textual relations

do people stalk me on facebook/myspace/livejournal/google/ad nauseum as often (or even nearly as often) as i stalk them?

i'm not even talking about anyone in particular. but i find myself clicking through a lot of people's info. web sites linked from facebook pages. myspace pages linked from web sites.

most of them are people i know/once knew.

i wonder how often it's reciprocated.

i was directed to a site today called know your meme, where they explain internet memes. funny, right?

so then i came across the one for kittens inspired by kittens, which i laughed about here, and i laughed again today. and then there's a link to all the remixes. and none of them is funny. except for this one. i mean, at least i think so. but then i think the original is funny, too, so what do i know?

today i requested an ergo keyboard and an ergo mouse. because i have wrist problems anyway, and i should be doing what i can to fix that.

ergo keyboards are weird. i type like i'm supposed to (hands on the home keys) but this split thing is hard to get used to. and the Shift key is in a weird place. and so is delete. and i think i'm supposed to hit the "b" key with my left hand, and this whole time i've been hitting it with my right. so i'll have to get used to that.

i think i hate it. even though it's good in the long run.

i have an extra ticket for the coldplay concert on monday, july 13, at shoreline amphitheater at 7:30 p.m.

it's the nurse's ticket, actually. i'm selling it for her.

bought the ticket for $105 (actual price was $79.50, plus all the fees and stuff), but i'm willing to sell it for $75. and even that's negotiable.

section 200, row s.

any takers?

my roommates are gone.

a couple of my friends are out of town.

this is the first weekend in years where i don't have a guaranteed person to hang out with at least at some point.

i won't say i feel alone, because i don't. even though i am, technically.

i feel. ok. it's ok.

they're making a "grease" video game. for the nintendo wii and the ds.

what do you think the premise is? will it be a bunch of mini games?

"pierce sandy's ear in the bathroom at the sleepover before your character, frenchie, drinks too much wine and is unable to do it."

"can danny fix greased lightning before the big race using only the oil that's in his hair?"

"try to reach the high note at the end of 'summer nights' without falling off the bleachers."

sounds like a blast. can't wait for it to come out.

i hate when places won't let you embed. anyway, go here.

anyway, it's not particularly amazing. but we theater-loving nerds people need to pay it forward when it comes to funny-ish theater-referencing... stuff. right? well, at least post it on our blogs. anyway.

i'm not sure why i said "goddamnit" in the subject of this blog post. it just kinda slipped out. that's what she said? oh god.

anyway.

it's from holy taco.

michael jackson?

farrah fawcett?

ed mcmahon?

harrison ford and jeff goldblum?


dear lord,

please please don't kill lindsay lohan.

amen. hallelujah.

love,
karyne

today i found out my dad is on facebook. i didn't find out because he added me as a friend. i found out because i saw it through facebook's suggestions of who i should be friends with. my dad is on facebook and didn't even friends me. FML.

(ps. one of my favorite new additions to the language is making "friends" into a verb. i used to hate "google" as a verb but have recently come to accept it. it took some time. friends as a verb, as in "i want to friends him on facebook," i accepted as a grammar rule right away. i wonder why.)

who's going to pride next weekend?

i wasn't going to go after last year's debacle, but have decided that now that i live in the city, i can leave whenever and get there whenever and it might be fun.

who's up for sitting around on the grass with me on sunday and looking at everyone?

(how much does a hemming weigh, brendan? boo. except yay. i love puns.)

today i bought a moleskin. my very first!



i'm going to write in it. and maybe draw in it. and definitely carry it around with me wherever i go. how exciting!

we went to see the movie "every little step" last night; it's the "a chorus line" documentary.

i guess the most interesting part, though, wasn't the production itself or the actors, but more the process they go through. 8 months of auditions/callbacks/waiting. 8 months!

and not that i've done anything beyond local community theater, but i can totally relate to each auditioner. and they all can relate to the auditioners in "a chorus line." like, how we all say thank you a million times to the staff. how we tell another auditioner "omg, that was amazing. great job. beautiful." and then that person says "oh me? no, that was terrible." and then you say "no really, it was beautiful." and both of you mean it. and neither of you mean it. and how you and a friend are up for the same role, and you really hope you get it, and you hope she gets it, but really you hope you get it.

it's neat to be able to relate to people who are so far beyond anything i'm capable of doing. yet i feel like i could've totally been at that audition. you know what i mean?

as a side note:

i saw the revival last year and was pretty unimpressed. i was mostly unimpressed with nikki snelson as cassie. like. she just couldn't handle dancing that much. at all. huffing and puffing all over the place.

in the film, they show her auditioning for (but not getting) the role of val ("dance: 10, looks: 3")... they don't mention in the movie that she later got cassie. but that's fine. she wasn't a great cassie.

tyce diorio (one of the choreographers on "so you think you can dance") is one of the auditioners. and he's a little bitch and now i hate him. which is sad because i used to like him.

and a few of the other people who were in the broadway production were in the tour, so i recognized them and that was fun. i think some of the people who didn't make the broadway production made the tour, so that was fun, too.

i hate the web site texts from last night.

discuss.

have we talked about this already? i'm sure we have. keyboard cat? you know, keyboard cat. the internet is a vast place of weirdness. very vast. very weird. (here's what time magazine has to say about it. you're a humorless buzzkill, time magazine.)

anyway, i'm kinda meh today. so i hopped onto youtube, because sometimes the recommended videos are fun. this is what was recommended for me today:



i usually hate shit like that but for some reason, i died. like, i laughed and laughed till i could laugh no more.

then there's this:

i chose my vanity facebook username today: http://www.facebook.com/karyne.levy

and it's like "remember, once you choose this name, you can't ever change it ever." which is how it usually goes, because that url was generated specifically for me.

and i'm like, sure whatever, just give me one of your suggested urls. who cares? and really, who cares?

so i chose it.

and the minute it was like "great, here's your url" i freaked out and was like "no! i want it to be karynelevy, no dots, no space!"

when just one second ago i didn't care. and i still don't really care. because who cares?

no wonder i have anxiety!

work has been extra stressful and extra hard lately. i've had to cut down my facebook-looking-at time to like, half.

anyway, i had a moment and decided to look at my myspace page. i haven't logged in for more than a week, and i thought it'd be a nice time to see if i had any notes or whatever from the few people who only use that and haven't come over to the facebook side.

i've considered getting rid of my myspace page, but there's no reason to, really. i have pictures on there that i haven't bothered to transfer to facebook or flickr and really what's the harm? who cares?



well. guess i won't be checking my myspace page, then.

but. i wanted to share this thing i read about dating dos and don'ts that made me LOL.

and i want to say that i finally watched the recorded episode of "glee" and it was amazing. and i can't wait for the season to start.

the star of "glee" is matthew morrison and in my head, he's the same guy who played young josh baskin in "big."

absolutely not the same guy.

i still want to see "every little step", and i'm hoping to go next week. but i probably should just take myself this week because with my luck, it'll drop off the face of the planet next week. i guess that's what netflix is for.