Oh, glorious weekends. Why do they pass so quickly? Last weekend I watched a bunch of episodes of Firefly with my dormies as preparation for our trip to see Serenity. It was wonderful! The movie was heart-pounding, gut-punching, funny, powerful, and thouroughly entertaining. It was also quite violent, but never unnecessarily so (still, don’t bring children). Although a few of my friends liked the movie enough to start watching Firefly, I would recommend watching several episodes (at the very least) to get introduced to the characters and themes. I think much of Serenity’s power comes from how different it is from the show, and many important moments just won’t hit you very hard if you don’t know the background. But yes–it is very, very good.

On a different note, I have discovered an interesting fact about our modern culture: we have a bias against burgers. I keep going up the grill in Commons, and thinking “I want a cheeseburger - but wait! That’s not very healthy!” Then I started to wonder exactly why it wasn’t healthy. The burger is the epitome of junk food, but does it really have to be junk? After asking around and putting a lot of thought into it (a lot of thought - perhaps ten whole minutes), I realized that a burger is perfectly healthy as long as its components are. Trusting Reed’s uber-health-concious food service to provide wholesome ingredients (they at least use organic beef), I can enjoy a cheeseburger guilt-free. And it was also very, very good.