My Little Corner

I enjoy my life. It’s a pretty simple one but I like it. I go to school and really do love what I’m studying. Some days, like today, are hard; starting class at 9 in the morning and leaving at 7 in the evening isn’t too much fun, but thankfully that doesn’t happen all the time. Clearly from earlier posts, I like my TV shows. I like to end the day by watching what’s happened in these stories. I secretly like staying at home on Friday nights to watch movies and do laundry. I am easily entertained; one of my favorite things to do is dinner and a movie. I like going to concerts. I love being with my friends: going to movies with them, going to dinner with them, going to concerts with them, just being around them.

I think I’m easy to live with. My room might not always be tidy but I make sure the kitchen is freakishly clean. I’m easy-going about most things; very firm on others. There are things that I do not want to compromise on because I feel I am not being unreasonable. I’ve had four roommates since freshman year of college and I’m beginning to wonder if I’m getting to an age where it would be better on all sides for me to live by myself. If only rent prices weren’t so high (and I weren’t in a lease already). Curse you Dallas apartments! *shakes fist a sky*

I enjoy my life. It might be a little harder right now, but I will survive (hey hey).

I went out with Amy to see “Serenity” and it was FABULOUS! I love this TV show/movie/series/whatever you want to call it. I had seen ads for “Firefly” when it was on TV and thought it would be something I’d enjoy (basically a sci-fi western of a show–what’s not to like?); however, the timing never worked out. I started to hear about “the big d*mn movie” (aka Serenity) and that rekindled my interest in Firefly. About a month ago I went on a mission to rent the series on DVD; two hours of driving and four Blockbusters later, I came home and bought the set off of Amazon. After the pilot episode (which incidentally was not aired as the pilot episode), I was totally hooked. Having finished the short-lived TV series, and the commentaries too, I saw “Serenity.” And it was fabulous. I’m not sure if one went to see the movie without knowing the background would like it but for those who know the characters and their stories, it rocked. I just hope it was enough for Joss Whedon to continue to tell this story. One bad thing: the song was not anywhere recognizable in the movie. So here goes:

Take my love, take my land / Take me where I cannot stand / I don’t care, I’m still free / You can’t take the sky from me / Take me out to the black / Tell ‘em I ain’t comin’ back / Burn the land and boil the sea / You can’t take the sky from me / There’s no place I can be / Since I found serenity / But you can’t take the sky from me

Yay!

I want to be on “The Amazing Race” (TAR). I really want to be on TAR. I have thought a lot about this. I REALLY want to be on TAR. And, I think I would be good on the show. Road Blocks and Detours–I think I would have an advantage on some of these because of my experiences at Frontier Ranch. Walking on high wires and such, check. Riding a horse, check. Rappelling down a building, check–I’ve done it off the side of a mountain so the building should actually be easier, right? I have a pretty good internal sense of direction. I could offer some help if we went to any French speaking country. I’m a great encourager. While I’m watching the show, I even think of what I would pack. Different climates, different activities–all require certain clothes and shoes but there is no room for overpacking. I mean, seriously, you have to carry that backpack around the whole world!

Minor problem: I don’t have a partner. Oh I’ve thought about what I’m looking for in a partner, don’t you worry. But I haven’t found said partner yet. I definitely have to have a male partner. All previous winners have either been male/female (four out of the seven) or male/male (three out of seven). I just can’t take my chances with another girl. My partner needs to be encouraging and not get angry quickly (so for example, if I have to perform a task by myself, my partner would be saying things like, “you’re doing great! I know you can do this! Keep it up!” instead of “What the heck are you doing? Gosh! You’re making us lose! Work faster!”). My encouraging male partner also needs to know some Spanish; not be fluent (remember Debbie and Bianca from TAR7? great at Spanish and eliminated early on in the game) but must know a little to get by.

What will I be able to give in return for all of my partner’s great qualities? I will learn how to drive a stick shift. This always becomes a problem; the teams are in some obscure country, and one member just can’t get their act together to drive the stick shift. So, I’ll learn how to drive a stick and therefore will not become a hindrance to my teammate. I think this is a good plan. I talked to my dad today and he’s decided that he could go on TAR but not Survivor. My mom thinks he would win Survivor because everyone would like him and in the end that means everyone would vote for him. But Dad thinks Survivor is too intense for him. So let’s see: my dad is a male, he’s encouraging, he doesn’t get upset easily, and I think he took Spanish at some point in his education. In the words of Frenchy from Grease “The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy.” Christmas break project: TAR video application!

Ahem…
Things I don’t like: my roommate’s boyfriend staying at our apartment so much he practically lives here especially since his brother lives in the same town (trust me, there’s not “Three’s Company” theme song going on here), my roommate and her boyfriend leaving dirty dishes from their dinner in the sink while they leave for the night, old men telling me personal life details when I’m just trying to show them how a captioned phone works (internal shudder), midterms that are mostly pure memorization, being set up with boys just because I’m a nice girl, trying to explain what “audiology” is and what I am going to do when I’m an audiologist, little kids screaming throughout an entire hearing test and the mom not trying to comfort the screaming child

Things I like: going to Target, getting a Charlie’s Angels t-shirt at Target for $10, watching the Astros, eating the yummy scones from Target, buying fun cards for fun friend’s birthday (that’s you Mary!), watching a good movie (even if critics and roommate don’t like the movie), learning how to be an audiologist, having the apartment to myself for the night, waking up without having to set an alarm clock, pretty flowers

That’s all for my list tonight. I really need to be studying. But this time tomorrow, midterms will officially be over. Yay!

So I’m at work on Monday (”Assistive Devices Center, how may I help you?”) and talking to the second year student about how busy I feel and about my fun midterms that are coming up when she laughs at me. She basically tells me how busy she thought she was in the first year but then realized that it was nothing compared to the second year. Is this what I have to look forward to?! And I’m not sure if that made any sense at all; give me a break, had a really long test this morning and my brain is still trying to recover from it.

I would like to extend my previously stated comment that I have a great family to include relations outside my immediate family group. I had dinner tonight at a relative’s house (her grandmother and my grandmother were sisters so her mom and my dad are cousins so someone figure out the title for our relationship and let me know). Just good people. They fed me, had a relaxing conversation over a glass of wine, and offered to give me a ride to church with them on Sunday. I also confirmed my desire not to have children at this point in my life (not that it is really a thought or desire at this point in my life due to many reasons including fact that I’m not married or will be married any time soon and I will be in school for forever, etc.) but I am so not ready to be responsible for other people. My whatever relation Melissa was so involved in her kids; she was checking their homework and making sure one was ready for her make-up test and telling them when to take their showers and to work on their Bible study. I know any good parents are this involved in their kids’ lives (my great ones were) but I am way to self-involved and have too much to take care of in my own life to have to be responsible for someone else. Sorry Mom, no grandbabies for a long time from this child–talk to the brother, he’s older.

The question now is: do I study for my next midterm (it’s on Tuesday and haven’t really started yet because have been studying for the one mentioned earlier in the post) or do I relax by watching TV for the rest of the night? Hmm…Survivor taped earlier and the Astros are in the playoffs….what do you think I’m going to do??

So I’ve realized I’m not that great at the regular update blog thingy. Perhaps my life just isn’t that exciting to write about every day or at least every other day. Hmm. Let’s see. In the week that has passed since my last blog I have: been busy with school and yet can never figure out what exactly I do with my time, saw a bad movie, went to visit my parents (which was quite fun), and not much else. See, even now I can’t remember what I’ve done in the past week! Stupid black hole that is grad school–it’s taking away my memory and replacing it with loads of information about ears!

I went home over the weekend for my mom’s birthday. Yay for Mom’s birthday!! I’ve discovered recently (although I think I’ve always kind of known it) that I have really great parents. They are fun to be around, they are very loving, they have a sense of humor, and they are just good people. I’m not afraid to tell them things (like when I have an oopsie with my car) and I like to have them involved in my life (except when my mom refers to me being single as my “situation”). Everyone should have parents like mine or at least hang around them to realize that everyone should have parents like mine.

TV blurb:I think Lost is the best show about–well no on knows what it’s about and that’s what makes it great! My family (the groovy parents and the brother) would rock on Amazing Race family; I’m sure of it! (I’m also still looking for a partner because I REALLY REALLY want to be on AR–I have a plan too! that’ll have to be another post). This is the turning point in Alias where it changes from a good show to a bad one. I may not even finish watching this season. Seriously. Gilmore Girls is good, as always. sigh. I like to watch GG and have already posted my feelings about the opening sequence. Survivor is okay–I want Steph to win even though she probably won’t make it. Hmm…maybe all of my time goes to watching TV!

Well, I will post again when something interesting happens in my life–or on TV.