I love Jesus, but I drink a little

is this real life?

2009-10-30T05:18:35Z

Okay, first things first. I went to see my advisor today, just to make sure everything was on track for graduation and to find out where to take the FIT test (I think it has something to do with making sure you can use Microsoft Office) and to figure out how to register for J-term classes. She taught me how to do the J-term, told me the FIT test was waived, and then told me that everything's on track. Like, literally the only thing I have to do to graduate now is get some credit hours. It really sunk in, that I'm going to graduate in May, and she took me to sign this huge poster that they printed up for all the graduating seniors, and I was the first person to sign it, and...I'm graduating. I had this look on my face of, like, complete and utter shock, I'm sure, with an overcurrent of excitement and an undercurrent of being scared shitless. I was the walking embodiment of "Nervous But Excited" and it's just such a crazy feeling, this weird thought that I've done it, I've made it, I'm off to the real world. I mean, obviously I still have school to do, but that's only going to last for a few more months and then boom! The real world. All through my senior year of high school, when I thought about leaving everyone and moving a thousand miles from home and starting all over, I would get this, like, tightness in my chest, and I've been in denial for most of the past year, all, "Oh, I'm a...senior, I don't wanna talk about that," but now it's real and instead of a tightness about leaving everyone and starting all over and moving 2000 miles this time, I just have this feeling of disbelief and excitement and I'm just really looking forward to it.

Okay, now, less heavy stuff!

* I have now reread all of Easy Academy and the last few updates still give me hearts in my eyes. Also, the "Book of Love" vid. Also, the sheer volume of people from other fandoms the authors have managed to shoehorn in there. Seriously, Dani and Booth and Emily from Standoff and GEORGE MICHAEL and fucking NICK ANDOPOLIS, like, what is next, ladies, is President Bartlet going to get elected and Buffy Summers is going to burn down the Waverly gym? And I'm not complaining, it's seriously one of my favorite things. Remember the time John Taylor showed up on JONAS as Joe's history teacher? IT'S LIKE THAT, ONLY BETTER.

*Speaking of Emily from Standoff, I've started watching Standoff! I saw the pilot when it originally aired, but then it got dumped for, I think, Veronica Mars, and then I watched the pilot again earlier this year, but then it got dumped for, I think, Life, and now I'm watching other episodes, and there's a theme song and different people and seriously, I could watch Ron Livingston and Rosemarie DeWitt flirt all day, they are my favorites.

*I was going to be Peggy Olson for Halloween, but now I'm too lazy to try to find some good Peggy Olson clothes, so instead I'm going to wear my favorite dress ever that I've only worn once and I'll be a princess/prom queen, WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?

* Speaking of Halloween, I'm working 9 hours that night? I'm totally not looking forward to it. I'm hoping that all the crazies stay home instead of coming to see Paranormal Activity. I'm going to be in Guests Services, so if they come to the theater, they will probably yell at me. I could live without that, for sure.

* I am maybe going to do a music post soon, because I've been listening to this one playlist of songs and it's my favorite ever, and I thought I'd share them with y'all! Not right now, though.

* I SAW FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS AT ELYSE'S YESTERDAY AND ALL I HAVE TO SAY IS: SHOOOOOOOOOOW. And man, we were ten minutes into it and I said something to Elyse and my accent was just so thick, that show is terrible about that. God, I love it. Also: I would like my very own Matty Saracen. And a marriage like the Taylors'. (oh man, TAMI IS MY FAAAAAAAAAVORITE)

* Mandy (who I met over the internet, oh world) and I are thinking about moving to LA together, and I really really really really want it to happen, because it'll be cheaper and I'll know someone and Mandy is just awesome, and everyone I've suggested it to thinks it's a really good idea (even my mom, which, I wasn't sure she would) and now I just need it to happen.

*Oh, and, what I wrote on the graduating seniors poster: This is it! Off to be a real person! Samantha, TV, Spring '10
Because of Michael Jackson, I will never be able to use the phrase "this is it!" again without thinking it's a terrible joke (whenever Sarah talks about locking a theater out for the show, she goes, "What do you think, guys? Would you say 'this is it' for that theater?").

fic: it just might be fantastic (part 1: better than your best dream)

2009-10-24T06:02:42Z

Title: it just might be fantastic (1/3?)
Fandom: Disney RPF
Pairing(s): Joe/Demi, background Nick/Miley, Kevin/Danielle
Rating: PG?
Summary: Joe is looking at her, really looking at her, in a way he hasn’t before, in a way she’s pretty much always wanted him to.
Word Count: 5,321
Disclaimer: These people are their own people, I'm just borrowing their names and life stories for a little while. Totally not real, I'm saying.
Author's Note: Oh, man, I've been working on this story for ages, it feels like. The bad news is that the fic in whole is nowhere near finished. The good news is that part two is almost entirely written, so there's that. Extra special thanks go to cashewdani , who was basically my cheerleader last weekend, when I promised to post this. Whoops? Better late than never, I say. Story title is from "Don't Get Me Wrong" by the Pretenders; part title is from "U & Me = Love" by Jewel.

Demi tries to make it home on time, she really does, but then the airline loses her luggage and she runs into traffic and she ends up not even going back to her house before stopping by the stadium. She’s called ahead, and so Big Rob meets her at the back entrance and leads her through the maze of the belly of the stadium to the ramp that leads on stage.

“How was the trip?” he asks in his comfortable, familiar Big Rob voice.

“Don’t ask,” Demi says. “But the show last night went great. How are the boys doing?”

“They’re on fire tonight.”

Demi smiles. “What is it about Dallas?”

“You want me to tell them you’re here? Get you up on stage with them?”

“Oh, no, I have airplane on me. I’ll just surprise them after.”

“Are you sure? You look just as pretty as you always do.”

“Yeah. I’ll just watch.”

He leaves her standing off to the side at the bottom of the ramp leading onstage, different people rushing by her. She gets a quick hug from John Taylor, who runs to the bathroom while the boys are singing “Hello Beautiful.” Kevin almost misses a cue when he glances her way and spots her, but his face lights up in a way that makes her smile back. After a few minutes, Miss Denise walks up and touches Demi lightly on the arm. Demi turns and smiles when she sees who it is.

“Hey, Miss Denise.”

They hug, and Miss Denise says, “Do you want to come back to the green room? Mr. Jonas, Frankie, and Danielle are already there.”

“Oh, no thank you. I’d like to surprise the boys when they get off the stage.”

“Okay. It shouldn’t be long.” Miss Denise smiles and heads back the way she came.

Demi closes her eyes and listens to Joe’s voice blend with Nick’s, Kevin and Nick’s guitars blending together, everything wrapped in the dull roar of the crowd. The crowd is why she became a performer – the roar is like a blanket she can wrap around herself when she’s tired or when the press have been after her all day. Anytime she thinks about quitting, about keeping her new songs to herself and just performing for family members in her living room, the roar of the crowd is always what brings her back.

“Once again, I’m Nick Jonas,” Nick says over the music, and Demi’s eyes pop open.

“I’m Kevin Jonas.”

“I’m Joe Jonas, and we are the Jonas Brothers. Thank you very much! Good night!”

The band finishes up with a musical flourish, and Demi can picture their bow, Kevin, Nick and Joe all in a line, bending simultaneously. Demi idly wonders if Kevin is telling his brothers that she’s there, he saw her, but she doesn’t have to wonder for long.

“Demiiiiiiiiii!” Joe comes rocketing down the ramp and almost knocks her over, grabbing her in a tight hug. “Kevin wasn’t lying this time!”

Demi laughs. “How many times have you yelled my name when I wasn’t here?”

“Oh, I do that anyway.” He shrugs with his arms still around her. Kevin runs over and hits Joe on the back of his head.

“We’re doing an encore. Hey, Demi.”

“Hey, Kevin,” Demi says. Joe disentangles himself from her and jogs back toward the stage with Kevin, passing Nick heading the other way. Nick gives Demi a quick hug.

“You’re coming with us,” he says into her ear.

“Oh, no I’m not,” she protests, but he’s got a hold of her hand and is pulling her behind him. Someone hands her a microphone and suddenly she’s on stage, blinking under the lights. There’s the roar of the crowd, and suddenly she feels like she’s home. She is home.

She forgets about the fact that she spent six hours on a plane today, and her hair’s still a mess and she’s wearing sweat pants. Nick squeezes her hand once and drops it, and she looks at the microphone in her other hand. She smiles.

“Hello, Dallas!” she says, and somehow the screams get louder. “What do you think we should play for them, Joe?” Demi asks the brother nearest to her. She’s not sure when he appeared near her, or when Kevin and Nick essentially disappeared.

“Oh, I think Nick’s got an idea,” Joe says, and Nick, now sitting at the drums, launches into “We Rock.” Demi laughs so hard she misses her cue, but Joe, Kevin, and Nick must have practiced recently, because they even start singing the verses before Demi manages to stand up straight and say into her microphone, “Stop, stop, stop. I’ve got an idea what song we can play. Can I get a guitar?”

Kevin walks over from his side of the stage, holding out his guitar.

“Thanks, Kev,” Demi says, setting her microphone into the stand that’s suddenly appeared in front of her and strapping his guitar on. “You’ve always been my favorite brother.” She sees Joe’s mouth drop open, and she knows, she knows, that tomorrow or even tonight the internet’s gonna be abuzz with wondering what she means, but she doesn’t say anything else, just grins.

“Okay, boys and girls, no more Camp Rock songs. Who here likes John Lennon?” The audience screams, like she knew they would, and it sounds decidedly older, like she knew it would. She walks backward and sure enough, there’s John Taylor. She whispers into his ear, and he spreads it around to the rest of the band while she starts by herself, launching into a lesser-known Lennon song, one of the dozens Miley has played for her, one that she knows Miley and Nick have played together, so that if no one else joins in, at least Demi will have the drums to keep her company. But then the rest of the band comes in too, and she can hear Joe singing with her, and when she glances back he’s kicked Ryan off the keyboard and is rocking out. She can’t help but grin even wider.

**

They all go to a local diner after the show, taking over an entire section. They should be exhausted right now, all of them, especially Demi, who started the day before six with an acoustic set on the other side of the country. But everyone was just so GOOD tonight, so on top of everything, especially the boys, that everyone is completely energized.

Demi sits between Kevin and Frankie, across from Joe. She feels a little like she’s the center of attention, which happens sometimes when she sees the boys again after a long time. They ask questions about her music, her family. She invites them over for dinner the next night, and God, sometimes she just really really likes that they moved to Dallas. When Selena’s home, it’s like all of her favorite people are in one place, and they act like real teenagers, going over to each other’s houses for dinner and riding their bikes together and trying to ignore the fact that they play sold-out stadiums on a regular basis.

Frankie asks about Madison, and Kevin asks after Selena, and Joe asks if it’s true that she’s quitting Disney, and the conversation almost seems to screech to a halt.

Her eighteenth birthday is in a few weeks, and her Sonny contract is almost up, and she loves Hollywood Records, but she’s a little tired of not being allowed to release her favorite songs because they don’t “fit her image.”

She doesn’t say this, though. She just smiles – a little less brightly than before – and says, “I’m thinking about branching out,” which is the same thing Selena said before she started doing non-Disney movies almost exclusively. But Demi doesn’t want to talk about it, and even though he was the one who brought it up (or maybe because of that) Joe is the one to change the subject.

“Look, Frank, I got pancakes too,” he says. He and Kev have been competing for Frankie’s attention ever since he declared Nick his favorite, right before they left the stadium.

Frankie looks at Joe’s happy face pancakes, ordered specially from the kids’ menu, and just says, “You’re trying too hard,” before digging into his own chocolate chip pancakes. Nick and Kevin burst out laughing, and Danielle looks like she's holding back a smile. Demi tries really hard not to laugh, but Joe just looks so shocked, and Frankie’s so oblivious, that pretty soon she’s giggling too. Joe turns his shocked look to her.

“I’ll get you for laughing, Lovato.”

“What are you gonna do about it?”

“Oh, you just wait,” he says, and he has that Joe-glint in his eye. Demi turns to Kevin and just says, “Help.”

“I thought you grew out of your girl-tormenting phase, Joe,” Kevin says.

“Not my Demi-tormenting one.”

“Don’t be mean to Demi. She’s my favorite,” Frankie says through a mouthful of pancakes. Demi laughs delightedly at everyone’s reactions.

“What about me?” Nick asks.

Frankie pats his hand and says, “You’re second.”

Kevin shakes his head. “You sure know how to work us.”

“I know.”

Demi grins at Joe. “I’m the second coolest person at this table, Jonas. You can’t touch me.”

“We’ll see about that,” he says, and he stands up and leans across the table, reaching to tickle her stomach. She shrieks and jumps up, sprints across their section, dodging tables as Joe takes off after her. Miss Denise would normally try to stop them, get them to calm down, but it’s been a long day, and sometimes it’s just a good idea to let Joe burn off some energy.

Demi ducks out of their section, runs through the rest of the restaurant, hopes they’re going too fast for anyone to recognize them. She ends up in the hallway outside the bathrooms, her original plan to duck inside the ladies’ room, but not quite making it there. She stops for a second to catch her breath in the dark alcove, and Joe is suddenly there, breathing as hard as she is.

“Gotcha,” he says, in a different tone of voice than before. He doesn’t tickle her. Instead, he rests one hand on the wall beside her head and leans toward her. She feels like Angela Chase staring up at Jordan Catalano. Joe is looking at her, really looking at her, in a way he hasn’t before, in a way she’s pretty much always wanted him to.

“Joe,” she says in the same tone of voice, because the silence is starting to be too much for her. She’s starting to imagine scenarios in her head.

“Yeah,” he says, but he doesn’t meet her gaze because he’s staring at her mouth. He’s staring at her mouth? Oh, God, she’s probably asleep on the plane, and she’s going to wake up any second now and Bride Wars will be playing as the in-flight movie and everything that happened tonight won’t have happened.

Then he cups her cheek in his hand, and looks in her eyes, and leans his mouth toward hers.

His lips are soft and wet, and they feel so nice and so like Joe that she makes a soft contented noise, her mouth opening slightly, and his tongue finds its way in. The kiss changes, becomes more urgent, and her hands move from behind her back to clutch at the hem of his shirt. He moves the hand that was cupping her face around her neck, keeping her anchored to him. She gets more lost in the kiss, pushing away from the wall into Joe, pressing their bodies together, and his other hand moves to her waist. Now they are full on making out in the dark hallway outside the bathrooms of a small diner in Texas, tongues dueling and hands roaming and both trying not to moan. He nips at her bottom lip, and she is simultaneously so surprised and so turned on that she can’t help but start laughing, leaning her face away from his but keeping her hands tangled in the bottom of his t-shirt.

“What?” he asks. He is still breathing as hard as he was when he found her, and he looks confused.

“This is a great place for our first kiss. Our first real kiss,” she adds before he can say anything about Camp Rock 2.

“What makes you think we’ll be doing this again?” he teases.

She doesn’t say anything, just leans in to kiss him again, a short sweet kiss they both think is over too soon.

“God, you’re pretty,” he says, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. “And your eyes are, like, sparkling.”

“You don’t look too bad yourself,” she says, and they are both grinning at each other like idiots when suddenly Kevin appears around the corner.

“There you are,” he says, and they spring apart, looking embarrassed. Kevin rolls his eyes. “Are you guys finally together, or what? Everyone’s taking bets on what’s taking you so long back here. Mom and Dad are all for it, by the way, but Mom thinks you can do better, Dem.”

“Hey!” Joe exclaims. “What, is it ‘rag on Joe’ day or something?”

“Yes,” Demi and Kevin say at the same time, but Demi reaches to tuck her hand into Joe’s and Kevin laughs.

“Come on, you two,” he says, and leads them back to their table. Joe wraps his hand around Demi’s, and she tries to keep her smile under control as they come into sight of their thirty-person entourage, someone notices their hand holding, everyone exclaims happily, and she feels like her face might burst. The main sentiment from everyone seems to be, “It sure took you long enough.”

When she sits back down (next to Nick now; Frankie is sitting on their mom’s lap, looking like he’s about to pass out any second. Even Danielle looks like she's fading a bit, leaning on Kevin) Nick leans toward her and says quietly, “You’re pretty much the only person I’ve ever wanted Joe to date.” Demi, who didn’t think she could smile any wider, can’t help but throw her arms around Nick.

“That’s the nicest thing you could’ve told me,” she says when she lets him go. He smiles.

Joe ambles over to his seat, swaggering a little bit. Demi’s pretty sure the band was just inflating his ego, telling him how awesome he is to get a girl like her. She rolls her eyes, but she’s still smiling. He catches her eye, and he looks nervous and excited and happy all at once.

When they’re through with dinner, it’s past midnight and the day is finally starting to catch up with everyone. Demi can hardly keep her eyes open as she follows the Jonas family to their van. She sits in the middle seat, next to Joe, and Frankie climbs up next to her. It’s only a fifteen-minute drive back to Demi’s house, but Frankie slumps onto her, asleep, within the first two minutes. She idly strokes his hair, suddenly missing her little sister like crazy. It feels like years since she’s done this with Madison, and it actually might be.

Joe leans over and whispers in her ear, “I’m jealous.”

She smiles. She settles her free hand on the back of his neck, softly tangling her fingers in his hair. He sighs happily, just loud enough for her to hear, and rests his hand on her knee, the warmth from his palm spreading all over her body, making her wish they were alone right now, and not in a van with his entire family.

They stay like that until Mr. Jonas eases the van to a stop in front of Demi’s house.

“I’ll walk her to the door,” Joe says, and Nick pipes up from the backseat, “We’ll be watching you, Joe.”

Joe merely glares at his brother as he opens his door and hops from the car.

“Tonight was nice,” Joe says when they get to her door.

“I’ll see you tomorrow,” Demi says, one hand on the doorknob.

“Yes you will.” Joe leans down and kisses her quickly, grinning. “There’s plenty more where that came from.”

“I bet there is.”

Joe glances back at the car quickly. “I bet he’ll honk and wake up the entire neighborhood if I don’t get back there soon.”

“We wouldn’t want that.”

“Still.” Joe kisses her again, this time deep enough to make her grab the hem of his t-shirt again. When they part, he says, “If I spend too much time with you, I’m gonna have to get wrinkle free shirts.”

She glances down to where she’s grabbed his shirt tonight. “Oh,” she says, laughing. There’s a distinct line of wrinkles along the bottom. It looks like only the bottom two inches have been wadded into a ball in the bottom of a suitcase. “Yeah, that might be a good investment.”

“Totally worth it, though,” he says in that same voice he used before he kissed her for the first time tonight. She lays a hand on his chest.

“Your dad. Waking up the whole neighborhood.”

“Right,” he says, standing straight up. “I’m gonna go.” He unnecessarily points behind him.

“I’m gonna go inside,” she says. He nods, walks away. She watches until he gets back into the van, and then she goes inside her house. She shuts the door and leans against it, listening to the van drive away. She lets out the tiniest of squeals and does the girliest spazzing out she’s ever done before taking the stairs two at a time up to her room.

**

She gets a phone call at eight the next morning. She’s pretty annoyed, because today is the first day of her vacation, and she only has so many days to sleep ‘til noon. So she answers the phone with a sharp, “What?” not even checking the caller ID. And for the first few seconds, she still has no clue who it is, because all that’s coming across the line is a loud “Whoooo!”

“What is going on? Can I go back to sleep now?”

“No you can’t go back to sleep, girl! Come on! We need to do some FREAKING OUT about last night!”

“Miley?” Demi asks, sitting straight up and slipping her glasses on. She checks the time and groans. “Eight o’clock? Seriously? You know I’m on vacation.”

“Demi! Come onnnn! We need to be all girly and excited about you and Joe!”

“How do you even know?” Demi asks, but then she rolls her eyes. “Ignore me, I know how you know. God, it’s just so early.”

“Shoot, I know you’ve functioned on way less sleep before. So, details. What exactly happened? All Nick said was that y’all, like, ran across a restaurant and were gone forever, and when you came back you were holding hands.”

“Well, that’s what happened.”  
“Demi! Seriously!”

Demi laughs, finally starting to wake up. “Okay, so, we were just kidding around or something, and he tried to tickle me across the table, so I ran away, and he cornered me by the bathrooms and suddenly we were kissing.”

Miley sighs. “So romantic.” Then she laughs. “The bathrooms? Seriously?”

“Yeah. And, I don’t know, we didn’t really talk about anything, but he walked me to my door and kissed me goodbye and the whole family’s coming over for dinner tonight, so maybe we’ll talk then.”

“Is he a good kisser? ‘Cause Nick is pretty amazing.”

“Miley!” Demi laughs.

“What? I just wanna know if it runs in the family!”

“Yeah, he’s a great kisser. I mean, it’s Joe, you know?”

“Mmm,” is all Miley says. She sounds a little bit lost in her thoughts.

“How does Nick kiss? Is it intense? ‘Cause I feel like he’d kiss really intensely.”

“Sometimes it is. But sometimes it’s just, you know, sweet and slow. It’s nice.”

“Oh, I can’t believe we’re talking about this.”

“You better believe it, babe.” Demi can hear someone call Miley’s name, and Miley groans. “Ugh. Duty calls. I’m off to work. But call me after Joe comes by later, okay? I want you to tell me this time. We can leave Nick out of it.”

“It's a deal."

"Cool. Later, gator!" And with that, Miley hangs up.

Demi, awake now, has no choice but to roll out of bed and pad downstairs. When she enters the kitchen, her mom and Madison are eating pancakes, and her dad is standing at the stove, flipping a few more onto a plate.

"Whoa! Look who's awake!" Mom exclaims, her mouth full.

"Does this mean I have to make more pancakes?" Dad asks.

"Yes," Demi says, sitting next to her mom, ruffling Madison's hair as she walks by.

"What are you doing up, honey? I didn't hear you get in until after midnight."

"Ugh, I didn't. But Miley called me this morning, and she got me all excited and now I'm awake."

"What were you excited about?" Madison asks.

"Actually, it's something I wanted to talk to Mom about."

"Is it Joe?"

Demi narrows her eyes at Madison, but the younger girl merely looks up at her, innocently taking another bite of pancakes.

"Yes," Demi finally says. "Actually, it's the whole Jonas family, Danielle and everybody. I told them to come over for dinner tonight."

"Well, that's fine, isn't it, Eddie? We can just do burgers on the grill."

"I'll grill if Demi picks up some groceries." Dad puts a plate of pancakes in front of Demi and kisses her forehead, grinning.

"Okay, I'll go to the store. But after that, I'm taking a nap, and no one can stop me!"

"I wouldn't dream of trying," Mom says, smiling at Demi.

**

Demi calls Selena while she's at Wal-Mart, picking up groceries. She's wearing sweatpants, flip-flops, her glasses, and an old T-shirt of her mom's, standing in front of the meat section and staring bewilderedly. When Selena answers, the first thing Demi asks is, "What the hell do you use to grill hamburgers?"

"A grill," Selena says.

"No, I know that, I mean what kind of meat?"

"Hamburger meat. Come on, Dem, I know you can't cook, but don't you think this is a bit much?"

"I hate you." Demi laughs. "So, should I get the lean ground beef, or the cheaper and fattier kind, or, hey, this kind that says 'Perfect for hamburgers!' on it?"

Selena laughs. "I'm gonna go with that last one."

"Got it." Demi puts the package (and another two, just in case) into her basket, and then wanders out of the grocery section.

"So, what's up? Why are you picking up the groceries and not Eddie?"

"He said he'd grill if I picked up groceries. We're having all the Jonai over tonight. And, um, that's pretty much why I'm calling."

Selena shrieks, and it's all Demi can do not to drop the phone in surprise.

"Whoa, is someone killing you?"

"You kissed Joe!" Selena exclaims, and Demi actually moves the phone away from her ear so she can stare at it.

"How do you know that?" she asks after a minute.

"Because you're all stressed about them coming over and you just put on your 'I think I did something good but who knows if you'll think it's good' voice and you were totally making kissy-eyes at Joe while you were performing last night."

"How do you--" Demi starts again, but Selena cuts her off.

"Demetria. I have been your best friend for over ten years, I just know these things, okay? Although that last part I saw on the internet."

Demi feels a rush of love and gratitude for Selena in her chest, standing in the middle of the hardware section of Wal-Mart. "Man, I wish you were in town right now."

"Me, too. Especially because I need to threaten Joe to treat you well."

"Sellllll," Demi whines. She resumes her stroll through the store, heading for the electronics section because that's just where she always heads.

"It will be a very pleasant threatening, I promise, because I do really like Joe, but you are my number one priority. Maybe I can get Kevin or Nick to threaten him for me."

Demi laughs, but stops quickly. "No, seriously, don't."

Selena sighs. "Fine, I guess I won't go out of my way to threaten him. But! The next time I see him, I will let him know that if he hurts you, I will kick his ass."

"I guess that's okay," Demi concedes. "Hey, guess where I am?"

"The grocery store?"

"Wal-Mart."

"Aw, the CD section?"

"You bet. Should I do it?"

"What do you mean, 'should you do it'? Of course you should do it! Do it, do it!"

"Ah, okay!" Demi says, laughing. She grabs a stack of her CDs and spreads them out in the display section, and then grabs a stack of Selena's CDs and spreads them out next to hers, alternating whose is in the front. "There," she says, admiring her handiwork. "It's like you're right here with me."

"Aw, phone hug!"

"Phone hug," Demi says. "I miss you so much."

"I miss you more. And I wish I could talk more, but I'm actually on set right now. I have to go, but you know I love you."

"I love you, too. Talk to you soon!"

"You better, you need to tell me what goes down at dinner tonight."

"Deal." Demi hangs up the phone sadly. Sometimes she feels like she and her friends never actually get to hang out. It's a pretty depressing thought, and Demi is pretty bummed as she cuts through the craft section on her way to the front of the store. She avoids the eye of a teenage girl who is staring at her in shock in the jewelry section, and unloads her basket at one of the middle registers. As she's pulling out the hamburger meat she remembers why she's even at Wal-Mart in the first place; not all of her friends are hundreds of miles away. She grins. Dinner is gonna be fun tonight.

**

The Jonas van pulls into the driveway at quarter 'til six. Demi's not watching out the window or anything, but when Joe jumps out of the back before Mr. Jonas has even cut the engine, she has to fall back quickly so he doesn't see her. She's pretty sure he does, though.

She throws herself across her bed, trying to look casual, but decides that looks stupid just as she hears someone stomping up the stairs. She launches herself into her desk chair and is trying desperately not to let it spin when her door bursts open.

Joe is grinning, breathing hard from his sprint, but he drops it quickly, and tries to look casual. "'Sup?" he says, nodding at Demi. She doesn't say anything, just nods back and tries not to grin too widely. Joe settles casually on the edge of her bed, and then realizes where he is and blushes, sliding down to the floor.

"Sooo," Demi says, beating out a rhythm on her knees, looking over Joe's head to a random spot on her wall.

"Yeah," Joe says, staring straight ahead at a random book in Demi's bookcase.

"This is ridiculous," Demi says after another long moment of silence, finally looking at Joe. He snaps his head up to meet her eyes, and grins. She grins back.

"What should we do about this...this?" he asks, gesturing between them.

"Well, I think we should make a list of rules first."

"Oh, man, rules?"

"Not anything bad," she says. "Just, like, basic stuff. Like, we don't have to talk to each other every day on the phone."

"We don't?"

"Well, we can, but we don't have to. You know, low expectations."

"Like, if one of us is on tour or something, the other one won't freak out if we just, I dunno, sleep after the show instead of always calling each other."

"Right! Exactly. And, okay, this is actually a big one. No dating other people."

"Well, obviously," he says, rolling his eyes.

"Okay, just making sure."

"What, you didn't believe those rumors, did you?"

"I'm not taking sides," she says, holding both hands in the air. "And I'm not talking about the past. We've both - we've both made mistakes." She blushes. "I'm just making plans for the future."

"Maybe we should agree that we're going to have a future, first," he says, getting up and walking towards her. She rolls her chair back until it hits the wall, and he leans into her, placing both hands on the arms of the chair.

"Okay, I agree we'll have a future."

"Kickass," he says softly, leaning in to kiss her.

"And, um, are we going to tell people?" she asks nervously as his lips leave hers.

"I'm pretty sure my family already knows," he says, standing straight up again and looking down at her. She tries not to shiver in the sudden rush of cold air into the space where his body used to be. "Which means Nicky knows, which means Miley knows, which means the entire Cyrus family probably knows."

"Miley definitely knows, she called me this morning. And I called Selena earlier, so she knows too. Anyway, I wasn't talking about, like, our friends. I was talking about, you know, telling people."

Joe sighs and drops onto Demi's bed. "Honestly, I don't think Dad will let that happen. I mean, Kev and Danielle didn't really come out officially until they were practically engaged already. And the only reason anyone knows about Miley is because of, you know, Miley. Not Nick."

"So, we won't tell people."

"At least not now."

"Can we go out together? Or will your brothers always have to come?"

"I don't know. I say...we can go out alone. I'm getting tired of those jokers anyway." He grins.

She rolls her eyes. "You're ridiculous. But I guess I kinda like you."

"Don't even pretend. You know you like me," Joe says as someone starts stomping up the stairs extra loudly.

"Whatever. You're okay."

"Hey, Demi!" Nick yells from the other side of the door. "I'm coming in!" He stomps toward the door and pushes it open the tiniest bit. When all he sees is Joe and Demi staring at him, he actually comes into the room. "What's up?" he says casually.

"You're a big dork, that's what," Joe says, reaching out and catching Nick in a headlock.

"Shut up, I had to make sure you two were practicing good Christian values, all alone in here."

Joe snorts. "You're one to talk. Whose door was Dad threatening to take away last week?"

"Miley wasn't even in the house, Joe," Nick says,

"Did your dad actually threaten that?" Demi asks, laughing.

Joe nods seriously. "It was so lame, you wouldn't believe it, Dem. Miley was standing on the front porch and Nick had just opened the door and Dad was just like, 'don't make me take your bedroom door down, Nicholas!'"

"Come on, even your dad's not that bad." Demi looks up at Joe. He's really, really close to her, like he can't stand being too far away. Demi smiles and leans the tiniest bit to the right, right into Joe. His arm wraps around her waist as he says, "Well, Dad probably got tired of finding Nicky trying to eat Miley's face so many times."

Nick grimaces. "Do you have to be so crude, Joseph?"

"Don't get defensive, Nick." Joe reaches out to softly punch Nick on the shoulder with his free arm. "I'm sure Miley thinks you're a great kisser."

Demi tries not to blush, thinking about her conversation with Miley earlier. "Hey! Maybe we should go downstairs," she says. "It's starting to smell delicious." She's pretty sure the conversation about Nick and Miley kissing will stop if they go downstairs with their entire families.

She's wrong, but still.

Three to four: Kevin picks up some new pajamas. Oh-ho!

2009-10-16T06:56:54Z

I don't know why I'm posting so much. Procrastination? Yeah, that's probably it. Anyway. Things!

1. I went to the Semester in LA open house today and didn't really learn anything new, but I really do need to start writing the essay and then turn the application in ASAP. He did talk about how cool the Writing for Sitcom class is, because it's basically a writers' room, and oooh, man, I'm getting that itch again. It doesn't help that I then watched this video, which is 20 minutes long and not as interesting as, say, a Jonas Brothers live chat, but it's the WoWP writers! In the writers' room! Talking about completely normal, adult things like how some writer on Mad Men won an Emmy and got fired and Cougar Town got picked up with the back 9, except that it's Wizards of Waverly Place, and so in between all that they get to write ridiculous jokes for teenagers and I want to go to there!!!! Seriously, I want to work in a writers' room soooo bad, in particular either a Disney writers' room (mainly WoWP or JONAS!! Guys, how awesome would that be??) or How I Met Your Mother. This is my dream; I will make it happen.

2. My apartment is almost entirely clean (I'm just waiting on my towels to dry so I can do the dishes again) and it looks so small and empty without my stuff all over the floor. It's like I just moved in or something! Also, I put posters up, and my favorite is the bus shelter from Public Enemies that I had to put on my bedroom wall because it wouldn't fit anywhere else. It's basically a five-and-a-half-foot tall poster of Johnny Depp pointing a gun at my bedroom door. It's preeeet-ty awesome, I'm not gonna lie.

3. I watched all of the Jonas Brothers movie (instead of other TV? Yeah, I don't know) again today. It's just so delightful, I don't understand! Kevin is my favorite part of that movie (as is the part where Nick throws drumsticks at Jack Lawless, and also the part at the beginning of "Burnin' Up" where Joe and Kevin play those drums where the water shoots up). I like when he plays the acoustic guitar during the rock-ier songs, like when they come out and he rocks the hell out of "That's Just The Way We Roll." It reminds me of the acoustic guitar in matchbox twenty's "How Far We've Come." Also, that's my favorite arrangement of "Pushin' Me Away" EVERRRR. I could listen to just the beginning of that song a trillion times and never get tired of it.

4. After I do laundry/take a shower/watch tonight's NBC offerings, I'm probably going to post some fic. So, keep your eyes peeled for that.

it might just be fantastic; don't get me wrong

2009-10-15T08:09:49Z

Iiii am having second thoughts, you guys, on this story that I've been working on for eight billion years. I can't decide if I like it or if it's terrible and I should just scrap it and if anyone wanted to read over it before I post it that would be fantastic.

This is a really short post. Um, my apartment is still not clean and I'm never going to see Whip It!, because it's leaving my theater tomorrow and I have to do laundry/sleep/catch up on, literally, an entire week's worth of TV, so I'm doing that instead of going to see Whip It!

You know what movie is not conducive to cleaning, like I thought it would be?

In other news, I'm going to a Semester in LA session tomorrow morning so I can then write my essay/apply for it, and if (when) I get it that'll be it, this will officially be my last semester in Chicago. This year has gone by so fast that I'm just worried it's gonna keep going by so quickly, and before I know it I'll be packing up and moving a thousand (2!) miles away from home again.

Because I have new friends because of the latest Easy friending meme (ohhh, guys, I just love Easy and the Easy fandom so much! HOW ARE WE ALL SO AWESOME?) I'm going through a major 'Bros renaissance (also, I'm going to re-watch Band of Brothers super soon, it's a plan) and I just want to spend all my time writing ridiculous fic and listening to their ridiculous songs and watching the Tonight video a billion times so I can remember when the 3D Concert EXPERIENCE was at my theater and I went to see it twice.

Which brings me back to the point of the post! If you have nothing to do for an hour and want to read over my story, let me know!

sami57peace2u @ 2009-10-13T23:11:00

2009-10-14T04:57:20Z

* Seriously, I'm having sleeping trouble. Sunday I closed work but Monday I opened, but I already had a screwed up schedule and so Sunday night I got, like, 2 hours of sleep, and right after work Caroline (Caroline's in town! but now she's not. but she was!) and Laura and a bunch of other people went to see Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D and I ended up taking a nap during the first one (it was pretty delightful, I had Toy Story dreams) and dropping right off to sleep when I got home. Then I woke up kinda early to do homework, choosing to skip my second class and come home and nap, AND THEN I napped for four hours instead of one, and I missed my third class. The only good thing is that I got sleep, which I needed, and honestly, if I hadn't skipped that class there was no available respite in sight (I have ten hours of class Tuesdays, 8 hours on Wednesday, five on Thursday, and this doesn't include the hours I spend reading Kafka's journals and writing, oh God, there's just so much writing to do, AND my mom's coming Friday afternoon [side note: yayayayayayayay!!!!] and I still have cleaning and, like, 8 loads of laundry to do, and man, my head hurts just thinking about it).

* Anyway. I still haven't watched Monday's TV! Whoops.

* Or read/commented on all the AWESOME fic that's popping up (like another banner year, oh god oh god, I just want to read it forever!)

* Or written fifteen pages about the hurricane for class that's due next Tuesday, which unfortunately is the day my mom's leaving, meaning I need to do all that homework, you know, now, instead of Monday night.

* What I have done: watched the following trailer approximately a billion times. You'll do it too, I promise. (GUYSSSSS. TOY STORY 3 IS A REAL THING!!!!) Beware: the beginning will make you cry and feel a million years old.

* Wanna know the stories I'd rather be working on?
1) DHen and Selena at the Emmys
2) Never ever ever ever ever ever get in a row boat with Joe. Ever. Joe keeps doing things like dumping Demi in the water and pulling her hair and he doesn't know WHY. He does know she looks cute with her lips turning all blue from the cold, though.
3) Hannah Montana meets JONAS: wherein Nick Lucas falls in love with Miley Stewart while thinking Hannah Montana's stuck-up, and Joe and Stella keep sneaking off to make out.
4) the epic Joe/Demi road trip story (new possible title: it just might be fantastic) that is either 1/3 or 1/4 completed and includes both after-concert diner shenanigans and Joe's "girlfriend" sign. I'm probably gonna post the beginning soon, I just need to write a little more to the second part.

* Also, the Chicago International Film Fest is exclusively at my theater until October 22, and nothing has made me want to take that whole place down in a sea of bullets more. I was Guest Services and so got yelled at in person AND over the phone for trillions of things. By the end of the night I had lost all patience with everyone, especially everyone who tried to validate their parking ticket in front of me and did it wrong. OKAY. There are two machines, one of which says, "This Building Only" with a picture of the parking ticket for that building. The parking ticket has an arrow on it telling you which way to put it in, but that doesn't mean anyone can figure out how to put the parking ticket in. AND THEN when they do put it, sometimes it flashes red and beeps AND THEY CONTINUE TO TRY TO FORCE IT IN. By the end of the night I was like, "Red means stop." IF YOU CAN DRIVE, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT RED MEANS STOP, AND IF YOU DON'T, PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING SO I CAN STAY HOME. And the other machine, which says, "Across the street," was still bombarded by people from THIS BUILDING trying to put tickets in and vice-versa, and people are STILL asking, "This is for across the street, is that okay?" YES IT'S FUCKING OKAY, ISN'T THAT WHAT IT SAYS?

Anyway. I'm gonna go take a shower and then probably go back to sleep. It's been almost four hours since I woke up from my nap, I'm started to get tired again (oh god, without the nap I would only have been back from school for a few hours, it's almost midnight, that's the worst class ever, seriously).

The nerd store called. They want your face back.

2009-10-10T04:12:03Z

* I slept 12 hours today. Unfortunately, the 12 hours started at 5 a.m. this morning. Okay, it wasn't exactly 12 hours, because after the maintenance guy knocked on my door, I was able to get up and dressed and across the street to the Chase before it closed. But still. RIDICULOUS.

* Haha, Castle and Beckett are starting to bicker like an old married couple. More than her just being exasperated at him. We are only a few weeks away from meaningful looks and loaded pauses! (Man, I hope not; I hope they just bicker forever. PS: Next week looks DELIGHTFUL)

*"I named my cat after you." "What did you name her?" "Cat." Oh, man, Cat Deeley is my favorite reality show host ever, I can't help it.

* I spent last night cleaning my apartment since my mom is coming into town Friday. Every time I talk to her, she threatens to do the white glove test or something. And I'm talking hardcore cleaning - I bought carpet cleaner and everything. Man, the things I do for my mama.

*Hey, I won a fic from torigates ! I have no clue what to ask for. I didn't think I was going to win(tie)!

* Miley deleted her twitter! NOOOOOO! She has the most delightful tweets ever. But oh man, this is some kind of weird controversy. Billy Ray asking for her put it back up? Both ridiculous and my favorite thing ever. But man, I wish she still had her twitter so I could tell her: "Miley, you can't say you're too busy to tweet if you have time to make up a rap." Sometimes I forget she's 16, and then sometimes videos like the one embedded down here (YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO WATCH IT AGAIN) show up and I remember.

* I am so behind on TV (I just watched Castle, guys, and it's Friday) that it's pretty ridiculous. Also I'm out of my critical TV watcher mode, apparently, being out of TV classes, and I don't want to talk much anyway, being in two fiction writing classes.

* Speaking of classes, I was literally the only person in my MUSICAL THEATER HISTORY class (a class full of MUSICAL THEATER majors) who had ever seen There's No Business Like Show Business. HOW HAS NO ONE SEEN THAT? Sure, it has Marilyn Monroe in it, and Ethel Merman's not the greatest person to listen to, but it has Donald O'Connor in it! After you've seen Singin' In The Rain (OH MY GOD WHAT IF THEY HAVEN'T SEEN SINGIN' IN THE RAIN?) how do you not try to find Donald O'Connor being adorable in other musicals? He tap dances and falls in love with Marilyn Monroe and sometimes makes ridiculous faces like during the "Make 'Em Laugh" number of Singin' In The Rain. Like, I don't even understand. Maybe I can't quote every show Sondheim's ever written, but at least I've seen some of the older musicals. You know, THE HISTORY. Oh, well. At least they'd seen Easter Parade (ahhhh, JUDY, I LOVE HER).

* I'm rereading Easy Academy again. It still makes my heart hurt. I am also spending a lot of time thinking about how much they've changed, oh goodness. I LOVE THEM ALL SO MUCH.

* Speaking of Easy, guess which tin of DVDs is finally sitting in front of my TV?? I now own Band of Brothers! I invited everyone on facebook to come over and watch Sexy War and drink hurricanes, as it's the American way (and I'm trying to get rid of some of the excess of alcohol before my mom shows up).

* Oh, what the hell.

It was okay. I didn't really feel that the wedding episode was very much about Jim and Pam (which I guess was sort of the whole point of the elopement?). I also didn't cry, thought that Jim's toast was not as great as apparently the whole audience was. I did laugh a few times, and my favorite Jim/Pam moment was actually in the car on the drive on the way up, when Pam said, "Oh, should've hired a professional to take the mental pictures." That was very Jim/Pam, the reason I do love them. ALTHOUGH, okay, at the very end, when they were showing Jim and Pam on the boat, and Jim just looked at the camera, I thought, "Today was a good day," and I started crying. THEY'VE COME SO FAR. But seriously, an hour-long episode maybe should have affected me more.

Oh, but I did greatly enjoy:
- Kevin's "shoes"
- Andy spending the night in Pam's room! Hahahaha, AWESOME.
- oh, man, I'm starting to ship Kelly/Ryan again. I blame their twitters, which make me think they're actually together again.
- ALSO, hahahahahahahaha, Kelly and Erin's reactions to Michael staying in their room. I'm really enjoying Erin.
- AND THEN TOBY's offer to let Michael stay in his room, man. True story: When Michael was insulting Toby, I was just thinking, "But, he's gonna get married to Helen and have a cute little family, he's doing great!"
- the dance down the aisle, because I'm not made of stone.

Okay, off to watch the rest of the week's worth of hour-long shows! I haven't seen Bones yet, what the eff is wrong with me?

: I just put on a green t shirt. I had been wearing a blue one earlier.

2009-10-01T04:53:18Z

GUYS. THESE ARE THINGS I HATE:
1. Having to keep journals for not one (1), but TWO (2) different classes.
2. Having class until 10 on Tuesdays and 9 on Wednesdays. I never get a chance to watch anything.
3. THIS GODDAMN COUGH.

Things that have happened recently/will happen soon that I'm all for:
1. I figured out my new bangs look just like Peggy Olson's from Mad Men, and I have a dress that could conceivably from the '60s, so BAM, Halloween costume all figured out!

2. There were zombies at work on Monday. It was kinda creepy but mainly hilarious (I laugh forever when I think about hearing one of my most uptight managers saying, "There's another two zombies coming upstairs to use the bathroom" over the walkie. Also when he informed me that we couldn't call them guests because, "Guests are alive. These people are undead."). Also I have a crush on Jesse Eisenberg, who has referred to himself as "the Jewish Jonas," and was cute when he walked right past me. (Woody Harrelson was also there, but I didn't get a good look at him. Also he wouldn't walk the red carpet because he's a douche.) There was a Zombieland premiere, by the way. That's why all this happened.

3. TOY STORY 1&2 IN 3D COMES OUT FRIDAY. I am really excited, I am not going to lie.

4. MY MOM WILL BE HERE TWO WEEKS FROM FRIDAY. I am even more excited about this.

5. I finally ordered Band of Brothers! I want to have a sexy-war party, complete with drinks (I'm thinking "drink when you don't recognize someone!" will lead to alcohol poisoning).

Other things in my life:
1. I think I might start using tumblr. I spent last weekend lurking around on there and picking up Deathly Hallows filming pictures and crying, cause I was reading the book and that's what I do when I read that book. Also, sometimes I randomly think this line: "The only people who haven't seen Star Wars are the people in it, Ted, and that's because they lived them! They lived the Star Wars!"

2. I have decided that I don't ship Penny/Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, but Jim Parsons/Kayley Cuoco, because one those RPF lines are crossed they can't be uncrossed, and I would love if Sheldon remained completely asexual, and there are pictures of Jim and Kayley looking miiiiighty close, so it was inevitable, really, guys.

3. I am not working Friday or Monday, and since I'll most likely only use one of those days to do things I need to do (laundry, dishes, homework, housework), I've decided to spend the other day actually finishing a goddamn story and posting for once. I was looking at the notes on my iPod during class today, and I found something I'd written that I couldn't really believe that I'd written, and it just hit me, and I actually said, "Wow," and I feel like I'm bragging but I spend most of my fiction writing classes feeling like a complete hack, so to have that affect me really made me happy. Anyway. I have a few possibilities. I might make a post later, after I've seen Glee perhaps, and try to do a poll to see what I should work through and finally finish. Just a heads up, though - most of them (all, maybe) are Disney-centric. Because I have nothing else going on in my life, apparently.

Never ever ever ever ever ever get in a row boat with joe. Ever.

2009-09-19T08:13:28Z

Hahahahaha, I don't know where I've been, but I'm actually still alive? I think school took it out of me. Also I've had a head cold since I was born, practically. Actually, it's been, like....three weeks? But that's a long time for a cold. I JUST WANT TO NEVER COUGH AGAIN, IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK? Anyway. I have a lot to talk about. I have a list! I really like lists, guys, I don't know if you knew that.

1. Demetria Lovato + two-thirds of the Jonas Brothers + Greg Garbowsky = I CAN'T EVEN. CAN THEY DO THIS FOREVER? And actually, I can't hear Joe too well while he's singing, but Demi. Demiiiiiii, she's so great! Her voice is strong and she's articulating well and I can totally make her out, and this is what I wrote about that: "Let's put Demi on Broadway. How can you sound that good that loud?" I might have seen this video the same day I'd seen a video of Julie Andrews singing Oscar Hammerstein songs in front of a huge crowd, NO MICROPHONE, and being all kick-ass Julie Andrews-like. THIS IS WHAT DEMI REMINDED ME OF. I just love her so much.

1a. Oh, hey, I'm in a musical theater history class, which has just made me want to spend eight billion dollars on musical soundtracks. If I buy Carousel, I have to buy Next To Normal, but I also want The Sound of Music and maybe some Sondheim, even if I've never heard it, and it's just a terrible cycle where my Amazon cart has twenty items in it and I can't afford any of it. (But I might buy Carousel and Next to Normal anyway. BUT WHICH CAROUSEL?) ANYWAY, Thursday we watched Baz Luhrmann's La Boheme and I had eternal sadfaces that it was the Australian cast and not the New York cast with Joseph Jonas in it. ALSO I have the urge to write all the Disney kids into ridiculous musicals now. My favorite is Joe as the emcee in Cabaret. Also Joe and Demi as Curly and Laurie in Oklahoma! They'll sing "People Will Say We're In Love" to each other!

2. Guys, DHen was sort of losing his status as my favorite dbag on twitter to Nicholas Braun (of 10 Things I Hate About You and Princess Protection Program fame) because of stuff like Spending some green peoples from historytimes and i'm gonna be a cop, at some point in my life. i've been studying the television show for a couple weeks now, so i think im about ready and his #latetweets, which all make me giggle and click that favorite star, BUT THEN DHen spent the whole day in a suit (GUYS. HE LOOKS REALLY GOOD IN A SUIT, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNEW THIS) ANNNNNND he tweeted a picture where he's in a suit and HANGING OUT WITH BUG HALL. YEAH, ALFALFA FROM THE LITTLE RASCALS BUG HALL.

He's the guy in the beret. I HAD A REALLY BIG CRUSH ON BUG HALL AT 6, IS ALL I'M SAYING. Here is a video of Bug Hall reenacting a scene from The Little Rascals 15 years later! HE GREW UP TO LOOK REALLY NICE. SO DID DHEN. I APPROVE OF THE BOYS IN THIS PICTURE. (Ahhhh, you guys, DHen is wearing a black suit with a black shirt and a black tie and a REALLY NICE watch, and the tie is kinda loose and he said he's gonna be wearing suits a lot more and I APPROVE OF THIS and I spent a lot of time at work imagining what his suit would look like (when I decided he wasn't going to wear a tie but instead was going to wear a white shirt with the top few buttons unbuttoned, I HAD TO LEAN AGAINST SOMETHING because of the swooning))

3. Also DHen and Selena are being all adorable and I really want to believe they're dating but they're not going to be obvious about it. Like, this would just make me a happy person. I maybe started a David/Selena story? I am a little bit of a crazy person right now.

3a. Part of the reason I want to believe they're dating is because of the pictures from the Emmys after party, which I don't feel like looking for right now, BUT I watched part of the Creative Arts Emmys on E! (I'm gonna watch the rest of it because I'm going into TV and sort of feel like I have to) and the part that I watched was the Wizards cast winning and, damn, did David Deluise break his collarbone. He just freakin' booked it onstage when they won, and he tripped and fell on the stairs - but it's a spectacular fall, he flips over, and I swear it took me a second to realize he hadn't meant to do that. Like, he got up pretty quickly, and he waved everyone else onstage (Selena was jumping up and down in the background, it was totally cute) but he was also holding himself funny and yep, he broke his collarbone. On TV. At the Emmys.

OH MY GOD I have so much more I want to say, but I also think I should go to bed soon, so here's a short list of things I'm not going to expand on:

* I've been rereading all the things I read right when I got into easy_academy , including the story where RLiv stars in Walter the Farting Dog and the one where they all work on The Office and I'm Your Number One and the baseball outtake, oh my godddddd, I LOVE THEM ALL. And so I want to re-watch BoB and last night I fell asleep to Curahee, it was awesome.
* I greatly enjoyed Thursday's TV. Also, since I spend a lot of time critiqueing TV shows, I give a few a free pass every season where I don't care what they do, and this year it's Glee. I just really love that show! Like, I'm pretty sure they could tell me that mass murder is a good idea, and if they sang it well enough I might actually think seriously about it.
* I've been listening to "Falling Down" by Selena Gomez (& the Scene!) on repeat for a few days. I wish it would stop growing on me, because damn if I'm gonna buy a CD by someone & the Scene. Like, I would be more embarassed to buy that than to admit that I pre-ordered the Jonas Brothers CD.
* Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince the movie was better than I remembered. At least, the beginning. During watching the movie again, I asked myself if I'd slept through it the first time, but now I can't remember anything that I really liked. I guess the ending was just that...different?
*I'm almost done rereading all the HP series. I went from 7 to 1, and then worked all the way back through. I'm on 7 again. My main thoughts are: Holy crap I have so much respect for J.K. Rowling and the universe she created; the trio keep making my heart happy with their love for each other; I really wish we knew so much more about the Marauders and James and Lily's life together. Because, um, they graduated at 17 (18?), had a baby at 20, and died at 21. How are they as awesome as everyone says? I would like another series just about them, please.

Okay, no seriously, I'm off. LATER!

Are you from Tennessee? Cause you're the only ten I see.

2009-08-27T06:20:14Z

What's up, y'all?! It is 11:52 on my first day off in seven days, and I spent today pretty much doing nothing, which was awesome. I woke up early because I was having a text-conversation with Andrea, but then I took a two hour nap at one and only went outside to check my mail/get food with Laura before she came back to my place and we watched the final hour of the 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders of the 80s on VH1. I REGRET NOTHING.

I have so many random things to talk about, it's RIDICULOUS. Expect a lot of caps and probably a few "y'all"s (I have been Southern a lot lately, especially answering the phone at work) and BRACE YOURSELVES FOR SOME FUN!

Are you ready? Let's go!!

So, not only is twitter the greatest, but DAVID HENRIE is my favorite twitter-er, BY FAR (also, Thomas Lennon). God, he's constantly responding to stupid/emo tweets from all these Disney girls (I just know the ones I follow, but I'm sure he's pretty good at responses to others, too) and THEY ARE THE FUNNIEST THINGS EVER, like that time Demi twittered about an awkward phone conversation and he @replied her "fine ill hang up" or that time Taylor called London "Fundon" and he said something about wordplay, or that time he said Miley Cyrus was changing "lifes" one tweet at a time and called her MOAPRAH, like, that tweet had everything I've ever wanted from a tweet, an insult wrapped up in a compliment and including a stupid spelling mistake, and my heart was just filled with OH, DHEN, YOU MAGNIFICIENT DOUCHEBAG, DON'T EVER CHANGE, and THEN A COUPLE OF DAYS LATER HE AND MILES HAD A TWITTER-SATION, AND IT WAS AMAZING.

HOW MAGNIFICIENT IS THIS, Y'ALL? LIKE, I CAN'T EVEN FATHOM IT.

ANYWAY, after that, Demi went to Canada for CR2 and was alone in the hotel and so had a Twitter party, and her responses are PRICELESS, esp "KEL LOVES ORANGE SODA!!!!" God, do I love her. AND her location is now Camp Rock, and she has been twittering non-stop and THIS GIVES ME HOPE FOR LOTS OF "Joe is cool" ~~and "Joe is a good kisser"~~ tweets, because you know he'll be stealing her phone constantly ~~while they're making out~~!! Also I read somewhere someone suggesting a JB/Demi live chat in Canada, which would be AMAAAAAZING, let's put all our brain power into figuring out how to make that happen, 'kay?

I've been at work constantly for the past few days, as mentioned above, and I'm pretty sure that the days before that I showed up at work to watch movies. I've seen a lot lately, but they haven't included Inglourious Basterds (which I can't decide if I want to see) and Post Grad, which is at a different theater and I meant to see it today but instead I stayed home and I am okay with that decision. Anyway, instead of talking about movies you've heard of, like District 9 (which was really good but I accidentally fell asleep during it because I was soooo tired) I'm going to ramble about a Robert Downey Jr. movie from 1989 and the Ben Stiller/Jason Schwartzman movie that ABSOLUTELY NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF, probably not even Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman.

So the first one I want to talk about is Chances Are, which I found on demand. It's about a woman whose husband dies on their first anniversary, but then his soul goes back to earth with all these memories that he doesn't remember until he meets his girlfriend's family. GUESS WHO HIS GIRLFRIEND IS. YOU'LL NEVER GUESS! It's the daughter of the guy he was before he was Robert Downey Jr.! It's ridiculous, but I was pretty sure I'd seen it before, but I might have been thinking about the Sally Field movie where her dead husband's ghost haunts her, but then again I think I've seen both. Well, we know for sure that now I have! ANYWAY, Ryan O'Neal is in Chances Are, as the dead husband's best friend, and the woman is Cybill Shepherd and the daughter is Mary Stuart Masterson, which meant that I just wanted her to dress up in a chauffeur outfit or make out with Eric Stoltz or at least grow her hair out before she started making out with RDJ. It was...not a particularly good movie, but there was some vintage RDJ freaking out, which is always a plus.

One day a woman at work asked me if I'd seen The Marc Pease Experience, and my response was: "I don't even know what that is." She said her daughter was an extra in it and they'd come all the way from Atlanta to see it and they were hoping it would get a wide release so their friends and family would get to see it, or something, and I was intrigued, because it was Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman, and so I spent the next few days trying to sell tickets (I succeeded a few times because I am just that awesome, apparently) and one day I got off work at 10:30 and the last show was at 10:50, so I decided I might as well go and see it. I was the ONLY person in the ENTIRE theater, which I have never had happen before. The closest I've come to that was when I went to go see the 3D CONCERT EXPERIENCE the first time on a Wednesday night and the only other people in there were the friend I'd gone with and someone from work. But this time it was ONLY me. Everyone was joking around about it before I went in, but seriously it was an awesome experience. I chewed extra-loudly, laughed extra loudly, got to sing along (they put on The Wiz in the movie, and my sister was just in it, so I was jamming out. Also, they sang "We're All In This Together") and even yelled "What a DICK!" directly to the screen. The experience was fantastic. The movie itself...not so much. Jason Schwartzman is Marc Pease, still living in the past 6 years out of high school. Ben Stiller is the drama teacher who hates Marc, though Marc idolizes him. AND the girl from Camp who sang "Ladies Who Lunch" and was a crazy bitch and had my favorite singing voice out of all of them, Anna Kendricks, is Marc's girlfriend, who's a senior in high school. She got to sing, which I enjoyed. Also singing: Ben Stiller and Jason Schwartzman. It was ridiculous. I suggest no one spends money on it, but if it shows up on cable in a few years, you might want to watch it.

Okay, guys, let's talk about how much I hate NBC. At work I'm always hearing these ads that are always like, "We here at NBC know that our viewers want more comedy," but then they're followed by ads for Jay Leno's new show at 10/9c. And to that I just have to say: NBC. STOP SCREWING YOURSELVES OVER. GROW SOME BALLS AND LET LENO LEAVE THE NETWORK ALREADY. LET CONAN ANCHOR THE LATE NIGHT SHOWS. DEVELOP SOME MORE SCRIPTED PROGRAMMING FOR THE 10 O'CLOCK HOUR AND HOPE FOR THE NEXT "ER" INSTEAD OF WUSSING OUT WITH THIS LENO SHIT. Also, your standee with Jay Leno leaning out from behind it makes him look like a creepy old man.

Sorry 'bout that. Let's talk about Disney stars!

*When JB were in New Orleans, their band kept tweeting about stuff like the French Quarter and Cafe DuMonde, where they included a picture of the table after eating a bunch of beignets, and I JUST WANTED TO BE THERE SOOOOO BADLY. And then Joseph had his 20th birthday party at a skating rink with a bunch of fleurs-de-lis decorating the walls, and I got very homesick and also wanted to be best friends with the Jonas Brothers, especially Joe, a feeling I get periodically. WOULDN'T IT BE FUN TO HAVE A LAME BOARD GAMES PARTY WITH THEM OR SOMETHING? God, that'd be awesome.

* Five days after that, Demetria turned 17, and the boys were adorable about it, and Joseph helped me get a lot of Joe/Demi feelings again, because he was all smiley and adorable and every time Nick said "Happy Birthday," Joe had to say it again, to make sure he was the last one who told her "Happy Birthday" on the video, and oh I just love them.

*Two days after THAT was the live chat, which I've only watched once, (LIVE because they had it so early and I didn't have to go into work until, like, three hours after that) but which was AMAZING because they didn't have to promote anything, just sing songs that weren't on the tour/were from their very first BABY album/were from Demi Lovato's album, and Nicole Anderson came out and was ADORABLE and I had all these "Nick loves Demi" feelings that I don't normally have but then he sang "Catch Me" and that's what I wrote down, "Nick loves Demi." THEY ARE ALL SO ADORABLE TOGETHER, IT'S CRAZY HOW MUCH I LOVE THEM ALL.

* I have this random thought every time I listen to Demi's "Solo": This is about Chad Dylan Cooper, but by a Sonny who's not totally in love with him. "Without a script your game is lacking," "Why don't you just stick to acting," etc. And I don't want to hear other theories, this is mine and I love it.

*Speaking of Disney shows, remember that time on JONAS where Joe tried to get detention and then when he got detention he was excited and then he tried to get more??? Relatedly, remember that time that Easy Academy was real and it was awesome?

OH YEAH, SPEAKING OF EASY, good god, you guys, I finally started commenting on Easy again, because as of right now everyone's pretty happy and I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF, I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop and the shit to hit the fan and my comments to consist mainly of "AUGH, MY HEART MY HEART" again. Also I need the rest of that Joe/Demi outtake like I need air.

Here's my plan for tomorrow: Meet Andrea. Go see Bandslam. Go back to Andrea's place and watch the Jonas Brothers on Conan, which I still haven't seen.

It will be awesome, I'm totally excited!!

ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it

2009-08-23T07:50:46Z

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Soooooo, I just got back from work (three hours ago. I'm slow tonight). It was a weird, weird day. I started out in box - I tried to switch to get to be an usher, because Andrea was an usher and I wouldn't ever see her if I was in box because box is on a different level. But I didn't get to switch, so I was in box - until about four and a half hours into my shift, when we were slow but a bunch of theaters were breaking at the same time, so manager Robert asked for two volunteers to usher. Remembering Andrea, I volunteered. I got pulled over by Robert before actually starting to clean to talk. I thought I was going to get in trouble for clocking in on time but then not going downstairs for about fifteen minutes, or for standing around talking to Andrea and Eddie instead of trying to find a dirty theater to clean. But no, it was because the guy from this day decided to go completely crazy and have it out for me. He said that I was making fun of him, laughing at him, and disrespecting him. He said that when I saw him today I went, "Oh, here's this guy again."

Now. I don't know if it has come across here or not, but I am, the majority of the time, incredibly nice, helpful, and pleasant when it comes to dealing with guests. Every once in a while there will be one or two a day that just make me want to punch someone, and I have gotten complaints before (hahahaha, Thursday someone called me racist against foreign people because I told him to check the marquee for times, and when he walked off I shrugged and his wife saw it. I will admit I made fun of him a little bit, and I took the yelling at me because I sort of deserved it, but the second he said I was racist I freaked out. I am not racist against foreign people, I am just prejudiced against ignorance. THERE'S A TEN FOOT FLASHING NEON SIGN ABOVE MY HEAD WITH TIMES ON IT. READ IT).

ANYWAY. THIS GUY. This is the guy that made me cry at work (calling me a "bitch" and a "fatass" will do that to me) and I would never provoke him again. I have not SPOKEN to him in two months, and though I've seen him once or twice - across the room, on a bench outside on my way into work - I have not a) looked him in the eye or b) purposefully ignored him. I haven't even SEEN him since I got back three weeks ago, and I didn't even know he was at work until Robert asked me if I'd made fun of him that day. I told Robert, "Absolutely not," and he believed me. I helped clean a few theaters, and then Molly and Sam both came into one of the theaters that we'd just finished cleaning and asked me to "stay up here" for a while, meaning as an usher, and to go on the other side of the theater. I did, but no one told me what was going on, and then Sam asked me to go to the back office, where I had to write out a statement about what had happened (even though nothing had happened). I wrote out basically what I wrote out here, that I haven't spoken to him since he yelled at me, or purposefully ignored him, and that I would never provoke a guest like that. Then I went back out to be a usher, and Eddie was assigned to protect me from the crazy guy, I guess? Or just to basically keep us apart. Andrea also took it upon herself to protect me, even though she was on the other side of the theater. As she put it, she was "on Samantha's side," which I greatly enjoyed. Ah, puns. And Bill, the security guard, at one point escorted us from one theater to another, and I just basically wasn't alone for awhile. I went to the bathroom at one point, and Andrea stood outside like a bodyguard, arms crossed and everything.

Then Tabitha, who is the senior manager and the head honcho when Bob, the general manager, is out of town like he is now, had to talk to me about it. She said the crazy guest, who seriously comes into the theater all the time with his wife, threatened to call corporate AND the media if...basically, if she didn't fire me, though Tabitha never said that to me in so many words. She said that every time he explained what "I'd done," she sort of thought, "Samantha? Really?" And Molly had told all the ushers the story, and one of the ushers went back to concessions and told everyone back there the story, and the main consensus was "Her?" Tabitha kept calling me one of the nicest people working there, one of the friendliest cashiers, and so I'm loved apparently? Which is definitely the best part of the night, the only good thing to come out of that. No matter how many Miley Cyrus songs I sing, or how many useless facts I know about the Jonas Brothers, everyone there would kick that guest's ass. Which I appreciate.

But back to what this crazy man said. After I talked to Tabitha (which, at first I thought they were going to transfer me to a different theater, just to save them some trouble, but Tabitha never even mentioned that, and said that her "door's always open" if any guest ever makes me feel uncomfortable, so that's good), I went to go clock out about an hour early, and I was stopped by Bill, the security guard who really likes me, and Molly, the manager who's also from Mississippi. Bill said that the crazy guy said that Bill said that they should just fire me already, and Molly said that the crazy guy said that she said that they're always getting complaints about me. Neither of which is true - they wouldn't say that to a guest, first of all, and they wouldn't even say that period. Let's be honest: a lot of people who work there are not pleasant and don't always do their jobs. I do.

Anyway, I'm loved at work, the managers all have trouble believing that anyone could complain about me (one even said she'd never even heard me curse, and Andrea said, "It's hilarious when she does") and even Robert Lindsay (remember him? He's dating Andrea now, which is totally adorable) said that he'd help protect me if that crazy guy ever came back.

I HAD A WONDERFUL POST planned for tonight, but that's all shot to hell. Here is a list of the things I might actually post about on Wednesday, when I finally get my first day off in SEVEN DAYS. Ugh, GROSS. (I might not actually post all this)

- David Henrie and Miley Cyrus having a twitter conversation about the best pick-up lines
- David Henrie calling Miley Cyrus "Moaprah" on twitter (oh, dhen, don't ever change)
- JOE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY, which took place at a SKATING RINK in NEW ORLEANS, oh JOE, don't ever change
- The movie I watched from the 80s with Robert Downey Jr. and Ryan O'Neal
- JOE AND DEMI, SITTING IN A TREE (Demi's birthdaaaaaaaaaaay)
- Dear "Bracebridge Dinner," aka: Gilmore Girls Season 2, I love you
- Dear NBC, aka: Jay Leno 5 nights a week is less comedy, not more
- that time I thought it was a Friday but it was Wednesday, and I was severely disappointed that there was no new TV
- that time it actually was a Friday and I thought JONAS was on, but it was just WoWP and Psych
- my thoughts on the LIVE CHAT from earlier today, which on first watch were "NICK LOVES DEMI"

And, man, sorry for rambling for a year and a half about work, but this was...some night.

all typos are NOT to be corrected!!!

2009-08-19T05:31:43Z

I am drunk, you guys. drunk drunk durkn. And I have plenty that i should be doing right now, like lseeping, or eating, or drinking soe water, or taking a shower, since i have to open guest services in 9 hours, but fuck that, i'm on Livejournal!

I had a fun night tonight, i played year 3000 and sos at the bar, and larua's friend kat and i sang along to all the words, and laua sang along to some of them, and we listend to 90s things and had a great time. i had three vodke cranberrias.

i have a whole list of things to talk about, liket he ryan o'neal movie i saw, and that dhen and miles are twitter-conversing, and that trace cyrus is an assface, and JOSEPH'S BITHDAY PARTY IN NEW ORLEANS AND HOW BAD I WANTED TO BE THER and the fact that JOE IS A GUEST ON AI, I MIGHT HAVE TO WATCH NOW, and the movies i aw, including bandlsam, and stuff like that, but i shold probably go and do that thinges i need to do before i sleep tonight.

I'M SORRY THIS IS AN OBNOXIOUS POST BUT IIIIII DON'T REALLY CARE.

i might be back tomorrow to speak coherently. UNTIL THEN, PEACE!!!

It's hard to be the one who stays.

2009-08-15T04:43:39Z

Y'all. I saw Time Traveler's Wife today. My thoughts can be summed up thus: *sob*.

No, really, let me ramble about it some more: First, can I just say, that even now, every time I catch a commercial for it (which seems to be every fifteen seconds, like TBS, are you kidding me with this? Why would you put eighteen billion commercials for a sad fucking movie during your reruns of the last episode of Friends ever? Are you TRYING to make me cry?) I tear up. The end of the book is really sad, okay, and when he's lying on the floor during their New Year's Eve party and everyone's telling him goodbye and then he just fucking DIES is DEVASTATING to me, and I can never fail to bawl my eyes out for the last twenty pages or so. Like, not just tearing up crying, but huge sobs that don't make any sense since I've read the book 10 times and KNOW what's coming and yet it STILL gets me.

So when that happened in the movie, I was trying really hard not to heave huge racking sobs like I do when I'm on my period and watch The Notebook. I did not really succeed. And I cry in the movies a lot (mainly Harry Potter; also when I read the last book, even in public) but I have never actually been EMBARRASSED until today. WHEN HENRY SHOWED BACK UP AT THE MEADOW AND ALBA WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE HIM AND THEN CLARE MANAGES TO GET TO HIM IN TIME AND THEY GET TO EMBRACE AND KISS I COULDN'T CATCH MY BREATH. Augh, that part in the book is DEVASTATING, when Henry meets Alba for the first time and starts to get an inkling that he does actually die soon and Clare races to the Art Institute to see him but doesn't make it in time and he disappears? SAD, OKAY? IT'S SAD.

Buuuuut it wasn't entirely perfect. These are things that bugged me:

- I really, really hated the way he disappeared. I don't know, in the books it seems to happen a lot more suddenly. My favorite disappearances were the ones where we were not focused on Henry and then we turn around and he's gone. (Although I will admit that the slow dissolve he does in the movie makes the post-death scene in the meadow that much more heart-wrenching).

- I didn't like that Clare didn't have a list of dates that Henry had dictated to her. I didn't think that would be as big a problem for me as it was, but instead of Clare having a list there was a weird little moment where Henry looked through her diary that I didn't like.

- I would have been okay with more older Henry appearances during Henry and Clare's courtship. I like the idea that sometimes it's like she loves the older Henry more and she has to fall in love with the younger Henry.

- Rachel McAdams is SCARY SKINNY and it took away from the nice moment where she wakes up with Henry for the first time when I could count her ribs and see her spine sticking out. Other than that I love her!

- I didn't like that older Henry right away told younger Henry who he was. I could have done with a little more of Henry's backstory.

- Also I wanted his frostbite injury to get him all bitchy like it does in the book. And to actually be serious.

- It could have been longer. BUT I REALLY LIKED THE ENDING. Also the way we sped through Alba's childhood, because that's when the tears actually started coming, watching Henry getting closer and closer to the year he knew he was going to die.

BUT STILL. I REALLY LIKED IT. Ron Livingston looked a little pudgy, and I could have done with Ron as Henry and Eric Bana as not in the movie and some blonde person as Gomez and that would have been okay.

OOH! AND I LIKED THAT YOUNG CLARE AND ALBA WERE SO SIMILAR! Also young Clare is awesome and maybe I wanna be friends with her. "There's no such thing as time travel," INDEED.

AND THEN ANDREA AND I WENT TO SEE G.I. JOE. IT WAS SPECTACULAR, AND SO MUCH BETTER THAN I WAS EXPECTING. Brendan Fraser showed up as a descendant of his Mummy character (NO, REALLY, IT SAYS THAT IN THE TRIVIA ON IMDB) and the mummy from The Mummy actually showed up, and one character was all logic and no feelings like a vulcan (until the black comic relief melted her cold, cold heart and they totally made out) and one guy was continually dressed in a black suit with a mask like Darth Vader and Balthazar Getty's love interest from the last season of Alias and his love interest from that time he cheated on his wife engaged in an epic girl fight that Andrea enjoyed and Doctor Who had a chance to regenerate and sometimes Joseph Gordon-Levitt showed his cute face and there was an epic ninja battle and Governer Swann from Pirates and flashbacks galore and terrible, terrible dialogue and acting and I WOULD TOTALLY SEE IT AGAIN, IT WAS SOOOO MUCH FUN.

THIS POST ENDED IN A HAPPIER PLACE THAN IT STARTED.

ALSO: HAPPY (ALMOST) 20TH BIRTHDAY, JOSEPH ADAM JONAS! I feel less creepy about admitting you're my favorite since now you're only a year younger than me. ALTHOUGH I WOULD LIKE TO BE HOME/IN NEW ORLEANS TOMORROW NIGHT TO SEE WHAT EPIC-NESS YOU'LL GET UP TO ON YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE BIG EASY.

(My mood: I was nostalgic for all the times I've read TTW (Laura has it right now and I can't read it, what do I dooooo?) but now I'm nostalgic for that time this video was on that episode of JONAS and Joe said "Kev-in!" in his adorable two-year-old voice (HOW IS HE 20?? I DON'T EVEN KNOWWWWWW).)

hitting the hay. it would be fun to actually sleep on hay. hitting the bed.

2009-08-13T05:11:42Z

I am going to always quote DHenrie's twitter in my subject lines from now on (no I'm not).

Things that are awesome:

1. Today I went to go see Julie and Julia, and it was sweet and Meryl Streep is amazing, buuuuut my favorite part was Chris Messina? I never talked about it, but not long ago I went on a short Netflix-Instant-Watching streak, and I found a movie called Ira & Abby, starring Chris Messina, and it was wonderful and I looooooved it and then I watched Made of Honor again just because Chris Messina was in it and he was Melanie Lynskey's husband in Away We Go and Claire's boyfriend at the end of Six Feet Under and now I love him. So I found it delightful to watch Chris Messina on a big screen, I guess I'm saying. And also I like Amy Adams.

2. I just randomly decided to watch Sex and the City before Friends comes on at midnight and it's the one where Carrie meets Berger for the first time! Surprise Ron Livingston spotting for the win.

3.
Don't ask me where I found it or why I love it so much, I just doooo. The first time I saw it it took my breath away, which is crazy, because HE IS PRETTY LIKE A GIRL and I LIKE THE CURLY HAIR BETTER but this is my new favorite picture, I've lost days just staring at it. HIS GLASSES. HIS PRETTY FACE. THE WAY HIS TIE IS LOOSE. LOOK, THERE'S HIS ATTRACTIVE BROTHER IN THE BACKGROUND.

Days, I'm telling you.

4.

Augh, IT'S JUST SO DELIGHTFUL. NICK/MILEY!!! JOE/DEMI!!! NICK/DEMI!!! JOE/MILEY!!! KEVIN/SELENA!! EVERYONE/EVERYONE ELSE!! JOE AND MILEY DOING AIR KICKS! NICK BEING AN AIRPLANE! THE LOOKS THEY GIVE EACH OTHER!! 1:08, ESPECIALLY. I HAVE SO MANY FEEEEEEELINGS IT'S MADE MY CAPSLOCK STUCK!

One feeling I really wasn't expecting: Kevin Jonas can serenade me ANYTIME.

One feeling I'll always have: What the hell are they saying? "With one election, a chain reaction"? Did Obama ask Disney to do this? I need lyrics, stat!

5. This fic. I don't even watch AI, but Luz/Joe shenanigans translate well, apparently.

6. I'm not working on Friday, and am instead going to a Time Traveler's Wife/G.I. Joe double feature with Andrea. I cannot WAIT for Time Traveler's Wife. I DON'T EVEN CARE, if it sucks, I WILL STILL LOVE IT. (Also, Ron Livingston.)

7. My fingernails are painted dark blue. Like, almost black dark blue. I LIKE IT.

Also: Jeremy Piven will be at my theater tomorrow for the premiere of The Goods. Is it wrong if I offer him sushi?

I'm not so good with the advice... Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?

2009-08-11T08:12:16Z

I think it's that time of the year when I show how absolutely crazy I am and let everyone see my fall TV schedule! Actually, it's about a month early, but I'm pretty effing excited about shows this year, or something. Also: OH MY GOD AM I INSANE??? This is COMPLETELY PACKED, and doesn't include stuff like Ruby & the Rockits, which I find DELIGHTFUL mainly because Alexa Vega is really cute and the younger brother is funny.

ANYWAY.

MONDAY:         7:00 - 7:30 - How I Met Your Mother - CBS (9/21)
                          7:30 - 8:00 - Accidentally On Purpose - CBS (9/21)
                          8:30 - 9:00 - The Big Bang Theory - CBS (9/21)
                          9:00 - 10:00 - Castle - ABC (9/21)
TUESDAY:       7:00 - 9:00 - So You Think You Can Dance - FOX (9/8? 9/15?)
WEDNESDAY:   7:00 - 8:00 - So You Think You Can Dance - FOX (9/9? Dance Special 9/2)
                           7:00 - 7:30 - New Adventures of Old Christine - CBS (9/23)
                           7:30 - 8:00 - Gary Unmarried - CBS (9/23)
                           8:00 - 9:00 - Glee - FOX (9/9)
                           8:00 - 8:30 - Modern Family - ABC (9/23)
                           8:30 - 9:00 - Cougar Town - ABC (9/23)
                           9:00 - 10:00 - Eastwick - ABC (9/23)
THURSDAY:      7:00 - 8:00 - Bones - FOX (9/17)
                          7:00 - 7:30 - Community - NBC (9/17)
                          7:30 - 8:00 - Parks and Recreation - NBC (9/17)
                          8:00 - 9:00 - Grey's Anatomy - ABC (9/24)
                          8:00 - 8:30 - The Office - NBC (9/17)
                          8:30 - 9:00 - 30 Rock - NBC (10/15)
FRIDAY:            7:00 - 7:30 - Wizards of Waverly Place - DISNEY
                          8:00 - 9:00 - Ugly Betty - ABC (10/9)
                          9:00 - 10:00 - Psych - USA (8/7)
SATURDAY:      10:30 - 12:00 - Saturday Night Live - NBC
SUNDAY:          6:30 - 7:00 - Hannah Montana - DISNEY
                          7:00 - 7:30 - Sonny With A Chance - DISNEY
                          7:30 - 8:00 - JONAS - DISNEY
                          9:00 - 10:00 - Defying Gravity - ABC (8/2)
                          9:00 - 10:00 - Mad Men - AMC (8/16)

MIDSEASON:
Parenthood, NBC, March
Chuck, NBC, March
Friday Night Lights, NBC, Summer ( D: )

Some of these are tentative, like Eastwick and Cougar Town; some of these are just habits, like Gary Unmarried (if I'm watching Old Christine, I might as well watch Jay Mohr and Paula Marshall, right?) and Parks and Recreation; and some of these are on probation, like Grey's and...well, Grey's. I'm most excited for Glee and HIMYM and Bones and Mad Men, OMG y'all, Mad Men starts Sunday! How CRAZY is that gonna be??

ALSO: The fourth season of FNL doesn't show on NBC until summer 2010!!!! That's a whole YEAR from now! Whyyyy did I get rid of my DirectTV? I don't know, but I'm severely regretting it.

I really like this icon. Look, the Monkees are at NBC in the '60s!

Oh my God I need to be asleep right now.

haahaha ah the internet.

2009-08-10T02:21:19Z

1. Twitter has not been working for me for the past few days! It basically meant that after my post-SYTYCD freak-out I wasn't able to share my thoughts with the world, namely: a) that John Hughes died, eternal sadfaces; and b) Psych was on!

2. I have been working straight since Friday, and today I worked about four hours extra. It was nice in a "oh hey I'm getting more money!" way. Other than that, my feet hurt and my head hurts and I'm hungry and tired.

3. Easy was updated! I still haven't commented on the last few updates, HOW TERRIBLE AM I? I also haven't read this part of Easy and will actually try not to until I can comment on all of them. Luckily, tomorrow I don't have work! I am hoping to accomplish plenty of Easy-related fangirling that I have sadly been neglecting.

4. I am also planning to see G. I. Joe tomorrow. So far all I've done is hear part of it. It sounds terrible; I can't wait!

5. It is ten quadrillion degrees. THIS IS NOT A LIE. I don't have A/C, which makes me really, really sad. Also, unable to sleep much. I do have a fan, though, and maybe I'll just put my pajamas in the freezer for a few hours or something.

6. This icon makes me a happy person. I've never used it, but look at how great it looks!

7. Teen Choice Awards tomorrow! I am actually a 12-year-old girl. I also say "delightful" a lot and my hobbies include cross-stitching and knitting, and I have a cat named Esther, so I think I'm also an 80-year-old woman.

8. I'm re-reading Harry Potter from the beginning and already I've noticed two throwaway things in the first book that show up in the seventh book, which I've only noticed because this is the first time I've gone from 7 to 1. I started a list; I'm a total dork.

9. I've been very sad and fandom neglectful lately, to the point where I haven't even watched the behind the scenes of "Send it On" or listened to the full version. One day I don't have to get up extra early for work I might do that.

10. Off to finish watching Bones! I have six episodes left, and THEN WHAT DO I DO??

SEASON SIX IS HERE! Hello?

2009-08-06T02:07:32Z

Season five So You Think You Can Dance performance finale was tonight.

I AM LIVEBLOGGING THIS SHIT!!!

Evan looks totally cute in real boy clothes. Brandon still looks like Don's fiancee David. I still don't like him because of this.

Cat Deeley just said, "jidges!!"

Adam Shankman is there!!

Final 4 dance choreographed by Wade Robson? AWESOME. I LOVE WADE. I don't really love Lady Gaga? I could live without her. I'm not sure I could live without Evan dressed like a football player and playing with pom poms.

I AM EXCITED FOR THE FALL.

Ahhh Sonya and Evan and Jeanine! I am a fan of the choreographers so far. Annnd I think I want to date Evan. But I love that Jeanine is supposed to be such a kick-ass, strong girl. I LOVE SONYA! I LOVE JEANINE! I LOOOOVE ADAM SHANKMAN AND EVAN AND ALL OF EVAN'S BROTHERS SITTING IN THE FRONT ROW CHEERING HIM ON!!

I would like to meet the class of Glee! I think I'd like to be friends with all of them.

Brandon's reminding me of Joshua from last year. DON'T WIN, BRANDON! Hey, he's shirtless for his solo! What a surprise. I can't take him, y'all! I WANT EVAN TO WIN, I LOVE HIM MORE. Brandon might be better, but it's not America's greatest dancer, it's AMERICA'S FAVORITE DANCER.

Of course there are ten trillion commercials.

TYCE DIORIO! I love Tasty Oreo, he's my favorite. I hate when Brandon speaks. I'm sorry, Brandon. I like you best clothed and dancing. Ah, Broadway! Kayla is my mom's favorite girl; I don't have a real favorite girl, but I thought she was preeeetty awesome.

Glee commercial followed by SYTYCD = MY FAVORITE PART OF THE DAAAAAAY!!

I'm pretty sure Cat Deeley is my favorite reality host ever in the history of ever.

Haha, apparently Jason spontaneously makes out with all of his female dance partners. Remember when the week before he smacked a big one on Jeanine he hugged departing Caitlin and cried big cry-baby tears? What a player.

Alright, all these solos - look awesome, but I don't watch SYTYCD for solos. I watch it for awesome partners dancing. But those pirourettes were pretty kick-ass.

BOYS!! DANCING TOGETHER!! These are my favorites, I think. HA, and they're dancing to a Janet Jackson song? LOVE!!!

THAT....WAS....AWESOME.

Evan is still my favorite, though. The nastiest thing he's ever done? "That's a toughie. The list is so long." (Who says "toughie" when asked about nasty things? THIS IS WHY I LOOOOOVE HIIIIIM!!)

Awww, the girls get Mia!! I have yet to not like any of her dances. Sometimes she seems crazy, but her dances are always spot-on.

And I'm crying. I just love Mia Michaels, I can't believe it.

Aw, man, Evan and Ryan Kasprzak are my favorite dancing brothers ever. Awwwwww, he's getting choked upppp!! Can I vote for him yet?! The Best Is Yet To Come - I wanna see this boy on Broadway, FOR SURE. And, aw, Ryan's sitting in the audience without a hat on. Favorite dancing brothers EVER.

I just love Evan every time I see him. And I do really like Kayla, and Tony and Meredith are usually pretty awesome, so this should be good. Kayla is following through with those kicks a little better than Evan - she's got more power. This will not make me vote for her over him, though. I almost don't want to listen to the judges. This is what I think they'll say: "Kayla, you did amazing! Evan, not so great."

SPONTANEOUS EVAN CHEER!!! I LOVE YOU, 3000 PEOPLE IN THE KODAK THEATER!!

Haha, Evan is a trending topic on twitter, and he's slowly encroaching on Brandon and Jeanine. He's already trending more than Bill Clinton. We'll know he's made if he knocks off Vanessa Hudgens!

And Kayla's doing a solo for "Sweet Dreams" which just makes me want to watch the Neil/Sabra table dance, aka one of my FAVE dances EVERRR.

I AM JUST READY TO VOTE ALREADY, OH MY GOD.

Haha, I forgot Brandon was a person. Oh, man, Louis Van Amstel, I hate paso dobles, they're never that interesting, not even when you try to make them look like Trinity and Neo when they're having sex during the 2nd Matrix movie (that is the music I'm hearing, right? WTF is this?) Jeanine, I still love you?
Oh, okay, I do love the dead drops, when the guy drops the girl and swings her around before she actually hits the floor.

And I hate Mary Murphy and her screams.

OFF TO VOTE FOR EVAN!

1-888-836-7603 = Evan Kasprzak. His brother's gonna be in Season 6? I am ABSOLUTELY on board now. September 9: SYTYCD, Glee!

Now if you'll excuse me, Two Weeks Notice is on Oxygen.

Downside to being a shark: Underwater all the time. Upside to being a shark: Being a shark.

2009-08-05T07:29:58Z

I am frequently really bad at updating. Awesome.

* First up: I went to LA! We did touristy things. Hollywood Walk of Fame, Kodak theater tour, Grauman's, Hollywood Museum, Griffith Observatory, Santa Monica Pier, La Brea tar pits, and, my favorite part, a studio tour. We went to Warner Brothers, because it was a 2 1/2 hour tour, they do movies and TV, and I thought I might see the Gilmore Girls set. I asked myself if that would be the one I'd do if I had to pay for it (the trick my dad pulled to stop us from going to Madame Tussaud's), and yes, even though it was $45, I still wanted to do it.

It was amazing. We heard stories about Jack Warner, saw a bunch of sets (True Blood, which I don't watch; ER, which I did) and went past the Friends stage and Ellen's stage and got to see Chuck's courtyard annnd we saw them filming a TV show - Eastwick, which apparently takes place in Stars Hollow and stars Rebecca Romijn (we talked about John Stamos a lot because of ER and the Friends stage used to be the Full House stage and I realized that I am angry with Rebecca Romijn for breaking up with John Stamos. I DON'T KNOW WHY) and Josh Radnor's girlfriend Lindsey Price and that now I have to watch just for that one scene - and it brought out the TV geek in me, just seeing everyone set up outside, with cameras and gaffers and grips and audio people and a director and ohhhhh I JUST WANT TO DO THIS. The hills were so pretty, too - going from the Delta to the Midwest = flaaaaat - and so the hills just take my breath away a lot.

BASICALLY, what I learned was that LA is not as different from North California as I thought, and therefore not as scary. I can handle the traffic, I'm super excited to be a TV geek again, and the only thing I need to worry about is, you know, living and working and being a real adult!
* The day I drove home from Atlanta it POURED for the last four hours home, and it was the most miserable experience I've ever had in a car. But before the rain started I stopped at a Cracker Barrel in some small town in Georgia and ate lunch and read Harry Potter and was greeted by the friendliest people I've ever met. Sometimes I'm amazed at how nice Southerners can be. And then I see a bumper sticker that says "Read My Lipstick: Vote McCain/Palin" and I remember why I don't like it that much.

* I hung out with Caroline and Garrett two days in a row. One day we went to dinner at Los Tres and then played Wii sports for about 3 hours at Caroline's house with her brother Michael (who is now TALLER THAN ME, good Lord), and then the next day we went to Waffle House and then watched The Hangover, which was ridiculously hilarious again. I really, really like Caroline and Garrett, especially together. Also, I would like The Hangover soundtrack. I feel it would make driving around awesome (sad note: no more driving for months! eternal sad-faces).

* Had a few more breakdowns with the family, but also had some nice times. Had a terrible night when the puppy ran away from me while I was home alone. We were all outside calling for him for an hour and a half, and were really worried he was caught on something in the woods (frogs sound like stuck puppy barks, fyi). My brother started sobbing, and then my sister did, but I'd cried before they'd all come home and I, once again, felt awkward while trying to comfort both of them. Then my mom was sitting outside by herself and had apparently just started crying when the damn dog finally just came running back into the yard. He'd probably had the time of his life, that little shithead. My left leg is still covered in bug bites, but I couldn't stay mad at him too long; we all love that stupid dog too much.

* Worked my way through all of Bones season 3, and am now working through 4 like a madwoman.

* Bought Demi's new CD. First time I listened to it I just kept being pleasantly surprised by how awesome it was. Current favorite song that I played on repeat until I memorized it: "Every Time You Lie."

* Speaking of Dem, remember that time she tweeted lyrics from Joe's song about how he's MUCH better :) right after he broke up with Camilla? That was an awesome time.

* Saw The Ugly Truth. Never laughed.

*Saw Funny People. Laughed once or twice (there was an Owen Wilson/George Simmons movie called My Best Friend Is A Robot, and Owen Wilson was the robot and it was just a poster but I thought it was fucking hilarious, okay?), but then it went on for eight more years, and I was late getting home and I was bored.

*I am SO BEHIND on internet things. For instance, I have read the latest Easy Academy updates, but for some reason I haven't commented. Don't know why, but I WILL, I PROMISE.

*I will watch the rest of Defying Gravity later tonight/tomorrow, I promise.

* My first flight tonight was terrible: aisle seat, fat guy in seat next to me, air turbulence (seriously, I have been flying by myself for twelve years, and for the first time I was terrified that at the very least oxygen masks were going to drop from the ceiling), and then a 20 minute wait on the ground before they gave us a gate. My second flight was much better: window seat, no seatmate, smooth flight (though there was a worrisome moment when I jerked awake looking out the window and thought I was going to fall to the ground. Iiiii don't know what's wrong with me), and no one bothering me while I was bawling at the end of HP7. Pretty great, not gonna lie.

*now I'm home and I have chairs and my cat loves me so much she's driving me crazy and I'm working five days next week, three of those in Guest Services, and it's that time of the month and so I miss my mom like crazy and keep crying at stupid things and I'm just kinda happy to get back to real life, even if it still feels like a vacation right now.

oh, hey, what's up?

2009-07-15T07:33:13Z

laying out my obnoxious tweets from the concert, just to put everything all in one place.

No :(

Missing tweet: Made it through Jordin Sparks with my hearing. How much longer will it last? 8:41 pm Jul 10th

haha, this one tweeted 6 hrs too late

annnd this one and the last one switched

everybody gets the itch, everybody hates that --

2009-07-14T22:02:39Z

I've started to get a little sour on the Jonas fandom lately. Really, I think it's just because I had such a delightful time at the concert, and yet all those girls over on callusfreaks were talking about how terrible the Friday show was, and it made me sad and I think I might have to take a bit of a break (probably when I go home. It's pretty good timing). BUT I want everyone to let me know if huge things happen in the fandom, like Miley and Nick elope or admit they like each other or something.

Anyway. I'd like to talk about the kick-ass time I had on Friday! I'm going to use the same cut-text I used for the first time I saw the 3D movie.

So Laura came over pretty early on Friday, and we drank Strawberry Acai Smirnoff ices and I made her watch pretty much every single performance from THE CONCERT EXPERIENCE, and the SNL stuff, including both sketches and the Video Girl performance. She gasped out loud at the acrobats during Goodnight and Goodbye, and I made sure to point out the fact that we could sort of hear Kevin's voice in Video Girl. We talked about which songs are about Miley Cyrus and how Kevin's the engaged one, and then I made sure to read part of the Rolling Stone article where Garbo talks about how Joe used to be introverted and shy before Nick got sick and had to sit at the piano, just so she could appreciate Joe just as much as I do (also: I'm not sure I've talked about that article before. GUYS. JOE BECAME THE KICK-ASS FRONT MAN HE IS BECAUSE HIS BROTHER GOT SICK. OH, JOOOOOOOE, SERIOUSLY).

We headed off at, like, 6, and took a bus to the train, and then took a Pace bus to the venue, and I've never taken a Pace bus before and the only reason we got off at the right stop was because there was a family on the bus with us, and we assumed they were also going to the concert (they were). Also, there were a group of boys on the train talking loudly about how the Jonas Brothers are douchebags and virgins, and then also talking loudly about how they were going to the concert. I don't know what that's about, but they didn't make it to the Pace bus, so I'm not sure they made it to the concert.

So we got to the venue and figured out which line to get into and were in line forEVER. There had to be at least 300 people in the line, and we were just for the East entrance, AND it was 7:30 when we got there. We got in there around 8 or so, and it looked like they were starting late but it turned out later that we missed Honor Society. Laura and I set off to find beer and miss Wonder Girls, a quest at which we only half succeeded (there was no alcohol that night, sadly, but we did miss that goddamn "Nobody but you" song). Then I got a t-shirt (which was blue, said Rosemont instead of Chicago on the back, and was the exact same shade as my Easy t-shirt) and we headed back to our seats for Jordin Sparks.

Honestly, the place and stage looked smaller to me than I was expecting. We were in the 200 level, and could see remarkably well, and the stage really did seem a lot closer than I was expecting. And the Allstate Arena is about 50% times the size of the Mississippi Coast Coliseum, so it must have just been the stage. I don't know. Anyway, the seats were pretty awesome, for being two levels up.

I don't know any Jordin Sparks songs, and it was kinda hard to understand her, but it was still fun. I mainly watched her drummer a lot, and sometimes the dancers who were acting out her songs.

Then all the lights came up and the radio started playing again and the ads came back up on the screen. Everyone fucking cheered their lungs out when Frankie Jonas's name was mentioned during the Ponyo ad, and everyone cheered when "Congrats Kev and Dani" showed up on the text message thing. Then My Name is Jonas started playing, and the band showed up, and Laura and I were singing along, but then the lights went back down and We Will Rock You started and the boys showed up!

God, it was such a blur. I called my sister during Paranoid, and couldn't hear a word she said. They played a bunch of older songs, which surprised me for some reason, but whatevs. I was one of those obnoxious girls who sang along to everything, some of which I sang at Laura - mainly just the stuff like the beginning of World War III, where she rewarded me with big shocked eyes. The beginning of that song is surprisingly dirty sounding. It's pretty awesome. I tried to sing "bitch" during Poison Ivy, but mainly I just did what I always do which is some weird air guitar dance move. I really enjoyed the horns, who danced when they weren't playing, but mainly played on the other side of the stage (which was also where Garbo was stationed, eternal sadfaces) and Joe danced with them when they were on the wrong side from me.

When Nick came up from the stage sitting at his white piano, all by himself, and started playing Black Keys, Laura looked at me and said "Diabetes song?" and then when he started playing A Little Bit Longer, we double high-fived. She was really looking forward to his diabetes speech, which did not disappoint. Everyone cheered, once again, when he said, "About four years ago, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes," which, I'm not sure what there is to cheer about that, little girls. Laura still makes fun of Nick's speaking voice, all meaningful pauses and intensity.

Then we got to call Laura's friend Kat during Much Better, which was AWESOME live, god, I just love these boys! They went up in the air on Gotta Find You , which was the wrong side, but luckily we were on the foam side? Actually luckily, we were too high up to be sprayed. God, that sounds gross. Laura just laughed the entire time it was happening, saying, "I can't even explain this to anyone!"

I really, really loved Kevin during Lovebug; it was adorable, that little Gene Kelly-wannabe Singin' In The Rain moment.

Laura did not like the boys' version of Sweet Caroline, but I did enjoy singing the "dun-dun-dun"s.

I noticed Nick at the drums during Battlefield looking behind him at Joe and Jordin, while they were on the opposite side of that spinning stage from him (Nick was facing our side while he was on the drums, awesomely). I also might have thought "Careful girls, he's engaged!" when Jordin seemed to flirt a little bit with Kevin during the beggining of Battlefield, before she and Joe started their hardcore flirting.

When they started playing Tonight (this is no longer in chronological order, by the way) I freaked out a little bit. Also when Lovebug started.

They played S.O.S. (Kevin did his dance), and introduced the band, then Big Rob headed under the stage, as did everyone else, and it stayed dark but no one was playing and then suddenly they started playing Burnin' Up, which of course they ended with, and Joe did his whole "Give it up...for BIG...ROB!" and Big Rob came out and did his part, and then they walked around to all four parts of the stage and bowed, and we hightailed it out of there before they went under the stage, if only to not get caught in a huge crush of people.

It was delightful fun. I had an earache all day the next day, and my throat was a little sore, but definitely A+++++, would see again.
Annnnnnd now I'm going through a hardcore Bones-period. It is definitely delightful. Everytime Booth calls Brennan Temperance I get a little bit excited, and I cried during that Christmas episode where she opened the presents and also when she found her mom, oh god oh god. I'm enjoying this Angela/Hodgins thing, which I definitely saw coming because it's hard to avoid spoilers for everything. I'm not a big fan of Cam yet, but we'll see how that unfolds.

One thing that just plain PISSED ME THE FUCK OFF is the whole going-to-New-Orleans-to-identify-bodies-from-Katrina thing. Okay, fine, there were a lot of bodies missing in New Orleans, but...sigh. I just HATE shows that only talk about New Orleans in relation to Katrina, and always get their New Orleans facts mixed up. Seriously, Bones, a VOO-DOO PLOT? And everyone had Southern accents but no one had New Orleans accents, and it just peeves me off when only New Orleans is mentioned when people talk about Katrina. IT HAPPENED TO ME TOO. But, seriously, I would have really liked that episode, if only because of the whole jump from "maybe we'll have dinner" straight to Brennan waking up covered in blood. I literally gasped when that happened, but then there was a voo-doo plot and the priest used Katrina to take a voo-doo priest's soul or whatever, I don't fucking care, it pissed me off.
Anyway. Off to work in a few hours! I'm only working from 8 to 12:15, but they tried to get me to stay 'til 3:30, because we're adding shows, since we sold out of all 8 theaters we could put Harry Potter in tonight. One thing I don't get is that we have it in 8 theaters tonight, but only one for the rest of the week? That seems like the stupidest decision ever. Hopefully they'll change it tomorrow.

CAREFUL GIRLS, HE'S ENGAGED!

2009-07-11T06:55:27Z

MORE LATER. (AFTER I STOP BY THE HONOR SOCIETY FULL MOON CRAZY KICK OFF TOUR/GO TO WORK TOMORROW)

(ALSO, ONE DAY I'LL STOP SHOUTING, BUT SERIOUSLY, IT WAS REALLY LOUD!!)

THE NEXT TIME I TALK TO YOU, I WILL BE A CHANGED PERSON.

2009-07-10T05:26:09Z

Y'ALL. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS, BUT I HAVE A JONAS CONCERT IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. JT just tweeted "Chicago, here we come," MEANING THEY ARE ON THEIR WAY HERE.

I might be a little bit excited.

Seriously, nothing has been happening in my life (although I seem to have discovered that my "e" button likes to stick now, what a great new trait, KEYBOARD) except my schedule's been screwy and I've been working and Public Enemies disappointed me and last night I joked with one of the managers about how I should cold-call people to get them to come to the midnight show of HP6 so we can beat Cantera, where he used to work, and so this morning I woke up with a phone call from Andrea at work cold-calling me to see the show at midnight. It was awesome, but also confusing, as I was tired.

And I cleaned, finally, but not enough, and my apartment is gross and I can't believe how disgusting I am but at least I am, in fact, trying to make it better. I bought a vacuum cleaner. Up next is a trash can.

ACTUALLY, UP NEXT IS LAURA COMING OVER TOMORROW SO WE CAN BE RIDICULOUS AND AWESOME. I have neon pink fingernails and sort of neon earrings and will be wearing my Easy shirt and I think Laura said something about side ponytails because tweeny concerts = 80s hair, but anyway it will be delightful and enjoyable and I am MOST DEFINITELY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. We went to Borders today (where I didn't buy anything, SOMEHOW) and they were playing the new Regina Spektor mixed in with JONAS BROTHERS, like "Keep It Real" and "Don't Speak" and I might have said, "Did someone know I was coming?" because it was just a really great surprise.

I meant to go to sleep early tonight.

BUT I'M JUST A LITTLE BIT EXCITED ABOUT TOMORROW. I don't know how to get to the concert and I was probably brushing up on the wrong songs (I know they're not playing "Goodnight and Goodbye," and yet I've listened to it approximately 5789023456 times in the last few days) and I might be holding out a little too much hope that MIley will show up tomorrow and I might be wondering if I should stop by the Full Moon Crazy tour at House of Blues on Saturday just in case the boys are there, but Y'ALL. SERIOUSLY. This is my first concert in, oh, five years, and I feel it's gonna be a little crazier than Jewel and Ryan Cabrera and their guitars in a casino theater. MAYBE IT'LL BE AS AWESOME AS CHER'S FIRST FAREWELL TOUR CONCERT (it was SO GREAT, she changed outfits every three songs and one time SHE RODE A HUGE FAKE ELEPHANT onto the stage).

OKAY, I'M OFF. The next time I post, it'll be after seeing the Bros in all their real life glory. AWESOME.

UGH, WHY DON'T I HAVE A KEVIN ICON???

2009-07-02T06:53:09Z

Guys, I don't know, real life has been happening or something, and I've been lazy and not even cleaning my apartment or doing anything besides watching Less Than Perfect and spending literally every single day at the movie theater, whether I'm working or just going to see two terrible, horrible movies (Year One, which was an hour and a half and felt like 3, and Transformers, which was...3 hours of giant pieces of metal flying at the screen and Megan Fox forgetting to wear all of her clothes).

ANYWAY.

TODAY WAS PRETTY AWESOME NEWS DAY FROM THE JONAS CAMP (as it will forever be known).

GUYYYYSSSSSS!!! KEVIN AND DANIELLE ARE ENGAGED!!! It's official, and delightful, and they're adorable and Nick and Joe congratulated him on twitter as did Miley and Demi (BECAUSE MILEY AND DEMI TALK TO NICK AND JOE EVERY NIGHT, RESPECTIVELY. Also, Demi totally went with Kevin to pick out the ring (which he DESIGNED HIMSELF GUYS, HOW ADORABLE ARE THEY???) as per this fic).

AND I DIDN'T FIND OUT ON TIME. LAURA KNEW BEFORE I DID BECAUSE SHE HAS THE INTERNET/A CO-WORKER WHO LOVES JONAS LIKE I DO AT WORK. Seriously, WHY DOESN'T IMPORTANT JONAS NEWS JUST GET BEAMED INTO MY HEAD??

I found out on Twitter. I was going through my feed, and Miley's is all "Congrats, Kev!" and I was like, "?" but my mind was maybe sort of thinking of that, and then I get to Demi's effusive congrats to "Kevin and Dani" (all her exclamation points were taken directly from my heart, NO LIE) and I started flailing, and then Nick and Joe welcomed Danielle to the family (YOU GUYYYYYSSSSS!!! WELCOMING HER TO THE FAMILY!!! COULD THEY BE MORE DELIGHTFUL?) and I came on LJ and it was confirmed and really happy and I don't have anything else to say (other than the scene I wrote about Demi congratulating Danielle on their engagement in my future fic is now wrong, like, thanks for that, guys) except CONGRATULATIONS TO THE HAPPY COUPLE! (Haha, I congratulated them on twitter because I was just so excited and stuck in capslock and it seemed like a good idea at the time.)

Okay, guys, end note: Laura's final twitter to me on the subject: "Haha! Now they can have sex!"

(KEVIN IS JUBILANT IN MY MOOD THEME. THIS IS ENTIRELY PROVIDENTIAL)

stay as long as you can

2009-06-26T07:12:26Z

Title: Take Your Dreams Outside (It's All Right)
Author: sami57peace2u
Pairing: Joe/Demi, Kevin/Danielle
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1866
Warnings: Ridiculously fluffy. Also, there's champagne.
Summary: “We should do this one day,” he says quietly, his chest rumbling as he speaks. She can hear his voice bouncing around inside her head, practically feel him in her bones.
Disclaimer: This is a work of complete fiction. I do not own these people.
Author's Notes: So, I'm working on a Joe/Demi fic, but I'm rewriting constantly, and I don't think this section fits in anymore, so here you go! It's set in the future. Title is from an Edie Brickell song, "Stay Awhile."

Halfway through the reception, after dinner but before cake, Joe finds Demi leaning against a wall, hands behind her back, watching people spinning across the dance floor. She looks just like she did right before he kissed her for real the first time. He smiles as he reaches her, holds out the glass of champagne in his hand. She shakes her head as she smiles back, a hand snaking out toward his empty one.

“Having fun?” he asks, tickling the palm of her hand lightly. She moves her fingers, trying to tickle him back, as she says, “It’s a nice party.”

“A lot of the Jonas family,” he says, downing most of the champagne in one gulp. “They’re a little overwhelming.”

“A little,” she says, and her voice betrays her, sounding just as nervous as she doesn’t want to let on she feels.

“Hey,” Joe says, knocking her shoulder with his. “Everyone likes you, you know that.”

“I know,” she says. The entire Jonas family is just as polite and pleasant as Joe’s immediate family, which isn’t surprising. Somehow, Danielle’s family is even more polite. “Still. It’s a little stifling.”

Joe downs the rest of the champagne, and then squeezes her hand. “Come on. Let’s go.”

“Where are we going?” Demi asks, but she’s already allowing Joe to lead her through the tables and around the dance floor. “And how many of those have you had?”

He sets the now empty flute on the nearest table, and looks back at her, a grin on his face. “Enough to make you a really happy person.” She laughs. She’s recently come to learn that the more Joe drinks, the hornier and more insanely confident he gets. “Now stop asking questions.” She rolls her eyes, but complies, and pretty soon he’s leading her to the back entrance, and then out the door to the park behind the church center. She shivers involuntarily when a sudden burst of cold air hits her bare shoulders. He glances back at her and then pulls her until she’s closer to him, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. He leads her across the grass towards a sycamore tree, and when they get there he shrugs off his jacket and sets it on the ground.

“Thank you,” she says, smoothing her skirt as she sits down, tucking her legs beneath her.

“My pleasure,” he says. He sprawls on the ground next to her, legs splayed out in front of him, back pushed up against the trunk of the tree.

She snorts. “Your mom’s gonna kill you if you get grass stains on your tux shirt.”

“I’ve got about seven billion, Dems,” he says. He raises his eyebrows at her, and then closes his eyes.

“I know.” She sighs. “Sometimes I just want to pretend like we’re normal.”

“We’re normal,” he says sleepily. When she makes a noise of disbelief, he repeats, “We are. There aren’t any paparazzi here. It’s just family.”

“And some of Billboard’s top artists, and an actor or two from a major summer blockbuster.”

“As friends. Come on, this is the most normal we’ve been in years.” Without opening his eyes, he reaches to wrap an arm around her waist. He pulls too hard and she goes sprawling across his chest. He grins.

“Joe!” she exclaims, trying to sit back up. He just keeps his arm tightened around her. She gives up after a minute, choosing instead to make herself comfortable, tucked into him. She’s probably getting grass stains all over her bridesmaid dress – the jacket meant to be protecting it is now all twisted up under them – but then Joe makes this noise that he only makes when they’re alone, and she doesn’t seem to care about her dress. She closes her eyes and focuses on the motion of his chest softly moving up and down with each breath. Up. Down. In. Out.

“We should do this one day,” he says quietly, his chest rumbling as he speaks. She can hear his voice bouncing around inside her head, practically feel him in her bones.

“What?” she asks, sounding sleepy and lazy and all those good things she likes to be when she’s curled into Joe.

“Have a big party with all our friends and family. Eat cake. Dance the night away.”

She rearranges herself so she can look at him, setting her chin on his chest. “We’re doing that right now.”

He opens his eyes. “No. I mean, we should do this.” He sounds serious now, not as sleepy as before. It takes a minute before she understands what he’s saying, and he doesn’t take his gaze away from her until recognition blooms in her eyes.

“Are you saying?” is all she manages to get out. She pushes herself up, feeling the silk of her dress rub against the grass as she awkwardly rearranges herself until she is sitting above Joe, looking down at him. He takes a moment, and then answers her in-articulated question by pushing himself up until they are sharing the same space again. He nods, and reaches a hand, now cold and clammy from the grass, to cup her cheek.

“I’m saying,” he says, leaning in to kiss her. She kisses him back, because she can’t not, but her mind is reeling, and she doesn’t know what she’s going to say, what she’s going to do, when they separate, and then his lips are leaving hers and she has to say something.

“I, uh…I don’t know how to answer that.”

“It wasn’t a question,” he says, placing a kiss in the hollow spot at the base of her neck.

“Well, technically that’s true, but…. Really, Joe, I….” she trails off. He moves away from her, stops touching her, looks at her. She shrugs and throws her hands in the air. He leans back onto his elbows.

“Is this too much for you?”

Sometimes he infuriates her, really he does. He can’t just say something like that to her and then lounge around under trees. She’s barely 20! They’ve only been dating for 2 years! He’s Joe Jonas. She never thought he’d be the first one to bring this up.

“I –“ she says. She pauses, collects her thoughts. She tries to, anyway. She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath. She can hear the steady bass thump of the standard wedding receptions songs coming from the church center, the faint chorus of “Y, M, C A.” She can smell the grass, freshly mown this morning before the ceremony. She can feel a cold creep into the air; the rain they’ve been promising for a week is finally on its way. She can’t figure out what she needs to say.

She opens her eyes, sighs. Joe hasn’t moved, looks just the same he did before, except for the faintest of smirks hidden beneath his serious expression. She huffs and pushes herself up, ignoring the hand Joe holds out. Now she’s standing, towering over him. He once told her he really liked to look up at her, because it was a sight he rarely saw. Now, she turns herself away from him, looking back at the glass walls of the church center, the wedding guests inside dancing away. She hears a rustling but refuses to look, doesn’t realize she’s shivering until Joe wraps his jacket around her and she feels warm.

“Do you want me to actually ask?”

She looks over her shoulder at him. His face is serious; the smirk is gone.

“Is that it? Do you want to know that I’m serious about it? Because I am. This isn’t some spur of the moment decision made through a champagne and wedding haze.”

He reaches into his pocket, his hand shaking. She vaguely recalls a post on Just Jared a few weeks ago, one claiming that Nick and Joe were seen at several different jewelry stores around the city. She’d called Joe right after she’d gotten off the phone with Selena, and Joe had laughed it off. “Kevin and Danielle supposedly got engaged about five times before they actually did,” he had said, and she had laughed with him.

Now she knows it was true.

He pulls a small black velvet box out and almost immediately drops it to the ground.

“Oh! I’m nervous,” he says, bending down to pick it up. Demi beats him to it, the crinoline in her dress crinkling as she squats down and scoops it up. She stares at it for a minute.

“This is for real?”

He nods.

She starts to pry the box open, but snaps it shut before she can see anything. She squeezes her eyes shut, shoves the box at Joe.

“You do it.”

He clears his throat a few times. She hears the box creak open and peeks a look through one eye. He’s on one knee in front of her and, oh, even though she knew it was coming, the sight manages to take her breath away. She opens both her eyes, looks straight at him.

“Demi, will you marry me?” He sounds nervous. His hair has a twig in it. His shirt is rumpled and already spots a small green stain on the side. His eyes are sparkling in anticipation. Her heart speeds up. She smiles, and he lets out a huge gush of air before she even answers.

“Yes,” she says, and he whoops and stands up and wraps his arms around her waist, lifting her off the ground. She laughs delightedly.

***

The first thing Demi notices when she and Joe enter the hospital room is that both Kevin and Danielle look completely exhausted and insanely happy. The second thing she notices is the tiny bundle in Danielle's arms, the reason they're there.

"Hi!" she whispers, practically zooming to the bed. "Oh, she's adorable!"

"Man, congratulations again," Joe says, hugging his brother.

"Thanks," Kevin beams. "I just can't believe it's real, you know? We made a little human being."

"And she's here," Danielle says, beaming down at the baby. She looks up at Demi. "Want to hold her?"

"Yes," Demi says immediately. Danielle lifts the baby into Demi's arms, making sure to say, "Support her head," though Demi still remembers from when she was eight and Madison was born.

Holding the first baby that anyone from their group of friends has had, she feels old, suddenly. They're starting the next generation right here, and even though Kevin's closer to 30 than 20, it doesn't seem entirely true. Weren't they all just having tea parties and sharing crayons and building forts in the living room? Where did the time go?

Joe wraps an arm around her waist, looking at the baby over her shoulder. "She's beautiful," he says.

"She's perfect," Demi corrects him. She's starting to tear up, like some big dumb girl, so she hands the baby to Kevin, who's seated himself on the hospital bed next to Danielle. Demi wipes at her eyes with one hand and watches as they both stare at the baby in awe, a brand new family.

"You know," Joe says into her ear, "We should--"

That's as far as he gets before Demi slams her elbow into his gut.

Annnd now I need a Glee icon.

2009-06-25T12:05:17Z

I PROMISE I WON'T POST ANY MORE TODAY.

Also, I should probably go to sleep soon.

But look what popped up on my flist! It's a new Glee promo! (and some of the cast shows up on So You Think You Can Dance. Lea Michele = <3!)

I HAVE NO WORDS. IS IT SEPTEMBER YET??

(why is 'gleeful' not a mood? I WILL WRITE IT IN.)

A horrible experience of unbearable length (that's what she said!)

2009-06-25T10:33:49Z

It's too hot to sleep. Also, I want to write something, but I'm slightly blocked. I blame Easy, which I've started re-reading again (I'm hoping that by the time I get back to the latest update, there will be a new one to read). It is just too awesome.

My cat has taken up residence in front of my tiny little fan. I don't blame her, it's something like 90 degrees out and I've just discovered that I don't have any sort of air conditioning. Thankfully I've got this little fan that Angie gave to me from back in the days when the A/C in our dorm room went out as soon as we got back into town. Plus, Esther is a dark gray long hair, so I'm pretty sure she just absorbs all sorts of heat.

I was going to see Easy Virtue after work today - enough that I printed out the ticket and everything - but then I ended up hanging out with Andrea, and she and Robert went to go see Away We Go, so I just went with them to see that again. I'm planning on stopping by the theater tomorrow, as I'm not working, and maybe checking out two movies - Easy Virtue, finally, and then maybe Year One? And Easy Virtue is for sure leaving after tomorrow, so if I want to see that, I have to go.

I am currently listening to The Mountain Goats to see which songs I'm going to put on a new mix (I'm making mixes for when I go home and get to drive everywhere, SCORE) and they keep being awesome. So far, ten songs. Out of 26. Perhaps this will be a series of mixes.

You know what's a really, really bright show? Saved By The Bell. God, I was watching one of the multiple episodes that show up on my DVR every morning (that and Less Than Perfect are why I haven't seen more than the first four episodes of Bones yet) and Lisa said something about her drink matching her outfit, and my first thought was "You have EVERY SINGLE NEON COLOR EVER INVENTED in your outfit. EVERYTHING matches it."

My work schedule next week is pretty nice. I'm working all weekend, plus Wednesday and Thursday, but it's all box or guest services, which is a lot better than the two back to back concessions shifts I just worked. (Tuesday night was actually not that bad. I worked 6-12, and I was stuck in the corner, but with a couple awesome people, so we just screwed around for the first five hours of our shift, which were dead. We had maaaybe fifty guests between us. But then we were slammed at eleven, and even though I was scheduled to get out at midnight the line didn't die down 'til 12:15. We sold 1200 tickets to the midnight show of Transformers. HOW? I honestly do not know. But we were quoting Roger Ebert's review of it all night. First line: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. Should I use that line in box, when people buy tickets?)

Okay. Maybe I'll actually go to sleep now? Or else I'll watch some TV or something.

(And once again, my mood is delightful! This is my favorite mood theme ever. ALSO: I am going to buy the 3D movie when it comes out (in 2D, though) and will make my little sister watch it (she is 10. She hates JB. I don't get it) when I go home and we do a girls' night sleepover. Also on my fun-genda? Learning the hoedown throwdown)