Graduated Learning

good weekend!

It was definitely nice to have a three-day weekend. I got to spend time with my family, eat good food, and relax. Plus it was the 4th of July! So, that made things even better. Sunday afternoon, my family and I went over to a friend of the family's house for a cookout and such. My little sister and the girl in the family her age went swimming, but I opted out. But I did end up playing volleyball with them. I also played a bit of Frisbee. I have to say, I'm pretty proud of myself. . .I was actually starting to get good! The last time I played with a Frisbee, I ended up tripping over a tree stump at the Fens. And I wasn't throwing or catching it very well. This time, I did really well! Our friends live pretty close to Veteran's Park, where fireworks are set off every year, so we watched the fireworks from their backyard.

Last night, we went to a Trenton Thunder game. The Trenton Thunder is a AA minor league baseball team. They are affiliated with the New York Yankees ::shudder::. Ironically, the team that they were playing against was the Portland Sea Dogs, who are the AA affiliates for the Boston Red Sox! I have to say, I felt a bit torn. I wanted to root for my "home team", the Trenton Thunder, but I also wanted to root for the Sea Dogs because I knew they might eventually be Red Sox players.

I've been watching quite a few movies recently. I am almost ashamed to admit it, but I watched Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous last Thursday night. It's definitely just a silly movie, but I guess it's just fun to watch, and I actually enjoyed it. Sometimes you just need something light and fluffy, you know? Friday night I watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I haven't watched that movie in so long, and I knew that it was somewhere in our movie cabinet, so I just had to watch it. Made me smile. :) (oh, and check out the lego version!). Saturday night, we rented some more movies. We watched The Terminal. Nice, heartwarming movie. . .though we got a little frustrated because the disc kept on skipping. . .We also rented Blazing Saddles (yay Mel Brooks!) but we haven't gotten a chance to watch it yet. Maybe we'll watch it tonight!

I also finished reading another book. I finally got around to reading The Da Vinci Code. It's relatively well written, and definitely a bit trippy. . .but it wasn't bad. The beginning half, you might start getting confused as to what's reality and what's fiction, because the stuff they talk about is all "real" stuff. As my dad puts it, "The nouns are true, but the verbs aren't." The later you go in the book, the more it turns into a novel. The fiction becomes more apparent. Hopefully I'm not giving anything away by this. It's really a good book, and I'm interested to see how they make it into a movie. [trailer]

Oh, I almost forgot. Katelyn says I should write about penguins. Well, here are some things I know about penguins. In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Arthur Dent says to Ford Prefect, "You're turning into a penguin. Stop it!". the other thing I know about penguins is that there's a documentary about penguins that recently came out (i heard about it randomly on the news. It's called March of the Penguins..

Well, that's I'll I've got for you. I saw on the MIT Website that the blog survey I posted about is a big deal!

-Stephanie