Wild Times


Emily, Kelly, Sara (Roomie), Megan, Rhoda, and I all piled into Emi's small car and went and saw "Troy" last night. It was quite the evening. First we went to Ballard to see it, where it was all sold out. However, we were able to get advance tickets to the 12:01 showing of "Harry Potter POA", so it wasn't a total loss. So then we drove to Bellevue (across Lake Washington) to see "Troy," all the while discussing how old we were when we got the sex talk and exactly what it consisted of. Talk about a riot! Emi drove and Kelly navigated while we talked = we got really lost and ended up on Mercer Island. Yeah. So now I've been on Mercer Island! We got off the Island and back on 90 and into downtown Bellevue, where the line for the tickets was insanely long and the 9:40 showing of "Troy" was sold out. But dang it, we drove all that way and we were not going to leave without seeing "Troy!" So we went to the 10:35 showing instead. None of us had eaten in ages, so we all chipped in and got the huge combo deal where you get a medium pop, a medium slurpee, a large tub of popcorn, and free Skittles for 12.00. All all of it was refill-able. Haha, I just look back and laugh. It was great! So by the time the movie actually started, the six of us had been hanging out together for a good three hours or so and it had been crazy. At one point during the previews I leaned over to Rhoda and said "What movie are we seeing again?" The movie itself was pretty good. Since most of us has read The Iliad and The Odyssey , we were pretty critical. Some stuff wasn't exactly true to the book and some stuff just plain wasn't even in the book (like the first and last half hours of the movie), but it was pretty good nonetheless. I must say that I am not a huge Brad Pitt fan. However, he did make a pretty good Achilles. And I didn't really like how they portrayed Helen, especially since she was the only blonde woman in the whole stinkin' movie. Helen was supposed to be the most beautiful woman whoever lived and who launched 1,000 ships to sea and started the Trojan war. So "most beautiful" = blonde, eh? Hmm...

That was my exciting evening. We got home at 2am and I went straight to bed. Now it's a rainy Saturday and I'm feeling a nap coming on...