caution: fangirl and other happenings

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Squee! John Mayer tonight! I love immature that makes me sound. Ah well. Let me put it this way…I’m going to what promises to be a spectacular showcase of stellar singing/songwriting this eve. Better? It should be a good concert. JM always does well live, and Kate said that Maroon 5 is good in concert as well. Here’s hoping that it doesn’t stay too hot/humid (or conversely, not getting too cold as it’s been dipping into the 60s and even 50s in some parts of the city at night) and it doesn’t rain!
Re: yesterday’s entry…*facepalm* and that’s all I’m going to say about that.
Welcome back Alex and Leo 🙂 Hope you had fun in Detroit.
Kate and I went for Ted Drewes last night…yay st. louis famous custard! I had, for the first time, a Big Apple, which is their concrete custard mixed with apple pie and whipped cream. Fun! And very good. We took a walk around the block while we ate, and so negated some of the calories 😉 Talked about politics, mostly. I hate politics. I think it’s because I don’t have too strongly held opinions on many of the debateable subjects…I always feel a little out of the loop when I try to have a conversation about them. I don’t know who I’ll vote for in the governor’s race if I do decide to vote. I might not. It’s a bit of a pain since I’m still registered as living with my parents and have to go to their polling place. I honestly don’t really even know what’s going on with the ballot. I’ll just have to trust the Post-Dispatch to fairly report the issues and ask my dad what he thinks 😉
After the TD stroll we headed home, but Kate wanted to find a park with swings, and fortunately there happens to be a park nearby…so we went and see-sawed and played on the jungle gym and swung, and slid 🙂 it was fun. Weird being in a park/playground when it’s dark. And we talked more. It was a big day for talking, as I’d spent somewhere over an hour on the phone with Ross earlier. Hi Ross! We don’t keep in touch nearly enough: he hadn’t heard about the apartment, my mugging, my trip to San Diego… But we’re going to see a movie on friday so that should be fun.
I don’t know what I’m going to do with my family this weekend…tomorrow is softball, so I won’t be around till late, and then going out on friday…they’re here until sat, but I don’t know what time. Hopefully I’ll get to spend some time with Corey, especially, as she’s my favorite cousin and very shortly she’s going to Kent State in Ohio for grad school. Alas. Everyone is going away…at least she’ll be close(er than I am) to Cedar Point so maybe finally I’ll have a reason for going out that way.
Must remember to leave earlier and get book from library and milk and oj from store! Stupid groceries. sooo much money to be spent today! eek!

it’s not what you know, it’s where you know it

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Your Intelligence Is Determined By THIS Apparently my mathematical grey matter is close to non-existent…
It’s 7-27. What a beautiful number. And incidentally, a month from my 24th birthday…egad I’m gonna be old. Well, I’ll still be the youngest person on my softball team 😉
I had a really crazy dream about Ross last night. Like seriously crazy. Like he said he wanted to be my boyfriend. That’s how I know it was just wishful thinking. I hate being pushed into actually doing things that are probably good for me, but I do still need to find someone to see the Bourne Supremacy with…watched the first one last night, just to be ready…
Annoyance of the week: I’m still getting hundreds of those emails with ‘hi’ in the title. The problem is that lots of people send messages with just ‘hi’ as the subject, some legitimate, so I can’t just set it to filter all of them out…and secondly, most of the emails go to a slightly different variation of my email (ie adding a letter at the end or simply making up a first part, since I have a catchall) so I can’t just block certain senders. I love it when it says it’s from me, as well. yay. Stupid spam.
John Mayer tomorrow! Whee! Spidey 2 and King Arthur scores and Ned Kelly dvd today! But I’m going to exercise extreme self control and try to wait until August 10 when Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix comes out in paperback…maybe if I wait until then I’ll get Hidalgo as well…agggh! I’m never going to get a keyboard. Mom wants me to look into selling the piano at home, b-b-b-but I loves the piano! Even if I never use it anymore! Not like it would fit in the apartment, either. Well, I guess it would, but getting it up those stairs would be a horrible task. And then we’d really have to get it tuned. It’s held its tuning remarkably well considering we haven’t had it tuned since I was taking lessons, oh, ten years ago 😉 See why a keyboard is better?

what a beautiful letdown, painfully uncool

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Title’s from the Switchfoot song Beautiful Letdown. Finally sat down and watched the dvd of their live performance this weekend. I’ve had the dvd for a few months now but never actually got around to watching it. It’s pretty cool. They sing AND play instruments! Did I mention how I really like that in a band?
Congrats to Lance Armstrong. He just won his 6th consecutive Tour de France. Live strong indeed. And amazingly enough, for one weekend with a movie premiere I did not see it opening night…hopefully I’ll find someone to see the Bourne Supremacy with me later this week. Yay for number one at the box office. Makes me sad I didn’t go, even by myself, but I guess it’s not like they needed my help. My mom is pushing me to call up this guy from high school who randomly tries to get me to do something with him, and I just don’t feel comfortable doing it. He’s a nice guy, but there’s just…I don’t know. I hate it when people try to set me up, even if it’s just for friendship. Maybe there’s something wrong with me. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that I’ll see a movie like Spidey 2 three times, once by myself. Ah well. I’d see it again, too…just like I’d see HP3 again. DVDs can’t come out soon enough.
In exceedingly annoying news, there were 2000+ messages in my inbox when I came in this morning. Fully 1600 of those were spam that was immediately deleted and the majority for the rest part was also spam that had to be more closely looked at before deletion. This really sucks and I’m not quite sure what I can do about it because most of them are actually to my address and don’t have unique subject lines or senders. Sigh. Stupid ‘hi.’ I think I probably deleted the message from my softball coach last week because of this inundation.
In other news, thanks for voting for this site last week, and feel free to do the same this week. I’ll need all the help I can get!

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Happy Birthday Dan!

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Dan Radcliffe…aka Harry Potter, turns 15 today. Ahh, jailbait. Course, he’s the second or maybe even most rich kid in England, so I don’t think he’ll have a bad one. Just browsing MuggleNet.com – The Ultimate Harry Potter Site…need more HP desktops. Silly, I know. It’s been a while since I’ve surfed on my laptop so it’s sadly out of date.
Sounds like the Calcium Kid and Troy will both come out on dvd around October sometime.
Am I horrible if I really want to see Spidey 2 and HP 3 again? And again? Egad I need a life. Of course, JK Rowling needs to write quicker so we can have a book 6…and I need to wait until August 10 to actually spend money so I can do that silly thing called ‘saving’…

This is good for a laugh

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..but if I ever see one I might just get it, on the principle of the thing…
Barbie Collector Showcase
And in case you’ve ever wondered…What if Orlando needs a green card?
I’ve made more icons. Soon there will be a post. But probably over at the LJ. I’ll get back to you on that. Wait! There are some up in the Iconic gallery already. Yeah. Go comment.
And you must check out this site for Harry Potter fanart. Wow. artdungeon.net ~ Harry Potter Artwork (Fan Art by Marta) Am inspired.
Want the King Arthur soundtrack, the Spidey 2 score, and the Ned Kelly dvd. Next tuesday there will be a sharp drop in Jen’s budget.

But will I be around to see it?

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TCS: Tech Central Station – Why Lord of the Rings Will – and Must – Be Remade

I guess they have to have movies in heaven. Or you could just ghost down here and watch it being filmed 😉 Or just live for a really long time.

Merph.

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Most of you probably know how I feel about slash. Generally I avoid it when I can, but sometimes you just gotta go with it. And now I can say I am not alone. Check out when frodo met sam…and the lovely featured manip 😉 Good Lord some people have too much time on their hands.

Spider-man in Lego!

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You must click to watch this 4 minute Spidey vs Doc Ock video, with all ‘actors’ scenes, props etc, made out of Lego blocks! It’s well done and quite funny. Yay childhood toys put to good use 😉