I was just thinking....

If The O.C. were still on, I bet Seth Cohen would be excited about the new Hellboy movie coming out, since he said it was the only comic-gone-movie he'd watch. Or at least that's what I think, and ... I know a lot about The O.C. 

Anyways, I sent an email to the editor of the MS press, if I haven't mentioned this before. I'm kinda desperate for a job by now, so if I can start working for them again, it should be pretty sweet. I didn't really want to have to go back into newspapers, but what the hell else am I going to do? Until I can find a real job or something. Who knows.

It looks as though there's a storm coming in from the North East. It's going to hit maybe Sunday or Monday and last all next week. I'm not looking forward to it. Considering tomorrow will be the last day us kids in Mississippi will be seeing, we might want to catch up on our sunrays while we have 'em. Grab your tanning lotion and hit those towels, ladies! 

Then, either burnt or bronzed, you'll be kept inside somewhere doing something like watching mass amounts of television or reading or whatever. 

AH! and it's my bff L's birthday today! 21! Woo!

And I can't help but bragging, but I bought the new Gossip Girl, The Carlyles today. Ugh, although I will be giving it to L as her birthday present... but I'm going to read it first! That's what happens when you buy a present early I guess... 

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rachel

a short blog

A few things have changed in the past few hours. 

M didn't go to work today, and the people at Ruby Tuesday are apparently angry with her. She is sick, but she was my reference and if they're angry with her, what are they going to do about me? Not hire me? Then it is definitely back to square one. 

In other news, I finished two books today. Lets see what else I can finish before I go to the library tomorrow. If I even make it to the library tomorrow. Who knows what I'll end up doing. Laying out better be one of those things, I'm telling you right now. I need to sweat out this anger I have for trying to find a job. 

Right now, the only books I have started reading are Lullaby and The Sun Also Rises. I can't decide which one I should read next tonight. Maybe I'll start a new one. Anna Karenina? Madame Bovary? 

I wish Buster didn't have any fleas.

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rachel

oooooooh, barracuda

It has finally arrived. Or at least I think it has. I got this picture from Amazon.com.

Other than that, I STILL haven't heard from the people from Ruby Tuesday. M is supposed to be talking to them about me tonight, so I hope something goes right. Or else it's back to square one.

Hello, square one.

I've been having dreams about Adam Brody or maybe it's Seth Cohen I'm dreaming of, either way, it's incredibly hot. Not the dream, but the person(s). 

Last night, I read the entirety of nothing can keep us together, a Gossip Girl book I picked up, just yesterday at the library. It was really good, and now I have the last three on hold and are waiting to be picked up. I'll also be getting Lost, season 2, which is extra exciting. I think that will be on my list of things-to-do tomorrow. 

I laid out today, and read Lucky, an It Girl novel. I'm still reading, actually, even at 5:30. As for laying out, I feel as though my legs aren't getting as tan as fast as my arms are. It's quite unfortunate, if you ask me. I really need to find out a way to tan equally on all sides. I think tanning beds are exceptional if you don't have the time to lay out during the day. Since I have the time to lay out during the day now, I don't really want to  go and spend more time laying half-naked in a tube of glowing lights. I'm not bashing tanning beds, because I've used them on several occasions. I've even use them to create my "base tan" for the season of Spring. Malibu was the one who kind of talked me into going to tanning beds in the first place. I think I am going to write that book about my freshman year in college. It was life changing, I'm serious.

I believe it is strange how food that is supposedly more good for you is more expensive. The same goes for more economical cars and so on. Why do things that are supposed to be better for our lives and the life of our planet so unattainable except for the wealthy, who only aspire to be "green." My aunt just re-built her house after Katrina, and she had a lot of economically good things that she added to her house. I can't recall them now, but I remember the conversation my mother and I had about her sister. Well, the stuff my aunt added to her house wasn't extremely costly. So maybe having a "green," economical house isn't as expensive as attaining a hybrid car. 

Whatever. I just got a call from a friend and I must depart. Although I do want to continue to bitch about the economy and how it is completely unfair.

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rachel

me blogging and watching veronica mars just seems to happen at the same time all the time

Season 3. It would have been a pretty awesome season if it hadn't been CANCELLED! 

Logan and Veronica and their "epic love" is still going on at the beginning of the season. I like Logan and Veronica together. 

Oh, and yes... tonight's Gossip Girl was pretty scandalous. Blair and Jenny duking it out throughout the whole episode. I don't know who I like more: Serena, Blair or Jenny. Blah blah. I don't know if I like the books or the series more either. 

Piz's stuff has been stolen! Oh no! Veronica is there to take the case though. She's so talented. 

My lesbian neighbor is coughing in her garage next door. Their garage is very close to my bedroom window, and it's painful when I'm in here with my window open, listening to my music or doing whatever I do here in my room, and I can hear the two of them talking or doing whatever they do in their garage. They're crazy.

I picked up Anna Karenina today from the library. Also picked up a Gossip Girl novel. I didn't know Anna Karenina was so long. What else should I expect from Count Leo Tolstoy though? War and Peace wasn't an easy read either, although I haven't read that one either. I'm just trying to educate myself while I'm not in school. The librarian helped me re-check out another book that was due today. I'm tight with the librarians. 

I really hope these Ruby Tuesday people give me a job. I really don't want to keep looking for one anymore. Tomorrow, I'm supposed to expect an answer. 

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rachel

It is awful easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing. - Chapter 4, The Sun Also Rises

I had a pretty good day today. 

Right now, I'm watching The O.C. and it's probably one of my favorite episodes of the series: The Strip, which is where Seth, Ryan, Sandy, Jimmy and Caleb go to The VEGAS! Ah, this is such a good show.

I've been reading The Sun Also Rises on and off today and I have to say, I've never read Hemingway before, but I'm really enjoying this book. I still haven't read the short story L referred for me to read. Alas.

The name of the novel is taken from the Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:5: "the sun also ariseth."

The day began with me waking up and cuddling with Buster. I took a shower and then the family and I went to the mall. I got some new clothes and a new pair of shoes. It was very exciting. New clothes! All girls love new clothes. And shoes, right?

I had a steak for dinner and it was pretty good. I also brought back some for Buster and a huge brownie, but it needed to be eaten with milk, so that's why I brought it home with me.

Julie Cooper and Kirsten's little sister Hailey are cat fighting at Julie's bachelorette party. Funny stuff, funny stuff.

Oh yes, I wanted to post a new picture that M took of me, but it was taken with a cell phone camera, and it looks a little fuzzy, but you can kind of see my hair colors.

And here it is. Buster just stretched and it was cute. 

Well, I think I'm gonna get done with this post.

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rachel

yellow dresses

Just a short blogging tonight, friends. I'm getting more tired by the minute.

Well, I didn't get to do any of the things that I wanted to do today. However, I did call Ruby Tuesday and I have to call back again tomorrow about the positions available. 

I didn't lay out. I'm very very sad I didn't. I'm going to REALLY have to do that tomorrow. I did read a little bit of a book I need to bring back to the library. I didn't clean my room either. Those are the only things on the list. There was something else that I needed to do... let me check that out... oh yes, the library. I really do need to go to the library. I have two books I have to get from there that I put on hold. Anna Karenina and a Gossip Girl novel entitled: nothing can keep us together. I like to have a little variety. Of course.

Anyways, it's kinda hot in my room, even though I have the fan on and the window is open and it has been chilly these past few nights.

I'm pretty sure that was a run on sentence. I don't care.

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rachel

Am I V. Mars?

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Time is a curse

I've been thinking of things to write down about today, but I can't remember a lot of these things at the moment.

I do remember this: I was driving to Ruby Tuesdays to fill out an application for employment. I had put make up on. Mascara and eyeliner really irritate my eyes because I don't wear make up that often. But, as I was on my way to the restaurant, I closed my eyes slightly and I realized that with mascara on, my eyelashes looked like spider legs and it kind of freaked me out. Spiders in general, kind of freak me out. 

As usual, I'm watching Veronica Mars. It is kind of my nightly routine to end my day watching a few episodes of the show. 

I didn't get to see Gossip Girl on Monday, and I'm a little bummed about it. I'll get to see a re-run on Sunday night, so it's not so bad. Then, it will be just like seeing the next episode the next night. 

Buster is looking out the window. I think he's smelling something riding in on the wind. Now he's scratching himself after getting fleas from M's house. Or at least I'm sure that's where he got them. 

I can already see dust collect on my ceiling from my smoking too much. 

Whatever. 

I think what I'm going to do tomorrow is:

• lay out
  
• clean my room, yuck
• read books, which ones, I don't know
  
• hopefully get a call back from Ruby Tuesdays
  
• go through my books in the garage
  
• re-arrange my room? 

That looks like a lot of things I have head of me tomorrow. I don't know how much of this I'm actually going to get done. I know for a FACT that I will be laying out, because I didn't get to today, or yesterday. I need to become the bronzed sun goddess I once was. Those many, many years ago. Well, maybe it was only two, but you know what .... it needs to be so again.

Thinking of laying out reminds me of Jfer, Malibu and Kasi, I wish we had a nickname for her. If we did, I don't remember it. Pool time used to be our time. Laying out. Reading Cosmopolitan Magazine in British accents. I miss those days oh so much. It's terrible we have to be so far from each other. But I look at the puzzle piece tattoo that we all have, and it makes me happy knowing that I'll always have those girls and that time we had together. It was a time that is probably teen-novel worthy. A lot of things happened my freshmen year of college that changed me, and I think those changes are for the better. I'm more clear headed. I'm more focused on where I want my life to go. Kasi sometimes didn't like what we would read aloud. You see, Kasi had a "comfort zone." She rarely stepped out of it. However, I think she never really cursed before meeting me. I could be wrong though.

Maybe I can make it a summer project to write my own typical teenage novel. It won't be so much coming of age, since the characters will be in college, but it will be a more coming to terms with who you are, and to not be so self conscious, like people are in high school. 

Or at least that's what I think I've learned. It's not what people think about it that's important in life. It's who you are and being happy with who you are. What I mean, is that if I could go back to high school, it would be much different for me. I mean, I'm not saying I'd be uber-popular or anything, but I would be more outgoing and more not self conscious about the person that I was always meant to be: the outcast. Even though I was already acquaintances with almost everyone in my graduating class.

Maybe I'll read Madame Bovary tomorrow. I put Anna Karenina on hold at the library. I also have a Gossip Girl novel waiting for me there, so I should probably put going to the library on my things to do tomorrow. 

One of my favorite characters on Veronica Mars is Cindy "Mac" Mackensie. Mac is another comical character with crazy hair colors that vary from episode to episode. She's a technological genius and helps out Veronica with a lot of the more difficult hacker type stuff that needs to be done in order to solve the mystery. She's played by Tina Majorino, also a co-star from the hits Big Love and Napoleon Dynamite.

Another of my favorites is Eli "Weevil" Navarro. He's such a badass, but a softie as well. He's a good soul when it comes down to it. He is one for justice, and not completely bad. Even if he is the leader of the PCHer's: Neptune High's notorious biker gang. He's played by Francis Capra. He hasn't really been in anything you would recognize him from, besides Veronica Mars. However, he was on one episode of The O.C. I do believe I mentioned that before though.

I think I've talked about Veronica Mars characters enough for today. I wish I had started reading one of the more sophisticated books I rented from the library, but that hasn't happened yet, so I'm a little sorry that I don't have anything intellectual to talk about. I can't wait to start taking philosophy classes again. Or theology classes. Either one would be pretty awesome. I mean, any of my major/minor classes are going to be awesome, but I still have a ton of core classes to finish off. 

I haven't decided what I want to do. College-wise yet. Ole Miss or back to USA? 

Making mental note: I'm almost out of tea, so I should probably go get some more soon.

I love Logan Echolls. Ugh, ok, no more Veronica Mars, I said.

On Guitar Hero 3, my band was supposed to be called Mars, but it ended up being only Mar. Whatev.

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rachel

how do people live?

these people are crazy

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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.

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rachel

"This is Neptune, nothing happens accidentally," Veronica Mars

Here I am, quoting Kristen Bell. Watching Kristen Bell/Veronica Mars. Am I going too far? I almost started talking about her at T's house earlier when I saw she had a copy of the new Cosmo. 

I don't think so. I'm watching the episode where Wallace and a lot of other kids fail their drug tests and are banned from sports for the whole year. Wallace doesn't do drugs, so obviously Veronica knew something was up. Season 2, Episode 1. "Normal is the Watchword."

M had the day off, so I hung out with her and R. I didn't get to lay out, which was unfortunate because it was a beautiful day. I went to the library and rented Madame Bovary and The Old Man and the Sea. 

Tomorrow, I'm going to be applying at Ruby Tuesdays in D'Iberville, M also works there. She said she'd put in a good word for me. Plus, they're hiring. I'm also going to put in an application at the Sears in the mall in Gautier. It's not the most desirable job, but I'm going to go for it. R said he got a job there, but there is a drug test involved.

Madame Bovary is Summer Robert's favorite novel. Summer Roberts, for those of you who don't know, is from The O.C. The Sun Also Rises is the novel of choice for Dr. Derek "McDreamy" Shepard on Grey's Anatomy. 

We were riding around Ocean Springs today, and I realized that Ocean Springs isn't going to be itself anymore. I mean, soon enough,that hoe Connie Moran is going to turn this place into another Gulf Shores, Destin or some other beach-side wannabe paradise. Sans the paradise. I saw someone swimming in the water here. A child, nonetheless. We should protect our future. There's staph AND e-coli in that water. I shudder to think. I hope that child doesn't end up with gangrene on its appendages.

I could go for a chicken pot pie right about now. 

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rachel

a fun website

Mapping Gas Prices in America

I think it's pretty interesting. The website, in general.

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rachel

insomnia is very exhausting

I'm not sure what is wrong with me, but I'm having a very hard time going to sleep.

It's like this sometimes if I don't take any Tylenol PM. Maybe it's the idea that I haven't taken the medicine and it's got me all worked up or something, but if I can't sleep... I get frustrated.

There really isn't much to do at 3 in the morning anyway. Why would anyone want to be awake at this time of the night? Especially on a Thursday. Ugh. I don't know how I'm going to get myself to sleep tonight. I've almost completely finished Lullaby, and I just started on the first chapter like, at 10 or so tonight. Ugh. Again. 

It's terribly tragic. My thought process when I can't sleep. Currently, I guess it's been so hot outside that I'm sweating more than usual. I guess that's making my hair get dirtier easier. I don't know, but it feels like I have to wash my hair every other day. I took a shower yesterday. A person doesn't have to bathe everyday for their hair to be clean for two days. At least it used to be different for me. When I had longer hair, it was like... I could go two or three days without washing my hair, but still bathing nonetheless. I'm not gross. I just can't stop thinking about my dirty hair. 

I wish I had something that would help me fall asleep. Anything. 

Maybe I'm too afraid to go to sleep after reading Lullaby, since it's about a culling song that makes the person you read it too fall asleep and never wake up again. I kid. I'm not worried about that....

There are birds singing outside my window. Or is that the fan? I swear I heard birds earlier though. Yes, definitely birds. 

Buster is being very beautiful, but he always is. I was scratching his hind leg and he started to kick. It was cute. He's more sensitive to being scratched when he's sleepy, I suppose. I don't know if I mentioned he went to the vet the other day and had some shots that were slightly over due. He was a bit crazy at the vet, but whatever meds they shot him up with made him sleepy. So he kind of slept for a long time in my bed. 

I can't think of anything interesting to say.

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rachel

"the problem with every story is you have to tell it after the fact" -lullaby

I don't know what it is about ABC's sitcoms, but I love them. 

Tonight, it was magnificent. Three of my favorite TV shows of all time came on tonight, with all new episodes: Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, and LOST! The Lost episode was completely insane. So many people died. So many main people died in the last few episodes. 

I sure hope C was watching.

Other than that, I paid my cell phone bill today. My mom sent me to the store to get milk. Nothing too extreme to talk about today. I made a salad for our dinner, spaghetti. I know L enjoys J's spaghetti.

I'm listening to Loretta Lynn. I have to get into a country mindset for my short story. "The Scouting Isle" is turning out alright. Even though I'm barely over a page. Soon enough. 

Maybe the best writers don't write their masterpiece in one night like Kerouac. Not all of them are prodigies, right? It doesn't just come naturally. Well, it kinda does for me, but sometimes I can't think of how something should go.

Well, I think I'm going to go contemplate the mind of a 12-year-old boy. (For my story, duh)

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rachel

chuck speaks!

Here is a kind of long video, with Chuck Palahniuk talking. He doesn't have a bad voice. I love him. He tells a few stories. 

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rachel

My computer is really dirty

There is Buster hair all over my computer. It's pretty freakin' dirty.

Well, I just finished An Oral Biography of Buster "Rant" Casey. Overall, I loved it. I'm a little curious as to why Echo wasn't mentioned in the contributors section of the book. Hmm... 

I will, in time, want to read this book again. 

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rachel

Movies for movie people

Here are some screen shots from Choke, the movie version of an awesome Chuck Palahniuk book. Another Palahniuk classic made into a visual thing. I think they also chose a Norton-esque man to play the lead role. 

There is a film version of Invisible Monsters that's currently in-production.

I saw Fight Club before I even knew who Chuck Palahniuk was, interesting enough. I remember hearing about Fight Club in middle school (although I didn't see it then), and I didn't even read my first Chuck book until junior year of high school, at least. 

I can't wait until it comes out though. I'm definately going to see this movie. Oh yes I am. 

The release date is August 28th. I'm pretty excited. 

Cast:

Sam Rockwell is Victor Mancini

Anjelica Huston is Ida Mancini

Kelly Macdonald is Paige Marshall 

Brad William Henke is Denny. 

Denny never did have a last name.

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rachel

Guys and dolls

Here is a picture taken from Chuck Palahniuk's basement. I got this picture from The Cult website. 

This is his dog, I believe his name is Imp. And his friends are what I think are Snuff promotional gifts for the tour.

Anyway, this was a very interesting picture, I thought I would share it with the lot of you.

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rachel