oh yeah,

(somehow) i forgot to mention:

i graduated college. !!

i worked an eight hour shift today, which actually went pretty fast.

some things i noticed and/or thought about during said shift:
->it's really annoying when a group of people order drinks and then two or more people decide they'd like to pay for the whole order, and two or more people hold their forms of payment in front of me, leaving it up to me to decide who will pay. come on people, decide among yourselves.
->seeing old friends can be really awkward, but it can also be really nice. my old co-worker and friend (well not old friend...but friend i haven't seen in awhile) Seth came in to visit today. i took my half hour break and it was cool catching up


->i heard some borderline gossip about another of our friends who thinks he is ready to marry some girl he hardly knows who lives across the country. yikes. i've seen that before. i found myself saying, "i think one of the smartest things a guy can do relationally is to not make any promises- not mention marriage until he has the ring."
i think i'm pretty smart sometimes.**
->a guy came in and turned in an application, and he had a really firm handshake. my money's on him getting the job.
->my boss is the coolesttttt. i finally mentioned the europe trip to him, and i had planned on him telling me i'd have to reapply when i get back, but he said he'd switch me to "on call" or give me vacation hours...so i'd actually be getting paid while i'm gone! what,the,heck. awesome. maybe i'll stick around longer than i thought after all.
->my good pal melissa is going to tanzania for the whole summer and i am already dreading it.



..so that's it for now.
oh, and i'm really relieved that the whole marathon weekend of family/graduation/being-the-center-of-attention is overrrrr!


**if anyone doesn't understand that sentiment, i'd be happy to devote a whole post to it.

fortunate & unfortunate things of today

-unfortunate:
my favorite jeans ripped in the knee

+fortunate:
jordan and i bought our tickets! we are going to europe in august!!

-unfortunate:
i'm missing the union line show tonight. and FUEL.

+fortunate:
my sister and her/our friends are flying in tonight!

-unfortunate:
the inevitable female occurrence: i slipped while 'curling my eyelashes' and ripped out seriously like 16 eyelashes. which wasn't as painful or devastatingly obvious as you would think.

+fortunate:
i took my last final of my undergrad experience! i'm done!!

-unfortunate:
my hamster Friday escaped and fled to a holding spot underneath my couch for what seeemed like an eternity

+fortunate:
she finally came out, i grabbed the little rascal, and put her back in her cage. how's that for an adventure, my sickly little friend!

what i look for in a mate

stuff christians like

i stumbled across this blog kind of on accident a couple weeks ago, and proceeded to spend/waste a large chunk of time perusing it. (consider yourself warned)

Jon, a copywriter in Georgia, constructed the blog in January, and already has listed #223 posts about"stuff christians like"- all quite hilariously true.
it's either based off of, or coincidentally (remarkably) similar to the blog stuff white people like.

anyways, here are a few of my favorite posts from stuff christians like:
the one about frisbees, the one about swearing, the one about famous christians, the one about 'tattoos for God,' the one about metrosexuall worship leaders,....and i could just go on and on but i'll stop there.

anyways, the point is: check it out.

some things to look at

it comes and goes and yet stays

"...and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not neccessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

-thornton wilder

Juno thoughts

Since it took me so long to see this movie, i obviously heard a lot of talk about it before i ever actually sat down to watch it. here are the two basic opinions of the movie:
-it's overrated and glamorizes teen pregnancy, all the while trying too hard to be an indie/artsy movie.
-OMGit'sthebestthingever; it's so funny and you'll love it Blythe, because it's your brand of humor.

So I watched the thing- thanks Jordan, for netflixing that ish-
and honestly i felt like i couldn't even focus on the movie because of all the things i'd heard about it beforehand. My brain was too busy analyzing it to just watch it.
This is why i try not to talk about movies that i love before other people have seen them- and why i try not to get my expectations up when other people talk about movies i haven't seen- because if you go into seeing a movie with tons of expectations for it, it's a totally different experience than just watching it, and you're more likely to be let down. i'm glad i heard some bad things about the movie too, so then at least i knew it could go either way.
After watching it, i can definitely see why people would feel either way. i think i lean more toward the liking it side, since it's pretty dang funny, but then i just feel like i am the absolute last person to jump on an overcrowded band wagon.

so here are some hopefully somewhat original thoughts:
-the best friend (Leah) is freaking annoying. And in real life she and Juno would not be friends.
-the trendy/pop/slang language is overdone. Especially when Juno and Leah are talking on the phone (in the beginning when Juno tells Leah that she's "for sure up the spout"). And why does 'Bleeker' say "wizard" all the time?
-i was pretty bugged by the final scene- i really liked the voice-over while Juno was biking- "as far as boyfriends go, Bleeker is really boss"- but then when they sit in front of his house playing on their guitars and singing together, the lighting just perfectly orange and warm, the birds a chirpin' and the runners a runnin'- that was all just too much. That felt glamorized.
-The final thing I'd like to mention is something I'm hesitant to criticize, since it was arguably my favorite element of the movie. Juno's character. I thought she was a crack up- she was witty, outspoken, and somehow likeable despite her extreme bluntness. But i didn't believe it. Ellen Page, the actress who played Juno, is like 22, right? Well, I just had a really hard time believing that a 16 year old girl would talk and act and carry herself the way Juno did. ESPECIALLY around Mark, the creepy-but-oddly-still-likeable thirty-something who's to be her baby's daddy. But, like I said, I really liked her character, and think it would have been a pretty dull movie if she hadn't been the way she was.

every time i write a medium to long blog i wonder if anyone actually reads it...and then i feel kind of lame. so i'll just stop there.

guess what...

i'm finally going to watch Juno for the first time.

right now.
whilst i work on my final for my book-making class.

(that's all)

late-night psychoanalysis of my hamster

i've had my hamster since ...august i think. Her name is Friday and she is adorable. Like a mini-chipmunk.

so lately she hasn't been eating much- in fact she tips over her food dish whenever i re-fill it- and normally i would think she's sick or something, but she's been running on her little wheel like a maniac. also she's been drinking a lot of water, which is really unlike her.
she also spends much of her waking hours gnawing on the bars of her cage.
so i'm putting the pieces together- i really think that my hamster is trying to make an escape.
she's trying to get skinny enough to squeeze through those little bars!

this is seriously a class 4 shawshank redemption: hamster edition.

i feel bad for the little gal, because it probably really stinks to live in a cage and eat the same food and run miles and miles without getting anywhere (sidenote: our treadmill is right next to her cage....funny). but seriously what am i supposed to do? release her to the wild, where she will surely get eaten or starve? i'd give her one day out there, maybe.

anyways, pray for Friday. times are hard.

expressions i do not enjoy:

"brain fart"

"fruit of my labor"

"come to fruition"

"between a rock and a hard place"

"good times, good times"

for tita

with love

(finally)