Paige Feldstein

I’m going to see Quietdrive at Summerfest on Saturday! They’re playing at 8pm which is right before Anberlin (10pm) at the US Cellular Connection Stage, if you’re a fan of either and/or you’re in the area, you should go! There’ll very likely be fireworks!

/epic

Because this is Wisconsin, that’s why.

Two and a half weeks ago, I was complaining that we didn’t have summer yet. It was 60 degrees at best every single day and downright chilly every night.

A little over a week ago, it warmed up. But it rained and was overcast almost every day. We got inches, and I mean inches of rain in just a couple of hours. Basements flooded, streets were blocked off…it was almost no better than cold.

Now, it’s 90 degrees every day with ungodly humidity and not a cloud in the sky.

Can the weather here ever be mild?

I heard about the upcoming movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, on NPR this morning. It made me really happy.

“I said once that you were neither a leader nor a follower. I think perhaps you’re something more rare. A catalyst. A catalyst for change, hope, faith. This group of you, God willing the last of you, have been different. What does it mean to live without fear? What lessons are we to take from your presence among us?” He shook his head. “I don’t know. I know only that in your own way, you inspire us.”

-Excerpt from Santa Olivia, my favorite author’s new book.
It was pretty good. Not her BEST book, but since her other books are historical fantasy, and this one is postmodern, it was a really smooth transition.

I’ve been writing for as long as I can remember. Poetry, stories, dreams…anything that jumps out at me when it’s shooting around in my brain.

In recent years, it’s been more and more difficult to do so, and I have some ideas as to why that is, but that’s not really important at the moment.

Words used to string themselves together effortlessly in my head, sometimes they were good, sometimes not so good, but it was easy. It’s not easy anymore, and for a while I thought the words were lost forever. It was the only ability I had that I could take such joy in, and now I’ve begun to re-teach myself. I don’t think it will ever be as fluid and sudden as lightning, like it used to be, but if I have to spend my whole life striving, it’s a worthy task.

“She wore her tinkling silver charms and bore her long and puckering scars with a transcendent grace, such that when one looked upon her, both were of equal and peerless beauty.”
-6/5/09

A lot of people have asked me recently where it is that I’ve been working. I reply, “Oh, I work in the Business Office of the College of Communications at Marquette.”

Honestly, that sounds really important, and technically, my job is important–just not in the way you’re thinking.

My day is going pretty normally.
My boss is out today, but I’ve had lots of work to do.

I put more paper in the copy machines and the fax machine.
I got someone a band-aid out of the first aid cabinet.
I helped another person find those plastic tab things that go on top of the hanging folders that hold all your file folders? (Do those have a name? If they do, I don’t know it. Neither did she.)
I looked up some stuff online.
I Made copies.won the epic battle with the copy machine.
I Delivered interdepartmental mail. got lost in one of the older buildings.
I sat at my desk for a few minutes wondering what to do.
I sorted the mail.
I polished a big silver bowl/award thingy. (I think some of those finger prints were from like, 1988)
I wondered what to do with the big silver bowl thingy.
I carried the big silver bowl thingy down the hallway and back, and hoped someone would recognize it and tell me where it goes, all while trying not to touch it.
I found the person with the keys to the display case.
I carefully put the silver bowl thingy in the display case.
I got the key stuck in the display case. (Not my fault, there was a screw loose in the lock.)
I fixed the lock on the display case.
I felt like Harry Potter in detention cleaning the trophy room and laughed at my clever reference. looked like a crazy person because I was standing in the hallway laughing by myself.

Pretty soon, I’ll have lunch. take a walk because I really want a cigarette.
We’ll see what happens after that. But with a job like mine (one that sounds like it’s very important, and is) who can say what I’ll be doing tomorrow?

(MLIA.)

I’m a college student. Other than massive cram times, my lifestyle is fairly laid back. So, you can imagine, when I went from full time bum student to full time employee, I was just beat.

I guess the point is, I’d just like to say TGIF and have a great weekend to all those nine-to-fivers out there.

Well, I had my last final today and my mom and I moved all of my crap out of my dorm room to haul back to Waukesha for the summer. I’m done, and yet, I can’t get rid of the OMG-THERE’S-GOT-TO-BE-SOMETHING-I-SHOULD-BE-DOING feeling.

But anyway, I have one day where I can sort of rest before I start working full time on Friday. LOL. That figures, but honestly I’m just thankful to have a job.

It was pretty good actually.

I really liked the way they edited the original plot-lines a little to make it all work cinematically. And also the fight scene with Deadpool was fucking amazing…but I also really like what I affectionately term “Dick Flicks”. It’s like a “Chick Flick” except instead of being a romantic comedy or whatever, it’s a movie featuring an inordinate amount of explosions and attractive women than is necessary or even probable for the time allotted. LOL, that’s why me and the guys can go out to the midnight showing of the newest X-Men movie without anyone worrying over whether I wanted to go in the first place. It’s often me who organized such adventures in the past.

I have this feeling I can’t shake.

It’s the feeling that I’m forgetting something…that there’s something I should be doing that I’m not doing…

I honestly believe that i’m not missing anything… it’s not like I have homework, I know I have to work-tomorrow, I’m not going to be late to my roommate’s dance recital because me and the camera are ready to go…hmmmm…