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Monday, July 13, 2009

4:13PM - But which one would do a better job of running the Supreme Court?

Every time I hear someone refer to Chief Justice Roberts, it puts me in mind of the Dread Pirate Roberts. That's where my mind goes. Is anyone else having this issue?

Current mood: lazy
Current music: No Doubt - Suspension Without Suspense

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

2:03PM - Or is it subconscious?

Last night: Remarkably vivid dream in which I made out with Leonardo DiCaprio.

A few nights ago: Dream in which I made out with an anonymous, handsome Asian guy in a suit who did not speak English and magically appeared in my shower.

Dear Unconscious: Please send more.

Current mood: impressed
Current music: Battleship Pretension

Sunday, June 21, 2009

10:15PM - I can't, Nia Vardalos.

I love "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". I own it on DVD, and if I run across it on cable, I am liable to sit and watch it until it ends. It's broad and and corny and predictable, but I think it's really charming and well done, and in the end, I would not hesitate to call it a genuinely good movie. I really enjoy it a lot.

I also really like Nia Vardalos, and I want her to keep working. But her two new movies - "My Life In Ruins", which came out a couple of weeks ago, and "I Hate Valentine's Day", which opens July 3rd, both look so boring and dumb and predictable in a bad way that I already know I will not see them. Which doesn't bode well, right? Because I think a lot of people have either forgotten who she is, or just don't really care one way or the other. And if I, a person who likes Vardalos and wants her to succeed, won't see these movies, then who will? Because seriously, they look bad.

They both have a distinct feeling of going back to the well. "My Life In Ruins" features a Greek-American woman who's unhappy with her life achieving happiness in a way that prominently features her Greek-ness. "I Hate Valentine's Day" (which Vardalos wrote and directed herself) re-teams her with John Corbett, and once again, she's a lady who isn't very good at relationships, only to become good at them through the laidback, mom-friendly charm of Corbett.

Featured in the "Ruins" trailer: A taciturn bus driver who magically becomes handsome when he shaves his beard, foreigners who pretend not to speak English until Vardalos says something embarrassing that they can humorously comment on, and a lot of appliances malfunctioning and people yelling about those malfunctions.

In the "Valentine's Day" trailer: A sassy lady (you can tell she's more confident than she was in "Big Fat Greek Wedding" because she's blonde and wears noticeable eye makeup) with sassier gay male sidekicks does not believe we are meant to be in relationships, so she breaks off all of hers after five dates. But then John Corbett shows up, and they go on five dates, and she totally still likes him afterward! But how can she break her rule?! Also, slo-mo running in a dress, and the following exchange:

Gay Sidekick: Let me give you some advice - woo HIM!
Vardalos: This is hard! What do guys like besides pizza and morning sex?!

I'm sorry, Nia Vardalos, but I can't. I would if I could, but I can't.

Current mood: hungry
Current music: SModcast

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

2:12AM - Creepin' on the Light Rail.

I got on the Light Rail the other day, and it was INSANELY crowded. Everyone was packed into whatever space there was, and of course I wound up as part of the indistinguishable writhing mass that forms near the doors, where only a lucky few on the outside edges have handles or poles to hang onto when the train starts and stops. The rest of us just have to brace ourselves and try not to fall into strangers, which usually doesn't work.

So the train pulls out of the station, and I and another young woman around my age manage to lose our balance and basically fall into the lap (he was standing, but you know what I mean) of the guy behind us. We all kind of laugh awkwardly and apologize to each other, and then another guy next to the one we fell into does an exaggerated "aw, shucks!" finger-snap and goes, "Some guys have all the luck!"

Gross.

On another note, I just bought this laptop about two weeks ago, and the V key is already stuck. Life is so frustrating.

Current mood: groggy
Current music: ELO - Mr. Blue Sky

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

12:43AM - Seriously?

I realize I'm a couple years late to the party, but I started reading "Twilight" this week, and it is really bad. SO bad. I'm pretty sure I could have written it. In fact, I think I did write some things in about eighth grade that were of similar quality.


"Aren't you hungry?" he asked, distracted.
"No." I didn't feel like mentioning that that my stomach was already full - of butterflies.


OH MY GOD STEPHENIE MEYER.

Current mood: frustrated

Sunday, May 31, 2009

1:38AM - I am typing this on my new laptop. Yay!

You're the Tortured Intellectual!
You're the Tortured Intellectual!
Take What sort of Hipster are you? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.</p>

You're sensitive, you're emotional, and you wonder why everyone else in the world exists on a different plane. You cannot eat, breathe, or sleep without analyzing each action to death. You're usually sombre, depressed, lethargic, but you can be nearly glad from time to time. You wear whatever you can find on your cluttered bedroom floor. You carry books, notepads, reading glasses with you wherever you go. You have friends, but only a few who truly get where you're coming from. You frequent coffee shops, libraries, and the less crowded bars. You're obsessed with past people, past ideas, past lives. You wish you could die and be reborn as Jack Kerouac.


I'm pretty sure I'm not a hipster at all, but I guess if I'm anything, I'm probably closest to this.

Current mood: exhausted
Current music: MTV Movie Awards Confidential

Thursday, May 7, 2009

3:51AM - Hypochondria(?) haiku.

Brief, stabbing headaches.
Dehydration? No caffeine?
Or deadly tumor?

Current mood: distressed
Current music: Bobby Darin - If I Were A Carpenter

Saturday, April 4, 2009

1:20AM - "I meant to last it out and not come back at all."

Sylvia Plath's son, Nicholas Hughes, committed suicide on March 22nd, and I just heard about it today. Have you ever had it happen that you hear about something after the fact - something that has nothing to do with you personally - and find yourself indignant that nobody told you sooner? That's how I feel right now. I also have the totally nonsensical feeling that, because of who his mother was, someone - maybe even Nicholas Hughes himself - should have seen this coming and stopped it.

Current mood: awake
Current music: Iron & Wine - Free Until They Cut Me Down

Friday, March 13, 2009

5:44PM - Well, there goes my day.

The Cootie-Catcher: Blast From The Past, Glimpse Of The Future.

Reading this post on Jezebel, as well as all four pages of comments, gave me so much joy. I had totally forgotten about some of these games until right now. In case you were wondering, it turns out I'm going to marry Leonardo DiCaprio. The numbers have spoken.

Also, "Heathers: The Musical" is actually happening. Under any other circumstances, my reaction to this would land somewhere between exasperation and dismay. But here's the thing: First, it's being developed by Andy Fickman and Kevin Murphy, the same guys who brought us "Reefer Madness: The Musical". Second, it's going to star Kristen Bell and Christian Campbell as Veronica and JD. I will now be sorely disappointed if it is not The Greatest Thing Ever.

Current mood: enthralled
Current music: Patti Smith - Break It Up

Monday, March 2, 2009

12:47PM - This gets my geek dander up.

Someone I know sent me an invitation to a Facebook group. The description of the group was thus:

"This is a group that believes that if Heath Ledger was still alive he wouldn't have won the Oscar. AND YOU DON'T GIVE OSCARS TO DEAD PEOPLE. YOU GIVE THEM HONORS." (Caps-lock his.)

Let's be clear. I am the last person on Earth who has any right whatsoever to accuse someone of getting too into in the Oscars. But. . . this just seems so dumb. It's one thing to assert that Ledger wouldn't have won if he hadn't died. I don't know if I agree with it or not, but it's an interesting question to ponder if you care about that stuff, which I do. What bothers me more is the caps-locked part. "You don't give Oscars to dead people"? Who doesn't? The Academy? Because. . . yes, they do. They've done it before. There's no rule against it. And what on earth does he mean when he says they should be given "honors"? What are those? Is he talking about the Montage of Death? Because Heath Ledger was in that, last year, when he died. Unless he means the Academy Honorary Award, but the whole point of that is to give someone an award before they die, which is why it only ever goes to old people like Ennio Morricone and Robert Altman (the latter being a good example of getting in right under the wire - Altman died the next year). And anyway, that award is supposed to be for a person whose contributions transcend a specific category. So while I'm sure Heath Ledger was a great guy and everything, giving him a posthumous Honorary Award seems a bit much.

On the spectrum of Oscar getting things "wrong", this seems like a silly thing to go forming Facebook groups about.

1:35AM - Overheard at the Gap.

A teenage boy and a guy who is presumably his father are shopping for jeans for the boy.

Boy: I like the way these ones fit, but I want them longer.

Father: You want them longer?

Boy: I like them, but I want them longer.

Father: They're plenty long.

Boy: I want 'em longer.

Father: They're dragging on the floor!

Boy: I want 'em longer.

Father: You're crazy! They're plenty long!

Boy: What about when I wear high-heeled shoes?

Father: That's not funny.


They really were ridiculously long, too. So either the teenage boy was just being a dick, or he actually does need jeans for when he wears high-heeled shoes, and his father just hasn't come to terms with that yet. Either way, I am amused.

Current mood: sleepy
Current music: Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around Comes Around

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

2:06AM - It was sort of hard to smile at customers after that.

So this woman comes up to the cash register to return a sweater, and in the middle of the transaction, she suddenly bursts into tears. Turns out she bought the sweater for her son, and the reason she's returning it is because he was killed in a car accident before she could give it to him.

The guy I was working with asked if he could give her a hug (she declined), and said that he would pray for her and her family, but I just sort of froze. I think I managed to get an "I'm sorry" out, but that was about it. I was the one who was ringing her up, so I also had to say "I'll put that amount back on your credit card," which seemed like an inadequate and sort of horrible thing to say, but I didn't really know what else to do. I felt really awful about it as soon as she left, like I should have said or done something more. I mean, I'm sure the last thing on this woman's mind is how employees at the Gap are reacting to her grief. But I still felt vaguely ashamed of myself for the rest of the day.

I'm really no good with stuff like that.

Current mood: sad

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

8:36PM - Oscar nomination predictions.

BEST PICTURE:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire

Four of them seem like locks to me - the only one I can see getting pushed out is "The Dark Knight." If that happens, it will be for either "Doubt" or "Gran Torino."

BEST DIRECTOR
Danny Boyle, "Slumdog Millionaire"
David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Ron Howard, "Frost/Nixon"
Christopher Nolan, "The Dark Knight"
Andrew Stanton, "WALL-E"

I usually just go with my gut on Oscar predictions, but with this one I'm actually following a formula. The vast majority of the time (at least in recent years), there's one directing nominee whose movie isn't nominated for Best Picture. I normally plan for that in my predictions. Last year, I went with my gut and broke that rule, and I turned out to be wrong, so I now follow it whether it makes logical sense to me or not. For that reason, I'm leaving Gus Van Sant off the list and putting Andrew Stanton in his place. I think the Academy will want to throw something WALL-E's way, and Van Sant is the only one whose exclusion wouldn't completely shock me.

BEST ACTOR
Clint Eastwood, "Gran Torino"
Frank Langella, "Frost/Nixon"
Sean Penn, "Milk"
Brad Pitt, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Mickey Rourke, "The Wrestler"

Richard Jenkins has a chance for "The Visitor," and if he does get in, it'll be in Brad Pitt's place. But I still think the momentum behind "Benjamin Button" will keep Pitt in and Jenkins out.

BEST ACTRESS
Anne Hathaway, "Rachel Getting Married"
Sally Hawkins, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Melissa Leo, "Frozen River"
Meryl Streep, "Doubt"
Kate Winslet, "Revolutionary Road"

I'm going with Melissa Leo over Angelina Jolie for "Changeling," and I honestly can't tell if it's because I really think it will happen that way, or just because I'm sort of tired of hearing about Angelina Jolie. She's a great actress and everything, but. . . really. I'm exhausted. Plus, Leo's racked up more critic's prizes.

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Josh Brolin, "Milk"
Robert Downey Jr., "Tropic Thunder"
Phillip Seymour Hoffman, "Doubt"
Heath Ledger, "The Dark Knight"
Michael Shannon, "Revolutionary Road"

People have been counting Michael Shannon out lately, but I think he'll make the cut. I just really like him, and I think he did a good job with a role that was kind of stupid. And anyway, he plays a mean-spirited, ugly-truth-spewing mental patient, so whether you think it was stupid or not, you can't deny that it's just the kind of stupid the Academy loves to reward. I also don't know who his competition would be. James Franco's role in "Milk" seems to have been overshadowed by Brolin's, and Dev Patel in "Slumdog Millionaire" just doesn't feel right to me. (And anyway, isn't he really more of a lead? I haven't seen the movie yet, but that's the impression I've gotten.)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Viola Davis, "Doubt"
Taraji P. Henson, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
Marisa Tomei, "The Wrestler"
Kate Winslet, "The Reader"

Amy Adams could also sneak in for "Doubt," in which case she'd replace either Taraji P. Henson or Marisa Tomei. But I think a lot of people view her role as very similar to her turns in "Junebug" and "Enchanted," and if anything, "Doubt" as a whole has been losing steam rather than gaining it.

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Woody Allen, "Vicky Cristina Barcelona"
Dustin Lance Black, "Milk"
Mike Leigh, "Happy-Go-Lucky"
Jenny Lumet, "Rachel Getting Married"
Andrew Stanton and Jim Reardon, "WALL-E"

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire"
David Hare, "The Reader"
Peter Morgan, "Frost/Nixon"
Eric Roth, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
John Patrick Shanley, "Doubt"

Current mood: productive
Current music: Bells Are Ringing - Is It A Crime?

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

4:13PM - Late-to-the-party New Year's post #1

1. Where were you when 2008 began?
At home sick. It was lame.

2. Who were you with?
My parents and grandmother. I think Ben was at a party.

3. Where will you be when 2008 ends?
I was at First Avenue with Sakari, Cassie, and a bunch of Cassie's friends from Duluth.

4. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
My resolutions last year were to avoid tooth-staining beverages (coffee, tea, red wine), clean my room, and write every day. The last two did not happen at all. I did pretty well with the first until May, when working, going to school, and stage managing "Honk" made life without coffee an impossibility. After that, I pretty much stained my teeth with wild abandon for the rest of the year. My resolution for next year is that if I decide not to do something, it should be because I don't want to do it, and not because I don't think I can. I had someone tell me this specifically about acting, but it struck me as something that I could stand to apply to my whole life. Avoiding things (or people) I want because they scare me is basically the root of all my problems, I think.

5. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before?
Stage managed a mainstage show. Wrote a short play that actually got performed. Produced a Fringe show. Did a voice-over for an animated short. Got voted into a position of power in an organization. Made friends at work - like actual friends, who I also hang out with outside of work. (I've worked consistently since high school, and this is the first time it's happened. Sad but true.) Stayed out all night.

6. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.

7. Did anyone close to you die?
No. I'd really like to keep that streak going.

8. What countries did you visit?
Zero. I'd like to change that, if not in 2009, then in some other year that's not very far away. Oddly enough, I saw a Long John Silver's commercial the other day that made me really want to go to England again.

9. How many different states did you travel to in 2008?
Zero.

10. What would you like to have in 2009 that you lacked in 2008?
Some sort of non-platonic male companionship would be nice.

11. What date from 2008 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Election night was pretty exciting.

12. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting "Reefer Madness" off the ground. It was one of the first times in my life that something I'd imagined and fantasized about actually happened - and in order to make it happen, I had to ask people for things, and be forthcoming about ideas and what I wanted, and generally do a lot of other things that have always terrified me. It was kind of a big thing for me, and I honestly don't think I would have been able to do it before this year.

13. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I did not.

14. What was the best thing you bought?
I love my iPod a lot. Maybe too much.

15. Where did most of your money go?
Tuition and textbooks, of course. Mall food, because I'm frequently too lazy to bring food with me to work. I've also become shamefully devoted to Starbucks this year. I think I went there every single day during "Honk." I'm sure if I could see a total of how much I spent there this year, it would be horrifying.

16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
"Reefer Madness." I was also pretty ecstatic to have passed all my classes.

17. What song will always remind you of 2008?
"Forever," by Chris Brown, because whenever I hear it, the first thing I think of is Maddy at the State Fair going, "I love this song! Isn't it romantic?!" Also, all of the songs from "Reefer."

18. Compared to this time last year, are you:
-happier or sadder? I'm definitely happier.
-thinner or fatter? I've gone up a size. I should probably make a resolution to do something about that.
-richer or poorer? Poorer. My parents have been borrowing from me a lot lately, and whenever they pay me back, my impulse is to go, "Gosh, I sure was a good person for lending them that money! I deserve a treat! Like an iPod!" And pretty soon it's like they never paid me back at all.

19. What do you wish you'd done more of?
A lot of people I know were in shows this year, and I don't think I saw any of them.

20. What do you wish you'd done less of?
Facebook stalking. It's just not good for anybody, and cutting back on it is another resolution of mine. Of course, one could argue that my compulsion to haunt someone's Facebook is probably a byproduct of my sometimes crippling fear of starting real-life conversations with them. So it's sort of two-pronged resolution that includes the dictum, "Be less terrified."

21. How did you spend Christmas?
At home with my immediate family, like always. We got each other gifts from the dollar store. It was actually really fun.

22. How many people did you kiss in 2008?
Zero. Thanks for reminding me. I think I could have gotten one in under the wire on New Year's Eve, too, but I was still a little too shy and little too sober to seal the deal.

23. How many one-night stands?
Zero.

24. What was your favorite TV program?
"Ugly Betty," as far as shows that are actually still on. But Sakari also introduced me to "Stella," and I am now obsessed.

25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
No. If anything, there are people who I might have said I disliked last year who I like a lot more now.

26. What was the best book you read?
"How To Be Good," by Nick Hornby. He's just awesome all the time, basically.

27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Sakari introduced me to Lady GaGa, and I don't think anything will ever be the same.

28. What did you want and get?
"Reefer Madness," and no F's at school.

29. What did you want and not get?
A dude. There were a few who looked promising, and they all managed to elude me.

30. What was your favorite film of this year?
I think it's a tie between "The Dark Knight" and "Let The Right One In." I really have to see "The Dark Knight" again before I can make a judgment like that.

31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 21. Sakari and Ben and Nick and I visited Meg at the bar where she works. We sat around talking, drinking, and eating chili cheese tater tots, which totally exist and are delicious. It was awesome.

32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Um. . . it's hard to say. I was going to say a boyfriend, but I now that I think about, I'm not sure it's true. The satisfaction I got this year was of a kind that's really completely separate from that. I almost feel like having the events of this year behind me will make having a boyfriend later more satisfying than it would have been at any point during the year.

33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2008?
"What was clean." That's basically how I do things.

34. What was your most embarrassing moment of 2008?
The worst I can think of are some moments during "Reefer" auditions and rehearsals when I maybe could have conducted myself a little better, and come off more professional and less like an inexperienced person who was in over her head. But they're really pretty minor things that I'm not even sure were avoidable.

35. What are your plans for 2009?
Keep working, keep passing classes, help out with YAC's Fringe show however I can.

36. How many concerts did you see in 2008?
Two. That seems to be my yearly average.

37. Did you have a favorite concert in 2008?
Seeing Loudon Wainwright III was really amazing. And he signed my ticket stub!

38. What kept you sane?
Sakari, basically.

39. Who did you miss?
It isn't really a person so much as groups of people, and the dynamic that goes along with the group. For example, I miss the "Honk" cast and the "Reefer" cast, even though there's a lot of overlap between those two groups, and I even still see some of those people pretty frequently. I really like being in or around a cast every day, and when I'm not, I miss it.

40. Who was the best new person you met?
That's an impossible question. There tons of them, and they're all extremely important to me.

Current mood: peaceful
Current music: Cyndi Lauper - Witness

Monday, December 15, 2008

1:04PM - Finals week haiku.

I knew the answers!
The passing streak continues!*
There's hope for me yet!



*I think! I'll be really surprised if I failed!

Current mood: optimistic
Current music: Hilary Duff - So Yesterday

Sunday, December 14, 2008

2:47PM - It's a meme!

01. What are your nicknames?
Maddy calls me Ritzi. That's pretty much it.

02. How do you style your hair?
I don't. I really just wash and dry it.

03. What's new in your life right now?
Not a ton. We're working on a new YAC show, which seems like it's going to be pretty cool. I'm going to be 21 in three days, which means a whole new world of legal drinking will be open to me. That's it, really.

04. How many colours are you wearing now?
Dark blue (jeans), dark blue and white (sweatshirt), green and black (T-shirt).

05. Are you an introvert or extrovert?
I'm mostly an introvert. I think I've actually become more introverted over the years.

06. What was the last book you read?
"How To Be Good," by Nick Hornby. It's really, really good, and you should read it. I think it's my favorite book I've read all year.

07. Do you nap a lot?
I have been lately, because I've been getting scheduled for late nights a lot at work. So I tend to get up early and go to class, come home, take a nap, and then go to work.

08. If the person you secretly like is already taken, what would you do?
Feel briefly disappointed. I know this, because it happens a lot.

09. Is there anything that has made you unhappy these days?
School.

10. What's your favorite dessert?
I like creme brulée.

11. How long does it take you to get ready in the morning?
Honestly, like an hour. Hour and a half if I'm taking a shower and drying my hair. I can get out of the house in ten minutes if I have to, but I much prefer to be able to goof off and watch TV while I do stuff.

12. What websites do you visit daily?
LiveJournal and Facebook are the only ones I really visit every single day.

13. What classes are you taking right now? And if you're not in school any more, what's your job?
Human Origins. I was also taking Introduction to Women's Studies, but I wound up withdrawing from it.

14. Do you like to clean?
No. You can tell this from looking at the sea of random stuff that my bedroom floor has become.

15. What's the last song that got stuck in your head?
Some Christmas song we play at the Gap. I don't what it's called or who sings it, but the singer is female, and the words "two thousand miles" and "because it's Christmas time" show up a lot.

16. What's the last movie you saw?
"Zack and Miri Make A Porno." I enjoyed it.

17. What's better: eternal love or memorable love?
One would think that any love good enough to last forever would probably be pretty memorable. But I guess I'd say eternal, because breakups suck, and a memorable love can just as easily be memorable because it was excruciating.

18. What is your least favorite thing to do that you have to do everyday?
DISHES. I really, really hate doing dishes. Living somewhere with a dishwasher is one of my most cherished dreams.

19. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
Cookie dough. It's two desserts in one!

20. What are you most looking forward to in the coming month?
My birthday, New Year's Eve, and the partying that will hopefully accompany both. Seeing everyone who's back in town from college for Christmas. The YAC reading. Winter break in general.

Current mood: okay
Current music: Lady Sovereign - Tango

Monday, November 10, 2008

3:27AM - Write your memoir in six words.

Slow learner counting on long life.

Current mood: frustrated
Current music: The Wild Party - This Is What It Is

Monday, October 27, 2008

12:47AM - Some realizations I've come to this year.

1. New friends are something to be embraced, and even pursued - NOT shied away from. Case in point: Tonight I went to the first meeting of my Jane Austen book club. No, seriously. I'm really in a Jane Austen book club, and it's actually really cool. It might be a little hyperbolic to call it a club, because there are only three of us - me, and Cassie and Anna, two girls who work at the Gap with me. We went to Cassie's house, where we ate delicious apple crisp that she made for us, talked about "Northanger Abbey," watched the movie version, and also watched "Pretty In Pink," for no other reason than because Anna had never seen it. It was really fun. In the past, upon being asked to join this club, I probably would have come up with some reason not to, and that would have been a huge loss.

2. New experiences are also to be embraced. Case in point: Sakari, Dawn and Adia are going to Mexico for a week over winter break, and they asked me to come along. It remains to be seen if this is really financially feasible, but supposing that it is, I'm really excited about it. (I've never been there before, despite that fact that it's the home of my ancestors.)

3. It's very possible that going to school will never not be a struggle for me. That being said, I've also come to realize that I should definitely do it anyway. I hope that at some point I can enjoy it more than I have so far. But even if I never do, I'm going to finish school and get a degree in SOMETHING.

Axioms of the week:
1. There are many things more important than sleep.
2. Nothing is as big a deal as you think it is.
3. D is still passing.

That last one is especially important right about now.

Current mood: exhausted
Current music: SModcast

Friday, October 10, 2008

6:32PM - Twin disappointments.

Apparently everyone - even Michelle Obama - adds a second 'N' to their pronunciation of the word "pundit," as though it were spelled "pundant."

Apparently everyone - even Jeffrey Eugenides - drops the first 'R' in "February."

This cannot stand.

Current mood: drained
Current music: Filmspotting

Saturday, September 20, 2008

2:47AM - Memememememememe.

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.

Some of these are ridiculously easy. )

Current mood: dorky
Current music: "The X Effect." Thank you, MTV.

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