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Laundry

7:13 pm 5-5-02

Yesterday my team lost both games of Ultimate, but I really felt great like I played my absolute best. That felt fantastic, especially after I had some concern with my legs being too sore after Numbers the previous night.

After Ultimate, I slept then DJed at KTRU which was a bit strange because the telephone wasn't working in the control room. This didn't pose too much of a problem because it was fully 1.5 hours into my shift before I got a single phone call. In the last 1.5 hours of my shift, I got 5 callers.

Went to bed again after KTRU and then woke up feeling relatively refreshed at 3:30am. So I went to the laundry room and did my four loads of laundry that I've neglected for about a month. I love having tons of rally shirts!

During laundry from 3:30am to 5:00am, I learned for sure the Japanese words for the days of the week.

As my clothes spun around in the dryer for the final 30 minutes, I felt really tempted to go to sleep, but I knew it would be more of a pain to not have my laundry done and upstairs. So I did some yoga to stay awake and somehow made it.

Hey, it's Cinco de Mayo.

spider man

8:30 am Monday 6 May 2002

Don't read this if you don't want any details on the Spider-Man movie.

Maggie and I saw Spider-Man yesterday afternoon. We were first in line, but some people cheated and ignored the line. As we entered the theater, there were about 4 people in the theater, including a guy right in the center where I like to sit, so I broke social mores and sat right next to him, "Hi."

He goes, "so they finally let the line go, eh?" proving that he knew he had cut.

"Yeah, everyone was calling you guys cheaters. You should move over one seat and give me the middle." (As Maggie put it, I was offering him a chance to do the right thing.)

He said, "no way."

I dropped it with him, but was well entertained by Maggie discussing Proximity Experiments (that's not the exact term she used, but) where people would specifically sit next to the 1 other person in an otherwise empty movie theater to see how that person would react. (Often with violence if the second person to sit would get up and follow the first person if s/he reseated themselves.)

I was all laughing, commenting that yeah, at least I didn't raise the arm up between the seats and sit next to him all, "HIiii."

Oh, darn the arms don't come up between these seats anyway.

In good comic book fashion, the movie showed the creation of the two super-humans: one good, and one bad, each of which had a normal human life, and each knew each other in both realities, but didn't know it until 3/4ths the way through.

Spider-man had the experience of loss/revenge/bigger-loss-as-a-result-of-revenge which I thought was interesting: he didn't get the promised $3000 for winning the fight, so he left the office which was then immediately robbed, but given the chance Peter didn't apprehend the robber, who then killed Peter's uncle to steal his car.

That's the scene where Spider-Man really kicked it into high gear for the first time, swooping swooshing through the artificial canyon of city buildings, causing Maggie to be all, "whoah! my stomach!"

I was so completely bummed at the end of the movie when he couldn't tell the girl that he loved her even though he wanted nothing more.

zzzzz

11:30 pm Cinco de Mayo 2002

I just got home from Maggie's where we watched the deleted scenes from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on DVD. Pretty funny, most of them, but probably more funny if I knew more movie stuff than I do, especially their movie stuff. (obviously (?))

I re-felt the sense of, "wow, I wonder if I could write a movie and be all famous and shit?" and when I think about it, I realize that's not in my life path right now, but there's a part of me that romanticizes the idea.

After Spider-Man, we met Eric and Meredith at Red Robin, at I-10 and 610. Waiter's name was Supa Dupa Mike, who knocked off the price of both teas after charging for two teas when there was only one.

I ordered Nachos Machos sin jalepeños, but it came with them anyway. He took them off at my reminder.

Drove by Eric and Meredith's house and Maggie reminded me we were near her old old old old neighborhood from which I would pick her up each day before school in 1992. That's when we had a lot of classes together. How could I have forgotten about picking her up? I had, but remembered after she told me.

She dropped me off at her house (where I had left my car after YRUU) and I zipped home.