I totally blame ms. pockahtee for starting me on what can only turn into a full-blown Dr. Who obession (New Who, however) after 2 episodes. I have the links to watch them online and plan to get started on that this weekend. Totally totally awesome. And I know I have at least a few people on my Flist who watch the show.

Today had hands-on interview at the synagogue. They absolutely adore me and sai that after watching me with the children, they could see me working with any age group, but thought I was especially good with the two-years old (who are freakkin' adorable). However, as expected, the pay would be absoultely god-AWFUL. However the people are amazingly sweet and wonderul, and the fact that they love me and the way I work with kids is nice. I haven't decided on whether I'll take a job if they offer it just because of money issues, but there's a lot to think about. Either way, it went well.

I then went and babysat for a good 6 hours next door, where the dog ran away TWICE, the kid sprayed me from head to toe with a sprinkler while I was in my only set of clothes, and both kids were crabby and vying for every ounce of my attention. I love them to death, but I was exhausted and am now smiply crashing on my couch. I will probably watch the Style Network or something. Hurrah.

4th of July plans still foggy, but most likely involve fireworks on the riverfront.

After a conversation with 

world_falls, movies coming out in 2008 that I am excited for already:

Jurassic Park IV - Sam Neil returns! I hope they can get him AND Jeff Goldblum together for this wonderful thing! XD
Mummy 3- I love how they pretend that the Scorpion King never really existed. Yay for Brendan Fraser, and hurray for when not being able to get Rachel Weiz to come bak, just dropping in a new female actor as the exact same character with most likely no explanation. I love bad movies. I only worry about John Hannah not coming back.
Inkheart - Another Brenden Fraser movie, except with Helen Mirren, Jim Broadbent, Andy Serkis, and of course, Paul Bettany. This should be awesome. I hope. Or I might have to kick some ass.

Speaking of John Hannah, did anyone know that he was originally looked at to play Charlie on LOST? Haha, that's awesome. IF imdb.com has their info right. 

I think I want to rent me some Stargate SG-1 and watch it in a way that's NOT on a crappy website. I caught it on tv this morning and it reminded me how funny it was.  At least I know mad_maudlin will always watch it for me before she runs away to the Peace Corps!

Tonight is Oceans 13.  I have very little to say otherwise. I think I'm going to put on an old record on my parents' record player and play a card game with the mother.

 

Today was a really good day, up until the end. I got up early and set up my stuff at the study abroad fair. It was pretty quiet as far as fairs go, since I don't think they did very good advertising and a lot of people also had classes, but I did get to talk to quite a lot of people who seemed really interested in Salzburg and said it helped to be talking to a former student who had gone and not just a representative. So I gave away a bunch of brochures and material and talked to a lot of people about the experience and everything, and it just felt really nice. I found out that I didn't have my senior seminar afterall, so I could go for the full last session of the fair too. Theater class was fine. Between the end of the study abraod forum and my last class of the day, I treated myself to a smoothie and sat outside on the quad and listened to music, which was gorgeous (I am such a quad-study whore). We got assigned to our final project groups (ick), and we got a bunch of our stuff back in Russian history, of which I seem to have a solid B going. Which is fine.

I actually ended up missing almost ALL of my Peoples of the Russian Empire class, even though we got to have class outside in the beautiful open air on the steps of Kirk Memorial. I was attacked by horrendeous stomach pains, naseua, and stomachy... problems that lasted for nearly the last half-hour/45-minutes of class. I'm not sure if I've contracted a minor flu bug or food poisoning, but either seems possible I suppose. I have a slight fever of a 99.2, and even though I slept for a good two hours and skipped dinner, I still feel pretty iffy. Which sucks since I was going to do my Roman History rough draft due tomorrow, and I hope I can buck up enough to get it done, since I can not wash out on this assignment anymore than I already have. Blah, I suck. I think I'm going to drink some water, or go downstairs and get some gatorade, something to cleanse my system out.

Thanks to Caden, I have now seen SYLAR from HEROES... making out with another guy. I keep wanting to yell at this video "Don't kiss him! He'll cut your brain out!" So for any Heroes fans, here's evil Sylar being totally gay on that strange Tori Spelling show.

I grew up on this show. I have the fondest memories of it. Especially of wanting to ride on a fox. I present to you, thanks to

world_falls, the very first episode of David the Gnome. Oh, and on youtube, there are at least a few more episodes XD. Enjoy reliving the magic of David the Gnome:

So thanks to nobleplatypus, I have to say that one of my new favorite comopsers I'm discovering has to be Ralph Vaughan Williams. I've listened to the stuff she sent me by him like a hundred times today, and am in love. XD  And that was before I realized that I recognized one of his fantasia peices that I loved so much from "Master and Commander."  Ack, I listened to his Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis like 5 times today, not to mention The Lark AScending. So props to Platy for getting me into a new composer, which is hard to do. XD Then again, Platy is also responsible for finding me my Rachmaninoff song...

Also on the note of classical music, thanks to nchantedviolinI now have my very own copy of Dvorak's New World Symphony! on my itunes!!!! Ack. XD So much wonderful! The site also has some nice other stuff I am taking to listen to, so if anyone is interested, you can find it HERE. I am kind of excited about getting back into classical music again. I even noticed the site has an Avro Part song. I've been looking for one that my professor in Austria said he loved to like... meditate and relax to, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is since it was a part of a bigger peace (something about light? Wind?), and he wrote a *lot* of stuff. Ah well, I will figure it out.

This "sinus infection" is really more of a cold, I'm finding out. icky. Now if only I could finish this homework assignement... we're supposed to write two pages about our profile as a writer, and I'm having trouble saying anything GOOD about myself that doesn't ahve to do with creative writing. I am a MESS at writing scholarly works in almost eveyr way, shape, and form (how I get Bs is beyond me), so I have to think of SOMETHING good.  Stupid homework.

ETA: Did I forget to mention that I actually started watching HEROES on the internet? Yeah... everyone was right, I'm totally addicted already. I KNEW it was good, I did trust everyone's opinions, but somehow didnt' think from the parts I'd caught on tv that it would grab my attention. Big mistake. I am SO ready to watch it all. Problem is that my wireless is HORIBBLE and I have been trying to download episode three ALL DAY, and it keeps getting interrupted and broken. Blaaaah. But yes, yay heroes.

Am having a pretty sucky day for my day off. Had to get up early to feed the damn dog, and spent 15 minutes trying to get teh door open because the lock was stuck or something. By the time I had fed the dog and let it out and back in, I couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided to pick up my books on hold at the library and grab myself some lunch at the Bread Company. When I pulled into the parking lot, it was full, but the Bread Co. lot is the worst lot ever because it's so small and if you go all the way in to the full lot, there's really not place to turn around. So I tried and ended up scraping the back of the car on this freakkin' wall. So now the new car is scratched on the back, and my Mom will probably kill me dead. I dont' really know how bad the scratch is because I don't really know about car scratches, but all day I've felt absolutely so terrible I can't bring myself to even go out again today. At least I didn't scratch another car. Or at least I don't think I did, but really that's just me freaking out considering I simply bumped up against the wall, not really hit it. Blarg. I suck ass.

I did, on the other hand, pick up Lolita and The Other Boleyn Girl to read, so I can go back to losing myself in my books. Damn my sister leaving the tv on Next Top Supermodel. I don't even LIKE the damn show. Or the concept. And even less on Tyra Banks. And yet here I am, watching it for about 2 hours now. STupid television.