The Optimist

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Kristen Gudsnuk

on April 4, 2009

ew, I'm not too happy with how this is. I'm exploring new word bubbles, among other layout-y things. For instance, I put Kazimieras' thoughts in a box; if the consensus is that it's better that way, I'll go back and do that for previous inner monologues.
Well, today I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival! A DC staple. It was fun….. uhh… nothing much happened though. we didn't stick around for the bands. meh! I got a little bit of sunburn!? it was very sunny after all.
I saw Adventureland last night; it was really good. it markets itself as a dumb teen comedy, but it's actually a sobering bildungsroman (lol, aka "coming of age" story… german sounds so much better though!) with Bella from Twilight playing the same moody teenager (sans vampire crush).
The rest of the ensemble (especially the proto-hipster friend and Ryan Reynolds,

EDIT: wow, you guys missed a long-winded review of ADVENTURELAND… it got cut off.
fixed the page per hyena hell's advice!