Weeds

okay, okay so I am way behind when it comes to this show. The beauty that is Netflix sent me the first disc of the first season of Weeds and I love this show. Basically it is about a weed dealing soccer Mom. Of course it more complicated than that, but I said basically. The setting is a suburb that I swear looks exactly like the town that I grew up in. The main character is Nancy and she is a recent widow, raising 2 boys and doing what ever she has to maintain her upper middle class suburban lifestyle. She is constantly seen with a "It's a Grind" coffee cup in her hands. I am only half way through the first season but I am hooked and can't to see the rest of the DVD's. This is a showtime show so I will have to wait for the DVD's. The show is funny, and dark and sad. A great roller coaster of emotions and you find yourself rooting for the drug dealer!

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Into the Wild

Sean Penn has released his movie version of Into the Wild, a book I read a couple years ago. I want to see the movie. I loved the Jon Krakauer book. Reading Jon Krakauer's piecing-together of Christopher McCandless' life gave me inspiration. Here was a young man, highly educated, who decides ( for totally mysterious reasons ) to drop out of life, burn his money, hit the road and live off the land, spurning any material possessions. He also had an almost phobia for making any personal connections with the people he met. He was a loner, an American nomad.
Some of the diary entries found by Krakauer are really enlightening and a letter McCandless wrote to an old man really made me wonder if this young guy really found the meaning of "living".
Anyway, I never, ever go to the movies. I hate movie going, but I would like to see this movie, hoping Sean Penn adds to an already tragic/beautiful story about a young man who just wanted to live his own way...free.

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A new author for me to love!

It has been such a long time since I have found a new author. Debbie Macomber is not new, but she is new to me. I found her while at the library and searching "knitting fiction". I know I am a knitting dork. So her books come up and I checked out "The Shop on Blossom Street". The librarian even commented on how much I was going to enjoy the book. As soon as I opened the book and read the first page I was hooked (no pun intended). The book weaved together a knitting class, and the women involved. How meeting each other change their lives for the better. Since then, I have read "A Good Yarn" and am now reading "Back on Blossom Street". Each book follows the same formula of a new knitting class and the stories of each of the women in the class. These books definitely fall in the romantic comedy, girly girl kind of books, but sue me I am a girl! Macomber has many more books outside of this series and I can't wait to get my hands on them all!!!
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First wk of school in a nutshell

First week of school. I took three classes: Algebra, Anatomy, Chemistry. 13-units. Had to cut my work hours down to 25.
Anatomy looks great. We have a great teacher who is famous for being a great teacher. I can see why. He is funny, friendly and upbeat. Puts all his lectures and notes online: http://www.biosbcc.net/masson/
Chemistry is different to say the least. Our teacher speaks very softly, meaning we can't hear what he says! It's like watching TV with the sound off. He promises to get a mic and loudspeaker system. He had better. Otherwise a very nice guy and knows his stuff. Four of my female classmates from spring semester are in the class as well. Good.

Math sucked. Our teacher apparently just got off a six-month cruise ship... he did not know the college upgraded to an online registration/add/drop system (like everyone else on the planet has). He was still asking students for their blue add cards. We all laughed. Then he held up his green textbook and asked if we all had purchased it yet. Well, he had the old edition. The bookstore sold us all the new blue edition ($155). His assignment plan does not match the new edition. We got a little upset...and worried. Was this guy born fu_kin' yesterday? Not to mention ten of us, including myself, were sitting on the floor in the overfilled classroom. Try taking notes sitting on the floor for 2.5 hrs.
Anyway, I can teach myself freaking algebra. I dropped the class. I added a PE class so I can get some exercise and have some fun. I also signed up for college credit for my job via a work experience program in the career center.
What else.....oh, the food prices at the cafeteria are too high. A breakfast burrito, coffee, and croissant should not cost $7! Them's Dodger Stadium prices!! We are starving students.

I had fun and have to sign off now to do Chem homework.

PS: Go Cal!!!

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