Saturday Jen and I went and walked around at the Huntington. We immediatly head off the NORMAL path where everybody walks and take a beeline for the Rainforest path. The path head is not marked at all, so you just need to know where the hell to go. If you enter the grounds and walk through the entrance, you will walk down 2 flights of stairs before you can turn left or right on a little path. Don't take either. Instead go diagonally to your right. If you're a military minded person, this is about the 1:30 position. This will take you right under a HUGE oak tree and directly across the lawn in front of the Main Gallery. There is a treeline directly in front of you, and if you look closely there is a path leading down into the rainforset area of the gardens. People will come OUT of this path, so you might be able to spot it from a distance.

Jen and i headed that way and then all the way south past the lower ponds and then finally to the south road. We took this all the way around the perimiter of the grounds, which leads you back north eventualy past the Japaneese gardens and the Chinesse gardens. Well, its not a chinese gardens YET. After the rain, its really just a duck pond. Jen and I spent the most time just counting the ducks. The area that they're making into the garden has a natural depression in the center, which will eventually be made into a large pond, but after the rain it always fills up. The area has not been cleared much, so all that is in the area are california live oaks and brush. The area is a very well preserved california habitat. Jen and I were really amazed at how many ducks had settled in.

We got home after the huntington and decided that we didn't want to cook dinner. We headed out to Hamburger Halmet, and then down to Tower Records. On our way in, we actually walked into Good Guys and (wait for it) we bought a new phone and answering machine. So don't get your hopes up. We'll still not call you back. We'll just be able to delete your message a whole lot easier. So we then went up to tower and grabbed donnie darko and eternal sunshine. Both movies have come highly recommended. Somebody awhile ago said that i remined them of the character from Donnie Darko. Now seeing the movie, i'm confused as to WHICH character they meant. Was it Donnie? Who is fucked in the head. OR was it Frank, who is a guy in a FUCKIN BUNNY SUIT! So i think either way, this person actually was insulting me. I just wish i can remember who the hell had said it.

The movie was great other than i was trying to identifiy with one of the characters the entire movie, because of the "reminds me of" comment. I think i have to watch it a few more times to really let everything sink in. Well if nothing else, it makes me really want to get tickets to tears for fears next month.

So today Jen and I actually tried to sit down and watch Eternal Sunshine. Well it didn't work. If you know Jen you know that she can't sit and watch a movie that has awkward situations in it. People in uncomfortable situations will always set her into motion to do something like go into the kicten and start to clean. So long story short... i went back to playing Xmen and i'll watch the movie some other time.