it's all up in the air and we stand still to see what comes down

Listening to: She Is by the Fray

Another day of wandering in B Wood. I went to my friend J's house today. I can probably count the times I've seen her this summer on one hand - first she was at camp, then in South Africa, and now she's leaving for Vail. I filled her in on my adventure yesterday. R and S came over and we sat at the edge of her pool, just dipping our feet and avoiding getting splashed by her yellow Lab.

When J finally kicked us out to go catch her plane ride, R and I got a ride to Mitchell's, the ice cream place near my house. We were stopped by a woman who wanted to know if there were other ice cream places near there. I rambled off a list, listing two shopping centers where I knew you could get ice cream. We sat down with our ice cream (mint chocolate chunk for R, vanilla with hot fudge for me), and I saw the same woman in line. I later complained about it to R:

"That was kind of rude. She asked us for other ice cream places and then she just stayed at Mitchell's."

R: "No, I was kind of eavesdropping. She was meeting someone, I heard her say 'I thought we had the wrong place!'"

Oh. That makes more sense. It got me thinking though, about how you can just talk to someone or hear just one thing someone says and completely form an opinion about them. Me and my other friend S went on vacation together, and we did A LOT of eavesdropping, learning a lot. Like the blonde boy who always sat in front of us at the beach? His name was Michael and his mom's friend's name was Kathy. It's kind of creepy to be someone who listens in on conversations like that, but I have such an active imagination, I'm always forming reasons behind one sentence. Curse of being a writer, possibly?

i'm gonna love me, for the rest of my days

Listening to: Young Hearts Run Free by Easyworld

Fun day! V and I went to lunch at McDonald's, and I got a call from E. He told me that he was going to S's house with R, and if I wanted to go. Heck yes! V dropped me off. R couldn't come, but E, S and I had a fun time playing Guitar Hero and E and S had a water fight. (I declared myself Switzerland and neutral.) Then our friend A called and he came to pick us up to go to his house.

I hadn't seen A in a long time, since we only hang out when we have mutual friend about. A is hilarious, though, even if he does have freaky reflexes. He has a pool, but I couldn't go swimming because I had my period. Try telling that to three teenage boys if you're the only girl there, though. I clung to my cell phone the entire time because I knew they wouldn't throw me in if I had a fancy electronic in my hand. (All are in awe of my cool phone.)

R called later and we decided to all go see Rush Hour 3. A, S, R, and I squeezed in the back seat of E's mom's SUV. Then there was the ultimate decision: Who would get in free? The rules at V's work say all family but only one friend. A won me over, saying he would do "anything". I don't need anything from him yet, but I said I would call in my favor anytime I wanted.

Rush Hour 3 sucked ass. There was one woman who wanted to kill Lee for some reason, and then she got caught in the spokes of the Eiffel Tower? We never learned her name. She's in the credits as Dragon Lady. I feel sorry for her.

two can be complete without the rest of the world

Listening to: Red Light by the Strokes

V and my dad went to go see the Bourne Ultimatum. V works at the movie theater and gets in free, plus he gets family in free too. Score! I didn't want to see the Bourne movie because it looked like complete crap, but on the other hand, I was really craving that stale, sickening movie popcorn. I found out that Hot Rod was out, so I lassoed N into coming and away we went.

We were there like an hour early, so me and N stepped into Who's Your Caddy, and then once that ended, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. When we got into theater 6, no one was there. N and I proceeded to run around the theater screaming and jumping on the seats, settling in only when another older couple came in. (I didn't like them that much, they declared Hot Rod "ridiculous". Bitch, Hot Rod was flipping AMAZING. Shut up.)

A couple of the previews looked good. Mr. Woodcock, for one. Also, the one with Owen Wilson as those kid's mentor/bodyguard? I think it was like Niblet Goodwrench or some weird name like that. I don't really remember. It just looked hilarious.

Hot Rod is now one of my most favorite movies ever. It had horrible 80's montauges, punch dancing, and the most hilarious script. Plus, Andy Samberg is hott.

"Real men have mustaches."
"Real men GROW mustaches!"
"Shut up, you know I have a hormone problem!"

And that weird Asian kid who threw fliers everywhere, then started humping? I laughed so hard I almost peed. I had to take a break (thus missing the riot scene) and go to the bathroom.

wake up in water, you know where you've been

Listening to: The Summer is Coming by Matt Pond PA

I think I'm in love.

I was looking at a bunch of WikiHow articles - they are the most hilarious things ever. They have articles with titles such as "How To Have A Secret Locker" and "How To Dress Like the Cool Hannah Montana". Anyways, they had something about broadening your musical tastes, with a bunch of external links. Most I had heard of, like PureVolume. But they had something else: www.pandora.com

Basically, you give it a couple artists or songs you like, and it'll give you more music based on the samples you've given them. This is why they picked The Summer is Coming: "it features a subtle use of vocal harmony, mixed acoustic and electric instrumentation, major key tonality, acoustic rhythm guitars and many other similarities identified by the music genome project."

I'm not entirely sure what that all means, but it sounds about right. Omigod, they just started playing We Looked Like Giants, by Death Cab. And best of all, it's all free. You can pay for it on the go, or something like that. I'm going to seriously consider that because I'm kind of obsessed with this now.

you have to set yourself on fire

Listening to: Your Ex-Lover Is Dead by Stars

I made my second trip to Barnes & Noble in two days today, where I got Eclipse, by Stephenie Meyer. I had tried to get it yesterday, playing the same trick that had gotten me the Clique books a couple days early the past two times. The bookstores have to get the shipments of the book in early, and they have it in the back. If you ask in a convincing way, they'll give you a copy before the official release date.

But anyways, that didn't happen this time. In cases where the book might get a release party that the author does not attend (Harry Potter is another example), they won't give a copy to you early. Damn them. I went back again today, with my other brother, V. I was so engrossed in reading Eclipse in Barnes & Nobles' comfy armchairs in the back that I almost missed my dentist appointment.

I've also decided I do not like my dentist. I know most people don't like their dentists, but I honestly don't like her. She's so fake and smile-y. I have nothing against perky people, me being one in general, but GOD she is annoying. And she keeps on trying to force the Waterpik on me. My dentist gave my mom a brochure about it and everything, babbling on and on about how you can purchase them at Bed Bath and Beyond for 30 bucks. Mom nodded along, promising to go get one as soon as possible. Then we got in the car and never spoke of it again.

I'm not going to give anything away about Eclipse, but I will say this: Edward. Is. So. The. Better. Choice. But the epilogue sucked.

how can we win when fools can be kings?

Listening to: Knights of Cydonia by Muse.

I finally got my hands on a copy of Spark Notes for my summer reading, The Once and Future King, by TH White. For those of you who haven't read it (and I envy you), it's basically TH's take on the famous legend of King Arthur. There are four books, all published in one volume. I have only read the first book, and am in the middle of the second. This is not going to go well.

I saw my cousin, B, last week while in Jersey. He just graduated college and is joining the Israeli army - in fact, he left today. We were talking with him about our summer assignments, and he gave us some reassurance about the reading:

"Whatever, Cliff Notes are fine. I never read anything in college except those and bullshitted my way through the rest."

My brother, N: "You're a role model."