i just spent 45 minutes fixing my mechanical pencil.  totes worth it.

Music

How do you not like rap music?

Have you heard rap music?  It's awesome.

But I guess that's true for any music that's done well.  Like, have you heard Opera?  Good Opera?  It's fucking awesome.

Music is cool.

Mythical Newsroom Love

These emails starts at 3:19 pm today and go until 3:59 pm:

3:19

from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
unicorn, or aparna, didn't one of you friends take pictures during our show?  i thought i heard someone say they had.

can we see them, if answer is yes.

also, i had such a lame rehearsal yesterday.  where everything you do feels forced, and everyone else is being funny.  i had that, and it is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

3:21
from: aparna
to: mythical newsroom
oh gawd. that's how i've felt for like the last 2 months of improv minus all the mythical shows. WHAT DOES THAT SAY!?!

i'm just going to fake it till i make it. karin L. hammberrger you are a star, and donchoo forgot it!!!

3:23
from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
i am going to write some really cryptic things on our website.

like if heaven is playing with mythical newsroom i am just going to kill myself now.

3:24
from: jenny
to: mythical newsroom
Dont do that!!! Just play with mythical here on earth instead!

3:29
from: unicorn
to: mythical newsroom

My friend Nate took a few. I'll try to get them from him. Karin, you rule the world! You are a princess of improv!

PS. I booked my first commercial on Tuesday. It's non union for kashi and shoots tomorrow. I hope I make the final edit. We'll see...

3:31
from: karin
to: mythica newsroom
UNICORN!!! that is so exciting!!! congratulations!!! now remember if they are like:

we really need three other adorable girls, we are here.

but seriously, congrats!!! make that money, honey buns!

3:31
from: jenny
to: mythical newsroom
YAY! 7 whole grains on a mission!! Congratulations

3:32
from: unicorn

to: mythical newsroom
Also we all have slumps. When we feel like we've plateaued. But then that ends and you surge ahead! Don't fret. It's just a phase. It's there a blog or article Witth this graph.?  Dan linked it in his wit interview about his magnet victory.

3:35
from: aparna
to: mythical newsroom
UNICORN CONGRATULATIONS THAT IS HEEEEYOOOGE. Make sure they don't put you in a factory and make you wear a hairnet. Tell them you look best in diva garb.Oh wait I'm thinking of Honey Bunches of Oats. Kashi knows what they're doing. Carry on! Tell them you have a cinnamon sugar blender! (Is that how you got it?)

3:34

from: unicorn
to: mythical newsroom
I know I'm really psyched. We have to work out though.  But I'm a "college girl" and I think we just walk. Other people do boot camp. I was happy I was a college girl, also for my ego.

3:37
from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
AH! i am seriously, so excited for you.

i am going to lose 25 lbs and move to new york with you and do commercials.

those are all my life goals:
lose 25 lbs
move to new york
do commercials

nothing more and nothing less.

3:38
from: aparna
to: mythical newsroom
Pssssh one day you're going to get cast as the leading baby in a huge A-list movie and your head is going to explode from the joy!!!

3:39
from: aparna
to: mythical newsroom
karin, are you relaly going to move to new york!

3:38 (yep, back in time)

from: unicorn
to: mythical newsroom
Lol, no. Got that myself. I don't speak unless they do some improv. The audition was all improv. They'll just show different types of people working out in central park and trying to be fit. Hope I get to eat a kashi bar-- more of a chance I'll make the cut. It's non union so not ridiculous amounts of money but still a lot. I get more if I make cut and that would be 2 months rent! So I'm hoping like crazy I do.

3:40
from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
you will make cut!!! your beautiful!

3:40
from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
you're

3:40
from: aparna
to: mythical newsroom
yeah seriously i would buy loads of kashi if you were in the commercial

3:42
from: jenny
to: mythical newsroom
I am going to write Kashi a letter right now demanding more red heads in their commercials. That should do the trick!

No one is going anywhere! i just got facebook and that's all the change i can take for a year.

3:42

from: unicorn
to: mythica newsroom
Commercials are digging real looking people now. Not all, but a good amt. And if you moved to NYC you'd make a Harold team like that with Emily and start writing for late night with Jimmy falom or something. You'd be a great producer for that show too.

3:45
from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
ooooh, unicorn!!! you are the best.

i feel like publishing our emails, which are just full on compliments.

i, too, will write kashi about more redheads, and then send them a picture of yennifur, so you two can do it together.

3:44 (yep back in time, again)
from: unicorn
to: mythical newsroom
I just blushed. There are 2 college girls and were the only people cast who are in their 20s. One guy. So if they cut us they are making a major marketing mistake

3:47

from: aparna
to:mythical newsroom
yeah seriously you guys are the demo for the cereal!

3:51
from: jenny
to: mythical newsroom
I hope they give you the oatmeal raisin kasi bar. Thems is tasty.

Side note: i wish there was a way to chew quieter. I feel very self-conscious about my crunching right now.

3:55
from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
close your mouth.

3:55

from: karin
to: mythical newsroom
i am going to put these email up on my blog.

3:56

from: aparna
to: mythical newsroom

NOT ALL OF THEM, right?! i am going to get a coffee and sing to myself!

3:57

from: jenny

to: mythical newsroom

hahha, please at least publish that last one...

3:59

from: unicorn

to: mythical newsroom

Hahaha! We're like the feelgood gang.

Now, tell us we are the best.

Spam

This blog is getting spammed.  And it's an emotional roller coaster for me.

I get really excited when I see a new email, stating that I have a new comment on my little diary of over share (did I write diary or dairy?).

BUT then I see it's someone who would just like my readers to purchase some sex drugs, or in the latest case, purchase some people to have sex with.  This makes me upset that it is not a real person who thinks, "Interesting blog as for me. It would be great to read something more about this theme."

And then I realize that this spambot thinks that my blog actually has readers, and well, I get super excited again.  I guess me hitting my own blog multiple times a day has tricked the internet sex machine into thinking actual people read this.  I am a genius!  A spam attracting genius.

Then another down turn.  No one reads this.

Fashion

Mythical Newsroom had a show up in THE New York City on Friday, thanks to Reverse 5, a wonderful and handsome improv group.

We had a very enjoyable time.  Here is proof:

But here is my question now.  Is being fashionable just wearing stupider shit than your friends would?

Because that is all New York is, right?  People just wearing stupid shit on their bodies? 

And today I am wearing an outfit that people keep saying looks nice.  But I have a belt on the outside of my dress and sweater.  That's dumb, because neither my dress nor my sweater need to be held up, thus there is no need for a belt.  Yet, here I am, looking like an asshole, and other assholes complimenting me on it.

Nose and Office

I am unabashedly picking my nose at my cube.

Apparently, I think that when I have my headphones on, no one can see me.

Quick update

I have been sups busy at work, which is good and bad.

BUT!  Really I wanted to share.

Boyfriend and I watched this awesome documentary yesterday.

King of Kong, A Fistful of Quarters

It's funny, and sad, and makes you angry.  It's controversial.  It's crazy good.  You should watch it.

let's all be happier people

Yesterday I saw two friends on U Street.  One was leading the other one, who was blindfolded, to her surprise birthday party.

They were both so fucking happy.

The leading one mentioned cake on her cell phone, and the birthday girl sort of shrieked and got all giggly.

It was awesome.  I am glad I got to see that.

Ask Boyfriend!

Dear Boyfriend,

Does it trouble you when people can't answer their own simple questions?

Thanks,
Unconcerned

Dear Unconcerned,

Let's take a look at your ostensibly "simple" question in two parts, primarily at the assertion that people "can't answer their own simple questions." I posit that it is not because these people are realistically unable to find suitable responses within themselves, but rather that they are, by way of the act of asking, overtly sharing of themselves with the agent that they are asking. Implicit in their seeming incompetence is the cultural value placed upon human interaction and peer consensus in reaching a decision or finding truth, because an anti-social decision undermines group evolutionary fitness and "truth" is culturally relative. Does this phenomenon "trouble" me? It depends on how you define trouble. Do I end up going to the trouble of writing long-winded responses to relatively insignificant quandaries? Clearly. Am I emotionally troubled by the fact that people are somewhat dim-witted as individuals? Not in the slightest, they are my greatest ally as I seek to become the authoritative voice on all things in this world, the arbiter of knowledge and truth, and the largest spongy brain of facts atop a quivering heap of lesser brains.

Thank you,
Boyfriend

Will Power

It's taking a lot of will power and endurance to not eat my lunch left overs right now.

Maybe I should put them on the floor so I don't keep looking at it.

Plus also, maybe I should fill up on some candy.

Project Dispatch

Yoooooooooooooooos,

I just signed up for THIS!

It's where you subscribe to an artist for 3, 6, or 12 months.  And they send you art in the mail.

WHAT?>!?!?! That's totally awesome, right?  I mean getting a package is super dups exciting, but to have it be new art!  I mean com'ons now, that's the best kind of mail you can get, besides that year Grams decided to give all the grandkids $1,500.  Because that was also awesome mail.

But for realsy, never enough art.  Never enough.

Right now we are subscribing to Elizabeth Graeber, and I think we might do Section V next.

Sweetly and as ever EXCITEDLY,
the real deal karin