Shopping for winter boots in the middle of the summer is wrong. Despite that, I spent several agonizing minutes today looking for some glacier-friendly footwear. Why? Because I'm moving to Minneapolis, MN in a few weeks and will be facing my first winter in the the Twin Cities. Now, I'm a farm girl and I'm not afraid of a little winter weather, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about Minnesota winters and honestly I'm a little freaked out about surviving the cold, because I am the quintessential summer person. I do not mix with snow... we'll see how this works out. This blog is mostly my attempt to keep everyone updated and to catalog my encounters with Minnesotans, I hear they are really nice!
I'm moving to Minnesota because I just got a job (and by job, I mean unpaid internship) at the Guthrie Theater. Here's the link if you wanna check it out: http://www.guthrietheater.org/. I will be a stage management intern from July to November and I will have the chance to work on three different shows. I can't actually type out how excited I am about this adventure, but I will try, I think it looks something like this: A;EOIJAOIDFAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHOWJFOJWFOIJDWOVHOLYCRAP!!!!AOIJ???OFWIVALDJAAAAHHHHHALEIFJWOOOHOOOOOO! and then some.
Before I leave for Minnesota, I am heading to the lesser north (aka Kirksville) to hang with a bunch of nerdy teenagers (aka kids who are cooler than me) for JBA and I'm almost as excited about that as I am for the Guthrie. It's basically all of the end of the last paragraph with fewer Ws. Since JBA doesn't start until June and I didn't find out about the Guthrie until yesterday, I have been operating on the pretense that this is summer vacation, but on productive acid. And by productive, I mean of course watching lots of movies. Which brings me to the ultimate point of this first blog post and serves as an introduction to what is probably going to be a regular occurrence on this page: I have to explain my obsession with films and the people in them.
Michael Douglas. Who would've thought? Here's a tangent if I've ever seen one (but I wasn't very good at math): I graduated from college and had a party. Simple enough. I made a playlist that I am very proud of, it's on my YouTube page. On this list were songs like Black or White, All for You, More than a Feeling and here it is: When the Going Gets Tough by Billy Ocean. If you haven't heard of it, look it up. You'll be listening to it for days. So, that song is on the soundtrack of The Jewel of the Nile, starring (hello cyclical) Michael Douglas. I decided to watch it because I got a free trial of Netflix (pointless detail) and found out it was the sequel to Romancing the Stone, and I cannot watch sequels first. It's almost as wrong as shopping for boots in the summertime. Anyway, I had to watch both of them and Michael Douglas... hot. So, then I watched The American President and The War of the Roses. Completely worth the lost day I spent staring at my computer screen. I already have a slight thing for older men, so it makes sense, but Catherine Zeta-Jones knew what she was doing.
People in Minneapolis will be so happy to have me around, right? I mean who wouldn't want someone this random hanging out with them, eh?
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