there's heroin chic, shabby chic, but I like Final Draft chic the best
Ha. Long time no see? This is what's happened to me in the intervening month since last we spoke.
* I spent most of December in a slightly depressed state, getting a minimum of birthday wishes from people who really should not have forgotten my birthday (it took my dad until after eight that night to call me, which I find disgraceful on a Saturday). This doesn't include [info]cashewdani , who wished me happy birthday on LJ. I greatly appreciated it, even if I never said anything! Anyway, a week after that, no one came to my birthday party but a former roommate and her sister, who stopped by for a very awkward, seemingly endless couple of hours. All the people I considered my best friends didn't show up, and it justmade me even more depressed and tired and lonely and so that was my early/mid-December.
* My Christmas was nice, though. I didn't have to work, I managed to be on the Coast at the same time as my Aunt Michelle and her two adorable kids, who I hadn't seen for two years. My cousin Ginna, who's four and utterly adorable, spent at least twenty minutes sitting on my lap and talking to me. Aunt Michelle has always been my favorite aunt - she is incredibly pretty and nice and I think I've always been a little bit in awe of her. Anyway, then I spent a bunch of time with my family, and I took my brother to see Avatar, and Mom and the kids and I all went to see Sherlock Holmes on Christmas, and even when my grandmother was in town she stayed at my uncle's house and so I still got my bed all to myself. We got Beatles Rock Band for Christmas, and I spent all that day and all the next day being the Ringo in the family, sometimes playing with other members - my siblings are, like, obnoxious Beatles fans currently, which drives me a little crazy, because that pretentiousness isn't supposed to show up 'til high school, but I get it. When you discover the Beatles, you're pretty sure you're the first person to do so - it's just a rite of passage, I think.
* I was only home for a week (the 20th to the 27th) and then I went to my dad's for two days. That was pretty miserable - flying into Atlanta on the Sunday after Christmas is something I wouldn't reccomend to anyone. My suitcase broke - the handle ripped off, though everything was still in there - and so I got a new one while I was there. My step-mom threw a sort-of dinner party for me while I was there. My dad's best friends Caren and Lindsey were supposed to come, but Lindsey was sick so just Caren came. My dad and I watched some Mad About You, which I will forever and always associate with him, and hung out for a little, and it was nice.
* January has been very low-key so far. I started the year by watching Mad About You and working, then working and watching Mad About You. I hope this means my 2010 will be pretty great - so far, it seems to maybe be working. I've been working a lot, and lazing around at other times. I watched all of Desperate Housewives (no, I don't know why) and then all of Mad About You, which makes my heart hurt in the greatest possible way. That show can make me laugh and cry, and Paul and Jamie's relationship is probably my ideal one - it is full of love and full of uncertainty. They fight, over real things and stupid things, and yet they seem to always be there for each other, and they can be tender and touching and REAL - the season 4 finale, in particular, makes me cry, but before that, I watch in rapt attention at these two people yelling at each other in a way that people actually do yell at each other, in a way people really do talk. It is awesome, in the truest sense of the word.
* Ha, I'm going into TV soon. I'm in a script supervising class right now, which seems like the hardest job ever, but I still want to maybe try to shadow one when I get to LA. Being around all these film people, though (it's a film course; I had to try hard to get in as a TV major), and talking about scripts, makes me want to write, which is a very, very good thing (and another sign that this year will be better than the last - though most of last year was great, just not the beginning or end. I greatly enjoyed finding easy_academy , for instance, and the JB concert, and going to LA. But Jan-March and December were just generally shitty).
* My DVR did stop working the other day, though, and I had to get a new one, which means I have to remember what I watch in time to program it. And everything's new this week (or most of it is)! Also, I'm really looking forward to Life Unexpected on the CW, don't ask me why, and Chuck just came back, and Parenthood, which I've been looking forward to since, oh, AUGUST, is finally premiering in March, with Lauren Graham (yayayay!) in it, and, well, I just like TV.
* To wrap everything up: My favorite things about today! 1) Joe Jonas finally has a twitter (which means @jonasbrothers is probably going to lapse into nothing, with Kevin off being married and Nick off at @nickjonas) and we might finally figure out what he's been up to lately. 2) In a behind the scenes video of last night's fantastic HIMYM musical number (which excited me because HIMYM has what's probably my favorite crew on TV right now - I would like to hang out on that set all day and just watch Pam Fryman talk to Carter and Craig), Neil danced his way past Bones' Royal Diner, which just cemented that whole Bones-HIMYM crossover thing even more. 3) On last night's episode of Castle, Beckett made fun of Ryan and Esposito and asked them if they sometimes sit around and argue which Jonas Brother is the coolest, and their immediate response was, "Oh, it's definitely Nick." 4) I'm almost finished with the sequel to The Nanny Diaries (which, upon what's probably my fourth or fifth read, still made me cry at the end) and it's been a) delightful and b) not at all predictable (minus one point that I could see coming a MILE away, and I'm a little disappointed Nan didn't, but she's got a lot on her mind, so whatevs.
Anyway. Those are my ramblings. I'm hoping to post a little more regularly, which at this point is still only about once every four weeks.
* I spent most of December in a slightly depressed state, getting a minimum of birthday wishes from people who really should not have forgotten my birthday (it took my dad until after eight that night to call me, which I find disgraceful on a Saturday). This doesn't include [info]cashewdani , who wished me happy birthday on LJ. I greatly appreciated it, even if I never said anything! Anyway, a week after that, no one came to my birthday party but a former roommate and her sister, who stopped by for a very awkward, seemingly endless couple of hours. All the people I considered my best friends didn't show up, and it justmade me even more depressed and tired and lonely and so that was my early/mid-December.
* My Christmas was nice, though. I didn't have to work, I managed to be on the Coast at the same time as my Aunt Michelle and her two adorable kids, who I hadn't seen for two years. My cousin Ginna, who's four and utterly adorable, spent at least twenty minutes sitting on my lap and talking to me. Aunt Michelle has always been my favorite aunt - she is incredibly pretty and nice and I think I've always been a little bit in awe of her. Anyway, then I spent a bunch of time with my family, and I took my brother to see Avatar, and Mom and the kids and I all went to see Sherlock Holmes on Christmas, and even when my grandmother was in town she stayed at my uncle's house and so I still got my bed all to myself. We got Beatles Rock Band for Christmas, and I spent all that day and all the next day being the Ringo in the family, sometimes playing with other members - my siblings are, like, obnoxious Beatles fans currently, which drives me a little crazy, because that pretentiousness isn't supposed to show up 'til high school, but I get it. When you discover the Beatles, you're pretty sure you're the first person to do so - it's just a rite of passage, I think.
* I was only home for a week (the 20th to the 27th) and then I went to my dad's for two days. That was pretty miserable - flying into Atlanta on the Sunday after Christmas is something I wouldn't reccomend to anyone. My suitcase broke - the handle ripped off, though everything was still in there - and so I got a new one while I was there. My step-mom threw a sort-of dinner party for me while I was there. My dad's best friends Caren and Lindsey were supposed to come, but Lindsey was sick so just Caren came. My dad and I watched some Mad About You, which I will forever and always associate with him, and hung out for a little, and it was nice.
* January has been very low-key so far. I started the year by watching Mad About You and working, then working and watching Mad About You. I hope this means my 2010 will be pretty great - so far, it seems to maybe be working. I've been working a lot, and lazing around at other times. I watched all of Desperate Housewives (no, I don't know why) and then all of Mad About You, which makes my heart hurt in the greatest possible way. That show can make me laugh and cry, and Paul and Jamie's relationship is probably my ideal one - it is full of love and full of uncertainty. They fight, over real things and stupid things, and yet they seem to always be there for each other, and they can be tender and touching and REAL - the season 4 finale, in particular, makes me cry, but before that, I watch in rapt attention at these two people yelling at each other in a way that people actually do yell at each other, in a way people really do talk. It is awesome, in the truest sense of the word.
* Ha, I'm going into TV soon. I'm in a script supervising class right now, which seems like the hardest job ever, but I still want to maybe try to shadow one when I get to LA. Being around all these film people, though (it's a film course; I had to try hard to get in as a TV major), and talking about scripts, makes me want to write, which is a very, very good thing (and another sign that this year will be better than the last - though most of last year was great, just not the beginning or end. I greatly enjoyed finding easy_academy , for instance, and the JB concert, and going to LA. But Jan-March and December were just generally shitty).
* My DVR did stop working the other day, though, and I had to get a new one, which means I have to remember what I watch in time to program it. And everything's new this week (or most of it is)! Also, I'm really looking forward to Life Unexpected on the CW, don't ask me why, and Chuck just came back, and Parenthood, which I've been looking forward to since, oh, AUGUST, is finally premiering in March, with Lauren Graham (yayayay!) in it, and, well, I just like TV.
* To wrap everything up: My favorite things about today! 1) Joe Jonas finally has a twitter (which means @jonasbrothers is probably going to lapse into nothing, with Kevin off being married and Nick off at @nickjonas) and we might finally figure out what he's been up to lately. 2) In a behind the scenes video of last night's fantastic HIMYM musical number (which excited me because HIMYM has what's probably my favorite crew on TV right now - I would like to hang out on that set all day and just watch Pam Fryman talk to Carter and Craig), Neil danced his way past Bones' Royal Diner, which just cemented that whole Bones-HIMYM crossover thing even more. 3) On last night's episode of Castle, Beckett made fun of Ryan and Esposito and asked them if they sometimes sit around and argue which Jonas Brother is the coolest, and their immediate response was, "Oh, it's definitely Nick." 4) I'm almost finished with the sequel to The Nanny Diaries (which, upon what's probably my fourth or fifth read, still made me cry at the end) and it's been a) delightful and b) not at all predictable (minus one point that I could see coming a MILE away, and I'm a little disappointed Nan didn't, but she's got a lot on her mind, so whatevs.
Anyway. Those are my ramblings. I'm hoping to post a little more regularly, which at this point is still only about once every four weeks.