Greta Garbo, and Monroe, Dietrich and DiMaggio - Vogue

Last night I *thought* I had plans with Jen and her mom, but now i realize they weren't really set in stone. after class i had to buy credit for my phone and got a few groceries at the store. when i got home, i called jen, but she and her mom were at a ballet that was about to start, so i didn't end up meeting up with them.

thanks to encouragement from my friend, bubby, i decided to get out of the house. we were talking about wine and how much our vino enjoyment has cost us over the years. he averaged it could cost up to $3,000 / year. that's crazy! and now that i think about it, i am sure i have spent at least that much, if not more. i have like 70 bottles of wine waiting for me at my parents house in fargo. hopefully it's less than that by now - i did try very very hard to decrease the supply while i was home in august - i think i even gave away at least a dozen bottles. maybe there's only 50 now.

anyway, i mentioned how i could really go for a glass of wine with dinner, but i didn't have any wine here at the apartment and all the stores were closed. he said that he was actually kind of worried that i didn't have any wine around. this may not be a good sign. :)

so, after thinking about it, i realized i could kill many birds with one stone (i almost said kill one bird with many stones): 1) get out of the house 2) have wine 3) finish my homework all by going to the movies! so, i left the house early and went to a 10:15 showing of The House Bunny. I got there 45 min early and set up shop in the little cafe at the movie theater (theaters here are sooo cool) and did my homework. before going in to the movie, i got me a bottle of rotwein (red wine) and some salty popcorn (they also have sweet which is kind of gross). (it wasn't a FULL real bottle - it was a mini one - i'm not an alcoholic!)

the house bunny was cute - typical Legally Blonde meets Adam Sandler flick. It was entertaining and worth the 6 euros. it had an EXCELLENT soundtrack and when i got home i looked it up on itunes only to not find it. then i checked on wiki and there have been no talks of releasing a soundtrack. too bad, it would've been good.

oh, and on the way to the movie, which is kind of on the other side of town in potsdamer platz at the sony center, some guy came up to me in the U-Bahn station (tube, subway, T, underground, what have you) and asked me in a sheepish voice, "do you by any chance speak english?" and i looked at him, "i actually do." so i started showing him how to use the ticket machine and he said, "oh, american! or canadian?" and i thought it was very astute of him to notice my midwestern/sounds-a-lot-like-canada accent. i asked where he was from (we've already established my lack of ability discerne accents) and he said, "well, obviously i'm english" (i nod in agreement as if, of course!, i meant WHERE in england are you from) "and I live about an hour north of london in a town called you'll-never-remember-it-anyway."

we were going the same way so we get on the u-bahn together and he was so nice and cute! oh and gay. i also have to talk about how i am attracting the gays like flies over here, but that is for another time. he commented on how there are a LOT of americans in berlin and i told him my little-known fact that the israeli diplomat in my class told me: 1% of berliners are american. can you believe that! that's 300,000 people! so we chatted and i kind of wish i had given him my card or something - he seemed like a nice, pierced guy, to keep in touch with. (and he didnt have any friends - he was supposed to come with a friend and she backed out on him at the last minute so he decided to come alone anyway.) he was on his way to the gay neighborhood, so i am sure he ended up fine.