Only two days left until Thanksgiving break, thank God. I need this time off to let my brain rest, I swear that my headaches I have been getting lately are because I have been pushing myself so hard school wise. You would think it would pay off too, but I still seem to struggle to pass my Calc II test and I am really lucky if I get anywhere near a C on my Physics test. So this pushing myself doesn't seem to be working as planned, but my professors have seen me in their labs so they know I am trying and hopefully that will buy me a couple points come the end of the semester.
On this past Friday I went to see the movie
Walk The Line, the one about Johnny Cash. I decided to go see it because it looked good from the trailers and I had heard good reviews about it. I really enjoyed the movie. I liked it more than "Ray" because I thought Ray kind of dragged on at times and I didn't get that feeling with "Walk The Line". I thought Joaquin Phoenix did an excellent job playing Cash. One of his best roles I think. After watching the movie I definitely see why Johnny Cash decided to cover the Nine Inch Nails song
"Hurt" before he passed away as that song seems to sum up his life pretty well. I would definitely recommend this movie. After the movie I came back to my room to print out instructions to the BlogAsheville Thanksgiving Party (aka BlogAsheville's Inaugural International Giblet Olympics and Gravy Guzzler) since I forgot to print them out before I had left before. After getting the directions I went and hopped in the car and drove over there finding parking much easier this time around than the last time. I walked over to the house with my package of dinner rolls that I was told to bring and knocked on the door. I was quickly let in, handed over my rolls and preceded to walk around and say hello to everyone. Had several faces I didn't recognize this time around and several that I did. We all stood around talking for a while and I had a conversation with Uptown Ruler (I believe it was), as he goes by in the blogging world, about Global Warming. I also talked to Raphael Doxos about all sorts of deferent things. Before eating Ashvegas, as he goes by in the blogging world, had a taste test of a certain beer he had trying to see if anyone could guess the secret ingredient. I was totally stumped and had no guess at all, some other people guessed some of the other ingredients but not the secret one. After a few minute Ash finally told us the secret ingredient was "butter pecans" which as soon as he said it I noticed the taste (doesn't it always work that way?). After that we started eating, we had turkey, pumpkin cornbread (awesome), salad, green bean casserole, stuffing, mashed potatoes, among other things. We also had, pumpkin cheesecake, ice cream, and apple pie for deserts. While eating we sat around and talked and I actually found another person who reads Jose Saramago which I thought was pretty cool. Once we finished eating a bunch of the people started to head out but myself along with a group of about 6 or so decided to stick around a while longer. This is when all the questions started coming out such as "If you could be reborn as anyone who is living today who would it be?" or "What is your favorite band?", or "How did you learn about the birds and the bees?" had some interesting and worrisome answers to that one. Even our host Edgy Mama pulled out the book she learned from and thumbed through it for us. We also hit up the internet looking at the websites
Kitten War and
Cats in Sinks, a lot of cat fans there. After 11:00pm the rest of us started heading out. I got back to the room around 11:30 or so might have been a little later as I don't remember for sure. Overall I had a good time and look forward to the one in January.
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