Activities of An Isomniac (This One to be Exact)

Loads of people have trouble falling asleep at night, and I am unfortunately one of that multitude. When I am lying there in my bed not sleeping, I am instead spending the wee hours of the night/morning doing the following (5 the least often, and so on to 1):

5) Planning the Next Day:
VS.
I envision myself waking up early, doing yoga, eating healthy meals, doing productive things, and going on adventures. However, the next day I usually get up at 12, eat less than healthy meals, do nothing productive, watch about 8 hours of Mad Men/Conan/Craig/30 Rock, waste money on movie tickets/dinner/unnecessary purchases such as tv box sets, and then go back to bed. The initial exercise of planning is therefore pointless and kind of sad. Which leads me to my next activity...

4) Berating Myself:

Here are some sample questions I ask myself/torture myself with: "Why didn't you do anything today?" "Don't you know that your time on this earth gets shorter every day?" "Why didn't you flirt back with that cute boy on the T?" "Shouldn't you have taken a shower today?"

3) Having Mock Conversations:

Such as with the aforementioned "cute boy on the T". We usually discuss how excited we both are for the last season of Lost, how awesome fun. is, and the changes in Conan's approach to comedy on the Tonight Show compared to Late Night.
Wow. That looks even sadder written down.
Moral of the story: worst life.

2) Writing:

I am currently typing The Rum Diary on my portable underwood, and writing The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye in notebooks. I started doing this because I read/saw? somewhere that Hunter S. Thompson used to type his favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway works to better understand the flow of the writing.
There are sometimes (sad) attempts at writing my own stuff, mainly poems and short stories.
I have also started (and scrapped/gave up on) mock Grey's Anatomy scripts, an orginal tv series called "Chuckleheads", and the next great american novel about 12 times.
On another note: Why haven't I become a wunderkind yet?

1) Interviewing For Prospective Jobs:

I do this a lot in the shower as well. For reasons unknown, I really enjoy daydreaming about future interviews I will go on. (While re-reading this before posting it I am proud that I wrote "will" instead of "want to" or "might") It is usually for jobs with NBC page program, Tonight Show, 30 Rock, Late Late Show, or SNL. Basically what I do is think of what kind of questions they will ask me, and then attempt to craft the perfect response. I've come to the conclusion that if I never get a job in television the last few years of my life may or may not have been a waste.

Mmm ham[m]

So "30 Rock" is awesome, if you don't think so, you clearly don't know what constitutes awesome. My love for Tina Fey has only grown with the addition of the super gorgeous and adorable Jon Hamm to the show.

(can't take credit for making this but it is about accurate)

I have now started watching "Mad Men"...and am HOOKED. Since it's been around, "Mad Men" to me has been "that show that's really amazing, and wins every award under the sun, but I don't know one person who actually watches".
Now I watch. And shall continue to watch.

(look how sly/good looking this man is)

In other news...I WENT TO A TAPING OF LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN LAST NIGHT! It was beyond amazing. I was in the second row! I could have jumped over the railing, beat the security guy, and touched Conan...that's how close he was to me. But I am too much of an upstanding citizen.

here are some pictures!

My bestest friend julie mac with her awesome (and hand-made!!) bag and me - next to the greatest sign of all time! (yes we do have the same coat in different colors)


a tad bit of "office" loving


my wristband! (now sealed with multiple layers of scotch tape to preserve itself on my wrist for as long as possible)


had to buy a conan mug obviously!


Okay now I need to read some Aristotle...woo good times! yay english major!

The List

Although never a static list for more than a few weeks, I decided to give you all my current top ten men list:

"Top 10 Men: Those I Love But Will Never Love Me Back"

Number 1: Johnny Depp

All the other ranks tend to fluctuate but number 1 NEVER changes.
There is just no contest.

Number 2: Mr.Darcy of Pride and Prejudice (book)

I see a Keira Knightley trend happening...haha
I know the BBCColinFirth fans probably hate me for putting up THAT Mr.Darcy, but I own and have seen both versions and prefer Matthew as well as the newer film version. My pick though is not for either film's versions of Darcy, but the way I see the Mr.Darcy of my mind in reading the actual book. He is a perfect gentleman, distant and shy but so utterly in love with Elizabeth it is heartwrenchingly beautiful to behold.

Number 3: Howard Roark of The Fountainhead (book)

There is a film version of the book with Gary Cooper, but I have yet to see it. Also, Gary Cooper is not at all what I had in mind for the character of Howard while reading The Fountainhead, and therefore do not want to use his picture.
Howard Roark is pure and everything a man should be. He also rapes the love of his life and it's romantic...yeah...he can make rape romantic.

Number 4: Robert Downey Jr.

Ah RDJ! I feel he and Johnny are similar in that they can be both adorable and bad-ass at the same time. RDJ just seems so goddamn cool. Also I love reading his interviews because he's completely insane and makes little sense, but you just know he's brilliant. He and Johnny should be best friends, that is if the world doesn't implode with too much awesomeness in one place. Favorite movie of his by far is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, go see it now! Iron Man obviously is dynamite as well. Ah! And how can I forgot Tropic Thunder! It's sad that he doesn't have a chance to win the Oscar (obviously going to be Heath) but I think his role in that movie is both really hilarious & important.

Number 5: Conan O'Brien

AKA the funniest man on the planet. Although he may be no Johnny Depp, his humor is so attractive to me. Also sidenote: I AM GOING TO LATE NIGHT ON FEBRUARY 16th! BE JEALOUS! I cannot wait, I think I've watched every single episode of late night for at least the last 3 years.

Number 6: Clive Owen

A beautiful, beautiful man. It was love at first sight when I first saw Closer, a film I now consider one of my favorites of all time.

Number 7: McDreamy of Grey's Anatomy

To make this clear, I do not mean Patrick Dempsey. I personally think Patrick Dempsey is a huge tool, but his character of Derek Shepherd is a wonderful, gorgeous man. I used to like McDreamy a lot better, but now that Merder is all stable and normal now his appeal has sort of lessened for me.

Number 8: Vampire Bill of True Blood

I have recently discovered the wonderly creepy show True Blood and therein found Vampire Bill. If Mr.Darcy was a vampire he would be Vampire Bill. Nuff said.

Number 9: Ned The Piemaker of Pushing Daisies

ADORABLE ADORABLE man & show (recently cancelled...ABC=thumbs down) The vulnerability and innocence of Lee Pace's character is so endearing and hard not to fall in love with him.

Number 10: Jack Driscoll of King Kong & kind of Adrien Brody himself

I loveee this character, maybe it's the playwrite thing. However I go back and forth on Adrien Brody in general though.


That's what the list looks like as of this moment. I guarantee in a few weeks it will be completely different...well all except number one :)