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2009.07.16 01.12 Heads are bowed, shots of the English countryside linger over the screen, an arranged version of Amazing Grace teases on bagpipes, a fine man speaks an impromptu eulogy and it is not only the characters... but the audience themselves who say goodbye to an old friend introduced to us in a silly movie about magic directed by Chris Columbus. Respect is due and it is given, we say goodbye to thee and know that though a character is gone, the story continues. I of course refer to the funeral scene in Half-Blood Prince. ( Spoilers ahead ) Anywho. It's late. I started this lucid but I'm drifting now. More thoughts when able. Oh, Watchmen Directors Cut? Why are you on the internet this early? *STEAL* PS: Will buy DVD on Tuesday. |
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2009.07.09 19.32 When do they get to the fireworks factory!?!? Guess what's eight and hasn't ended?! 8D Also Tricia is now getting into the show, so I'm not bitching. But 5 episodes for a 20 page short story?! The entire first novel was only 6 episodes. |
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2009.07.08 12.01 Dates A mixture of uber late shifts, uber early shifts, lack of sleep and travelling about with Trish means any laptop time I've had lately has been devoted to RP and chilling out. My new years resolution for regular LJ entries is so getting pissed on. But. Yeah. This week we went on two dates. One for our anniversary and one just for the fact we wanted to see Up. Anniversary date was visiting Luigi's House, the venue for our reception. We got dressed up in our best non-over the top outfits (Tuxedo pants, dress shirt and tie for me, with super shined shoes and a gorgeous dress and Tricia's baige top ensamble for her) and I wore my wedding ring for a change (the thing is a few sizes too big for regular use). As for the Up date. ---you know what. Screw you Pixar. No movie makes the audience burst out in uncontrollable torrents of tears within the first 10 minutes. God damn it, just thinking about it is making me weapy. ;____; It was a really good movie, though a fair bit flat in some instances, mostly regarding Russell and Muntz's backstories, I didn't gather enough context about Russell's family to care and I am told The Word of God explains why a man 20-30 years older than Carl looks about the same age, but it's never mentioned in the movie... nor is the whole thing with the dogs. But who cares ;______________________; it made me cry more than Wall-E and Monsters Inc combined. Trish too. Then we went to Denny's. And discussed TV Tropes and RP. Forever. I love my wife, I truly and deeply do. But days like those remind me what that feeling is and how deep it goes. I am quite happy... and prepared for next Tuesday, in which I shall dust off my Hogwarts robes for a midnight screening of Half-Blood. ^_^ And now I go to work. PS: Wedding video is being edited at the moment. Unsure how/if it'll be distributed online. |
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2009.07.02 20.26 ....WHAT. Endless Eight. Endless Eight. ENDLESSENDLESSENDLESSENDLESS--- IT WILL NEVER END. IT WILL NEVER END. IT WILL NEVER END. ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON IT GOES. ALWAYS. FOREVER. ENDLESS. IT WILL NEVER END. HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHAEEEEEEEEEEEEENDLEEEEEEE |
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2009.06.29 00.02 I am a sick man. Every time a celebrity dies, my instant reaction is to go to YTMND and laugh my butt off at the parodies. |
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2009.06.27 14.26 Great success! So, I'm attempting to bring Tricia to my world of movie watching, focusing on some of the amazing "not as talked about" ones I've enjoyed (may worm my way to Korean and Japanese ones like Oldboy, Shaulin Soccer and Battle Royale someday) and so after having been intrigued by my thoughts on it from the 365 challenge, she requested Hard Candy. We just watched it. And... during the opening credits she said "Patrick Wilson, where do I know that name?" Well, shit. Where HAVE we heard that name recently?  ...oh. Well, I guess Tricia already likes it. Unfortunately, despite appreciating and getting the movie this time (2007 Kitty, you're an idiot), this revelation ruined the movie. Now when Jeff was wheeling himself around the house tied to a desk chair searching for Hayley, my inner nerd was forced to grumble "Hello, Daniel." Tense scene eliminated. Victoly. And now to RP, for THE LAW has been betrayed. We must laugh in the face of our own establishments. |
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2009.06.25 22.49 Buh--- Okay. Finished watching Haruhi. I'm confused. This week they actually adapted Endless Eight's novel more or less as was (including Kyon's narration), though they discovered the rift later and did not mention that they had made discoveries before. The episode has all the dialogue I freshly re-read, includes all of the little drawings that appear in the novel (Mikuru sweating in the frog suit, Haruhi and Mikuru sleeping against one another and the girls in kimonos) Yuki even quotes it being the 15,498th time, the final cycle in the novel... Yet the episode does not resolve. It adapts right up until the very point Kyon calls to Haruhi and stops her from walking out the cafe... but it lets her leave, cuts to the final evening and merely gives another foreshadow to the eventual conclusion and ends abruptly. -- Does this mean I have to watch the same damn episode again next week? PS: Itsuki was hot in this episode. Damn you bishie anime! |
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2009.06.25 21.21 Okay, so Endless Eight gets it's true adaption this week and last week was fluff which sets up the plot, even if the novel included no set-up chapter. There are no subs yet, so I have yet to watch. So. Transformers is out. I am smarter than my 2007 counterpart and have not flocked to the cinema to see it. Plus I don't have The Packaging Team plus John, Steve's fiancee and Antonio's weird friend to enjoy it with. *Sigh* Remembering that night and how we went out for Korean barbeque before the movie and how John and I reacted to it... almost makes me not hate it. I'm getting sidetracked. My point is, I've been burned by Bayformers and will approach with caution. I'm going next week sometime when it's convinient and fun to do so. No hype, no expectations, just a movie and a pair of viewers... one of which who knows enough about Frank Welker to care he's in the movie. But just as Bayformers burned me, this feeling I have reminds me of other movies I have sat through which by all rights and definitions SHOULD have sucked, but against all odds didn't. So I thought I'd discuss those. Before I begin, these are relative and I am not judging them as good movies in their own right, but as good movies which really, given all the circumstances SHOULD have been bad. Consider the yardstick to be how bad they should have been. TMNT What I was expecting: Well, this was to be the fourth entry to the Turtles movie franchise and anywhere I looked for info on it, sources agreed it seemed to be a blenderific mesh-up of the 2003 cartoon, the original movies and the comics with no clear tie to any of them. None of the promo connected with the 1988 Turtles fan in me or the live action movie fan either, it just seemed to be some fan-fic entry with the brothers, no Shredder, no clear story or villain to latch on to... it just looked lame. What I got: I only went because Eva (Diana the Cat) was in town, it was a matinee showing and we were curious. I'm glad we did. In an entirely empty cinema, we were blown away. The story treated the audience with a little more respect than the first three movies and featured far less akward humor. It assumed the audience knew enough about the characters to ignore detailed sidetracking of backstory and instead gave character development centered around Leo and Raph. Fight scenes were energetic, utilized the weapons of the brothers and even made some visual gags on Raph's burly approach to ninja stealth. Though the main plot fell on deaf ears (it was not too engaging, hence the crappy promo) and there was no solid tie to any previous franchise (Karai appears out of nowhere as until then she'd only existed in comic and 2003 canon) it had the characters we loved appearing as we remember them (from the live action moves, ie: Raph is a jerk) and kicking butt in the process. Also, I recall a solid soundtrack. Proof that character development and art direction win over ludicrious or non-existant plots (see: Metal Gear [Franchise]) = Iron Man What I was expecting: Okay. It was Marvel Civil War time, Tony Stark is Hitler, Stalin and the guy who fucked Spider-Man so hard he lost his fanbase. Also Fantastic Four 2, Spider-Man 3 and Ghost Rider were setting the standard for Marvel movies. Iron Man has no major villains, maybe The Mandarin, but that's about it. His super power is basically to be The Rocketeer with lasers. Actually, that sounds kind of badass. The promo was full of heavy handed Iraq/Americafuckyeah'ness (which after Bayformers, I took to be a BAD thing) and it all seemed to be Iron Man versus tanks and aeroplanes, which after seeing Hulk (2003) I knew would just lead to aimless boringness of a villainless hero attacking obstacles. Okay, so Downey Jr looked awesome as Stark. But fuck it, I hated Stark then and so did the rest of the Marvel fanbase. What I got: ...a well written modernization of Stark's backstory with obscure villain Iron Monger as the villain, a script which takes the time to create set pieces like The Ark and Ms. Pott's trophey for pay off later, comedic moments so good that they still make me laugh and some stellar acting from all parties. Oh and for some reason The Mandarin was in the movie and never gets referenced as being more than the "Ten Rings" terrorist group leader. See what they did there. Decent action. Lots of laughs. Well written characters. Superb direction, fairly decent score... Oh and ULTIMATE NICK FURY MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON. = Rocky Balboa What I expected: Listen. Rocky IV is humanity's greatest achievement. Shut up Tricia. Shut up Amber. Shut up naysayers. All I am saying is that Ozymandias had to blow up New York to stop the cold war. Rocky just had to punch it. Punch it until it stopped. Punched it until the most ice hearted commie bastard was cheering ROCKY! ROCKY! as he pounded the Soviet robot named Dragov into the dust. Then the movie ended with a startling speech which moved all who heard it to tears. And Vince DiCola plays us out. The world is at peace and nothing more need be said. Then Stallone angered God and made Rocky V. The world reacted correctly and rejected the idea of a Rocky Movie without him boxing and no one liked it. Then... suddenly he makes a VI?! That's another sequel after IV. God will be mad. Also Stallone was, what. 60 at the time? The story is done, stop milking the cash cow. What I got: Classic piano versions of the original soundtrack, instead of Vince DiCola. But seriously... it was a 90 minute character study on a man we have come to know and love over the years and how his soul is built up from his love towards Adrian, his son and Paulie. How losing Apollo and Mickey affected him and how a man keeps his pride and dignity after he knows he has passed his prime and feels he has something left he has to give. The movie was originally written as Stallone wanted to make Rambo 4 and Hollywood said no, as he was too old. So the story shadows this with Rocky being told he is too old to fight, but he feels he has something left to prove and that it's not fair to tell someone who has built their life on something that they can't do it, even after paying their dues. Every scene shows us just how warm and loveable this man is and how he has given so much to the community, to his family and to his friends and how little he asks in return. And as always he is the underdog as no one supports him until the very end when he finally proves to just himself that he still has fight left in him and can go on with his pride. Damn that movie was good. But it had no damn right to be. - Anywho... my point is, Bayformers 2 may yet suprise me. But it probably wont... now where are those Haruhi subs? |
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2009.06.22 11.48 Hmm.. Regarding my epic freak-out of rage at the Haruhi anime's adaption of the Endless Eight chapter. I have taken the time to re-read it and discuss with my personal oracle on the saga (IE: only person I know who has also read the books), Zigglesworth (HSW). He theorizes that with Kadowaka's arseholish nature regarding it's marketing stratergy for the show, this may have been an intended reaction. When next week's episode, billed as the first part of the book 2 adaption "Sighs of Haruhi Suzumiya" airs, it will actually start out as Endless Eight, possibly for the first 7 minutes until after the O-Ban festival, when the 3+Kyon gather to discuss the endless summer prediciment. It's a possibility, and though I do not wannt to get my hopes up, given the past trends I do not want to discount it off the bat. The episode aired this week did keep all of the EVENTS of Endless Eight, just none of the plot regarding the resetting clock and the gang's attempt to make summer end. Also the eventual conclusion was hinted at twice in passages of dialogue not found in the book. So if handled correctly they could trick the audience into seeing a re-run, when it's actually a new episode. That said, it would make the one we just saw even more worthless and wasted than before. Incidentally, the book only shows one chain of events, which are the ones we saw. After the fireworks festival Mikuru calls Kyon crying that she can no longer contact the future. When they gather, Yuki reveals they have been living the week for 15,498 cycles and... well let's let her describe it herself. "In the last fifteen-thousand four hundred ninety-seven cycles, O-bon has been omitted twice. O-bon sans goldfish catching occurred a total of four hundred thirty-seven times. The city pool has been visited without fail as of this cycle. Part-time work has been conducted a total of nine-thousand twenty-five times with six variations in the nature of the work. Other than distributing balloons, there has also been stock loading, cash register, flyer distributions, call answering, as well as a model fashion show. There have been six-thousand eleven balloon distributions, with three hundred sixty overlaps in two or more variations. Repeated iterations sorted by order of combination are-" For those who didn't understand why I was so angry when I saw the episode, this is why. That plot is one of my favorite of the one-shot stories (Bamboo Leaf Rhapsody, of course, being the best) and says a lot about who Yuki is as a character for having had to endure 540 years of the same two weeks, compounded with the revelation that she spent 3 years sitting in a furnitureless apartment after the data explosion. - So, best case scenario, we get the same episode again (a lil' bit editted) with the context added in, as part of Kadowaka's "We're smarter than you" self-destruct campiegn. Worst case, we get 3 episodes of explinations of the in-jokes from episode 00. Oh, Sigh's of Haruhi is an entire novel of them filming Asahina Mikuru's Adventure Episode 00. It will be interesting to see how they mesh the new animation from what we saw back in 2006. Ah vell... Thanks to the idea of this faux pas I now have to re-read the Haruhi novels. Damn it. |
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2009.06.19 22.41 Thundaaaaaaaar rain and lightning! So, today there was an epic thunderstorm. Like streaks of lightning across the entire sky. As work ended for me, I was waiting for my ride and watched it. My mind casually flashing back to other storms, the ones I saw with my dad, the ones I watched with friends and the ones I watched while on the phone. The cartboy on duty joined me as I admired the erratic array of electrical awesome. He pointed out that pushing metal cages in a lightning storm is suicide, so he left the abandoned carts among the cars. This turned out to be a mistake. The rain was light at this point, but much like a T-Rex approaching, a few tremors of danger warned us things would turn south soon. Or the south would turn north. Or that the tornado which has been threatening all day rushed in and screamed HAAAAAAAAAY GUUUUUYZ! The rain was firing like gattling gun fire from heaven. The wind whistled and raged so hard that a concrete weighed Stop sign was topped... and the carts slowly stirred, as if an otherworldly force was animating them to do it's bidding. That force was God. And he was pissed off with Caputo shoppers and their cars. So he cast WIND3 and sent our man made steel on wheels towards the cars at startling speeds. That magnificent bastard. I read his book. In other words, the tornado was sending the carts angrily into parked cars, probably causing hundreds of dollars of dentage. The grand daddy of this phenomenom was a train of 10 carts, slamming at like 20mph into the rear of a Lexus. So, a produce guy called Chad and myself did the only sane thing. We dashed into a fucking Tornado and tried to get the carts back in the store. I was off the clock at this point... but, it was the right thing to do. Fortunately I think besides straining myself a bit (pushing against that wind was torture, and the rain whipped like bullets of hale) I made it through and the store manager was outside and at least witnessed this. If he thought anything of it is anyone's guess. But I tell you. I have stayed late for Mintel. I have done 4 jobs at once for them. I have done 300% my target in a day to catch up on backlog. But running into a tornado, while off the clock, just to lend a helping hand and do the right thing? That's brownnosing on a level I could have only dreamt of until today. |
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2009.06.09 18.16 Huffhuffhuff So, right now I'm sitting in the living room of Fort O'Connor during a Rock Band party, my legs are tired from biking out and about and I now possess a green card. Life is good. Now I require food. |
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2009.06.05 19.16 Tales from work So, Vortex suggested I have a tally mark at work, scratching off each time I hear a phrase. A typical transaction has me say "Hi there, how are you doing today? Did you find everything you were looking for" (or a throw a curve ball and ask if they had trouble finding anything) So I have made CAPUTO'S BINGO. (Bibibibibingobingobing---BIIIIIINGOOOOO - Something along the lines of "I found more than I needed" ("Ahhh, that's how we get you, but it's all good stuff I hope? Just means you'll be living pretty for a few days") - Something along the lines of "I didn't find $10,000" ("I can't give you $10,000, but I can give you a scratchcard that lets you play for $100,000") - Reference either how well marked or unmarked the store is or having to get someone to help them (I use this to make polite small talk as I ring up the order, mostly about how it isn't a monotomous barcode grid like Jewel) - Regardless of the question the answer is a pleasant nod with an accented "Yes." (I continue to talk to them until 100% sure they don't speak English. I could leave them alone, but a manager watching wont see me respecting a language barrier, they'll just see me not speaking to a manager) - Three generations of family on a single order demanding at least 2 price checks in an order for things under a dollar. (Patiently do this while apologizing, mostly to those behind them in the line) - Heavy disputes over a small discrepancy in price per pound. (I do a price check, apologize, call a manager and modify it for them. Apologizing all the while) - "I don't want it then" if an item turns up 20-50 cents more expensive than assumed. (Kindly remove it and wonder why the item is no longer neccessary in their $42 order) - Person on cell phone throughout the entire transaction (I say nothing. Even those who don't speak English I speak to... but I'm not interupting their conversation) - Something doesn't scan "It must be free, right?" ("Afraid not. Let me do a price check/call a manager for you") - After I ask for ID "I'm old enough to be your grandparent" or "You don't look old enough to sell this, maybe we should see your ID" or equivalent (Depending on the tone and the order I either apologize or say "I know, but the machine doesn't, it can't be reasoned with or bargained with, it just needs your ID" No one to date has caught the reference) - "Do I have to bring this up to the belt?" regarding an obscure, but heavy item. (Calmly explain I'd lose my mind if I had to learn the barcode of every 24 pack of soda.) - "Wow, you're fast!" (Blush and thank them.) - During a card order, they accidentally hit debit and then cancel and go to credit, unknowing that my register wants the PIN from the debit and the card machine wants a signiture for the credit... basically locking us both up. (I apologize as best I can, explain the situation and wait 3 minutes until we're allowed to continue) - Person tries to tell me the price of something that doesn't ring up as if I was capable of putting in prices myself or taking their word for it ("Wish I could, but without a code I'm helpless, then call a manager and or price check) Double tally if they don't speak English and keep saying "59 cents!" and getting angry as they don't understand why I'm not ringing it up. - Person walks over to my empty line as I'm finishing a transaction and asks "Are you open?" (I wonder what on Earth indicates I'm not and say "Of course---How are you today? Did you find everything you were looking for") - Person doesn't put down a divider and only notices I've started ringing their items into the previous order after I'm a few in (I apologize profously to both customers and get a manager to void the other person's items) - When in the back row, people will line up at the front row despite you not having any line and will ignore a page suggesting there is no line... and when someone does notice you they ask if I'm open or joke that we're hidden back there. (I note that I was paging, using dividers as traffic directing semiphore flags or my light is on. Then suggest they look for the lights or the back row in future) and the Kitty specific ones. - "I love your accent!" ("Thank you very much, can you guess where it's from") - "Australia?" ("Wrong hemisphere, I'm afraid") - "Ireland?" ("The hair throws you off, doesn't it. But I'm English") - "What on EARTH are you doing here" always in a tone astounded someone would leave such an amazing place for their suburb ("Well, I fell in love with someone online and flew over here to marry") - Sometimes they notice my stock sentence contains no gender reference. So tally when they assume I'm gay, despite Illinois not having legal gay marriage ("No, no, I'm not gay.---" - My husband/son/friend/barbar has red hair, I love it (*politely smile and continue*) - "It would look better if you were a woman" or "Shame it's wasted on a boy" (---I think there is no reply in Entish, Elvish or the tongue of men for the ladies who followed the previous one one up with that.) -- Anyway, jokes aside. Work is dull and I'm getting the hang of it. Today the absoloute highlight was some kid going absoloutely apeshit over a candy bar. Like MOM: No sweetie, no candy bars. KID: *Takes it and puts it on belt* MOM: NO. *Takes it away* This was like killing the kid's best friend or stamping on some hippy robot that it once met. Suddenly lil' Timmy's vocal went up by 25 levels, evolved and erupted in the most primal scream of all time.  MY---- CAAAAAAAAAAAAN--DEEEEEE-BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR Seriously, kid must have been 3 years old or something and his screams of anguish over his sugar treat were so ear splitting that not only could all in the store hear it, but would talk about it all day. I'm even immortalizing it in this journal. What a legendary child. He will save us from Cell, I am sure of it. |
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2009.06.04 07.33 Fort O'Anniversary What a crazy year it's been, and it's so hard to believe it's been a full year. But as of 2pm CST yesterday, June 3rd, I've been in America for a whole year. 365 of romance, adventure, learning, teaching, laughing and drinking pot brewed coffee. I've spent three quaters of it unemployed, battling for my green card, I've watched Tricia perform, gone on road trips, saw plays and orchestras, watched movies at midnight openings, biked across six lanes of heavy state road traffic, gone to a brand new convention, gained some weight, lost some inhibitions, delivered flowers, wrote another novel, pretended to be a camp staff scout, freed the wizards of Wizard's Quest, attended a Ren Faire, shovelled driveways, mowed lawns, helped run a garage sale ---and of course got married. It's been quite epic to say the least. Yesterday was spent reflecting. Both the past year and my lifetime in England. I really miss home. More than I should, more than I thought I would. But it will always be there for me. After I work up enough time and money to visit, I can go back. For now, my hope is that the good times don't stop. That I continue to learn and grow as a person and that I can somehow work out how on Earth to turn my experience and charm into something better than a minimum wage grocery store gig. Ged dang it. |
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2009.05.30 22.39 Rar I wish I lived in a world where Triple Triad (the FFVIII card game) was a real, sold on the streets, card game. Like... Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon style. Screw complicated Magic The Gathering rules, give me 9 squares, 5 cards and the Same Wall rule and I'm golden. I'd buy booster packs like every week, until I had all the character cards, all the summons. All the FFI-XIII variants, all the bosses and even the monsters. I'd freaking go to GenCon just to play people live. Trading rules activated. ALL if need be. ---so. Yeah. I'm playing FFVIII during the brief windows between me getting home and Tricia getting home. I'm focusing mainly on Triple Triad because I love Triple Triad. But the part I just got to (basically I got this far JUST for the CC Club quest) was Balamb Garden leaving FH, where Cid announces that the entire school's war operation shall be run by 18 year old Squall, who's only 2 official SeeD missions both ended in failure. Made me think about all the leaders in RPGs I've played and wether they deserved the role... infact. Final Fantasy VII: Cloud starts as a subordinate of Barrett and then in the cutscene after the motorcycle chase Cloud is voted party leader because Aerith and Tifa want to bang him. Seriously. Later on he ends up having a personal cock swinging contest with Sephiroth, so I can see why he'd be leader there, but as the FFVII crew are a ragtag bunch of people out for their own needs, it's more fitting than, say... Final Fantasy VIII Squall is inducted into a miltiary organization and is promoted to be the fucking LEADER OF THE ENTIRE ORGANIZATION within two missions. Mostly because spineless douchebag headmaster Robin Williams was told this by his wife (IE: THE BADGUY... at time of promotion) because she was visited by a time travelling version of Squall from the end of the gam. ---uh. Makes sense...? Final Fantasy IX Zidane is kind of bossed about by Garnet until the party is deep enough in crap to need direction... then I guess he's the staple hero, you don't even get Zidane's personal connection to the plot until late disc 3... so really the only reason he is party leader, besides being a bishie sword weilder is because Garnet is so subversive that she akwardly thrusts leadership on the dude she wants to bang... which leads into... Final Fantasy X Tidus, that fucking wanker, knows NOTHING about the world and is babied by all throughout the adventure, but as Mary-SuYuna cannot be the main fucking character in her own quest (until the developers realized that 14 year olds would cosplay any outfit they put on her in the sequel) she just thrusts leadership to her man meat, no matter how borderline retarded and voiced by James Arnold Taylor he is. Fire Emblem Radiant Path/Dawn Ike inherits the leadership from his awesome dad and grows into it. Fairly natural, though Titania would have been a better leader. Tales of Symphonia Well as the entire game is a chibi version of FFX, it's the same here. Collette wants Lloyd's spawn so his self-righteous ass gets to call the shots despite people twice his age and with four times his experience are standing right next to him. Kingdom Hearts The magical deus ex machina fairy picked Sora to be master of the wangbladekeything. Yay disembodied narrations. Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Hiro wants to bang Lucia. This is the only reason. Especially in the epilogue. --- Well, you get the point. At least in FFVIII the reason isn't due to women being nothing but veichles for the man's plot, as Squall is undoubtably gay for Seifer. |
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2009.05.29 20.40 Buuuuh... Kitty is half-asleep, but journal entry must happen. The Fort O'BBQ was just fine, I wussed on the pics as soon as Alexis and Chelsea arrived, as we snuck to the basement and played Sonic Adventure 2 for a few hours. Yes. We are that kind of cool. Later in the day Trish's galpal from high school, Rach, appeared and joined us and towards the end of the evening was replaced by bride's maid of honor Lori. After SA2 we five seriously just hung out on our bed drawing, playing DS, trading weblinks and laughing it up for several hours. We even made ourselves some frozen pizza (probably would have been take out if it wasn't like 10pm)--- Let me just reiterate. We made ourselves frozen pizza. For food. To eat. At our barbeque. My mind hurts from trying to find a description of that kind of anti-social tendency which acknowledges that we were doing it to hang out, ie socialize, with our friends. The mind boggles. It was an amazing evening and shall someday soon be followed up with movies and musicals. Les Mis and Dr. Horrible. What a pair. As for yesterday, well Trish and I had a great time together, RPing nearly constantly from waking until sleeping. Then a drunken fool woke us up at 3am and did not let us sleep until 5.30am. Thus we are tired. FUuuuuuck. |
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2009.05.26 13.20 CRICKEY! Fortress of BBQ is happening. Right now all of the residents, plus occassional cast member Robin (from season 2, before the Kruger episodes) are in the kitchen making shish kebabs, guacamole and burger patties, hot dogs are thawing and all is well. I'm in charge of photographs, so we shall see what happens LATER. |
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2009.05.25 00.27 Funny Today we went to Denny's to celebrate my residency. All the Fort O'Family was there and it was DAMN FUN. Alas, the "You had to be there" type, so I can not write about it effectively. But our pet server, Rob, was there and as helpful as always. Now that I have my perma residency, I should start thinking about when to realistically visit home. It would be a hefty expense which would kick the crap out of things like ACEN and Wisconsin and take more work hours than both combined. A wise idea would be to nestegg it for up to/over a year. When I go, though, I'd like it to be a significant date, wether it be to go to a London Expo (Which would simply ADD to the costs) so I could meet up with all, or dad's birthday as a perfect present. All things are but mere pipe dreams. Speaking of which. I am typing a "99 things to do..." list, mostly in my head right now. Some silly stuff on there. I'll be sure to post when it's ready. |
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2009.05.23 22.43 YES!!! I am now, at long last, a resident of the United States of America, my approval notice arrived today. In other news, closing shifts are energy draining. |
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