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I love it when I don't get to a computer for daaaaaays at a time. I also love it when Movie Gallery schedules a mandatory meeting about customer service at TEN AT NIGHT and then expects people to show up. The hilarious thing is that people did. I can't be the only one who had better things to do. My manager says I have to make it up. Yep. I have to make up a meeting about customer service, like, what have I been doing since I was sixteen again? We'll see how strictly he enforces that; he's kind of a wimp and I have this nasty habit of standing up to him. Maybe I can at least put it off until after my birthday on the twenty-third, so I can bring a water bottle filled with vodka, or at least a coke laced with rum, so there will be something about it that doesn't suck.

Oh, yeah: I'm turning twenty-one on the twenty-third. I bet if I set things up juuuuuust right, I could get my parents to fight three rounds to see who gets to take me out for my first legal drink. Because we're all going to pretend that I won't be hitting the liquor aisle the second I get out of work that day. I may mention this more than once, as I've been looking forward to this particular birthday for months - ever since I visited Canada and saw how nice it is to be treated like an adult by the law.

Oh, and I watched Zoolander per subservient's recommendation. I thought it was great. I expected really stupid, I'm-embarrassed-to-be-in-the-same-room-with-this-movie humour (my expectations being influenced by such cinematic gems as There's Something About Mary and Meet the Parents rather than any opinions about Caro's taste, of course), but there was some really sharp clever stuff. And the characters, like, behaved consistently and stuff. Thanks for the rec. =) Next I need to try The Royal Tenenbaums.

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Oh. Yeah. So, I totally forgot to mention that I saw RotK. Because that's really about as much of an impression as it made on me.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I teared up a bajillion times and loved the singing and sulked whenever Arwen was onscreen (curse her for ruining Aragorn's crowning, I was just starting to love that scene whe she showed up). But, unlike the first two, I have no desire to go see it again. It was just too grand. Like Peter Jackson was way too conscious of the scale of the story he was telling, and tried to make the movie big enough to fit. I don't even know how many times I was like, "Okay, it wouldn't kill you to tone it down a little." So much of it was just too overdone, and would have benefited from a quieter, simpler telling.

Of course, that's just my opinion, and I'm also the only person I know who didn't just loooove the movie. So, maybe I'm wrong and should shut up now. =)

(But I really, REALLY wanted to cry at "Don't go where I can't follow" in the movie as hard as I did when I read it. Dammit.)

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I love how I've become completely addicted to Back to the Future fanfic, even though I'm not all that crazy about the movies. I also love how George/Marty is way more popular than you might think. There's even a fanlisting, for heaven's sake.

I need to just give in and buy the trilogy on DVD so that I don't have to rent the tapes at Movie Gallery anymore, as they are ancient and worn from being viewed hundreds of times.