Hanging out with one of my best friends Hannah! We're gettin' into all kinds of adventures and having tons of fun! It's great to be out of my house. Will update you all tomorrow about everything. Love you all!

♥ Meg

Hey guys, I filled out applications at disney_heroines and at actress_rate so if you're a member over there, could you please vote on my applications? I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!

♥ Meg

So I just called the Rochester Museum and Science Center and asked if they were looking for volunteers and they said that they are!! So I went online and I filled out the application and I will hopefully be volunteering for them really soon. I'm so unbelievably excited, I love the RMSC, it's one of my favorite places in Rochester. All of you should go to rmsc.org to see what it's all about. So yeah, there's my quick update!! :D

♥ Meg

http://www.titanicmemorialcruise.co.uk/

I want to take this cruise. I think it would be respectful and well thought out. I'm such a nerd. I'd probably cry half of the time though.

So, the Titanic Artifact Exhibit is coming to Rochester this year. It opens on October 1st. My sister really wants me to go with her. And as torn as I am about it (it's run by RMS Titanic Inc. the company that salvaged piece of the hull from the shipwreck, which personally disgusts me) I'm going to go. The majority of my life has revolved around this ship, her passengers and her story. While I had been talking about becoming a journalist, I have finally decided that my life's goal is to work for the Titanic Historical Society. I want to preserve the ship for as long as possible, and I want to keep her and her history in the minds of people forever. Just because it has been 97 years doesn't mean it's any less important. I'm literally crying because I'll be seeing actual artifacts from her. Plates and glasses and lifebelts and all of that. I don't know how well I'm going to be able to contain my emotions while I'm there, I can promise that at one point I will probably break down into tears. Not many people understand me, but I'm so emotionally connected to this ship and her story. I don't know when we're going, but I hope it's within the first or second week of the opening. Plus tons of my money will probably be spent on memorabilia. So that's that.

♥ Meg

I got a new header for my journal and a new icon. I like the images in the header, but I dislike the quote (A Walk to Remember is one of my least favorite films/books of all time. Everything about it is cliched and bad, and the only good thing about the film is Mandy Moore.) But my love of the images and the techniques used for it were so great that they outweighed my dislike for the quote.

♥ Meg

"Barrett's Song" from Maury Yeston's musical "Titanic" What can I say, it's a wonderful song and I love Brian D'Arcy James' voice. My next most played song is "Being Alive" from the musical "Company" as sung by Raul Esparza who has the most beautiful voice ever in the entire world (next to Michael Crawford's back in the 80s.)

Rules:
01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences or fewer why you're using that wallpaper.
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this. The point is to see what you had on.

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I'm using this wallpaper, first off because I think it's lovely, I really love the techniques that the creator used. Also I'm using this wallpaper because as everybody knows, I'm a huge Doctor/Rose shipper, and this was one of the loveliest backgrounds I could find for the pairing (I've yet to find a good Nine/Rose one as of yet, but I'm always on the lookout.) So there you go...that's the background on my computer right now.

Also, does anybody know where I could find an awesome Donna wallpaper? I've looked everywhere, and I can't seem to find one that I really like. Same goes for Titanic backgrounds.

I have two, both of them were English teachers. One was Mariana Barry (formerly Mariana Taber) she was amazing, and she made me love literature more than I ever thought I could. She introduced me to so many wonderful books, including classics like "The Illiad" which I probably would never have read on my own. I'll always be thankful to her for increasing my love of English. My other favorite teacher is my mentor Dave Caiazza. He is amazing in every sense of the word. Because of the kind of high school I went to, we had very one on one relationships with our teachers, we were required to write journals that our teachers read and sit down for conferences with them once every two weeks. Dave is like the father I never had. He's extremely supportive of my decisions, but he also kicks my ass into shape when he knows I can do better than I'm doing. He doesn't coddle me and he doesn't mince words. If I fuck up big time, he'd probably say exactly that. So yeah, Mariana and Dave were my favorite teachers.

Oops, this is a day late but whatever. HAPPY BIRTHDAY JK ROWLING! YOU ARE SO AWESOME!!

ALL OF THEM! Seriously though my favorites are "Goblet of Fire" "Order of the Phoenix" and "Deathly Hallows" Out of those three I couldn't tell you which one is my absolute favorite, because they are all so very very wonderful and satisfying. "Half Blood Prince" is very close to entering into that equation up there.

♥ Meg

Dracula...more specifically Gary Oldman's Dracula/Prince Vlad. ♥

Ooh, books: Miss Marple, because how many old ladies do you know that can solve murders? TV: VERONICA MARS! I LOVE HER!

Just some of my favorite songs and pieces of music. Tried not to include musicals, but anything that I could find where Raul Esparza was singing went on here (granted it's only Marry Me A Little but still) My tastes range from Snow Patrol to Queen to Train to James Horner. Lol

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_mccourt

You were truly a wonderful human being and you will be missed.

Did anybody else on here know that Daniel Radcliffe was atheist? I find that so interesting, he just didn't seem like somebody that would be atheist. I also find it kind of cool that an atheist is playing a wizarding messiah. I mean, JK Rowling's books are filled with Christian allegory, especially in Harry's case, so I think it's great that somebody who doesn't believe in God can still channel a character who believes so deeply in the afterlife and higher powers. But then again I could just think it's awesome because I think Dan is a totally awesome guy who I would really want to hang out with sometime, and not just because he could introduce me to Rupert or Alan Rickman or Gary Oldman.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_walter_cronkite

R.I.P. It's people like you that have inspired people like me to become journalists.