i don't wanna be one of the boys

You would think that being at work would keep my mind off of real life because there are 3897234 things to do... not so much. There are 3897230 things to do in med records and only 4 things to do in resident funds and those 4 things amounted to a whole 30 minutes of work, which leaves me with two and a half hours of sitting on my ass and going to the bank going to Dunkin' Donuts for a Caramel Iced Latte (omnomnom). This in turn leads to a lot of Amanda-lurkage on sites such as (and not limited to) Perezhilton.com, Livejournal.com and CNN.com (RIP George Carlin).



There is one more site that I frequent quite often and it needn't be named but it spirals me into a bitchy, pissy mood that nothing can fix other than the gratification of looking at pictures and thinking I'm prettier (and clearly vainer, suffice it to say) and even that doesn't work. I go back and forth between thinking, "Oh man, I'm totally hotter" and "I AM UGLY HEAR ME ROAR." I hate the fact that I HAVE to look even though it makes me so furious and I could easily NOT look. I know it's all in my head, but still...

...Whining aside, there is one person I know who will always be hotter than me and I don't mind in the slightest because I will be her when I grow up (wishful thinking ahoy!):

Katy Perry.

I can't get enough of her. I want to be her, I want to be with her, I want to be on her like a human blanket. Okay, maybe that's creepy. But I would totally kiss her and my boyfriend wouldn't care (LOLZ PUN ON HER SONG). If you haven't heard of her, you haven't listened to the radio in a month because her single "I Kissed A Girl" is a like a (wonderful) plague.

I heard about Katy Perry a month ago (and I hadn't been listening to the radio - I was fully immersed in Jason Mraz's new CD and couldn't be bothered to listen to anything otherwise) at an 80's Night at Half Penny Pub - no, I wasn't there for 80's Night, it just happened to work out perfectly! - and the DJ played "Ur So Gay" and I almost died on the spot. Witty and clever and a voice to boot. He played "I Kissed a Girl" right afterwards and I knew that I had found my new favorite.

So I searched the interwebz for more info on her and came up with a goldmine - her site, her Myspace (which she STILL hasn't approved my friends' request to... oh sadface) and a whoooole bunch of pictures. And she's pretty much the hottest thing since Zooey Deschanel - actually, she looks like her twin and I may or may not have had a mini skeet attack over that gem.

I bought her debut disc "One of the Boys" on its release date and it hasn't left my CD player yet. I was a bit disappointed at first - I was hoping that every song would be a pseudo-techno dance hall anthem, but looks like Katy's got more up her sleeve than that. Rolling Stone gave the album 2 out of 5 stars, but listeners rated it 4.5 out of 5 and so did I. She leaves me wanting more... which is (hopefully) what I'll get when I see her at Warped Tour this summer (yes, I'm putting aside my disdain for emo and scene kids... oh lord help me).