Nothing Special

Current song playing: The Beast and Dragon, Adored -- Spoon
Current moody: runny-nosed?

Been a while. Not much has happened. I am working as a temp receptionist at Pressley Ridge, a family and youth services type thingy. It's super easy and not terribly stimulating. I answer the phone, check in clients, make appointments... mostly I sit around and read or surf the net. On Fridays we can wear whatever and I sit around and knit. I like Fridays. I've had hours and hours and hours to look up knitting patterns, and all things Boston.
This is my current desktop at work:Also, if you haven't seen this yet... Christine and I stumbled upon it on Cute Overload. It is ridiculously fabulous. :-D
I've been to Columbia twice in a little over a month. First time to see Tine and second to see all the girls (because apparently Maryland is where all the cool kids live now?). Next weekend Christine and I are going to NYC to see Equus. :-D Can't wait!
Other than that, I haven't been doing much lately. Work. Reading. Movies and anime. Knitting. Also worrying about money and Boston. I had to shell out 300 bucks this week for a pair of new glasses after mine snapped in half Sunday night. :( I'm back to feeling like I'm never going to catch up. I'm sick of it. And there's so much stuff that I still need to figure out for moving, but I can't yet (apartment, fin. aid, etc.). Super frustrating.
I'm pretty sure that whenever I get frustrated, though, all I have to do is watch that Meg video and I'm set. A world with dancin' cats can't be all bad, right? :-P

ps, robot dance parties are good, too!
pps, that's two different links. and they both helped inspire my gmail name :-P
ppps, whiel we're appreciating all things crazy Japanese...

<3

Well, shit...

Current song playing: Celtic Nabazcast
Current mood: down-ish

Ho hum. Unemployed. Again.
*sigh*

Jess went back to Philly today, too, so the true aloneness is beginning. Despite my best efforts over the past 24 hours, I can't think of anything happy.

Just gotta keep on keepin' on.

I Can Has a Dobby Hat!

Current song in my head: Mamma Mia-- ABBA!!
Current mood: boredy bored bored bored!

It's been a while...
Not much to report. I've been watching TONS of movies. And working. And not much else.
I saw Mamma Mia with Raphael the other day. It was quite cute and fabulous-- giving me my fix of over-the-top musicals. :-D In the past month I got Stardust and Penelope from Netflix, and, alas! I am totally obsessed with both. Check them out if you haven't yet, as they are both super fab and cute and wonderful.
I am also super psyched because I should getting the fourth and last installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, at some point this week. Should be good for a full, intense night of voracious reading and vampire lust!
Yesterday I looked up lots of knitting stuff that I want to be able to do eventually. Having absolutely nothing else to do (save finish the scarf I've been working on for ages) I made myself a Dobby Hat (http://leftinstitches.blogspot.com/2005/12/dobby-hat.html) last night, using some of the three tons of yarn Raphael gave me. Behold!
I think it's super cute. Jess disagrees. Story of my life? Anyway, my current plan for Christmas this year is to knit all of my gifts. If I start now, I might actually be able to do it, though I doubt most people are going to want anything I produce... Who doesn't already have millions of scarves, hats and sweaters? Whatevs. I can't wait to try socks. (can't wait = terrified) :-P
I've also been helping Raphael move stuff. Gotta prove that I'm just as strong and tough as the boys. Grr?! Today I helped lift heavy boxes in a dress. Just because I can! Tee hee? He leaves Wednesday and it shall be very strange without him. Yet another person on the list of people who moved away (it's getting to be a depressingly long list (because it's everyone!(except, of course, me.))) At least, I am becoming more and more comfortable in my solitariosity. And now I have lots of knitting to keep me busy. At least until I get bored with it?
And how's this for random? Tonight I have to go to work to let some paranormal investigators into the building... Never thought that would be part of my job description.
Also, I have finally mailed my last check. I am, for realsies, FREE. And I'm sure I shan't be hearing from him anymore, pretending to care how I'm doing so he can nag me about paying him. Nope nope.
So now it's gonna be SAVE SAVE SAVE for Boston so I can get the heck outta here. The other day at work I made a list of all of my goals for when I'm finally on my own. It's gonna be sa-weet and I can't fucking wait!! Anybody got any good get rich quick schemes? :-P

<3

Current Song in head: Men in Black (?!?)
Current mood: rumbly in my tumbly?

So... what's up? Nothing much going on here.
Completed my FAFSA application, which was, of course, a huge joke. Need to contact the financial aid dept. of NESOP and start begging. Should be good times!
Got to see Mandy on Monday! A bunch of us went to El Seranos for drinks and apps and then we went to Tara's house to visit with her parents for a bit. Went to BJ's with Della and got a cake, the idea being to consume the whole thing in one go. Then Mandy and I went to her house and talked/nibbled on cake until about 8am. Old school! It was super good times seeing her again; as always!
Also on Monday, I went to the gym (yay me!) and then to see Wall*E (hells yeah!). I sniffled the whole way through!
Other than that? Work has been slow. Painfully so, in fact. I've been getting a good bit of knitting done. I'm working on this scarf, which sounds loser and cliche, but it's actually cabled and tied and all kinds of crazy stuff, so it's pretty time consuming. I like to tell myself that I can use it this winter in Boston. I'm really hoping that that will be true. *crosses fingers* I've been looking through jobs on craigslist and have applied for a bunch of office and serving jobs. Sadly, I'm thinking serving is gonna be the way to go, especially if I'm going back to school. I've seen some with benefits and everything, too, so that would be nice. I do misses me some health insurance! And that would make it much easier to move up there.
So...yeah...
Laters.

ps, Came across this on imdb:
"If it were up to me, how would the characters' relationships conclude in Serenity 2? Okay. Hypothetically speaking only. River and Zoe really hit it off, fall in love, and decide to form their own renegade girls-who-kick-ass space team and leave us in the dust; Mal realizes he's more destroyed over Wash's death than he ever thought and spends the rest of his days wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking booze out of the engine; Simon and Kaylee have a set of genius triplets and turn the ship into a cocker spaniel search-and-rescue with "crazy Grandpa Mal" still at the helm cradling toy dinosaurs; and Inara finally realizes the potential in Jayne as a male companion, loans him a toga, and takes him back to the training house where they become King and Companion Queen...you know you want that sequel! [writing on her blog]" - Jewel Staite
hee!

Hells yeah!!

Current song in head: I Shot the Sheriff-- Bob Marley
Current mood: felicitous!

I got in!! :-D

Current song in my head: Ziggy Stardust-- David Bowie
Current mood: fine?

Hm... Not much has been going on lately?
Today I spent an hour on the phone with the admissions director of NESOP. He was very nice (he reminded me of a slower-spoken Brendan) and helpful. The basic gist is that it sounds really cool but I'm going to need a lot of money. Not nearly as much as for Lehigh or pretty much any other school, but still. The good news is, if FAFSA won't give me anything because I don't qualify as an independent according them (even though I am?) I won't have to reapply if I want to push back my start until Oct '09 (instead Feb '09). So yeah... They have an open house on August 10th and I guess I'm gonna try to go.
What else?
Yesterday I walked to a B&B near here (half a mile? a mile?) and took some pics of their goats and llama.
Hee!
I reapplied for a passport last week. In case you missed out on that one, it turns out the fire-safe lock box I had it in in my room at school was not leak proof. THAT was a fun (and costly) discovery. Anyway, I was told the current processing period is only four weeks, so I guess that's nice. Not that I'm going anywhere anytime soon...
Which brings me to Boston. My boss told me that his partner's mom lives in Jamaica Plain and she just renovated her place or something and is considering renting a room. 'Twould be sweet, I guess. I really REALLY want to live completely on my own, but that's probably gonna take a while. So if anyone knows of anywhere cheap to live or has any job leads for the Boston area, lemme know!
Also, I started an outline for the business plan for my diner. Only took me a year! If anyone knows anything about writing a business plan and anything else business related, some help would be muchly appreciated!
Oh! And I finally finished the desk that I was refinishing and got it up into my room!! It looks pretty awesome! I should post a pic...
I guess that's it? A bit of depressingness: within a month any friends I have within driving distance will have moved away. :-( All the more reason for me to leave as well?!?
Also, R.I.P. George Carlin. :-( *insert string of profanities here!*

peace.

Good Deed

Current song in head: Feelin' Good-- Michael Buble
Current mood: bored-ish

My mom and I were driving back from my doctors appt. this evening when we saw one of the neighborhood boys lying under his bike and crying. When I asked him if he was ok, he just wailed so I immediately jumped out and tried to lift his bike off. He yelled and I realized he was stuck to it. His shoe lace had gotten seriously wrapped around the chain and pedal, locking his foot to it. We couldn't get it unknotted and it was too tight to slide his foot out... Luckily two neighbor guys saw us struggling and ran over with some pruning shears to cut him loose. He checked his ankle and foot and he was ok, just a little bruised. We drove him up the street to his house and walked his bike back for him and we all lived happily ever after.
The End.

ps, Bike chain grease is refusing to wash off of my arm.