Pretty awesome weekend so far...

Friday I went to Sundance again with some peeps. We waitlisted tickets, which means we stood in line and got a number and then came back right before the movie to see if we would get in. And we did!! It was Marianna Palka and Jason Ritter's film, and it was awesome!!! They were both there to answer questions afterwards...Sundance is awesome!! So good dinner, good company and a good movie.

Saturday I went boarding again. I guess that's one advantage of not having a family, you can go boarding whenever you feel like it. Wolf Mountain has gotten so much snow since I was there last. The boarding was good. I fell quite a bit and my left knee is a shade of red/purple that I have never seen before because of it. But I had a good time. However, going to a ski resort in Utah on Saturday reminds you why you should never go to a ski resort in Utah on a Saturday. It wasn't incredibly packed, but there were mass amounts of undisciplined urchins running around and knocking me over, or getting in my path, so I had to bite it instead of running the urchin over. Then there was this little 6 year old that I almost took out. I helped him up and he was my little shadow for the next 2 hours (with no sign of parental units around). Then all of a sudden his parents show up and seem real concerned and made me feel like a pervert. And I'm all...dude I don't want your kid following me, but he is and I'm just being polite by answering his questions, and no he's not being a bother...oh wait, I'm being polite again. What I really wanted to tell his mother was, "Listen lady, if I really wanted to kidnap your son I had plenty of opportunity to do it while you were not around because you have so many children you are trying to get a moment of peace. Get on some birth control, stop having so many damn kids and be a freaking mother." I mean honestly...who leaves a 6 year old unattended at a ski resort.

Anyways, by the time I left 5.5 hours after I got there...I was doing fairly well. Well much better than I was 5.5 hours previous. As I started practicing I was thinking in my head, "I am way too old to be learning this mess. I can't even stand up and all these little urchins are speeding by me. Maybe I should just pack it in and say forget about it." I guess this stems from the fact that I have never not been good (or at least proficient) at something I really wanted to do. Riding horses, came fairly easy to me...I had my spills, but overall I was a proficient rider. Music, came way easy to me...I don't even remember really struggling to play horn and half the time I wouldn't practice. School, easy. I really suck at running, but I hate running. I was talking to one of my friends this past week and he said, "Why are you learning snowboarding first? That's much harder initially to learn than skiing. Well I guess it's trendy." And my response to him was, "1. I really like my crucial ligaments intact...and if I ski I feel like that won't be the case. 2. The first time I went boarding I was so infuriated by my lack of skill and the number of times I fell, I'm just going to keep doing it until I get it. So it's not like I'm trying to be cool (we all know that isn't the case), I'm just really stubborn." So I guess that's a good attitude to have. And I have seen a small bit of improvement from the last time I went boarding...so that makes me feel a little better.

I wanted to go again tomorrow, but there is going to be another Utah storm, which means I am going to spend most of the day laying low and off the streets, due to the fact that people can't drive around here, add snow...it's a nightmare. And it looks like I will have another horrendous drive to the airport on Monday because it's supposed to drop snow on us all day tomorrow and most of the day on Monday, which is going to lead to about 344 crashes. I'm calling it right now...and I'll check online Monday night...that's about our average number of crashes for a storm. Oh yeah, and I'm going to Florida...so you can all start feeling bad for me now.

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Sundance Film Festival = Awesome



So I decided to head up to the Sundance Film Festival on Sunday night. I had tickets to a German film with English subtitles, so I was pretty excited. I didn’t really care all that much about seeing famous people, so I went up in the evening. Everyone was all a buzz about how Paris Hilton was going to be gracing the club scene with her presence. I really didn’t care about that and figured if I saw Paris Hilton, I’d probably want to punch her right in the face…so it was probably best that I didn’t see her. (Although I do think I saw Bruce Willis riding in an Escalade.)



So after much driving in circles to find a parking spot where I wouldn’t have to pay a. $15 or b. get towed, I headed up to main street to check out the scene. The whole atmosphere was like a different world. Everyone was an aspiring actor or director and they were all so friendly. Everyone was talking to everyone. I met people from NY, Boston and LA…and heard all of their stories and had a blast!!!



The movie was fantastic. I saw Die Welle (The Wave), which was about a social studies teacher that conducts a social experiment on his class. The kids think that a Nazi Germany could never happen again…and he proves them wrong. It was a very dramatic, suspenseful film, but it was so good! (This experiment really was conducted in real life, but it wasn’t in Germany but Palo Alto, CA…and the teacher got fired.) I even caught a good chunk of the German in the movie as I was reading the subtitles, and I was thinking during certain parts…ehhh that’s not exactly what he said, or the German way of saying that was so much better. So it was cool that I was able to brush up on some German. Then at the end of the movie the director, composer, a handful of the actors and the actual teacher from Palo Alto stood up in the front of the auditorium and answered questions. Apparently, Sundance is known for this Q &A session with all their movies. When the Q &A was over, the Germans offered to stand in the lobby and field more questions…but I couldn’t hang around for that. It was midnight and it was starting to snow. Canyon roads + snow = car accidents. So I headed out as quickly as possible to try to be the winter storm that was coming.



So Sundance was awesome! I had a great time and I’m either going to get the movie pass next year (where you can see a bunch of movies at a discounted price) or I’m going to volunteer.



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Jappy Girls are EVERYWHERE!! (This is not a racial slur, I am referring to the Jewish American princess...of course most times these girls turn out to not even be Jewish, but just random spoiled brats whose yuppie parents never said no to them out of guilt.)

So my New Years post, much like my resolutions, never happened. I don't really believe in New Years resolutions anyways. I mean why wait until the 1st day of a new year to do something life changing, why not do it when you think of it. For example, a lot of people put losing weight on their new year's resolutions list. Why not just do it when you realize that you are bigger than you want to be? But no, most people wait until that all amazing January 1st, clog up the gym, inconveniencing my work out time, and then are done attempting their resolution by January 15. Whatever.

I spent 2 weeks in wonderful Ohio again. If you ever have the desire to go to Ohio during a national championship game that Ohio State is playing in...and you don't like Ohio State...don't go to Ohio. The fans are only going to be rude and obnoxious and not understand how people could not like THE Ohio State. Good thing they lost...then all was well.

The class I took was intense! I basically relearned an entire semester of undergrad stats in 3 days...then we proceeded to take those stats and apply them to learning curves and inflation and all sorts of fun things like that. The whole thing culminated in a final project and me wanting to beat this guy's ass for being an arrogant prick. It's not really worth going into details but there was a guy in my group with a little penis envy and he thought he was the smartest person he knew. And at the end of the course he actually had the nerve to tell me, "This is the first group I have worked in where I haven't yelled at anyone." I bit my tongue so hard it bled, because what I really wanted to say is, "Maybe its not other people that are the problem. Maybe you don't play nice with others you arrogant jerk." I passed the class which is all that really matters. While I was in Ohio I got to spend a significant amount of time with Kelly and John, which was a blast...so all in all it was good. Other than the fact that I hate traveling in the winter. I think next year I am just going to block out my calender from December through March. I refuse to travel anywhere. Anyone wants to see me, they know where I am...my little bear cave here in Layton. I'll even be nice and come pick you up at the airport...other than that, consider me in hibernation.

So on the way back yesterday the trip from Dayton to Denver was fairly uneventful. Because I had gotten little sleep and I had woken up way early, I was tired and I think I snored from Dayton into Nebraska...but it didn't bother me any. Upon arriving in Denver I had just enough time to run from one terminal to another to catch my next flight. When I got to the terminal I noticed that they had a little notice to passengers about volunteers to take a bump and get a free ticket. I asked the lady when I would fly out if I took the ticket and she said the next morning. Plus the airlines wouldn't put me up for the night because I volunteered...so it would have been a wash. So I passed and found an empty chair and got comfy. Well the couple sitting 3 chairs down from me is the reason for the title of this post. The moment I sit down I realized I should have just remained standing. This grown woman, who must have been a little older than me but looked almost 40 from her intense love of tanning, was sitting next to her husband whining. I'm not even kidding, whining, loudly, in public. Then she crosses her one leg over the other and starts bouncing it, in doing so she starts shaking the entire row of chairs, of which I am sitting in one. She starts whining even louder, "Honey, I just want to get out of he-re. We have been here since 10:30000000000. I just want to goooo. I'm calling Southwest, give me your credit card. I'm booking us another ticket." At first I felt a little bad for Mrs. Northface Fleece Jappy girl. But as I sat there listening to the incessant high pitched Fran Drescher whining I just wanted to stab her with my crochet hook. Apparently the 2 A-holes (SNL reference to the two couples that say "Hey Babe...hey Babe.") arrived at their original airport exactly 30 minutes before their flight and United decided to move the flight time up by 15 minutes. So they were not allowed on their flight. United was nice enough to rebook them on the next flight since it was the couples' fault...but they missed their connection in Denver. So they had to wait to get rebooked on the next one of those. So Jappy McJapster steals her husband's credit card and books 2 nonrefundable tickets to SL through Southwest. I board the plane and assume that I am done with the couple. Until I see them board the plane. And sit in the row in front of me. It was fine until maybe a half hour in when Ms. Tanning Bed decided she was going to read a magazine quiz to her husband and ask for his responses. I knew we were all in trouble when the first question was, "How would you describe your body?" and the husband had to say what his wife looked like. He told her curvy and that was clearly the wrong answer. She starts whining, "That's not what I wanted to hear." Her husband says, "There's nothing wrong with that." And the whining continued. Now at this point I am wondering if I am overreacting slightly...so I monitor the reactions of fellow passengers to see if anyone else is annoyed as I am. The guy sitting across the aisle from them was dressed similarly to Bill's father in Big Love. (Kind of scrubby, complete with trucker cap and slick white hair hanging out from underneath.) His mouth was completely hanging open. He was staring at this girl with the kind of amazement that one might stare at a car wreck. You so desperately want to look away but can't because you can't believe it's happening in front of your face. I almost burst out laughing it was so funny. Meanwhile Ms. The World Revolves Around Me, continues on with her tirade completely oblivious to the fact that there are other passengers on the plane and we might not want to hear how skinny you think you are. How do people like that honestly get married? Who in their right mind puts up with torture like that? She must be really good in the sack...because that's the only reason I can think of that a guy would willingly put up with that.

So I am so busy people watching I forget to look out the window, but I can feel that we are descending. The captain comes on the intercom and says that we are making our descent, everyone sit down. All is going as planned, when we start down for a landing and then immediately pull back up. I'm not even kidding. It was like "haha, you thought you were going to land...just kidding." Then we did a figure 8 pattern for 45 more minutes. It's at times like these that I wish I was not a seasoned traveler. I knew that it was not just air traffic. When its just air traffic they circle you over the airport at a fairly high altitude. When you are doing figure-8s you are burning fuel. So we finally start our descent in again and we came down hard on the nose. I think there was a landing gear problem...but we made it to the gate safe and sound.

Tomorrow I get to check out Sundance Film Festival. It should be fun!

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