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So, obviously I got to go online tonight [Monday]. Right now, though, I'm witnessing a very intense gamble, I think they're playing.... no I don't even know. It's got dice and quarters.... o_o;; SO LOUD. I never knew old people could be so vocal ;P And as always, links open in a new window and pictures do too.
MONDAY - Kieve, day 2.
Ughhh, I slept so badly. And it was so hot. Breakfast was small and everything we did just made us hotter. Mum knew we had to get some things in town, so we went, the two of us, so that we could at least be in the air conditioning. We wandered around in town for a while. We went into a bead shop so I could fix my necklace [needed a new string] and we got a bagel and some books in a book store. I saw a book by a person whose last name was Matthiessen. The lead singer of Relient K is Matt[hew] Thiessen. I lol'd. We also got ice cream :3 So good! When we came back, I listened to music for an hour but Mum and Tilly fell asleep. Just chilling felt really good. But I also got to hang out with the girls + Diego, which was nice.
I didn't eat much at dinner, but I got a nice long shower in before everyone got back to the cabin. Of course, that meant nothing because after dinner we went for a swim in the dark and a canoe ride. We were looking at the stars and I was pointing a few out to Diego. He kept asking where's this and where's that, and I didn't know what they looked like so I wasn't sure. Then it dawned on me, and I laughed at him and asked, "You're from the southern hemisphere, aren't you?! Our night skies look totally different." I also saw a shooting star. That was pretty much the whole day. I've written all this ahead of time, so I don't know if I'll get Internet tonight or not. Going a little crazy because I'm so addicted to tech. Oh well, see you soon I hope :]
SUNDAY - Kieve, day 1.
First of all, I didn't sleep all night on Saturday. I knew I wouldn't be able to wake up so early, and that the only way to be sure I'd be up was to stay up. With the help of many friends [second time I've out-lasted Will! O: ] and some hot chocolate, manga, and lots of music, I managed to do it. Mum had been saying 6, but we didn't leave until after 8. That's okay though. We got bagels and doughnuts! It was 11am by the time I could no longer combat my drooping eyelids. At that point, it had been 20.5 hours since I'd first woken up on Saturday afternoon. Oh dear.
I woke up just in time to see Portland and get some bubble tea and a small, late lunch. It was 2:30, which, had I stayed awake, would have been the 24 hour mark. I got some action shots of the cube in front of some Portland 'scenery' and driving down the Maine highway.
A funny thing I noticed with the GPS when we started getting into the middle-of-no-where zone. It told us approximately how many miles there were to go, but it could not calculate the estimated time left, so it just said 0:00.
Finally, we got here, Kieve, two hours later. I stole the counselor's room in the cabin so I could have it all to myself ^-^ And I made it up very nicely so that it looks habitable. I took photos, but after I took these, I also hung up some towels as makeshift curtains and I laid out my clothing in one of the shelves.
I don't think I need to tell you, but my room does not have wifi. Or any sort of Internet at all. The whole cabin doesn't. But the dining hall does, so that's why I couldn't post this on Sunday night. However, the cabin does have, apparently, fantastic cell reception. Some other wonderful things about this place! Apparently, it's been colder and rainy all summer, and finally it's "summer" up here. It is so hot and muggy. There are mosquitoes fricken' every where! I keep getting bit no matter which way I turn. I chase off or kill one bug and get three more bites in the mean time.
But it's beautiful, as usual, and Tilly seems to be having a great time. She even ran into the water all by herself, where usually one would have to almost drag her in. Mum tried to do some pottery but, well no such luck lol. It was a very chill day. Monday's when the real fun things begin! :]
WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS IT?!?! AAAUGH. Lol, I just had a minor crisis in my brain. Resolved!
Now, can I just say "D Is For Drums" by They Might Be Giants is a fantastic song? Well it's my blog so I think that's a yes. "D Is For Drums" by They Might Be Giants is a fantastic song. There you go.
Another little thing. I went to Kings today to buy some snacks for my long trip tomorrow. As I was walking down the drinks aisle, I found some Orangina. I know, not exaclty a major find, since I've often found Orangina and bought many bottles of it and shared said bottles with many friends..... But! I took a picture of it any way because of Will's latest entry. So here you go, Will, this one's for you.
So. Yesterday was Friday. I killed Andrew Ryan last night. [Bioshock]. It was cool. I also slept too late so that I couldn't go to dance at one, lol. I ate a bagel and brought my glasses to the glasses store [so that the could put the newer prescription lenses in them]. Then I went home. At 8, I picked up Viggi and met Oli, Jesson, and Dan at the cinema. We were going to see District 9. It was really good! I would recommend it, I definitely would. Go see it. Now. Would you kindly? Other than that, last night, I only killed Andrew Ryan lol. I spent today packing and stuff. I had to buy a present for a young girl up at the camp. These lobster catchers always feed us one night up there, and they've been so kind to us over the years, and apparently one of their daughters is extremely ill. Like cancer ill. So we're all bringing her a birthday present! And for the jerk moment of the day, while I was buying her something cute, I bought myself a cute bag, too >__<;; Lol, but it's really really cute. DON'T JUDGE ME *cry*. I also printed and pasted all five entries on here into my diary, because in the almost-month since I've started writing here, I've neglected writing there. I feel weird writing things twice. Eh. I'll probably paste this one too, lol. So that was basically it.
So that was basically it. Hercules was on today ♥I don't know, I just felt like I should post before I went to Maine. My next post will be from Maine itself. Expect pictures. Peace.
**If anyone thought there was something funny about the way this post reads, specifically in the 'hips - les mis' section, I've fixed it. If you haven't, pretend I've said nothing here.**
Monday was fun. Charlie came over and we watched Watchmen. I tweeted during the entire film [sorry, followers >_<;;] because I was playing around with the whole mobile tweeting thing [unlimited texting wooo haha ><]. I also played a little oboe - so weird! Where one would finger an E on a clarinet or a bassoon, one finds a B on the oboe. The keys are in the same places, so it confuses me a little bit ^^;; But still fun. I can play an F major scale... After that, I was so tired! I thought I'd go to dance lessons, but I actually fell asleep! I couldn't even keep my eyes open v__v;; Mum finally came home from the pool at quarter to nine and woke me up, and I was surprised how long I'd slept. Since it was so late, my sister had already eaten, so Mum and I went out to Pane Vino. I love that restaurant, even though I don't eat much ><;; That was about it for my super-exciting day. I wanted to go to sleep at 2, but I tried to put photos up on Facebook, which, you probably know, takes wayyyy too long for me. Tagging creates massive lag and freeze :( So it took another hour to tag three whole photos -_- [not exaggerating]. Tuesday was better. I woke up at like 12:50 and freaked out. I showered super fast and grabbed just a glass of milk before running [driving] to dance lessons. Once again, I epic-failed in ballet class :( And I didn't learn any new steps during my lesson really, but that's okay! I still had a lot of fun, even though I did have to spend a whole lot of time working on my hips >_<
After that, I came home. I practised a lot of piano [sight-reading, mostly, and singing! Plus worked on "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," which I am pretty good at by now, but can't seem to stop playing it...]. I need to find a song I can sing a capella for an audition, and now I think I've got a few lined up. I can sing Switchfoot's "Only Hope" in B flat and G major, and I can sing "Bring Him Home" from Les Misérables transposed up one key. Still searching though... After a few hours of that and Jeopardy! reruns and French toast, Mum and I went back to Arthur Murray to discuss moving forward with lessons. Then we went to Bed Bath & Beyond and bought some useless college stuff. Then we came home and ate ice cream [yay!] and watched Ni Hao Kai Lan and The Empire Strikes Back. That's all. I didn't get to see the meteorites [or whatever ending] in the evening. I was hoping it would clear up during the night so that I have been able to go out and sit on my front porch and watch. Instead, I spent the rest of the night watching and reading Hana Kimi [the Taiwanese drama and the Japanese manga, specifically], and blowing on my oboe reed. So amusing xD .
Well, I actually kept reading all night. I finished the manga. I read forty chapters that night alone, and watched one episode of the drama. These things, they're like drugs to me. I'm addicted. When I was clean from dramas, I felt great, mostly [though I did notice my Chinese grades slipping lol]. I feel great when I'm on them, too, but it's a different kind of 'great' and I'm always looking forward to the next episode. Lol, so bad. Any way, I finished the Hana Kimi manga and went to sleep at 7am. My mother and sister left around noon for NYC. They'd woken me up a little bit to remind me to walk the dogs, call Mum if I needed anything, etc. I didn't officially wake up until four =__= Even after that, I was still wiped [natural, I suppose]. I should have gone for a walk, jumped on the trampoline, even just danced and jumped around the house like a crazy person. But the rain and the sleeeeeepie made me curl up on the couch and channel surf. I tuned into USA to watch a House rerun, and ended up watching that and four episodes of NCIS, which I'd never seen before. If you follow me on Twitter, you probably got sort of annoyed at hearing about that lol. That night, I played Bioshock until 2am, and finaly went to sleep a little later.
Which brings me to today, finally lol. I was up at 11am and out and about by noon. I had a 3:15pm dance lesson, and I learned TWO new steps! One in Foxtrot [called a 'brush twinkle' lol] and one in Cha-cha [called a 'half moon']. I only have a few lessons left before I leave for college! so we're trying to get as many in as possible before that. I might go again on Saturday, who knows. Then there was an epic shopping adventure at Kohl's. I ended up with some really cute clothes! I get most of my girl clothes there because the men's section is so out-of-the-way. I got three shirts, and I wore one of them for a few hours tonight and decided it is one of the most comfortable, cutest girl shirts I own :] Also, two pairs of pants, and a bunch of crap for college, including a GIANT FRICKEN PILLOW. It's not that huge, but I like it any way lol. It's probably two feet across both ways. Very soft. We dined at TGI Friday's. I always feel so gross after I eat 'American.' Like, the greasiness of the food makes the body feel like crap inside and out. I'm not saying I felt sick or anything. Just saying, after I eat at places like that, though the food is delicious, I feel sluggish inside and greasey outside. I just washed my face and put up my hair a few minutes ago and I feel so much better. Ah, I also watched Current [that's a channel] all night. Originally, I wanted to catch InfoMania and Rotten Tomatoes and ended up watching it for a few hours [lol]. Oboe is going decently, by the way. But now, here I am, doing nothing. It's 2:30am, I haven't read manga, played Bioshock, watched drama, read... I don't actually know what I've been doing, so weird, I can't account for the wasted time. Heh. Well this is a rambley post, so I think I'll end it now, as I listen to Simon & Garfunkel's "Homeword Bound." Good night!
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First of all, I'd just like to call attention to my first post. I finally embedded a video from the cosplay picnic that I meant to include earlier but forgot. It's nothing special, don't expect it to make your day... I just wanted to let you know it was there.
Second, this post is dedicated to Ying because I miss her so much and she's missing so much [lol].
So let's get started, shall we?
My Saturday morning and afternoon was uneventful, mostly because I was asleep all day. All that to-do with drawing on Dan's back and watching Hostel: Part II really wiped me out. Also, I'm a lazy fatass. So when I finally showered and decided to leave the house, it was three-ish. We were having a block party! It was fun and I got to talk to Ying's little brother [who doesn't remember me =( oh well, I didn't expect him to, haha, but her dad did and he said hi to me before I even realised who he was (weird seeing people out of context, i.e. Ying's dad without Ying)].
Around 4:30 I went to pick up Viggi, but that took a lot longer than it should have. First, getting into my car, I realised I'd forgotten my glasses - hold up number one. Then, when I drove down to the end of the street, I realised that they blocked the street off with cones, so I had to park, get out, move the cones, drive four feet, park, run back, replace the cones, and continue driving. Then there was usual Saturday S. Liv. Ave. traffic. And then, up by McClellan, I saw the adorable Jenny Wang [from band!] and we chatted for a while, during which I was stopped illegally, blocking a driveway, halfway in the road, no flashers, talking to a girl three years my junior who is standing in the street... hmm... so naturally, when the cop drove up behind me I cut off our conversation with an, "Oh shit," and a "Goodbye!" and drove away. So I picked up the Vigg, and we headed back to my house. After waiting a few minutes for Mum to get ready, we were OFF TO NYC!!
The journey there was fun. We listened to the Watchmen soundtrack, which, if any of you have ever had the extreme pleasure of riding in my car while listening to this album, you should know, include a fairly epic moment at the end of the disc. That moment, of course, is blasting Wagner's The Ride of the Valkyries at max volume and rolling down all the windows. We got to do it at a tollbooth! Awesome! We also listened to some Sinatra while trying to find a parking spot.
However, in NYC, we got held up by a GIANT BIKER PARADE WITH A POLICE ESCORT. Not even joking, we were there for like fifteen minutes just waiting to turn left. Vigg estimated a good 3 miles of bikers. Check out these photos:
The venue itself was in a basement, under some other store or restaurant. The place was called Drom, and the photos on the website made it look a lot bigger than it really was. Not a problem though. The food is really cheap, but kind of strange in taste. I don't know. We got a fantastic table front and centre - okay there was one table between us and the stage, but it was still right there and perfect. And better than standing. The pink-haired rock star [or something? you can find him in some of my photos of the cosplay picnic! he's the guy dressed as Shu from Gravitation] opened for Uncle Yo, and he was alright. He seemed nervous and his special effect video thing didn't work [:(]. Suddenly, Uncle Yo appeared behind him and everyone was very happy [and relieved, eh].
Here's a photo of the menu, of Vigg, and of both comedians together on stage:
UNCLE YO WAS GREAT. Let me just say that. A lot of things made this performance awesome. This was a non-con performance, so he had liberty to speak about non-anime / non-gaming things. Of course, it was mostly geek things, but still, when he wanted to talk about his life in the restaurant business, or gripe about New Yorkers with strollers, he could. It didn't seem out of place. Second, he knew his jokes better. At AnimeNEXT, I got the feeling that he'd written many of them quite recently. This time, he seemed much more confident, and though he kept checking his paper, it didn't hinder anything. Third, he did use some of his older material, but he used the good ones - like the Safety Sanity Box!! Ah!! - and didn't rely on as many old jokes as other times. This 'review' style thing makes me sound like an unsympathetic 'ho, but, well I'm sorry >_<;; My point is, he was fantastic. I don't remember many jokes because, well my brain is useless for that sort of thing. Some good ones, however, included his Tetris / Birds & Bees thing, but using the mic stand to demonstrate, and his shock at what one might find in a girls' [home] bathroom - "This is the one that makes her hair smell nice! And this is the one that makes her skin feel so soft! OH! Where's the one that makes her go CRAZY once a month!?!?" [general lolz] "I'm going to THROW IT INTO THE SUN." Standing ovation. Oh, also, he had more time than at ANext. I did, however, miss the singing =(
Enjoy some photos of the performance [they're blurry because "not blinding the comedian" was one of the rules]. He heard music, so he danced, he got a plastic bag on his head, I discovered he has a lot of blurry body parts, but mostly I just like his funny faces and poses. He was also mad about getting upstaged by a woman with a dog on her belly, and he spoke about his hopes for the apocalypse [if you're wondering, he hopes there will be zombies]. And at the end, some other guy put a weird blue hat on his head and [I don't get the reference] Uncle Yo just says, "Oh my God it's from Geass." Here you go, enjoy!
After the show was over, I got to speak to him very briefly and, yeah you guessed it, get another picture to add to my collection. I've got three now. In your face, Ying ;D Vigg wouldn't be in it though. And, I forgot to mention, I brought the Cube along! Sorry guys, I tried to get some action shots, but it just didn't work out. But when I brought the Cube with me to speak with Uncle Yo, his face lit up and he shouted, "CUBE!" and I laughed. Hence, photo. [Well this sucks - I really thought the "In your face, Ying," bit was the perfect ending to this part of the entry, but it doesn't fit anywhere besides where it already is, so now you get this awkward aside instead.]
Oh, a funny little anecdote. As we were leaving, Mum noticed a basket as Vigg and I were half way out the door. She turns back to get a mint, and is greatly surprised when she realised the basket is not full of mints. It's full of condoms. Yup.
So today was a totally new day.
It was my last day working at The Learning Express. And it was busy. WTH? It's never that busy on a Sunday, but I was on my feet for hours straight. Charlie came to visit! As a result, I never got to finish my book, but eh, Charlie > Dorian Gray. I also discovered that the breaking part of my phone is now the broken part of my phone. Ex-phone. I gave up, couldn't last that one more week... I bought an enV Touch. I'm too used to the enV, so the keyboard is a little awkward, but that's the same reason why I absolutely couldn't imagine getting a 'normal' phone. Eh. I'm happy, but I don't think this warrants a photo. Oh yeah! You'll be glad to know that I got a case for this one. Especially after how the last one turned out -____-;; Other than that, I had dinner, did my laundry, read some manga, and did this. My poor dog, Tilly, she's getting so old. She was so excited over the prospect of food that she completely misjudged the edge of the porch! She fell off three times, but luckily she's okay. I don't want her to be old :( Oh, also, I got that unlimited texting rumour cleared up. I do have unlimited texting, so please, text away!! ;D
Hm, where I've been? It's been a mildly eventful week. No pictures though :(
We'll start with a little news about Tuesday. On Tuesday, I leveled up to "Bronze III" in dance! I felt so nervous that I was sweating and messing up left and right [but not in a bad way, just like, not being showy enough, etc]. But I did it. Then we discussed plans for my future in dancing [lol] and I think there might be a studio up in New London. Let me check now... Well, there's one in Niantic, which is about 15 minutes from New London, the rest in CT are all over an hour away. Not bad, since 15 is what I'm travelling now lol.
Thursday was Kristin's birthday party! I forgot my camera though =( We drove for an hour and a half, only to find that the Jazz in the Park concert we were hoping to attend was cancelled because it might rain. We had our picnic dinner in the park which had a beautiful view of a harbour and boats. I called Vigg, made him sing "On a Boat" to us, but my phone died after less than two minutes. Still, it was amusing, and he's going to murder me tomorrow. So we wandered around and found a pottery place. We painted a big old dish for Kristin and wrote her name on it, and then I painted a dinosaur! So cute ^-^ Then we had dessert - carrot cake, cookies, brownies, yummm - back in the park. Then it was off to home for magical sleep time [offset by many hours of magical manga reading time and magical talking to Will time]. And oh yeah, it never rained.
Today [Friday, I mean] was very exciting. Not really. The evening was fun but the morning was one of those 'worst days ever.' Well, last night I had an awful headache that spread to my neck and shoulders, and even after my usual staying up late and being stupid, it persisted and prevented me from sleeping! It was horrible. When I finally woke up in the morning afternoon, I had to go to the doctor's office to get a shot! I am so scared of needles, and even with the numbing cream I was still sobbing from the pain. I can't control my emotions in the face of the most irrational fears, and tears were flowing like Niagara Falls. Mum brought me for bubble tea after, because it is a magical drink that makes everything go away [only not really, it still hurt a lotttttt ;__;]. After that I just hung out, showered, etc., until 7ish, when I ate dinner and my friends started coming over.
First it was Charlie and Maddi, then Mike, then, all at once, everyone else! We headed to the Florham Park Roller Rink [forgot my camera AGAIN!] and skated for a good two hours, danced [on skates!] to I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, and trolled some kids. Or maybe they trolled us, we really couldn't tell. There were some general Wendy's shenanigans later, too, which, sadly, included leaving Dan alone in a parking lot for a few minutes ><;; Then it was back to my house, where Sara, Dan, Bryan, and I tried to watch Hostel: Part II after the fifteen-inning Yankees game ende and Arianna and Greg left. Hostel: Part II was bad. I love you, Roger Bart, but this movie... omg... I'm usually very good with movie-gore and movie-violence, but I actually almost threw up [all over my poor dog!! v_v] at something we were forced to watch. So it was more watching parts of Hostel and switching between that and Elizabeth, Heaven, Much Ado About Nothing, and other various movies. We gave each other massages - and I might add that the girls, unfairly, gave more than they received in return :( - and then we drew on Dan's back. Go figure. Finally, I needed to go to sleep, so I told the other three that they either had to sleep over or leave then and there [3:30am!!], because I'd have to lock up after them. They left, and here I am, still up, talking to Liam and wondering where my life went.
I should also add that I got an email about trying out for plays in college! There's going to be The Tempest [lol!] and Doubt, and I think I can try out for both of them with a two minute monologue and about sixteen bars of a capella music, just in case. I'm thinking of using "James," a monologue Kris did in sophomore year in Speech & Drama, which I, admittedly, liked a lot better than the one I did myself. I'm still looking for a song. I know it doesn't have to be anything fantastic, but I'm so insecure about my singing ability. Eh. Wish me luck on that, but I'll probably mention it again =]
So I'm going to see Uncle Yo tomorrow! He's performing up in the Village, and I'm forcing Vigg along, which should be fun. I'm pretty excited. There WILL be pictures, and a blog entry tomorrow or Sunday, promise. <-- I shouldn't do that, make promises lol.
"And now, a nice little song for those with metaphorical toes!" -Pa Grape, Veggie Tales
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Well, here's my weekly stalker report. Or something. I've been thinking what to write, but I didn't think anything was eventful enough. Now that I've written it all, though, I realise it was a lot more than I thought. So here's my week from Thursday to this moment. [[Happy Will?? ;D]]
When I showed up for my dance lesson on Thursday, Victor told me that another kid from my school started taking lessons, and he asked me whether or not I knew a "Noah." Totally shocked, I cried "Mink!?" and he explained how this kid and his girlfriend ["Phoebe?!" "Yeah! Wow you really know them?" "Yeah they're my friends..."] wanted to learn to tango. Impressive. He told Francine that I was friends with them, and she insisted that I come in for the 10:45 class on Saturday morning so that I could see them when they came to their 11:30 lesson. Fine Francine... I'll wake up early for you~ lol. That night, I went bowling with Bryan, Arianna, Ben Leung, Ava, and Maria [who I'd met at the mall!], even though I'd already accepted an invitation to go the next day with Pascal. I won the second game - 131, and the only person to break 100 - and then we went to McDonald's where we talked to some porn-selling stoners from Georgia. Eh.
Friday was a lot of fun. I managed to wake up at noon [lol] and shower before eating a bowl of Crispix, watching Jeopardy!, and picking up Jesson and Dan to go to Pascal's house. There, we waited around for Kat and her friend Ariella to show up an hour and a half later, at which point we all went to the bowling alley. Pascal insisted that we park in the cinema lot and walk over to the bowling alley to avoid the U-turn higher up Rt. 10, but of course, as soon as we parked and got out of the cars, it began to rain. We played a game and a half - I won! well, I was winning until Jesson got a turkey [XXX] in the last two frames -_-;; and I tied with Eric for second - before we had to bring Eric home for his concert. Before we left, I made Eric win me a Pokémon doll from a claw machine in the alley. Eighteen years old, going to college in less than a month, and makes her friends win her plushie Turtwigs....
We went to Wendy's and got various snacks, dropped Eric off, and went back to Pascal's house. We had a silly-string fight there, and then Oli showed up and Kat had to leave. We wanted to see Funny People but went to the mall instead.
Shortly after all that, though, I had to go to a dance practise party. That was a lot of fun and I got in a lot of good dancing. At home, it was early to sleep because I had to wake up early at Francine's request!
Saturday morning, 10 am rolled by way early! But I showered, dressed, and got to dance without incident. I attended a Bronze II swing class taught by my own teacher, so it wasn't a wasted experience. When I got out of the class, I saw Phoebe and Noah sitting on a bench and I hit Phoebe on the head. She freaked out seeing me there and I explained that I'd been taking lessons there for almost two years. When their lesson began, Victor and I danced a demo tango. My apparent "skill" surprised Phoebe so much that she even began crying. Then I went home and did various shopping around with Mum, including looking at laptops at Best Buy and buying almost every toiletry ever for college [already!? ack!] from Harmon's. Except soap. That night, we saw The Tempest [Shakespeare] which was fantastic. Really, it was very incredible! After that, though, it was another early night.
Today [Sunday] was a pretty epic day, weather-wise. When my alarm sounded this morning, I looked up through the small part between my two curtains and past my window, and I almost fell back asleep, the sky was so dark. Rainy days are the hardest to wake up for because you see the black sky and nothing motivates you to leave the bed. Well I finally dragged myself out of bed and over to work. We had a pretty slow day. It wasn't as busy in the morning as usual, except very early [like before 11:30]. I got a lot of time to sit and read my book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. [I read over 50 pages in work alone today!] At one point, I looked up from where I was seated on the floor, hearing the wind roaring past our building, and I saw the rain falling quite slantedly and I could hear thunder sounding for at least twice as long as what we're used to hearing. I stood up and watched awnings across the street flying every which way, the rain coming down sideways, and worried drivers squinting out of their cars with their wipers on max. It was actually a little frightening. A firetruck also barreled through. After, when I went back to my book, I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, a few flashes of lightning. But almost as fast as this tempest had come on, it subsided and I could see the sun shining weekly through.
As for customers! There was a cute little boy who kept staring at me when his mother was trying to talk to him. There was an older boy learning to spend his own money [and going over his $35 gift card, begging his mother for the extra $4.55]. There was a flamboyant gay [appearing] guy and a tough girl I assumed to be his sister. He was dressed in a highlighter yellow sweater and skinny jeans. I taught him how to put Jibbitz in Crocs - the idea seemed so novel to him, it was quite amusing. He bought two mini tape measures. There was also a woman with a beautiful French accent - the sort that Marion Cotillard has. I couldn't help her find her puzzle box thing [actually, I had no idea what she was talking about, and it wasn't the language barrier].
At the end of the day, I grabbed my paycheck [yes!] and met my mother at CVS where we bought soap and some cow shaped paper clips.
Well I received a frantic text from Viggi, who was BORED OUT OF HIS MIND, like I've been lately. So we resolved to see Funny People at 7:30 with David Li. I put some of Mum's fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies into a baggie and grabbed some potato chips and cash and headed to pick them up. When I saw Vigg, he said, "Here's the part of your graduation present that was in the mail!" I was so shocked when he handed me a COMPANION CUBE PLUSHIE!!! *cuddle* :3 I'd really wanted one, and he made an empty-sounding promise to get me one, but that was a long time ago, before I'd even played Portal. I was super excited and equally as touched. After a quick hug and many thanks, we headed to pick up David Li and then to the cinema.
At the cinema, we found Dolapo and Melanie and Federman! we chatted for a while but didn't end up sitting with them. The movie was decent. The plot was okay, but parts seemed quite superfluous, but the jokes were great. I mean, look at the title. Some were a little out there. Somehow, after the movie, we found the other trio again and waved at Steve Cruz. And some how, I ended up driving Federman home. The trip was pretty fun, you know, for a car ride [lol]. Then I drove Vigg and David home, complete with some shifting into Neutral and searching for the cookies that David lost somewhere in the car. After all that, though, I pretty much just came home and did nothing besides finish up to Chapter 50 in Hana Kimi.
The duo, together, and the Cube playing its favourite 360 game!
