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I have wanted to see John Mayer live for years. If I ever got the money, I would pretty much go anywhere to see him in concert.

SO HEY, GUESS WHAT. MY LAPTOP'S MOTHERBOARD DIED. QUELLE HORREUR. So I have no music and no laptop now. This is the suck, pretty much. Oh, and on top of that? I have next to no money either and unless my hours pick up next week, I will still have no money so I won't be able to remedy the entire situation either. I wonder how much money you can get from donating plasma and whether or not it hurts...

Kidding. (But seriously, money or no, if I didn't have a major hate of needles and prodding I would so donate plasma.)

Seriously, I need another way to make money somehow.

In case you don't know: in the past day or so, Stephen King only spoke the truth and said that Stephenie Meyer is not a great writer. And lo, the Twilight fans take offense to this:

I think he is just jealous because he's not getting as much coverage or is well liked as Stephenie. He really doesn't know real writing. I read one of his books and to me, IMO, he doesn't catch the readers attention like Stephenie does. I mean, it is his opinion but I don't agree with it. And books don't have to have blood, lots of violence and sex in it to be a great book. That's just how I feel.

I was pretty shocked that he just publicly put her down like that. But I think he is just jealous, I mean it cant be easy to be asked about another authors work instead of your own.
I was disappointed in reading that too. The old adage, "if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all" should apply. His dismissal of the book as a silly teen girl "not quite sex"storyline is a slap in the face to those of us who are grown women, and know the truths and common threads that run through all of us gals (young and old) when it comes to first love. Perhaps he has not had the joy of such an experience, and hence misses the point completely.

Right. Stephen King, jealous of Stephenie Meyer? Riiiiight. Tell you what: when SMeyer writes a story that is seen to be excellent source material for a movie that is considered to be one of the best of all-time, gets nominated for Best Picture like the previous one did, and gets made into a miniseries that scars people for life, please tell me. Though I suppose that parts of Breaking Dawn could, indeed, scar people for life.

Also, I take personal offense to Twilight being #1 on Good Reads' Best Young Adult Novels list. THERE ARE SO MANY GREAT BOOKS ON THAT LIST. The Giver (which is still one of my favorite books, and totally turned on my interest for dystopian fiction)! The Book Thief (SOBS, that book)! Speak! The Westing Game! The Perks of Being a Wallflower! The Absolute True Story of a Part-Time Indian! A Great and Terrible Beauty! And those are just titles in the top fifty; all of which have way more going for them than Bella Swan and her Disco Ball Boyfriend. I know it's a subjective, user-based list, but for the love of God, really?! Even IMDB's viewers aren't that stupid, and, well, IMDB has some stupid at points.

I need to finish writing Better Than Truth now.

Yesterday I pulled out Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too by the New Radicals and I listened to it on the way to work. I had forgotten that I liked that album so much. I still remember catching the video for "You Get What You Give" on evening on MTV2 and really liking the song, and voting for it on TRL (because it was a foregone conclusion that either the Backstreet Boys or *NSYNC was going to be #1--remember those days? Sigh). The band broke up after they released "Someday We'll Know".

I rearranged my CDs last night. I have 74 albums, and my CD total is probably higher due to the crazy amount of singles I have stashed someplace in my closet. While I was stacking everything in order (alphabetical, by artist's first name because I'm weird like that), I wondered if anyone else is like me and keeps CDs in some kind of specialized order. Half the hardcover books I own are in alphabetical order (the other half just sits elsewhere since I am low on shelf space), and my DVDs are in alphabetical order too.

Oh yeah, and I will just repeat what I said about this on Tumblr: "THERE IS ONLY ONE PATRICK VERONA." Though: dude, they got Atticus Finch's grandson! But besides that, I have known about this project since this summer and I am still baffled by it. Why didn't they just do it, I don't know, ten years ago? They did the Clueless show a year after the movie came out! Or, I don't know, how about they not do a show at all? Sigh.

Finally: I have a fierce urge to listen to more Earth, Wind, and Fire. Sadly, I only have this one song on my Zune.

Blair Waldorf may be manipulative, but damn if that girl can't dress well.

Oooh, is that what Ed Westwick sounds like when he's not Chucking it up? I approve!

Also: why am I just finding out that Amazon doesn't take payments via PayPal? WTH?!

So hey, let's have some nice and disturbing up in here:



Are you kidding?

You know how sometimes you will have an irresistible craving for some food item, and you want it so bad but you are just too lazy to muster up the energy to go and get it? Right now, I want a bagel something fierce and I am too lazy to go walk across the street and buy one.

In good news: the last book I need to buy for school is up at Amazon for at least $40 less than it was in the book store! And it was $70 used! Dear Amazon: YOU ROCK.

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! That's it. Crocs must be stopped. NOW.

I don't think that I told this story before, but I might as well tell it now.

Once upon a time, I was a regular poster at a certain fan messageboard. And there was this one other poster there, who, out of the blue, started IMing me. I didn't really "know" her like I knew other members of the board, and her posts were totally insignificant to me. She would IM me and complain about the ship wars that were going on, complain about how people didn't have "faith" in their ship, and other such stuff. Mostly, I ignored it.

Then one particularly stressful night (I was fretting over a test and trying to download the study guides), she IMs me and asks me what's up. I say that I'm freaking out and trying to study for a test.

Do you know what she said to me?

"Oh, that's nothing. I'm sick of people in my RP!"

WHAT.

I AM TRYING TO NOT FAIL AT SCHOOL AND YOU SAY THAT YOUR RP BUDDIES GIVING YOU TROUBLE IS WORSE THAN MY POSSIBLE FAILING A TEST?! WHAT PLANET ARE YOU FROM?! NO ONE IS GOING TO TEST YOU ON MYSPACE, MESSAGE BOARDS, AND WHETHER OR NOT PERSON X IS GOING TO HOOK UP WITH PERSON Y YOU CRAZY ASS BITCH.

With that said: if anyone thinks I have not had a bad past two days (starting with having to suck up water in the bathroom because the toilet overflowed and said water was leaking out into the damn hall, making me an hour late for work and culminating with me being late for my government test today, hitting bad traffic, it being cold and rainy and the water seeping through my mesh sneakers and me not even finishing the stupid essay test), I will punch them in the face, and I am not a usually violent person.

Random notes from both work and this weekend overall:

1. On Friday, I was leaving the mall after my break (and after spending more money than I should have on two Clinique lipsticks), when I was walking behind a Hispanic man who had a tattoo of Captain Jack Sparrow on the back of his right leg.

2. On Saturday at work, I saw a kid with the Worst Mullet Ever. I have seen a lot of mullets lately. Why do people think this is a proper hair style?

3. Also on Friday--a guy with a young daughter tried to buy me lunch after I helped him with shoes. UGH.

4. It is possible for your knees to sweat.

5. Saturday was hell because everyone was rushing like we were running out of shoes, as it was the last weekend before school started. So I was stranded on the kids' isle, wanting to beat someone and hypervenilating practically because I was so cramped and freaking out.

6. I saw a woman wearing a t-shirt with The Numbers from Lost and I complimented her on it.

7. Shortly after that, I saw a kid dragging around a Chucky doll. D:

WHY, GOD, WHY?!

Let's put this in list form.

1. I do not understand the alleged hotness of Zac Efron. Maybe it's because I'm not a twelve year old girl anymore--but then, even when I was twelve, I don't think I would've gone for him. I know that girls that age are attracted to "adorable" and inoffensive looking guys, but there is something so off about him that I can't put my finger on it.

2. I always have the urge to punch Efron in the face. I don't know why. Something about him bothers me, short of his overexposure.

3. WHY ARE THEY REMAKING FOOTLOOSE.

4. WHY.

5. Someone needs to be beat down for this.

6. Between this, the Underdog remake (WHY couldn't it have been in cartoon form, while still keeping Jason Lee to do Underdog's voice?! WHY WHY WHY?!), the Alvin and the Chipmunks remake, and the other things that just needed not to be remade (Inspector Gadget movie? I am looking at you)? I am sick of remakes. Seriously, if they are going to do a remake, MAKE IT INTERESTING or DON'T REMAKE SOMETHING THAT WAS COOL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

7. I think my rage is slowly passing.

Oh, hey, I Love the 90s is on VH1! [claps]

Question of the day: which movie from the past fifteen years do you think will be remade, whether we want it to be or not?

PS: I want that new Prince single. WANT.

The Dallas Mavericks are going to the finals--and because of this, they're selling Mavs finals gear at work. They opened after hours to let people get their stuff. But I got to leave early, so hey.

Our AC is OUT AGAIN. I keep having deja vus of the almost two weeks last August when we had no air. Oh Lord, will the madness never end?

Music report: "Ain't No Other Man" (Christina Aguilera's new single) = OMGWANTNEWALBUMNOW.

Proof that I am incapable of having real-life crushes: I might carry a small flame for someone who doesn't even talk to me. I'm not even going to begin to detail it.