Movin' Up

Well, I'm officially all about blogging on wordpress now. This blog has officially moved here.

Everything Is Illuminated

Why do I do this? Because sometimes, I am afraid I will forget.

Thinking of Change....

I'm having such trouble deciding. I think I'm going to switch this blog over to wordpress as well. If I have one there, I might as well have both there, I guess. What does everyone think? Head on over to the new blog and let me know what you think.

Thanks!

Randomness

I finally figured out how to set up another blog with wordpress, so my Engage and Discern blog is now located here. I think it looks a lot cooler and I'm a lot happier with it now.

Panera called me today and set up an interview with me tomorrow at 4. That certainly was fast! So pray that my interview would go well tomorrow and I would get the job if that's God's will for my life right now.

Here's the new problem that I'm having. I keep trying to create an account with Twitter, but it's not letting me. It keeps insisting that my email address is invalid, which is insane. I've tried both my email addresses and my dad's. It won't accept any of them! I really don't understand this madness.

It's actually kinda cold today. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I've been sort of complaining about the heat and saying I want fall, but now that it's here, I'm not so sure. I just hate winter, and I know that follows fall....

So I always keep up with this blog, and they had a fantastic post today. It really amused me. What's even better is that it's a true story, and the recipient of the crazy note actually posted more of the back story in the comments. It's just a really great thread of comments to read through.

I was really stressed about the musical and the auditions, because we had a Shakespear monolouge due the same day as our auditions. That was going to be rough. I don't like memorizing anyways, so that was a double whammy of difficulty and stress. But today, our Shakespear monolouge got moved back a week, and I feel SO much better. It's all still really stressful, but more manageable. That pretty much made my day.

Sorry, this blog has been really random. I think it's time to watch a movie.

I'm Not Much on Rear Window Ethics

I just finished watching Rear Window, and I loved it. It is so good. It has so many great quotes... I just had to put some of them here.

Detective: [referring to what was buried in Thorwald's flower bed] It's over in his apartment. In a hat box. Wanna look?
Stella: Oh, no thanks - I don't want any part of her.



Lisa: I wish I were creative.
Jeff: You are. You're great at creating difficult situations.

Stella: Let's go down there and find out what's burried in that garden.
Lisa: Why not? I've always wanted to meet Mrs. Thorwald.

I really love Hitchcock. I have a biography laying on the floor about him that I borrowed from the library, but I certainly haven't had time to read it lately. I really should make time, though. Hitchcock really fascinates me. I love how he shows up discretly in each of his movies. I actually couldn't find it in this movie, though, so I had to Wikipedia it. Hitchcock appeared briefly winding up the clock in the neighboring apartment during the party. Pretty hard to notice, even if you are looking for it.

The following is a list of all the Hitchcock movies I've seen so far in the order of how well I liked them. The first three or four were difficult, because I loved them all. I have a couple more ordered from the library, and a bunch more I want to see. My goal is to eventually see everything he's done.

Oh, and by the way, I'm up to 11 movies watched so far this fall. :)


1)Rebbecca
2)Rear Window
3)North by North West
4)Vertigo
5)The 39 Steps
6)The Birds

And speaking of the library, I just have to vent for a second... I ordered Brazil several months ago, and there are still several hold on it before it's coming to me. Ugh! Actually, I've been 2 of 3 holds for the past month, so I'm thinking someone just kept it. Maybe I should cancel and reorder it... But on a happier note, the Moon Library just updated their website, and it looks a lot nicer. So I guess I can excuse them for the excessive wait for my movie....

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

I was thinking of switching from blogger to wordpress. In fact, I even created an account and imported all my (many) posts from my time here on blogger. I realized I had imported all the blogs, from this one and Engage and Discern, and I wanted to separate them. Which I couldn't figure out how to do. I wanted to have a different address for the E&D blog, but it wasn't letting me do that. So, I got aggravated and I'm back here, for the time being at least. And I changed my profile a little cause I was tired of the old look. I really like black all of a sudden. I think it's just classy and timeless. I enjoy it greatly.

I applied for a job at Panera Bread today. I realized today that Jamie is working at B&N, Drew is at Geneva, and Jonathan is on his way to California. Where does that leave me? In a kind of meaningless no where, that's where. So I decided to get a job. I'd actually been thinking about applying at Panera for a while, it wasn't a totally spontaneous decision. So hopefully I'll get the job. They're shorthanded and looking for more workers, so that's a pretty good sign. We'll see what happens.

I said I just wanted about 15 hours a week. I know that's not a whole lot, but I need time for school and senior project. And... eventually the musical.

I'm really not looking forward to the musical. Honestly, I just really don't want to do it but I feel like I have to. There obviously aren't a whole lot of people left at the school, so every cast member makes a difference. But I'm just already dreading the auditions, long hours, memorizing, etc, etc. Which I know isn't a good thing. I feel really bad about feeling this way, but I just do. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that yet.

Heroes last night was really exciting. I think it's getting a lot better and redeeming itself from some less-than-fantastic episodes. I think they have too much going on and aren't resolving enough, but I can live with it. Because everything else that is happening is good.It was pretty lonely watching it alone though. Next week, Heroes party again.



Peter is getting more amazing every episode.



Hiro is too cool.



The new plot with Maya is pretty awesome and creepy, too.


I handed out my first issue of E&D at school today. It seemed to be received pretty well. The only bad thing I head was from Mr. Wirebaugh..... he said that he liked the article about how to engage and discern within culture, but didn't see that expressed in the newsletter. So, I guess that's something I'll have to work on for the next issue.

That's all for now. I'm off to watch Rear Window with Mom. :)

Change Of Plans

Well, I came to the realization today that I was being way over zealous when I compiled that list of political stuff I wanted to blog about. It's still a good list, but I've realized that it's a good list of things I am interested in learning more about, not things I can blog about with validity. So that's that.

I'm really tired right now. I feel physically and emotionally tired. I feel sort of empty and purposeless, and I'm not totally sure why. Maybe I just need to get some sleep. I think I'm going to watch a good movie and sleep. All I know for sure is that I'm really glad we have a four day weekend. Because I really need it.