My Girl
I was just looking at the tv book seeing what's on today, and apparently, My Girl is on. And so is The Wizard of Oz. So my new goal of the day is to not let myself watch either of those. Which is sort of ironic, since those were two of my favorite movies when I was little.
The only reason I don't want to watch The Wizard of Oz is that I don't want to get Somewhere Over the Rainbow stuck in my head again, cuz it drives me CRAZY (almost literally crazy...haha)! My Girl...well...
I must've watched My Girl like 30 times when I was younger. I LOVED that movie. And it never made me cry or anything, I just liked the movie, I don't even know WHY I liked it. Then I didn't see it for several years. Then, one night last summer, I was in bed with the tv on, it must've been 2 or 3 in the morning, and My Girl was on! So I watched it for a while. And it upset me SO much that I couldn't fall asleep...ended up getting almost no sleep at all that night, actually. And I was still upset for the next like 3 days after that, too. So I don't let myself watch that movie anymore. I don't know if it would still have that effect on me now, a year later...but I'm pretty sure it would have SOME effect similar to that, and so I still won't watch it. Maybe someday, like when I'm 50, haha, I'll be able to watch it again :-P That stupid "weeping willow" poem that Vada writes in the movie...I know it word for word, and it almost makes me cry just hearing it in my head! I cannot watch that movie...lol :-P
So, I guess that's enough rambling about random movies. I'm hoping this weekend will be better than last weekend, which it should be, since we actually have PLANS both today and tomorrow, and my mom wants to try to go to the movies on Monday (I'm all for that one, hehe, there are some movies I'd like to see again!)...plans are good. Boredom is evil.
In other news, my search for a career path to follow seems to keep leading me back to early childhood education, so, for right now, it looks like that's the direction I'm gonna head in. Camp is definitely reinforcing that decision...every day I am amazed at how camp is like this whole separate world, and at camp, for those 4.5 hours, I'm happy. And I come out of camp happy every single day, no matter what! Some days, that happiness lasts me the rest of the day, other days, it lasts all of 5 minutes, but either way, it's so nice to just be happy for a little while. And if little kids can give me that...then of COURSE I should work with them for the rest of my life! I'd have to be stupid not to. (Well...I am stupid, but I'm not THAT stupid, lol.) And thus, the grad school search begins in earnest again. My new goal is to go to grad school starting next fall, just so that I can come back to camp next summer! I've been having some interesting thoughts about grad school and where I want to eventually live (like, after grad school), too...it's so funny how, if my parents didn't live here, and if I hadn't lived here my whole life (and thus desperately want out), this area would be SO perfect for me :-P it's like, the epitome of suburbia...and I love suburbia! but, we'll see. I'm taking the GRE in 3 weeks, so, depending on how that goes, my grad school search might narrow down a little. right now, the two schools I'm thinking about the most (because they have good education programs, and location) are UMCP and UGA. I'm still a little hesitant about UMCP, just because I don't want to get stuck at home forever...but we'll see.
Ok, enough for now! I'll update again at some point.
The only reason I don't want to watch The Wizard of Oz is that I don't want to get Somewhere Over the Rainbow stuck in my head again, cuz it drives me CRAZY (almost literally crazy...haha)! My Girl...well...
I must've watched My Girl like 30 times when I was younger. I LOVED that movie. And it never made me cry or anything, I just liked the movie, I don't even know WHY I liked it. Then I didn't see it for several years. Then, one night last summer, I was in bed with the tv on, it must've been 2 or 3 in the morning, and My Girl was on! So I watched it for a while. And it upset me SO much that I couldn't fall asleep...ended up getting almost no sleep at all that night, actually. And I was still upset for the next like 3 days after that, too. So I don't let myself watch that movie anymore. I don't know if it would still have that effect on me now, a year later...but I'm pretty sure it would have SOME effect similar to that, and so I still won't watch it. Maybe someday, like when I'm 50, haha, I'll be able to watch it again :-P That stupid "weeping willow" poem that Vada writes in the movie...I know it word for word, and it almost makes me cry just hearing it in my head! I cannot watch that movie...lol :-P
So, I guess that's enough rambling about random movies. I'm hoping this weekend will be better than last weekend, which it should be, since we actually have PLANS both today and tomorrow, and my mom wants to try to go to the movies on Monday (I'm all for that one, hehe, there are some movies I'd like to see again!)...plans are good. Boredom is evil.
In other news, my search for a career path to follow seems to keep leading me back to early childhood education, so, for right now, it looks like that's the direction I'm gonna head in. Camp is definitely reinforcing that decision...every day I am amazed at how camp is like this whole separate world, and at camp, for those 4.5 hours, I'm happy. And I come out of camp happy every single day, no matter what! Some days, that happiness lasts me the rest of the day, other days, it lasts all of 5 minutes, but either way, it's so nice to just be happy for a little while. And if little kids can give me that...then of COURSE I should work with them for the rest of my life! I'd have to be stupid not to. (Well...I am stupid, but I'm not THAT stupid, lol.) And thus, the grad school search begins in earnest again. My new goal is to go to grad school starting next fall, just so that I can come back to camp next summer! I've been having some interesting thoughts about grad school and where I want to eventually live (like, after grad school), too...it's so funny how, if my parents didn't live here, and if I hadn't lived here my whole life (and thus desperately want out), this area would be SO perfect for me :-P it's like, the epitome of suburbia...and I love suburbia! but, we'll see. I'm taking the GRE in 3 weeks, so, depending on how that goes, my grad school search might narrow down a little. right now, the two schools I'm thinking about the most (because they have good education programs, and location) are UMCP and UGA. I'm still a little hesitant about UMCP, just because I don't want to get stuck at home forever...but we'll see.
Ok, enough for now! I'll update again at some point.