Julia Lipnitskaia | FREE SKATE | LIVE 1-19-14

Figure Skating makes my jaw drop and this girl certainly is amazing. Now I want to go ice skating... even though all I can do is move forward.

Basket case

Sincerely yours, the breakfast club.

Still not sure why they decided to call themselves that. But it was still a great movie and I understand why it's an 80's icon. This is why I want to be an actress, I want to make people feel, to make them think. There is no way to walk away from that film without reflecting on how you treat others. And maybe you go back to school or work the next day and see that person you just can't stand and you end up treating them the same, but maybe you stop and just leave it be and try a little harder to be accepting. It's hard, I judge people constantly, it's unfortunate really. How do I know their background? How they were raised, what their thoughts and feelings are, if they are insecure of the very thing I am judging them for. Who am I to put them in a category when I haven't even given them a chance? But we all do it, and we all want to be accepted and to be loved by the people we idolize. What a messed up circle! Maybe we can never actually break the circle, but I hope that more people try and stretch and twist it and find ways to accept and be accepted. 

"I have a dream."

Sincerely yours, 

-Allison Hogge, a basket case. 

Being Thankful

Sitting here in weber states costume shop break room (that's a mouthful) eating peanut butter crakers with some knock off Nutella and a bowl of ramen, and I can't help thinking of how lucky and grateful I am of the department I am in. Not only are we educated in many aspects (today for instance we talked about the history of the 1940's very passionately, I danced for two hours, and then I read and discussed part of the play "Follies" by the one and only Stephen Sondheim) but they also help feed us. The costume break room has canned and packaged foods that are brought from fellow students and faculty to share. As a poor college student saving up for a trip to Europe, this is really a very wonderful service. It's amazing how when you start thinking of how grateful you are for something it always leads to being grateful for other things in life. And I am really thankful for my life, it can be hard but I have so many many blessings 

Thank you all

-Allison Hogge

Life in a nutshell

Every day should be treated thus

Passion beyond Normalicy

I find, in this world, there are many beautiful things. One thing that is both beautiful and agrivating to me is that we all have different oppinions. I myself have strong oppinions on almost everything in life, things that should and shouldn't be a certain way. I classify myself as a passionate person, to others I am obsessive and slightly odd. One of my dear friends today, while I was having one of my little too passionate to the point of a small breakdown moments, told me she believes that my ADHD has something to do with my passion. I somehow feel she is right, it's like somehow my inability to be still and the constant mode of alertness (real word? who knows.) makes me hyperaware of everything and I somehow have to submerge myself so deeply into everything that my perfectly right oppinions build into something crazy. I do believe this is one of the reasons I have been sligthly odd my entire life. Thankfully, for the past five years of my life, I have been able to embrace that fact and for the most part just ride with it.
In conclusion; this blog will be an area for me to write what is on my mind. The passions and oppinions of the moments and things that go on. I hope for it to not be too diary like and write the silly things of a young girls mind, but to share and to write, though it may turn slightly diaryish... I'll try for Journal instead of Diary.
Hoping for the best,
Allison Hogge.