Has anybody else seen the new MGMT video for Kids? Holy crap. I don't think I've ever felt angry watching a music video, but there's a first time for everything I guess. I heard Joanna Newsom was in it, so (because of my pathetic crush on her) I was really excited to see it, but then I saw it and...ugh...

Anyway, skip ahead to the minute mark to watch a little kid getting traumatized while synthpop plays in the background :D



Not only did they release it after everyone forgot about the song, but the video's not even good. Also, there's already that one unofficial video that has a bazillion views, so I don't really get why MGMT decided they needed to terrify a poor toddler just so they can make some point about how child neglect is bad. What the hell.

So yesterday I went out for coffee, and when I came back more than an hour later I realized that I had left the keys in the ignition with the engine running (luckily I had left the door unlocked). Then, I spent about 30 seconds just sitting at the intersection at 14th and Lincoln, waiting for the light to turn green, only to realize that there wasn't actually a light to turn green. Apparently they took out the lights and replaced them with a four-way stop about a week ago and I just never noticed. 

I don't even know why I have a license sometimes.

Found out today that I passed my university's English comprehensive. Thank god. When I went in to take the test I was convinced I was going to fail, because I had forgotten to study until the day before, and then I stayed up the whole night skimming through Spark Notes. After graduation I told myself I wouldn't pull another all-nighter ever again, but I guess it paid off, since officially not being an undergrad anymore is the best birthday present ever.

Hokay so weird convo with my ob/gyn today (if only all my stories started like that). He says to me, "So recently I contacted these people, you may have heard of them...LGBT? Well, I emailed them saying that I would be willing to volunteer for them giving gynecological advice. They emailed me back saying, 'Please contact us again if there's any way we can help you.' I'm not sure what they meant by that, and I was wondering if you could shed some light on it for me." I couldn't, because I had no idea what he was talking about. I didn't even know who he was talking about. A specific group in town? The entire (apparently kind of rude) gay community? idek. I guess he was under the impression that lgbt was some sort of foundation...

Anyway, weird. Who knows, maybe the gays are way more organized than I thought and no one bothered to tell me :(

 So I finally went to see the newest Harry Potter movie and I dunno...I thought it was kind of boring. I was totally expecting to enjoy it, but during the whole climactic-searching-for-the-horcrux-snape-kills-dumbledore thing I was just kind of waiting for it to be over so I could go home. The fifth film was better, in my opinion, but from talking to other people I get the feeling I'm the only person who thinks so. Has anyone seen it? Thoughts?

Also, I really, really, really want to go see the Hurt Locker, but at the same time I'm afraid to because it looks so depressing...

It's been about a week since my new baby niece Helina came home, and oh my god. She is gorgeous. Usually for me, babies are, you know, just babies. Honestly, this isn't gushing auntie talking, but Helina is objectively beautiful (I'd post pictures to prove it, but I'm not sure that's allowed). Also, she is the most good-natured baby I have ever encountered. She smiles at just about everyone. We figure this maybe has something to do with the fact that she's spent most of her life so far in an orphanage. My father and brother-in-law, who were the ones who went to Ethiopia, have nothing but amazing things to say about Layla/Wanna house and the caretakers there, but I can see how having 5+ adults doting on you would be nicer than having to vie for the attention of adults who have to look after an entire house of babies. 

Helina's only flaw is that she's a creepy sleeper. She sleeps with her eyes open, no joke.

There was a car accident outside my folks' house just now. Not a big one...no one got hurt.

Anyway, so these kids are racing each other up the street, and one of them runs their SUV into two parked cars. Then they take off, but they leave behind their bumper, along with their license plate.

heh

Has anyone else watched the pilot for Glee? Also, is anyone else wondering why the second episode doesn't air until September? Seriously, what the hell? I liked the first episode (a lot, actually) but probably not enough to remember it when it comes on again. We could've had something, Glee. Why'd you have to go and mess it all up? :(

I think my computer is on its last legs. It works for, like, five minutes at a time before it just shuts down of its own accord. Anyway, *points* I added a new userpic to celebrate the occasion (or whatever the sad word for "celebrate" is. Commemorate? I dunno). Animated icons usually annoy the hell out of me, but this one reflected how I was feeling, so.

I can't stop watching it. It's mesmerizing.

On a much, much happier note, my sister's adoption passed court in Ethopia. It's been a real long road for my sister and her husband, but now we know for sure that their new daughter is finally coming home! Her name is Helina, she's absolutely adorable, and she'll be in the United States around mid-June :D

Today I was having lunch with my sister and my nephew was sitting with us having a cup of tea. Obviously two-year olds aren't the most refined of tea drinkers, and even though Dri and I were trying to get him to sit proper, Theo kept waving his cup around and sloshing tea down his front. So, Dri tried to take it away:

Theo: No! My tea!
Dri: Would you like a cookie instead?
Theo: No! TEA!

Weird kid.

Everybody gets that feeling sometimes that a completely normal, everyday word isn't a word at all, right? Like, you check the dictionary again and again, and eventually you just have to accept that you've spelled it right even though it feels so wrong? Today for me that word is eighth. There is something seriously wrong with four consonants in a row like that.

So I think somebody is torturing a cat just outside my bedroom window. Whenever I have the window open I can hear just about anything going on outside (especially at 2 am) and damn this cat has been yowling for like five minutes straight. Cats make weird noises when they're in heat, right? Please tell me I'm right about this because I'm sitting here thinking about all the horrible things that could be happening to it right now because god it won't shut up.

One of my crazy housemates is being crazy again. This one in particular...I swear he's never said anything to me that isn't an insult (except of course when he's asking me to buy like five bottles of wine for his underage ass). He thinks I'm lazy and entitled. I think he steals food from the homeless (and he does, no joke).

This week he started buying pie and brownies and stuff and leaving it out on the counter. He says it's his "social experiment." Who knows what he means by this, but he says he wants to see if any of us will eat it, since he won't (he only eats healthy food, like oranges he STEALS FROM THE HOMELESS). I'm not above eating his food, especially if he wants me to eat it. Apparently this means crazy housemate wins, or that he made his point, whatever it was, but it also means that he just bought me my breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Anyway, I'll be the last one to deny that I'm lazy and entitled. For instance, I've started watching Supernatural (like, three years after everyone else on lj) instead of working on my thesis, studying for the English comp, or generally being a responsible human being. There's, like, four seasons to catch up on so I'm super busy :/ Apparently for me senioritis looks like classic cars, sawed-off shotguns, and salt. Lots of salt.

Today at Safeway I asked for the mild General Tso's and they gave me spicy (also, instead of giving me a fortune cookie, they gave me like 50 packets of soy sauce). Ugh. I haven't really eaten anything today except coffee and a bowl of ice cream, so I was really looking forward to dinner, except now I can't taste it because of the burning.

Also, I have to write a five page paper tonight about the Bhagavad Gita, which lol I haven't read yet. Story of my life. The prof is kind of...meh... Sometimes I feel bad for him, since there are only five people in the class, all girls. A week or so ago he read "erotic" Hindu poetry to us and got visibly hot and bothered.

Prof: Manmatha, if you make Trivikrama who spanned the worlds ... cough ... caress me with his sacred ... um ... hands, my shapely ... cough ... breasts, my ... cough ... slender ... um ... waist will bring me fame on earth, glory eternal.
Class: ...
Prof: Shapely breasts. Doesn't that make you uncomfortable?
Class: You're making us a little uncomfortable.

Apparently he thought he was broadening our horizons by reading us poems about female sexuality. Whatever.

So excited!

ETA: And I just realized I'll probably be out of the country when this comes out orz

Stolen from logically

Ask me anything. I'll then respond and then ask a question of my own for you. Questions may be silly or serious and we'll continue until it becomes boring.

It happened again! I was walking home from school just now, and as I was crossing through the park this guy shouted at me, "Oh come on! It can't be that bad! Smile a little." The weird thing is, I'm pretty sure that about four months ago the exact same guy said the exact same thing to me in the exact same place. That, and I was actually smiling this time. He was across the street when he saw me, and if he hadn't been yelling I don't think I would have heard him. I'm not even sure he could see my face.

No no no no no! Obviously this 5 question internet quiz knows NOTHING about me. Let me tell you something: I tried to watch Annie Hall, because everyone told me I would love it, but then I stopped halfway through because I wanted all the characters to die. 

Damn.

Your Love Life is Like Annie Hall

"A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies." You believe that love (if you even believe in love!) is a very complicated thing. Maybe love is pain. Or maybe it's all a big therapy session. You're still figuring it out. Your love style: Brainy and a bit neurotic Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Realistic and reflective

Stolen from Ann, using Cornify.com ♥

Damn, I had to click cornify a billion times to get just three Hello Kitty unicorns. If I ever took over the world, it would be with a whole army of those. 



But anyway, a super old photo of me from my visit to Hobbiton. Because I am just that awesome.

Hey look! It's Alice from The L Word eating yogurt and pretending to be straight. Maybe. Sort of. Okay, not at all.

Anyway, you know you've been in college too long when you can find subtext in a yoplait commercial.

Actually, though, I remember seeing this ad a long time ago (like, before The L Word started), and thinking, "Really? Really? Is that who you really want a massage from?" So maybe it wasn't college after all...