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Goodbye Sleep Lab

Today was my last day at the sleep lab. Ever! (Unless we move back to Rochester rather quickly, in which case Wil said I would have my job back.) Everyone at work has been so nice to me lately, wishing me luck and whatnot. I wish I could tell them everything I felt about them, but I can't. I can write my feelings like a faucet, but when it comes to speaking, I shut up. I think about things a lot, things I'll say in the future to people, things I'll say to people when just the right moment comes up. This almost never happens. It happens when I am drunk or when someone has just said something meaningful to me. That's about it. Today after I hugged it out with Wil I managed to squeak out that he "is a really funny person" which sounds kinda weird but I know he took it well. I only said that because I felt like he was ripe from the hug. Otherwise I wouldn't have said anything, even though right now I'm starting to tear up because he's a rea

2046

I love the Chinese. Especially directors like Kar Wai Wong who puts the same people into his films over and over again. I just rented 2046 , which I'd been wanting to see for quite awhile. It stars Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Li Gong, and Faye Wong. Tony Leung and Faye Wong are two of my absolute favorites, ever since I came across my love for Chungking Express , another Kar Wai Wong film. This film is about a writer who is in love at one point in his past, but it slips away from him. He spends the rest of the film with different (extremely attractive) women, but none of them provide what he is looking for, because of his ideal from his past. So he makes up a story where you can travel on a certain train and go to a place called 2046 to re-live the memories you want. These androids (who just look like really hot women) take care of you, and it supposed to be the happiest place ever. There's one point in the film where they describe an ancient Chinese saying that if you have