Veni Vidi Vino

I know that's not how it goes, but whenever I can, I adopt Caeser's phrase for my purposes. My favorite is "Veni vidi wiki" the first time I used a wiki. In ancient latin, a "v" is pronounced as a "w" (which makes me think that perhaps w's name should be double v), so really, "veni vidi vici" is "weni widi wici". Well, I thought it was clever. Too bad for most people to get it, I have to explain. That's the problem with learning ancient languages, nobody else knows them.

Anyways, its on to the Misadventures in Cambria, where we spent our time playing Apples to Apples, eating, and drinking. For those of you won don't know, the road from Paso Robles to Cambria is full of vineyards, which means lots of wine tasting. Having not yet acquired the taste for wine, I was a little aprehensive about it, but decided I would at least try to like wine, since it seems most of the rest of the world does.

The first day was somewhat meh-ish, seeing as most of the wine just tasted like vinegar to me, but I plowed through with lots of water and crackers. And pretzels and mustard, for not only do they sell wine, but most places sell lots of very good food. However, by the second day I was more able to appreciate the wine, and poured very little of it out. Hurray for me.

Anyways, there wasn't too much craziness going on in Cambria, since the triptofin (stupid big words) was usually kicking in by the time we got back from tasting. But Chris and I did manage to spend about an hour using the Apples to Apples cards to create extemporaneous stories. That was entertaining, and I think my story about Katherine Hepburn getting in car accidents in Italy that she thought was the Effiel Tower. Guess you had to be there, but everybody was entertained by it.

What else.... oh. On Thursday, Rob, Chris, and I went to see Robots, which was very entertaining. Its not really comparable to The Incredibles, because its not a serious movie at all. I mean, Robin William's character sings "Singing in the Oil." There's no way it was serious. It was surprising, however, to see how little screen time all the huge names got. Especially when they played them up so much in the previews. Oh well. It was entertaining.

Well, that's it for today. Tomorrow will be all about my family vacation to Arizona and Utah. So stay tuned!

mistakes

So there are some typos/grammer mistakes in my previous post that I'd like to explain. I'd just spent the day at church, and then entertaining three little girls that thought my room as a play room and proceeded to play with all the toys in my room, which I had to take away from them for the most part because they're too little to play with them (like the katana that's in my room, for instance). So I was tired and didn't really want to proofread. So sue me. Now I'm off to buy lego!

The Further Misadventures

So, a couple weeks ago it was Rachel's birthday, and since Chris was in town, we were over at his house. Rachel complained that she was bored on her birthday, which isn't allowed, so we decided to go try to find a game to play. Well, this was at 9 pm, so there weren't too many stores open at that hour. We tried Toys R Us, but that was closed, so we asked Rachel is there was anything she wanted to do. Frist bowling was mentioned, but then Rachel told us that there was this "seedy" pool hall near her house that she's always wanted to check out, so we decided to go there. We played two rounds of pool (I won both!) and then had to leave because the smoke was making me sick (yes there was somebody smoking inside). After that, for some reason Rachel suggested that we stop at Kinko's and make copies of stuff. Well we get there an one of her friends was there doing something, so Rachel wandered off to talk to her, while Chris and I was the little kids table and began coloring.

My picture was called "Hi Mo" (which is funny and will come up during a later post), and I don't remember what Chris named his. Anyways, after this we decided to go to Barnes and Noble because both Rachel and I are obsessed with books, and its open until 11. There Chris bought the game that had started the whole adventure (Apples to Apples, which is an awesome game) and we returned to his house to play.

Thus ends the Further Misadventures of Becca and Chris (and Rachel), which will be continuted tomorrow with a recounting of the trip to Cambria and my foray (how do you spell that word) into wine tasting.

Lack of posts

Well, some of you have probably noticed a lack of new posts recently, and I've got some pretty good reasons for it. This past week, I've been on vacation with my family across Arizona and Southern Utah. How fun. Before that, I spent part of the week in Cambria tasting wine, and when I got home I was just plain busy. So I do have much posting coming up, which should hopefully make you sick of reading about my life, which is really my goal anyways.

More to come shortly.

Good movies

I watched two good movies today. Well, actually I caught most of one two days ago, but I finished it up today, so it still counts. The first is Gattaca (released in 1997), which is a very good sci-fi movie in it with Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, and Uma Thurman, who all give great performances, I think. Its about what could happen if genetics gets to the point where out entire society is based on identity through DNA. And the story of a person with "imperfect genes" who tries to overcome them. I won't do it justice trying to describe it here, so I'll stop and just say you should watch it.

The second was Fight Club, which is more recent, so everybody should know what it is. Fight Club was on FX's dvd program, so I got to see some behind the scenes stuff, which was interesting. Apparently, according to the director and actors and stuff, its supposed to be a dark comedy, which I can see. Its got some pretty cool camera shots, and the dialogue is pretty good. I appreciate some of the randomness of the characters that shows through the dialogue. And its got a very interesting ending.
And both Brad Pitt and Edward Norton give excellent performances.

If you haven't seen Gattaca, I suggest watching it, and the same goes for fight club. Although, just so you're warned, it is a little dark and violent, hence the word "fight" in the title.

Soccer

I love soccer. Everyone should know that. If you don't, I don't see how you can be my friend. Anyways, the reason I say this is that I remembered how much I love just practicing soccer. See, I've joined this adult league, and the team really sucks, but they try, and the main reason they aren't good is because there are like four people who have never played soccer before. They want to learn, and go to the one practice a week when they can, so I'm having fun trying to teach people.

The good thing is that my friend Tiffany who I played with in high school also wants to play, so I have one friend on the team, and she's good. Which is going to make things much more enjoyable. But tonight I just had a blast playing 3 on 3 and keep away, or just passing and trapping. And I'm going to play indoor, too, which just makes my day. Because I love soccer. Have I mentioned that?

Anyways, not much has been going on in the life of Becca, except that Spring Breaks start soon, which I'm excited for. That means people will be in town, starting with Chris next week. Which means that I have more people to hang out with and cause a ruckus.

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Waiting for what?

So I was sitting watching the clock for the bell to ring today, and I realized how much of my life I've spent waiting for something to happen. Of course, for the most part I've been waiting for class to end, but I also spend a lot of time waiting for other things. Like last night, I spent an hour waiting for Alias to turn on. Pascal talks about how the present is the scariest part of time, because there are ways we can control the past and the future. The past is okay because it can't change; we know what happened so we don't have to worry about it. And in the future, its possible to change whatever we want/need to. But in the present we seem powerless to a certain extent. All the things we could have changed are in the past, and the present just seems to be the consequence of the past.

Okay, done rambling.

At the book store

Today I had to go to Barnes and Noble. And yes, I do mean had to. Shadow of the Giant was released today, and I had to buy it and read it. The only reason I'm typing this now is because I finished. That's one thing about Orson Scott Card's books that annoys me; they're too short. Except for Speaker for the Dead and Xenocide, which are only so long because there's tons of philosophy disguised in them. And we all know philosophy is long winded.

Anyways, this book again lived up to my expectations of OSC. Although I thought there was supposed to be one more in the series, and it appears that he's pretty much left no loose ends, except for one that I think is meant to be remain loose. But who can tell. Although if the series is over, I will be sad. Not disappointed, but sad.

Then again, he could start over after Children of the Mind, now that he's developed Peter's character.

While I was at BN, I saw something that made me sick. It was The Nora Roberts Companion. Has literature been so degraded that we now have companions to those books? I mean, how much stuff could there be to fill that book? Apparently a lot, since it was a good sized book, but come on! Who would actually want/need to buy that book!

And I just realized that there is a loose end which could warrant another book. And I realized another thing. OSC hardly writes any physical descriptions of characters of places. Everything is focused around dialogue, which I think is awesome. Because in his stories, physical descriptions don't matter. Well, things like troop movements matter, but the looks of buildings, and even people, don't. Anyways, its getting late and I'll probably have to work tomorrow.

And if you haven't yet, go find your nearest OSC book and start reading it. I promies you won't regret it.