A Week

Since my last update. Weak, week. Lame. Well the jorb goes well. Today was a wonderful respite from school as both of my classes were cancelled. Free time abounded. I went out for a drink with a fellow grad student and enjoyed the nice weather. Tomorrow is work at 7AM and then fun fun fun til the wee hours of the midnight. Later this week, Alexandria and I head home for the wedding. Should be a blast and a half. Get to see all the long unseen friends and eat some good food.

On a similar note, The Hitchhiker's Guide movie comes out soon. Thank sweet Jesus. Let's get it on! I have been waiting for this thing for... well weeks at least but in a more reflective way, years. The book has been going like hot-cakes (I have no idea how hot-cakes 'go') at work for the past few weeks.

Shout out to big J money for coming up to visit us this weekend. That's hot. Guess that's it. Something more interesting will come along tomorrow. Right now, sleep.

Watch Arrested Development

We just borrowed season uno of Arrested Development from a friend and it took us three nights to go through all 22 episodes.  The thing is funny as all hell and I encourage you to buy, borrow or steal it if you can.  A number of episodes in the first season are directed by Jay
Chandrasekhar which is a nice bonus as well.

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The Draft

So the draft (NFL stylie) is coming up. I think the world would be a better place if I could draft more things and people. I guess it would really just be a better place for me. I would draft all kinds of people: pizza delivery guys, plumbers, people walking dogs, their all on the table. And I would have people do shit that had no relation to the position they were being drafted for. I'd get all the possible 'drivers who are near me on the road' and have them run a mile in under six minutes. I'd find a couple people I want to sit next to on the bus and see how much they can bench. Then, just to make it more draft like, I would draft some jackass to draft away the occasional guy that I wanted on my team just to make me fall back on plan B. Damn, what a country. That's what I'm talkin' about when I talk about freedom, baby.

Draft aside. I am currently placo del firsto in my fantasy baseball league. That being said, we have only had a week of games, it won't last and I frickin' hate baseball. There's something about a sport that contains like ten minutes of actual play over a period of seventeen hours that rubs me the wrong way. Give me curling any day.

Sin in the City

We saw Sin City last night. Wow. Good deal man. I recomend it to one and all for your viewing pleasure. It was a wonderful mix of disturbing reality and comic book fantasy that combined to make a very violent little flick. Anywho, off to work. See the movie.

Rad

I was driving today and saw a semi with one of those "Avoid My Blind Spots" stickers on the back of it. This one had a nice overhead view of the truck with little cones extending from the body of the truck out into the picture of the road to tell me where not to be. First of all, come on. The cones were all over the damn place. If this thing is accurate then most of these truckers are driving blind-folded. Secondly, there was an area of danger directly in front of the truck. Apparently, truckers can only look out their windows at odd angles and so driving in front of a semi means certain death. Well, shit.

On another note, I have been thinking about Greg Graffin's Punk Manifesto a lot recently but I am not sure why. I love the thing and if you have some time you should go read it. I think it explains punk in a very straightforward and non-prickass high school kid punk way. I am all for rebellion. But I do hate me some idiocy.

I Hate Money

I do.

Contents of My Pockets

So last night we did inventory at work which means (for me) going to class from 4pm-8.30pm and then driving to work to count things from 9pm-4am. We went over the store with a fine tooth comb and came up with a lot of books and some cat hair. Afterwards, a few of us went to the International House of Pancakes and got not-pancakes. It was a good time. I came home and slept until about 11.30 this morning, it is now 1.20 and I got back to work an eight hour shift at 3pm.

In non-work-related news, my professor pointed this out to us last night in class and now I shall point it out to you. I think its funniest if you are familiar with Plato and QT but it is straightup funny nonetheless.

The weather is still realatively nice though rain is on the horizon. This matters not as I will be inside for the remainder of the day finding these little yellow things that the counting people leave behind. Its like marking their territory. I imagine they stuff them away in places just so we can't find all of them in one go through. I half expect to find one attached to the inside of my pants, placed by some crafty inventorier.

And finally check out weezer.com for the new =W= video for Beverly Hills. At first the song was doing me all sorts of wrong but now, now I think I can dig. We shall see.

The Weekend

And what a nice weekend it was. Saturday was work all day and then a sweet concert at night. We saw local guys Friendly User and an Ozmaish, Atari rock band called RockBot from Richmond(?). Opening was an all chick, high-school, street punk band called The Two Funerals. I was not there for them but I've heard good things. RockBot was good and I dug the sound. They had keys and a chick singer which always makes that kind of music have a little special something. FU was good. they describe themselves as screamo, I think. They played well and covered Wave of Mutilation which has prompted me to bust out the Pixies stuff at home. The lead singer was on the floor (the stage is small as hell) and was getting in people's faces which was a little weird but maybe that's the thing these days.

Sunday was a good one as well. Woke up and cleaned a bit and then took off with some friends for a round of golf. Now, I haven't played golf in a while so I wasn't expecting much. That being said, I think I did really well (for me). We only got to play 15 holes before the sun went down but I had shot 94 thorugh that point and was on track for around 112. I think I usually shoot about 120-130 so this is a nice improvment. I chalk it up to a book I got from my uncle called Golf in the Kingdom which I now recommend to all of you. Especially (maybe only) if you like golf.

Today has been reading, writing and repeating. We have inventory tonight at work which means being out until around 3 in the am. Hot.

ChaBOOM

So the weather has turned wonderful. The temperature is up, the sun is out and I'm working for eight hours today. Sweet.?

In other news, I figured out why I hate sequels and it comes to me via metaphor. Imagine a glass. You're thirsty so you go to the sink to fill up the glass. You have two choices here: you could turn the water on full blast, spray a bit around, not wait for it to completely cool off, etc. OR you could turn the water on slowly and let it cool down a bit being careful to keep most of it in the glass. Now the first way is good. You get the water you want with no waiting. Alright. The second way is good too. The water is nice and cool and you didn't spill much. You do have to wait a bit though.

Now, imagine doing things the first way and then, when the glass is full, leaving the water on for a few more minutes. You'd have water all over the glass and sink and nothing much would have changed. You would replace a bit of the water in the glass but basically it would be the same damn thing.

This is a sequel. The first fast fill up is like a normal movie. A one shot. The slow fill up is like a nice trilogy where pieces build on previous pieces and combine to make a cohesive whole. The last is a sequel. The main movie is basically remade in order to make a bit more cash. This is not to say that all sequels are bad, there are good sequels, but not that many.

Anyways, there you have it. Love it. Oh, this whole thought experiment was prompted by the new Star Wars. A trilogy sequel. Wow. Takes a long time and sucks. The best of all possible worlds. God I hate Star Wars and yes, I will be seeing the next one. Dammit.

Updates, Recent Lack of

In the past few weeks I have gotten a job, started working 20-30 hours a week, been out of town, and started sitting in on a new class that requires 4ish hours of reading a week from me. Needless to say, I have had a slow hand with the updates. Actually right now I am headed out the door to school to make copies for two classes which I then need to read for on top of a paper that I need to write for tomorrow (not reading on top of the paper but reading in addition to the paper). Otherwise, things go well. The weather is frickin beautiful if a bit windy and now that I make money I can do things aside from TV and browsing.

I have not been on the bike too much which is a shame but Alexandria and I are going to ride tonight I think. Mitch Hedberg died which is a damn shame. He was a great stand-up comedian and he was part of my favorite (cancelled) cartoon, Home Movies. He played the cop and a kid who steals Brendan’s girlfriend one time. Anyways, listen and love if you can.

The pope died as well which is a shame. He was good people.