he knows where she is

hollllllllyyyyy shit ! everyone is so fucking annoying this morning ! my coworkers will not stop fucking talking to each other ! guys, shut up ! it's fucking monday ! shut up ! stop talking ! that said, we had a staff breakfast this morning and they got vegetarian sausage just for me, but i'm not sure it was worth it i'm currently on hour two of breakfast being THE MOST INTERESTING FUCKING THING TO EVER HAPPEN that everyone can't stop fucking talking about !



i'm so reluctant to do anything today that i've been read the wikipedia entry for vladimir putin's dog for like 15 minutes.

so ! the weekend ! on friday, i came home and farted around and went to bed super early (midnight, which is early for me), because i had a day of exciting errands planned ! but i was incredibly exhausted all day and ended up... sleeping until 2pm. i didn't even take a shower or get dressed until like... 7? i had a runny nose and headache and was sure i was getting sick, but i think i just needed water and caffeine. i met up with mouse, benji, nate, and anna for all-you-can-eat ethiopian at ethio cafe, a new ethiopian restaurant directly next door to the one i usually go to.



the staff was super nice, and they specifically referred to everything as "vegan," and the food was good, but i can't eat all that much ethiopian food. a regular entree at abyssinia (the place next door) is the same price, and i probably eat the same amount both ways. i may continue to just go to abyssinia, though i feel guilty cause the women running this place were so attentive and sweet, and the quality of food was not appreciably different.

after dinner, mouse came over and let me windbag him with my incomplete knowledge of genocide- it was a very interesting role reversal, because usually HE is the windbag. it felt like how it probably feels when those high powered businessmen on craigslist have to dress like a baby and get spanked to have an orgasm ! i didn't have an orgasm though, i guess. maybe mouse did, i forgot to ask.



on sunday morning, i woke up and met mouse and kev for breakfast at green line, where we had bagels and coffee. i love when jesse (and patchie) are working because they make the best lattes. i love when eric is working too because he's funny and has a great beard, but he makes coffee drinks that actually taste like coffee which isn't really my m.o. it was nice to see kev and catch up, because i haven't seen him in a million years ! after breakfast, i got a car and went to whole foods and got cat food. i'm preparing my menu for our delicious friendsgiving at jeanne's house- she and mike are getting back from romania right before, so we are going to have thanksgiving at their house (plus her friend alexis who i am super super excited to meet will be there and cooking !). here's what i'm making (vegetarian versions of all):



vegetarian ham ! i'm going to make an apple cider/brown sugar/mustard glaze, which i don't usually use a recipe for and just WING.



caramlized onion and cornbread stuffing



roasted potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and brussels sprouts



orange honey cranberry sauce



mini orange chocolate chunk cakes (jeanne's will be an orange pecan cake since she doesn't like chocolate !)

anyway, after shopping i came home and relaxed and didn't do any school work and felt okay about that. i got through a whole lot of simpsons episodes this weekend- first i flagellated myself with DVR'd recent episodes and then i rewarded myself by watching season 6.


no, you owe ME $900 !

my goals right now are to get through this week at work (2.5 days !), get through class tonight, finish my essays for writing class, and write my paper for genocide class. my BIG paper. it's going to be a super fucking busy holiday ! also, brooke, christine, and i are starting a history blog together and i need to work on that !

p.s. christina gets back from SF tonight and i can't wait to hugggggg her

i don't want to change the world

goddddd i'm the worst blogger in fucking history ! i've been really fucking busy lately, almost entirely doing reading/writing for school. i'm seriously almost regretting my decision to go back, because i have so little time and i feel like i haven't seen any of my friends in weeks. i barely see christina and we live in the same house. blahhh. all this for a degree that will be totally useless ! five years of AGONY !!!!!!!!!!!



i had a good weekend last weekend- on friday night, i forced myself to do some homework, KIND OF. which is, incidentally, also what i did on saturday. i seriously have never, ever, ever in my life had such a hard time reading a book as i did with beyond the culture wars by gerald graff (and i remember my recent experience with that mamdani book !!!!!). basically the book is about how educators should teach their students about conflicts and controversy surrounding literature and like... every single line of the book is a restatement of that sentence. and like... no offense gerald graff, i'm sure you are a really rad person, but you are a windbag of the highest degree and i hate your book and i fucking hateeeee you.


i'm gerald graff ! i'm a professor ! blah blah blah ! teach the conflicts, kids !

i spent most of the day studying at the green line, half with christina, half without, almost all with jesse (she was working), butttttt i didn't really get very much done. on saturday night, mouse and mike came over to watch the phillies break my heart and we got thai food (well, mouse got chinese food) and the boys played with the kitten. that was cool for me because she's a pain in the ass. i love her, but she's in like... extreme attack mode right now and my arms and neck (she likes to hang out on the back of the couch) are a mess of little bite marks and scratches. anyway, mike played feathers with her for awhile and mouse let her attack his shoes. i was happy to see them both because it's been forever. mike got mouse eskrima sticks for his birthday, so i'm looking forward to getting hit with eskrima sticks while i try to knit or watch movies.


i chose this assortment of nunchucks and violence sticks because it says "quality wood"

speaking of the kitten, she is still totally obsessed with food. it is the weirdest thing in the fucking universe- there's nothing medically wrong with her, yet she constantly acts like she's starving to death. any time anyone else besides her is eating, she starts yelling at them and trying to get the food ! this past week, she has bitten, eaten, or tried to bite: vegan pizza, mushrooms, peppers, spinach, TOFU SCRAMBLE, pretzels, a piece of pineapple from pineapple fried rice. what the hell ! here's a picture of her being really cool:



on sunday, i ran some errands and went to whole foods to get food to try to make myself eat food (ED stuff has been weird lately. understatement). i got vanilla yogurt and gingersnap granola from the bulk bins (!!!!!) and pears for breakfast, and i'm gonna try to eat that in a minute. after doing mooooooooore studying all night (at the green line, where patchie entertained me and played good music), francesca came over because she was in town ! holy shit ! i didn't even notice she was short because she acts so fucking tall. she ordered vegan pizza and i ate some pretzels and it was neat. i'm sort of embarrassed because pizza was being aloof and weirdo was being a weirdo.

as for the rest of this week, i've been cornholioing on lattes and studying and i'm still pretty far behind despite my professor giving us a much-needed extension on our genocide paper proposals. i'm going to do my damndest to catch up and get all my work done today and tomorrow. i seriously doubt i'd spend so much time studying if my study habits were more efficient- as it stands, i spend like 8 hours zoning out and read like 2 pages and then the next day spend 5 hours freaking out about how i spent so much time zoning out and then read 2 more pages. life ! is weird.

the only other news is that cam was totally right and my laptop didn't even come CLOSE to fitting in the h bag. i'm going to return it (i guess? i really like it but $58 is too much for a bag i can't use every day, even if i have to bring my laptop to school) and i got this bag instead:



i love it, and it should fit my laptop and school books and crap. and jeanne described it as looking like "something you would put horse feed in" which might be my style? if i wore leather or boots fit my calves i'd either be a robin hood person or look like someone who rides or tends to horses.

i wanted to make this entry more enriching and entertaining but work is fucking annoying ! i hate everything right now ! byeeeee.

reunited blah blah blah blah goooood

hey guyssss i'm back at work. today our new website launches anddddd it's move-in day for penn students. today is going to be really, really cool.

my mom is still here until tomorrow- i initially thought that she was leaving september 5, but she's leaving the 2nd ! it's been great having her here, though i have lost my patience a few times. like, the #1 thing that stresses me out is people asking me questions and making me repeat stuff and she is like... a constant stream of repetitive questions. she told me that i was being mean on monday though and i'm proud to say that i've been the nicest daughter ever since. yesterday she asked me some iteration of "what are we doing today" 13 times in 2 hours and i didn't even get mad !


this is my mom's favorite painting cause it looks like me and her

we've done all kinds of stuff this week, but most of it has been shopping. when my mom visits, we end up shopping a lot, but like... shopping at ross and the dollar store and stuff. it's hard for me to post about this stuff because the least interesting conversations and blogs are all about the stuff people bought, but at the same time finding cheap plus size clothing is pretty exciting. i always forget that ross is a decent option for plus size stuff (well, shirts and dresses- they had a single pair of pants in my size and it was a pair of old lady peach elastic waist pleated pants). i got two neat stuffy society lady dresses and a bunch of shirts with puffy sleeves and a shrug by my favorite company, candy rain.



i wonder where ross gets their plus size stock from? like, i've never seen any of these brands in stores or anything ever. if i knew what stores carried like, candy rain and leena jeans and steves of new york and stuff (that last one is made up) i'd definitely go there and get work clothes ! though i guess getting everything for like $7 each is a plus.

we also went to famous footwear, where i got... two pairs of shoes made by fergie. i don't really know anything about fergie except she peed herself in public and didn't give a shit (cool) and she's in the black-eyed peas (not cool) (also i think EVERYONE is in the black eyed peas, but especially wyclef and ?uestlove), butttttt her shoe line is called FERGALICIOUS? she has to know how disgusting that sounds. it sounds like putting your tongue on a moldy piece of cheese. i hate it ! they were $30 and buy one/get one, so it was a pretty good deal. they also fit my advanced ankles (though i don't really have comparatively big ankles)



so, what else did we do? we've hung out with mouse a few times, mike, and diana, and of course christina. we've watched a few movies, walked around, and eaten a lot of food. i love my mom, but it'll be exciting to get back to (relatively) normal eating once she's gone because my bowels are in turmoil.

oh, i also finished reading mockingjay. i can't really get too in depth with a review because a bunch of people i know haven't read it yet :(



i'll try to not ruin the book for you guys. overall, it was much better than catching fire and a good ending for the series, buttttt

- katniss became the most unlikable character ever by the end of the books (and suzanne collins kind of went nuts with the EVERYONE LOVES KATNISS AND ALWAYS HAS AND THINKS SHE'S SO SPECIAL AND LOVES HERRRR thing)
- i do not agree with the resolution of the team gale/team peeta thing
- some major characters died and there was like no reaction or emotion or even proper death scenes for them?
- muttations are the dumbest

okay, i guess i'm going to go. i should be able to write a better entry tomorrow when i don't have 10,000 people breathing down my neck !

p.s. please remind me to post about adult mutant ninja turtles (a series of texts mouse sent me).

all the stars were shining bright

i have had the weirdest craving lately- fruit punch gatorade. i don't like gatorade OR fruit punch, but i can't stop thinking about it. i just got one and i'm choking it down right now despite its disgustingness.



i'm gonna try to do a quick weekend recap because i have a lot of work to do today- i didn't write my german essay or do the quiz online this weekend and i have to do it ASAP. i guess, despite what i said before, i still don't get the different cases. i also need to watch some history lectures and do some reading.



speaking of homework, on friday i stayed at home and did some homework. i tried to get as much as possible done, which ended up only being 2/5 of what i was writing. HOWEVER, i finished it around 2pm on saturday (instead of 5:30 like the last few weeks) and went to trader joe's and dropped my laundry off. i spent most of saturday night bro-ing down with christina (who i have barelyyyyy seen lately) and:

1) working on my craft swap project
2) catching up on DVR'd shark week stuff



my craft swap scarf is really coming along. unfortunately, the due date is like... this week? and there's no way i can finish it this week. i didn't think about how much school would affect my free crafting time before i signed up, but all my finals stuff is this week (for my german class it's like.. 4394093 things? and a history exam that should take HOURS), plus brooke is coming ! anyway, i'm on my final ball of yarn and one solid weekend should do it, so i petitioned for extra time.



the shark week stuff i watched was all pretty good, too- as a result, though, i have a new favorite hunky zoologist. you guys know i'm not shallow (not really anyway) and my other celebrity crushes are like... kevin james and snagglepuss, but dave salmoni is the handsomest charmingest and loooooves animals. he lived in the wild for 6 months with lions !!!! the best part about all this is that he didn't have any shark experience and was totally a terrified wimp the entire time.



he is also a dictionary defintion hunk with a ninja turtle bod if you want to check it out.

on sunday, mouse and i went to tyler state park ! we met up with mike, which took forever cause he got lost and his dog got diarrhea in the car. my intent was to take portraits of them butttttttttttttttt mouse wore a damn tie dyed shirt and mike took his shirt off immediately and tied it around his head like a roofer, soooooo. we walked around for a bit and settled at a picnic table near some corn fields and talked about guns? as i've mentioned, i don't know anything about guns, and i have very little interest in shooting, but i agreed to go shooting with them if i could shoot an ak-47. they both seem to be into the 1911, which is nice and everything, butttttt i don't know or care about guns !



those are mike's dogs, beale and berry (they were found on a highway in memphis, hence 'beale', the worst name for anything ever). they were cute and everything but were totally uninterested in petting so i'm basically uninterested in them !

after the park, mouse and i went up to his mom's house to hopefully see the baby butttttttttttttttttttttt he was asleep ! jenny let me gently squeeze his foot though. i did get to pet mouse's parents' dog, daisy, who is one of my favorite dogs and totally made up for mike's duds.



after that, we went to whole foods and i came home and knitted and worked on my german homework, before going to bed way too late and now i'm awake and very tired and cranky. and this entry still took me HOURS to write even though i didn't do anything or put any jokes in. oh well, at least you got a hunk.

p.s. blehhhh jeanne's on vacation and i miss her !
p.p.s. there was a show on the history channel about the war of 1812 and two people asked me my opinions about stuff independently of each other ! aw.

wipe it on your dress and send it to me

hey guys ! what's up ! unibrow summer may come to an end this week because i'm ultimately getting too self-conscious and am unable to resist sexist beauty standards. i'm trying !

i had a pretty good weekend. on friday after work, i did some german homework, and then mouse and i went to south philly to make dinner and hang out with jeanne and mike. they're the best? we made two delicious pizzas and one okay pizza- one for mouse that was vegan and was basically a hot open faced bell pepper sandwich (he seemed to like it though ! but i cruelly starved him for hours and hours before he got to eat it), a fresh spinach pizza, and the aforementioned potato and olive pizza (i used black olives but should've used kalamata, and should've salted the potato water more !). so we ate pizzas and watched the monster squad.



seriously, what a beautiful creech. i agree with mike who said something along the lines of, "omg that is the flyest creech on earth" and snapped his fingers. maybe i'm remembering it wrong? i also got to hang out with vinegar the cat (fig only made a brief appearance) who has grown into one of those perfect cats who is like a limp noodle when you hold him.


with his buddy, the wolfman

mouse has a sore back from jiu jitsu and had to work in the morning, so we left before the movie was over and i came home and finished my german homework. on saturday, i worked on my history homework and read the ghost next door


the ghost next door by wylly folk st. john

i actually really loved this book. i've read tons of spooky ghost is haunting stuff until someone solves its murder/lays its soul to rest books for young adults (i'm looking at YOU, betty ren wright !) and there were a few pretty unique characteristics in this book.

1) the existence of ghosts is left ambiguous and there is a healthy amount of skepticism and arguments both for and against ghosts
2) the main character largely involves her parents and other trusted adults in her investigation of the ghost. this was super refreshing because, while i always advocate a healthy amount of secrecy from your parents, i'm a reasonable adult now and appreciate the portrayal of other reasonable adults who take children seriously and believe them.
3) the book contains seances and psychics and spiritualism which some of the adults are into, and are involved in psychic societies, and it isn't presented as weird ! like even the skeptics are polite ! and i love that as a skeptic because i love a good hoax seance !

i almost made it through the entire book before i got to the gross fatphobic part (the medium was so disgustingly fat she could hardly walk and the couch was buckling under her fat disgusting body), but it was still there. bummmmmmmmmer.



after that, mouse and mike g. came over so we could watch back to the future, because i'd never seen it. it was really cute and funny, and has one of my favorite movie elements: unexplained shit ! like, why was a cool high school teenager buds with a mad scientist? who cares ! just roll with it !



i really did like it and think it holds up in a way a lot of 80s movies don't, but i wish i'd seen it as a kid because it was hard for me to shake certain elements of it? like... bif tries to rape mrs. mcfly? and then later in life the mcflys have a dude who attempted to rape their matriarch doing odd jobs for them? that said, tom f. wilson's performance as bif was amazing and he was so villainous and i'm sorry being such an a-hole ruined his career. or maybe being a big beefy doughface ruined it because he's basically like the archetypal character actor.

by the way, mouse usually laughs when mike g. ruins movies for me by talking and talking and talking and asking questions (ex. when christina was watching sabrina, asking "is that sabrina?" about every person on screen. or when marty mcfly sits down at the breakfast table and his sister is sitting there, asking, "WHO IS THAT?"), but the shoe was on the other foot this time. mouse's blood pressure jumped like 100 points ! it was great.



on sunday, i mostly hung out and did errands. lazslo came over in the morning because he was here for a show the night before and he and christina got brunch ! it was nice to see him, he is my brother in weird al (besides my real brother. and mike b.). i got a car share car even though there was a big gigantic storm and went to trader joe's, the first of 29390283 errands. i found everything i needed, it wasn't too crowded, the handsome tall guy i like to look at was working, i got in and out in 20 minutes, and then... my car wouldn't start. i got soaked trying to figure out what the problem was, and realized i left my cellphone at home, so i had to go back inside soaking wet and sheepishly ask to use a phonebook and their phone. it took about a half hour, and the battery was totally dead, so i just had to return it and not run my other errands. fuck you, prius !



i came home and had some food and watched tv and knitted with my main man, christina. she was watching mad men, which i have to admit i don't really get. it's basically like having a shitty job and a shitty life in real time? like it's super dull and the thought of having to spend so much time and money on clothes and grooming stresses me out. i think it would be eased a little if i found jon hamm attractive but i think he looks like someone's dad. or like a future stepdad for me, since my mom thinks he is hot (you have some competition for my mom's affections, antonio banderas !).


hambone. not pictured: flippy

after that, i retired to my room to watch a movie on my xbox. i ended up watching the edukators, a daniel bruhl movie about anti-capitalist activists who accidentally kidnap a businessman.



it was surprisingly non-annoying for a movie about young radicals ! daniel bruhl is the handsomest, though he had really unfortunate facial hair and i can't tell if he's a good actor cause he wasn't speaking english. i surprisingly understood a lot of the german dialogue too ! the only element that bothered me on a personal level was one dude "stealing" his best friend's girlfriend because nothing makes me feel shittier and sicker (i can't even watch daria anymore or the episode of MSCL where rayanne bones jordan catalano). i also felt myself feeling strangely sympathetic for the rich asshole they kidnap because it's probably really scary to be kidnapped.

blehhh. that's about it. totally demolished my weekend to-do list, except i didn't start my history reading so i'll have to put my nose to the grindstone today. i also need to bring some papers to LPS tomorrow to complete my fall application. i'm still pretty nervous about that. other than that, i'm wearing a sleeveless dress today.



though i'm generally self-confident and utterly unconcerned about peoples' feelings about my appearance i do have a slight hang-up about showing my arms. but like... i don't think fat arms are unattractive or weird or unacceptable on other women, so... why would that be the case for me? it feels pretty good to feel good today.

it doesn't really matter if we live or die

hey buds ! what's up ! i'm at work with a fan kind of blowing my skirt up. JEALOUS? the first thing i heard this morning was a security guard telling everyone who passed her that a guy had died on the bench outside my office over the weekend. i was like, 'oh, that's really sad' and she reacted really blankly. i blame video games !

i don't actually remember what i did on friday? i think i may have taken a nap, watched tv, and knitted. working on the entrelac scarf is kind of stressing me out. no matter how many people reassure me, i have major knitting anxiety and cannot imagine what type of person would wear this thing.


here's a good example, from this stage crew nerd's blog

i'm also a little unsure because the yarn is thick/thin and i think it looks lumpy? maybe i can fix that by blocking it. anyway, i don't know- i think i'm going to send it to my craft swap recipient with express instructions to give it to a high school art teacher or with an IOU for something better.

on saturday, i got a car share car by myself (christina had to finish her paper for her class) and went yarn and grocery shopping. i had to parallel park outside of the hospital at 19th and south, and it was like... the most stressful thing ever. the second i started backing into the spot, both the person in front of me and person behind me got into their cars and tried to pull out of their spots? but there wasn't room because 19th is a narrow one lane road there, so everyone was honking at me and i wanted to cry.



i don't drive often, don't have depth perception, never really learned to parallel park, and crack under honking, so i finally gave up and just drove around the block and pulled into the now-gigantic spot. man, it doesn't sound like that bad of an experience now that i wrote it out but at the time i was suuuuper embarrassed ! i immediately put out an open call when i got home to anyone who will teach me to parallel park and i've had a few takers. people i know, i mean, not like craigslist sex and parking maniacs. anyway, i went to loop and got more noro kureyon 250 for the aforementioned craft swap scarf.



i also finally caved and got two skeins of imperial stock yarn because they were on sale for $7.50 each (down from $12.50). there was a color i'd been admiring for awhile and i couldn't resist, though i try to be conscious of not being a Yarn Person- a lot of my friends who knit get overwhelmed by all the beautiful yarns in the world and buy yarn faster than they can use it, or with no projects in mind- this is not a judgment, it just doesn't make sense for me/my budget/my knitting skill.


imperial dusty rose- the color is a lot paler and more muted in person

after that i went to trader joe's to get some bagged risotto because i want all of my dinners to cook in 5 minutes or less during the summer, but the entire italian frozen crap case was empty. i did get some pretty cool chipwiches though.


i wish trader joe's was not so drama club-y in its demeanor and packaging. it's JUST A CHIPWICH

mike and mouse had plans to wrestle (they both do jiu jitsu, though mouse does brazilian jiu jitsu and mike does um, japanese art of softness jujutsu) which i wanted absolutely no part of, so they did that while i took a nap. then we went to lemon grass, which is normally my favorite thai restaurant but they served me a bum royal bath this time- the royal bath being the thing i always order. it's just a gigantic pile of spinach and tofu with peanut sauce


sorta like this but with better presentation

but this time the tofu was all desiccated and there was barely any spinach, and it was $1 more expensive ! i wasn't super hungry anyway but it was still a total ripoff. after dinner we came back to my house and watched futurama and had dessert, and christina finally came home and we deliriously bro'd down until she had to go to bed.

yesterday i slept super late and tried to tackle my to-do list. i worked on my scarf a little and played borderlands with perry and gavin (i think i may just like... not be good at borderlands? but not being able to read quest text or weapon stats on my tiny tv doesn't help) and watched inglourious basterds again because of daniel bruhl.



i didn't even like the movie THAT much, but i am totally weird about celebrity crushes- like, NOT like fan fiction and posting on messageboards and calling them by a nickname weird but like... uh, when i liked bill paxton i befriended billy bob thornton's former personal assistant to get dirt. so like, not harmless stage crew virgin weird, but like actual creepy real life weird?

annnyyyyyway, here's what was on my list:

- straighten up bedroom
- read my history chapters and take notes
- work on my craft swap scarf
- hang out with christina
- tune up/grease/clean bike (mouse and i are going to nockamixon this weekend)

i absolutely need to do the rest of that stuff this week, and i only have plans wednesday (mike and jeanne are coming over to watch wolfhound !), so it shouldn't be too hard. here is my revised list:

- straighten up bedroom
- read my history chapters and take notes (despite the first chapter being called "DOING HISTORY")
- tune up/grease/clean bike
- straighten up the kitchen and livingroom
- go back to trader joe's for some frozen crap
- catsit hoolie ! (i didn't make it on thursday cause of the storm- i'm not the worst person ever, there is someone else sharing cat sitting duties)
- brush my own cat and clip her toenails

i'm going to keep you guys abreast of the situation as it develops.

p.s. i changed the way my blog looks
p.p.s. OH YEAH ON FRIDAY NIGHT I ATE CAT FOOD BY ACCIDENT. i was crushing up a pill in some wet food for my cat and i ABSENTMINDEDLY LICKED THE BACK OF THE SPOON. it was so disgusting and tasted like gross unseasoned gravy without human flavors and ufslkdjflskdjglskhg. i'll never be the same again.
p.p.p.s. i saw a guy eating taco bell somehow at 8:30 am (philly BARELY has taco bells and i don't think they open that early?) so when i pick up my birth control and buy tokens, i'm totally having the most taco bell for lunch. 21 layer burrito !

i'm the phaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the operaaaaa (that's me !)

what's up dudesssss. i feel like i had the longest weekend ever because i took off work on friday- i've been feeling really weird and lousy for the past couple of weeks. i've had weird equilibrium problems, sore teeth, and a painful outer ear (all things that point to an ear infection ! but my ear only hurts a little on the outside !) and bad headaches and stuff. i stayed home and basically slept all day.


i don't know what's up with this

when christina got home, we dropped our laundry off and went to cvs, where i got school supplies for my classes (which don't start for like, a month, but i was really excited !) and some pretzel m&ms, which turned out to be not that great. which is a bummer because i um, bought quite a few bags of pretzel m&ms



when we got home, we hunkered down and watched an education, which i've had from netflix for like eleven years at this point. i was psyched because i love peter sarsgaard and i also love carey mulligan (she was in one of the best new doctor who episodes) and i read the article by lynn barber that it was based on right after i heard about the movie.



i did have some problems with it:
- peter sarsgaard's accent was TERRIBLE. terrible. like, unlistenably terrible.
- while i find him very attractive i find it hard to believe that even a bored 16 year old craving sophistication would even have any interest in him.
- i thought her dad was super over the top in an unrealistic way and his immediate 180 in letting her travel internationally with a 40 year old dude and letting her drop out of school to be unrealistic

the problem is, all of that stuff is stuff that really happened according to lynn barber. like, the dude talked in a fake accent to sound sophisticated, he was unattractive, her dad really did act like that. i guess it either makes me think that she was exaggerating or like, maybe it wasn't really a good story?

i played borderlands with perry for awhile, but we didn't get too far because i wasn't feeling well. he also diagnosed me with a traumatic brain injury based on my symptoms. after that, i watched follow that bird with ibrahim on our xboxes, which proved to be much more my speed. i watched it literally hundreds of times as a kid, and the way i remembered the plot is that big bird gets taken away by DHS and he has to go live with a foster family and then he runs away and gets kidnapped by sleazy carnival guys. but that couldn't be right, right? why would that be the plot of a kids' movie?



it turns out i was exactly right, down to the fact that the sleazy carnival guys were named the sleaze brothers. it was still good, though it was full of singing and i didn't remember any singing. but i'm basically into anything where i get to see the muppets' legs so i was psyched.

on saturday i felt pretty crappy and sick so i didn't really do much- i tried to sleep a lot and drink lots of water. i was supposed to go to the girls to the front coverband show in west philly, where lots of cool women... played in cover bands (including carol and zia and the awesome girl who was danzig at the halloween cover band show a few years ago). a show in a warehouse on an 85 degree night is a crappy place to go when your ears hurt and you're overheated though, so i stayed home with mouse and we watched inglourious basterds.


i am feeling a little brocktoon about melanie laurent

i'd already seen it, though mouse hadn't, and i think his fond memories of seeing pulp fiction when he was 16 give him an almost childlike delight when he sees tarantino movies. he really seemed to enjoy hitler getting turned into ground beef by bullets. i also got weirdly fixated on daniel bruhl and added all his available movies to my netflix instant queue, to be watched basically never because they aren't in english and i hate looking at a tv.



everything he's in looks pretty brutally dull, but i'd like to make sure that i actually find him attractive and that i didn't suddenly develop a nazi "thing" or something.

soooo to continue my weekend of not really doing anything but watching movies and playing video games, i played borderlands with perry for a bit and watched episodes of spongebob with ibrahim. mike came down on sunday and we got caught in a horrific rainstorm, got some gelato, and went to see get him to the greek- i wanted to see the a-team because i really want to help liam neeson get a vacation home (and i like anything where a tank is dropped from an airplane), but it wasn't playing at a convenient time. anyway, this may surprise you, but get him to the greek sucked !



like all jud apatow movies, this movie is about a guy who is like, a toooooooootal pussy and is nice to women, and then he meets a masculine guy who teaches him to treat women like crap, and then his life is forever changed except he goes back to being nice to the same woman he used to be nice to? but it's also about how you should follow your dreams, OR about how dreams are not all they're cracked up to be, and also about how you should let people treat you like shit, or not? or something? and the moral of the story is that guys who fuck a lot of women are cool but women who fuck a lot of guys are lying dirty whores. and also that a sexual encounter involving a heavily intoxicated woman is most likely to lead to the man being raped, but his rape is funny because it's funny when men get raped. needless to say, this movie didn't really recover from its rape joke. i laughed a few times but i couldn't tell you what i laughed at, and i'm a pretty smart person but i could not tell you exactly what the overall message of the movie is except like, maybe it's cool, or not, to be a rockstar, and one guy following his dreams sucks but it's good if another guy does, and like... also, puff daddy.

the music was also pretty terrible- like, i feel like if they had spent ten more minutes on the lyrics for each song they could have come up with actual funny lyrics? the songs didn't SOUND bad, they were just so hasty and crappy. i felt the same way about the dracula musical in forgetting sarah marshall- that had everything i liked- dracula, muppets, singing in a dracula voice, a frankenstein (jason segel) but the lyrics were so stupid and lazy that i didn't enjoy it. anyway, rose byrne and puff daddy were the highlights of this movie, and the mad men lady was good too. i also want to encourage the brown haired girl from undeclared to try doing something besides being a "slutty girl" in jud apatow movies because she's very funny and cute.

i got dinner after that (um, a mini quiche and 1/3 of a watermelon?) and then ended up going to bed early because of my bad dinner choices. haha.



i seriously didn't realize how much time i spent sitting in front of a tv this weekend until i wrote that. whatever, i didn't feel well ! my goal for next weekend is to actually do stuff and to hang out with mouse and christina more. i might try to take a day off work when mouse has off so we can bro down.

p.s. hayyyyy