a ten-minute dream in the passenger seat

I arrived at work yesterday and one of my coworkers observed that I "looked hung over." It took a while for me to convince him that I don't, in fact, drink. Although I probably did look really sleepy and out of it, because I was really sleepy and out of it. Just not hung over.

And tonight there will be (probably) over a dozen kids stuffed into my basement to watch Batman Begins. Hurrah! Biggest. Movie night. Evar! I hope we can all fit . . .

Anywho, I should go pour some food into bowls and whatnot.

Wooster essay: sent
Wooster music scholarship application: sent
Hemingway essay: done
Narnia Midnight Showing: definitely happening!
Arthur's Perfect Christmas: on in the background
First attempt at lab today in chem: shattered all over the countertop

All in all, a good day.

Wallace and Grommit = awesome. Frippin' hilarious. Go see it. Now.

Yes, I said "frippin'."

It's cool how writing is so subjective.

I'm not tired, for some reason. But I want to be.

So, this post is really delayed, but I'd like to say that Stealing Harvard is the funniest movie I've seen in a long, long time.

Here I am, on the eve of the start of my summer!employment, just wanting to spend the whole summer with friends and reading new books (even though I am currently reading FotR . . . whoops).

Working isn't so horrible, but watching In Good Company last night brought on this surge of resentment toward the corporate hordes and their unfeeling ways. Well, the unfeeling ways of a large portion of the corporate hordes.

Speaking of In Good Company, last night was a blast - I ♥ MOVIE NIGHTS! 74 pictures resulted from that awesome time! Thanks for hosting it, Becky.

( Here are some of the 74. )

Summer = amazing. And it's only just begun!

Today was a day of much sleep and reading. Also math homework. Calculus is the spawn of Satan. Or perhaps the old bugger himself.

Last night I babysat for the first time in ages, and made some pretty good money cookies. We watched "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", Jim Carrey-style, and it was ok. I've seen it before, but I'd forgotten how average that movie is.

National Tresure on the other hand, now that is an above-average movie. I'd even say extraordinary. Because movies like that just don't come along too often. I wonder if there is a soundtrack . . . ? Or, as v_exemplary asked, a sequel?

We shall see. The important thing is that I've finished my homework (well, most of it anyway.)

So, on a completely different topic . . . Last night I saw "Fahrenheit 9/11" with my parents. I am not, and never was, fully informed/at a complete understanding of what is going on with Iraq and all of the politics and non-political things behind it, but I must say that Michael Moore is good. Like Mike Royko, only with a camcorder instead of a typewriter.

I acknowledge that it is propoganda. But surely propoganda at its very best. The scary thing about that movie is not that it is such, but that the corporate people at Disney or some such related company (please correct me if I'm wrong here, I'm going off of what my dad told me) almost wouldn't release it; that a Canadian company had to fund it. Sad stuff right there.

( Anyway, some things that I remembered most from the movie and would like to comment on behind a cut. )

There's so much I want to talk about. I really should go see that again . . .

I got the ROTK DVD!!! Since no cars were available for my usage, I rode my bike to Blockbuster Video and got it. So, exercise and ROTK all in one . . . Can't get much better than that!

I'm contemplating a layout change around here. I made this image over break, with the full intent of reviving my old site with lotsa fun stuffs, but then I realized,

1) Why not put the image here?
2) What kinds of "stuffs" would I put on that site, anyway? I'm not creative, not dedicated enough to blog on there frequently, and I'm not sure I have the desire to go into designing/icon-making/whateverstufflikethat again.

So, yeah. I love the image, but . . . Oh, sigh. I really just need to get my Warren G. Harding presentation over with. (It's been hanging over my head for a few days now.)

But, I went and saw Jersey Girl on Saturday. It was so much better than I had anticipated, I cannot even describe it! I want to see it again, because . . . it was just that good.

And I also want to take back anything/everything mean I've ever said about Liv Tyler, just because she/Arwen was added into the Lord of the Rings movies in a major way. I said those things on dland forever ago because I was being all purist-y and whatnot. I've come to respect her as an actress more, plus she's not one of those anorexic women that people (myself included, to a certain extent) are always aspiring to look like; she's realistically proportioned, and at the same time very beautiful.

I think I'm kind of starting to come into an acceptance of myself and my body. Or at least I hope I am.

ETA - GO CUBBIES!

( book meme )
21/200. Wow. I need to read more.

( movie meme )

And, in other news . . . This week is going to be short and sweet, let me just tell you. Weekend was packed with reading, and now I'm off to do some more.