Twilight thoughts

Typically when I read books, its for one of three purposes. First, it may be required, for school or work. Second, it can be spiritual, motivational or inspirational which helps me grow as a person. Third, it's a "good" book and I will have a fun and entertaining time reading it. What makes a good book better, is if I can relate to certain characters and their experience resonates with me.

Over the past year when I read the first three books of the Twilight series, I tried to see what character I'd relate with most. Would it be Bella? The one who falls crazily/blindly in love with the person that may not be the best for her. Whose actions and reasoning are downright stupid, borderline insane, and oftentimes just a bad decision. Jacob(werewolf) is always in the "friend zone" and is basically there for life. Even though the girl, sees his potential and knows that he is the smarter decision. Although, he is naive, young, and needs some maturing. Edward(vampire) actually gets the girl, so far anyways. He is the hero, who is perfect in every way, except the strong urges to feed on her.
At first, I figured i'd be closer to Jacob or Bella. Analyzing my decisions... sometimes they can be really stupid, ignoring common sense and truth which is a Bella thing. Then I see the Jacob in me. Always the friend... In a few times past, wanting more from someone who wasn't right for me and wouldn't reciprocate anyway. But I also see a more relevant comparison these days.

Bella is caught between 2 worlds. There's her vampire friends, and werewolf friends. The problem is those two groups are seperate. They each have their own reasons, and believe in them. Its just the way things are. Yet they have this intersection point, and in book 3... they actually have to come together.

If you haven't followed previous posts, I'm talking about my gay friends and my straight friends. Two different worlds, yet they share many similarities. And they intersect at this point called my life...

To Be Continued...

Pre-Thanksgiving

I'm back in DC, and ready for this holiday week. Tonight, I went to a Pre-Thanksgiving dinner with roommates and other friends from school. It was truly a good fun time.
Also, it was the main reason for rushing back today. In looking at why I came back for just a few days... I can truly only think of two reasons. Work and friends. Even though, I can work from home, I wanted to go to work, to let them know and make sure that I'm on the same page as to what needs to be done and when.
Secondly, and more importantly, I came back to hang with people before the break. Some I haven't seen in a while(relatively) and some I may not see in a while. This may or may not happen, especially since there is only one other event planned. But the opportunity is there and hopefully, it'll be a fun jam-packed, productive couple of days!!

Its good to be home.

PS - Yay Giants!!

NY Road Trip 09 pt 3

We just made it back to my family's house in NYC. Trip went well, and a friend of my brother is staying with them for this whole week. As for me, I gotta figure what time I'm leaving tomorrow morning, so I can be back in MD by 4. People keep wondering why I"m not just staying here through the break. I mean, going up now to come back in a couple seems, ineffecient and maybe even wasteful, but I'm doing it anyway. Basically I'll be able to get some quality(hopefully) work in, plus I can get to have a couple chill nights with cool friends before the holiday. Crap, I'm looking at the time, and know that I should be waking up in four hours to catch my boltbus back, for the final leg of this trip. Night.