Hoo-ah!

I watched Black Hawk Down last night. I was looking for a good flick w/lots of action & suspense, and it really delivered. (A cast full of hotties like Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, and Orlando Bloom was just icing on the cake). Memorable quote by Sergeant Eversmann, played by Josh Hartnett, as he's paying his last respects to a friend who was KIA while protecting another soldier:

"I was talking to Blackburn the other day, and he asked me, 'What changed? Why're we going home?' And i said, 'Nothing.'

That's not really true, you know. I think everything's changed. I know I've changed.

You know a friend of mine asked me before i got here ... It was when we were all shipping out, he asked me, 'Why're you going to fight somebody else's war? What do you all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say, 'There's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.'"


Three weeks left at work and 12 until school starts. I've been running around taking care of medical appointments, and I'm starting to gather my stuff up. I went through all my books and took a bunch to the Half Price Bookstore in Montgomery today. They only paid 5% of the cover price for the ones they wanted, but they were giving twice that in store credit, so I took the store credit and got 3 travel guides -- ones to NYC, London, and Paris. With moiji going to Germany, I'd like to see Europe next year.