Oh what a day!
Yesterday was jsut action packed excitement around every turn! Sorta.
Went with Jessi to see Brokeback Mountain at the Oriental. The simple fact that I was actually able to successfully get to theatre without getting lost (and without mapquesting it!) and find a parking spot made it impressive. But seriously. The movie was incredible. I'm still processing the whole thing oday, and really, all I can say was it was amazing. And I even cried during it, which I really don't do in theatres. It ended how I would have expected it to, and I really don't think it could have any other way. It was definitely one of the best movies I've seen in a while and it really makes you think about relationships and love and how much control you have over who you fall for. So you should all go and see it. Especially if you're in Milwaukee since the only place it's playing currently is the Oriental, and that's just the greatest movie theatre I've ever seen.
Then went to Potawatomi with my mom for some bingo action. It was actually a lot more fun than I was expecting, and it was fun (and kinda sad...) to see all the old people getting so into it. I think some of them genuinely thought there was some sort of skill behind it, rather than just complete random chance. Also played the slots for a while, but sadly didn't win anything.
I called Ben last night around 1 since I was bored and wanted to talk to someone till I got tired and it ended up lasting almost 3 hours. For someone that hates talking on the phone as much as I do, that's pretty amazing. He claims we'd talked that long before, but I disagree. Talking to him really makes me feel better and know that after everything, we still are really good friends, and him living thousands of miles away won't change that. We actually somehow got to talking about Jennie for a little while, and I think it was good for me to actually attempt to rationally process my views on the whole thing to another person. It probably made little sense to him, but it was good for me to talk it through.
Hopefully when I talk to Mike, I can do the same thing and try and calmly explain why I think he's making a huge mistake (again) and his girlfriend (I shuddered when I typed that) is an idiot stick-figure with no soul and hasn't changed, and won't. He deserves so much better...we'll just leave it at that.
I'm really getting excited for j-term, though I kinda wish I had a little more time here to see a few more people. But it should be a lot of fun to be back since a lot of my friends are going to be in lax too. My goal is for it not to turn into a 3 week bender. Not too worried about that happening, but it could be tempting.
Went with Jessi to see Brokeback Mountain at the Oriental. The simple fact that I was actually able to successfully get to theatre without getting lost (and without mapquesting it!) and find a parking spot made it impressive. But seriously. The movie was incredible. I'm still processing the whole thing oday, and really, all I can say was it was amazing. And I even cried during it, which I really don't do in theatres. It ended how I would have expected it to, and I really don't think it could have any other way. It was definitely one of the best movies I've seen in a while and it really makes you think about relationships and love and how much control you have over who you fall for. So you should all go and see it. Especially if you're in Milwaukee since the only place it's playing currently is the Oriental, and that's just the greatest movie theatre I've ever seen.
Then went to Potawatomi with my mom for some bingo action. It was actually a lot more fun than I was expecting, and it was fun (and kinda sad...) to see all the old people getting so into it. I think some of them genuinely thought there was some sort of skill behind it, rather than just complete random chance. Also played the slots for a while, but sadly didn't win anything.
I called Ben last night around 1 since I was bored and wanted to talk to someone till I got tired and it ended up lasting almost 3 hours. For someone that hates talking on the phone as much as I do, that's pretty amazing. He claims we'd talked that long before, but I disagree. Talking to him really makes me feel better and know that after everything, we still are really good friends, and him living thousands of miles away won't change that. We actually somehow got to talking about Jennie for a little while, and I think it was good for me to actually attempt to rationally process my views on the whole thing to another person. It probably made little sense to him, but it was good for me to talk it through.
Hopefully when I talk to Mike, I can do the same thing and try and calmly explain why I think he's making a huge mistake (again) and his girlfriend (I shuddered when I typed that) is an idiot stick-figure with no soul and hasn't changed, and won't. He deserves so much better...we'll just leave it at that.
I'm really getting excited for j-term, though I kinda wish I had a little more time here to see a few more people. But it should be a lot of fun to be back since a lot of my friends are going to be in lax too. My goal is for it not to turn into a 3 week bender. Not too worried about that happening, but it could be tempting.