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12:07pm: faz fazakas
my mother surprised me with the complete fraggle rock.

see you in 96 episodes.

happy christmas everyone!!!

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9:00pm: this is really happening...
i just printed my e-ticket for my flight!!!

i wonder when it will sink in that i'm actually going?

10:29am: hope you're not working!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS!!!

:D

2:55am: "t.v. bully kicks dwarf in face."
you know you use too many cosmetic products when something gives you an allergic reaction, but since you tried two new hairsprays, a perfume and a new nail polish today it's going to be awfully hard to narrow down which one it was. and now i'm itchy.

i actually went into hot topic today, because i saw a pair of hilarious gloves this weekend that i meant to go back and buy. they're so terrible...black fingerless gloves with neon green finger bones on them. love it. i had a chat with the salesgirl, we were talking about how we were both "reformed goths," and about how she had to fake knowing what was cool because she really had no clue anymore.

we had a laugh listing things we were obsessed with when we were in high school, and i was telling her about how i always tell kids that eventually they're going to have to sell-out in order to become a productive member of society; but that the trick is to find a balance between the person you have to eventually become and the person you always wished you'd end up as. i think mine is still a combination between kathy bates and anjelica houston. of course that's healthy, who's saying it's not? :)

also, i finally caved and bought a pretentious teacherponcho....you know, a black crocheted batwing affair that makes me look like i should have a beaded chain hanging from my bifocales. but the curious thing is, i fucking love it. whoops.

and i'm pretty sure that anytime i need any sort of cheering up, i'm going to watch daniel radcliffe on "extras." i was laughing so hard that i snorted, and that is my ultimate test of hilarity. i had to wait a week to finally be able to watch it, but it was so worth it. i have a really infantile sense of humor, i know, but between the bit with the condom and ricky gervais kicking warwick davies in the face, you have yourself one of the funniest things i've seen in awhile. dead brill, this.

2:34am: don't come back for me.
wow, i remember when "lost" used to be awesome. now they're just running and shooting and NOT ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS. plus, what happened to the smart? i was considering writing a conference paper on the idea of dharma as relating to "lost," there's a wealth of honestly compelling information there. but now where's the character depth? the interaction? i'm getting tired of just watching, and not getting anywhere. (i mean, i'm not going to stop. far from it. i just wish they would answer SOMETHING. anything. no new stuff for awhile.last week's episode was good---it was exciting, but i just remember how compelling the first season was. now i'm like, "oh, ANOTHER mystery? thanks.")

if it ain't broke, don't fix it. yeah, "prison break" might not be brain food, but at least it's moving quickly towards a logical conclusion. i respect that.

looks like it was a bad idea to watch the recap special, plus the 15 minutes i missed last week after a 12 hour day at the theater. i am bushed, and easily frustrated. but i also wish that we were back to old school "lost," because it was cool to be on edge and freaking out about how amazing it was. ellen, we have much to discuss.

i have "medellia of the gray skies" stuck in my head, and i'm loving it. that song is crucial to the soundtrack of my existence, and i don't listen to it enough.

"and if you say you will/i will love you still/and if i just could be anything for you/just anyone at all/anything that mattered, washed out/you’re the silly reasons in a goldfish laugh/you’re the ageless season at rest at last."

love it.

12:51am: i'm so tired that i'm having trouble breathing.
today was insane...i had a nice morning with jackie in lackawanna, we did a bunch of hindi lesson stuff but then ended up going shoe shopping! i got a neat pair of peeptoe pumps with black and white strips on the platform heel---even though i won't be able to wear them until it stops snowing. they remind me of the wicked witch of the west, except, i don't know, hot? depends on your opinion, i suppose. maybe some guys dig chicks with green faces and black and white stockings.

which brings me to the crazy---i worked 8 hours, from 3 to 12. we had 690 people. that's $5,000 in box office, PLUS there were only three of us working.

i won't go into detail, suffice it to say that that many people means a lot more jerks than usual. like, the woman wearing a floor-length fur coat who came back up and said she wanted a partial refund because i didn't sell her a senior ticket. lady, you didn't ask me for one, your coat cost as much as a semester at fredonia and you're so cheap that you want $2 back from and $8 ticket? fuck you. also, i (jokingly) said "yeah, we really stick it to you on the popcorn" to a guy who complained (jokingly) that the popcorn had better be the best he ever tasted, because it was $4.50 for a small....about an hour later, latisha told me that he was a local newscaster. whoops.

the only good part was that i had a amazing falafel from the mall food court; who knew you could get such great food at eastern hills? their pizza is fab too, maybe i'll have some tomorrow. WHEN I WORK FOR ANOTHER 6 HOURS. damn oscar season.

i also have a face-melter of a headache, which means it's bedtime. i HURT.

4:16pm: i was just at borders,
where i saw the two best bumper stickers EVER. on the same car, no less.

"voldemort votes republican."

AND

"be nice to america, or we'll bring democracy to your country too."

loving it.

10:26pm: going to bed early SUCKS.
it's 10:30, and i really need to start thinking about going to sleep. not cool.

had lunch with jackie and ravi today in hamburg. i always wonder what people think when they see the three of us together, as they're an indian couple in their 60's, and we try to speak in hindi as much as possible. jackie had been in india since the middle of october, so i had stopped my lessons until she got back. it was awesome to see her again, and we decided that we'd probably meet once a month so i can keep learning, even though she did say i don't really need to anymore. it's nice to learn new things, how big of a nerd am i?

i did, however, forget how sick chinese buffet makes me. and i didn't even do that badly, i just had broccoli chicken, asparagus, chinese green beans and a few wontons. so why do i feel like i've been at sea too long? ick.

something i've been pondering for awhile is getting another tattoo---i have one picked out, but i'm not sure where to go. has anyone here had good luck with them? (jess, i'm looking at you! i think it might even be your fault, since that pic you posted of your lovely new one, i've been like "hmmm..."!) go figure, i want something in dev naagari.

i've decided that if i go through with it, i'm getting the script for "kitabi." there are three definitions---it means "knowledge derived from books," "bookworm," or "bookish." um, hi. that's PERFECT.

now i have to go figure out a way to pass out 4 hours before my usual bedtime, and also manage to wake up again at ten after six. bah.

hope everyone had a good weekend!

2:46am: mithi sapne, mere pyaari.
yaadon ke aasre umr katati nahin
hai haqiqat yahi, ab tu jaan le
sumundaron ka paani koi na pi saka
akela khaara jivan koi na ji saka.







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9:35pm: i love my new icon. :)
mostly i'm posting because i'm in love with this icon, created by one of the good people at iconrequests. because while i am good at many things, i cannot for the life of me create usericons, and i really wanted a shahrukh one. :)

had absolutely no energy today, and ended up falling asleep for about 2 hours---i think my body is still getting over being sick, and so now i'm trying to catch up on wellness. although i bet it means i won't be able to sleep tonight....whoops.

watched "the muppet christmas carol" with my folks tonight. we don't really have too many christmas traditions, actually it sometimes feels like they really don't want to do ANYTHING for the holiday. it's always a fuss to put up the (fake, pre-lighted) tree, we don't go to colorado anymore (which i'm actually okay with), no one in my immediate family gives gifts after your 18th birthday, and i have to order the majority of my presents myself from the internet. my folks will come up with a few surprises, but i pretty much know what i'm getting.

i'm not complaining---as a result, the holidays are NEVER stressful, and i can enjoy myself with buying presents for friends. but we ALWAYS watch the muppet christmas carol, and it just makes me happy. we can pretty much talk along with it, so we laugh like crazy. and you all know my muppet obsession.

now all i have to do is wait until christmas morning to listen to the cds i bought---bollywood compilations are FAB, i got 15 cds for $30. (and nobody better say that that's because nobody else wants them!!!)

time for 10 o'clock simpsons!

8:05pm: now i'm just getting mad...
i've been inside for over 7 days now. today is the first day that i've felt even halfway normal, but i'm not going to push it. some light social activities this weekend perhaps, but nothing crazy. i've been on the phone a few times the past couple of days, and it's shocking how little i have to say, besides the odd comment that i would be a FANTASTIC shut-in. ick.

my skin actually smells like cold medicine, which i'm starting to react violently to. also i've started throwing up if i cough too much. but honestly, i feel much better. the problem is that i gauge if i'm well or not by if i actually WANT to do something, even if it's just go for a drive. so far, no luck.

the only good thing that's happened is that i have easy jobs lined up for monday-tuesday-wednesday of this week, and it was cool how i got them. the secretary at kenmore middle actually called my house and offered them to me before putting them into the subfinder system---how cool is that? and they're for the woman i did my student teaching with; she's academic intervention services now, which means all i'll have to do is push into other classrooms and supervise, no actual teaching. that means it'll be okay if i don't feel great yet, i won't have to do any real "teaching."

and as a result of that sub fair i went to, i also got hired as a sub in the amherst school system. hopefully a call or two from them a week will mean that i'll work 5 days instead of 3 or 4, which will be nice.

i think i've watched 5 episodes of "scrubs" today---how did i ignore that show for 6 years? i love it.

4:18pm: my face hurts.
because i have to cancel my day and a half subbing assignment that started tomorrow, and because i had to call in sick to dipson last night (something i've done less than 5 times in 5 years---and two were because i was in the hospital) i'm going to lose $170. not cool.

in other news, i wish alka-seltzer wasn't made in mexico. because it works, but it makes me feel like i'm going to get some crazy 6 o'clock news disease that you should usually only get by having relations with the animal it's named for.

i also wish that there were "scrubs" reruns on somewhere, because that would make me feel better.

10:00am: dilwale dulhania le jayenge
thanksgiving was good---i really like going to pittsburgh. there were a ton of us for some reason, although 5 of them were in my cousin's husband's family. luckily they were cool, and it was neat to have such a big thanksgiving. but i do totally wish we had turkey, i could so go for a sandwich right now.

we went to the andy warhol museum in pittsburgh, that was AWESOME. my uncle, who is a super nice guy, was SO UNHAPPY. i felt bad for laughing, but he was a republican in the andy warhol museum. whoops. it was set up so that you had to start at the top and go down 6 floors, and at one point i caught him going down the stairs. so i was like "uncle don, where are you going?" and he just turned over his shoulder and said "i'm going to descend another level into artistic hell," and i just lost it all over myself. it was too funny.

today's going to be busy, which is cool. i just wish i didn't have to work so damn much. and the fact that we have the new zhang yimou movie, and that i haven't seen it yet is literally killing me. at least i can pretty much gurantee that we're not going to really sell any tickets for it. it is, after all, a wholly good movie. philistines.

1:30am: ouch!
if you eat wasabi pea and cracker mix, don't rub your eyes before you wash your hands.

11:45pm: stupid internal alarm.
why is it that i can never seem to stay awake between 5 and 6, but that i get a second wind around 11:00??? i have to be up at 6:15 tomorrow, this is so not cool.

10 a.m. to 2 a.m.----that is by FAR my ideal schedule. ugh.

2:33pm: because it's high time i bought myself a jesus clock.
99 cent city is the new disneyland.

i am going to have the greatest house in the universe. it's going to be like the episode of the simpsons with john waters as the guest voice.

not only that, but there's a salman khan movie next friday at dipson. life is good.

1:11am: i'm a dirty hippie.
lately i've bee rediscovering my love of incense---i used to ALWAYS be burning it, and enjoyingthe heck out of it. but i stopped after high school because a.) i didn't want to burn it in the dorms, and b.) my father HATES the smell of it.

i used to be able to burn it in the attic (for those of you who didn't know me in high school, i had a little room up in the attic that i used to hang out in all the time, and use for little parties. see, my room hasn't changed since i was seven or so, and so the attic was where i splattered my fauxgoth angst in high school, in the form of brandon lee posters, etc.)

but when i went to college, my mom took over the room as a sewing room, and so i was without a safe space to have incense in. but lately, i've been bold and have been burning it in my room. and godamn do i love it.

today was a good day---it's going to sound stupid to those of you who have 9-5 jobs that you go to daily, but i enjoyed this saturday more than some in the past because it came after a week of doing something worthwhile, and not just the same old crap. i woke up about 10:30, had leftover paneer akbari for breakfast and watched 2 hours of "scrubs," just because i could. it was nice.

and tomorrow i'm going to sneak into "don" when it shows again at work and watch "mourya re," because i'm officially in love with that song. something nice to look forward to.

five bucks says i spend the next 20 minutes looking online for incense. :)

1:30am: i smell fantastic.
when lush discontinued my favorite soap of all time, i was super sad. it was called "middle earth turns to rock," and it was this amazing blend of rhassoul mud, clay, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, etc. it was the bar jimmy would always make fun of when he came to visit when dana and i lived on forest place, because it was just this gross looking brown square that was FOREVER on my side of the shower. the smell was something that would crop up dreams, it was that good.

and so of course they stopped making it. so i was down to one dusty, hairy bar of it that i kept ensconced in the bathroom, as i was afraid to use it up and never be able to smell it again.

but i just tested an imp of a black phoenix blend called "voodoo" and IT'S THE SAME SMELL. this one might be even better, because after a couple of hours it mellows out into this sweet vanilla-y sandalwood spice that just makes me want to lick my arm. yum. i'm so getting a bottle of this one.

and it doesn't bother me at all that i'm going to spend the money i made working the until midnight shift at dipson on something nice, because they really did pay me to fantasize about wentworth miller pretty much all night. i was by myself behind the stand, and all i had to do was pop popcorn and eat mini three musketeers bars...so my mind wandered a bit. i think it was the chocolate that did it. "what's that wentworth? you say i smell edible? you want me to move to paris with you? well, i think that that is just the bee's knees, sir."

at any rate, it was the most enjoyable evening i've had at work in quite awhile.

12:21am: the best solution is usually the simplest one, anyway.
so, if i want to make icons i just need to find pics that are already 100x100, because i can just upload them without worrying about pesky sizes, and why if i have many leatherbound books, and two degrees i cannot for the life of me figure out to make a harry potter icon. sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.

but i love tori. now all that is required of you, the reader, is that you forget what i look like and replace it with that picture. are you done yet? good.

today i became the proud mama to a mini-school of tiger barbs, as well as getting what appears to be a boyfriend and a nextdoor neighbor for my cory cat. (pari immediately started following kishen around like a teenager...it was precious).

i've ALWAYS wanted tiger barbs, and to actually own them is incredibly cool. i bought 5 of them, and they are schooling like crazy. like little bumblebees flitting around the tank. i can't tell them apart yet, so i haven't named them. and it took awhile to find them, because all the other barbs i saw had torn fins, which means they were attacking each other. these were the first i've seen that had intact fins, and looked like they got along. let's hope it stays that way. my rosy barbs are really curious, but they're not being territorial. good!!!

wow, i'm a huge fucking nerd. :)

6:09pm: "the illusionist" can kiss the fattest part of my ass.
ellen, come to buffalo and see "the prestige" again with me---because you're going to just die. it was SO GOOD.

it's hard for me to suspend disbelief, but this story got me hook line and sinker. at one point, i figured it out, and made significant hand gestures to drew which he understood meant "look how smart i am!!" and i was so proud of myself for remembering the small details that suddenly became amazingly significant.

and then the story just twisted, and it was so cool that i'm afraid if i say anything you'll all think i'm making the whole thing up. what a movie. ellen, i can't even tell you. you NEED to come here, like, now. i was imagining your reactions, and just thinking about how much you're going to love this movie. point #1, christian bale can use his accent. rawr. :)

this has been a good week for movies. i mean, there wasn't that much else to do, so that makes it even better. also, i had waaay too much soda at the movie, so i'm like a goddamn hummingbird right now. awesome.

drew and i went to the fish store and pavilion after the movie, the fish store in the transitown plaza is under new management---i HATED that place. now it's the this super clean, well stocked place with a really intelligent (and nice) owner. and going to pavilion is always fun, i bought some insense that the owner brought back from india three weeks ago, it's so fresh that it's still soft. cool.

1:56am: jason schwartzman is precious.
staff meeting was as to be expected---at least i ate a really good doughnut afterwards!

went for a curry afterwards at moti mahal and absolutely was embarassed when the server caught me humming along to the dvd that was playing while i was getting my dal makhani. every indian person in buffalo must think i'm crazy, i swear.

jen and i went to see "marie antoinette" tonight, i was surprised by how much i enjoyed it. everybody knows my feelings on sophia coppola, kirsten dunst, "lost 'in translation," etc. i totally thought that they both should have just quit after "virgin suicides," that was a perfectly acceptable film legacy.

but while dunst is little more than a piece of expensive furniture in this film, everything else about it is stunning. inspired casting, amazing locations, gorgeous costumes, everything was incredibly beautiful and artistically sound. coppola kept the cinematography very simple, no fancy angles or anything, so as not to distract from the opulence of the surroundings. a wise choice, and a stunningly beautiful one as well. a pleasant surprise. i hadn't expected to care for it at all. she created an effective bubble that portrays the period, while revealing its limitations in the flaws of the film...does that make sense?

however, i have to say that the ignorance of people is shocking when it comes to knowing a damn thing about history. i'll admit it, the ending left a bit to be desired. it's abrupt, and i felt it didn't evoke the feelings it was meant to. i understand the motivation; if coppola had gone through the trial and subsequent execution of antoinette, it would have been a five hour movie.

but when the screen went black, in that second where you know the credits are coming, the people behind us actually said "wait, that's it? what happens next? IT'S THE FUCKING FRENCH REVOLUTION, PEOPLE. wtf. it was bad enough when i was the only one in a sold-out theater who snorted when one of louis' advisors told him the only repercussion of sending wartime aid to america was "the slight raising of taxes," this was just unacceptable. how do you not know "how it turns out?" ugh.

so i came home and watched gael garcia bernal murder people, and i felt better. weird.

8:32pm: "ryan, get in the coffin!"
i have a new favorite episode of "the office." and it hasn't even aired yet.

http://www.tv.com/the-office/diwali/episode/897498/summary.html

and from chris---this was a lot harder than i thought it would be!

"Once tagged by this entry, the assignment is to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about you. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included."

1.) every night before i go to sleep, i NEED to put on chapstick. but after about half the tube, i get sick of the flavor. and so the area around my bed is basically where chapstick goes to die.

2.) i LOVE fake flowers. love. i have a ton of them in my room, and secretly relish coming upon descriptions of them in books.

3.) if i wear perfume with myrrh in it, i smell like my dog used to after he rolled in dead bird. myrrh does not like me.

4.) if pressed, i could probably still sing all the songs from "the little mermaid." how NOT goth is that?

5.) ron is my favorite character from harry potter, but i think daniel radcliffe is cuter than rupert grint. how weird is that? also, he's still underage, isn't he? whoops.

6.) when i paint my nails, i almost always paint one fingernail a different color than the rest. and no one ever notices...that makes me happy.

i tag---
ellenlaura
hollow_warrior
flamingdyke
glamtron
welcome_to_1984
scarletsrave

6:25pm: my feet are warm.
the past few days have been CRAPTACULAR. if it wasn't for the amazingness of our neighbours my parents and i would have starved, then frozen to death.

when the kids at the elementary school thursday saw the snow, they were yelling "snow day! snow day!" and i was like "yeah right, that's NEVER gonna happen." cut to five days later, and here we are.

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3:49pm: it is good to be warm again.
o internet, how i have missed thee.