currently listening to: horchata by vampire weekend

Oy vey! After a long long delay (caused by english projects, college anxiety and okay, i'll admit it, general laziness and lack of interest), I have returned to my roost! 

I've reached a period of nirvana in my life (aka, the homestretch between knowing where you're going to college and actually going to college) and thus, I've become inspired anew and all that shiz and I'm trying to regain that sense of spontaneity, whimsicality, quirkiness that is so often destroyed and crushed by school, teenage angst and dead geese in the middle of the road. Cause really, when am I gonna have this period of nirvana again!? Probably when I'm in diapers and using my 401k money. And trust, I'd rather do stuff now, when my metabolism is bopping and my health is supreme than when I'm encompassed in that funky old person smell.

Well let's begin!

1. Life in Technicolor II
       I heard this on my way back from a roller derby (no, i'm totally not kidding--real life Whip It you guys!!) and at first we 5 teens were cruising on the highway, windows down, dusk settling in, totally grooving to some sweet jams, and I hear this, and I'm like, ahhhhhhh Coldplay concert (aka, one of the best experiences of my life, ever)--because hello, Coldplay totally walked on stage to this song with sparklers in their hands and it was absolutely to die for, so it was like one of those synesthesia moments where a small sensory thing totally brings a swell of other senses and I was like--so this is what heaven feels like. So I told her to keep it on. . .and then lo and behold, there were words to the song!!!! I totally didn't realize that there were two versions of the song--Life in Technicolor and Life in Technicolor II--despite what a huge Coldplay fan I am. Embarrassing, totally shameful and incredibly sinful, I know--Jesus, please forgive me for I have sinned! But yes, at that moment, I fell in love. Then I went home, illegally downloaded (more repentance) the song and have been grooving to it ever since. I even put it on the pep rally soundtrack, how's that for dedication mothafuckas?
 
2. When Geese Are Not Lying (laying?) Dead in the Middle of the Road
      I was driving back to my house one night at like 11:30, and I just see all these fluffy things on the road and I'm like, what drizzunk asshole has been throwing pillow stuffing all over the roads? Like I hate those people who do stupid shit like that. But then I saw a dead goose in the middle of the road and MY HEART BROKE. How shameful that goose must have felt--its glorious down scattered upon the roadway, run over and completely taken for granted by motor vehicle operators. Its body was ripped apart and its feathers were askew and I was just like, bless your heart you little goosey-goose.
    Worst part is that two days later, it was still there!! Think how heartbroken that goose's goosey brethren must have been, seeing their kin strewn across the roadway. Poor darling goose. It was just trying to live its life.
       In other news--I've never seen a chicken actually cross the road. I petition that we change the universal joke to "Why did the goose cross the road?" Ans: So that it could go merrily fiesta with its family, but then it got totally KILLED by a crazy motorist who was probably like "The Butler/Michigan State game is so much more important than this goose's life!" Whoever this college basketball fan may be--may your soul forever be blighted by the death of this goose.

3. When Your Best Guy Friend's Ex(ish)-Girlfriend Does Not Hate You
      Self explanatory.

4. Mashup Songs
     Sometimes I'll hear a song and I'll really like it, and I'm just like, why can't there be more songs like this and fewer songs that are complete trash (cough*need you now*cough*carryout*cough*pretty much everything currently playing on Kiss 107*cough. . .Wow, excuse my coughing, looks like I have allergies or something). And that's when DJs and mashups become my spiritual lovers. It makes an already amazing song into a factorial of possibilities of even better songs!!!!!

For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgq8Z3nofCI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2yt1ooLQGo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW5fmCUJ6O0&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7VCWqCAYx4 <-- just found this one, and it is SICK.

5. Skiing!!!!
       Up until 1.5 months ago, I didn't know how to ski. Then I went to Perfect North, flailed around and fell down more times than I can count on an intermediate slope--btw, thanks, friends, for telling me that it would be easy--got rescued by some sophomores who had to WALK me down the hill, isolated myself and took lessons on the bunny hill. . .and then ROCKED some difficult slopes. It was so exhilarating flying down the mountain--like I get why people are thrill seekers now, because it was seriously like my body was not there and I was just flying. Like I'm pretty sure I felt the same as when Lindsay Lohan tried coke for the first time (the white powder, not the soft drink). Do it!!!