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Monday, November 27, 2006
Ohh Ireland.
11/27/2006 09:25:00 PM How you make me fall in love with you all over again. Lately I've felt like I have a crush on it or something. It's wierd. I was watching Braveheart this weekend--I know, I know, the movie is about the Scottish, but the majority of it was filmed in Ireland--and seeing the battlefields (minus the bloody bodies, mind you) almost made my heart ache. I remember getting all giddy when I saw parts of the castle that I visited. Of course I've also been listening practically non-stop for a week now to the "Even Better than the Real Thing" cds that I downloaded, so hearing those songs keep bringing random flashbacks of the bus rides, scenery, and of course my bus drivers lovely singing voice. Seriously, I would marry it. Sam has also been asking me a lot of questions about Ireland and Galway in particular, because although she has always planned on moving to England after she graduates her boyfriend Clay (who she'll probably marry) is now talking about the possibility of moving to Galway instead of Brighton, but Sam doesn't know much about Galway, because she's been set the last couple years on living in Brighton. So alot of that talk started making me think how much I loved it, and why the hell is she the one contemplating moving there and I'm not. Although I think perfection would be finding myself an Irishman here, so I can have the accent around me, and then we'll go visit his family in Ireland. That way I don't actually have to live there, but can still enjoy the country and the culture. Plus, then my Irish man can teach me how to do the traditional dances, and maybe even how to play the tin whistle. Yep. That's all I need. Now I just gotta find him. Sunday, November 26, 2006
I Wanna Be In Love
11/26/2006 02:54:00 AM I just love this performance. And Melissa. And Dolly. And Love. So here: Monday, November 20, 2006
OMG! I'm ECSTATIC right now!!
11/20/2006 12:11:00 AM For some random reason unbeknownst to me (or Sam) I was thinking about my trip to Ireland, and suddenly remembered that while we were on the bus the driver was playing this album full of pop songs covered by Irish artists, only all done acousticly with lots of traditional Irish instruments, done live by this radio station for a charity. And I remember absolutley loving some of the songs, like this male version of "Crazy In Love" and another dude singing "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and some Elvis impersonator (who apparently is famous in Ireland for it) singing Enrique Iglesias's "Escape". Okay, so that last one was really tacky, but really fantasticy tacky. Anyways, I suddenly went on a craze, searching for the name of this album, trying to find a tracklist so I could download songs, and it took for freaking ever. Finally I stumbled on a slight hint, that this Irish artist Mark Harte according to his website had covered a Beyonce song (didn't say which) for some charity record, so I was like, "OMG!! THIS IS IT!!!" So I found the album name on his discography page of some fan website and looked it up, only then I could not find it anywhere because apparently the album had sold out since it was so popular in Ireland and isn't for sale anymore, and there wasn't any other info on it (especially none on American websites) but since it was so successful they released a 2nd and 3rd volume, so through one of the sites with those tracklistings, I found this European music software to download songs with (like iTunes) and you got 25 free downloads for a 14 day trial, and I remebered hearing some of the songs from the 2nd volume, so I downloaded a bunch of those, and then miraculously they had downloads for the 1st record as well. I was so excited I nearly peed myself. So of course, I used up my free 25 downloads in under 5 mins, and then cancelled my trial :) And now I'm happy, sitting here playing my newly aquired loves. AH!! That's it!! That's what made me think of Ireland. I was thinking of how I love Irish accents, cause some dude on tv had one, and then I told Sam I needed to marry an Irishman, so I can just listen to him speak, and then I told her how I would have married our Irish bus driver in an instant, and how amazing he was and how good of a singing voice he had, and how he was singing to us, and that made me think of all the other great music he played to us, and that reminded me of the great album!! (Who's title I realize I never typed. It's "Even Better Than The Real Thing" Vol.1 and Vol.2 are the best.)
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
Voice Inside My Head
11/19/2006 04:03:00 PM "I can hear the voice inside my head..." and it's Ashlee Simpson singing "La La". Make it stop. Please. ETA: Funny Picture on the Freeway  Edited to Add (AGAIN): Funny picture on random website  Wednesday, November 15, 2006
11/15/2006 07:08:00 PM --------> News Update: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the 15 films in the Documentary Feature category that will advance in the voting process for the 79th Academy Awards. The field has been narrowed down from 81 eligible docs, and "Shut Up and Sing" is one of the remaining 15 contenders for the Oscar. The final five nominee's will be announced on Jan. 23rd. Yay!! To celebrate, I'll also add these clips from the film from the feature Nightline ran on it a couple weeks ago. --------
11/15/2006 12:21:00 PM So next, Shut up and Sing. Interestingly enough, I saw my film teacher at the screening (which was at 2:30 on a Friday when he's supposed to be in class), which totally surprised me, cause its not even like he took his wife or anything, he was just there alone--that part made sense, cause he's kinda a loner film snob, who wears homeade punk rock t-shirts, and lots of black, with his dark hair always falling over his eyes, kinda dude. Anyways, I was particularly intrigued to see him there assuming he'd never heard anything about the Dixie Chicks, though it does make some sort of sense since its a documentary, and he's a documentary filmaker, that he would go check out all the other docs at the festival. Anyways! Audience Impression: Well, I liked the film so much that I ended up seeing it both times it screened, and there were some slight differences in the audiences. Mostly, as you would assume a Chicks concert would be, the crowd was full of older women, probably averaging in their 30s-40s, and a few younger women in their 20's and then any dudes that were there were either 40 with their wife, or surprisingly a few collegiate single dudes there. Probably film geeks or closet dixie chicks fans. The 2nd go round was at 9:30 on a Saturday night and there were alot more men there, and also an older crowd. The first time I was mainly focused on the content in the aspect of watching it as a fan, but the second time I was impressed with more of the filmaker's techniques, the narrative storyline, etc. The way its edited keeps it interesting the whole time, and makes it different than a lot of music documentaries. I don't wanna give anything away too much about it, but much respect to Barbara Coppel and Cecilia Peck, and their crew. They did a great job of taking the 'fly on the wall' approach, which in addition to all of the surreal events taking place almost makes it seem like some movie about a fictional band and controversy they go through, because you watch and just think, "how could that have really happened?" even though you remember hearing things in the news, and then seeing a lot of that same media coverage in the film also reassures you how very real it is/was. It's definitely a thought provoking film. If it has that kind of shock in it now, I wonder what it'll be like to watch it in like 20 years. Bouncing back and forth between 2003 and 2006, it's interesting to watch these women go from disbelief to acceptance to defiance as the whole saga plays out. I think alot of it was helped by the fact that the chicks were already used to having cameras following them around for quite a while before the incident (they were filming the tour for a dvd for fans, and extras to put on the website) so after they started hearing about this backlash and stuff going on in America while they were touring Europe, so they just decided to keep the cameras around, and then later Barbara Coppell approached them about filming, and brought in her crew to film them over the next three years, and since the Chicks already owned all the other footage from before and during the actual incident, Coppell was able to combine that with her footage for this film. This film isn't a 90 minute rant on how the Bush comment ruined everything for the Chicks. In fact the girls asked that the film not be made to be flattering to them (otherwise I'm sure they wouldn't have agreed to be shown as much as they are without makeup--which is pretty much the entire time), but to do what the genre does, which is "document", which it does, and by the end its amazing to find three women who are actually glad for what they went through, because it made them all stronger/better people, closer as friends and a band, and also gave them back a new fire as artists with creating their music, and the drive to prove themselves, because any new fans they gain or new achievements and successes from this point on will all be more honest and deserved, than just riding the wave of their previous success. Which is pretty huge mind you. Fact Check: The Dixie Chicks are the best selling female band of all time, and the first band to ever have 3 albums in a row debut at number one among other records they set for sales, and especially for country music. So to go from there, and lose all radioplay,lose video play on CMT, and not be invited to any award shows, pretty much hides them entirely from a potential audience not including internet. And it's the right of stations to choose what they want to play, but when corporate bans are coming down from headquarters like Clearchannel and Cumulus (both of which lost lawsuits for this) then the Program Director and Stations themselves aren't making an independent decision for what their audience wants to hear. I also have to add that I was extremely impressed with the chicks themselves and getting to see how they were dealing with everything that was happening to them. I have such admiration for these three women. The way there was no second wasted on questioning their integrity, or the idea of risking everything (lives/career) for standing up what they believed in, even though they didn't set out to make a statement, they were just thrown into this political environment suddenly, but they didn't hesitate to stand by their comment, because they should be able to say it whether the country agreed at the time or not. Plus, apologies are for lapses of character, not revelations of it. Having to apologize for what they believed or who they are was not an option. I'm sure they could have easily gotten out of the whole thing had they decided to lie and say that Natalie was a little drunk, and then say that she went to rehab. America would have loved her for that, they love fallen heroes, and all would have been forgiven. But of course, she wasnt drunk, so people won't forgive her for meaning what she said. I also had no idea they turned down a deal with AEG for $26 million, who wanted to buy out their current tour, so that they would get the profits if the tour sold out, and take the losses if it didn't, and the chicks would regardless have $26 million. But as you might see in this clip they didn't like the idea of selling off their risks either (which in hindsight would have been a better decision, because the tour ended up not selling a lot of venues, and they've lost alot of money since then). Although the clip is edited, because I remember Natalie dropping a few f-bombs during that part in the movie. Not only that but these ladies are hilarious. I mean, I knew that they were fairly witty and obviously intelligent, but they had me surprised throughout the whole thing. I still couldn't tell if Natalie was joking or not when she made certain phone call the day of the Dallas concert concerning the death threat. And it was funny, but also ironic, when she's looking at the picture of the man who said he's going to kill her, and barely hesitates before saying that he's cute. The Martie moment was also great (which I can't ruin, but was greatly revealing about her character, and very touching to see someone in such a genuine human moment). I just love and respect them even more now. It was also interesting to watch a documentary getting almost as many laughs and cheers as a comedy like Borat, haha. For a film stemming from a misunderstood moment of personal expression, it does a fantastic job at entertaining as well as defending the values this country was built on, free speech being the major player. Oh and side note, In my film class today my teachers all giddy and excited like a little girl and starts talking about how he doesnt want to go straight into discussion for class, cause he saw "the greatest film this weekend!" and I figured, okay, so he's a filmaker and part of the series I'm sure he got into a bunch of movies for free all weekend, so who knows what he's talking about, but then he starts telling us not to judge him and he can't believe he's going to say this, and goes on to praise how amazing Shut Up and Sing was, encouraging people to go see it to the point of even if they get violently ill anytime they hear the Dixie Chicks music, saying that regardless of the horrible physical reactions, they should still see it, because even though their music is obviously pretty prominent in it, that it's still tolerable, haha. But that if you like them, then it's like you're birthday! Anyways, the cool thing is that even though the film is on a pretty limited release, he said that if it doesn't make it to St. Louis, then he plans on getting it for the Film Series here (being he's the director of the series and all, I'm taking that as a pretty sure bet that if he wants it he'll get it, so I'm excited). tommorrow: Death of a President, and The Fountain (featuring the amazingly hot Hugh Jackman, and the always lovely Rachel Weisz). BTW, if anyone wants a free "The Fountain" mini poster, let me know, I have a couple extras. Tuesday, November 14, 2006
And it begins
11/14/2006 12:38:00 PM Okay, I figure I just as well start this now, because tonight after I get back from class I'm going to a free screening of "The Fountain" (you know the creepy looking new movie with Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz) and will probably contribute my thoughts on those as well, so I need to empty my head on some of the films I saw earlier this weekend. First up, TransAmerica. Audience Impression: I thought it was funny though taking note of the group of people that showed up. All the couples were almost totally all gay men and their girlfriend, or girl alone, or a group of two girls together. The movie was so good. I absolutley love Felicity Huffman, and to see how diverse she is as an actress from when I used to watch her on Sports Night on ABC (I'm still sad they cancelled that when they did) to Desperate Housewives, and then this film is so impressive I can't even tell you. Speaking of desperate housewives before I went I had just watched the episode with the shooting in the market, and how amazingly she's able to capture the emotions of a woman and mother in that position and then see her in such a different yet similar emotional state as a man who finds his new role as a 'mother'...its insane. I thought she did a great job of being masculine enough to try and hide her masculinity in the akward transition. There was only one moment in the film, where I was taken out of it breifly, and remember that this was a female playing this role, and that was during one of the character's breakdowns, where she begins crying. She done good with the voice the whole time, but I can't fault her for crying in a higher pitch, because, well, she is a woman. No matter what the viewer's personal feelings are about transgendered people, this amazing movie will make you fall in love with the characters as human beings. Through the film you watch "Bree" grow not only as a person or a transexual, finding her footing, as well as gaining acceptance for who she is, but you begin to see her as a women. Not as a man who is going throught the process of taking hormones, and getting a sex change. I thought the dynamic of having this transgendered individual have to come to terms of having a son, and finding out he's a "father" after having tried to abondon that person, and then try to build a relationship as a parent with this kid was extremely interesting. It boggles even your mind just watching it, wondering what in the heck must be going through this persons head, and the confusion and frustration they must be feeling. But in the end, TransAmerica isn't an "issue" based movie, about transexuals and the difficulty they go through but more a story about relationships, and especially parenthood (also taking note of the parent-relationship of "Bree" and her folks), which is an old-fashioned timeless story that everyone can identify with in some way. Tres Bien! crap...I'm running out of time already, just cause I'm trying to sit here and formulate my thoughts. Okay, so I'll only do the first two today. Friday, November 10, 2006
Movie Reviews!
11/10/2006 06:40:00 PM I saw three fantastic films this weekend and I was gonna write a little bit about my experience with each of them, but right now I'm just a tad distracted. I might come back and edit this later and add them one by one, or whenever I get motivated. I definitely had notes on all of them that I wanted to come and add, but between trying to stay away from my computer so I can procrastinate doing my paper, and trying to figure out what the hell "I'll bring you pearls of water from my hips" means, my brain is just not functioning at full capacity recently.
Gah, she woulda been huge in the 40s...
11/10/2006 11:36:00 AM I hear a hint of Judy Garland with a dash of Rosemary Clooney. Oh my little chameleon. You know that now you have to make not only an acoustic record, and a country record, but also an album of jazz standards, and either one full of the Rosemary Clooney catalog or Big Band Hits. OR Broadway hits. Actually, make that just go do Broadway. Funny Girl or Beauty and the Beast would be sufficient. Oh right, and also could you maybe also do a duet with Rob Thomas or Steven Tyler? That'd be great. K, Thanks. Thursday, November 09, 2006
I'm so excited!!
11/09/2006 06:20:00 PM And I just can't hide it!! That is if you've seen my Facebook status as of two hours ago. First of all, today has been absolutely brilliant. Quite literally too, as the sun was out full force, and I didn't even need a jacket to go to class. But the best part comes at class. My film teacher casually mentioned as we were all getting up to leave that 'Shut Up and Sing' was just added to the St. Louis International Film Festival!!! EEEEEE!!! This means I get to see it after all!! I'm so excited, because I was worried that it wouldn't open in any theaters in Missouri since its so conservative here (and since the Chicks had to cancel their concert dates due to sales in St. Louis being so poor,---even though before 'the incident' the last show they played in St. Louis sold out the UMB Bank Pavillion Center (17-18,000 seats) for two days in a row, when they're shows these days consist of about 7-8,000, that means they lost at least half their fansbase. Anyways, I'm totally jazzed. That's right, I said jazzed. As soon as class was over, I was on the computer and phone trying to figure out where/when its playing and how I can get tickets. Which I then promptly proceeded to run (or drive) out and get. It's showing tommorrow at 2:30, so I might be skipping work, or at least try to leave early. (Yes, that's how badly I wanna see this). Also, in other happy, yet sad news, TransAmerica is playing tonight at Webster, which I am estatic to see---but I'm also torn because "Death of A President is at the same time, and tonight is the absolute must be done by date. I'm kinda freaking out. I know I could always rent TransAmerica but I'd really like to see it on the big screen, and yet Death of A Prez would also be killer on a big screen. Oh, and I must apologize for leaving out an important film from my previous post. I had said that the 4 films I was most excited about this year were "Death..", "Shut Up...", "Al Franken: God Spoke", and "Mr. Smith..." all of which are documentaries..but I left out one very important film, which I've also been dying to see all year. "BORAT" which is a political mockumentary (and one I hear that will revolutionize the way mockumentaries can be made in the future).
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
The Day After
11/08/2006 07:37:00 PM 'Tis glorious. Amazing news! It's about freaking TIME!! Britney's leaving Kevin!!!! Oh wait...did you think I was referring to the elections? Okay, that's well overdue too. The sad thing is that the democrats making such huge gains this go 'round pretty much only makes the Senate and the House of Reps 'even'. Okay, so they won the majority in the Senate by ONE seat. Still doesn't mean that every democrat will vote for every democratic issue that comes up. But alas, at least the seats are fairly equally balanced now, as they should be. Plus,in addition to Britney dumping Kevin, George W. dumped Donald Rumsfeld. Also with the Democrats taking over the House of Representatives, comes the extremely good news that we are set to have the very first female Speaker of the House in our nation's history!!! Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California. AND!! Americans elected record number of gay candidates in yesterday's election! Sixty-seven candidates endorsed by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund were elected in 2006 (some earlier in the year) to federal, state, and local offices, according to a press release from the LGBT political action committee. It's all very exciting. Essentially, I think since 9-11 the country has really been learning alot about itself, and through all the events following (Wars, Katrina disaster, etc) it took GWB's failing the country, to get people to finally make a statement and a determined effort for change. Change that America desperately needs. Maybe we can finally begin not only fixing all the wrongs that have occured in the last 4 years, but also continue to further improve our country. I've noticed a change in myself, as far as being very concerned about politics, which I think occurred after living outside our country, and visiting others. Although at the time I didn't consciously take note of the differences in how things are run politically, I've definitely learned alot about myself and the politics I believe in since then. I definitley have stances and opinions on a lot of issues now and know why I support what I do, whereas before I didn't really know what I thought about a lot of things. Maybe its just part of growing up too. Or part of growing up, in such a diverse and open community such as Webster. Either way, I love it, and I love the beliefs I've accumulated or developed or shaped. I never ever though I would feel any sort of passion for politics, and I definitely didn't feel grateful or proud of certain civil liberties were allowed in America, but I'm gradually becoming much more appreciative of all of them as well as claiming them as my own, and using them and standing up for them as much as possible. I also never thought I was much of a fan of documentary films, but this year, the films I'm anticipating most all happen to be political documentaries. I loved the Al Franken doc, and really want to see "The Death of a President" this week at the Tivoli. Then next week I'm excited to see a screening of "Can Mr. Smith Still Go to Washington" here thanks to the Webster Film Series, and then of course I'm extremely eager to look back on the snapshot of America and our culture during 2003 in "Shut Up and Sing". I think it will be interesting to see it from the perspective of looking back on it and actually realizing how much our country was changed, and has changed since then. It'll definitely be an interesting film to look at again in 20 years or so. Which is actually kinda sad, because in 20 years we might find ourselves watching it to realize that maybe not much has changed at all--similar to how audiences at the Toronto film festival felt viewing "The US v. John Lennon", a documentary about Lennon speaking out against war (Vietnam) that essentially ended his career here (hmmm, ring a bell with any contemporary artists experiencing the same thing, all these years later?) 
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Friday, November 03, 2006
Somewhere A Clock is Ticking
11/03/2006 10:40:00 AM So I came to an interesting realization this morning. I'm at work, and I wanted to eat an apple, and I actually found a knife (for which I expressed my surprise--especially for finding a knife at the Help Desk, where many people would be inclined to actually use it, for purposes other than cutting food--what can I say? There's just a vibe here, you can't help it). Anyways, Michelle just kinda looks at me and says, "You used to have braces didn't you." And I was like"....Yeah? What makes you say that?" thinking this question just came out of nowhere. "You're in the habit of cutting your fruit, cause you were looking for a knife." I wish I could be that observant. Sometimes (okay, alot of the times) I'm just completely oblivious to things on the surface like that. I also took a humanmetrics test today, which told me I am an INFP. Which means nothing to you, unless I decide to tell you what the abbreviation means. Which I suppose I could, it's harmless information. But it would be more fun not saying what it is. Until you go look it up on your own, from the burning curiosity created by me holding it back from you. Only then, you'd have the results and discover that its really not as exciting as you thought it would be and this game would just make no sense. Anyways, according to this test, I am a Healer Idealist: INFP standing for Introverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving. Although mine was more inFP as I'll have nyou know introverted and intuitive were only about %10, with Feeling being 50% and Percieving %40. Healer Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in striving for their ends, and informative and introverted in their interpersonal relations. Healer present a seemingly tranquil, and noticiably pleasant face to the world, and though to all appearances they might seem reserved, and even shy, on the inside they are anything but reserved, having a capacity for caring not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a favorite cause, and their fervent aim is to bring peace and integrity to their loved ones and the world. Healers have a profound sense of idealism derived from a strong personal morality, and they conceive of the world as an ethical, honorable place. Indeed, to understand Healers, we must understand their idealism as almost boundless and selfless, inspiring them to make extraordinary sacrifices for someone or something they believe in. Healers are found in only 1 percent of the general population, although, at times, their idealism leaves them feeling even more isolated from the rest of humanity. Healers seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect, perhaps because they are likely to have a sense of inner division threaded through their lives, which comes from their often unhappy childhood. Wishing to please their parents and siblings, but not knowing quite how to do it, they try to hide their differences, believing they are bad to be so fanciful, so unlike their more solid brothers and sisters. They wonder, some of them for the rest of their lives, whether they are OK. They are quite OK, just different from the rest of their family; swans reared in a family of ducks. Even so, to realize and really believe this is not easy for them. INFPs never seem to lose their sense of wonder. One might say they see life through rose-colored glasses. Their extreme depth of feeling is often hidden, even from themselves, until circumstances evoke an impassioned response. Of course, not all of life is rosy, and INFPs are not exempt from the same disappointments and frustrations common to humanity. As INTPs tend to have a sense of failed competence, INFPs struggle with the issue of their own ethical perfection, e.g., performance of duty for the greater cause. Some INFPs have a gift for taking technical information and putting it into layman's terms. Sensing is introverted and often invisible. This stealth function in the third position gives INFPs a natural inclination toward absent- mindedness and other-worldliness. The INFP may turn to inferior extraverted Thinking for help in focusing on externals and for closure. INFPs can even masquerade in their ESTJ business suit, but not without expending considerable energy. I definitely believe in the absent-mindedness part. And I think I got that whole idealism/rose colored glasses issue, haha. I think my favorite part though is that it called me an ugly duckling essentially, and that it said I care passionately about a few special persons/things. Which I think helps explain all the little obsessions I have over things. Like Mary Poppins...or REBA! Speaking of!! Last night Sam and I went to the library on the way back from supper to see if there were any good movies that we wanted to watch, and I have no idea how I saw it or why it was there, but suddenly I think I see letters spelling one of my favorite names (or rather name of one my favorite people) and I just yell "REBA!!!" Which was preceded by "Holy Shit!" when I realized it actually did say Reba, and was only even less appropriate than yelling country superstars names out loud in a library. It was this VHS of Reba: In Concert...so you know I checked that out. I can't wait to watch it tonight when I get back from work. On the back cover one of the songs listed that she performs is "Sweet Dreams". Are you kidding me?! Reba! Singing Sweet Dreams!!? I LOVE IT!! We didn't watch it last night cause we watched "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (Sam had never seen it before...how sad. At least from my p.o.v. as someone in love with 90s pop culture) and then the entire first season of The Simple Life. I just had to check it out after having mine stolen, and missing it so much this summer. It was fun though, even though I got to bed after 2:00am, and had to get up for work this morning. My boss just left (literally) and is headed for Canada, so really I am now free to do whatever I want. Though I highly doubt I'd ever be able to sleep on the job. It's okay, I'll deal with it. And do you know why? Because Borat is out in theaters today. I don't think that's really the reason, but it just came to mind, and is good enough for me. I can't wait to see it. Maybe I'll go see that tonight. I really want to go with Abby, but she's not supposed to see it without Nick, her boyfriend (who could've been a dead ringer for Borat on Halloween, if he'd not had to cut his hair for his play, and could've grown his crazy mustache back. Just for visuals, since he's hilarious, here's clean cut "Look-at-me, I'm-the-lead-in-a-play-about-a-crazy-murderous-writer-Nick"   and here's crazy (which would be 'normal') Nick:   Doesn't that seem like he has Borat quality? Mainly cause the hair and mustache, but put him in a grey suit with a skinny tie, and I think he'd do. Anyway, I'll probably go see the movie this weekend anyways. It would just be more fun with Abby there. Now I don't know what to blog about, cause I feel potentially creepy for posting photos of Abby's boyfriend in my blog...hmmm, woops. Now I'm suddenly having a complex because I don't remember which spelling of 'grey'/'gray' is the U.S. spelling. I kept changing it in the sentence above, and I still don't know. Dammit, and Microsoft Word doesn't underline either with red for wrong. Aghhh! This is driving me insane. Although I just looked at the clock and feel like I've sufficiently wasted about an hour at work. Part of which typing this ridiculously long blog post. Actually I don't know yet whether its ridiculously long, because I'm still typing it, and haven't seen it in full form yet. But I can, if I just end it now, and click "Publish Post". But am I ready for that? .......................I guess so.
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
OMG, Kayla, This is AMAZING!!!
11/01/2006 09:14:00 PM I LOVE IT!!
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Halloween is over, let the anticipation of Christmas begin!
11/01/2006 06:53:00 PM
Oh, Halloween
11/01/2006 11:00:00 AM Yesterday was surprisingly better than what I'd expected from Halloween. No-one on our floor really had any plans, we're all too old to trick-or-treat, so it seemed like not much would be happening. There was a volleyball game happening here, and I decided I wanted to go and watch, since I've never been to any Webster athletic activity before...ever. So Sam and I headed over there, and had some free pizza and candy at the tailgate party in the parking lot behind the gym. The game was actually fun, and the girls are pretty decent. The first set was over in an instant by 30 to 9. The second set slowed down a little, but fairly quickly the game was over. They were pretty impressive, and Sam and I were like, "Man, we should come to these more often" only to find out that it was the last game of the season, hahaha. Woops. Maybe next year. One of the girls won't be there though, who is amazing. She's good enough to get recruited by WashU who I believe is ranked the #2 team in the country, but she just got engaged, and decided she's just gonna finish her business degree this year, and go off and be married and happy. With no more school and volleyball. Sad. It was still great though. There's nothing like hearing someone yell "GOR LOCK" through a traffic cone (it was serving as his megaphone, I guess he picked it up earlier in the parking lot from the tailgate party). So after the V-ball game (during which I had to call my momma, just to hear her get all excited that I was at a game, like I knew she would) we saw some people making preperations for a party upstairs in the University Center in the Sunnen Lounge. We decided to run back to the dorms, and try to find some impromptu costume to throw on, and go to the party. Sam went as white trash trailer park girl, and I went as the total opposite little innocent kid sister tomboy, with my pants rolled up, pigtails and backwards hat, with an orange flowered tank on, and a green button-up shirt tied over it. Oh, and a Nebraska license plate attatched to my belt buckle. I had people ask me if I was a mechanic, if I was a car, if I was a cornhusker, if I was a hick, and if I was from Nebraska. All of which I suppose I was, lol. |
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i totally pictured you in an irish dancing outfit holding a mug o' guinness doin' a jig. it was amazing. I hope you find your irishman, too. you will, when you least expect it.
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