Freedom...for two days

Yes!!! I am done with my final project for my grad school class. It was a pain and there was no possibility of bullshitting anything within the project, which poses an extra challenge.

Feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders...but obviously my mind is still too mushy right now to make up non-cliched statements. I still haven't met with the professor yet and I am sure changes will have to be made...but for two days, I can relax.

Feel like sitting down and watching a stupid romantic comedy. Actually watched a movie called Imagine Me and You this morning (pre-paper ritual....otherwise known as procrastination). The movie was British and was about a couple that recently got married. Rachel [main character] begins feeling attraction toward the female florist who helped out with the wedding, Luce. What I liked about it was that it didn't take the American "comedic" take of how film addresses people discovering their newfound sexuality. The movie was realistic and the intimate scenes with the women were innocent and non-gratuitous. I now also have a new hair role model...Piper Perabo's hair in the movie is awesome...cascading curls, but the kind that look like they require no effort at all.

Can't believe Christmas is around the corner either. Haven't started shopping. Someone in my grad class said she has been so busy with class that she told her family that they should celebrate Christmas in January...I'm beginning to think the same thing.

Ew. Ick. Gross.

Was coming out from Moe’s tonight (Thursday night is lazy night--- takeout food of some kind + an episode of The Office). Had on my favorite pair of brown “work pants” and my winter coat---a Land’s End men’s coat. I don’t think it necessarily looks like a guy’s coat but it certainly is not feminine. Also had on my comfy clog-like shoes. I seem to boycott shoes that do not simply slip on your foot—no straps, buckles, laces, or any of that.

As I walked to my car, this scraggly-looking guy came up to me. His celebrity look-alike would be Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons. Longish, frizzy, brown hair pulled into a loose ponytail… beard…heavyset. He asked, “Do you know the time?” Being totally aware of my surroundings,…because I’ve seen far too many news stories about being approached in a parking lot, having your “guard” down, and then something bad happening… I replied that I didn’t have a watch but that I estimated it was around 8:15. I started walking away. Then, he said, “Have you ever thought of modeling?”

LIKE I HAVEN’T HEARD ABOUT THE WHOLE MODELING SCAM ON TV.

I tried to remain cordial and quickly said, “I am a full-time teacher and student”— He asked, “You’ve never thought about modeling?” This was being said to someone in a black men’s coat, brown pants, and Easy Spirit-esque shoes. Hilarious. No make-up either. And exiting a fast food place with a giant bag of food.

You’d think he would walk up to someone with Uggs, low-rise jeans, and a Juicy hoodie instead.

The most “typical” part… when he left, he went over to his vehicle…a mini-van.

I was so freaked out. On my drive home, I was literally saying, “Ew, fucking gross, ick” repeatedly, out loud.