Nothing but Song

Feeling :  indescribable  Listening :  I Want You - Savage Garden  Reading :  Stardust - Neil Gaiman

OMG! I got my hair cut the other day, and I think I look like Gwen from Torchwood, rofl. It’s all layered and fringe-y. I <3 it.

I decided to get rid of two projects already: Cotton Club Topsites and the 21st Century Social Forums. The script for the topsites list was too insecure for my liking. I have a hard enough time trying to get conversations going on the forums I personally frequent. How the heck am I gonna get other people to talk? haha.

Now I’m gonna focus my energy on Discotheque (which I revamped to use WordPress), That’s My Song!, and Three. Plus I updated Three with a whole new batch of songs. I’m gonna change the layout too. It’s a bit boring, ahahaha.

Humaira pointed me in the direction of iGoogle. I guess I had done it previously, but my default home page has always been the boring Firefox one. iGoogle is way cooler.

Because of my job, I am up by 8am on the weekdays without fail. I cannot sleep in for anything now, yuk. I’m sure I’ve complained about that in the past, but alas, I am a complainer.

I decided to turn on the TV to help wake me up this morning, and I tuned in to “The Legend of Billie Jean.” For some reason, my brain must’ve been on “film student” mode when I woke up this morning, because I was analyzing the film from a film student’s perspective.

There’s the innocent outlaw Western subgenre (doesn’t hurt that the movie takes place in Texas), a feminist perspective that’s pretty easy to catch if you watch it from the beginning to the end, the classist perspective, the obligatory romance, the strong family bond perspective, the manipulation of media (newspapers, TV, radio) on both sides, the sexist villain, a religious aspect in the way she cut her hair (which I completely approve of ’cause I was confirmed under St. Joan), etc.

I wish I had stuck with my “American West Through Film” class this semester. I would’ve found a way to discuss the film in depth for that class. Oh well. You live and you learn. I just found out through the wiki that it’s a retelling of another story and Pat Benatar hates the movie. Hmm. Interesting.

Speaking of work, I have a semi-permanent schedule, with split days off and certain days when I have to call in. Yuk. I can’t really complain, because I am extra board and the newest employee. Our manager was laid off (corporate did some hardcore downsizing) and one other employee quit. So a couple of other people are picking up the slack. We have to make do with the staff that we had, since we’re not gonna be hiring. I got in here in just the nick of time.

We got the obligatory positive reinforcement lecture since the hammer fell, but it’s all talk to me. I know what I’m supposed to do. You tell me where I need to be, I’ll show up when I’m scheduled, I’ll do my job, and you pay me. That’s how it works. I won’t involve myself further than that. Because when you do, it gets messy. I’ve been in enough corporate peon jobs to know how that feels and I don’t want that for this new position. I want to keep it as distant as possible.

I can’t register for fall classes because my “records are on financial hold.” *le sigh* I’m glad I am getting paid well, otherwise I would be shit outta luck. Hopefully I can knock out most of my spring fees in the next couple of paychecks. Plus I’ve still got my stimulus check to look forward to! I love money, haha. Please God, don’t take this job from me. *prays*

Anyways, I guess life is pretty OK. My sister is planning on a trip to Oregon for us in June, as well as Warped tour in Salt Lake City! I’m gonna burn through my week’s vacation for both trips, but I deserve it dammit.

Sassy and I won’t be able to see Panic on HCT this summer though. We had tickets to their show here in Vegas (Sassy’s friend bought them for us). But her mom made other plans without checking with us, and so she won’t be able to go. And I refuse to go without her. It just wouldn’t be right. Panic was our first concert together, and if she can’t see them, I won’t either. Plus I’ve got Richard Cheese with Corinne to look forward to in August and hopefully a day trip or two back to Cali soon.

I’m just gonna enjoy this summer. Catch up on my reading, keep up on my bills, my sites, my friends, go swimming, enjoy my last few months as a 24 year old, get a tan, lose those last 5 pounds.

Hopefully God won’t send anything bad my way. *crosses fingers* I deserve just a few months of pleasure. Just a few. He can throw me for loops in the fall, after I’ve got everything out of my system this summer!

?: “Any big or exciting plans for the summer?”