Do What Feels Wrong

Our fire alarm went off last night at 3 am. Tiffany and I both slowly trudge out of our rooms, tired and dry-eyed. Tiffany quietly freaking out, and me as usual trying to make a joke out of the situation; saying something about how its probably some dumb girls on the 25th floor who turned their stove on while they were drunk and set fire to all of their mixing bowls filled with chips and party mix (this is what happened at my birthday party. I don't know how the stove turned on, I can't explain it. I didn't even fully understand until the next morning). While I'm laughing and waiting for the alarm to go off, Tiff is delirious and disoriented and my sense of humor is not helping to calm her down. I'm telling her to pack her suitcase with everything she wants to save in the case of a fire.

She's living on about 4 hours of sleep and she's so tired that she's almost crying.
"My shoes... oh, my camera... Oh my god, MY TEXTBOOKS!!!!!"
"Tiffany, insurance will replace those!! Take your pictures! Take your laptop! F$&%!"

"Why is the fire alarm still going off? Why are they repeating the announcements?!"
"They need to make sure everyone hears that they're investigating and it's legit"
"Why wouldn't they be able to hear?"
"I dunno, People are deaf. People wear ear plugs"
"Who wears ear plugs? Oh I guess if their partner snores..."

By this time she's pacing, coming up with reasons why people wear ear plugs, talking to herself about if we should go ahead and evacuate... and I'm about to take out a bottle of wine. "Tiff, go to sleep, I'll wake you up if there's a fire"

Before she goes to bed she's genuinely worried:
"Are you sure insurance would give me money to replace my textbooks!?"
While this may be traumatic for Tiffany in the moment, this fire drill is a good practice for her to be prepared for a real situation. I've thought this out, I know exactly what I'd take: my locket from my grandparents, my autographed pictures of me with Bono, me with Gaga, and my laptop with all my writing in it!

4am. Back in bed. False alarm from the 13th floor.

Today's Entertainment News

• Today is facebook's 6th birthday. Happy birthday Facebook, social interaction will never be the same because of you.
• Did you see Lady Gaga's piano with the arms sticking up out of it that she played at the Grammy's? She paid $470 K for it!!
• Eminem is supposedly back together with Kim, and she's pregnant!
• Rumors of FalloutBoy breaking up
• Julia Roberts to guest star on Glee
• Joe Jonas to guest star on "Brothers and Sisters"
• Sweet song: Mashup of Bad Romance and Steady As She Goes
• Zach Galifianakis (from The Hangover) to host SNL on March 6th
• Fast And The Furious back for a 5th film

You Are Thinking Of The Things Her Eyes Have In Common With Days Like These

Ice cream doesn't solve every problem. I know that. There are some problems that ice cream is not equipped to solve. The trick is this: You put that problem aside, just for a moment, and you sit down and you have an ice cream.

Love story: Take 1:

Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with Girl. Girl isn't so sure about Boy. Girl breaks up with Boy. Boy is brokenhearted.
Girl, later, finds out that she's pregnant.
Boy is STOKED cause maybe they could get back together?!?!
Girl doesn't think so, and runs away to Europe.
Girl decides 4 months later that maybe Boy isn't so bad and to give it another try, and comes home from Europe.
Boy and Girl move in together and have a sweet baby girl, who they decide to name after a Jamaican musician and has the chubbiest baby cheeks you've ever seen.
Boy and Girl fall madly in love and get married 3 years later.
...And they all lived happily ever after?

You should all get a nice, wet kiss on your cheeks, then go out into the cold, dry air and feel it chill

Today's Entertainment News

• Oscar Nominations came out this morning. Not surprising that Avatar is in the lead with 9 nominations.... by the way, have you seen Avatar 2? Check yesterday's post for the youtube video.
• I TOLD YOU IT WASNT OVER! "Pants on the ground" has been recorded in a studio... without General Larry Platt (the guy who made it up) knowing!!! I smell a lawsuit!
• T-Pain is lending his voice to a musical cartoon for the Cartoon Network.
• Nick Jonas' Solo album "Who I Am" hits the shelves today... surprisingly, I'm not interested in this one.

I'm Not An Actor That's Forgotten The Lines, I'm An Actor That Never Read The Script

Desperate, I unplugged all the clocks in my house. With time stopped, I hid in today, safely away from your impending visit tomorrow

I've only recently overcome my fear of the dark. And my fear of basements.
But not the fear of being in my basement in the dark. I still run up the stairs as fast as I can when I'm left down there alone.

This is truth.

This is also a metaphor.

Today's Entertainment News

• Avatar tops Titanic this weekend as the biggest international release of all time. It has made over $1.8 billion!!
• Gary Coleman arrested for domestic violence
• Andy Dick arrested on sexual abuse charges
• James Mitchell from "All My Children" has died at 89 years old
• Jean Simmons has died at 80 years old
• Jessica Simpson is releasing a denim jeans line specializing in "making a girl's booty look good"
• Glee star, Jane Lynch engaged to her girlfriend
• Rumors of Joe Jonas starting a solo project, just like his brother Nick. He says he's been writing and recording music for the last little while
• Michael Lynch, an American Idol contestant, was dropped from the competition after his dad spoke to the media and revealed that his son made the top 24. This violated the confidentiality agreement, therefore, he was replaced by a runner-up. Ouch!
• Radiohead raised over $572K for Haiti with a benefit concert in LA last night
• Rumors of John Mayer dating... TAYLOR SWIFT?! This can't be right...

Hands Up If You Can't Feel The Bottom Yet

He offered me a cup of tea. I didn't feel like it but I drank it anyway, to be polite. I asked him did he really love New York, or was he just wearing the shirt. He smiled, like he was nervous. I could tell he didn't understand, which made me feel guilty for speaking English, for some reason.
He said "New York?".
I said "your shirt"
He looked at his shirt. I pointed at the "N" and said "New" and the "Y" and said "York". He looked confused, or embarrassed, or surprised, or maybe even mad. I couldn't tell what he was feeling because I couldn't speak the language of his feelings.
"I not know was New York. In Chinese, ny mean 'you'. I thought was 'I love you'."
It was then that I noticed the "I <3 NY" poster on the wall, and the "I <3 NY" dishtowels, and the "I  <3 NY" lunchbox on the kitchen table. I asked him: "Well then why do you love everybody so much?"

I read your words as they arrived. At 2:24 and 2:40 am. Words are my favorite thing in the world. Yours leave me at a loss for mine.
"I'm going to sleep with roses in my hand tonight"

I haven't been sleeping well lately.. and when I do, I'm having really weird dreams. My roommate being attacked by killer bees, elevator cables snapping, myself and my friends being characters in "The Brave Little Toaster".
I read that it takes the average person 7 minutes to fall asleep. And people tell you to count sheep when you're trying to sleep, so I tried to count 7 minutes. 420 seconds went by. Still awake. Another 420 seconds. Try again? 420 seconds. I'm getting bored. 420 seconds, etc etc. I'm starting to see the sun come up. There's no point in trying to sleep now.
I wish I drank coffee. Coffee stunts your growth and I want to live forever.

Today's Entertainment News

• Nsync's Joey Fatone and his wife welcome a baby girl, Kloey 
• Joe Jonas has officially joined twitter. Teenboppers rejoice.
• Jimmy Kimmel dressed up as Jay Leno last night for his show.. large prosthetic chin and everything! Entertaining!
• Tobey Maguire won't be returning for the upcoming Spiderman movie. Word is that they're going to film a prequel with a completely different cast
• JayZ and Beyonce are the top-earning celeb couple. $122 million
• Heidi Montag (23) is addicted to plastic surgery. She just got her breasts enlarged (again), chin reduced, nose redone... and still wants more. see picture here. She also just released a song called "Eat My Panties off of Me." Classy. ""I brought some treats / I know that you gon love em/Come eat my panties off of me / Do whatever you feel comes naturally."

And here is Nick Jonas singing Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me", and then one of my faves "Catch me" by Demi Lovato