Day 111-113

So, Monday and Tuesday consisted of playing the guitar. Hanging out with Dave and Daniel, and having some more good conversations. We also watched The Matrix, which I haven't seen since it came out when I was like 10. I had no idea it was so philosophical in that we are all plugged into pods - everything is generated through electrical signals to our brains... this whole thinking (originally from a French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard) + the action?! It is such a great movie! Anyway. Now I am set to watch the next two as well, see how the whole thing wraps up. I feel I am finally at a developed state of mind where I can truly understand the complete package of movies like this and other more mindful movies. It has given me a desire to go back and watch all the movies I call my favorites, such as a beautiful mind (did it), eternal sunshine of a spotless mind and the butterfly effect. I clearly remember enjoying them and what they had to offer back when I watched them, but now I feel I could get much more out of them. Another movie I watched with Dan in the last few days was Waking Life, which is by far my favorite movie. I was showing it to Dan for the first time and he loved it as well. This movie is purely philosophical and demands full capacity of your frontal cortex throughout the film. I tell people that you could pause this movie every 5 minutes and have a full day long conversation about what was just said. That is how much of a thinker this movie is, I can't get enough of it.

Wednesday was Cinco De Drinko, err, I mean Mayo! Well to start things off, Dave graduated around noon. So... a celebration was obviously in order. Dave and I met up with Dan at his place and had a few drinks. Then we met up with Nick at the pool hall... we played for probably 3 hours... where everyone was slightly worse due to the alcohol, I was flourishing. I felt as though I was back on my game from when I use to play every day. It was a great feeling! Anyhow, we finished up the pool, everyone temporarily went their separate ways to get dinner and changed and what not. Tonight we were celebrating, it was Dave/Nick/and my last night... not to mention Cinco de Mayo! So - I went to Dave's around 7:30, everyone else showed up around 8 and later and we started the night off right. A little later we were at a bar/club type deal that was into the festivities as well, I got myself a nice cowboy hat/sombrero as well as a Corona beer opener and backpack. Apparently they liked me. It was a ton of fun, and we didn't slow down until 3am. Now we started saying goodbye to some people, and that was definitely sad... I will miss my close friends I met here a lot. The group I have in Scotland is so diverse, it is a really great atmosphere when we all get together; I think it is because for the most part everyone is very non-judgmental and objective about the world. This leads to very accepting personalities and is great for open fun and conversations. Well... at least I have excuses to go visit quite a few different places around the world :).