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o1. I watched Glee because I heard about the Santana ending and also I had seen the Adele mash-up on the net and I love when they do mash-ups, okay. The Hall & Oates one makes me happy as well. It made me miss performing so much I think I nearly had a heart attack. :( I miss when I felt like watching this show every week. I need a new show to be into because I'm also out of Dexter reruns as of last night. Like I sound like an idiot, "Oh, give me showwwws!" but at the same time I know this shit has to happen organically. Because that is how every obsession has happened. So also I'm like waiting for it, ugh.
Or I could, you know, write a book or something with all my spare time but oh my god, heaven forbid do something that takes effort. Mainly I only talk about books because this Twilight shit has revved me up. I look at that pile of crap and know there's no reason I couldn't write a book and pull in $40 million a year, but actually there is a reason - I physically cannot dumb myself down enough to write a book like Twilight, to appeal to women and pre-pubescent girls who have low self-esteems and unhealthy views on love. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I know I could write a good book too, it's just that Breaking Dawn came out yesterday or whenever the fuck and it just kind of makes me sick. I want to write movies, you know, but I think the way I am as a person is more suited to books. Marc brought it up and after hearing his reasoning I have to agree with him. The beautiful strings of detail and delicious adjectives that I find necessary to include don't fit so eloquently in a script, if they do at all. I over-wrote my short way too much and I'm too much of a control freak to leave that much open for interpretation by directors and production designers. Plus, synesthetic imagery is my fucking favorite and it's so hard to convey in a script.
o2. On the other hand, I have also been considering documentary film-making. I saw that video of a special needs kid taping his teacher threatening him, and how that teacher is on PAID LEAVE PENDING AN INVESTIGATION. What. There is hard evidence. What is there to investigate and why does he get paid leave? He's scum. And then the comments! People sticking up for the teacher, how can you even? I don't even give a fuck if he "might have been provoked before the camera started recording", you are an adult. Act like it. And if you are a teacher, you are GOING to have the occasional student who has a shit attitude and is disrespectful. If you can't "endure" (seriously, whiny teacher in the Yahoo comments - "You have no idea the disrespect and threats that we have to endure.") that, pick another fucking profession. ALSO, GET IT UNDER CONTROL. I think back to high school and people gave shit to Mrs. B because she felt sorry for herself and took it, while no one would dare mouth off to Mr. P because he had zero tolerance for it. I'm a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you.
I watched Waiting for Superman as a result of my new-found rage and I'm not EVEN a teacher or a parent of a student and I'm pissed as hell. YOU GUYS, I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW MUCH I FUCKING HATE THE CONCEPT OF TENURE. My favorite part of the film was when Michelle Rhee proposed that teachers could either a.) keep their tenure and normal salaries, or b.) give UP their tenure and have the opportunity to earn almost twice as much money if they performed well. PEOPLE WERE SO THREATENED BY IT, IT DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO A VOTE. It is RIDICULOUS, it would hurt NO one! Bad teachers would be no worse off, but good ones would be better off, why does that not make sense to people. Then I got on a documentary kick and today I watched The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and Super Size Me, both of which were awesome. I am open to other suggestions plz.
o3. Jason's been working a lot this week because his boss' boss is going to present a banking interface he designed in fucking Spain. I am so proud of him, I can't believe how well he's doing in this job and how he even knows how to do all of this shit. Also he explained a whole bunch of physics shit to me today, all that new antimatter they found and I have such a boner over his brain, okay.
o4. In final random news, that internet bill is scaring the fuck out of me (even though I know it won't pass) so I finally backed up my entire LJ, comments and all. If the internet were censored and all social media sites were shut down, I would be so lost and clinically depressed. I strongly encourage anyone who gives a damn enough to keep this part of themselves to back your shit up. I used LJ Book and it was easy, quick, and wonderful.
o5. Speaking of LJ, I'd like to thank those of you who are still here. My mother keeps getting on me about how I've had this layout for too long (lol @ my mom caring about and following my blog aesthetics) and need a new one. I agree I just never feel like making them when there are so many tumbleweeds. I will though and it will probably be Paula Abdul or, holla, me WITH Paula Abdul so just, as a fair warning.
Or I could, you know, write a book or something with all my spare time but oh my god, heaven forbid do something that takes effort. Mainly I only talk about books because this Twilight shit has revved me up. I look at that pile of crap and know there's no reason I couldn't write a book and pull in $40 million a year, but actually there is a reason - I physically cannot dumb myself down enough to write a book like Twilight, to appeal to women and pre-pubescent girls who have low self-esteems and unhealthy views on love. I DON'T EVEN KNOW. I know I could write a good book too, it's just that Breaking Dawn came out yesterday or whenever the fuck and it just kind of makes me sick. I want to write movies, you know, but I think the way I am as a person is more suited to books. Marc brought it up and after hearing his reasoning I have to agree with him. The beautiful strings of detail and delicious adjectives that I find necessary to include don't fit so eloquently in a script, if they do at all. I over-wrote my short way too much and I'm too much of a control freak to leave that much open for interpretation by directors and production designers. Plus, synesthetic imagery is my fucking favorite and it's so hard to convey in a script.
o2. On the other hand, I have also been considering documentary film-making. I saw that video of a special needs kid taping his teacher threatening him, and how that teacher is on PAID LEAVE PENDING AN INVESTIGATION. What. There is hard evidence. What is there to investigate and why does he get paid leave? He's scum. And then the comments! People sticking up for the teacher, how can you even? I don't even give a fuck if he "might have been provoked before the camera started recording", you are an adult. Act like it. And if you are a teacher, you are GOING to have the occasional student who has a shit attitude and is disrespectful. If you can't "endure" (seriously, whiny teacher in the Yahoo comments - "You have no idea the disrespect and threats that we have to endure.") that, pick another fucking profession. ALSO, GET IT UNDER CONTROL. I think back to high school and people gave shit to Mrs. B because she felt sorry for herself and took it, while no one would dare mouth off to Mr. P because he had zero tolerance for it. I'm a firm believer that you teach people how to treat you.
I watched Waiting for Superman as a result of my new-found rage and I'm not EVEN a teacher or a parent of a student and I'm pissed as hell. YOU GUYS, I HAVE NO WORDS TO EXPRESS HOW MUCH I FUCKING HATE THE CONCEPT OF TENURE. My favorite part of the film was when Michelle Rhee proposed that teachers could either a.) keep their tenure and normal salaries, or b.) give UP their tenure and have the opportunity to earn almost twice as much money if they performed well. PEOPLE WERE SO THREATENED BY IT, IT DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO A VOTE. It is RIDICULOUS, it would hurt NO one! Bad teachers would be no worse off, but good ones would be better off, why does that not make sense to people. Then I got on a documentary kick and today I watched The Greatest Movie Ever Sold and Super Size Me, both of which were awesome. I am open to other suggestions plz.
o3. Jason's been working a lot this week because his boss' boss is going to present a banking interface he designed in fucking Spain. I am so proud of him, I can't believe how well he's doing in this job and how he even knows how to do all of this shit. Also he explained a whole bunch of physics shit to me today, all that new antimatter they found and I have such a boner over his brain, okay.
o4. In final random news, that internet bill is scaring the fuck out of me (even though I know it won't pass) so I finally backed up my entire LJ, comments and all. If the internet were censored and all social media sites were shut down, I would be so lost and clinically depressed. I strongly encourage anyone who gives a damn enough to keep this part of themselves to back your shit up. I used LJ Book and it was easy, quick, and wonderful.
o5. Speaking of LJ, I'd like to thank those of you who are still here. My mother keeps getting on me about how I've had this layout for too long (lol @ my mom caring about and following my blog aesthetics) and need a new one. I agree I just never feel like making them when there are so many tumbleweeds. I will though and it will probably be Paula Abdul or, holla, me WITH Paula Abdul so just, as a fair warning.