Date night with Jamie.

August 19

Since it was the last week of classes before our mid-semester break, Jamie and I didn’t really feel like doing much work. On Tuesday, we decided that dinner and a movie sounded much better than doing something as silly as homework. Actually, I don’t think either of us had any homework… but I’d rather think of us as rebels. Heh.

Andrea refused to join us, as she had a Thursday exam to study for. So Jamie and I decided to make it a date. We had dinner at Hog’s Breath (soon becoming a favorite of mine), and decided we’d go see “Charlie Bartlett” at 5:15. It was discount Tuesday, so we only paid $10 for our tickets, as opposed to the normal student price of $13.50. That $3.50 may not sound like much, but that’s totally a load in the washing machine, and then some.

In between dinner and the movie, I ran over to the St. James Theater to pick up tickets for the ballet on Thursday night. Getting the tickets was more of a fiasco than I’d anticipated. When I first tried around 4:00, the woman at the box office said I needed all 4 student IDs if I wanted to buy 4 student tickets. So Una ran around collecting IDs, and made her way down to Courtenay Place to meet me at the theater before the movie started. But, naturally, since we’d gone to all that trouble, the guy working at the box office at 5:00 didn’t really care if we had all the IDs or not. Go figure.

Jamie and I made it to the movie just in time, and enjoyed a slightly cliché, yet entertaining film. Robert Downey Jr. was good in it (as seems to be the trend with him lately), and the kid playing Charlie reminded me a bit of Peter, who I interned with last summer.

Back in my flat, it was Outrageous Fortune with the girls, and an early night.