Gilligan

God, I was just trying so hard (it's late at night; really late) to remember the theme song for Sesame Street, but all I was coming up with was the Gilligan's Island theme.

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.

The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.

The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The minnow would be lost, the minnow would be lost.

The ship set ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle
With Gilligan
The Skipper too,
The millionaire and his wife,
The movie star
The professor and Mary Ann,
Here on Gilligan's Isle.

So this is the tale of the castaways,
They're here for a long, long time,
They'll have to make the best of things,
It's an uphill climb.

The first mate and the Skipper too,
Will do their very best,
To make the others comfortable,
In the tropic island nest.

No phone, no lights no motor cars,
Not a single luxury,
Like Robinson Crusoe,
As primitive as can be.

So join us here each week, my friends,
You're sure to get a smile,
From seven stranded castaways,
Here on "Gilligan's Isle."

On this show there was usually a brief, slapstick cold open, transitioning into a truncated version of this theme. But every so glorious often, they would start with the full theme. I remember sitting in the den at my grandmother's house, planning out what I'd watch with the TV Guide, and the frisson/ joy of getting the full theme. It almost obviated the desire to watch the rest of the episode. I sang along loudly.

Which reminds me:
Even as a child, I was extremely cynical about the idea of God, and the hypocrisy between some of my parents actions (actions I now know are uniformly virtuous) and their faith. But I was really into some elements of churchgoing:
1. Donuts, and going to my parents' sunday school class instead of the one for kids, and feeling precocious.
2. "Popcorn prayer," where everyone stood in a circle and talked candidly about what they want and need to feel comfort in life. I would like to do this with my friends today.
3. Hymns.
I remember walking around in the woods at my grandmother's and singing elegant mash-ups of hymns and the Gilligan's Island theme. Sitting on mounds of moss or dropping beads of bittersweet into a stream on one side of a culvert, running to the other side to see if they made it out, proudly singing and thinking about the Skipper and God.

Note to Self

This photo has been edited for dramatization purposes.
This face has also been edited for dramatization purposes.

Just because
- You were super tan a month ago
- You feel fearless
- It's just an hour!

Don't
- Go review vocab by the pool
- With no sunscreen
- In mid-July
- For an hour

Because
- You will get burned as hell!
- You've been inside! For a month! Studying vocab!
- You fool!*

*Extra foolish: now there's a picture of me pulling my shirt down on the internet.**

**Like that's a first.***

*** No but seriously, I'm pretty sure that's a first.

$128.00

Oh my lord, Urban Outfitters is laughing so hard at all of us right now.

Emoticons

I was going to make a post about taking the GRE, but instead, I think I'm going to start a new feature on this blog (I accidentally just typed "fetus on this blog." Let's see what google analytics has to say about THAT!) where I attempt to make emoticons with my face.
...and maybe call it EMOTE? I CAN!s ?????*

D:

*Currently accepting suggestions for alternate names.

To Have Bookshelves Like This...

...is to be happy forever.

FOLKS.

THIS IS A DUCK WITH TEVAS ON.

Check it out! I got Chacos, friends!

I am so into this.
I also think this might be my boyfriend in a past or future life.