January 26, 2004
It's funny...
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies...
-The Shawshank Redemption
The quotes to open these things up have been helpful lately...they seem to keep me on some sort of mental track, which has been helpful.
It's amazing how an hour can really change a weekend. Today proved that to me. This was my big "duty free" weekend - no duty at all...no duty actually, until Thursday this week.Friday must have been uneventful (oh! Laundry!) because I don't remember doing much. Saturday was kind of annoyingly boring. I was supposed to hang out with a group of people and see "Girl with the Pearl Earring." It got cancelled due to cold and other factors...from there, a cascade of plans that I set up really fell apart quickly. It wound up being me and Scott playing Halo for a bit, and a Wawa run, and people coming over for a while...I had forgotten about a party that was going on until it felt too late to go over -slash- I didn't want to leave the house at the point that it was. It wasn't all bad; Scott and I came up with a skit involving two older Russian gentlemen giving out love advice...kind of a communist Dan Savage, I guess...
I had been really looking forward to "Girl With..." to just hang out with some people and stuff...you know, to just get out of the house for a while. A duty free weekend is a rarity for me (especially in Miguel, for which I can't complain - the benefits put the duty to shame) and I wanted it to be special...
Today and tonight really made the weekend special. The day was just really quiet and enjoyable, spending time with old and new friends...rehearsal, "brunchinner" at the union with suzy, production meeting, and tv tonight...it was just kind of nice being with people for a while...
I'll have a smile on my face for the entire week...probably 
But for now it is snowing...and it seems like our best chances for a snow day yet this year...so I hope it keeps coming, and freezes tonight...who couldn't use a Monday off?
Dear Matt,
As a loyal reader of your journal, I must point out to you that you should be quite grateful that your plans to see "Girl with a Pearl Earring" were unsuccessful. The $8.75 I spent on my ticket was horribly wasted. I quite enjoy Scarlett Johannson, but the love was not enough to turn the tide. I found it quite dull and unentertaining. My friend Brendan fell asleep during it as well.