meet the parents
no, not the movie (though that was a damn good one). the parents, or really parent, i'm refering to is jaya's mom. she flew down to visit jaya last week, and took a bunch of us out to dinner and bowling on thursday. after meeting beth, i can see where jaya gets a lot of her personality from. i only wish i can be that cool when i'm older. jaya's mom seemed more like a teenager trapped in an adult's body than anything. i mean, when we were bowling, i forgot that we were with someone's mom, it was just a bunch of people hanging out, no age difference, whatever.
speaking of bowling, that was awesome. we went to this place called rock n bowl, which is either a bowling alley trying to be a night club or a night club trying to be a bowling alley. it's in this rundown kind of area, doesn't look like much on the outside, but once you get in, you see the lanes in front of you, a live band on the left, and people dancing everywhere. i mean it, there were times people had to wait for others to move their dancing of the lanes before they could bowl. granted, the balls weren't the best and the lanes were a little warped, but no one really goes there for just the bowling. anyway, after a couple of games, of which i had the high score, we decided to call it a night. or more precisely, jaya's mom did, while the rest of us went to quills. i guess there are some things that even she can't do with us. but it was still great to meet her, and have her pay for my dinner (hey, i'm a college student, these things are important to me).
i've noticed a trend in my life lately, or more precisely my drinking habits. the last few weeks, i've been going out on friday night, or in this case thursday, and then just hanging out around the dorm the rest of the weekend. not from any conscious decision, but i think i like it. it's a lot more peaceful, and the weekend seems longer this way. i'm not saying i've decided not to go out during the weekend proper anymore, just that i'm fine not doing it. like, this weekend, i actually was planning on going out friday, after playing board games with a bunch of people, but through no fault of anyone's, i wound up missing out on the drinking. funny thing is, i still had a great night. the games were fun, and hanging out with my drunk friends was even better. i see it as payback, because there have been plenty of times they've seen me drunk while they were sober. and then last night, i tried to take over the world. i wanted to go see finding neverland with jaya, but the sound was screwed up, necessitating my world domination attempt. unfortunately jaya and shaun decided not to let me do it. i came so close too. i had europe, pretty much, except for england, plus a large portion of asia. but as happens so often, england decided not to go quietly, and i wound up wasting all my armies trying to take it over. bastard brits. i hate risk.
final thought- 2001: a space odyssey is one of the weirdest movies i've seen in a while. i guess i need to read the book, cuz the movie just confused me. kubrick is an awesome director, the shots and sets and everything were awesome, but the last 15 minutes made no sense. this is not to say it's not a good movie, it's very good, but i enjoyed his other ones better, especially clockwork orange. if anyone out there can explain 2001 to me, i'd be forever in your debt.
speaking of bowling, that was awesome. we went to this place called rock n bowl, which is either a bowling alley trying to be a night club or a night club trying to be a bowling alley. it's in this rundown kind of area, doesn't look like much on the outside, but once you get in, you see the lanes in front of you, a live band on the left, and people dancing everywhere. i mean it, there were times people had to wait for others to move their dancing of the lanes before they could bowl. granted, the balls weren't the best and the lanes were a little warped, but no one really goes there for just the bowling. anyway, after a couple of games, of which i had the high score, we decided to call it a night. or more precisely, jaya's mom did, while the rest of us went to quills. i guess there are some things that even she can't do with us. but it was still great to meet her, and have her pay for my dinner (hey, i'm a college student, these things are important to me).
i've noticed a trend in my life lately, or more precisely my drinking habits. the last few weeks, i've been going out on friday night, or in this case thursday, and then just hanging out around the dorm the rest of the weekend. not from any conscious decision, but i think i like it. it's a lot more peaceful, and the weekend seems longer this way. i'm not saying i've decided not to go out during the weekend proper anymore, just that i'm fine not doing it. like, this weekend, i actually was planning on going out friday, after playing board games with a bunch of people, but through no fault of anyone's, i wound up missing out on the drinking. funny thing is, i still had a great night. the games were fun, and hanging out with my drunk friends was even better. i see it as payback, because there have been plenty of times they've seen me drunk while they were sober. and then last night, i tried to take over the world. i wanted to go see finding neverland with jaya, but the sound was screwed up, necessitating my world domination attempt. unfortunately jaya and shaun decided not to let me do it. i came so close too. i had europe, pretty much, except for england, plus a large portion of asia. but as happens so often, england decided not to go quietly, and i wound up wasting all my armies trying to take it over. bastard brits. i hate risk.
final thought- 2001: a space odyssey is one of the weirdest movies i've seen in a while. i guess i need to read the book, cuz the movie just confused me. kubrick is an awesome director, the shots and sets and everything were awesome, but the last 15 minutes made no sense. this is not to say it's not a good movie, it's very good, but i enjoyed his other ones better, especially clockwork orange. if anyone out there can explain 2001 to me, i'd be forever in your debt.
posted by Danimal at
8:54 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home