thanksgiving.

I just got back from Thanksgiving Weekend. I was in Diamond Bar from last Tuesday until this morning. I had about five and a half days off :)

Lessee...what happened...I gorged myself on films and on Harry Potter. I saw Shallow Hal, HP: The Sorcerer's Stone, Blow, and Dr. Doolittle 2. I read the second, third, and fourth HO books. I want to go to Hogwarts :)

seriously, though. it's been a LONG time since I've been that wrapped up in a fictional world...and perhaps never have i been quite so wistful at the fact that it's fiction. When I say I wanna go to Hogwarts, the (small, don't worry) part of me that's not constrained by the fact that such a thing would be impossible really means it. I knew I had an active imagination lying around somewhere :)

but yes. I saw Shallow Hal with Richie on Wednesday, after I edited a paper and dropped it offf with lauren. we ate at native foods again--they need to open an IV franchise! :). On Thursday, I went to Uncle David's for Thanksgiving dinner. He's one opinionated sonofabitch--but at least I got Ben to agree that being a Muslim doesn't automatically make you justifiable bombing fodder or even a bad person. Good soup, though.

On Friday, I went to visit Kris at night after having eaten dinner with the family and seen Harry Potter with Jennifer :) HP was good, Kris's was fun. We hung out at Friday's, with a bunch of Temeculans, and then went back to her place before I had to leave (at 1 AM). Then I stayed up till 4 something reading Harry Potter.
Saturday, I got up late--ate dinner with the family, then met Lauren and Mel at Starbuck's for a while. I met this guy in Jack in the Box that says he's in a band with Chris Negrete, Clint Heidorn, and Aaron Windham--gotta check that out...

then Sunday Kris came up. We went to Best Buy and then had Indian food, which was cheap but not very satisfactory. It was really nice hanging out with her, though...especially when she came up later that night after I'd missed my train. Yes, my train was sold out. It sucked--I was there early and all! AND Kris gave me a ride! but she came back up because she needed to pick up a missing credit card in Brea this morning anyway, and figured that if she only had to drive one way she could sleep in. we watched Dr. Doolittle 2 and had a good time, even if I was sick for a while when she got there.

and now I'm in IV, procrastinating on a paper. I want to be back in Diamond Bar. :(

hehe.

I made an entry about a half-hour ago, and it is no longert there because upon rereading, I make it sound as if my dissatisfaction with school is the fault of the school. I understand that it isn't. I don't FEEL like it's my fault I'm lazy and bored--it seems impossible to motivate myself. more and more often--but I KNOW that I need to summon my own energy. The shit feelings I have about school lately feel like they come in from the outside, and I often have escapist fantasies of an easy, simple life in a pleasant yet not-too-demanding job and a lively group of friends. But I know school's what's best for me in the long run, andI know that if I can't get it together it's nobody's fault but my own.

blech.