#23

Ay!

Only Lovers Left Alive actually ended up being way better than I expected! I thought it was probably going to be really, r e a l l y indie with an obscure plot and misleading dialogue and "artistically" very mysterious characters, but it was a lot of fun! The plot was pretty understated, but I loved the characters, the casting, the little jokes, the general DONE-ness of Adam 24/7, how fascinated Eve was by everything, and "YOU DRANK IAN!!". No, really, I was snorting all the way through it. Also, Adam & Eve's relationship was, predictably, adorable. Eve was, as I mentioned, all "i-believe-in-magic" and Adam was the most tragic emo to ever emo. Watching them was just like looking at a couple of cuddly grandparents, I was squealing so much on the inside. Le sigh. Also, obviously Hiddles was flawless. I even kind of liked Tilda here too - her semi-dreaded hair was gorgeous and she generally seemed like a great fit for a spindly old vampire lady, and hers - as well as the others, mind - was a very natural character "on" her. I don't even know if putting it that way makes sense, but the dialogue and motives and such didn't feel "glued on" for any of the characters, which was also a factor in making it enjoyable.

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Some old family friends were visiting us today. I just saw Adam & Eve in them, pretty much - the lady is a very excitable babbler and the husband is kind of a cranky bastard. They're very sympathetic as well, though, and I got some good food for sticking around. They were pointing out how "special" it was that I still live at home - I just felt very awkward, but I know lots of kids who are my age would have moved out already. I can honestly say I haven't had any realistic urges to do so, since so far I've basically managed to buy every extraneous thing I could ever need - without working a single day of my life. It's also something that makes me very insecure, but it all comes back to the whole lack of ambition thing. Oh well, I'm not getting into that now - yeah, I still haven't written about it in the other blog, either - because I'll just end up depressing myself. Ugh. No one wants that.

Q T P A 2 T ' S

There's this one group assignment that I was supposed to do back in January, but I completely missed. We had about 2 weeks of working from home, and I honestly didn't realize that at some point I'd been supposed to have found a group and completed an assignment. It's cool though, I talked to the teacher who grades those assignments and she said I could do it on my own and email it over to her when I'm done. I'll be trying to complete it before my traineeing starts... 

I'm also really excited about all the new books I bought! I got a huge discount - for being a student - that even included the Bible and a book of hymns, that are normally not discounted even for people who actually work at the church. I mean, they'd probably essentially get as much money back via taxes as I did here, but it's still a nice feeling to reduce a 210€ bill to 160€ for 7 books. Hurr durr. I love the Bible, too, since it's so fancy. It came with a "small reader's guide" thing with a program to read the whole thing in 365 days, which I started just because I felt like it. It can only be useful if I need to think up content for prayer moments and such. 

Oh well, I feel like I've been rambly enough for today. Here's one more for the road. 

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