It’s been too long since my last Friday post.
- There was a point this week when I thought we were all going to die. It was Tuesday night. I woke up around 3am to the scariest sound. I’d describe this sound, but I can’t remember it very well. I thought maybe it was thunder, but I’ve probably only heard thunder once or twice in the three years I’ve lived in California. Plus, it had been a nice day with no rain. And it didn’t sound like thunder. So, my mind went to the next likeliest possibility: the United States was under attack by one of our enemies or maybe aliens. I got up and looked outside. I didn’t see any lightening or even rain, but I continued to hear the scary noise. I opened my laptop and made an unattractive squinty face until the light from the screen was no longer blinding. I went to CNN.com and Twitter. They both took forever to load. At least it seemed that way to someone who thought she was facing death by alien attack. There was nothing on CNN, but a few pages back, I found one tweet from a Southern Californian commenting on the thunderstorm. That brought me back to sanity, though I still wasn’t convinced I wouldn’t wake up the next morning to find I was the only human left on Earth. As my potential last words, I tweeted: “Is that thunder or is the world ending? Crazy noises.” One of the first things I do when I wake up is check my blog email; there waiting for me were nice comments from you guys, so I figured the world had survived.
- I’ve been watching my season 2 How I Met Your Mother DVDs. I was actually surprised to see that I owned them. I stopped buying DVD sets a while ago, because I just didn’t want to shell out the money. I hadn’t seen these episodes in a while, so I was watching through the season and when I got to “Swarly,” I was like, this is my favorite HIMYM episode ever! Then I watched a bit further and got to “Slap Bet,” which is the one with Robin’s music video and concluded that that episode is really my favorite. I remember watching it when it first aired and I nearly died.
- Speaking of TV, I’ve been into My Boys lately. I’ve known of the show for a while and I’ve even seen some episodes, but since I don’t have cable, I’ve never kept up with it. Well, I recently discovered that they put complete episodes up online, so I’ve been trying to catch up. I love it, though every time I see Jim Gaffigan on screen, I just think of Hot Pockets. I hope the show gets a fourth season.
- I tried to write a post about this, but it got weird. All I really want to say is that I love my job and I am beyond grateful to have it. At this point, I’d be grateful for any job, because I absolutely need the money, but the fact that I get to work in such a nice atmosphere and for great people puts it over the top. This isn’t my career and it’s not that intellectually stimulating, but my brain gets enough stimulation from school and research jobs. It’s nice to have a place that’s just comfortable. I am very sad that my boss might be retiring very soon. She’s probably the nicest boss I’ve ever had and I will have to tell her that before she leaves.
- I’ve been doing research around the web for my summer research project and much of what I’ve found are blogs. People blogging about progressive theology makes me want to do it myself. I also want to write about politics. And makeup. I want to vlog more too! I have this feeling all the time that I want to do more on the internet, but I already feel stretched a little thin and things will be way worse come Fall, so I am trying to hold back until I am hit with an idea that I can’t just sit on. In the meantime, I think I’ll just blog about all those things here. That’s the beauty of a personal blog: I can talk about whatever I want.
- With my evenings free, I find that I drink more. Hmm.
- I have done some work on my novel, but there’s so much more to do. I am so back and forth, because sometimes I’m like, I have to change everything! and other times I’m like, just a little revision and I’m good. It’s hard to stay balanced.
- The blogosphere seems very quiet lately. I guess people are out doing fun things. Odd concept.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Don’t forget to be awesome!
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I too formulate the worst possible scenarios when something frightens me! haha
And HIMYM is the best sitcom ever, in my opinion. Slap bet definitely is one of my top favorite episodes! In fact, we downloaded Robin’s song and have it on our ipod. hahahah.
I definitely heard a noise in my house last night, thought it was my dog, and yelled for her to come to bed as I walked toward my bedroom. But she was already in bed. Then I started freaking out a little that it was an alien or a giant bug or some man waiting to kill me as I slept.
It was 4:30 a.m.
I guess noises coupled with sleep leads to overreaction by many of us, ha.
“I thought the world was ending…so I looked up CNN and Twitter” – what a sign of the times. When I was a little girl, and I thought the world was ending… actually whenever I woke up, it was because I thought the BTK killer or another never captured serial killer was in my house… but when I woke up, I’d hide under my bed. That’s all I could do.
I still wake up scared, but NOW I put my IPOD in my ears, and also go online.
PS-You, me, night, drink together? Other than the fact that it sounds like I just asked you out…. I just remembered you live in Cali, and I in NJ. Oh, the distance :)
It stormed a little last night, and I slept like a baby. We haven’t gone a full week here without having a storm. I find them relaxing at night.
I hate hearing noises throughout the house, though. I’ve made Husband get out of bed before, and he searched the entire house with a machete–haha! He may or may not have circled the house (outside) in his underwear with the machete, too. :D
I love thunderstorms! We are probably getting more today. However, teaching while there is a thunderstorm outside is a different story. I never imagined I would have to explain the concept of thunder and lightening to 9th graders.
When I have a bad day at work, I quietly hum “Muuuurrrrdeeerrrr, all aboard the murder traaaiiiin.” When I have a good day, though, I sing Barney’s video resume song. I love HIMYM.
I think why I love your blog so much is because you DO blog about everything from progressive theology to makeup! And HIMYM :) That last line was awesomely Barney Stinson. Awesome.
I’ve started watching HIMYM too- I’m about halfway through Season 2. I’m saving some of it for my long, long flights to and from Paris. I’m also glad to see that California wasn’t under attack by aliens, that would have been pretty scary.
And I know I’m one of those lazy bloggers but, trust me, I’m not doing anything fun. More like I’m exhausted from the past semester and summer school and it’s killing my ability to blog about anything interesting. But between going to the beach and being in nice weather and being in CA in general probably means you’re doing more fun things than me.
That unattractive squinty face that you made when waiting for the computer to blink on in the dark? I do that all the time! :)
I also often want to do way more on the internet and am trying to find the time. So many options! Blogs, and every type of blog you could want–not to mention all the social networks. Crazy stuff.
Great post. Friday posts are the best, I think. Such a happy day!
First off I <3 HIMYM! I have all 3 seasons because I found myself watching it all the time. I <3 the slap bet episode with Robin’s music video. My girl crush on her was pretty much sealed with that hahaha.
Glad you are enjoying work!! It’s always the best when you do hehehe.
I always look to twitter for breaking news as well. I tend to find it there faster than even CNN. I’m glad that you are enjoying your job, and drinking more in summer is what happens when its nice and warm out. =) Have a great weekend!
I would be calling my sister or waking a roommate up if I heard some noise like that. Though putting in earphones and trying to sleep might be something I try before I wake the household.
I’ve never liked My Boys. I tried to watch a couple of times and just don’t like the lead female in the series. I’m quite happy watching re-runs of my favorite show, Bones.
“I tried to write a post about this, but it got weird.”
Happens to me all the time.
And re: the blogosphere? I know! I guess it’s just the weather- people are heading outside and away from their computers. Which I totally get, but most of us still have to sit in front of one for 9 hours at work, right? What’s going on?
I thought the same thing yesterday about the blogosphere. It has been quiet. And a lot of people are quitting also. :(
I can imagine the bloggy world gets quieter in the summer – I’ve been trying to schedule posts in advance so that when nice weather rolls around I’m notr inside plugging away!