Moooovies!

People have been making me think.  So, instead of just sharing my views about it, (Because who am I anyway?) I thought I'd let the silver screen help me out a bit.

V for Vendetta:  "There's no certainty, only opportunity."

Wag the Dog:  “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

Pleasantville:

David's Mum: When your father was here, I used to think, "This was it. This is the way it was
always going to be. I had the right house. I had the right car. I had the right life."
David: There is no right house. There is no right car.
David's Mum: I'm 40 years old. I mean, it's not supposed to be like this.
David: It's not supposed to be anything.
David's Mum: How'd you get so smart all of a sudden?
David: [long slow smile] I had a good day.

And my all-time favorite movie quote....

Cool Runnings:

Irv: Derice, a gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it.
Derice: Hey coach, how will I know if I'm enough?
Irv: When you cross that finish line, you'll know.

As Jason Mraz would say...

Now listen closer to the verse I lay
It's all about the wordplay
The wonderful thing it does
Because, because
I am the wizard of ooh's and ah's and fa-la-la's
Yeah the Mister A to Z
They say I'm all about the wordplay...

so check out my faves below!  They're even funnier at 3:30 am, I assure you!! : )

http://www.bustedtees.com/wordplay

I remember the sound...

It's been QUITE a day.  Worked and worked, (but had a marvelous time!  My co-workers are so so fun!), watched in dismay as Louisville lost, (Michigan State...really??) watched with delight as UNC won, then tried incredibly hard to get my work done to avoid staying up all night. Guess we'll see if my goal is achieved!

Good talks tonight.  Facing reality can be such a downer, but it's true, honesty is always the best policy.  We learn in psychology that people are much more egocentric than they realize.  We often imagine that our role in something is bigger than it actually is.  Therefore, we give ourselves more credit/practice more self-blame for an outside situation or a circumstance than we perhaps ought to.  Although it's our nature to do so, I still think its important to make  strides to correct this.  No one is thinking of you as much as they are thinking of themselves.  So to all the selfless do-gooders out there, take heed! : ) What you're doing is wonderful, but take a moment to consider yourself, and what YOU need.  All we can ever really be responsible for is ourselves, and seeing as that's precisely who everyone else is looking out for, you have no choice but to follow suit.  If you don't take care of yourself, keep yourself in check and demonstrate self-respect, the only person who will suffer....is you.  Haha, I direct this outwardly, but to be perfectly honest, I say it to convince and remind myself. Maybe someday, I'll believe it and actually listen. : )

As always,  I've been jamming out to the itunes all night, so here are the "hmm" lyrics that I found within the random songs of the evening.

I should know who I am by now
I walk the record stand somehow
Thinkin' of winter
The name is the splinter inside me
While I wait

And I remember the sound
Of your November downtown
And I remember the truth
A warm December with you
But I don't have to make this mistake
And I don't have to stay this way
If only I would wake...

~"Winter" Joshua Radin

I stood at the bottom of some walls I thought I couldn't climb
I felt like Cinderella at the ball just running out of time
So I know how it feels to be afraid
Think that it's all gonna slip away
Hold on, hold on

Here's to you free souls, you firefly chasers
Tree climbers, porch swingers, air guitar players
Here's to you fearless dancers, shaking walls in your bedrooms

There's a lot of wonder left inside of me and you
Thank God even crazy dreams come true...

~"Crazy Dreams" Carrie Underwood

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap...

It's time to try defying gravity,
I think I'll try defying gravity,
And you can't pull me down!

~"Defying Gravity" Wicked

Just Dance....it'll be okay! : )

Ahhh,
Interesting that I find myself blogging again. Chances are, anyone who's reading this now probably didn't catch my livejournal that I used to keep up back in the day. That's probably for the best. Trust me, you missed very little. I'd been holding off on this for awhile, knowing that my first entry would set the precedent and the tone for future blogs...but finally I decided, hey, if I want to change formats later, so be it. Blogspot doesn't dictate me! I dictate to blogspot! : )

Just got home from the Saloon on this fine March evening. Sang, danced, and had an incredibly fun night! I'll be honest, it took me back to simpler times. I talked to so many interesting people tonight. I met Kim, who got her undergrad at Cornell, and who was in Amsterdam last Spring, (I asked her dozens of questions!), I met Jackson who looks just like Turtle from Entourage, and was gleeful when I informed him that he and his boys reminded me of the show. I met and reminisced on middle school days with Adam, and then I met Tracy in line for the restroom who explaineed her boy drama to me, haha.... it was just a good night. Talking to so many people almost made me second-guess my career plans. I love meeting EVERYONE, learning new things and getting to know them. I know I ultimately want to be a professor, but is law school really the best route to get there? When's the last time you ever heard a lawyer described as “warm” or “trusting”? *sigh* Food for thought I suppose. I've had a very up/down day, but one thing is for sure, today was definitely “me”. I reacted and behaved exactly as to be expected. Through it all, this Saturday, March 28, 2009 fit me perfectly, in every way.

So, going along with being “me”, I'm going to break out something that very few of you have probably had the pleasure of experiencing, (unless you somehow got ahold of a State High newspaper, in which case, I'm overwhelmingly impressed!)

It's Cheers and Jeers time!

Cheers to Villanova winning! I know most of you are livid as a result, but hey, it put me at #1 in my pool, and I have faith in them to get to the championship game....and then hopefully losing to UConn, haha, fingers crossed!

Jeers to the smokiness that the Saloon had...why can't everywhere be smoke-free at this point??

Cheers to getting accepted into the Netherlands summer program! I'm excited beyond belief and description, and I KNOW it will be fantastic!

Jeers to a fight breaking out tonight... Emilee and I were in the midst, but luckily, all that happened was us dealing with the major alcohol spillage that was so generously poured on our shirts and in our hair....gross.

Cheers to having today off work! I heart my workplace and all, but a Saturday off was refreshing and appreciated.

...I'm out of jeers, so the other cheers will have to be put on hold. I like to keep a balance. : )

Well, I'm going to go read some book I suppose, (heehee), I'll have to catch my posts up on school, spring break, and life at a later time. : ) Goodnight, goodnight!

Sleep,
Sleep tonight
And may your dreams be realized...