subjects are for lameos
I never know what to write in the subject box, much like I never know what to title stories. I wish I still had my America: The Calendar. It had entry titles built right in!
Anyway.
HI INTERNET. Sorry I've been gone so long. You know how it is.
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Friday night I went with my parents to see a "distinguished lecture" at William Paterson University. It was about humor and the election and the panelists were Christopher Buckley, Peter Sagal, and Carol Leifer. It was hilARious. Oh my god. Peter Sagal is as funny in real life as he is on Wait, Wait and Christopher Buckley is hella smart. The others were too, of course, but... man, just hella smart. Carol Leifer didn't talk much and didn't leave much of an impression, other than that she REALLY hates Sarah Palin. It was, like I said, Friday night, so it was just hours after Buckley posted his support of Obama, so they talked about that for awhile and it was great. The whole thing was, really. I wish I had recorded it or written down my favorite bits because... oh god, guys, I laughed so hard at some of it. Sagal did this thing where he talked about how we have a "Tinkerbell Economy" and if we just clap our hands and chant really hard that we believe in it, it will stabilize. It was a fun evening, though, even though we got ridiculously lost on the way there.
Saturday I went to work and then came home. Boring.
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SUNDAY. I don't know why I seperated this with a little asterisk thing. Anyway, SUNDAY I got up early for breakfast with quatredeathlady and our moms. We had a ridiculously long wait for breakfast (not really, it was like thirty minutes, but we were tired and hungry) but eventually got a table and ate food. Then our moms went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and we went home to get ready to go pumpkin picking.
We had a sort of ridiculously long and convoluted experience getting there and the place was INSANE, but it's going to get its own post because I took a lot of dumb pictures to illustrate it and I don't have time to upload them now.
When we got back, we took a nap and then had dinner before heading out to briefly visit Nicole's mom and sister before seeing Quarantine. Let me tell you, we were both pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed ourselves. I mean, it's a zombie movie, so it's not like its forging new territory, but it was very creepy. We even screamed out loud in the theatre at one (or two...) point(s). I really liked it, although I'm sure it will have its detractors, as most horror movies do.
At home there was no internet and we decided we were never sleeping ever, so we watched teevee and I half-heartedly worked on the story we're writing together until we were too tired to stay up any longer. We passed out and slept until noon, at which point we still had no internet. After watching two hours of What Not to Wear we went to The Bookstore and Panera to buy books, eat food, and use teh internets. Afterwards, it was time for Nicole to go, which was TRAGIC, but I saw her off on the bus.
Hopefully she will be back next weekend to see Richard Schiff in Talley's Folly. Hopefully we will get to carve our pumpkins!
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This evening I went out to dinner with my parents and an aunt and uncle from out of town. It was very entertaining, but I'm exhausted and have to go to The Bookstore in the morning, so I will end this severely boring LJ entry now.
Anyway.
HI INTERNET. Sorry I've been gone so long. You know how it is.
***
Friday night I went with my parents to see a "distinguished lecture" at William Paterson University. It was about humor and the election and the panelists were Christopher Buckley, Peter Sagal, and Carol Leifer. It was hilARious. Oh my god. Peter Sagal is as funny in real life as he is on Wait, Wait and Christopher Buckley is hella smart. The others were too, of course, but... man, just hella smart. Carol Leifer didn't talk much and didn't leave much of an impression, other than that she REALLY hates Sarah Palin. It was, like I said, Friday night, so it was just hours after Buckley posted his support of Obama, so they talked about that for awhile and it was great. The whole thing was, really. I wish I had recorded it or written down my favorite bits because... oh god, guys, I laughed so hard at some of it. Sagal did this thing where he talked about how we have a "Tinkerbell Economy" and if we just clap our hands and chant really hard that we believe in it, it will stabilize. It was a fun evening, though, even though we got ridiculously lost on the way there.
Saturday I went to work and then came home. Boring.
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SUNDAY. I don't know why I seperated this with a little asterisk thing. Anyway, SUNDAY I got up early for breakfast with quatredeathlady and our moms. We had a ridiculously long wait for breakfast (not really, it was like thirty minutes, but we were tired and hungry) but eventually got a table and ate food. Then our moms went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and we went home to get ready to go pumpkin picking.
We had a sort of ridiculously long and convoluted experience getting there and the place was INSANE, but it's going to get its own post because I took a lot of dumb pictures to illustrate it and I don't have time to upload them now.
When we got back, we took a nap and then had dinner before heading out to briefly visit Nicole's mom and sister before seeing Quarantine. Let me tell you, we were both pleasantly surprised with how much we enjoyed ourselves. I mean, it's a zombie movie, so it's not like its forging new territory, but it was very creepy. We even screamed out loud in the theatre at one (or two...) point(s). I really liked it, although I'm sure it will have its detractors, as most horror movies do.
At home there was no internet and we decided we were never sleeping ever, so we watched teevee and I half-heartedly worked on the story we're writing together until we were too tired to stay up any longer. We passed out and slept until noon, at which point we still had no internet. After watching two hours of What Not to Wear we went to The Bookstore and Panera to buy books, eat food, and use teh internets. Afterwards, it was time for Nicole to go, which was TRAGIC, but I saw her off on the bus.
Hopefully she will be back next weekend to see Richard Schiff in Talley's Folly. Hopefully we will get to carve our pumpkins!
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This evening I went out to dinner with my parents and an aunt and uncle from out of town. It was very entertaining, but I'm exhausted and have to go to The Bookstore in the morning, so I will end this severely boring LJ entry now.