I was encouraged to start a blog after camp, and although this kind of does sorta count as one, I have made a wordpress account. Come and read! http://www.dianasu.wordpress.com.

I still have attachments to this journal, just because LJ has been much easier and familiar to use than wordpress. SO I will continue this journal for more "personal" entries. If that makes sense. Also, how do you make this friends only?

It's been awhile since I've made a serious post here, but after coming home from an intense, two week journalism camp, I find myself a little more confident about my writing skills, a little more addicted to Facebook, and a little more confused about college. I think I spent so long saying that I wasn't sure what I wanted to do to cover up the fact that I was afraid to do what I wanted to do.

My dad asked me why I didn't want to go to a certain college, and I replied that I wasn't interested in any of their programs. When he asked me what programs I was interested in, I simply didn't feel like answering.

The only thing that's solidified in me after coming home is that I would like to write on my college newspaper. Leaving San Luis Obispo left me in a little rut for a couple days. I just want to go back to the little journalism haven I was in for two weeks and hide from reality for a little bit longer.

In fact, there's no better way to say "Welcome Home!" than being woken up at 7:30 AM in the morning to the house cleaners vacuuming in your room. I had to get up sheepishly (because it's rude to continue snoring away when someone's tidying up your stuff) when the lady asked me in broken English, "I clean?"

I looked at her with bleary eyes and mumbled a yes before relocating to the guest room for some uninterrupted sleep.

Five minutes later, I heard the unmistakable rumble of the vacuum cleaner sucking around my bed.

Here we go again.

Such boundless pleasure
We've no time for later now
You can't await your own arrival
20 seconds to comply

Well, I'm a senior now?


I've missed taking pictures. Finally got around to it this morning after a jog. I think I have a camera fetish for plants.

Yeah. I thought by this time I'd be really focused and buckle down on what I really need to do. But in all honesty? College is still in a faraway kingdom in the back of my mind. School doesn't start for two months; I'll vegetate all I want.

I've been trying to keep up running everyday so I don't lose every muscle I gained during season. It's a bit weird that I haven't been going to volleyball practice... I feel like I'm guilty of ditching or something. But for now, I've decided I'm not coming back to it next year.

I haven't had a really idle summer since junior high. Everybody's off doing internships and such... and I'm watching season 2 of House. Oh well.

"What sort of girlfriend would you like?"
"One that says yes."



(Anyone notice that judge Amanda always looks like she's trying to pose for a magazine shoot? She's always trying to pull this pensive look or something...)

If I died and went to a chickflick filmmaker's nerd heaven, I'd probably see this guy. Something about him is just WAY too nerdy to be true... I have yet to meet anyone with a horrible slouch who sounds like Kermit the Frog and wears that get up at school--and I have seen my fair share of "nerds".

Anyway, the sad thing is that people were judging him before he said anything (Okay, I was judging him too) but then all of sudden it was okay because he's making fun of himself, and we like that about people! It was funny because he's saying the exact things that all of us were probably thinking.

Which brings me to that overnight sensation Susan Boyle who wowed the crowds with her show stopper voice. Here's the thing-- people were saying that they learned the lesson of "not judging a book by its cover." But it wouldn't have been that way if Susan Boyle turned out to be horrible at singing. It just amazed me how many people reacted to her shocked with the idea that "ugly" people have talent. Had she sounded like a dying pig people would have deemed her a loser anyway and moved on with their lives. (I.E. William Hung, who crushed the spirits of Asian Americans across the world with his ridiculousness...he now records his, what, second studio album?!) On the other hand, if she were PRETTY but sucked at singing, hey who gives a care? Paris Hilton makes a fortune anyway!

Unfortunately, the kind of pop culture we're used to is engineered to produce girls who have to flash their boobies around and sing about getting laid. Britney Spears wouldn't have gotten anywhere if she were 350 pounds because no one would have wanted to see her dancing with fat jiggling around. That's the hard truth.

My point is though, it's not that Susan Boyle HAD talent so she was inspiring (although her talent alone was very good)...it's that she had the courage to keep her head high and smile and shake her little rump on stage even when everyone was laughing. THAT'S why it was inspiring. And the fact that she proved everybody wrong only added to it. "Ugly" people are human beings too you know. And that's just the hard truth.

This topic is pretty last year already but fun fact: Apparently the guy that played Eugene IS actually a comedy routine by the actor so he really was too good to be true. Really good comedic timing... but that's a whole 'nother story.