Randominity V (...mmm..."V"...)

For the record, I am not a lush.

Also for the record:
hy·per·bo·le n. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

Sorry to have worried you, DD. ;)
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I am currently reading The Da Vinci Code (Illustrated) for the umpteenth time. Why? Not necessarily because it was a good book--it was--but because I wanted to remind myself of all the storylines the movie missed. My official verdict: the movie was good (not GREAT, but good) as long as it is viewed as a TOTALLY separate entity from the book it was based on. However, I cannot get past the fact that Tom Hanks was awful as Robert Langdon. ANYBODY else would have been a better cast--except for Nicholas Cage; he might have been just as bad, if not worse--and what were they thinking, giving him that hair?!

X-Men: The Last Stand on the other hand, was GREAT. I mean, you're not going to go watch that movie looking for an intricate plotline with multileveled meanings intertwined into it to make you think for hours on after the movie is over, so having everything sink into chaos and then blowing everything up to make it better was GREAT to watch. And short of ruining the movie for those of you who haven't seen it, things happened in the movie that turned out real consequences. Yay. Some days, I wish I were a mutant. Oh, who am I kidding? EVERYDAY I wish I were a mutant!

The last movie that I watched and actually genuinely liked both the characters and the plotline and all was V for Vendetta. I went into that movie not knowing at all what it was about except for the fact that Natalie Portman had shaved her head for the role. I came out in love.
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My favourite line from the WHOLE trip to New York with the Boos:
    "Go fish, bitch."

And then I had to pick up a card from the pile.
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I just recently quit my job working at the breatfast restaurant. There were no hard feelings there, it was just time to move on, and if I didn't quit first I never would have begun to make any further progress. And so the job hunt begins. The only catch is that I either need an amazingly flexible job in regards to hours and time off, or I need temporary after temporary after temporary job. There's just too much to do in life to have to be tied down to a single place day in and day out. However, unfortunately there's just too much to do in life to not have a job to pay for it.
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What with no school books to read anymore, I've gone back to my gluttonous pace of DEVOURING books. Since April 23rd (the day we left for DisneyWorld) I've read:

• Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
• Pure - Rebecca Ray
• JPod - Douglas Coupland

And by the end of tonight...
• The Da Vinci Code (again) - Dan Brown

And that's just within the last month...even despite the fact I've been working and travelling and volleyballing. Books are yum.
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There's been construction going on in and around my neighbourhood for the past month and more. They're digging up the lawns and the streets to redo our watermain system. I usually don't mind because I'm away for most of the day. But today, having no job to be at and no volleyball to play until 6:30 tonight, I minded at 8:30 this morning. Then, come 1:30pm, everything stopped and I found them taking their lunch break lounging in the shade of my front porch. So what did I do? I marched right out there to give them a piece of my mind. With a smile. Wearing only boxers and a little white tank-top. And wielding a plate of freshly cut pineapple. I think we're friends now. :)
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I went to two weddings just last weekend. The first was for Sherman's cousin, and the whole ceremony and reception was carried out in two languages: English, and Sign-language. That was so cool. Walking into the reception hall, (we'd had to miss the ceremony) I thought that Sherman and I had arrived too early because there wasn't a peep coming from inside. But then I walked in and realized that everyone was signing to each other--I failed to remember that this particular cousin of his was deaf.

On the flipside, the second wedding I went to was a volleyball wedding and it was loud as hell. Congrats to both parties!
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I'd originally thought that today might be yet another volleyball kind of day, but what with it being SWELTERING out, I think I might be changing my schedule to make today an ICE CREAM kind of day. Tummy grumbles, here I come!