Wow. I’ve been awake for about 29 hours now… See, I got all messed up by staying up until almost 5am Tuesday, and then I was only asleep for about three hours before the dogs started barking at a deer in the field behind the house…and then the television was turned up to some ungodly volume (the living room is right below my room), and after my mum was kind enough to turn it down, the people working on the house next door started making all sorts of horrible nose with heavy machinery…it was awful. So, at noon I finally fell asleep again, only to be awoken by my poor fiancé when he showed up at my house to go to bible study and was like, “um…you’re sleeping???” Bad Reeser. So, since I was supposed to go with my dad to take the puppies to the vet this morning, (puppies are fine…just got a check-up since they were spayed two weeks ago) I decided to stay up instead of risk not getting up on time. Then my dad was nice and dropped me off at Easton (a big mall-type area). I went to see The Fourth Kind, and it was…interesting. Not really good or bad, but still interesting. They weren’t busy when I got my ticket (who sees “scary” movies by themselves at midday???), so I chatted with the guy at the ticket counter for a while (rather, he chatted with me…he must have been bored because he didn’t seem to want to take my movie card so I could pay and get my ticket) about the movie I was going to. Heh…I told him about this movie, Labyrinth, with David Bowie…and he’d never seen it before, so he thought it was really funny when I told him about the David Bowie character being a barn owl for part of the movie, and that when I first saw the preview for The Fourth Kind, all I could think was, “wow, David Bowie’s an alien.” Of course, then he made our little chat awkward by telling me I seemed like a pretty awesome person (which I will readily admit to when people say it), and that I should come back sometime. ??? To the movie theatre? Well, I’m sure I will…but I don’t know if that’s quite what he meant. If Chris had been there, he would have gone into glowering mode and told me before we were out of earshot that the guy was hitting on me. I usually can’t tell…like, there are specific things that I’d say, “yeah, that was ‘hitting on’ behaviour,” but usually when Chris says someone was hitting on me (which is rare enough), it’s about people who really just seemed like they were being nice. Oh well. It was nice to talk to him. And the girl at the concessions…she didn’t seem as chatty, but she was still friendlier than the theatre employees usually are. I was kind of worried though, when I was the only person in the theatre five minutes before the movie started. My British voice and I did enjoy a pretty animated conversation and sang along with some of the songs we knew in the “Movie Watcher” previews that come before the real previews. There are some movies coming out that I’m pretty interested in…like Eli, Wolfman, and Daybreakers. Woot for monster movies. Kind of bizarre to me though, that they’re suddenly so popular…like…I don’t know…I reckon a lot of it has to do with the Twilight crazed young audiences, and the entertainment industry wanting to make a buck on monsters while they’re popular…I think the monster craze will crest very soon…but…I don’t know…it’s hard to explain why this upsurge in monster popularity is so particularly strange to me. It’s like…I figured something out, via monsters, and things got better. And now the world seems to agree with me. Nice, but annoying as hell. I wanted it to be “my” thing…but I suppose it will still be my thing when everyone else gets bored with it. Anyway…after the movie, I went to Mongolian BBQ for lunch. It was good, but they have this terrible thing about seating lone diners in the very middle of the room, at a table that every single person is going to have to weave around…ugh. I went and did a bit of shopping, too…and I feel really strange about knowing that I’m starting to recognize a few of the Hot Topic and Barnes & Noble employees. Unfortunately I had to talk to the ones I don’t particularly like…at Hot Topic, there’s this very Goth employee who used to work at the Hot Topic closer to our old house…but I guess she got transferred or something, since this is the first time I’d ever seen her at the Easton one. She’s has this grumpy way of talking to you that makes you feel like she thinks you’re the stupidest creature on the planet, and she wishes you would go away and be stupid someplace else… Seriously…all the other Goths I’ve ever met have been like perky little cheerleaders compared with her. Myself included. Bah. At least she didn’t have to ring my stuff up and talk to me…but I did make her go aaaaaall the way to the back and open the dressing room for me. Then when I was at B&N, and this older man was working at the check-out. He seems pretty grumpy, too…was the same guy that didn’t even bother to look at me when I asked for an application back in September. Sure, he gave me one, but seriously…you should at least look at the person you’re talking to. Grr. He was kind of nicer this time, but only marginally. Seemed really put-off when I asked him how he was doing. I swear, I try very hard to be a polite customer. Anyway, I think I had a good day overall. Though now I am really starting to feel the lack of sleep setting in. My fingers are missing the right keys, so if you see the odd typo…that’ll be why. Anyway, tomorrow I’ll post a book review. Cheers. Reeser Reeser: *watches a cloud pass over the moon* Chrisface, look. The moon has a rainbow around it. Chris: Wow. Ashton, you really know how to flaunt it. Reeser: x_x (I know. Sometimes we worry me.) | 
