the sunsets

three books, $220, all used, and that's just one class. network finance 1 if you are curious which. what a nightmare this (grad school) is going to be. tomorrow morning i'm driving back to utah for our tri-annual dc intern reunion. this is only our second time doing it and could easily be our last. very excited to see everyone though.

i haven't mentioned how sick i was during the funeral trip. it started on the ride over with emily when i began losing my voice. for the entire trip, with the worst of it happening the day of the funeral, my voice was shot and i'd get into these horrible coughing spells. what a freaking disaster it was for me. and it lasted well after i got back to utah. i blame emily.

finally finished all major work on the stool with a little help from my pop-in-law's massive rubber hammer to smack in the retarded screws that were making dents on the whole freaking thing. all that it needs now is a little touching up on the metal ring and another coat of clear finish on the seat. my original can ran out before i could finish it so the seat is as rough and nasty as tom's ass. another can should do the trick. this will all be when i get back on thursday though. now i just have to find bar stools to match, which by the way i'm having a near impossible time finding. i've been to six furniture stores and even called 'the bar stool man.' apparently though mr. stool only does commercial crap, "but has a huge selection of used bar stools with black seats that might need a little reupholster." screw you man. i have an idea. how about i give you the finger..and you give me my phone call.

outside some tropical location, colorado has hands down the best sunsets ever. it's still taking some time to get used to the weather here. not that it's that much different from utah, but there still is a significant enough difference. us utah county folk aren't used to such a ginormous sky with massive clouds. the weather changes so quickly here, which is what colorado i guess is known for. a typical 90 degree sunny summer day in utah is just that. here there is no typical 90 degree summer day. well there may have been, but we missed all that probably a month ago. these days it's nice out and it'll only get better.

World Trade Center (2006): two port authority cops get trapped under wtc rubble. very amazing reenactment. i mean, you would think this was all actual footage shot on that day. they never show the planes hitting, which we've all seen countless times, but i would of liked to of seen a movie perspective. i guess that would be for a different movie because it was all about the officer's perspectives. watching it makes you realize how bad these people (al qaeda, taliban, bin-laden) fucked us and five years later we still haven't won that war or avenged what happened (in my opinion at least). it gets a little old watching the two main guys trapped for the majority of the movie. however, the subplot of the marine who comes to save the day was pretty awesome. as expected, it certainly is depressing and is also predictable. predictable not in the sense that planes crash, towers fall, people die, but the actually story line of these people is predictable. it is obvious they will both live. no way would they have made a movie where so much horror happens, just so the main characters can die at the end. there were also mice in the theater. the ending dragged on and on. and on. don't see unless you're just dying to see a sad movie.
fair, B-