The Day the Shades Came Off
At Six O' Clock, I sat on a park bench, wondering: In the eight months I have lived in Mesa, why have I never visited the city park just North of where I live? I guess a reason to do so never stood out to me, until today. I picked her out of the sea of people and families there, walking over a small hill and with a small oblong bag in one hand. Despite the sun gleaming behind her, I took off my sunglasses. It was great to see her. After all, I was hungry for the sandwiches she was bringing.
"You didn't think I'd ask you out for a picnic without me bringing a basket to put food in or a towel to sit on, did you?"
Jenn and I ate our Subway sandwiches over conversation and the small lake at the park. After the sunset, she drove us to Mill Avenue where we took a stroll, randomly poking into various shops. I hadn't really walked much of Mill since Halloween, so I was very glad to have chosen to see a movie at Centerpoint instead of elsewhere.
The Sentinel was far from "24: The Movie". Despite displaced press attention, Kiefer is actually not the main character of the movie. He and Michael Douglas were great together while Eva Longoria played the token eye candy and Kim Basinger played the semi-sophisticate. Jenn and I thought it was a pretty good suspense/action movie, somewhat in the same vein as US Marshals, with quite a few twists thrown in for good measure, the biggest of which I didn't see coming. I think fans of the show 24 will not be disappointed, as long as they don't go in expecting Kiefer to be a guns blazing bad-ass. His character in this movie is the opposite of Jack Bawer in the sense that he is by the book when Jack is not.
Hanging out with Jenn was everything I expected and a little surprising only in the most pleasant of ways. For instance - Suppose you are reading a magazine at Barnes & Noble, flipping through it, and suddenly you make a one inch rip in one of the pages. Would you have put it back on the shelves, or bought it? Jenn did the latter.
If there was one thing I wish I did tonight, it would have been to formally compliment her new hair style. Aside from the general shape of the style, it was hard to tell from the few pictures I had seen online exactly how the coloring of it turned out. Generally I am pretty critical about dyed hair, but in her case, the pictures don't do her justice.
I had a wonderful time, even if the gates for the park locked my car into the parking lot. That's just temporal. I hope our friendship will not be.
"You didn't think I'd ask you out for a picnic without me bringing a basket to put food in or a towel to sit on, did you?"
Jenn and I ate our Subway sandwiches over conversation and the small lake at the park. After the sunset, she drove us to Mill Avenue where we took a stroll, randomly poking into various shops. I hadn't really walked much of Mill since Halloween, so I was very glad to have chosen to see a movie at Centerpoint instead of elsewhere.
The Sentinel was far from "24: The Movie". Despite displaced press attention, Kiefer is actually not the main character of the movie. He and Michael Douglas were great together while Eva Longoria played the token eye candy and Kim Basinger played the semi-sophisticate. Jenn and I thought it was a pretty good suspense/action movie, somewhat in the same vein as US Marshals, with quite a few twists thrown in for good measure, the biggest of which I didn't see coming. I think fans of the show 24 will not be disappointed, as long as they don't go in expecting Kiefer to be a guns blazing bad-ass. His character in this movie is the opposite of Jack Bawer in the sense that he is by the book when Jack is not.
Hanging out with Jenn was everything I expected and a little surprising only in the most pleasant of ways. For instance - Suppose you are reading a magazine at Barnes & Noble, flipping through it, and suddenly you make a one inch rip in one of the pages. Would you have put it back on the shelves, or bought it? Jenn did the latter.
If there was one thing I wish I did tonight, it would have been to formally compliment her new hair style. Aside from the general shape of the style, it was hard to tell from the few pictures I had seen online exactly how the coloring of it turned out. Generally I am pretty critical about dyed hair, but in her case, the pictures don't do her justice.
I had a wonderful time, even if the gates for the park locked my car into the parking lot. That's just temporal. I hope our friendship will not be.