The Full Moon reminds you that even if others aren't bending over backward to help, you can keep it together.

Thursday, November 13, 2008
7:21 pm My room

24.5 hours from now, COM Prom 2008, my very last COM Prom, will begin. My Blackberry's text inbox is full of texts discussing dress details and tomorrow night's plans. What are we drinking? What are we wearing? When are we meeting? The excitement is palpable.

Okay, I'm being a little dramatic (!), but everyone's pretty psyched to get dressed up and dance all night. In true Team Taria fashion, Maria and I planned our very own COM Prom Pregame Party. Last year's was quite a success, and this year certainly promises to deliver. Here is the text of the invitation Maria sent out:

Hooray For Tariawood (the theme of COM Prom is Hollywood)

Join Maria and Tara as they finally come out like Lindsey and Samantha, minus the coke and car crashes.

Host: Maria and Tara

Type: Other-Carnival

Date: Friday, November 14, 2008

Time: 7:30 pm - 9 pm

Description:

I guess the obvious assumption is Tara as Lindsey and Me as Samantha. I'm ok with that.

If you were at Com Prom either of the past two years and saw the spectacle that was Taria, you will know what to expect (pure chaos and insanity while dancing crazily in a hotel and then downing sausages on the T ride home).

Let's start the festivities at 7:30 pm in StuVi. Drink and be merry. We will have some liquor but you might want to bring some too for good measure.

We will depart for the hotel at 9 pm.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. The money goes to the Katie Bleck Scholarship Foundation. Take comfort in knowing you are supporting a truly good cause while being completely intoxicated.

There will be a DJ, cash bar, and raffle with prizes including a gift basket from the Harpoon Brewery.

Com Prom will be held at the Hyatt. It is neither limited to COM students nor is it a prom.

Here are some fav pics from past years:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Tara

Apparently, a certain party needs reassurance that you still have faith in a venture or relationship.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
2:26 pm My room

I love my new phone.

When I was home this past weekend, my parents bought me a Blackberry Pearl (in pink) as an early Christmas present. It's beautiful. Seriously, just looking at it makes me happy. That's a little sad, but I'm okay with it.

First of all, it's pink. This was a requirement. My last phone was a Pink Razr - Pink Razr the third. But somehow I got water in it, and it kept shutting off when I was in the middle of phone conversations. Very frustrating.

The phone before the Pink Razr III was my mom's Black Razr. I spilled an entire glass of diet Coke on that one. Well, actually, I spilled an entire glass of diet Coke on myself, while the phone was in my pocket. But the phone miraculously still worked after some airing out.

I was using the Black Razr temporarily after I knocked my Pink Razr II off a table one morning when I was trying to turn off the alarm. That phone started dialing letters and numbers on it's own. Especially the number 7. It really freaked me out.

And before that, was foreign Pink Razr that we don't really count because I ordered it from some sketchy website after I lost Pink Razr I at a Dave Matthews concert. Sketchy foreign Pink Razr was returned to Indonesia almost immediately.

Before the Pink Razr I, which I truly loved until I lost, was Silver Razr, which was probably my favorite phone of all time because I got it as a surprise graduation present right before I was leaving the house to graduate. I remember I was tweaking out because the phone I had at the time, which I believe used to be Stephanie's or Mom's (?) - I shall name it Tiny Flip Phone - stopped letting me text because Dad was at the store switching my number to the Silver Razr. I even called him freaking out about it while he was literally buying me the new phone.

Tiny Flip Phone was a good phone, but that was the one I ran up a $1000 phone bill on in Spain. I can't really blame the phone for that... So glad we can laugh about that now...............

And before that was Large Flip Phone, my first personal cell phone. I spent many nights waiting for boys to call me on it.

Hmmm... writing all of this I'm realizing I haven't had a lot of good luck with cell phones in the past.

Good thing we got insurance on this one.

Call me! Text me! Email me! It's all on my phone!
Love,
Tara

A quick edit of the master plan may become necessary.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
5:56 pm My room

That our nation voted Barack Obama to be our next president does not mean things are going to change. It means they have changed. It means that we, the people, have joined together and collectively said no. No to war. No to torture. No to oppression. No to extortion, corruption, and a lack of accountability. And then, one yes.

Yes we can.

Please read this blog post by CNN contributer, Bob Greene. It will give you the chills.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/05/greene-what-the-silence-said/

This is a good, good day.

Love,
Tara

You're standing up for the status quo today, even if that's usually not your style.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
10:10 am COM Student Services window

My tears of joy over Obama's win last night have dried up - fast. The fact that this country can do something to make me so proud, and then suddenly act so utterly intolerant is so discouraging.

Proposition 8 should not be this close.

It should not be a question.

It should not even be a proposition.

Let me define marriage for you. It is two people who love each other and want to commit to each other for the rest of their lives. I don't know, I just made that up. But it makes sense, right? Notice how I didn't mention anything about sexual orientation being a factor.

"Ooh, but the Bible says..." whine the bigots everywhere. Here's what I think. I think God has better things to do than to care about whether there are men loving women or women loving men or men loving men or women loving women. I think God just wants us to love each other. And as the "We are all created equal" country that we are supposed to be, the fact that we have to VOTE on two people's RIGHT to LOVE each other and to have the RIGHTS that go along with being married is absurd.

It's embarrassing.

It's upsetting.

All I want to do is celebrate Obama's victory, because it means good things for this country. It means change.

But how can I celebrate when people in California are about to be suppressed all over again?

It makes me sick.

You can count on folks to come through and take care of whatever they said they'd do.

Sunday, November 2, 2008
1:15 am Bed

Halloween 08: A Photo Essay

Sarah Palin aka Ali

Mary from There's Something About Mary aka Dre

Dora the Explorer aka Noelle

Nikita on her way to Studio 54 aka Maria

Polish Barbie aka Jess

A Sexy Devil aka Christina

A Flapper aka ...me

Happy Halloween!

Tara

It's a great day for organizing associations and relationships.

Friday, October 24, 2008
11:38 pm My room

I am proud of all my friends today. Chandler said that once on Friends (Kaitlyn, holla atcha girl), but he was being sarcastic. I am not being sarcastic. Read on for a things/people in my life I am proud of.

1.) Stephanie

Stephie. Nienie. Boodler. She's in my phone under "Beffy." Dad's personal fav is "Stephachoninokabloni." Whatever you call her, our little girl is all grown up and about to earn over $20 an hour. After a stressful week of applications and interviews, our little accountant landed a Co-op with TWO of Boston's top 4 accounting firms. But who will she choose?? Ernst & Young or PriceWaterhouseCooper? Either way, she can't lose. I couldn't be prouder of my little sister, even if she had to go and show me up by getting a PAID internship. I'll forgive her when she buys me lunch...and an apartment?

2.) Maria

This isn't so much of a pride thing as a "this is hilarious" thing. Enjoy the video I took at 2:30 this morning when Maria and I returned from An Tua Nua, and she couldn't stop hiccuping. I'm proud of all the hilarious moments she's given me.

3.) Saturday Night Live

Ratings are up almost 50% thanks to the hilarious election skits SNL has been churning out. Click the link to see the vid of last night's special election episode opener. Will Ferrell makes an appearance as George W. and Tina Fey is back as S.P. Too bad neither of them are actually on SNL anymore...

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-thursday-bush-endorsement/783981/

4.) Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/10

Sorry to keep drilling it into your head (Get it? I said "drilling." Do you get it??), but if you haven't read this piece on John McCain, you should. It's a little long, but I found it quite informative. Just keep in mind that it comes from a rather liberal-leaning magazine (Don't laugh. I'm trying to be "fair.")

5.) The Improper Bostonian

Ooh, to be young and Improper. Wait, I am! I just want to take this opportunity to gush about my internship a little bit. I heart it. Seriously. I actually look forward to going there. The interns I work with are all friendly and funny, and we get along so well. The editors and staff are all very chill, and I just love the whole environment there. Sitting at a computer for 8 hours can become a little tedious, but when you're happy with what you're doing, it's not so bad. Today, for example, I got to work on the music listings, I fact-checked at couple stories (I love talking on the phone - "Hi! This is Tara from the Improper Bostonian. How are you? That's great. I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions..." I fixed Art, organized the emails, and wrote the Art call out. I love it!

Love,

Tara

Oh, and I'm proud of Charlotte Sometimes too...: Listen to "How I Could Just Kill A Man": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtZqVE_OyzU

Your romantic spirit is fully engaged right now.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

1:12 pm  Lunch break at the Improper

While skimming perezhilton.com during my break, I came across this quote by Dave Sedaris.  I love his books, and I love this quote.  He sums up exactly how I feel about the upcoming election.

"I look at these people and can't quite believe that they exist.  Are they professional actors?  I wonder.  Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention?  To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane.  The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat.  'Can I interest you in the chicken?' she asks.  'Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?'  To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked."

- David Sedaris, on undecided voters.

Love,

Tara