In the subtitles I wrote that Oh I love you how I love you!

The short of it:
The trip to see Mattison was wonderful, our relationship feels solid, and classes are almost over.

The long of it:
Back from my Cinci/Baltimore trip. In spite of my original hesitations, it was a spectacular, wonderful trip. The bus trip was alright and Cinci is a pretty cool city. We stayed in the most luxurious Budget Host which had two telephones in every room, one by the bedside and one next to the toilet. You could probably populate a small town with the residue on the bedspreads, but that's just a guess. The plus was that Mattison and I got a room to ourselves, which is a little awkward considering the Bradys would not let me help pay for it. We were thankful for the privacy, awkwardness aside.

After dinner we saw The DaVinci Code...it was okay. Tom Hanks was definitely the wrong person for the role of Langdon, although my most lovely Audrey Tatou did a great job. I'm glad they're calling this her "break out" role, especially after Amelie (2002), Dirty Pretty Things (04 maybe?), and A Very Long Engagement (2005), and all three of those movies are leaps and bounds better films than DaVinci*. The van was not working well enough to trek back to Baltimore, so Mr. Brady, Matty, and I took a rented car back while Mrs. Brady and Conor headed up to Hudson to visit the grandparents and get the van fixed.

Matty and I watched A History of Violence and Millions, utterly different movies. History was pretty good, albeit bloody as hell and sporting a very, suprising (as in I was suprised it happened) sex scene. Millions was brilliantly uplifting, there's nothing like adorable children with British accents trying to do good in the world to make one feel better. Mr. Brady, Matty, and I went to the Baltimore Zoo, which was cool and a little bit depressing (as zoos tend to be). It was the first time I remember going to a zoo and seeing the animals actually moving. The leopards and the otters got my best of zoo nominations, as the leopards were super fierce and the otters adorable. Then Mattison and I celebrated our year and a half anniversary (which really isn't til the 4th, but it's hard to celebrate when you're 500 miles apart) by getting some amazing Indian food and having ice cream.

It was relaxed and spectacular, wonderfully reaffirmed the ease and general good vibes of our relationship. It's very exciting. I'm looking to go back around the Fourth of July, since I'm pretty positive the Gambia thing is going to wait until next year due to finances and the fact that the rainy season is coming up.

But I'm home now, had a date with Jen last night which was lovely. The topic was the Human Condition and we espoused our theories, brilliant as usual.

Class was cancelled today and I have only five more lectures in each class before I am freed for the summer. Very exciting. Time to go read some Woolf and enjoy the sun.










* I have not seen Dirty Pretty Things, but being a more cinematically important film than DaVinci isn't really that hard.