Tempt Not a Desperate Man

Romeo and Juliet was KICK-A, so much so in fact that I may or may not have seen it twice. In a row. And I think some people were judging me for it. But it's not often you find such a good-such a well-done piece of theatre! And why not savor it while it's around? The next one may be a long time coming. Why not see something twice that encourages you to love with "reckless abandon"?

Anyway, I found out I have to work on Labor Day, but also that I get paid holiday pay. And do you know what holiday pay is? TWICE regular pay! Seriously! AKA, I will be getting paid $17 an hour! So, even though I don't get to sleep in on my day off, I'll be getting serious paid for it.

What else? My boyfriend's out of town and that sucks. I've been doing some Europes planning. I work out now. School started. Which was okay, I mean, Math for Elementary Teachers is going to be kind of lame and I don't really know what I was thinking taking two French classes in one day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm going to be plain Frenched out.

Soon After, Mummies Were Found in Peru

So, we went to see the new Mummy movie, which was actually way better than I thought it was going to be. I'm not sure why it's not getting more publicity.

Sometimes, I freakin hate this Night Audit. I mean, the actual shift itself, while I am physically here doing it, is usually not that bad. But I hate having to get dressed and come in to work at 10:30 pm, when my body is winding down for sleep. And I hate wasting the whole next day catching up on sleep (which, if I skip, comes back to bite me in the ass the next night).

School starts Wednesday, which SUCKS because I totally just got out of school. My summer break was like, 2 1/2 weeks long.

And drinking water, eating healthy, and exercising might be good for me but it is annoying.

And I totally forgot how much I freakin love Phantom of the Opera.

It Is Hard to Tell of Happiness. Time Goes By and We Feel Safe Too Soon.

Hey, ALANA's in Legends of the Fall!.... which is still one of the most depressing movies ever made, up there with Cold Mountain, which made me want to spend the next whole day in bed.

On another, severely depressing note, I am losing my grip on my movie knowledge.

Example #1- Tonight I mixed up Aidan Quinn with William Hurt (and I wasn't even thinking of William Hurt I was thinking of Ed Harris, I didn't even have the right name. I got it mixed up because I was thinking of History of Violence Ed Harris, and William Hurt is also in that movie).

Example #2- While watching Mamma Mia I mixed up Bill Nighy and Stellan Skaarsgard (however you spell that, it's a weird name). I mixed up Davy Jones and Bootstrap Bill Turner!

I don't know what's happening to me. Soon I'll have no idea who anyone is, and I'll be all "Johnny Depp? Who's that? Nicole Kidman? Never heard of her." And then where will I be, hm?

Also, the girl they picked to be Bella in the Twilight movie? Meh. I don't know that I agree with that choice. And Edward is supposed to be inhumanly beautiful, but all the production photos I've seen of Cedric (I mean, Robert Pattinson, although I've never heard anyone refer to him by his real name) just have him looking nothing but extremely pale.

COME ON, Twilight people, get it in gear. I'm already skeptical about your casting choices for practically everyone except Charlie and possibly Alice. And those promo photos? Why do ALL of the Cullens except Edward look like they're wearing horrible wigs? (Probably are).

Anyway, I'm done. Or, done with this post. I still have a good 4 1/2 hours left of this night audit shift to go.

MELISSA IS EATING HER BABIES

Grizzly Man is the most inadvertently hysterical movie ever made (besides Ground Control, of course). Any movie in which a guy seriously sits in a tent screaming "Come on JESUS BOY, come on CHRIST MAN, ALLAH, HINDU FLOATY THING, let's get these animals some f-ing WATER!" is totally worth it.

Backstreet Boys was amazing, and a kick-a road trip. Totally worth every penny/drop of gas. I wish I could go 12 more times.

Working the desk at night for several nights in a row is weird. It's kind of impossible not to start feeling like you kind of own the hotel, because let's face it, I have free reign and I do whatever I want, whenever I want, as long as I have the paperwork done by morning. It's weird going from that to working in the afternoons where you constantly have to watch yourself because there are managers on duty and people staring over your shoulder the whole time. So sometimes I'd much rather just work alone.

I'm not ready to go back to school!

Sometimes Truth Isn't Good Enough. Sometimes People Deserve More...

Old man drivers in Nashville are SO MEAN. This guy totally cut me off today in the Green Hills mall parking lot, and I almost hit him, so I honked, because a. I had the rightaway, b. He was like, the third old guy to cut me off in a two-minute span of time, and c. I really did almost hit him. This guy- comes to a complete stop. Opens his whole door, leans out of it looking angry enough to slice my throat and screams at me, "SLOW DOWN!" I was so shocked and my passenger was so dismayed I almost cried. It was so UNNECESSARY! Why?

So I dropped my passenger off at the bank and didn't feel like parking because she was going to be like, 30 seconds, so I pulled up to the front and waited. This old guy comes out of the bank (he totally SEES me sitting there), and starts to back up. So I start to pull up, you know, trying to be nice and move so he can back out. But I'm not fast enough so he honks at me as I'm pulling up, then pulls up beside me, honks again, mouths the word "PARK!" to me while gesturing angrily to the parking spaces.

But I mean, really? Like, what is wrong with people?

I saw the new Batman in IMAX the other night and I... have mixed emotions.

Like sure, it's kind of a kick-ass movie, awesome stunts, extremely well-written and produced, all that. But it's so... intense. It's a very dense movie.

And don't you kind of feel... responsible? After the movie was over- well really, about half-way through the movie I felt really uneasy and then I figured out why. Watching that movie made me feel responsible for Heath Ledger's death. And I just... I really feel like we killed him for our entertainment. He was so... to be in that horrible place for as long as they were filming, to be inside that character, I would have... I don't know. It just made me feel extremely uncomfortable to be paying to be entertained by what most likely killed him.

I guess I'm done, nobody else but Doug seems to understand this sentiment so I'll leave it alone, but that movie just made me feel weird, and kind of depressed about society for a while.

Wow, this post is a downer. Sorry.