so it was actually a good thing we ended up not going to madison for reem and donielle's party last night, because i would have driven. and if we were going to the party, jenn and i may not have run around doing all the stuff we did yesterday. which means my car would've blown up in the middle of the nowhere that takes place in the 80 miles between oshkosh and madison instead of overheating and blowing up in a lane of oncoming traffic as i tried to turn into the parking lot of my car repair place after it started looking quite uncle-buckish. translation: lots of smoke and some rattley noises, which is probably the radiator or water pump or something...

(no real explosions happened, and most likely it won't be an exorbitantly expensive fix, but i'm still glad we were actually on the way to the shop when it died.)

in other news this city sucks, but you already knew that. add to the long list of evidence exhibit X: the lame-ass-redneck 30something year old woman who had a serious problem with jenn and i at the movies yesterday. we were at least 5 rows behind this couple, the previews wouldn't be starting for another 15-20 minutes, and jenn and i were talking blah blah blah whatever. this woman decides she has a huge problem with us. just us. or maybe, more accurately, just jenn. just about all of the yelling was directed to her. other people (closer to her, mind you) were talking at the same levels. she yells to us that we're ruining it for her, we're gonna be reimbursing her for her movie ticket, asks if we wanna take this to the parking lot, ("you wanna go? you wanna take this outside?" i believe the threat was) throws a handful of what we hope was just peanuts at jenn. and then she yelled some racial shit.

make no mistake, we didn't just sit there and take it, plenty of yelling back at her came from our seats and some of the other patrons looked a little freaked out.

as soon as the previews started she shut up, but continued to shoot us dirty looks every time she heard a noise. even when the noise didn't come from our direction. the whole thing was just freaking stupid. racism is stupid. and, coincidentally, so is small town wisconsin.

on the upside i loved dawn of the dead. wow. and the word is in, i've decided to go full-time at the gig i've been secretly moonlighting at for the past year and a half. you should come visit while i'm working - tell em the big nasty redhead sent ya!