Up to Speed

A lot has happened since I last wrote here. Let's break it down.

Don't Ask Don't Tell got repealed! This coincided with the day I returned home for break, and the night that Titanic was shown commercial-free on USA Network. I obviously watched the whole thing. It's only been one of my all time favorite, would-take-this-to-a-desert-island movies since I was thirteen. Why would I pass up a chance to watch it uninterrupted by peppy people trying to make be buy cat food and moderately priced electronics?

I had just gotten to the part where Leo was showing Kate his drawings of the one-legged prostitute from Paris, when my dad emerges from his office and says, all matter-of-factly, "Leo was pretty adorable in this movie."

I like to think this was his way of celebrating the DADT repeal.

Then of course was the obligatory "I'm back in New York let's go to Manhattan and shop" day. I had tea with my sister and a friend from school, then we wandered around the Union Square holiday market getting gifts for people including ourselves. It was very cold. But we found refuge in a nearby coffee shop that also sold frozen yogurt. That sounds like a dream one would have after bad takeout but it really happened. There was an attractive Scandinavian-looking fellow sitting at the counter who totally saw us checking him out in the reflection in the window.

Five minutes later it was Christmas. I spent it eating way too much food and opening boxes with sweaters in them and trying not to flinch when my poor grandmother examined my nose ring. I hate to admit it, but I was kind of thankful the blizzard forced us home early. I was all too happy to collapse into the couch and watch The Daily Show OnDemand for hours.

As for today, I'm trying to be productive but all I want to do is nap. My dad and I are thinking of seeing a movie tonight, but I can't decide if I want to go highbrow or lowbrow. I know I should see "The King's Speech" so I have something to say during the Oscar broadcast and I can only gush about "Black Swan" for so long, but I've always had this lingering thing for Barbara Streisand and Dustin Hoffman as The Fockers. Maybe I'll ditch both those ideas and see "True Grit" because it'll still give me something to talk about during the Oscar broadcast and I've always had a lingering thing for Matt Damon. Any leading man who goes for a recurring guest spot on 30 Rock is a keeper in my book. Even better if they're from Boston. Hooh-rah.