The Green Mile--plus a few rabbit chases

.....Yes, another movie. Again, over three hours long. Very deep. And yes, I had homework to do that night. But it was worth it. Every moment I spend with my buddies here is worth it. I won't be here much longer (graduation: yay!).
....This movie was very intense. Ask my skittles. I got up and ran out of the room more than once. Yeah, well, I'm kinda a baby when it comes to scary movies. Its not so much the prevalence of death. Its the drama associated with it, the way they emphasized it and made me think about it. Troy was the first R rated movie I'd ever finished (I started to watch "the Reaping" with my skittles last fall, but I fell asleep after about the first ten minutes. Mostly all I remember about it is this image of a girl in the dark and screaming), and this was the second. It probably wasn't the best initiation into the world of graphic violence. I don't like electrocution.
.....But I loved the story. It was refreshing to see something obviously fantastical handled in such a serious manner. I love fantasy, magic, "miracle" stories. I think they can answer real life's problems a whole lot better than anything factual ever can. There wasn't one moment of doubt from any of the actors in this movie. No slightly shamed grins, no hidden mocking faces. All the characters in this film completely believed John Coffey, and none of them asked for an explanation. That's an important step for an audience to make if they're ever to enjoy a story: belief without explanation. Aparently this was a fairly widely viewed movie. Perhaps America is not as dumb as I thought.

WEL

The first few games of the season were incredibly chilly, but bright. So yes, both the coat and the sunglasses were nessecary. But as for the gansta pose, well, I think my Skittle could have skipped that. Me and my other Skittle decided she looked like a Weird Eskimo Lady. Her nickname for the week was WEL.

Baseball

.....My Skittles and I have a fairly new obsession: baseball. I think we've been to every home game. We couldn't always stay the entire time, but hey, five minutes is better than nothing, right? My Skittles went to a few last year, and I never went to one. But this year has been different. We've been following their progress pretty consistently. I have to admit that this is the first time in my twenty years of life that I've had any prolonged interest in a sport I wasn't in. To my surprise, I've found spectating is pretty fun.
.....The reason for our new interest? I don't really know. I'd like to blame it on the baseball boys in our bible study, but the ones we talk to the most really don't play. I think I'll just chalk it up to the M&M era and say we are going so we can find out if he's as good as he said he was. So far, he isn't. But he's really not that bad, either.
.....I took some pictures to commemorate this interest, just in case its a one time thing for me.

Baseball Update

.....We won our second two games on Tuesday.
.....Our college played their first four home games this weekend. On Saturday we won the first game by three or four. I had to go to work so I missed most of the second game, but one of the guys told me they lost. Pretty badly. They lost again, by a single point, the next day. They redeemed themselves, however, by winning the second game on Sunday.
My skittles and I went to the Sunday games together. They were very entertaining. While baseball in and of itself is one of the more boring sports to watch, the way our team played baseball was very entertaining. Or perhaps I should say the way they incorporated music into their baseball game was very entertaining. Every guy had his own specific walk-out song that they played while they were walking up to the plate. They played music warning up before the games, they played music while the coaches and pitchers on the opposite team conferred on the field, and they played music while they waited for the ref to get his gear on. I like music. Their games were fun to watch.
.....We will face a community college from Colorado this weekend in four home games. Colorado boys are good at baseball (or so my limited observations lead me to believe). Let's hope our guys play hard.

Worth Every Minute

.....My Skittles, Snickers*, and I drove thirty minutes tonight and I bought these pencils at WalMart. The pencils on the right are my traditional pencils. I couldn't find them at the local WalMart. I have used this particular type of Bic pencil since I started school a year and a half ago. I am particularly partial to the yellow ones: they inspire me. The minis on the left are something new. I get stuck in my own little ruts, and thought it would be smart to branch out into something new for once. I still have the security of the pencil I am used to. They were worth every minute of the hour I spent in the car tonight.
.....The original purpose of our conquest to the neighboring town was not pencils, however, but a much worthier cause: Wendy's. There isn't a Wendy's here, and we wanted square hamburgers and fries dipped in frosties. I hadn't been to Wendy's in over five years: it was absolutely delicious.

Pocket Full of Sunshine

One of my skittles showed me this song. I think its my new favorite for a while. I don't think I'd mind a sweet escape to a secret place where there's only butterflies right now. A little light and sentimental maybe, but overall a very fun little song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9318frRhwNs

Enjoy!

Road Trip

.....I went on a road trip this evening. Me and my skittle traveled about an hour to a small town so she could go to the chiropractor. So, while the college wasn't directly involved in this news flash, it was college related because we were traveling to get a college related injury treated. So as far as topic goes, I'd like you to know this can legally go on a college-focused blog.
.....My skittle was remarking on the way home how fun it is to visit small towns where the grocery stores are carpeted and tiny and its easier to find the library than a gas station. I agree. Revisiting tiny towns makes me feel street-wise and experienced (ya right).
.....I lived in a small town before moving to this slightly-less-microscopic town. When I first got here I was pretty thrilled with the entertainment prospects. There was a theatre, a Pizza Hut, three decent resturants, a Claire's, a Maurices, two shoe stores, and (yay!) a WalMart. After spending the last fifteen of my eighteen years in a town where the closest WalMart was an hour and a half away, I thought I was living the high life. I remember being stressed about all the trafic the first couple times I drove to school. Thankfully, my friends have drug me around to various cities and I've begun to realize that this town is actually pretty small.
.....Back to topic: we went to the crackerpracker, stopped by the local grocery store for a snack, and hunted down the gas station. Then we headed home. Thrilling news, I know.

Oh oh oh! Funny story!
So I was talking to Butterfinger* earlier, and I was like
"Yeah, what about that text I sent you?"
And he was all
"Oh, that was you?"
"Yeah, I got a new number. Oh hey do you want it?"
"I actually don't have my phone with me. I'll get it Thursday."
(seriously here, folks, what kind of jock has the nerve to be polite enough to go to class without his cell phone? Let's get with the program here, dude!)
"But I won't be here Thursday." (I have to go to Topeka for some junk)
"Oh yeah, I knew that."
"You won't be here Thursday."
(This is kinda a big deal: out-of-state trip, gonna last almost a week, their first game of the spring season)
"Oh yeah!"
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and it was funny.

Pie Graph Breakdown of Important College Activities

Purple: Hanging with my skittles.

Gray: Class

Orange: Studying/doing homwork.

Blue: Sleeping

White: Filling out tons and tons of stupid applications for a gabillion things like getting into a university or getting scholarships and junk that I really hate doing.

Brown: Eating Pudding.

Green: Work Study. Fun fun.

Red: Going to Walmart. Ya, its Colby, we get bored.

Wednessday

Last Wednesday night the Trojan men defeated their opposing team in overtime. I don't remember the exact score, but I do remember it was pretty exciting to watch.
I came to the game later than usual because I'd just gotten off of work. Generally speaking, I have trouble getting into ball games. This was no exception. I sat up in the top row with a dude in one of my classes: we talked literature until my two skittles* arrived. But in between discussion on Editha and Mark Twain I did manage to notice the game was pretty close. After I moved down a couple rows to sit with my skittles I started paying better attention, but then the cheerleaders started throwing headbands into the crowd and I started noticing who had one and who didn't and, well, the best I could tell you is our boys fought pretty hard to take home a victory that night.