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Sunday, 06 April 2008

  • Currently Watching
    The History Boys
    By Samuel Anderson, James Corden, Stephen Campbell Moore, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour
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    You know Juno?

    I just saw it last night, and will soon be going again with my mum and sister. I also watched History Boys on Friday and thought it was abso-bloody-lutely fantastic. Both movies were perfectly snarky with lovely bantering dialog that didn't come across as trying too hard or unnatural.

    Juno was really cute and sweet in an ironic sort of way, and I thought all the parts were perfectly cast. Michael Cera was such a lovable dork, and Ellen Paige was so very... accidentally and hilariously blunt. Jennifer Garner was amazing, too, she made me cry.

    And in the History Boys, well... The acting was mind-blowing all around! And the sheer... British-ness of it all almost made me squee with happiness. Ever since seeing it I've been talking off and on in my Brit accent. Slang included. Speaking of perfectly cast, this movie was it. Everything just fit together so well, and all the historical quotations and side-notes were relevant and wonderful. The ending was wistful without being terribly tragic, I liked it.

    My mother's opinion consisted of an uneasy look and, "It was just too... edgy for me. Half of it was over my head." But the Hector-grope thing was hardly the point of the story, it was about learning and history.

    I'm going to buy the movie, most definitely, and I'll have the soundtrack soon.

    "Can you, for a moment, imagine how depressing it is to teach five centuries of masculine ineptitude? History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket." Oh, I must buy this play. Preferably now.

Wednesday, 19 March 2008

  • Currently Listening
    Dilate
    By Ani DiFranco
    Superhero
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    I used to be a superhero

    I am so tired. I've been working at a kid's camp all week and every day when I get home I just want to go to sleep. I didn't even want to go to the gym with my mom tonight.

    I also started drinking coffee again, which I don't think was a good idea for me. I get really hyper and high-energy and keep going all day but as soon as I get a chance to rest I crash and am abso-bloody-lutely miserable. Coming off a caffeine high is awful for me.

    Last night I went to see The River live, it was really cool. Sort of like Flogging Molly but not, very awesome. However, I'd already spent the day standing and so spending another two hours standing in a rather b.o. smelling venue wasn't the most ideal way to rest. I was still so tired when I got into work this morning I don't remember much before lunch, where I took off two hours and took a nap.

    I guess that's all I needed, though, because I felt pretty good after I'd woken up. It turns out the kids think I'm cool (one girl keeps calling me purple and saying she loves my hair) and smart (a boy asked if I was going to Yale), which for some reason makes me absurdly happy. I think it's because kids are usually so good at recognizing bullshitters, and I'm so glad they don't think I'm one.

    During lunch break Tuesday I went with one of the girl I work with to the thrift store and got some amazingly AWESOME fringey beige boots for FOUR dollars. Beautiful condition, very comfy, fit perfectly. I've worn them almost constantly since. Also got a pleather skirt for a dollar, and another cute tweed-ish skirt for two. I love thrift stores.

    Well, I'm going to bed early (for the second time this week, I'm shocked). I hope you all have a lovely and well-rested spring break.

Thursday, 13 March 2008

  • Currently Listening
    Dilate
    By Ani DiFranco
    Shameless
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    It's been my sister's spring break this week. Therefore my mother has taken off the week as well (unfortunately she's not really relaxing but cleaning maniacally in the hopes that this will give her control over the malpractice deposition she has tomorrow, not a great week). We've been hanging out, I've been working. I met with one of my friends from my old school and we walked around the lake for a couple of hours and - get this - saw a ferret! Ferrets are not indigenous to our lakes, I figure someone must have dropped it off there. It was a happy fat ferret, though, I'm sure it was fine.

    The crazy children I teach weren't quite so bad this week, and I'm sure the 14 of them will be easier than however many children come to the week-long camp next week. I'll be working all day then, and probably be even more tired than I was this week.

    I've been going to the gym a couple of times a week with my mother, and walking lots in a local park and around the lake. We've all been watching Alias, sad that the fifth season is the last. I've been so tired I get home and read fanfic (it's lovely stuff, a dependable mood-lifter) before I want to go to sleep.

    I also have terrible hair restlessness. I want to get it cut so badly, but I couldn't do much except a pixie from here. Aside from a buzzcut or baldness, which I am not counting as options at the moment. :) I really want to do a sort of messy bob that's longer in the front than in the back, in a sort of cool reddish-purple color. Red makes me cheeks look even more rosy and blushing than they already are, and I don't think I'm in  rosy mood at the moment.

Thursday, 06 March 2008

  • Currently Reading
    Never Mind The Goldbergs
    By Matthue Roth
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    I think

    I am finally on my way to becoming the person I want to be.

    And that includes not getting weekly haircuts. So when it's longer I can dye it badass red.

    By the way, the book I'm reading is very highly recommended, again courtesy of David Levithan (my new author/editor hero). It's funny, I started out reading things past my reading level, and lately I seem to be making my way back into the young adult novels. Amazingly written young adult novels, that really shouldn't be restricted to that genre because they are stylistically incredible.

Monday, 03 March 2008

  • Currently Reading
    Shrimp
    By Rachel Cohn
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    Cupcake

    I finally applied for college today. It was the deadline for the scholarship deadline, and I am SO incredibly nervous about it. However it's finally over and done with, and I can go on to bigger and better things.

    Like my new gym membership. My mom won't let me run alone, but there's a new, clean, safe gym really close that's open 24 hours and is really cool. We went for the first time today, left after twenty minutes because my mother has decided the elliptical machines are too hard.

    It was nice if a bit short, and I know my legs will be sore tomorrow. With this and my yoga class, hopefully I'll be getting stronger and getting a little more muscle. ;) I wanted to take Krav Maga, but the classes were $135 a month and almost half an hour away besides, not worth it. I'd still like to take classes some day.

    In other news, I am experiencing a cravings for cupcakes. My latest book, Shrimp, goes on about chocolate cupcakes with cream cheese icing shortly after the book begins. I started reading it today, and I may have to make cupcakes tomorrow. I happen to know that the sequel is called Cupcake as well.

    And, as I always seem to end my blog entries with side-notes to britt - Did I tell you Nick and  Norah is becoming a movie? You definitely have to read it now, muah-hahaha!

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