what you see is what you get

I changed the layout of my blog today. Now, it ironically resembles the layout of the Forgetting Sarah Marshall promotional blog I had a link to before the release of the movie. But surely, I'll put my own twist to things...

It's almost 4pm and the sun is shining, the AC is making a lot of noise, and my mom grilled some burgers and hot dogs for Memorial Day. I'm watching Lost because there's nothing else to do. Episode 3.6 "I Do." The flashbacks are about Kate. 

I kinda want to take a nap, but I know I would only be awoken by Buster or my mom or someone else. The phone, who knows. I probably wouldn't sleep for very long. 

My mom keeps it so cold in our house. I opened the window to get some of the warmer air from outside into my room, but it doesn't really help. It feels more breezy in here than before.

p&l

rachel

this may not be the only post of the day

It's 6am on a what I hope to be a beautiful Monday because I'll surely want to lay out later after being up for so freakin' long.

Someone called me at 5 something and now I can't go back to sleep. Thanks.

My friend X comes home today and I'm pretty freakin' excited about that. Also, tonight is a brand-spankin'- new episode of Gossip Girl, and I can't wait to find out: IS SERENA REALLY A MURDERER? 

I don't think we'll find out for sure in this episode, but I'm sure something wicked this way is sure to come. With Georgina now thrown into the mix, who knows what kind of antics, bitch-fights and betrayal our Upper East Siders will be capable of. Except Dan. He's a pretty good guy, but he's dating a supposed murderer! Uh-oh Dan, don't be Serena's next victim! 

I want to say that I think Forgetting Sarah Marshall is doing a pretty good job in the box office. I don't remember the exact date it came out, but it's still in the top 10. Number 6 in fact, but that's still good after Iron Man and What Happens in Vegas... just came out. 

Speaking of Iron Man, I love Robert Downey Jr. 

I can hear my sister clanking away at her cereal breakfast in the room adjacent to mine. Buster is lightly snoring next to me, and the birds outside which usually chirp at night time are chirping at their appropriate hour. I sure hope that today will be a lovely day.

Ok, so like I said, it's back to Square One on my job hunt. I haven't heard from the editor of the paper I used to work for, so who knows what I'm going to do now. My mother starts her new job today and it's kind of weird to think that my mom isn't going to be here after she has been for the past year or so. I'm sure she's pretty weirded out about going back to work as well. 

She has to be at work at 7:30 I think. She has some of her work clothes here in my closet, and I left it open for her, if she needed to come in and get some clothes, but no one has come in yet. Maybe I should go and offer my best of luck to her.

p&l

rachel

PS:

Oh my God. I don't know why I didn't say it before, but I finally saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall. 

It was fucking awesome. Mila Kunis ain't got nothing on Kristen Bell. 

I'm thirsty.

p&l

rachel

I don't know what to say here

So I just watched the newest episode of Gossip Girl. It was a pretty good episode after its lengthy disappearance. Damn those writers wanting more money! 

What am I saying? I'll probably be one of those writers one day, demanding higher pay. Who knows. Hopefully I'll be teaching or something. Or be a producer of a hit TV show. Ah, one day.

I watched a really good movie earlier, while eating dinner with the family. Pump up the Volume. Starring Christian Slater, circa 1990. It's about this high school teenage boy who has his own pirated radio show that his fellow classmates go ape shit over. Now, the catch is that no one knows that it's Christian Slater's character on the air. No one really knows who Slater is in their high school anyway. However, it's a good movie about oppression in high school and the right of free speech. Blah blah blah.

Back to the newest episode of Gossip Girl: Well, as you should know, we left off on the last episode with Blair trying to flee the country after everyone found out that she lost her virginity to not Nate Archibald, but - GASP! - Chuck Bass, the slimy, smarmy arch-nemesis of every female in the country. However, Blair doesn't even make it into the plane. Serena van der Woodsen comes to the rescue at the last moment and talks Blair out of leaving. People can't be that cruel, can they? Well, in "The Blair Bitch Project," Serena tells Blair that being a bitch is what got her into the mess that she's in and that she should try to start being more neutral and nice. Can Blair really be nice? Now it looks like little Jenny Humphrey is the new Queen B of the social circle at Constance Billard. How long is her reign going to last, especially if Blair is behind her dethronement? Do I smell tyranny? Mm, and it looks like little J is going to be taking the ex-Queen B's boyfriend as well as her social status. 

That's just a teaser for the new episode. I wasn't going to give too much away. You have to go and watch it now. Somehow. TiVo it or something. Just watch it!

Speaking of watching things, I'm a shame to my own words. I didn't go see Forgetting Sarah Marshall this weekend, but it's number two in the box office, according to imdb.com, one of my favorite websites. But Gossip Girl does feature the voice of Kristen Bell, so that kind of keeps me off the hook, right? 

Well, it's off to hit the books. Palahniuk books anyway. I need to call the junior college here and ask about summer classes. I think I'm still enrolled there. It should be very easy just to sign up.

p&l

rachel

I'm a little perturbed today.... and I wish I could get paid to blog

Sons of bitches. I went in for an "appointment" for the call center for AT&T today, which I considered to be a job interview, and they said that I didn't even complete the "minimum requirements" in order to proceed with the application process. Bastards. 

I just had to vent about my anger towards the company because I would have made an awesome call center employee. 

Now.... I'm sitting at home with my awful sunburn. I went to the library and picked up Rant, an Oral Biography of Buster "Rant" Casey, written by the truly amazing Chuck Palahniuk. The classifieds are open on my bed next to me, and I'm tempted to glance over it, but I have a plan on how I'm going to get the job of my dreams: I'm just going to continue to apply at the Hard Rock Casino until they call me. The mass applying starts tonight. T said that they're going to be hiring groups of people each week, so... they have to hire me for something. Right?

Anyway, I also wanted to put out there that everyone should go out and see Forgetting Sarah Marshall when it comes out this weekend. It's probably going to be pretty awesome, only because Kristen Bell is one of the stars. I put up a new link to the Forgetting Sarah Marshall promotional blog. Kind of like the Gossip Girl blogs they have online. There is also another blog for the "fans" of Sarah Marshall. 

While I was on the road to Kentwood, I purchased the new Cosmopolitan magazine with Kristen Bell on the cover. The Sexy Issue: Not for girls who blush easily. That read on the cover in the corner. However, I left the magazine in C's car and I can't get it back until I go see him in Mobile this weekend.

Hopefully by then I will have either: heard back about a job, or my sunburn will have reduced in pain. 

p&l

rachel