The Readiness Is All

Some of you may remember the greatness that was apartment 154 of the Glenwood. We had a lot of love for each other in that apartment, and it wasn't unusual for us to tell each other we loved each other and we loved "us" as a unit. During the time that my roommates and I lived there, we were voted "best apartment to hang out in," we started a group called "We Like Us," we called ourselves "The Hottest Thing Since Soup," and as far as I know, our mural to ourselves is still in the hall. Never, I thought as I moved out, would there be another apartment of girls so full of themselves . . . collectively.
Some examples of how full of ourselves we were from our quote wall:

You guys are pretty awesome, let’s be honest. –Lindsey

You have a definite lack of suckiness. –Megan

Mandy: I think you’d be hotter than them.
Whitney: Oh, I would be.

Miri: Megan, I like you a lot.
Megan: Well, I can’t blame you. I’m great.

Megan: He probably just realized how much he misses us.
Miri: Yeah... probably.
Megan: That's probably what everyone realized tonight, not just him. Haha... just kidding.
Miri: No you're not, you liar.
Megan: You're right... I'm not.

I assure you this is not a complete record of the pompous things we've said over the years.


I thought those days were gone once I moved away from Jennie and Miri, but since I live with Whitney "Hot and Spicy" Roberts and since Lindsey is back, I wouldn't have been particularly surprised to see some isolated incidents of self-importance. However, the other day after church we were all in the kitchen making lunch:

Torie: "I'm glad all of us are so attractive."

So true. The spirit of 154 lives on in 121. We also have our own gang sign, call each other things Whitney has taught us in old high German. ("We call each other "uuinni," which is pronounced "weenie" and means "friend," which is fun because we all call each other "weenies." Really.)



Long live us and the Zion that comes from thinking we're all awesome. 

I promise that a real post is coming soon. Last week I had all kinds of ideas but had already posted 3 things in one day, so I didn't post them, but I have more to say now, but not NOW now. In any case, to tide you over I give you the following, which I stole from Elise Crane.

Awesome isn't it? It's almost as good as the pick up line in the MAD library: "Are you an overdue book? Because you've got fine written all over you."
hahahahaha. Ah, library humor.

In anticipation of a certain movie release this week, allow me to present the following amazing article from the A.V. Club: What Will Be the Next Abstinence Vampire?

I've just discovered one nerdy interest and reawakened another, all in one fell swoop. 

For a long time it's been a policy that we often take pictures and say "be candid, then end up with something like this.
It's completely posed and ridiculous, which, naturally, you would expect with such a ridiculous request.

Since Christmas is coming, and since I have faith in Lindsey's products, I'm going to give her a little plug here. 

I'll write more later when I stop being lazy and upload my own pictures, but this is my adorable new nephew, Maddux Henry Winegar.

A couple more:

. . . the job interview seemed to be okay. I certainly wasn't expecting to be interviewed by four librarians, but they were all very nice and a couple of them even knew Aunt Helen. I only sounded like a complete loon to myself on a couple of questions, and I will say this: any interview that begins with one of the people telling you that you have beautiful eyelashes and ends with someone else telling you they love your purse can't turn into a total self-esteem dive, so hurray for those sweet ladies.
The person in charge of processing is on vacation until Monday, so they said they won't be able to tell me until the end of next week. I'll just try to relax until then.

In other news, Julie is, to the best of my knowledge, having a baby as I type this. I should have a new nephew by the time I wake up. Yay!

Top on my current reading list:

Today I bought myself a shiny new notebook so that I could get down to the business of really applying for grad school. Anything is better if you're using a shiny new notebook.

Also, just because, I really like this video, and especially the song. I only know a couple of things by Sia, but I kind of like her.

Obnoxious:

1. We have no water in our apartment. No one told us it was going to be turned off, but suddenly there was none. I'm just glad I got to take a shower before it happened.
2. Our internet has also, inexplicably, stopped working. The good news is that we can swipe internet from a few of our neighbors, but where is ours and why is it dead? Are the internet people and the water people conspiring against us?
3. Pat the crazy blog stalker, who told Miri that she was a bandwagoner who didn't have any idea why she voted the way she did, and called us her cronies. (Okay, the cronies bit was a little funny. But overall, Pat was absurd. You have no right to demand explanations from people you have never met and whose situations you don't understand.)
4. Now it turns out that lots of people in Provo are waterless, and no one knows why, so Clark and Linda, I might be coming to your place when I start smelling. 
5. Background first: I just finished reading Dracula, and while it was a decentish story, I just couldn't get over the number of times Bram Stoker thought it was necessary to talk about a) how some things are just lessons that poor women must learn, b) thank goodness for stout-hearted, strong men and c) women do not remember details or think logically, but Mina thinks like a man because she's actually intelligent. So the obnoxious thing there is that I can't let it go. I realize that it was a different time, but I've read lots of people from that time period who didn't find it necessary to point out the (stereotypical, false) differences between men and women on every other page, and it really cut down on my enjoyment. Also, the climax was fairly lame after all of that effort. Oh well. 

1. The fact that we are going to get Indian food tonight with a large group of people I really like.
2. The scarf I got for pretty cheap at Target last night while Lindsey was buying fingerless gloves. It's black with colorful polka dots and looks pretty in my hair.
3. Yesterday I was sitting in the MDML cataloging, and one of my coworkers came in singing "Say It To Me Now" by Glen Hansard. 
4. The fact that a new baby is expected in my family any day now.
5. 30 Rock, which I watched a little of last night and may have to start watching. Kind of awesome. 
6. Omelets + What Not to Wear.

I have an interview next week for a more permanent position in the library. They've been letting me stay on at the MAD library (because they love me) in spite of the internship ending, but it's still crappy pay and not enough hours, and what's more, it really has to end by Christmas. I'd really love something that would last beyond December, pay better, and give me another 10 hours a week, not to mention a little more potential for getting help with my MLS tuition. Anyway, this is a plea for some good vibes or prayers to head my way on Wednesday of next week so that I can stop being a bum living off the sale of my own bodily fluids. 

I'm bracing myself to be bombarded with disappointed comments already, but . . .

YAY!

It was a good Halloween this year.
After a week of working on our costumes while watching scary movies, they turned out to be fabulous. Add to that Lindsey's mad hair skills, some very gold eyeshadow, boy entrancers and a less than horrible dance party, and you have a recipe for success.
Earlier in the day, I took advantage of early voting. I'll be working at the library from 9-5 on Tuesday, and I knew that the polls would be insane after that, so I made sure that my voice was heard.
I got to talk to my brother a little after that, (he got a job in New York!) and then read some Dracula. In the evening, I put Whitney's hair in curlers for the coming costume preparations, and as soon as Lindsey came down, we got to work braiding, curling, pinning and painting. We helped Amanda and Torie a little with their costumes, and we all had fun getting ready together. (I even got to put green eyeliner on one of their guy friends. See the vampire below.)
Amanda's costume was my favorite - she was a black and white movie star. Awesome, huh? Torie made a gorgeous Egyptian, and as the Fates, we were rockin.
The music was mostly decent, and I did manage to enjoy the dancing to some extent. (Dances are still not even close to my favorite way to spend the evening.) Poor Lindsey tried to take a picture of me dancing at the beginning and I kind of rudely shut her down. I don't dance on demand, and I feel really uncomfortable at dances, especially at first, so I was in no mood to have my discomfort recorded. Luckily, Whitney is amazingly uninhibited on the dance floor, so Lin still got lots of pictures.
My favorite moment of the evening was actually when we were leaving (after our party was broken up by cops. Hahaha. Good old noise ordinance). Lindsey and I were trying to follow Whitney out, and she started singing "I will follow her, follow her wherever she may go..." and I joined in and we sang the entire song at the top of our lungs. It was hilarious.

We followed up our night with a little dose of SNL, and our roommates finally got to understand how funny our constant repetition of "With my by myself" and "I like chasing cars" are with this video, which gets funnier to me every time I see it, probably because we reenact it so often.