back to books, baby

Jan 16, 2010 17:38

First of all, my dad's all good.  Everything went fine with the surgery.

Next, back in Boston.

C, Wednesday (the day I got back) was the LONGEST day ever.  Dad had the surgery day before so we were at the hospital by 7am, we didn't get to see him after the surgery till 4pm then we left and went to dinner at 7 and didn't get home from that till about 9.  Took a nap from about 10:30 to 3:30 am then packed my bags.  Left for the airport at 445.  Plane left at 710.  Got into boston at 1010.  Took train straight to school and got there at 1100 (which actually started at 1000, but i told my teacher and she was cool about it) and including the first class had 3 classes that day so i couldn't go home and just lugged my luggage around all day till i could go home at 4pm.  I was so so so very exhausted, tired, and sleepy (all of which you figure out are separate things when you feel them all at once) and my bags were really heavy because i had a lot to take home.  My mom has to send me stuff and i had to leave a huge chunk of clothes in miami because they wouldn't fit.  When i got home, i slipped down the stairs because icy = bad, made the most disgusting thing for dinner which was quite delicious, then went to sleep.  Longest day ever.

I got a semi-new computer and i lurve it to death.  You don't realize how EXTREMELY old your computer is until you deal with a new one.  When i tell it to do something, it DOES it.  Almost immediately.  And it's pretty and fast and everything runs so smoothly.  In heaven.  Let me put this in perspective for you: i turned on the old computer and asked it to open firefox.  Then i turned on the new one, went on firefox, checked 2 email accounts, checked 2 author's pages, checked facebook, wrote on someone's wall, checked on a book update, and then went to write this thing of facebook and it is right now that firefox is finally up.  Not working, mind you, in terms that it has highlighted the navigation bar but won't let me type in it yet.

Now, Renzo and I happened to watch a shit load of movies over the break.  More than a lot.  Here they are (and not in any order watched or preferred, this is just remembering what we watched as I go):
  • Where the Wild Things Are
  • Avatar
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  • New Moon
  • Trick r Treat
  • Paranormal Activity
  • District 9
I have a feeling we watched something else but I can't remember.  I also watched Daybreakers with Abby, Sam, and Schaan.

Where the Wild Things Are was artistically beautiful, very true to the images of the book, wonderfully child-like in logic, but strange.  So so strange.
Avatar was fantastically beautiful, loved the planet, the plants, and animals because they were so different and new and i loved the anemone things.  And main protagonist guy is HOT.  Great movie even if, apparently, it reminds everyone of pochahontas.  Still loved it.  Oh oh!!  And i loved the floating seed/squid things.  I want one for my own.

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was hilarious.  The story was so well done and a great book adaptation.  Just loved it.  So good.

New Moon was hilarious too, but it wasn't meant to be.  I thought it was ridiculously dramatic and a bunch of key parts of the book were left out so it didn't have quite the impact it should have when certain things happened.  It also moved too fast.  I loved the action parts and the fact that almost all the guys in the movie are half-naked.  I enjoyed that.  Except Edward.  He was ripped up and buff so i enjoyed that, but he looked like he was dead...not even vampire-dead, but corpse-dead then reheated.  Yuck.

Trick r Treat was more slasher and gore than i thought it was going to be.  I was thinking it was going to be more horror and terrifying.  The little sack kid i thought was cute when he wasn't the incarnation of halloween and evil.  Some parts were just unrealistic in the way that they weren't even remotely possible so there was no reason the viewer would think it would happen to them.  I kinda loved Anna Paquin's story line...until the boobs part.  The rest was pretty cool.

Paranormal Activity was just GREAT!  The horrifying terror part i wanted from Trick r Treat was because we watched this one first and this one just creeped me the flip out.  Seriously.  It was a little bit long at parts, but the actors acted extremely well and naturally and it all looked so good for such a small small budget.  The ending was MAGNIFICENT.  Couldn't sleep well that night.  I was so freaked out.  I kept hearing things move in the room and i was just so wigged.

District 9 was different than i thought it was going to be but still really good.  I really liked it.  The ending was a bit sad and I hate that matters weren't really resolved, but eh.

Daybreakers was more gory than i thought it was going to be.  Why the vampires kept exploding is beyond me.  I liked it, but i thought it could do without the exploding gore.  It was really interesting.  Not gonna lie though, some parts were a little lame, but it was still fun overall.

Finally got the document from my email open on the other computer so i'll go do that now.  If i remember any  other movie that watched over break, i'll let you know or you could tell me about a movie you saw.

SSDD

movies, school, fan boy, computer issues, airport, fan girl

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