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I got home a little bit ago, brushed and flossed and got ready for bed and am now sitting in bed not feeling as ready to sleep as I should be. I think this may be due to the sizable amount of mild stimulants I ate earlier because I was worried I’d fall asleep in the middle of something. So, instead, I’ll just sort of ramble a bit on what I did all day. While certainly fun, today was not terribly productive.

First, the reason I was so tired to begin with, was that last night I didn’t really get so much sleep. I’m guessing about 4 hours maybe? It was weird because I woke up without an alarm or anything, in spite of having only gone to sleep a few hours before. Anyway by the time I was fully awake it was around 9 I think? I put away some laundry and cleaned up my room a bit. I was pretty starved so I ate an avocado and munched on other random snack-ish things like a banana and some bread.

After doing this, I remembered that the book [tag]Self-Made Man[/tag] by Norah Vincent was due back today and I still had about 80 pages to go. I sat down and read that. The last couple chapters struck me as not nearly so entertaining as the first few. It was an interesting read, though I don’t know if I would recommend it. That is, I found her perspectives on gender relations and gender roles to be quite fascinating, but there was too much other stuff that I didn’t really care about. I almost feel that just reading an exercpt will give you a good look at the fun parts and you can skip out on the rest. Maybe I’m being too harsh though.

Anyhow, after finishing that, I spent some more time cleaning off my desk and setting up the old computer which I had gotten back on Wednesday. Once set up I moved some files around, did some backups and other random stuff.

Mike got in touch with me and said he was up for watching the movie [tag]In the Company of Men[/tag], which we had originally intended to do yesterday but that plan fell through. So I biked over to the library, returned my book, then headed over to his apartment. I hung around there for a while and we played on N64 while waiting for his roommate to go pay his rent, as he’d expressed an interest in watching as well.

I find the movie really interesting to watch. As it happens it’s third time I’ve seen it, though the second time had actually been the night before. I was falling asleep then so I missed a bunch of things. They, being Mike, his roommate and his roommate’s girlfriend, all thought that the character of Chad was too unbelievable. I don’t think I really agree with that though, as I feel like there are definitely people who are like that. They didn’t think that he had adequate motive to do all the terrible things he did, but I think otherwise. Anyhow, this is a movie I’d certainly recommend watching, as it does have a bit of humor in it, in spite of being a very dark comedy. I feel like it’s a movie I’ve thought about a number of times ever since seeing it way back when.

After this movie, I headed home and thought to perhaps take a nap. Instead, I stayed up, watched an episode of Arrested Development, and tried to figure out what the schedule was for later this evening. See, today, err, I guess yesterday now, the fifth, was Annie’s birthday. I thought it’d be a nice thing to do to make her a cake, so yesterday I did. There were some loose plans to go see a movie or something, but Annie had a dinner to attend and other key coordinating figures had other plans that evening as well. So I basically had this cake (a raspberry semifreddo torte) sitting in my freezer and I couldn’t get it over there (as I would have had to carry a pot full of berry compote as well) early, and then later we’d go see the movie and presuambly not return to my apartment afterwards. A few phone calls later it was all sorted out though and I got a chance to bring the stuff over before going to see a movie, and leave it there for until we got back.

With this window, I took the opportunity to try and get in a quick nap, which I did succeed with. I got almost an hour of sleep in here, I think.

The plans, as they ended up, were basically to go see [tag]Mission Impossible III[/tag] (or as I understand it’s abbreviated in ads, [tag]MI:III[/tag]), then return to Annie’s apartment to have cake and drinks.

Earlier when I had dinner, around probably 6-ish, I also consumed a fair bit of mild stimulant which I haven’t done for a while so I probably had too much. The expectation being that it’d keep me awake for the next 6 or so hours. Certainly in that regard it’s succeeded. Though at the moment I feel sort of physically awake but mentally exhausted. I don’t know, it’s weird and not entirely pleasant. I think perhaps it’s wearing off now?

That aside, well, maybe related actually, I really enjoyed MI:III. I thought it was a blast to watch and certainly blows the first two movies in the series away, in my opinion. Nary a dull moment, I’d say.

After the movie we all headed back to Annie’s apartment and had the cake. I’d never made it before, but I think it turned out pretty well actually. It looked astonishingly similar to the picture on the recipe site where I found it, and it tasted pretty good to boot. The crust was a little thick around the outside edge so maybe if I make it again I’ll work on that.

And that I think is about everything I did today. There’s probably stuff I missed, but whatever. I’m feeling a bit more sleepy now so I’m going to put this computer away and get some rest. Me and my roommates have decided to spend the whole day tomorrow doing stuff together and we need to be on a train at 10:00 in the morning or something. Hopefully 6-7 hours will suffice tonight. [tags]baking, dessert, torte[/tags]