Blackjack Birthweek

Happy Thursday! Lotsa stuff happened this week, and I don't have a lot of time today to write all about it, so I'm gonna jump right in! Haha.

Friday! Skipped my art field trip to go on the film field trip. Trucked out to USC, which was fun (the trucking, I mean. Fun driving with friends). USC itself was pretty intimidating. From the few other university campuses I've been on, I'm glad I go here, if only for the size of the school. And I mean the physical space between buildings. Those other schools are massive. I'm glad it's just a walk down the hall to get anywhere important here.

But also the film school itself was really massive. You know, all professional and high-tech and sterile. Like "the industry" is, it seems. Again, I don't really care about the equipment it has, since I'm not in it for the production. APU TFT suits me just fine.

So Saturday Beth drove me out to Beverly Hills to see the art I missed. ......I didn't miss much. But after that we found a new Famima!! and went to Leandra's birthday party in a pretty park.

Sunday! Sunday was Knott's Berry Farm with my brother! And his wife. And their kids. And her parents and sister and grandma! And me! And Brianna. So it was pretty fun. I went on...the train/miner ride? No drops. And saw the western stunt show. But everyone else went on all sorts of things and had a heart-stopping time. Even the little ones. They're very brave. Finished it out at the chicken restaurant, where we ate chicken! I still have some in the fridge. I drew Pokemon on the placemat for Ainsley, who's way impressed that I'm a Pokemon master. But she has a bunch of Pokemon in her party that I've never even heard of. Haha, the next generation of Pokemon masters.

Then Monday was Blackjack birthday! Yay 21! Went to chapel, haha. Then hung out at my place most of the day. With the little ones running around crazy. The other kids on the island -(sorry, I'm watchin Lost)- the other residents of UP came out and watched them like they were an exotic sight. It was cute. Watched a bit of the Lion King. Then we trucked out to Pasadena, to A'Float. It was good, as always, and we found desert at Famima!!. Then Brianna and Beth went home and I went with the Miners to their hotel to visit for a bit.

(Gosh, someone needs to take me to see 21 when it comes out)

Then Tuesday, I went to class, where we watched some short films from USC that our prof worked on when he was in grad school. They were pretty good. There was an especially good one set in Spain involving a pistol duel. It was hilarious. Um and then I wrangled an acquaintance into helping on the Ink-Man shoot next semester. Then Kevin called because he was at the bookstore visiting his old buddies, so I went over there and bought some blue books for my test that day. XD They bought me ice cream and then I left them to go to my test--which went beautifully poorly, btw.

Um, and then me and Beth did something fun, but I don't remember, hahahaha. Must have been too drunk. Hahahah, just kidding. Oh, right, I wandered around town a bit and played around with some scheduling program in the ER. And then I went to a "Vintage APU Cinema" showing. It was really cute, all those terribly old films from 2002. USC has nothing on us. But after I got back, I put in some Veronica Mars season 2, because Jennifer got me that for my birthday! Yay! So watch out, mom, that's all you're doing next week.

Yesterday was Wednesday, right? Hmmm. Chapel. Writing class. Went out to thrifting with Brianna and Beth. Found a shirt for the Ink-Man. Which smells like old man and thrift. Drove out to Monrovia or wherever for dinner -- Korean BBW. Pretty good, too, also have some of that in my fridge. Then we came back and watched Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. So good. I love Batman.

TODAY is THURSDAY. In film-class we watched Baraka, which was an hour and a half of documentary-style footage of geography, tribal actions, cities, ancient ruins, chicks on a conveyor belt. All kinds of stuff. It was cool. And then we had cute lunch like always, but outside today because it was beautiful and warm. And in Musicals we watched West Side Story, which I hadn't seen, but I definitely liked it more than most/all of the things we've seen this semester. Better music, too. More like what I think of when I think of musicals.

Met Sam Kinsman (aka, the Ink-Man) in the street coming back from class, so we chatted about Ink-Man, and then decided to go to the caf--but when we went there, it was closed. So we went to B-Man's instead. And discussed anime, primarily. We are both geeks! So that's incredibly fun. And then I watched Lost but he went away because he's never seen it, and he wouldn't understand. But that's okay, 'cause it was kinda a weird episode anyway, and I saw the one twist coming from a mile away, and the other one just seems unnecessary. Oh well. At least they're not ruining time travel anymore.

So Spring Break next week! Day after tomorrow! Ohmigosh. Going to sleep and thrift and play video games and pre-produce the Ink-Man. And write up a treatment for next semester's Ink-Man. Oh gosh. It's going to be so busy. XD

Okay. I'm off to hanging out! And maybe homework. Haha. Maybe not.

-Stephanie