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Last week started off terrifying, and it finally worked its way out to be quite good.

I've secured my spot at UT Austin. I saw At World's End. Blonde Bond called me twice--I might've been wrong about ruining everything (might being key, but let's just see how that goes). I might have a new guy friend at work. I've started to clean my room for the first time in forever (I had to sleep on the floor Thursday night because I had stuff on my bed). I still have money left over from my last check. My brother's graduated. I found my flash drive that I thought I'd lost while in NC.

Now I have to do the following:

Get scholarships and grants to help me pay for UT. Clean out car.

Random notes: you know those fan fiction communities where you pick a set of prompts and write one sentence about a character/ship and that's supposed to be an entire story? I got bored a while ago, and started to do that with some of my original fiction. It was hard, man. All I kept coming back to was that some of my sentences would've been great first lines. Like:

"The only rule that Darcy and Meg had for 'Would You Rather' was that no question was too offensive or disgusting."

"Meg always knew what she wanted—a smart boy with a good sense of humor, UNC, a dog—but she so rarely got it that she stopped looking, and that was when she met Nat."

A few notes about At World's End:

Guess who I ran into in the parking lot? Tyler Gage (formerly referred to as Number 5, renamed because he slightly resembles Channing Tatum in Step Up) and his girlfriend. Zut alors.

I got my picture taken with a Captain Jack lookalike, who tried to charge me $5 for it. Hee.

I'll probably have more to actually discuss about the movie whenever I see it again.

My band bio, via Bumbershoot (thanks [livejournal.com profile] chrryblssmninja:

A history of pop icons: Ordinary Princess

Emerging from the back yards of Austin, TX, Ordinary Princess broke into the pop scene in 2007 with their debut album, It Ain't a Corndog. The band's latest album, Sullied and Unusual, merges Funky Cold Candita's bouncy vocals with clean synths to generate an album teeming with uber-memorable tunes. With standout tracks like "Marcus Flutie," dominating radio airwaves far and wide, Ordinary Princess is an essential addition to any music lover's library.

This entry has been about three days in the making.
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UMMMM OKAY, SO I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT LOST'S FINALE OF AWESOME AND I WILL EVENTUALLY BUT JUST GOT BACK FROM PIRATES AND AM SCREECHING ABOUT HOW AWESOME IT IS.

I DECLARE THIS AN OPEN POST FOR ALL WHO HAVE SEEN THE MOVIE! SPOILERS ABOUND IN THESE COMMENTS!
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Yesterday both of our flights were super-delayed. We were supposed to have been back by 7 PM, but instead we finally landed at DFW around 11:15. It was crazy. The guy in the seat next to me from Atlanta here was kind of creepy. He was talking about how he collects inflight magazines and he was squirming the entire flight--if he wasn't asleep with his head practically between his legs the entire time.

And then last night, I dreamed that I was hanging around a movie set or something and Josh Holloway was giving me advice about my situation with Blonde Bond. For some reason, I find this quite hilarious.

LESS THAN ONE WEEK 'TIL AT WORLD'S END. I have been excited about this since last summer, seriously. I am going to the midnight show. I'm just going ahead and telling everyone now (so I can probably be wrong about it later). Until then: get your sexy on!

Go and waste time playing Pac-Man. And NextLust is now one of my new favorite blogs.

I've spent all afternoon watching the Heroes marathon. Whoohoo! Now for me to watch the last two episodes of Supernatural of the season and find a way to catch up on Lost. Oh, my shows. I've neglected you so.
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I am, semi-officially, twenty-one.

Random stories:

--At work, there are at least two Joshes, and over the intercom, to differentiate between the two, they'll call one Josh (usually this is the guy in recieving) and the other Josh Last-Name-Here. And the other day I was in the restroom getting ready to wash my hands and leave when I hear something over the intercom that sounded vaugely like "Josh Holloway to the gun bar." I naturally double-taked. Because I'm lame.

--I was helping a lady with a pair of infant shoes. She needed a size five, and I finally found her the right color, and after debating with her sister, she decided it might be best to get the little boy a size six. So I get the size six down and show it to her--but the box these shoes were in didn't have paper in them. The lady looks at me and says, "I don't know if I want those shoes." It took me a moment and then I realized that she was insinuating that I was selling her some previously worn shoes or something, since they had no paper on them. I kind of blinked and told her that there was nothing wrong with the shoes--more often than not, the paper had been ripped to shreds and someone took it out, or they'd been returned sans paper.

The best part was when her sister opened up another shoe box, took out the paper, and put them in the box I still had open. I kind of almost laughed then.

--On Thursday night, I bought Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. And about a half hour/hour ago my mom asked me when my brother and I would get movies that "regular people watch". I knew my mom wouldn't exactly be on board with the pirates, so I told her that the movie would make more sense if she'd seen the first one. Then she explains that she "never liked pirates--they always seemed mean and ugly" and that she never would've thought that I'd "like movies like that". My mom = not getting the appeal of Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom or scruffy!Norrington, which is for the best, I suppose. It'd be kinda awkward for me to watch a movie with her that way. And besides: my favorite movies (besides scads of teen movies and romantic comedies and period dramas and animated things) are heavily composed of action/sci-fi movies with Things That Blow Up and Everyone Dying.

--This leads to another movie story with Mom: last year, my dad was out of town and Ocean's Eleven came on. Ironically, when we rented the movie when it first came out on DVD, my mom practically fast-forwarded through the part where Brad Pitt's in the bar with the gyrating dancers in the boxes (and I was fifteen when this happened, and I was all but wanting to be all, "Mom, I know what a stripper is, and those are not strippers", but I lack a smartass bone in regards to my parents), but she was actually watching the movie on TV. So anyway, Danny Ocean is explaining something about the heist and out of nowhere my mom goes, "Mmm, George Clooney! He is fine." I just kind of looked at her, shrugged, and nodded.

Birthday = going to be kind of icky. We'll be open late and I have to go in and close. Which means no hardcore partying and drinking for me. WOE. Or not. I feel so... weird about this birthday, because like I said before, I haven't celebrated a Major Birthday in years. Right now, I'm worrying if I need to go to the DMV and get a new license. I'm such a little old lady sometimes, I swear.

PS: KELLIE AND LEXA (IF YOU ARE READING), I AM WORKING ON THAT PROJECT FOR SERIOUS. THIS WEEK = THE SUCK. EVERYTHING WILL BE READY FOR STARTING SOON (official date = the 17th?! Is that good?!)
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The top twenty "Most Popular" songs, according to my Zen:

01. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy, Queen
02. Goodbye Seventies, Yaz
03. La Valse A Margeaux, Richard Galliano
04. A Song For You, Donny Hathaway
05. Caramel, Suzanne Vega
06. Time is Running Out, Muse
07. Friend Like Me, Aladdin
08. West End Girls, Pet Shop Boys
09. The Lumberjack Song, Monty Python
10. Fade Into You, Mazzy Star
11. As Long As You Love Me, Backstreet Boys
12. Butterflies, Floetry
13. Feeling Good, Muse
14. Lay Lady Lay, Magnet
15. A Sort of Fairy Tale, Tori Amos
16. Accidents Will Happen, Elvis Costello
17. Crush, Dave Matthews Band
18. Nobody Does it Better, 8mm
19. Use Me, Bill Withers
20. Cry Me a River, Justin Timberlake

It's getting closer to new TV season time, which means minor spoilers might be leaking. And I've caught wind of some possible casting news for Lost that is making me geek out like I haven't geeked out in a while. Is it October yet?! Cut for casting spoilers plus regular spoilers. )

I'm in a good mood--I'm even looking up Prison Break spoilers. I'm debating on whether or not to look at Pirates of the Carribean: At World's End spoilers, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Speaking of Pirates: it's nice to know I'm not the only one who's wondering (or convinced) that it is going to be the '00s equivalent to Star Wars.

I just realized recently why I prefer LJ and GJ over other blog hosts: the LJ-cut. It's such a handy, neat tool.
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I have clearly lost my mind with this whole "Desmond = Norrington, a few centuries later" thing.

You wanna know why? )

I am going to go and hide under a rock now, kthnx.
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I had an odd POTC-related dream last night. I was walking up this steep hill (this hill has recently appeared in a few of my dreams) and I was going to get married to Orlando Bloom, and I'm wearing ice skates. Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley were going to be in the wedding too, I guess, and Keira was my maid of honor (I suppose), and she was happily chatting with me. We get to wherever we're going to go and have a run-through of the ceremony or whatever, and Keira started talking about getting me skates with thinner blades and stuff because the wedding was going to be on an ice-skating rink. And then Johnny was all, "Well, what about the minister? Will you be able to understand him?", because I guess we had some priest with a weird accent officiating the ceremony and I was like, "Dude, I've had to listen to some crazy Southern accents before, and I can deal with this guy." And Orlando was like, "That's my girl!", and... yeah. Bizarre.

And I forgot to mention that I had another dream a few weeks ago, except I was in the movie and I was Elizabeth (or like Elizabeth) and there was some part where Jack was meeting with the Governor and I was definately on a ship at some part, and I had a very cool hat and a sword. Weird.

I so want to see Dead Man's Chest again, mostly because I missed out on a lot of things the first time around, and because I can. And dude, I want Norrington icons like whoa.
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HOMIGOD DEAD MAN'S CHEST HAS ROCKED MY PROVERBIAL SOCKS.

EEEEEEE! )

WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE OUT?! WHENNNN?! I want it now!
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My head might crack because I still have to wait until Tuesday to see Dead Man's Chest. WOE AND ALAS.

Somebody please get "Dancing Queen" out of my head.

In the meantime: DUDE! Facebook has global groups now! Facebook is like, slowly almost becoming LJ-like! This frightens (and excites) me! I just joined a Snakes on a Plane group! I am cackling madly and overusing exclamation points! LOOK!

And presenting the Longest Meme Ever--but hey, it makes it easy so that you just check off stuff, so hurrah to that. )
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I've given the occasional thought of buying a rename token for this journal, although I do quite like it. It's more of a passing thought; rarely serious, mostly because A.) I like that I have a matching GMail accout name, and B.) I've used this name a lot in other places and I've tended to go along with it in other places.

I've also frequently used the names in this poll elsewhere, so that's why they are included. [g]

[Poll #757967]

I am watching this show on the Sci-Fi Channel and they had a feature on stigmata--AUUUUGH NO MAKE IT STOP. That terrifies me. But then, I've had a slightly macabre (I don't know if I should say macabre for this situation, but it beats saying "hella disturbing") morning of TV watching, as I caught Infamous Murders on the History Channel and City Confidential. If I end up watching Unsolved Mysteries, I'll round it all out.

I should probably do a poll on creepy TV shows next, if I decide to do so.

I really really want it to be next Friday, so that I can go and see Dead Man's Chest. I'm debating on whether or not I want to try to get tickets to the midnight show--I've never gone to a midnight showing of any movie, and someone I work with is going (dressed in pirate gear, no less) to the midnight show. I wonder if Tiffany will be able to do that...

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