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another day of sweet, sweet unemployment
By beth | August 26, 2008
As you can see by my twitterances (aka tweets, twits or another word Amaris used once that was NOT the correct terminology), it’s been a super busy day. It started bright and early. Well, mostly bright because it was about 9:30. Anyhoe, I had to finish watching a DVD that I had to return to Blockbuster later, so that was item numero uno on the to-do list. It was a rather bizarre little collection of Parisian vignettes directed by different people. I had no idea that that’s what it was going to be. I knew that it had a lot of famous actors in it, and that there were therefore probably a lot of different story lines, but I imagined it to be more like Love Actually set in Paris. Instead, however, it was a long string of very short, unrelated little films. And once we got that figured out, I really liked it, but for the first 45 minutes at least, Lauren and I were very confused. We just kept waiting for the stories to weave themselves together, and then there was this extraordinarily strange one about a hair product salesman who goes to this Asian salon and gets beat up by the salon’s owner. Truly, truly weird.
There was also a really creepy one with Elijah Wood and a vampire. But a lot of them were really cute. If you’re interested, it’s called Paris, Je T’aime. Check it out. And speaking of Elijah Wood, if you haven’t seen Everything is Illuminated, do yourself the favor of renting it. If you’ve ever tried to communicate in another language or culture, you’ll appreciate it.
So I finished watching that, and then I watched a couple of episodes of Arrested Development on Hulu (which is SO great…both the show and Hulu). Don’t worry. It wasn’t wasted time. It was on the to-do list. Check! I was so so productive. I went to Target, I returned things to the mall, I got a Swarovski crystal necklace, I went to church, I met like thirty people who may all come to our home group (but probably not), I went to Dunkin Donuts with Lauren, Whitney and JBeau (it’s going to become our “Central Perk” with our version of Gunther - a man who shall be known only as “Dreds”). The only thing I didn’t get done was the lesson planning, but having done all those other things, I am now free to lesson plan the rest of the week away! With a few episodes of Arrested Development each day to break up the monotony. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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August 27th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Oh, you live such a hard knock life
August 27th, 2008 at 9:11 am
All the roomies love Arrested Development! YAY!!
August 27th, 2008 at 6:36 pm
So according to the receipt I got for my milk, “Dreds” name is Mashontrick.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:10 am
My favorite by far was the one with Steve Buscemi in the Paris Metro w/ the guidebook. HILARIOUS. Also, the final one with the American lady speaking French made me weep.
I spend SO MUCH TIME on Hulu. It’s just wrong. But one of my favorite moments in Hungary was one day when a violist screamed out (a la Tobias as Michael’s assistant): “I am NOT going to let this make me eat!” We then spoke almost entirely in AD quotes for the rest of the afternoon.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:12 am
OH! OH! And you know “The Final Countdown”? The song that plays for Gob’s “illusions”?
WELL… in Hungary my friend was looking for a key with this violist from Romania and when he found the key and pulled it out of his bag triumphantly, she pumped her arms in the air and sang The Final Countdown. Apparently the awesomeness has spread!!!