Hopes and Expectations

I'm not one for making goals and sticking to them but at least it helps me visualize how much work I still have in front of me.

1. Finish Chris' anniversary gift.
2. Get some reading done for Sociology/Political Science
3. Watch Goodbye Lenin
4. Deeply review Italian, mostly the grammer and vocabulary I skipped out on.
5. Write a blog in Italian
6. Save money for Europe and moving out
7. Get a game plan for working this summer at a second job.
8. Talk to Professor Shipka about minor
9. Make plans to visit Monica during winter break
10. Research to see if any of my favorite bands are coming close any year soon
11. Get a new haircut in about 6 weeks. I have bangs that swoop to the side but they used to also have the option of going straight down. I want both options and maybe all one length, take out the excessive layering. Somewhat like this haircut...
12. Pick up my disaster of a room
13. Buy foreign movies, especially Roberto Begnini's movies.
14. Find some form of exercise. I now weigh 3 pounds more than my max weight (110). I have been eating a little better but I still drink coffee drinks like mocha cremices and I eat ice cream and don't exercise often.

After seeing Whip It! I am inspired to lace up some four wheel skates. I don't like to workout in a gym, I prefer tennis or something outdoors and not boring. But I really want to try skating for the work out and improve coordination.

Ciao ragazzi!
Mary

Music for the child's soul

Today was a pretty stressful day, which probably could have been the worst day for me to discover I like the coffee at work. My dad had a stint put in so I had to go to work, pick up Elizabeth, rush to work and rush to the hospital. I was shaking from all the caffeine and running around town. At least I had the honors of color Sarah's hair purple and pink which looks so hard core by the way. When she told me the purple faded to blue I pictured electric blue not aquamarine. I cracked up!

I will be starting a new job with The Daily Reveille. Last fall I wrote for the paper, now I'm on the radio starting next week. I hope to God I figure all the technology out early on so I don't mess it all up. I'm pretty excited. I just need to work on a "radio voice".

So the title of this blog has to do with a recent event. I was using my sister's Ipod. It was on shuffle and I was so proud to see that she listens to Muse and White Zomie's "More Human than Human". So proud! She gives me hope that maybe her age group won't disappear with the last top 40 that maybe they can expand their mind to appreciate small bands like The Whigs and jazz band music like Amy Winehouse while they indulge in Kayne West and Panic at the Disco.

I was horrified when another girl my sister's age (15) didn't know who the Beatles were. And another girl my age (19) responded with "you know the movie Across the Universe?" It was a stab in my heart.

I need to call my mom and thank her for letting me listen to Michael Jackson, Alanis Morisette, and George Michael as a child rather than the then popular Backstreet Boys and NSYNC.