the wife forgave the mistress, for she only entertained....

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.

p&l
rachel

alas - 103rd post (go organic!)

So, I'm three blogs behind the illusive 100th blog posting. Oh well. No celebration. No cake. I would like some cake though. I don't feel as though I wasted the 100th post on video games.

I have to admit, that when I earlier talked about my love for VitaminWater, I hadn't yet tasted my newest favorite flavor: power-c, the dragonfruit (c+taurine) beverage. It's my ultimate favorite. I bought a 32oz. bottle of it yesterday and I haven't opened it yet, which is painful. However, I still have 3 other bottles of it in the kitchen. Go mom and go wal-mart! Even if you didn't have any everything bagels. I might just have to go in there myself and do some searching.

I picked up Grey's Anatomy season 1 today at the library, and paid a $4.05 fine. So many things out and being overdue... not very penny-smart. Re-watching this show makes me realize that Meredith Grey, being the daughter of renowned surgeon Ellis Grey, follows in her mother's footsteps, saving patient after patient with her quick thinking intuition. She saved a beauty pageant contestant who had a small aneurysm that was causing her seizures. That was the first episode. All the patients she saves are quite last-minute as well. Like she gets there with the right answer, just-in-time. Although she feels like she has no clue at what she's doing - because all interns feel that way, I guess - she keeps proving herself wrong to her superiors and peers several times during the first season. Everyone is jealous of Meredith Grey, in a way. Envious, I suppose. Wanting some aspect of her life as their own.

Something that's odd about Grey's Anatomy is that it only has 9 episodes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer's first season only had 12 episodes. I guess it's not so uncommon, but I'm going to have to do some deeper digging on the subject of why there weren't the common numbers of 23 to 24 episodes per season. With this previous season's writer's strike, most seasons only had episodes numbered in the teens. 

My sister painted Buster's nails pink. I'll soon take a picture and post it, but as of right now, I need new batteries for the CyberShot. 

Yahoo! has been disappointing me lately. First, the Daily Games on their Games webpage isn't working on my computer anymore. I can no longer play Word Roundup, Hollywood Jumble, or the Daily Crossword with Hints! It's saddening because I don't own a lot of games for the Mac. Or any at all for that matter. And the dinosaur game that comes with the computer is lame and I didn't really understand how to play it. I always have the Solitaire website. It's free.

Second (on my reasons on my anger with Yahoo!), I read an article about that "lost" South American tribe many weeks ago, and tonight I find out that it was a hoax. The tribe is a real tribe; however, they weren't exactly lost, there are records on this tribe from 1910. The photographer had the tribe's best interests in mind though, he says he told the fib because he wanted to make people aware of the logging in that area of S. America and how it may affect the tribe's natural habitat. We have conservations for birds and other endangered animals like koalas and certain types of penguins, why not have conservation areas for the lost tribes of S. America. Wait - don't we have that in N. America already? I think they're called Indian Reservations. 

A week from tonight, I'll have to go to bed early, get up early (6amish) and be in Gulfport at 7:45am. I'll be doing some things I haven't done in a while: eat breakfast (other than at Waffle House), see early morning goings on.... I'm gonna have to get a full stock of everything bagels if I'm going to be eating breakfast. 

Whatever. I'm folding under pressure. If I don't show up, lets say I don't wake up (but I'll doubt that will happen since I'm living with my parents.). Well, if I don't show up I'm going to jail, so that sounds like a lose-lose situation to me. 

Ah, and I only mentioned it in passing, in a not really serious kind of way, but I did want to talk to my friend W about living together in Oxford during the Spring semester. We should probably do some chatting about that. Also, my bff L is a hoebag.

I ate the final everything bagel today. It was delicious. 

(Later 1:09am - I really want an everything bagel right now.)

p&l

rachel

time is of the essence

I've seen the first half of the second season of Desperate Housewives. It's quite exciting. I can't wait to find out what happens. Then I'll have to get season 3 and then hopefully watch season 4 online. 

I think Ida Greenberg is a good character on D.H. She's the local drunk until fate intervenes one night and her bottle breaks because it's hit by a bullet. 

There's a dog barking on the TV and Buster is not even flinching. He had another swimming day today with my family. I stayed at home and slept all day, having another sinus headache. I really need to clean my room tomorrow. It must be done.

I don't understand why most shows don't go with the short intro sequence like Grey's Anatomy or Heroes. On the D.H. DVDs there are some episodes where it has a long intro and then other episodes that have short intros. It's pretty confusing and strange.

Ah, but I am enjoying a nice Vitamin Water. XXX flavor. Acai-blueberry-pomegranate combo. Triple my antioxidants. I love it. 

I've started watching season 2 again until I can go to Blockbuster tomorrow and get the next two discs. It will be great. 

p&l

rachel