Today I scanned every possible online search engine for other jobs to which to send my "really creative" application. Thank god I have the ability to be a sort-of swift emailer, as my dearest Eva likes to spend hours penning the perfect email. I suppose I too have spent hours penning emails, as those 4+ hours I spent every Sunday for a month or so back before Eva and I actually 'got together' are the emails that led to us 'getting together.'

So, thank goodness, I too have perfectly-penned emails in me somewhere, otherwise I'd still be living in San Francisco pining over a certain Eva who would be completely unaware. :)

When Eva got home, we headed to the Pyramid Videotheek and rented another film. As I mentioned several entries ago we were going to do our best not to deplete our supply of movies in the first month or so of our having a DVD player, but here we're doing it anyway! :)

It's not that Antwerp/Belgium lends itself to being an extremely video-friendly place or anything (alluding to the fact that Eva and I always dreamed of being able to watch films in the privacy of our own home on rainy days/nights) it's just that it's so fun. We shut down for a bit. We don't have to leave the news program 'ter zake' running endlessly after midnight. We don't have to suffer through European football shows just because it's nice to have the TV on while we're doing other things. Now, instead, we're attempting to get up to speed with all of the films we've missed in the past few years. There aren't really that many we're wanting to see, as we've nearly seen the few that we want to see that are available at Pyramid already. (that means all of four)

Joris came over, as he is now accustomed to doing, and before we left to go to the video store, we actually got sucked into a program on TV about the horrific freeze of the early 60s which paralyzed most of Europe. The footage was amazing. The North Sea even froze. There were amazing photos of waves suspended in mid-air on the beach and boats in the canal frozen solid. Besides the death, destruction and the rise in the price of vegetables, that would have been a freeze I'd like to have seen.

On at the video-store, a guy there was speaking English to the store owner about his 900 Euro heating bill. (yes, all for one month)

He was using all sorts of 'f' words and bits of speech, and we came to the conclusion that he, in the words of the owner, was most likely growing weed in his apartment. It can't be that obvious, can it? To which the guy chuckled and said that he wasn't growing weed with a heating bill like that, he could have been growing 'brown sugar.'

I'm assuming that 'brown sugar' doesn't mean sugar-cane growing in neatly aligned fields around his bedroom. I'm assuming this is a code-word for some other drug. Funny how experiences like this leave me thinking that I not only have lived a sheltered life (thank god) but that I'm still as naive as I was at 18. The fact that he could be doing something illegal in his house which caused his heating bill to be 900 Euros for an apartment just a bit bigger than ours, well I simply thought, "wow, buddy, you've got some sort of leak somewhere..."

Silly me.

We spent the rest of the evening with Woody Allen's movie; The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. To be honest, it was my first experience with Mr. Allen. He's always seemed such a goof-ball guy that his movies have never appealed to me. This movie, however, had a nice blend of humor and 50s dialog. I think we all three liked it. Joris hit it on the head with the fact that, "Woody Allen's movies would be even better if he didn't choose to star in them himself."

Speaking of films, IN THE NEWS:
My dearest best friend from college, a certain Kathleen Latlip, is getting to waitress at the Academy Awards. Her, along wither her other half Rochelle, get to offer drinks and snacks to all of the top-names in showbiz. Of course I'm assuming that they'll also get to offer drinks and snacks to not-so-famous people as well, but it's the famous people that really make it cool! Way to go Kathleen! Who would have guessed that you'd be where you are now when we were living on Rangeline and you were making videos to undeserving girlfriends! :)