yesterday i saw nick & norah’s infinite playlist with alexa, marie, and alexa’s roommate christina!

basically, it’s all sorts of amazing. i had already purchased (and adored) the soundtrack before i even went to see it, which made it ever better. oh, and i have a link for it if you want to listen — nick & norah’s infinite playlist soundtrack.

my shining moment occurred when i was the only one to realize that the guitar nick plays towards the end in the studio probably once belonged to jimi hendrix, because it was, according to nick, a left-handed guitar. but it wasn’t, as i could see by the scratchplate. right-handed guitar strung for a left-handed player? white stratocaster? has to be hendrix : )

super awesome day (for one of the first times this semester, so sorry if this post is braggy).

(1) i totally rocked my christopher columbus lesson plan presentation this morning! i was really nervous because it’s my first time writing a lesson plan, and my first time “teaching” one. but i felt pretty at ease throughout the lesson, the same sort of feeling i have when i explain gym games or craft projects at work. for my overall grade on the lesson i got an A, which is really awesome.

and to top it all off, my professor talked to me afterwards and said my lesson plan was “exceptionally well-done.” he asked me where i went last year, i said that i wasn’t a transfer, and he was surprised. apparently other schools start working on lesson plans freshman year, so when they transfer here they are ahead in that area. he actually said my lesson plan was teacher- or student teacher-level. that’s fresh.

(2) i finally figured out the calc proof i’ve been working on since last monday! a two page long proof, finished a half an hour before i had to leave for class. man, that was one glorious proof, once i figured it out.

(3) the chuck season premiere was tonight! for my and your reference, my shows for this year are as follows: the office, 30 rock, pushing daisies, house, bones, ncis, and chuck. so the only premieres i have left are pushing daisies on wednesday and 30 rock on october 30th. six hours of tv a week. phew!

(4) i think i’m going to spend tomorrow afternoon tagging my pre-wordpress and textpattern posts. but there are 781 of said posts, so it may take a few days. wish me luck!

the CAKE concert was last night! oh man, i think it was one of the best shows i’ve been to, ever. they are SO amazing live! like, maybe ever better than on their records. plus they’re in the “big five,” which is just my top five bands in no specific order (they might be giants, mc lars, atom and his package, the aquabats, and cake).

i went with liz, curls, and alexa. and guess who we saw there? torch! from pinewood! with the four of us there, it was a mini pinewood reunion : )

they played some of my favorites, and of course closed with the best of the best — short skirt / long jacket! highlights included comfort eagle (”he is calling you DUDE!”), the distance, wheels, comanche, stickshifts and safetybelts, frank sinatra, guitar, love you madly, arco arena, and never there. jeez, now that i think about it, every single song was amazing.

also, best photo ever:

and i caught “short skirt / long jacket” on camera! sounds better in real life though.

taking notes, as usual. sitting on the floor of the common room with my laptop on… my lap.
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basically, i want to marry lars. stabby and i went to record archive at 4:45ish and i bought five bajillion cd’s (read: eight). lars arrived around 5:00ish, and we had lots of time to chat and such. we talked about atom and his package, because lars saw the pins i have on my bag. you see, aahp is like my second favorite band ever, so lars and i were able to go on and on about how amazing atom is. and he told me that he contributed a song to an aahp tribute album that’ll be released next month! so awesome.

he also signed my ipod. he added the “j/k!” when i mentioned i don’t steal music, instead i shop at record archive. lol. oh, and he signed some monopoly money i had in my wallet. that makes like forty items i own that are now signed by lars. lolz.

and he “played” a set, too! i put that in quotes, because i’m not 100% sure that’s what it was. you see, he forgot to bring his laptop (although he did bring his band). so we were treated to an a cappella version of mc lars. definitely a new experience for everyone involved…

in other words, it was a very good time! after the show we talked again and he mentioned that he really liked the websites i’ve designed, and told me to keep being awesome. oh man, i love your mc lars.

the entire town lost power last night at midnight, due to high winds.

so of course that meant i couldn’t sleep, everything was too exciting! the generator kicked in after a minute after the power went out, turning the hallway lights on and nothing else. so our suite (minus the strep kids) gathered in the common room so we could see.

we had already spent most of the night in the common room, complaining about the wind, creepily watching all the people that had gone outside to experience the storm, basically being too hyper for our own good. i actually ended up outside at one point, to do several things i won’t mention because they’ll make me seem more insane.

when the power went out, we heard some yelling outside, so we of course had to go investigate. we found a mob of students yelling and following a boy holding a tree branch above his head. so we joined the mob.

we ended up walking all over campus, following the tree (FOLLOW THE TREE!). we went up to main street first and crowded around the center fountain. the boy with the tree climbed the statue and they tried to attach the tree to the top, but the university police arrived and ordered them get off of the statue and made us all get on the sidewalk. we then followed the tree to the other side of campus, in order to wake up everyone in the dorms so they could join us. on the way over we ended up having our path blocked several times by police cruisers, but we walked right past. turns out there’s nothing they can really do about 1,000 students walking around campus at two in the morning in the pitch black (no street lights!).

basically, we woke up the entire campus. and yes, i got to sleep after 3:00am. and yes, i had to get up at 7:00am. ah, college.

i turned nineteen today! it was a pretty good day, i have to say. today i…

… got 83 emails in my inbox. holy mackerel. (it’s mostly because of facebook wall posts, lol.)

… received several cute cards and gifts — i got the pens i asked for, the rubik’s cube clock i linked to, and the little mermaid III.

… didn’t get any sneak hugs, thank god!

… purchased season 4 of the office and season 2 of 30 rock on itunes. sixty dollar b-day gift to myself.

… got cupcakes from my suitehearts <3

OMG.

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so, i saw WALL-E yesterday with liz and my dad…
omg, can you say BEST MOVIE OF THE SUMMER?

adorable/cute, funny/hilarious, et cetera/et al. action-packed, beautifully animated, a lil’ bit romantic, PERFECT. i could go on, really. if you don’t go see this movie, you’re obviously insane.

OMG AND WHEN WALL-E POWERS UP HE MAKES THE MAC BOOT UP SOUND! need i say more?