I Suck At Lost

last night, karen and i hung out with my friends (marc and kelley).

for dinner, we ordered from the schoolhouse pizza located in quincy. karen and i tried the pizza known as the "dean's list". it was very good. (cue rachael ray's "yum-o" sound.)

anyway, we watched the latest episode of lost while having dinner. too bad i suck at lost. needless to say, the episode was great. it's funny how the time quickly passes watching the show. before we knew it, the episode ended and we were anxiously awaiting next week's episode. oh well.

following lost, we were able to watch a couple of episodes of the greatest tv show ever: buffy the vampire slayer. the episodes we watched were "choices" about willow being taken hostage; and "the prom" about well... the prom. all that is left of season 3 is the two part finale.

of the two buffy episodes, i enjoyed "the prom" the best. (karen enjoyed that episode the best too because the faith character was not in it.) i remember when i watched the episode when it first aired back in 1999 that i thought the episode was quite touching. since then, the numerous times that i have seen the episode, i still find the episode touching. (of course, i find a lot of the episodes touching and simply fantastic. after all, i call it the greatest tv show ever.)

i think what i find most appealing about "the prom" episode is as one of the characters put it: "every now and then, people surprise you", which i find true at times... in a good way. the context around it happens to be that after years of saving her classmates and saving the world, buffy was finally recognized for her selfless deeds. sure, she got an umbrella for it from her class... but i thought it was touching.

and by no means am i comparing myself to buffy. i just remember thinking something similar at the time when my son (braden) was born... and even when he passed away. there was simply so much support for both karen and i at that time, from family... friends... acquaintances... even people we did not know. it was amazing... because i personally was not expecting all of the support. and as sad as braden's funeral service was, it was simply touching to see the huge turnout. it was a nice comforting feeling, to feel connected to the world and knowing that our actions, although seemingly minute in the grand scheme of things, actually can impact others. it makes me extremely grateful and appreciative of everyone in my life.

that said, we had some interesting topics of conversation last night. the one i found the most interesting was in regards to kelley's coworker. her coworker, in an indiana jones and the temple of doom moment, took out the still beating heart of a lab mouse... while singing the indiana jones theme. it probably should be noted that the mouse was paralyzed and bred particularly for that purpose.

other interesting things that came up included: marc actually holding a baby and playing with a 2 year old. even though i personally think marc and kelley would make great parents, marc has never been comfortable around little kids. so, it was a milestone for him to hold a baby; marc also had a nightmare too some time ago involving a little japanese kid... like in the movie, the grudge; and marc was actually asked to star in a role for a movie that a student is producing... so there is hope yet that my online episode experiment can work.

yes, quite interesting. all in all, i had a great time as usual.