Originally I'd planned to say up all night on Summer Solstice, which is the 21st this year, but since there was the movie night event I figured I'll just stay up all night then instead. There is, after all, only one day of difference.
Oh yes, so how has the past few days been?
On Thursday Anna, Kate and I (with Anna again being our designated driver, since Kate can't drive and I have nothing to drive) went for a walk at Rancho San Antonia. It was nice, similar in environment to Alum Rock at San Jose except with more animals at the entrance and a scary amount of joggers swarming the trail, en masse, as we were leaving. There were, perhaps, not as many rocks as Kate would've liked and we stayed on the trail and didn't take any short cuts, much to her disappointment. However, Lucy will be most happy to know that Kate did not ingest any part of any mysterious plants for the duration of this trip. Anna and I were vying for the right to pester her, which might have helped. Then again, it might not have. There a lot of little bugs and they were very annoying. Two flew into my ear and squished when I tried to remove them in the speediest manner possible. I took a very LONG shower when I got home.
Yesterday was the movie night (not day anymore, since we met at around six pm, which was already evening). Victoria had to leave early because she had something this morning and Malvina ended up not coming either, so by one o' clock it was only Kate, Anna, Christine, and me. We watched a lot of movies that involved people cackling maniacally, which seemed to have rubbed off on Anna somehow, since she'd cackle randomly throughout the night for no reason afterwards. The alternate theory for the cackling is that Anna is not used to staying up all night (her first time to stay awake for 24 hours straight is yesterday!) and well...sleep deprivation was getting to her. The alternate theory to THAT is that after so many lines that are of the "You. Are. Guilty." (delivered in a growling monotone) and "We're the leeeeeeeeeeeeegion." (creepy breathy monotone)type she felt the urge to make some sort of noise. I think we all did, in fact. GHOST RIDER might have better CGI than HAPPILY NEVER AFTER, but the lines are just as bad. We've concluded, after the movie had ended, that Mr. Blaze's expression operated on a binary system: there is expression one, confusion, which is him being wide-eyed and often doubles as "thoughtful" as well, and expression two, surprised, which is him being wide-eyed and open mouthed and also sometimes double as "horrified." Similarly, when he's the ghost rider there're also only two options: flaming skull with orange flames, or flaming skull with blue flames. Admittedly this is more understandable since skulls, generally, are not inclined to have more than one expression (Death grinned because there's not much of a choice in the matter). Later, while we're microwave mini-pizzas at some other bleary hour of the morning, Kate wondered out loud whether people will all look the same if they're covered with tomato sauce (...this had a rather long lead-in at some point, but you're going to have to ask Kate for it) at which point it was added that there's also Mr. Blaze vs. Mr. Blaze covered in tomato sauce, thereby giving us three sets of binary values for the...um...appearance of the ghost rider. We agreed it was a whole lot better than the number of expression that Christine from THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA has since the number is, well, one.
Went grocery shopping with mom afterwards then slept for two hours when I got home. Most of the packing's done. I've emailed Charleen to see what to do with the cat(s) so I can determined whether or not I can be in Cupertino on the 14th of July. Christine's already in the middle of her classes whereas I leave for them tomorrow. The radishes are already starting to come up in the yard.
No comments:
Post a Comment