#45

Camp was a hot mess.

The following gif is the best approximation of my general feelings when describing the camp to anyone who wasn't there:





(Also, wow. Embedding that bit there with HTML took me back to the Expage days in grades two to five. Whoa.)

Anyway, I don't really feel like I even want to talk about camp at this point. I've talked about it to some friends and at home, maybe I'll write a bit more detailed info about it here, too - but later.

Yesterday I went to Tallinn with my parents. I bought some awesome Marvel shirts and other stuff, it was generally a rather enjoyable trip. I'll probably post a couple of pictures from there, at least on Jux.

Tomorrow will be a pretty busy day - passport and ID card business at the police station in the morning, confirmation mass practice at noon, meeting a friend straight after, and then the Guardians of the Galaxy premiere in the evening... ah, I'm looking forward to it a lot.

I also bought some booze from Estonia (as is only appropriate) because my friend is apparently planning to split up with her boyfriend of about 3 years, who she currently lives with. She already pre-warned me that she would want to get drunk after breaking up with him. It might be with me if I can find a night where we both have no schedule problems getting drunk on a night... We'd have to be quick to make it during this summer. Eh, we'll see.

In any case, I think I'm going to leave all this at that.  

Bye!

#44

Whoa, what a weekend!

On Friday, we went to see How to train your dragon 2 - and continued to my house to watch The Devil Wears Prada, The Grudge and Enchanted. J stayed over, and on Saturday we went to see Snowpiercer.

After the movie, I came home. My sister's summer vacation just started so she had some friends over. We hung out in the back yard and then went to a local dive bar... And they continued with a pool party today. I was a self-proclaimed cleaning, dishwashing and serving lady, ha. It wasn't too bad.

I also started watching In The Flesh more, which is a w e s o m e. There are so many amazing characters, and - not going to lie - Simon and Kieren are ADORABLE. Except that everything seems to be going wrong and I'm dreading where this is going to go.... Ah.

My sister will hopefully be sober enough to drive the car home after dropping me off where the bus to camp is going to leave. Crossing my fingers! But at least it seems she's asleep now, so that's a good sign.

I'm trying to finish the second season of ITF as quickly as possible so I can get some sleep tonight, too. I've gone to bed at about 5am on both Friday and Saturday nights, so it might be a bit of a challenge to fall asleep a lot earlier and wake up at 6-ish... we'll see. I really hope I can wake up on time, dear God.

Anyway, I just wanted to post something before leaving for camp. It would be nice if I'd remember and have time to write something while I'm there, too, but we'll see. I'll definitely take a couple pictures during camp, of the area and such. It's kind of a historical island. I'm dreading my colleagues a little bit but I don't have many responsibilities during camp so hopefully I won't make a mess and become angry at anyone... The kids seem pretty great, though.

Bye!

#43

Since the title to my last post was the answer to all questions in life and the universe, why continue posting, huh?

No, but really, I've literally either been doing stuff or recovering from camps the past month. Sigh.

Last camp was a lot of fun, if also a lot of work. I was trying to be as diplomatic as possible - but even though a lot of things went wrong and had to be fixed and there were many discussions and arguments about how things should be done, I didn't lose my patience even once. It's rare that I do though, and most often not with teenagers. Mostly I have problems containing really spiky comebacks that sometimes seem to jump out of my mouth unbidden. Aargh.

I've started constructing a quotebook for myself. I can't even remember if I mentioned this in a previous post, but I was thinking I'd create like a bigger, actual scrapbook for movie tickets and other paperbound memoirs (which I've collected a lot of, and would like to both save and efficiently store), and then a smaller notebook-sized one where I could just print out some quotes that I like. Of course the first one had to be Tolkien's The Road, but so far I've got about a dozen other quotes I've liked. Anyway, it's a thing that's meant to be kind of accumulated over time. Obviously, since I've never had one before, there's a bit of a backlog to muddle through...

Also, I just watched Amélie for the first time. I was under the impression the movie would've been made a lot later than its actual release year, 2001! Also, the piano theme brought back some memories from past camps, oh dearie.

Sudden picture attack!

And I almost forgot! I went to see The Fault In Our Stars tonight with M as well! He was almost crying before the movie even started, but I managed to soldier through without a single shed tear. Or tear collected in eye. There were a few scenes (namely, Isaac and Hazel's first eulogies for Gus; and the scene where Hazel's parents talk about how their life is going to go after she's gone) that made my heart ache a bit. I really liked how they actually made Hazustus seem like a kind of pretentious, horrifyingly naïve couple - which they undeniably are. It's just that since the original novel is in Hazel's point of view, that aspect is kind of ignored completely. In general, the movie did great justice to the novel, in my opinion - it didn't glorify the genuinely dumb aspects of the story. Final verdict: we both liked it, probably 5/5 for fans, but would recommend for anyone who can bear the amount of syrup you have to muddle through to get to the actual point of the story... so, for non-fans, maybe 2-3/5?

Still, I don't think I have much else to write about now. I'm leaving for camp again on Monday (thank God my sister is dropping me off, I would have to leave horrendously early otherwise. Ugh.)

Whatever. Bye!