Accidental Southern Belle

Sad News and Fun News All Living Happily Together in One Weekend Blog Post

Wow...this story makes me so sad: Palestinian kids making a living from Jewish settler trash in the West Bank...I might have to include in my book.

In more fun news, congrats to Appalachian State for the biggest upset in coellge sports history! Yay North Carolina!

All That Drama Tired Me Out

It looks like all the yelling about where people went to college totally exhausted me. Also, lots of back-to-school partying has been mildly distracting. Also, I'm reading this book called Rides of the Midway which J. gave me and which is really good. It is literary and also there are guns and drugs. I think that's a hard combination. Rare, really.

I kind of stopped reading Fall On Your Knees...it started getting super creepy--a mom killing her daughter and then the sister killing the baby of the daughter who was killed....was kind of upsetting . But I might try to finish it before it is due back at the library this week. After that, I'll probably just be doing reading for school so my time of leisure reading is probably over for a little while. How sad.

I will also be watching Season 2 of Lost when it comes out on DVD on September 5th which will cut into my reading time. In watching news, I just watched this crazy movie called I Love Your Work that the Temporary Southern Belle and I saw at the video store when she was here. It was kind of crazy and circular structured, which you may know that I enjoy, it was also really multi-layered in a way that was potentially interesting but also kind of confusing. I must say that watching the beginning of the movie again after I had watched it helped a lot...I think I liked it, but I can also see why it got terrible reviews. There were a LOT of shots of Giovanni Ribisi looking upset and also kind of stilted dialogue. But I did like it.

Last night at one of the parties, we played kickball. So, everyone here knows that I am literally the least athletic person in the entire world. The other team figured it out pretty quickly and started only kicking the ball to me! Jerkstores! So then I switched to catcher and everyone left me alone. I am, by the way, an excellent cheerleader and I think that will be my role at future athletic events.

At another party, we discussed the fact that there is a swimming pool where I live and that reminded me that I have been meaning to go into the swimming pool to try to teach myself how to swim. What's weird is that I do know how to swim, but I don't swim properly so I can't really swim laps, although if you tossed me overboard from some boat, I wouldn't drown. So, it turns out that I can swim a bit more than I thought I could, but I don't know how to breathe when I do the crawl, so I can only swim that for as long as I can hold my breath and then I need to stand up, breathe, and start swimming again (this is fine since my pool is only 3 - 5 feet deep). But I think I'm going to need to learn how to breathe. I mean. It's kind of ridiculous. But I am scared to breathe. I don't know what I am scared of, but when I have to, my body freaks out and won't do it.

So, breathing is one of my goals.

Beer Update

There are a LOT of leftovers. And I still have the icecream.

Pigs in a blanket are really fucking good.

So is onion dip.

Sigh. I have to go running.

I Hope There is Enough Beer

So, it seems that I am having a Super Bowl party and in about an hour, people are going to start coming to my house and watching commercials and drinking beer and, I guess, some sports. At first, I thought it would just be a few people, but I think I may have invited a lot MORE people last night, so now I am afraid that there will not be enough beer or snacks. But if that is the case, I guess we'll all just have to deal.

Joel is coming over to help me make pigs in a blanket, because that is the main reason that I wanted to have people over to watch the Super Bowl in the first place, pigs in a blanket. They are very, very good.

I've been busy all weekend doing homework and writing and getting ready for this party. There are new stories and despite the fact that I have no idea what else to do with them, I have a sinking suspicion that they are not ready to be shown to my class yet and they are going to be due soon. Very soon.

So in the meantime, I've been reading this website: overheardinnewyork.com which is really funny. Reminds me though of something I heard on campus the other day. One guy says "Dude, you could buy a surfboard if you stopped doing drugs." And the other guy says, "No, man."

Ok. Pigs in a blanket! Football! Yay!