Riding with the window down…

As many of you know, from time to time, I post entries from my journal back in college. It covers a lot of what happened in the area of dating, sports, some world affairs - just general stuff of interest to a dude making his way in college. (ie mostly girls)

Something interesting happened tonight when talking to an old girlfriend (not sure if that is really the right term - but I know I definitely had a thing for her - that’s all I am saying and you’ll see why.)

We got back in touch recently via facebook and were talking about things “back in the day.” One thing led to another and I remembered those series of blog entries. Sure enough, I did a search on her name and found at least 15 posts which mentioned her. I started reading through them and suddenly realized that some of it was very revealing of my feelings at the time. As posts to random people in cyberspace, I could care less that they knew what was going on back in college - but in the context of one of the involved parties now able to read my attitude toward her, feelings I had kept to myself, and things that happened without her knowledge - it was a bit scary.

Would this information change her perception of the events of the past? Most likely. Would it be for the better? Who knows. Was it right to put that out there and risk causing her pain in reading? I don’t think the truth is wrong, but would never want to hurt her. Would she just find it hilarious that I was such a dork and so insanely immature? I hope so.

I told her on the phone that I am going to rush out and delete the posts, but I knew I wasn’t. It is an interesting dilemma, but despite the fact that I was indeed a boorish, self-centered, cocky jerk at times in college - I just hope that the underlying “good guy” in me can be seen through the immaturity.

I am not sure the outcome or if she will even bother to go out and read the stuff, but the good thing to come from it is that it has reminded me to keep posting those entries. I will restart when I get back to San Marcos.

I was reading through the latest Wayback Machine post and realized that back then I wrote a lot more about what was actually happening in my life and less about stuff like movie reviews and opinions. I thought it would be a good time to bring back the Weekend Update… one, to give some info about what actually happened this weekend and two, cause I want to use the goofy graphic again.

This weekend started off with heading up to The Woodlands to see Ray with Pennie (see earlier post for a review.) We were both kinda beat so the length of the movie made for a late, tired evening. Saturday was a working/film watching day. I have been editing on a real estate seminar and like all editing projects, there are large breaks when the computer is rendering or writing that I have nothing to do. It is then that I updated the blog with movie reviews, updated the sports pages, and took care of basic housework.

Sunday was more of the same with a break to play Magic with Martin, Brett, Zach and Jeff. Geez, maybe that’s why I have been doing reviews - not a lot of big adventure this weekend. haha

Right now, I am still editing and watching The Far Country (1954) with James Stewart. it is the tale of a solitary cowboy staking his claim during the Yukon gold rush. The weather is great again and the back door is open. Lou is sitting in the sunlight just outside the back door and Littlefoot is under the desk at my feet. It’s very cool to be able to take a quick doggie wrasslin’ break between renders… did I mention, this is a pretty good gig?

Next up is another Jimmy Stewart movie, Destry Rides Again (1939), a comedy western costarring Marlene Dietrich that was his followup to his best movie, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).

Tivo has allowed me to setup what they call a wishlist. I told it to record all the Jimmy Stewart movies it finds… I saw Flight of the Phoenix (1965) last week (they are doing a remake of it set to come out soon,) as well as Wife vs. Secretary (1936) but turned it off as his part was too small to be interesting.