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[11 Jul 2009|12:00am] |
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There is a 13 degree difference between the tomorrow and Sunday. Why am I not working the tent sale on Sunday? I will be so sweaty tomorrow that those people who see me will, in the future, have a hard time meeting my gaze. As if they had seen me naked. It will be like that. I will be so embarrassingly sweaty that people may actually fear me.
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| It ain't right if it ain't wrong |
[09 Jul 2009|11:35pm] |
Nik today, gone tomorrow.
Nik flew in last night and flew out tonight. How did the interview go? It's anybodies guess. But it lasted a whole day (his one break was lunch. with the ceo). I want Nik to move here and so to help this happen I am going to ... uh... build a model SkyLab? I don't really know.
Also, for my birthday Matt got me two things, one was a copy of the Black Mask soundtrack. I love this CD, but if you buy it people will steal it from Josh Dahl, just a warning. He also bought me Peggle DS and I was super excited! Then I couldn't find my DS. I was so sad! Then I found it today and now I don't even need friends anymore! Oh yeah, Matt also bought my new Saucony's but he doesn't count that as a birthday present for some reason. Just like last year; he bought me a fancy new backpack a few days before my birthday, but he didn't count that either. A
I wanted to listen to Neil deGrasse Tyson on NPR tonight at 8pm, but Nik wouldn't let me because he said I have to pay attention to him instead. But Nik never tells me anything about space*!
One of only 4 negative traits that Nik has.
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| Peer Pressure! |
[08 Jul 2009|12:58pm] |
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Also: I donated to WHYY for the first time ever yesterday. Good times. If you love the This American Life podcast maybe you want to do it too? It was very quick like they promise and the message thanking you for donating is, of course, adorable and doesn't use the formal terminology you would expect.
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[08 Jul 2009|12:53pm] |
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRETCHEN!
Three of my favorite things about Gretchen:
1. One of the best voices I've ever heard. This is not even a joke, she should clearly do ads or something. It's strong and melodic (not sing songy, though, because that's kind of annoying).
2. She makes quilts and fancy meals and paintings of Tim Armstrong and laughs at dirty jokes. She is IMPOSSIBLE to describe to people.
3. Gretchen likes to conspire for no reason at all. Which, as it turns out, doing things in a conspiratorial way is always fun.
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| Thanks Ran! |
[07 Jul 2009|11:34pm] |
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is my new favorite* thing.
Also, I'm going to be in a wedding in June. It will be my first time. It's going to be a fancy wedding, so I have to try to not eff it up. It's Matt's sisters wedding (to a man named, awkwardly, Matt). I'm going to don a bridesmaids dress and everything. Also, she asked me what I want to eat, because I'm the only vegetarian she knows. I think this makes this the farthest ahead I've ever ordered a meal. I hope they remember my side of sour cream!
For the Canadians: Favourite.
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| Whatever Works |
[03 Jul 2009|10:31pm] |
So Matt was going to be late picking me up from work and I could have just walked home, but instead I walked to some stores and waited for him there where, while I was waiting I was doing a lot of texting with someone at work who is unhappy and maybe wants to quit and an old man came up to me and said that the look on my face is: I'm fed up with this. Then he took my picture and left. So that was weird.
Then Matt showed up and we walked around a bit. We walked over to the Big Picture which is a fancy movie theater where you place your drink order and they bring you the drink to your seat. We saw they were playing a Larry David movie in ten minutes so we went into watch it. Turns out it's a Woody Allen movie. Very pretentious. The acting was impressively bad. I want to look it up to see why it was so bad. Did they refuse to do second takes? Did they only find the actors through personals? I don't get it. I may not be fancy enough to appreciate this movie. The point of the movie is also that you should find love however you can unless you are okay with religion? It was really pretentious. Also, we both thought it was terrible, but also enjoyed it. How weird.
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[30 Jun 2009|11:28pm] |
I have seen the devil! And he is a 40 year old asian man. There is a somebody who comes into our bookstore and grabs books and puts them on top of other books. It doesn't sound that bad, but we spend a lot of time hauling boxes of books upstairs. Taking the books out, alphabetizing them, putting them away, etc. So when somebody goes through entire sections and grabs handfuls of books and places them around the store it actually amounts to hours of work undone. Also, it pisses us straight off. Today we had an extra person closing the store (Rianna) and she saw him. Finally. The devil is a jerk, turns out. Anyhow. Also The Family was in tonight. It was crazy times. Of course this all happened at close, because the effing weirdos can't be bothered to leave a store before it closes EVER. That is the hardest thing for them. Their blood will turn to mud and their veins will explode. That is why they must stay. They must.
Also, there is something else that I'm excited about, but I'm not sure if it's a secret.
Also, Laura Weisberger* was wrong. It's a pink button down shirt and grey slacks.
*Book store joke!
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| *Spoiler Alert* |
[29 Jun 2009|01:22pm] |
If you're not caught up on your comics, don't read this.
Why does Daredevil have a signal? He is not in the same universe as Batman. Unrelatedly (because the signal is a noise), why can't DD writers/artists remember that he is blind. Sometimes they just forget and it's weird.
Why is batman so dead? Did I do something to deserve a zero action month in my comics pulls?
I hate the art on Astonishing X-Men, I don't know how everyone else feels about it, maybe everyone else loves it, but the over the top computer art thing really looks bad to me. It's like everything in their world was coated in oil and glitter, they're just glistening and twinkling all the time. And I guess pouty lips are attractive and we want the x men to be attractive, so they should all have the same lips? I hate the over all look of it, it's garish.
That said, I was somehow under the impression that there was going to be no more Queen and Country in my life, so I was shocked when definitive #4 was in the comic shop (well, in Matt's hands in the comic shop, because I pretend to look around, but really I'm just there for my pull). Hooray! More Q&C is just the best thing ever.
Also, Seaguy is the craziest shit in America.
Also, Matt brought this up last night: Why are so many people going to see Transformers 2: Ain't Mistransforming? Presumably they have seen the first one, which was unwatchable. And the reviews for this one are worse. The stars are nothing special, their other recent movies haven't done well. Is it just that the special effects are so good that everyone wants to see them on the big screen maybe? I'm not trying to be a jerk here. Matt and I watched the first one, I'm not being snobby, I like a lot of pure entertainment stuff, I just think this movie isn't it. Matt read that it's heading toward the biggest opening weekend ever or something, and I just don't get it. THEY'LL ONLY MAKE MORE MOVIES LIKE THIS IF WE ENCOURAGE THEM!
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| Hopes...dashed!!! Part 2: trivia edition |
[24 Jun 2009|10:29pm] |
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Ok, so the bar we go to has like 35 or so trivia teams each week. It's epic. We commonly end up in 13th place. The highest we've gotten is 10th place I think. Today we were going into the last round (of five) in fourth place, only two points behind the tie for 2nd place. Then we did badly. 24th place! It was our best showing going into the last round and our worst showing at the end. Oh the tragedy!
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| Hopes... dashed! |
[24 Jun 2009|07:59pm] |
So for a few hours today Matt and I talked excitedly about this great idea we had. It was brilliant! Our plan was to get married in Israel, with just he immediate family in December and then come back and have a party here in the summer. BRILLIANT. It would be a peaceful little ceremony immediately followed by a honeymoon in Israel.
So, Matt's parents nearly super died and my dad said that if we had a wedding and didn't invite the whole family in Israel (between 100 and 200 people) they would forever say: Bat-Noy got married in Israel and she didn't invite me. Forever.
So, hopes dashed. Looks like we're back to getting married on Marsh 14th and honeymooning in Israel in May.
Then Matt's sister is getting married in Kalamazoo. (June wedding in parents town = Nicole = The Good Child). Anyhow, really she's great because when Matt's mom talked to Nicole about how terrible the Israel wedding thing is Nicole told her to relax, if that's what we want to do, and that I'm the best thing that's every happened to Matt. How nice!
Anyhow. Time for trivia!
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| Today we all got new schedules at work |
[16 Jun 2009|12:23am] |
And they are balls!
Balls I tell you.
I am unhappy about it.
So unhappy about it, in fact, that I plan to complain to all the people that don't make the schedule. Like YOU guys.
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| There are only 1,000 Bactrian Camels Alive |
[13 Jun 2009|11:28pm] |
And one of them was pregnant without the zoo people knowing. And then she gave birth to this guy:
Who is disturbingly alien cute.
Now we can all take the news of Ahmedinejad winning a little more casually. Because cute camel.
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| Shopping |
[10 Jun 2009|11:18pm] |
I've decided to do an update post. I find that I enjoy everyone's updating, but assume that no one will care to read mine. In case that is not true, I will do some normal updates.
Commencing Update.
Today I went to do minor shopping. Bananas, apricots, feta cheese, and bread (hm, sounds like the grossest sandwich) and also deodorant (on the side). But the real point of this shopping trip was to use the mini van. Sometimes (often) the brakes are so loud that everyone on the sidewalk looks over and people in other cars crane their necks and people at bus stops start picking up their belongings before looking up to see that I am driving a spaz van, not a normal bus. So I took the van to the dealership last Sunday and gave them $20 in exchange for a car wash and a note letting me know that my brakes are great. So I told them about the bus sounds, so they told me to bring it back when it's making those sounds and someone (brave) will drive with me to hear/diagnose. So today I went on a pretend errand to listen to my brakes and of course they were crazy times so I drove to the dealership and the guy got in the car with me and I braked (broke?) on the little down hill before leaving the dealership and he was like, 'Ok, wow, you can park it'. So, hopefully tomorrow it will return to me without no sound effects.
Alex picked me up from there and we went giant t.v. shopping because Alex needs a giant t.v. He was looking at 52" t.v.'s and I thought they seems ridiculously huge and suggested the cheaper, just as awesomed 42" t.v.'s because when they're that big, what's the difference. Then a switch was flipped in my brain. I saw the 63" and 73" televisions (see, they get to be spelled out) and now anything smaller seems stupid and pointless. Have you seen those things? They're amazing! And $2,000. Also, don't buy your televisions at WorstBuy, because we went to four different stores and all were comparable except for BestBuy which was way pricier. We also went to a place that looked like a Christian video store from the outside and a money laundering front from the inside. Good prices, though.
At trivia we did the worst we've ever done. Ever. We also had a new addition to the team, who as usual felt guilty about everything he was wrong about because people are weird about trivia and don't understand that no one cares. It's for fun times, y'all! Again, I thought about how Ran should come visit for trivia.
Speaking of Ran, his cryptic LJ post on the topic of my birthday present got me thinking and I now have a theory about what it is.
Also, I'm 30 now and it's freaky.
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| A note on Obamas Speech |
[09 Jun 2009|07:37pm] |
I know I know I'm behind. I did think that Obama did a good job being firm but not condescending to the Arab world. I do take fault with the notion of Israel as a prize for the holocaust, though, of course, because (to quote somebody) : In 1922, the League of Nations mandated the "reconstitution" - not the creation - of the Jewish commonwealth in the Land of Israel in its historic borders on both sides of the Jordan River
Obviously this is pre-Hitler and pre-holocaust and I'm not into the American President re-writing history.
This post was brought to you by LJ selection of font sizes.
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[07 Jun 2009|02:10am] |
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HARPY BRIFDAY ELIZAMETH!
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| Poopfemisms |
[31 May 2009|02:11am] |
Jason Olexa likes the song slow ride as a euphemism for pooping, or not exactly a euphemism because he prefers things to be less dainty rather than more.
In a dream, Ira Glass, who was hanging out with me while I was pooping (I was not into this, by the way, I found it, and him in general, super annoying, but anyhow) used the term "dropping off some luggage" to describe what I was doing.
Inexplicably, Matt has coined the phrase "I've got a train that needs to change tracks" which is like if James Joyce had to come up with a poopfemism.
So now I want to hear yours....
Also, xkcd has more oral sex than I expect. Of course, my expectation is zero oral sex, because I never think about it until it happens again and then I remember that it's happened before.
Additional Also: Also, Nik's moving away may be directly related to this increase in posting. You people are all I have anymore.
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[29 May 2009|01:38pm] |
We remember buying bananas.
Neither remembers eating the last one (which we would because we would then note to buy more bananas because of our affection for bananas).
It smells lightly of bananas in our kitchen.
Where are they!? This won't end well.
Also, saw Jesus Camp. It was interesting. It didn't deserve it's fanfare. I was most impressed with the christian text books and their inclusion of republican issues, like being super critical of global warming. I was also most impressed with the Rachael and Levi and that little blond kid who talked to the group about how shaky his faith is. Those kids are amazing. But they just don't seem super extreme to me. I think I've been exposed to too much religious stuff to just be freaked out by the sight of it. It's nothing like The Most Hated Family In America or anything.
It was interesting to me how the only person in the whole piece that didn't seem sincere about his faith and that did seem angry and weird was Ted Haggart. Despite the abortion stuff and the everyone-else-is-going-to-hell stuff, no one else in the documentary was a hate christian.
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| Namesake |
[07 May 2009|11:30pm] |
Is so boring. I was impressed reading Jhumpa Lahiri's Namesake with how similar her character's immigrant experience (from India) is to my/our own. I guess the immigrant experience is universal down to the little details. Or Lahiri is a talented snoop that is surprisingly chosen to snoop on my family. And started her snooping two decades ago.
Anyhow, Namesake is uneventful and boring. The descriptions are lame. It's like someone watched a movie twice and then tried very hard to describe what happened in it. Accept they left during the interesting parts. Have you read Middlesex? It feels genuine, uncontrived, but is crazy and unrealistic and super interesting throughout. I feel like you can have a story where the characters are engaging and relatable without it just being a boring description of what a person's life is actually like. Has anyone seen the movie? What could it be about?
So, now I'm reading the Foundation Trilogy. Ran's recommendation. I like that the far distant future is still impressed with nuclear technology. So far I like it a lot. Right now Nik has so many awesome books to read (The Ugly American, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Watchmen, Stiff) just sitting around the house. They come strongly recommended. He will almost certainly enjoy them. I wish I was in this situation. He is just slightly making progresss on The Partly Cloudy Patiot by Sarah Vowell, which is great, but come on, right?
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| Who is driving? |
[11 Jan 2009|03:10am] |
We found a super casual racist website today. It's lazy about racism.
It had a banner ad for: http://www.interracialromance.com which appears to be a website where interracial people find each other. That's their terminology. "Interracial people".
Also, Nik moved in and had a brief love affair with vampire/vampyre websites before he decided they're too depressing.
I miss Ran and want the four of us to live in a house or to be neighbors. Also, I guess it's time for some fiction recommendations. List a few, because what if we've read the same books and your advice is useless to me?
Tomorrow we've planned too many things and will certainly not end up everywhere we've planned on ending up.
Oh no! Bear is driving!
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[23 Dec 2008|10:03pm] |
The rat is still alive and tonight she was mega frisky!
Ran is here and if you're reading this and you don't know how I feel about my brother then why do you bother because we can't possibly be friends.
Also, Nik is
Nik is going to
How do I put this?
In January, Nik is going to come to visit us but instead of visiting he'll bring his stuff and change is mailing address to here.
I'M SO EXCITED!
Also, I'm sorry that I haven't posting lately. Actually, I'm not really sorry, because you guys probably don't actually mind that. What I mean is that I wish I had posted lately, because things have been pretty interesting. Like, for instance, I'm in love with a rat. But she has cancer and has to be hand fed and she probably only has days to live, except maybe longer because she was really frisky tonight and we think we've found two more good food options (yogurt and dried papaya, not together, though). So anyhow I've spent amazing amounts of time taking care of and feeding and playing with a non-human.
Now, she is over shadowed by excitement about Nik moving here, though.
I think you guys are all great and I hope you think you are too.
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