hitchhiking and other such fun

this afternoon was a fun time indeed.

eric and i went to see hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the movie, which came out today. douglas adams wrote the screenplay himself years ago (obviously though he didn't see the movie production since he's been dead for a bit), and as it says in the intro to the ultimate hitchhikers guide (the book that contains the 5 book hitchhikers trilogy), it was made to contradict with everything else. the movie only covers the first book of the series, and that only loosely since there's new scenes and a character or two waaaay more developed than in the book, and some differences in plot, but overall, hilariously good. i liked the way they ended it. eric's comment was "that was so great! amazing though how some of the acting was so good and some was sooo bad... from the same people even". it was also amusing to see how parts of it were staged. i'm glad i went -- it was entertaining.

after that, eric decided we should go to blimpie to use a discount card he had, only to discover blimpies was inexplicably closed... so we ended up at a diner we'd never been to instead... eric's treat :-) (yay friends)

finally, we picked up jared and went to the rutgers university orchestra concert, which was really good. just got home and now am reading myself to sleep (i'm currently in the 3rd book of rereading the hitchhikers series, and i have an 8am oil change tomorrow so my target is to get up at 7... we'll see how this goes.

at any rate, happy weekend... night y'all!