well, that was a fun night!
first i headed to robin's for her 27th birthday bash, a lovely outdoor potluck full of yummy food, fresh fruits, and little children in tents. i got to spend time with some of my favorite sils students and some of my favorite bloggers, especially pinky (who was joined by the also-hilarious mr. pinky) and james (who i finally got to meet). definitely a good way to spend a summer evening.
of course, i had to bail early to go catch sisterhood of the traveling pants with christina. although i don't usually go in for movies about friendship, it was a lot better than i was expecting (though, at time, was way too heavy-handed and went for the easy tearjerker a few times too often for my tastes). i had some mixed feelings about the lena subplot--reaching self-awareness through the love of a dude isn't necessarily the best way to go about the whole coming-of-age shtick--but christina assures me it's different in the book (which she's letting me borrow and which i should read soon, unless i save it for the plane to pittsburgh on wednesday). i wonder if alexis bledel will always play prigs--she was even sort of priggish as a gun-totin' prostitute in sin city.
christina left the movie a little depressed, and i was somewhere between numb and nostalgic. intetestingly, i decided my own summer-of-being-16 was most like the lena/bridget plots, and yet those were the two i found least interesting. we were both all about american ferrara as carmen--christina said she was the prettiest of the girls, and i think she was the awesomest actress (though amber tamblyn is a great little crier--seriously, whenever i see her cry, i start weeping along with her).
by the way, it has the WORST soundtrack EVER. seriously, the melodrama was cranked up to 11 with those song selections, making even the more heartfelt scenes seem extra-ridiculous. good job, soundtrack directors! *sarcastic thumbs up*
mystery of the day: as those of you who have been in my car can attest, the clock in there is totally wacky, and is always running about 19 minutes ahead; even when i reset it, it will creep back up to being 19 minutes fast. but when i left robin's tonight, it was only ten minutes fast! when the heck did it lose nine minutes? like the whole tootsie pop question ("how many licks does it take?"), the world may never know.
4 comments:
i'm reminded of the X-Files: "we lost nine seconds!1"
but my dashboard clock is getting faster every day--it started at 5 minutes fast and is up to 14. no loss of time, yet.
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my old computer's clock used to race ahead too (but only 8 minutes, and note 19). i used to use this as evidence of my minor electrical superpowers, but maybe it's a car battery problem if it's happening to you too. :) or maybe you also have electrical superpowers!
that was such a lovely party - and I came home with far fewer mosquito bites on my ankles than I expected. thank you, off!
(and your cupcakes were terrific - the fact that they were pink was an added bonus)
i was sorry to leave early--definitely it was a lot of fun (althoguh i did manage to get four big bites, despite being coated in an unhealthy amount of bug spray!).
i'm glad you liked the cupcakes!! your cookies were also excellent. :)
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