baxter, you know i don't speak spanish!

so yesterday was fuuuuun.

hung out with kylie all afternoon! we went to a plato's closet near her house... i got a few shirts and a really comfy little black dress/tunic thing. i wore it to work today with my black leggings and a pink top underneath. so anyway, after plato's we decided to go over to whole foods market to get some gelato and flirt with the hot pizza guy. but he wasnt there... so we just roamed around while eating our sorbet. we went back to her house and watched Across the Universe. one of my favorites =) then we watched matisyahu's Live in Isreal dvd while i looked at her portfolio and some other stuff. poor kylie just laid with some frozen veggies on her throat lol.

OH! another thing! kylie has all these hippie-clothes from this lady she knows. she outgrew them, so she gave them all to kylie. and because kylie's awesome, she gave me a few pieces. there's this amazing comortable top in a coral-y color with pants that match... and she gave me a great wrap skirt thing. so i'm really looking forward to wearing them. i'll post photos sometime soon!

so ya... today at work, this random guy with dreads TOTALLY sunt the MESS out of me!!! lol... he walks in and is like "i'm looking for a job. do you know if i can get a job here?" and i was like "uhhh... let me go get Will [the owner]" so i go back to Will and he's busy talking to Emily, and he was just like "give him one of my business cards, and tell him that he needs to email me his resume and some samples" soooooo i go back and tell him and hand him the card, and he starts laughing!!! then this guy is like "i'm just kidding... i've got something to show Will. Tell him that Benjamin's here. haha i was just joking with you..." of course i laughed at the time, but OMG i felt like such an idiot hahaha especially when i went back to will and emily 2 seconds later and was like "Benjamin's here to see you." while laughing... and will was just like "yeah, send him back"
so that was my funny moment of the day.

i found out who my roommate is! a girl named jayasree kandasamy... she's indian!!! how cool is that?! we're gonna have soooo much fun this year!!

love this movie:


sooooo ya! heading to athens tonight [nicole is performing]

TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

and it's not official yet, but i think we're NOT going to lollapalooza this weekend *tear* i know andrew will miss me!!

the jonas brothers, Cosmo, and ACE!

alright, i have a confession to make.
i've been watching jonas brothers vidoes on youtube like crazy! i'm becoming obsessed with them... it's depressing and completely liberating at the same time. i mean, i'm not as worried about the usual "embarassing" factor that goes along with whatever mainstream song i can't get out of my head. but seriously, the more i watch of the JB, the more i like them. don't get me wrong, you will NEVER see me screaming along with the 12-yr-olds, professing my complete devotion to joe jonas, or participating in a heated discussion about the nick-miley relationship.

honestly, if you listen to them, you'll realize that they have amazing voices and they're musically talented. furrreeeaalll. watch watch watch:


and there's more where that came from! i just keep watching and watching and watching...

[and how they dress doesn't hurt, either. ya i'm weird lol]

alright, now about my darling car Cosmo. i have made a pro & con list, so that you can understand what i'm dealing with.

CONS:
1. two windows do not roll down
2. no cd player/stereo/radio [HOW WILL I SURVIVE???!!!!]
3. the ac doesn't get completely cold. and if it does, it takes about 10-15 min.
4. two different keys: one key to unlock/lock the doors and an entirely different one to actually start the car
5. i still don't have the title/insurance, so i still have to drive extra cautiously [haha as if]
6. the door on the driver's side always makes ominous about-to-fall-off noises whenever i shut it

PROS:
1. engine
2. brakes


lmao.

back to happy things, i'm FINALLY getting a new cell phone!!!! and an amazing one at that! the samsung ACE!!

it's like a cheaper blackberry... haha so i'm excited.

and because i just can't get enough:

hahahahaha funny story. i was going to post another jonas vid like half an hour ago... but i couldn't decide, and would rather just keep watching... lol

back in ohio [ya i couldnt think of a better title]

so i was only able to use the base's wireless 1 1/2 times before it totally hated on me and stopped working.

but anyway... there are a lot of things from this weekend that i could write about. but this was the general itinerary: visiting family members.

i've come to the conclusion that old people talk FOREVER! but i can't blame them - they're historians. so many memories, so much life lived. if was more of a people person, i would love seniors. but alas...

one of the highlights of the weekend was eating fried okra. i LOVE me some fried okra. anyway...

it's taking me hours to write this. i keep leaving, then coming back... ok, warding off the ADD.

so i watched a lot of spongebob, and i wanted to find the clip of him in those squeaky black boots... but youtube seems to hate me today.

on the ride home today, i was starting to get tired of listening to the same 6 or 7 songs like 2347823048 times... i know, how could i EVER tire of hearing MGMT?! but anyway, i scrolled through my iPod... and stopped at good charlotte! hahaha i used to love them so much. their first two cds were good. the third was painful, and their newest one i haven't even attempted to listen to. fucking sell-outs. does anyonee even say "sell-out" anymore? haha but whatever. i just got depressed listening to their old stuff... i liked their lyrics - they actually had meaning, and they put their personal life & issues and whatnot into their music.

but whatever, i don't know what i'm doing... i'm going to go finish watching the live buck show i missed yesterday and finish the Cosmo pro & con list that i'm going to post tomorrow.

fweowefnasepwoei

yay for wireless!

yessss i'm in north carolina... at one of the bases.

i don't even know how i woke up at nine. i went to bed at 2 at the earliest.

oh wait, i know!
i slept the entire way here lol

in other news, i am becoming completely obsessed with andrew vanwyngarden of MGMT. it was already enough that their music is the shit, and he has an amazing voice... but then seeing him in interviews and performances made me love him all the more. and he's sort of weird, so that's a plus.

MGMT: [ben and andrew]


pavlunka on flickr did a shoot with MGMT and has some awesome shots of him:


and i'll continue to make this a music post... i just got Konk by The Kooks from the library. A.MA.ZING! definitely listen!!

kk i'm going to go now...

oh, and check out Oracular Spectacular by MGMT. i am so addicted.

so gross.

ya i'm at work, but i HAD to share this:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1599821264/bctid1589625368

and before you say i'm "slacking" at work, this is on one of the sites i'm looking over & analyzing or whatever. lol so it makes it ok.

i should be packing...

yep... spending the weekend in north carolina! so leave me lots of love

today i OFFICIALLY got my license... for those of you who talk to me on a regular basis, you know that prior to today i had a pseudo-license AKA it existed only in my head and the heads of select parents. i sort of feel bad having people lie on my behalf. sortanotreally. we wouldn't have had half as much fun if i had told the truth lmao

sooooo. tonight was a big night for bri! whooo Buck autograph!

today i got a cool purple-ish scarf.

oOo aaaaand i figured out why my iPod was being a bitch and was able to put all my new music on it... so now i won't die while riding in the car with my parents!

not sure if i'll post anything this weekend, so if not... have a good weekend everyone!

a shaved typo, fujiyama & a few orange cones

yep, i came in to work today to see that Will [my boss] had given Typo [his dog] a haircut...

um, so i FINALLY got the pics off my camera from last week, but now i'm feeling too lazy to load them onto blogger... sooooooo that will be in another post [hopefully sometime this week]

after work, mom and i went out to dinner with tomi and her mom... fujiyama. japanese STEAK house. ya they looked at me funny when i specified that i didn't eat meat. haha.

a little later mom and i went out to "practice" my maneuverability... taking the test again tomorrow lmao. good thing is, i did it perfectly fine when we were practicing tonight. hopefully that transfers over to tomorrow...

i've been feeling like the biggest bum lately when i think about all the reading that's piling up in my room. things i have to read: 4 of my paperbackswap books, 2 library books, a few Nat. Geo., a few Time, and my NYU summer reading book!!! and yet, i want to turn to the 7th & final HP book... hahaha but i'm resisting. the third twilight book is tempting too.

oh, and i have credit on paperbackswap, so if anyone has a really good book to recommend, HOLLA!!!

alright... sobe, the tele, and some form of food are calling me!

one photo i didn't mind uploading:


=)