Jessie!

ugh

2009-07-08T21:06:00.000-04:00

My absolute least favorite part of this whole life change situation:

The moving. Walking into my apartment just makes me tired because I know how much more there is to do.

Three weeks to go!

slow recovery

2009-06-25T16:15:00.000-04:00

So yesterday was my birthday, as many of you know (thanks for all the birthday wishes via mail, email, text message, facebook, etc...it made me feel pretty impressive). I had originally planned a quiet dinner with my nearest and dearest, only to discover that my coworkers had been surreptitiously planning a party of their own. After a week of back and forth and demands that I move my dinner plans back, I decided to stop fighting the inevitable and combined the two events.

Which means that by about 5:05 yesterday I was at a bar downstairs and had a drink in my hand. I didn't leave until 10:30, by which time I'd had a really good birthday and many, many drinks. Don't worry, Mom, I was still fully functional and I got a ride home so I was completely safe. :)

I think my coworkers and my friends enjoyed meeting each other, if only to put faces with names of people I talk about constantly (I'm a talker. You all know this about me.). Plus everyone had a whole new audience for the "Roast of Jessie" portion of the evening, so that was nice.

The benefit of drinking with one of your bosses is when he tells you, "you know, you can come in tomorrow around 11, I think that would be ok" because he's one of the ones who keeps ordering you drinks.

I did make it in to work at 9:30 this morning, but I would by lying if I said I wasn't feeling the pain of last night's shenanigans.

Things that have not helped with my headache today:

1 - My boss coming into my office this morning, putting one hand on each side of my head and shaking (she found this hilarious, I found it mean-spirited and unfriendly. But also kind of funny).

2 - The REALLY loud (but very nice) lady who came in and stood in my office doorway talking to someone else and it felt like she was shouting next to my ear drum.

3 - The constant jackhammering that has been going on across the street at the construction site ALL DAY LONG.

I am looking forward to getting home tonight, curling up on my couch and watching the first season of True Blood which I got on DVD for my birthday. If I make it past 9:00 it'll be a miracle.

If anyone can make sense of this post, it'll be a miracle. I have this feeling that what I think makes sense really doesn't make sense right now. Oh well.

not really news anymore

2009-06-22T13:40:00.000-04:00

So given that most of you are either on facebook, have talked to me in the last few months or are friends with my mother, this is not news to any of you. Just in case, however, I should throw something up here (if for no other reason than to simply throw something up here, which has been sadly lacking of late).

I'm moving back to Michigan.

I'm moving in with my parents.

I'm going back to college.

This is the major thing that's kept me from posting a lot recently, as it was a big secret and when the big thing in your life is a secret from almost everyone you know, it's hard to find things to talk about (except TV shows).

It all came out last week (aka the longest and busiest week within memory) and there is no more need to keep said secret, so there you have it.

I'd like to say the posting will increase, but that might not actually happen for another three or four weeks. Because now that it's all out there, I have all the logistics of everything. Packing, moving, leaving my job step 1, leaving my job step 2, not to mention various wedding related events and tasks that need to be taken care of between now and the end of July. It's going to be crazy (it already kind of is) and I just don't know how much time I'll have.

Then again, in August I'll have nothing but time while I search for a part time job and gear up to go back to school with kids who are 10 years younger than I am. So at least I've got that to look forward to :)

I will leave you with two recommendations:

1 - Go see The Proposal. It's very very cute and Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds have great chemistry.

2 - Check out Royal Pains on USA (I think it's on Thursdays at 10, though I only watch it through the magic of hulu. I love hulu). It's quality programming.

that's just the way it goes

2009-06-03T13:52:00.000-04:00

I have this thing where whenever I go away for a few days, I come back and it takes like a week and a half for me to regain my sanity and ability to function normally. This is what I blame the lack of posting for the last two weeks on. When my travel issues popped up the morning I was leaving to spend Memorial weekend in Michigan, I had a whole post planned for when I got to my parents'. But that didn't happen because I hadn't seen my family in 6 months, and spending time actually talking to them was more important than posting my insane travel stories (my flight was originally delayed 5.5 hours due to 'aircraft maintenance' and while I did get on a different flight leaving earlier, I still ended up in Flint 5 hours later than scheduled. But at least it was a good excuse for some day drinking in Metro airport and semi entertaining status updates on facebook).

Then I spent the next 5 days being relaxed and hanging out with the fam and spending time with adorable nephews and seeing one or two people (but definitely not a lot, as this trip was sort of kept under wraps so that there would be plenty of down time - i.e, if I didn't see or call you, please don't be offended) and being on the computer was not a high priority.

Then I came back to work and taking two days off felt like taking 7 days off because it's not like anyone was doing my work while I was gone (that would have been great, though).

A friend from out of town was here when I got back, which sucked up a few evenings.

So I've been working hard every day, coming home very tired every night at which point I don't even want to look at my computer (plus, my laptop is pretty much on its last legs...I have a new one coming this week sometime assuming UPS will accept a note with my signature in lieu of an actual signature) so I just totally crash.

And then the weekend comes and goes and suddenly it's Monday morning and I realize I haven't posted anything pretty much since the TV season ended.

And then it's Wednesday afternoon and I still haven't posted even though there are stories to tell and things I want to say so I put up a lame, excuse-y post like this one and ask you to be patient, I will post stuff soon. I swear. Actual stuff. About things.

So keep your eye out for that.

In other news, as of yesterday I am the only person living in my apartment again. It was nice to have someone around for awhile, but it's nice to have all my space to myself again and not have to worry about anyone else seeing just how disgusting I can be when I'm on my own :)

you got Mosby'd

2009-05-19T10:32:00.000-04:00

As season finales go, that was a pretty good one. Though I feel it's only right to tell you that at the beginning when Robin said to Barney "I think I'm in love with you" and then he ran away I was about to get REALLY mad. If that was the way they resolved that story, it would not have been cool (I have a bit of a temper).

I really should have known better, it wouldn't have been HIMYM if that was the case. Let me back up. How much did I love the Canadian suit analogy Barney used to tell Ted he wants to go for it with Robin?

"Remember that was your answer Ted, because the suit is Robin."
"I'm with you, buddy."
"Yea, because I just explained it to you!"

I'm glad that Robin overheard and now that they've mentioned it I do find it impressive that Lily was able to keep the secret from her for so long. And that while Lily has known about the feelings for seven months, Marshall has known about them for six months, 29 days. (also, I wonder how long ago they filmed this so that Alyson Hannigan could be in it?)

Marshall standing on the ledge trying to jump to the neighbor's deck was pretty funny, though I remain unconvinced that tiny little Lily could have made that jump. She's about half the size of the rest of them! But I digress. (I did wonder where the owners of that apartment were...)

I'm so glad Ted did not end up making the cowboy hat restaurant, but I like that he lost out to the same Swedish architects as the GNB building. And poor Ted got beat up by a goat... did anyone else notice that the song over that scene was "Murder Train" by James van der Beek's band (I can't remember his character's name)? That was hilarious.

I think it's pretty safe to assume that the teaching job Ted ended up taking was the NYU job that Tony offered him, which again puts Stella in the position of being the reason he met the mother, albeit indirectly. I'm so excited the mom is in the class! That better mean we get to meet her next year even if they don't actually spell out that it's her! (I'm thinking that because she'll be his student that would raise ethical dilemmas so he probably meets her again later when she's not a student anymore, and she remembers him as her teacher...I'm just guessing)

Other little things:

- Lily telling Marshall she was pregnant to get him off the ledge was cute (even if she was lying)

- But it was funnier when she told him to get back up there and jump and she hoped he'd die after he said he noticed she gained a little weight

- The flashbacks to all the times Marshall didn't jump to the other deck were enjoyable, particularly the first one with the kiddie pool.

- The hospital scene between Robin and Barney was my favorite. She Mosby'd him three times! And then they made out and decided to deal with it later. Perfect.

I can't wait for next season (or for when they finally put this season on DVD, which will inevitably be about 2 minutes before next season starts)!!!

Grey's Finale

2009-05-15T09:47:00.000-04:00

As I was watching last night's episode(s), I did a bit of a running commentary so I wouldn't forget anything. I think I'm just going to expand on that, so it may be a little choppy (partially due to the couple glasses of wine I'd consumed by the time the show aired yesterday). Running commentary will be the part in brackets and allow me to warn you that toward the end of the show they make less and less sense as I get more and more agitated about what's going to happen.

[I want a wedding where drinks are allowed during the ceremony] - this was my thought when Derek was talking about going to the Caribbean, even though I knew that wasn't going to happen.

[We officially have the second guy on this show who wants his leg cut off...] remember the guy last season who came into the clinic and then ended up chopping off his own foot with a chain saw? This was less ridiculous than that, but still pretty weird.

[those surgery machines the chief bought were really creepy, but i like how he's trying to buy bailey] seriously that one looked like Doc Oc's creepy machine arm things from Spiderman 2

[mark. is. adorable.] I love how he tried to ask Lexie to move in with him but failed spectacularly. Kind of like all the times he tried to tell Derek about Lexie but failed miserably and just ended up being cute.

[katherine heigl looks ridiculously skinny and denny looks really old.] ok, is it just me or in the beach scenes did she not look really REALLY skinny? Not that she was ever not skinny, but this is just getting ridiculous and Denny looked rougher last night than he did when he was actually dying.

[second season finale in a row where bailey makes star wars references] the light saber noises she made while using the new machines made me smile and them a little less scary

[scary brain test on izzie = very sad] it was hard to watch when she stopped being able to speak and she didn't know Meredith or Alex or anything, but it was funny before that when she was trying to memorize 'shnauzer, 747, Victorian' instead of 'dog, plane, house.'

[i heart alex karev...he gives a good speech, that one] His impassioned speeches about not knowing what to do for Izzie and that her happiness is on him are always excellent, even if there were like 12 of them in this episode.

[derek is dumb sometimes, stupid telling alex to make izzie have the surgery] At this point I was 100% against the surgery so I was pretty mad at Derek for saying she should have it. Did he learn nothing from pregnant aneurysm lady? I came around in the end (sort of), but at this point I was mad.

[soldier boy needs a psych consult] see, if I was his doctor instead of Callie, his pleading to take his leg so that he could go back to where he fits in would probably not have had the desired effect. Instead of deciding that he's just a guy who knows what he wants and that's what I should do, I'd probably get a shrink in there for a consult to make sure there weren't deeper issues. Of course, that doesn't really advance plot so I'm willing to overlook it.

[little kids are not as fun as robots, or as shiny or as new, and they don't have things coming out of their belly buttons. just so you know.] It was hilarious when Dr. Robbins said this to the Chief through her tears. Which I can relate to, because I am kind of the same way (crying when I get mad at authority figures. Or just all the time).

[dr. robbins vs the chief! showdown!] I thought this could have been way funnier for a little while, especially given how serious the rest of the show was, but it was still pretty cute. I love it when the Chief plays innocent.

[paris dying is sad and ultimately the catalyst for izzie having a) magical saving surgery or b) tragic death surgery] This is what I thought when Paris/Allison (the girl was Paris from Gilmore Girls) was coding, I thought she was definitely gonna die. I also thought that Izzie was either going to die on the table or come out wonderfully healed. This just goes to show you I have no inside information whatsoever.

[mark and lexie's conflicting timelines are pretty cute] He wants to move in now, she wants to wait 10 years (wouldn't that put him in his 50's? Yikes), he wants to compromise on 5 years, she's willing to go to 7, then he walks away and asks the bus girl for advice while he's fixing her stitches. I like that he embraced that he was the girl and decided to buy a house on his own.

[DNR are very scary letters together...I'm so nervous about what's going to happen with izzie in the next hour and 15 minutes! I keep alternating between sure she's going to die and sure she's going to live. I can't take the suspense!] I was pretty much having an anxiety attack at this point, as evidenced by:

[oh god this goodbye kiss between alex and izzie is totally killing me. why does grey's have to make me cry ALL THE TIME?]

[city hall weddings are good. i would totally get married at city hall if i couldn't have a wedding where drinks were allowed during the ceremony] No muss, no fuss. Especially for a couple like Meredith and Derek.

[I don't want Georgie to go in the army and die! I don't want any of them to die!] He is an easily influenced dude, that George. Even though I knew it was coming I was still upset when it was him in the recruiter's office. I'm glad Christina finally made Owen go see his mom so he wouldn't go back to Iraq.

[NO WHEELY SNEAKS FOR BAILEY. YOU KEEP YOUR DAMN WHEELY SNEAKS TO YOURSELF, 'ARIZONA'!] and then some. It was funny when she said it as though that were the special prize for getting the peds fellowship, but still. Bailey is NOT a wheely-sneaks lady. And that is why I love her.

[I like that christina and meredith don't hug] and later on, when they did hug, it was just as strange and awkward as I imagined it would be. I liked the Post-Its and the pen Christina gave her as the old, new, borrowed, blue

[are we gonna do the short term memory loss thing again? this was in the season premier! nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO ME, SHONDA RHIMES?!?! Either kill her or let her be ok but do not do this!] Yea...I'm not sure what the deal is with the repeating medical issues, but it was kind of freaking me out. Thank goodness for Alex calling it out though, because to ignore the lady who couldn't remember her husband had died would have been wrong.

[damn right everyone turned on owen for convincing george to go to iraq. stupid owen stupid ptsd nightmares. what is george thinking? stupid tr knight being unhappy with crappy storylines this season] I get kind of unreasonably upset with fictional characters sometimes. But I was enjoying everyone's reactions as they were first finding out about the enlisting.

[i love the george intervention plan with everyone having their different parts] Alex got maybe a little more excited than necessary about his job being to kick the crap out of O'Malley if he wouldn't listen to everyone else. And I want Izzie to stay around so she can keep using her 'sad, cancer eyes' to get things.

[Ok, Arizona gets the quotes taken away for making fun of her own name. I like her and I am willing to ignore the fact that she doesn't like sandwiches from this point forward] It's true, I'm ok with calling her just plain Arizona from now on, because at least she knows her name is ridiculous.

[I KNEW I DIDN'T LIKE BAILEY'S HUSBAND. But she should probably be married to a doctor who would understand better. I would kind of like to see what single bailey is like, though. would she have funny sexcapades in the on call room? probably not, but it would still be interesting to see] I'm glad she's leaving her husband anyway, he's lame. Weak is absolutely the right way to describe him. I love Miranda Bailey. I want to put her in my pocket.

[alex is so intense! I'm completely on edge! i now have a sinking suspicion that nothing will be resolved by 11:00. and then i will have to wait until SEPTEMBER. oh please let one story come to some kind of terms!] Yea, I'm still not totally over this. I wanted SOMETHING to have an answer! And now the waiting! But really it's pretty genius to make everyone so excited for the premier this way. I'm still allowed to be bitter about it for a little while though.

[owen and christina - love love love] The two of them in the steam room is always great, and I've been pretty clear on how I feel about Sandra Oh's acting, that was perfect. "I can't breathe without you!" *sigh

[alex's unleashing was good, and clearly she's going to remember it which will be good because if she comes back next season they can deal with the fallout from that and actually being married. if she doesn't die, oh man the last 15 minutes are going to be crazy] My anxiety level was at approximately 9.5 by this point and it just kept going up.

[bailey's right. tucker is weak] Bailey is such a hip, hip lady, it really bums me out that her husband turned out to be such a bum. Remember when she was so happy like 3 seasons ago to be going out for her 10th wedding anniversary or whatever?

[getting married on a post it is NOT cool and I would not be ok with that] I feel like this was a cop out a little, and I feel like they're never going to actually go to city hall now because they're weird and they think a post-it is the same. The vows were cute though.

[HOLY LORD I CAN'T BELIEVE GEORGE IS THE BUS GUY. THAT IS SO FREAKING WHAT THE EFF IZZIE] This all happened so fast (or my reflexes were really slow). Meredith's reaction to the realization that George was the one dragged by the bus was positively heartbreaking and made the whole episode to this point sadder because every time they were talking about George going into the Army where he was probably going to die they didn't realize they were actually working on him and he was already dying! I'm seriously traumatized from it and a lot of the next couple minutes are a total blur because I was so in shock. And then Izzie and Alex were making up and she coded and he was doing compressions and the Chief decided to bail on the DNR and there were just too many emotions!

[HOW ARE THEY BOTH GOING TO DIE THE BASTARDS!!!] OK, by the time the 'hospital as heaven' thing came back I was just sitting in my living room, trying to plead with the tv to make it not so. Izzie back in her prom dress (seriously, that dress has to be like two sizes smaller than the one she wore at the time, she's so skinny!) and George in his Army uniform that he never actually wore (but looked very good in) was TOO MUCH SADNESS FOR ME. If I'm going to read into things (which is what I do) I'm going to say that the fact that George was already in there does not bode well for his chances. Izzie still being in the elevator and looking like something was not quite right (when they started with the paddles) makes me think she has a chance.

[gd freaking cliffhangers] Seriously, I can't believe we have to wait until September. So good though! I think I need to watch it again now that I feel more prepared to handle it..sort of.

in my head since MONDAY

2009-05-14T14:01:00.002-04:00

Charles in charge of our days and our nights...
Charles in charge of our wrongs and our rights...

blah blah blah blah

Charles in charge of me!

SINCE MONDAY.

so long, Stella

2009-05-12T17:01:00.000-04:00

And Stella leaves again. I'm not sorry to see her go. Again, I love Sarah Chalke, but I do not love the evil alter-leaver who killed the romantic in Ted. Now she is gone and there is rejoicing throughout the land.

Tony is such a goon that I love it whenever he's on screen. Of COURSE he came over to Ted's house in his karate outfit. Of COURSE he has a friend who wants to build a murder house. Of COURSE he's such a douche that he would listen to what Ted says and then go break up with Stella. Yet another example of how Stella was never good for Ted - the fact that she's in love with THAT guy. How desperate and sad do you have to be to show up at your ex-fiance's house and ask him to talk to your ex-boyfriend/baby daddy who wears his karate outfit everywhere and has friends who build murder houses so he will get back together with you. She and Britney's character were a better fit and more alike than I originally imagined.

The Barney speeding ticket thing wasn't really that funny for the most part, and here's my big question. Remember when they were all saying goodbye to Marshall's car and Barney hated that car because Ted tried to teach him how to drive and he was completely freaked out the whole time and never wanted to do it again? How did he go from that to owning a car and speeding down the NJ turnpike? Was there a story I missed somewhere along the way? I don't think there is, and that kind of makes me feel like the writers said to themselves, 'what should we do with Barney this week?' and that was the best they came up with and that makes me sad. There was really no purpose aside from giving Ted a reason to drive to NJ with Stella and talk it out. Which is fine, but it still didn't really flow for me. There are so many other, funnier reasons that Barney could be locked up in New Jersey.

Robin trying to high five Ted when Stella came to say that Tony broke up with her was probably my favorite part of the show, made better by the fact that she told him the high five would be waiting for him to come back in from the hall.

And then George Costanza's mom kept trying to tell Stella to forgive Ted and kiss him which was kind of funny, but also weird.

I'm glad Ted gave Stella the business and got it out that she ruined him and he didn't want to help her, and I'm also glad that he ended up helping her. That's our Ted.

I guess there is one more episode of the season? I hope? Let's advance the Barney Loves Robin plotline. Please?

quick

2009-05-11T13:00:00.000-04:00

Yea, I know, the posting has been two a week, and always about the same two TV shows.

Things in Jessie land are looking busy and crazy and wild until at least the end of June, so be prepared for continued spottiness.

In the last week I saw both Wolverine and Star Trek. I enjoyed them both a lot, I recommend them to anyone who typically likes those kind of movies, and most especially Star Trek. I LOVED that movie. In fact, I want to see it again as soon as possible (which I very well might do on Wednesday).

There's other stuff but right now I can't remember what it is, though I will tell you that I've been working on some knitting type stuff and I might take pictures of it someday and then you would get to see more than just words here. All the time words and no pictures! It's boring even to me.

suck it, Mark!

2009-05-08T08:00:00.001-04:00

Today's Grey's recap will be brought to you in numbered form:

1. I win. I KNEW Izzie and Alex were getting married. Please allow me to say again, I WIN (I love to win).

2. I knew there was a reason I didn't like Callie or 'Arizona' that much. THEY DON'T LIKE SANDWICHES. What is that?!?!?!

3. George got to walk Izzie down the aisle!! Yay! Yea yea she was really sick and all that, but I'm just glad he got to be a part of the day and that he and Alex have progressed to giving each other the head nod.

4. I knew Alex was going to use that line from the college graduation speech. I knew it and I still loved it.

5. I wish Mark had been able to bust into a few more scenes to talk about his best man speech and to threaten Meredith that he didn't want to have to be best man a third time. Oh, I love Mark.

6. This whole George as a trauma surgeon thing seems a little rushed to me, particularly if he's supposed to run off to the Army and die all in next week's two hour season finale. I'm not saying that's for sure what's happening, but we all know he wants to leave the show... it just seems like having 7 people die in the ER when he was trying to save them doesn't exactly scream 'run off and join the military to do this every day' to me. But I'm not George.

7. The Lexie part of this story seemed forced and kind of weird. But it was nice when she told the kid who lived that her tears were because the girl was breathing.

8. I can totally relate to Callie freaking out about the fancy restaurant and being broke and ordering a salad that cost $26 and the wine that was $125 a bottle. That'll kill the mood for sure. FYI to anyone with money who happens to read this: if you're out with your very broke significant other at an expensive restaurant, mention that you're picking up the check at the BEGINNING of the meal. It will save you much chasing around the ER and fake breaking up. I'm just saying.

9. I agree with Meredith, best non wedding day ever. The balloons in the house were a little much. Izzie is over the top, but I'm pretty sure there's no way she would have ok'd gold and white balloons for the wedding. It's not a graduation or a high school prom for goodness' sake.

10. I can't wait for the season finale!

200 really IS too many

2009-05-05T10:13:00.000-04:00

Oh wow. Last night's HIMYM was just superlative (I'm trying to use more words...there are only so many times you can write 'fantastic' 'great' 'so funny' 'amazing' etc, so be prepared for some experimentation)!

We all know how I love NPH, but you'll have to back me up on the fact that every episode that has a Barney-centric storyline is way funnier than the ones that don't. 200 people is definitely too many people to have slept with, but I agreed with Barney in noticing that Robin was 'surprisingly quiet on the subject of numbers' or something like that. There was no judgment coming from her, she was just poring over the list and calling out his errors (I wonder what number she was?).

Barney is so definitely the guy who holds a grudge from 7th grade and then calls the guy when he finally 'wins'. The way the guy went from happy to be seeing Barney again to moderately horrified was excellent.

Also excellent were Marshall's charts. And we come back to the thing I love most about this show. Bringing back things from past episodes. The interventions! Barney's 'investments' at the gym! Yes!

Marshall's reaction when he first met the lady from graphics and she told him he could get any graphics of any kind, as many as he wanted, whenever he wanted was classic. Who WOULDN'T start having charts made for everything? I know I would. The business meeting where everyone looked almost as sick of Marshall's charts as Ted, Barney and Robin until he mentioned it would keep them out of jail was pretty great, and Ted having to agree to pay the homeless man $1 a day for 27,000 years to get the charts back was hilarious.

And now we reach the part of the episode with which I have a little beef. We see the yellow umbrella, yay! We see the back story of why Ted did everything he did that day, yay!

- quick aside, how much did I love Robin throwing up and telling everyone it was because she was pregnant (which she is in real life) but then it was a joke. It was a lot. It really doesn't take much to entertain me. -

And then, then they tease us with who is under the blue umbrella. All episode long it's a tease. I was getting all excited, trying to think over all of Ted's past girlfriends (anyone else really hoping it was Victoria?) and it turns out to be Stella. She of the evil leaving at the altar when she tried to get married at a scary vegan yoga resort.

Now I'll tell you why I only have a small amount of beef with this. I still don't think she's the mom. I don't think the show would do that to us. Our Ted would never end up with someone who treated him so, so wrong. No, I'm sure that this will turn out to be some sort of wonderful closure for Ted on that relationship (which, aside from avoiding her at a Thai restaurant once he never really got) and he will finally move on and be ready to meet his wife. Finally. Hopefully next season.

Only one episode left! I hope it's a good one!

daddy (and mommy) issues

2009-05-01T09:45:00.000-04:00

Oh the drama! Grey's continues its streak of good episodes leading up to the season finale!

The storyline of the little kid who shot her father 17 times was kind of crazy. It's possible that I missed a little piece due to the craziness going on inside my head this morning, but other than the cut on the kid's cheek and the shifty looks the mom was giving, was there another moment where they determined that the dad was abusive? Or was it that they just put the pieces together when the little girl said, "I shot him lots of times! Why don't he die?" And really? Is it necessary for the kid to say 'why don't he die?' The mother spoke perfectly well, why did the daughter have to seem completely ignorant? I know she's young, but you better believe my mother would never have let me get away with saying that, even at the age of 4. That bothered me more than it probably should have.

Lexie was pretty cute when she wanted Mark to show up to meet her dad at dinner, and he was even cuter when he actually showed up. I am really noticing how good Chyler Leigh's hair is now that they're only showing her in close-up due to the pregnancy.

I'm glad Callie decided not to cave and lie to her family, and I like that Dr. Robbins assured her that even if she did, she would understand and still like her. Good for Dr. Robbins, good for Callie, good good. I liked how the sister of the girl who got bulldozed out of a tree finally came around and filed a $10M lawsuit against the company that did it and said, 'when we win, the check is being made out to KAREN.'

Izzie's mom was just exactly what I imagined she would be. Crazy and trailer park-y and hilarious. It was a good job of showing how that relationship probably was for most of Izzie's life...the mom being wild and crazy and very emotional and needy and Izzie having to take care of her. It also makes you see why she left home and doesn't see her mom much. I liked the line, "I love you, Mom, I do. But we do a lot better loving each other from far away."

Alex was adorable helping her with tasting the wedding food before she went into surgery and I loved his descriptions of the taste. The shrimp was like their first date before he screwed it up, the chicken was like driving to the beach with the windows down, etc. All good things.

Christina and Owen continue to tug at my heart strings. I felt really bad for her the whole time he was using her as his errand runner in the OR because I know how frustrating that's got to be for someone as talented as she is to be in that role. But I also see it from his perspective, he knows that George is a good trauma surgeon and he wants to give him all the practice he can get. It will benefit George more, he's just being a good teacher. The scene in the parking lot was amazing, I love it every time Sandra Oh cries. She's so good! "TAKE CARE NOW?!?! WHAT IS THAT?!!" Well, turns out it's really sweet, is what it is.

I am once again loving everything about Meredith these days. The blank and detached look she gave to Thatcher during his whole apology, the fiery speech she gave to the mother of the kid, and the less fiery speech she gave to the mother of the kid, and the yelling at the Chief, and the talk with Derek telling him the Chief wasn't invited, and then the heart to heart with the Chief in the lounge, and the head on the shoulder, and the packing up of the journals, and the relenting on the inviting of the Chief. So many good things! The part between her and the Chieft at the end though, that was my favorite. Because he's not her dad and she has a lot of really legitimate beef with him, but the thing is he really is more like her dad than Thatcher. Especially if you think back to the beginning of the show before she knew about his affair with her mother...he was just an old friend of the family, she really liked and respected him, and he obviously thought highly of her, and it was just so sweet when they sort of half hugged after he apologized to her. The two of them have a really good dynamic together, and I hope it continues.

So next week is the big wedding episode! I can't wait! Take care now!

err

2009-04-30T16:00:00.000-04:00

Despite the fact that this is, oh, three days later than normal, I wanted to give my two cents' worth on Monday's How I Met Your Mother.

I love how Barney described the three days rule. It's all because of Jesus, friends. What was a little scary is that as he was explaining it I was following along thinking, 'yea that kind of makes sense.' This could be a sign that I've definitely been watching too much of this show.

Marshall and Barney's new friend from lunchtime at the bar was great, especially how Robin tracked him down for a date after hearing how amazing he was.

I miss Lily.

It's been so long since Monday that I can't remember anything else about the episode, really. I guess that means I'll have to find it online and watch it again!

And if you think it's bad that I can't remember much about something I watched a mere four days (three? four? I'm not sure how to do that conversion...it's the 4th day of the week now, and that was the 1st day... 4-1=3. We'll go with that), I am pretty sure that I'm wearing the same shirt today that I wore on Tuesday. The problem is I can't exactly remember Tuesday so I can't be sure. But it's very definitely possible that I'm wearing the same shirt with a different black skirt.

I am completely losing my mind. I was *this close to looking for security footage from Tuesday just to check my outfit.

I am most definitely having issues.

ooooh weddings!

2009-04-24T11:33:00.000-04:00

Last night's episode was pretty excellent. I laughed, I cried, Bailey's hair was pretty, I got to look at wedding dresses. All good things. I even started to consider typing 'Arizona' without quotes (I'm not quite ready yet).

Hector Elizondo should be a guest star more often. I love the way Callie and her dad interact with each other, especially when they're yelling at each other in Spanish. He was great throwing George and Mark against the walls, bring him back! Too bad he had to be cut off, but I doubt that'll last. This is a guy who is crazy about his daughter... but then again, people have issues. Callie and 'Arizona' are a pretty good thing, I like it and I think she was right to cut her dad off.

Speaking of which, Dr. Robbins' (see what I did there?) chats with Bailey about the peds fellowship are contributing a lot toward making me like her. Also the fact that she wasn't shoe skating down the hall in this episode. I think she could be a good friend for Bailey once she finally tells Tucker about the fellowship and he inevitably freaks out (speaking of which, last week I was sick and I rewatched season 4 on DVD... I have come to the conclusion that I really don't like Bailey's husband. He needs to man up about the fact that his wife is a kickass surgeon and he gets to stay home with his baby). That dying kid was so sad... but I admit that I was a little psyched that her dad was played by Fulton from The Mighty Ducks.

Lexie's stress eating because of Derek and Mark's fight was quite funny. I am enjoying the fact that she lives with Meredith now and they have an actual relationship now. She was so cute when Mer told her she was going to be a bridesmaid... "Lexie, you're my sister. You're IN the wedding." Oh, how far we've come. The confrontation in the scrub room was pretty great. "Look at her face! She's breaking out! Look at her ass! It's huge!" (Chyler Leigh is pregnant in real life because there's a pregnancy epidemic going around, hence the closeups and her always being behind stuff) :)

I do not blame Meredith for being upset that Derek was making the Chief his best man. There's no way I'd let that guy take part in my wedding, he'd be lucky if he got an invitation! You know, if I was Meredith and he had an affair with my mom and ruined my childhood and all that.

Though this has sort of led to the question of who is going to walk Meredith down the aisle? I hope they don't go for a kind of cop out and have her dad come back and do it. It would be better if she just did it alone. Though I'm pretty sure this wedding isn't actually going to take place.

Izzie planning the wedding was super cute. I love how she got the bridal shop to deliver the dresses to her room. I'm even more glad that they didn't go for a 'boy who cried wolf' situation when she actually got sick after all her fake outs. Turning on the tears for Derek to make sure that he understands that "a morning jacket is non-negotiable, and we need to find time for ballroom dancing lessons" was priceless.

And now let me please give a PSA about wedding dresses. Please for all things good and nice, STOP promoting the drop waist wedding dress as a good thing! The drop waist is scary, unflattering, and just plain wrong. 9 out of 10 people do not look good in that style dress. Even Ellen Pompeo didn't look that great in it and it's pretty much impossible to have less body fat than she does. Why why would you buy a dress that puts greater emphasis on your hips and ass? Why is that a good look? Someone please explain it to me because I will never understand. Every episode of Say Yes to the Dress on TLC finds me sitting in front of my TV saying, "no! don't do it! noooooooooooo!" They just don't get it! Ok, I've had my say.

So because I don't think that Meredith and Derek are actually getting married at this big fancy wedding Izzie is planning, I'll tell you who I do think it is. It's got to be Izzie and Alex. She's planning what's basically her dream wedding, he is scared out of his mind that he won't do right by her because he's not good under pressure, George was starting to be relatively supportive once Alex stopped treating him like crap, Alex will come around and they'll totally get married. He's going to marry her because he loves her and he knows she's going to die and to make up for the fact that Denny died before they got their chance and he wouldn't want the same thing to happen to her a second time (though granted, it's a little different in that she's the one that's dying this time). Anyway that's what I think.

casualty

2009-04-20T17:00:00.000-04:00

This weekend I learned that the next time I'm belting out Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" and I think it would be a good idea to do a big finish where I drop to my knees on a hardwood floor in true power ballad fashion, I will remind myself that it's not.

Jeans conundrum

2009-04-17T14:59:00.000-04:00

I bought this pair of jeans a few months ago, as my other pair had some holes and were looking increasingly shabby (yes it's true. I typically only have 1-2 pairs of jeans at any one time. Maybe that makes me a freak).

The store I buy my jeans at recently changed their sizing to what I think is an unreasonably complicated system for picking out pants. First you pick a color that you fall under (yellow, red or blue depending on shape), then you figure out your number (not a size, but a number from 1-8) and then length (petite, average, tall). These factors are all supposed to come together to put you in jeans that fit you better than any jeans you've ever bought before. It's very complex. In fact, you can't even buy the pants for the first time without help from a sales associate to explain the system and give you an idea of where to start (believe me, I tried. I stood staring at the wall o' jeans for 20 minutes looking like an idiot before I finally asked for help). And now they're switching their other pants to this system, but it's still not like you find your combination and that's that. Different pants will still fit differently so you have to figure it out for every style you want to buy. PLEASE SOMEONE TELL ME HOW THIS IS A BETTER SYSTEM THAN REGULAR SIZES. PLEASE.

Anyway, I found jeans, they fit the way I wanted them to, and I loved the color. They were a little long, but it is not my fault that there's apparently 5 inches of difference between "average" and "petite" and if I have to choose between pants dragging on the floor and pants halfway up my ankle, I choose the floor.

The next number down (remember - not size, NUMBER. I still don't get it) in these pants made me feel like a stuffed sausage, and that's not how you want to feel in jeans (or anything except sausage casing, I imagine). So I made my purchase and went about my business.

Here's the problem. Within about 4 hours of wearing these jeans out of the dryer, I look like I'm wearing a potato sack because they have stretched out so much. It's very annoying. I've been dealing with it, but it seems unreasonable that my choices were "too tight to wear in public" and "stretched out so far you look like you can't buy pants".

Yesterday I went shopping after work, and purchased another pair of jeans in the lower number. I still think they're too tight (though Toni claims that isn't the case) and I'm paranoid that they won't stretch like the others. For the next few days, at any rate, I'm going to be wearing them strictly around my apartment and doing lots of squats and lunges to see how they come along.

Anyway, I'm hoping that the new jeans will end up being perfect, but really I'm still irritated that I have to do crazy mathematical equations to buy freaking pants! It should not be that hard!

lil bit

2009-04-16T12:31:00.000-04:00

I really don't have anything of value to say (so far April is crappy for posting, isn't it?) but I did want to share with you a sign I saw in a bar I was at on Saturday:

"Street girls bringing in sailers must pay for a room in advance."

Awesome.

Saturday also saw the return of meat on a stick (it's actually chicken or beef teriyaki from a bar in Fanuel Hall called the Hong Kong, but whatever. It's meat on a stick and it's great at 2 in the morning) which I shared with an extremely inebriated guy because I felt it necessary to prove to him that although the staff at the bar may have been mean by not letting him in at 2, their food was still very delicious. I didn't stick around to get his final verdict, but his mouth was pretty full of chicken so I'm sure he didn't hate it.

Mosbius is a good word

2009-04-14T09:57:00.000-04:00

On last night's How I Met Your Mother:

Of course Ted would name his company Mosbius Designs. It's just the right amount of pretention and awesome. I would like to know where he found the money to hire an assistant though. And if I were his roommate I'd be slightly less than thrilled about the giant desk and copy machine in my living room, but I guess technically it is his apartment and Robin is living there.

And we start to see Cobie Smulders' pregnant belly being hidden. Blousy shirts galore, my friends.

And speaking of pregnant bellies, I like how they sent Alyson Hannigan off for maternity leave by having Barney tell her a really dirty joke. "And we didn't see Lily for four weeks..." Well done.

The Marshall being sports guy thing wasn't really that funny to me, save for the part where he was walking down the street with $18K on him.

I'm glad that we're finally back to the Barney loves Robin storyline. Except he's not in love with her, he just thinks she's awesome and he thinks about her all the time and he pictures them running toward each other in slow motion while he's wearing a suede vest. Please don't confuse it with love.

That's about all I've got for this episode, so until we meet again!

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world

2009-04-09T12:20:00.000-04:00

Well, I hope you'll excuse the little break I had to take there. Silly things like "work" and "life" get in the way sometimes. Nothing to be done about it.

Last weekend I actually managed to leave both my apartment and my neighborhood behind and spent a night out in public, complete with other people, drinking, and basketball.

Yes, I'm talking about MSU's Final Four game against UConn.

HG2 and I headed down to the area near the Boston Garden (or the TD Banknorth Garden or whatever it is these days) to scope out bars that looked fun. We found a good looking spot, got ourselves a table and waited for the big game to start. Two things we noticed right away...there seemed to be a lot of drunk people around for 5:30 on a Saturday, and there were a lot of black and blue tshirts. The reasons for this: There was a Bruins game earlier in the afternoon at the Garden so people just filed out of there and into the bar to continue drinking, and everyone at this bar was either wearing a Bruins shirt or a UConn shirt.

Somehow it didn't really occur to me that a lot of people around here would be cheering for UConn, because it's not even in this state. But then I figure, it's still New England, and these New Engladers stick together.

I was one of two MSU fans in the bar. There were two people at the table next to us who were there to see UNC in the second game, and they ended up cheering with us. That was it. These two particularly drunk individuals sat down at a table on the other side of us, and within about 15 minutes realized that I was cheering at the 'wrong times' (HG2 was more subdued than I in his support, as he is in pretty much everything). One guy looked at me and asked, "why are you clapping for THAT?" as though I were just a silly girl who didn't know when to cheer. I politely turned to him and stated that my friend and I come from Michigan, which elicited this response:

"F#%$ YOU! F#&$ MICHIGAN! MICHIGAN STATE SUCKS!!!!!!!"

Which turned into a sort of a running commentary throughout the rest of the game. At times more heated, at times less. The first guy's friend sort of tried to explain it to me by saying he was from Connecticut, and UConn is all they have because there are no professional sports teams there and he knows all of the guys on the team and by the way would I check out his company's website and sign up? This explanation was of course puncutated with 'eff you' and 'MSU sucks' and this drunk guy leaning closer and closer as he berated my team and me personally. I thought the whole thing was pretty funny, but HG2 did offer to switch seats with me if I was uncomfortable.

Our neighbors' anger toward us was renewed every time we clapped, every time we cheered, pretty much every time they realized we were still there. Meanwhile, on the other side, our new friends were cheering ever louder for the green and white in support. After a few cocktails I became BFF with the girl who proceeded to unleash her entire life story on me (it was pretty juicy). Her boyfriend was not terribly thrilled about the sharing of personal information, but he seemed pretty resigned to it, and probably (quite rightly) figured they would never see me again, what did it matter?

So with my new friend on my left and my new enemies on my right, I watched the Spartans take victory in what I like to think of was their actual championship game (not that I'm ashamed of them for Monday night, but I just think they left everything out there on Saturday). After the game, and in the spirit of good sportsmanship, I turned to the guys on my right and congratulated them on a good game. That got me this reponse:

F%&$ YOU, LEAVE THIS BAR. I'M SERIOUS. LEAVE.

I again smiled politely and turned back to friendlier faces. After awhile that guy did come back to shake my hand, apologize, and let me know that he just gets really into these games. I told him no problem, wished him a pleasant evening and watched as he and his fellow UConn fans filed out slowly, with their heads down in defeat.

HG2 and I had agreed with our new friends that because they were our allies in the first game, we would do our part and cheer for UNC in the second. This lasted for about 20 minutes before the bar turned into a big dance party (poor HG2 had to look through a sea of dancing girls in order to see the basketball game. How very hard for him) and my new friend had a little too much to drink and had to be carted off to her hotel by a less than pleased boyfriend. However, he's the one who bought the second round of shots so he's really got no one to blame but himself.

The rest of the night was fairly routine, watched the rest of the game, got some pizza around midnight, headed home and crashed, then spent Sunday in a world of hurt (it was totally worth it).

We later discovered that the MSU alumni bar was next door to the bar we were at. One door over and we would have been surrounded by people in green & white. But somehow I think even if we had gotten the right bar, it wouldn't have been nearly as much fun. Or crazy.

um. yea.

2009-04-02T13:30:00.000-04:00

Things I have learned about myself in the last week or two because of highly addictive facebook quizzes:

In a past life, I was Marilyn Monroe.

If I were an 80's band, I would be Journey.

If I were an 80's movie, I would be The Princess Bride.

If I were a Steel Magnolias character, I would be M'Lynn.

If I were a muppet, I would be Miss Piggy.

My superhero name is "The Extraordinary Enigma"

I'm not sure what all of this says about me as a whole, but mostly I'm not sure what it is that compels me to keep taking these stupid quizzes. All I know is when I see someone's results for some completely meaningless quiz, I feel like I need to take it so I see how I measure up.

It's possible I need to spend less time on facebook.

insert title of your choosing

2009-03-31T14:30:00.000-04:00

tvguide.com seems to have completely stopped recapping How I Met Your Mother which is very distressting to me. At the same time, I don't want to be that girl who only writes recaps of movies and tv shows (oh wait, that's really the only reason any of you come here, isn't it? ISN'T IT?!!? Ahem, sorry).

I don't have a whole lot to say about last night's episode, though I did enjoy it.

One of my favorite things is how when Old Ted is telling a story, the people change to reflect how they interpret the story. That's a really crappy way of saying how I like that Robin's older boyfriend was played by an 80 year old a couple seasons ago and how I liked that the other team for the kindergarten basketball game was made up of high school aged kids.

Also, as an aside - I totally agree with Marshall about the competition aspect. If you don't like competition, don't put your children in competitive sports. Put them in yoga or something. Thus ends my PSA about a subject of which I have no direct knowledge.

How old is Robin supposed to be? We know Ted is 30, Barney is somewhere between 32 and 35, you can assume that Lily and Marshall are also 30 because they were in college with Ted, but what about Robin? Ted talked to her like she was a whipper snapper and she didn't seem to have any trouble doing the things on the Murtaugh list with Barney (well, pretty much just the rave, but you get the idea). So are we thinking like 25, 26? I had just always assumed she and Ted were the same age. This bothers me more than it probably should.

What are we possibly expected to do with Barney being banned from Laser Tag for life? I half expected him to end the episode by purchasing the Laser Tag place. I feel we haven't seen the end of this.

And now you'll have to excuse me because I just dropped a ream of paper on my foot and I need to whine about it.

I heart Target.

2009-03-30T11:09:00.000-04:00

Here's my weekend in a nutshell: basketball, singstar, shopping, shopping, movie, shopping, basketball, movie, slide show (HG2.0 is back!).

I know it sounds like I did approximately three things all weekend, but seriously, it was busy! And fun! Yesterday afternoon especially, with the basketball watching (MSU!!!) and this absolutely delicious Ceaser salad with homemade dressing (I didn't make it but you can bet your bottom dollar I got that recipe). I wish I had taken a photo because of the massive size of this salad. It was, in a word, Uge (purposely spelled that way). And it did not have any anchovies whatsoever so it's delicious even for the non fish eating people of the world. Some of whom can expect to eat this the next time I see them. You know who you are.

Instead, what I have a picture of is the fabulous new bag I got from Target on Saturday:

I love everything about it, and I most of all love the fact that due to a gift card situation I had, this baby was less than $5 out of pocket and it holds EVERYTHING. I have become a giant-holds-everything-handbag lover. But you'll notice it doesn't have a giant clock on the front. Oh well, you can't have everything I guess.

Allow me to also quickly tell you that Target has so many adorable decorative scarves at the moment that I almost put down the bag and spent all of my money on as many scarves as possible, with this whole plan about I was going to become a fabulous lady who wears scarves all the time and has perfect hair (I feel like those two things go together. Perfect hair and decorative scarf wearing).

Luckily I remembered two vitally important facts at the last minute. One - my hair is about as far from perfect as possible and I would only let down my fellow scarf wearers (a burden I could not bear). Two (and probably more importantly) - I hate having anything close to my neck. I can barely even wear necklaces because I feel like they're biding their time to strangle me. It takes all of my willpower to wear a scarf when it's cold outside and I need it for warmth. But that should tell you just how cute these scarves were. They were pretty great.

recap city

2009-03-27T09:31:00.000-04:00

I know I said I wasn't posting for the rest of the week, but seriously. I can't NOT recap last night's Grey's Anatomy. It would just feel wrong.

So last night's episode:

Holy crap when Owen was choking Christina I was freaking out. Big time. The marks on her neck were pretty intense, but I really wasn't that surprised when she forgave him and hugged him and wouldn't break up with him (yea yea I'll get to that). I don't blame Meredith for telling her that her turtleneck was gross, but not as gross as her hugging Owen after he choked her. If my friend's boyfriend left marks like that on her neck I'd want to kill him too.

The fact that I like Christina and Owen so much as a couple made it all the more heartbreaking when she told him she couldn't be with him because she was afraid to sleep next to him. Can't really blame her for that one. But here's hoping he lets Derek help him get better and we can have take 2 of Owen and Christina's relationship. Also I heard that Amy Madigan is coming back as the shrink, which is good. I liked her.

I'm very happy to have regular Derek back, and his non-proposal proposal in the elevator was perfect for those two. Only a couple of surgeons would discuss their relationship in terms of brains they had operated on together. It was cute. I did like how he kept trying to give the ring to her sort of like a lost puppy hoping she would take it and lead him where he needed to go, and I especially liked that she didn't fall for it. Excellent stuff.

And now Izzie. I knew we were headed for an Alex breakdown and it did not disappoint me. He asked himself/Meredith every question I had in my head about why he didn't see this coming, and he even called out that he was so used to crazy chicks in his life that he didn't think twice when she said she was seeing a ghost. I teared up when he started talking about how it was crap and that wasn't how he and Izzie were supposed to make babies, I'm not gonna lie.

Even though the superfriends were all sort of crappy leading up to Izzie's surgery because they were avoiding her and scared and all that, one of my favorite parts was when Alex crawled into Izzie's bed after the surgery and the following transpired (these quotes are probably not accurate, I don't have DVR to review so this is all from memory):

Izzie (drowsy and out of it): hey...
Alex: I splooged in a cup for you today.
Izzie: thanks?

I don't know why, but it was sort of perfect for them. Alex has come a long way but he's still sort of emotionally stunted, so that is a pretty believable way that he would tell her that he loves her and he's there for her.

I'm gonna need some Izzie/George resolution soon, though. We started tonight when he was smashing things and Callie came to talk some sense into him. He's angry and a little insulted, and I can understand that but he's still George so he'll still do the right thing in the end. And let's make that the next episode shall we? Thanks.

Speaking of the next episode, the fact that this one did not end with a "next week...." segment, that makes me fear that we won't see a new episode for awhile. Bummer.

break

2009-03-25T13:09:00.000-04:00

I'm feeling a little out of it this week, and I'm not sure what my problem is exactly (though I think it may be the plague...it's been going around).

Anyway, I wanted you all to have fair warning, I'm pretty sure I'm taking the rest of the week off from posting.

Have a good one!

if only I were in charge of everything

2009-03-23T09:46:00.000-04:00

Last night I went to go see what I thought would be a funny, entertaining movie with a couple of friends (on a school night, no less!). It was a 9:50 showing of I Love You, Man. 9:50 on a Sunday night. I don't know why, but I expected that people who go to movies late on Sunday evening would know how to behave.

I was so, so mistaken.

The movie itself was funny, and I'm sure I would have enjoyed it (though we agree - it's no Role Models). However, I can't be too sure until a second viewing because I definitely missed stuff thanks to the rudeness of EVERY OTHER PERSON IN THE THEATER.

It was so bad. At this point I'm pretty immune to one (or two) person(s) in a theater acting inappropriately (talking, playing with their cell phone, etc) and I've gotten pretty good at tuning it out so that it doesn't affect my movie going experience. This was on a whole other level.

The first sign of trouble came about 10 minutes before the movie was set to begin, when a large group of people walked in with several children in tow. Children. To an R-rated movie. At 9:50 on Sunday night. Children age 8 and below. Couple of infants. So not the right decision.

The women sitting in front of us chose to make liberal use of the fact that the seats rocked which would have been annoying enough, but I'm pretty sure they never stopped chatting for the entire movie, except for the 3 or 4 times they had to get up and move around.

The man sitting to my left had quite possibly one of the most obnoxious laughs I've ever heard, but I try not to judge. I was too busy being irritated at the asides he kept giving to his friends and the repetition of lines that had just been said on screen.

The couple sitting behind and to the left of me were having some sort of relationship discussion or something, with no effort whatsoever to keep their voices down, no matter how many dirty looks I gave them.

The group right behind me was doing much the same, but also apparently working on some plans for after the movie, if the cell phone conversations were any indication. "What? I'm at the movie. No it's the end. NO IT'S THE END OF THE MOVIE." Several people shushed them at one point, but that only made them louder in defiance.

Another guy sitting to the right kept pulling out his cell phone and playing with it during the movie as well. It was at that perfect angle where every time he lit up the screen it caught the corner of my eye. I'm pretty sure he took a couple of calls as well.

At one point in the middle of the movie, one of the infants got hold of a rattle. And shook it for a good five to ten minutes.

There were side conversations going on all through the theather, and I know I missed quite a bit of dialog (which is partly due to the fact that the sound really wasn't as high as I'm used to in a movie theater).

All things said and done, it was pretty unbelieveable. The best part is that it wasn't just a regular theater, it was this deal called the "Director's Hall" where the seats are supposed to be nicer, they're assigned, and the theater employees will take your order and bring concessions to you if you so choose. So of course, the tickets are like $12.50. Nothing like paying extra for a worse experience (before you ask, we didn't complain and ask for our money back. We probably could have, but it was late and we were tired and they are kind of jerks there so it's not guaranteed they would have done anything anyway. Plus, I didn't actually pay for my own ticket and I hate to complain because I don't want people to think I'm high maintenance).

I officially don't love any of the people in that theater, man (you know, except for the people I went with who actually know how to behave in public).