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why has it taken me so long to get back to you?!?!?! i can't figure this out, really. because i was thinking about it.

anyways, please accept my apology as well as this youtube video.

LADY GAGA SINGING 'POKERFACE'

trust me, you want to click that link. it's amazing. it's awesome. she has such a great voice!!! she doesn't sound like a computer that happens to sing a catchy dance song. and she can play the piano! nice.

so, i actually can't blog for very long right now because i have to go to bed because i am working 8-4. courtney called saturday night at 11:30 and said she was very sick and couldn't come into work. she didn't sound so good on the phone. so, i told her i would work for her. and there you have it. i now am working 8-4. i will work at the drop of a dime!!! just goes to show that i have no plans ever. or no money. or....friends. hmmm.....one or all three of those should change.

BUT!! in bittersweet news, i have just finished watching the MOST RECENTLY aired episode of Heroes. yes, that means i am all caught up. HA HA HA all those devoted Heroes fans had to wait THREE YEARS for what i just watched in 21 days!!!!!!

MAN, the end of the third season got pretty messed up. like, stuff got weird. there was definitely an element of humor that i really appreciated, though.

i was a little concerned when Sylar ended up on that road trip with the young boy.... but, that turned out alright. well, the way it turned out was that Sylar abandoned him in some random diner.

i think Claire was wearing a wig. THERE, I SAID IT. her hair just DID NOT look real. anyone else? sorry to Hayden Panettiere if she actually wasn't wearing a wig.

i really liked Elle. i'm sorry she had to get her head sliced open. but, at least she got to make out hardcore with sylar before he killed her. the more i heard her talk, the more she sounded like Gossip Girl. xoxo.

MAN, this upcoming tv season is going to be hell to go through. SO MANY different emotions.

OH OH OH!!!! Emmy noms are out!!!! GO GO GO 30 ROCK!!!! soooo happy for them. also happy that Kristin Chenowith was nominated for Pushing Daisies. that's also bittersweet since the show was cancelled. i am gonna miss that show. let's just recap my pathetic life:

- 30 rock
- the office
- grey's anatomy
- private practice
- heroes
- gossip girl
- how i met your mother?
- lost?

basically, once the first season premiere aires, don't bother contacting me. between all these shows and the start of awards season, OH MAN, how will one deal with it all???

AND, i didn't want to tell you this. I'VE BEEN TRYING to keep it in. but, it's been building up and up and up inside and now it's going to come out like word vom.

THE BEST PICTURE NOMINEES FIASCO. that's what it is - a fiasco. i know i already told you i'm NOT HAPPY with the doubling of the nominees from 5-10, but friends, I'M REALLY NOT HAPPY.

i've been reading lots of articles on this. and the one film that everyone keeps referencing??? Star Trek. Star Trek nominated for Best Picture?? for realz? i mean, i've already predicted the Best Visual Effect award, and that's fine! i would gladly give Star Trek the Best Visual Effects oscar. heck, give it sound editing. give it make up. give it best original score (*oo, more on this). but best picture??

in the articles i've read, now that the nominees have doubled from 5 to 10, it seems this is the movie that everyone is saying will have a very good chance of making the cut. now, i really liked this movie. i thought it was awesome. i'd go see it again, sure. i'd buy the soundtrack if i had some extra money. (i seriously would) but to compare it to such films as The Reader? Slumdog? Crash? Brokeback Mountain? Atonement?!?! come on.

and all this is coming the year after everyone semi-mutinied on the Academy for not nominating The Dark Knight. um, i saw The Dark Knight. and it got all the nominations it deserved. that was not a best picture nominee. Heath won Best Supporting Actor because he was the best part of that movie.

i'm worried that the voters will start to look at box office numbers rather than the actual films themselves.

which is why you should ELECT ME TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES!!!!!!! vote for me!!!

and if you don't elect me, then i'll murder the real president, take all his memories, morph into him and then fool you all!!!!! ha ha!! oh wait, that's what happened on heroes. sorry. i won't do that, actually.


BUT! getting back to Star Trek winning the Oscar for Best Original Score!!!! HAS ANYONE ELSE REALIZED WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN?!??!?!?!!?!?!?

it would be comparably beautiful to Kate presenting Leo with his Oscar.

so, the music for Star Trek was composed by Michael Giacchino. he was the conductor for the Academy Awards last year!!!!!! wouldn't that be an amazing moment?? if the conductor of the orchestra won an academy award??? let's hope that happens. i randomly made that connection the other day and smiled to myself for a long time.

yep, that's what goes on inside my head. you don't need to slice open my head because i have a blog.

but, getting back to my original point of how many tv shows i watch........ i might start to watch Lost again. i read an article about the final season today and it made me kind of sad. i read that some major characters will be dying and that the series finale will probably be pretty sad. and then i was like, "oh, well i have to watch it then." so, i have to figure out how to rewatch the last 4 or 5 episodes of this past season. or, they'll probably put them back online once it gets closer to the season premiere. maybe i'll just wait.

WHOA. TV TALK OVERLOAD. who knew i liked tv this much???? and i don't even have to pay for cable. how does that make sense??

i think Comic Con starts this week. i just got an email about it from Entertainment Weekly. and it just happened to come on the same day i watched the episode of Entourage where they go to Comic Con. it was kind of lame because Ari (jeremy piven) said something like, "we're going to san diego!!" and i was like, "are they going to comic con?" and then he said, "we're going to comic con!!!" and i was like, "omg i know something about comic con."

i forgot my eyemask and my sunglasses at my house this past week. isn't that weird?? it should be some sort of sign that i need to open my eyes. or, pay attention to what's going on around me. or something more poetic. and i keep thinking of Adrien Brody in The Darjeeling Limited, how he always wears sunglasses during the day and an eyemask at night. and i really love that about his character.

here are the books i want to read by the end of the summer:

- the year of magical thinking
- the old man and the sea
- extremely loud and incredibly close
- 1000 years of solitude
- l.a. candy (ya know....if i have time.....)

yep. so you all have to keep me on track. L.A. Candy is the one written by Lauren Conrad. of Laguna Beach fame. yeah, she wrote a book. and she got it published. i figure, if i can make it through the first four (especially the gabriel garcia marquez) then i deserve some LC. i also can't believe she wrote a book and got it published. granted the book is about a young girl on a reality show, which is basically her life. so yeah, i bet it wasn't that hard. why doesn't she try writing a book about a cuban revolutionary?? yeah, that's what i thought.

i think the cast of HAIR is going to be on Conan coming up. so, if anyone hears more about this, LET ME KNOW ASAP.

speaking of HAIR. ugh. the first summer where i am not living in southern maine the Prescott Park Arts Festival (in portsmouth, new hampshire) decides to do a production of HAIR: In Concert. and guess who can't go??? oh yeah, ME. why? because the show starts at 8:30pm. i have to be at work by 9:30pm and it's a two hour commute. i actually can't believe how upset and disappointed i am that i can't go to this. and i can't take any more nights off because i just took two nights off and i am taking two more for Kara's birthday at the end of the month.

UGH. i can't believe it. all i wanted to do this summer was to go see Hair on broadway. the new cast!!!! but, that was a little unrealistic. so, then i wanted to buy the new cast recording of Hair, but i don't have any extra money, so that's not happening. and then prescott park does it in concert and i can't even go to that. i'm just like, so bummed out. i really, really want to go. and i would say, "house field trip!" except that it's probably the most innappropriate show for teenage girls and babies. although, i first saw Hair when i was a sophomore in high school. and these girls are older than that. but no, still innappropriate. everything this summer is keeping me from Hair. maybe it's a sign.

AND! next summer Seacoast Rep is doing RENT!!!! yeah, i am taking a night off for that.

oohhhh boy. i have just talked about a lot of Julie things. this has been one of those entries where i just write about stuff that nobody likes to hear me talk about. hey, i have to tell somebody. maybe someone is reading this.

okay. this was supposed to be short because i have to go to bed. which i am going to do now. i have to get up in like, 3.5 hours. which is why i could never have an every day morning job. or a baby. i don't know how people just automatically switch themselves to baby schedule. babies get up early like, every day. and then little kids get up early every day. do small children ever get on their parents schedule?? basically once you become a parent, you can never sleep in again. what's the deal with that? my baby will sleep in. she'll be on my schedule. or he.

i decided i like the name Astra. Astra Belle. or Astra Bay. i like the middle name Bay. although, if i married Michael Bay, then we'd have a daughter named Astra Bay Bay. i guess i can't marry Michael Bay.

the other night Kara and i talked for a long, long time about going on a double date with Shia and Megan. like, what? how did we start talking about that??? and i said that i absolutely would not go on a date with Megan Fox, but i'd go on a date with Shia LaBeouf. and kara said she would go on a date with either Megan or Shia. and then i said that the only way i'd go on a date with Megan would be if Shia was also there. whatever. that was weird, i guess. why were we talking about that?!

anyways. now i'm going to bed. Ruby Tuesday is ready for her second supper. she was ready an hour and a half after she licked her first supper clean. i heard her slamming the cabinet door shut and had to go out in the kitchen and speak to her again. i distracted her with a pink thing and a toy mouse.

so. i'll blog from work, maybe. it's just me and one resident. maybe we'll have another adventure like last week. or, maybe i'll bring my beading stuff downstairs. and some movies.

OK. why can't i stop this????? ok. i'm stopping now. it's like the Return of the King. everyone have a great Sunday. let me know what you've been up to!!!! i miss you guys!

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