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Things I Like:

Briefly? All forms of fiction, making soundtracks and laughing.

But specifics are more fun, so: hot chocolate + pajamas + tv; all those times that Chuck and Sarah will order takeout and spend the evening on the couch; daydreaming; when Mulder invades Scully's personal space; Keira Knightley; ...right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment; Ben Covington in his Dean and Deluca t-shirt; music that feels like roller coasters and diving off the highest diving board; banter, particularly of the Booth&Bones variety; boys with rolled-up sleeves; books; when Addison Montgomery is a dork; chocolate; Sara and Michael getting drunk at the office Christmas part; awesome tv casts; Bryan Fuller`s imagination; penny candies; happy endings; the Alias pilot; making cookies; anthropologie catalogs; overanalyzing; jumping in puddles; being outside; epicness; tv that gives you chills; flashforwards; when Logan is drunk; time travel; kickass female characters.

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courage laced with alcohol
songs for new crushes

golden days : the damnwells
neopolitan dreams : lisa mitchell
vegetable car : joshua radin
something to say : ashton allen
if a song could get me you : marit larsen
young love : mystery jets
this thing about you : miracle fortress
sunburn : gordie sampson
wished for song : kate york
friends : chris holmes

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Ecuador was...incredible. It's so difficult to think of the right adjectives because saying it was fun or awesome sound wrong considering what I was there to do and what life is like in the communities I visited. We were building schools in rural communities in the Andes mountains. It seems like everyone I've ever heard speak about experiences in developing countries always says "there was so much joy" - to the point where it almost sounds cliched to me - but it's true. The reality was that we were building schools for kids who drank infected water straight from a pipe out of the ground, kids who would - for the most part - not get to go to high school (if they even finished elementary school), kids who worked harder to support their families than almost everyone I know has ever worked in their entire lives. But I've never met anyone happier than those kids, and that scares me a little but is also extremely inspiring.

I've got a lot to think about. I'll post pictures in the next few days. It's actually very difficult to talk about my experience, because it feels like there's just TOO MUCH. So, um, ask me questions if you're curious! I've found that a lot easier over the past week than just so of rambling on about stuff. Something cool, though? A week and a half ago I was playing soccer at a higher altitude than my plane flew to come home.

I think I've caught up on all the shows I missed. I watched tv for a few days straight after I got home because I had an awful cold and didn't really want to do anything other than sleep and lie in bed. My brain kind of went crazy, so there are only a few thoughts about all those shows that stand out in my mind: Penny/Desmond reunion, whaaat! Barney loves Robin (I want to put that on a banner and fly it behind a plane)! Gossip Girl broke up pretty much every relationship they had going; I loved it. I love Nate Archibald, I really do. I am insanely worried about Daniel Faraday. After the second last episode of Bones (BOOTH!!!!) I was expecting a glorious finale (WTF SHOW). I thiiiiink that's it.

I finally saw Iron Man this weekend. Everyone has been all reaction-y already, so I'll just say: !!!!!!!! TONY STARK. AND PEPPER POTTS. I NEED TO SEE THIS MOVIE APPROXIMATELY 23819286 MORE TIMES, ASAP.

As a result of my newfound RDJ love, I've been re-watching season 4 of Ally McBeal. I had totally forgotten how much I adore Larry Paul. DEAR LORD, THAT MAN. I'm also ripping apart my room trying to find the most compelling article I've ever read about any celebrity, which was an interview with RDJ that I read way back in high school when he was in prison. Somehow he was even loveable then, and I've even thought of that article randomly over the past few years. You guys, he's just so charismatic!

I'm getting insanely excited for the big Prison Break Season 1 rewatch captaincatapult and many others are having this summer. Join us! Even if you've never seen the show before! It's one of my favourite seasons of tv - it has to be if it contains the beginning and best of Michael Scofield and Sara Tancredi. There's an innocence to it that is wonderful and scary - there's flirting and shy glances and little tiny moments that make me wrap my arms around my knees and grin (and sometimes cry). They have no idea what's coming. There's an energy to season one that is lacking in the other seasons. It's "I'm Michael by the way" and that swooping feeling in your stomach, and funny little ironic moments like "I'm the furthest thing from an addict, trust me" and OH BOY, I'M EXCITED FOR EVERYTHING.

I am a person who makes lists. I have a notebook full of them: cities I want to live in, favourite smells, names for a kitten, songs for a rainy day, characters I wish I had created, and on and on. At the top of my simple pleasures/instant happiness list? Romantic comedies. I love them! I really do, and I'm not the least bit embarrassed about it. Watching romantic comedies is like wrapping yourself in a big cosy blanket. Or laughing with friends until your face hurts. Or that time in the seventh grade when you sat in the grass outside the book fair with the guy you had liked for years, and the sun was glinting off your eyelashes and he smiled and stole some of your cotton candy, and you wanted to freeze time.

That's what The Jane Austen Book Club is like. Well, for me it's all books and pretty people and GRIGG, but my point is that it's happiness movie-fied. What better way to illustrate that than with a picpsam? There isn't one, I say.




( so they're not sequels? )