Today is John Lithgow's birthday. So, I'm going to just give him a little tribute.
I do love his work. He was funny/good in The Twilight Zone movie. I also really enjoyed Third Rock From the Sun (pictured left).
I hear he plays a transvestite, Roberta Muldoon, in the movie-version of The World According to Garp, but I have not seen that movie, and I don't know if I really want to or not.
I'm currently watching True Blood, and I watched Dexter and Desperate Housewives earlier. I suppose I can report on that tomorrow sometime. Since I'll also be watching Gossip Girl and Heroes. I'll have to report on those as well.
Tomorrow I have a test on ancient Greece. I'm pretty sure I'm ready for it. I also get the grade back from the second biology test I took tomorrow. I am looking forward to it. I have to return this Guide to Anatomy and Physiology Lab book I accidentally purchased instead of a Guide to Biology Lab. I do hope they will allow me a trade.
Tuesday I start my World Lit 2 class. I'm excited about that as well. I don't know if I got a good grade on that or not, cause I don't really know if I grasped the right information about the French Revolution. Ugh. Tests are insane. At least my World Civ 2 teacher lets us do this extra credit work that we get to turn in with the test. The last two tests we took I made 88's. Both times. Who cares. B's will give me a B in the class. I made a 94 on my first World Civ 1 test, so hopefully after tomorrow I'll have another A and that will give me an A in the class for now.
I'm watching Factory Girl, but I'm not really paying attention. Doing other things online does seem to catch my attention more than this thing on the TV, but I'm listening. Sight isn't everything that tells a story. People listen to books on tapes/CDs whatever after all.
I missed tonight's Grey's Anatomy and Ugly Betty. And Eleventh Hour. So that means I have a lot of TV to watch tomorrow, which does excite me.
There was something I was going to write about in this blog, specifically, but now I can't think of it. I got carried away with Factory Girl and crap.
Tomorrow, I should be having sushi with my cousin from NY, and I'm very, very excited. I haven't seen him in a few years.
I want to go to France and make avante-guard movies. I wish I had someone cool like Edie Sedgwick or whatever her name is to be in them. Or someone as good that's probably not a hoe bag like Scarlett Johansson. She used to be cool, but now she makes me angry.
Perhaps the life and times of Edie Sedgwick(whatever) would be interesting to read about. Not see in some fictionalized retrospective bull.
While researching the French Revolution last night, I decided I want to come up with a semi-short story about a family during the 'Reign of Terror.' Led by Robespierre, people were guillotined for practically giving an official a bad look. By the end of a period that was a little over a year and a half, nearly 40,ooo people were dead in Paris alone. I think in one day, over 16,000 people suffered an execution. Anyway, the story would be about a family that's trying so hard to get out of France and into another country, where one of them will probably be from. I can't decide if they will be peasants or some kind of clergy or nobility. The stories would be completely different, depending on their social status, that's fo sho.
I think stories about drug addicted poor little rich kids are too cliche for this era of literature. Or maybe that's just how I feel about the way this movie is filmed. I'm sure that's how it seemed at that time, but I guess as Holden Caulfield would put it, it just seems a little "phony."
All of the tests I had to take this week are over. I have one more test on Monday, on ancient Greek civilization. Ancient civilizations are so much easier to comprehend, rather than the French Revolution, per say.
Buster slept in his pumpkin/jack-o-lantern t-shirt my mother got for him while we were in Nashville last night. It was quite lovely. Then, when I was showing him off to my friends over at T's house, he accidentally peed on it and now it must be washed. Right now he is sleeping very soundlessly next to me.
Damn that Bob Dylan for hurting Edie Sedgwick.
Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson are in a relationship. Apparently they have been since they starred in Jumper together a few years ago. I think I remember reading something about Rachel Bilson saying that she wanted to go elope with him. It makes me a little sad for Adam Brody, since they were like together for a long time. But I'm sure he's over her by now. I mean, he hasn't met me yet anyway. Har har. I'm funny.
Start wearing purple, wearing purple. Start wearing purple for me now..... all your sanity and wits they will all vanish - I promise! - It's just a - a matter of time.
I bought a purple shirt from Wet Seal a few weeks ago. I wore it for the first time yesterday? and it made me feel happy. I also got this winter-y purple shirt with a design on it which will probably make me happy too. I'm ready for it to get a little colder so I can start wearing my neat jackets. Which reminds me that I need to purchase a belt sometime soon. Maybe I'll go to the thrift store tomorrow and try and find a neat belt.
I wish I could have a romance with someone like Bob Dylan. A whirlwind romance, but it would never last. It's like a fortune cookie Duncan gives to Veronica in season 2 of the series that says: True love stories never have endings...
I've been studying all day for this bio test I have tomorrow. I don't know if I'm ready yet or not.
Anyway, I did finish my essay that's due tomorrow, and that makes me extremely happy. No more studying about the Old Testament. For now, at least.
Even though this was supposed to be the "fall holiday," I really need another break. All this stress is just ... crazy. It makes me very anxious about the future of school. The end of school. The rest of school.
The only thing that takes my mind off things like this are hot showers and solitaire.
And prime-time television, but there's nothing coming on tonight. Nothing I want to see, at least.
Thursday will be a good day for television: Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, and Eleventh Hour. Good stuff. I can't wait to see if Eleventh Hour is signed up for a full season and/or a second season. I hope people like it. Rufus Sewell is a great actor. Known for his villainous roles, like in A Knight's Tale or The Illusionist. My favorite movie of his is Dangerous Beauty (1998). It made me cry. I want to see it again.
This is a picture of the tiny holy land replica in Lucedale, MS. I want to go and see it for myself one day, but it looks very, very tiny.
Ah, second post of the day. How long has it been since I've posted twice in one day?
Anyway, tonight's television has been ridiculous.
First, Gossip Girl proves to be as scandalous but rewarding as ever. This episode mostly taking place in New Haven, the grounds for Yale, Serena and Blair duke it out in the battle of the babes. Nate takes on the alias of Dan Humphrey. Bass turns his back on the elusive Skull and Bones of Yale. All of these things are very entertaining, and what else is entertaining is the blog The Daily Intel for New York Magazine. Its reality points tally is very funny.
Second, Heroes gives more questions than it provides answers. New-but-old characters are brought into the storyline... I will not name names. Peter gets violent with his family members. Mohinder gets a little crazy and spidery. Claire goes vigilante to a guy who creates vortexes and learns Sylar is working with her father, gasp. No blogs I know about for this show.
I'm currently watching the newest episode of Dexter, which I wrote on earlier today. I really do enjoy watching things more than once, it helps me really grasp what's going on. Kind of like what I realized about re-reading books. You really develop more of an insight into the book when you already know what happens and are seeing the events from a different point of view.
I feel like the last three paragraphs are all entries for some dictionary. The way they look, I mean. All kind of uniform and whatever. Very similar in length.
I think Buster has to go outside.
Oh yes, and the Twilight theatrical trailer. It's very good.
An hour until the two shows I watch on Mondays: Gossip Girl and Heroes.
The hour (as it seems to come every Monday, just after dinner time) seems to drag on. I have to call this girl from my World Civ 2 class. I have her notes, from one day of class (on Napoleon), and we have a test on Thursday. Damn that French Revolution.
So, I watched Eleventh Hour, and it was decent. It wasn't amazing, but it has potential. I also love, love, love me some Rufus Sewell. Mmmhmmm. Oh, and the girl from Planet Terror, the doctor woman, she is in it. I enjoy her as well. She was hilarious in Planet Terror. Plus, her name is Rachel in the show. Why would I not watch it?
Last night I watched, as usual, Desperate Housewives, Dexter and True Blood. While D.H. was (very) uneventful, Dexter shows promise of its third season (Dexter the vigilante?), even with the coming of a bouncing baby Dex Jr. And True Blood. Oh dear Lord, don't get me started - Sookie Stackhouse is out of her mind, letting that vampire bite her (Although, as L said to me earlier, it was a little sexy).
But.... it was quite a wonderful episode (the white nightgown she wore while running to meet Bill was very Southern Belle of her), and there is no doubt I will watch it again and again until the next episode comes on next Sunday.
This hasn't been much of a "fall break." I've been going through ups and downs of this medicine, and I haven't been able to concentrate on studying at all. It's quite annoying. Today is the second day of illness caused by this change in medication. Maybe I should just stick with my regular meds and just have the tremors. It's not like I'm going to be a surgeon or anything.
I've been sleeping a lot, too. I slept until 2 in the afternoon today. I thought my mother was going to take me with her to Mobile this morning, but she did not. She doesn't have a great sense of direction, and I do... so she called me around 8 something, asking for my help.
Plus, I have a great memory on how to get places, where places are and basically the "lay of the land" in Mobile. Thus, she calls me.
My stomach hurts and it's not getting any better. And we're still 50 minutes from 7pm.
Le sigh.
I read an article about a Russian hockey player who was 19, and he died during a match in his homeland. He had a heart attack, apparently, but there really isn't much else that's known about how it happened. He wasn't bad looking either. It's always more tragic when pretty people die.
I've been trying to start The Hotel New Hampshire, but with my lack of concentration, I haven't been able to get past the first page. Of course, I can't get past the first paragraph of the French Revolution in my history book either. Yet again: Damn that French Revolution. It did cause some good things: such as influencing other countries to be independent, but America pretty much did that in 1776.... way before the French Revolution. Or just upon the start of it.
Has nothing to do with this blog, but I'm watching Atonement, and I can't think of anything to put as a title.
James McAvoy is so hot. I wish he wasn't married. Not that it really matters.
Keira Knightley is in a lot of period pieces, and it makes me mad. She needs to branch out more.
I want to go to a dinner party in old England. But not really. I want some lovely cheeses. Some queso dip from El Saltillo would be good too. Haha, not that they really compare. Lovely cheeses and queso dip.
There is now a second El Saltillo open in Ocean Springs. Very strange, considering it's just a little mexican restaurant.
Blah. This little 13-year-old girl looks kinda boy-ish.
I can't veryily think of something to write about. I just felt like writing.
I have felt so detached from reality today after having the worst dream in the world. Like whatever happened in my dream actually happened to me and I felt so traumatized all day. Like I was supposed to go live my life normally after something so horrendous like that happened.
Well, it wasn't the worst, but it was pretty bad. And a lot of people died. Lets leave it at that.
Shall we?
Only a couple of people know what happened, and eventually other people will too. I'm going to write about it.... in time. I mean, fictional novel kind of writing.
Stephen King gets some of his ideas from fucked up dreams he has, but he's actually been hospitalized, right? Maybe I can think of it as a blessing. The dream. Only if other dreams like this don't follow, I don't have to call it that.
Apparently this page has been up for almost an hour and I haven't typed anything yet.
Well, here goes:
I thought of several semi-neat things to talk about today, but now I can't think of anything I was going to write about.
Oh yes. I've been reading The World According to Garp by John Irving, as some of you may know. It has changed my life. I don't know. My perspective on people, writing and other things, I guess. It has rehashed my love for Irving's novels and I feel as though I must read more of him. I still haven't finished Breaking Dawn, which I'm a little ashamed of, but when you don't want a series to end, what else are you supposed to do?
I read in Garp that writers have a very selective memory, and I do believe this to be true, because I can remember things about totally random things, but then not remember exactly what a Golgi Body does for Biology. I should remember those kinds of things.
There is the option of re-reading it, but ... M has my copy of Twilight and has yet to finish it.
L recommended that I read The Cider House Rules, also by John Irving. I'm going to take her up on that, considering X is most likely coming down from Oxford this weekend and she can bring me L's copy.
Sometimes I feel like I'm talking about LC when I talk about L.
Next, perhaps I'll re-read A Widow for One Year and The Hotel New Hampshire. I would re-read Until I Find You, but it's quite large for a hardback book, and I don't want to carry that around with me on campus.
I'm feeling in a very Veronica Mars mood right now. I don't know why. I was reading some quotes from the show earlier. But I couldn't find the quote I was looking for. Oh well, I'll settle for something a little less Veronica-ie and just have something silly. i.e. the title of the blog.
Le sigh. I think I'm going to watch some Veronica Mars just to get it out of my system.
BTW: Kristen Bell has not been on any recent episodes of Heroes, which is making me a little sad, but I know she's gonna come back and kick some serious Company ass when she returns. Oh yeah. Either that, or try to hurt Sylar.
I think I read a theory on Heroes Wiki about Sylar and Elle having a baby though. I don't know what these people are thinking. Although, when Peter went to the future, Sylar did have a little boy there. Dum dum dum. That's supposed to be eerie music for those of you who didn't get it.
Ah... October. Cold-ish weather. Turning of the leaves. And so on.
I've been wanting to write something. But I feel so un-inspired. 'The Scouting Isle' really needs and ending. The previous mentioned is a short story I started in April that I have yet to finish.
So, in order to cure my writer's block, I've been doing a lot of reading, listening (to music). A lot of watching. People-watching, mostly. Lots of people sit around the soda machines by the library on campus. It still baffles me that JC has a Vitamin Water vending machine. Very strange, and quite... hip of them... I guess that's the word. I've also been forgetting a lot of words recently. I've been thinking of getting one of those GRE vocabulary prep books. Gone are the days of Spelling Words that we have to define and get synonyms and antonyms for. Those did prove to be very educational, even if people didn't want to do them. People never realize the importance of school until they're actually in college, or not in college and wondering what happened. I made a 70 on my Biology test. wtf. I need to do better next time. I didn't study the right things last time, apparently, and tried to just remember what was in the notes. Now I know better.
I have to make up my World Civ 2 test tomorrow, the one I missed last Thursday when the family and I were on our way to Nashville.
Oh yes. Nashville.
I got to see my ladies. My lovely, lovely ladies. Malibu and Jfer.
Here we are in the hotel room my parents got for my sister and I. I was very happy that Malibu drove up from Birmingham to visit. We rock.
The wedding was lovely. It was on a plantation in Brentwood, which according to Jfer, who lives in Murfeesboro (TN), is the rich section of Nashville. Jack White lives there. Of the White Stripes. We saw his house. It is white.... with a bright red door and red smoke stacks. I assume they're his chimney. Malibu and I went to see Choke, which was good until the ending. It disappointed me. Very much so. I suppose screenwriters have to make it their own story somehow.... bastards.
Once something dies, you can't make it live.
I've been sick ever since we returned from Nashville. I'm afraid to blow my nose too much cause I don't want it to get too red or get bruised from too much blowing.
A few days ago I had a fever of 101.5 degrees. Then I had a dream that I had a 104.something degree fever.
I've been having lots of weird dreams lately, but I can't remember them to write them down. My neighbor's dog is barking again. He's always chained up next to the garage door to the outside, which is right next to my bedroom window. Very unfortunate for me. Oh, at the wedding, there was a bluegrass band.
And I danced with the bride, who happens to be the cousin of mine who looks strangely similar to me. She gave me a fake ID last time I was in Nashville. It worked.
I think she had just spun me. She said "That dress was made to be spun in." I agree. I like to spin.
There were a lot of little children at the wedding. It was frightening.
They served very weird food. I don't know how to explain it, or what it was called. Just know it was gross. I didn't eat much of it. And what I did eat made me sick a little.
No one's sure how all of this got started, but we're gonna make 'em god damned certain how it's gonna end. Oh yeah, we will.
I don't know why, but I have Rhianna's "Umbrella" stuck in my head.
Oooh, baby it's raining, raining.
Tomorrow I leave for Nashville, and I'm very excited.
Although, I'm not excited about the 9 hour drive to get there.
I got a new phone today. It's a Pantech Duo. Very cool, it is. I feel very Veronica Mars with the phone.
I made a 94 on my first World Civ 1 test. I didn't go to Biology today cause I was still sick from yesterday. But I got up for World Civ 1 and then I ate a Whopper Jr. and felt better.
Strange.
I want to know what I made on my biology test though....
I should go to sleep soon, cause we're getting up early for the trip and whatnot. I just figured there needed to be an update. Semi-update at least.
Being 22 isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Not that it's "cracked up to be" anything. It just isn't great. The feeling of being 22 is just ... blah.
Today, I had a Waffle House hamburger for lunch and then we went back to Waffle House for dinner. I had breakfast for dinner the second time.
I rented The Force Unleashed which I am VERY excited about. I've played it only a little bit, but I feel weird sitting by myself in the living room, but I would also feel weird forcing people to watch me play. So whatever.
I have some studying that I really need to get done, anyway. I started it yesterday, the studying that is, and continued a little today, but reading and trying to define all these things I need to know is very tedious. Or like ... I don't know. Not very easy.
I have three tests next week. Bio, World Civ 1 and 2. I don't start World Lit 2 until October. Bio shouldn't be too difficult, cause it's only the basics of it anyway.
This will be my second test in World Civ 2. He says we're "behind" in class.... but we're only taking our first test in World Civ 1. Strange it all is.
Thinking of The Force Unleashed makes me really want to be a Jedi Knight or a Sith Lord. Why can't it actually be true?
Maybe I can move onto Skywalker Ranch with George Lucas and we can pretend to be in the Universe of Star Wars for real. Lightsabers and all.
Anyway....
This Thursday coming up I'm going to Nashville to go to my cousin's wedding. It will be fun, cause I'll get to see Jfer and Malibu. It's going to be FANTASTIC!!!! I can't wait to see them both!!!
We played Uno Atack. Ordered pizza. Drank beer and ate pzza. But nothing stopped me from turning 22.
Lots of things happened, and Sara didn't want me to go through anymore trouble, but there really isn't any more trouble. (I'm watching Nausicaa: Princess of the Valley of the Wind)
Many games of Uno, the endless deck, I have played.
This movie I'm watching, (Nausicaa, the anime) it's like, there aren't as many people having babies, than there are people having babies on the planet, or whatever. It's quite funny, it really should be seen. I don't think I have to bring it back tomorrow exactly, but I think Mark, T's Mark will want to see it.
p&l rachel :)
EDIT - next day - I was drunk when I wrote this post, so forgive me if some things don't make sense.
It's quite a good anime, thus far. I'm less than an hour into it, I'm guessing, but it's still wonderful.
There is one thingthat reminds me of another of Myiazaki's films. 'Yubaba' is a character from Spirited Away, one of my favorite animes. And 'Obaba' is a character inthis movie, Nausicaa, Valley of the Winds.Nausicca came a long a good deal before Spirited Away, I know this. So perhaps there is a little of Obaba in Yubaba. I shall do some research.
I checked it out from the library just this afternoon, after M returned it. Quite interesting, he was leaving just as I was arriving. I was there also to get books for my essay, mentioned later.
Even for a movie from 1984, it has very environmentalist undertones. Poisoned soils and whatnot. It's very "earth friendly."
Surely, I'll have to watch it again.
My first essay was assigned in World Civ 1. The topic I chose was: Research the Old Testament as a reliable source of history. Also, I must research the importance of sacred texts in religions. I think it's going to be interesting.... writing this paper. I've done a good bit of resarch already today.
For example, I learned that Moses was recieving the 10 commandments while the Greeks were fighthing the Trojan Wars. I would have imagined these two instances of time to be futher apart from each other. However, I read that they both occured sometime around 1250 BCE.
Or at least that's what I learned on this time line I came across online that I won't be able to list as an actual source. I'm going to have to work it into another source, I guess. Maybe I won't even use it in my essay at all. The paper is only 3 - 4 pages. Double-spaced isn't a book or anything.
Whatever.
Not much has really happened.
We did get that 300 bucks back from the person whom stole all the items from my house almost a week ago.
I have to read this thing about Martin Luther before class tomorrow, so I should do so....
Penelope is a very great movie. I think I've fallen in love with James McAvoy.
The movie's art direction is most beautiful, from the things hanging on the walls to Penelope's costumes. Everything has a touch of fairy tale to it.
Reese Witherspoon and Catherine O'Hara's character are incredibly enjoyable as well. Both very well portrayed.
Anyway, the movie is pretty much the greatest thing I've seen in a while.
It's one of those movies that gives you that great feeling when it's over. A feel-good movie, I guess that's what you would call it.
Penelope (Ricci), after living indoors for 25 years, escapes her parent's mansion in a big city, disguised herself behind a scarf and began living among regular people. All of this happens because she meets a man, Max (McAvoy), and he inspires her be her own person. All the while being stalked by a journalist and a young blue-blood ex-suitor of Penelope's.
Penelope's initial reactions to a crowded city sidewalk and drinking her first beer from the tap are very brilliantly put together. The quirkiness of the dialogue is very entertaining. Quick-quips and one-liners are great in my book any day, if they're done the right way.
The nose/snout and Christina's natural beauty combined that make Penelope the funfetti icing on the cake of fairy tales. Although it was released in 2006, I'm deeming it one of '08s favorites. ;)
Overall: I give this film two thumbs up! A must-see.
Anyway, for life update: today I bought a video game, Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria. It's a very great game, I've only played it once before.
I also rented Dragon Quest Swords: Tale of the Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors. Very long title. So far, I can't get past this one area, on a bridge where these birds keep destroying the bridge and I fall into the river below. :(
Is it true, Jimmy? That one day we can be smarter?
Well, who knows, but I know that I won't be able to trust people very easily anymore. Not that I trusted people in the first place, but I continue to let people in my life and they just fucking screw me over. Why are people so fucked up?
Like... people who say they're your friend but then steal shit from your family. What the hell kind of shit is that? Well, it's not qualities I look for in a friend. I was very upset to find this out yesterday.
I lose a friend. Gain a paranoia.
It sucks losing friends like this, left and right. It just lowers the numbers of people I want to hang out with here. And that wasn't a very large number to begin with.
Where are the people who are true and honest and won't let you down? Where are the friends that aren't just in it to stab you in the back? Where have all the cowboys gone? (That's just a joke, duh.)
I hate being so naive. It's not a very positive characteristic if people are just going to keep taking advantage of my kindness.
Addiction, in general, is something that will tear a friendship apart. Any kind of relationship, I'm guessing. Either way, I don't want to put myself in the situation where I'm around people who have a problem with either: drinking, taking prescription medications or any other kind of hardcore drugs. Smoking pot is still a-ok in my book.
Well, on the upside of things... my birthday is in a week and one day. I'm hoping that the ripe old age of 22 will be better than 21. Ah, and I say this every year. Hoping the one coming will be better than the one past. Only time will tell.
"You'd think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin, but it only feels worse when I stay in one place, so I keep walking away." - Conor Oberst, Bright Eyes. I'm just gonna put the song on here, cause this is how I feel right now.
I did download the new Emmylou Harris album, if I haven't mentioned before, and it's pretty amazing. I do love me some Emmylou. Maybe I'll name my first child after her. Just kidding, I already have my children's names chosen, if I get the choice.... lots of things depend there.... haha, if I even have children, for example.
So, imeem doesn't have that song... apparently, so I put a different song at the beginning of the blog. I do love that song as well.
Very lame, I believe. Not having that song at all.
Well, a now ex-friend of mine stole some things from my house a few days ago. They stole $300 and a lot of prescription pain medicine.
We found some things that should have his fingerprints on them so we can prove it to the police, if it goes that far. My dad was not very happy. Neither was I. Neither am I. I'm absolutely livid about this. Who can you trust if you can't trust friends?
I don't really know what else to say on the subject. It's pretty self-explanatory.
Here are just a few screen shots. I'm really enjoying this game. I have a robot helping me on the farm. However, my character is a robot himself.
My guy, Corbin, he just got a kitten from the Dr. who created him. I named the cat Domino. Corbin also has a dog named Chocobil, who was given to him by another farmer named Gayak. It's all quite interesting. I really want to buy the game so I can play it to it's extent.
There's so much to do in the game that it's slightly difficult to harvest all my crops in a few hours and then be able to ride around the island in a little buggy. Anyway...
I watched a movie earlier tonight, and I'm kind of forgetting what movie it was. Oh yes, Hard Candy. That is such a great movie. I do enjoy Ellen Page. And Patrick Wilson. Sandra Oh and her cameo appearance as the neighbor.
Class was interesting today. I felt a little weird, like a nerdy, trying-to-be-a-know-it-all kind of person. The professor asked a question, and the person he asked didn't know the answer. So instead of having him tell us the answers each time, I raised my hand. Quite sheepishly, I add. Well, he asks some questions about arranged marriages in the Renaissance, and I knew all the answers to each question he asked. I felt very strange. I don't want people to think I'm a freak that studies all the time.
I've kind of gotten out of that habit. Although, when I start studying, I cannot stop until I'm done. Well, I do need to do this worksheet on Martin Luther. And finish my outline on Chapter One. And possibly begin the outline on Chapter Two.
Chapters one and two are for world civ 1 and the Renaissance and the Reformation (ch. 16 and 17) are for world civ 2. I'm just getting lazy here, typing.
Alright. So it's almost 2am. I should hit the hay.
I have been pretty absent-minded as of recent, with all sorts of drama going on in my own life. Although it's not as dramatic as a sitcom, it is drama nonetheless.
i.e.: my car transmission. Other things are that our air conditioner is acting all funky. We have to keep sucking a lot of water out of it or else it leaks onto the carpet in the hallway. Very stressful.
Not only that, but I have to unpack all these clothes I put in garbage bags "just in case" that Hurricane Gustav was terrible to our house and whatever. Even though we just got a few downed limbs in the yard.... we still have to re-assemble all the junk in our house we spent so much time putting away.
In other news, I didn't have school today, and that was pretty cool, although that does mean I haven't been to a single Biology class. I don't have them on Friday's, so my first appearance in class will be bright and early Monday morning.
I really love Bright Eyes' albums Cassadaga and I'm Wide Awake it's Morning. Also, I've been listening to the new Emmylou Harris album, All I Intended to Be. I think I'm becoming very folk/early country. Country music is derived from folk music, I believe. From early folk/gypsy music, telling about the life on the land or whatever. I may have to do some research on that.
I don't want to work on this shit in my room. Putting things back where they belong. It's kinda like how my mother said it would be: if we were prepared and got things out of the way of water (if water had gotten in the house) then nothing would happen, and that's kinda how it worked out. But now we just have to put things back the way they used to be.
The surround sound in the living room hasn't been reconnected yet.
I don't know if I mentioned it, but I got a new charger for my computer, so now I don't have to make it all ghetto with duct tape or whatever I had to do before.
Oh, my friend R gave me a really cool ashtray, although I don't smoke. It looks like an Asian pagoda or something. I'm gonna make it all shiny, take a picture and show it off eventually.
2 September 2008 6:29 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester was born in jail, according to scandalous new U.S. reports.
The actress' mother was serving a federal prison sentence in Texas when she gave birth, and although baby Leighton was born in a halfway house, her mum returned to prison after her daughter turned three months.
According to America's Star magazine, Meester was raised by a relative while her mother completed time for her role in an illegal drug enterprise.
The publication also claims Meester's grandfather, father and aunt were jailed for drug dealing.
Meester's publicist was unavailable for comment when WENN went to press.
Very scandalous, but not so Blair Waldorf style. Maybe in a parallel universe where Blair was actually really white trash. HA.
Anyway, I watched the season 2 premiere of Gossip Girl, and I have to say I was a little shocked about the newest references to the actual novelizations. For those of you who have read the books, and have not yet seen the episode, it's very interesting. Let's just say something very 'royal' happens for Blair.
Overall, I very much enjoyed the episode.
It's very late, and I was hoping to wake up early, but I don't think I'm going to want to....
I reluctantly began reading the 'Jacob POV' in Breaking Dawn, the final book in the Twilight Saga. I'm not a big Jacob fan, but his interactions with his tribe and the vampires, it's very emotional, I guess. His hate for the vampires, because he's a werewolf, and they're made to destroy vampires. However, Bella Swan is very attached to both Jacob and Edward, the vampire Bella's in love with. And a lot of things are going wrong and there are attacks about to happen. It's all so ... suspenceful.
I will soon post an opinion post on Snuff, since I have recently finished that book. Which reminds me I need to go to the library.
Today is John Lithgow's birthday. So, I'm going to just give him a little tribute. 
