we are stardust

So I met Neil Gaiman last Wednesday evening in Nashville, he was just as lovely in person as he is in interviews/online.  His hair is just as fluffy as you'd imagine.  I finished reading his new book "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" last night which I highly recommend.  It's a tiny little book (less than 200 pages) but it's packed with every emotion imaginable.

I've just been doing school work, reading, cleaning and trying to diet and exercise.  So nothing too exciting on that front.

My birthday is next week and I still don't have a clue as to what I want to do.  I'm sure I'll do dinner & drinks with my family but I want to have a party.  I hate living all the way in the sticks because I hate to ask people to drive all the way out here but at this point that's all I can think of.

I'm gonna go read and hula hoop for a while.  I hope everyone is having a great summer.

blergh

This morning I woke up to a vomiting kid and a ton of math homework.  School sucks, well really just the math but I'm trudging through it.  The other two courses are simple & fun.  I can crank out an essay in no time and I've been messing around with Photoshop for ages so they are both a walk in the park.  However, math is trying to kill me.  I have worked for over 13 hours the past 2 days just trying to get my grades up.  Word problems are THE WORST.  They never ever make any sense to me.

After a trying day today of math-things I have spent the evening doing laundry (I'm still up because my comforter is in the dryer) and catching up on about a month's worth of YouTube videos that I haven't gotten to watch because I've been working my butt off at this school stuff and attempting to have some semblance of a social life.  Thank The Seven for Jack Daniels, Jenna Marbles, Hannah Hart, John & Hank Green and Grace Helbig for making me laugh.  I also got my email about Neil Gaiman's signing that I'm going to here in a couple of weeks and after reading it and Amanda Palmer's blog about the book I AM EVEN MORE EXCITED which I didn't know was possible.

I have a birthday party for one of my best friends and a Bob Dylan concert to get to before any of that happens and I need to work on my attire for both ASAP.  I also need to start thinking about my own birthday party and what I want to do.  I'm thinking maybe a 60's/Mad Men themed party.  I don't know, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

I've been in a funk lately and I need to snap out of it.  When I get depressed I like to turn off all the lights, lie down in the floor and listen to Alan Ginsberg readings.  They are my therapy.  This is my favorite poem. It's where this blog's URL originated from.

Summa Summa Summatime

Classes for Summer started today and it looks like I am going to be super busy for at least 5 weeks and then moderately busy for the next 5.  I went into my courses and did all of the work I possibly could for the first week without having any books yet.  I am most excited about my Composition and Rhetoric Class, the essay topics basically write themselves.  In fact, I have already chosen my titles for all of them!


Narrative:
I Was Born A Poor Black Child*
Definition:
I Am Going Into This Field To Reach My Goal of Decorating a Cubicle with Unicorns
Process:
10 Steps To Becoming A Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Research:
Does Jon Snow REALLY Know Where To Put It?
Persuasion:
Why Ryan Gosling Should Join My Marriage
Inspirational Figure:
River Tam, Because I Can Kill You With My Brain

Seriously though, I am excited to get to write assigned things again and I'm hoping it will lead to more productive hobby writing, like on this blog and just for fun.

I am seriously dreading the math class but I'm just going to wish on stars, light candles, and cross my appendages that I can get through it.  I just have to get through it and I will be okay, really.  The Photoshop class is using a book similar to the ones I had for Web Tech and Flash and they were very thorough and easy, plus I've been playing around with Photoshop for years so I should have most things figured out.

I'm going to go enjoy some reading now before I get my school books and have to do real work and am ripped out of Westeros. Ciao!

someone's gotta help me dig

I found out that the B I thought I made is actually and A.  So I got all A's last semester!  YAY!  My GPA is slowly climbing up.  Alden is also doing well in school so that's awesome.

Now if I just just win the lottery so we can afford my books/software that'd be great...

The concert on Saturday night was fantastic.  We went shopping and grabbed some food before the show.  The show itself was great. They sounded even better in person than they do on the album which is always nice.  We hung around after the show to meet the band and ask them to sign our shirts and they did.  I was practically swooning the ENTIRE TIME.  

(I am resisting the urge to put the Ygritte/Jon swooning clip here because it would be a spoiler for those who aren't caught up on Game of Thrones but just imagine it's here k thnx).

Mother's Day was lovely.  I got to hang out with Alden, my mom, sister, aunt, uncle, papaw, and nana.  Alden made me two really pretty beaded bracelets, a card, and he painted me a coffee mug.  Admittedly the mug is my favorite part, he wrote "I *<3* You" but the heart is anatomically correct looking instead of being a boring old regular heart.

This week I'm just trying to tidy up the house a little bit, figure out what the hell I need for my upcoming courses, and enjoy my last week of absolute freedom this summer.

Not that I'm complaining, coming up I have Dropkick Murphys, Bob Dylan & Wilco, Neil Gaiman, and Neutral Milk Hotel.  So I have a fun action packed summer/fall planned, it just has to happen around my stinking coursework.

Romy & Michele? Not this time...

Instead of paying $75 and dragging my husband to see a bunch of people that I unfortunately went through school with tomorrow evening, we are going to a concert with one of my best friends.  Those tickets were only $15 a piece, I'll be with two people I actually enjoy spending time with, and I will get to see this beautiful man shake his ass and rock out.

SO EXCITE!!!

I thought when my 10 year reunion rolled around that I would be excited and want to go. Then I started really thinking about it and why the hell would I pay that much to hang out with people that I don't particularly like?  I think having reunions is kind of bullshit at this point. I can see your boring life on Facebook for free.  If I want to get drunk with you I'll send you a Facebook message and we'll go somewhere that sells beer for a reasonable price and doesn't require you to dress like some sort of "dressy casual" person, whatever the hell that means. 

Of course this doesn't apply to everyone.  I am still SUPER close with 3 people from my high school class  and I still like a few other people that I don't really talk to much.   But the vast majority I don't really care to see. It's nothing against them in particular it just isn't worth $75 to hear about their kids and jobs and smile while I pretend that I'm interested.  I hope everyone has fun at the reunion.  I also kind of hope that people get really wasted and a brawl breaks out and someone puts it on YouTube, but that's less likely to happen I guess.

I'll be shaking my ass and elbowing my way up to the front of this show. 

how to internet

I am SO TIRED of seeing excessive amounts of recipes on Facebook.  Yes, I can scroll past a few but more than 2 and it gets REALLY OLD, REALLY QUICKLY.  Let me break down how the internet works for those of you who only use your iPhone/MacBook as a seriously overpriced Facebook machine.

Facebook is for keeping up with friends and family and sharing articles or witty commentary.
Twitter is for self absorbed bitching.
Reddit is for cats and boobs.
Tumblr is for fandom.
Pinterest is for recipes and DIY shit that you will never ever actually do.
Instagram is for photos of your food and your beer.

I'm not judging you for HAVING any of these accounts.  I have one of each myself, but I use them in an appropriate manner.

P.S.  If you want my username for any of them just let me know.

Carry on...

Happy Saturday or something...