vovat | It's Lovely Weather for a Hayride Together with You

It took me a while to finish all my homework for this week, but I finally finished it all. I'm not sure whether I did it that well, but that's for the professors to decide. I guess I really should start on next week's assignments, but I haven't really had the chance as of yet. You know, because writing about Thwomps is a lot more important than doing my schoolwork. {g} I'd prefer not to stay up late when I have work the next day. Sure, I did that all the time in high school and college, but my body seemed to require less rest at that point. Also, I wasn't driving my wife and mother-in-law anywhere, partially because I didn't HAVE either of those.

Anyway, that's enough about school. To get to more enjoyable topics,

bethje and I went on a haunted hayride on Saturday. It was at a rural firehouse that had hayrides several years ago, but discontinued them for a while because the place burned down. Yeah, a firehouse burning down sounds like a bad joke, but that's what happened. I guess they're up and running again now, though. What's odd is that there weren't any young kids on our cart, just us and some people who might have been in high school. It was your pretty typical ride of this sort, complete with guys with smelly chainsaws.

Later that night, we watched a movie called Pin, which was...well, bizarre. Beth had seen it when she was a kid, and remembered a fair amount about it. I guess it's not the kind of thing you easily forget. Basically, the premise is that there's a father who's kind of stern and distant with his kids, and in order to connect with them a little more, he uses ventriloquism to make his medical dummy speak to them. The dummy's name is Pin, which is short for Pinocchio. While the daughter grows up relatively normally, the son develops a complex and thinks the dummy is a real person. After their parents die, he brings Pin to live in the house with him and his sister, and starts using the dummy's personality to commit atrocities. It's a really messed-up movie that I don't think I ever would have heard of if not for Beth.