as some may know, the last month+ i’ve been learning to drive (yes i’m the last in my family to learn. there’s really no need to drive when you live in manhattan). this morning was supposed to be my road test. i was pretty confident everything would go well…
i arrive at the test site w/ steph at about 8am… wait for a while… and finally it was my turn to go.
about 10 seconds into the drive, the proctor (i don’t know what else to call her) asks me if i’m wearing contacts (she could obviously tell i wasn’t wearing glasses). i instinctively said “no”… because well… it’s the truth. i got lasik done back in april and my vision has been fine since. we make one turn and she tells me to 3-point turn back to the starting point. i was thinking “wow that was a lot shorter than i thought”
when we reach the parking lot, she tells me “you’re not allowed to take this road test because your learner’s permit says you wear corrective lenses. get that changed at the dmv and reschedule.
!@#~!@#%$#% it’s probably gonna cost me money to get another permit that i’ll need for a like… a week just so i can take another road test.
i found out yesterday my sisters started a youtube channel. they make me laugh. i’ve posted their videos before on this blog and you could see them here. subscribe to their channel! they’re funny!
for the past week or so i’ve been reading this book:
when i was younger, i loved this movie and i had very fond memories of it… though i don’t think i really understood what was going on… i think i just liked that there were weird creatures in it and i thought falkor was pretty cool.
i liked this so much that during my freshmen year in college i made some friends watch suffer through it with me. i thought it would have the same wonder effect i got as a kid but it turned out to be a big joke for most of em… because… i dunno… it was so silly… very much a product of the 80’s. (look at the music video for it. it’s awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3khTntOxX-k . the user disabled embedding so you’ll have to click the link) i still hold on to childhood memories of it though and still think it’s worth watching.
anyway, it never occurred to me that the movie was based on the book ’til quite recently… i never really read books as a kid and definitely didnt think about reading them before watching a movie. after reading it i can understand why the directors of the movie made some parts w/ bastian so weird and awkward… because the book writes them in that way… but it’s less ridiculous in book form.
so if you want some weird fantasy leisure reading, read this book. it’s a bit scatterbrained but i thought it was a fun read… escaping to another world… and recalling some memories of the movie. enjoy!
