Tuesday, April 8

 
i'm watching cnn's morning coverage of the war. a few things on the media coverage:

-tony blair is still hot. thank god for british involvement.

-does anyone get worried about foreign correspondent lisa rose weaver? because i do. just look at that name and that face.

-most of the british anchors and correspondents are absolutely ridiculous. with their bad teeth, thick accents and over-emphatic gestures, i feel like i'm getting the news from animal and beaker.

posted by from shannon at 9:47 AM

 
i'm afraid i'm sticking my head in the sand. after months of stressing out i've got two future plans that will take me through the month of january. at last, i can finally know what i'm doing that long, if i choose. but one of them pays poorly (very poorly) and one of them doesn't pay at all. but they are both huge adventures. shouldn't a girl with barely a college loan to her name and some damn good gre scores (at least two out of three) be allowed to choose the irresponsible path in the name of adventure?

on a related note to one of the future plans... last week i gave myself an early birthday present of the "a walk in walt's footsteps" tour at disneyland. ben accompanied me and i almost lost my mind from how cool it was. i couldn't stop beaming and nudging ben for the entire three hour tour. i found out that walt used to walk around the park late at night in his bathrobe. i saw which current backup-singing parrot in the tiki room used to be the original jose. i ate dinner on the patio of the disney gallery. i stepped inside the lobby of club 33.

to top it all off, our tour guide's name was chip and he spoke with a lisp. he wath one of frethno's finetht. BEST DAY OF MY LIFE.

random note: guys who call you under the premise not of getting a first date, but rather of asking for your ncaa finals pick, get about a million points from me.

so the birthday week is upon us. i feel like the luckiest girl alive this week. i thought nothing could top the anniversary of my 21st year, in which i was in florence and london in the same day. however, my amazing friends are doing their darndest to compete. i guess that makes sense - it's the big 22 (palindromes, man.) anyway, i am in for swing dancing (with birthday dance!) wednesday, birthday concert thursday, big surprise from lindy and janelle friday, and TOGA PARTY saturday. with a showing of les mis on sunday to wind down.

on a final note, i found out that this guy that i met over the weekend is blessed not only with the most wicket of bahstahn accents, an ingrained love of hockey and a proud irish heritage, but he also goes to mass. it's like god, nomah gahciaparra and the lucky charms leprechaun all pitched in to get me a birthday present.

posted by from shannon at 1:04 AM

Sunday, April 6

 
a quote brought to you from my friend ray, via ben:

"In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
-Harry Lime
posted by from shannon at 12:28 PM