lindsay arrived home safe and sound sunday, and found much to her surprise that i'd prepared her a full course italian meal.  many many sweet boyfriend points for that, might i add.  we cuddled for a while, then drove to wal-mart.  i found twelve monkies on dvd for ten bucks.

monday was just her and i, again.  we slept in, then woke up and ran some errands.  she dropped off gifts from the beach for various family members.  then we headed out to reading and the mall.

just sorta chilled out until seven-thirty, since we were going to see insomnia.  we went to fye, where i found chasing amy on dvd for eighteen dollars, compared to the usual thirty.  i snatched it up.  she bought some cd's, the violent femmes and they might be giants (i think, anyway).  fye also had a pi/requiem for a dream two pack for like twenty-five bucks, and rushmore (criterion)/high fidelity for thirty.  i had not enough money though.  we got chick-fil-a, the best fast food restaurant in the world.  i bought incense too, since i was running out.  hung around borders for a while looking at dvds.  by then, it was time for the movie, so we checked it out.

lindsay called it predictable, which i guess it was.  i thought it was more about character than plot though, and pacino played the role perfectly.  robin williams was pretty good, as was hillary swank, but it was pretty obvious it was all pacino's show.  the part of a guy unraveling due to lack of sleep in a place where the sun never sets...fabulous.  i wanna see the original now.

today, i mowed the lawn, then watched amorres perroes which was a seriously disturbing flick.  i liked it, though i really wasn't in the mood for an unhappy ending.  i didn't get one - rather, i guess the closing was...melancholy?  hopeful?  indifferent?  not really sure.  powerful powerful stuff though.  after that, i headed over to lou's, where we chilled out for a while.  it took my mind off of things...

today, my brother found out that his girlfriend's dad had died in the night.  he was really a wreck over it - so was my mom.  so was i, for that matter.  it was just...i don't know.  after i found out, i went on the 'net, and my start page, yahoo, had a story up about how scientists had teleported something.  i thought "well, you know, that's all well and good, and i'm sure it cost a lot of money.  but what the fuck good does it do that guy, and, even moreso, his family?"  it's hard to think positively about the world and all the new shit people can dream up once you've come to realize your own mortality, i guess.  i just hope the family is doing better.  my mom called kelly and kelly's mom today and talked with them for a while, and kelly called ty a couple times.  i worry about tyler too, and am trying my best to be more considerate of the fact that he's a thinking, feeling human being, regardless of how much he sometimes doesn't act it.  this has really shaken him up, i can tell, but he doesn't really wanna talk to any of us about it, i don't think.  he's going to the funeral...alone, i assume.  that's a lot for a kid his age to deal with.  i hope he's okay.  i hope kelly's okay, too.  she's a really nice girl.  they didn't deserve this.  do any of us?