Spending time away from the office with that guy from The Office

This weekend I escaped from the awkward that was living with Grandma (although it has gotten better since I agreed to learn some Polish and pray the rosary), I went to my aunt's house. On Friday, Emma and I explored her college options on Princeton Review and Ocean Careers, because she thinks she wants to go into Marine Biology. Shout out to Maggie! Emma, Alicia, my mom and my aunt actually went to visit CSUMB and Santa Cruz (and Davis) while they were all in California the weekend before last. I think the girls are very overwhelmed by this whole college thing, and I keep going, "Apply to a bunch of colleges in a range of selectivities! Don't make the mistake I made (twice)!" and so on. I'm a great older sister/cousin.

Anyway, on Saturday we went to see License to Wed starring (if you don't already know) John Krasinski, Mandy Moore, and Robin Williams. Now, in response to the inevitable, "How was it? It looked terrible!" questions, I have to say this: I would watch John Krasinski do his taxes. He's adorable. I also like Mandy Moore, and pretty much enjoy her every time she's on screen. Even so, I have to say, Robin Williams needs to retire. His schtick is so done--it makes me tired. His character in this movie is criminally insane, and the fact that Mandy Moore's character, Sadie, doesn't agree with me and John Krasinski's character (Ben) on this point means that it will not work out between them and Ben should change his name back to Jim Halpert, move back to Scranton, and just go on that date with Pam like we all planned.

The best part of the movie was the cameos by Krasinski's Office pals, although Steve Carrell was noticeably absent. Still, Angela Kinsey (Angela), Mindy Kaling (Kelly) and Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) were all present and accounted for. I was totally frustrated by the fact that License to Wed was supposedly set in Chicago, yet entirely filmed in LA (well, the parts that were supposed to take place in Chicago were filmed in LA), and they didn't even do a good job of covering it up. There was definitely a part (it was in the trailer) where Mandy Moore is driving blindfolded and everybody's freaking out and you can definitely see a billboard advertising the Spearmint Rhino Gentleman's Club. I'm sure it'll be hilarious in the director's commentary where they're like, "Oh, we never noticed that!", but it's just sloppy. Plus, with all the incentives Daley's office is creating for film companies to make movies here, why not just shoot it where you set it, or set it in LA? You know?

Other than that, my weekend was pretty tame by most standards. How about everyone else?