Hold Me Like Holy Water

Yeah, well, I did a great job with posting more often last time I promised I would. Oops. I guess I got busy/didn't really have a whole lot to say, so I took a bit of a...well...sabattical.

Now it's Christmas break. And I'm to be student teaching in 10 days. Oh my gosh. AAH! I can't believe it's like, here. The semester went very fast. I am glad, though. One more class and I might've lost it.

Oh, yeah, happy new year, too. I really don't get into the whole new year thing. I don't really care. Just another day, to me. I rung in the new year last night with my friend Allison at Oscar's here in Rockford. It was fun. I had a great time with her. Now I just look forward to my birthday in two days. Yay for being 22!

And as for the change in the name of the blog, I provide these lyrics. They are the reason I changed it.

Holy Water
by Big and Rich

Somewhere there's a stolen halo
I used to watch her wear it well
Everything would shine like wherever she would go
But looking at her now you'd never tell

Someone ran away with her innocence
A memory she can't get out of her head
I can only imagine what she's feeling when she's praying
Kneeling at the edge of her bed

And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
Holy water

She wants someone to call her angel
Someone to put the light back in her eyes
She's looking through the faces
And unfamiliar places
She needs someone to hear her when she cries

And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
Holy water

She just needs a little help
To wash away the pain she's felt
She wants to feel the healing hands
Of someone who understands

And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
And she says take me away
And take me farther
Surround me now
And hold, hold, hold me like holy water
Holy water

And there they are.
Peace out.

Does that really say my last post was in September? Holy cow.

I guess I haven't had much to say (shocking, I know).

I'll try to post a little more often, though. It is, after all, November.

Random happenings of the night:
- me deciding that if I were from Walla Walla and I was a rapper and a basketball player, my stage name would be "Walla Walla Balla" because it's really fun to say out loud
- me and Victoria playing "Chutes and Ladders" after midnight, when we discovered we didn't have checkers (I had a mad impulsion to play checkers right then!)
- well, mostly just a lot of goofiness, and being-Angela-ness

I think I shall attempt sleep now.
I'm out.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Today is National Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Celebrate, matey. Argh!

Shoop Shoop Song

So I'm sitting waiting for class to start, having just listened to half an hour of reading out of a book about John Dewey in my previous class, and music starts playing.
It's the "Shoop Shoop Song" coming from my professor's computer. At first she seems alarmed, then...she turns it up louder, and starts dancing and mouthing the words.

Yes, yes that really happened.
In a college classroom.


Just another reason I love Loras College.

I am currently obsessed with Fiona Apple. Sure she's a vegan who fights for animal rights via PETA, and I'm as carnivorous as they come, but that doesn't make a difference. She makes damn good music. And I love it.

If you have time, find the music video to "Paper Bag" by Fiona - the choreography is outstanding. I seriously can't get enough.

And my theme song right now, via Fiona:
"A Mistake"
I'm gonna make a mistake
I'm gonna do it on purpose
I'm gonna waste my time
Cuz I'm full as a tick
And I'm scratching the surface
And what I find is mine
And when the day is done, and I look back
And the fact is I had fun, fumbling around
All the advice I shunned, and I ran
Where they told me not to run, but I sure
Had fun, so
I'm gonna (expletive deleted) it up again
I'm gonna do another detour
Unpave my path
And if you wanna make sense
Whatcha looking at me for
I'm no good at math
And when I find my way back,
The fact is I just may stay, or I may not
I've acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake
I wanna mistake, why can't I make a mistake?
I'm always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why-
Do I wanna do right, of course but
Do I really wanna feel I'm forced to
Answer you, hell no
I've acquired quite a taste
For a well-made mistake, I wanna
Make a mistake, why can't I make a mistake
I'm always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why-

Ah, I love this CD. Seriously, it's probably the 15th time through since I bought it last night. Maybe more.
It's ah-mazing.

Instructions for this one are to bold the shows I've seen...so....

24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model/Germany's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (except the missing eps)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hex
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Inuyasha
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
John Doe
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Law and Order
Law and Order SVU
Law and Order Trial by Jury
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
Odd Man Out
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Prisoner: Cell Block H
Profiler
Project Runway
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Sliders
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Prisoner
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Threshold
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Veronica Mars
Who's The Boss
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wings
WKRP in Cincinnati

Okay, so evidently survey says I need a life...
Heh.

So I'm sitting in my apartment, looking at some pretty sweet art on the internet, watching the Leonardo DiCaprio/Claire Danes version of Romeo and Juliet, and I hear music.
Not just any kind of music, but familiar music.
I stop, and listen.

Is that an...ice cream truck? In Dubuque??

So I look out the window.
Nothing.

I go out to the living room to see if the TV's on.
No.

I go to the door, and it gets louder.
And slowly, one by one, college students start peeking out their doors.
Looking, wondering, hoping.

And then, laughter.
Joy.
It IS an ice cream truck! Driving down a random street in Dubuque!

We laugh, we smile, and then slowly, as it passes, we return about our business.

Oh, ice cream trucks. You make me (and everyone else!) smile. :)