| Happy Halloween! |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|08:24 pm] |
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Trick or Treat is over this year and, as in the past few years, there haven't been all that many kids. What I don't get about that is that there have been plenty of kids living in the neighborhood for some years now, so the lack isn't just the neighborhood going through a dearth of children. It's just a bit of a let-down after going through the trouble of decorating, you know?
Guilty pleasure confession: I've come to realize that Twilight is always going to be a part of my life. I hate Twilight, but I love to hate it; I've gone from being amused when something Twilight-related crosses my path to having anything Twilight-related actually catching my attention. I've developed a sort of fondness for it, which is just a little bit scary. Actually, that's pretty appropriate for the terrible relationships at the heart of the series, so maybe it's to be expected. |
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[Oct. 22nd, 2009|12:04 am] |
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Tonight Jack took me to see Where the Wild Things Are. I hadn't realized that he hadn't read the book as a child and didn't personally care about seeing it, but sweetly took me because I've been so excited about it (and nervous that it would butcher part of my childhood). It was a very good and sad movie. Not a tear-jerker, just somewhat generally melancholy because it beautifully handled its themes. It also touchingly and amusingly captures children's logic better than just about any film I've ever seen. |
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[Sep. 28th, 2009|01:48 am] |
"Make the strangers welcome in this land,
let them keep their languages and customs,
for weak and fragile is the realm
which is based on a single language
or on a single set of customs."
--St. István, the first king of Hungary,
in a letter to his son St. Imre,
1036 A.D. |
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[Aug. 10th, 2009|12:00 pm] |
Apparently, the "Cash for Clunkers" program has run out of money, which is a pity, since I thought it was one of the current administration's better ideas.
A Midsummer Night's Dream was really good. Jack rocked Quince. He was still delivering his lines for the amphitheater instead of the indoors-due-to-inclement-weather theater, but it worked for the character (especially delivering the prologue to the duke) and his booming delivery was definitely preferable to a few people who couldn't be heard. Bottom bottomed well - yes, there are many ways to say that that wouldn't be nearly as fun - but he didn't allow for the audience's laughter to die down to deliver his lines. Even the worst of the cast were at least okay, which is a great thing to be able to say about amateur theater. Dad made it abundantly clear that he doesn't like Shakespeare, but he enjoyed it; the ability to entertain an audience expecting to dislike the show is a testament to what a good job everyone did. Also, the special guest appearance by the ghost of Hamlet's dad was hilarious. |
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| I'm popular when I eat nuts! |
[Jul. 30th, 2009|02:27 pm] |
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There's some up-for-grabs, leftover salad in the kitchen. When I noticed it had pecans, I stole a couple and promptly popped them in my mouth. On the short trip from the kitchen back to the fieldroom, I kept running into people and having to respond to greetings with my mouth full of half-chewed nuts. Also, I think it's been over a month since I last posted something here, and this is what I get off my butt to write. |
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[Jun. 9th, 2009|02:17 pm] |
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I have decided that Q is the most beatiful letter in the Latin alphabet and the letter by which all typefaces should be judged. |
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| Itt van Május…kilencedik?* |
[May. 9th, 2009|08:49 pm] |
I took my exams today! I also got a bit snippy in my last Information Systems essay, but I stopped myself short of accusing the question of basically being a Microsoft ad.
My back feels much better. (Also, for those who didn't know, my back got fucked up last weekend.) There's still some tinges of pain, but I'm not using a walker, nor do any movements cause me to actually cry out in pain.
Tonight, I've downloaded the RiffTrax for, and will be watching, House On Haunted Hill! And since Jack isn't here, I'll be watching it on the computer speakers instead of headphones! And tomorrow's Sunday! Can you believe it?! (Okay, I think only Jack will get that.) To illustrate the fond place that HOHH holds in my heart, I actually have three copies of it. (One VHS from my adolescence and two DVDs that each feature HOHH as one film in a Vincent Price double feature.)
Justin has invited me to visit him if I'm lonely. I'll probably take him up on the offer while Jack's away.
*Here is May first is a May Day song from Hungary. The title I wrote is Here is May...ninth? I know, I've blown your minds. Also, really late Happy May Day and Happy Beltane. |
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| Work is for losers! (Except for me. And you, you're cool too. You know who you are.) |
[Apr. 28th, 2009|05:11 pm] |
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Okay, health care update:
"Kaiser made an enormous error" and canceled my coverage instead of someone else's. HR straightened it out with them and I am covered again.
In other work news, today I was accidentally supervisor! Betty wasn't in (today is her bridge day) and today was supposed to be Christina's first day back after a week off, but she didn't come in. So I wound up being supervisor-by-default, because no permanent staffers were present and the other temps aren't indefinitely assigned to the study like I am.
I'm pleased to say that my first time supervising, there were no problems. Of course, in the interest of avoiding hubris, there were also no Problems. (That is to say, I didn't screw up, but nothing outside of my control blew up to cause me problems either.) |
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| Health, Schmealth |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|08:18 pm] |
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As some of you may remember from November, I was able to get health care coverage with Kaiser through work. (A combination of that, my naïvité, and my stupidity has left me in a pretty screwed position regarding endocrinology--which has also further put off my already year-old goal of getting the M on my driver's license changed to an F--but those are a different story.)
When I came home from work Friday (4/24/09), I had a letter from Kaiser waiting for me (dated 4/17/09). It was a certificate of coverage for helping me get new health care, because my coverage was discontinued as of February 7th. This was news to me, because I had definitely not discontinued my health care plan. Nor had I received any notice to that effect in the more than two months between them discontinuing my plan and printing this letter.
Of course, because their hotline has no weekend hours and their hours were over before I even left work, let alone got home, I had to wait until today to call them. I called during lunch and was told that my employer had discontinued my plan. So I called HR's health care hotline. I informed them of the situation and asked what was going on. I was told that they would have to get in touch with Kaiser and look into it and that they would call me back in a few minutes. I gave my cell phone number and kept it turned on and with me. Obviously, I didn't really expect them to call back in a few minutes, but I did think that I would get a call by close-of-business to at least tell me that they're looking into it but don't know what's going on yet.
I never received a call. I didn't miss any calls. I'll call again tomorrow and hope things go better. |
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| ...zzzzzzzzzzz -- AAAAAAHHHHHHH! |
[Apr. 24th, 2009|08:37 am] |
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I've always thought it was silly when people wake up screaming in movies or on TV. Early this morning, I myself woke up with a scream. (Apparently right in Jack's face after grabbing him, which for some reason also woke him up.) In my dream, there was a scary dog and waking up felt like I teleporting to somewhere safe. |
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| "Don't be miserable like Morrissey." |
[Apr. 9th, 2009|08:19 pm] |
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Every time Homo Christmas starts, I think it's Hook by Blues Traveler. |
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| Stole this from Curtis |
[Mar. 23rd, 2009|05:29 pm] |
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Instructions:
- Go to Google image search.
- Type in your answer to each question.
- Choose a picture from the first 3 images.
- Use this website (http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php) to make your collage.
01.What is your name?
02. What is your favorite food?
03. What is your hometown?
04. What is your favorite color?
05. What is your favorite movie?
06. What is your favorite drink?
07. What is your dream vacation?
08. What is your favorite dessert?
09. What is one word to describe yourself?
10. How are you feeling right now?
11. What do you love most in the world?
12. What do you want to be when you grow up?
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| A wordier, less enthusiastic Watchmen review. |
[Mar. 16th, 2009|09:47 pm] |
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Okay...my initial review of the Watchmen film may have been hastily overenthusiastic. I've had some time to actually reflect on the movie some, instead of just my initial, tired, wowed impression. This isn't such an about-face that I'm saying you shouldn't see the movie, it's just more reserved. (Incidentally, I really wish more people would treat films as things to be reflected upon, rather than just something to pass an hour and half, give or take. With books, for example, even if people tend toward just-for-entertainment reading, they don't so quickly assert that books only exist for that purpose and shouldn't be judged in any other manner.)
( Full speed ahead, damn the spoilers! ) |
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