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haha. loves it. so, wow! the first day of Blog Reader Appreciation Week 2009 has come and gone! and we had a winner!!!! our new friend JD. congratulations!! so happy about this. i can't wait for more winners.

*AND, i think after the appreciation week is over, i will post an entry about how to claim your prize. so, no worries, you will get prizes. and they are super great. i'm excited for you to get them. actually, i have more prizes than days in the appreciation week. so, i'll have to come up with something clever.*

oh! i went to bed last night and immediately thought, "hm, there was something i wanted to blog about." but i couldn't remember what it was.

but you're in luck because i remember now! (also, my "b" key is giving me trouble.)

i wanted to talk about coincidences. i experienced a coincidence the other day. tuesday. let me tell you about it.

- so, i was at the hospital with a resident. she had a prenatal appointment. we got the hear the baby's heartbeat! oh, i love that. so, we were getting into the elevator to leave, and this nice family got in. a mother, a girl, and a boy. i'm assuming they were a family, but i guess you never know. and the boy was wearing some sort of college sweatshirt. i think from somewhere in pennsylvania. it was blue and orange. and he was pretty handsome. and he was wearing green shorts. so, i noticed him because he was a cutie. and we got off on the same parking garage level. level 8. and then went out separate ways.

i drove back home. dropped off the resident. checked-in a bit about the appointment. went home. did some stuff. then i had to go to the bank and exchange my Euro to Dollar. i left about 4pm. that took a while because they needed to look up a bunch of stuff and fill out a bunch of paperwork.

man, when you exhange Dollar for Euro they just take your money immediately. but when they're giving you money back, it takes like, half an hour. whatever.

so then, i said, "oh, i need to go to JoAnn Fabrics to get some green beads." so, i did that. i actually got more than just green beads. i got another bead case too, because i was very quickly running out of space in my old bead case. so now i have two bead cases. it rocks.

and then, as i'm standing in the check-out line, who walks in?? the cute boy from the hospital elevator!!!! i'm like, "NO WAY." it was so weird. and he starts talking to someone in line behind me, and i turn around, and it's his (assumed) mother and sister!!! i was like, "omg what is happening right now?!?!" we made eye contact, but he obviously didn't recognize me.

so i'm like, "holy crap this is so weird. i am experiencing a coincidence right now." and then i thought, "if i had a 'let's be friends' business card, i would totes give him one right now."

and then he left the store, while his (assumed) family was still in line. and he was shouting something about not being able to find Izze drinks at Shaw's grocery store. it was strange.

and i kept thinking about it. like, "wow. i saw him twice in the same day in two very different places." like, how random is it to see him in JoAnn's?!?! seriously.

and i was thinking and thinking about it. and then i got home and decided to watch I Heart Huckabees. all about coincidences. (and also, jason schwartzman hottttttnesssss) man, i really like that movie. it's really funny. was i recently talking about it to you?? hm. was it?

OH YEAH! i was talking about Mark Wahlberg producing Entourage and then i started talking about Coconut Records. that's right.

anyways. I Heart Huckabees. have you seen it? are you a fan? it's about coincidences.

and then seeing that movie made me remember the biggest coincidence OF MY LIFE. and probably of Jenny Valeri's life too. this is weird. are you prepared? i probably wrote about it when it happened.

ah yes, here it is. vintage Misty Green and Blue. from the livejournal chronicles. ok, this was written 29 October, 2005.

now i will tell you about my favorite costume of the evening.

there was this boy dressed as Max Fisher from Rushmore. let me tell you, he looked exactly like jason schwartzman. it was kind of amazing. his navy blue blazer was complete with pins that said, 'Mathematics' and 'Excellence.' he had on a red hat, striped tie, and thich black glasses. omg. he was my lover for the night. AND, he was the most amazing dancer EVER. first, we saw him under the big tent rocking out, then we went into the RCC where there was dancing and a DJ and he was going crazy. he really had some nice moves. and the fact that he was dressed as Max made it soo perfect. everytime i saw him, i couldn't take my eyes off of him. HE WAS DRESSED AS JASON SCHWARTZMAN. think about this: i go crazy talking about him in my livejournal, think about how i would act if i saw someone dressed as him.
YEAH. EXACTLY.

we saw him multiple times during the evening. but, the last time we went to the RCC for some dancing we were leaving and he walked past us, now, i almost said something, but i got too nervous. i opened my mouth to speak, but nothing came out. SO, we walked into the hallway, and jenny saw the boy she has a crush on, so we conviently stopped in the hall to call Rachel, when who should walk out of the RCC, but Max Fisher. so, i gathered up my courage and said, "i think you have an amazing costume." he then proceeded to hang out and talk with us for like, 10 MINUTES. he was the nicest guy ever...

ME: you really look like Max!
MAX: really? i had to have my friends convince me for like 20 minutes
ME: no, you look perfect.
MAX: well, earlier this year one of my friends held up a picture of...umm..umm..what's that guy's name?
ME: JASON SCHWARTZMAN.
MAX: yeah, Jason Schwartzman, and they told me that i looked a lot like him.
ME: yeah, you totally do.

it was the best part of my night. the kid's real name is Jordan and he doesn't actually go to Hampshire, he lives in Northhampton, which is like, 15ish minutes away. he was like,

MAX: yeah, i actually don't go to school.
ME: well, that's ok because Max was kicked out of Rushmore.
MAX: haha! yeah, that's right.

then he was like, "do any of you guys go to Hampshire?" and i was with Maryam and Jenny and we were all like, "Yes, yes we do." anyways, he was the nicest most awesome person ever. he shook all of our hands. he was even short like jason schwartzman. oohhh. he was so perfect.


that was the start of the 'Max Fisher Coincidence' as we shall call it.

me and Jenny talked about this kid A LOT. because he was so awesome and his resemblance to the real Max Fisher was incredible. well, not "the real" max fisher. but, jason schwartzman as max fisher. whatever.

so then, i want to say a few weeks later, we were at our friend Brian's music show. or, concert, as it's more commonly known. ha. anyways. he was giving a show in one of the center of the donuts on campus. oh, ok, i just found that livejournal entry. here we go:


let me tell you about my wonderful night. the night began when we went to see our friend Brian perform in the center of his donut: donut 5. we got there at about 930. it was in the middle of his set when we got there, so everybody turned around when we walked in. i noticed this boy sitting on the floor and when he looked over, i thought, "hmm..that cute boy looks familiar." but i didn't think anything of it. i figured i had seen him around hampshire. so, jenny and i go and sit behind him and his friends and listen to Brian play. he did a great job. yay Brian! so, i keep watching this boy in front of me. even though it's just his back. so, jenny finally turns to me and says, "that boy with the hat sitting in front of us really looks like Jason Schwartzman." AND THEN IT HIT ME.

i looked at the boy again. i froze, realizing where i knew him from. HAMPSHIRE HALLOWEEN. THIS BOY WAS MAX FISHER!!!!!!!! remember how i talked about how i talked to the boy dressed as Max for like 10 minutes and he looked exactly like Jason? and he was SO nice? and he lived in northhampton? and he doesn't go to school? THIS IS THAT BOY. i never thought i would see him again. so, now that we realize who he is, of course i can't take my eyes off of him. he's SO cute! and he seriously looks like jason schwartzman. so, i'm freaking out because i can't decide whether or not to go over and say hi. so, i'm like staring at him for the entire rest of the show. jenny and i decide that it's definitely him, because he's short, he looks like jason, and we both recognized his voice.

so, the show ends. everybody stands up. i start freaking out to jenny and asking her whether or not i should go up to him. of course, she says yes. so, i'm getting really nervous. i can't do it. i can't go up and talk to him. then, jenny reminds me of a lyric from a Ben Lee song that goes, "Just do it, whatever it is." and that makes me realize that if i don't go up and say something, i will regret it for the rest of my life. (this sounds really serious, but at halloween, i was seriously in love with this kid.) So, there's a point in time when he's playing with his cell phone and sort of not interacting with anyone else. so, without even thinking, i walk up to him and say, "hey." he looks at me and says, "hey."

JULIE: Were you Max Fisher for Halloween?
MAX: Yeah!
JULIE: I totally remember you. We were The Bee Gees...(gesturing to Jenny)
MAX: (blankly stares at us) I don't remember the Bee Gees, but I remember your faces.
JULIE: We had the chest hair. We talked for like, 10 minutes...
MAX: Where?
JULIE: Over in the RCC, in like the hallway...
MAX: At Hampshire Halloween?
JULIE: Yeah! We were The Bee Gees...
MAX: Oh, ok. I thought you were talking about the party in my apartment.
JULIE: No, sorry. I was talking about here... (i'm sort of getting confused)
MAX: Cause we also had this really big party in my apartment like, two days after and I met tons of people that I had never met before.
JULIE: Oh, ok.
MAX: I'm Jordan.
JULIE: I'm Julie. (shakes my hand!!)
JENNY: I'm Jenny. (shakes Jenny's hand!!)
MAX: (looks at me and Jenny) Julie, Jenny. Julie, Jenny.
JULIE: Jordan.
MAX: You guys both must go to Hampshire.
JULIE: Yeah...
MAX: I live in Northhampton.
JULIE: Cool...
MAX: You guys should come by my apartment next Saturday. You ever heard of the band (mentions some band)?
JULIE AND JENNY: No..
MAX: (mentions the band again)
JULIE AND JENNY: No...
MAX: Cause the lead singer is gonna be performing in my apartment.
JULIE AND JENNY: Ohhh, cool.
MAX: Yeah, my friend asked me this morning if we could have this concert in the apartment, and I was like, "ummm, ok!"
JULIE: Yeah, that's awesome!
MAX: Yeah. I live like, right downtown
JULIE: We'll be in Northhampton on Tuesday night for a concert.
MAX: Which concert?
JULIE: Ben Lee at the Iron Horse.
MAX: I don't know him.
(at this point, Jenny turns away and it's just me and Max talking)
MAX: So you're...Julie? (shakes my hand again.)
JULIE: (laughs) Yep.
MAX: Julie...Julie...Julie...(keeps shaking my hand for about 30 seconds)
JULIE: Jordan. Jordan.
MAX: I'm Jordan and you're Julie. (we're still shaking hands!!!)
JULIE: That's right.
MAX: Well, I'm gonna have to go.
JULIE: Ok! It was good seeing you again.
MAX: Yeah, you too.

AAHHHAAHA!!!!!!! i couldn't tell if he was a little drunk or not. jenny thought that it was just his normal personality, because he was acting exactly the same at halloween.

i really like the part where he said, "at hampshire halloween?" and then somehow thought we were talking about the party in his apartment. haha. wow, this brings back some really great memories.

SO, how weird was it to see him again? um, totally weird. after this amazing encounter, we went to a party in MOD 25 where we saw him again, as well as this boy who i had (still have) a super big crush on. and then the next day we went to a ben folds concert! it's all coming back.

this was the second incident in the Max Fisher Coincidence. 5 November, 2005.

AND THEN.

the next incident happened while Jenny and i were at a Shawn Fogel concert in Northhampton. totally off campus. in The Basement. which was kind of a hard place to find. it was located under Table 9 rectaurant, ACROSS the street from The Iron Horse.

here we go:

Jenny and i are sitting at our table, to the left of the "stage" and these two boys walk in. I naturally look at the boys (because well, they're BOYS) and my breath catches in my chest. "OH MY GOD." i say aloud. Jenny says it's almost right after me. guess who one of the boys was???!!?!?!?!!? you'll never guess. ready? MY BOYFRIEND JORDAN FROM HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!! the kid who was Max Fisher from Rushmore!!!! and I was totally IN LOVE with him because he looks exactly like Jason Schwartzman. and then we saw him a few weeks ago at Brian's music show at Hampshire. REMEMBER!?!?! if you've been reading my journal since Halloween, you'll know how i feel about this kid. man, he's awesome. and he was with the kid who he was with at Brian's show.

so, they're standing in the middle of the room looking for a place to sit, and Jenny and i are FREAKING OUT at our table, because - HELLO! so, i'm quietly whispering to Jenny, "sit with us, sit with us, sit with us..." so, they like, keep looking over at us. and i wanted to beckon them over to sit down. but, Jordan spots a table across the room. don't worry, we still have a clear view of them from our table.

so, of course, i'm staring at them through the whole beginning of the show. THEY'RE SO CUTE. and they're like, seriously also looking over at us. it's almost as if they recognize us, but can't figure out from where. actually, a few times Jordan and i made serious eye contact. but, if you've read the conversations from the two times where i did go up and talk to him, he is like, permanently stoned or something. that kid is seriously out of it. but, he's so amazing and awesome.

so, i decide right away that i will not go up and say anything to him, because that would make me seem like sort of a creep. i mean, i had already gone up to him TWICE to tell him basically, that i love him. and both times he was totally clueless. although, he did invite us to his apartment. he also thought that he met us at his apt during one of his halloween parties. even after we told him we met him at Hampshire Halloween. oh well. IT WAS AMAZING.

so, all of a sudden, they get up out of their chairs and i'm thinking, "OH MY GOD, they're coming to sit with us." BUT, instead, they leave. WHATEVER. it was so lame. and they didn't even wait for applause, they left in the middle of a song. weirdos. so, i didn't get to talk to him again. but i really think that he might've recognized me. Jenny said that tomorrow when he wakes up, he'll probably be like, "wait a minute, those girls looked familiar..." cause that's just how awesome he is.


WOW. that makes THREE completely separate times that we saw this kid. coincidence? it's been the best one.

also, i would like to point out that in my 'flashback' i referred to it as "Brian's music show" and not "Brian's concert." so, i guess i liked the term 'music show' better than 'concert' even back in 2005. whatever, it made me laugh.

and that was the last time we saw the Max Fisher kid. that last time was weird, though. because it was like, "what are the freaking odds?" at that point it seemed more like fate. i mean, clearly we were going to get married. but, that didn't happen. it turned into a coincidence. i guess if we do end up getting married, that would be weird. then it would turn back into fate, i guess. i don't know what i'm talking about, really.

but, coincidences. have you ever had one? like, a big one? like the Max Fisher Coincidence?

and then thinking about the Max Fisher kid made me want to see Rushmore. but, since i misplaced my awesome Criterion Collection copy of Rushmore many years ago, i had to go out and Rent it. i don't know why i capitalized the 'r' in rent. i guess i'm used to talking about the musicial.

and i'm at the cashier and she says,

CASHIER: Ugh, this kid annoyed me so bad the first time I saw this movie.

now, i totally didn't understand what she was talking about.

CASHIER: I couldn't stand him.

then, i realized she was talking about Max. so i said,

JULIE: Well, I'm going through a bit of a Jason Schwartzman phase, and this is one of my favorite movies.
CASHIER: You don't think he's annoying??
JULIE: In the movie?
CASHIER: Yeah!!
JULIE: Nooo!!! He's sweet and lovable.
CASHIER: Wait, am I thinking of the right movie? Is this the one where he's terrorizing Bill Murray?
JULIE: Yeah!!
CASHIER: Sweet and lovable???
JULIE: Why not? It's Jason Schwartzman, how can you not love him???
CASHIER: What about that movie where he stole the girl's hair?
JULIE: Huh?
CASHIER: He was like, obsessed with this girl and he stole the hair from her brush....?
JULIE: Oh yeah! Ok, he was kind of a creeper in that movie.

i like this cashier. i've had her a couple times before. the first time was when i rented some Emile Hirsh movie and we had this interaction:

CASHER: Hm, what's this movie about?
JULIE: Um, I don't really know. I'm just on an Emile Hirsh kick.

yeah. that time i admitted to being on an Emile Hirsh kick. and then last night i was going through a Jason Schwartzman phase. i hope she doesn't remember these things. but, she was the one to recommend i see The Girl Next Door. with Emile Hirsh. and i totally loved that movie.

i just want to talk about movies with other people all day long. how can i turn that into a job??

anyways. what the heck was i talking about before?? i can't remember.

i think i discovered something about the ruggedly handsome post office worker today. i think the reason why i don't see him in the actual post office all the time is that he is the carrier man who brings the mail to your house.

or, brings the male to your house. yes please. i think i saw him today in our neighborhood. and it really made me wish that we had mail delivered. (male delivered)

i had a dream last night that everybody in the world had died. EXCEPT FOR: my family, the richardson family, and james cameron.

that is for serious. and in the dream, i remember thinking, "now we can ask him all the Titanic questions we want!" like, what?!?! what is my problem!?? i wasn't thinking something like, "uh oh, how are we going to survive?!?!?" nope. i was thinking about Titanic.

i also woke up with a bad headache. i wonder what that means. it's been weird not sleeping with my eye mask. everything is brighter.

there was a lime green flying bug in my room last night. and me and Ruby Tuesday stayed up for 20 minutes trying to catch it.

- first we were sitting on the bed together looking around for it.
- then i got up and picked her up and we looked for it more.
- then i put her down on the bed and was standing over her. then she reached up and tugged at the bottom of my shirt with her paws. so, i picked her back up.
- and we were standing in the room when something whizzed by us.
- it was the lime green bug!
- Ruby reached out her paw and caught it mid-air, swatted it down to the ground, and then leaped to go catch it.
- it was a remarkable sight.
- she followed it around the room for a while. then i think she ate it.

it was a weird lime green bug, though. it looked like it was wearing a helmet. or, a mask, or something. like, it didn't have a face.

hm. what else exciting can i tell you about?

i went out today to run errands and it was in the daytime. like, 2pm or something. and i really had to force myself to leave the house. i think i am meant to be an owl. or a bed bug. or an earwig. something nocturnal. a bat, maybe.

speaking of earwigs. did i tell you they are everywhere??? omg, they are so effing gross. at first i thought it was just in my apartment. but i was talking with one of the residents and she said she had been seeing a ton of them on the second floor. so, i wrote it in the log book so everyone will know.

but, just like with the bed bugs, they are nocturnal! so, i feel like nobody believes me, or knows how bad it is. and, it doesn't affect the daytime staff (which is everyone except me), so i feel that they just dont' understand.

but, the story that earwigs will crawl into your ear and into your brain is just a myth. they won't do that. so, that's good.

but they are gross. like long beetles with pinchers at the end. but, i think the pinchers aren't harmful. or, they don't use them or something. maybe that's wrong.

i had been only finding them in my living room. UNTIL. last night when i started finding them in my sink. THAT was freaking gross. so, i washed it down the drain. but then it crawled back up!! so, i washed it down the drain again, and then covered up the drain with a lid. ugh. they gross me out so bad.

and then i found one in my hallway.

anyways. ugh. i dread them. Ruby Tuesday even doesn't like them. they have big pinchers!

ok. enough grossness.

i have to work at 9pm tonight, so i'm going to go. i have to write my blog reader appreciation entry anyways. hooray!!!!! night number two!!!!!!!

see you at the party!!!!!!

lovelovelove!