Daily Update

I finally got my car back, with a delima of couse. After work on friday I made my way over to Firestone, and I was all ready to tell them to 'cut the crap' and I want my car back. But My new buddy Alan told me that they finally knew what the problem was and that they needed to replace the radiator. (Holy crap, that sounds expensive!) I started acting like I was having a heart attack, while grabbing at my chest, and then wallet. Then I asked him if he was supposed to kiss me first... (another rude reference, don't worry about it girls), but he didnt' hear that part luckily. Then he started offering all these discounts, and a rental car, and candy,
and stuff like that. OK, I'll take it. I was planning to take it to the VW place that Renee had suggested on saturday if they couldn't make it work, but it didn't make it that far.

On Friday night, unsure of what to do, I resorted to working on my movie until Josh called. With all the stuff that I have to do, I try to work on editing those images whenever I have a free minute. I'm currently working on scene 4 of 7. Its brilliant. I ended up going over to Josh's place to watch Man-movies. It only took me 6 and a half minutes on my bike (better than by car). I thought it would be more but i'm pretty skilled on a bicycle. I felt like I was back on campus dashing from building to building like a bicycle super hero that had school deadlines to meet. We saw 'Tommy Boy', Some comedy show, and then 'Last Action Hero'. Tommy Boy is always funny, and very quotable. The comedian Robert Wuhl was funny and informitive. He made fun of american history, and all the inacuricies that have been published. Now the Last Action Hero was one of the two movies that killed Arnold Schwartzenegger's movie carier, and now I understand why. It was so Dumb! He should have never taken that roll. It was trying to be an action thriller, mixed with 'Naked Gun'. It really didn't work. It was almost a funny comedy, and almost an action movie, but they missed the target which made it super dumb. By the end, I was pissed for sitting through it without sleeping. (Jeff had that department
covered already.) And josh couldn't understand my anger and he was still convinced that it was really funny. I left right after cause i had a long bike ride home, but jeff was mad, cause he wanted me to stay and discuss what he had just missed, but I didn't, so I left.

On Saturday I treated myself to pancakes for breakfast. Mmmm. I eat/make pancakes like some people eat toast. I have it down to a science. As my bike was parked for 10 minutes in front of the Firestone repair shop, one of my lock cables was stolen right off the handlebars. At least I decided to lock it up! All I did was go in to sign some paper, and drive around the block, park, and then ride my bike home. When locking it up in my garage, I noticed I was down 1
lock. I shook my head at myself, because as I was locking my bike up, that exact thought came to me. And I ignored it. oh well. So I rolled over to Firestone, the car place, and asked about my Auto. Alan told me it wouldn't be done till 2 or 3, which ment 4 or 5. I acted annoyed, so he took me over to Enterprise and told them to rent me a car. so that was cool. they only had
nice cars to, no ultra-minitures that I couldn't fit into. They ended up giving me a Chrysler Sebring convertable. Nice! Oh, OK I guess so. I went shopping for a minute as an excuse just to drive around, then jeff and I went to a going away party for the Canadian- Lincoln Mitchell. This event took place at Hollywood Park. Its a horse race track in Inglewood. I only knew two other kids there that I knew, and then Lincoln and his lawyer buds. They all had money to spend, I didn't. It was quite entertaining. We hung out for an hour or two. I was fasinated about how many people were willing to loose money there. Some even brought their enitre families to watch them loose money. As we were rolling down the 405 at minimal speeds, the
wind was messing up my already messy hair, and I was pumping the Mexican accordian music that we all hold so dear to our hearts- which isn't allowed to be played on any radio under a certain decibel level. I just wanted to fit in, thats all. It was awesome.

It was also Harry Potter night. For treats jeff and josh decided to make carmel corn. In order to do that they needed a popcorn-popper, but not just any kind, an Orvil Reddenbocker air-pop Delight. This task would take just over two hours to complete. The only place, according to the internet, that had one was Sears down by 3rd street in Santa Monica. When we got there, it turns out that the internet was just kidding. so we had to try somewhere else. I could ramble on for a long time about this adventure, but all I'll say is that I'll NEVER trust jeff with driving
directions; where to park, where to turn, where not to turn, or when to turn-stop-or go. (His navigatal skills added at least 35 min to our trip). We stopped by three stores before ending up at Bed,Bath, and Beyond. Luckily they had one there, otherwise Josh would have probably murdered someone. But now that he found his toy, it was like he had found a Golden Ticket. He couldn't wait to take it out of the box and play with it. I ended up having to drive, so he could play with his new toy. We arrived at Selby right on time, and again ended up waiting an hour before we started watching. Another triumph for Harry over the forces of evil. As for
myself, not being able to NOT talk during a movie, I on occasion would make remarks about the movie, characters, or the plot. At one point I was Speaking as if I was Harry(not actually as myself), and I was admitting Harry's true love for Ron Weesley. Apparently half the room, the side jeff and josh were on, mis-heard this bit of character interpretation and thought that I, jim, was admitting true love for Ron, which is completly incorrect. So for the rest of the night they continued to dwell on this bit of wrong information, and continued to harrass me. Thats right
Mary, they are mean to me! I'm the victim here.

After church we plotted dinner at Greenfield. I made spaghetti again, it was good. Then we ended up chatting for a while. As they started watching a movie I called it a night. It would have added 4 hours to my already tired night.

Lunch was sponsored by Marvins. I had such a craving for the Cheeseburger Combo:)

I'm listening to 'Panic! at the disco' right now.