So I went to Olympia again and I have a lot of things to write about but before I forget I must review the movie The Covenant. (sp? Who cares. It was bad.) The Covenant is about four witches (men, should be warlocks) who have magical powers. They encounter a fifth boy who also has magical powers. Wacky hijinks and a struggle for yet more power ensues. But on the way home I was talking to Liz and realized some valuable life lessons learned from this movie.

• 1. If you live in New England, every private school should have your family history easily accessible in their school library.
• 2. If you live in New England, bring a camera.
• 3. If you want to impress a man, play “I love Rock and Roll” and expose your ankles and calves.
• 4. All magical forces in the universe appear like clear bubbles.
• 5. The witches really didn’t invest in diverse powers, just telekenisis, conjuring spiders, and auto repair.
• 6. It takes four virile young men to lift an SUV with their minds.
• 7. If you use too much magic you can get glaucoma.
• 8. Witches mate for life.
• 9. It’s okay to tell a century long deep dark secret to someone you met a week or two ago.
• 10. Private schools(K-12) really let you do anything, including going to bars, bonfires, have co-ed dorms.
• 11. Private schools really don’t care about infestations of insects, and if you have problems with spider bites, they tend to ignore it and encourage young helpless women to go back to the area infested with spiders.
• 12. Lights that break in the shower mean that someone is watching you.
• 13. It doesn’t matter how old, damp, and dilapidated a barn is, it can still explode, and burn to the ground.
• 14. Old Colonial houses all have creepy basements.
• 15. If you are flipped by a magical person while on a motorcycle going 100mph, you can survive if you wear your helmet.
• 16. If you are a male witch in New England, and on a swim team you have the body of a greek god. Even at ’seventeen’.

I hope that you have learned very important lessons from this movie too!