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I've circled the indentations that the dumb 3-D glasses made in RED.

I was waiting for Kyle while he got a drink from the water fountain, when I noticed these guys giving me a weird look...feeling uncomfortable I took out my phone to check my messages I had gotten while watching Alice in Wonderland in Imax & 3-D

As Kyle and I were walking to the car talking about the movie, all of a sudden he turns to me and says, "what happened to your face??" I reply: "what do you mean?"
He bursts out laughing saying that the 3-D glasses left really big marks on face
I look in the mirror, remember the guys, and start laughing. I took a picture when I got home, and though I circled the marks to make sure you could see them, keep in mind this is after driving home, so 10 minutes before this picture was taken, the marks looked really bad!
Kyle spent the entire way home mimicking my supposed thought process saying something similar to "maybe if I really push the 3-D glasses onto my face, I can see the 3-D even better! Yeah! I'll just press as hard as I can!"
hahaha...to be honest, this is probably just karma...

We arrived at the theaters with about 10 mins to spare, but there was only one booth open, so we spent 5 mins waiting in line to buy the tickets, and by the time we got to our theater, it was nearly completely full, aside from the very front seats (and that'd just be horrible watching a movie in Imax & 3-D!) So, we went up stairs and watched Shutter Island because it was starting 10 mins after Alice...

*spoiler alert!* Shutter Island was alright...but like other movies similar to it...you can't even spend the movie trying to piece the mystery together because come the end of the movie, you're told that everything was from the perspective of a character who's perspective isn't trustworthy because it wasn't real. So in all fairness, the ending was "ridiculous" but that's just because there was literally no way to guess it. Though Kyle did technically "call" it by saying "the twist better not be that he was actually the crazy one the entire time".

Anyway, I went into Alice with pretty high expectations, and while I thought it was good, it didn't blow me away...I enjoyed watching it, but I probably won't watch it ever again.The 3-D was fun, however, and the acting was good...it just seemed (to me at least) that the plot lacked a certain "umph". But, I still recommend it, even if just for the cinematography :) [and a certain dance sequence by a certain Johnny Depp, hehe]

La-Dee-Dah

My stomach feels better today, my heart feels better today, I feel better today!


I've been nom-ing on crackers & white rice...drinking vitamin water...and my digestive system is a little less hateful. There's a bunch of school work that needs to be done, but it's not due until tomorrow/Monday, so I still have sometime to relax...at least a little bit. I picked my classes for the winter quarter, I'm taking Human Sexuality, Physical Geology w/lab, and Environmental Issues & Problems...woo hoo...

As next week approaches, it's definitely easier to just relax a bit, and simply look forward to seeing family/friends. Hopefully my shoes will get here a day early (they're arriving a day after we leave, which I didn't foresee as a problem, otherwise I would've had them shipped to SD!) so that's quite disappointing, I was looking forward to dancing around in them :/ and now they'll just sit and wait for me...poor things...especially because they've had quite a journey (I've been tracking them, haha). We're making an early payment on rent this month because we're coming back at an awkward time...and then once we're home, we get to spend a bum load on the rest of our bills! The joys of being a poor college student!

In other news, I used some left-over spaghetti sauce, threw in mushrooms, spinach, and zucchini, and turned it into lasagna :) I know, I'm quite amazing...I would've photographed it...but it's all gone, whoops!

I also watched 3 episodes of the Atheism Tapes (oh how I love BBC) and found it quite intriguing. Arthur Miller was my favorite interview, but it could be just because he's one of my favorite American playwrights, haha :) he also gets life-time brownie points for marrying Marylin Monroe, haha


As far as recent movie watching, last night I watched SLC Punk, and it was really good, sad and beautiful. Tonight, I'm watching Brick again, the first time I saw it I liked it, and I'm looking forward to watching it again :)


Goodnight, World!

Pirates and other Thoughts.

We went to a pre-screening of Pirate Radio last night (check the previous post about how we won tickets if you're curious) and it was fantastic. Sure I hated some characters, but I love(d) Philip Seymour Hoffman...he's a great actor, and the movie wouldn't have been the same without him. The movie does make me a little restless though...I loved the music, and I loved the style, perhaps I was born a little too late? I definitely feel that way sometimes.

Anyway, to appease me current desires, I will buy these shoes on Tuesday:

 

Aren't they just adorable?

I'm so incredibly excited for them because they're exactly what I've been looking for/reasonably priced, and they've been on my lifetime to buy list for so long! I'll wear them everyday!

I know what you're thinking...why Tuesday? Well, I'm buying them from Mod Cloth, and they offer 12% off on Tuesdays, so I'll get them a teensy bit cheaper :)

I haven't bought anything apparel wise in the longest time (aside from an undie splurge at Forever 21...but they were also on sale/essential!)

I also want Angelina Jolie's hair, as styled for Changeling. (The movie is amazing, by the way)

I almost have it, but it needs a professional touch, I know.

Hopefully I can get that done when I'm in San Diego :)

I would also prefer if my clothes were replaced with vintage styled clothes, wouldn't that be nice?

I think so. I just wish I could afford to do it myself.

...................

I've been thinking a lot lately about what I want to do in life, and I've come up with a few ideas...none that I've shared with anyone yet. Teaching will always be something I want to do, but I don't think that's what I want to do right now, or in the nearly future. I think it's something I would like to do later on in life. So I started thinking about the things I currently fancy, like art, music, movies, writing, home decor, fashion, photography, cooking.

Ideally, I would like to combine all my favorite things, but for now I'm currently enamored with the thought of doing interior design.

I spend all of my free time online looking at home decor/apparel...so why not do something with that, right? I think it'd be something I'd wholeheartedly enjoy :)

Of course, I'd minor in Art History, or something similar, because I do want to teach later on...or maybe I don't. Maybe (this is possibly a secret wish) I just want to be a house wife/mother later on in life. Would that be horrible?

I think not.

And so it goes...

I haven't written in a while, so let's change that, okay? Kyle and I recently found out the EMP (experience music project) was giving out free tickets to a prescreening of Pirate Radio in a scavanger hunt...if you live under a rock and have no idea what I'm talking about you can look up movie info stuff here, and you can watch the trailer here!

Anyway, here was their FB status update: There is a "Pirate Radio" scavenger hunt happening the next two days. Figure out the clue and you'll find free passes to the prescreener on 11/12. Hint: 10 piers south of where The Beatles stopped to fish during their first World Tour/ X proverbially marks this spot for plundered loot.

Somehow, using our genius minds, we knew that the Beatles had fished out of their hotel room, the Edgewater Inn, and went 10 piers down to pier 57. To avoid spending money on parking, I parked in a passenger wait zone (and luckily no one asked questions) while Kyle ran inside to look for some sort of hint. He didn't really find anything, haha. With the exception of a store entitled Pirate's Plunder! That sounded perfect, so he went inside...and didn't see any indication of anything related to the EMP or Pirate Radio! Feeling discouraged, he walked out of the shop and called me...using my great words of persuasion, he went back in the store and asked if they knew anything about it...turns out, while they didn't really know what was going on, they handed him a ticket, a poster, and a ipod-sleeve that says pirate radio :) Apparently the EMP didn't do a good job of informing them of what to do with the stuff they sent them...haha.

Anyway, this Thursday we get to go to the pre-screening! I'm incredibly excited because Pirate Radio was definitely on my to-watch list...and unfortunately, I can't go and see every freaking movie I want because the theaters are so expensive these days...even matinee is still like $7! So now that we've got prescreener tickets to see Pirate Radio, we can go spend money and see another movie :) 

Candy Candy!

We watched Hocus Pocus yesterday, and it put me in quite a Halloween-y mood :) It's my favorite Halloween movie...aside from...well, no. It is my favorite! I've seen it pretty much every year of my life! And, in my opinion, Sarah Jessica Parker looks very pretty in it (and I don't think really like her most of the time to be honest...lol)

This morning, I had a super tummy ache, and ended up falling back asleep while Kyle was planning breakfast, so he threw out the trash, and went to the grocery store (because he's a sweetheart) and bought nom-y foods as well as some pumpkins! I'll post pictures once we've painted them, hehe.

And to put me even more in the Halloween Spirit, Kyle's mommy kindly mailed us a Halloween care package! Filled with yummy Halloween candy! It was incredibly nice of her :)

I got an email from Alena (a friend I babysat for) and she was telling be about the Haunted House they're decorating...and I'm very sad I can't be there. The kids in their neighborhood are so adorable, and I'm sure they'll look extra adorable on Halloween :)

Plus, I know that Drew is going to be a Storm Trooper...I bought him the costume as a going away present from me when we moved...He needed the addition to their collection of dress-up clothes, and they had a Jedi costume, as well as Darth Vader...so it was only fitting they needed a Storm Trooper :)

Anyway, I will finish planing my costume (I'm still not sure what to be) and sip on some warm Apple Cider.  :)

Date Night

While cleaning the kitchen this afternoon, I got invited to go on a date with this really cute boy, he lives in my building...in my apartment, actually. Anyway, we get along really well and he's super funny, so I decided to say yes.

And boy, what a mistake!

haha, I'm just kidding, it was a great night :)

For dinner we went to Zak's, a burger place, which we discovered, is a "branch" off of Hodads (a popular burger place back home in Ocean Beach).

Kyle was talking to our waiter about how we're from San Diego, and right before our food got out to us (I ordered a spicy black bean burger, Kyle got a chicken burger) Zak himself came out and introduced himself to us. We chatted for a bit, about San Diego, Hodads, school, the Ballard neighborhood, lots of things. He seemed really nice, and the food was amazing! We got Raspberry Apple Cider to drink, and a Milk Shake (the flavor of the moment was Banana)!

After we had finished our food and drinks, we walked right next door to the Majestic Bay Theater and saw Capitalism: A Love Story by Michael Moore. The theater was really neat looking, I didn't take very many interior pictures, but it had a "nautical" theme, and it was very old school!

The movie was pretty much what I expected it to be, and what I've pretty much come to expect from Michael Moore movies...It brought to light a lot of things I wasn't aware about, it highlighted things I was aware about, and in general, was a great portrayal of what's wrong with America. It was funny, sad, and serious, and had a great way of inspiring the audience to want to do something. I really enjoyed it, and hope that you (reader) will take some time and watch the movie. Maybe you won't watch it while it's still in theater, maybe you'll wait for it to come out on DVD, or maybe wait even longer for it to be an "instant" on Netflix...whichever way you manage to find time to watch it, please set all of your opinions aside and just watch the movie.