what a week! okay, for those interested i called claire wednesday night and we’re going the friends route. so i’m glad that’s over and done with. where i go from there, i don’t know. work was incredibly boring this week, but its been cool becoming better friends with people from work. i actually ate in the cafeteria a couple of times this past week, which is not something i have done twice in about the past 3 months. a lot of the younger people at work just i don’t know, bother me. they moved to new orleans cause of the party city rep so they like to go out all the time, they all live in the city…just not stuff i’m interested in. however, i think i’ve found my niche with a few people from work who i like hanging out with. in fact, these people came to the party my boss threw at his house yesterday. i had been there one time before with andy, but yesterday was a department wide party slash surprise wedding shower for both thomas and laurin. they are each getting married, but not to each other. anyway, it was fun to be out near the river he lives on drinking beer, eating lots, and talking with friends. i think my boss is pretty cool. now if he could give me some work to do!

i’m now two chapters into blue like jazz and i really like it. speaking of other things i’m discovering to like, i feel somewhat vindicated by a kelly clarkson song. yes, her new song ‘behind these hazel eyes’ is so great because finally those of us with hazel eyes have a song to call our own. no thanks to the who (behind blue eyes) or van morrison (brown eyed girl). and its pretty defiant, so i really like it. i don’t know what this does to my music taste rep, but i figure i have some leeway to play with. i also listened to some of the new reliant k record and i was impressed. its emo/rock, but it has a point and is not whiny.

in other news, i was very happy to read a story related to one of the all time best sports movies, ‘field of dreams’. the character in the movie, moonlight graham, was a real person. everything about him from the time he played in one game but never had an at-bat, to the part about him being a doctor for kids back in minnesota. i thought the story was great. and it would have been fantastic had you taken out the bonds quote. seriously, the general public pretty much dislike the guy, and he’s not even playing this year, so why even quote him in an article like that? sad.

also, my movie pantheon has one rule…no movie can be added within 3 months of having first seen the movie. my favorite movie to watch over and over again is ‘swingers‘ and my favorite dramatic movie is ‘garden state’. i saw a trailer yesterday for cameron crowe’s new movie, ‘elizabethtown‘ and i think it may take the spot as the top overall dramatic movie. its repeatability is yet to be seen. it comes out in october. :)