I'll back track from last night first since that was definitely the highlight of the past two weeks. I finally saw Australia! 

A few friends and I made our way up to Santa Monica to quite a nice part of town, I must say, to go to the Aero Cinema. We got there a few hours early because we knew it was sold out and we wanted to get the best seats possible only to find that this was not the kind of neighborhood where people wait in lines. So we just sat at a coffee shop across the way and kept our eye on the box office to see if anyone would make a move to start a line. At about 6pm, we saw all the um..."experienced" (aka elderly) cinema members starting to meander over to the door so we made our way over. We ended up being the first in line for the non-members and hence got some pretty sweet seats. The movie started right on time and ran for the entire 2 hours and 40 minutes, which we were prepared for and it really didn't feel that long. It was amazing. All I had hoped for and more. Definitely a Baz Luhrmann movie - has some throwbacks to the pacing of the beginning of Moulin Rouge but not quite as frantic. Lots of humor - more than I expected actually. And some scenes that will make you cry like a baby - I know I did! I would definitely recommend the movie for everyone. It is so well done and such a great story. It will be released on Wednesday (day before Thanksgiving) and you can click here to find showtimes where you are. They really should hire me for promotions!

After the film they brought out the director, Baz Luhrmann. It was kind of surreal to have him there and hear him talk about the movie and his process and all that. It didn't really hit me that it was actually him and I wasn't just watching a podcast until this morning! We were in about the 4th row so fairly close but none of us brought cameras because we are used to screenings having a no camera policy. So that one is just going to have to be for my memory...and a great one. It kind of made me want to live in LA actually. I think I'd just have to have a lot of money so I could live in that cute little neighborhood and not have to deal with the rest of the LA dirty. 

So after I get off that cloud-nine...I am back to school. I had my last midterm (one of my classes had two) last Wednesday and I did well on it, which I am happy about. I now have three papers to write in the next three weeks and then finals. I am very much looking forward to the semester break. I am done with finals on Dec 17th and Spring semester doesn't start until Jan. 22nd so I have a little over a month of no school. I have a whole list of books that are fairly non-school related that I want to get through. Hopefully I'll meet that goal!

The class schedule for next semester came out this last week as well. Three of my four classes next semester will be with most of the same classmates that I have now, which I really enjoy. Helps all of us get through the tough teachers and sometimes boring lectures. I still haven't decided on the 4th class as I am getting into classes that are electives and I have more choices (the first 7 classes are core courses that everyone has to take). My schedule will be switching around but I am looking forward to the new subjects. 

I also met with the study abroad people for the MBA program. And by people I mean the one woman who is in charge of all of it. Apparently she is overloaded and so I am ending up having to do a lot of the research for classes offered and where I want to go. As of now I am really hoping for a spot at the London university that is linked with SDSU. If I get in there, I pay tuition to SDSU (which is significantly less expensive than the London univ.'s actual tuition) and they have what appears to be practically equivalent classes to what I would take at SDSU. I am really hoping it all works out. But in the case that London doesn't work out I always have my second choice, a university in the French Riviera. Life's tough, isn't it?

Well, I think that's all for me. Back to studying I go!