Cousin

My cousin and aunt came up Friday night and we ate at a great Venezuelan place right down the block from my place. My cousin is back from Burma where she works for the Myanmar Times. She came back briefly to apply for grad school in international buisness and was up for an interview with Tufts University. Though it is not her first choice I really hope she goes there. I already promised her I would move to Arlington if she did. Both of us are the black sheep of the family being the only ones to not go into the medical field and we were both very cynical with the world during our teen years so we became close friends. So it would be really cool if she were to move up here but I also know that Tufts is not her first choice and I want her to get into the school that has the right program for her regaurdless of location.

Movies

Saw Shawn of the Dead after my cousin and aunt left. Five stars for this one. Everyone should see it. The story was great. A true loser to hero that is still a loser story. Going to see Shark Tales tomorrow curtesy of Dreamworks. From what I understand the movie was done mostly in Linux. Should be good because I have loved all of Dreamwork’s 3d animated movies.

Pizza Party

My Pizza Party at my apartment was loads of fun. Pizza, beer, hard liquor, oh my. A bunch of people showed up though some did cop out. Chris Lee, I’m looking at you ;). I spend the day ripping a good portion of my music collection using Rhythmbox and Soundjuicer. They are both awsome apps but could be a little more integrated with one another. Anyway, it was mostly for naught since there were perhaps three songs played before we turned on the Eye Toy and started playing Groove. I wish I could transfer some of the videos that were taken during the freestyle section. A hilarious good time was had by all. We went to the Good Time Emporium after we ate. I schooled everyone in Lazer Tag with a score of 1255. The next highest score was 890 with the rest under or around 600. The only reason I got this high was because I figured out that when you got hit you had a window of three seconds where you were invincible and could still fire your gun. So I just started walking around firing ant anyone I saw on the other team. For every kill they got out of me I took out five of their guys. At one point I squeezed inbetween two of the green team guys, said excuse me, shot them both and kept on walking. It would have been a bit more fair if you were not allowed to shoot durring the three second grace period after you had been shot. Good thing we won because Colin was talking some smack before the game. Too bad we didn’t take the loser buys a round of beers bet.

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