A little bit of everything

*Last movie I saw: Tropic Thunder. I thought this movie was absolutely hilarious. It makes fun of how self-involved/obsessed people in the movie industry are. My favorites are Ben Stiller as Tugg Speedman, the shitty actor trying to be taken seriously by starring in "deeper" movies, and Roberty Downey, Jr. as Kirk Lazarus, the serious actor who takes his job a step too far in undergoing some kind of skin pigmentation therapy to play a black soldier in Vietnam. Tom Cruise has been getting praise for his take on an overweight, balding, borderline-evil movie studio executive; there's even been a talk of this role redeeming his career, but I think it's going to take a lot more than one supporting role in one movie to bring him back from the depths of crazy he's chosen to so publicly plunge to in the last few years. There's not really a lot more to say about this movie besides that it's really funny. Robert Downey, Jr. continues to make me happy that he's making such a successful comeback--he's dreamy.

*Things that are bothering me: the heat, the walk to the Tenleytown Metro, the shuttle ride to school from the Metro, the shallow girls I go to school with, the feeling that I'll never have a life because I just don't have the time, many other little things.

*What I want to do: be picked for one of the junior staff positions on the Human Rights Brief, calm down, sleep, something fun this weekend.

*What I'm looking forward to: Kathy Griffin on the 28th, going back home eventually, Christmas break (already!), voting in November (and not for the crazy people, even if one of them is a woman), being done with this first year of classes, colder weather.