friday:
1. work
2. movies with stabby
3. finishing my re-read of eclipse

saturday:
1. reading breaking dawn
2. fangirling

sunday:
1. re-reading breaking dawn
2. fangirling

interrupt my very important plans and die a slow and painful death.

so i’ve been the acting director at camp for the past two days, and i have to say that it’s going swell. although one of my staff was suspended for the today (not my fault!), due to complaints filed by campers, parents, and other staff. he just needs to learn that you can’t say certain things around children, or coworkers. making people uncomfortable is a habit of his, and i guess he’s having a tough time breaking it. oh well. actually, camp was pretty calm today. maybe there’s a connection there? haha.

anyways, i think i’ve totally got this director stuff covered. i opened camp last week too, and i definitely think i have the hang of it. my super organization skills are definitely a plus. i plan out the day the night before and write list after list of various things i need to remember (subjects for our morning meeting with the campers, things to bring, difficulties the staff need to work on, potential future projects, et cetera). tomorrow is our early planning meeting, which i’m excited to run. hahaha i’m so lame.

“i chose pink paper because it’s your favorite color.”
by mason, age 7

“excuse me ma’am, i made this for you.”
by yusuf, age 9, autistic

BREAKING DAWN WILL BE RELEASED IN EXACTLY 7 DAYS.

the great re-read has commenced.

this journal will remain spoiler-free until 08/02, thankyouverymuch.

( oh, and i got two of my friends hooked on twilight this week — just in time! )

superhero week is going awesome! we’ve made logos, masks, utility belts, and tie-dye shirts so far. tomorrow is our costume day. i’m captain pink, aka i already have a costume.

but tomorrow is also evaluation day, which i am like insanely nervous about. since i’m the assistant director now, i’ve been helping my director with the staff evaluations, but he does mine on his own. no one has gotten a perfect or near-perfect eval yet, which is why i’m worried. last year i got all 1s except one 2. you see, they aren’t allowed to give perfect evaluations for the first eval, only the second eval at the end of the summer, to indicate “improvement.” so they gave me a 2 in some stupid category, told me that it wasn’t exactly true, and i was happy with that. but i think the director this year is too concerned with showing improvement, so he’s giving out a lot more 2s and 3s than i would have expected. i know this is a stupid thing to get worked up over, but it’s my first year as assistant director — i don’t want to find out that i’m not doing a good job.

oh, and i’m beginning to think i have actually developed an obsessive compulsive disorder.
- i go into work an hour early to sweep and tidy up, even though i don’t get paid for it.
- every time i pass something that’s crooked or disorganized, i stop to fix it. this includes piles of paper on the sign-in table at work, things that have been hung on walls, the game table/staff table/other tables and such at work, and et cetera.
- i noticed when i play battleship that i make subconsciously guesses in a symmetrical pattern, and i sometimes don’t put white pegs in when it upsets this symmetry and instead commit the miss to memory.
- i clean my room every day, multiple times a day. well, not really clean, since it’s not dirty, but i tidy.

basically, i’m slowly going insane.

so… i’ve been watching a ridiculous amount of rocky and bullwinkle as of late. when i was a kid we had three VHS cassettes that my sister and i watched repetitively. forty minutes of hilarity per tape, basically. anyways, i rewatched them all recently, and realized that i love that show an abnormal amount. so much that i bought volumes 1-12, minus the ones we have (2, 3, and 5), on ebay yesterday. hahahahaha.

i also discovered that there are literally zero lj comms for moose and squirrel. dag, yo.

i just got new pots for my two larger plants (the bigger one is an umbrella plant called schefflera, and the smaller one is a dracaena, aka lucky bamboo). the smaller ones are cacti — they reside in kitchen shot glasses.

i live in a little room with a little window, so i don’t have much room for more plants, or really any that flower due to the low sunlight. but i’m happy with what i have. but that doesn’t mean i’m not looking for new pals : )

so i watched dr. horrible’s sing-along blog today — OMG. so amazing.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a 40-minute, 3-part musical comedy produced for the Internet, telling the story of a low-rent supervillain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.

so it’s basically the best thing ever. it’s only available online (i bought it on the itunes music store, but you can watch it for free until next week on the official website), but it’s going to be released onto dvd, complete with lots of extras. so i will be buying that, yes indeed.

and did i mention it stars neil patrick harris? i adore him.

spoiler alert!

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3 things i did tonight:

(1) bummed around pittsford plaza with stabby, jon, and abby’s sister cat. we had dinner at applebees, hung out in barnes and noble, and hit up wegmans. it was a pretty swell time.

(2) saw the dark knight. expect a separate post about it tomorrow, but for now: OH MY GOD.

(3) got pulled over by a brighton cop after dropping jon off. i had no idea if i was speeding or not, because the dashboard lights don’t work anymore. so when he asked me, “do you know why i pulled you over?” i was truthfully able to answer no. turns out it’s not just my dashboard lights that don’t work — my tail-lights are out of commission too. so i got my first ticket tonight. and it wasn’t even my fault. fucking dentmobile.

so we plan the next week’s activities at camp on wednesdays, mkay? we came up with a really awesome week theme — superheroes! we were really excited about it, we even gave each individual day a theme (para ejemplo, monday is batman day). coming up with games wasn’t too hard, as long as we were sure to incorporate the superhero’s strengths/flaws/villains/etc. we’re usually pretty good at this. today we played adventure ball, because it’s adventure week. note that adventure ball is just dodgeball with an awesome name.

but we ran into trubs when it came to thinking up crafts. superhero crafts? wtf. our fourty-five minute meeting didn’t give us enough time to find any crafts, so jeff and i set up shop at the sign in table and partook in an intense brainstorming session. suddenly, it hit me. we can have the campers design their own superheroes, and then make costumes, and then effing be superheroes. hells to the yes. so on monday they will think up their superhero—choose a name, design a logo, and stuff like that. on tuesday we’re going to make masks. on wednesday we’re making tie-dye (because only the coolest superheroes wear tie-dye). thursday we’re designing utility belts. and friday we’re putting it all together and parading around the school.

basically, i work at the funnest camp ever.