Saka and I stood in Blockbuster for about half an hour before we finally picked something. It was pretty sad, but nothing looked good. We finally went for Monster. Charlize Theron was good in it, but the movie in general was only okay.

Not much else to say. I leave for Denver on Monday, and will be doing a decent amount of work out there with painting, cleaning, etc - more work than I've done the rest of this summer, probably. I'll have to make up for the slacking off I've done this summer by getting an internship next summer, and maybe something over winter break as well. We'll see.

Now, though, it's time to get some sleep.

The music world is a strange place it seems. Awhile back I mentioned my frustration about a song whose opening beats sound a lot like The Fugees' "Ready or Not"... Well, tonight I've been working on putting songs on my MP3 player and taking off songs Nell had on there that I don't want. So I'm listening to some Enya that she had on there, a song called "Boadicea," when it hits me - it's the same beat yet again! Only this is apparently the original version. I looked at the credits for The Score, and there under "Ready or Not" it gives credit for the Enya sample. Weird. The Fugees sampled Enya. That just doesn't seem quite right, somehow.

Didn't do too much today. Went to Wal-mart, woohoo. Played The Sims tonight. I'm up to the point where I have 4 people to control. That's too darn many. But I still find it entertaining.

I bought the new Bad Religion CD, The Empire Strikes First, the other day. It's okay. I also bought Ambulance Ltd's self-titled disc. That one I really like, since I've been in an indie rock mood lately but needed a break from the new Modest Mouse CD, even though it is a very good CD.

I also bought a shirt today that is unlike anything I own. It's a really pretty blue, but then it has a scooped neck and a side-tie thing. It's very different from my typical t-shirt. But I figured that I can't really wear jeans and a band t-shirt forever, so I might as well expand my wardrobe a bit.

I was thinking about getting to bed early tonight, but I doubt that's going to happen. Ah well.

I watched two movies tonight: Welcome to the Dollhouse and Secretary. They were both okay. I liked Welcome to the Dollhouse a bit less than I thought I would mostly because there was no resolution, really. I know that sort of ending is more true to life, but dammit, I want a nice conclusion. That was my problem with Lost in Translation as well. Secretary was pretty good (Maggie Gylenhall was great), though a bit odd. Then again, it's basically an S&M love story, so I guess odd is just part of the deal.

I also managed to sort through some piles of stuff. Whee. I really need to work on my piles. I write so many random notes on little slips of paper, and then I just have them around my room until I get a chance to consolidate them and put them on my PDA or something. I guess it works as a system, but I should probably figure out something better. Like skipping the paper part and just going straight to the PDA.

I need to clean off my bed before I can even think about going to sleep. So I better do that.

Bleh. I feel crappy. I spent most of the day in bed. That was actually nice, but I'm not that tired now, which is no good. I have to wake up early (for me) and go down to St. Louis tomorrow. And I'm actually supposed to try and drive at least some of the way this time. Try and get more highway and city driving experience and all that. Whee.

And there's nothing more to say at the moment. Goodnight.

I got back from Chicago last night. All in all, it was a great trip. While there I saw Saved! (really good) and The Stepford Wives (okay). I played mini-golf, went swimming, and in general had a good time. Rather vauge description, but that's all you're going to get.

I saw Troy tonight, which was okay. Worth seeing, I think.

Saka has been seduced by the allure of Swat. My evil plan has worked. Bwahahaha! Actually, I'm really thrilled that he likes it so much. It's cool being the only Quincy person at my college, but if I have to share, I'd be happy to share with Saka.

I need to sleep. I'm heading up to Chicago tomorrow, which means getting on the train at 6 am. Ugh. So to sleep I shall go.

I'm home. The rain held off during Ben's graduation, which was nice. In general, the whole trip was pretty nice. I know that this is all rather vauge. I'm a bit out of it. I should go to sleep, but I don't want to yet. So instead I'm online, talking to people and checking email. I really need to deal with my overflowing inbox; I should probably just move on to a different address. And I will, eventually. Maybe. I feel bad giving up on this email address - I've had it since about 8th grade or so, and I've always disliked it when people change their email addresses all the time, since it's so easy to lose touch with them then. Ah well. I'll figure it out another time.

I finally have all of my grades for the semester. And I have never been so happy to see a B in my life. I still don't know what I got on my last English paper or the Milton final, but at least I know I couldn't have done too horribly.

I leave tomorrow for Williams, so I won't be writing much (more likely nothing) for at least the next week.

Time to finish packing.

I just got done working on this ability test for a career counselor that I'll be seeing sometime later this summer. My parents and I have decided that it would be best if I figure out what sort of job I really would enjoy, etc now so I don't have to go back to school later. It makes sense. The first two tests were easy and somewhat interesting - they were an interest and personality inventory. This one, however, being an ablitity battery - god, what kind of name is "battery" for a test? It sounds like I'll be physically beaten down - is timed, which sucks. It's back to standardized testing, almost. But at least this one is on computer and can be taken over several sittings. Still, it's not exactly fun. The last section I took involved identifying which note in a series had changed. Actually not too bad, except that the notes were all keyboardy and very fake - the word that comes to mind is Casiotone, but that may just be Soul Coughing talking. Anyway, they weren't nice musical notes. And they sounded kind of creepy - there may have been some minor and augmented chords tossed in there.

I have to pack tomorrow... My mom and I leave on Wednesday to drive up to Williams. Everyone else is flying, but we need the car to bring back all the stuff, so someone has to drive. Whee.

Swat's graduation is over now, so I guess that means I am offically a sophmore in college. Freaky.

Off to check email, since I've been ignoring it for the past few days.