For my creative writing class we were supposed to rewrite a myth or fairy tale. As you can imagine, this presented me with a plethora of wonderful opportunities to do great evil to the long cherished tales we all know and love. And with that, here’s my rendition of Sleeping Beauty.
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I finally went and saw Thank You For Smoking, and I’ve got to say it was pretty much the greatest movie I’ve seen this year. But the weirdest thing happened before I went into the theater. My friend Adam and I were standing outside waiting for him to finish his coffee and this bus pulled up right next to where we were standing. The doors opened and this really tall black guy stepped out. But as he was descending the steps from the bus, he pulled an empty, wadded up hamburger wrapper and threw it at my head. And it hit me right in the side of my head above my ear. I clearly saw the guy do it, but when he noticed me looking at him he just looked up at the sky and walked away like nothing had happened. I was so baffled that I could only stand there and gape.
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I was home for the weekend and went and saw Silent Hill. I really enjoyed it, but to be honest, I think I would have hated it had I not played the game beforehand. The move has a lot of throwbacks to the game and you miss a lot of the greatness if you don’t catch them. And strangely, I wasn’t really ever very scared. I guess playing the game (which is scary x1000) helped me to develop a spine of sorts or something.
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I had a job interview yesterday, but I didn’t end up going to it. I did wake up early and call to let them know I wasn’t coming though, so I’m not a complete slacker. I just don’t know that I could face going to work with dirty clothes and people at least forty years older than me. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad, but I just feel like there’s something better out there. The holy grail of jobs is waiting for me somewhere, and I’m determined to find it.
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Ah, spring is finally here to stay. It’s after Easter and the trees have leaves and my car is filled with rainwater! Beautiful days. And speaking of cars and trees and rainwater, I had a job interview early this morning. I think it went pretty well. Less than two hours after I got home I received a phone call to set up a second interview. That’s on Wednesday. So maybe after that I will officially be Andrew Welsh of Widmer’s Dry Cleaners and Laundry. It seems like an okay job, but it looks like I’ll be the only person working there who is under 55 and male.
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