let's dance while we're playing tennis!

i have a lot going on right now! moving, work, getting ready for school, helping my mom with my grandparents' fiftieth wedding anniversary party...i will be glad next week when it's all over and i can think and talk about fun things again. but until then, here is an amazing video for all to view in honor of india's independence day last week!



i'm really hoping that the rest of om shanti om is as good as this video. because seriously. fantastic.

crimson and clover.

there is this one jimmy eat world song that i always forget about but then they'll play it randomly on the radio while i'm driving places and i'll remember again and turn it all the way up. as i get older, it means more and more to me. the downside to it is that it makes me think about someone i'm not friends with anymore and it adds this weird, semi-nostalgic edge to it. but anyway. i still remember when i first bought this album at zia records. it was when i was first getting into "cool" music and i would practice drawing the faces of the band members in my sketch book. later i would learn the middle in my guitar class. this was before the song was popular, my pretentiousness wants me to point out. the album was called "bleed american" but then september eleventh happened and they changed it. i lent the cd to my cousin heather and then she crashed her car and i never got it back. it's what happens.

we had a really awesome storm tonight. after i got out of class i was going to go to trader joe's but it looked a little stormy and i was sad i was without my trusty umbrella. i hit la cholla and the rain started. and the lightning. and the wind. it felt like a hurricane! i've never really been in a hurricane. but the point is. it was raining so much that it took me twice as long to get to the oracle-ish area and i decided to just go to the kohl's parking lot and wait it out because i had work soon anyway. i parked my car and watched the storm all around me. the lights went out in the parking lot but they were playing an old deftones song i hadn't heard in a while so somehow it was okay. the whole time i was thinking about this one story stephanie told me a long time ago about how when she was little her mom would always make her sit in the car during thunderstorms. it was pretty fun but then i got my shoes all wet when i ran inside and i had to put up ads with soaking wet shoes that have holes in them! that is not professional, robyn. they said that it rained a lot by the u of a. i hope my house is okay. i still need to move down there. soon!

i keep on having all this self-doubt about my abilities as an academic but that is probably a topic better saved for another day! too much wah-wah makes for a bad entry dontchaknow.

klippan in granan black.

i watched porco rosso tonight and now i want to fly planes and wear a cloche. probably not at the same time as the cloche would fly off, but for the three seconds before it did fly off i would look swell! i am pretty afraid of flying though so i doubt this would end up happening. there goes my dream of being an air force pilot! not really. i also watched bedknobs and broomsticks today. apparently it was a good day for movies! i'm not a huge fan of movies [they take up so much time], but sometimes you just want to watch bounty hunter pigs in fascist italy and nazis getting comically beat up by magically animated sets of armor. "but that's what you'd say if you was a nazi, wouldn't you, sir?"

in other news, i am going up to ikea tomorrow! hej, new couch!