I'm going through my veritable movie collection at the moment, watching my favorite scenes from my favorite movies and then moving on to others. I just watched the end of A Beautiful Mind, which always makes me cry a little bit (which may be lame but true). Now I'm onto Dirty Dancing Havanah Nights, which should be an awful movie but isn't. I remember Philip bought it and made me watch it in college, so Philip I have to thank you for forcing me to love this movie. Makes me cha cha in my living room. Thank you muchly, UGA, for letting me take ballroom dance for my Physical Education credit =)

Today was a good day. Church, then ChuckECheese with my parents as well as Asher and David, from church. Mom and I played game after game of skeeball and then handed our tickets over to Asher. I desperately wanted my picture taken with ChuckE but was unable to be photographed with even the anamatronic one, thanks to a horde of small girls.

Then off to the North GA outlet malls with Russell. We did not find him his coveted vest but we did find other retail steals. It was good to get out and a relaxing shopping experience, which hard to come by. Shirts for $8, a Ralph Polo sweater for $15, Hilfiger polo dress for $6.50.... my wallet totally won.

This is a boring recap of a day that was much more enjoyable than described. This week is Mieka Pauley at Eddie's Attic, hanging out with Catherine, dinner at Texas Roundhouse, and other things. Toby gave me an awesome cookbook for Christmas that I will begin to utilize. My apartment is looking much better; next thing to tackle is my car (good grief).

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Just talked to my mom on the phone for an hour and a half. It was a surprising conversation about... well, everything. Her students, politics, religion, our adversity to the fusion of religion and government, the inauguration, recycling, the economy, our family, and all sorts of things. It was a good conversation, the kind that you don't realize an hour and a half has gone by and you've already missed your internal bed time.

I'm sure there were all sorts of things that I wanted to say before the phone rang but now I'm tired and it's time to go to sleep. Busy day tomorrow and all.

"What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me to the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. I have made the most important discovery of my career - the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.

[looking at and speaking to his wife Alicia]
I am only here tonight because of you
You are the reason I am. You are all my reasons."
-A Beautiful Mind, movie