geek rant ahead

i'm listening to angst-ridden teenage rock. feeling teenager. actually, i still am. erm, now i'm confused. people treat me and expect me to act like an adult yet i'm still a teenager. probably because i'm on THAT borderline between being a teenager and an adult. oh well. i won't dwell on this further because it might give me a migraine.

this weekend was very restful (as i hoped it would be). i got to bum all day. as in literally do nothing but watch tv, read, or surf the internet. i know, i've been spending too much of my time online. but believe it or not, i do have a life outside cyberspace. i don't know. i can juggle things like that. so don't underestimate me (haha defensive). i was supposed to watch a movie with my sister yesterday but i changed my mind. i got lazy again because i wanted to rest at home.

White Oleander (Janet Fitch) was on HBO this afternoon. i was a lucky duck. i read the book some time in freshman year and loved it. i'm into books that are written in first person because it makes me feel like the narrator is actually talking to me. anyway, the actress who played Astrid was superb. she had that angst-ridden, angry, i-don't-care-what-you-think look that i had imagined Astrid would possess. kind of reminded me of Angela Chase from My So-Called Life. only, Astrid's life was more tragic. Michelle Pfeiffer did a great job playing as Astrid's mom herself. she was beautiful, enchanting, and a control-freak. i loved the movie although it didn't show other details that i read from the book. it was still a great movie, though. i have to search for the dvd. it's definitely a favorite.

i also got my copy of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl back. since it has been a year since i last read it, i'm going to read it again because after i watched The Pianist, i'd have better imagination to visualize the Holocaust-- the most horrific event of the 20th century. Anne Frank was a bright girl. it must have been horrible to grow up in your teens at a chaotic time like that and i can't imagine a more horrible person than Hitler. oh wait. there's Saddam Hussein.

i designed another lay-out while i was watching White Oleander all the way to when i switched to ETC and watched the pilot episode of the first season of Veronica Mars. remember Carolyn Keene's Nancy Drew series? the show is just like that-- a teenage girl doing detective work. it's cool. i like it already. i remember in grade school i'd go straight to the library before heading for the school bus to borrow Nancy Drew books. i loved mysteries. i still do. i like the suspense and the thrill of figuring out who-killed-who or who-stole-what. you can probably trace my extreme fanaticism on Alias and C.S.I. all the way to Nancy Drew. guess what? i saw lots of copies of old-style Nancy Drew hardbound! cool huh? or maybe just for me because i'm a dork.

only two days and i've been very productive as a bum already. tomorrow it's back to the real world. at least i enjoyed the weekend :) heeh.