nagi_schwarz | Day 567: yay sequences...or My Name is Nagi and...

I am a slacker!

That's right. Today, sure I went to school two and a half hours before my first class and did homework. But then when some homework was done I turned my attention to working on that Valentine's story. I've gone through four - five? - incarnations now, and it's just not coming out how I wanted it to at all. Which bothers me immensely.

I ran errands on campus, which was good - got money out of the bank (to buy gas and food and things) and went to the pharmacy to get my machine adjusted (hope I'll be able to sleep with it tonight) and then when I came home...my DVD was in the mail!

So I watched it instead of doing my homework. It was King and Clown with Lee Jun Ki, who is just too pretty for his own good. It was an interesting film, to say the least. I enjoyed the acrobatics and the music. And it was intense. I know I missed a lot because my frame of reference for Korea is sort of non-existent, where for Japan it's pretty good. I think Lee Jun Ki is very pretty, and I'm not afraid to admit I watch movies for Bishonen. But wow - he was an amazing actor. His character was quiet and didn't say much, but somehow, he just totally broke my heart. It ended beautifully and tragically - he and the other clown both died. The movie was seriously intense, though, and when it was done I knew something in me had been rearranged and broken and refit a bit wrong and oh-so-right, but I had no idea what it was.

If anyone wants to watch some pretty boys and intense acrobatics and an interesting cultural study, check this movie out. How I now have weird movies of this genre for four countries - America, England, Japan, and now Korea. Wonder where I'll find the next one...?

Today was...weird. Last night I was waiting to chat online with my parents (because they can't call me from China) and I was also chatting with from friends from back home, and one of them reeled off with the news that President Hinckley was dead. At first I didn't want to believe her, because, well, I thought it was like one of those times when the news goes around that Castro is dead. I figured, at first, that I'd have heard it at church. And I checked on the internet - nothing. Even though so many disreputable and unreliable things end up on the internet, my first instinct was that, well, if it wasn't on the official website, it wasn't true. But it was.

I don't know why it made me sad. Okay, I mean, I know why it did. He was a great man, and he's dead now. And my first thought was that he's back with his wife now, and probably happy for it. But it threw me off a lot. While I was being a goofball and talking on the phone to Justin, he just slipped away. Granted, he was 97 years old, and he looked a bit frail at the Christmas devotional, but... At school I talked to one other student about it. The other students who were members, we just smiled at each other and didn't say anything. I checked the JRCLS message board and looked at the news story they'd posted for a bit, but I couldn't look at it for too long.

Wow. Don't usually get like this. This entry is very disjointed.

Tonight at FHE was speed dating. Sort of useless for me, since half the guys I talked to I already knew. It was a lot of, "hey, how are classes?" or "how's work going?" Apart from getting some good advice from Ryan about playwriting and a line that Dustin likes comic books, it was pretty useless. I just like talking to people.

It's also the dorkiest thing ever, but I'm pretty excited for it. I'm sure he's not the first to have done it, but he did it - Ryan invented a version of Quidditch for Muggles. And a bunch of us are going to play this Saturday. I'm going to have to buy a cheap broom because the one I have is made of rice stalk and is very frail, and it cleans so well that I can't bear to lose it before its time (and that was totally channeling my mother), but I'm excited to play.

Anyway...long day...sorta weird day...