Go Get A J.O.B.

I'm a little bit late on this announcement but on Friday, December 18, 2009, my boyfriend David graduated from college! *throws confetti*

He graduated from my university with a degree in Management Information Systems. And better yet, he graduated with a job! I'm so very very proud of him. He's worked so hard to get his degree and he has a great job to show for it.

Unfortunately, I don't have any close-up pictures of him in his cap and gown. So I made one up (I know, my MS paint/photoshop skills are amazing):


Congratulations, David!

Wish I Had the Gonads to Say This

Found this article last night.



Bless you, for writing this.

You're What?

(Somewhat related to my previous post)

I'd like to think that David is a pretty funny guy. He's dorky and nerdy, and he gets really excited about geeky things. But his one-liners are pretty hilarious. His David-isms are not as often as Terry-isms (click the link to find the complete collection), but I still giggle and snort at them. Needless to say he had a really good one this weekend that has left me telling my (*cough*his*cough*) friends. Let me set the scene:


David and I are sitting down. He's playing videogames. I'm staring at him, taking in how ridiculously adorable he is, aka, oogling him. He notices this.

David: What?!

Me: Nothing. I'm oogling you.
David: But there's nothing to oogle.

Me: Are you kidding me? Okay, this will happen only once in our relationship, but... *followed by a soft, but firm lovetap across his face* So what did we learn today, David?

David: ...I'm oogley.

Oogley. Oo-guh-lee. Oogley. I don't know why that word is so funny to me.

What, Should I Treat You Special Now?

So I found out the other day that my boyfriend, David, reads this blog.

I did not know this information.

So now I feel the necessity to write something every once in awhile that he will find interesting. He deals with my random psychoanalytical babble everyday, so I feel that he's earned the right to have, and I have the obligation to provide, entries he will find interesting. Sounds reasonable, right?

The problem is that the topics of conversation we normally have fall into one of the following categories:
1 - all things videogames, from games we want to play, to the details of the random battle generator of Final Fantasy VII
2 - soccer
3 - our relationship and how awesome we are
4 - food
5 - our siblings, because basically both of them are hilarious and provide good stories

Now as much as I (and Jenn) would love to talk about her all the time on my blog, I don't think these five categories give me enough to say.

I think he's screwed and will just have to deal with my psychoanalytical babble some more.

My Top _____

My Top 5 Favorite Songs RIGHT NOW (click the title of the song to listen):

1. "I Can't Stand the Rain" by Seal

2. "Sometime Around Midnight" by Airborne Toxic Event

3. "Grey Street" by Dave Matthews Band

4. "Uprising" by Muse

5. "Again" by Flyleaf


What are your top five favs?

So I'm Pretty Sure I'm Going to Get Shot for Saying This

...but there's something that I just don't understand.

Twilight.

I don't understand the popularity surrounding Twilight.

There. I said it.

Now, before people starting using context clues from my blog to hunt me down and find my address (thank goodness I'm not listed), here me out. Don't get me wrong, I understand the appeal of Twilight. A mysterious man finds a lonely, regular, average girl and sweeps her off her feet. He's romantic, yet dark. He creates adventure in her otherwise mundane life. And oh! He protects her at all cost, even swearing to break away from her so that she may live. Not to mention the man fight with some other quasi-mythical man over her heart. I get it. This appeal, I get.

What I don't get, however, is the insatiable crazy "I must marry Edward Cullen" following. I saw the movie. I thought it was good. But not good enough to warrant the All Things Twilight following. And before anyone uses the "Everyone is crazy about Twilight because the books were so good" argument, let me say that there wasn't a huge following for Twilight when it was in book form. The craziness started with the films. So my judgement, and the logic behind this post, concerns mostly the movie-following.

Plus, I don't like Kristen Stewart. She gives off a bad attitude.

Pre-Twilight there were few vampire-themed elements in our culture. You had Underworld which was action-packed and appealled mainly to men. Interview with a Vampire, which was pretty famous. You also had, in my opinion one of the best recent sci-fi shows available, Moonlight. And guess what happened? Even though it was on a highly-watched channel, it was cancelled. After two seasons. Can you guess why? Because nobody was watching anything having to do with vampires. Then Twilight. Now look what you have: the entire series of Twilight movies, True Blood, Vampire Diaries, Vampire Apprentice, etc etc.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Twilight is a romantic movie. About vampires. Why are vampires unwatchable by normal standards, but OMG! AMAZING! when you have a British guy as the lead character?

Okay... now you may throw your stones.

Didn't They Do This With Ghosthunters?

With Halloween fast approaching, expect a few more Halloween-themed posts. It is my favorite holiday: there's warm apple cider to drink, costume parties, eating tons of candy, and a massive amount haunted houses to go to. Scary movies are always on TV. It is for me just a fun, carefree part of the year. Which is nice when the rest of the year can be, and usually is, full of stress and worry.

Loving scary movies as much as I do, I am intriqued by this new one called Paranormal Activity. Has anyone heard anything about it? If you haven't, it is a movie that was shot in one week with unknown actors. Essentially, a couple moves into a new house and every night when they sleep, they are visited by a demonic presence. One of the main characters decides to put hidden cameras around the house to try to catch this presence in action; that is how most of the movie is shot. The movie is said to be so scary that viewers have trouble sleeping at night because of it.

I definitely have a desire to see this movie, but I admit that I am a bit hesitant. Not because I am afraid I will be too scared. Rather, I'm afraid I won't be scared enough. Almost every scary movie that has come out has the claim, "The scariest movie since Saw." They never deliver. So many horror movies today are just about hack-and-slash. Although I don't mind the blood and gore, I prefer my scary movies to be thrillers or psychological mysteries. I may be a horror movie snob, but I still want my horror movies to have an actual plot. I think the most terrifying scary movies are the ones that get inside your head and mess with it. Those are the good ones.

The Shining: Jack Nicholson goes crazy and wants to kill his family. Psychological.
The Exorcist: coming from a religious family, the idea of demons being real and taking over your body was definitely a mind-flip.
Seven: a cat-and-mouse game that immediately grabs your brain and swirls it around.

These are the movies that are the best. I'm not sure whether Paranormal Activity can live up to them.

Are any of you going to see it this Halloween?

Umm... You're Stupid

Do you ever have those days where you wake up and for no reason whatsoever, you just start judging people? Not everyone, just people that stand out to you as odd, peculiar, stupid, etc...? Today is one of those days. And it was exemplified in my first class of the day.

The classroom for this course is in a lecture hall. I sit on the left side of the room, while this girl sits on the far right of the room. And she slept through the entire class. I'll give you a diagram:
So why should this really stand out to me? It shouldn't. Except that she sleeps through EVERY. SINGLE. CLASS. I wish I was exaggerating. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I look over and see the exact same girl in the exact same spot wearing a hoodie and sweatpants. Asleep.

This made me ask myself, "Self, now and then you may fall asleep in class. That's no big deal. But why would she bother to come to class at all if, every time, she falls asleep? Does it make her feel better by saying, 'Well at least I went to class?'"

I wonder if she has narcolepsy.

Can I Roll A D20 Spot Check, Please?

So about three weeks ago, I started school again (hence the major lack of blogging). In between class, work, babysitting, homework, trying to spend time with my family, and seeing my boyfriend and friends, I have found a new hobby. Dungeons & Dragons. Yes, D&D.

Now, I had played this back in high school a few times. I specifically remember reading strategy guides and character books while I was *supposed* to be paying attention in my classical music class while in high school.

Now I figure I should go all MythBusters on the blog community and de-bunk any weird ideas you may have. For example many people hear D&D and think of a group of total losers sitting around a table in wizard's hats, pocket protectors, and arguing between puffs from their asthma inhalers. That is quite the contrary. What you invision is something called LARPing, or Live Action Role Play. These are the people that believe they are their characters. They talk as if they are living the game. We are not such a group of losers. And none of us have pocket protectors.

However, I am on the search for my own set of D&D die.

So go ahead, let's hear your best geek jokes! (Jenn, I know you have to have some stored away in your back pocket)