I got a package today! From AMERICA. This is what it contained:

Needless to say, I am stoked. Because in my opinion, there’s nothing better than being adorable and a complete geek at the same time. I’ve been rocking that lifestyle for 22 years and it’s still going strong!

Have you watched A Very Potter Sequel yet? I have! I loved it. Not sure if I loved the first one better or not. Hmm. In any case, I’ve downloaded some of the songs from iTunes, and I’m super stoked for the rest of the soundtrack to be released tomorrow! “Those Voices” + “Days of Summer” + “Hermione Can’t Draw” = <3 I also may be in love with Darren Criss’s voice, in general. Kbye.

It seems I’ve been so busy this summer that I don’t even know what exactly it is that I do when I have a spare moment to myself. Mainly because at this point, I get Saturday morning until about 8am to chillax, and what do I do? Sleep. If I can. Often I wake up at 6:30 regardless, thinking “WHAT DO I HAVE TO GET DONE TODAY?!”

Usually, during the summer, I try to read more, see more movies and catch up on random TV I missed during the winter. This summer, I’ve gone horseback riding, and… um. My time is spent working, commuting and trying to keep something resembling a social life going by having frequent dinner dates with individual friends, attractive people and groups of friends (some people may or may not fall into more than one category). I think my hobbies had quite a bit to do with the Internet, but now that I spend 9 hours a day on a computer, coming home to spend more time on a computer does not seem enthralling.

So! I need new hobbies! Here are a few I have thought of:

Oscar-award winning actress: I took drama and performed for a loooong time. As a result, I feel quite at home on stage and I’m pretty good at acting. I think that this is probably enough to win an Oscar. All I need is either a well-known director or an unknown directing prodigy to put me in their film, and magic would happen. I daresay they would move the Oscar ceremony up from February, to the end of August, so that I may go back to being hobby-less and continue my studies.

Grammy-award winning singer: I’m sure that you all remember this clip from that time during my show where I serenaded you. As you can tell, I was really feeling the emotions behind the song, despite not actually being the writer. I’m quite certain my album could be recorded, sell millions of copies, and get me a Grammy award before September.

Helen Hunt: More specifically, Helen Hunt in Twister. Calgary gets a lot of storms, and I could chase them. I’m not sure which award I could win for such bravery and valour, but I’m quite confident it would be gold plated and awesome. Maybe it would be called the Ling Award for Bravery and Valour in the Eye of the Storm. Or the LAFBAVITEOTS for short!

It could be totally awesome (although hopefully I could do it with nicer hair. The snow pants from the 12 year old boy section can stay).

So, those are my ideas! Please tell me which one you think would work best, so I may get started right away! Or, if you have other suggestions, I’d love to hear them as well!

(P.S. No, I’m not going to tell you the name of the book. Don’t you think that question is a little bit too personal? ALSO, I enjoy the new Avenged Sevenfold album!)

I suppose that may mean that I fall in love too easily. Which may be true. Very true, in fact.

Nellie thinks it makes me “cute” and potentially a good girlfriend. Whatever, Nellie.

Anyway, it kind of made me think a bit more about the quirky thing that is My Life, and how I equate it to a strange indie film (sitting in the dark, listening to some Jay-Z followed by some Rachael Cantu, but I’m singing a different song out loud, in French…). More specifically, those moments of serendipity in such films where the awkward, intelligent lead notices something about the beautiful, artistic soon-to-be romantic interest. In such films, the moment is fairly (sometimes painfully) obvious. But what is that moment in real life?

Could it be something as simple as watching someone you recognize from riding the same bus every evening gathering their things, and feeling a strange rush of random feelings as they close the book they were engrossed in, and recognizing it as SOMETHING SO UTTERLY FANTASTIC?

Maybe. Maybe not.

Obviously, I’m not in an indie movie, and so from here, my life doesn’t become a web of chance meetings and planned rendezvous, with my best friend egging me on to save the day. But I’m trying to remember if I’ve had a moment similar to the one I experienced today, and I’m not sure I can recall.