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An unusually interesting Sunday

Yesterday night, my parents had this little Saint Patrick's Day / Saint Joseph's Day party at our house. I baked cookies, but they came out kinda gross because somebody turned off the oven and we had to keep the cookies in longer than they should have been. I made a salad, too. I thought it was basically going to be the best salad ever and I was going to be all, "I am the awesomest chef ever!!!" But the salad, too, came out kind of crappy. I had mixed greens, candied nuts, dried cranberries, baked tofu, radish sprouts, grapefruit, and a homemade pomegranate dressing. I know, awesome, right? But I think it was because of the slightly rotten greens.... it tasted kind of like air mixed with rotten mixed with basement. Not good.

My sister and I decided to be anti-social for a majority of the party and we stayed in her room talking and eavesdropping on the party using the room-monitor setting on our new phone network. I told her how I thought the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie was basically the coolest/weirdest movie ever and I spent about half an hour laying out the entire plot to her.

After a little while, I went to my room and decided to computer it up a little bit. I went into the instant messenger and started talking with Mary. I told her that my parents were okay with me going to New York City with her during spring break as long as we took the train. She was alright with it and since the train tickets are so cheap, she said that Shannon might be coming. I'm totally excited because Mary plus Shannon plus visiting Russell plus New York equals super-duper-fun! We decided that she'd come over the next day and we'd buy our train tickets together.

Meanwhile, I started chatting with Adam. I didn't know until today that he was in Buffalo for his way-too-early spring break. He told me how he had just come back from seeing V for Vendetta and I was like, "ohmygod! I want to see that movie so badly lets go right now!" And he was like, "I'm down." And I was like, "Let's go."

So I found movie times and we decided to go to the 9:20 showing. On a school night. I'm totally living on the edge. I finished my homework (a cartoon picture of a Triceratops, since, you know, senior year is basically elementary school all over again) and Adam picked me up at about 9:10.

I must say, the movie was seriously amazing. I'm not sure if there's really a definite point to it, exactly. You think that there's a point to it while you're watching it, but when you leave the theater, it's really difficult to determine what that point is. The movie is just so crammed with controversial issues and tidbits, many of them clashing with each other, that it's hard to tell what the movie makers wanted you to think. I think that most of the ideas and issues brought up in the movie may have just been put in it to stir people's emotions and push some buttons. The movie is seriously entertaining, though. It really grabs a hold of you and draws you entirely into the plot.

After the movie was done, Adam took me back home. I started getting ready for bed, but that was interrupted by my third nosebleed of the weekend. I think it's the dryness of our house combined with the cold I've had over the last few days that's triggered all of this nose-bleeding. I spent some time at the computer waiting for the nosebleed to stop. I then continued getting ready for bed and finally got to it at about one in the morning. From there, I couldn't really get to sleep.

It didn't matter, though. All this week is "March Madness Week" or what otherwise might be known as "School Spirit Week" at other schools. Today was pajama day. The one day of the year where I can come to school looking dead tired and like I just rolled out of bed and not care. Plus, it's really fun! I brought my pajama pants, a robe, my night-time moisturizing gloves, an eye mask, a stuffed animal, and a faux-fur blanket! When it's pajama day, I go all out!

March 20, 2006 at 11:51 AM

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