ne me quitte pas

Yet again, here I am, watching Buffy, but that's to be expected by now.

Buffy is dating Riley Finn, a member of the Initiative - the secret militia against the demonic forces in Sunnydale. Willow has just met Tara, the soon-to-be love of her life. Tara is one of my favorite characters.

I can't think of much to write on.

I did read this article about how the producers for the original X-Files show, they wanted to cast Pamela Anderson as Dana Scully. How odd would that have been if Gillian Anderson (Anderson v. Anderson) hadn't been Agent Scully? So, so bizarre that would be. It baffles me when I try to think about it. Moulder and Scully (Pam Anderson Scully), the wind in their hair, looking like a shampoo commercial. Baffles me, seriously.

M was supposed to come over with some wine tonight, but he totally bailed. Whatever.

You can totally tell Willow and Tara are into each other in a lovey dovey way. So cute.

I miss watching Grey's Anatomy. The characters are just so awesome. I'll be sad to see Izzie Stevens gone. :( Damn Katherine Heigl for wanting a film career. TV is so much better!

I mean, TV has to be more fun, if you're on a great show with a good cast and all that.

Buffy is getting very sensual with Riley Finn. It's very erotic for UPN. Or maybe the UPN was kinda like FX.

Giles is a great character. He's funny and British.

So many awesome people have been in TV shows. But there's an equal amount of awesome characters in movies too. Whatever.

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rachel

I wonder....

Perhaps... if I have a serious talk with my mother... maybe she'll consider letting me go back to USA in the fall? .... It may not be too late..... I'll just have to do all this stuff really fast. It's not like I haven't done that before though. All the classes are probably picked over though.... :/

My second semester of senior year in high school, M and I were going crazy one day because it was the last day to register for classes at the junior college. We got our transcripts, letters of recommendation and applications and whatever in all at the right time; however, there weren't any good classes either of us wanted to take. 'Twas all for not.

I still need to do the FAFSA, damn. And I really do kinda want this job working night shift at the Hard Rock Casino doing the phone-in room service worker. It pays good and there are full benefits and I can promote very easily from this position. T tells me that they're most likely to hire from within the casino before outside, but with this job the employee has to find a replacement for themselves. Or at least that's what T says. Her sister is in the position right now, and I believe I'm next in line.

Ugh, so many things to think about. What do I want to do?

Any thoughts on what might be more logical?

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rachel

BTW

It's not a very good picture (I took a picture of the television), but it is the digitized version of Kristen Bell from Assassin's Creed.

How life like.

Well, it looks a lot better in person on the television. Anyway, I believe K-Bell herself does the character's voice over too. At least it sounds a lot like her. It's gotta be her.

If I didn't have to bring Grey's Anatomy back to the library tomorrow I would be playing Assassin's Creed right now. Alas.

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rachel

PS: I was watching Grey's Anatomy and I recognized a producer/writer's name and I looked it up on imdb.com and it turns out that Marti Noxon also produced and wrote for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. How wonderful.

some pics from a few nights ago

I'm not sure what she's reading....
I don't know what we're watching here either.
Loose legged lezzie Lindsey! Whoops, I mean L.
Texting and Buster sniffing the computer.
M acting crazy.
Buster, but he's always beautiful.... K and I. I wasn't feeling too good, after drinking the night before, so I wasn't drinking. I drank some organic pomegranate tea L got for me. L drinking some shiraz. Being very bored and despondent. M drinking some shiraz like L.

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rachel

a fond farewell to L from the OS

So many things to talk about in this newest post. So many birthdays I must mention. Most important of all is that Kristen Bell had her birthday earlier this week.

Today is Sandra Oh's birthday. Also Josh Holloway. Matthew Fox had a birthday recently. Celebrities have birthdays too!

It's also Judy Greer's birthday, and if you don't know who she is, she's been in a lot of movies as the bitchy sidekick to the girl in romantic comedies. I think she was in Jawbreaker too. She was on Arrested Development.

I rented Assassin's Creed, the video game, last night, and I had too much fun playing it. I was up until 5:30am playing the game. But I feel just fine, I need no more sleep.

OH! There's a digitized Kristen Bell in the game. Very cool.

L just stopped by to get some CD's I made for her trip back to Oxford. I think I made like 8 CD's. She said she had listened to only Jewel and Joan Baez the whole way up here, so I gave her some diversity.

We all went out for margaritas the other night and we had a lot of fun. I love El Saltillo's queso dip. So delicious. K brought his mom and we found out that K's mom knew L's mom in high school. Well, I think we already knew that, but K's mom didn't. Haha.

Anyway, K is leaving for Louisville, KY tomorrow and I'm a little jealous that he's going to be having lots of stuff being bought for him from those sugar daddies of his. I enjoyed Louisville when I drove through it many years ago.

Now I'm watching Grey's Anatomy since there's nothing else to do on a Sunday on the Coast. My sister's gone to the river, my dad's being a bitch or whatever he is and my mother is going around the house, doing the house work, keeping busy so she doesn't have to fight with the wildebeest. How terrible is that? Well, it's terrible for all of us, cause we have to tip toe around him and what we say because we don't want to upset him. It's like this everyday now... it hasn't been like this ever. My father has a bad temper, but he just doesn't know how to lighten up. He laughs at comedies, but he still terrifies us when we don't know what to say around him or to him.

Whatever. New subject.

I wish L didn't have to leave so soon. I only ever get to see her for three or four days. She's by BFF, so naturally I want to hang out with her for more than that. But we had a great visit. Now that she's 21, we can go out and drink and do things like that.

Last night, M, L and I had sushi at the newest hibachi/sushi bar in Ocean Springs, out of like 5 or 6 in the small town I live in. It's crazy. It was delicious. I had a California roll and a Philidelphia roll. I also had a miso soup which was to die for, and two Sappharo beers that were more than refreshing. I do love sushi and Japanese beer.

Dr. Mark Sloane is hitting on Dr. Meredith Grey presently. I think he is. He's calling Dr. Derek Shepard a poisoned well. So many doctors.

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rachel

m and k went to waffle house, and i'm here alone :(

I read an article about the top 22 movies with the best plot twists. Now, I was just browsing over the IMDB.com's Top 250 Favorite Movies, and it so happens that a lot of the movies from the above mentioned article are in the top 50. 

Leads me to wonder if the movies that people like have the most unique, terrifying and confusing conflicts, plot twists and endings. It just makes me curious. One day I'm sure I'll be able to conduct my own studies on stuff like this.

Either way, I only half enjoy movies that have the unusual plot twists. Now, on the other hand, I do love the work of Chuck Palahniuk and his talent for creating absurd images through words with plot twists like I've been talking about. One of the movies in the article, and on the top 250 favorite movie list, is Fight Club, but that's not a shocker there. 

L got into town earlier tonight. M, K, L and I are supposed to go get margaritas tomorrow night and I'm very excited about that. However, K can't drink yet since he's not 21, so I'm guessing he'll be our DD. Too bad. Every time I type in M and K, I always think of Mary Kate Olsen and hope no one gets confused or whatever.

I'm watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer and she is kicking some serious demon ass. She's fighting a very large, fat demon named Balthazar. I think he just died. Season three. The mayor wants to ascend into his demon form. He's been waiting for this for 100 years. He made a deal with demons and created Sunnydale as a playground for demons and vampires, knowingly over the Hellmouth. And now, in the show, nothing can harm him until he ascends. Which will be during graduation. The mayor sure does love making a scene. 

I bought all of the His Dark Materials series from the thrift store for three bucks. It was awesome. Now, I have all the single books that I rented from the library and should probably take them back at some point. It's not that they're due back any time soon, but I don't like having excess things around that I have to be responsible for. 

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rachel

i've been thinking.....

I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer season three, and it amazes me how many essays I could write about love and life lessons that can be taught during this series.

I mean, there are seven seasons, I'm sure some things could be learned during these episodes. Spike has just returned to Sunnydale. Who says you can't go home? Even though home isn't Sunnydale to Spike, even though Joss Whedon says that it is. His technical 'home' was somewhere in England where he was sired by the vampire that was later known as Darla, portrayed by Julie Benz, also known for her role in Dexter as Rita.

Spike got his freaking soul back just to win the love of Buffy, the SLAYER, of all people. A vampire changing his ways to win the love of a mortal, who is the slayer nonetheless. But Buffy does have soft spot for Spike, as do all who watch the inspiring cult classic.

The episode I'm watching now, Spike has kidnapped Willow to do a love spell for him to win Drusilla back. I'm only on season three as I said... and I also said that there are SEVEN seasons.

Whatever.

However, there are many common themes in Buffy that can be related to past literature. And Buffy is part of television history, being one of the most popular sci-fi teen-young adult shows in America.

The library only carries a number of seasons, so it's a slight upsetting that I can't keep watching from the beginning to the end. Unless I want to watch them online as I did for Desperate Housewives season four.

I guess it wouldn't be so bad.

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rachel

i also...

I also really need to make it a point to see Hellboy (2004) and Pan's Labyrinth.

Another thing: I'm a little upset that Rachel Weisz won't be in the newest edition to The Mummy series. I've recently become a Brendan Fraser fan, and I've always loved The Mummy (1999).

And Rachel Weisz is one of my favorite actresses, I'd have to say. Many movies she's done I've enjoyed, such as Constantine, The Fountain and The Shape of Things. She's to play the mother of the girl who is murdered, Susie Salmon, in the film The Lovely Bones*, coming out in October of 2009. And Sin City 2, which is scheduled for release sometime in 2010. *The link is to the wiki-page for the book the film is based on.*

HA! I've never seen this movie, but apparently Rachel Weisz played the part of Lauren Hynde in This Is Not an Exit: The Fictional World of Bret Easton Ellis. How wonderful. I want to see this now too. I doubt the local Blockbuster (and definintly not the Movie Gallery) would have this, but I can check that online! Woo!

Alas, Blockbuster doesn't carry the Bret Easton Ellis movie, they didn't even have it in their search engine. However, the Movie Gallery website had it, but I couldn't tell if it was available anywhere near me. We have free rentals at Blockbuster anyway. There are other things I need to watch anyway, as I said before. At the very beginning of the post actually.

When M, K and I were in Gulfport the other day, we were at TJ Maxx and they had these neat @ sign wall art things. Very neat they were. They also had very cute shot glasses, and these really tiny shot glasses, I'm guessing that's what they are, that had a rounded bottom so it would kind of roll around on the shelf. It was weird, and it seemed to be impratical to me.

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rachel

PS: L!!! You best bring back my Heroes DVD's or I'll be very angry. If you don't bring them, I won't let you read Tempted. Hoe. But you know I love you.

i really want some sushi

My male friends M and K have been talking about sushi for a while and now it's gotten me wanting some rice and fish goodness.

I still haven't been called in for jury duty. It's almost the middle of the month, right? So, I really wish they would call me in already. We drove by the federal court house in Gulfport yesterday. It's a pretty intimidating building. Many stories. Quite looming and ominous.... It should be fun. Metal detectors and men wielding firearms. And possibly wearing bullet proof vests. Or at least that's how I imagine it.

I've been watching Grey's Anatomy online. On this website K introduced me to. It's called Surf the Channel. Check it out. Although, some of the movies on there are a bit sketchy - as in probably illegal in some form or fashion. But who cares? You aren't downloading the movies, they're been broadcast from another website, technically.

I think K put The Simpsons Movie on. It's already on HBO or whatever now?

Buster had a bath today and he smells quite wonderful.

I wish something good would come on the television. I checked out all those DVD's and I should be watching them, but I don't want to be rude and kick K off the TV and into the living room just yet. MTV2 isn't my favorite station. Like at all. However, buster is looking quite beautiful. I think it's MTV's Cribs.

Superbad was on last night, and I wish I had watched it, but something important came up and I had to leave the house. I should find out when it comes on next and set it to Auto-tune. I love Michael Cera.

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rachel

if only seth cohen were real..... i would forgive his neurosis.....

I'm watching Season two of The O.C. and it's absolutely amazing. Just as I remember it being.

K and I are going to be watching Thank You For Smoking soon and I'm hoping it will be as good as everyone said it is. Adam Brody is in it, so it can't be too bad. *wink*

I also rented The O.C. season three, Veronica Mars season two, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer seasons 3-5. I didn't expect to get them all at once, but... it did happen and now I have a week to watch all of it. I might have to re-check some of these things out. I know how terrible it can be if you have so many things overdue, with a ten cent a day/per item charge.

I played Super Mario Galaxy for the first time today and it was a lot of fun. Some stages are harder than others, and my sister completed a stage I could not.

It sounds like there's a duck outside my window, but I think it's actually a frog. Or TOAD, as my father corrected me today. He said, "Toads live on land. Frogs live in the water." Whatev.

Thank You For Smoking is starting and my hopes are high।

Also, check out these etch-e-sketch drawings. Pretty sweet.

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rachel

[[EDIT: Ok, sooooo Thank You For Smoking was pretty awesome. It makes me want to keep not smoking. And it makes me glad that I don't smoke cigarettes presently.]]

i hope they all go down

Almost everyone who knows me knows that I absolutely loathe Starbucks. Franchise coffee shops make me sick. 

Buy local. Fo sho.

I wish I could buy local rawhide bones for Buster. That would make him a more organic dog in my opinion. Ok, but the reason for my posting is that I read this article on Yahoo! News. 

Apparently, Starbucks will be closing down 600 stores and let go of an estimated 12,000 employees, as a result of our country's terrible economy. Also, there was mention of Starbucks competition. My question is: What competition does Starbucks have? Is there another franchise coming in behind them and taking their overly caffeinated customers away from them? 

Apparently, the consumer is not in the spending mood these days, the article reads.

If it were up to me, then I would burn them all down to the ground. Coffee should not be made into a franchise. People are paying four dollar whatever for a cup of espresso and milk, maybe some flavoring, and although both espresso and milk are expensive, it's not really very economical or money wise. 

Whatever. People can consume whatever they want. But frivolous purchases are ridiculous to me.

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rachel