Life update

Yeah, it's one of those boring posts about my life/media again, sorry, but unfortunately for you, these things are sort of important to me, so suck it up.

Let's see...in terms of movie media, I've managed to watch (500) Days of Summer, The Sandlot, Hoodwinked, Letters to Juliet, and part of Catch and Release. My Thoughts are as follows:
(500) Days: I was informed, multiple times, that this movie was AMAZING. I thought it was good...but not that good, though maybe all the hype fooled me into having expectations that were waaaay too high. Who knows. In any case, I wanted to strangle Summer by the end/middle of it, and also Tom was SUCH A WHINY LITTLE WIMP.
I've already seen The Sandlot/Hoodwinked. I think the former is hilarious and a perfect summer movie, and the latter is hilarious and I need the soundtrack to it.
Letters to Juliet was painful, but I made it through it;  I realized too late, unfortunately, that the main guy was nowhere near hot enough to save the bad acting/plot of the movie. Meanwhile, Catch and Release did have a couple hot guys who might've been enough to carry on the movie, were it not for the weird sex scene in the middle. That was just too much. I couldn't finish it and still feel like a decent human being (okay, it wasn't that bad, but it was pretty bad).
For television: Pretty Little Liars and Covert Affairs. Unfortunately, I've fallen behind on White Collar, though I'll probably just read the episode summaries somewhere and continue watching anyway, and thankfully Hulu is only airing episodes a month after they air, so it's okay that I missed a couple (brb, actually, I'm going to start now. Okay, done, we'll continue).
My book count is now up to 53, but I won't bother to summarize/list all the books I've been reading here, except to mention The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien because I really, really, really enjoyed it - it's sort a collection of short stories, but they're all related to one another, and deal with a platoon of soldiers in the Vietnam War. (If you're like, super duper interested in what books I read (not sure why you would be...) I list them/my reactions here.
Let's see...oh yeah, life! Actually, go-outside-and-see-people life! I forgot about that...
Well, we had a French exchange student for a little over two weeks, something that we also did last year. This year our girl was quieter, and had more difficulty with English - she also seemed a bit...not kinder necessarily, but our girl last year struck me as a bit more of a "popular" girl, whereas this year our girl was more chill. She was also almost 19, so a little more maturity was a given.
Swimming has started, and it's been an eventful two weeks: glass shattered on the pool deck, causing us to have to find a new pool for three days, and to (thankfully) only have one practice a day. Yesterday, a girl hit herself in the forehead with a wrench while trying to undo the lane lines, and had to have four stitches; unfortunately, she did it after practice was over, so no cancellation there.
School will start soon. Senior year, hooray! I have classes that I am actually happy with, and I'm excited to see friends/have a late start some days. Ummm...yeah. That's kind of it for now.