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February 20, 2006

Wow, I saw a quality movie!

Believe it or not, Lauren and I went out on Saturday night. Not only that, but we saw a movie in the theater. Not only that, but the movie did not star Lindsay Lohan, Hilary Duff, or Amanda Bynes. In fact, the movie was so outside of what I usually see in the theater that I'm not entirely sure I can file this under "mindless entertainment." We saw Mrs. Henderson Presents, which we happened to stumble upon while looking for some excuse, any excuse, to leave Oberlin for the night.

Honestly, Friday night was really bad here. It was almost a repeat of the previous weekend, when we were kept up until 5 am by the insanity here. It was so bad that at 2 am on Saturday, I was trying to book myself a plane ticket back to Minneapolis for that THAT DAY just so that I could get a break from this place. Then I remembered that my parents were leaving for Maui the next day, so I had to nix that one...

Instead, Lauren and I decided to spend Saturday night away from campus and to stay out as late as humanly possible if you're in rural Ohio and don't like bars or clubs. Or the after-club crowd at Denny's. So we went to dinner, which was pretty bad, but at least my meal was free because our waitress was really sweet and noticed that I barely touched it. We killed an hour and a half at Borders, which was surprisingly packed. In fact, the entire area was surprisingly packed, considering that the wind chill was about 5 degrees and we were at an outdoor mall... Anyway, after listening to a lot of teenagers mock gay people and discuss how un-American it is to adopt children from other countries, we headed over to the movie theater.

We knew virtually nothing about the movie going into it. We saw Judi Dench's name, decided it looked better than anything else playing, and chose it. It turned out to be based on the true story of a widow who bought a theater in London in the 1930s and ended up having nude women on stage in an effort to do something different. The first half of the movie was hilarious. And then suddenly, it was 1940 and it was World War 2. The rest was good, but having no idea what we were in for, it was kind of surprising. I'm really glad we saw it. I already added it to our Netflix queue, since I can't stand only seeing movies I like once.

Since then, I've done very little. I'm taking a break from working on my dollhouse, and I can't bring myself to study for tomorrow's Hebrew quiz. Dishes need to be done, but I'm seriously uninterested. I think I'm going to go read...

Posted to Mindless Entertainment at February 20, 2006 12:25 PM

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Posted by: Melanie at February 20, 2006 02:25 PM