Random Thoughts, The First

Posted on | August 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

I know I don’t have a large number of blog readers, but the ones I do have are smart, so I’m not even going to pretend: today’s post is a “Random Thoughts” post (an idea I stole from my blogging friend Kim) because my brain is currently on overload and I couldn’t think of anything thought-provoking or entertaining to post. I hope you’ll find these bits of information interesting nonetheless.

• This summer movie season has been a barren wasteland of exciting movies. I haven’t seen a movie since Eclipse, which doesn’t really mean much, but most of the time, I’ve found myself saying, “eh” every time I see a trailer. (In the interest of full disclosure, however, I haven’t seen Inception and I did want to see Despicable Me and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.) A handful of good movies in a long summer is bad news for Hollywood.
• I realized last week that it has been ten years this month since I started college. 10 years – that’s a long time. That’s a decade. It makes me feel incredibly old. If you had asked the 18-year-old me where I would be in 10 years, I gotta say, I probably wouldn’t have picked here. I don’t think I’m in the wrong place, but it’s kind of crazy to think about all that’s happened to get me here.
• I’ve been reading a couple of books that involve Greek mythology, so of course I’ve been thinking about what it would have been like to be a Greek god. I’ve decided that if I were a descendant of one of the Olympians, I’d want it to be Athena or Poseidon. But probably not both, obviously.
• Sometimes I watch the news or read the headlines online and I think to myself, “how can people be so stupid? How can they honestly listen to all that bullshit from people like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck?” I try to understand, but that just usually makes my head hurt. I literally cannot comprehend how people can totally and completely lack any kind of common sense or awareness whatsoever. It’s mind-boggling to me.
• I’m over summer. I’m ready for autumn – falling leaves, cooler weather, an excuse to buy new clothes, the smell of fires burning in the air, everything apples, pumpkin carving, Thanksgiving. There is literally nothing I don’t love about the fall and though I don’t necessarily want time to speed up (it does just fine on its own), I’m really looking forward to getting rid of all this heat and humidity. (I’m a snow kind of girl, personally.)
• The reason my brain is on overload: Mockingjay! The book officially came out yesterday, but my pre-ordered copy miraculously arrived on Monday afternoon (I don’t know how or why, I don’t care how or why.) This is not the kind of book you can read and then put down. It stays with you. My mind is still trying to make sense of all that happened and I doubt I’m come to clarity any time soon. In fact, given my obsessive nature when it comes to things I am passionate about – like truly amazing books – I’ll probably pick a time and go back and re-read and entire series, start to end, even though I’ve technically already done that once this year. Go ahead, you can laugh at me.
• In my defense, I do realize how ridiculous, crazy and maybe even pathetic I sound sometimes.

What random thoughts are on your mind today? Any suggestions for helping me be more “normal”?

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