Shining On

We can never move now. There's no way Darin is ever arranging something like this again.

I went over to the Musketeers' house today, the Musketeers being the three GSPers who live together (so named because one day in class Brooke said, "I see the Musketeers have skipped out to go home and smoke pot"). Most of the people in the Film History class showed up so that we could study en masse for the final tomorrow. Except half of the people there wanted to watch the various basketball and hockey games that were on today, which was highly annoying.

When the pizzas arrived, somehow we got into a dishing session about Bernice, who is way, way, way more radically disliked than I knew. Even David, who is the sweetest guy in the world, had a story about her.

The worst thing I heard was that the Musketeers (of all people!!) found a personal ad Bernice put in the LA Weekly. We wondered what kind of responses she'd gotten.

There was a discussion of whether Bernice would be easier to tolerate if she were stoned.

I turned to Jackie and said, "My social paranoia is such that I imagine this same thing being said about me when I'm not here."

She said, "I know what you mean."

It's just like high school. And I mean, everything we fear about what high school is like.

Darin and I started watching The Shining, which Fernando taped for us. It's almost exactly like the novel. It's a bit slow in the beginning -- as I put it to Darin, "Now they take a walk around Exposition Park" -- but we stopped at the point where Danny, the little boy, is letting himself into Room 217, and I was pretty damn creeped out.

In further televised news: Homicide on Friday was excellent. I love that show. It was especially noticeable coming after Millenium, which managed to make a serial killer with a weird animal fixation look boring. It's like: talk, talk, describe serial killer's emotional problems, talk, weird killing, talk, talk, talk, describe psychological difficulties, talk...

They clearly have to take a new tack with that program, even if FOX did give it another season.

Darin cooked again! I love living with him!

The current book on my roster is The Winner Take All Society, a business book about the mores of our current society, how we're oriented towards giving higher and higher payouts to success stories -- thereby drawing people away from being more useful to society.

You know, like all of those people running around trying to be screenwriters.