moving on

1. we went to see THE DARK KNIGHT the other night. it was GLORIOUS. i am full on in love with christian bale as bruce wayne.
i said it before on my media rants blog, but if it were possible to get impregnated by a film, this one would have done it. whoOt!

2. i am taking the shakespeare class at the U this fall. dove in and registered.

3. in order of preference, my new list of celebrities to have sexual dreams about is: CHRISTIAN BALE, GEORGE CLOONEY, and BAM MARGERA.

4. i miss the old olivia. things are just different now and every time i go back i am hoping for it to be "my olivia" not the real one it currently is. i think rod serling was very much onto something with all of his nostalgic twilight zone episodes about old men wanting to go back to their hometowns and realizing it was impossible and that they'd gotten old, things had changed. maybe people who just can't ignore nostalgia become writers or professional scrapbookers.

5. bubby is onto sharks now. i don't know what the hell i was doing when I was 4, but i can be sure i wasn't memorizing insect and shark books and telling anyone who would listen about their properties/characteristics/eating habits, etc. for all the work this child was as a baby (not sleeping, EVER) i hope this is an indication of things to come. he never slept because in the future he will be researching scientific items with which he will CURE CANCER OR HIV or something significant like that.

On Second Thought. . .

A little over a year back, I wrote a bit about Olivia and really seriously wanting to move home because I basically had no sense of home, belonging, or community here in Minneapolis. Much in our lives has changed since I wrote that rant, but today I completely reevaluated my position on that, mostly due to my morning shift at Starbucks.
There IS a sense of community here, I just never saw it until this year. The morning crew and crowd at Starbucks are an amazing group of people. They come totally just to hang out with each other, drink coffee, and gab. I've only been working mornings on the weekends for a month or so, but already many of the them know my name and a little bit about me. I guess it makes sense that I missed Olivia the way I did for so long when I consider that this vibe was completely absent when I worked in the Edina Starbucks.

I feel good about this. I still miss Olivia sometimes but this somehow feels right for me, now.