled,ledger, legal, enlargment, and all the other stupid on the copy machine commands
How to make brother stamps
Register training
Barnes&Nobles
alphabetical order
box cutters
How to turn over a cardboard box full of books and have it make a nice little tower of books instead of a messy pile
moving around shelving units to match a planogram
As you can probably tell from this spectacular skill list, my job(s) are in no way exciting, and usually run me from 8am-10:30 PM monday-fridays with saturdays and sundays being 10-6 generally.At least the people i've met thus far are certainly entertaining. If anyone knows anyone hiring someone with all of these AMAZING SKILLS and a degree in secondary education and history (asian studies minor!) let me know.
I should actually be on my way to Barnes and Nobles right now, but I can't find my keys. lulz :(
Friends and Family day is September 16th, feel free to come <333
Love,luck, and lollipops,
Lena |
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| So hay I'm a married lady now |
[Aug. 22nd, 2008|07:08 am] |
but I don't have time to make a post about it because i took that nerd test that Tor linked in his LJ
Excitin' ain't it?
I'll update later, promise! Thanks to Pat ( <3 PAT FANCLUB) I've gone from 0 to two jobs, both of which are kinda terrible, but I need moneys ;_; |
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| Happy birthday to me! |
[Aug. 1st, 2008|03:58 pm] |
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Still alive. Major updates to follow in the next few days <3 |
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| Scarecrow |
[Apr. 22nd, 2008|07:45 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | If I only had a brain. | ] |
I can't focus.
I was going to write more....but that sums it up nicely. |
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| Random Survey thingy |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|06:07 am] |
Leave a comment and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
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Because it's easier than a real post amirite? :O |
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| The invasion of Italy by the Lombards |
[Nov. 29th, 2007|08:16 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Library | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  distressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Meditational field | ] |
I have 4 assignments left this semester, and a week or so to do them. I haven't been able to get started on anything. I'm distracted beyond all recourse, I'm worrying about things I shouldn't have to be worrying about, and some things that I should be worrying about, I'm not worrying enough about.
I'm up and I'm down. I've been up, now I'm down, and Europe is being overrun by the barbarian tribes, and I still haven't got enough for a 30 paged paper on it. If you asked me to write 40 pages on just the Lombard laws I'd probably be fine, as they're a fine assortment of contradictions from manumission to death, guidrigild or wereguild, walapauz, and faida, give or take some compositions for missing fingers and toes...but thats' not the paper topic.The topic is medieval violence; and what is violence really except " what we accuse the other of when we are contesting interests?" Miller said that, and I've begun to agree with him, but I'm sick of Germanic and Latin and working and thinking.
Sometimes, I think I'd give anything to just make it all stop for awhile.
I just want everything to stop.
Just for a minute or two.
Just until I can clear my head.
Just so I can figure where I stand.
I don't know.
You know what I really like? Star-gazing. It sounds so romantic, but really it's just sitting outside and staring up at the sky. I haven't done it in awhile, there's never any time, and it's too cold to be outside for very long. But when night falls ,and there's so many of them, shining and twinkling, I like that. I feel at peace, it's like they're singing a special performance just for me. I guess that's silly.
At this time of year I look for Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka: my three pretty stars in a row. Orion's belt. The three kings. It's one of the few constellations I can always find. The only reason I went to astronomy club in high school as regularly as I did was for an excuse to be outside and looking up, even though 1/2 the time the lights from the town and the fields, made it difficult to see any stars anyway, and everyone was so stupid.
Everything was so stupid then.
And it's still pretty stupid now.
Reading it over, this makes no sense, but I feel a little better. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 13th, 2007|02:18 pm] |
Fell down the stairs in the lbirary. Hurt my leg and back.
This week does not bode well for me. |
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| Why is it 4:38 am. |
[Nov. 7th, 2007|04:38 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  sad | ] |
I went to Mark's mother's viewing yesterday. It was probably the most cheerful one I've ever been to (Which isn't saying much). But I didn't cry ( which I'm prone to), and smiled quite a bit (though it was awkward).
Collected in a circle of strange conversation and inappropiate jokes were myself, Mrs.James, Katie, Matt, Brent and his family, Mr.Palmgren, Henry, John (I think, the one i promised to beat with a brick if mark didn't graduate high school...I was too embarassed to ask ), and of course Mark and Ian. Mark introduced me to his family. It's the first time I've met many of the Howlands.I could barely mumble a condolence, I never know what to say at these sort of things. I think back to my grandfather's and janka's funeral, and how empty many of those words seemed, and they catch in my throat.
It wasn't a bad thing to go, I think. They seem to be taking it as well as one can, but as Mark put it they're all "hard to read". I feel so bad for Mark.
The funeral is today,at Morrow Memorial Methodist Church at 2 pm. It's on Ridgewood and Baker in Maplewood if I recall. I'm gonna try and make it, but I don't think I'll get out of class in time. |
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| Voting |
[Nov. 6th, 2007|12:47 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
New jersey has some great referendums this year including a proposal to remove the phrase "[n]o idiot or insane person shall enjoy the right of suffrage" from the New Jersey Constitution.
I almost voted to leave it in >.> |
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| oh well |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|11:23 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Maybe later <3 | ] |
In 4 minutes I will be cutting class. I always get anxious when I make the final decision to cut one. I decided to cut class today, because it bores me. Because I hate the student presentations. Because, aside from the few times Prof.Connell has actually spoke in class I've learned nothing there. More to the point though, I'm cutting because I still have an unfathomable amount of work to do despite pushing myself tremendously last week.
Whenever I have too much to do, I put everything on hold. This is a terrible tatic, by the way, because it just piles on more stuff to do in a shorter period of time. It is, at best, temporary relief with horrible side effects. One could probably make a decent parallel with drug use.
I do it anyway.
Everybody knows better. That's the problem, not the answer.
I re-read Speaker for the Dead this morning, and then spent some time putting away my laundry which has been sitting in neat folded piles on my floor for the past two days. After that I did my bed, put away a number of books that were also in piles on the floor, vacuumed, swiffered ( is that a word, even?) During all of this I reflected on Orson Scott Card, and what was it about Ender's Game that appealed to me so much as a child versus Speaker for the Dead, which never really did it for me. I wondered as well, why I found Speaker to be far more compelling after re-reading it this morning. I probably should've been contemplating a better thesis for my Lombard paper. Alas, see the earlier statement on everyone knowing better.
I thought to myself that I would come down here and post on LJ about it(especially some of the stuff that came about when I got to the vaccuming) But sitting in front of the keyboard to type now, I find that perhaps it's better to just end it here ,and do my actual work. |
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| I think... |
[Nov. 2nd, 2007|08:20 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | distressed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jimmy Eat World-Chase the light | ] |
Gouache can suck it. AUGH.
(Taken with the camera phone)
I'm embaressed to bring this terrible thing to class, but there's nothing to be done about it. The more I try to fix it the worst it gets, at first it had a sort of clean pop art feel to it, now it's just muddy and terrible. Not as bad as the cellphone's colors, but still terrible.
/fails at life
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| Halloween |
[Nov. 1st, 2007|08:06 am] |
| [ | mood |
| |  drained | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Jimmy Eat World- Dizzy | ] |
Didn't feel any different than any other day in spite of efforts to make it otherwise. Weird.
Guess I'm getting old. |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 25th, 2007|02:44 pm] |
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I need to pull it together. |
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