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i woke up sick on friday. it's been going around the office and i was the last man standing, but i swear i felt fine until i got home thursday night (when my throat started to hurt). UGH.

so here is a comprehensive list of what i did this weekend:

-moved my laptop next to my bed.

-watched a ton of movies: lilo & stitch, a knight's tale, becoming jane (the one damn time i want a happy ending...), real genius (i love this movie so much), idiocracy (it was funny), unnacompanied minors (good stuff), most of across the universe (hated it, didn't mind at all when my download cut off halfway through), and burn after reading (entertaining).

-watched that patd halloween song video thing at least 100 times. (no seriously. i am watching it RIGHT NOW.)

-had the following conversation re: my descent into madness bandom:

aren (1:06:59 AM): You are now the wounded gazelle.
lisa (1:07:10 AM): and bandom is the lion?
aren (1:07:23 AM): Yes. The retarded lion of Jon falling over.

-read a patd fic involving mermaids. or a merman, i should say.

-went to the hotel cafe show. (eh. the singers were all good but the crowd sucked.)

-opened a bunch of entries to reply to but never replied because typing in bed is hard.

-finished an abundance of katherines. i liked it more this time.

-went to publix for more drugs. this has, not surprisingly, made the patd video EVEN BETTER.

-slept.

Tour de Nerdfighting was totally jokes! I love John Green! And fangirls! And being a total spaz! Yaaaaay!

(My copy of Looking for Alaska now says "Best wishes!" GLEE!)

(FYI, Erica is xvxbabychicaxvx so y'all can go friend her if you want. This pretty much only applies to the people who were at the event :P)

ALSO I think I am having a party in November! Somebody remind me about this after I move.

AND I forgot to ask! Does anyone want to go to Halloween Horror Nights? It has to be an off-peak night, But I've got two free tickets and I am willing to split the cost with people if more than one person actually wants to go. If not I am giving my tickets away at work, so speak now or forever hold your whatever.

WE ARE MEETING A BESTSELLING AUTHOR TOMORROW, Y'ALL!!! ::flails on John Green's behalf::

also, my Team Katherine shirt is DONE! and I hardly have any marker on me AT ALL! (I sharpied instead of painting.) I chose Katherine VIII, btw. and I like the back way more than the front. in case you were wondering. (were the shirts secret? I hope the shirts weren't secret. if so, my bad?) there should be photos tomorrow!

(and just cos I know I am sometimes a pain in the ass to get in touch with, I am heading to Waterford right after work (so I will be there around 5), and then I am eating dinner at the diner cos I miss it, and then I am heading over to B&N to loiter. and then I am meeting a bestselling author & tons of nerdfighters, weeeeeeeeeeee.)

getting this book was a pain in my ass, and i didn't get the cover i wanted (i have sad margo), but whatever! cos i love john green!

( spoilers, obvs. )

1. looking for alaska made me cry at work today. one of my electricians semi-caught me (he came in before the waterworks really started, but i was sniffling and misty-eyed) and i definitely blamed my soup. UGH you guys! i love this book so much!

2. oh god twilight: whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?

3. THERE IS A SEQUEL TO THE CHEESE MONKEYS!!!! i was already thinking longingly of this book because of alaska, but now i must reread it! nfuurbfv CHIP KIDD ILU.

4. the other night i dreamt in indian. my brain helpfully provided subtitles. !!! I AM GOING INSANE, YOU GUYS.

4a. i am so tired i cannot see straight. i am so tired the bags under my eyes make it look like i have not slept in a month. i am so tired that the thought of walking the two feet to my bed exhausts me. and yet i cannot fall asleep. DELIGHTFUL.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.
-Looking for Alaska by John Green

(i've been thinking about college so much lately. this quote sums up how i felt a lot of the time, which sounds kind of sad. but it's not! i don't mind being the sidekick, the shoulder to lean on, the back-up singer. it was a whirlwind of being proud of my friends and perfecting schemes with them and being there for the victories and the failures and everything in between.)

(also i am starting to miss someone i should not be missing, which is part of why i moved 1000 miles away in the first place. missing someone who is very far away is a lot better than missing someone who is around the block and therefore available for you to not miss anymore, especially when said person is not someone you should even miss in the first place because you have had a really unhealthy relationship in the past.)

(it's good in a way, though, because for the first time in three years i can look back on things and smile instead of not looking back, or looking back and being sad or angry. i mean, i haven't been able to listen to some of my favorite music in years because it just made me too sad, but now it just makes me say "yes, that was good.")

(is this what growing up feels like?)

-i baked peanut butter cup brownies today. i have been craving brownies like you wouldn't believe, but we had no eggs or butter and so brownies had to wait. but now there are brownies! hooray!

-i'm reading a john grisham book because one of my electricians loaned it to me. um, really? is he really a bestselling author? the writing is pretty terrible, you guys. and the plot is pretty fucking stupid. and the book is sexist. i feel like this book is rotting my brain just as much as crappy tv does, but my electrician keeps asking me about the book so i need to finish it! i knocked a good chunk out at work yesterday, and i have a show tomorrow night, so hopefully it will be done this weekend so i can get back to children's books, haha.

-it turns out our library doesn't have as terrible of a ya section as i thought it did- it's just kind of hidden, along with the sci-fi section- behind the dvds. ::facepalms:: but they had a handful of pike books, which means it is an acceptable section. (to get a gold star you have to match my library from back home and contain every pike book ever. i really doubt this will ever happen.)

-i want to have a t-shirt making party before john green gets here! in his chat the other day, he was telling us that he did an event with stephanie meyer before she was famous, with about sixty people there. he said 52 of them were wearing fake fangs and shirts that said "I ♥ EDWARD" and that nobody had an "I ♥ ALASKA" shirt and it made him sad. so: t-shirt party! who's in?