Getting fairly excited here. Going shopping with Kate tonight for the big camping trip this weekend. Although I don’t know how much camping we’ll actually do…we’re sleeping in the state park campgrounds, but we’ll probably spend most of the day out of them…yay swimming in the lake! swimming at johnson shut-ins! stupid jen for not telling her mommy she was going camping!
d’oh. I guess I told my dad, but not my mom. Sorry mommy! Do good at Hearts Hands and Voices for me. Sorry I’ll miss it. Meh.
Avoiding aikido class tonight because I have to go shopping and I don’t want to go alone. Here’s hoping they don’t mind alternate nights, Alex!
Someone remind me to sign up for Orgo. blah. And I have to check out the Hanson concert at the Pageant later this month. Hmm. Three concerts in two weeks? Yes, yes, I know. Hanson. But they have a new cd out and it’s cool! Shut up. I’m allowed my silly music tastes.
King Arthur comes out today. Too bad I’ll be busy…unless Kate wants to see a late movie. Most likely not. Sad, so sad. Kiera Knightley is just too pretty, even when she’s blue.
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hmm.
StandardYour score as a human being is 85.6.
You are close to ideal. So close, and yet so far. Amusing, really, to watch someone squirm so close to the vaunted ranks of perfection and still remain so very, very ordinary. It is all one can do to keep one’s ingratiating smile from polluting one’s perfect face.
another way to waste time
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I’m getting there. I don’t suck, but I’ve got a ways to go.
Not too bad, but you can do better. Keep working on it- maybe try kicking a few guys wherever you want to, then start lighting them on fire. Slow and steady wins the race, okay? You’ve got a long way to go, but I think you’ll survive.
Thank you Leo.
Data entry is kind of a pain. I remember when I hated Excel…ooops, still do.
power to the people (unless it’s stormy)
StandardSo the big news today is that John Kerry chose John Edwards for his running mate. Remember <a href="coronach/000006.php”>when I said that would be a good idea? I think it’s a good choice. And obviously I know who I’m voting for come November. Now the Missouri congressional seat…that’s a conundrum.
And here’s another shoutout to the gotta-love-st-louis-weather…it’s been crazy weather the last few days. Alternately hot and torrentially rainy, what a pain to get ready in the morning! And last night it was pretty horrible: in the middle of watching True Lies with the ‘rents the power went out. When we called Ameren UE about an hour after the power was out the message said 93,000 people were without power…gaaah. And for those of you keeping watch on papershew.com, my mom’s got another show this weekend, the one at St. Mark’s, which is always a fun show…but the week leading up to a show, any show, is always horrendously busy for her, and this week even more so because she just got done with the daylily show and has to replenish her stock. So you can see how a power outage is not a good thing to happen this week. It was supposed to come on sometime in the night, but as of around 11 am it still wasn’t on, and now they’re saying not until 9 tonight! Agggh. Poor Mommy. Thank goodness the power didn’t go out at the apartment, but it sure was weird driving down Lindell with no streetlights. All those million-dollar homes along there had no electricity…feel almost really bad for them. Slightly less because of that stupid rich daylily guy who wanted to come by my parents’ at 6 am on July 4th. Gaah!
So yay Kerry!Edwards and booo power outage and random rich people who think everyone is up at insane hours on weekends/holidays.
Random question: why does no one visit the <a href="aspire/ex” target=”_blank”>aspire exchange? I made it all pretty and then no one came. meh.
So soon
StandardI can’t believe it’s July already! And Independence Day is this weekend…seems like the year has gone by awfully fast! All of my Three of my movie premieres have gone by! Here’s to King Arthur and I, Robot.
So that entry I posted a few days ago about the title of the 6th Harry Potter book is true. It will be called Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, who is neither Harry nor Voldemort for those of you curious. I can’t wait to read it…hopefully, hopefully it will be out soon. Too bad JK Rowling doesn’t keep her readers quite as updated as LK Hamilton…
No softball game tonight, in honor of the holiday, I guess. So we’re going to the batting cages near my house, which is an odd coincidence. I mean, there’ve got to be many batting cages around, but they choose Tower Tee 😉 Then we’ll go to Fortel’s Pizza Den, which will mark the, oh, fifth time in a little over a week that I’ve had pizza for dinner. Maybe I’ll just skip the pizza and have toasted ravioli. Yay St. Louis treat!
Have a good one if I forget to blog tomorrow. Celebrate your Independence! And yay holiday on monday 🙂
does whatever a spider can…
StandardWe interrupt your regularly scheduled blogging to let you know that fictionary is up. Go read and comment. And submit something of your own!
Now back to your blogging, already in progress.
Ok…saw Spider-man 2 last night at midnight. Yay! Good stuff. I don’t know if it surpasses the first one overall, but it was quite fun and I came out smiling so that is definitely worth two thumbs up. Following are the random thoughts that I came up with around 3:17 am last night so I would remember something to write today 🙂
CAUTION! There will be spoilers. Go see it! Then discuss.
*Peter gets the girl this time! Although wtf with the last image of the movie being MJ’s depressed face?
*Gooood kiss at the end. Aha! Requited love! and blast, police sirens…
*Re: ripping fabric during the train-stop scene…wouldn’t shoulder joints tear first? Eh. Silly biology. Love that the gloves are still pristene after holding onto all those webs under such pressure.
*So does John Jameson’s leap there at the end mean anything? I’ve heard rumors about ManWolf…
*Squee! Shirtless!Tobey! haha.
*Poor Harry. He spent the movie getting drunk and pissed off at Spidey. Understandable I guess, but there’s only so much emoting you can do while drunk…and wtf hearing voices now? I’ve heard he takes up the Green Goblin mantle which is clearly forshadowed here, but let’s face it, even in the wizarding world, hearing voices isn’t a good sign. Ha. And thank goodness the movie didn’t end with him picking up one of the performance enhancer tubes! And eek! re: Murderous!Harry. Not so keen on killing your best bud, are ya?
*MJ’s wedding dress…fluff much? She looked a little like meringe.
*Tobey Maguire is good at earnest faces. I can’t quite decide if I think he’s cute or just good with emotions.
*”Hi.”
“Hi.”
(Spidey holds up an wall made entirely of I-beams and other random metal objects, thereby saving MJ from a particularly nasty death by squishing.)
“This is kinda heavy.”
MERF! Hah. Not really a time for small talk, eh?
anything but ordinary
StandardJust waiting…
amazing how long the day stretches out before you when you’re anticipating something. Tonight the gang is going to the midnight premiere of Spider-man 2…and long do the hours seem until then, even if it’s only twelve hours…odd sometimes to think about where you’ll be at some certain time in the future and to know exactly where you’ll be…sort of like being clairvoyant. Or not.
I’m really liking the Spider-man 2 soundtrack. The first release (or at least the first one I saw a video for) is Dashboard Confessional’s Vindicated, which is pretty good. Since the only songs I’ve ever heard of them have been on the radio and mostly catered to popular taste, it seems like I like most of their stuff 😉 Surprisingly one of the better songs on the ST is from Train, who I normally don’t like, but this is a pretty cool song: Ordinary (where the title of this entry came from 😉 ) and there’s a really good one by a band called Yellowcard that was obviously written just for the movie: Gifts and Curses. It’s about a girl named Mary and how the guy wants her but ‘has a purpose’ and can’t be with her.
and my worst pains are words I cannot say
still I will always
fight on for you
It’s also got a wonderful instrumental bridge with piano and violin. Yay! Good investment on my part. Can’t wait to see the movie and discover which songs are actually in the movie as opposed to those ‘inspired’ by it…
waiting sucks. guess I should do work to pass the time.
ETA: Just doing my part to help… Interrobang. Thanks Leo 🙂
what’s behind the door
StandardRemember when I told you about the new JK Rowling site? Well, that damn door finally opens. I had quite a bit of help from Alice, whose instructions I repeat here, under the extended entry for those of you who don’t wish to be spoiled…because it has to do with the title of the sixth book 🙂 Whee!
Go visit Alice, who is the first person to actually make use of the PLUGBOARD! Yes, that means you. If you have a button, as long as it’s 100×35 or smaller, please post it! Yay traffic (small but subtle) increase for you 😉
Inappropriate laughter
StandardSaw The Chronicles of Riddick this past weekend with Alex and Leo and Kris. Wasn’t going to go originally…but there wasn’t much drawing me home (sorry, ‘rents). I apologized afterward, because there were just moments throughout the entire movie that were just hilarious to me, and I couldn’t help but laugh. Mind you, some of the moments were funny. Most of them weren’t…it was more, as Kris put it, crappy dialogue laughter…and the indescribably funny image of Karl Urban in funky huge armour, eyeliner and sporting a mohawk. To remind you, KU plays Eomer in the LotR trilogy…blonde haired dude that rides a horse, remember? Anyway, I’m quite familiar with what he looks like in real life, and this was just funny. Do a web search and you can see what I mean. There was definitely an overabundance of eyeliner used in this movie. I guess dark-circled eyes do project an aura of menace, but everyone just looked either a) really tired or b) really tricked out for Halloween. Ah well. I will admit it was a fun summer flick. But it didn’t make me want to see it again, nor ever, really…possibly made me want to see Pitch Black, but I don’t think I missed much not having seen it before I saw CoR. It’s no Harry Potter 😉 It did have good music though. Slightly strange when a silly movie like that has a good score.
Saw the Last Samurai last night…
more to laugh at
StandardA man and his wife were having some problems and giving each other the silent treatment. The man realized that he’d need his wife to wake him the next morning at 5:00 AM for an early flight to Chicago.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5:00 a.m.”
The next morning the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 a.m. and that he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed.
The paper said, “It is 5:00 a.m. Wake up.”