Random Ramblings

*I threw up last night. It was gross. I cried. If this is what morning sickness is like when a woman is pregnant, then NO THANK YOU! My roommates are angels!

*While on the train this past weekend I couldn't help but notice that all the African men who would get on would greet one another and shake hands. I wondered if they all knew each other. After a while it became apparent that they did not, as most of them were introducing themselves when they shook hands with one another. I found this really interesting. Stop after stop everyone else would get on the train and look around for an empty seat, they would promptly sit down and either listen to their ipod or pretend not to notice anyone else. These men would get on board and every time, without fail, they would walk over to the other African men, shake their hands, introduce themselves and start up a conversation. Why? Is it a cultural habit? A form of solidarity? Whatever it was, I found it comforting to know that there are still people like that out there.

* I am watching Anne of Green Gables. It is one of the handful of movies I like to watch while I am sick. It takes me back to a different time and place. Back to a time when my sister, mom and I sit around in our pj's, eating oatmeal or arroz con leche and watching this movie! This movie makes me A) miss my mom and my sister and B) want to visit Prince Edward Island soooo badly!  

Oh yeah, it also makes me daydream about meeting a man like Gilbert Blythe!

How can you NOT love a movie that has little gems like these:

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. 
Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting. 


Anne Shirley: Don't you ever imagine things differently from what they are?
Marilla Cuthbert: No.
Anne Shirley: Oh Marilla, how much you miss. 


Anne Shirley: Tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it. 


Anne Shirley: I know I chatter on far too much... but if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't. Give me SOME credit. 


Aunt Josephine: I like people who make me like them. Saves me so much trouble forcing myself to like them. 


This one is for Kate:
Marilla Cuthbert: Oh, this is a fine kettle of fish. 


And here are my favorites from the sequel:


Morgan Harris: I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry. 


Anne Shirley: Fred is... extremely good.
Marilla Cuthbert: That is exactly what he should be! Would you want to marry a wicked man?
Anne Shirley: Well, I wouldn't marry anyone who was really wicked, but I think I'd like it if he could be wicked and wouldn't. 


Anne Shirley: I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.


and my all time favorite part:



GILBERT: Anne, I'll wait. Even if I thought you cared just a little.
ANNE: I do care, Gil. I always have. But I can never, never love you in the way you want me to. I'm happy as I am; I won't ever marry.
GILBERT: You'll marry, alright. Some fool who will sit and read Tennyson by firelight, no doubt. Build you your castles in the sky. I know you.
ANNE: Please, Gil, I don't mean to hurt you. But you'll see I'm right by and by when you fall for someone else.
GILBERT: You haven't hurt me, really. It's just that I fool myself into thinking that you loved me, that's all.
ANNE: Gil, please.
GILBERT: I hope he breaks your heart, whoever he is.
ANNE: You don't under--
GILBERT: Then maybe you'll come to your senses.

I can't find the exact scene, but it comes right after this: