just applied for my student loan FINALLY, after waiting almost three months. ridiculous. two weeks ago - actually, now that i think about it, this was like almost a month ago - after karaoke night, noah tried to finish my loan application online in renata's room, when we were all drunk. needless to say, it didn't work. but i finished it today by ( Read more... )

many many thoughts tonight ( Read more... )

i love barack obama. here's the thing. i bought the newsweek with him on the cover and as usual, he just stirs me up. i know he's not perfect, no one is, but what i like about him is the fact that he really seems like he BELIEVES in shit. john kerry didn't really do that for me. i mean, i know he believed in stuff too, but his seemed so ( Read more... )

is it wrong that i'm already looking forward to drunk-dialing people on new years eve? i'm so very excited to be spending new years with friends... i'm clearly thismuchcloser to going to a ridiculous new years eve party a la when harry met sally (no, NOT because of the love crap, but because of the puffed-sleeve 80s wear and the bad music and ( Read more... )

watched this movie "control room" tonight. it's a documentary about media coverage of the iraq war, focusing on al jazeera. really interesting. still absorbing it. what was really fascinating was the real cultural divide that seemed to come up - this one dude was saying how the arab world "sticks together," basically - how no arab wants to see ( Read more... )

just watched this movie "the safety of objects." it was okay - it was one of those ensemble cast movies where half the plotlines were good and the other half were lame, and there was too much voiceover and flashback, and glenn close was in it and she freaks me out because i can't see her in anything without thinking of fatal attraction... but what ( Read more... )

my family is ridiculous. two examples ( Read more... )

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another great compliment/thing to say to someone:

"i just want to make sure that in a million years i could still look at you up close, and still have amazing things to talk about."

from "all the real girls"

did i mention that i think going to see movies alone, while not as bad as you might think, definitely upped my emotional response to everything? i cried at the thanks & giving st jude's children's research hospital commercial AND at the preview for that new adam sandler movie, spanglish. WTF mate...