Sam's Blog

On Saturday night, Josh and I went to watch Sideways, the new Alexander Payne movie. I liked it a lot. I don’t think it’s for everybody though. I think that if you liked Payne’s previous work, you would probably like the movie. It’s a character study and I love Paul Giamatti. He’s one of my favorite actors. It’s nice that Lowell from Wings is getting work too, he was excellent in it as well.

Yesterday started off like any other Sunday- brunch with a friend, this time it was with Lindsay. She finally crawled out of the little hole she was in because she finished the GRE’s last week. She also just came back from Boston, and therefore, so much talking was had. I realized that I haven’t seen her in like, a month and it was nice to catch up.

Halloween is such a weird holiday for me. I never really know what to do. I always want to do something grand, but I get too lazy. And also, how can anyone top West Hollywood? Every year WeHo has a parade of sorts on Santa Monica Blvd. and this year it stretched from La Cienega to Doheny. Alexis was so nice to drive Josh and I to the festivities and we had a nightmare finding parking, along with everyone else. Mike P. and Matt gave up and went home after searching for over an hour. I don’t blame them, it was crazy. We finally found parking far, far away. When we arrived, it was fabulous. So many interesting and different costumes. I was a nun, Nate was a Mormon, Josh was a construction/utility worker, Lisa Lum didn’t dress up, and Alexis was our token black friend. We wandered the streets and met a few random friendly people. Everyone was really nice there, except for the crowd pushers, they were rude. I think my favorite costumes were Al and Peg Bundy, a giant penis, Martha Stewart, a human version of a dirty martini, and a kid wearing nothing but Spongebob Squarepants underoos. I had the pleasure of dancing with the Spongebob boy, he was so cute, but so short, but he was awesome. The highlight of my night came when I saw the pope and he glanced at me and gave me a head nod. That was so funny! I felt so proud. The crowds were huge and there were so many people, more so than two years ago anyway. Only thing that I didn’t like was that people brought their little kids there. I honestly don’t think that it’s a place for kids, but whatever. The more annoying thing was that people brought strollers too. Arrgh. I love kids, but really though. Especially since it was late and they were out on a “school night” technically. The best part about it was that I ran into so many random friends that I haven’t seen in so long. I saw Derek, Molly & Co., Jon Cana, Severino, Lunchie, and Tom, a social worker in my clinic. It was nice to see everybody dressed up and running around like crazy.

We met up with Kurt and Tripp and their crew, so we were 10 strong. We were kinda over the crowds, so we went to Fred 62 to get something to eat. My first time there and it wasn’t that bad. It’s so far, far away from my place though. I hope to go back sometime soon. For some reason, I ordered coffee and it was already 1am. Big mistake. I usually am not affected by caffeine, but this time, I had a hard time falling asleep, so I played on the internet for a while until I got tired. And then I had the strangest dreams. Only going off of a few hours of sleep. It’s been a long day.