Could it be? Another post?

I have no idea who reads this, but you've been in for a real treat these past few days.

And I think things are going to get messier, because I don't have time to journal, due to Christmas shopping and other holiday related activties, the large amounts of grad school application stuff I must do before January 2nd, and the preparation I must do before I leave for Guatemala January 2nd.

So very quickly...

I saw Little Miss Sunshine on Monday and it's a quirky little comedy that I'd highly recommend. It's smartly written, funny, tragic, and hopeful. It's "sweet" in that it certainly has a moral to it, but the characters are complex enough and storyline inventive enough not to be insulting. I also liked the soundtrack quite a bit too, and not just

because there's a Sufjan song in it (which I found to be a bit jolting actually, which may have been simply because of the fact that I recognized it, and hence, noticed the editing, and then didn't like the editing, because I though it was sloppy, but it probably wasn't, etc., etc...). Oh yeah, it also has Steve Correll in it, and he does a superb job, although, really, the entire cast is great.

For my trip, I'm supposed to read a book, and so I picked up a book by Jared Diamond called Guns, Germs and Steel which is about why Europeans have dominated everyone else and not the other way around. He chalks it up to environmental differences and the resultant subsequent societal developments...and as of right now, I think I buy his argument. It's at least, so far, a very interesting read.

And look! New Jersey joins Connecticut and Vermont!

...And is it just me, or does this reek of the separate but equal laws that prevaled for way too long in the last century?