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2004-01-18 Missed My Chance Again I don't think I've ever had so much trouble getting to see a movie in my life and I'm having with LoTR: The Return of the King. I had thought to myself last night that if worse came to worse, I'd just go see it by myself today at the 12:20 showing. I should have kept that plan. I decided that I'd feel like too much of a loser going to a movie by myself. I went to see the X-Files movie alone one time, and I found that I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have had I gone with someone. I loved the other two LoTR movies - I really didn't want to marr the third one. So. Here's the story. I don't normally write about my arguments and periods of being pissed off at people who have my url and might read this (I don't know if this person reads it or not), but I decided that today I feel like such shit that I really don't give a damn. Before Xmas, Andrea and I had decided to go see LoTR together, though we knew we should wait until the initial madness of the first couple of weeks passed. We agreed on the new year. That time came and went, and at some point not long after New Year's, I called Andrea to see when she wanted to go. She mentioned that she had already gone to see it. Apparently, it is her New Year's Day "tradition" to see the newest installment of LoTR. Which is sort of funny (but not in the ha-ha way), since that was the first I'd heard of it. When we were making our plans, she never mentioned that we'd have to see it on New Year's Day since it was her tradition. Granted, I was hungover that day, but if I had known, I never would have drunk that much beer; as it was, I had no real plans for that day. Last weekend, Andrea and I spoke and we decided that if I wasn't working and didn't have an interview, we'd go see it on Wednesday (last Wednesday, that is) since she doesn't have any classes that day. I called her on... Tuesday, I think, and asked her what she was doing on Wednesday. She said she and her friend from architecture were going to talk about a project and then 'maybe go see a movie'. Hmmm.... Uh, okay. So I tried again for this weekend. I couldn't go yesterday because I had a few errands to run and I was making dinner for my mom in celebration of her birthday, but I mentioned Sunday, today, as a possibility. She couldn't make the 12:20 showing, and I wasn't really into seeing a movie that runs for almost 4 hours (including the previews here) at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I'd be out at 8pm without having had supper. So I decided I'd go by myself. As stated above, I wasn't really keen on the idea, but I really want to see the movie in the theatre. I called her this morning at 11, mentioned it to her and told her to call me back as she didn't have many minutes left on her cell. She finally called after 1:30. To tell me that she had too much work to do. I'm not really upset about that last one. If she has school stuff to do, I understand. I've been there. But I don't know what was going on those other two times. Whether she intends it or not, I sort of feel unwanted and unimportant. She has her new architecture friends now, and maybe they're cooler than I am because they have their own apartments and go out all the time, and they're all studying the same thing, etc. It's just that Andrea and I have been friends since grade one. Since we were six. Yes, friends often drift away from one another as the years pass and life takes them to different places, but I honestly never thought it would be like this with Andrea and I. So now I have to wait until Tuesday. Tomorrow it's only showing at 8pm, and that's just nuts. Tuesday it's going to show at 12:20 again. So I guess I'll have to suck it up, feel like a loser and go see it by myself (IF I'm not working and don't have an interview, both of which are quite possible). Because I'm tired of counting on other people only to be let down. I realize that some of you will be thinking, "It's only a movie", and maybe you're right. But these movies are well worth the money and time to see on the big screen. I saw the last two in the theatre, so I'd like to see the final one there too. If I miss it and have to wait until August to watch it on my little TV screen, I will be seriously pissed off. |
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