rionaleonhart | With Apologies To Those Who Are Sick Of The Election. But, Man, Ukuleles.

To the three persons from my English Language course who came up to me on the train platform and allowed me to join their conversation: you won't see this, but I was feeling terribly lonely after the seminar, and you are the reason I wasn't in tears on my journey back from campus today. Thank you so much; you have no idea how much you helped me.

To America: I hope you have been voting for Obama. He plays the ukulele. And he's probably got some policies and things, but, seriously, you need a president who can play the ukulele. Don't deny it. (Everyone I passed today was discussing the election. Everyone. There's not nearly so much interest when it's time to elect a party for our country.)

To self: I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU BOOKED A PLACE AT A SUPERNATURAL CONVENTION. YOU ARE SUCH A DORK. AND IT'S GOING TO DRAG YOU UP TO BIRMINGHAM RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR EXAMS. AND YOU FORGOT TO FILL IN YOUR ADDRESS, SO YOU MAY NOT EVEN GET THE CONFIRMATION LETTER WITH THE DETAILS YOU NEED. WAY TO GO. (I've e-mailed the guy in charge, so with any luck I have not ruined my chances of meeting

wanttobeatree and

sazzlette eeeeeeeeee. APPARENTLY THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME ACTORS OR SOMETHING TOO, BUT

wanttobeatree AND

sazzlette ARE THE IMPORTANT PART.)

To everyone on my flist: ahahaha, I love that you're all falling for High School Musical. (Pretty much all of the posts on my friendspage lately have been about either High School Musical or the American election. I FEEL A TRULY HORRIFYING CROSSOVER COMING ON.)

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You know you can always text me if you're feeling down? Of course it isn't the same as having real people, but...I know what it's like, and the offer's there.

LIKE NOBODY HAS DISCUSSED THE ELECTION WITH ME. Only one girl because I was checking the BBC News website and she was like OH YEAH ELECTION and I was like AREN'T YOU EXCITED TO BE PART OF THIS HISTORY-MAKING GENERATION and she was like I GUESS?

Conssssssss involve a lot of waiting around being a bit bored, but I miss them anyway ): I haven't been to one for about four years. Oh, Lord of the Rings, you really turned me into a geek.

SIGH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL )8 YOU REALISE YOU ARE ENTIRELY TO BLAME. ALSO: THE FIRST ONE IS STILL BORING.

Oh my god OBAMA AND A UKULELE. 'Scuse me whilst I get stupidly overexcited at the prospect of a ukulele-playing president.

(I hope there are a lot of ukulele players in Florida, he'll have that stitched up then!)

Everytime someone in the UK says Birmingham, I think "Alabama? No, the other one!" Which is why I nearly jumped in and went "Okay, that really is a touch excessive during exams."

It's hilariously confusing, although it does explain Richard Hammond's intensive fondness for pickup trucks. (They reran the America special as part of a four hour Top Gear marathon last night BBC American; it was awesome!)

RIONA RIONA RIONA MISHA FUCKING COLLINS IS COMING

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I still haven't seen the films, and I caught myself shoehorning gratuitous Zac Efron jokes into my neither-slash-nor-crack Top Gear fic on my journal. For no good reason, except I needed to add mockery!

I blame Riona.

SHARPAY FOR PRESIDENT, with Ryan as Vice-President. Much like Paris Hilton, I imagine she'd make the White House pink.

Speaking of awesome ukelele performances:

Creepy Doll by Jonathan Coulton (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olv-aR6JKvQ) in which the song is made creepier by the added ukelele! Why more horror movies don't feature a soundtrack with ukeleles is beyond me. It can clearly be used for a creepy atmosphere.

♥! Thank you; it's good to have the offer. I only had a little time to be sad before people came along to unwittingly brighten my day, but I shall bear you in mind in the future.

I have never been to a convention before! I am terribly excited and excitingly terrified.

The first High School Musical film admittedly does not have the sheer glorious levels of crazy of the other two, but I have great affection for it anyway. Because Troy and Gabriella are adorable.

I THINK I JUST FAINTED

AMAZING

THIS IS A SIGN THAT BUYING THE TICKET WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO, ISN'T IT?

BEST SIGN EVER.

EDIT: APPARENTLY I AM SO EXCITED BY THIS THAT I CAN NO LONGER USE TENSES CORRECTLY.

Edited 2008-11-04 23:03 (UTC)

SERIOUSLY

IT IS LIKE GOD HAS SPOKEN VIA EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE TAX ACCOUNTANT. AND WHAT GOD SAID WAS 'HEY RIONA GO TO A CON', APPARENTLY.

I find Gabriella so boring.

I was looking through my notes from the other day, and in a fit of boredom I had apparently drawn a picture of them where Gabriella is saying O TROY U R SO MANLY and Troy is replying I AM Y.

IT WOULD BE THE BEST THING EVER. He could play the ukulele in the White House and all of America's ills would be magically healed.

...this is just my 'ukulele' icon. I do not think that Obama is Pyramid Head.

I am of course unable to vote in the US election so as a substitute I went into town and bought a HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL PARTY PLANNER. The, er, incredibly creative HSM-themed activities it includes: charades where you mime scenes from HSM and people have to guess which one you're doing! a quiz telling you what HSM character are you most like! um, some kind of HSM-themed musical chairs, I am not sure exactly how that works?

IT IS MY WAY OF SUPPORTING AMERICA. BEST OF ALL it comes with amazing stickers. I am going to put the Ryan and Chad stickers on my bike ~~and draw little hearts around them~~.

I do not think that Obama is Pyramid Head.

OR DO YOU.

Makes a nice change from "Obama is the Antichrist." I mean everyone knows Sam is the Antichrist. And Barack Obama is clearly not Sam Winchester.

...or is he?

No, he's not.

I thought Barack Obama was the Master?

Hee! No, Alabama is a tiny bit farther than I'm willing to go for a weekend during exam season. (BE MORE CREATIVE WITH YOUR PLACE NAMES, AMERICA. I WAS VERY CONFUSED WHEN I SAW AN AMERICAN SAY SHE LIVED NEAR 'DURHAM' TODAY. (How would you pronounce that, by the way? Over here, it'd be 'Durrum'.) AND FOUR STATES BEGINNING WITH 'NEW' IS TOO MANY.)

This sounds beautiful! TELL ME WHICH HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL CHARACTER YOU ARE MOST LIKE.

The Master takes ukulele lessons and becomes Pyramid Head?

...

I actually really, really want to see what the hypothetical Pink House would be like.

And I'll check that Coulton song out when my Internet connection is being less erratic.

I'm not from anywhere near Durham (I imagine you can guess from the envelopes I sent where I'm actually from), but where I'm from we'd say "Duram." Actual Southerners don't say things the way I do.

And yes, New Mexico, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey need better names. Especially the ones that are in New England.

Where I'm from, all the names lead to long linguistic arguments about whether they're derived from local Native American languages, or actually French. No one knows.

That's President Pyramid Head to you.

I'm sure you'll enjoy the Coulton song. He's also written a song from the point of view of a zombie, so if your internet starts behaving, you can also look up 're: your brains'!

The White House would be fabulous, and, hang on, I feel a crappy manip coming on!

It's a hobby.

I immediately wish I could vote, more so than ever. A vote for Obama is a vote for ukulele enthusiasts everywhere!

If the candidates were HSM characters, who would they be?

And...go!

...as it happens, I actually know the chords to 'Re. Your Brains' on the ukulele.

Ooh, I'm looking forward to this.

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