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fearlesstemp) wrote2002-06-20 01:11 am
fearlesstemp) wrote2002-06-20 01:11 am
i never claimed to have good taste in literature
Bizarre Development: Am college graduate! So freaky! Wore the cap and gown, marched through campus, the whole nine. Have moved back home to ponder my marvelous lack of a job or set career path. I'm trying to be Zen and believe that everything will work out, while internally freaking out.
Actually, the truth is, I'm still so much enjoying the not having to write papers/go to classes thing, along with the not having to scrape together my every last dime to go to the grocery store now that the graduation gifts have come in, that the post-graduate panic has yet to set in.
It will all work out! Right? Right. Right!
In other news: The Orlando Cat is out of The Bag. I was planning on telling the Parental Units that I was going down to Orlando with Annie just for the heck of it. Post-college fun trip for me, pre-Ranger School trip for her. Wild wacky adventures! In...Orlando! Because that's where all the wild and crazy young adults go on vacation.
Anyway, I've been skating around the issue of why, exactly, we chose Orlando on the weekend of the 27th in July until today when after hours of intense questioning (read: a thirty second exchange in our air conditioned kitchen) it was discovered that,
Mom: Is NSYNC in Orlando? Are you going down there to see NSYNC?
Me: I'm not saying anything!
Mom: You girls should have a good time.
I wish I could be a cool young twenty-something and not be obsessed with JC's every movement and not, you know, be going down to the other side of the Continental United States to watch him play a basketball game. Am so very pathetic.
Speaking of The Patheticness of Jess: Went to a used bookstore yesterday and stocked up on cheesy young adult books. Love them SO MUCH! Just finished In Real Life I'm Just Kate, a compelling novel about a seventeen year old girl who is forced to take a role on a soap opera after her actor father loses his job so that the family won't lose their house. Drama! Intrigue! Angst! Big, big fun. The book was dedicated to Denise Alexander, Genie Francis, and Anthony Geary, among others. Those who know who those three are will know why I had to check the book out.
Am now torn about which new purchase I should read next. One option: Save The Last Dance For Me, a book based on -- get this -- DIRTY DANCING! I could not BELIEVE it when I found it! I was alternately ecstatic (Dude! Further adventures in the Dirty Dancing Universe!) and angry because dude, how could I have missed these when I was nine and obsessed with the movie? Then I looked them over and now I suspect they were only sold in Canada, the U.K., and the like, and so I was less disappointed in my former self for not finding it earlier. The other option? You Can Never Go Home Again, chosen because of its tag line: "He's hot, he's wild...and he's dead." So, which will it be? The tale of a girl with an attic haunted by a 1950s smartmouthed biker? Or further adventures in the Dirty Dancing universe?
Just opened up the Dirty Dancing book and the decision is made: Baby's back at Kellerman's? Her parents have broken up?? Zee drama!! Must read more.
Maybe it would be easier for me to find a job/career if I let my taste in literature advance beyond a sixth grade reading level. But then again, if reading bad young adult novels from the early/mid 1980s is wrong, I don't want to be right!
Actually, the truth is, I'm still so much enjoying the not having to write papers/go to classes thing, along with the not having to scrape together my every last dime to go to the grocery store now that the graduation gifts have come in, that the post-graduate panic has yet to set in.
It will all work out! Right? Right. Right!
In other news: The Orlando Cat is out of The Bag. I was planning on telling the Parental Units that I was going down to Orlando with Annie just for the heck of it. Post-college fun trip for me, pre-Ranger School trip for her. Wild wacky adventures! In...Orlando! Because that's where all the wild and crazy young adults go on vacation.
Anyway, I've been skating around the issue of why, exactly, we chose Orlando on the weekend of the 27th in July until today when after hours of intense questioning (read: a thirty second exchange in our air conditioned kitchen) it was discovered that,
Mom: Is NSYNC in Orlando? Are you going down there to see NSYNC?
Me: I'm not saying anything!
Mom: You girls should have a good time.
I wish I could be a cool young twenty-something and not be obsessed with JC's every movement and not, you know, be going down to the other side of the Continental United States to watch him play a basketball game. Am so very pathetic.
Speaking of The Patheticness of Jess: Went to a used bookstore yesterday and stocked up on cheesy young adult books. Love them SO MUCH! Just finished In Real Life I'm Just Kate, a compelling novel about a seventeen year old girl who is forced to take a role on a soap opera after her actor father loses his job so that the family won't lose their house. Drama! Intrigue! Angst! Big, big fun. The book was dedicated to Denise Alexander, Genie Francis, and Anthony Geary, among others. Those who know who those three are will know why I had to check the book out.
Am now torn about which new purchase I should read next. One option: Save The Last Dance For Me, a book based on -- get this -- DIRTY DANCING! I could not BELIEVE it when I found it! I was alternately ecstatic (Dude! Further adventures in the Dirty Dancing Universe!) and angry because dude, how could I have missed these when I was nine and obsessed with the movie? Then I looked them over and now I suspect they were only sold in Canada, the U.K., and the like, and so I was less disappointed in my former self for not finding it earlier. The other option? You Can Never Go Home Again, chosen because of its tag line: "He's hot, he's wild...and he's dead." So, which will it be? The tale of a girl with an attic haunted by a 1950s smartmouthed biker? Or further adventures in the Dirty Dancing universe?
Just opened up the Dirty Dancing book and the decision is made: Baby's back at Kellerman's? Her parents have broken up?? Zee drama!! Must read more.
Maybe it would be easier for me to find a job/career if I let my taste in literature advance beyond a sixth grade reading level. But then again, if reading bad young adult novels from the early/mid 1980s is wrong, I don't want to be right!
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Also. You're going to CFTC? Yay!
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And yes, I am going to CFTC! You are too? How cool!
Congrats!
And that Dirty Dancing book actually sounds pretty good! I may have to go see if I can find it. LOL I like readng the young adult books. Sometimes they have better plots than the adult books do. My favorite one, that I can read over and over is Island Of The Blue Dolphins.
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And young adult books are fairly addictive, aren't they? And I remember Island of the Blue Dolphins! I like that book too.
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Aaaaaaaaaaalso....
you = funny
So, keep on readin'!
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And I feel that no age group, young or old, is immune to the draw of Dirty Dancing. It's the Great Equalizer. No one can resist!
Congratulations!!
I know, I'm ashamed to say. Close friends from my formative years. And the fact that you know as well, when you're like a decade younger, speaks volumes for those individuals' careers. LOL!
Hey Jess, maybe you should try writing a young adult book?
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And congrats on graduation, Jess!
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Also, re: the book deal -- thank you! You're too kind.* How cool would that be? Being paid for livejournalling. That would be Living The Dream for me. :)
*Which, as I said in my reply to Kaelie's comment, is not to say that such undeserved compliments should stop being sent my way. Just an FYI. :)
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*Which is not to say that such undeserved compliments should stop being sent my way. I'm a whore for flattery. Keep it comin'.
:)
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Thank you! Thank you! One's for the woohoo one's for the reassurance. Both are appreciated. :)
Hey Jess, maybe you should try writing a young adult book?
Now there's an idea! I could satisfy my aching need for adolescent angst AND make steps towards being a worthy member of society! Perhaps I will write the tale of Jenn, fresh
collegehigh school graduate with a quirky net addiction, who is swept off of her feet by international music sensation K.C. Juarez. Hmmm...must ponder. :)Re: Congratulations!!
Again with the spitting of diet pepsi all over self and keyboard. Oh lord!
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But then again, if reading bad young adult novels from the early/mid 1980s is wrong, I don't want to be right!
I am in full agreement. I have fought long and hard to keep myself from entering into the world of Grown-up Books. I say who needs 'um.