ten degrees!

things are going swimmingly lately. i wish i had the personality to say "swimmingly" aloud in sentences, but alas, i will always be a thumbs-up girls. i don't know how in the world i acquired such a dorky habit.

a few notably great things within the past couple days:
1. got the job! oh, so happy. i have not been accepted for a job since hollywood and now i feel "oh-so-worthy" of corporate america (or this time, a kick-ass GUTS counseling position) once again.
2. made plans to meet erin in paris at an authentic panera! the best idea, ever.
3. finally being able to call my apartment a real home... like when you're looking for something obscure like a giant paperclip and you tell yourself "i know we have one somewhere" and when you can't find one, yelling to everyone else to look for this one giant paperclip that "i know we have." that is pretty much home to me.
4. mooooooovies and gingerbread cookies and collapsing into bed every single night

so i've seen lots of movies lately, but most notably, last night i saw "jesus camp" after much aniticipation, waiting, and hassle because of the huge unexpected crowds that turned up to see it. immediately after seeing the previews sometime ago, i was intrigued. last night after seeing it, i ranted vehemently to scott (poor boy) for too long and too sporodically, so now i'm going to attempt to think in actual sentences. on one hand, this film made me sick to my stomach and literally cringe with its footage of extreme Evangelical (at least in the film) close-mindedness. it made me more terrified than ever to think that this one powerful (and rapidly growing) group of people make it their goal to someday run the government and abolish the separation of church and state and who knows what the hell else. like a good documentary, this film made me sincerely evaluate my current beliefs but did not do so in a very classy way. so, on the other hand, after seeing this in a theater full of liberals i'd classify this film as a comedy, a hilarious comedy. honestly, it was difficult not to laugh and scoff at everything while spurred on by the crowds and seeing the ridiculous extremes that the film depicted. i mean, these specific Evangelical pastors admit and practice taking advantage of masses of innocent, "most impressionable" kids by indoctrinating (i believe brainwash is an approriate term) them with these radical ideas that they know nothing about.

to play devil's advocate, the filmmakers sucked and were unfair, to say the least. the main problem is that the filmmakers (who are not Evangelical) explicitly state their honest and objective intent when you'd have to be blind and deaf and dumb not to notice the mockery made of Evangelicals and extremist religions in general. it's just ironic... the narrow-minded filmmakers mocking the Christians for being narrow-minded. the film is full of subtle ironies and misrepresentations, which makes me lose respect for it rather than support it. in summary, it's cut and dry- a non-Evangelical's viewpoint of Evangelical Christianity.