Movies and Belly Flops

Pan's Labyrinth is an amazing movie! I saw it at BYU's International Cinema. The movies that they show are free and usually quite neat. Foreign movies are just cool. I was so excited that they showed Pan's Labyrinth though because it's normally rated R. With International Cinema, they edit out the super graphic or sexual scenes, and there were a few scenes that you could tell they'd skipped over something. But that movie is amazing!

I'm thinking about being the creepy guy with his eyes in his hands for Halloween. Well, actually I'm just imagining it. I probably won't do it, but it's fun to imagine. Sometimes, I walk around my apartment like him, with my hands on my forehead like I'm after my roommates. Most of them have never seen it, so they just give me funny looks. I have a good time though.

Yesterday, I went to this cool place out in the middle of nowhere. I don't even know how my friends discovered it. There's this little lake out somewhere south of Provo with a bunch of rope swings. Man, that water was cold! But swinging off the swings was fun. I had to work on my technique. The littlest one was fine, but there was this bigger one I went off of and I kept belly flopping. It was from a pretty good distance too, so needless to say, my legs and stomach were rather red. But I realized after the second flop how to stop myself from flopping. It was really simple actually. I was just letting go with one hand first and then the other. What I needed to do was let go with both at the same time. And that was the end of the belly flopping. Still, I now have a glorious bruise on the inside of one of my thighs. It more like a series of bruises that come together to form one nice big one. It's maybe a little bigger than the length of my hand. Yup. But if I hadn't gotten those bruises, I wouldn't have had any fun. and my friends got a video of me belly flopping. I think you can check it out on facebook if you want.

Because I did all of this cool stuff in the past two days (Pan's Labyrinth, Belly Flopping, and I also went to my brother's concert with my dad) that means I have done none of my homework. We'll see how this bodes for my Astronomy test that I have to take this next week. And I need to do 20 pages of Astronomy homework! It's times like these that I wonder why I put myself through this misery that we call school. It's usually not a misery for me, but sometimes I just stop and go, "Why did I do this, willingly?" But I only have two years to go (including this one) max. If I decide not to do an editing minor, I can graduate after next fall. I wonder how much I'll have written on stories by then. I hope to finish my novel by the end of this year. Actually, it'd be sweet if I could finish it in one month or two. I think I'll do the editing minor since that, combined with my Leading Edge experience, could perhaps help me get some kind of job in that area after college. But my main focus is writing.

Anyway, I'm feeling hungry, and my feet are cold. I think I will put on some socks and eat some food!!