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on sunday morning, lauren, colleen, and missi got up early to go to the 9:30 mass at the Catholic church around the corner from me. rose and i were heathens and slept in. when they got back, laur decided to make breakfast, and her pancakes were really yummy, let me tell you. dylan ran out to the store and got bacon and sausages and OJ, and the breakfast experience was thus enhanced.
i guess we ended up leaving the house around 12:00 or so, by the time breakfast was over and all of us were dressed and had our stuff together. the plan was to T out to the Isabella Gardner Museum for the afternoon, so jorn decided to pass and give me some time to hang out with just the girls. he got together with sarah farbo instead. unbeknownst to him, the girls had invited dylan to come along with us, so that negated the "just the girls" time he had intended to give us and he could've just come along. oh well. since rose wanted to see MIT, dylan suggested we walk from our place to Kendall and get the T there, which made sense. on the way we passed the MIT museum, and when we discovered that the price was only $2 for students we decided to check it out. it's just a little museum but it was really cool! jorn would've loved all the robot stuff, and i liked the sculpture machines and the holograms and the photography stuff. it was a very good place for us to stop. missi got a pi t-shirt, her being a math teacher and all, and was pleased.
then we walked around MIT. rose had read some stuff about MIT student pranks in a book in the museum gift shop, so she wanted to see some of the places where the pranks had occurred. okay. we saw the dome, and also the field where dylan first played frisbee in boston, and we saw the new hellacool building they just finished that looks like something out of dr. suess. it was so awesome looking. dylan says that noam chomsky has an office in there, and the thought just did my little heart good, thinking about him being linguistical in that crazy building. dylan also showed us the place where they're building a new building right on top of where the freight train runs. i guess if you're going to build a building around the freight train tracks, MIT would be the place to do it.
by the time we got out to the Isabella Gardner museum it was about 3:00, and there was a line to get in, so we were a little concerned we wouldn't have enough time to see everything. we shouldn'tve worried. the cost for students was only $5, and i got in free and was able to get dylan in free too on my SPNEA (Otis House) employee ID, which was supernice. the building is beautiful, and the gardens and courtyard are also beautiful. there was so much *stuff* to look at, too. i liked especially the tapestry room, and rembrandt's self portrait. i bought a magnet of it, and now i have rembrandt on my fridge. it was a lovely museum, and you could do it at varying stages: we weren't too nitpicky about it, so we just wandered through to look at stuff, and it was perfect for that because there weren't detailed cards giving info on every piece. but for $1 you could rent an audio thing that told you about all the stuff in each room. i think next time i'll take my parents there and get the audio thing to learn about all the different items. but for this time, it was perfect.
afterwards, dylan suggested we walk up to a nearby convenience store (about 10 minutes) for drinks, and then to a different T-stop. and then, when we didn't find another T-stop immediately, he suggested that from there it would take just as long to walk the rest of the way home than to walk to the T and take the T back. since it was an absolutely gorgeous day, we decided that walking would be okay. it ended up being a very long walk. we basically walked from the other side of BU all the way back to central square. took maybe 40 minutes. but now i know i can do it, and the view from the BU bridge was beautiful. dylan and rose stopped at harvest on the way back to get salad fixin's, and the rest of us got home and collapsed.
we started watching X-Men, since rose had never seen it, and then dann made dinner and we stopped watching to eat. sarah farbo arrived, and so did tadd and amy lebrun, and much food was eaten and much fun was had. we played two rounds of telephone pictionary (no small feat with eleven people) and then played taboo. our guests went home around 11:00-11:30, so most of us stayed up late chatting. and you know what, my girlfriends *LOVE* dylan. (i was going to say that i don't know what it is about dylan that makes women love him, but then i realized that i do in fact know what it is and so do you if you've met him.) anyway, we stayed up til almost 3am talking. and it was good.
lauren, colleen, and rose got on the road around 10:00-10:30, i think. dylan's alarm didn't go off, so he didn't get a chance to make Big Pancake like he'd wanted to--oh well, there's next time. missi decided to stay a little longer, and she and i and jorn and dylan went out to mr. crepe for lunch. missi liked mr. crepe. after our separate savory lunch crepes she and i split a chocolate-banana-and-almond dessert crepe, and it was very good. we didn't get back to my apartment til after 2:00, which was a little later than missi wanted to leave, but she still got home by 7:00 and had time to work on her grading last night.
when missi left, jorn and i booked it to the T (missi dropped us off in central, which saved us some time) to get downtown to meet farbs and tadd at the movies for a 3:20 show. we had plans to see The Day After Tomorrow, which was a very cool movie. the world gets hit with some extreme weather (oops! i just ruined the plot for you, sorry!) and many people die in terrible ways. the effects are really good, and the action is all stressful--if you're thinking about seeing this, you should totally go see it at an IMAX, because that would rock big time.
afterwards, i turned to tadd and farbs and said, so who's up for another movie? and they both were! i was only half-serious because i figured no one else would want a marathon, but they were totally down with seeing another movie. jorn was wiped out from all the weather, though, so he headed for home. farbs and tadd and i got our tickets for a 6:15 Troy and then ran to the finagle up the street for dinner, and we artfully hid our bagels and drinks and sandwiches in our purses and snuck them into the theater.
Troy. i thought this movie would be about Paris (aka Orlando Bloom) and Helen (aka who cares?) being in passionate love and stuff. not the case. i also thought it might have maybe some gods in it, like Zeus and Athena and Poseidon and all, since they were major characters in the original. but we decided that none of the scriptwriters actually *read* The Iliad and the movie literally was just "inspired" by it. the movie was all about the Hotness of Achilles, aka Brad Pitt. it was also about the Hotness of Hector, aka Eric Bana (which i now wholeheartedly support). another major theme was Killing People, which Achilles and Hector did a lot of. the third major theme was Bad Acting, which we suspect is why there were so few Paris/Helen scenes. Orlando Bloom was not all-out bad, but he turned in much better performances as an elf, a pirate, and a rentboy. his prettiness definitely influenced my opinion of his acting, though. Helen, on the other hand, wasn't that pretty (jorn says that a website that reviewed the movie said she "couldn't launch a dinghy," which was pretty accurate), and her acting blew ass. apparently she's french, so maybe she should've learned english a little better before being in an english-speaking movie? her accent was obvious. plus the film got their romance over with really fast--the first time we see Helen, she and Paris have already been banging it for days, and then they run away together and then they disappear for 40 minutes. and yeah, she was just one thing that started a war that had a whole lot of other reasons behind it, but she ought to be a pretty major character. i can't be sad that she wasn't, though, because she sucked so damn much. (plus she totally wanted Hector, just like everyone else in the movie including Achilles).
and they cut out a lot of things from the myth (i'm not sure if i'm getting some of this from Homer or from greek plays like Women of Troy). Clytemnestra? non-existent. Hecuba too. and all the Trojan women got away in the end, instead of getting raped and becoming slaves. i mean, good for them, but not exactly true to the story. Menelaus died pretty early-on, which i don't think happened in the myth. they had Briseis kill Agamemnon. i don't even *remember* Briseis as a character in the myth. eh, whateva.
i guess we ended up leaving the house around 12:00 or so, by the time breakfast was over and all of us were dressed and had our stuff together. the plan was to T out to the Isabella Gardner Museum for the afternoon, so jorn decided to pass and give me some time to hang out with just the girls. he got together with sarah farbo instead. unbeknownst to him, the girls had invited dylan to come along with us, so that negated the "just the girls" time he had intended to give us and he could've just come along. oh well. since rose wanted to see MIT, dylan suggested we walk from our place to Kendall and get the T there, which made sense. on the way we passed the MIT museum, and when we discovered that the price was only $2 for students we decided to check it out. it's just a little museum but it was really cool! jorn would've loved all the robot stuff, and i liked the sculpture machines and the holograms and the photography stuff. it was a very good place for us to stop. missi got a pi t-shirt, her being a math teacher and all, and was pleased.
then we walked around MIT. rose had read some stuff about MIT student pranks in a book in the museum gift shop, so she wanted to see some of the places where the pranks had occurred. okay. we saw the dome, and also the field where dylan first played frisbee in boston, and we saw the new hellacool building they just finished that looks like something out of dr. suess. it was so awesome looking. dylan says that noam chomsky has an office in there, and the thought just did my little heart good, thinking about him being linguistical in that crazy building. dylan also showed us the place where they're building a new building right on top of where the freight train runs. i guess if you're going to build a building around the freight train tracks, MIT would be the place to do it.
by the time we got out to the Isabella Gardner museum it was about 3:00, and there was a line to get in, so we were a little concerned we wouldn't have enough time to see everything. we shouldn'tve worried. the cost for students was only $5, and i got in free and was able to get dylan in free too on my SPNEA (Otis House) employee ID, which was supernice. the building is beautiful, and the gardens and courtyard are also beautiful. there was so much *stuff* to look at, too. i liked especially the tapestry room, and rembrandt's self portrait. i bought a magnet of it, and now i have rembrandt on my fridge. it was a lovely museum, and you could do it at varying stages: we weren't too nitpicky about it, so we just wandered through to look at stuff, and it was perfect for that because there weren't detailed cards giving info on every piece. but for $1 you could rent an audio thing that told you about all the stuff in each room. i think next time i'll take my parents there and get the audio thing to learn about all the different items. but for this time, it was perfect.
afterwards, dylan suggested we walk up to a nearby convenience store (about 10 minutes) for drinks, and then to a different T-stop. and then, when we didn't find another T-stop immediately, he suggested that from there it would take just as long to walk the rest of the way home than to walk to the T and take the T back. since it was an absolutely gorgeous day, we decided that walking would be okay. it ended up being a very long walk. we basically walked from the other side of BU all the way back to central square. took maybe 40 minutes. but now i know i can do it, and the view from the BU bridge was beautiful. dylan and rose stopped at harvest on the way back to get salad fixin's, and the rest of us got home and collapsed.
we started watching X-Men, since rose had never seen it, and then dann made dinner and we stopped watching to eat. sarah farbo arrived, and so did tadd and amy lebrun, and much food was eaten and much fun was had. we played two rounds of telephone pictionary (no small feat with eleven people) and then played taboo. our guests went home around 11:00-11:30, so most of us stayed up late chatting. and you know what, my girlfriends *LOVE* dylan. (i was going to say that i don't know what it is about dylan that makes women love him, but then i realized that i do in fact know what it is and so do you if you've met him.) anyway, we stayed up til almost 3am talking. and it was good.
lauren, colleen, and rose got on the road around 10:00-10:30, i think. dylan's alarm didn't go off, so he didn't get a chance to make Big Pancake like he'd wanted to--oh well, there's next time. missi decided to stay a little longer, and she and i and jorn and dylan went out to mr. crepe for lunch. missi liked mr. crepe. after our separate savory lunch crepes she and i split a chocolate-banana-and-almond dessert crepe, and it was very good. we didn't get back to my apartment til after 2:00, which was a little later than missi wanted to leave, but she still got home by 7:00 and had time to work on her grading last night.
when missi left, jorn and i booked it to the T (missi dropped us off in central, which saved us some time) to get downtown to meet farbs and tadd at the movies for a 3:20 show. we had plans to see The Day After Tomorrow, which was a very cool movie. the world gets hit with some extreme weather (oops! i just ruined the plot for you, sorry!) and many people die in terrible ways. the effects are really good, and the action is all stressful--if you're thinking about seeing this, you should totally go see it at an IMAX, because that would rock big time.
afterwards, i turned to tadd and farbs and said, so who's up for another movie? and they both were! i was only half-serious because i figured no one else would want a marathon, but they were totally down with seeing another movie. jorn was wiped out from all the weather, though, so he headed for home. farbs and tadd and i got our tickets for a 6:15 Troy and then ran to the finagle up the street for dinner, and we artfully hid our bagels and drinks and sandwiches in our purses and snuck them into the theater.
Troy. i thought this movie would be about Paris (aka Orlando Bloom) and Helen (aka who cares?) being in passionate love and stuff. not the case. i also thought it might have maybe some gods in it, like Zeus and Athena and Poseidon and all, since they were major characters in the original. but we decided that none of the scriptwriters actually *read* The Iliad and the movie literally was just "inspired" by it. the movie was all about the Hotness of Achilles, aka Brad Pitt. it was also about the Hotness of Hector, aka Eric Bana (which i now wholeheartedly support). another major theme was Killing People, which Achilles and Hector did a lot of. the third major theme was Bad Acting, which we suspect is why there were so few Paris/Helen scenes. Orlando Bloom was not all-out bad, but he turned in much better performances as an elf, a pirate, and a rentboy. his prettiness definitely influenced my opinion of his acting, though. Helen, on the other hand, wasn't that pretty (jorn says that a website that reviewed the movie said she "couldn't launch a dinghy," which was pretty accurate), and her acting blew ass. apparently she's french, so maybe she should've learned english a little better before being in an english-speaking movie? her accent was obvious. plus the film got their romance over with really fast--the first time we see Helen, she and Paris have already been banging it for days, and then they run away together and then they disappear for 40 minutes. and yeah, she was just one thing that started a war that had a whole lot of other reasons behind it, but she ought to be a pretty major character. i can't be sad that she wasn't, though, because she sucked so damn much. (plus she totally wanted Hector, just like everyone else in the movie including Achilles).
and they cut out a lot of things from the myth (i'm not sure if i'm getting some of this from Homer or from greek plays like Women of Troy). Clytemnestra? non-existent. Hecuba too. and all the Trojan women got away in the end, instead of getting raped and becoming slaves. i mean, good for them, but not exactly true to the story. Menelaus died pretty early-on, which i don't think happened in the myth. they had Briseis kill Agamemnon. i don't even *remember* Briseis as a character in the myth. eh, whateva.
