A Decemberists cover. Guess which version I prefer. Hint: it's obvious.

Well, this day is already going way off-course than what I had planned...

My dad retires on Thursday, as soon as possible. Then he'll finish studying massage therapy, and I guess work with that ಠ_ಠ I might end up traveling a little with him in the meanwhile.

Can't believe I stayed up til 4 AM watching that crappy movie and forcing myself to finish that horrible eggnog. "Golden age of Hollywood", my ass. You know if a movie is in black and white and has a name you vaguely recognize in it, it's instantly amazing, right?

Do you ever get weirded out when you can feel parts of your body inside from the outside? Right now I'm doing that with the cord(s?) in the throat. Earlier it was a skinny bone in the thigh.

One of the weirdest things I've ever seen on YouTube.

I made an eggnog a few days ago that was really delicious, so I tried to replicate the mix tonight, and it came out tasting smokey, like barbecue-flavored chips. I kept adding milk and eventually some ice, and two hours later, as I sipped, it developed the taste and texture of banana custard.

AHHHHH I JUST THOUGHT OF HOW MANY YEARS I HAVE LEFT UNTIL 30

MELTDOWN

Okay, okay, okay, that's all the years of college plus senior year. That's a lot. It's just that these past two years have been a complete drain of life. If the next 6 years are like this to begin with, I'd be screwed anyway.

AHHHHH MY EAR

Don't ever scratch you ear. Just let it itch. That's my helpful tip.

Yes, I love updating to complain about whatever ailment I have at the moment.

Smith students: don't brag about stealing the massive bag of M&Ms during study period. That's for everyone in the house, and people get seriously mad when they find the whole thing gone. You can't eat all of that! Dang, don't be greedy. Share, it's communal. Put it back in the dining hall.

Years go by, and it never changes. God, I was craving those M&Ms a few nights ago. One thing I miss about college.

Okay, no one here cares, but I wanted to watch this movie because Hugh Dancy is cute, so I read the book first, and it was actually funny. I almost rented a DVD of the movie, but Netflix said for awhile that it was going to be on Instant View, so I waited, and watched it when it was finally available yesterday. SO glad I didn't rent it. They changed everything, everything, except the ultra-British names, including the stereotypical rich ones, which are funny in the book, but make no sense in this context. I think the only thing in common with the book is that she shops a lot and gets in debt. The roommate's cousin becomes her fiance. What the hell, people. Ew. So yeah, it was pretty bad.

The roommate's cousin is named "Tarquin", which is the name of a student president of Wills Hall (my residence at Bristol) from before I went there. People already hated Wills for being full of rich kids, and when their president ~Tarquin~ made a response to the criticism, it became a joke. Someone had to explain the signifance of it to me.

Tarquin was also the name of the prince who raped Lucretia in ancient Roman lore. ... lol? Not sure what about that rich Brits are drawn to.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/mar/09/highereducation.students
I forgot about the pashminas! There were two Henriettas in my hall, and one of them was described as one of the worst "rahs" there. She looked exactly like Uma Thurman.

The antagonism over Wills, especially from Hiatt Baker, was way overblown, mostly coming from the HB side. I did hear a few snears about them from Wills students, but they focused way more on us than we did on them. As usual. As much as I did not fit in there, and wished I had picked to live in Durdham instead, I'm afraid that I would've been one of those whiners, ranting about Wills residents like I knew anything about them. I don't know who was warden at the time that article was written, but when I was there, Donald literally accepted any applicant who came from another country, was not white, and maybe came from a state school (I don't remember). He was actively trying to move it away from a rich kid hall, but it was still mostly so, because all the applicants saw a prochure with information such as what percent last year went to private schools, and avoided it.

Jesus, the Berlusconi thing is disturbing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wills_Hall
In 2008 a Harrow educated undergraduate at Wills Hall crashed a £10,000 Mini in the grounds of the hall. The student Alexander Fiallos was banned from driving for a year following the incident.
loool

OMFG James Blunt went there?! PLEASE DON'T TELL ME THIS IS TRUE.

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All of you better be tuning in to SNL in a half hour. Taylor Lautner's hosting, and he's probably going to be shirtless a quarter of the time.

I... think I'm going to go to the movie theater a lot over the next two weeks. I want to see EVERYTHING.

And I hate it when people half-assed sing along with a song. It doesn't even sound recognizable. Stop butchering it.

Along with: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ2-X1lNK4 "I'm glad that Joaquin Phoenix is doing videos now!"

Seeing the films of the "Twilight" franchise a total of five times is nothing to be proud of. In fact, it's flat-out shameful.

I went to the Botanical Gardens with my sister and Ashley, and the Christmas set-up is sooo cool. I remember the railroad village from from looong ago, one of those "what/when/where the hell was THAT?" memories that pop up from childhood. And it all SMELLED great. Seriously. The smell. It was lovely.

New default icon?! It makes every comment from me seem potentially earnest and thoughtful, until soon proven otherwise.

If you're on any recreational drugs right now, you should especially watch this:


Youtube comment: Over and above the talent, let's credit EMI for promoting this talent. Can you see this happening now. X-Factor; Simon Cowell "so tell us a bit about yourself love"
"Well my name's Kate, I'm sixteen and I'm going to do a song about a girl that's been made pregnant by her own brother and this is her suicide note to him..." and then I'm going to do one about a tortous 19th century gothic novel written from the point of view of the long-dead heroine etc

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Blaaaaargh, I feel crappy. I need to return to the mall. It's like I forgot how to get people gifts. Nothing ever calls out to me as good or suiting for a person.

Ugh... I recommend this: http://www.gifts.com/finder As an old man, I got "the thinker", whose guilty pleasure is "a glass of sherry." I went, "SHERRY? SHERRY? SHERRY."

Last night I made Kate watch "Twilight" out of sadism, then it dawned on me... I have now seen that movie three times, and that is nothing to be proud of. She was forwarding through scenes and I cried, "No! You can't do that!" Then I realized those scenes were all crap, so it was okay.

The orange nail polish I lusted over all summer and then got Lina to send for me is gorgeous. This is super important, I know you care.

http://www.dobi.nu/yourscenesucks/applestore/index.htm
omg It's me!

This reminds me I saw a van with the ICP "hatchetman" on the back on the Beltway. I have NEVER had a real-life encounter with a Juggalo before. It blew my fucking mind! I had to stop and catch my breath.

I bought my shampoo and conditioner, in same-sized bottles, at the same time. Yet at this moment, I have over half of my shampoo left, and exactly zero of my conditioner. Hmmm. HMMMM. One person has so far nervously admitted to using it "only sometimes, heh heh... heh."

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-767617.html
OHHSers, did you know that the murder of the one student was referred to by Clinton in a State of the Union address? HELLO. [http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/New/other/sotu.html ctrl+f "uniform"]

The story as I know it for others: Someone tried to rob a student at gunpoint over a Eddie Bauer coat. There was a stray bullet, and it hit a completely random other student, who was in the Science and Tech program. He died in front of the building. The former vice principal claimed that he died in his arms. They never found the shooter.

When I was at the school, we had to wear IDs around our necks for this reason, to weed out intruders who were there to cause trouble. But so many people didn't wear IDs for various reasons that it didn't come close to working. In my junior year, a kid got stabbed in the hallway by someone who didn't go there; he showed up just to start something with that kid. I eventually stopped wearing my ID, I think because I just got fed up with the system. I was very into the idea of "un-schooling" at that point, ha ha.

Only NOW do they have uniforms. It looks like it was just implemented this year, judging by the kids I see walk down my street.

EDIT:
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/41607175.html
LMAO scroll down far enough to see the first comments.

This is probably why he did not win AI. But he kept the wailing to a minimum, I'm impressed in that regard.

Finally saw "New Moon"; I insisted upon doing it during the opening weekend as part of a cultural experience, to be in a full audience. If I had been a day or two earlier, it would've been full of squealing fangirls, but by this time, it was all normal people on dates, and there were only a few squealers, including some Australian girls, inexplicably... When Jacob first randomly took his shirt off, everyone laughed. Laughter at some corny lines, and boy did it get corny, laughter at the one girl who cooed over a line from Edward, laughter at that horrible flash-forward from Alice, etc. But it was mostly quiet. They actually got upset over the ending. Whatever, like you didn't know what was going to happen next. Oh no, it's actually ominous. Here comes two and a half hours of Bella and Edward painfully arguing over marriage/collge/sex/vampirization.

I'd rank it in quality about the same as "Twilight", entertaining moments mixed with corny romantic dialogue and some boring stuff, though the boring and entertaining were more mingled. In "Twilight", I thought the first half was fun, and the second was boring as hale. As soon as that jackass shows up tilting his head at every camera shot, I'm done... The action sequences were a lot better than I expected, though. Definitely improved that from the first movie. And I always like the exterior shots, because I want to visit the Pacific northwest, ha ha.

I liked this song:


They're dropping the girl who played Victoria, that's sad. She was very interesting to look at. Can't really judge the acting ability...

FACE PUNCH

So I definitely either would've chosen Mike or gone gay for Alice.

For my next big trip, I'm thinking I should visit Victoria, who lives in Seattle. Maybe we could have our own trip and visit Neah Bay, which is at the tippy tip of the Olympic Peninsula. It has a 500-year-old village frozen in time from a mudslide, a la Pompeii. Forks sounds particularly exciting; it has a LUMBER museum. I remember going out in that area sometime during my childhood, visiting a rainforest, and seeing some hippie couple eat a leaf. It was weird.

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/4668036.html
AHAHAHAHA

A reason I love TV: Levi was in New York to do the photoshoot, I guess, and went on "The Insider" show that comes on at 1:30 AM. He got lectured on the first night by Star Jones (formerly of "The View", famous for dramatically losing weight) and Niecy Nash (lady with prosthetic butt on "Reno 911"). The second night, he sat face-to-face with Jon Gosselin, who also gave him advice, and moaned about how Levi ~has it easier~ with the media. Poor Jon Gosselin! Then I believe he went on to get advice from Donald Trump.

I want to say, "Only in America," but I don't know if that's true. UK reality TV celebrity culture gets pretty ridiculous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzxR8OH-fDQ
Let's discuss this.

Holy shit, MTV is playing Destiny Child's "Say My Name". FLASHBACK.