free at last

Now that I'm finally done with this crappy semester, I need to clean up things, buy gifts like a fiend, and get some of this in-between-semesters work started.

I totally need to go see Equilibrium, the sci-fi movie about a future without emotions. Despite this unenthusiastic recommendation of the movie, I know I have to see this movie because it's about a world where emotions get excised with a drug Prozium. See, I've been called repressive-boy, an emotional Hitler (hi Elizabeth!), and an assortment of other things because I'm rather emotionless for the most part. I really alternate, however, between thinking that we need to jettison emotions altogether and that we need to express them more openly and directly so that we can learn to deal with them as opposed to run from them.

stalker or cruiser?

I'm horrible at buying gifts for people. Two trips to the mall (once yesterday, once today), and I've only bought presents for my brother from his wish list. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out what to get my parents, my sisters, and others. What would they want? All I know (and sometimes not even that) is what I might want.

I did have an interesting experience of being followed at the mall today. It MIGHT have been coincidence, but very unlikely since this guy literally followed me all over the expansive, non-linear mall, even into the particular sections of the four department stores I visited. When I went into the smaller shops, he would disappear for awhile, but then not long after I was out walking along, he would be hovering around again. I even doubled back a lot, stopped in awkward places and circled around. And he was still there. But he never tried to make eye contact or anything. I'm not sure what was going on. Confused stalker? Just a bored guy getting his kicks tailing me?

Whatever. All I know is it's great to be done with the semester!