i'm pretty sure i lost a few followers since my last post...GO ME! =D

Noooot much up right now. School's essentially over except for my sci-fi/fantasy class - "Cinderella" was over a couple weeks ago and I freaking bawled my eyes out after curtain calls...Cuz, y'know, it was my LAST show with that class, a class I've been in since it began. And at graduation next month? I'm gonna need an entire box of Kleenex...

After giving up MST3K for Lent, I have been immersing myself in the show since Easter morning. Apparently tirol9's YouTube account is back - knock on wood - which confuses me greatly but hey, I ain't gonna knock it.

Work's been going well. Last Thursday night a guy and his daughter - regular visitors - were leaving and I overheard them talking about getting pizza for dinner. Jokingly, I said, "Man, I could really go for a pizza right now..." And he was all, "What kind do you like?" I thought he was kidding so I said, "Cheese." Half an hour later, the guy comes walking into the Y and gives me a pizza.

Awesome, no?

Recently I found out that "The Dark Knight Rises" is gonna be filming in freaking PITTSBURGH. CHRISTIAN TOO-SEXY-FOR-WORDS BALE IS GONNA BE WITHIN A 300-MILE RADIUS OF MY HOUSE. Needless to say, I am slightly psyched about this. One of my friends and I are gonna go *ahem* see him....There will be no stalking involved. Much. And definitely no need to file restrainment orders against us...

A THOUSAND CURSES UPON THEE, YOUTUBE!!!!!!

Sorry - again - for the five hundredth time - for not posting in a while. I've been busy finishing school, prepping for college, struggling with writer's block, and coming up with other lame-ass excuses for why I haven't posted in a millenium.

For starters, I am currently super-uber-extremely-rage-guy-pissed at YouTube because they freaking REMOVED one of my favorite channels. A channel that has uploaded roughly a hundred episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 to the site, thereby enabling addicts like myself to watch the show peacefully online. AND NOW ALL OF THAT IS GONE.

*deep breaths* Zen, Beth, zen....be calm....relax....find your happy place.
Oh wait, my happy place is watching MST3K.

Screw it.....

In other, less distressing news, Jessie and I saw AVENUE FREAKING Q last night and it was just AMAZING. Words can't really do the show justice....it was totally worth waiting all these months for, I'll tell you that much.

Derp, school's pretty much over for me except for my co-op classes. Which is very nice. I was planning on using this free time to do stuff like *sniff* WATCH MST3K......

Okay, I'm done for now because I keep getting the urge to smash the computer with a sledgehammer and I don't know how well my parents would react to this action.

la la la la la l- OMIGOSH I'M POSTING!!!

Yep, I am actually posting for the first time in FOREVER...Okay, admittedly it's only been a little over a month but it FEELS like longer. Just wanted to let people know I didn't fall into a black hole, never to be heard from on the blogosphere again.

There are a couple reasons I haven't been updating lately:
a) I lack enough interesting things to say. I try to balance my reports of my recent activities with halfway-intelligent commentary about other things, but I have trouble coming up with such commentary, as well as finding things on which to commentate.
b) I've become addicted to my Tumblr. I like it because the posts can be just one or two sentences and I can post several dozen times a day without feeling like I have keyboard diarrhea.

But I really will try to update more regularly (yeah, I know I've said that before, but I legit mean it this time....I think...).

Still have major doubts about college. I went to the departmental scholarship day several days ago, and I guess the interview went all right, but I'm not very confident. Hey, if I'm going to be a writer, community college works just as well.

Not much else going down right now. Jessie and I have a show this Saturday - a kids' show. We're singing several Disney songs and doing an interactive skit that promises to be....interesting, since we've never practiced it with, y'know, actual kids before....I'm a little apprehensive because we've had exactly three two-hour rehearsals (for those of you who aren't strong in math, that totals six hours of rehearsal time), but it should be okay. I hope.

Oh yeah, instigating a new tradition in an effort to increase reader traffic (translation: WAAAA PLEASE COMMENT MORE OFTEN!!!! *cries*), I'm borrowing a page from the book of the oh-so-great-exalted RayWilliamJohnson, of YouTube fame, and beginning a comment question of the day thing for the end of every post. Cuz I'm bored. It's quite simple. I ask a question at the end of each post, and you, lovely readers, post your answer in the comments section. And then I read the answers and laugh and maybe mention my favorite(s) in the next post. So you have no real incentive to participate, I'm just doing this because I feel like it. And because I can. Whatever.

COMMENT QUESTION:
Where's Waldo?

attention, senioritis: leave me alone

Somewhere back there I missed my blog's second birthday (or is it the third?)...Oopsies. Happy belated birthday to mah blog, I love you. ^.^

Soooooo currently I seem to be experiencing the equivalent of a mid-life crisis - I believe Erikson called it a "moratorium". Translation: I've decided that being over the age of sixteen kind've sucks, that I am not overly fond of my current job, and that I'm not even sure I truly want to attend college next year. I don't want to be one of those people who ends up living with their parents and working at McDonalds until they're 30+ years old - that would REALLY suck - but, I dunno, I don't feel prepared to leave home yet. I usually pride myself on being mature for my age but in some ways I'm really only about ten years old. The notion of being on my own, making my own choices, having a place to live that's all mine, that's kind've enthralling. But there are so many things I'm not prepared to do. Like balancing a checkbook. We didn't totally cover that in consumer math. And cooking? I can make pasta, grilled cheese, and french fries, and that's pretty much it. I hate grocery shopping, I hate doing laundry, I hate pretty much all household chores...

But that's still four years down the road - at least. I still have to get through college, and that's a whole different set of worries altogether. How will I, one of the worst frigging procrastinators EVER, keep up with the workload? How will I deal with living away from home, with a total stranger as a roommate? How will I react to the different professors after having been homeschooled since fifth grade? How much of a loan will I have to take out - I'll almost definitely have to do that - to pay for tuition, and how do I pay it back once I graduate? On one hand, I really want to go, to meet new people, improve my writing abilities, make new friends. I love most of the people I've met there, professors and students alike, and I feel excited about many of the learning opportunities. I just don't know if I can handle it. Mom says I don't have to go right away, I can wait a year or so before going, but that'd just be weird. And I can barely even comprehend NOT going at all, because for most of my life, society has taught me that you finish high school, you go to college for four years, you graduate. Boom, end of story. I've always felt that to be successful I'd HAVE to attend college. I know that's silly - but my brain is silly sometimes.

Supposing - just supposing - I didn't go to college. I'd have to live at home and keep working at the YMCA for an unspecified amount of time. And I'm less than in love with that job. I mean, most of the people I work with are great, it's really very easy work (apart from answering the phones - doing that still freaks me out), I only work two or three days a week, a lot of the people who come in are nice, and it brings in a steady paycheck (okay, so I make minimum wage - money is money). But my boss just makes me nervous. Are all jobs like that? Am I just being a whiner? Am I going to be scared of my boss no matter what my job is? Or are there jobs out there where you can actually be friendly with your boss and not completely tense up whenever they're in the freaking building??? Seriously, every time she and/or her daughter is working while I'm on shift, I get really bad tension headaches. Every. Time. Is that normal? Do most employees have similar symptoms? Jeez.....Yeah, I know I should be thankful to have a job in this economy (crap, bad idea for me to mention the government, cuz I could rant about THAT for hours.....), and I am thankful, but...I wish it didn't feel like such a struggle to go to work each week.

The only solution for all these problems that I can currently come up with is this: within the next year or so I must write a bamfalicious book, get it picked up by a publisher, and have millions of copies sell so that a) I no longer need to work and b) college is pretty much unnecessary.

Yeah, THAT'S gonna happen.....

OK, end of rant. For now. Part II may or may not be forthcoming.

CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A WHITE CHRISTMAS?????

Here we are at my grandmother's house in Massachusetts. My sister and I have lapsed into full vacation mode (although I still have a sociology test to finish...oops...) and have spent the past 24 hours watching TV. Commence brain atrophy. We finally got a decent snowfall yesterday, not sure if people back at home got the same. PA people, did you guys get any snow?

Our plans for staying until Monday have been changed, because a big storm is supposed to hit Sunday night and we can't afford to risk getting snowed in up here, so we're prolly leaving on Sunday. Which is a bummer because my godmother was planning on coming down from Maine to visit on Monday :/ Oh well, I'll see her for graduation.

Last Saturday Jessay and I went to the mall and saw SANTAAAAAAA!!!! =D And we got our picture taken with him. And he gave us candy canes. And it was awesome and if you're not feeling envious right now then you SHOULD be. Because Santa's the man. Oh, and I also bought my first pair of Converse - for fifteen dollars. I LOVE SALES. And bonus: when I went to pay for them the guy working at the counter was like, "Hey, how are you? How are your parents?" And I said we were all fine, cuz I figured he was just being friendly, albeit a little weird. And then he's like, "This is so weird, I haven't seen you in forever!" and I started thinking, "OK, whooooo the heck is this person who apparently knows me?" Meanwhile, Jessie and the other person working at the counter are laughing at the utterly confuzzled expression on my face, and the guy was like, "You don't remember me, do you?" Turns out he was a guy I had frigging grown up with - his little sister was born two days after me, and our moms were really close friends at one time, so we saw each other all the time - I even had a crush on him at one point. So yeah, it was awesome seeing him again :)

That's pretty much it for news. I'll post again after Christmas is over. Merry Christmas everyone!!!

shameless plug

So this isn't really a post, as I have nothing worth talking about right now.....However, I just got a tumblr, which I imagine I'll be updating with random junk much more often than I update here, so if you're just interested in what goes on in my head from day-to-day, check it out:

http://liggytheauthoress.tumblr.com/

SO EXCITED FOR CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!! What's everyone going to be doing to celebrate? =D

of harry potter, canceled birthday parties, and SANTA CLAUS!!! =D

And I have returned to my habit of not posting in forever....Oopsies. Well, for starters...DEATHLYHALLOWSDEATHLYHALLOWSOHMYFRIGGINGGOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............Yeah, uhm, needless to say it was about seventeen flipping types of awesome.... The Ron-Hermione-ness alone - aka the main reason I go to see the movies - was enough to make my head explode. Only objection? AAAARGH I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL JULY FIFTEENTH FOR PART 2. AAAAAAAHHHHH.

I had to cancel my super-awesome birthday party because I got sick xP Oh well. Fortunately I didn't get sick until right AFTER the movie. If I would've had to miss the movie I would've killed something.

Last night there was a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony half a block away from the YMCA, and I found out that Santa was gonna be there - so as soon as I got off shift I legit ran over just so I could say hi to him ^.^ I love Santa.

Tomorrow is the Snowball dance for homeschoolers in the area and a huuuge group from my co-op is going. Which automatically ensures that the dance is gonna be bamfalicious.

I thought I'd mentioned this earlier, but apparently I haven't so I'm mentioning it now: Jessie and I are going to see AVENUE Q at the State Theater in March. SO. EXCITED. There's a good chance we'll get thrown out within five minutes because we're being to frigging loud but...whatever ^_^