I’ve seen a lot of movies in my night, but no night at the movies was as momentous and eventful as that wintry Thursday in November of 1998 when I saw A Bug’s Life. I was still just a punk student at Augustana. My final year was well underway, and I (just like now) had no real plans for my future. I wasn’t seeing much beyond May of 1999, when I was going to be seeing Episode I. As this year was still just starting, Chuck and I began a tradition of sorts to see movies on Thursday nights. It began back in September. I was still embroiled in my election campaign for VP External, and Chuck was hard at work on one of his many projects. We just happened to run into each other outside of the computer lab, and I chided him for not having seen Blade yet. He said, “OK, let’s go see it.” So, we did. And from that point on, we were going to see movies on Thursday nights. Both being animation geeks, we had been looking forward to A Bug’s Life for a few weeks and had this night planned with great anticipation.
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