What a close to the day

Talk about finishing on a high note. While my first block Comp I class drove me nuts, things only picked up (way up) from there.

The highest highlight - Kristie called and said that she has a resort booked for Friday, June 1 for our wedding. It will be a small affair - with just family and a few friends. It's exciting that everything is finally taking shape. Stay tuned for further developments.

Before school Jim stopped up to inquire about my old laptop. I said he can do what he wants with it since it was just collecting dust in the closet. He said that he could remove the hardrive and place it in a 'box' for me that way I could use it as an external hard drive. This was Greek to me, but I said, "Sure."

Just before lunch Jim stopped back up. I swear he's having more fun with my new laptop than I am. Apparently, he had an extra 'box' - a clear box that houses my hardrive (it's smaller than a zip disk drive) with a fire wire connector and adaptor. Now I can back of EVERYTHING on my new laptop.

Then after I talked to Kristie about our wedding, two former students stopped in. One is going to Northwestern in the cities and another is going to the local community college. I was catching up with them and having a good time. Then another current student, who is taking American Lit independent study, stopped in to drop off an assignment. One of my former students said, "Why would you want to take one of Mr. Reynolds's classes externally? That's no fun. You'll miss all of his stories." That made my whole year!

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Update on our 'date' night --

Kristie got home earlier than I did, so she worked out and was pretty tired, so we scrapped going out for dinner. Plus, she didn't want to put back on what she had just worked off. So we compromised and ordered in. I also picked up a movie "The Illusionist." Great film.

That makes it two in a row. Last week we watched the horror film "The Descent," which is easily the best horror film I've seen in 10 years. It's not a formulaic splatter-fest like the "Saw" trilogy or torture films like "Hostel" or "Turistas." Instead this was genuinely frightening. I loved that they didn't bother to stereotype the characters or adhere to traditional plot lines of horror films. And what surprises, imagery, and symbolism.

It is the story of six women who decide to go cave crawling. Some of them are adrenaline junkies - having sky dived, white water rafted and so on -- others are just going along for an adventure and to be with friends. The director dispenses classifying his actresses (the smart one, the weak one, the brave one, the foolish one, the jokester, and so on). I found myself squirming as they crawled through impossibly tight tunnels and crevices. And then they find that they aren't alone. I won't say anymore. See it soon. But you've been warned.