Friday, July 18, 2003
07:32 p.m.

Getting that beautiful utterly-ignored feeling again. Doesn't help that the client at the site where I'm posted prefers to implement utterly insane patrol procedures, or knowing that I will never get a raise or health insurance, as long as I work for this company. College student jobs universally suck.

At least I can write nice, bitter angst, as long as I'm this cranky about it. Starting to think I may be able to succeed as a writer, if I can actually finish anything long enough.

Arrgh, Lisako, now I wanna go see that, too (I love their little loading graphic)! Then a few months later we can go see this.

Saturday, July 5, 2003
12:39 a.m.

Sleeping nekkid feels reeeeeeeeeeaal good. >;D

Thursday, June 26, 2003
11:45 p.m.

The baby hummingbird was learning to fly today! Hard to tell for me if it's male or female just yet, on account of the species (and lighting -__-), but it was the same sex as the parent watching it. So very cute. Hummingbirds just don't seem to care who knows where their nests are... I don't think they have any natural predators....

Fantastic heat today, probably record-breaking. Apparently someplace reached 103 degrees, not sure where. It's nearly midnight, and still baking in here. :P And because my hormones have the shittiest timing in the world, it feels as if a baby alien will be gnawing its way right out of my guts any hour now. When I see a capsule labeled as Midol PMS, Extra Strength, I don't expect it to be a fucking placebo. I have a strong, deep, and abiding hatred for my uterus. And to think how much worse the cramps would be, if not for this heat wave....

Wednesday, June 25, 2003
05:09 p.m.

Okay, what I am loving most about Order of the Phoenix thus far, is that none of it seems to have been translated into "American." They left in all those expressions like "binning," "to have a shifty," and "dodgy" (I love "dodgy," it's just one of the greatest words....), and it does take some thinking around corners to understand at first, but then that's what the whole series is about, ne? But damn, what an awfully dark start for a HP novel....

It looks to be about 95 degrees in the back yard right now, and the National Weather Service says it's going to be hotter tomorrow. I had to sleep with both my windows open last night, and I'll have to do it tonight, too. If only I didn't have to wear a facking uniform tomorrow.

Good Lord how I love summer!

Friday, June 13, 2003
11:58 p.m.

Apparently, instead of a "baby" dial, my biological clock has a "randy" dial. Yay me!

Friday, June 6, 2003
12:47 a.m.

One thing I've never heard mentioned in connection with the Atkins diet is the strange and fantastic sweet taste that blooms in your mouth, right before bedtime. It doesn't even occur at the front of the tongue. Since nearly all sweets are eliminated from this diet, I have to suspect that this obscure sensation is part of what makes people (who aren't on the diet) crave a bit of dessert between dinner and bed.

Wednesday, May 28, 2003
07:15 p.m.

Okay. Just got back from seeing Matrix Reloaded, and my hindbrain is still all abuzz. It drives me insane anymore to watch people having so much fun with martial arts, and to not be able to join in. I suppose Agent Smith could identify; he just gets more likable with every sequel... not terribly creative, tho.

So, now that they know they can draw an audience, I hope the Wachowski bros. will defer to the first of the trilogy for their directing strategy with the third: leave 'em wanting more. The problem with Reloaded is that there's too much of a good thing. Movies ought not to have music videos in the middle. Amazing crowd stunts can be done just as well with twenty extras as with eighty. Instead of going over the top, what needs to happen is for a scene to be taken just to the crux, and then to end or segue; that's how the Matrix was directed. It was masterful.

What's still amusing me is that it wasn't long after seeing the first movie before Dad and I began to speculate, "Well, how do they know they're in the real world? How do they know it's not just another layer of the Matrix?"

Meh heh heh heh....

Monday, May 26, 2003
07:05 p.m.

So, I happened to be with my brother at a local supermarket whose name is too profane for me to mention, and we happened to see a display of some sports drink trying to piggyback on Matrix popularity, complete with obnoxious packaging. So I turn to my brother and say,

"I'm not drinking that stuff unless it's really made of reconstituted human corpses!"

Well, you shouldn't be eating and using the computer at the same time, anyway.

Saw X-Men2 yesterday, and Spirited Away this afternoon. Slated to see Matrix Reloaded on Wednesday. I only hope my poor brain can withstand it all.