Groove is in the heart

I am now officially a Full groupie.

Now where, you might ask, does one draw the line between non-groupie and groupie?

Well, at the show tonight Jason the hot former GSI announced, on stage, that I had just turned 21, and gave me a present from the band: an exceedingly tacky, wonderfully sea-foam green polyester shirt straight out of the 70s with "Full" embroidered over the heart.

Needless to say, I was thrilled.

This is the only band in the world at whose shows I would be caught dead being one of two people dancing, but that's exactly what I did tonight, and because of it Shoshana and I got the whole place dancing. It was great.

Tonight's show was exactly what I needed. Every once in a while, when I start feeling really shitty about the world, something will come around and, with impeccable timing, convince me to pull my head out of my ass and look around a bit.

When a hot Harry Potter lookalike gives you a sea-foam green shirt that probably once belonged to him and hugs you onstage, you know that something must still be right in the world.

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Booyah.

Melanie is lame.

I have a paper due tomorrow. I've come to terms with the fact that it's not going to be written in time. Keeping this in mind, I've decided in the name of wasting time to first steal some random person's idea to type "Melanie is" into google and see what comes out, and then to steal Nathan's idea (though actually, I think he stole it from someone else) and make my own. This could be pretty long, so bear with me.

First, here are some of the better Google results:

Melanie is back
Melanie is Watching
How gorgeous Melanie is
Melanie is a cheewee!
Melanie is NOOOOO Bimbo!!!!
Melanie is no more a saint!
Melanie is HOTTTTTT!
Melanie is shocked
Melanie is great except for one thing
Melanie is a BAD MOTHERFUCKER
Melanie is beautiful, smart, and very friendly!
Melanie is not the name of a person
Melanie is continuously improved and enhanced
Melanie is glad for her friendship
Melanie is then bombarded at a dog show
Melanie is driven
Melanie is as passionate about hustle as she is about swing
Melanie is special

Incidentally, when paging through google's results, I stumbled upon a similar list posted by another Melanie on LJ back in June. So I apologize to the subconscious machine for unwittingly borrowing portions of her LJ entry. Oh yeah, the oh-so-creative title is hers, too.

Anyway, here's my version:

Melanie is tired
Melanie is confused
Melanie is an inveterate procrastinator
Melanie has a big vocabulary and likes to show it off
Melanie is a prescriptive grammarian
Melanie is not as apathetic as she pretends to be
Melanie is not as good a student as she pretends to be
Melanie is baggy jeans and an even baggier sweatshirt
Melanie is a sea-foam green polyester men's shiirt with "Full" embroidered over the pocket
Melanie is a groupie
Melanie is one of two people on the dance floor, and dancing anyway
Melanie is easily distracted
Melanie is beginning to understand the difference between education and learning
Melanie is beginning to understand the commonalities between education and learning
Melanie is a slob
Melanie is frozen waffles for breakfast at 2PM
Melanie is a suck-up, in a good way
Melanie is a pessimistic idealist, and doesn't care if that's an oxymoron
Melanie is getting sick of the word "is"
Melanie n'est pas une francophone, mais elle le veut
Melanie is Amelie with her hand in a sack of grain
Melanie is a blank slate, or maybe a slate that has been written on and erased so many times that it's impossible to read
Melanie is passionate, but lazy
Melanie is often oblivious
Melanie is a blue-centric wardrobe and the same beat-up shoes every day
Melanie is full of it, but she doesn't know what "it" is
Melanie is a work in progress
Melanie is a BAD MOTHERFUCKER
Melanie is often alone and usually lonely
Melanie is flirting with the wrong boys
Melanie is too melodramatic for her own good
Melanie is Sports Night at 3AM
Melanie is running out of ideas
Melanie is scared
Melanie is all of these things, and none of them
Melanie just is

Hmm. I suddenly see why it is that I haven't written any poetry since NELP. It's because I'm bloody awful.

So much for that