{all checked in}

well, today's day two of my program! yesterday morning my roomates and i met up at visit at 7:30...sadly only four of us managed to get placed into an apt. together - dana, jaclyn, cait, and i - but amanda and jess are right across the hall, and our other two roomates - jenna and lindsay - seem pretty nice. we're in patterson 12207, and it's such a nice apartment! very roomy, though the beds are tiny, as expected...

after check in, dana, cait, jaclyn, amanda, jess, and i all went to casting together. the casting building was so cool - michael graves designed it, and it was full of murals and cool little details. i found out my assignment - dinoland in animal kingdom. at first i was really disappointed that i didn't get hollywood studios, but i've really warmed up to the idea since. cait is working in dinoland too (but merch), and our hours will be really good, we'll always have nights off, and hey, i might get to work at dinosaur...i love that ride! i know any costume i have is going to be really horrible, but hey, aren't they all?

after casting we came back to patterson and started unpacking, and then we went to lunch at panera...mmm. and we already used our cast member discounts - sweet! at 3 we had our housing meeting in the big, freezing cold room at the commons...it was long, but some of it was fun/funny. after that we walked back to patterson and finished unpacking (mostly). we were going to go to the polynesian for dinner and to watch the fireworks, but the weather wasn't looking too wonderful, so we decided to go to the apartment of some of our friends for dinner instead - it was so awesome to finally meet everyone i've talked to online for so long, and everyone was so much fun. we ate and played some fun games, and then stopped by the pool for a little while.

all in all, yesterday was super busy and super exhausting, but a lot of fun. i can't wait for traditions tomorrow (even though we all got the morning one, meaning we have to catch the bus from chatham at SIX FORTY-FIVE AM!!!), and then my first day at DAK on saturday. today we rearranged our apartment a little, and then we're going grocery shopping and to walmart, etc. i'm really excited because friday after traditions, we're going to meet everyone in the parks for our first trip, and then we're going to jellyrolls that night! it should be lots of fun.

{2/3 TO GO!!!}

yes, i'm actually blogging, and yes, it's midnight...lol. two things for now, besides the fact that i only have TWO DAYS UNTIL I LEAVE FOR FLORIDA!! AND ONLY THREE DAYS UNTIL CHECK IN!!!!! still totally in disbelief...
anyway...

here's my latest vlog, where you can kind of see what i packed (and you can also see me with permed hair, woopee, lol):


secondly, i've got something to show you on the crafty side of things...i'm a digital scrapbooker, and i want to actually do a whole scrapbook dedicated to my program. we'll see how well that works out by the time january rolls around, but for now i wanted to start, so here's my first page, about my purple folder :)

did you spot the hidden mickey?

well, that's it for now...i'll blog again soon, if i remember to do so amidst the excitement ;)

{only 8? whaaattt??}

hey all! again with the no blogging - sorry! i've been all over the place - literally - since my last post (long island, north carolina, south carolina, upstate new york), and i'll be going back to nc on thursday to get everything together for my move to florida! i absolutely can not believe that in 6 days i'll be 22 and in 7 days, i'll be IN FLORIDA!!! sure, i don't check in until the 19th, but on the 18th, i'll be at the sunspree, and hopefully meeting up with some of the other totally awesome cp's.

speaking of awesome cp's, tonight we're having a final roomate chat to set up details of when/where we're all meeting up the morning of check in - hopefully we'll all remember this time lol. i can't wait to meet all of my roomies in person next week!

i have almost everything i need, i just need to go get towels, a diffuser for my blow dryer (oh yeah, i got a perm recently, so i'm readjusting to life with curly hair, haha), and some other bath stuff, and then we have to pack it all into whatever car we take. the original plan was to rent a car and drive down, then my dad would return the rental car at the airport and fly back to nc. now he wants to bring my car down, but i don't have my license, so i won't be driving it (though my roomates can, etc), and also the registration sticker is expired (which dad seems to think isn't an actual problem)...we'll see if i can talk him out of it.

i've unfortunately had a slight problem recently - i tried to email my recruiter a week or so ago to thank her and remind her that i'd really love to work at hollywood studios, but my email came back to me. then today i emailed tech support to see what the problem is, and that email came back too. very sad...i know it's not really a big deal, but i just thought it would be helpful to remind my recruiter that i like studios the best...we'll see what happens at casting, i guess!

{fifty five...}

hey all! i haven't blogged or vlogged in a while...i feel like i have nothing disney related to talk about, but i thought i'd drop by my much-neglected blog and say hi! the summer seems to be going by so fast and somehow soooo slow at the same time. we only have 55 days left until check in at vista (!!!), and while that's a much better number than 150 or 100 or even 70, it still feels like it's ages away. i think it also feels slower because so many of the awesome people i met on facebook/youtube are already there, working and hanging out together and being generally awesome. i can't wait until the rest of us are there with them!

as i have nothing else to talk about, go watch the super cute short disney video here!

{hey there!}

wow...i haven't posted anything a while. i've done quite a few vlogs since the purple folder came - you can check them out on my youtube if you want to watch them. another cool thing on youtube (besides the awesome julia nunes, who Dana introduced us all to) are the cast videos - we've done three so far, with another one in the works. here's the most recent:



i can't believe there are less than 150 days left until i get to disney! i feel like it's going to go by sooo slow and so fast at the same time. i found a roomate, cait, who seems really nice, so i'm excited to meet her along with our apartment mates and everyone else who's going to be there.

my best friend (the other one, who isn't on the cp) had an interview on friday for some of the professional internships. i hope she gets one, because then we'd be in disney at the same time. i have a crazy plan in my head where she gets a PI, and our other bff goes full time, and they find an apartment and we all get to work together - it would be so much fun! but even if that doesn't happen, i know i'm going to have all of my amaaaazing friends that i've met on facebook and youtube - you guys are the best!

i think that's all i have for today - i'll be sure to keep posting my vlogs here and writing here whenever i have something interesting to talk about.

{finally! my purple folder vlog!}

And yes, I realized after I made the vlog that the folder doesn't have leopard print - it's a pattern of Mickey!!!

{OMG PURPLE FOLDER}

EUFLFEEPWORWUHTUOGUJHBQOIG
CYBN;KURD;P0IYIH
RXSEYUVIUOIN;OTYBOINP

that is how i feel right now.
I GOT MY PURPLE FOLDER!!!!

i'm making a vlog about it later...
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

{day 26...i'm dying here!}

hey all...day 26 and STILL NOTHING! i'm going crazy! monday will be one month! if i haven't heard anything by monday evening, i'm emailing my recruiter to see what the heck is up. just wanted to check in and say hi and that i'm still alive, trying not to obsess and failing miserably. i just keep reminding myself that if i had been rejected, i would have heard by now. right? right. i'm just going to go with that theory.

{day 20 and still waiting}

hey all. i know i haven't posted in a while, but i'm really enjoying the vlogging more than the blogging. i've done two vlogs since my last post - you can check them out at my youtube if you want to watch them.

so, a TON of people have gotten their folders - i think about 25 people at this point - including Cait, Evan, Dana (apartment mate love!), and Lauren (though Lauren got accepted for Spring Advantage, which is just weird, so we have to see how that plays out), plus a ton of other people I can't remember right now. i'm so excited for everyone, but i'm definitely wicked jealous...i want MY folder too! Stacey and I both interviewed on feb. 2nd, so I think we'll get ours the same day - she thinks the 23rd. mine will probably get here the 23rd and then sit in the mailroom for two days before they finally shove it into my mailbox. stupid mailroom. :(

the chatroom last night had some issues, but we used our awesome teamwork and worked it out. i wish i went into the chat more often - it is so much fun to talk to you all about whatever random stuff is happening.

so yeah, that is whats up...nothing too exciting...you'll know when i got my folder because my blog entry will just be a bunch of capslocked mess that day lol.

{day 15...still no word!}

here's my vlog from yesterday...



also, CONGRATS to Elle!!! she got her purple folder, and we're all seriously jealous. she waited three weeks (i think), so thats a good sign for the rest of us. :)

{day 9...my campus...}

That was yesterday. I actually had a scare about 15 minutes after I uploaded that vlog - my boyfriend called from our student union building and told me I had a package slip in my mailbox (there wasn't one that morning when I checked). I started freaking out, so he went to the mailroom to see if he could pick the package up for me, and once he got it he was like 'its not disney...' it was horrible. Ugh. I wonder how I'm going to make it through the rest of February.

{vlog numero tres!}

{a case of the mondays...}

so, today is my first day of class of my last semester of college! scary! luckily i only have one class, but unluckily, its geology. :(

also, my computer flipped out last night, but this morning i ran a scan on it and its fine now. i'm just keeping my fingers crossed that it keeps working. i want to do another vlog later today, and i can't really upload it if my computer is dead, huh? i think i'm kind of addicted to this vlogging thing, by the way - watching them and making them. they're so much fun!

i have to get to class, but i'll 'see' you all later. :)

{another vlog!}

Here's my second vlog...it's just a little bit more info about me and some shoutouts. Also, I added a count of the days its been since my interview at the bottom of this page...it'll be a week on Monday! Move your butt fast, little purple folder! ;)

{my first vlog}

Also, just a note: when I just check my email, I had a message from my recruiter! Yay! :)

{day 1...}

...and the wait for that darned purple folder is killing me!

Looking on the bright side, my dad's assistant faxed my role checklist this morning, so now everything really is done. I'm really hoping that my interviewer was right about finding out by the end of February...if not I'll definitely be going crazy.

As for my non-Disney life (hard to believe, right?), I got a ton of stuff that I need for my thesis today at the thrift store, so that's awesome. I got enough wallpaper for the walls (I'm 98% sure it's enough), and a sweet side table, plus a really gorgeous lamp (of course it doesn't work, so the bf or his dad will be rewiring it)...I also got a few really cute tea cups. My thesis is based around Alice in Wonderland, if you couldn't tell already, and I'm sure I'll be writing more about it as time goes on...mostly about how stressed out I am about it, lol (ok, its not that hilarious, I actually had a panic attack about it the other day, but otherwise its fine lol).

In other fun news, my dad, the bf, and I are seeing Wicked on Thursday - 5th row orchestra! I haven't seen Wicked in sooo long, so I'm pretty psyched about it.

'See' you all around soon!

{the wait begins...}

well, i had my interview today with christy/kristi/however you spell her name (her name has become somewhat of a joke on the facebook group, lol). anyway, she was really nice and easy to talk to, and the interview was was quicker and less intense than i thought it would be. she didn't ask me about my favorite character or rides, but for attractions she asked where i'd like to be, and i said hollywood studios. i didn't even get the space mountain question! but we spent most of the 'role' time talking about photopass - how i'm used to the equipment and carrying it around, etc - so i'm really hoping that when i get that purple folder it will say photopass: hollywood studios. she told me i'd know by the end of february, so i only have to wait three and a half weeks tops. i'm already dying! at least i'm not nervous anymore.

i probably should introduce myself too, huh? i'm emily, a senior studio art major at hartwick college in oneonta, ny. i have two concentrations - photo and digital art, but photo is really my passion. i'll be graduating in may, and i know that i'm not going to grad school anytime soon, so i knew this was my last chance to do the college program. the economy is dead anyway, so i figured this was my best option lol. at first, when i filled out the application, it was more of an alternative incase i couldn't find a job/paying internship anywhere, but as the days passed and i got closer to my interview and got to know some of the people on the facebook group, i realized that it wasn't an alternative at all but actually my first choice. my dad is definitely a little skeptical, but that's too bad lol - everyone else has been majorly supportive. i know it will be hard to be away from my bf for 5 months - we've practically lived together for almost 3 and 1/2 years now, but we can make it work. he'll just have to come visit me.

anyway, enough rambling. i'll check in soon, when i have more to report. :)