i'll be heading out in a while to go meet up with my friends who got me a ticket for episode II. sometimes i forget how awesome my old co-workers are. of course the movie doesn't start until 12:01am, but several of them are already up there in line so that we can get good seats. they did this when episode I came out, too. there was a playoff game (hockey!) that night, so david & i drove straight to the theater after the game. we got there before actual movie time, but late enough that there were already about a million people there. i was so glad that we had friends who had been up there nearly all day, waiting in line, or else we would have got the most crap seats in the theater. so there's a group of them already up there now (2:45pm) & milton said that there isn't much of a crowd yet, so the movie theater people are pretty much just ignoring them.
... morerob & i went to visit this birthing center place yesterday. i'd so much rather have this baby naturally, but i'm also scared that i won't be able to handle it with my stupid non-healthy back, or that i may have other risk factors that would prevent a 'natural' birth. of course there's always the option of still using a midwife, but doing the whole thing at the hospital. i just hate hospitals, period (wonder why?!), and i'd just rather avoid the way it all seems forced & medicated & out of my control if i can. it's all so far off, but yet we should be trying to make these decisions now. so much can happen, things could go wrong - i really need to quit worrying so much. the appointment for the first pre-natal visit with all the tests, etc. has now been made, though, so once that's done i would imagine i'll feel more settled.
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ok i wrote all that way earlier today and then i got sidetracked. i talked to christina for a bit. we hadn't talked in over a week, so we had things to catch up on. then sarah came over and hung out for a while. at one point we could hear her dogs going insane in her backyard, so we went outside to see if a) she could get them to shut up and b) if we could even figure out what they were barking at. well, they were barking at a baby possum who was most obviously not doing so well. it was well before night, so for him to be out at all was odd. he wasn't steady at all - weaving around a lot. also, several times he'd be coming straight towards us and you know, most wild animals are going to run at the sight of a human. anyway, that whole thing kind of turned into a bit of an ordeal, just because sarah & i are both the way we are, and we were so worried about the damn little guy. we finally both gave up and went inside because i mean really, what can we do to help him? nothing. nature's gotta be nature. i did see him again, though, out near my parents' front door, and then later sarah saw him over in her driveway. we talked on the phone again, after both of these sightings. i don't know what happened to him, but i hope that he either got to wherever he was trying to get to, or just finally decided to lay down, take a nap & croak. poor thing. this was all just added to by the fact that there was a flattened squirrel in the street just past my parents' driveway, as well. it was just too much animal trauma in one day.
so now i'm home from the movie. yay for star wars! it was so good. actually, i don't think i've had enough time for it to all sink in yet, but i had a wonderful time and even though i'm so tired - i just feel all happy now. for one thing, it was great to see friends that i haven't seen in forever. it sucks to think back on how much fun we used to have at work. sure we worked, i mean we often worked our asses off, but man did we have some fun. it's sad to know what a fucked up place it turned into later. i think i should start my own company and hire all my old co-workers and then we can all have fun again. most of them are still unemployed, too, so not only would we be having more fun, but we'd also be employed.
sam had been up there since like 9:30am this morning (yesterday morning, actually). milton's friend who i always forget his name because i am lame - steve, i think - i always end up in movie groups with this guy yet i always forget his name. anyway, steve (?) had apparently shown up around 10am. he was wearing a t-shirt on which he'd written "this is the front of the line for star wars." there were some groups of people in costume (but not as many as i remember seeing at the episode I premiere). so we were kind of making fun of them saying "you know, we're geeks aplenty, but at least we're not that group" or "that guy." just as we're having this bs discussion, some guy walks up, hands steve (?) a light saber, and asks if he'll hold it up and let the guy take a picture of his shirt. we were all like "oh my god. you just became that guy!"
so maybe i'll write more about the movie after i've slept on it. i'll just say this - when i saw episode I, i definitely felt let down. i wasn't sure whether to blame the movie itself for sucking, or to blame myself for having expectations that were too high. i've never seen the film again, so it's almost as if i still don't really know. the one thing i do know, though, is that i will definitely go see episode II again before it leaves the theaters.