Saturday, July 20, 2002

Once again... got a phone call at midnight the other night when I was planning on going to bed. :-T

I finally got my postcard yesterday! (From my special internet friend.) Yeah, I'm cysed. It doesn't take a whole lot to make me happy. If only more people knew that! Anyway...

I watched "The Mummy Returns" Thursday night. I'd never even seen the first one. But I liked it. I thought certain computer graphics were not good enough, like when they wanted to create the effect of multitudes... But then, some of those mummies were pretty freakin' scary to me! And the guy who played Imhotep- eww! When he was kissin' that chick? Did you see his bottom lip? Ga-rohz. =P

And when the Israeli guy (the magii with the longish hair and goatee) said some things in Arabic, I was like- I understand what he said! Then there was the part where the two chicks were fightin' with the sais. I was like, oh, son! That shyt is tight! Gotta learn to do that. Hehe. And I think I kinda appreciated the film a little more since I've been to Egypt and have seen some of the things depicted in the movie. Anyhoos...

I don't know what to do with myself right now. Should I do homework? Nahh... I think I'll just lollygag. That's what I do best!

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Yep. It's true. Like I said before- no one ever calls me. 'Cept when I go to bed early. My dumb azz (hope she doesn't read this, lol) cousin called me Sunday night at 11:38pm when I have class every damn morning at 8:30am. Why would you call someone late when they gotta wake up early? Sheesh. And I had gone to bed at 9 that night because I had only gotten like 4 hours of sleep. And of course, I had trouble gettin' back to sleep. That night I would wake up periodically and that sucked.

Anyways, I'm tryna go to bed early and wake up early. It's not workin' for me yet. But I just started, so, gotta still try to get my body used to it. We'll see how long it lasts. Probably not long. I'm a night owl, it seems.

I watched "The Shawshenk Redemption" for the first time. It was alright, I guess... Best part- in the closing credits, some poor guy will forever be known as "Fat Ass". LoL...

So I got an A for the first session of my summer Arabic. Not surprising, though. =) If only I could get those kinda grades in my other subjects!

Well, I'm super hungry. Time to stuff my face!

Sunday, July 14, 2002

Went to a party tonight. My friend, whom I haven't seen in years, invited me. It was pretty cool. I didn't mingle so much, but I met a couple cool guys. And it's always good to get out the house. I'm always confined to the four walls of my room.

So, I'm spending a lot less time on the net. I still go online every freakin' day to check e-mails and what not, even though I usually don't get any... :P But I'm weaning my self off the internet now. Haha. Actually, it's 'cause of my special internet friend. Hehe. It's like, after I talk to him online, then I'm set for the day. I just sign off after he goes offline. And that's my fix. :)

It's kinda crazy... Even though I don't know this guy in person, I really like what I think I know about him. Just based on our conversations on the phone or online, I feel like he's so great! It makes me realize how much of an idiot I was back in my "younger" days in terms of the guys I used to crush on. They totally weren't worth my time! But, "you live, you learn", right?

Why is this guy I don't actually know all that? 'Cause he seems to have a moral code that he lives by that's more compatible with the way I think. Come to think of it, I don't think the guys I've liked in the past would have passed the test... Anyways, dude and I are totally conservative in our way of thinking. But we both share the same fear, which he expressed to me the other day: he's afraid that upon meeting face to face, we'll discover that we don't have as much in common... And as I told him a few phone conversations ago: I think we both like each other alright, but would we "really" like each other in person?

Then it was funny that a song I once thought was a little silly is now kinda cute: "Atrapados en la red" by Tam Tam Go (some Spanish group). Check it out. =)

After this one last thing, I don't think I'll write about this anymore... But one more thing we were both thinking was: "It's too good to be true." Or in his words, "no puede ser tan perfecto" (we communicate in Spanish). What do you think?

Sunday, July 07, 2002

I FINALLY saw "Lilo & Stitch. Jeannie, JP, and I saw it Friday night. It was quite short! Like an hour and twenty minutes or something like that. It was alright, I guess. I did cry at some parts because I'm such a crybaby. =P But it's not one of my favorite Disney films. Doesn't look like I'll be going out to buy the soundtrack...

So, my 5-day weekend is almost over. So quick. I've been listening to some music and reading this book called While You Were Gone. I just found it on my bookshelf the other day after I thought I would read a book from AP English. I started reading Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but got bored with it after a while. Then I thought maybe I'd go for The Stranger or Jane Eyre. That's when I saw this piece of modern fiction. A friend of mine had given it to me when I was in Jerusalem. I had attempted to start reading the book back then (in 2000). A page was bookmarked with one of those little cards with a religious icon on the front and a calendar on the back. The calendar was in Arabic. I had gotten it from a stranger on the train when I was in Egypt. He gave it to me, I guess, after noting the picture of Jesus on my necklace. We couldn't really understand each other due to the language barrier, but being Christian was our connection. He probably was Coptic...

Did you know that Egypt, though it's like 99% Muslim, has the largest number of Christians in the Arab world? And Lebanon has the largest number of Christians in terms of proportion of the population...

Anyway, right now I'm impatiently awaiting an international phone call. My, uh... "special friend" should be calling in 4 hours. That's too long. I'll probably try and finish that novel in the meantime. And my dad wants me to brush the dog 'cause he got a bath today. But this mutt of mine sheds ad infinitum. Why bother? =P

I just got done watching a James Bond film - "The World is Not Enough" with Pierce Brosnan. Can you believe the last line of that film: "I thought Christmas only comes once a year." How dirty was that? LoL! But one quote from the movie I did like was "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive." I'll end with that...

Friday, July 05, 2002

So I just got in the house a little while ago. Went clubbin' with Justin and Damian. Can you believe it? I ain't been clubbin' in a minute. But I had an alright time. I actually was tryna avoid crowded places for the 4th (you know, the holiday on which we celebrate freedom from the Indians. That's what it is, right? :P). But, I went out 'cause I know I won't get too many chances to do so, especially since I'm occupied with school.

Right now I'm enjoying a 5-day weekend. Nice, huh? Actually, the first summer session ended and the second one starts Tuesday. I still got homework to do, but, uh, it'll probably get down Monday night. You know how I do. :)

Back to the club... I did see one person there I knew, and I was kinda lookin' to see her. It was my old roommate from senior year of college. The music they played... They took it back for us. For those who were down with the Black culture in the early 90s and the 80s, you woulda been jammin' to such favorites as "Take Me Home," "Poison," "La Di Da Di," "The Humpty Dance," and some others. Damn, I'm old! The DJ tried to say the songs were for the 25 and up heads. Yeah, right. It was for me, too. Hehe...

Hey Damian & Justin - very funny how you guys stepped back while I was tryna hide behind ya'll to keep that dirty old man from leering at me! Thanks a lot! :-P

So, I talked to my Spanish internet buddy earlier. If I've told you anything about him, you know what I'm talkin' about. ;) I love talking to this guy. You know, he once told me that my accent was similiar to those in southern Spain. What a compliment! Okay, before I drool over myself (lol), lemme get the heck outta here. Maybe I'll go to sleep or something. Lataz...