Thinking About You

So, I had this line stuck in my head all day. It wasn’t the line of Lady Gaga’s new song [this beat is sick. Wanna take a ride on my disco stick?] Or one of the many movie quotes I get stuck in my head but the line of Gossip Girl, read by Kristen Bell.

‘Asher Hornsby overhead bragging that Little J swiped her V Card at his register. Didn’t anyone teach you, J? You shouldn’t give away the ending if you want him to pick up the book again.’

I have no idea why this was stuck in my head all day! Could it be because I was procrastinating on my novel by re-watching Season One of Gossip Girl? Or could it be because thinking about a television show is better than thinking about how lame it is to be working all day at McDonalds?

Speaking of which, I had a girl come in this morning and she was like “Why are you here every day?” I almost laughed. “It’s called working full time.” The same girl came back in the afternoon and said “Why are you still here?”

I think Andy and I are starting this new thing called Blog Every Day Forever because, like he said, blogging is lovely. I’m ecstatic to think that I might come back to this page in five years and wonder why my life was so crap. Chances are my life won’t have changed much in five years except I’ll be more in debt.

There are several things I want to discuss in my blog today. But before I get to that, I want to write my own list of things I want to do in San Francisco because it looks like so much fun!

-Ride in a taxi
-Eat at American McDonalds
-Go to Wal-Mart and put something on my head
-See the house from Charmed
-Get my copy of Harry, a History signed
-Stalk hosts of certain podcasts, Matt Britton and *cough* Terrance *cough* in particular
-Take as many pictures/video as possible
-Vlog in an airport
-Meet Andy :P
-Put Nick Myers in my vlog
-TO BE CONTINUED

Ok, on to more... serious issues. Like, SWINE FLU! Yay, now it’s time for everyone to freak out and obsess! In other words, has anyone stopped to think that the media is just hyping it up to create more drama and instil fear and panic? The more they keep overdramatising the whole situation, the more people are going to turn on their televisions to figure out what’s going on.

I understand if you’re worried about getting swine flu and I respect that. But seriously, you think that if you stop eating pork it’s going to help? Here’s a tip for you: WASH YOUR FUCKING HANDS. I’d be terrified of oink barf too if I lived in, say, Mexico.

Next topic, school! So, I know I have to finish year twelve. I obviously don’t plan on doing that this year... or next year. Hooray for 2011! Hopefully I’ll be able to save enough money for LeakyCon WHILE doing year twelve at TAFE on the Gold Coast. I’m still working on that because there a few teeny issues like WHERE THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO LIVE? But I’m sure I’ll have all that worked out in two years time.

So I have this crazy idea in my head about going to college in America. Now, I don’t know about you but if you’d been reading books about America for ten years you’d find it pretty fascinating too. I want to live there so bad! No offense Australia, but you suck. So I was thinking if I save enough money after LeakyCon I might be able to afford to go to college in America... eventually. Fingers crossed.

Lastly, obsessions. Did you ever have something that you were obsessed with when you were younger but now you’d think about it and cringe? Whether it be Barbie, Bratz, Neopets, Pokémon (although, some people are still obsessed with that) or Tamagotchi, we’ve all been there. I confess to have, at one point in my life, been obsessed with all of the above... except for Pokémon.

But when you skip past obsession there’s those little things you liked for some strange unknown reason or those little moments you had when you were younger that made no sense but made you laugh so hard you cried. I was rummaging through my drawer, in search of a silly story I wrote in grade eight when I found the CD ‘Schnappi. Das Kleine Krokodil.’ Do you guys remember that vogue with Crazy Frog and more recently, the Gummy Bear song? Well, Schnappi was kind of like that only in GERMAN.

Basically it’s a little German crocodile that hatched from an egg but the song is freaking adorable while also being freaking hilarious. My friend and I heard it on the radio one day while we were at her house (this is the same friend I mentioned in one of my previous blogs, Lauren) and could not stop laughing. We danced around her house like freaks to this song with no idea what about it made it so funny to us.

This is why I have this CD. It sits in my drawer, a constant reminder of a long ago moment that I never quite figured out why was so funny. Seriously, just watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3FG4EOgyU

Thinking about my year eight self makes me think about all the people I knew back then that I’ll probably never see nor talk to ever again. You have to wonder if the people we think about, the ones we hold in our memories and analysed and agonised over for days on end ever thought about us as intensely as we thought about them. I’ve thought about Lauren a lot in passing since the last time I actually spoke to her in year ten Hospitality before her mum made her switch schools. But I’ll never know if she ever thought about me or if I was worth the second it took for our eight grade escapades to cross her mind.

I’d have to say that for the last four months 90% of my thoughts have centred around Azkatraz with the other ten percent related to work and/or internet/Harry Potter stuff. I really do have a one track mind.
You know you love me. Xoxo
NAH JUST KIDDING... but seriously, I’d recommend reading Gossip Girl. Go, Google Cecily Von Ziegesar. The show alone will leave you wanting more.

Word to your bookshelf,

Kassi

Days I’ve Worked Full Time: 39
Books I’ve Read in 2009: 39
Days Till I Leave for Azkatraz: 68
Days Till I Meet John Green: 20
Word of the Day: acclimatised.