I think 4 more invitations to go? I have made so many midnight trips to the post office these past two weeks.
Also, going to Austin for a day this weekend to look at bridesmaid dresses with my sister and Elissa. I can't decide whether to go with Aaron and thus, bring Dwight to Barton Creek (which has always been quite a dream of mine, bringing my dog to Barton Creek to play with all the other dogs) or just to drive myself.
The thing is, Dwight is afraid of bicycles and water. Hmm...now that I put it that way, why would i bring him to BC?

I made a 90 on my Human Behavior Final. That might be one of three classes I don't have to take over next year. Urg.

I've been trying to find some odd jobs lately. There are a few purchases that I can't quite justify using "real" money on, so I'm trying to scrounge up some money on the side, which doesn't seem to count as much, so I can make those purchases. For example, at Edgefest, when I wasn't swooning over Brandon Flowers, my eyes were trained to the ground, looking for those $20 bills on the ground that Rachel assures me exist. I figured, where better than a rock concert full of drunk, rich yuppies who think they are hardcore?? But alas, no luck.
I have also signed up (with a fake email account) to one of those survey taking websites. Trust me, those don't work unless you are willing to sell your identity.
Finally, there is this News Blogging site that I found on Craigslist that seems fairly legit. I sent them a writing sample just now, and judging from the quality (or lack thereof) of the rest of the articles I've seen on the site, I'll soon be writing for the website. But at an average of 25 cents an article, I will have to write quite a few articles before I can do anything with the money I make. But I don't mind, because I just got to sit here and write something, and it made me feel like a useful human being again. And...every little bit counts.
Oh and Aaron sent in a writing sample too. He wrote on 28 Weeks Later and I wrote on the "California Healthy Pets Act." If you haven't heard of it, look it up. It sucks.

I got some apple flavored bubble bath today. It smells delicious.
(And this was an approved purchase...imagine how frivolous my not-approved purchases must be!)

Pics added on Flickr, finally.

Wedding invites printed and sealed...just collecting addresses now.

I've procrastinated writing bc there's a lot of things I want to mention but didn't feel like I had the energy to describe them as well as they deserved. I still don't but if I wait any longer, it will feel wierd to blog about them.

So, in order from most recent to least recent:

--We sent Dwight to the SPCA to get neutered today. I was a little worried about sending him to a shelter to get neutered (I kept getting flashbacks of that scene in dirty dancing when Patrick Swayze's ex girlfriend gets an abortion from a traveling doctor who uses a dirty knife...), but we are all out of funds due to his other vet visits. Anyways, it turned out fine, and the people there were way nicer than most of the vets I've been to. He's back now sleeping in his crate.

--The Killers were amazing in concert. Brandon Flowers is 20% matador, 20% magician. I am totally in love, one of those infatuations that makes me never want to actually meet him in person, bc there's no way he would ever live up to the image. And I think he knows that, and uses it to his advantage, because in concert, he says very little in the way of normal conversational things that lead singers typically say...like, "Dallas, you are awesome!!" Which, is not only lame, but wholly untrue.
In any case, seeing the killers in concert was everything I'd hoped it would be, and more. Aaron had to let me stand on his toes the whole time, though, bc I was too short to see. I sometimes wonder if he thinks fondly back to the days when he didn't have to do things like that, and could just enjoy concerts without worrying whether someone else can see what's going on.
The rest of Edgefest was just mediocre. Muse just wasn't good enough to distract me from all the crowd surfers threatening to kick me in the head. We also saw the Kaiser Chiefs who Aaron liked, but I didn't especially. And we had to sit through Blue October in order to get a good spot for Muse. I saw a boy who looked hardcore playing an imaginary tambourine to them, and it made me laugh.

--Boston! I rode the subway a lot, a few times by myself, which was cool. I noticed that girls in Boston tend to wear long coats, carry large bags, and use a lot of lip gloss. I think the large bags are to hold entertainment for the subway rides, and the long coats and lip gloss are because of the cold.
Rachel's house will forever be engrained as my mental image of the quintessential Boston house--wood floors, brick, and slightly old-ish with strange linoleum in the kitchen. I was sorta freaked out at night, bc it seemed sorta creepy in the living room, but I got over it, and also quite enjoyed sharing a bed with Rachel!!
Also Rachel and her roomates have an incredibly comfortable chair that they got free from Craigslist that I am totally jealous of.
As for the convention, I did a lot of studying there, lost and found my computer charger, presented mediocrely (knowing me and my public speaking, it's the best that I could do), and had dinner with some of the other Vampire/Stephen King presenters. I was unsure about the dinner thing, but I ended up enjoying it, and met some nice people--only of whom was an incredibly beautiful scottish girl that was quite intimidating at first but turned out to be nice. I also learned that people from Glasgow are called Glaswegians. I think.
On my last day there, me and Rachel took the train to Salem to see the witch museum and drink coffee and shop a lot. There was a bookstore there that was amazing--stacks of books everywhere, so much so that to check out, you had to slide your book and money through a five-inch opening between stacks of books on the counter, and they would slide your change back through the opening. It was called the Derby Square Book Store, but it's going out of business soon, in a couple of months. There's more about it that makes it amazing, but I will have to wait to write about it later, so as to do it justice.
In any case, I flew home on Easter morning, which was fun bc I got empty rows all to myself both flights back.

I have been trying to set up a Blockbuster online account, but I keep getting an error message! What will I do with all my free time if I do not have a steady supply of rental movies?? Ha, just kidding. But I have been craving to watch Shiloh. Which is ridiculous, I know, but I can't help it.
By the way, Bridge to Terabithia was nowhere as ridiculous as its chronicles-of-narnia preview made it out to be. It actually followed the book quite closely and was pretty good, despite it being a bit heavy on the goody-two-shoes-ish morals.
And Zoey Deschanel (sp?) was in it, which always is a plus.
I also am quite in love with the bond girl from the new bond movie. But I don't think most people would agree, as she is a bit awkward looking sometimes, but that's what I like about her.

Here is a great video of a very cute hamster.

Incidentally, I am feeling quite guilty about not spending enough time with the gerbils.

I leave for Boston on Tuesday! Apparently, it is about 40 degrees there now. Stephen King/Gothic nerds, here I come!!! I am excited about hanging out with people who share interests with me again. And of course, hanging with Rachel!!!!!!!!! who I haven't seen since the summer.

Oh, here is the link to the conference program. I am area chair for my presentation time! Which probably just means I get to announce the others before their presentations, but it sounds pretty cool, right?

This is the funniest five minutes of TV I've ever seen. I remembered it from a few years ago after watching some Frasier tonight and luckily found it on YouTube.



Also, we've taught our dog to fetch!

I got a dog! for all of you who don't know yet...

I got it at a shelter and at the time, he was the epitome of what I didn't want in a dog--a boy, black and white, who might grow up to be big. I don't know what I was looking for exactly, but probably somewhere along the lines of a brindle boxer or pug mix, around 30 lbs, and a girl.
We went to so many shelters, and didn't find any dogs that seemed to click. I thought it would be easy when I first started looking, and that I would immediately find a cute dog that I would fall in love with. But the more I looked, the more every dog started looking the same to me. But then, we ended up going out to Irving, and found this sad, super skinny little dog that when we opened up the gate, he crawled right into my lap and hid his face in the crook of my arm and wouldn't get off when I had to leave.
He's finally gained some weight--up to 20 lbs from 13 when we got him, and is potty trained (pretty much) and knows how to come and sit. I wish I'd taken some pictures of him at the shelter so I would have more of a comparison.
Anyways, we're hoping he doesn't get any bigger than 40 lbs, which seems like it might be possible since he's not too big and he's already 5 months, I think.

Anyways, other news: My ipod is losing charge on its battery, so I'm kicking it old school and going back to walkmans and tapes. I never did like portable cd players much, bc they're too bulky and cds are hard to carry around. Also I was young and impressionable when I listened to walkmans constantly on the bus in middle school, so I like them better.

Also, here's something I've been wanting to write about for a while, but kept forgetting. This summer, when I went to L.A., I had pink streaks in my hair, and visited Aaron on the WB lot, and had lunch with him at the cafeteria there. A few months later, Aaron noticed that a Gilmore Girls episode came out where the girl (the younger one who looks like Rachel) had pink hair. His theory is that since Gilmore Girls films on the lot, one of the writers, or whatever, saw my hair and thought it was cool, so used it in the show. When he first told me that, I was really excited. But now, it's sorta worn off, and it ended up being in just one episode, and so this is really just to document it, because I'm sure in 10 years I won't remember.

I'm having a Sam & Cindy moment from Freaks and Geeks. Remember, she doesn't like The Jerk, and so Sam breaks up with her?
So, Aaron and I were talking about how it's sad when favorite movies seem dated when you watch them now. His example was Heat, and my example was While You Were Sleeping (which I watched every night for a whole summer back in 6th grade.) And I happened to mention Bill Pullman in While You Were Sleeping. Which prompted Aaron to say, "May the Schwartz be with you!"
And then he went on to say that Spaceballs is the movie that Bill Pullman is most known for.
Which I disagree with.

So he has asked me to post a poll on the blog. (Which is pointless because I pretty much know who reads this blog, and who will answer what...) Besides, no one ever answers blog polls, because settling other people's arguments always seems so banal and useless.

In any case, here's the poll:

Who out there has seen Spaceballs, who liked it, and who thinks that it is the movie that Bill Pullman is most known for? In fact, who out there even knows who Bill Pullman is?
To me, Bill Pullman is most likely known for Independence Day, Mr. Wrong, or While You Were Sleeping.

And just to shock all the boys out there, I don't like Mel Brooks movies a whole lot!