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Here's the list I'll be updating (hopefully frequently!) of movies I watch this year. There's no real challenge to it or anything, I'm just interested in how much and what I watch!

( 2009 movie viewing )

Beautiful! Amazing! Moving!

Just great, a wonderful end to a fantastic two weeks :)

And once again I am a wreck from the final montage. It gets me everytime :(

The weekend has been insane so I will catch up on things tomorrow!

>>>>>>>>>>Olympics>>>>>>>>>>

How hard was it watching Alicia Sacramone last night? I don't even mean when she messed up on vault but after when she was trying so hard to hold it together and then she fell again on floor. And I bet she appreciated NBC sticking the camera in her face when she was trying not to cry, sheesh. I'm not sure that the US would have been able to take gold over China even if they'd been dead on in their final events but still, it sucks when it feels like you lost rather than the other team just happened to win. Silver is amazing but it just stinks that it all kind of fell on her shoulders :/

>> Phelps becomes the winningest Olympian in history with 11 gold medals

>> Spitz miffed over Beijing snub

>> The loneliest sport in America

>> Memmel reveals broken ankle

>> Lochte set to face Phelps, Peirsol; Beard fails to make finals

I think gymnastics starts at 11 tonight which I'm happy about because then hopefully they'll show the 200m backstroke semifinals with Lochte and Peirsol. That is going to be a sweet final tomorrow night. I hope they go 1-2 but who knows which way!

>>>>>Olympic Trivia of the Day: The "Blood In The Water" match was a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and is arguably the most famous match in water polo history. The match, which happened on December 6, 1956, was played out against the background of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and saw Hungary defeat the USSR 4–0. The name was coined by the media after Hungarian player Ervin Zádor emerged from the pool during the last two minutes in the game with blood pouring from under his eye after being punched by a Soviet player.

>>>>>>>>>>Olympics>>>>>>>>>>

So many good events last night! 

Michael Phelps, Natalie Coughlin and Aaron Peirsol all got gold in their races and the American men's gymnasts took bronze in the team final! It was actually very cool to see them get that because once the Hamm twins pulled out no one thought they would be have much of a shot but they did great! As thrilled as I'm sure people must be to receive any Olympic medal, no matter the color, you don't always get that sort of reaction for placing in 3rd or even second but because they were underdogs they got to go crazy. Very cool for them :)

And now I'm exhausted because I stayed up much too late again trying to catch Peirsol's medal ceremony after the late night news but they must've aired it at like 4am or something. I'll have to track that down online somewhere...

Tonight! More swimming, synchronized diving, beach volleyball and the women's gymnastics team final. Is it horrible that I am slightly rooting for China to take gold here? Idk it was just so exciting for the Chinese men's team to win it last night and I always love when the home town team gets to win on their own turf. Plus those girls are insane. I only got to watch some of their qualifying thing the other day but they just made it look so effortless, even more so than it usually seems. Either way it's going to be a great competition to watch!

>> Phelps, Peirsol, Coughlin clean up If Phelps wins tonight he'll hold the record for the Olympian with the most gold medals

>> Boxer doesn't know score and loses 

>> Olympic opening uses girl's voice, not face

>> Women on the verge of four consecutive gold medals Could Bush look like more of a goober?

>> Officials say Games may never be clean


>>>>>Olympic Trivia of the Day: The 2008 Olympic Mascots are the five Fuwa (simplified Chinese: 福娃, literally "good luck dolls" initially known as Friendlies in English). The Fuwa consist of five members that incorporate fish, giant panda, fire, Tibetan antelope, and swallow designs. The Fuwa each have as their primary colour, one of the colours of the five Olympic Rings that stand for the five continents. The five Fuwa are named Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. When the first syllable of each of the five names are said together, the result is the phrase 北京迎你 (Běijīng huānyíng nĭ) which means "Beijing welcomes you".

By the way I'm pulling all this olympic trivia from wikipedia so, you know, if it's completely wrong then that'd be why :)

The weekend was pretty good, it felt really long for some reason which was nice. On Saturday I kept thinking it was Sunday and then would get excited when I'd remember I could sleep in the next day. Yesterday was my friend's birthday so I went with her and a few others to an 18+ casino nearby. We had a good time, didn't spend too much money, and grabbed dinner before so it was a fun night :)

>>>>>>>>>>Olympic News>>>>>>>>>>



Hahaha, snagged this from

melina_agape. I'm not the biggest Michael Phelps fan but that race was friggin amazing and considering how everyone figured France to win and without gold there Phelps wouldn't be able to beat Spitz's record, he deserved that freak out. I DVR'd the events while I was out last night then watched the women's gymnastics and the swim races when I got home. I couldn't believe Nastia Liukin wiped out :( Oh my god and that Alicia Sacramone bounced way off on her floor routine! The women's gymnasts were looking rough last night...

>> Beijing's hottest event still to come

>> Roger Ebert reviews the opening cermonies

>> Hansen misses medal in 100m breaststroke I felt so bad for him, his rivalry with Kitajima was supposed to be this big thing but Hansen has been wicked off, poor guy :/

>> US basketball favored on and off the court

>> No blarney: Irish journeyman counsels Chinese soccer team

>> Spanish cyclist kicked out of Olympics for doping

I watched a whole mess of events this weekend; beach volleyball, basketball, rowing, road races, weight lifting lol. Some events are way more entertaining than others obviously but seriously, I'll tune in for whatever :)

Peirsol is swimming tonight (yay!) in the 100m backstroke final and again on Thursday in the 200m final. The women's gymnastics are up Thursday too so that is seriously one night of must-see events! Eeeee!! I love Olympics time!!!

>>>>>Olympics Trivia of the Day: The emblem of the Olympic Games is composed of five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, and red respectively) on a white field. This was originally designed in 1913 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. These five rings stand for passion, faith, victory, work ethic and sportsmanship.

OMG :D

The opening ceremonies were amazing! AMAZING! I can't get over how beautiful they were and how they executed everything so perfectly. Agh the thing with the boxes and it turned out that it was people under there working them!? Holy crap, hardcore. And that little boy who survived the earthquake and saved his classmates who walked with Yao Ming! Most moving story ever! They just exceeded all expectations, what a beautful ceremony.

I seriously love this stuff. I don't care if it's cheesy but I get so moved by it. That thing with all the children's faces just tugged on my heart. I may have cried a little bit Bob Costas made a comment about retiring the olympic ceremony trophy and seriously, I don't know how anyone could top this. Good luck London!

Also did you see the wicked fierce dress the women who carried the names of each country during the parade of nations were wearing? That red one with the white flowers along the front that split into a layer of tulle in the front? Good lord I want that thing, gorgeous. 

SO GOOD!!!

Yay! The Olympics kick off tomorrow! Hooray :D

I'm wicked pumped for the opening ceremonies, I always get chills during them oh man. Even though countries don't really do like in ancient times with postponing wars and stuff to participate in the games I still love that it's this huge celebration that people the world over can enjoy and participate in. 

I am ridiculously in love with the summer olympics in particular. I didn't know what to do with myself when Athens was over. I literally watched until the very end when NBC was like, "Okay bye now" and showed a montage with clips of Greece and the events played to the olympic theme music. Lol if memory serves I may have cried. Yeah I love them :)

This year I'm pretty nervous about security and safety in Beijing though. They are so crazy over there with the way they handle protests and there was that incident with sixteen police officers being killed the other day and now President Bush, clearly beloved by the world over, is there and everyone knows it. I've been watching these specials on the games and how Beijing has been getting ready for them and naturally they have plans in place should any acts of terrorism occur but they were even saying that they have to secure all the roads that food for the athletes in the olympic village comes in through in case someone tries a terrorist attack like that. Mass poisoning food like that had never even occured to me, how scary would that be? Eeshk

I just hope that nothing will happen and everyone will be safe during the next two weeks. I understand why so many people are protesting the games being held in Beijing and they certainly have reason to be but at this point I just want things to go smoothly for the sake of everyone involved.

And since work is dull....

Olympic Trivia of the Day: During the Olympic Games a truce or ekecheiria was observed. Three runners known as spondophoroi were sent from Elis to the various participant cities at each set of games to announce the beginning of the truce. During this period armies were forbidden from entering Olympia, wars were suspended and legal disputes and the use of the death penalty were forbidden. The truce was primarily designed to allow athletes and visitors to travel safely to the games, and was for the most part observed, although Thucydides wrote of a situation where the Spartans were forbidden from attending the games and fined 200,000 drachmas for assaulting the city of Lepreum during the period of the ekechiria, claiming that the truce had not yet taken hold.

So it's a bit early to already be procrastinating at work but I slept very badly last night and am struggling to stay awake and scrolling through identical lists of data to check things off isn't helping. Plus I finally finally saw The Dark Knight so why don't I just talk about that instead hm?

Movie Trivia of the Day: Nestor Carbonell Eyeliner guy who plays the Mayor in The Dark Knight coincidentally also played "Bat Manuel", a parody of Batman, in the comic-based live action "The Tick" (2001) TV series.

Hahahaha oh my god I love it, Bat ~Manuel~

So apparently the guy who is producing the upcoming live-action Cowboy Bebop movie has worked on a whole bunch of Keanu Reeves movies before. Surely though this doesn't mean that they would cast stiff as a board 44-year-old Keanu Reeves as the lazy and charismatic 27-year-old Spike Spiegel right? Right?

"Keanu Reeves has been attached to play Spike Spiegel in a big budget live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop"

FAIL

People have been suggesting Joseph Gordon-Levitt for Spike and actually that I could see if they did it right. I'm cringing to think about who else they're going to cast though...

Oh man, so one of my summer intern projects is updating my group's webpage. There are individual profile pages so I've been compiling a small list of new questions for everyone to fill out for their page. I've been googling things like "getting to know you questions" and "ice breakers" etc. Basically questions you might see on a meme but less goofy because, well, it's work. 

Anyway, I found one list with lots of good questions and then I scrolled down and came across this gem:



Hahahaha who would ever ask that!?! That's not an ice breaker, that's like the iceberg that sank the friggin Titanic. I'm pretty sure I would quit my job if I was asked that on my first day omg

And speaking of funny things at work, isn't it the worst when you see/read something that makes you want to bust a gut but it's so quiet in your office that you can't? Is there an abbreviation out there for when that happens? Like instead of lol or rofl it'd be cqamd (chuckling quietly at my desk) or cuimc (cracking up in my cube), haha I don't know....

24 minutes and this day is overrr!

Wheew, it's been a busy week!

Work has been picking up because I have new projects and even though sometimes I feel like I'm just floundering without a clue the days have going by a lot quicker :)

I baked two cakes this week. My sister's work group threw a shower yesterday for one of the girls getting married and my sister offered to make the beach themed cake. Well her dry run cake didn't come out how she wanted it so I offered to make a test one so she could get ideas. Monday night I spent making and decorating the cake. I bake a lot but don't get into the decorating besides just frosting and sprinkles. I ended up dying some frosting brown for the sand and some blue for the ocean. My sister wanted crushed vanilla wafers to be the sand so I crushed and rolling pinned (wtf) them to a pulp. It took most of the evening because Matty and I had been shopping for beachy decorations and by the time the cake was baked and cooled it was late.

Anyway it came out pretty good for a first time and then I made it again on Wednesday night since the shower was yesterday. This time I added little beach umbrellas and edible glitter on the ocean frosting part. We ate my sister's dry run cake and my dry run cake this week, I am so sick of cake lol

Then yesterday my dad drove Matty to my work and picked up my mom to go to a wake for my grandma's cousin. Matty came home with me and when my parents got home we had him for the night since Dan is one a business trip and my sister went to a concert then stayed in Boston last night. 

It's just been a crazy ass week. But after work today I am officially on vacation :D One week off, wahoo!

Okay so that was a lame entry but I'll talk about interesting things later on when I have the energy :P

Movie Trivia of the Day: No Country for Old Men: The Coen Brothers used a photo of a brothel patron taken in 1879 as a model for Anton Chigurh's hair style. Looking at its weirdness after getting the hair cut, Javier Bardem said "Oh no, now I won't get laid for the next two months".

Have you been watching the US Olympic swimming trials!? Haven't they been awesome :D

Okay if you have not been tuning in then here is some incentive:

Aaron Peirsol is still the sexiest and most adorable swimmer in the pool. He set a new world record when he won the 100m back final last night. The 200m back semifinals are tomorrow night and the finals are on Friday. I can't wait :)

I can't believe I haven't updated or anything for a week! I'm so behind on my f-list and catching up on messages D:

I guess things have been kind of crazy. Work has gotten busier, now that I have the training to actually do the projects I'm assigned, and when I get home I basically babysit Matty for the rest of the night. I love him to pieces but he's an exhausting little guy and I then I end up hanging out in Laura and Dan's place until one of them comes home. I mean, I could go upstairs and bring the baby monitor with me but I feel weird about leaving him down there all alone. It's fine, I usually just watch TV, but even though their "apartment" is technically just part of our house I don't feel like I can relax in there. It's their place and I just end up feeling like I do when I babysit at someone else's house, like I can sit and enjoy a movie but not really hunker down and be comfy. They usually aren't home too late but by then I haven't really had my own time to relax and if I don't get to bed at a decent hour I'll be falling asleep at work. I'm just a little burnt out I guess. 

I don't remember if I had anything interesting to say here. Just popping in because doing work is boring and it's been too long since I updated. What a bum. 

Ugh I also still have the Wedding Picspam to post. I have an entry with all the pictures but I need to toss in some commentary now. I'm being so lazy this week! Maybe that can occupy my afternoon...

Movie Trivia of the Day: Benny and Joon: First choice for the leads were Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, followed by Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon. Eventually MGM had their dream casting in place: Johnny Depp, Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern. Harrelson's contract would have given him top billing. When Dern (a recent Oscar nominee) found out that she would be third billed, she quit the picture. Harrelson followed soon after, having landed the young male lead in "Indecent Proposal". MGM promptly slapped him with a $5 million lawsuit for breach of contract (which was ultimately settled out of court).

Happy first day of summer! 

On the drive to work today I heard on the radio the story about the 17 teenage girls from Gloucester who made a pregnancy pact and have been getting pregnant so that they can raise their babies at the same time. I seriously cannot get over how messed up this story is. My stomach literally dropped out the way it does when I hear about something really tragic on the nightly news. It's not like anyone has died or been injured but I mean, what the friggin hell?? They're saying that a lot of the girls are just looking for "someone to love them" and even though they've heard from other teenage moms that it's really hard they think their parents won't mind and it will all just work out. 

Honestly, I just can't wrap my head around this one. My mom always told my sister and I that if we ever found ourselves in that situation we would have support and help. Even still when my sister found out she was pregnant while in college she was terrified that my parents would ship her off to Amish country to have her baby in a barn. I can't imagine young girls actually planning something like this. They're saying the girls are younger than 16 and I know that at that age I had 7 or 8 "best friends" who I thought I'd be close with forever so I can understand why girls like that would be willing to make some sort of pact to each other but a pact to get pregnant? One of the girls went so far as to have a homeless guy knock her up. Seriously!? 

I'm beyond baffled by the whole thing. Do they think they're going to buy one giant apartment complex and live together and it'll be like a big sleepover and the babies will never cry and their overly thrilled parents will shower money on them to pay for it all? 

A  teenage couple getting pregnant on purpose, thinking that they're in a position to be parents while studying for 5th period Chem lab would probably really annoy me. A teenage girl getting pregnant on purpose because she's lonely and just wants someone to love her would make me feel sad for her but still think she needs a bitch slap. A friggin field hockey team of teenage girls getting pregnant because "omg it will be fun and our parents will totally support us" is just not something I even know how to comprehend. 

What. the. hell.

The wedding was friggin awesome!!! It was sooo much fun and everything went perfect and it was just a completely fabulous day :D

I am heading home yet again this weekend since I have to babysit Saturday night and when I finally get a chance to sit down I will write up a proper entry of everything that went down and hopefully have some pictures to add. 

Right now though it's papers papers papers. I swear I feel like I haven't written a damn thing all semester and suddenly it's like essays ahoy =O

Movie Trivia of the Day: Rear Window: While shooting, Alfred Hitchcock worked only in Jeff's "apartment." The actors in other apartments wore flesh-colored earpieces so that he could radio his directions to them.

An helpexlingin why my keybord it sicin tobalad al of uddn?

Translation:

Any help explaining why my keyboard is sticking so badly all of a sudden? (That took forever to type)

When this happens is it a computer glitch or something physically wrong with the keyboard? I haven't spilled anything on it or something like that...

Any ideas?

ETA: Hm, it's better now. Keeps skipping letters every now and then but not as bad as an hour ago, that was atrocious. I'm very sick of my computer hating me >=(