Train rides, Lions, Gambling, and Mirrors

the train ride was kind of interesting... not super interesting because i rode from 11:15-3:35 the first time so everyone else was asleep and it was dark out. nothing to do, no one to talk to, nothing to see. the way back it was 2:40-7:15 so it would have been light out for the last bit but i was sleeping the whole time.

sorry to those of you in fargo that i didn't see. which is everyone. i wish i could have seen people but i was at church for like 16 hours each day. the people i saw the most outside of church were my parents. i stayed at home and got rides to and from church from them. and i still saw them under a total of a few hours.

i got the chronicles of narnia books off ebay recently. it took a while to find the right ones. i wanted, nay, i needed to get a copy that had the old numbering. none of this crazy starting with "magicians nephew" crap. and that also meant i ended up getting the same kind i was read before bed as a child.

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i read all of "prince caspian" on wednesday. and three quarters of "dawn treader" one of my new favorite quotes is from the ending of caspian.

"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth."

and in caspian i really loved the part (i will not quote for it is longer) when eustace is a dragon and is trying to shed his dragon skin, but each time he does it is just dragon underneath. aslan says eustace must let him do it. aslan cuts deeper than eustace did, it hurts for his dragon skin to come off, but after it is off it is really off.
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good books.

i saw 21 last night. the first full price movie i have seen in at least 8 months. maybe about 11 depending how you count the cooper theater... let me tell you. there is kind of a difference between the quality of the dollar theater and the brand new dlp projection at the nice theater. wow. too bad it costs eight times as much....