Free Hugs

You know that website, My Life Is Average? EB introduced me to it a few months ago when she read some story about a guy who got down on one knee and sang "Love Story" to some random girl. It made her think of me. Clearly.

So I was reading that website today and I realized I had a total MLIA moment yesterday. Granted, I have these MLIA moments every day, but this one makes a better story.

My friend Angel and I were walking around Times Square yesterday (after her totally amazing stand-up performance) when we saw a group of those people giving out free hugs. Now normally I ignore them, because it's weird to hug strangers (except sometimes at parties). But this time, I glanced at the huggers and realized that a couple of the guys were like, kinda cute. So I went up to them and opened up my arms. And hugged. And kept hugging.

Now for all those hugging skeptics, the free hugs I got yesterday made me feel so warm and fuzzy that I was almost tempted to stand on the street and offer my own free hugs. Until I realized that I was in New York and could easily contract a disease that way.

On that note: My Life is Average

Olden Days

I was just looking through my blog posts from May and I noticed the extreme changes that dear blog has gone through. I wrote one entry about how I hadn't written in my blog in a while (fine, I write those entries all the time), after I hadn't written in 6 days. In another entry, I wrote about how I missed the days when I was able to write every single day. After the month of May, my monthly posts averaged about 3. Big changes, right?

Granted, I work allll the time, so you can't really blame me for not writing daily, but it's not like I have zero time. It's also not like I have nothing to say. I know it seems pointless to write yet another one of these "why don't I write more" entries, but this is the first time that I realized quite how much change Blog has gone through.

Fun fact of the day: I am currently reading the book Youth in Revolt. It's super sexual and mildly disturbing. It's also really long. I might not be able to finish it by the time the movie, starring Michael Cera comes out.

Andy vs. Billy

A few months ago, I bought first season of Ally McBeal. I was really into it when I was younger, because I had a crush on Robert Downey Jr., but he didn't show up until a few years into the show. I missed like 4 seasons of it, and that is totally unacceptable in SandyLand. So yeah, got first season, watched it all, loved it. I actually just got second season on Netflix, so...cool.

Anyway, Ally has this cute ex-boyfriend named Billy. I knew I had seen him somewhere before, so I went to my trusty friend, IMDb, and searched Gil Bellows. Turns out that he was Tommy in The Shawshank Redemption! I thought that was crazy cool since I love that movie, love his character, and that movie is currently #1 on the IMDb Top 250. After I found that out, I became very invested in Billy, even though he wasn't on it back when I watched all those years ago.

My piqued interest in Billy made something glaringly obvious to me. He is Andy Trudeau. For those of you who didn't have a crazy obsession with the early seasons of Charmed, Andy Trudeau was a detective who sometimes dated Prue in first season. I have come up with a list of all of the ways that Andy and Billy are exactly the same person. Even though they really have different looks.

• The History: Both Billy and Andy dated the main characters on their shows from the times they were young children. First kisses, first sex, first everything. I think they met around the time they were like 4. You could make the same argument for Cory and Topanga, but I swear it's different.
• The Name: A lot of boys use the cutesy ending with a y names when they are younger, but give them up around puberty. I went to elementary school with boys named Robbie, Joey, Teddy, etc, but around high school, they became Rob, Joe, Ted. All those older versions of their names. It makes sense that Ally and Prue would call Billy and Andy by their cutesy names, but they aren't the only ones. Everyone calls them Billy and Andy. No Bills or Andrews.
• The Unrequited Love: Ally and Billy broke up because he left her to go to law school in a different part of the country. Prue and Andy broke up because they left for college and it just made sense. When their paths crossed again about 10 years later (this applies to both plotlines), the feelings flared up again. Prue and Andy tried a relationship, but it didn't seem to work. Ally found out that Billy was now married, so that didn't really work either. In both situations, the couples were still totally in love, but unable to be together.
• The Friendship: Because the couple doesn't really work, both sets decide to forge a meaningful friendship. They rely on each other for guidance, support, and companionship. Sometimes the whole romance thing arises again, but they try to suppress it.
• The Untimely Death: Okay, so since I only just started second season of Ally McBeal, Billy is still alive and well, but he wasn't around during my Robert Downey Jr. days, so I know he didn't turn out well. Somehow I found out that he dies around the end of second or third season. Not exactly sure how. I do know how Andy died though. Season 1 finale- Andy died over and over again and Prue could do nothing to stop it. The deaths leave both women free to fall in love with new romantic prospects, without giving them the Mr. Big Problem, yet leave them heartbroken because their first, and maybe ultimate loves are gone.

Now seriously, tell me that those are not the same two characters. Now I know that Billy has a good sense of humor and Andy seems like he has a wedgie, but that's understandable considering their perspective women (Ally is a nutjob and Prue is sort of mean and always serious). But despite the personality differences, both men serve the shows the exact same purpose. To show that the women are capable of true love.

The 90s really did wonders for tv.

Babysitter Kit

A few weeks ago, I mentioned reading the Karen books and Sweet Valley Kids when I was younger. I never really got into their older counterparts; Babysitters Club and Sweet Valley High, but I was always interested in the characters, so I read them sporadically (trivia, where did I learn that word?). The Babysitters Club books focused on Karen's step-sister, Kristy, and her friends. They were all members of a club that provided high-quality babysitters for the local families.

Now I'm living at home and trying to make money, so I'm trying to mimic those fab little babysitters and provide the same high-quality service that they did. Starting with the babysitter kit. Claudia, Dawn, Kristy, MaryAnn, Stacy, and whoever else used to put together little kits with crafts, games, snacks, and lots of other fun things to use when they babysat. It seemed to work, so I stole their idea. I now pack bags with Candy Land, puzzles, cookies, and my favorite PG movies to bring on my babysitting gigs. And it's totally working. Score, best babysitter ever! Thanks Babysitters Club!

It's Here!

In my last post I said that my Greekap would be coming very soon. I guess very soon meant two weeks this time, because two weeks after the season finale of Greek, the Greekap has arrived!

I guess it's pretty crucial to mention the amazingness of the previous episode, when Cappie told Casey that he wants to be with her and they kissed and will be together forever, yay!

But this is really about the finale episode. A lot happened, so I'm going to ignore all of the boring Rusty, sciencey stuff. This time, it's all about Cappie and Casey, Songfest, and the Omega Chi/Kappa Tau rivalry. Oh yeah, and I took notes during the episode, to make sure I captured all the best lines.

Let's start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. So Casey was in bed with Cappie, very reminiscent of the last time they slept together, in the pilot episode. She was all sneakily climbing out of his bed and pulling her pants on. But then he woke up and they cuddled and it was too adorable to even explain. Unfortunately, the whole scene, all I could think about was the inevitable morning breath that they both must have. Neither seemed to mind, but it plagued my mind.

Instead of complaining about morning breath though, they complained about telling people about their fab new/old relationship. They have to hide it of course, until they tell Evan about them. Casey kept it a secret from Ashleigh by saying that the reason for her hanger in the mouth smile was because she was thinking about the rise and fall of Mischa Barton. I'm not entirely sure she was lying.

Ashleigh finds out in the next scene, when the girls are all practicing for some dance. Ashleigh is singing some song I don't know, but she is amazing. Note Kelsey from High School Musical in the background. Is she a legit character now? Stupid Beth starts yelling at the girls for doing the dance wrong, which makes me laugh a lot, because she is so stupid and nice. Then Casey tells Ashleigh, who is weirdly unconcerned by the fact that this epic romance is in full force. She only cares about the dance, which is cool and all, but care about your best friend too! I mean, she announces it to the whole house, but other than that, doesn't have the reaction I expected.

Oh also, since all the ZBZs and the Kappa Taus now all know (Casey and Cappie accidentally made out in front of the KTs), it's time to tell Evvypoo. Cappie is beyond awkward and Evan thinks Cappie is firing him or something. Because seriously, nothing he says is making any sense. He actually responds to Evan asking about getting fired with, "let's think of this as bringing another member into our team." Um, what? Yeah. He then equates the three of them (Cappie, Casey, and Evan) to Harry Potter, "and the other two." Which I gotta say, pisses me off a little. Cappie would totally be a Harry Potter junkie. RON AND HERMIONE. Duhhh.

Calvin and his douchey bf have a little tiff about Evan. I seriously want Calvin to get rid of that turd, Grant. He is cute, but I cannot stand him anymore.

Switch to the KT house, where a banner splaying "Bong Voyage Heath" is on display. Ha. Now I know I said I wouldn't mention the boring Rusty stuff, but I really liked when Cappie said that Dale didn't mention anything about the Rusty/Dale problems ay Krav Maga. They're friendship kills me. I mean, picture Cappie and Dale doing Krav Maga right now. If you watch this show and know who Cappie and Dale are.

Then the crickets come. It's gross. I want to throw up a little. Omega Chis dumped all these crickets into the KT house. Apparently Beaver hates crickets, "ever since Pinocchio. They're too bossy." I gotta agree with Beaver. Jiminy is a bossy one. Cappie isn't loving the crickets either. He tells Evan that they are in every crack of the house. Then cricket squeak, butt crack slap, "see."

The next notable, and potentially greatest part of the episode comes after Courtney from Dorm-lIfe tells the ZBZs that they can't use Beth's routine. They don't know what to do, blah blah blah, when annoying Abby (Kelsey from HSM) pops up and announces that she can help, because she choreographed three of her high school musicals. One was their senior year. Now I love that she mentioned this, so I don't want to nitpick, but... Ryan choreographed. Kelsey composed. Okay whoosh, got that off my chest. Casey took the joke a little too far by saying "we're all in this together," come on, we all got the reference. She even said the movie title. But I still liked the recognition. It was very OC, which they have done before with Kostos, Frasier, and Cameron from Ferris Bueller. Much appreciated.

So Kelsey choreographs this awesome dance to "Good Girls Gone Bad", even though Blair isn't on this show to sing it. She is actually on another show in this time slot. Uh oh. Instead Ashleigh sings it and she is great. Casey is acually an awesome dancer. I though Ashleigh was bsing when she said Casey was one of the best in the house, but it's true. Cappie cheered for her the whole time, which I loved.

Then the KT/OX prank. Omega Chis back out. I'm as crushed as that golf cart. My dear Wade got expelled! I never really knew Ferret, so I don't care about him, and Jeremy was just a weirdo, but Wade?! So Cappie and Evan end the friendship. Cappie is super sad, because he "lost four of his best friends today," but he has Casey to lean on. And because of the weird sorority rules involving boys, Casey has to sleep over at the KT house. For some reason, she has no qualms about the crickets.

Just a Moment

Greekap coming very soon!

Sadness

So you have probably noticed that I haven't written anything in way too long. Not to say I have nothing to talk about. For instance, right now I want to talk about Puck singing "Sweet Caroline" on Glee and about this cute actor boy who is at least at LEAST five years younger than me. But I can't really dwell on any of these things for too long, because my schedule is so ridiculously busy.

So busy in fact, that I haven't even gotten a chance to watch most of the shows I love, let alone write about them. I haven't watched this week's Greek yet, despite it being on hulu and on my DVR. I haven't watched 90210 in two weeks and Gossip Girl in three weeks. I finally watched this week's How I Met Your Mother yesterday (awesome episode, by the way). And I am just so sad that I can't keep up with all my beloveds.

Fine fine fine, so I guess I really do have some time. I have started some new shows, like The Good Wife and Cougar Town. And I bought first season of Ally McBeal which I have been watching a lot. I think my main problem is that I haven't been around when these shows are on, so it takes me a while to decide to watch them. But beware of falling too far behind or I'll never catch up. And that's just not me. I am a TV watcher.

Oh also, I want to talk a little bit about the cute boy. Not Puck though. Even though his voice keeps replaying in my head and I keep picturing his smile and his biceps. The boy I'm talking about is Graham Phillips. My sister interviewed him last year and I really didn't care at all. But then I saw him as the lead in 13 the Musical (gives you a clue to how old he looks) and I loved him forever. And then I recognized him as the son on The Good Wife and I got so excited that I decided to write about it here.

Now I really want to write again soon. So just pray I figure out the time for it.

It's Summertime

See that picture? That's Seth and Summer. They are perfect together. He is a loser, but totally in love with her, who is pretty but sort of horrible (in the most awesome and lovable way). They are the perfect couple.

Who thinks that she will work quite as well

with my man, Ted Mosby?

Thoughts?

Repeat. And Repeat.

A few years ago, on Friends, Joey went home with a girl who he swore he had been out with before. He had complete deja vu in her apartment and even remembered how he hurt himself on a weird plant she had. He was horrified that the girl didn't seem to remember him. Turns out, he had never been out with her. Just with her roommate. Whoops, Joe.

Flashforward a little, to an episode of Sex and the City, in which Samantha had sex with a guy she just met (I know, shocking), and realized midway through, that she had done the same thing before. He thought she was just messing around, by pretending not to know him. She freaked out, because she realized that she had been with so many guys, that she was starting to lap around again.

Flashforward to this past Monday, on How I Met Your Mother, when Ted seemed to be going through a very similar ordeal as Joey and Samantha. Which is particularly strange, because Joey and Samantha were the whores of the show. This should have happened with Barney. Anyway, I was bored by the premise of the episode immediately, because whatever, it has all been done before. But HIMYM has this tendency to take an old premise and give it all of these totally original factors to make it amazing.

Instead of just expecting us to take their words that they had been out with these people before, How I Met Your Mother shows Ted and date (Lindsay Sloane, Big Red from Bring it On) on their first date in 2002, and on their second first date in 2009, simultaneously. And it was funny. The best part was that instead of freaking out for whatever reason, Ted and date decided to relive that original date and figure out what they did wrong. It was really cute, and I think I'm going to have to give my beloved HIMYM the prize for best version of this plotline. Mazel Tov!

Mixer

My adorable sister told me that it's totally cool for me to write only about tv. Not necessary for me to foray into the world of personal hygiene. But my perpetual boredom has encouraged me to branch out a little bit anyway. Not too much, but a little.

This branching out refers to my shoddy Greekaps. I still love Greek and I want to share the love, but I am not so into writing about all the details lately. I mean, I thought that stoned Casey was amazing, I loved weird blonde girl singing Mr. Big's "To Be With You, and Ashleigh connecting her relationship with Fisher (I'm dropping the Hunter/Gatherer because I want to write about him more, and the Hunter/Gatherer is a little too long) to the Chris Brown/Rihanna saga.

But I want to dedicate my time this week to what I considered the best episode of the week. And that honor belongs to Glee's latest episode, "Preggers."

You love it already, right? Just because of the episode title. Mixes some drama with the always appreciated abbrevs. And the episode only gets better.

Seriously. It starts with Kurt, Stuttering Tina, and Quinion #2 (thank you TWoP for the introduction of the word Quinion) doing the "Single Ladies" dance in sequined unitards. And while I am seriously in love with Taylor's "You Belong With Me" video (click here for proof), I can't deny that Beyonce has a baller video and an addictive dance. It was an amazing jump start to an already awesome episode.

And then celibate Quinn is all tears and tells Finn the adorable oaf that she is preggers, because of the time that he came in the hot tub when they were making out one time. And he buys it. Because he is a moron.

Principal Figgins, though not a moron, has to do some moronic things and rehire pedo Sandy (seriously, not me), because Sue Sylvester has a video of an Indian commercial that he was in, in which he tries on stockings. So Sandy and Sue team up to steal Rachel Berry away from the glee club. This results in the most beautiful 30 second song I have ever heard. Go check it out on iTunes immediately. It's called "Taking Chances" and it's incredible.

That reminds me, I was reading a recap of this episode of Glee on EW.com and it started "First off, has everyone downloaded “Somebody to Love,” which is performed in next week’s episode of Glee? If you haven’t, then stop reading this right now, open iTunes, and get at it! I’m already obsessed with it and have it in steady rotation on my iPod." I immediately opened iTunes and downloaded it. And it's so good. "Somebody to Love" and "Don't Stop Believin" have been on my favorite songs playlist for years, so I'm loving the Glee covers.

Other brilliant things about the episode include Kurt's coming out to his manly father, which was equally touching and ridiculously funny, the football team doing the "Single Ladies" dance during a football game, and um, I can't pick one more thing because it was all so good.

And because I have broken my Greekap promise, the next thing I will write is bound to surprise all. Well, maybe not surprise, but it won't be too blah.

Something Different

For the last couple weeks, I haven't written anything other than my Greekaps. And when I wasn't writing about Greek, I was writing about other tv shows. It makes sense, since so many seasons are starting up, and I am such a tv junkie, but it's still a little repetitive. Right now, I'm going to try and write something a little out of the ordinary, just to spice things up. FYI, I have no idea what I'm about to write, so it might turn out to be a blander spice than you might hope for.

The day before yesterday, I went to the dentist, and the dental hygenist told me that my teeth weren't as perfect as they normally are. They were all gross because of my lack of daily flossing. So she spent 20 minutes making my gums bleed, and I, in turn, spent 20 minutes spitting out blood. It sucked.

So I made a resolution that from now on, I will take better care of my personal hygiene. I will start to use listerine, to kill plaque, I will floss after every meal (but not during because it grosses people out), I will wash my face religiously (because my dermatologist was also not so happy with me), and I will start to exfoliate. OH, also, I'm going to resume my gym visits, because not going has not been good on me. And healthy eating goes along with that too.

If I keep up all of these things, soon I will be clean and healthy. Really, I'm doing all of this so that my doctors like me. I remember one time, my orthodontist was talking to her coworkers about how this girl from my middle school was the sweetest girl ever. And I want my doctors to talk about me with that kind of esteem. So here is my mission and let's see if I can stick to it!

Not Yet

I don't feel like writing a full out Greekap yet, because I'm still too wound up from this morning's viewing alongside Gossip Girl, plus my awesome dinner at Nordstrom's Cafe, AND my sadness about Crazy Swayze. Instead, I will just briefly mention my absurd excitement over one bit of Greek from this week.

Courtney from Dorm Life guest starred this episode!!!!!!! Since when are web-series actors real actors? I mean, every other web-series I have watched has had actors that I know from other things, but Dorm Life mostly seems like real people. Weirdos, but real people.

I wonder who else from my beloved web-series I'll see elsewhere. Will Josh start gracing the halls of West Bev? Will Gopher stop into Silas's shop to pick up some weed? Maybe Marshall will be some whack job student in Ted's architecture class.

Anyway, I'm extremely excited to see my precious Courtney, as the crazed pan hellenic prez on Greek. She didn't look as cute as usual (she actually looked sort of horrible), but she was speaking in her psychotic voice, so there was no mistaking her.

Stay tuned for my real Greekap, coming up!

Too Much to Do!

It's already Friday. Four days after the last episode of Greek. And it took me until last night to watch the episode. I also had to watch the second episode of Glee, and the second season premiere of 90210. And I'm trying to sit through the new Melrose Place, but it is so painfully melodramatic, that not even Kostos' adorable spooning with Jessica Lucas (from Life as We Know it, She's the Man, and like two episodes of 90210) can make it watchable. Like seriously, as soon as Ashlee Simpson (apparently Simpson-Wentz now) shrieked, I couldn't help but cringe. And I am someone who managed to sit through Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, so that's saying a lot.

My point is that there has been crazy amounts of tv and premiere week is stressing me out! But I can't believe I'm complaining about it, because few things make me happier than the return of all my favorite shows. I am dying to write about 90210 and about Glee, but I have pledged my allegiance to Greek, and here I am to bring about my weekly Greekap.

Rusty and Jordan have still not had sex. It's weird for tv couples to wait this long to have sex, but I think that it's pretty normal in reality, so I'm proud of Justy for holding off.

I can't exactly say the same for Dale, who is totally miserable post-coitus. He is trying to seek penance in any way possible, including a potential conversion to Catholicism. Cappie sticks by him the whole time, trying to take his mind off of their "shared girl," Casey. I'm sorry, but Dale's casual insistence that he and Casey had something together legit cracks me up. And dear Cappie just goes along with it.

One of the ways that Cappie and Dale try to distract themselves is through their little book club. I really appreciate that they never say the title, My Sister's Keeper, and just expect you to know that the Jodi Picault book where one girl doesn't want to give up her kidney is in fact My Sister's Keeper. I think I'm into Jodi Picault lately. I read the aforementioned My SIster's Keeper (and saw the painfully sad/painfully bad movie) and The Pact and really loved them both. Cappie is too, since he clearly finished reading the book, as he gave away the ending! I actually couldn't believe it. It's okay to give away the ending to The Sixth Sense at this point, because it came out 9 years ago and the entire universe has seen it if they wanted to, but My Sister's Keeper has managed to keep its ending fairly unknown. So tsk tsk, Cappie. You should know better.

I guess the main thing of the episode was the whole Rebecca telling Ashleigh about kissing Fisher/Hunter/Gatherer thing. Rebecca was hilariously clueless the entire time. Like she is so new at this whole friendship thing, that she sort of just makes it up as she goes along. Like when she tells Ashleigh that Casey knew about the indescretion, just so that she can share the blame with someone else. It was great. Also, when Ashleigh forgave Casey and they hugged it out, and Rebecca asked if they were making up yet. It was brilliant.

I wasn't into the whole father/daughter storyline. It didn't make much sense to me that ZBZ would have a weekend just for their fathers. It also didn't make sense that the dads would play football against random frat guys that they don't know. Apparently Casey and her dad (obviously named Russell, because why else would anyone call their son Rusty?) worked out their issues, when he said that he cares about her, but it was still pretty awkward and wasn't very sentimental, so I'm just going to ignore it.

Evan is seriously not a character any more. The show needs to come up with some plotlines for him if they want to keep him a regular.

If I have time, I totally want to write about those other shows. I want to complain about Silver's newfound acceptance into the Mean Girls. And I want to talk about how gorgeous Adrianna is.

A Greekap for the Geekaps

Sorry, the title doesn't make any sense, but I wanted a rhyme and I'm a geek, so there ya go.

So Monday night, my sister calls me and asked me if I watched the Greek season premiere. Oh yeah, FYI, it's totally crap to call it a season premiere, since it's a 10-episode arc and there was just another season from March-June, but that is neither here nor there. However you want to look at it, there was a

new episode of Greek on this Monday. And I had no idea it was coming. I am totally out of the ABC Family loop. So I freaked out on the phone and called my mom to record it. Fortunately, last season, I set the DVR to record any new episodes of Greek, so I'm all set. I watched it that night and wahoo! My show has returned.

Rusty is all in love with Jordan, which is cute, but I still kind of don't understand that relationship. I learned in Psych AP that relationships work better if both parties have equal levels of attractiveness. Now I know that Harry and Charlotte made it work, but I think that Rusty and Jordan need to mention it, instead of pretending that she isn't 10 times as hot as he is. Even with her 70s feathered hair.

But even despite his hot girlfriend, Rusty isn't happy because he's failing out of school. Boo hoo. Sorry, I know that l

ooked sarcastic, but it really does suck that he is failing. He works it out somehow. I'm still a little fuzzy on how, but I guess CRU is pretty lenient on due dates.

The part of the episode that freaked me out the most was probably Dale's broken virginity pledge. Seriously, Dale! Clark Duke was in the movie Sex Drive, where he played this cool sex-crazed dude, but I will always see him as my precious, virginal Daley. Virgin no more. But like, when he asked his landlady/girlfriend to marry him, I totally LOLed. Remind me to never use lol again. That is embarrassing.

Okay the Dale sex probably freaked me out on equal parts as Rebecca making out with my beloved Fisher/Hunter/Gatherer. Ashleigh was just so content with her adorable boyfriend, and he seemed so devoted. I mean, they never really got any story lines after his whole blue man scenario, but I still liked the idea of them. Maybe just because I adore Ashleigh and I thought his character

on Rockville CA was completely Seth Cohenesque. How could Rebecca do that to Ashleigh?!?? She is legit her only friend and she is so good to her! I'm pissed. And Fisher/Hunter/Gatherer is just standing there all faux-obliv.

I was beyond confused when Rebecca had Evan send her the flowers, because I assumed that the two of them had gotten together in the finale. It took me a while to catch on that she was just using him as a cover. But I laughed really hard when the ZBZs were trying to guess who Rebecca made out with and they were like " Oh was it (insert female name here)? Are you a lesbian again?" Ah, I love it when shows don't forget. Because as Seth from Superbad says, people don't forget.

I feel no need to write about Casey and Cappie or Calvin and hot gay roommate, because that is all pretty obvious. It'll happen eventually.

I would much rather end this by writing about how Greek had TWO spots on EW.com this week. One in the Ausiello files, with spoilers about how Casey will be in a committed, long-term relationship with either Cappie or Evan (Cappie) by the end of the ten episodes. The other was in a photo gallery of the best fictional Greek houses, pairing my ZBZs along with Revenge of the Nerds and Animal House!!! Okay, lame ones like Steve's frat from 90210 or the sorority from Sorority Boys were on there too, but my show has made it onto the legit pop cultural scene! Wahoo!

Until next time, Sandy

More about Blogging

Last week, I saw Julie and Julia and I felt all this comradery with Julie Powell as she whined about her blog. She was pouring her heart into this project, without any clue whether or not people were even reading it. She finally gets a comment... and it's from her mom. She and I are one in the same.

Except that I am not setting out on this amazing challenge to achieve any sort of goal. I'm just writing about nothing (but not like the Seinfeld kind of nothing), hoping that I can get some sort of audience. Granted, this summer has been pretty lackluster, and I haven't really been giving any readers much to look forward to, but it's always nice to be appreciated.

I clearly don't expect to become the next Julie Powell (Perez Hilton) and become a huge interlebrity, with movies and books and stuff, but a little fame would be pretty sweet. I want to become a more popular google search than Sandy Finkelstein the SARS doctor. And way more popular than Sandy Finkelstein the bowling alley manager.

Thank you and goodnight!

Hi, I'm the Worst Blogger Ever

If you didn't get this from the title, I am now officially the worst blogger ever. I have written two blog posts since the summer started, and witnessed so many things worth writing about. This time, I want to write about this cute little camp job I just did.

Camp Ramah in the Poconos FINALLY started a special needs camp, called the Tikvah Family Camp. A bunch of Jewish families with children with special needs came to my lovely camp and had a few rockin' days of Jews and games and swimming. I had never worked with special needs kids before and it was really cool. Also, the 7 year-old sisters of some of the kids with autism were OBSESSED with me, which is always nice.

Truthfully, it was just good to be back at camp again. With my Raelis and my clique (new clique, not the one from when I was a camper). Alright, the best friend just ordered me some Thai food, so I'm gonna head out. If you read this PLEASE force me to write another post soon, so that I don't have any more dry spells. Love you!

Marry Me Joe!

Okay, so I'm definitely more of a Nick, but at the concert of the Brothers Jonas, the tiny child sitting being me, Arika, and her sister was a total JoeHo.  Her tiny body produced such horrendous shrieks aimed towards Joe, that I could scarcely believe she was human.  But she looked human, so I'll buy into it.  

My sister, Molly, called me this morning and told me that my blog was in dire need of an update.  It has been months since I last wrote, but I get so few comments here that it's easier to believe that no one will read it, so who cares if I write?  But I like writing, and I like talking about the Jonas Brothers, so no h

arm.

Honor Society, a group of men much too old to be opening for the Jonas Brothers, opened for the Jonas Brothers.  They were fine.  Nothing special.  Yeah, I'm definitely no making the effort to iTunes them.  Ah, and then the phenom Wonder girls. And by phenom, I really mean painful.  "I want nobody nobody but you (clap clap) but you (clap)."  No, can't do it.

Like, how could I really take those girls seriously?  I suppose I am one of the few 21-year olds able to take Miley and the JoBros seriously, but even lil teeny bopper me can't make it work with Asian pop sensation, the Wonder Girls.

I can show some enthusiasm for third opening act (seriously?  three?  come on, bring on Nick, Joe, and even Kevin), Jordin Sparks.  I mean, I totally watched her on American Idol and I hear her songs on the radio all the time, so it was pretty cool. Even though I have never liked her song Tattoo.  Whatever.

Really there was nothing more exciting than the Jonas Brothers.  When they finally came on stage, I got so excited that I dug my nails into my hand and cut my finger. I'm a joke. They played a lot of stuff from their new album, Lines, Vines, and Trying Times, which I enjoy, but don't know as well as their other stuff.  So my attempts at singing along were horribly choppy and embarrassing. Especially in comparison to the surrounding pre-teens.  But then they played the stuff from A Little Bit Longer and Jonas Brothers and Camp Rock and I could totally rock in my Jonas element.  

Please feel free to mock away.  I have completely come to terms with my adolescent lameness.  I like the Jonas Brothers.  I like Disney Channel.  If you read my blog ever, it's horribly obvious and not news to you at all.  Thanks for reading this far!

Love, Sandy

Nah

Changed my mind.  Took me too long to write my next post and I missed my MTV Movie Awards time slot.  I have come to notice that although sometimes I write about random things that pop into my head, the best posts are ones that involve something that had recently happened or that I've recently enjoyed.  

Recently, I have enjoyed a precious day trip to New York with my family.  More specifically with my mom and sisters.  We went up to see Hair, because my mom has been dying to see it ever since she was 10 and saw it with her original family.  

All the mom wanted to do was see Hair and meet celebrities.  She claimed her only reason for bringing her camera was to take pictures of all the celebs she was bound to see in the magical city.  I could tell her that we were probably not going to see any, but c'mon, I saw Matt Damon when I was walking around once. 

Anyway, score! We got tickets to Hair and then walked around, look

ing for a place to get a mini-meal.  We passed a bunch of other theaters along the way with shows we wanted to see.  Oh right, the Tony's were last night!  I thought Rock of Ages looked cool.  All these fab bands "from the ages."  Also, I recognized Constantine from American Idol in the pictures outside the theater.  Apparently he is the lead.

We found our mini-meal place to eat nearby and grabbed food.  As we were ordering, I saw Constantine from American Idol and asked him if he was Constantine. Apparently he was.  I pretty much just recognized him because I had seen him on the wall at Rock of Ages a second earlier.  My mom, an avid American Idol fan, jumped at her chance to get her picture with a celeb, despite Constantine claiming his non-celebdom, and took like three pictures of us with him.  I blushed for the rest of 

the day.  After all of this, my mother asked me which one he was.  I guess memory really does go with old age.

MTV Movie Awards or Greek? MTV Movie Awards or Greek? MTV Movie Awards or Greek?

After much careful consideration, I have decided that I will discuss last night's Greek right now.  I swear beyond all swears that my next post will be about the MTV Movie Awards though, if only to discuss Miley's shoutout to the GOD.

I figure Greek is more timely, both because it was on last night and I 

watched it today AND because it shamelessly plugged Sims 3 which comes out today even though I am forbidden to get it and want it more than anything.  If I have any

secret fans that worship me from afar, respond to this and I'll send you an address to mail it to me at.

Anyway, the plotlines in this episode involved Casey's newfound loneliness,

Rusty's fledgling relationship with Jordan, Calvin's new gay roomie, and Evan and Cappie's secret society.  Because Casey and Rusty are the main characters, I'll go there (like Degrassi) first.

So Kostos went to London for a little while on some awesome sciency fellowship, leaving Casey sad and alone.  Especially now that she told Cappie that they could no longer be friends.  Unlike me and Rusty, she can't handle the solitude very well, so she tags along on my dear Betsy's date.  Which is at the same restaurant as Rusty's date. Wah wah, she ends up ruining both dates which pisses Rusty off to a whole new level. She keeps up the whole lonely and annoying thing for a while.  And it's pretty convincing because I'm totally annoyed. Ashleigh the Great helps her figure out what's wrong, she talks it out with Rusty, and score, all is well again.

I never wrote about last week, when Rusty and Jordan finally mated (ew, no idea why mated is the verb I chose to use.  Especially since they haven't had sex yet).  But Rusty is totally psyched and chooses to take her on a fab date.  The date has to rival Andy's level of cool, because he "dresses like a popstar."  Nice.  He amps up his game by acting fancy and giving his name as Cartwright, Russell at the restaurant.  It was cute and confused everyone around him.  

I'm glad I finally like Jordan again.  Maybe she almost has a constant character.  The only lame thing she did the entire episode was saying that a special date to her meant sneaking wine coolers into a movie.  C'mon, that isn't special to anyone.  The two of them are taking it semi-slow, so it may be a little while before anything major happens there.  They had all their drama already.

The latest bound-to-happen couple is Calvin and his new roommate Grant.  Who is pretty hot.  Calvin thinks so too, and it's pretty obvious that Grant feels the same way about Calvin.  They stared at eachother shirtless and it was pretty hot.  

Right, But Calvin says it can't happen because the house would feel too awk about it. Calvin is the only person there that Grant is out to so far.  It was actually such a great coming out, because Calvin didn't get it, and then felt super awkward.  But that conversation is bound to alienate watchers, since Calvin said that Entourage is unwatchable.  I'm somewhere in the middle on that one.  Oh, but back to coming out. Even though the house is cool with Calvin being gay, they pretty much agree that more than one gay Omega Chi might make them seem like the gay frat on campus.  Gah, this show is so good at pinpointing the way that I think people probably think and try to behave.

And while I think so much of it is realistic, I have no idea whether or not secret societies exist, or at least exist the way that they do.  Evan and Cappie are douchemoving (fighting) over the same girl again, but back off and apologize once they realize that she is mildly homicidal.  Oh yeah, they found that out during this whole reveal all your secrets deal, which totally wimped out, since they didn't even show Evan and Cappie's secrets.  Pathetic.  

Even though the secret thing didn't follow through, I think the episode did.  And the commercial where Rebecca and Ashleigh were playing SIms 3 totally made any mistakes the show has ever made worthwhile.  Maybe if I ever get Sims 3, I can recreate Ashleigh, and Rebecca, and Casey, and Rusty, and Calvin, and Cappie, and Evan, and Dale, and whoEVER I want.  So cool.  But yeah, I'm never gonna get it.  Until next time, AKA the MTV Movie Awards Post!

All and all

It sort of kills me, this whole not writing every day thing.  But I totally have cool things to talk about.  Eventually I'll talk about this week's Greek.  But that will probably have to wait until after the next episode and I'll mesh them.

Two things I want to talk about now.  Prince Eric and Taylor Swift.  Not really them together.  I like them both, but them as a couple doesn't really work for me.  Despite the fact that she completely owns the fairy tale thing in the "Love Story" video.  The two of them just impacted my week and I feel the need to give them some credit.  

I'll start with Prince Eric, because he got there first.  On Tuesday, I went to see The Little Mermaid on Broadway, despite its lukewarm reviews.  I enjoyed it.  But yeah, pretty lukewarm.  But we had awesome seats, right in the front row.  It was on the far right though, so we didn't have the greatest view of everything.  We did have a great view of Prince Eric.  This hottie, Sean Palmer played the lovely Eric.  He had a pretty voice and the most chiseled face I could ever imagine.  No wonder Stanford was so in love with him in the last season of Sex and the City.  It was sort of a Charlotte/Harry relationship, but with less passion.  And he was just so close to me. Maybe 8 feet away.

Taylor Swift was only 2 feet away.  Signing autographs and taking pictures.  She did the whole hold the camera out in front of her like on myspace thing.  Adorable.  I have some pictures from my phone, but can't find my phone right now to upload them.  I didn't get a picture with her or an autograph because these douchenozzles standing in front of me hogged all her time.  But I wasn't actually mad at the time because I was so thrilled to be in her presence.  In the rain.  

Actually, her hair looked amazing despite of the rain.  And her dress was all cool and sparkly.  With a really cute coat.  My sister described the experience on Seventeen.  Probably better than I could, but I might as well try.  Taylor sang "Love Story" before everything else, but then the music stopped as she was singing and she got super-confused.  Turns out it was just a sound check, but she rocked it anyway.  

She sang "Love Story" again when the show started, with all the same choreography.  It sounded amazing live, but when I watched it on DVR later that day, it wasn't nearly as good.  Weird how that works.  Then she sang "You Belong With Me," which is her biggest hit now, thanks to the extreme hotness of her video costar.  After that she sang "Teardrops on my Guitar," because it was her first hit.  But apparently that wasn't even on tv.  She just played that while they were airing news.  They did air her final song.  Which she didn't plan on performing.  She played "Our Song" and it was completely incredible.  Apparantly, she was only supposed to do three songs, so it was a fab surprise.  For us all.  Since I got 5 songs.

My favorite part was when she talked to Al Roker and Matt Lauer and the lady.  They asked her why she doesn't rebel by drinking or smoking.  She replied by saying that rebelling doesn't equal getting wasted for her.  It's writing totally honest songs and putting people's names in them.  Those people don't really talk to her anymore.  She was just so adorable, I don't see why they wouldn't want to talk to her.  I guess Drew, Cory, Stephen, and Joe aren't too thrilled about the publicity.

THE END

I Miss You, Blog

I haven't written hear in a while.  It's totally sad. Maybe I should blame it on the three- day birthday festivities.  Okay, done, blamed.  Now, I know that I didn't do a Greekap this week, but that's because I haven't watched it yet.  I'm gonna go watch it now, so bye.

BroHood

The other day I wrote about Calvin hitting on a quasi-straight guy on Greek.  I forgot to mention the best part.  Calvin went on a mini rant on how it's so hard to tell who is gay in this society with all the metrosexuals (Zac Efron; I still maintain he likes girls) and bro movies (Jason Segel; I know their are others but I think he is the best bro).  

I never thought about it, but Calvin is totally right.  If I can still believe that a guy who wears his hair like Zac Efron or who wears pants like Kevin Jonas is straight, than imagine how off-kilter gadar must be.

In the pilot episode of How I Met Your Mother, there is a hilarious little bit when Barney is telling Ted that he doesn't have to wait for a signal to kiss a girl.  He demonstrates this by kissing Marshall with no warning (see, I told you Jason Segel was the best bro).  Now, it's still not totally normal for bros to kiss, but it also isn't totally outlandish.  Even though people def gasped when they saw Barney kiss Marshall, since most people watched it after NPH had already came out.  

I have been going to overnight camp since pre-puberty, and I have seen the most touchy-feely guys imaginable.  They hold hands, snuggle, and occasionally (every day) shower together.  Yet, no one thinks they are gay, because it's normal for them.  How is Calvin supposed to determine who to hit on when his gadar is going off in every possible direction.  

Truthfully, I think bro hood is a pretty cool advancement, because it shows people who aren't afraid to be miscontrued as gay.  Paul Rudd even talks about how he is like one step away from being completely homosexual in an interview in Entertainment Weekly. But it's gotta be hard on the Calvins of the world.

Park It

Today, it was warm and sunny, so my best and I decided to be super cute and picnic in the park.  I hate using picnic as a verb.  I don't know why I did it.  Anyway, we got supplies to make turkey sandwiches, hummus and dipping material, and I made a cute/fab fruit salad.  

We gathered all the food supplies, plus the rest of the supplies (ie frisbee, giant ball, whatever) and drove to a big park a few miles away.  It was gorgeous.  There was this big pond with fountains, giant green fields with disgusting geese, and a taller plateau with no geese or goose poop, all underneath the clear blue New Jersey sky.  So we sat there.  And ate our delicious picnic.  

But for some reason, we got crazy full really quick and had to lay down and digest before we could do the whole adorable frisbee thing.  I'm guessing the laying out in the hot sun is where I got my vicious, yet really cute on me, sunburn.  

So eventually we managed to do the whole frisbee and throwing the giant ball around thing for like an hour, but they both kept rolling down the sides of the plateau, so it was sort of problematic. Especially since I have no aim or skill and kept throwing the frisbee/big ball in the complete wrong directions.  

All in all, it was like the cutest day two lame girls with no money in South Jersey can possibly have.  I would highly recommend.  But go to a different park, because I like the space.  

The Greekap

One time last month, I watched Greek once at 8:00 and another time at midnight and took notes the second time around.  That was the most intense I ever went for the Greekap.  Usually, I do watch the episode more than once, but the note-taking took it to a new level.  This time, I missed the Monday night showings of Greek.  Weirdly enough, I went out and semi had a life.  Very uncharacteristic.  

Anyway, so I had to DVR my episode 

of Greek, choosing to record it over Gossip Girl, which I plan to find online as soon as I finish writing this.  Anyway, so I watched my episode from the DVR today. After it ended, I muted it and went back to watching the season finale of Grey's Anatomy on abc.com (god I watch too much tv, but also, I'm dying to talk about this episode so IM me if you have watched it).  And as it turns out, my DVR replays whatever you watch if you don't press anything on the tv for too long. I guess I waited too long, because the episode of Greek played two more times.  And I definitely watched it a little bit.  Three times now.  That has gotta be at least a little more intense.  Especially since it ended again and it likely to start up at any minute.  

Well, now that I have written this much, I am less inclined to discuss the episode.  I'm just gonna do a few short bits.  

I love Calvin.  So so much.  I was so glad the writers decided to give him a new storyline, because watching him avoid Evan, sit near Rusty, and give advice on how to be gay to Rebecca.

But this week he was all interesting.  He first gave the gay advice to Rebecca and went 

on his merry way.  To the gym.  Where some hot guy scammed on him.  Calvin took the

bait and went to chat up said hottie.  

PS the episode just started again.  

The guy complimented Calvin's pecs and kept lifting up his own shirt to show off his mild variation on a six-pack.  Anyway, to make a short story shorter, the two go out, Calvin tries to kiss, him and the guy is like whoa I'm straight.  Calvin is of course horrified and scampers.  The story could have ended there.  But instead Calvin went total baller and confronted the guy.  I would call him by his name, but I have no recollection of it.  Calvin told the guy off for leading him on when he was fully aware of what he was doing.  The guy owned up to it and it was pretty cool and admirable. The end of that storyline.

On to the Rebecca is a lesbian storyline.  She was really funny when she came out. Now she is all iffy about it.  Like "oh no, kissing girls isn't as fun as kissing boys."  But in different words.  Anway, she decided that she wasn't gay and broke it easy to the girl she was dating.  Who was like whatever, I'm used to lugs.  Which is a growing term meaning lesbian until graduation.  Greek is totally up on their cultural references.  

There are only a couple of other things I want to talk about this week, even though there was a lot more  One is how Ashleigh had such a notable absence from the episode.  Casey and Rebecca going to eachother for advice was so awkward.  Which they played very well.  So again, pats on the back to all.  

Other thing to mention, Cappie and Evan get back together.  Not at all corny.  It was really great actually.  They weaned us into it throughout the season, so it wasn't a total jump and they handled it really well.  Also, they rebonded in front of Dean Cameron From Ferris Bueller.  

Anyway, I can't wait to see what's next, because I really want Jesse McCartney to come back and I really want to see Casey and Cappie rekindle.  Because now that Max is abroad, even though it's only for like a month, I think he is sort of a part of the past.  

Later y'all!

Lukiss

I am not making a lame play on the name Lucas.  Well, I am, but I didin't come up with it and all its lameness.  I'm just the replayer.  Hannah Montana is the original culprit. Second season, Lilly was dating a cute boy named Lucas (Sterling Knight!!), and when Miley found out Lucas was cheating on her dear Lilly, she yelled at him and called him "LuKiss every girl in school!"  Ouch, she so got him.

But then the other day, I was Hannah Montaning again, this time the movie (third time around), and all I could think was Lukiss.  This time about Lucas Till, who plays Miley's boytoy in Hannahmovie.  He doesn't act very well, but the smile on him makes him a guaranteed star.  Seriously, if you see him in Tay Tay's newest video, you will actually just melt. Maybe.  At least I did.  I would make another pun about Lukissing him, but I already made a joke about kissing Jordan Catalano in a different post and I don't want to become an imaginary ho.  

Ooooh but I totally do want to kiss him!  He is like 18, so it's totally legal and not even too weird.  And even though his kiss with Miley in the movie was totally lame (shut up, I'm not giving away anything you didn't know was coming), he and Taylor make the cutest couple possible and their film kiss is precious. If I can't have him, I want Taylor to have him.

The hippest of the pop

After I wrote that last post, I proceded to watch the entire season of Rockville CA, because it was moderately awesome. The main character, Hunter (Fisher from Greek, do I sense a trend with thes names?), mentioned Gossip Girl in one of the episodes and I was like "Ah! Show crossover!  Josh Schwartz, I love you!"  

Oh and going along with show crossovers, my sister told me that if the Lily show, supposedly going to be called Lily, which I think is supremely lame, gets picked up, young Sandy and Kirsten Cohen might show up!!!!!  I wanted to put more exclamation points to show how excited that makes me.  I love them both SO MUCH.  And Kirsten definitely was in SoCal in the 80s.  I'm not sure about Sandy.  Seth was definitely born in '88, since he graduated high school the same year I did.  And I think Sandy and Kirsten were pretty young when he was born. So, yup, young adults in SoCal in the 80s!  

But back to Rockville.  OC alum/Privileged proprieter Michael Cassidy, who played Zach in second season of The O.C. showed up.  He was a douche, which is something I don't really see in him.  Even though I didn't like him on The O.C.  Not because he was bad, but because I wanted Summer to be with Seth.  

Also, Holly's boyfriend, Henry, from What I Like About You was on my new internet hit. I have seen him in something else too, but my mind is blanking.

I really also wanted to write about Veronica Mars because I just finished watching the

entire show, and now I'm upset it was cancelled. It may not have been at its

peak when it went under, but it was still a good show. In one of the episodes, Paul Rudd guest starred.  In another, they made a great in-joke about Rob Thomas from Matchbox Twenty vs. Rob Thomas, VM creator.  And Kristen Bell was fantastic.

The connection between VM and RCA?  Ryan Hansen.  I don't hate him anymore, because since he always plays the douche character, it makes it more believable that he knows what he is doing.  Also, Rockville CA does this brilliant thing, where all of the other characters simply call Ryan Hansen's character "the Douche."  

The end.

Rockville CA

I never ended up writing a Greekap this week.  On the bright side, I'm fairly certain that no one cares.  I'll give it a quick once over anyway.  Rebecca declared that she is a lesbian and again, nobody cared.  I kinda thought that she was doing the whole she doesn't care what gender a person is thing, but alright, lesbian it is.  Um, nothing else exciting happened. 

Today, I desperately wanted to write about "The Climb," because I love it 

and it's on the radio all the time, but something suddenly came up (The Brady Bunch Movie reference).  I decided to continue on my quest to get into online shows.  I started with The Clark and Michael Show, then moved on to Quarterlife, starring Scott Michael Foster, or as I prefer to call him, Cappie.  But he also played Doug Wilson's gay son, Josh, on Weeds. Today I went for Josh Schwartz's new work of art, Rockville CA.  

I love Josh Schwartz. He based Seth Cohen off of himself, introduced me to the wonderful world of self-aware tv, and the indulged me with Gossip Girl.  So I had to give his online show a chance.  I only watched one episode so far, but in that episode was Ashleigh's new boytoy, Fisher, from Greek.  And he wasn't playing a hot guy.  I knew he didn't have the hot guy vibe.  I like him, but he doesn't scream sex machine. 

If you want someone who screams sex machine, wait an extra two minutes for Matt Cohen to show up.  Most generic Jewish name of all time?  Yes.  That and Josh Schwartz.  But it's a name I remember, because despite the fact that 90% of the people I know have very similar names, he stars as Aidan on South of Nowhere, the most interesting take on homosexuality I have ever seen. He is like insanely hot. Too hot. It's like how I feel about Sean Faris.  He is like almost too hot to look at.  But like his name, he is more of a generic kind of hot.  I could easily see him as an Abercrombie model. Just like another Josh Schwartz star, Chris Carmack.

According to IMDb, another South of Nowhere alum is coming to Rockville. Mandy Musgrave, who

plays Ashley on the N's edgiest show is set to show up somewhere along the line.  She is so pretty.  No wonder Betsy from Greek plays her sister on South of Nowhere.

Ah pretty people.  On one episode of Party Down, Ryan Hansen's character was explaining how he acts, models, and is in an "up and coming" band.  Basically

being professionally handsome someone on the show comments.  I don't find him particularly attractive, but he was a hot, popular guy on Veronica Mars (Dick Casablancas), and is apparently set to appear on Rockville CA.  I purposely chose a picture where he looks moronic, but it's actually how he looks so my not being attracted totally makes sense.  Leave the attractiveness to Matt Cohen.  And maybe to Fisher.  He isn't bad looking, just not totally hot.

I didn't see any other names on the list, but hey, I didn't know Fisher's real name either, so it's very likely that more of my TV pals will show up along the way.  And I'm sure to report it.

Check it out if you want.  But don't if you don't want to, because that's dumb.