Another Productive Day

After finishing off finals early Thursday morning with a healthy destruction of early modern Europe, I celebrated by getting coffee at Starbucks and a piece of that cake that everyone always wants to try, but never actually buys. After actually buying it, I feel as if I can proclaim it as good, but not good enough to ever get on a regular basis. As a growing expert on Starbucks, I'd recommend either the apple cinnamon or banana nut muffin instead.

The productive day indicated in the title refers to yesterday, Friday, January 26, 2007, which will go down in the annals of history as the day the ANNUAL STAR WARS MARATHON went international. Starting at 9:00 AM, we watched the prequel trilogy, took an extended dinner break, and then watched the original trilogy. Somewhere during the course of the day, I spent 14 hours watching Star Wars. The most surprising thing, I think, is the fact that a few people actually completed the entire saga, or at least a vast majority, along with me. It was fun. I've been able to keep my historical obsession with Star Wars pretty much buried in England, so it was sort of fun to revert back to high school for a day. This was the first time I've watched the movies in this manner (marathon) with "normal people." Meaning, people who don't either A) own some sort of science fiction/fantasy costume or B) people who couldn't differentiate between the 1977 theatrical release, the 1997 special editions, or the 2004 DVD editions. As is such, it was a sort of interesting sociological thing as well. You know, there are those of us who are horrified at the thought of not seeing Star Wars, just as there are those who are horrified that some people don't read Jane Austen. Interesting.

Aside from that, the weekend thus far has been extremely uneventful. Absolutely nothing has been accomplished today. Tomorrow morning, I'm going to go to an evangelical Christian church in an attempt to probe the religious psyche of the British. I have to write a final Paideia paper on some aspect of British life, and I'm doing it on why evangelical Christianity is so popular. Evangelicalism, espicially in its political ramifications, scares the hell out of me, so I'm hoping I survive. I think I will though. Anyways, normal life will resume again next week, with class, band, baseball, and whatever else. It'll be nice to get away from this strange sort of limbo I've lived in for the past month or whatever. I might go see the film "Babel" tonight. If I do, I'll review it later.