"Dream. . .

. . .when you're feeling blue. Dream, that's the thing to do. . ."

Picture me singing this song to you. Then picture my joy as my dream job came to fruition. Yes, its just an internship, but that doesn't matter. I have wanted to work with this organization since high school (and possibly earlier). Am I sad to leave my dear roommates and wonderful group of friends? Yes. Am I wary about the fact that I think the right thing to do is to move back in with my parents (even just for 6 months)? Yes (even though my parents are my absolute favorite people, I think sometimes I like them too much and am too comfortable just hanging around them). Is this the exact right thing that I am supposed to be doing with my life? Double yes. I have never known what it was to be truly excited to go to work before, and now I do. 2 days down, still loving it.

Call me if you want details. Or if you want me to sing the song to you. Because I will do either one.

Subject O-Matique

One of the most common conversations in the MPA lounge was a "discussion" about the pros and cons of gmail versus other email services. Now, while I have gmail (two accounts, actually), I still hold on to my hotmail and my yahoo accounts. Whenever these discussions would arise, it was usually everyone else fighting against Jarilyn (hotmail) and me (always arguing for yahoo). If today I were in the MPA lounge hanging with those friends, I would bring up this wonderful feature in yahoo that makes my life more enjoyable:

Subject O-Matique.

If you cannot think of a subject, or are at a loss on how to be witty, all you have to do is click on the word "subject" and yahoo will come up with a subject for you. I accidentally clicked on this feature today (and then, like a five-year-old, continued clicking on the button for much longer than I should have). So, I would like to share some of the gems with you. You can be grateful that I don't spam you all right now and fill your entire inbox with email messages with the following headings:

Tinsel and garland are NOT the same thing. Tinsel rocks.

Bonsai kittens.

Stizarbiznucks

Facts: 1) Ninjas are mammals. 2) Ninjas fight ALL the time. 3) The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

Quote me as saying I was misquoted.

You are brave young dragon. But mine is the stronger gung-fu.

we never once talked about a blow dryer

this brain has been polished professor

Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be.

A favorite Chinese diplomat around the world, crispy prawns cooked with special sauce that actually absorbed into the prawns.

chai tea vs. tai chi

Help watering the plastic flowers

And the list could continue, but suffice it to say, I want to thank the person whose job it is to sit around coming up with these subject lines. I at least got 15 minutes of amusement out of it . . .

In Love With Summer

I'm sitting outside on a hammock, listening to big band music on Pandora, mixed in with birds in the trees, and a neighbor weed-whacking his lawn down the street (obviously having some difficulty, from the sound of the machine). Today's post will be a few things I'm in love with:

• Hammocks.
  
• A piano that has ridiculous settings which allowed me to bond with a pre-teen who was at my house today. We had nothing else to talk about, but we had the polka and samba settings on my piano to bring us together.
• Hammocks.
• Having a dear neighbor that I can speak Armenian with who will not judge me when I mix in English and botch verb conjugations. Evans jan, sirum em kez, yev urax em vor im kyankum es.
• Ella Fitzgerald. And Frank Sinatra.
  
• Hammocks.
• I love getting rejections from jobs I applied for 2 MONTHS ago. . .
  
• Oh yeah, hammocks.