I had survived a war, but a banal love story almost killed me

I took a mini excursion to the monuments with Jonna today. I was too lazy to walk or wait an hour catching metros to get back home. Damn you, WMATA. Why must you always be sharing tracks on weekends? WMATA has single handedly ruined every weekend since President’s Day. The cab we caught home was the best ever though. EVER.

The driver was Eritrean and he had the most awesome menagerie covering every inch of the rear deck of his car. I went into stealth mode and tried to take a couple snapshots of the zoo in all its glory. I managed to get one.


Then I went down to Open City and bought takeout lunch. I hate not knowing how to cook anything but rice. I miss my mommie’s food. Open city is nice. Though I am a roll solo at shows and movies expert, I still have restaurants to conquer.

After lunch I got depressingly bored, so I went to see Persepolis at E Street Cinema.



I really liked it. The animation was really awesome, the score/soundtrack was great, and the writing was witty. The opening sequence seemed woodcutish to me. My favorite line was “I had survived a war. But a banal love story almost killed me.” I’m a sucker for banal love stories. But I’m sure you can read all about Persepolis somewhere else.




On the way out I could hear the score to There Will Be Blood playing in another theater. I wanted to sneak back in to catch any part of the movie. I should have.

Tomorrow I go back to work. Sigh. Not looking forward to it. Oh well. At least WMATA will stop acting a fool, and I can shop at Target. Oh, Target. You will return my sanity. I know it!