Life is picking up again...there never seems to be enough time in the day. And who would've thought that blogging could be so energy-consuming?

I saw Shutter yesterday. It was surprisingly good! I was covering my eyes through half of it though, because I HATE jumping, but fortunately the film didn't solely rely on the jump factor; there were some pretty legit goosebump moments as well. I'd see it again...but probably not in theaters, because there is no such thing as movie that is worth $9.25

I'm officially going to the UW! My parents are sending in the $250 enrolement fee and I'm going to be finish up applying for residency soon, too...so exciting! I got a response from Moira MacDonald of the Seattle Times, and she said that she never actually took Journalism o_0 Hmm...what should I explore in then? So many questions and so few people capable of answering them...

I've been acting strange lately. I can't even write like my usual self.
Muffy over and out!

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Okay. I'm afraid to come out and say this because it means that I will have officially made up my mind despite the fact that I want to keep all options open. My head says "I don't know" but my heart says otherwise.

I think I'm going to the UW. My parents and I had a talk to get some things out in the open. They said that if I wanted to continue jump roping I would have to finance it myself, which I am more than willing to do. They also said that I wouldn't have to live at home! At that point I think I was already convinced...and it got even better when I discovered that working on staff for The Daily, the UW student newspaper, is a paid position. Everything is falling into place almost too well, I'm nervously waiting for the one hitch to throw my plans awry.

Since the paper isn't technically a "class," as far as I know, I'm debating whether or not to major in Communications. Something like psychology would be fun. I just don't want to devote my tuition to some stupid BA degree just for journalism, which doesn't even pay well. It's lame, everything I have an interest in has zero career outlook.

I just finished e-mailing a few staffers from the Seattle Times, so hopefully they can give me a bit more insight....

I might sound really apprehensive, but beneath the uncertainty I'm sooo excited

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I haven't thought about my jump rope career for some time now. There was a point last year where I realized that I probably wouldn't be continuing to jump through college, and I was really okay with it...until my coach sent me to Ohio on November 29th 2007. That boosted me to a whole new level of involvement with the sport and totally screwed me over because I began to realize how much I loved it and didn't want to give it up.

Until now, I've avoided contemplating the touchy subject, but my recent acceptance to the UW has sparked a small commotion that neither my parents or I can ignore. My coach was dancing when I told her I made it in...and then parents whom I have hardly spoken to are offering to drive me to practice? My dad was a little bit overwhelmed by the response, because he had his heart set on this being my last year. He slipped, though: "Brian, if you go to Worlds again I'm not paying for it." OH MY GOD. This is huge. He's envisioning a future that might possibly have jump rope? If I could jump during college....just the thought is exhilerating. I am not exaggerating when I say that jump roping at the UW would probably be the best four years of my life.

I have a Journalism conference tomorrow. From 9am to 4:30pm...and then tolo a few hours later. I will be one tired Muffy...tired, but very very happy

Oh
And just for the sake of sensationalism...I'm not sure if I mentioned earlier, but Jesse chipped his two front teeth trying a trick called the Death Wish, aptly named because you fly toward the ground with your hands behind your back. Anyhow, he was "peer-pressured" into trying it at trials, and, well...the video tells all.

The funny part is the cackling mothers. One of them even says:
"Did you see what they were trying to do? You do a handstand...then you lower." She says it with such earnesty, it's hilarious because she's dead wrong.

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So I worked out for about an hour and a half yesterday, watching a movie. It wasn't a good pump-up movie like Rocky. It wasn't even the Matrix. Hell, it wasn't even remotely masculine. No...I watched 13 Going on 30.

There's something about that movie that just stikes a chord with me. No, I'm not a thirteen year-old girl who magically fast-forwards her life and discovers who she'll be in the future....it's the underlying stuff, like the little kid in all of us. I know there's a little kid in me. The whole idea of growing up has been incredibly relevant in my life lately, and it's really scary. Who am I going to be when I'm older? Hell I don't know...I just know that there aren't any do-overs, there isn't a way to go back and fix those stupid mistakes. FIX THEM NOW.

I don't know what it is with that movie...I just love it. And it has Vienna (Billy Joel) on the soundtrack and that makes it about fifty times better. If that scene wasn't in the movie I don't think I'd be sitting here blathering on like I'm doing now (bwahah I'm actually listening to it on my iPod as we speak...it's something of an inspiration).

I'm just feeling overly sentimental today. It sounds really nerdy, but I keep a do-now list in my documents, and at the end of every day I've started to put down something that's made me happy. Some of it's stupid, little things like "dinner was really good," but in the end it reminds you what you haveh to be thankful for. If you don't remember what makes you happy in life, what's the point of living?

P.S. Got accepted to the UW today I am on a fucking roll, people

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