Summer at home = too much time on my hands

is it sad that i feel all special because sloganx commented on my blog and i made the blog-roll :)
..maybe i can link to her now..i dont know how any of this internet etiquette works and i spend so much time on here now that i am stranded at home that i should figure it out- i could always ask; it is just more fun to write long-winded blog entries at 5am

it is why even the idea of skype freaks me out, talking to people i dont know, unless expressly invited, feels weird to me and i like to know exactly how things work before i do them. i'm not good at being an outsider or getting to be an insider..so i tend to just stick to in person, i'm really quite social in person, just out of my element on the internet (hard to read people)...i dont even know if i still have IM, my friends were just trying to get me on that, yet again..maybe i should. arrgh internet etiquette ...Am I the only one who gets freaked out by it...(plus i dont really have the money for a headset...though my good friend just made skype his main phone..it sucks being a poor college student)


i really think one of the defining experiences of my life was when my mother sent me to an actual finishing school as a punishment, for god knows what- i was probably too much of a tomboy- i learned about table settings, phone etiquette, how to serve tea, how to work a reception line, sit properly, that a lady never offers her hand first...you know all the vitally important skills we need to survive in the 21st century...i have been trying to undo the effects of this crap for ages..i am completely crass and laid back with my friends, but stick me in a new situation or around adults and i am all proper...its hilarious, makes a great antecdote, and is probably why i was the kid in high school that could break every rule and still be loved by every teacher...i have the charisma that adults love...that combined with sad doe eyes and i can talk my way out of anything...not really as useful now, but makes for good stories (though i still use it on professors and can always get a drink quickly at a bar)
- its always amusing when i people start to get to know me well, they get all shocked that nice innocent little loula is swearing like a mo-fo, drunk, and spent most of high school in sat. school



anywho.. i saw the devil wears prada tonight and it was pretty good, i enjoyed the book and the movie was better...meryl streep was amazing ( i didnt like her all that much until The Hours- my favorite book)...so i was watching the title sequence of this movie and thinking "i am soo gay"

first i got excited because the song was kt tunstall....than it was a montage of all sorts of hot women putting on fancy underwear and getting dressed...nice...i think the podcasters have been a bad influence on me ;)