Star Wars the Last Jedi and other nerdoms

For someone who couldn’t hold their eyes open for their whole lunch break and had to lay their head on the table for a few minutes to recover enough to make it through the rest of the day I sure am wound up at 1am. This is the sort of thing that tends to happen to me when I get the chance to nerd out with people I like. I went to see Star Wars: The Last Jedi again tonight and I just really enjoyed it again. I went to see it with my friend Megan who is awesome and dorky and wonderful and comes to my Graphic Novel Book Club and may have someone else to bring with her next time which would be AMAZING. 

I think, often times for me anyway, the best part of a seeing a movie in the theater is meeting up with people who love the same kinds of things as you so that when you have finished watching the movie, you can then stand just outside the theater for an hour and talk about the movie you just saw, any related works, and any exciting trailers from before the movie. There are some movies that I have gone to see for no other reason than that I thought it was important to see the special effects on the big screen. I saw the final Lord of the Rings movie by myself in the theater 11am on the morning it came out. I wasn’t allowed to go to the midnight showing the night before so all my friends had already seen it and were either, not able or not interested in going to see it again the very next morning. I understood, honestly, it came out during final exam week for the semester so for some people, coming really wasn’t an option if they wanted to pass their classes. This was high school, not college, where kids are more likely to be following parental guidance and still have to abide by the “my house, my rules” almost every parent on the face of the planet employs to get their kids to do what they want them to do

Wow, suddenly I’m crashing. I wish I wasn’t just yet. I wanted to write a little more. About the Charlotte production of The Nutcracker and the trailer for the Disney live action version of the ballet coming to theaters next year. I wanted to talk about the sweet things some of my friends and coworkers have done for me. Like how Reb got me a Jack Skelliington keychain that is cute AS FUCK. But I’ve typed some of this with my eyes drifting shut (and staying shut) which usually makes for pretty incomprehensible posts. Since I don’t think I’m going to be coherent much longer, I’m going to call it a night and hope that I do better tomorrow.