musicbox

I saw one of these survey things on somewhere so I decided to do one on The Beatles’ song titles. Most of the song titles came out to be surprisingly appropriate and fitting.

I also tacked in pictures from the movie-musical Across The Universe. The pictures are stills from the scenes  of the particular songs that I list. Some people don’t like the movie but I do. I don’t think anyone can match what The Beatles did but the movie wasn’t trying to do that. It took a handful of their songs and captured what I would imagine to be the late 60’s we-all-want-a-revolution vibe pretty well. I wasn’t alive to live it, but I think a lot of us growing up now romanticize that time. And this film is an epitome of that romanticism.

Male or female?

Another Girl.

Describe yourself:

I Am The Walrus

How do you feel:

Help!

Describe where you currently live.

Blue Jay Way

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:

Across The Universe.

Your favorite form of transportation:

Yellow Submarine

Your best friend is:

Dear Prudence (the actual name of my ipod).

Your favorite color is:

For You Blue.

What’s the weather like:

Here Comes The Sun

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:

With A Little Help From My Friends

What is life to you:

Come Together

Your fear:

If I Fell

What is the best advice you have to give:

Let It Be

If you could change your name, you would change it to:

Dizzy Miss Lizzy

Thought for the Day:

It Won’t Be Long

How I would like to die:

I Want To Hold Your Hand

My soul’s present condition:

All My Loving

My Motto:

All You Need Is Love

Ugh, I don’t feel right at the moment. You know that unsettling and shaky energy you get sometimes when some things are quite not right?

I haven’t sent the e-mail to Brandeis yet. I’m realllllllyyy nervous. My fingertips are really cold. What if something happens and I get rescinded from both colleges? I don’t know the protocol for this. I can’t exactly ask anyone for advice. People don’t do this. I haven’t edited the e-mail yet and I’m too scared to click send.

Oh and about prom, Sarah DDubs and I have talked it over we decided that I’m not going to do anything. It would be really bitchy to go back and say no and Sleepy’s actually a cool person.

DBart and I were talking to Ms. Ingram about my situation after physio today. (You know, the lady that handles all the transcripts in the counselor’s office?) It was really cute because Ms. Ingram got really excited about prom dates and started flipping through the entire 2010 online database of guys, going through each and every one of their pictures. She concluded that there is definitely a shortage of datable boys in our grade. Haha, she would click on certain guys and go “EWWW!” and I’d be like “Oh my gosh, Ms. Ingram! Are you allowed to say that???” But yeah, it’s really NOT that our grade’s girls have too high of expectations. Our grade really does lack in that general area. We went through an entire database with an unbiased source to prove it. To quote the wise words of Tahseen:

All of the senior girls are waiting for their dream guys to show up and take them all to prom but what’s gonna happen is they’re just gonna end up going with the guys in our grade.

Word. Oh, I was just talking generally. I don’t mean Sleepy. The point of the story was that soooo many gorgeous girls in our grade are dateless. I’m lucky I even got a date. Right?

Ahhhhhhh I feel like I was SUCH a bitch today for making a big deal out of it.

I’m still a little on edge right now. I gotta go edit my e-mail. Cross your fingers for me!

“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s web and enchantingly beautiful..”
-Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

I used to read all the time. Mom was always working so she couldn’t chaperon us to play dates. We couldn’t play outside because our neighborhood was too dangerous. My brother and I had to stay in and think of creative ways to have fun in the house. I think that might be why we both turned out to be such homebodies. When my brother and I weren’t pretending the mattresses were horses or “cooking” food we couldn’t afford with our playdoh, he would go off and play one of his three Pokemon packs on his Game Boy Color (the gold version was his favorite). I would look over his shoulder and watch, thinking it was the most exciting thing in the world. I myself could never pass Goldenrod City, but my brother always managed to breeze past everything. But when I wasn’t being my brother’s biggest fan, I was reading. Always always reading.

There was just something about curling up with a blanket somewhere and just getting utterly lost in a book. I never needed to go outside. I read very slowly, breathing in each and every word, letting every minuscule nuance flow through my fingertips. Trying my best to absorb the words from the pages and make them a part of me somehow. Yeah, it sounds a little dramatic. But as embarrassing as it is, that was actually how I read!

I haven’t read in a while. As work kept piling on in Hunter, I kept putting off books for “when I had time.” Now I’m not sure I can read like I used to. I’m too used to skimming through dense 50 page scholarly articles to find key points. Too used to reading assigned literature and thinking the whole time, “Would this be a good quote to use in my FLE?” in order to please my English teachers. Too used to reading classics and thinking the whole time, “Okay. How could I possibly spin this character as gay and/or self-loathing?” in order to please Mr. Fulco. Again…

“It [the book] was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider’s web and enchantingly beautiful..”
-Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)

I want to read like that again.

Here’s my reading list for now. I’ve wanted to read these forevvver but I never got around to it.

1. White Teeth by Zadie Smith
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wall
3. Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
4. How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
5. The Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
7. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabot
8. What is the What by Dave Eggers
9. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

Today I came home to find my friend’s facebook relationship status changed to “married.” Let’s call him Thi Land. Intrigued, I clicked on the view comments button…

Chick Liz doesn’t know i knew it would happen soon!

Thi Land can you see who i’m married to??

Chick Liz doesn’t know no…did you get divorced already?

Thi Land no, i’m married to parsons for 4 years, then i’ll leave with alimony money :D