Aarti, Shefali, Amy and I
Aarti, Shefali, Amy and I just went to the High Dive, this club in downtown Champaign. It was so much fun! I really liked the atmosphere. It wasn't the campus crowd, which was nice. (Miggie, this description's for you <.g>) There were lots and lots of people, but not so many that you couldn't move or that you felt suffocated. The music was mostly techno dance music and there was a ground floor, a raised dance stage with a raised platform on it as well, and an upper level also. Upstairs you could find a quieter area to talk or whatever, and I think there was a bar up there, too, but the main bar was downstairs. There were other rooms off the bar that had stuff like dart boards or whatever, but we didn't really go in there. That good? Heehee.
But this guy started dancing with me... oh my. He was freaking on me. He was having a JC problem. You know what I mean. Ugh. I don't mind dancing with people, but I need my space. Lol. I was so stuck and I kept looking at Aarti and Shiffi to help, and they were just laughing at me. I kept making faces at them, and the guy's friend was watching the whole time. Finally Amy grabbed my arm and pulled me back into our little circle. Lol.
Oh, I also saw A Walk to Remember. We had the most obnoxious group of junior high kids... there were seriously like 35 of them. They took up two entire rows. But once I tuned them out, it was actually a pretty good movie. Mandy Moore did an impressive job. I thought she was quite good. I had a feeling she would be (she seems like the actorly type), and I was glad to see that this was not On the Line-esque. Whew. The only complaint I had is that it hardly followed the book AT ALL. Like, it would have been better if they'd just called it something else and renamed the characters. Almost nothing was the same, except for the characters. And even they were changed, as this version took place more than 50 years after the book version did. Lol. The plot loosely (and I emphasize loosely) corresponded with the book. But if you looked past that, it was a good movie. I cried. Lol. Even though I knew what was going to happen, even though much of the second half of the movie seemed to be there specifically to make you emotional, I'm a sucker for films. I get really into them no matter what they are. Ha ha. So, overall, I would say it's worth it to go see. Probably not one that I will add to my personal film library, but I certainly think it's good enough to pay $6 for, or whatever. <.g>