"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."

#20 on the '30 Killer Movie Closing Lines' by TotalFilm.

i liked Chinatown. it was one of the only movies that i really liked from my Amherst film class. that, and Blue. and Elephant. and Breathless. i definitely appreciated that class more after it was all over than while it was happening.

so. work tonight was good. from 4pm until about 6pm i was hanging out with the little girls. first we were playing in the office. they were having crawl races. man, the little one can really move fast. then we moved into the living room. we watched Elmo in Grouchland. the part about bouncing at the end always really confuses me. it's so strange. but, one of the girls sat on my lap and cuddled with me while watching it. that was sweet.

from 7:30 to 8pm i was at the library with one of the residents. i paid off my late fees. my books were like, three months late. ah well.

then came home and Courtney was on the computer reading yahoo's celebrity gossip site, OMG. i was very excited about this. we went through all the celebrity pictures. Courtney is awesome. i think it's really great that we work together. we came to a picture of Adrian Grenier, from Entourage. and i got very sad because i MISS ENTOURAGE SO MUCH. so i said,

JULIE: OMG! I love him!!! Entourage!!!
COURTNEY: He's pretty cute!
JULIE: Entourage!!!
COURTNEY: And! His last name means 'attic' in French. And you LIVE IN THE ATTIC!!!!
JULIE: Basically we're meant for each other.
COURTNEY: Basically.

yeah. that's how awesome it is working with Courtney.

and i gave one resident advice on dying her hair. and then i french braided the other two resident's hair. i think the staff office should now be known as, Julie's Hair Salon. number one for all your styling needs since 2008.

i feel like i had a point to this blog entry. like, i meant to tell you something. hm.

i realized that after tomorrow night's shift, i'm just doing overnights until after thanksgiving!!!! i am happy about this. i am even more happy because i really have nothing to do on all those days.

i'm really dreading having to leave Ruby Tuesday over my thanksgiving break.

OH! i just remembered something!!!! the heater guys are coming tomorrow! or, today, i guess. sometime between 12:30pm and 3:30pm. doesn't that suck? SUCH big window!

but, they're cleaning my heater and i am happy about that. it's all dusty. that heater makes me so nervous. it's like a fireplace in a metal box. one central heating source for the whole apartment.

wow i'm really tired. i guess i have to be up early. kind of.

it was COLD tonight. when i went out to the library it was like, 30 degrees. crazy. it was like 70 degrees all weekend in providence.

on saturday night kara and i got pad thai from this chinese restaurant down the street from where she lives. wow it was so good.

i guess i have nothing much else to talk about. i'm tired.

OH!!!!! i know what i can tell you.

so. monday night i was looking out my window. the window in my bedroom that overlooks the street. i like to inspect my neighborhood at nighttime. to see who's still up in the houses around mine. so, i'm watching the street very carefully. and then i see movement in the trees across the street.

immediatley i look over and a fox RUNS out from the woods holding something in its mouth. i think it was a squirrel. but it was a big fox. the first thing i thought was,

1. there better not be any deer chasing that fox
but the second thing i thought of was,
2. fantastic mr. fox opens next week!!!!!!!

also, something has changed in our newspaper delivery system. i never used to know when the newspapers were delivered. but the other night i was in bed and it was 3:30am and i heard this loud car drive by very slowly. and i could see the light from the headlights in my bedroom. so, i jumped out of bed and looked out the window. and the person in the car threw something into our yard.

at first i thought it was an egg. and i was like, "holy crap someone is egging our house!" but then i thought, "no wait, i bet it's the newspaper."

so, i waited until the next night at 3:30am. sure enough, i was in my living room and heard the car drive by.

and then tuesday night, i got into bed at 3:22am and i thought, "okay, i have to stay up for a little bit to see if the newspaper car drives by." SURE FREAKING ENOUGH, at 3:28am, the car drives by. i look out the window real quickly and the guys throws the newspaper into our yard.

now, i don't know if it's the same newspaper guy in a different car. or maybe something happened to his car over the weekend that is causing it to make this loud noise. or maybe it's a new newspaper guy who they just hired. maybe they changed the time of newspaper delivery.

but, something is different. because this is the first week where i have ever heard the newspaper be delivered.

and after the tuesday night delivery i thought, "newspaper delivery could be my next job." because, it takes place in the middle of the night. but then i quickly thought, "hm...driving around slowly at nighttime with my window down......maybe not." and also, there seems to be a higher chance of seeing deer or moose at nighttime.

today i was driving back home from getting coffee and i started thinking, "why don't deer come out more during the daytime?" are they scared? are they sleeping? are they busy? and then i thought, "well, i'll just have to start doing more things during the daytime." but then i remembered that i hate doing things in the daytime. i would much rather do them at night. which is prime deer time.

clearly, the reason why i am so terrified of deer is that i cannot stop thinking about them. ALWAYS i am thinking about deer.

there have been more than few instances where i'm in my bed and can't sleep because the thought of deer outside totally makes me paranoid. and i'll go to every window and check for them.

enough! enough talk about deer. and it doesn't help that deer are kara's favorite thing ever. she has a deer poster in her room at school. it's actually a poster for a band, but it has a drawing of deer on it.

ok. for some reason it's really hard to type right now. i think i'm really tired.

so, i'm going to go to bed. get a good, long sleep before the heat guys come.

alright, sweet dreams everybody. if i don't talk to you before work tomorrow, i hope everyone has a great thursday! a productive end of the week.

take care.

over and out.


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