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| What up? It's my birthday, bitches! 
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| As you know, I have a beef with the changes xanga is making. I resent it. I did not sign up for this online blog community to nudge, message, friend, rate, or do anything other than share. If I wanted to join a blog-facebook hybrid or a facebook wannabe, I would have joined myspace. Seriously, xanga …Nudges? Memories? Footprints? Ratings? Messages? What the hell.
I joined xanga in high school. Back then, it was huge. I’m pretty sure that all my high school friends had a xanga at one point, and it was an incredible community. I appreciate that period because I used to update like Every Day. And now when I go back and read those incredibly insane and irrelevant posts, it makes me laugh. But the community here has slowly dwindled… Now, there are only a handful of people on xanga who I care about that update on a semi-regular basis (and half of them are Penn Staters, who I have the pleasure interacting with in person).
Furthermore, I desperately need to retire the alias Sundragon18. That is a name I came up with in middle school and finally switched to LSeimadfly (much more fitting- thanks DL) in high school. Unfortunately, you can’t change your site name or anything on xanga, so I’ve been stuck in the past here. Now that I look back on it, I think I should have moved sites when I moved to college. Frankly, my xanga is a fossilized record of my golden years of high school. That’s when xanga was in its heyday for me, as I mentioned before. Well, I think I’ve changed since high school, and xanga certainly has… I feel like the time to move on and separate myself from an era long gone is tragically overdue. Besides, a new website would allow me to continue to feed my compulsion to share (with a lot less bitching).
To make a long story short (haha), my brother moved blog sites, and I’m going to follow him. I think I might have actually mentioned these intentions before now. I’ve just been waiting for him to do all the research into which blog site is most dees and actually make the switch. He chose blogspot.com, (visit my brother’s site) which I wholeheartedly approve of. Blogspot is simple (no facebook-wannabe crap that I know of), it has pretty templates, it allows everyone to write you comments, it allows you to change your site name/URL/blog name easily, and you can even set up joint blogs. My brother has coerced his girlfriend in to sharing the online space with him. I love the idea of a joint blog, and lucky for me, my roommate/twin/bff, Lindsay, is interested in joining me for some merry online adventures. Riiiiight. Anyway, Linds and I will set up our new blogspote site sometime after we move in on the 31st… I’ll post a link to it here and that will the end of xanga and me!
In the meantime, I have some good news. Today is my very last day at Hill Environmental Group, Inc. Coming in to work today has been worth it solely for the fact that my coworker, Debbie, brought me breakfast from Pennington Bagel, which is like the sweetest thing ever. But other than that, I kind of want to poke my eye out. This job has been making me miserable all week. My job makes me so irritated that even my boyfriend giving me a box of chocolates the other night didn't cheer me up. It's because I'm the only one here- Dan Petty, Jordan, and Elisa are all gone- and I’ve been up front (alone) covering for Elisa all week as receptionist slash office bitch, which is not what I was hired to do (and not something I’m particularly good at). On Wednesday, Jody (the president) made me go pick something up for her with her car, which is a TANK. I thought I was going to die in that thing and take the whole town of Pennington down with me. Seriously, I hit a curb and got halfway through my return trip before realizing that the emergency break was on (which was actually quite amusing to me at the time). But, frankly, I’ve spent the entire week either sitting and do absolutely nothing (which is clearly what I’m doing right now) or running around like a maniac and stressing out. I don’t particularly enjoy either of those activities, and I cannot wait until 5:00 today when I can finally smile and be happy again. There isn’t anybody to stop me from running down the street to my house, screaming my head off.
What makes this week ending even sweeter? Maryland. I cannot wait to just chillax with my delightful boyfriend. I mean, I am just elated at the concept of spending an entire week in the pleasure of his company. Aaaaaand I guess Mike’s Aunt, Washington D.C., Baltimore, and possibly Ocean City are cool too.
When I get back from MD, I’ve reserved a precious few days to pack and have one last beach trip with Yejin before leaving again to PSU. I have spent the last two weeks busy as hell with saying goodbye to most of my home friends, and it has been so surreal. I mean, where did the summer go? I feel like, these three months have passed by sooooo quickly, and I didn’t even get to fit in all the things I wanted to do. Although, I did buy a tree, and I’m so excited! My mom helped me pay for a sweet little cherry tree, which will bloom pink flowers in the spring. Hopefully, the planters will come by and put the tree in while I’m gone next week. :) But I digress. What was the main point of this paragraph again? Oh yeah, summer is almost over, and that’s just fucked up.
Anyway, I guess I should get back to working (i.e. staring out the window, picking at my cuticles, and pondering the fact that I have had two different French songs stuck in my head the last couple of days). Peace Out!
Four hours, 49 minutes, and counting... | | |
| Currently listening to: Gnarls Barkley- Crazy REMIX ft. Kardinal Offishall, Joe Budden, & Remy Martin
Outkast- Morris Brown ft. Scar & Sleepy Brown
Justin Timberlake- Sexy Back
Other new shit you probably haven’t even heard of yet. Yeah, suck it easy, loser!
OK I have good news and bad news:
The good news is that Talib Kweli and I share a birthday. Oh yes, October 3rd is where it’s AT! How cool is that? He is exactly 11 years older than me. :)
More good news: Lindsay (my roommate) and I have 5th row floor seats to see Sean Paul on the second day of classes!! That’s all thanks to Adam for hooking us up. :)
More good news: Only one more week of work after this one. It’s just going to be hell because Elisa, Dan, and Jordan will all be gone… yup, hell.
The bad news is that I have mono. Yeah, so basically everything I wrote about in my previous Ali G bitch post and allllllllllll the crappiness I’ve been feeling for the last two months (approximately) has been caused by mono. Yup, all this time I’ve been blaming my fatigue on the late-night phone calls with my boyfriend… luckily, he’s immune to my contamination because he’s had mono before. But I wouldn’t advise any of you to drink after me. I'm just annoyed that I'm not supposed to run or do cruntches because of my stupid spleen... I have two more trips to the beach this summer, and someone is going to have to roll me down to the surf because I'll be so out of shape. Stupid spleen.
Oh well, I think the good news outweighs the bad.
P.S. Me and xanga are in a fight about this new formatting crap. DIE, XANGA!
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| Over the weekend I wrote a post complaining about how sick I am, and then I ran it through da Ali G translator to spice things up a bit:
dis is basically a story about ow my tonsils tried to take ova my entire body. check, i’ve was rukin off dis plague fa at least a week before wednesday evun appened, and whetha it was da erbal remedy, late nights, and/or lack of go to me julie dat eventually did me in, i’ll neva know. but da fact remains da same dat, last wednesday, i woke up wiv a quillion degree feva and tonsils dat resembled raw, slimy, and slightly moldy meatballs in da back of my throat. as if dat wasn’t wicked enough, wednesday night was da night my tonsils launched their campaign to take ova my body. it was a fit miserable night fa me, bein da field to which so much violence and avoc was bein wreaked, but i eld on. and whun dawn revealed dat i was still alive on thursday mornin, i knew i still did ave ope to win it. i’ve bin rukin back wiv five different medications and copious amounts of go to me julie eva since, and it’s bin rough. wars dig dis ave many casualties; dig my ability to bang, swallow, and breathe. aye, it’s bin quite a dogged, uphill battle, but i know dat eventually- maybe not tomorrow, maybe not da day afta, or da day afta dat- but eventually i will come out victorious. From now on, I'm going to run all my xanga posts and everything I write/type on the computer through da Ali G translator.
Word.
P.S. Sean Paul is coming to Penn State
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| Do you guys enjoy the song FYIs & BTWs? Because I got another one for you. A song that has recently taken both radio and a plethora of music video channels by storm:
Christina Aguilera- Ain't No Other Man
I love this song. It's such a great little song! It's catchy with neat lyrics, and best of all, I can totally relate to it. I listen to this song, and I cannot stop thinking about how it is the perfect embodiment of how I feel about my boyfriend and how it is the perfect bangin' and typical-Lauren medium to express those feelings. It also makes me a little excited to see what else is on Christina's new album, which I think is coming out around august/september. I hear that she's moving from her lady marmalade image to a marilyn monroe image. lol As if the gay community could love her any more than they already do?? Personally, whatever she wants to do with that fantastic voice is just fine with me! As usual, just let me know if you want me to email the MP3 to you. :)
"Do your thang, honey!
I could feel it from the start,
Couldn't stand to be apart.
Something 'bout you caught my eye,
Something moved me deep inside!
I don't know what you did boy but you had it,
And i've been hooked ever since.
I told my mother, my brother, my sister and my friends
I told the others, my lovers, both past and present tense.
That everytime I see you everything starts making sense.
Do your thang, honey!
Ain't no other man, can stand up next to you
Ain't no other man on the planet does what you do.
You're the kinda guy, a girl finds in a blue moon.
You got soul, you got class.
You got style, & you bad ass - oh yeah!
Ain't no other man its true - alright
Ain't no other man but you.
Never thought I'd be alright. No, no, no!
Till you came and changed my life. Yeah, yeah, yeah!
What was cloudy now is clear, yeah, yeah!
You're the light that I needed.
You got what I want boy, and I want it! So keep on givin' it up!
Tell your mother, your brother, your sister, and your friends.
And the others, your lovers, better not be present tense.
Cause I want everyone to know that you are mine and no one else's!
Ain't no other man, can stand up next to you
Ain't no other man on the planet does what you do.
You're the kinda guy, a girl finds in a blue moon.
You got soul, you got class.
You got style, & you bad ass
Ain't no other man it's true
Ain't no other man but you.
Break it down now!
Ain't no other, ain't, ain't no other!
Ain't no other, ain't, ain't no other LOVER!
Ain't no other, I, I, I need no other!
Ain't no other man but you!
You are there when I'm a mess
Talk me down from every ledge
Give me strength, boy you're the best
You're the only one who's ever passed every test!
Ain't no other man, can stand up next to you
Ain't no other man on the planet does what you do.
You're the kinda guy, a girl finds in a blue moon.
You got soul, you got class.
You got style with ya bad ass
Ain't no other man it's true
Ain't no other man but you.
And now I'm tellin you son, ain't no other man but you
Ain't no other man, can stand up next to you
Ain't no other man on the planet does what you do.
You're the kinda guy, a girl finds in a blue moon.
You got soul, you got class.
You got style & ya bad ass
Ain't no other man it's true
Ain't no other man but you." Christina Aguilera- Ain't No Other Man | | |
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