Which leads me to think I must be a very stupid girl indeed. Dogs can be conditioned. Rats. But not I.

I watched a lot of movies on the cruise. I highly enjoyed the style and some moments of About Schmidt and Jack seems to be everywhere nowadays. Also so a movie I had never heard of before: I'm With Lucy. Sap that I am, I loved it of course. The title role is played by a Monica Potter who I think is what you would get if you took Julia Roberts and Anne Heche and squished them together into one woman. Also stars Henry Thomas of E.T. fame. Cute. : )

I wondered what happened to John Hannah's character. I like John Hannah. Exceedingly.

Moving on, also saw Sea Biscuit. It wasn't what I was expecting. Remeniscent of an educational film you would see while sightseeing at the Musuem of the Great Depression.

What else did I do aboard the ship? I finally read the Lovely Bones. Not sure how I feel about it really, but I think I'm okay with the fantastical. It doesn't bother me or disturb my enjoyment. And I was almost moved to tears a few times. Funny thing, I had also checked out another book from the ship's library: Bookends, by Jane Green (?). I started reading the first few pages and then I realized, hey. I've read this book before. I had already read the book. A while back. So if you had any doubts at all about my level of intelligence, they should be gone now.

Also twisted my left ankle really badly which rendered me unable to go ice skating tonight which I really wanted to do. I told Elizabeth and Jubilee what happened and they just smiled/laughed/guffawed/shook their heads at me.

I will write more about the cruise and the ports of call later.

So what to do these next two weeks. Anyone? Div? Call me.

And, after two weeks of sleep and digital cable. it will be time to move back to campus. This time, to the Clairmont Campus. And somehow my housing got bumped up from Tower to Undergrad which is great. I think my three roommates are all seniors. It's going to be strange. Even though technically I'm a junior, it's still my second year. And there's going to be that whole underage thing. I wonder what their relationship is like. There's one girl who sounds particularly interesting that I think I would like to get to know. We shall see.

Perhaps I should send them an introductory email?

Please people, encourage me to be social. I can't be normal alone, without some help from you, really.

I have decided that when I have kids, if I have kids, I will teach them the art of dinner conversation. On the cruise I watched other familys talk about their day, share stories, joke around, etc. while we ate in stony silence. I remember being chastised for talking at dinner as a kid.

Just a thought.

Gosh, I have cable now and there is STILL nothing on.

Worked a little on Flying Nut. Slowly but surely. Be patient, eh?

My back still hurts from -----edit----- and it stings in more ways than one. How can -----edit----- and it's degrading and I am in pain, there are so many things I want to say but I can't but I think them and I shouldn't but what can I do?

I love my purple cowel neck sweater. It makes me look like a neckless cow but it feels great. Which is all that matters.

I'm going to heat up some wonton soup for dinner and listen to some Natalie Merchant and find a book to read. Perhaps the Thomas Hardy collection I found in the closet, I have no idea how we came to own it. Mabye I'll start on Far From the Maddening Crowd. Not Tess. I saw it on AE, with that same girl who was in...gosh, what was it. I've seen so many BBC/AE specials I can't keep them straight. Wives and Daughters? I think so. I like her. They were both good specials.

I'm going to shut up now.

Goodnight.