Daily Update

So after Die Hard, on Thursday night my soul was left urning for more action-adrenaline filled movies/entertainment. We planned on seeing transformers on friday night. I got home from work to put my feet up and to release the days anger by fighting bad guys and Defending the Universe. But that wasn't long lasting, I received a bunch of phone calls regarding the nights activities. It was true that it was quickly planned the night before. So action was brief and quick. I rallied some of the troops to meet up at the local AMC theater so we could see the long
awaited 'Transformers'. We got there an hour early and we still missed the sell out crowd. 10:30 was sold out, so we/most of us were happy to stay around for the 11:30 showing. With two hours to kill we raided the food court and then hung out at Borders. There's plenty of cool stuff to see at a book store. So with just less than an hour to go, we wandered over to the theater line. Lucky for us Emily purchased a 'friendship bracelet kit' for us to keep ourselves busy in line. Yes, I know what you're thinking, and they are the same that 13 year old girls used to make during class in jr. high. But whatever. The movie was amazing! I tried not to cheer like a retard to much. If I were editor/director, I wouldn't have zoomed in on the robots as much, and I would have cut out some of the boring human interaction, and more of the hot chicks, and more of the transformers fighting and transforming, and doing cool stuff. Josh and I stayed up way to late talking about stuff, and working on his 'Man-bracelet-wristband'. Then we started discussing my painting, he gave me a few suggestions that I felt I had to do, it made it a lot
funnier.

I woke up to an unproductive morning. I had to adjust most of the images of my movie so that they'd all be the right size. Josh informed me that we had a softball game in the afternoon as well, for which we still had to recruit players so that we didn't forfeit. Before I worked up the urge to play ball, I figured a good athletic stepping stone would be going for a quick jaunt around the Brentwood Country Club. I was superb this day. An outstanding time of 17:10. Unusually good. Lots of other people were there to cheer me on. It wasn't that hot cause it was partially
overcast, not like the typical Sahara desert I'm used to. I passed many people in training: ninja, lion cubs, antelope, water buffalo, and zebra. They were no match for me though. I was greater than them. When I left it got sunny again.

Softball went well, I don't think we can count it as a win exactly, but we built team unity, and got some practice, and I got to bust out the 'Big League Chew- Rally Bucket'. Which I think helped our performance. And as a side note, I think I know who our new bishop will be... and he plays second base.

So We all parted ways for each of our own adventurous evenings. Josh's plans fell thru so he and I went to Michaels and REI. I got a frame for the painting I've been working on. After that we started thinking with our stomachs. We started planning on what should be for dinner at the moment, then for tomorrow, then for next week. the topic changed so quickly I could hardly keep up. We ended up stopping at Smart and Final and shopping for josh's weekly food ration for just over an hour. By that time I dropped him off, and went to Dan's b-day party. While there I invited an 'exclusive' group back to my place to watch a movie. Josh didn't want to have to put up with groups of people, so he had me go invite people to a more comfortable setting for him so he could socialize there. Don't ask, I don't understand it either. But hanging out at my place was fun. We watched 'Mystery Men'.

While still hanging out I decided to be funny and call Trisha at 1:38am. She was still up. Her sink was still clogged. No good. Our hang out was winding down, so Josh and I volunteered to go over and help her fix it. We're guys after all, we know how to fix anything with hammers and duct tape. As we were on our way over there, she called and tried to turn our help away. I had to raise my voice for a second, and explain that we had to kick four super-cool chicks out of my apartment, so there was no way we weren't coming over to be productive! We jimmied with some stuff for a while, and then finally dislodged enough of the clog to get liquid to drain. But that was it for the night. Neither of us had the proper wrench so josh had to come back later. And even funnier, TLH's roommates drunk friends were full of advice on how to do sober things. Brilliant.

Today during lunch I went up into the mouth of the beast, ucla. I was investigating reports I've heard of their credit union being friendly and accommodating. The reports were not completely accurate. I was like the little bird dancing around the mouth of the crocodile, picking at it's teeth and gums while hoping it didn't close its mouth or get hungry. I was going to try to use their bank services to get to my account in another credit union, which resides across the city. One thing that made me feel like I was in any other bank facility was the super long wait, minimal bank personal, and the plethora of misinformation. Just like everywhere else I've been.

I'm listening to Arcade Fire right now.

Lunch was sponsored by Panda Express. (I'm not sure it's a good thing that there is one only 10 minutes away from my office on the ucla campus.)