FUCK!

i lost my wallet. bye bye drivers liscence, credit card, atm card, columbia id, dominicks fresh values card, my next dentist appt card, etc etc.

grrr. i am mad. i mean, i only could have lost the wallet in two places, the bathroom or the movie theater, and we checked both of those pretty thouroughly. unless the people at the movie theater are incompetent and didnt realized that someone turned in a lost wallet, it most likely means that someone took the wallet.

but i have faith in the fact that either a) people are inherently good and someone did turn it in eventually or b) i am useless at searching for a wallet and i just overlooked it and they'll find it tommorow. so i will wait until tommorow morning before i start canceling shit.

on a lighter note, shrek 2 was very amusing. puss in boots was sooo adorable! i love him! i want a puss in boots poster where he's staring back at you with those big round eyes. ( and i dont even like cats!)

fun weekend!

friday night i went down to university of chicago area to meet emily who was intown visiting her sister. we went to one of her sister's suitemate's comedy show, pants pants revolution. they were hysterical! at first emily and i were worried that it would be all u of c jokes (like the varsity show is all columbia jokes), but it wasnt. there was pine sol lady, some crazy improv, and at one point, these two girls did a hippieish-coffee house-guitar rendition of "the thong song". it was amazing.

emily came back to hinsdale with me for the night and then we were up again early in the morning to go on a art deco architecture tour downtown. for living in chicago for most of my life, and having always wanted to go on the architecture tours they have downtown, i am glad that in the past two weeks i have finally gone on two. anyway, art deco tour was cool...didnt know there was so much of it in chicago, and it was good to see emily. i always find it a little strange at first though when my school friends mix with home, or home friends mix with school...it feels like two different worlds are colliding. (ooh, good song). i clearly remember that feeling when kern and reks came up to watch the sex and the city finale with me and some other ultimate girls. just seeing rachel and mara sitting next to reks and kern gave me a kind of confusing, strange feeling. it wasnt wrong or bad, but it felt wierd that these two groups of people from such seperate parts of my life were sitting next to each other.

anyway, after a long nap on sat, i headed over to cass's for the bbq! i can't remember the last time i laughed so hard. first we played some volleyball outside on the front lawn (got some awkward stares from people driving by, but eventually we just started waving to them, and they stopped looking at us.) then played beirut..cass and steve vs. amy and me. maybe it was steve's dancing, or the milking the cow hand gestures, or carly throwing the ball into the salsa, or the fact that when i grunt like monica seles while throwing the ball, i hit more cups, but i nearly peed in my pants so many times from laughing so hard. then when we were adequately drunk, we decided swimming would be fun...i felt nauteous when i entered the pool, so i sat in the corner with monica, but it was very entertaining to watch the others chicken fight! so all in all, a good night.

today i'm supposed to be packing for ireland. its 6.30 already and i havent actually opened a suitcase yet. but i finally got all my laundry done. woohoo! i feel like i might end up wanting to pack a lot of stuff cause i'll be there for 2 months+, but ever since my horrific travel day back from school, i refuse to travel with more than two bags ever again, or atleast for a while until the bruises on my legs and the scars from those memories fade away.

allright. for real this time. pack!

so since i've come home, i've probably seen about four times as many movies than i saw all semester in new york. i guess that's what 10.25 dollar movie tickets will do for you.

ANYWAY, finally saw troy. it was good/entertaining, but not great. i'll tell you what was great, though; brad's ass. (how predictable, right?) but seriously, he is one gorgeous human being.

then i saw mean girls. funny, but nothing too special. the movie would have been quite good if they hadnt tried to push the whole "moral story where everybody learns their lesson" theme. they try too hard, and it just comes off as artificial. still, the movie was quirky funny--tina fey style, i guess.

also rented kill bill 1, and then saw kill bill 2. originally my theory was that everybody either LOVED or HATED this movie. but i just kinda liked it. parts of it i loved watching, but i found myself getting bored during some parts. i did love the way bill talked though. it was so methodical and rhythmical and so matter of fact.

then there was life as a house which i watched with my dad. i really liked this one. kevin kline is such a good actor ( i dont think the movie would have been much without him). his facial motions and gestures seem so effortlessly comical.

but seriously, the best movie i've seen in a long time i saw tonight...Good Bye Lenin. this movie was a german (sub-titled) film about an east german family. the mother, who was very socialist and a huge supporter of the DDR goes into a coma during the whole East/West reunification and the berlin wall coming down. but when she comes out, they dont want to shock her back into a coma, so they have to pretend that it never happened.. the son must recreate the disappearing east berlin world in a city where everything is becoming westernized within months of the reuinification. it was brilliant.

and now, shawshank redemption is on tv! yaay movies!

and by reorganizing music, i obviously meant playing poker stars. fun game!

ps. steve was also watching rw/rr challenge with us, but he was like half asleep the entire time due to his long challening day at work where he slept fourty percent of his day.

emissions test. round II.

yaay! the car passed. i took the volvo over for an emission test a couple of days ago and the stupid check engine light was on, so it failed. but today, the volvo passed, thanks to some hefty shop work.

didnt do much else tonight. helped with the house painting. my mom says i should be fired. apparently she spends more time cleaning up after my painting job than i spend on it. oh well, good thing i'm not planning to be a professional painter. also went to the golf range with my parents for the first time in about a year. hit some decent shots , but my back is so sore and stiff now! must have something to do with the fact that i havent stretched or ran or done anything athletic since regionals.

also watched the lakers-timberwolves game. how old is karl malone? i remember watching him years ago playing for the jazz, and he was no youngin then. just looked it up..he's 40!! holy shit. i'm impressed. the game wasnt that exciting, however. at least not like the pistons game last night. despite the score being quite low, the defense blocks were crazy and the game was thrilling to watch. it was a great followup to the season finale of the real world / road rules inferno. it was nice to come home and gossip with sag and cass about that show. i didnt even know they watched it. so we all watched the finale together.

in other plans for tonight, i've decided i'm not going out because i'm a little tired and cranky. but i cant seem to sleep (nap effort failed!), so after i finish blogging i've decided i will reorganize my music on my laptop. nothing like renaming and refolderizing music files to bore someone to sleep.

THUNDER! LIGHTNING!

I love all these thunderstorms. We've had about 5 in the past week. Its more the buildup/anticipation of the storm that i get excited about. The trees start blustering in the wind and the sky becomes this dark ominous color. sometimes you can hear the thunder in the the distance. *FYI..thunder is the sound lightning makes...a little piece of info i picked up on a long bus ride. And then theres one or two drops of rain warning you to get your ass inside. And then it starts crazy lightning and loud claps of thunder...the actual storm is pretty fun to watch too..but i dont get that crazy scared/excited feeling once the storm actually arrives. anyway, we were inside the movie theater last night watching mean girls, and the storm was so loud we could hear the rain pounding the roof and the thunder was so loud it almost seemed like it was coming from the movie. crazy!

in other news, dad, jack and i went downtown this morning because the city of chicago was sponsering free architecture tours this weekend. i made them go on the "sturctural engineer's perspective of skyscrapers" because that is what i want to do..tall buildings and such (or maybe bridges. whatever). the tour walked around many of the famous chicago buidlings and explained how they were erected and why they were engineering feats. our sturctural engineer tourguide was very keen on pointing out that the engineers dont get the credit they deserve because they are the ones who make the architects crazy demands and design schemes a reality, and in the end it is the architects who become famous for the "innovative design". he spent a lot of the tour bashing the architects. i liked this guy.


well, i have to finish fixing my dad's computer..sasser got to his computer and i dont think he got everything out. and then its baja fresh with cass.
i agree with eric....suburbia food chains >>>>>> city food.
(baja fresh, chipotle, potbellys, panera, einstiens..... so good!)

also. for people at home who thought i was a cyber sex freak when referencing rhinocerouses. heres the damn link!
http://dk-net.com/users/kevin/cybersex.html

So, yes, i am starting a blog. It's probably going to be filled with the random and trivial happenings/thoughts in the life of me. Dont go looking for any exciting adventures or deep philosophical stuff here..in fact you probably should't even read this unless you are real stuck for reading material.

Anyway, I guess i'm starting the blog to have something to do when i actually do get computer time. Unlike at school where i had my own laptop, here, at home, internet connection is shared among the family and it is an in demand commodoity. Generally i get to check my mail, chat to people on aim, browse the new york times, and then, i'm done! i cant seem to remember any of the sites i used to waste my time browsing on. So now i have to look like i'm doing something rather important while blogging so no one will kick me off the computer just cause i'm "wasting my time on aim"

Anyway....things that will become apparent/annoying in my future blog (just warning you..)
1. I suck at spelling (something something engineer)
2. I am also not so hot at the writing/english/grammar thing. (see #1)
3. I do love the word anyway, and will definitely overuse it.
4. I will probably forget about the blog for a while, and the have a flurry of posts to make up for lack of posting.
5. I will talk to YOU, the reader, even though (i think ) blogs are supposed to be me more of an internal expression. i always had problems with papers in school because i always insisted on writing "you" as the subject instead of the third person. stupid third person. caused me so much paper misery.

okay..so i've probably blogged enough boring shit for one night, but the two cokes i chugged at denny's are still in my system. maybe i'll play around with links and stuff.

"i'll menu you."

i created a blog! go me. now lets see if i can actually do this posting on a regular basis thing....