I’m going back in time…to yesterday…

Tuesday….Hmmm.

Well. I got up planning on studying for 2 hours…I ended up studying for .5 hours. I guess I didn’t need all that time. It was all in my head after that. Hurray! So, then I played this awesome game called X-Com UFO defense with Michael Richards…ALL AFTERNOON. Seriously. It was a long time. Let’s just say that the aliens are starting to mind control our men. We’re no longer effective in the field…We gotta get those Psi-Labs operational!

We were supposed to have a softball game, but then we had 4 people who were able to play…thus it was a forfeit. Sigh. Then I did some homework and generally bummed around. It was supposed to be “new things in Seattle day” but i didn’t feel like going anywhere because it was so cold. So I didn’t.

Then I played Settlers of Catan with Paula Green’s boyfriend Joel. He’s a cool guy. It was fun. His smack talk was all for naught though…neither of us won. That frikkin’ Aaron bollinger and his pomposity won the day in an irritating fashion. Good news though. Joel brought his dog. It was an awesome golden retriever sort of dog that was very amusing. I pet it alot and it seemed to enjoy that. It would do this thing when I stopped petting it where it would bump my arm with it’s cold wet nose. The surprise always made me move my arm so it was more convenient to scratch behind Nikki’s (that’s the dog’s name) ears than it was to put my arm back where it used to be. I thought it was great.

Oh, I also watched Univision yesterday. The Spanish channel. It was pretty great. I’m told that Spanish actors want to be in the Telenovelas…but they really suck. Everyone is hyper-dramatic and it’s absolutely absurd. The actresses wear too much makeup and the sets are far too vibrantly colored to the point where you end up asking yourself “why is that wall lime-green?” about every 5 minutes. Another question you end up wondering depending on your Spanish proficiency is “Just what the hell is going on?” I’m okay at answering that one. I think that by the end of the half hour that my friend Nathan and I spent actively watching I was able to decently follow the plot. A professor was fired and Juan Domingo wanted to know why…Still, that didn’t explain why Juan’s mother was giving the most ridiculously intense looks ever at everyone…all the time. Maybe her daughter with too much eye-makeup was making poor life choices…or maybe I’ll never know.

I also ended up watching “The Family Stone” last night. It’s an obscenely predictable sort of girl movie. My friends Lindsey Goff and Jess Bosarge have been wheedling me and Aaron Bollinger to watch this movie for the better part of a quarter…We held out this long. Then Aaron caved. So I did too. Mostly the movie was a girl version of “Meet the Parents” the awkwardness was painful at points. Still, on the whole Aaron and I mocked it all the way through until about the last half hour…where it was actually worth watching.

The family in the movie was huge and close-knit. There was a deaf gay man. The whole family spoke sign language to him…That was probably what kept me interested during 90% of the film. Sign Language is awesome. I want to learn it.

The other thing that I recieved from this mostly hollow shell of a film (whose ending redeemed a great part of it’s crapiness) was a desire to be an old man someday. I never really wanted to be an old man because I didn’t see why it would be good. But after seeing the oldish dad in this movie…sure…I guess I could handle being an old man…and a father to boot. I’m still leaving the door open for Jesus to have me be single forever, but I’m okay with the alternative also.

The sunshine is coming out. I can see it through the window. It’s gonna be nice when it’s here for real…80 degree weather beckons to my soul. It was sunny on Monday…I got really giddy and happy. I get to go to Costa Rica this summer…It’ll hopefully be sunny all the time there. MMMmmm….Oh yes…

I went to sleep after the movie and woke up to one of my guys having gotten locked out of his room…That sucked alot. My sleep groove was definately thrown off and sleepy Carl (the angry half-awake version of me) was not happy. Then I took a midterm. Then the rest of my day carried on and I am here in the ASSP office.

One last thing. I realized while watching the Family Stone that I am into fiesty girls. One of the sisters in the movie was this really attractive and sarcasticly sassy girl…She was really cute. I guess at the end of the day I don’t mind fiesty women as long as we don’t always have to be fighting. Mostly it’s really attractive. But if it lasts all the time then I wouldn’t love it.