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Hmm it's been awhile since I've written. I'd say it's because I've been so busy, but I'm not sure that's it. I had to go back to school this past week, and the week after vacation is always rough. The kids were a bit nuts, my classroom was a mess after the vacation teachers used it, and a parent felt entitled to be a brat one afternoon.

I saw Blood Diamond last night, which absolutely horrified me. It's made me pretty depressed about people in general, too. Then today I saw The Departed. Another good pick-me-up kind of movie. Too long though. I checked out about 6 minutes into it, once I saw that the movie was two and half hours long. Together, those two movies I'm sure will spark a long string of nightmares, as my biggest fear in life is people chasing me with guns.

One more week until the 20 mile Walk for Hunger. Who wants to donate?

A recent IKEA trip left me with a chair and a bookshelf in 84 pieces, and after the chair took an hour to assemble, I've decided to leave the bookshelf in Kate's car until she gets sick of it, takes it out herself, drags it upstairs, and puts it together for me. I don't like that IKEA directions are in all pictures, and no words. Knowing it's sitting there in the box waiting for me is stressing me out more than you'd imagine.


Oh god.

Our weird neighbor has pounded on the door on and off for the past hour and a half tonight...

I finally entered 2007 this weekend after I purchased my own DVD player. I had been living off of VHS and other people's DVD players for a good 24.5 years now. I was so excited about the fact that I have my own now, that I popped myself on the couch on Sunday and watched 3 movies. Three! That's a huge record for me. It also helped that I drank way more both nights of this weekend than I have since senior week of college 3(!!) years ago. There was even a power hour thrown in one of those nights. Who does that after the age of 22?

I'm on April vacation now, and I'm SO enjoying watching movies with my fancy new DVD player (I picked out the sleekest and shiniest one). I've never actually LOVED watching movies, so this is exciting. I went out and got three more, and have been watching some that are already in the apartment. I'm up to 4 and a half movies so far (I fell asleep yesterday during Pursuit of Happyness). Then, this afternoon, I discovered that it can also play cds, so I rocked out to two CDs while I cleaned the apartment from head to toe. It was great, especially when Phil Collins came on (thanks for the mix, Kate!)


I very lately decided to do the Walk For Hunger again in about two and a half weeks. It's 20 miles of fun on a Sunday morning, so how could I not? If you feel like you'd like to thrown in 5 dollars, let me know, or just do so online--and thanks!



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Here's my very first walk during high school...we did a lot of sitting that year.

How long does dip last?

I just spent 20 minutes chowing down on some Ruffles potato chips (so salty...) and dill dip that we bought in a drunken debacle as we returned home from the concert/bar on Friday night. I thought the dip tasted a bit odd and different from a few nights ago, but thought that maybe it just should've been stirred. As I closed it up, Kate told me that it wasn't the dip that she bought, and guessed that it was probably the last one I bought, for the Superbowl. Ew.

It's definitely not April outside, but it's getting there. I've got the day off tomorrow, and I'm heading out to buy a new Sox t-shirt in the morning, since tomorrow's the home opener! And I'm totally thrilled because I've got some decent seats on the 3rd baseline this weekend. I'm going to get a hot dog AND popcorn I've decided.

I need something good to do next week during April vacation--ideas?

Wings Over Somerville

That's the name of a new fast food place just down the street from us. Their logo is a giant W with wings on it, looking sort of like a new airline logo. I'm wondering how many Saturday nights it takes us until we decide it's a good idea to test out the local eatery.

I thought it was a total sketchy place, based on their logo and the fact that they call themselves "The Wing Professionals," but I went searching online for a website so I could post a picture of the wings. And I found out that it's a huge chain, with Wings over DC, over Ithaca, Hartford, Ft. Lauderdale, Columbus, East Lansing, and at least a dozen others. Weird.







In case you couldn't figure it out, from this pretty useless post, I've been on vacation for two days. Back to work on Thursday, and my roommates couldn't be happier.