i know you think i'm crazy. had this diary for just over a week and already changing the layout. this will get annoying, but it is fun for me. actually, i like this one a lot, it may stay around a while...

all about this layout: it's aimee mann. song quotes are from her song 'fourth of july.' it reads, 'another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless and they're always the same. a verse, then a verse and refrain.' the up and down things on the left? yeah hover over those to scroll the entries. a scrollbar looked really dumb in the middle of the image so i figured how to implement that nifty little javascript. as always, inform me of any bugs...

huge yay: someone used one of my diary templates! my first! tres exciting.

you see, i have absolutely no life. :)

so other than this i've spent my day watching the olympics - no big surprise there. i was so excited for sarah hughes, who won women's figure skating tonight, as if you could escape that news. i was rooting for michelle obviously because these young girls have plenty of time ahead of them, but, alas, michelle didn't deserve to win. and sarah was incredible. i loved the reaction she and her coach had when they found out she won! it was wonderful because she couldn't have expected that, but she deserved it. so she's a little easier to side with than, say, tara lipinski.

my friend jess is kind of upset because she wants to get away from where she's at - which is a college two towns away from our hometown. as our class salutatorian, that school gave her butt tons of money, which she couldn't turn down and doesn't want to walk away from even now, but it's not a very good school. plus it's so close to home, which makes it at least twice as bad. that girl is so smart, she deserves so much better; and that girl is such a good friend, so obviously she deserves better! i told her she should really explore her options and look into the financial aid at other schools and all that, but i think she's resigned herself to her current school and will continue to be miserable about it. i hope that works out for her...

so i'm going home tomorrow, pretty excited about that. i've got nothing to do this weekend, so i can just relax and have fun. hope you all have a good weekend too! :)

the friday five

1. Hey, baby, what's your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? scorpio, and i don't know much about astrology but i took the emode test that figured out what sign you should have been, and it said scorpio. so.

2. What's the worst birthday gift you've ever received? we never have really incredible birthdays in my family, but honestly, i can't think of a bad one. i've never been real fixated on this kind of stuff.

3. What's the best birthday gift you've ever received? when i turned 18 my mom took me on a huge shopping spree and i picked out everything. got my watch and a bunch of clothes from kohl's.

4. What's the best way you've celebrated your birthday thus far? this year, i had to give my tribute toast speech on my birthday, so that has to rank right up there. (oh, were that i could type sarcasm...)

5. What are your plans for this weekend? going home just because i can: girls night out, including my brother, both friday and saturday night, probably consisting only of sitting at borders for hours; getting my bridesmaid dress altered with rachel; hanging out.

aimee mann . fourth of july

Today's the fourth of July
another June has gone by
and when they light up our town I just think
what a waste of gunpowder and sky.
I'm certain that I am alone
in harbouring thoughts of our home
it's one of my faults that I can't quell my past
I ought to have gotten it gone.

Oh, baby, I wonder if when you are older, someday
you'll wake up and say, 'My God, I should have told her
what would it take?
But now here I am and the world's gotten colder
and she's got the river down which I sold her.'

So that's today's memory lane
with all the pathos and pain
another chapter in a book where the chapters are endless
and they're always the same
a verse, then a verse, and refrain
aimee mann