The Golden Compass!!

I saw the preview for this last night before Fantastic Four, and I can honestly say that my excitement for this movie coming out rivals my excitement for the Harry Potter film! :-D

Live music.

Here's an interesting question to see the responses:

What are the 5 albums that changed your life?

Mine would have to be:

1. John Mayer "Continuum"
2. Carlos Santana "Supernatural"
3. The Last Kiss soundtrack
4. Alanis Morissette "Jagged Little Pill"
5. Sarah McLachlan "Mirrorball"

Song of the Moment

Have you ever had one of those moments where you find a song that fits you perfectly? I wasn't even looking for this one, it just fell into my lap when I half-listened to ITunes tonight...

I've put it on my blog, in the section labeled "Song of the Moment." Please take a listen. Any one of you who know what's been going on with me for the past several months will understand why this song fits so well.

The lyrics are here:

Better Off Alone
by Katharine McPhee

One thing I'm wonderin'
When you run out of friends
Will you be coming back home?

Let's think this through again
Let's take a different spin
Why can't I leave you alone?

Somewhere tonight, you may be found
With some other girl you've been draggin' around
You lie to yourself, and you lie to me
It seems like the truth is your worst enemy

Cause baby I'm tired, tired of the fight
I'm tired of the lonely days and the dark endless nights
It's taken some time, cause I didn't know
If I could ever let you go
You helped me figure it out
I'm better off alone
I'm better off alone

I may be found, somewhere tonight
Cursing the day you walked into my life
What's done is done, I can't change time
But I'll be damned if I'm not gonna try
Oh I'm gonna try

Baby I'm tired, tired of the fight
I'm tired of the lonely days and the dark endless nights
It's taken some time, cause I didn't know
If I could ever let you go
You helped me figure it out
I'm better off alone

But every now and then, my heart gives in
To the hope that someday you'll change
Then alone I'll wake, to my own mistakes
That it's just a foolish game

I'm tired, tired of the fight
I'm tired of the lonely lonely lonely days and the dark endless nights
You didn't think, cause you didn't know
That I'd find the strength to let, let you go
I finally figured it out
I'm better off alone
I'm better off alone

One thing before I go
Something I've got to know
Boy, did you ever love me?

Pomp & Circumstance

Tonight marked the 4th time that I've been to my high school's graduation. I know that's nothing compared to some people, especially the long-employed teachers who have are there every year at the ceremony, some hovering around 30 years! But tonight serves to remind me just how much time has passed between my high school graduation and now...5 years...and how much has changed about me and in my life. Priorities completely realigned, different and new friendships, lots of experiences that are true only to being in college...the list goes on. I looked out on the field of the Class of 2007 tonight and I was hit with a sense of nostalgia, and of jealousy. Jealous because many of those graduates were on the cusp of going off to college, taking their first steps into their futures, and I wanted to be in that position again. I would give a lot to be going into my freshman year at Carolina once more, because those four years are an experience you could do over and over again and have it be different each time. It's definitely a thing of "If I knew then what I know now." Along with "If I could do it all over again, what would I do differently?" Some part of me misses the naive 18 year old that I was prior to coming to college. For now I feel weathered, hardened, and battle-scarred. (And through all that I still manage to look young. :-p I could never figure how to look grown-up.)

I am very excited that Sarah (my brother's gf) is getting to embark on this experience, though. She's going to ECU to study nursing, and is extremely smart. I'm hoping she enjoys college life just as much as I did, and Justin does as well.

Squee!!!!

Happiness for the day arrived in my email early this morning...

Rascal Flatts are coming back to Raleigh for a show at Walnut Creek Amphitheater on Sept. 6th!!!

Couple that with John Mayer and Ben Folds at Walnut Creek July 31st, and moving into the apartment with my girls on August 1st, I am very excited. :-D

Haha I love Rascal Flatts. And I found this on AOL Music.



"Could you imagine coming out and finding a bow on a frickin' humidifier?"

Poor Jay.

Books, where have you gone?

I made my 3rd trip to the Lee County Library yesterday, in search of more reading material. Going to Barnes & Noble this past weekend with my mom made me crave books. That's one of the dangerous stores I have to be careful in, otherwise I would come out with several bags crammed full of books. There's so many new ones out that I want to read, along with lots of classics--it's so hard to resist! I know that if I do this teaching thing, I'm going to have shelves filled with books in my classroom, and it will carry over to my house.

So the thing that made me sad about going to the local library is the lack of new books in their stacks. There were a few books that I wanted to read, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. But my search at the library was futile. I know that the taxpayers pay for the library to be in operation, so can we have some new books that aren't murder mysteries? I can only take so much of the same genre before it gets old. I was a little more successful yesterday, I picked up a few titles from the bestsellers list, past and more recent (gasp, they actually had books from a year ago!). So now I'm devouring this collection, until I finish and go back to get more books from my list. :o)

I guess I'm too accustomed to the gigantic catalogs of books that university libraries possess, hence my disappointment at the county library. College spoils us.

Turn on your nudity!

As you can probably tell, I enjoy poking around on the internet and seeing what I can find, either interesting, funny, or useful. This falls in the useful category, especially for those of you looking for secrets to what guys really like. :-p Six things that secretly turn a guy on, but they might not tell you? Read the story at that link and consider the secrets revealed.

I also wanted to share with you this video I found on YouTube (which is the bane of existence for many...as much time as it sucks from your life). I was looking for the video of this Axe commercial that my mom loves, and in the process, found this Axe commercial from Belgium. It's been banned from ever being shown in the US, simply for the fact that the content is "inappropriate" with what the FCC wants on TV these days. I love how overseas in Europe, they aren't shocked by this. That's one of the things I enjoyed about living in England, everyone is open-minded enough that things like nudity and profanity don't upset viewers as it would here. But nonetheless, enjoy!

Interesting reading

I was poking around on MSN.com today and found this article, which goes well with the one I bookmarked from a few days ago. I'm going to put both links in this post so if you're interested, you can check the articles out.

The one I read tonight was an insight into how your birth order affects your love life and romantic style. Well, considering my love life sucks, and my younger brother has a more serious relationship than I do, I found this intriguing. Maybe you will find it applicable to your own life.

The other article was on praying for love. I know from talking to a lot of people that they (and myself included) pray for God to bring them someone to love, someone that they find compatible and wonderful enough for their affections. But how beneficial is it to pray for love and leave it completely up to God to figure out? Someone once told me that God is not a dating service, you have to do most of the work yourself when it comes to finding someone. But He can guide you into a frame of mind that readies you for a relationship, as well as giving you a way to form common bonds with others that believe like you do.

Faith is one of the major things that makes or breaks relationships these days, along with money and distance. In a long-distance relationship, partners who share in the idea of religion are more successful in sustaining the relationship. You can put your trust in God that He will lead you to the right person, but He is not going to do all the work for you---that's the beauty of dating.

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