Tie Dye & Me Before You

Posted by SE Wagner June 03, 2016

Tie Dye & Me Before You

I've discovered a new joy of mine. Driving to new places. There's a certain thrill to relying on yourself and your own navigational and driving abilities to get you somewhere; a certain thrill to the possibility of getting lost; a certain thrill to going 78 MPH.

Today I drove to my aunt's school in Frederick (Oakdale Middle School) to help the kids with tie dye. I've been to her school once before but my aunt drove and she lives a lot closer so I only had a vague idea of how to get there from my house but my mom printed off the directions and showed me a map and I was off.

After the first few minutes on the interstate of knuckle-clenched nervousness, I relaxed, turned up the music, and realized it wasn't so bad. I found my aunt's school just fine and when I got there my aunt helped me sign in and then we went back to the teacher's classroom where they were tie dying. It turns out that the teacher, Mrs. Rishell, had my science teacher, Mrs. Irwin, and did tie dye with her when she was in high school. Every year she takes a picture of her students and sends it to Mrs. Irwin. Maybe one day I'll tie dye with my students and send Mrs. Irwin a picture...may as well keep continuing the legacy. The teacher, Mrs. Rishell, had half as many dyes as Mrs. Irwin but twice as many designs. She had these cool fish scale designs, chevrons, hearts, polka dots, you name it. I stood around awkwardly for a bit because I didn't know how to do any of the designs except for a spiral and of course none of the kids wanted a spiral so I was feeling a bit useless but then the kids started dying so I started helping with writing names on bags, bagging up the tie dye, and washing the trays. The middle schoolers were surprisingly nice. Maybe because they were sixth graders and didn't try so hard to be cool. There was a brief moment when I thought "Maybe I'll teach middle school." And then I was like "You're crazy, Wagner."

Later...
So FZ, AB, MF, DL, and I went to see Me Before You and it was sooooo good. If it had been a silent montage of just Louisa Clark's outfits I would've still sat there for two hours and watched it. She is my new fashion icon. But other than her outfits, it was still a great movie and my goodness I didn't realize how huge this apple was and now I don't want it anymore but there's still a bunch of it left and I can't throw it away so I'm just going to have to keep eating it and watching this gif of Emilia Clarke and her bumble bee tights. It's weird how similar the character and the actor's names are. Anywayyyy it was a great movie and it gave me faith in rom coms again. Considering the subject matter (guy is paralyzed and wants to end his life) it did have quite a few funny moments. MF was laughing the hardest and completely spasming over the cute parts and then at the end when (SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT SKIP THIS NEXT SENTENCE SKIP THIS NEXT SENTENCE) he dies MF didn't realize he died until she leaned over and was like "Wait did he die?" and DL was like "Yeah" and MF's face just crumpled and she started crying. It was sad. SPOILER OVER. And all through the ending I could hear AB's muffled sobbing two seats over as she gripped her tissues and FZ's arm. It was a sad movie, but I'd read the book so I was prepared...I feel awful for not crying because it really was sad. I think sometimes I just go through these phases where literally nothing can make me cry and then other phases where every little thing sends me into hysterics. Oh wait, that's called PMS. It was such a cute movie though and the romance was actually genuine and original instead of trite and overdone, as is usually the case. Louisa's boyfriend Patrick was even worse in the movie than he was in the book. For her birthday he gave her a heart necklace with his name in it. What a douche. But the Louisa/Will relationship was goals. Except for the beginning parts when he was a butthole. It was also nice to have a relatable main character who's just awkward and clutsy and doesn't always say the right things because all too often female movie characters (and male ones too) are entirely too perfect to relate to. Overall, I'd give this movie an A+ and recommend it to anyone who wants to feel good and then have their heart broken. :)