So last year I got scared away from typing in a blog. This year I just never got around to starting it back up again. If you know me, you know that I can at times be kinda critical, and kinda negative. I don't want that vibe to be pervasive in my life, so I just stopped writing.
My new goal is to just be a more positive person. I hope to write about that here.
I will still try to be funny though.
So, as time progresses, I will go back and talk about some of the awesome things that have happened so far this year. Hopefully I'll post the first one later tonight. Otherwise, enjoy some of my old negativeness in the meantime.
-Megan
Another year away from home as an English Language Fellow, teaching in Indonesia. --------------------------------- "To while away the idle hours seated before the ink slab, by jotting down whatever trifling thoughts pass through my mind, truly this is a queer and crazy thing to do!" - Yoshida Kenko
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Eat Pray Love
This is a snippet I never finished of a post from last year, but I don't feel like deleting it, so I'll just leave it half done.... enjoy it (kinda).
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So forgive me, this may be all over the place.
I like to go to movies here where I live. Since I moved to my awesome house, I have consistent access to both an internet cafe and a movie theatre. This theatre is $2.50 for a movie and another $3.50 if I want to add a coke and a large popcorn. And before you judge about my large popcorn, it's Indonesian large, which just like their clothing, is really American XS.
Anyway, whenever I come to the mall to use the internet, I usually just run upstairs to see what's playing if I don't have anything really really pressing to do. Low and behold, for some reason, today Eat, Pray, Love was listed. This in itself it a little strange since it's so old, and the movie here are usually relatively new. I still had not seen this movie. I had heard a lot about both the movie and the book. I have to say I was pre-biased against it for a couple of reasons. First, I respect my friend's opinions, and the vast majority of them hated it. Secondly, this movie has a lot to do with why I don't think Ubud in Bali is as cool as it used to be (everyone wants to find themselves/their own version of Mr. Penelope Cruz). Lastly, I'm just never sure if I really like Julia Roberts in anything.
So, I was all set to hate this movie. (This will tell you a little about my life here...that I'm perfectly willing to go watch a movie for 2 hours, that I fully expect to hate.) I pretty much did hate it. I felt a little weird afterwards though. Well, I have been feeling pretty weird a lot lately.
I'm 35. I tell people all the time that I don't really know what happened to the years 23 until now. It's not like the time flew by or anything, there just weren't any particular milestones that stand out as time passed.
************************************
So forgive me, this may be all over the place.
I like to go to movies here where I live. Since I moved to my awesome house, I have consistent access to both an internet cafe and a movie theatre. This theatre is $2.50 for a movie and another $3.50 if I want to add a coke and a large popcorn. And before you judge about my large popcorn, it's Indonesian large, which just like their clothing, is really American XS.
Anyway, whenever I come to the mall to use the internet, I usually just run upstairs to see what's playing if I don't have anything really really pressing to do. Low and behold, for some reason, today Eat, Pray, Love was listed. This in itself it a little strange since it's so old, and the movie here are usually relatively new. I still had not seen this movie. I had heard a lot about both the movie and the book. I have to say I was pre-biased against it for a couple of reasons. First, I respect my friend's opinions, and the vast majority of them hated it. Secondly, this movie has a lot to do with why I don't think Ubud in Bali is as cool as it used to be (everyone wants to find themselves/their own version of Mr. Penelope Cruz). Lastly, I'm just never sure if I really like Julia Roberts in anything.
So, I was all set to hate this movie. (This will tell you a little about my life here...that I'm perfectly willing to go watch a movie for 2 hours, that I fully expect to hate.) I pretty much did hate it. I felt a little weird afterwards though. Well, I have been feeling pretty weird a lot lately.
I'm 35. I tell people all the time that I don't really know what happened to the years 23 until now. It's not like the time flew by or anything, there just weren't any particular milestones that stand out as time passed.
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