Travel Plans

In a spirit of whimsy Travis and I are going up to New York before Thanksgiving because gosh darn it, State College is boring. Maybe we'll get to see Meredith and her happening pad and her happening boyfriend. We'll have to park at the airport, fun times, and we're going to be staying at one of any number of hostels proclaiming to be 'funky'. I know that it's going to be like a crazy mad rush, but I'm just going to embrace it because maybe it will raise the ambient temperature a bit.

It's cold! A few days ago I was like, oh a sweater will suffice because it is cool autumn weather and the sun is shining. No more. As soon as I walked out the door this morning I said "oh, dear. I'm going to regret my choice of coat". And I did. Now I'm wearing the wonderful Bellefonte black wool coat which was the best eight dollars I've ever spent. I'm even inside the tutoring center and I'm still wearing it. I probably look like some weird Matrix aficionada but I am now impervious to cold as well as strange glances.

I've been working a lot in the past couple days and I realized that my jobs aren't so much laborsome as they are inconvenient. In both tutoring and Carmike I serve more as a person placeholder rather than an actual employee. Here, I just sit and wait around for the Spanish students who rarely stop by thus giving me the opportunity to sit around and read. At the movie theater, I do real work for about forty minutes in the six hour shift and the rest of the time - surprise - I sit around and read. So they aren't bad jobs, or difficult ones, just long shifts that can get kind of dull.

I saw American Gangster on Sunday night with Pat, Tim, and Jen. I like people whose names have three letters. It was really long, but the kind of long where you just kind of accept that it's going to be a few hours but it's a good story so that's okay. Denzel Washington was great. Russell Crowe was fine. I was interested by the story. I'd give it a solid 'good' rating. Rah.

Since I'm milking all the free movies I can before the Carmike closes in January, I caught Bee Movie on Saturday. Eh. It was funny at parts. It seemed like the kind of movie where I should be doing something productive while watching, such as folding laundry or ironing or picking lint off of my jacket. Fun times, though. I laughed at loud at several points. One complaint: we all get that you're using bee puns. Way too many. So, things are 'bee-youtiful'? Do you feel like you 'bee-long' now? How about you 'bee' quiet?