Hey Baby, They're Playing Our Song

Exams! That’s right, exam season is on us like white on rice. I’m about three hours away from writing my accounting final exam. Don’t want to, as simple as that. But! After my five exams in five days, I get to reward myself with the Comic Expo! With the added whipped cream bonus of seeing my BFF because I haven’t seen her in so long that it’s actually really embarrassing. While looking for the Meghan tag, I just remembered how long ago that tag is from. Oh well. 

School this semester was so full and so exhausting that I had zero time for anything fun, but that’s over now, because I’ll be graduating and having big plans for a big life. I start at the summer job May 2 and start the second summer job May 6. 

I’m transferring stores because they’re going to be able to give me more hours come September and because my store is being stupid and doing away with night crew with no actual thought on how the store will actually function without people doing the work that needs to be done out of sight of customers. I’m sorry guys, but I’m not sticking around to watch it and to do it again when you need it. You don’t get rewarded for bad behaviour.

And now, I shower.

So, if you watch How I Met Your Mother, you’ll recall that there was an episode dedicated to Ted learning the lesson that nothing good happens after 2 a.m. I’ve decided that’s true 95% of the time.

So, from now on, I will no longer respond to texts that come after 2 a.m., begging for my company, unless they come from Meghan or an actual boyfriend. 

Friday evening, I went to a birthday party, where I ended up hooking up with the birthday boy/my male best friend. How did this happen? Well, a little liquor, a little my defenses being down from having to turn down another guy at this party, and a lot of “you know, it won’t be weird unless we make it weird.”

So, I’ll let you know tomorrow if it’s weird or not because as it stands, it really wasn’t and isn’t. 

In a weird way, this kind of goes along with Resolution 7 and 19. I’ve determined that he’s for sure not the guy for Resolution 7 and it was a new experience as far as I’ve never really hooked up with a guy just for fun. 

EDIT: NOT AWKWARD. WE RULE AT BEING BROS.

Resolution Number 15: BLAH BLAH BLAH. This week I watched Body of Lies on the recommendation of Ging. Because he and I so often agree on movies, I trusted him even though there was gratuitous Russell Crowe. I was right to trust him, because this movie was fantastic. I’m not typically a fan of movies that describe any middle eastern conflict, because they have no idea what they’re talking about. I’m still not sure this one did, but damn did it have some fantastic performances in it. And really, there’s no one I love to hate more than Russell Crowe. 

This is the scarf I made for Maroo’s sister. She requested a sweater after seeing the blanket I made for Meghan. Chocolate and beige, single crochet, it’s definitely nice and warm, so I hope she enjoys it for the day she has left. That takes care of the second half of resolution number one. The first half of resolution number one will be taken care of when I finish my Captain America blanket. I have zero idea how it’s going to turn out, but I keep getting new ideas for it. Good thing I purchased that graphing paper moleskine. Once I finish that, though, it’s time for the scarf from Doctor Who. Because scarves, like fezs, bowties, and Stetsons, are cool.

Resolution 19. Having new experiences every month. Well, two months in one, how about that? I got picked for human resources in Events Class, and that’s definitely not something I’m used to. I’m used to giving a shit about the people I like and to hell with the rest of you. I actually had to sit down and think of how an email would affect a person that I really strongly dislike. Caring for others beyond what is expected in the course of a human being. Experience 2. Superhero bowling. So, I missed out on the actual bowling part, but afterward I (Batman), Poison Ivy, Batgirl, Aquaman, Deadpool-pretending-to-be-Kid-Flash-so-they’ll-let-him-into-the-Justice-League, and Ash from Evil Dead had coffee. We definitely got stared at and that’s something I usually try to actively avoid, but last night, it just seemed pretty inconsequential.

And finally, resolution 13. This offer is open to any of my followers. Would you like snail mail? Let me know by dropping me your address in my ask box. Unless I already have it, like with Nana, who got a lovely letter this month. 

Also, everyone should be reading Ready, Player One by Ernest Cline. Don’t ask color questions. 

No need to go over Resolution 15 anymore. But seriously. I’ve never realized the stack of things I own that I’ve never watched. In some cases, these were gifts from people and it’s like “Oh… Thanks, yes, I enjoyed the first Sandlot movie. But uh… this decade-late-direct-to-DVD-sequel should be just as good.”

I’ve wanted to watch this one since I first started getting into true crime. I’m always curious about what a director views as the correct interpretation of this crime. This was a particularly heinous crime from the fifties that took place in New Zealand. Here’s the wiki link if you’re particularly interested. 

Anyway. This was made by Peter Jackson, and it really shows. One of the things that always stuck with me about the case was the fact that these girls had invented an entire fantasy world for themselves, and this film did a fantastic job showing that. The creative direction of the film was almost something else entirely. 

Up next is probably I <3 Huckabees.

Watch movies you’ve always wanted to see but haven’t had the time for

So, yesterday I have seven hours between the end of work and the start of classes. Rather than do anything productive in between, I crocheted a scarf for a friend’s sibling and watched Silence of the Lambs.

Nothing fascinates me the way the psychology of serial killers, and I’ve had this movie on my To Watch list for a long time. I was definitely excited to see that it lived up to the hype. I was able to call two of the plot twists fairly early on, but really, for a movie that’s twenty-ish years old, I think I did well.

I’m thinking next week, I’ll go for Reservoir Dogs. 

1. Crochet something for myself and for someone else
2. Cross-stitch something for myself and for someone else
3. Travel to see Mitchell
4. Correspond more with the people I care about
5. Use technology to my benefit with regards to organization
6. Create and keep self-imposed deadlines
7. Find a boy who deserves that midnight kiss and give him a kiss
8. Graduate my program
9. Remain friends with those who deserve it from the program and cut off those who don’t
10. Continue to tell people I love them when I love them
11. Make at least one outrageous purchase this year
12. Ask for help when I need it
13. Handwrite a letter a month to someone who likes getting snail mail
14. Try to get back into French
15. Watch movies you’ve always wanted to see but haven’t had the time for
16. Have another Rocktober where there can be absolutely no fucks given
17. Read ten books, graphic novels not included
18. Try my hand at cooking, because I’ve already made baking my bitch
19. Have one new experience a month
20. Be as happy as I am right now