Ben Hur, Alice in Wonderland, and Last of the Mohicans

When I went down to Holy Grounds yesterday afternoon, Elizabeth, Rus, Jim, and Chris were watching the first half of Ben-Hur. Truth be told, I've never seen that movie, though it has been on my list of movies to watch for a LOOOONG time. While down there, I received an email from Talitha (as did the rest of the student body) about the FTE folks on campus thinking that our campus was the most dull, boring, and deserted place they had ever been to, and so to remedy that, Talitha was opening Holy Grounds at 9:30 for people to stop in and prove the FTE folk wrong.

In the mean time, Beer & Theology had started, and I excused myself from HG for a while, then came back and played solitaire while waiting for them to finish. After Heather (and Luke!), Ryan, and Chris got to HG, we all piled in my car and went up to the mall where we had dinner at the food court, swapped call stories, and watched Alice in Wonderland.

I have to say, I'm not a huge fan of Tim Burton, nor Johnny Depp, but I think this movie may well have changed my opinion of both of them. What a great movie! And a great time with good friends!

Well, after the movie, we came back to HG for this so-called party. And I just want to say WTF. With the exception of a few brave souls/lost sheep (i.e. obnoxious girl), the whole damned group just curled up in one corner together, socialized with each other (not the students that were there) and drank their beer (which, though I don't drink beer, I was amazed at.... I guess there was a sale on Coors Light, because, honestly, who buys that stuff except poor college kids??). Whatev... me and "da boys" played a lot of card games and then Yahtzee!. Which, really, is what we do.

At half past midnight, Mr. Chaperone Dude hollered out "Last Call!!" and we were like, WTF?? Obnoxious Girl (or one of the others said) "oh I guess you guys are leaving as soon as this game is done, right?" and I think it was Ryan who looked at her and said "um, no, that's last call for you guys. We live here." And Mr. Chaperone Dude was like "I have to lock up...." with this expectation that we would get up and vacate, to which Ryan said "You can leave the key with me. There are 6 other people in this room that can lock up." Mr. Chaperone Dude did indeed leave the key with Ryan and after all of the little FTE folken left, Heather came back! And more Yahtzee! was played. And a bunch of other drunk, uber-early-in-the-morning fun was had.

And I came home at about 4:15am.

But before I went to bed, I purchased and downloaded the soundtrack from Last of the Mohicans. Ryan was playing the music on his phone last night, and it filled me with this overwhelming longing to be back in high school orchestra just for the chance to play that music again. Some of my very best memories are of being in orchestra and feeling the joy that I was filled with while playing the music from that movie. Maybe I should pull my violin out and tune it up... maybe....

Anyway... I have papers to write (can I write the rest of them for the term just to get them over and done with?) and such. I have an overwhelming desire to go out to Pt. Reyes... but I don't really want to go by myself. Maybe I'd better wait until Johnathan is here and see if I can't get a bunch of folk to come with us and have a grand ol' time!

By the way.... I'm more than a little excited about Johnathan coming out here! :)

A'ight... off to go write a few papers and make this a productive Saturday :)