Movies, kitties, thunderstorms, and earthquakes.

I wanted to make another quick update unrelated to my trip to Samoa, because if I don't do some interjections here and there I'll fall behind on updating my current life as well as my trip to Samoa.

I don't think I mentioned but on Friday, around 5ish there was 4.1 magnitude earthquake. To be honest it felt like a fat girl fell down either really close to be or above me. However, I realized that the whole building was shaking and that a fat girl would not be capable of this. I was pretty positive it had been an earthquake but, when I rushed to my window to see if there was pandemonium ensuing outside, everyone was moving about as if nothing happened. I realize now that because of my naive east coast I've-never-experienced-an-earthquake attitude I thought this was a big deal. Turns out, as my California friends informed me, things like that happen all the time and after a while you don't even notice them. Oh well, I was still excited.

The movie marathon continues with my friends. We've now watched "Rushmore", "Man On Fire" and "Old Boy." All those movies are extremely different in their nature as films. Our next endeavors will be to watch "Training Day" (Brian loves Denzel) and then I think it may be my turn to pick movies. On the top of my list is "Tommy Boy", "The Princess Bride", "Silence of the Lambs"... and I have to think about this more. It's essentially any movie that we really enjoy that other people haven't seen before. Chris has offended me by not seeing any of the above listed movies.

When I was walking from Chris's house in Aro Valley to Kelburn I ran into a fat, fat kitty. It was really adorable and when I came up to it, it immediately fell over and started vigorously rolling around on the ground and looking at me as if to say, "pet me!" So I obliged and pet the kitty for a little. But I had to make my way up to campus so I kept walking. The kitty would follow me so I'd stop and it's rub up against my legs and then flop over once again. It was pretty hard to resist such a fat, absurd looking creature. Eventually he got tired and flopped down on the ground and watched me walk away.





Last night there was a really loud thunderstorm that kept waking me up in the middle of the night. It was so loud and powerful I felt like the bed was shaking and the lightning would light up the entire room. I had a rough night of sleep in part due to that and also in part due to bizzare dreams involving Zeus (I've been dreaming about him a lot lately) and Tecca.

I haven't really been doing too much else besides the occasional homework assignment and going to class. The weather hasn't been too bad but it's definitely quite crisp and fall like outside right now. It feels like Halloween should be coming up soon.