Fragment: FRIENDS

At any given moment, whether I'm up or down, FRIENDS always makes me laugh (the show that is!).

I love EACH and every one of the characters these 6 people play. I can't ever decide which is my favorite.

-Monica reminds me of my perfectionism and OCD ;) So, I love her in that way.

-Rachel is a beautiful, charming girl who everyone loves to watch :P

-Phoebe is hilarious!!!!!!! I laugh by just looking at her face :D :D :D

-Joey's naiveness, goofiness and soft heart is cute and endearing.

-Chandler is such a good man, who makes me laugh with his honest remarks.

-Ross forever in love with Rachel, reminds me of oh! so many feelings and stories.

Definitely, one of my favorite shows of all times! When in front of a TV (which is very seldom), Friends is one of the only 2 shows I'd be watching (Sex and the City being the other, of course).

"Six young people, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life."

NOTE: I love that they always hang out at the coffee shop!

Fragment: A DAY...today!

So this is what a day in my life is like sometimes; more so lately because of the situation at the symphony. Oh, right, I haven't written about this yet.

The thing is that our conductor resigned about 4 months ago. We got assigned a new conductor, this time a dominican (YEY!), whose put the orchestra under a deep restructuration process. We haven't had concerts or even rehearsals since March! Auditions for the whole orchestra have been announced, and they are obligatory. So, basically, we have 2 months to study the assigned orchestral excerpts and solo concert to audition in August, and then...get fired? raise our salary? get promoted, moved to another stand? who knows? As I've said before, I enjoy my job very much...it is SO unpredictable. Keeps me at the tip of my toes ;) Uuuuuuyyyyyy!But somehow, I have managed to keep myself busy, although I am basically jobless :S Playing with my buttons, socializing here and there, hooked to the series 24, singing at church, scarce gigs and other rehearsals, renting movies, working some hours at Crescendo, paying some bills, crashing my car, and the most recent, my new form of smart entertainment: SUDOKU!

(Oh man, I just noticed the clarinet wasn't even slightly mentioned in the paragraph above...hmmm...ok, I need to get on it!)

"The following events took place between 8Am and 4PM today" (like the 24 influence in me? jaja):

-Woke up at 8am; had coffee and cereal; watched 24, Season 2 Disc 2

-Checked e-mails

-Worked on Abotonada stuff (finished Nicky's order, yey!)

-Finally found a new way to close my button bracelets (I'm so excited!)

-Showered; made myself a light lunch

-Watched some more 24 (so GOOD!)

-Walked to my new favorite spot, the new coffee shop in my neighborhood; had my cortadito and did some SUDOKU!

-Walked back home; Lemay came to visit for a bit

-Finished 24, Season 2 Disc 2 (can't wait to go get Disc 3!)

-Started setting up my Etsy shop (finally!); still not done, but chk it out http://www.nenygq.etsy.com/

-Talked to my sister and little brother on the phone while I made myself some pasta for dinner

-Blogged ;)

What a day, huh?!

"24"

Ok, so I am officially hooked to the TV series 24! For those who know me, I know you must be wondering what has gotten into me. I usually AVOID anything with scary contents that create unnecessary tension in my life, especially if it contains too much of a death poll. And...24 IS about ALL this!

So, you are right. There IS some external influence that has led me to watch this. The other day, I was at a restaurant with a group of friends, and one of them started talking about 24 with so much excitement. The description given was so fascinating that I felt immediately intrigued. Soon enough after that day, I surrendered to my own standards of 'things I don't like to watch', and found myself renting the first disc of 24.

The series is shown in "real-time", meaning, each minute that passes while you're in front of the TV, actually corresponds to a minute in the lives of the characters. When there are commercial breaks, a digital clock appears on the screen showing the time, for example, 12:37pm, and when the show comes back from commercial, the same clock appears, now showing 12:41pm; it actually counts the real time that passed when the commercials interrupted the story. So even though we are seeing commercials, the story has kept going! Isn't this just amazingly thought out! How inventive and ingenious of the writers to create something like this!

There's a lot of killing and thrilling tension, but I am so fascinated and, surprisingly, HOOKED! I'm on Season 1, disc 4 right now, 1:00 to 2:00pm...Can't wait to finish my first 24 hours!

Oh, by the way, JACK BAUER is like...THE MAN!!!!!!!!!