Da Bears!
So.... the joys of a laptop. I am at this very second typing AND watching the Super Bowl. My Love cheers for the Bears, so I am going along with that. We were impressed by the first touchdown of the game. I feel a bit clueless about the rules of the game, but I have permission to ask as many stupid questions as I want. And now we have Prince singing Purple Rain and playing a rather phallic looking guitar.
Wow, haven't written since Christmas, actually. So that was a good holiday, if a bit crazy. Everything was finished and turned in the night before we had to leave. The plan was LA to Montana, Montana to Cleveland, Cleveland to LA. We were flying to see Matt's family for Christmas (my first time meeting them, eek!) then to my family for the New Year. But we couldn't fly cause our flight was canceled due to snow in Denver. We couldn't get a new flight until the day after Christmas. No deal. So we rented a car and drove. 18 hrs. Strangely fun. I liked his family, they seemed to like me. All went well. Then we are supposed to fly our next section to Ohio. Denver was closed again. This time we got routed through Minneapolis instead. Had New Year's with my family, all went well. Last flight, back to LA. It is delayed, and this time, we end up having to take a flight through Denver. Arrrgh. I never want to fly again. And almost no snow the entire time we were in those colder regions!
But we are back, classes have started back up. Matt and I've passed the one year mark since we began dating (whee!)
gold_flamingohas taken off for South America for 5 weeks, and
eirleis getting married in about 8 weeks. That is about all the news. Life is good, but not highly eventful. And I am fine with that.
I have seen a number of cool movies in the last little while. Sweet love story: Sweet Land (set in MN and just lovely), Dark fairy tale: Pan's Labyrinth (quite bloody, showing NO influences of Disney, it is probably much closer to the original Grimm's tales) and Apocalyptic futurism: Children of Men (not as grim as it could have been, and well done, but at this point doesn't anyone expect the future to be nice, peaceful and include personal flight devices?)
I also have a new addiction, a very cool black and white online comic about a wombat named Digger. http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/digger.php It has won awards, and the artistry is amazing. It is also well written and humorous, so I wasted a number of hours on that!
I am also having occasional bouts of nostalgia. I miss you all! Visit me sometime!
Wow, haven't written since Christmas, actually. So that was a good holiday, if a bit crazy. Everything was finished and turned in the night before we had to leave. The plan was LA to Montana, Montana to Cleveland, Cleveland to LA. We were flying to see Matt's family for Christmas (my first time meeting them, eek!) then to my family for the New Year. But we couldn't fly cause our flight was canceled due to snow in Denver. We couldn't get a new flight until the day after Christmas. No deal. So we rented a car and drove. 18 hrs. Strangely fun. I liked his family, they seemed to like me. All went well. Then we are supposed to fly our next section to Ohio. Denver was closed again. This time we got routed through Minneapolis instead. Had New Year's with my family, all went well. Last flight, back to LA. It is delayed, and this time, we end up having to take a flight through Denver. Arrrgh. I never want to fly again. And almost no snow the entire time we were in those colder regions!
But we are back, classes have started back up. Matt and I've passed the one year mark since we began dating (whee!)
gold_flamingohas taken off for South America for 5 weeks, and
eirleis getting married in about 8 weeks. That is about all the news. Life is good, but not highly eventful. And I am fine with that.
I have seen a number of cool movies in the last little while. Sweet love story: Sweet Land (set in MN and just lovely), Dark fairy tale: Pan's Labyrinth (quite bloody, showing NO influences of Disney, it is probably much closer to the original Grimm's tales) and Apocalyptic futurism: Children of Men (not as grim as it could have been, and well done, but at this point doesn't anyone expect the future to be nice, peaceful and include personal flight devices?)
I also have a new addiction, a very cool black and white online comic about a wombat named Digger. http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/digger.php It has won awards, and the artistry is amazing. It is also well written and humorous, so I wasted a number of hours on that!
I am also having occasional bouts of nostalgia. I miss you all! Visit me sometime!