Optimistic

You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
If you try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
- Optimistic from Kid A (2000) by Radiohead

I am in the the Undergraduate Library, or UGL, or Club UGL as they call it. Apparently it's not a place to study but a place to meet people and be seen. But I'm getting work done so far so it must be all relative. Lee called me not too long ago. That brightened up my day. I went to Barnes and Noble again. The atmosphere is so warm and inviting. And an extra added bonus was In Rainbows playing in the store. Very very nice.
Mari ( her name is short for Mariama) told me about her experience as an extra for the movie Tears of the Sun. Mari lived on a military base in Honolulu, HI. One day while she was out on the base a casting director came up to her and her friends and told them that they'd be perfect as extras in a movie they were shooting on the island. Mari said she was paid $800 to sit around set for a week. the set was the Dole plantation. I asked her if she met any of the stars of the movie. I first asked about Bruce Willis, and Mari said that he was a, "straight up asshole." Tee hee hee. She said Monica Bellucci was really nice and she sat down and talked to them a little, but her accent was heavy. Apparently it was one of her first American roles. I think being an extra in a film is one of my Things to do Before I Die.