So.  I was hoping for a nice quiet evening by myself tonight.   Didn't happen.  And nothing terribly exciting did either.  So I'm sort of pissed that I'm sitting here at 1:20am writing this, when all I really wanted to do was sit here at 9, write a bit, take my pants off, and read comic books.  But here's what happened instead:

    Katey and I had planned on going to see the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon tonight.  Almost everybody I know has been like "Yeah, I really want to see that," so it was odd to me that it was only me and Katey going.  Anyway, I met Katey at the Angelika on Houston right after I left work, around 7.  Of course, it was sold out, as it's been every night since it premiered.  Katey did say she saw Claire Danes and Ben Lee walk in though. Speaking of famous people, last Thursday, at my magazine's little party at the restaurant Moomba, the cast of the show The $treet was all there. Jennifer Connelly, who you may remember from such films as Career Opportunities, and Tom Everett Scott, the drummer from That Thing You Do! were the first people I saw.  I really wanted to see Adam Goldberg, who turned out was right in front of me. You may remember him from such films as Saving Private Ryan and Dazed and Confused.  Jennifer Connelly I think is dating Josh Charles, because they were making out furiously.  He was in Dead Poet's Society and the show Sports Night.  Anyway, I digress...

    So not wanting to stick around for the 9:30 movie, Katey and I decided to head for Brooklyn. I was disappointed, a) because I really want to see this movie, and b) I was already writing my entry for today in my head.  It would have included the passage : "I was a bit weary about going to see a movie with Katey.  The last time I saw a movie with katey, we saw Boys Don't Cry, which I didn't enjoy at all.  And the last time I hung out with Katey, we were mugged, which I also didn't enjoy."  Anyway, we came back here and ate macaroni and cheese and stuffing and then went down to Kathy's.  200 feet from her door, I called her to tell her we were there, and she told me she was going to sleep. Sort of odd, since we told her we were coming down to see her since she's going to London tomorrow.  And she borrowed my VCR and I really wanted that back before she left. Long story short, she decided to come out, we went to Great Lakes, I didn't really want to be there and told them I was leaving, they asked to do what, I told them I was going to take my pants off and plop down in bed and read comics, they came back with me, Jed came home, I played some nintendo, Katey left, Kathy stayed. We all went to our designated rooms, I made some phone calls, and here we are.  Whew.

    So my quiet evening has now become quite a struggle.  A wee bit of illness left in me to, when i eat.  Other thoughts tonight:  I can't believe it's the middle of december already.  December. I was on the phone with Caryn, and i thought I'd check to see if I'd written anything around this date last year. And I had. The December 15th entry, we thought, was pretty good.  I still can't believe how the time has gone by. In that entry, I was talking about how I couldn't believe I was 1/3 done with my Masters.  That's the other thought of the evening. I am done with my Masters. That's totally crazy. D-O-N-E.  I guess I should go out and celebrate or something.  And it is the last weekend here before going home for the holidays.  And I know I'll be sort of bored there.  So i guess some sort of celebration should be in order.  The first of the brothers to get that advanced degree.  By the way, I was filling out a questionairre yesterday, and under the education part, for the first time ever I checked the "gradauate/advanced degree" spot.  That was sort of momentous.

    I also spoke with Jen this evening.  She said it was weird that she hadn't seen me for a week.  That seemed and odd statement to me for some reason.  It didn't really dawn on me, but i think that's some sort of record.  Neither of us could remember the last time we went a week without seeing each other. Even over Thanksgiving, it was about 6 days.  And now I kind of miss her.  I hadn't really been thinking about it.  I mean, we do spend a lot of time together.  And it's always very pleasant.  Except when we go out and she needs me to help her to pick out what she's going to wear out.  That can get sort of frustrating for all parties concerned.  I think she does better without my help.  Though I miss the feeling of relative safety in her apartment.  I suppose I'll head that way after work tomorrow, although I've been thinking that, since the mugging, I'm going to be a lot more reluctant to walk through Central Park at night.  Though there are more people there than in Caryn's apartment building's stairwell, where we were mugged.  Anyway, tired tired tired now.  I really, really, LOVE sleep.
 

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