Well, after writing a paper for an hour, I'm off. I need to go home momentarily to pick out new frames. Then there might be a birthday but I think it's Homecoming. I also need to get some new printer cartridges.
Sunday I'm off to Madison to get some hairs cut, not my own. Weird! And I'd like to study for a test and get an article done.
Well, It's official. I've been blogging for my first year now. Let's take a moment to think back at all the non-sensical ramblings... OK, moment's over.
A year ago, I was confronted by Snugglebuns who said that he had a Xanga. He said that I shoudl make a Xanga of my own. I wasn't sure about Xanga and I was looking into Blogger and TypePad after watching the Screen Savers all summer. TypePad charges you, enough of that. I went with Blogger because of the amazing amount of complete control you have over the look and operation of your site. Plus, I hate Xanga. Eventually, Snugglebuns went to Blogger to post pictures without separate web space using a program called Hello. Now they do it directly anyways. You can view his old Xanga here.
Let's see, what did I have a year ago... (ignoring category pages dated 09/29/2004)
Holy crap, my first post ever has a misspelling that I finally got around to correcting a year later.
Tales from Theatre Class: that was fun. I was also insane in those days
They should do more retro Halo LANs.
I wonder how Spaceballs 2 is going...
That was also the time when I posted minutes. Yeah, I don't do that anymore.
Holy balls! 4 posts in my first day! Now it's hard to come up with anything for every day. I will now try to become more insane and non-sensical in honor of my one year. If that was possible.
Haha, just kidding. I wasn't promoting anything or trying anything really new. Just trying to harken memories of when Sweet 98 was dead at post prom, I think. Anyways, if you checked my site hourly to see if any new developments had arised, Congratulations! I have a special award for you. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, so sad. I had this replace my blog for a day. Anyways, don't panic. Face the peril. It's OK.
(I strongly urge you to ignore this post like any other if you absolutely have no interest in the subject. It will bore and cornfuse you.)
You know, I don't typically review movies from 3 years ago that I've seen a billion times but after tonight's viewing I had some thoughts. The movie tries, really tries to have the excitement of First Contact but I have decided that it's not desperate enough. Shinzon's ship is supposed to be so unstoppable but it almost seems that it suffers Lucas's backwards-thinking "tell don't show" policy. There's supposed to be this fleet on the other side of the super-bad danger zone that we must fly into but I think they should've played it out. It would make the Scimitar much more deadly and the situation much more perilous if the fleet had arrived and become decimated by the awesome power that is 20-something disrupter banks and a kagillion photon torpedo tubes. This would've also corrected another tacky aspect.
After the Enterprise gets the crap kicked out of it, it seems like the crew completely runs out of ideas until some anonymous ensign in the back says, "Hey...what about smashing our ship into his? That might work, right?" Now if a fleet of ships and Romulan assistance could not stop this thing, it would justify crashing into it and attempting the self-destruct. Because now they really are the last thing between this behemoth and the deaths of everyone living on Planet Earth.
Anyways, if you haven't seen this entry into the 24th Century, it's not a bad watch at all. It has one of the neatest space battles seen on screen. Not kidding, it's really cool and fun it just seems that Picard et al have become more impulsive in this movie. The Borg are essentially unstoppable and ships are blowing up all over the place and he doesn't consider ramming the ship in First Contact. Thanks to Star Trek V, there can never be a crappier movie! Thanks for lowering the bar so low.
Well, It's semi-official. Kirsten Dunst says that the villians are Thomas Haden Church as Sandman and Topher Grace as Venom. I was hoping they wouldn't do Venom but if they feel they can pull it off without making it seem like a stretch for the mainstream to believe I'm all in favor. Oh well. Now I just wonder how long we have to wait.
Hey, what are they doing with Harry?
OK, after a week of waiting, my confirmation email arrived. I am now on Facebook.
Facebook me!
Join up too, you need your campus email. It's kinda neat and let me know if you're out there...
I'll tell you. Well, I went home to get my glasses re-fixed and found out that they wanted to send them in again. I'm not sure why, it only needs a screw. In the process of transferring my lenses to a loaner pair they managed to scratch up my lenses so I said screw it, we're getting a new, un-broken, un-scratched pair.
I also found out my eBay packages have been going to the home address. I have my cool-y brooch and my hair. Unfortunately, it's black so Rachel and I are going to come up with various ways to color it including spray paint, markers, Kool-Aid, and food coloring. Guess what Nobbies had? Black! Anyways, I got my laminating done to find out they doubled the price and I thought they overcharged me. I could've sworn she said it was $3/sq. yd but it was feet so it was the right price. Oh well, there isn't a lot of room left on my walls for posters anyways. I also didn't get the Clockwork Orange one laminated because the attendant was cute and I didn't want her to think I was a total freak and perv. Not that it would matter but I don't know what happens when I leave that town.
I've been listening to Bright Eyes for most of the weekend and the $10 CD was tempting and I'll get it eventually. I have to return momentarily on Friday to pick out a new frame and to pick up my other package that will be delivered home by PayPal. Ooh! Best Buy also exchanged my Franz Ferdinand CD with the warped disc for a new one. That made me happy, plus the shiny metal pin. Ooh...shiny metal pin...
I am no longer mad at my glasses. My 5ft package came! It's my twin 5ft sections of clear PVC pipe. And the lettering doesn't go down the edge, but it's more of a raised lettering. I'll try to remove it but if not, I really don't care because it's hardly noticeable and won't be once it's filled. Now where's my other stuff?
On another note, I am mad at myself for forgetting that currently eBay and PayPal has a 10% off thingy until September 28 if you type in "celebrate" into the offer code in PayPal. It's for eBay's 10th year and I'm upset that I paid full price for something not too long ago. Oh well.
After the ACM speaker that didn't show a group of us went back to my room and played Star Wars Risk and Tina played DDR. That wasn't making me angry. After they left I kept playing DDR until my lens popped out. I got my glasses back today and the place in Fremont didn't even send the right screw for my glasses. The tape I held initally held better. The loaner pair that had my lenses in "by a breath of air" held better. But when I get them back from the place that's supposed to fix them, they break in a matter of hours. Thanks. I'm going back to my tape.
It seems that Walmart will include a Bonus DVD with the Episode III DVD. Always nifty:
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I was getting upset at eBay so much but today it was so nice. I got an email that one of the items I wanted but gave up on had finished, but I had a second chance for my highest outbid. That was nice. I guess the winner retracted his bid. So now I'm happy. But I still have to wait 2 days to get outbid on something else! The suspense is killing me, I hope it lasts.
On another note, I got a copy of the Violent Femmes CD from Jodie which I have to hear and she says she's working on the Bright Eyes mix of hers. I also got a gift from the Littlest One of a Chewbacca sucker thingy. They gave me sugar in the form of Star Wars. Bad idea.
You know what really grinds my gears...Battlefront on Hard. The Medium difficulty is too easy to win but Hard is impossible. Even though you are on a team of like 30, you have to play babysitter for all of your command posts because no one stays behind to guard it and some prick gets a free steal. And of course, your team isn't smart enough to capture command posts on your own so there's no way to win. But what I really hate is when you don't die, lose all command posts but yet still lose. I never died so they obviously didn't kill everyone. Yet somehow we lose. I'm not sure why I keep playing it but it drives me nuts!
Hooray! The poster sale is back! And it's a day early! I'm not sure why I like this so much but I do. I am a little upset that most of the posters I wanted are European one-sheet replicas that cost $16. They're all ther: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman Begins, Star Wars, Episode III, and others that I was too upset to continue looking. Also "the Kramer" is $15. That sucks. I did pick up posters of The Killers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and A Clockwork Orange.
Also, I think I'm actually going to get that Willy Wonka one at Hot Topic that Sci-fi club keeps looking at. It's about time.
I am starting to get frustrated with eBay and the whole concept of online auctions. I like the ability to see a price and just buy it. But, no, someone has to come in and bid higher and not just higher, a lot higher! My item started with just me at $10 and now it's still me, but at $37. I'm a little hoping I won't win but I know I can't get this for this price. I just hate money right now. I always find the right thing that is 6 days away from ownership. In that time, someone always finds my item. There's a similar item I watching that expires in about a day and is currently cheaper, but because I'm winning the other that's now 4 days away, I'm hesitant about bidding until I'm outbid so I don't end up with two. Stupid impulsive personality!
Yesterday I went into Sioux City with Jodie to go to the Dowry. I had to order my shoes and picked up a hat but they didn't have a wig. We then went to Walmart because she needed stuff and I needed a knife. I came out with a Darth Vader Halloween pail, candy, chips, dip, bread, and Ramen. We then went to Long John Silvers because I never go there. After that, we went to the mall. Hot Topic had Jodie's pants! She also bought me a couple of pins as my fare for bringing her. We then went to Spencer's to laugh at the crappy Wonka costume. Barnes and Noble had some Worst Case Scenario books to occupy us. We studied the College, Dating and Sex, and Weddings editions. No reason. The circus isn't here yet. On the ride back, we discussed the intricate meanings of songs by The Killers and had to listen to Wonka's Welcome Song again.
Jodie's chicken looks like fish!
Today, I found out from the horse's mouth (well, Bri's) that the children's play this year is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. So I'm a little excited for that. I bought my pipe and a wig and I found a couple of better hats on eBay. I'm so excited for my costume!
After eating, I went over to Niehardt to talk to Rhea and Amie but they weren't there/conscious so I left at the same time as a girl distributing flyers for a barn dance next Thursday. She was headed to Pile and I was off to Morey. She asked me where I was from and I said Mead and she freaked out. She said that her aunt was probably my former principal, Angela Leifeld. Yes, she was. The girl also dated at one point Jason Larsen and Brad Schutt from Mead. Eventually she asked me the inevitable, "So what did you think of my aunt?" I'm trying to be honest, yet nice so I said that she was a nice person, which she was, but a bad administrator, which she was. I said she'd be a better teacher but as an admin, she has made bad policies. I think she expected that.
Anyways I walk from Pile to Morey and I see Andie, she's off to Gardner. I then see Roger who's off to come up with a proposal for ACM/Sci-fi allocations with Sam and Dan. I've got nothing until 3:30 so I tag along. He says that Megan was out at the haunted house and noticed that a major beam had collapsed and she thinks it may be unusable. That's not good. We see Dan and Andie in Gardner off to eat because the allocations meeting isn't actually until 3 so, since I ate, I returned to the dorm to blog this.
We had an ACM social tonight (which turned into more of a Sci-fi social) in I finally got to play my Star Wars Risk game. There are certain variants such as building ships that change the rules slightly. One of these changes is Order 66. In the game, a Darth Sidious pawn moves down a track that represents the amount of successful d8 amounts to convert a Republic planet into a Separatist/Sith/Imperial planet and Sidious moves to a planet that the Republic can instantly win if captured. It goes to 11 rounds and it moves every Separatist player round. In a game there is usually 2 of each faction so it would move twice. We decided that would be too fast and too killer for the Republic so we decided every round it would move. Unfortunately the Republic does have its advantages while it lasts. There are tokens the Separatist player places each round that grants card bonuses. These are removed by Order 66 but until then it gives the Republic player a goal that is too easy to get to. We decided halfway through the second round that we would adjust for every turn. Of course, near death, Roger the Separatist executed Order 66. He wasn't able to take the big forces away from Dan and I. We were in position to attempt to take the Darth Sidious planet. Then Gardner kicked us out.
I am so excited that my paisley is in. It looks so near perfect it's unreal! I'm going to try the small Wayne-y places just in case there is anything more perfect (doubtful). Now I want my gloves which may come tomorrow.
Speaking of packages, on Saturday I broke my glasses. Sad. A screw snapped in half shearing one end embedded in the frame. No one here services Oakleys so I had to put my lenses in a loner and send the frame to Fremont. I hated the loner, but when my parents sent my old pair in the mail, I didn't really like how they felt so I'm still weraing the loner until I break it or, better yet, they fall out.
Speaking of packages again, I feel sorry for the Morey deskworkers. So far I've got my R2-D2 miniature, paisley, and my glasses and I'm stille expecting my gloves, brooch, and 2 5ft sections of PVC pipe! Wow, that's a sentence I've never thought I'd say. And that's just all I've planned. I love Amazon and eBay, my checking account doesn't.
Last night I was up for some reason until 2am. I guess I wanted to be tired. I went to sleep and was awakened by the weiredest thing: Weather! That storm was the loudest, closest, and most freak-alicious storm that ever passed by. I tried ignoring it but then there was one blast that actually freaked me out. There were a couple that felt like they hit nearby. Apparently Stuart and DSax were screaming in the halls but I didn't hear that. Oh well, just amazed by the thunderstorms right now.
I figured since these are my random rants, I should rant once in a while. What is up with people in Morey (and maybe beyond the dorm) who have decided that flushing is not good. I hate walking into the frickin' bathroom and finding toilets full. I would understand perhaps if the flusher was on the other side of the room, that requires walking. But it's not. It's right there! Do it! It's sick! I guess people like to see how concentrated they can get the piss in the urinal. Sorry to gross you all out but it must be said. We're college students. The world looks up to us, apparently. Can't we at least give a courtesy flush?
OK, I found out when I'll need gas in my car for these midnight runs:
October 18: Batman Begins (October 17)
November 1: Star Wars: Episode III (October 31)
November 8: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (November 7)
December 7: Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 2 (December 6)
Because of the fact of being midnight runs, the dates in parentheses are obviously the days before when I'll actually be making the runs. The release dates is when I'll be tired.
I read this story and actually said aloud: "Finally!" I am excited for this release too. This will be my second known Midnight run of the 4 I expect to be doing this year:
Star Wars: Clone Wars | Star Wars: Clone Wars Volume 2 Coming to DVD
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