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I officially have tickets to the Panic! at the Disco/Motion City Soundtrack (and others, but those are the two I'm going for) concert in Anaheim in June. I can't believe I've only seen Panic! (I know there's no exclamation point anymore, but it's hard to break the habit!) once. And it was so long ago! I think... October of my junior year of high school, so that would be... 2005! Fever had been out for only a month! There was no Jon Walker! (...well, he still existed. But you know what I mean) Actually, that's the last time I saw MCS, too (although I've seen them more times. I think three total?). I'm assuming I'm going alone which will kind of suck when waiting in line, but it's near impossible to stick together in the pit anyways, so that won't really matter. And I hate that it's a huge venue (why couldn't they play at Bren Events Center? Or House of Blues Anaheim?). But at least it's on a Saturday night, so if I do get a job over the summer, like I'm planning, I'll still be able to go.

Meme time! List 5 TV Credits you love, which you don't fast-forward. ( The credits. )

Time to start making flashcards for my test on Friday and maybe do the other assignment I have to do for Friday.

Quick update before watching DVDs.

On Wednesday I ended up having no willpower, so I watched the first two episodes of The Office with commentary (I justified that to myself by saying that watching with commentary is different than just watching the episode because I don't pay very much attention to the episode when I'm listening to the commentary) and then the first two episodes of Arrested Development. Tonight I'll hopefully finish Arrested Development and then tomorrow will be an Office marathon!

Today I had an essay on the Scarlet Letter and I think it might be one of the best essays I've written in a long time. This doesn't mean I think I'm going to get an A, because I think I'll probably still get a B because of stuff I didn't notice or whatever, but just based on my standards, I'm really happy with that essay. When I get the grade this'll all probably come crashing down, but for now, I'm happy.

Yesterday one of my birds, Caitlin, was like... wheezing and sneezing funny, so my mom took her to the vet and he thought she had a seed stuck in her trachea, so they put her under anasthesia and performed surgery on her and it turned out she had a fungal infection, and yeah, this was all very shocking to come home to considering she was fine the night before. She's all right now, she still wheezes but we're giving her medicine and it should get better. I feel so bad for her, though. She'll like try to chirp but she can't because of all that so it just comes out as this little like... wheeze or squeak, and it's just really sad. :( I hope she gets better soon.

...I think that's all I wanted to update about. I can't wait until next week, because it's major premiere week. I'm really looking forward to Studio 60 starting (well I've seen the pilot already, so not so much to this Monday, but just in general I'm looking forward to the show) and definitely The Office (I'm so excited for the new season to see how everything turns out, but nervous because I'm afraid that I won't be happy with whatever path they end up choosing) and there's also ANTM and My Name is Earl, neither of which I'm totally in love with (MNiE definitely more than ANTM, though) but I'm still happy new seasons are starting, and yeah. Yay for next week! :D

Ok, off to watch season 3 of Arrested Development!

My DVD player finally got hooked up correctly on Saturday morning, so I spent all weekend marathoning Arrested Development. God, I love that show. I can't wait to get the season 3 DVDs. And you know, people generally seem to like season 1 a lot more than season 2, and I thought I felt the same way, but watching it all in succession, I think from Out on a Limb to Righteous Brothers is pretty much my favorite Arrested Development ever (at least out of the first two seasons; I've only seen the season 3 episodes once, so it's harder to judge them against the first two seasons). I mean, I do love season 1, but I think season 2 is just as good really. I can see why some would prefer season 1, but I've found that I really do love season 2 just as much, if not more so with that final third of the season.

Today was the first day of band camp for freshmen and marching band leadership, but I went anyways and took pictures since I'm one of the historians. Went for lunch with a bunch of people and then came back to help set up for uniform fittings tomorrow. And now I'm kind of exhausted and I've barely done anything today. Imagine how I'll feel tomorrow. blah.

Prison Break season 2 premiere tonight! I'm excited. Vanished also premieres, but I'm not as excited for that since I've already seen the pilot. And besides, I don't think it's that great a show, anyways. I might watch it just to see Gale Harold in high definition on my new TV, though.

( The final four Arrested Development )

Anyways. Just to say overall if you haven't seen the episodes yet and don't want to be spoiled by the brief stuff I had to say, I love this show. I love it as much as Veronica Mars (I can't even decide between them, since they're such different shows). I was able to find things to laugh at in every episode, the writing was excellent throughout, as was the acting, I find more and more jokes everytime I see each episode, it was just... amazing, and I'm so sorry that it didn't have the chance to find the audience it deserved. And I hope Mitch Hurwitz goes with Showtime's deal even though I find it unlikely. It was amazing while it lasted. I don't know what else to say. Such a brilliant show.

sigh. All right, done with the sad.

After jazz band, Emma, Galaxy, Justin, Soan, Andrew, and Elizabeth came over to my house and we hung out for awhile before going back to school to watch the school musical, Urinetown. I was kind of regretting getting a ticket because it was from 7:30-9:40ish and I wanted to be home to watch Arrested Development and I've been in a kind of... I don't want to say bad mood, because that's not what I mean, but I was just... feeling not happy, I guess, the past few days, and I don't know. But then I went, and man, I'm so glad I did. It was really great. I don't even just mean the story (which I did enjoy), but all the people in it. I mean, man. They were good. Really good actors, and some really amazing singers. The guys who played the three main men in the story, Officer Lockstock, Bobby Strong, and Caldwell B. Cladwell, were particularly amazing. So yeah, anyways, glad I went. It was great. I think I just really love musicals in general.

Anyways. ( List of Lust Meme )

lakj Arrested Development was so freaking good and it always is and I really hope that wasn't the last episode ever. Someone better pick it up.

I did end up renting Bridget Jones and Love Actually on Sunday and watched them both. I do think the first Bridget Jones is much better than the second, but I still really like the second. I think it helped for me that I saw the second first, so when the first was better I wasn't disappointed. Seeing them in the right order, I'd probably have been disappointed by the second. Also, there needs to be a movie solely consisting of Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fighting. That would be excellent.

I liked Love Actually a lot, too. I don't know if I would have liked it as much as if I wasn't so... invested, I guess, in some of the actors (Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightly to some extent), but I was, so I did really like it.

I read one of the books I got for Christmas today, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler. I really enjoyed it. But I think I need to read Jane Austen's other 4 books first before I'd really love it. It was very interesting, though, and I loved reading the parts about Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.

All Southern auditions on Saturday and I'm pretty screwed, but oh well. All I can do is practice every night until the audition and hope that everyone else sucks more than me.

Friending meme! Welcome to all my new friends! :)

PSAT scores came back today, and I got a 223 (last year I got a 210, so I improved), which is pretty good. I have a pretty good chance of being a semi-finalist for a National Merit Scholarship, but I wouldn't say it's for certain yet. It'll be a long time until they announce those, though, so I'm not going to worry about it too much.

The score of the unit test in Euro I took last Friday is up now and I got an 87! I'm pretty sure that's with the curve, but that's still better than my previous two unit tests. If only I'd actually studied this semester in Euro. Oh well.

Arrested Development is awesome. I have nothing to say other than "Bob Loblaw Law Blog". Hee! And I thought Bob Loblaw was fun to say.

Anyways. Meme!
1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love of at some time in your life
2. Have your friends list guess your favourite character from each item.
If there's a (1) after any of the shows, then that means I have one other favorite character from that show that hasn't been guessed.

( The List )

Ah! Both the Veronica Mars and Arrested Development Season 2 DVDs came today! [is happy] The AD DVDs weren't even scheduled to come until like October 18! I think I'll watch the VM ones first since I saw all the eps in repeat of season 2 of AD over the summer and my parents need to catch up on AD before it comes back from hiatus so they can start watching the eps as they air rather than waiting for the DVDs.

I got a 92 on the Euro essay I wrote last week in class! Awesome. I thought I was going to get a C or B. And he curved the tests, so now I have a 84.6 rather than an 80. wheee. Imagine how well I could do if I actually studied. It would be insane.

We also got updated English grades: I got a 91 on the unit test, and that brought my grade up to a 78 or 79, which is a B! And it's teetering on the edge of a B+! I'm so happy. No worry about getting a C on the progress reports anymore! ...of course, I already told my mom I'd possibly be getting a C+ yesterday, but whatever.

There was a marching sectional for saxophones today after marching band, but I didn't go because A) I didn't find out about it until 5th period, B) I was having cramps on and off, and C) my foot where I injured it Monday was starting to hurt again by the end of practice. Like, it wasn't seriously hurting, but it was starting to feel stressed, and I knew if I marched for too much longer it would start hurting a lot more.

Aw, man, now I want to watch my DVDs.

What with the hating of Andrew Truong in my post earlier today, I forgot to also mention why I hate the attendance office at school. See, to leave early from class, you first need to get a note from your parent stating why and when you need to leave. Then you take it to the office before school/during snack/during lunch before you leave, they take the note and give you a pass, and you show that pass to your teacher to get out of class. Well, even though this is the 3rd year of me having to do this for orthodontist appointments at my school, my mom still doesn't know how to write a proper note. She addressed it to Mrs. Moore, my English teacher, and then wrote "10 minutes early from class" rather than 12:50 PM. So, this was the result:

( Why I hate the attendance office )

Anyways. Onto TV.

( Reunion )

( Arrested Development )

( Prison Break )

How I Met Your Mother I watched but have nothing to say about. Kitchen Confidential I didn't feel like watching, so I'm leaving it till tomorrow or Wednesday. I don't think I'm going to keep watching it, though, because I really don't care what happens and it doesn't seem to have much of a... plot, I guess.

Heh. I found out that my mom's started watching The Daily Show. Next things to convert her to: Veronica Mars and Serenity/Firefly.

Well, I finally finished my part of the seminar at like 6 PM. Seher was supposed to e-mail her part to me at 7 PM, but a little past 7 she was all "Uh, I didn't finish. Can I e-mail it to you at 8?" Uh, no. I said "7 PM at the latest" for a reason. So then I said 7:30, and by 7:45, she still hadn't e-mailed it to me. guh. I am so happy this is going to be over with tomorrow (though I'm not looking forward to presenting it. That is going to be hell).

( Arrested Development )

( Kitchen Confidential )

( How I Met Your Mother )

( Prison Break )

Heh. I was talking to Lulu about the Emmys last night during English, and I started mentioning Kristen Bell, and then all of a sudden Susan Chiang is all "omg, I totally watched the Emmys only for Kristen Bell's part and then turned it off" and then she asked me if she had won (where I sadly had to tell her no) and then she was all "Do you watch Veronica Mars?" and I was all "...are you kidding?" because yeah. I didn't realize there was anyone else who went to my school that liked and watched the show besides Lulu. And I think Melissa may have seen it, but that was only because of Lulu, and Lulu was only because of me. I didn't realize there were people who started watching it without my influence. It was crazy.

( Some more school stuff. )

Arrested Development premiere tonight! Along with some others that I'm planning on catching (Kitchen Confidential, How I Met You're Mother [which I'm recording. Don't know when I'll get to see it. But it has Alyson Hannigan and Jason Segal! Have to give it a chance!], possibly another I'm forgetting), but I'm most looking forward to Arrested Development. I'm so happpy it got another season. :D