Summer Class

I am taking a Shakespeare class for educators this summer. I asked Word Friend if she wanted to come with me and she jumped at the chance. Yesterday we had the discussion part and today through Thursday we get to do the play watching part. However, there is a wild fire between us and the shows (being a few hours drive away) and they might close the freeway. So, here's hoping for a normal boring drive. But I am very excited to see some Shakespeare!!

Happy Independance Day!!

Ah, the insanity. I volunteered to help out at the Freedom run, so yesterday I had to be there at five thirty. In the morning. Which meant I had to wake up an hour beforehand. Especially since I decided to ride my bicycle because I was going straight to the parade afterward and didn't want to try to park my car ten minutes before the parade started. So I was there at five thirty in the morning and helped with registration and then helped remove digital recorders for time. I took my bicycle over to the parade and met up with my friends and their kids to watch the parade. As I sit there and watch all the pageant queens go by, I wonder why they even do it. What is the benefit of doing pageants? If anyone knows a really good reason let me know, because I don't see the intrinsic value. Of course my favorite part of the parade is the cannon at the end. They fire it alot, which is cool, its not as annoying as the sirens. And I like all the old cars, those are really cool.
Then, I had to take my bicycle home because there was not room for it in the car. This would not have been so bad if it hadn't been almost all uphill and at eleven in the morning when it was starting to get really warm. I only rode three and a half miles and it killed me! I am so out of shape. So then I took a four hour nap. I had dinner with my landlord and kids and then went to a barbeque with some other friends and then went to someone's work balcony to watch the fireworks.
It was a pretty good day, but boy was I tired afterward! And I'm starting to wonder if insanity is just some sort of disease I have that I can't escape . . .

Oh, Swedish

After spending a week selling ballroom shoes, I can say that people have very strange tastes. Sometimes I wonder what is really attractive and why are our views of that so different?

I saw the Invisible today. It was a rather strange movie, until I was watching the credits and realized that it was based off a Swedish book and a Swedish movie. It made a lot more sense after that. I really liked it. I would recommend it, go see it. Just remember its not an American story.

You want me to do what?

So I am pretty sure I didn't get that job I interviewed for three weeks ago (hence it being three weeks ago and I still haven't heard from them)

I did rent Flyboys and watch it. The good news was that James Franco was not the only good looking male in that movie, and I watched it with four other girls, which made it very entertaining.

This week I am selling Ballroom shoes to middle age/old people (those are two separate categories), which is interesting. Older people complain about different things than young people.

That's pretty much all that is going on in my life. Besides the fact that I complained to my mother about guys not working hard enough to get girls to date them and that guys of today wait for things to fall in their laps. Whereupon my mother told me to get into guys laps. She thought that was pretty funny, I'm glad she wasn't serious.

Interesting habits.

So I've realized I have some interesting habits.

For one, I start reading my friends blogs, and then if I am bored (or my friends haven't written anything in two weeks) I start reading their friends blogs. And then their friends, and then their friends, and soon I have no idea where I am, but I have definately had an interesting time!!

I like visiting people one on one and pretty much I don't like meeting new people. Especially when it is nine stakes of people, and I get kind of digusted when they open with a prayer that we might marry some (or one) of the new people we meet tonight. How about just making friends and building lasting relationships? Because I will tell you right now that I only met one new person and he is eight years my junior. I pretty much wanted to leave that activity . . . as soon as I got there. And (we have these activities once a month) pretty much at these activities, I only associate with people I already know. Who wants to try to meet someone at an activity with nine hundred people? Thank you, I'd rather go home and read a good book.

I take baths as an excuse to read for several hours. The only problem with this is I have to put more water in several times as it tends to get cold.

I still hold my sisters hands in public.

I put Vaseline on my hands and feet before going to bed.

The good news is that even with all my eccentricities, I am still happy being who I am.

Summer Vacation!

Well, I am finally out of school, hallelujah! I actually got out a week and a half ago, but I have been getting some desperately needed R&R. Pretty much that means I have done absolutely nothing. I did that at my house for a while and then drove home to visit my mom, who laughed at me because I spent the first day pretty much sleeping on the couch and getting up to eat. But now I am back and feeling much more rested and ready to take on something very minor, which happens to be cleaning my room.

On another note, I watched a movie last night and decided that I think James Franco is . . . very cute. Now as I have relatives in the movie business, I have never been one to really go for actors. They have their own lives and it bears no relation to mine, though I do like to look at them and admire how fit they keep themselves. But as James Franco is actually close to my age, just a few years older (that doesn't normally happen, the actors tend to be old enough to be my dad and I tend to date men/boys younger than me) I have decided he can be my new movie boyfriend. Maybe I should go rent some of those movies he is in that I haven't seen . . .

Some good things . . .

I'm feeling definately better about life right now. Here are few of the reasons:

I got a call from a school I applied to for a job and I have an interview on Wednesday. The school is down the road from where I live, which is so much better than an hour commute everyday. And its in drama, not dance and its a one year contract which means I can go get my Masters the next year like I planned! That would be so great.

And Parker got the pictures we took a week ago up and I've told all my friends to check it out. I didn't tell my mom what was on the site, so she was annoyed, but mostly because she doesn't have internet and has to go to a friends house to look at it.

I got my Praxis score back and I passed. I was a little worried about that.

School gets out on Wednesday and only one of my classes I have until then. The other two have finished, so I have lots of time to clean my office.

My scheduling is totally working out. I thought I would have a bunch of activities that would overlap, but they are all working out on different days or different weeks, so I don't have to decide which one to do!!

I have a bunch of really good friends who are really supportive. Thanks to those who read this and those who don't!!

I am really excited about that job interview, I just don't know my chances of getting it!!