back in the garden state

I'm spending the night at home in Westwood - came back on Friday to hang out with Willie (and Emily, Sandy, Liz, Devin, Sascha and Steve too). We had a fun night at Dave and Busters - Sandy and I finally collected enough prize tickets to get the big D&B soup mug!! I know that's small change for some of y'all, but I'm pumped. :) Then at around 2:30am, I drove to Princeton to see Jim. The drive wasn't as bad as it sounds. At Princeton, Jim and I fixed up his room a little and spent a nice quiet weekend together. We also went to see Garden State, the movie with Zach Braff and Natalie Portman. It was awesome, really really awesome, and particularly resonant for me lately for a lot of reasons. I've got two questions about the movie though:1) Where is it set? From my google search I learned that Zach Braff grew up in South Orange and wrote this while there as well... maybe that's it? It would explain the closeness to Newark, but I couldn't tell much from the scenery.2) How old is Sam supposed to be? I just can't believe she's as old as Large, but I don't think much is said either way.Oh well. Go see the movie!