its 1230am, do you know where your jedi are?

i sit here in front of my computer instead of in front of a movie screen.
i called a high school star wars friend, and we discussed the opening. he isn't going this weekend. i lamented that i am not the first one, or within the first onehundred, in line. he said we've just gotten old.

how utterly depressing.

this is the girl who got the ewok village for christmas her sophmore year of high school. and that was 1995, not back in the 80s when it was new and easy to come by.

the old star wars watching gang has scattered to the wind. one is in boston. one is a state trooper, i think, with a family. one is back in town from texas, but i didn't get around to calling him until tonight. one is somewhere down south with a family. of my extended star-wars group, one is, i think, still in the navy (song cue!), and has a family. one is...well, as stated above, he's not going to see it this weekend.

i am also ashamed to admit i missed the star wars exhibit at the franklin institute. i actually had plans for that one, but they kept falling through.

it's not as if i had to go to bed early tonight. i probably could have forced myself to get up and go. it seems like i saw some other movie this late at night this year....iron man perhaps?

maybe i'll go tomorrow. or maybe i'll just go see the x-files which i should have seen weeks ago.

how does growing old separate us from our true childhood loves? i can't blame the rising (and sometimes falling) cost of gas, because i was out in that direction twice tonight. i can't quite blame the cost of a ticket, i spent more than that on food today. i could argue that theaters are noisy and crowded....but i've seen at least 4 movies this calendar year in the theatre-where was the noise then? were the crowds invisible?

if they were showing the infamous star wars holiday/christmas special, i'd be there in a heartbeat. but we all know that will never happen. ;-)