pop goes the weasel

last night was lots of fun.

Matt came over and picked me up in the afternoon and we went to drop his guitar off to get it fixed in wcu. We also stopped by my moms work to drop off some stuff to take up to psu with her. (She visited Chris this weekend for Artsfest) Then we met Leslie and her mom and suprised Jenny by watching her conduct lots of adorable kids! She was sort of the musical helper person for UMCR's VBS. How can kids singing and doing crazy motions NOT be cute? It made me long for camp, and I cannot wait to return there. Its good for me to be around kids, it reminds me that I want to teach and that I love to talk to them and help them learn and grow.
After that we went to wawa and met Josh H. Then the four of us (minus Jenny, she didnt feel well) went over to Jon and Aarons. Josh F was already there... then Aaron and Jenn showed up... she just got her new car. YAY! And we ordered pizza and played Clue. i cant imagine wanting to spend my Friday night in any other way.

I am so happy here in dtown... and its really not that its dtown, but that my friends were here. I would have just as much fun some place else if everyone were there. Its awesome to look around the room and think that ive known everyone for years and years and despite growing up and changing and purusing careers and families and adulthood, we still remain friends. We can still hang out on a Friday and play board games. Its something I will hold on to for as long as I can.

But I definitely regret staying until midnight... I am exhausted... its 8:46 pm and ive been at work for 14 hours now. Just a few more to go, and I might wheel my way into going home a little bit early. I feel like poop and all I can think about is my kitty and my bed. and pop goes the weasel.... which was awesome. :)

confession of an obsession

I remember the day well.
I was in Stone Harbor with my family. It was 1994. I was 14. My brother was 12.
Stone Harbor is a pretty kid-friendly place. It is dry. Lots of families go there in the summer months, especially those with young kids. It was the first summer that my parents felt I was responsible enough to take my brother out to do things on our own.
We decided to go to the movies one night.... and what a glorious night it was....

We went to see the movie Hackers.

Now... I fully admit... in no way is this a realistic movie. Kids (thank GOD) do not even dress like that, let alone hack like that. It was a movie before windows was big, but computers were just becoming so. It was back during the days when Prodigy blew us away, but we had to use basic commands to get it to run. Life was good.

My brother and I came out of that movie in awe. We loved it. It made enough of an impression on him that one of his first passwords was a tribute to the movie... and it made enough of an impression on me that I watch it every time it is on tv.

This is where the obsession (and subsequent confession) comes in. I do not own the movie Hackers. I am not sure why... maybe it is because it is played fairly often on fx... and with the advent of Comcast Digital, it plays nearly every week on one of the 700 channels. I have already admitted that it is not a great movie... in its own right, its a "teen" movie.... but I cant help myself, every time it comes on, I have to watch it. Its pathetic. I confess.

I dont know what it is... why I have to watch it. Of course Angelina Jolie is a babe in her wierd clothes... and the lead guy is pretty cute too... who knew that they would get married after meeting on this set! And it has that creepy guy in it who did Dell commercials for awhile.... or maybe it was 7 up.... I dont know, but he freaks me out, so thats no reason to watch it either... the computers they use are hilariously outdated.... but I will tell you what ISNT outdated: the older ceo corporation type lady who has no idea what computers are about and starts flipping on the dude who programmed the Da Vinci virus when the hackers "unite" and attack the Gibson. What makes a Gibson so special anyway? It probably is nothing now...

So really I just dont know what it is... I have no desire to own the movie... but gaurenteed, if I am flipping thru the channels and I see that Hackers is on... whether it just started or has a half hour left, I will watch it. And I will still get excited and be like ooh thats cool, even if its completely unrealistic. sigh.


So thats my obsession.... I consider it one of those strange things that most people dont really know about me, a quirk if you will.



And now that that is off my shoulders, I am going to go back to packing for Florida. I wonder if they will show Hackers down there....

Sunday night

Its about 8:45 as I start writing this... I have been devouring Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in preparation for July 16th release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I read it before, of course, but I needed a little refresher. I ordered #6 from Amazon and I am hoping they ship as promised... it should arrive on Sat... yay! Anyway, I just finished re-reading it and now I have nothing left to keep me amused at work except for work. zzz.

And I have Bobby Magee by Janis Joplin stuck in my head. Just the chorus. sigh.

Yesterday Leslie and I went to King of Prussia. She wanted to go shopping, but of course I ended up spending a LOT more money than she did. I got a new bathing suit... which accounts for half of the money I spent. I really like the bathing suit, dont get me wrong, and I am pretty sure it fits nicely. Even my mother gave approval. Ethan seemed to like it also... but maybe thats just the close-to-nakedness talking....

Anyway, why are bathing suits so freakin expensive? First of all, you can never buy one size. No one is a "medium" or a "large"... so you are relegated to buying seperates. and of COURSE seperates cost about as much as a 1 piece bathing suit. so your top costs almost as much as buying a whole suit... except its a WHOLE lot less material. How does THAT work anyway? So then you are offered several difference choices for tops and bottoms... silly me, thinking that my chest isnt that big (and it isnt) I try on a medium top... and im busitng out all over. grandmothers all over earth probably dropped dead when I tried them on. but leslie was my wonderful little gopher and got me all sorts of different sizes and shapes. Finally, I find a bottom I really really like... but theres no top to go with it. The tops that went with it didnt really match and they were in styles I didnt like. Sorry, im 24, and im going to wear a 2 piece as long as I can get away with it... which prob wont be much longer. Bathing suit shopping is SO annoying and what you think would look good on you just doesnt. And what looks good on you is ugly. yar. but I think I like the one I got... and hopefully it will last awhile. At least it stays put on my butt, and thats more than I can say for most bathing suits... so as long as I dont bust out of the top, I will be happy with it for awhile and hopefully wont have to buy anything for a few years. ha. yeah right.

its 9:00 now. or 2100 as we lab people like to say. sigh. 2 hours to go.

Bittersweet Symphony

Today is Wednesday. I have done literally nothing all day but watch tv... it went like this...
9:00 ~ wake up, brush teeth, rummage for food, decide upon Basic 4 and fresh strawberries. Eat this, and move on to Pringles. The plan to eat well today has been thwarted. Its not even 10 yet.
10:00 ~ watch Dawsons Creek on tbs. I dont even like Dawsons Creek but....
11:00 ~ watch second episode of Dawsons Creek. sigh. stupid high schoolers that look even older than I do NOW, but we are supposed to believe that they are in 12th grade.
12:00 ~ watch Days of Our Lives. I keep getting more pathetic as the day wears on.
12:15 ~ decide that I can safely take a shower without missing much of the Days action
12:45 ~ watch the end of DOOL, which was very unimpressive
1:00 ~ Buffy the Vampire Slayer is on. I admit it, I am addicted to this show. Its an old one I have seen... first year of college, B sleeps with some guy who uses her for sex and ditches her. Sigh. I miss Angel.
2:00 ~ Lo and Behold! Another Buffy episode. I have seen this one many many times. Its a Halloween one in a frat house. Anya is dressed like a bunny. Oz is God. I cant believe I watched this again.
3:00 ~ Very bored. Very very bored.
3:15 ~ Try to make some use of myself... go outside and read Newsweek and finish last week's Newsweek. This weeks was outdated bc they were pondering over the 2012 Olympic Bid. I heard it went to London. They think the US will be a favorite for the summer Olympics in 2016 or something. But not New York... apparently New York only got backing on the bid due to 9/11 craziness. whatever. I dont know how in the world New York City could handle MORE people. It seems pretty stuffed to the gills already.
4:30 ~ Pull out the 5th Harry Potter book, the Order of the Phoenix. the 6th Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, comes out on Sat, July 16th... less than 2 weeks away! I need to re-read the 5th book so that I am fully ready to take on the next one. Not that I have pre-ordered it... though I am considering doing that as soon as I finish this entry. I think Amazon will send it right away.... I would LOVE to take it to Florida with me... speaking of which....


YAY I AM GOING TO FLORIDA!!!!


I will be gone from July 18th (a monday) til July 29th (a friday)... and it will be awesome. Ethan is coming with me, even though its probably not the best idea, given his thesis problems and what a complete IDIOT his advisor is. But dont get me started on that.

Anyway, yes, we will be gone. Its kinda wierd... I have always wanted to share Ft. Myers with someone... but its never worked out before. Maybe this is like a make or break kinda thing.... Either we will be holding hands on the airplane on the way home or I will have changed our seating so he is as far away from me as possible. I think it will go well... there is little that gets me down when I am in Florida. But 2 weeks of spending nothing but time together will either be wonderful or we will be at it like cats and dogs. Really though, I think it will be great, and I just cant WAIT to get down there.

Speaking of Florida, I just put up new pictures from Drew and Kim's wedding. If you feel like checking them out, the link is to the right. I will be putting up more as soon as I get the pictures off of Ethan's camera. So thats the news for now...


peace out.





The title has little to do with the entry. But it is something that has stuck with me for a few days.

Its July now

Apparently it is July now... June passed by in a flurry of activity, which I suppose is not too suprising for me. I have worked a lot... some would say more than is good for me... and ive attended weddings and concerts, and then worked some more. This week has been particularly busy, and its gone like this:
Friday ~ fly to Florida
Sat ~ attend Drew & Kim's wedding / sing in the wedding!
Sun ~ fly home
Mon ~ work
Tues ~ work
Tues night ~ go see Eisley at the TLA with Ethan and co
Wed ~ day off, sort of, go to Creation with Matt and Tim
Thur ~ work
Friday ~ work
Sat ~ work then hang out with the Comitos
Sun ~ work a double (this is where I am right now)
Mon ~ work

Then I have off for a glorious 4 days, and then spend the weekend at the hospital again. During my time off, I will buy plane tickets to Florida, where I will blissfully lay in the sun and do nothing for 2 weeks except watch movies, tan, and play cards with my grandparents.

The wedding went beautifully, and it would be a shame not to give it more detail. Kim is awesome, and I am so glad she is part of our family now. Everything went off without a hitch and as soon as I can, I will get the pictures online. The weather was gorgeous, nothing at all like the rainy day we had for my cousin Colleen's wedding.

Perhaps the best thing that happened at the wedding was singing. Not that im saying my singing is awesome, but it went well. Chris came up to me afterwards and was like Er, I havent heard you sing in years, and it almost made me cry. And true to his word, his eyes were red and filled with tears. It was the biggest compliment I have ever gotten about my voice, and I almost cried when he said it. Other than that, I had a blast with my cousins and feel a lot closer to them, actually. Maybe age and maturity overcome the differences of youth.

Work has been work. the paychecks are nice, and as Ethan so bluntly stated last night, they stupidly make me forget how much I run my body into the ground to get them. Sayeth the man who pulled many close-to-all-nighters to get his masters. he has no room to comment.

The concerts were great... I annoyingly forgot to ge earplugs for the Eisley concert, leaving me pretty miserable with a headache... but the music was good. Creation was cool, we had a great time, and I am so glad they invited me to go with them. And I heart Relient K.

It rained a lot on Friday. We lost power at my house and I came home without a key from work. I found Lily, soaking wet and took her over to Ethans house where we introduced her, rather unsuccessfully, to Cassie. Poor Lil was freaked, but she calmed down a lot. She was, needless to say, very glad to get home.

I dont have a whole lot of other news other than I am kinda blah. Its always hard on me when I do not see my friends a lot. Working a lot doesnt help matters either. I just cant wait for this to be over and to have some time to myself and to hang out again. Work really gets in the way of important stuff like having fun and making memories. One thing Master Comito said about one of Ethans friends last night struck me... He found out how much working sucks at a young age. I like working here, I really do, but it does suck. Fortunately I do not have to really support myself too much. So I think I will be slacking at least another year. I would like to get a more full time job... though still part time... substitute... and then TRAVEL. I think that would be awesome. My aunt Pat said if there was ever anything I should do in my life, its to go on a safari. I know it sounds cheesey, but her and my cousin Pam went and they both said it was amazing. So its a thought. Part of my biggest problem is that I have so many options and I feel like I could literally do ANYTHING that I wanted to. I could even go to Med School, I think, if I wanted to. But I dont know what to do. So I think I will relax. I need to sing more. It would be fun to take karate with chris when he gets home in August. I miss dancing. I dont want my life to slip away in years of meaningless work... I guess thast why I want to be a teacher... there are few things more meaninful!

I dunno maybe I am just rambling... I just finished reading the Green Mile. Its a great movie, but its an amazing book. I gotta give it to Stephen King, the man knows what hes doing. I found myself full of tears 3 or 4 times at the end, and I am not really a crier.

Anyway, perhaps I should pretend the lab is busy and do some work... or see how the djembe drum im watching on ebay is doing. (have I ever mentioned that it would be a wonderful gift??) sigh. the book left me feeling really alone. theres beauty in sadness, but it is still sadness....

Back to work.