Date: April 29th, 2011
Time: 10:32 pm
Currently listening to: "Pour Me Out"- He Is We
So I've spent my whole entire Friday in bed watching Friends only leaving to go to the bathroom and go to my school's market to buy soup, Gatorade, and fruit juices. You see, I have felt like death warmed up for the past couple of days and I felt like it was appropriate to take the day off.
As I watched my roommate clunk her way out of the room to go to class. I went onto Hulu to watch the highlights of the Royal Wedding (I just wanted to see what her wedding dress looked like, honest to goodness. Which, by the way, she looked absolutely stunning. No argument). As the newlyweds climbed into that elaborate and British flags waved in every direction and bells chimed. A realization came to mind.
I will never be famous.
Now, I'm not feeling sorry for myself at all. It's just I don't see it happening. I had visions I would be shaking hands with Oprah talking about my book on the Bestseller but I don't think it's actually going to happen. I'm being realistic. I mean, I like my life now. I have an amazing boyfriend, friends who I wouldn't trade for anything in the world.
What I'm trying to say is,
I like my life, it's going good.
Congrats Will and Kate.
"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
I am so not ready for this....
, Date: April 27th, 2011
Time: 11:26 pm
Currently listening to: ... You'll see.
Please direct your attention to this video before I continue on with this post. Don't worry it's not Miley getting high on Salvia or Charlie Sheen saying giving birth is "winning". No folks, it is SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART TWO TRAILER! As much as I am excited for this movie, I can't help feel a little bit sad. I think I mentioned this in a earlier post but I grew up with Harry Potter. I remember our second grade teacher reading the first book out loud to us in class while we sat down with our peanut butter sandwiches and pizza pockets. Then, just a couple years later, I remember standing in line with my family outside a rickety old theater in my handy dandy purple Harry Potter shirt with Hedwig stitched above a little breast pocket. He doesn't like to admit it now, but I remember my brother being absolutely OBSESSED and I mean OBSESSED with Potter and his gang (He hated the color green because it was Slytherin's colors and he named his stuffed dog Fluffy after the three headed dog that appears in the first book).
JK Rowling has created a masterpiece. She created a whole new world that children and adults can dive right into and discover the magic. People in my writing class hate Rowling and Harry Potter because how big the books are (I think it's on the lines of: the bigger the book the bigger the paycheck? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what they said). But look at it: 7 internationally bestselling books that have been compared to JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and CS Lewis's Narnia, 7 (almost 8) successful movies, tons of memorabilia (wands, chocolate frogs, Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans, robes, time turners, need I say more?), and A WHOLE FREAKING THEME PARK!
All of this came from A BOOK! An idea that someone manifested into a BOOK! I can't imagine writing something like that. I would be so humble and so grateful. Humble in the fact that people actually liked my work and grateful that people would want to take it and make it great and turn it into what is like today. It just blows my mind. If I was JK Rowling every day I would wake up, look myself in the mirror and say
"Yes, that's right. You changed the world. You. Are. Awesome."
" It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."- JK Rowling
Time: 11:26 pm
Currently listening to: ... You'll see.
Please direct your attention to this video before I continue on with this post. Don't worry it's not Miley getting high on Salvia or Charlie Sheen saying giving birth is "winning". No folks, it is SO MUCH BETTER THAN THAT.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART TWO TRAILER! As much as I am excited for this movie, I can't help feel a little bit sad. I think I mentioned this in a earlier post but I grew up with Harry Potter. I remember our second grade teacher reading the first book out loud to us in class while we sat down with our peanut butter sandwiches and pizza pockets. Then, just a couple years later, I remember standing in line with my family outside a rickety old theater in my handy dandy purple Harry Potter shirt with Hedwig stitched above a little breast pocket. He doesn't like to admit it now, but I remember my brother being absolutely OBSESSED and I mean OBSESSED with Potter and his gang (He hated the color green because it was Slytherin's colors and he named his stuffed dog Fluffy after the three headed dog that appears in the first book).
JK Rowling has created a masterpiece. She created a whole new world that children and adults can dive right into and discover the magic. People in my writing class hate Rowling and Harry Potter because how big the books are (I think it's on the lines of: the bigger the book the bigger the paycheck? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what they said). But look at it: 7 internationally bestselling books that have been compared to JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and CS Lewis's Narnia, 7 (almost 8) successful movies, tons of memorabilia (wands, chocolate frogs, Bertie Bots Every Flavor Beans, robes, time turners, need I say more?), and A WHOLE FREAKING THEME PARK!
All of this came from A BOOK! An idea that someone manifested into a BOOK! I can't imagine writing something like that. I would be so humble and so grateful. Humble in the fact that people actually liked my work and grateful that people would want to take it and make it great and turn it into what is like today. It just blows my mind. If I was JK Rowling every day I would wake up, look myself in the mirror and say
"Yes, that's right. You changed the world. You. Are. Awesome."
" It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."- JK Rowling
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Your Songs Remind Me
Date: April 24th, 2011
Time: 10:58 pm
Currently listening to: "Swimming"- Florence + The Machine
So first thing is first, Happy Easter. Hope you guys ate lots of Peeps and bit the heads off of innocent chocolate bunnies.
My weekend was okay, I guess. We had Friday off so I went home, even though I was only away for a week and a half it felt like I've been away from home for months. College is weird like that.
I saw two movies in the theater in two days! I saw "African Cats" with the boyfriend and then "Water for Elephants" with my mom and my brother.
Here is my opinion:
African Cats> Water for Elephants
I mean Water for Elephants wasn't THAT bad. I mean if you didn't read the book you would enjoy the movie. But since Water for Elephants is one of my favorite books (see blog entry: "Step One") I couldn't help but scrutinize and judge every mistake they made. But then again, the books are usually better than the movie. I do, however, appreciate the fact that someone realized the amazing-ness of the book and decided to make the effort to put it on the big silver screen.
African Cats was surprisingly REALLY good. It's a nature flick, following a lion pride and a mother cheetah with her cubs. I learned a lot more about lions and how cool they really are. And I also learned that cheetahs do not roar. They make more of a squeaky sound. Cool, right? YAY FOR LEARNING!
My Easter was alright. I got Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 on DVD from my loving mother. And then my boyfriend decided, ever so chivalrously, to give me his sore throat which I should have saw coming. Since he kept coughing right in my face and didn't bother to cover his mouth. But I was so blinding by love I thought my immune system would have the strength to carry on. BUT I THOUGHT WRONG.
I leave tomorrow morning to go back to school. Back to hell, more like it. Eauuuugh, why can't classes be over already? 4 more weeks!
"Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas." - Jack Handy
Time: 10:58 pm
Currently listening to: "Swimming"- Florence + The Machine
So first thing is first, Happy Easter. Hope you guys ate lots of Peeps and bit the heads off of innocent chocolate bunnies.
My weekend was okay, I guess. We had Friday off so I went home, even though I was only away for a week and a half it felt like I've been away from home for months. College is weird like that.
I saw two movies in the theater in two days! I saw "African Cats" with the boyfriend and then "Water for Elephants" with my mom and my brother.
Here is my opinion:
African Cats> Water for Elephants
I mean Water for Elephants wasn't THAT bad. I mean if you didn't read the book you would enjoy the movie. But since Water for Elephants is one of my favorite books (see blog entry: "Step One") I couldn't help but scrutinize and judge every mistake they made. But then again, the books are usually better than the movie. I do, however, appreciate the fact that someone realized the amazing-ness of the book and decided to make the effort to put it on the big silver screen.
African Cats was surprisingly REALLY good. It's a nature flick, following a lion pride and a mother cheetah with her cubs. I learned a lot more about lions and how cool they really are. And I also learned that cheetahs do not roar. They make more of a squeaky sound. Cool, right? YAY FOR LEARNING!
My Easter was alright. I got Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1 on DVD from my loving mother. And then my boyfriend decided, ever so chivalrously, to give me his sore throat which I should have saw coming. Since he kept coughing right in my face and didn't bother to cover his mouth. But I was so blinding by love I thought my immune system would have the strength to carry on. BUT I THOUGHT WRONG.
I leave tomorrow morning to go back to school. Back to hell, more like it. Eauuuugh, why can't classes be over already? 4 more weeks!
"Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter. Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas." - Jack Handy
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Pinch Me Gently
Date: April 17th, 2011
Time: 2:32 am
Currently listening to: "I Wouldn't Mind"- He Is We
I don't know how to feel. I'm in a weird place tonight, mentally that is. I miss Portland. I miss the quirkyness. I miss the no sales tax. I miss home. I think I'm just exhausted and I need to sleep but I need to be hold tightly and told everything is going to be alright.
I just realized something.
I am terrified of getting old.
I'm just getting used to independence now, I couldn't imagine having to depend on someone like a caregiver to do things for me.
I'm terrified of not being to do things I can do now.
I love being young and having the world at my feet.
Am I crazy? Does everyone feel this way?
Or is it the two thirty-six in the morning and Emily should really be in bed thing?
Anyone?
"You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you to run, you missed the starting gun."- Anonymous
Time: 2:32 am
Currently listening to: "I Wouldn't Mind"- He Is We
I don't know how to feel. I'm in a weird place tonight, mentally that is. I miss Portland. I miss the quirkyness. I miss the no sales tax. I miss home. I think I'm just exhausted and I need to sleep but I need to be hold tightly and told everything is going to be alright.
I just realized something.
I am terrified of getting old.
I'm just getting used to independence now, I couldn't imagine having to depend on someone like a caregiver to do things for me.
I'm terrified of not being to do things I can do now.
I love being young and having the world at my feet.
Am I crazy? Does everyone feel this way?
Or is it the two thirty-six in the morning and Emily should really be in bed thing?
Anyone?
"You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you to run, you missed the starting gun."- Anonymous
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
We'll dance on the edge of the Hollywood sign
Date: April 6th, 2011
Time: 12:22 am
Currently listening to: "Tonight Tonight"- Hot Chelle Rae
Okay, I'm going to keep this brief because it is way past my bedtime.
I HAD THE INTERVIEW TODAY :)))))!
It went okay I think. Here is hoping I get the job. Other than that I am finally on spring break. Well technically it's not much of a break since I have a French midterm the Monday I get back (doesn't that just piss you off?). So yeah, I really should be studying but my brain thinks otherwise. Like, "Oh, there is a great big bed right next to you and it's after midnight. Isn't tantalizing? With it's warm covers and soft blankets?"
Yes, yes it is.
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking." -Clifton Fadiman
Time: 12:22 am
Currently listening to: "Tonight Tonight"- Hot Chelle Rae
Okay, I'm going to keep this brief because it is way past my bedtime.
I HAD THE INTERVIEW TODAY :)))))!
It went okay I think. Here is hoping I get the job. Other than that I am finally on spring break. Well technically it's not much of a break since I have a French midterm the Monday I get back (doesn't that just piss you off?). So yeah, I really should be studying but my brain thinks otherwise. Like, "Oh, there is a great big bed right next to you and it's after midnight. Isn't tantalizing? With it's warm covers and soft blankets?"
Yes, yes it is.
"Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking." -Clifton Fadiman
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