Woah

07.27.04

Writing an entry from work just to report that the attorneys bought me an IPod as a going away gift. All I can say is, "woah". They bought it a week early because Janet knew how much I was raving about wanting one and she was afraid I would "do something stupid", as Max put it, and go buy one for myself.

They seem to forget that they did me a favor this summer by letting me work here; otherwise I probably wouldn't have found another place to intern at, which means I wouldn't be graduating in a week and a half, which means I wouldn't be moving to Chicago and going to law school this fall.

It's one of the brand new ones, without the four buttons and with the nifty touch wheel. Wheee, I can't wait to play with it. :D

12:07 PM [link]

Weddings

07.26.04

A few weeks ago, I went out to dinner with a close friend and one of her friends, and an exchange took place that I've been thinking about ever since. I began to talk about Will's brother's wedding, and I was abrubtly cut off and informed by both that they don't want to hear about weddings, because everyone they know is getting married.

The more I thought about it, the sillier it seemed. We're in our early 20s. For the next ten years, literately everyone we know is going to get married. What's the sense in being annoyed and/or bitter about it?

If it's annoyance, I'm not sure on what grounds. When two people decide they're crazy enough about each other to get married, people should be happy, not annoyed. Lord knows I've only known Ron and Jen for about two months less than I've been dating Will, but I was elated for them at their wedding.

If it's bitterness, this might sound cold, but get over it. I've known a handful of people who have the "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" mentality, and I've never understood it. Other peoples' weddings are not about you (a general "you", in this situation referring to anyone who is not a part of the engaged couple). If someone wants you to be in their wedding, you should be honored they thought of you and want you to be there, rather than bitching and moaning about how you're still not married.

In other news: 7 workdays left, less than two weeks before Operation Move To Chicago. Wheee! I finished my term paper for the internship on Friday and turned it in while I was in BG, but now I'm panicking that I didn't include the Works Cited page with it when I had to reprint the second half due to toner problems. I know I read through it before turning it in, but I've convinced myself it all went horribly wrong. Blah.

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Back to the Future

07.18.04

Three words to describe Back to the Future:

Best Movie Ever.

It's suddenly become very necessary to buy all the 80s classics on DVD.

11:12 AM [link]

Jessica and Angels...still not diggin' it

07.16.04

So, I really disliked Britney's song Everytime until I saw the video for it, and now I listen to the song a few times in a row whenever I listen to the CD.

Let me just say that the same trick is not working with Jessica Simpson and Angels.

It doesn't even remotely sound like Robbie's version, and while I have to give her kudos for picking that song to cover since most Americans don't even know who Robbie is, she could have at least kept the original flavor intact. *grumbles*

04:01 PM [link]

Resident Evil

07.15.04

There's a new Resident Evil movie? Not to spoil the end of the first one, but it didn't exactly lend itself to any future storyline. Maybe it'll save the first one; I really liked it up until the uber-bleak ending. I've always wanted to get into the games, but I have such a hard time playing games with the universally-frowned-upon control scheme where pressing-left-only-makes-you-TURN-left-instead-of-WALKING-left. Plus having to conserve limited ammo and not getting to blow away every zombie and mutant creature you see? Bah.

08:56 AM [link]

Crazy liberals

07.14.04

Today on my way to work, I was stuck behind an SUV that was wall-papered with anti-Bush bumper stickers (come on, after you spend all that money on that big, shiny, black gas-guzzler, you should treat it better that that). One of them had a quote that apparently was supposed to be mocking Bush; it said "We ought to limit our freedoms" and was attributed to something the president said in 1999.

Obviously, this liberal quite mistakenly thinks we live in a completely free county. Yes, we ought to limit our freedoms, and we do. Go to the library and look at your state's books of laws and statutes. Look at the federal versions. Look at how thick they are, and at all the teeny tiny print inside. Ta da, limits on freedom.

A completely free nation would be a chaotic disaster. Government regulation is what gives us the freedoms we take for granted. The freedom for the consumer to not be cheated by businesses using false advertising and fraudulant merchandise. The freedom for a citizen to not walk down the street and be assaulted. Can you imagine what it would be like if we really were allowed to do whatever the hell we wanted? If in defense of himself a killer could just shrug and say, "It's a free county"?

So that liberal might think that bumper sticker is snarky and clever and "Ahahaha, look at dumb ole' Bush!" (honestly, bashing Bush is just WAY too trendy these days, to the point where it's tired and boring and completely unoriginal), but in reality, we ought to limit our freedoms, and we do. That's what makes living here safe.

10:37 AM [link]

Slow going

07.12.04

I received a nice surprise in the mail this weekend; apparently I am graduating from college with honors. It must be something different than graduating from the honors program, which I did not do since I didn't complete the senior honors' project (you wouldn't have either, it was a 25-page paper on top of the other term papers I had to do last semester). The letter says it's based on my grades, but didn't give any indication what grades were necessary to graduate with honors. Looks like that one C I had in my entire college career didn't harm me as much as I thought, no? (insert obligatory moaning: WHY WHY WHY DID I TAKE GEOLOGY INSTEAD OF BRUSHING UP ON A SCIENCE I HAD IN HIGH SCHOOL?)

This weekend in Chicago, we did the Ikea thing, and holy crap was that an experience. No wonder the owner of it just surpassed Bill Gates as World's Richest Man, driving up to that place felt like driving up to Disneyland, there were that many people there. I found a lot of nice stuff, but sort of panicked when I spent $900 and realized I still didn't have everything I needed (they were out of a few things I wanted). My uncle kept reminding me that furniture is an investment and that I'll have lots of this stuff for a long time.

My prediction was right: I did NOT want to come home. Stupid, stupid internship...

08:43 PM [link]

4th of July fun

07.07.04

If anyone has wondered about Melantha mentioning my last 4th of July, just know that this year's celebration was much more subdued, but a very nice one. Will had a four day weekend, so he drove in to spend it with me, and I finally got my long-wished wish of seeing fireworks with someone I love. As horribly sappy as that sounds, that's also about as sappy as my thoughts get.

Speaking of sappy things, I can't believe that the Walk To Remember guy wrote ANOTHER sappy book that was turned into ANOTHER sappy movie. This is the summer blockbuster season. We're supposed to have movies about THINGS BLOWING UP.

Then again, with all the idiot militants in the Middle East, all you have to do is turn on the evening news to see that.

Pretty much exactly one month left until I move. It can hurry UP already! I'm spending a three-day weekend in Chicago this weekend in order to furnish the apartment...having it all set up and ready to live in is going to make the wait even more excrutiating!!

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