the D&D entry, LJ-cut because nobody except carl will read it

( i'm so nice aren't i )

Dinner and a Sunday Movie

After D&D I walked home. Sunday dinner was taking place at our house but I didn't really get any downtime before it and I really wanted to write about D&D and take a nap and whatever. So even though Eli told me to entertain people, I went into my room and goofed off for a bit. After all, it was just Ralph and Monica and Dani and they seemed quite capable of entertaining themselves. Dinner was dumplings and some sort of weird chicken stir-fry in the wok, with lotus leaves and stuff. It was really good, although I think there needed to be slightly more of it.

I had kind of wanted to go to the last Sunday movie tonight (Wayne's World) since it might be my last one ever, so I left around 9:30 and walked to campus. It was sort of wacky. As tradition, they had human cake - this year they made a Tia Carrere cake in a red bikini. Arvonn was taking pictures of it. They had buttons, too! I got a Wayne button saying "Party time!" It was cool. I saw alibash because he was selling tickets and stuff. So I went in and sat in my usual seat; third row from the back, seat 7. Of course, nobody else sat there. I saw some other friends of mine walk in and get cake and sit down further up, but... anyway, the movie finally started around 10:15. Arvonn came back around 10:30 and sat with me! Yay! So I wasn't the only one sitting back there. It was weird since I kept looking around thinking about how two years ago I would have been sitting with random_boy and orangey and Mike Roke and Laura Conlin and Dean Jackson and Chris Verburg and the rest of that gang, every Sunday, for heckling bad movies... but now the whole row was empty. Sad sad. But, Wayne's World is a great movie and I had a great time. Arvonn gave me a ride home afterwards and we chatted for a bit, which was good.

For the record, I just want to tell my story about Wayne's World and why, even though I haven't watched it in about four years, I still could recite the whole thing. See, I used to love SNL, back when I watched TV. Infact, it was one of the few shows I kept watching after January 1989. My friend M.J and I were really into SNL, and we even dressed up as Wayne and Garth for halloween 1991. (She was Wayne, I was Garth.) When the movie came out, I saw it the second day it was out; February 15, 1992. I rarely did that back then. And damn, it was such a great movie. I went to it with M.J and Josh and we had a great time. (I saw Wayne's World 2 on the actual day it came out, too, with Aiton and Ben, and we loved that movie too) M.J. bought a copy of the first WW movie, and we watched it a few more times in highschool. So, fast-forward to Fall 1996, my junior year at CMU. One day ts4z, who lived upstairs from me, came over with a copy of Wayne's World and we watched it and he hung out for a while afterwards and forgot to take the movie back upstairs with him. Well, that was a REALLY bad semester for me at CMU, as some of you might recall; I was taking 15-312 and wasn't very happy about it, along with a lot of other annoying crap going on in my life at that time. I had a really bad habit of going places and goofing off so I could just be around other people, since I hated being alone... and well, I really needed to buckle down and do work. So I'd stay in my room to do work, and I'd turn on the VCR and listen to movies, to fool myself into thinking people and conversations were going on around me. Well, Tim's copy of Wayne's World was in my VCR for about a month and a half, I think, and I must have watched it 20 or 30 times in that period, to the point where I could talk back to the movie and not even realize I was doing it. Heh. Fast forward to now.. for the record, I still have Tim's copy of the movie. :)