But the thing is, this blog isn’t what I want it to be. One, it’s getting too personal, and while I feel that I should be putting a lot of myself into it, I’d rather be talking about social happenings, or successful friends, or just have some fun talking about the latest Ugly Betty episode! I’m so glad the writer’s strike is over. Sadly Heroes is supposedly waiting til fall for their next new episode. Lame.   

Anyway, it’s 3:30, tomorrow (well today I suppose) is my sister’s B-Day.

~D 

Been a while since I’ve posted I know. Sorry about that. Trying to get things in order and I seem to have finally have done that to a point. To celebrate I made a new banner using my newly gifted Adobe Illustrator! I’m excited. I’ll probably be redoing it often cause I love to change things up.  

I guess it’s time to update though. I pretty much failed last semester so I’ve cut back this semester, doing school only part time while I try and figure some things out. At the same time I’m working a lot more which is good cause one: I enjoy my job, and two: it brings in the money, at least enough for me to get by.  

I’ll give a quick movie update as well…  

Movies that I recommend:  

Juno: Very fun, cutesie, funny, heart warming, etc. The acting is pretty damn good and the story was well done. Ellen Paige is pretty gifted in that she’s been able to move into very different roles with ease ie: a girl bent on revenge against a sexual predator in Hard Candy, a girl who can walk through walls in X-Men III: The Last Stand, and a pregnant sixteen-year-old in Juno. The Golden Globes messed up not giving her the award.   

Atonement: This one was a surprise for me. The preview didn’t really catch my attention. The story was well done, which kept the pacing in the film decent in that there weren’t many periods of boredom, of “can we get on with this.” The acting was pretty good, especially the little girl who played, Briony Tallis at age 13. I was also fairly impressed with Ms. Keira Knightly as she put on a very serious and darker performance fitting for the mood of the story.  

And of course, Cloverfield: I was surprised how much I enjoyed this film. The main thing that did it for me was the way it was filmed and the way the story progressed. It managed to pull of a successful, first person narrative, only showing us as much info as the protagonists saw. For the genre it does a few new things that are pretty exciting and while it still fits into the general popcorn movie genre it still leaves one with a few things to think about.   

So that’s about all I got right now. Just catching up on some homework and some chores around the place. Hopefully I’ll have a more thought out and information post for next time.  

I left Flatiron Crossing intent on getting home to try out the new Leopard operation system I’d purchased earlier. I’d go home and load it and read while it took its two-hours to complete. I pull into Boulder via highway 36 but I don’t get off at my exit. I just keep going. And going. Past CU, past 29th Street Mall, past Thunderbird Burgers and I end up in North Boulder. I could get off at Valmont but I think instead I’ll take this to highway 93 (Broadway). But I just bypass it. That’s when I decided I’d drive all the way up to Estes Park.  On my drive I passed through the more scenic parts of Boulder County. There is very little traffic. I have my windows cracked a bit and the heater going which gives a nice mix of warmth and a cool October breeze. The sun is on its way to setting. It’ll be dark on my way back. I find myself in Lyons, the last major dot on the map before Estes. I pass through slowly, watching as parents guide their children, dressed up in various costumes, to no doubt some Halloween party or early trick-or-treating.I pull out of Lyons and start heading into the mountains. Thus begins my ascent into the higher altitudes of the Rocky Mountains. It’s chilly so I roll up my windows and crank up the heater a bit more. I soon find myself in a large patch of dense fog, adding to that feel of late Autum. I pass some cabins and hotels, a few houses tucked back here and there. I turn off the radio. The only sound I hear at this point is the hum of my engine. Ocasionally, my own thoughts intrude on this peace. Thoughts about turning around, thoughts about staying the night in Estes or at the very least, have some dinner. About forty minutes into my drive I find myself exiting Boulder County and going into Lariamer County. The fog has gone and I can see patches of blue sky. Soon after, I see the sign for Estes Park, carved letters into a large stone slab. A valley lay below me and scattered about are houses, hotels and overlooking the whole town, the Stanley Hotel. I remember the last time I spent some decent time here. It was the Highland Festival a few years back, seventh or eighth grade, I don’t remember. I pass a small lake, or rather drive down the middle of it over a bridge. I notice I need gas. I pull into town, keeping an eye out for the nearest station, while at the same taking in the sites. Tourists are sparse, probably getting to cold at this point to be meandering about. I follow the road to drive past the Stanley and then loop around back into town. A large herd of Elk had come down and scattered themselves through out the town, giving kids and adults alike something fun to see. There’s a gas station a little ways away that I make my way towards. I fill up, grab a couple of snacks and get back on the road. At this point I’ve decided it’d be best to get home and eat, do some homework and install Leopard. So I hop back on 36. It’s dark at this point making that patch of fog even more erie. Back into Boulder County, back through Lyons and finally back to North Boulder, I turn down on 93 and follow that through town as it becomes Broadway.  I couldn’t really tell you why I decided to go to Estes, for gas at the most. It seems pretty silly. I guess I just needed a drive, needed to get away, time to think, or rather not think about anything at all.  

Sorry for the late postings. They seem to be few and far between which was not my goal at all for this blog. But things are finally getting back in order with my life so I’m happy. The last weeks were Hell. I had four papers due within four days of each other on top of a project, that combined with a total of 12 hours of sleep for one week makes for a very unhappy me. But I’m good now.

I decided it’d be best to cut down my hours just a little bit in order to get homework done before 4am every night. Seriously, having to have your mother call you in the morning to make sure you’re awake is rather embarassing.

This weekend I did manage to get out. I went and had coffee with my friend, Jenel and then we met up with Jake to see Across the Universe. I was very happy with the film. It’s beautiful, funny, and entertaining. The actors did an impressive job with covering the Beatles songs (I thought Bono and Eddie Izzard were some of the more interesting performances). Going into the movie, I was concerned that the visuals would be overdone, destroying the story along with it but it ended up working out in a very beautiful way. Basically I’d see it again.

And now for a less cultured plug: Transformers comes out on DVD on October 16th and I’m so excited! I have also developed a healthy (or unhealthy, as my homework would see it) addiction to Heroes. Yeah so I’m a little late in the game. I was bored one night and decided to download, via iTunes, the first episode. I was immediately drawn in and the damn show hasn’t let go. For television I feel it’s very well done, adding a sorely missed, down to Earth, human element, I feel is missing from most stories involving heroes. Not that those stories don’t have a human quality to them, this just seems much more personal. I feel for all the characters.

Hopefully I’ll update more. I can’t make promises though. Until then, cheers!

I have finally decided it was time to start doing my own blog. I’ve been posting on Facebook and Myspace but the only people who read that stuff are my friends so I thought this would be a better outlet to just write and see who reads it.

With that said, this site will be in construction for a while as I begin to figure all the little details out and get it the way I’d like it. Hopefully it wont be too long so I can just get at it.

So wish me luck and I’ll be back!

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