I just got home from seeing a great movie called chain camera that was sort of a documentary. The filmmakers gave 10 digital video cameras to 10 high school students at a school in east LA for a week, and then those 10 passed the cameras on to other high school students. This went on for a year, and they edited it all down to a 90 minute movie focusing on 16 students. It made me nostalgic for a high school I never experienced, but not for the high school I actually lived through. But then again, I didn't have nearly as interesting a story as anybody in the movie...
But that wasn't the high part of the evening. The best part was when I had just gotten to the movie theater, and I was waiting outside for my friend Lydia. These two hippy-looking dudes came up to me and gave me some muffins:
hippies: dude! do you want a muffin?
ethan thinks: gut reaction == don't take food from strangers
ethan: no thanks, I'm good.
ethan thinks: wait, I'm not a kid anymore, I can take whatever I want from strangers! also I am hungry! hooray!
ethan: wait, are they free?
hippies: yeah man, free!
Hippie #2 offers me my choice of about 30 muffins in a huge plastic bag. It looks like they came straight from a bakery. He later explains that they were extras from the "resource center" down the street.
ethan: cool. this one looks good.
hippies: Take some more!
ethan: uhhh... i'm going into the movie in a sec - I don't know how they feel about baked goods.
hippies: that's cool... have a good night!