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 : )

I WATCHED 100 MOVIES IN 245 DAYS!
i saw 30 new movies in the theater (although i saw several movies multiple times).
i saw 70 new movies at home, thanks to blockbuster and netflix.
and i still have 4 more months left to watch more movies : )

 
Rules and Guidelines:

1. Watch 100 movies or more in 2008.
2. Keep track of how many I watch.
3. First time movies only.
4. Leaving entry public. If you want to recommend any movies to me, go for it. Old movies, new movies, independent movies, made for tv movies, horribly bad movies, list them all.

100/100

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so, my nineteenth birthday is september 10. to quell people from repeatedly asking me what i want, i’ve assembled a list.

- any album on the list
- Little Mermaid 3: Ariel’s Beginning
- Infiniti Nano Silver Steam Straightener
- Staedtler Triplus Fineliner pens (.3 mm)
- Rubik’s Cube Clock
- The Office Trivia Board Game

holy mackerel — i’m moving back to geneseo in like 16 hours! i’m really really excited to see my friends, but i’m really really mad i’m going to have a planner full of homework assignments very soon. oh well. but yeah, i’m all packed up now, minus my plants, my macbook, and my manatee.

i probably won’t have time to post until after i’m completely moved into my new dorm room, so see you guys on the other side! (did i mention that this year i’m living in GENESEE AGC3 — say that out loud to fully appreciate the awesomeness.)

ETA: i have officially seen 95 all-new movies this year. considering that my goal was 100 movies in all of 2008, this is awesome. and sad. but mostly awesome.

(1) tomorrow is the last day of camp! wow, i can’t believe the summer is over. oh, that means evaluations are tomorrow. i never mentioned what i got on my last one, mostly because i wasn’t happy with it, as it was the worst evaluation i’ve ever received (i got three 2s). last summer i got one 2 on my first eval and all 1s on my final eval. 2 is “meets camp standards,” 1 is “exceeds camp standards,” if you were wondering.

(2) this week is olympic week at work, and my team is totally in first place. my team has taken the gold every summer i’ve worked, mostly because i always end up with a stacked team somehow. not that i’m complaining ; )

(3) tomorrow is our end-of-the-summer party, which will of course be super fun. we earned enough money via a can and bottle drive to buy two pizzas and enough snacks and drinks to feed an army. or at least an army of small children.

(4) last night was the brighton rec. staff party, which was fairly uneventful as usual. i actually had to host it, as becky (the director) and kasey (the assistant director) both had obligations, and i am apparently third-in-command at brighton rec.

(5) i went to the midnight release of tropic thunder on tuesday, bringing my movie total for 2008 to 85!

(6) i go back to school in nine days. NINE DAYS. where the hell has the summer gone?

yesterday:
stevie and i went to the movies and saw stepbrothers (my second time).

today:
stevie, liz, marta, pete, steve’s friend steve, and i went to the movies and saw the dark knight (my third time).

the year 2008:
i’ve seen 80 new movies this year!

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.

the three things that take up the majority of my life at this point of the year:

(1) work (40 hours per week)
camp is going swell. the staff is doing pretty good, but it still feels weird telling them what to do (”set up the slip-n-slide!”) or what not to do (”don’t chuck that kickball at that kid!”). i also have the sneaking suspision that they are the cause of the boondoggle shortage our camp is facing. i had to hide the boondoggle because it’s half gone, and it’s on the second week. so yeah, not good. um, the kids themselves are awesome, despite the fact that i’m 89% sure at least half of them are certifiably INSANE. but it’s not like that’s new news.

(2) sleeping (45 hours per week)
sleeping is nice.

(3) movies (10 hours per week)
i have watched 70 new movies this year, 10 so far this month. this doesn’t include the fact that i obsessively rewatch my favorites (yesterday i watched mulan and batman begins, for example). hahaha i think i’m certifiably insane also.

last day of the first week!

it was pretend new year’s, so we made cute party hats and toasted 12:00 (pm) with cups of W-UP. well, we were running a bit late, and it was actually 12:04, but luck was on our side—the clock stopped at 10:01 yesterday and hasn’t started back up since! haha, the kids didn’t even know the difference. muhahahaha.

tonight abby and i saw journey to the center of the earth, mostly because we are madly in love with brendan fraser. believe it or not, it’s really not that bad. we didn’t see it in 3D (i’m not paying 3 extra dollars for a headache!), but i still thought it was pretty cool. nothing epic though.

oh, and i bought my dark knight ticket tonight! i am SO psyched for thursday : )

first day of work? nailed it.

it’s awesome being in charge. today went so smoothly i couldn’t believe it. the kids are great, the staff is great, life in general is great. it’s all kind of weird though, leading. i mean, i’m only the assistant director, but it’s still a lot of authority. especially since i’ve been at french road for a few years already. and all the building staff already know me, so i was an excellent help when we needed to find someone to unlock the front door and to find us a water key. lol, it’s going to be a really great summer.

and tonight i saw hancock again with jon, capping off my good day. mike was supposed to come, but he got grounded because he has to go to summer school. sigh, high schoolers. lol.