on friday we went to see pirates of the caribbean again. i wasn't sure i'd want to see it twice but i made up a drinking game in which i pretended that i was drinking every time keira knightley demonstrated her utter inability to act, but i did not actually drink, which means i amused myself but did not distress anyone in my vicinity, which happened when we took literal drinks for the da vinci code and ran entirely out of beverage before the movie was over. it was the "tom hanks' hair is ridiculous" that pushed us over, i think. anyway: pirates. the first time we saw it my friend commented that for all the talk of ms. knightley being anorexic, she's got nice legs. do you know why? i suspect a body double, as i haven't seen face/legs/face editing that choppy since jennifer beals in that frankenstein movie. lucky, lucky faceless woman that had orlando bloom kissing her leg.
i went to a party on sunday. i hadn't been to a party in a while and i had a bit of a meltdown right at the beginning in which i lost not merely words but sentences and some other key features of brain function. it wasn't pretty. i had to sit in a chair mumbling to self and pinching the insides of my arms while another friend who hasn't slept in a month expressed some concern, which made it worse, and then i opened my mouth and said some stupid shit and died a little more inside and it was all poor yorick but then it was okay.
i am thinking about how you learn so much when you're young and as you get older you don't gather information in quite the quantity and so it is really neat to have learned in the last year to peel a banana from the other side (take THAT kirk cameron) or in the last month i circumvented the "how to peel a boiled egg without getting shell all over the damn place" and last night i learned the magic of cornstarch is not to be underestimated and it's really just altogether wonderful to be alive in these interesting times, isn't it.
oh and also i have a squire tuck snippet, which is this: i was talking to him about nature vs. nurture and how this is such an interesting thing because we don't know which controls a lot of things about how we are as people. and i asked him, so does he think that personality is more likely to be determined by environment or by genes, and he said it's determined by what you yourself choose, and added that saying that something is a product of nature or nurture in both cases takes it out of your hands, which is unfair. and that is why i keep him around. and also because he smells nice.
Hey, what can you do with cornstarch?
Posted by: Ellen | June 18, 2007 at 10:18 PM