So, just in case anyone was wondering, it IS possible to go to the movies alone. I succeeded in doing so last night. I even went out to dinner BY MYSELF.... granted, it was not so fun, but I managed nonetheless. (is nonetheless one word? I really don't know..)
Anyhow, last night I went to Cheeseburger Charley's and then to the movies to see Napoleon Dynamite. Ok, first things first... I was somewhat disappointed, because there has been SO much hype over this movie, and while parts of it cracked me up, (I think I dated that guy in high school... GEEZ!) I left feeling as though it was a tad bit over-rated. Or maybe not...anyways go see the movie for yourself, it's funny...
So as I mentioned, I went alone. I've always wanted to try it, thinking that if I could manage doing such a social thing as going to the movies all by my lonesome, then maybe it would mean that I could handle living alone the rest of my life. Well... to put it bluntly, my experience proved nothing of the sort. I mean, I did it, but I felt like an idiot the entire time! Just picture it.. you're sitting in a theatre with your date and friends, and in walks this girl (GORGEOUS, I might add =) all by herself.. so you're thinking, "What's wrong with her? Is her date in the bathroom? Does she have no friends? How can this be?" So the girl, frantically attempting (and failing) to look confident and assured, decides to sit in the back row (because no one is up there yet and perhaps no one will notice that she has no one comming to join her... NO ONE!). So there we are, sitting, waiting for the movie to start... but meanwhile more people keep comming in, faster and faster, flocks of them! Geez you would think that movies werte no longer $8 or something! So there she is, the girl all alone in the backrow, thinking, surely that with this many people, someone would come up to the top. But alas, no, it isn't so (no rhyme intended) the people only gaze up to the top to see her in all her lonely glory and then turn around to sit in the 18 crowded rows below. This leaves the girl wondering.. is there some odd smell radiating around her, does she have STD written on her forehead or something?? We may never know. Needless to say, the movie came and went, and only 1 poor soul inhabited the backrow.
“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition - that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.” - Frederick Buechner
8.23.2004
8.22.2004
It's been a while...
Aloha friends! Indeed it has been a while, but I have been SOOO busy it's ridiculous! First I had family visiting, then I had Katie's wedding, then I moved in here at school to start leadership/RA training.
Katie's wedding was beautiful, she looked gorgeous, and I cried, but not that much. Immediately following the wedding I headed out to Nashville, where on the way we got stuck in traffic in Memphis for an hour and a half at 1:30 in the morning... they had actually closed the I-40 bridge.. ridiculous..
Anyhow, this past week has been SO MUCH FUN! I really like my RA staff, and training has been cool.. I had no idea how much fun this all would be....
To be continued...
Katie's wedding was beautiful, she looked gorgeous, and I cried, but not that much. Immediately following the wedding I headed out to Nashville, where on the way we got stuck in traffic in Memphis for an hour and a half at 1:30 in the morning... they had actually closed the I-40 bridge.. ridiculous..
Anyhow, this past week has been SO MUCH FUN! I really like my RA staff, and training has been cool.. I had no idea how much fun this all would be....
To be continued...
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