So I skipped the weekender trip that I usually have such a wonderful time on each year. This year, the school decided to ration tickets and I didn't win the lottery, so I wouldn't have gotten to go to the game anyway. I was thinking I might drive up anyway and bum around San Francisco and Berkeley, but I realized typography class doesn't end until 5 on Fridays so it would've been pointless to leave that late. I think my typography teacher would have personally shown up at my apartment and handed me a big red F if I skipped another class. Instead I decided to take the much needed mental break and go home. On Friday evening on a whim, I stopped by the grove and decided to have dinner at the Farmer's Market. What an interesting place it is. I decided to have dinner at a crepe stand which turned out to be delicious and I sat next to an old women who had a shopping cart filled with hundreds of plastic bags. I wondered what they were for. I think it may be the perfect spot for people watching. All in all, I'm not that sad I missed the weekender. A separate weekend trip somewhere may be in the works though. I kind of want to take a trip by myself somewhere. Just hop on a train or something. I will be heading to New York in April though which I'm super excited about. I'm going to New York City to visit Jess and see the city, and then probably up to New Haven to check out Yale and visit Lexi.
I had a very spinster-like weekend, but it's just what I needed to relax and clear my head. I saw the new Pride and Prejudice which I didn't have very high expectations for because it's my favorite book and I thought it would be hard to squeeze into 2 hours. I liked the movie overall, but I was right. It felt like everything was being really rushed and they brushed over some really big parts in the story like Mr. Wickham and Elizabeth's relationship and Mr. Collins, but it's as good as it could've been to fit in that timeframe. The 1996 miniseries with Colin Firth is at least 5 hours. They did a great job in this version creating the image of the Bennets as a really poor family with pigs and geese walking through their house. Some of the scenes were done much more romantically than the original which was appealing but really unbelievable. At one point, Kiera Knightly is taking a walk at like 5 AM and Mr. Darcy just happens to be taking a walk in the same place at that time. Kiera Knightly was ok, but not as good as the previous Pride and Prejudice, but Matthew Macfayden was a great Mr. Darcy. So good looking! I read one article that liked the movie but referred to Kiera Knightly as "a long necked Winona Ryder" and later "elongated Winona." To complete the spinster image I got the urge to take up knitting. Megan knits so she said she'll show me how. I'll probably get fed up with it within an hour and give it up.
I think I'm just at a weird age. I'll be 21 in 3 months and so I really want to go out to nice clubs, bars and restaurants for a more relaxed time with friends and having a drink or two but I cant quite go yet. Right now, I find myself over going out to any kind of frat party or under 21 party because most of the guys there are 18 and it's a lot crazier feel. Much more drinking and people passing out in the street. It's a craziness I think I could do without.
I think I found out what my parents got me for Christmas. I feel really guilty now. My dad let it slip when I was talking about this design software I wanted that they may have already gotten me a present and so I started in with my annoying habit of naming everything they possible could've gotten and looking for a reaction. I mentioned this one and he flinched. If I do get this though I'll be sooo happy. I have a digital camera now, but I can't get the kind of pictures I want with just the one setting. The fine arts club is going on a "Sketch Crawl" which means taking a bus around LA this weekend to draw or photograph anything we see.
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