it seems my weekends are no longer boring and alone. well, for the most part.

spent sunday afternoon lounging around my apartment with tika. the strange part was that i didn't use my computer for most of the day, other than to let outlook express check my nine accounts every so often. i cleaned up my cd collection, and got tika hooked on radiohead. getting anyone hooked on radiohead is always a good thing.

we got chinese after she adamantly wouldn't let me cook. we watched movies, and basically did nothing, for lack of energy to actually get up and leave the house. doing so reminded me alot of college, when i used to lounge around for hours upon end with good friends, doing absolutely nothing, but doing nothing was okay, because we knew that classes in the upcoming week would consume us. so, we'd sit around. all day.

looking back, i think my favorite parts of college was meeting people, and doing nothing. it's funny, you go to college to work hard, study hard, but no one ever tells you that you need to do nothing (hard) to actually cope with the rest of the (hard) work. the quad in between the dorms on warm spring days. the front steps of the dorm on cool evenings. devin's room almost every night for "movie night." sitting in the hallways at 3am, trying to keep our voices down so that we wouldn't get yelled at.

those are the memories of college that i remember and cherish. i guess it's been a long time since i've actually tried to sit down and do nothing. it was hard. it's almost as if i'd forgotten how to stop thinking. to stop moving. but, spending the afternoon with tika doing nothing was definitely fun.

anyways. the next day, jim and i took off to great america to get over jim's fear of heights. we spent the entire day going on roller coasters. correction: we spent the entire day waiting in line to go on roller coasters. but, it was fun. except for the sunburn and dehydration. (the dehydration was in part caused by the fact that 20oz sodas in the machines were two fifty a piece.)

after spending all day in line, and having very sore feet, but adrenaline pumping through our veins, jim and i met tika for dinner, and proceeded to get very tipsy off of very minimal amounts of liquor. then off to see pearl harbor.

about pearl harbor. after seeing pearl harbor, i have come to a decision. the national motion picture association should make a requirement for all movies to be under two hours. period. there could be exceptions, say for movies like schlindler's list, but otherwise, a two hour limit. it seems that every movie i see in the theaters (which are getting few and far between, due to the rise in ticket prices, and the decline of movies that i'd actually pay to see in the theater) is over two hours long. it used to be that every movie was an hour and a half to two hours, and if it was over, it was something really special.

pearl harbor was not special. it was a fcuking love story with a few world war two battle "scenes" thrown in. if you noticed, i use "scenes" as a very loose term. from what i hear, because i'm not a historian or nothing, but from what i hear, the movie's war "scenes" were horribly inaccurate. but in the end, it was a love story with a bunch of special effects, and it did not need to be 183 minutes long. (that's just over three hours)

it was so long that the guy sitting next to me fell asleep twice.