In addition to reading as many classic books as possible this year, I also want to see some of the most popular movies of all times. I just received a note from my bank in the mail, saying that they couldn’t put through the payment for my last Amazon order (Gilmore Girls’ season 6 and 7 on DVD) because my account was empty. Down to nothing. Now I’m waiting for the note from Amazon, telling me to send in a check or go straight to the corner and feel ashamed of myself. The whole thing should clear pretty soon, though, because as of June 1, there should have been at least fifty bucks in my account.

Either way, I can’t help it. I’m an entertainment addict - especially when it comes to movies and TV series and books. And sometimes the excitement weighs over the rational thinking.

So on my DVDs-to-get list are the following: A Star is Born, Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, An Affair to Remember and Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

I suppose, these are not necessarily the best movies with the best actors and the best stories. Then again, successful movies almost never are.

What other movies should I add to the list?

And while I’m on the general subject, I finished watching Gilmore Girls about a week ago and since I’m such a TV series junkie, I’ve been looking around to find another jewel in the ridiculously high amount of random shows. I picked Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip because I love Matthew Perry and One Tree Hill because I’d heard of it and it seemed like my kind of series. All scenes with Perry on Studio 60 are awesome, hilarious and dramatic, but the rest didn’t really interest me.

So, One Tree Hill it is. For now.

I haven’t been depressed lately. At all. I’ve been out of school for a little over a month and although not everything is always easy and fun, I haven’t felt that pressing, melancholic weight of depression.

Which is good news, oh God, it is such good news. I had hoped for my depression to stop when school was over forever because it tended to be the cause behind any form of unhappiness I experienced. Although, of course, there’s always a difference between unhappiness and depression and the truly evil part of that - actual depression - seems to have died off with the last day of school.

My oral Biology exam, the Graduation and Graduation Ball are still coming up and just talking about it makes me nauseaus but other than that I feel relieved and excited about it all finally coming to an end. Friends of mine keep telling me how sad they are that high school is over and I’ve had difficulties at first as well but now, that I haven’t seen any of my former classmates for five weeks, I don’t care any longer. In fact, I’m surprised how little I care.

I’ve made different plans for the rest of the year already and without high school the possibilities appear endless. Aside from moving into my own place and starting university, I have decided to try to read as many classics as I possibly can. Dramas, short stories, novels, plays - whatever I can think of.

Here’s the list of all titles I have so far: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Importance of Being Earnest, Moby Dick, Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World, Romeo and Juliet, Death of a Salesman, Catcher in the Rye, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, The Scarlett Letter, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, and The Call of the Wild.

I doubt that I will ever read them all and so I’m gonna have to come up with some sort of system. Those in italic font are more or less my final choice. I really can’t predict how much time I’m gonna have because I’ll be doing tons of reading for uni, too, nor how much money I’ll actually have. Amazon sells these classics for about four euros each, though, so that’s not too bad. Then again, it’s not like I don’t have other stuff I, seemingly, need to get.

It’s funny. The character Rory on Gilmore Girls has made education seem less boring to me and has given me confidence in the fact that reading a lot is not actually a bad thing. I’m really, really glad.

On the other hand, television makes studying look so easy. People grab their books, sit in a corner and ten minutes later they’re good to go. Nobody seems to have a problem with remembering stuff. Which is another clue that televsion series are very unreal. Ergo, I need to get my act together and do more studying and hope that it will help somehow, that maybe, just this once, information will end up branded into my brain cells.

I’d say it’s worth a try but that would mean fooling myself into something untrue. Major sigh.

Man, a lot has happened since I last blogged. At the same time, though, it seems as if all I have done lately is watch Gilmore Girls on DVD. I am officially addicted and if my bank account wasn’t below zero right now, I’d hit amazon.com and order the remaining three seasons. I want to see them so bad. I am constantly tempted to just go ahead and watch it online for free but that’s just not the same.

I want to relax on my bed and watch the whole thing on TV. So, right now, I’m mentally preparing for at least one month of waiting for the next season.

Another thing I have to have - but don’t have the money for - is New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. Everybody celebrated her novel Twilight the way I imagine people did when a jolly, jaunty dairy farmer first tried coating peanutbutter in chocolate, slapped the Reese’s tag on it - and the world hasn’t been the same since.

So I went and bought it and although I never thought I’d enjoy a story involving supernatural elements, I was captivated. Completely. That book was so good. I loved it! So now I’m longing for the Twilight sequel New Moon. I have to have it.

On another note, studying for my oral Biology exam is going… well, not well. I can’t seem to be able to save information and then recall it. Which is ironic because isn’t that one of the brain’s jobs? I thought so. And what’s even more annoying: I’m sure that I could tell you details of the first four Gilmore Girls seasons I watched this week or the storyline of Twilight or my friends’ birthdays and phone numbers as well as full names of all 120 seniors in my class and lyrics to any freaking song there is, but Biology stuff just WILL NOT STICK. I hate it. And it makes studying useless. I don’t know what to do.

The exam was originally set for May 14, next Wednesday - one day after my dad’s birthday. But today my guidance counselor called and informed me that it was pushed back to May 16 because the surveying teacher had a death in his immediate family. I’m not sure whether that’s good or bad news. Having the exam two days later, I mean. I am so ready for this to be over.

Anyway, later tonight I met up with some friends to watch Titanic which I had never really seen in one piece before. I only had seen snippets here and there - because at age eight my brother had a phase where he would watch the movie over and over again on videotape and so I’d have no choice but catch some of it while walking by. It’s without a doubt a good movie and yes, I’ll admit that I did find it romantic.

Tomorrow my mom’s going into town to buy some things for my dad’s birthday and I’ll see if I can tag along and get Gilmore Girls’ season five on DVD. I think I only have about ten bucks left to spend. I’m afraid it’ll be more like 12.99. Which is a shame. Let’s just say: if it takes me another week to blog then they probably had it for ten. If I’m back tomorrow - well, then there’s a rant coming up.