Date: Sunday, April 2, 2000
Time: 12:15 a.m. (which, I know, technically makes it Monday)
Listening to: Kiss Me Kate - the new Broadway Cast Recording
Currently obsessing over: Jonathan Crombie, Stokes, that ever present nameless someone
Currently reading: Anne of Windy Poplars, by L.M. Montgomery
Currently avoiding: a paragraph for Renaissance Lit due tomorrow morning
Out the window: it's warming up, but it was rainy and grey all day
Quote of the day: "And then you get smooches. And smooches are always good. Unless he's sick. Then you just get an earache." - Julie, discussing the pros and cons of smooching
Picture of the day:

Megan Followes and Jonathan Crombie as Anne and Gilbert

So, it's not like I haven't written in awhile, eh? :-) Here are the highlights of the last five weeks:

1. Tanith and Ben won the bronze medal at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships. For a team who started competing together six months ago to be ranked third in the world is an amazing accomplishment. We are all so proud!!!

2. The Anne 3 movie was finally on tv. Let me just say I'm torn. While I was thrilled to see Megan and Jonathan and everyone again, I was really disappointed with the story line of the movie, and even more with how different the characters were, both from the other movies and, more importantly, from the books. While I could accept slight plot variation (which happened in the other movies) this was a totally invented story which had nothing to do with any of the Anne books, and the producers tried to make it into an action/adventure story, which is about as far as you can get from the books and the other movies. I was most disappointed with the wedding, I think - it got no more than five minutes in the movie and was a very sad affair, when it should have been so happy, like in the book. There were a whole lot of small things that bothered me too, which I won't go into here. So all in all, I think I have to give the Anne 3 movie a thumbs down, which really disappoints me. But on the upside, it got me reading the books again, and I had forgotten how much I love those books. They're just so beautifully written and there's so much beauty and truth and simplicity to them.

3. Go out RIGHT NOW and buy the new Broadway cast recording of Kiss Me, Kate. It's worth the price just to hear Stokes sing "So In Love", but the whole CD is a delight. Stokes and Marin Mazzie have never sounded better and Amy Spanger and Michael Berresse are amazing too. I wouldn't be surprised to see all four of them get nominated for Tonys this year. I'm already trying to figure out how I can get down to NYC to see this show before the four leads leave it.

4. Some friends and I went to see Queen's Musical Theatre's production of Five Guys Named Moe last night. A good time was had by all! However, the ticket should have read: "Warning: this production contains massive amounts of audience participation"!!! I'll admit it threw me a little when the guy playing Little Moe sat down in the empty seat next to me during the first act and struck up a conversation, but he was pretty damn cute, so I didn't really mind! :-) A group of very talented guys (and a girl who brought the house down) - the singing was amazing and they were just having so much fun that you couldn't help but have a good time.

5. Movies I've seen recently: Final Destination (bad, bad, bad), Mission to Mars (relatively enjoyable), Pitch Black (not as bad as Final Destination, which is about the best thing I can say for it) and The Cider House Rules (very good - Michael Caine is amazing and definitely deserved the Oscar) ... can you guess which movie I had a say in and which movies were the choice of my male housemate and his buddies??? :-)

6. One week of classes left!!! I can hardly believe it. I know most people can't wait for classes to be over, but I've had such a good year that I don't want it to ever end! Yeah, sure, I'm glad all my assignments are done and handed in and I'll be happy when exams are over, but after exams my friends are all going to scatter to the ends of the earth, and we'll keep in touch, but it won't ever be the same. I feel like it's taken me four years to really find my place here at Queen's, and now when I'm finally starting to make it my own, I have to move on and start over again!!! Of course, it doesn't help that I have NO idea what I want to do with my life. Maybe I'll just apply to grad school. :-)

Well, there's probably more I could say, but it's getting late and I do have class in the morning. Good night, all! And if you want the story about how I did the most embarrassing thing I've done in my entire life in front of that certain nameless someone this week, you'll have to email me! I'm not putting that out in cyberspace!!! :-)

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