And now for something completely different.

26 August 2009 @ 07:03 pm

Go figure. This always happens when I'm bored, so anticipate many updates in future because school is starting in less than a week.

For the first time in months, I have nothing on my schedule for the next few days. I feel like I make all these lists of things that I should do when I have time and then when I have the time to do them I totally forget and end up sitting on my ass playing N64. Which, lets face it, is still really awesome but not productive in any way.

This semester is going to be a little intense. I've got a part-time job at the law school on campus and am taking 18 credit hours so I don't have to next semester. They're all Lit classes so I'm going to spend the next four months reading 20+ novels for various courses. FML. At the same time I have a renewed vigor for school. Getting on the Dean's List last semester was really gratifying and I'd like to end my college career on a high note. I'm also going to try and join the school's student-run dance program, which should help keep me busy/active. I brought my tap shoes up in anticipation. I am a huge loser.

Anyway, I'm going to try and be better about updating this thing because I know it's been pretty neglected lately. This may result in a friends/community cut because right now my f-list is a little crowded and almost impossible to keep up with. But I'll let you guys know if/when that happens.

That's it. Hopefully my next entry will be less awkward. -mj.

Current Music: "Treat Me Like Your Mother," The Dead Weather

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25 July 2009 @ 06:56 pm

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Ever have a dream about someone that feels so vivid and real that when you wake up in the morning, it kind of blows your mind that your relationship with that person hasn't changed?

I had one of those last night and now I'm sort of disappointed to be awake.

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13 July 2009 @ 03:06 am

I suck at the internets.

After two and a half frustrating hours of wading through html (which I have zero experience with) I finally managed to get my lj format to look relatively normal. Huzzah! Most will rejoice because the font is finally readable and I am rejoicing because I will no longer have to hear people complain about it (

jornasaurus , I am looking at you.) At any rate, hopefully this will be easier to use/see/read, as I'm making a resolution to start updating more frequently. Possibly. Depends on how much free time I have (although my new friends @

omonatheydidnt are making it easy to get back into the swing of things because they are fabulous and I love talking to them.)

My mother is actually warming to the idea of me going to Korea after graduation. She's started trying to work around it for major holidays and keeps asking when I'm planning on leaving because if I can stay until the end of August then I can make the family reunion and she'd really appreciate the company. It's her own way of saying, "Okay, you're going. I get it. I have to deal with it." My dad, on the other hand, still thinks I'm going to be blown up by commies so we'll see. Not that he'll really have any say in the matter, as I'm 95% sure that this is what I'm going to do post-graduation. At last, I see a future ahead of me that doesn't involve unemployment, prostitution or a cardboard box with my name written on the front. Small victories.

Since I'm practically propping open my eyelids with toothpicks at this point, I think it may be time for me to go to bed. Finally. -mj.

Current Music: "Unavailable Number," Big Bang

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08 July 2009 @ 01:32 am

My thoughts on Michael Jackson

Like every other Michael Jackson fan on the planet, I cannot resist the urge to put my two cents in. Essay behind the cut, to spare those who are sick of hearing about it:

( Michael Jackson )

Current Music: "Man in the Mirror," Michael Jackson

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06 January 2009 @ 05:03 pm

twitter

I have a sweet new phone and to celebrate I signed up for Twitter, which allows people to stalk me with greater ease as far as I can tell. I just spent ten minutes following band members, scene queens, and cartoon characters that CLEARLY don't exist because I have no clue who actually has one of these things. (Apart from

uglysinglesclub , of course.)

Anyway, the long and short of it is: if you have twitter and want to be my chum, my twitter is:

www.twitter.com/goodgollymiss

Hope everyone is doing well. Ta.

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25 December 2008 @ 07:49 pm

bluuughhhh.

My mother just came upstairs and gave me a glass of alka seltzer because she was afraid I drank too much.
I think she's right.
I feel terrible.

Bughhh. Holidays.
Hope everyone is well.

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18 December 2008 @ 10:51 pm

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I have decided that my goal in life is to do something that makes me important enough to be interviewed by Chuck Klosterman. I want him to sit down and talk to me, just so I can later read all the quirky little things he'd managed to pick up in the hour we'd spoken that most people would miss after years of knowing me. I'd read about those funny little things, like the way I sometimes shake when I'm nervous and/or profoundly uncomfortable, or how I won't drink coffee but proclaim an intense caffeine addiction, and somehow those mannerisms will add up to me being somewhat interesting. Hopefully this will qualify me to be in one of his books, as one of those "I changed the name for the sake of privacy" women that he says have affected his life in some way. Miss Anonymous-Molly will have a big, obnoxious laugh and teeth that are too big for her head and I'll know that it's me even though nobody else will. That'd be pretty swell.

Oh yeah, and I'm home now.

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19 October 2008 @ 10:32 am

oh my god i'm actually updating.

Well, only sort of. See, I've done a ton of shit in the two months I've been here and if we're operating on the "no news is good news" mentality then it should be apparent how much fucking fun I'm having here (not just fun...FUCKING fun.) However, that does mean that a totally massive recap of everything is next to impossible. So here's the highlights, for your viewing [dis]pleasure:

1. I live in an apartment with five other girls. By some miracle I haven't killed/maimed/screamed at any of them yet. I count this as a win considering my patience for girls.
2. I have also made some bitchin', non-apartment friends as well! Lots of them, in fact. My favorites include Ian (who is basically like a brother, only tall and ginger), Sal (who is well-intentioned and very Italian), and Claire (who is my loud American friend from Chicago that I adore.)
3. I should note that the reason I haven't killed any of my roommates yet is because I basically live at Sal & Ian's apartment (which is different from Claire who actually DOES live there now that her and Ian have started dating.) However, they're currently having a rat problem so I'm reluctant to go over there as much as I used to. Still, they take me grocery shopping with them so I can have food at their apartment and I keep a spare toothbrush in Sal's bathroom. I also have my own set of keys. Basically, I love them.
4. I spend approximately 20-30% of my time here intoxicated. I can feel my brain cells dying. It's pretty cool.
5. I was told by many people that Italian men may look charming but they are, in fact, total creepers. They were not wrong.
6. I am totally embracing the "what happens in Rome STAYS in Rome" mentality. Let's just...leave it at that.
7. My mother and aunt are coming to visit on Thursday! I'm excited but also a little weirded out because I'm combining two worlds that, up until this point, I've kept totally and completely seperate. I don't really know how this is going to work but I'm excited to see what happens.

Last thing before I go: there's a weekly beer pong party here. I find that hilarious...who plays beer pong in Rome?!
Answer: I do.

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23 August 2008 @ 12:31 am

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Holy fucking shit.
In fifteen hours, I will be on a flight. To Rome. HOLY SHIT. Can I do this, guys? Seriously, 'cause I'm freaking out here. I know I'll be fine, I've been told that repeatedly and I know that I'm probably just being my usual paranoid self but there are so many things that are left unanswered and I can't help but be scared. I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight, my whole body's tense.
I know it's going to be great, though. Despite all the fears and hesitations I feel, without a doubt, like this trip is probably going to change my life. I know how I am, guys: I'm anal retentive and afraid, so fucking afraid of most if not all things. I need to step outside of my boundaries and live a little, make bad decisions, do things that people my age are supposed to be doing. Because I've been neglecting my youth lately in favor of pretending to be an adult and it's total bullshit, I know it is. This is my chance to be whoever the fuck I want to be and damn it, I'm not going to pass it up. So goodbye, guys. I don't even know who's going to bother reading this bit of dribble as it makes little to no sense but hey, here's the monologue of my brain. Enjoy it. I'm off to have an adventure now; see you on the other side.
Love, Molly.

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05 August 2008 @ 11:07 pm

i'm not quite sure...

...why I bother pretending this thing is useful to me. But I'm bored and my internet is working at the moment so what the hell.
Summer has been boring. Busy with work but definitely boring. I just keep telling myself that three months of boredom is going to lead to four months of ADVENTURE TIME ("rhombus!") so I should just cool my heels and spend time with my family. Right now I'm waiting for my brother to get home so we can go to Dunkin Donuts and gorge on coffee/cigarettes/muffins. That is just about as exciting as my life gets.
I've just started reading "Watchmen" and already it's blowing my fucking mind. I just wish Alan Moore weren't such a twat; my brother was trying to defend him to me the other day but there's no excuse for being an asshole, even if it's for "your art." I hate so-called intellectuals. I'm starting to think "intellectual" is just a synonym for "pretentious douchebag cuntface." Or something.
But I digress. Got back yesterday from a family reunion at the JJ Dude Ranch! (Not joking. Wish I were.) It was amusing in the sense that I got to watch my straight-laced uber sweet aunt get totally trashed (my favorite part was when she yelled "you're not getting any sex tonight!" at my uncle) but I'm mostly just glad to not be sharing a room with five of my cousins anymore.
19 days and counting. It's time to get out of this town.

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28 June 2008 @ 10:48 pm

am i the only one that sees this?

Shawn from "Boy Meets World" plus Pete Wentz equals Rob McElhenney.

Moral of the story:
Watch "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia."

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29 May 2008 @ 12:26 am

So yeah.

I kind of really need to absolutely go see Ironman again. I have a really inappropriate and highly improbable crush on Robert Downey Jr./Tony Stark (it's hard to distinguish between the two, they look so damn similar.)
Oh yeah, and I'm tired of working.
And I have the best family ever.
That's it.
love, moi.

Current Music: Robyn

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22 May 2008 @ 06:22 pm

sorry no updates...

...but life is happening, and fast.

Family first, as always, and it's been amazing being home. My brother is probably my favorite person ever right now; his one act was hilarious, I sincerely hope everyone got the chance to see it. If not, I know where he keeps extra scripts so let me know. He graduated last night and that was surreal as all hell. It's the first time I ever got nostalgic for that whole experience. Mr. Trumper is awkward. That is all I have to say about that.

WORK. Nannying, Eddie Bauer, etc. I'm excited for EB, as pathetic as that is; I love the people I work with there. Leo abandoned me, though, so now it's just Betsey and I. I am the youngest person that works there...that sort of cracks me up.

It was kind of a bummer leaving Marquette this year, it has to be said. I was really starting to like it there right as it was time to go back home. Unfortunate. However, my room is boss as hell (even if I'm not living it at the moment due to the presence of my grandparents) and it's been really nice having a kitchen.

My goals for this summer are as follows:
1. Work my ass off so I can earn money for Italy.
2. Learn how to cook so I don't starve in Italy.
3. Eat better.
4. Sleep.
5. Exercise.
6. Be useful around the house.
7. Spend as much time with my family as humanly possible.
8. Read smart books (my brother will help with this, whether he knows it or not.)
9. Watch smart films (I'm on a foreign kick at the moment.)
10. Begin writing something long-term.

That is all.
love, me.

Current Music: whisper war.

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04 May 2008 @ 06:11 pm

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i am so good at messing things up.
always have been, always will be.

fuck.

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18 April 2008 @ 12:22 am

the list.

Things boyfriends should do for you, as compiled by Kate and I:
1) gut your deer for you.
2) give you piggy backs when you're tired.
3) appreciate silence.
4) cuddle you even when you're snotty and sick.
5) kiss your nose
6) argue with you but in a cute way. boys that apologize over every little thing suck tits.
7) not cling. if you cling that much, you're trying to prove something.
8) think you're pretty, even when you cry.
9) not mind when you do
10) hmmm....make you mix cd's that don't suck
11) he still gives you shit even though you're dating
12) you know he's kidding when he does.
13) he doesn't let you pay, but doesn't object when you finally do
14) he loves you. you don't have to hear it all the time to know it's true.

Feel free to add more :)

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14 April 2008 @ 01:59 pm

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Wow. I have probably broken the record for "least productive person ever." Seriously, I'd go and accept my award but that'd be productive so I'm not going to.
I was supposed to get TWO PROJECTS done this weekend. Instead I got ZERO PROJECTS done. They are both due tomorrow. I am fucked. Big time. And instead of doing them, I'm updating livejournal! What is wrong with me! I do take comfort in the fact that this time tomorrow, I'll be done with both of them. Happy days.
My sister's coming up for Lil' Sibs weekend, which I'm wicked excited for...I mean yeah, the timing's a little inconvenient 'cause I have so much shit to do but hey. I get to see my sister. It could be worse.
Fingers crossed for an Iowa visit at the beginning of May...hopefully it'll happen. It'd be my last time going back before Italy so I need to get on that ASAP.
Sorry this is so fragmented...lots on my mind. Like my grades and whether or not they'll disqualify me for a semester abroad. Ughhh.

Should probably go do some work now. Remember: fingers crossed. -mj.

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12 April 2008 @ 02:20 am

shenanigans!

Huh. So I was supposed to stay in tonight, work on my paper, etc. Instead, I went out. Met two boys...Mike and Benjamin, from Austria and Belgium, respectively. They were nice. Also, 3-4 years older than me. Whoops. Sorry. I'm veerryy tipsy right now. My mouth tastes like cigarettes and cheap beer. All in all, one of the most fun nights I've had here. I shouldn't go to the second party tomorrow night. But maybe I will? We shall see. Fuck. I've screwed myself over big time for these papers/presentations/books. I am a bad student. But I'll remember this. love, mj.

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07 April 2008 @ 07:13 pm

To curb my panicking...

...I've applied to be a Mugglecast transcriber.
I'm not sure how this will help the panicking, but I really hope I get it.

PS. I was about to put in my application that I was a "self-proclaimed grammar nazi" but then I remembered that Micah, who would be reviewing my application, is Jewish. So I didn't. Does that make me a terrible person?

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