Currently Listening Just My Luck By McFly ...Too Close For Comfort see related

                                ^ Great Song! ^

I'm thisclose to shutting this thing down. What's the point anymore? Who even reads this? And what do I ever have to say? Nothing of importance usually.

I've been reading Catcher in the Rye and it's been really stupid and long and boring so far, but I keep reading it because I'm waiting for it to get to the point. Also, the author has used the gd word about 100 times so far. Really annoying and completely unnecessary. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. And some guy at the library said it was a great book and I was going to love it. Unless something amazing happens in the next 100 pages or so, I don't think so.

I saw the movie Just My Luck, which was really good, and it featured this band called McFly, so I looked them up on Plugged In Magazine online but they didn't have a review, so I saw the movie again and listened to the music and really liked them so I took a chance and bought the CD and I really like it. I'm glad because it was kind of a leap of faith to just buy a CD that I don't know much about. Two of the songs use the word hell, but other than that it's good and really fun to listen to. Good summer music. So that was exciting.

I turned 21 last Wednesday. Woo-hoo. Nothing big. Just another year older. It's not like I'm going to buy alcohol or anything so it's really nothing special. Except, I guess, that now when I go to see Family Force 5 at a club in Austin, I can actually get in instead of standing on the sidewalk listening from the window.

I feel like we are drifting apart. Yeah we see each other every now and then, but it's not the same. Not like the summer we spent every day together. Not like all the years through school that we saw each other. Yeah I understand things change when you go off to college, but it seems that this has changed more than usual. Is it just me? Is everything really okay? I feel like we're slipping away and a chasm is being opened between us. I don't want that to happen. I just feel like we're moving in different directions and it seems harder and harder to get together. Yeah, when we hang out we have fun and things are cool, but it seems in the absences that something is stirring beneath, that something isn't quite right. Do you sense it too? Is it just me? Just what's on my mind right now.

So, that's it. Wish you could be at my party, you two. But hey, it's cool. Just hope for your sake that I am gracious and continue to allow you to be my friends.

Currently Watching The Elephant Man see related

This is quite possibly the saddest movie I have ever seen. I'd have to ponder that for a while...a long while, considering I've seen over 130 movies in the course of my lifetime. I'd have to think back over each one and see if any were sadder than this one. But just off the top of my head, it is maybe the saddest. Anyhow.

I have 6 days of school left and 13 different things to do. Does that seem fair? I didn't think so, either.

I watched Pride & Prejudice this weekend and while I do not like the movie of a similar title and based on the book by the same author (Sense & Sensibility), I found this one to be likable, even if Keira Knightley's mouth is rather...odd. I found myself thinking that I wouldn't mind marrying Mr. Darcy. He's rather handsome. Again...anyhow.

I guess that's it. Has nothing else exciting happened to me since my last entry? Oh yeah. The girls won the intramurals championship. We were undefeated. Heck yes! We even got nice T-shirts that say so. Not about the undefeated part, but about the champions part. Anyhow.

My birthday is in 15 days. I'm excited, but not as excited as I could be. Doesn't school seem to get in the way of everything? Speaking of which, I'm writing in here now and in the process neglecting a strategy notebook which is due tomorrow and of which I have only completed 1/6. But at this point, who really cares? I know I'll get it done. And if not...oh well.

So...goodnight.

Currently Listening From Under the Cork Tree By Fall Out Boy ...Dance, Dance see related

I'm sick. Probably due to exhaustion. I've overworked myself and it's finally catching up to me. I think this semester really will be the death of me.

I took a test today that I wasn't entirely prepared for (by entirely I mean I wasn't prepared at all) and due to the combination of that plus I'm sick and really don't give a crap, I'm almost 73% sure that I failed it. But, like I said, I really don't give a crap. I'm just to that point in the semester when I'm about ready to put a gun in my mouth and pull the trigger. Or at least to fail a test and not care about it. Close enough.

Not everything's bad. School just consumes my every waking minute so that tends to be what I dwell on. But there's plenty I'm thankful for. The cool weather. The fact that there are only 2 weeks left in the semester. I started observations on Friday and the kids are just adorable - lots of laughing on my part. I have money in my account again. I'm slowly recovering from the vacuum known as school that sucked up all the money I had. I'm more healthy than sick, i.e. I'm not in the hospital. I just have congestion and my nose can't decide if it wants to run or be stopped up, so it fluctuates between the two. We had visitors at church on Sunday (old friends of my mom's) and their kids are really cool. The youngest, who's 10, is the most audacious, outspoken 10-year-old I've ever met. And he's hilarious. But all three of them are just really cool kids.

So there you go, Lacey and Lisa...since you're the only 2 who still read this. I think Xanga and I might break up soon. The end.

Currently Listening Dawn Escapes By Falling Up ...Moonlit see related

I hit a home run tonight. Heck yes!

"That's how you do it, Smalls!"

Dear Hollywood,

What happened? You used to produce movies that were user-friendly. Not anymore. What happened to the movies from the old days that told an interesting story without adding in unwarranted sex, violence, and profanity? Why are all the stories the same these days? Why are there no original plots? Why is every movie a remake of a previous one? Where is the ingenuity? The passion? The restraint? I used to love going to the movies. I donated a lot of my money and time to the theater. I haven't been to a movie in a long time because almost every movie that comes out is full of trash. It's homosexuality or premarital sex or obscene profanity or vomit-inducing violence. Will it ever end? Is it just going to get worse? Will I just have to resort to watching the good old movies that I've seen dozens of times? Will I ever get to see a fresh, clean, new story again? I hope so. But I won't hold my breath. You've disappointed me, Hollywood. But, I guess that was to be expected.

Sincerely,
A former loyal fan