Good times.

Friday night I had my NINTENDO PARTY! What an amazing time!! Eight people came out, and Peter brought over 60 games for us to enjoy! My favourites quickly became Trog (an old favourite) and Boulder Dash (a new fave). We ate lots of good food and played Nintendo for hours. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it! What a good investment! :P I had friends from several different places (friends of friends, friends from classes, friends from Campus for Christ) and Nintendo just seemed to bring people together so much more quickly than just hanging out. We played Track Meet for the first while, and I laughed a lot as people raced each other in the 100m dash and the 110m hurdles! Who knew Nintendo had a Track and Field game with a DDR-style pad? What a blast! Brad came late, after most people had left, but I was still in the mood to play... soooo we played Marble Madness (although I died pretty quickly every time) and Boulder Dash because we really really wanted to get to the Ice World! We stayed up until 3:30, but I don't regret the lack of sleep I suffered the next day. Oh man... so much fun!

Then... last night Dorrie returned home and her, Brad and I watched "Children of Men". I thought it was really well done! However, the end looked kinda low budget, with very little props and set. I didn't like that it ended so abruptly. But, I loved the political side to the film. Those crazy fisher people!! They make me so mad! The music was great, and the characters were really interesting.
I'd be interested to hear comments from anyone else who's seen the movie, so leave them!

Starting next September I will be living with Aviva, the girl from my church, as well as a friend from residence first year. Her name is Krista, and she's really great, really easy to get along with. I am so blessed that she asked me to live with her. She has a three-bedroom apartment and her two roommates are moving out. It's located on the border of the student ghetto and the infamous Montreal Plateau. It's a really cute place and it's closer than I've ever lived to campus! Yaaaaay! I love the 10 minute walk to the Trottier building.
Ahhh Trottier. Most of the students you'll find in Trottier are from Computer Science, and Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering. Most of my time on campus is spent there, working away on the computers, finishing programming assignments. I like the atmosphere, the community... I just have to meet and make friends with more of the students in my faculty.

One of my many goals for next term.

So I've been at home (my first home = Oshawa) for the past four days. How much work would you guess I've gotten done? Uhh... that'd be next to none. Hey, I'm a poet and didn't even know it!
It's all good though... I've had a chance to catch up with my mom and with old friends, RELAX (so important!), sleep lots and think about life.
I went out for coffee downtown TO. today with an old friend. We danced together for a summer or two and she's a great person to be around. She's so optimistic and just seems to be loving life. I gravitate towards these kinds of people, especially when I need a boost of energy.
Some days I wish I had pursued dance as a career. Dance performance students at Ryerson have it good. My friend is a gorgeous dancer (because of her natural talent I'm sure, but the training at Ryerson is pretty stellar), and gets to produce and perform a lot of her own works on a professional stage. This is her last year, and she doesn't have any set plans for the future, but with the training that she's got, she's surely going to do something magnificent! Go Kiri Go!
I suppose there's still hope for the dancing electrical engineering student...


Anyways... something else I've been thinking about, actually, can't keep my mind off of, is this new movie "The Fountain".
I would recommend it to anyone who loves artsy, thinking movies, but also those with a concrete, structured mind like mine. I can't even really describe to you the plot (it's complicated), but it all revolves around the pursuit of immortality, and the belief that the legendary "Tree of Life" from the Bible still exists. Greed is a huge theme, and it has really made me look at my life at realize that more value needs to be put on relationships. It is an incredible movie. Go see it!