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Best Week Ever: Batman & DeLillo

July 23, 2008

Saw the movie Mongol, which is about Genghis Khan. It was pretty much a big deal.
Raided Urban Outfitters and bought some shirts – one with a huge screen print of Mary and baby Jesus, another with a huge screen print of a Cathedral, and a vintage Batman T.
Also saw Batman the movie with Carmen… it was long. Good, but loooong. See Daniel’s review here.
Bought the new Peru Altomayo. Which yes. Simply yes. It’s …well, yes.
Finished Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis and The Body Artist… the last book of the summer is going to be Underworld (800 pages!). I finished White Noise and his most recent book, Falling Man, at the beginning of the summer. Any guesses who one of my favorite authors is? Hm.
Received my orientation info for school and excitement ensued. I know when Finals are y’all! I just need to figure out if my room at Gamma is furnished… hm.
While attempting to get colored contacts for purely cosmetic purposes, I found out that I was actually nearsighted and got glasses instead…then, shockingly, a few days later I ordered colored contacts anyway. Hah.
Finally made it to the beach, and saw Jaw’s smaller, deader cousin.
The poor soccer camp girls (they are like 7) who came to the front desk and asked if we had any “good smelling spray.” We asked why, and they said, “OUR FLOOR SMELLS LIKE FISH!” They insisted that their sweaty unwashed socks caused this fish odor. We…couldn’t…keep…straight….faces.

Oh, and then 30something and his equally intoxicated friend slow danced, but both being completely gone, they hit the floor with a dramatic side-ways THUD. They didn’t brace themselves or anything. They just leaned sideways and went WHAMP on the ground.
About one week left in Miami! Vöt!

Snippets, lots of them.

June 30, 2008

Crap. So I got behind again…oodles of snippets…

- Three days of (punishing) desk shifts. 7 hours on Friday, 10 hours on Saturday, 4 hours on Sunday.
- Long, dramatic night in the Provence with DG and his stupid new tattoos (that’s right, I called them stupid…for christ’s sake, you got a MUSTACHE TATTED ON YOUR FINGER?! WHO DOES THAT?) There was the Dominican, the “embarrassed” 60-year-old, the twink from Michigan and his Hispanic friend who I was inadvertently rude to, and Karaoke including my rendition of “Feedback” (yes I did).
- The storm shutters on the dorm broke, so I had to take the plants to madre’s house. After a political debate with my mom’s drunkard neighbor, I realized that my tire was flat.
- South Beach adventures with Lopez. There was the black guy who was SO not Indian, a fight in the Gogo bar, Voguing competition between Flipflop and King Kong, the 80-year-old known as the Grim Reaper (who gives everyone filthy looks), the 6-foot overlarge woman with the blonde Diana-Ross thing going on, and that ever-present looming porn star with the cowboy hat. Why? Why, why?
- Finally figured out the RSS thing. I now have a RSS feed of law-student blogs on my Windows Vista Sidebar. Nerdage. I know.
- Midnight water fight with JHR and P. We all happen to have supersoakers. One of those bike rent-a-cops stopped us. JHR and I were like, “oh crap!” but P. flashed his student ID and (basically) said “I PAY $32,000 IN TUITION WE DO WHAT WE WANT!” And we went about in our water mayhem.
- Briefly had a pornstache for fashion purposes only.

- Bought a men’s fashion magazine at Barnes and Noble and was made to feel like I was buying smut.
- 3am Taco Bell run with Eddie before he went back to Tallahassee.
- Subwayman who leers at women’s chests. Ricky and I have discussed this. Ricky says he’s retarded. I just think he’s just a creep. Everyone’s uncomfortable.
- Finished Don DeLillo’s “Falling Man” and was incredibly impressed.
- Finally put away my laundry instead of tossing it throughout my dorm room like I usually do.
- Got my lease and fine schedule from Gamma Eta Gamma. Excitement ensued.
- Long walks with Christine. Once to Coconut Grove, another in South Beach (along with watching the Zohan movie). Here is the obligatory tourist photo.

Lots of midnight pacing while listening to the Black Devil, who is trendy at the moment.
Other trendy things in my world include Red Eye, Jeanine Pirro, and this five year old entry on anonymous blogging.
And that’s basically it… I’m on duty this week. I also redesigned memosandmirth.com/. Ta-da!