Watched The Forgotten with the Politician. I've mostly outgrown "Mystery Science Theater 3000," but I still appreciate a bad movie. And this one was awful.

Bad actors, bad directing, bad script. Pi cost less than a million to make. Super Troopers around three million. Napoleon Dynamite, which I have yet to see, cost $400,000. This movie spent about that much on its "whisking people up into the sky" effect. Just saying.

I haven't intentionally gone to a bad movie since Dylan and I saw The Day After Tomorrow this summer. But back in the day we used to see bad movies all the time. Crossroads, Dungeons and Dragons, Reign of Fire. The lower your expectations, the funnier the movie will be.

Once I went to a movie expecting it to be awful, and it wasn't. I fell in love with Josie and the Pussycats that day. I didn't go with Graham, but I think I heard him laughing a few rows back.

Best bad movie experience: The Skulls with Manney, Graham, and Graham's sister Erin, curator of the famous "Erin Lampa collection." These are the people who taught me to talk during movies, a habit I find hard to break.

I needed to see a bad movie. The last one I rented was Van Helsing, and that was months ago. So I was due, and I needed to relax after getting rejection letter nummer drei.

I'm starting to agree with everyone: I should've applied to more schools. More importantly, I probably should have used the essay that's indisputably my best (a thing I wrote last year on modernist solitude) instead of the one that "deals with jargon effectively." Everyone likes clarity.

I'm still waiting on the University of Chicago, and while that's always been my first choice, my chances are statistically slim.

I want this week to be over, not because I'm looking forward to the spring break Ultimate Frisbee trip with the same wide-eyed giddiness as the actual team members (though I am going officially now, as a "Frisbee Mom"), but because I'm sick of spending four hours plus a day in the library.

Can't decide whether knowing I won't be in grad school next year makes all this homework more important, or pointless.