Invincible.

I always feel so trendy when I blog in public. I'm sitting in a little booth at Panera, sipping on a coffee and killing some time before work. I got the Creamy Tomato soup in a bread bowl, which is basically just lots of bread with some soup: bowl, part they cut out to make the bowl, baguette that comes with everything, and croutons in the soup. Insane. But I do throughly enjoy good, crusty bread, so this wins. I keep getting nervous that someone is going to come over and ask to sit with me. I don't know why, there are plenty of empty seats, but I don't know what I would do if someone was to sit down across from me.

I've been watching a lot of Kate Winslet movies lately. SHe may very well be my favorite actress. Both of the Hollywood Videos near my house are going out of business, so I've been buying movies like crazy.

Spring break was good. All I really did was venture to Burlington, but it was a fantastic time, and balanced out work and the rest of my free time quite nicely. I also took the dog to Saratoga for a walk. She tried to attack a horse. I swear, she thinks she's invincible.

Spring!

It is so ridiculously gorgeous out that I cannot even express it. I have been outside since I woke up, which was around noon, but whatever. Perfect day for loud music and breakfast on the patio. I don't want to work tonight because I want to stay home and fire up the grill. I also don't want to work tonight because I have a very long day ahead of me tomorrow. Around 9:30, my grandmother is picking me up and we're going to Lake George. We're doing breakfast and going shopping. Hopefully, we'll be done around 1. I then have to go to work and get my paycheck, then I'll be off to Burlington for the evening. Now, this sounds like no problems at all, but let me explain how this fits together. To go to Burlington, I need to get off Exit 20 of I87, then it's about 2 hours. Lake George is around Exit 18. My work is at Exit 4. Luckily, I don't have to drive to Lake George, but still. I'm basically going back and forth all day. If I could get my paycheck tonight, that would be fantastic, but they don't have them. Also, if I didn't need to get it, my problems would be solved, but I really don't like emptying my bank account more than once a month.

I'm done now because my dog is laying on my lap (she's a black lab) trying to catch the arrow on the screen every time it moves.

Oh hey spring break

So, I'm looking at the clock and it is 12:02. Which means I am 2 minutes into Spring Break. Honestly, I'm not one of those people who realizes they have a whole week off and hops to Florida to party all week. I am going to sleep in, and I may go on an adventure to Burlington. I would very much like to be productive.

At some point over this weekend I realized that I was insane. Not a bad, diagnosed, mental hospital insane, but I overthink things and see things. Again, not like I physically see things, but I convince myself that things are going on regardless of whether they are or not. And I have now successfully convinced everyone that I'm crazy.

And speaking of crazy things, let's discuss daylight savings time. I truly believe that this whole system is a mess. This country is one of very few that participate, and not even every state does it. It is an old system that was originally introduced to create essentially make the days longer for farmers. Okay, great idea, but now we have the technology that we don't need longer days. Also, I don't understand how this affects time zones. If we start off with a 6 hour time difference from another time zone, does it just become 7? I guess I'm just amazed that someone decided that they could just change time. 2am didn't happen last night, and on Halloween, 1am happened twice. Okay, I'm not losing or gaining any time, but it's frustrating.


So I had Up from Netflix this week, and I must admit, I was thoroughly impressed. With all the hype surrounding this movie, I was afraid that it was going to be a let down, but it wasn't. The score fit the scenes perfectly (espcially the Habanara towards the beginning). The initial scene with the house lifting off was flawless, and, as soon as they are invented, I am buying one of those dog collars for my dog. I laughed, I cried (way less than I expected to, which was good), all in all excellent film.

Well, plans for tomorrow include cleaning the car, fixing the fence, and working. Nothing at all exciting.
Good night.

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I have no motivation. Well, I have a little motivation, but not for anything I'm supposed to. It's like I know what I want, and I know how to get it, but I'm afraid that I can't have it.

Additionally, I did not see Alkaline Trio last night because I have an empty bank account.
I am taking the summer off school to give that some padding, which kind of sucks because I've heard that Wines of the World is a fantastic summer class.

I finally got a better song assembled and recorded an acceptable version of Hallelujah. Both will be posted later possibly.

I'm only posting because I do not feel like writing an essay. However, it is going to be an essay about horror-comedies, which Wikipedia calls comedy horror, which I don't think sounds as nice.

Alright, class now. Work at 5. More later perhaps?

Eli Roth's Hostel was released in 2005, and five years later, I still cannot decide whether or not it is truly a quality movie. I mean, I know I like it, but that doesn't mean it's good. I was just watching it on SyFy, but that was mostly just because I wanted to see how much of it was going to be missing. From here on out, there will be spoilers, so watch out. According to IMDb, "fuck" is spoken 128 times. This movie was on cable, and they bleeped it out. So that was annoying. The entire scene of Josh's torture was impossible to understand because it was all clips of words. I'm also pretty positive that they cut some of the drilling. They definitely didn't show the pussd coming out when they Paxton cut the Asian girl's eye out. There were not as many spoilers as I anticipated.

This totally makes me sound crazy.

The second on is on right now. I think I like it better, but only because I love Roger Bart and Heather Matarazzo. The only thing I really remember about this one was the initial controversy that the torturing was going to be happening to women,but that obviously didn't last very long. Not only was the first girl killed by a woman, the last-person-standing does some serious ass kicking. Assuming I remember correctly that is.

I'm still really excited about Alkaline Trio and Cursive tomorrow.

The Academy Awards are tonight. I would be very thorough and list all of my predictions, but I think Avatar and Julie & Julia were the only movies I saw that were nominated for anything.

I doing better with the whole blogging thing than I expected to. Granted, it's only been a month or so, but I think this is going well.

In closing, I posted "Sometime Around Midnight" right here.
Good day.

Productivity

Okay so. I'm back. English was boring. I need to start wearing heels.

Yesterday, I realized that I could use the Voice Memo app on my phone to record songs. Why didn't I realize this before?!?

And that lead to this!
Neither of the two songs that are up are perfect, but they are acceptable. Ideally there will be more up this evening.
The first song posted, "While You Were Sleeping," I wrote probably mid-2008, around the time I graduated. It's not perfect, actually, I don't even think it's that good, but it was the first thing that I wrote that made sense. And it's happy and upbeat, plus it was the only thing I had on paper where all the pages and stanzas were together and in the correct order. Everything else still has some assembly required. And if I had planned ahead further, I could have brought everything to school with me and organized, but that's not what happened.
"Don't Trust Me," by 3oh!3 is just ridiculous and I love it. It's actually the only song I know by them. Tonight I'm going to try to record "Sometime Around Midnight" by The Airborne Toxic Event and/or the live version of "Pokerface" by Lady Gaga from the Cherrytree Sessions. That version is actually the one sampled on Make Her Say by Kid Cudi. It's legit.

In other news:

Alkaline Trio will be here on Monday with Cursive. I'm really really excited. So excited that I don't even care that I haven't found anyone to go with yet. I saw Alkaline Trio with Rise Against and the Gaslight Anthem the last time they were here, and they definitely put on a good show. Plus, Cursive is awesome, and totally underrated. Or maybe they're totally mainstream and I live under a rock? Who knows, but I definitely live under a rock.

And I'm not entirely sure when or how that happened. But I have fallen off the face of the Earth.

Staplers

I'm in English right now. My teacher is discussing her stapler issues. We were supposed to start ten minutes ago.

I want to fall asleep.

I haven't worked since Sunday, and I decided to be productive.
Monday I spent the day with my great-grandmother. We went out to eat and went grocery shopping. We're adorable.

Tuesday, my car got stuck in the driveway. Like call a tow truck stuck. The tow-truck driver was pretty chill though. Missed International Baking & Pastry; skipped English. Did the homework, and e-mailed it prior to class though because I was being on top of things. Clean my bedroom. Alphabetized and re-shelved my DVDs.

Wednesday, I went to breakfast with my grandmother, then took Dottie for a walk. She was suprisingly well behaved. However, I ran into my grandma and her dog there. They don't like each other.

Class is starting; more later perhaps.