So tonight I got home after a productive day of exchanging half my checking account for a new phone (old one broke in half, literally) and discovered that the last hour or so of Titanic was on. And then I proceeded to bawl my freakin' eyes out. I'd like to think that I was crying because the last time I saw this movie was when I was 10 years ago, ( Read more... )

Back in Santa Cruz, and it's raaaining raining raining. I am quite cozy right now in my little cave of a room, eating macaroni and cheese, though soon I will have to venture out into the tempest to get to my Dickens class. I am taking a whole class on Dickens. How rad is that ( Read more... )

Saw Sweeney Todd last night with Laura and Kevin, and thoroughly loved it. The music was fantastic, the sets were deliciously gritty and London-esque, and Johnny Depp was great. I had doubts about this movie, because it seemed to be yet another in a line of "Johnny Depp as Quirky!" films, but he was nearly unrecognizable in this role. And fantastic ( Read more... )

Happy Sunday, everyone. I am currently sitting in the McHenry library with my dear laptop, who is also named Henry, freezing my fingers off as I attempt to make some progress on the final paper for my Gothic Imagination class. In case you care, in this paper I am attempting to compare acts of infanticide within Toni Morrison's Beloved and Art ( Read more... )

So, tonight I went to ladies night at the firing range in San Rafael with a group of friends.

And it was so awesome.

It's always much easier to be sick when it's cloudy or cold. Today is a bright, crisp, beautiful Santa Cruz day, and all I feel like doing is lying in bed with a book or a DVD set, but this weather makes me feel like I should be out accomplishing something. I've been sitting on this couch for about an hour now, with every intention of working on my ( Read more... )

GUYS. I just had a dream that the entire cast of LOST was hiding in my old backyard and they were trying to catch me for some reason, so I was running around trying to get away and at one point I looked over my shoulder and it was Sayid chasing me so I was like "oh wait, he can totally catch me" and then he and I and Evan Rachel Wood spontaneously ( Read more... )

Dude, earthquake!

And yesterday thunderstorms.

Starting to wonder if I should be worried about tomorrow.

Edit: Holy shit, it was a 5.6

Tonight I put an ending on a short story. This is kind of a big deal for me, because I never finish anything that I write - I have this frustrating habit of writing about five pages and then getting so frustrated or disinterested that I just abandon it. But this has a beginning, a middle and an ending, and while it's definitely still in the rough ( Read more... )

Today I spent 8 and a half hours working at a butterfly festival, and I got to drink lots of free Odwalla lemonade and talk to a cute violinist ( Read more... )