the Dalaverse

Oh my god, "The Sound of Music" is on. I'm usually the last person to use this phrase, but they just don't make 'em like this anymore. I haven't seen this movie since I went to Savannah with my Girl Scout troop in sixth grade, and we watched it on the bus late at night. Everybody was all into it until we stopped for gas and snacks in the middle, and then they all had a sugar crash and Jessie and I were the only ones who stayed up until the end. I was really more of a "Mary Poppins" girl, but I had a huge crush on Christopher Plummer. And oh, I do so love Julie Andrews' voice. Also, I really need to see "Victor/Victoria."

Things have been going fairly well lately, although I haven't really talked to my mother this week. I'll see her tomorrow at Lauren and Allison's birthday party. I promised I'd bring them St. Mary's things, so I bought Lauren a hat and Allie a little stuffed frog. And I might also have gotten myself a bargain-priced edition of writings of Elizabeth I. How am I supposed to resist that, I ask you? Plus I intend to be thoroughly well-read on the era before I leave for England, not just obsessively downloading "The Tudors." Antonia Fraser and Alison Weir are going to be my BFFs this summer. Forgot to mention that I fell victim to the airport Borders and bought The Constant Princess, which is Gregory's best novel, in my opinion.

I've been watching the third season of "The L Word" on DVD, and I much prefer it to the second. Dana's death and memorial was absolutely beautiful, and Erin Daniels, Leisha Hailey, and Katherine Moennig outshone even this great cast. I cried through the whole funeral episode; it was very well done. I've still got the season finale left. Why do they always have to put last episodes on their own disc? It's just one episode, people! It would fit on the next-to-last disc!

Hung out with Jeanne yesterday, watching "Borat," which was still horrifically funny the third time around. I'm glad to spend some time with her. I'm also headed over there later tonight for the Natty Bo Hunt. This is the SMC version of an Easter egg hunt, in which we paint cans of cheap beer and hide them for underclassmen to find. I've never participated, but I trust it will be entertaining. I've got the suite to myself today -- Laura and Vanessa went home for Easter, and Liz is out somewhere. I quite like it, especially since I'll have to be extra social tomorrow.

Still firm in my resolution re: grad school, and I feel better about it with every person I talk to who isn't my mother. Tomorrow might be a bit...awkward, but my dad has been great and supportive, and so have all my friends. And you guys. I <3 you guys, in case you didn't know.

ETA: And "The Ten Commandments!" How on earth could I have forgotten it? YUL BRENNER I LOVE YOU!

ETA again: Okay, so I have maybe been pregaming a little with some leftover Strongbow and more "The Tudors" but -- I can't wait until October, I can't wait to go back. I'm going back. Maybe I'm going home. Also, stupid College Station Airport confiscated my favorite lip gloss. Fuckers. I miss it.