LOST LOST LOST OH MY GOD LOST!!!

This show gets better and better and better. Nothing Compares 2 U, my love. NOTHING!

I still haven't collected all my thoughts yet, but based on the preview for next week I think Battlestar Pegasus is coming to the island. ;) NO BUT SERIOUSLY. It is.

Also 30 Rock and The Office were amazing. As usual.

AND NOW! NOW IT WOULD APPEAR THAT "WE SING, WE DANCE, WE STEAL THINGS" (a.k.a. my soulmate Jason Mraz's new album due out on the 13th) HAS LEAKED AND I HAVE OBTAINED IT AND AM NOW PLAYING IT AND LISTENING TO IT AND DYING OF LOVE AND LUST AND ADORATION. [A megaupload link is on its way for you guys and I am going to force you all to download and listen to this shit.]

So yeah. I'm just ignoring the piles of classics-related books sitting next to me for a little while longer as I pretend I have not a care in the world.

Yeaaaaaahhh!



I don't know what this is. I feel like it probably means I have psychological problems or something.

Today has been a good day. You know how Sims have those little bars that need to be fulfilled -- like food, cleanliness, and social contact? I think I have one for alone-time. If I don't get any time to myself for a long time, I start to get really cranky. Today I just sat around the flat doing laundry and watching movies and it was perfect. When Caitlin came home she asked if I'd been out and gave me a funny look when I said no. Just as they can't understand me, I'll never understand people who constantly need to be doing something and who can't be alone. I like being a little bit bored sometimes. It allows me to clear my mind.

I watched Cloverfield, Dan in Real Life and No Country for Old Men today -- all of which I had not seen before. I am downloading Walk Hard, but it's far from being done. That's too bad because it would have nicely rounded off my day of all kinds of movies. I need a good silly comedy to add to my collection. Oh well.

Strangely enough, out of all three of those movies, I think I'd have to say that Cloverfield was the best! I thought I'd hate it! I wanted to give it a chance just because of the JJ Abrams factor, but I honestly loved it! I thought it was a great idea (especially the way in which it was filmed) and it had me screaming, cringing, and laughing out loud. Who else has seen it, and what were your thoughts?

Dan in Real Life was quite sweet. The premise sounds like a bad Ben Stiller movie but it was really real and nice and sweet. After an extreme Dane Cook overload, I'm sorry to say that I had gotten sort of sick of the man (sorry Leah, I hope it doesn't pain you to hear that!) but my love for him has returned after seeing a new side of him. Now he reminds me even more of my boyfriend Sam Anders. Or Samanders as I like to say it. Sort of like salamanders. [EDIT: Norbert Leo Butz needs to think about "Dancing Through Life" just a little more. No good cake goes unpunished. Something bad is happening in Oz. He won't be able to defy gravity like THAT! What happened there? Apparently Jamie is over and Jamie is gone. He certainly isn't moving too fast anymore. Okay I'm stopping now. But really. What happened?]

Now, as for No Country for Old Men... I didn't hate it. My feelings for it were generally positive, but I got a little bored. It was sort of long. And sort of slow. I think the only other Cohen brothers film I've seen is The Big Lebowski, which I think is much much better. Now I'll have to watch a few others to see if I am an actual Cohen brothers fan or not.

I have an appointment with myself to watch LOST exactly 12 hours from now. Boy am I excited. I am meeting Laura in the park for studytime at noon, so I had to schedule a time for LOST viewing before that. No way will I be able to concentrate on boring classics if I haven't gotten a good dose of "Cabin Fever". Oh god, I had the saddest moment the other day. Denver and I were having one of many general LOST discussions and I said something about how I loved Desmond and then I suddenly realized I had no idea where Desmond was. I said "Omigod, where is Desmond right now!? WHERE IS DESMOND!? I FEEL LIKE I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM IN SIX YEARS!" And then Denver went "Whaaat??? I have no idea??? What happened to Desmond!?!?!" And we both started freaking out for a good four minutes before I remembered. Basically, what I'm trying to say is this: it's been too long. I'm assuming we'll see him in this episode, thank god!!!

I had a dream last night that I was downloading the new episode of LOST, and somehow I came across next week's as well. But I didn't watch it because I didn't want to have to wait two weeks before seeing another episode. That's some self-restraint that I definitely don't have in my real, waking life. Strange.

Also how sad is it that I have dreams about watching LOST?? I say dreams, plural, because I've probably had at least 5 or 6 in my lifetime. What big obsessive freak I am.

Okayyy bye now.

Yesterday and today were brilliant. Especially in comparison to Sulky Monday. The weather has been stunning for the past three days and the citizens of Glasgow are making the absolute most of it!! Yesterday I met Caitlin and Stuart for a drink and snacks at around 3. Caitlin had to leave to go to work, but Stuart and I decided to keep at it and we did a little bit of an afternoon pub crawl. Several pubs and many drinks later, it was midnight and I was finally heading home. How did that happen? It was a really good day though. Here's Stuart and me boozing at the QM:



I woke up majorly hungover this morning but that faded quickly and eventually Caitlin and I went out to get some fresh air and sunlight. We walked through Kelvingrove Park to get to the Goat for Kopparbergs... The park was hilarious. I was cracking up the whole time. I swear the entire city of Glasgow had gathered at the park and everyone was tanning and playing and laughing and having the best times of their lives. There were countless lanky white majorly sunburned boys with their shirts off climbing trees... Girls in bikinis soaking in the sun for all it's worth... People playing all kinds of ball games (football, rugby, american football, even badminton!), throwing frisbees, smoking hookah, picnicking, making out, eating ice cream... Strangers exchanging niceties in the street instead of threatening each other with broken Buckfast bottles... It was truly magical. Scottish people are so precious. The second the sun comes out everybody goes absolutely insane and drops EVERYTHING to enjoy the nice weather. I found myself in the same mindset and I've been in the best mood.

We sat at the Goat for a while and Milena joined us for a bit, then we walked back through the park and sat next to a little pond for a bit. Here are a couple lovely pictures:

( Cut because I'm nice! )

Gorgeous, right? The little flower petals were drifting off the trees and floating across the top of the water... I thought I had died and gone to heaven, I could barely take it all in.

After that we came back here and cooked a chicken. Christine came to pick up her car and she ate dinner with us. I love Christine. She's leaving for China on May 17th and I'm sad I have to say goodbye to her so soon. Not that June 4th is all that much further away. :(

Anyhoo now I'm just lounging around listening to the spectacular third season LOST soundtrack. I think I'm going to tackle the duty of writing a long entry about my weekend. It shouldn't be too bad, and I need to do it now before I start forgetting stuff. Hopefully I'll force myself to do that tonight. I think I'm going to watch Cloverfield first though. Maybe.

Hope everybody is having a lovely day. <3

They are releasing Spaced on region 1 DVD in July!!!

Apparently it's going to have a new commentary done by Edgar, Simon, Jessica and the randomest of randoms -- people who had nothing to do with the making Spaced. I really don't understand why. But it's Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone, Bill Hader(!), Patton Oswalt, and Diablo Cody. Random!

In this article I'm reading there are a couple good quotes about Spaced from people I love. This makes me excited in silly ways. Check it.

"Spaced is utter brilliance. Constantly and amazingly laugh-out-loud funny and heart wrenchingly emotional, this series is for, well, anyone who has ever lived." -- JJ Abrams

"Innovative. Witty. Hilarious. Spaced is the show we American comedians watch and say 'How the hell did they get away with this?!' Spaced is the sole reason I bought an all region DVD player. Now you have no excuse! Buy this and you can officially be cool." -- Bill Hader

So basically Bill and I are soulmates and now I'm going to go watch my region 2 Spaced DVDs because that sounds like the perfect way to work through this hangover. Woooooo!

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My Dude costume is complete and it is fabulous. White shirt, plaid man shorts, a giant grey hoodie, jellies, sunglasses, and a hair clip. Amazing. I don't think I could have come up with a more comfortable party outfit. Sure, I will look like a man, but it's my frakking party so whatevah, whatevah, I'll do what I want.



Yes, I am a Lebowski Achiever.

I am too lazy to make a real post, but there are some things I feel like mentioning.

So... It's list time.

Recent noteworthy events:

• Yesterday there was a thunderstorm and I was walking to class in the middle of it. I was certain that I was going to be struck down by lightning for all my sins, so I was really close to getting down on the ground and sticking my bum up in the air because that's what Stephen Fry would do.
  
• We watched a Bollywood movie called Black in my film screening yesterday and it was pretty good, but also really corny. I was disappointed because it didn't have music in it, and that's my favorite part of Bollywood films. Bummer. Anyway it was based on the Helen Keller story which is a good story but there were a bunch of girls crying at the end and it was hilarious. I cry at everything. I certainly was not crying at this film. It was so corny. Oh boy.
  
• My 90s playlist for my party has 200 songs on it. By using the glorious internet I found a bunch of lists of top hits from the 90s and was reminded of all these songs I haven't thought about in 10 years. I downloaded lots of them and it is so fun to hear them again and think about my youth. I like pretending that I am not almost 22 because it scares me.
  
• This morning when I had just woken up, I went into the bathroom and there was a loud bang that shook the floor and the window. It really freaked me out. Seconds later, the phone rang and had no number. When I answered it, there was only a dial tone. I almost had a heart attack. It was horrible. I still don't get it.
  
• I took an unexpected 4 hour nap today. I hate naps but it was awesome.
  
• I started watching Freaks and Geeks last night. Also awesome.
  
• It rained a bunch today and made me feel lazy and sort of sad. Rain is stupid.
  
• I talked to Phish and Brittny on AIM early this afternoon. They were both up really late and I was excited to have someone to talk to at that hour, especially since they are cool. Phish is cute; the evidence can be found here. <3
  
• Tomorrow is my last day of class! EVERRRRRRR!

I've recently become obsessed with a show called Embarrassing Illnesses. It's just what it sounds like -- three doctors who treat people with embarrassing illnesses, and there are no blurred faces and they are not afraid to show you ANYTHING. It's the shit. Sometimes literally. Haaaaaa! This week the doctors are traveling around the UK and they are doing a week of "Embarrassing Bodies," focusing on one part of the body a night. It's amazing. Tonight they are doing vajajays!

The problem is that I've been eating dinner really late this week and it keeps coinciding with this show. It fascinates me so much that I refuse to turn it off, but this means I'm staring at unusual vaginas while I eat my shell pasta. Hmmmm....

I just realized that Jason Segel has Laura-sized teeth. This probably means we should reproduce and have small-toothed children together. I certainly wouldn't object.



I've only seen 1 and 1/20th episodes of Freaks & Geeks but already I'm in love.

( BSG 4.04!!! )

IS IT SATURDAY MORNING YET!? I WANT MORE!

Now I am going to make an extremely delicious and well-rounded dinner, and then bake some cookies, and sit on my ass watching TV all the while! I'm in a good mood this evening.

I know resources are low in the colonial fleet, but props to Laura Roslin for finding some botox hidden among the supplies.

...Or not. She looks like a duck. I thought her upper lip wrinkles were endearing. I'm sad.

What kind of frakkery is this? Yesterday was beautiful. Today I get my ass out of bed to go to my 11 o'clock lecture and it's raining like a bitch outside? I sure as hell am not going out in that. It's raining ridiculously hard. I'm not being dramatic. I bet there will be about 3 people in lecture.

Unfortunately I really do have to go to my 1 o'clock class because it's a tutorial and I can't afford to lose any more points in that class. I didn't go to a classics lecture for the past two weeks, meaning I actually have a good deal of reading to do before 1, so I guess it's good that I'm up.

Now that I'm writing this, it sounds like the rain has died down... Not all the way though. Hmm... I still am not going to risk it. I miss you, car. Okay, Cicero, let's see what you have to tell me now.

=

And that's all I have to say about that one.

BSG update: I have finished season 3 & Razor, I'm about to watch the first episode of this season!

I went shopping with Caitlin today. I bought a dress, a skirt, and a shirt from H&M. I might go back tomorrow because I need to start putting together my The Dude costume for Friday!!! So far I have a shirt and jellies. :D I need a bathrobe and some kind of Dude-like shorts or trousers. I am going to buy a bunch of pre-made pina colada stuff and put it in a glass an pretend it's a white russian. I need to find an avid bowler who might want to lend me a bowling ball for the night... lols. I am considering looking for a Catherine-as-Sayid-style beard/moustache thing to pop on for funsies, but I think I'll spend the majority of my birthday party with a clean-shaven face. :D

After shopping we saw Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which was cute. I heart Jason Segel so much. I wish I could go see Baby Mama. Why the UK be hatin' on my ladies?? :(

Time to crawl in bed and start speculatin' about the final cylon!!! :D

Hahahaha last night I had a dream that everybody found out American Idol was rigged because it was revealed that David Archuleta had actually died in 2006. Lol I hate that freaky kid. Why am I dreaming about American Idol?

Time for an epic BSG marathon now.

Today has been slightly strange. I only got about four hours of sleep last night, then I had to get up to finish my essay. When I turned it in the lady was a bitch and passed judgement on me for turning in my essay late. Suck it, bitch. YOU DON'T KNOW ME! Anyway, as you witnessed, I came home and immediately cracked open a Kopparberg. I watched 30 Rock and then The Office both of which were even better than last week. I love all my TV families so much. OMG Ryan. Hahahaha! And TOBY! HAHAHA! Oh lord. The music in 30 Rock was wonderful. Tina's hair. Everything. Oh god. What a great day for TV shows.

Anyway after I watched those Caitlin came home, having just finished and printed her essay at the library. It was after 12, meaning she missed the same 24-hour cutoff for lateness and lost three points as well. We are both screwed. It's hard to care tonight though, I'm just so burnt out.

Christine came and the three of us walked to the uni so Caitlin could turn in her essay. The same lady who was a bitch to me pulled the same crap with Caitlin and I could tell it made her sort of upset. What a stupid whore. That lady never has to write essays. She is a secretary for the theatre department at a university. Come on now.

Then we walked to a pub with some Gaelic name that I can neither pronounce or spell. We met Robbie and his boyfriend new friend from his course there. Robbie's like in love with this dude, it's precious. I wonder what his girlfriend would say. Bahaha! Actually I don't blame him though because Ben was really nice. He made a huge effort to get to know all of us and kept calling us by name and asking lots of questions and being really friendly and fun! Hopefully he'll come to my party next week. Hooray for nice people.

Eventually Daniel, Milena, and Laura all joined us. I had a pint of Kronenberg, which is starting to taste good to me all the sudden. But then I decided to get myself a Corona when I was buying one for Christine just because I have never tried it and I was feeling adventurous. OH. MY. LORD. CORONA IS SO GOOD. All limey and delicious. I had two of those.

So with my four hours of sleep, five pints of alcohol, and only a piece and a half of toast in my stomach, I was getting quite drunk. We were all starving so we walked to Coopers and had dinner. Sweet Jesus, they have good burgers there. Everyone decided they wanted to go to Cheesy Pop tonight and, although I am feeling social after being cooped up in this flat for a week and everyone was trying to force me to go along, I knew I had to get home and get to sleep before my body just shut down on me. The combination of the booze, lack of sleep, and delicious meal set off the countdown timer on the slumber bomb in my brain.

Caitlin, Christine, and I came home and I just got into bed and passed out for two hours. When I woke up, they had been napping too but were getting ready to head out the door -- Christine was going home and Caitlin was going to work. So they left and then I watched LOST!!!

( Holy shitdogs. LOST. )

And now here I am! I'm thinking it might be BSG time now.

AND THE DRINKING HAS COMMENCED.

One in the afternoon is as good a time as any, right? At least it's not morning anymore.

This, of course, means that my last-ever essay has been handed in.

Goodbye essay, see you again when you come back to haunt me with a shit grade.

Time to watch The Office and 30 Rock as I slowly get drunk and wait for Caitlin to come home so we can watch motherfrakking LOST, BITCHES.

10 points to anyone who can figure out what I'm drinking by deciphering the code in my subject.

This brings me such joy.



James! James! As soon as I heard you needed me, I dropped everything.

[looks at ball]

Well, almost everything.

SESAME STREET, YOU FIERCE BITCH! I LOVE YOU!