Author: Gene

Celebrate 123456 day. Coming up tomorrow technically. Tradition is to flee wildly from whatever room you’re in at 1:23 4-5-06.

I just saw V for Vendetta and I thought I’d immediately post a review just to beat Maki and show him what for. Of course, you’ll probably want to read his review too, because I’m not famous for my movie reviews.

It was good. You should go see it. It had some action, but not a lot, and was still entertaining. Good acting all around. The dialog and plot make the movie, like they should. They sprinkled in some visual effects and jokes for flavor. I’ll probably give it a 9 or 10. I’ll let it simmer for a while.

There are two types of movies now, those based off of comic books or video games, or sequels to crap Hollywood already thought of.

There are two types of people, those who think infomercials are funny, and those who might actually buy something from one.

Well, I’ve got 10 pages on my paper. If you include my works cited pages, and the page that only has two lines of text on it. So I’m not done… but I’m getting pretty close. I’m sorta thinking I’ll post it up here when it’s done… just for fun.

Spring break has been grand. I’ve been doing plenty of reading and writing for this paper, which is detracting from the fun some I’ll admit, but I am getting 10 hours of sleep a night. I also watched the first season of House. House is not really a good show but my sister likes it so we own the first season, and it’s the only thing I haven’t watched in the house pretty much. The show is very formulaic, and often quite contrived. The main character, House, is cool though. In the season finale House’s long time ex-girlfriend thing says in reference to House, “The great thing about you is that you always think you’re right. The intolerable thing about you is that you so often are.” 😀 Made me think of myself.

There’s an 11% chance of Pat this weekend. As such I’m not that worried about getting my paper done today. I’ll likely not have much distraction tomorrow.

I was in the local paper the day I got home for the break. I was doing the crossword for a half hour before I noticed my name eight inches up. Didn’t say anything special, just that I went to London and such.

Speaking of London…

1-22-06

And Then There Were 2

Pretty much everyone is gone today. Those of us who didn’’t abandon London this day went to church at St. Paul‘’s Cathedral. It was swell. Boys choir and all this time. I enjoyed the echo created by the dome quite a lot. Most of the service was spent standing.

Due to ““tube” problems Dr. Ericksen and consequentially I, did not go to whatever garden it was. Further, the play Dinah was planning to see closed today, so it was sold out. These others went to see STOMP, but I, having already seen it, determined to make my own way, after lunch anyway.

My own way turned out to lead back to the British Museum where I tried to see a lot in a little time, so I could say I had at least glanced at everything in the place. I was partially successful, but I ran into a tour and followed it. Regardless I don’’t think I would have been able to make that claim. I’’ve now been there about 9 hours.

My journal seems to be getting a little worse for wear. It’s holding up well for how much I cart I about. Speaking of journals, a compilation of all our journals should be made and read chronologically. That would be interesting. You should organize that Dr.

I’m in the Phoenix pub alone. 2 dinners for me. The ““football” players are good.

I’’m getting close to finished w/ my Celtic Tales book. They’re fun. There are a lot more guys here than girls.

Well, I’m home. Started with a ride up to Seattle with Mike. He was taking two other people with him, so it was pretty packed. I sat with my laundry hamper between my legs. I shoulda taken a picture. I was fine though. I am used to cramped living/traveling conditions.
Mike dropped me off in a parking lot in Seattle where my mother found me. I guess I was the only kid reading a D&D book and sitting with a laundry hamper. She took me to dinner at a vegetarian place with my hold chum Tyler (who’s apparently a vegetarian now) and his roommates. I ended up paying for it, but not really, they gave me cash. I just had a credit card that they’d accept. I messed up writing the tip down twice… but what you going to do? I think the waiters don’t get that tip money anyway.
Went from dinner to my grandmothers and talked with her for a while. I was tired and was going to go to bed early (like 11) but failed to pass out and instead watched like 4 hours of Myth Busters. Also saw most of that South Park episode where they “declare war” on scientology. It’s way funnier if you know the behind the scene’s drama.
Then today mother and I drove back to Kennewick. We walked and talked and I watched a lot of comedy central from the internet. I just failed to do one of those Sudoku things. I should be better at them than I am. I dun have a system though.
Now for food.

I sucked up my cs test. Well… I did better than the average, but I’m only going to get a C. Depends on how they weight stuff where exactly in the C range I’ll be. 8 says it’s not a big deal. She’s right, but it annoys me because it was all just a couple of assumptions or guesses I made that were wrong. Basically every guess I made was wrong, and then he made it so that was like 3 or 4 points. :*(

Oh well. Spring break. Leaving tomorrow w/ Mike for the Seattle area to visit grandma, and maybe some other people. Supposedly we’re leaving sometime around 1 tomorrow… but Mike says that might be optimistic. We’ll see.

All hail Oblivion.

Doh!

on the other hand… I can’t wait to grow up.

Test in an hour and six minutes. Computer science. I’m not worried, although I’m slightly less confident than previous cs tests. Those I got in the high nineties though.

I saw Kait’s play yesterday. Not actually Kait’s this time, just one she was in. She did a good job moving things around and serving hot dogs I thought. The play before hers was a courtroom where the judge was god and the devil was trying Jesus or something. It was retarded. The devil had 90% of the lines and delivered them all in the same strange rhythm, attempting to sound evil or something. Sounded to me like she barely knew her lines. And they had one door through which things went on, and every possible thing with the door went wrong. It was locked to start w/, which it wasn’t supposed to be apparently, then if was open when it was supposed to be closed, and closed when it was supposed to be open. On top of that they had this stupid thunder and lightning sound and lighting effect that they used off timing about a dozen times. /shakes head

If you have a bad play, you’ll get way more press time on my blog than if your play is just normal. 😛

I saw Domino… I think I’ll give it a 7 out of 10 or so. It wasn’t anything special.

They’re going to make Blade into a TV show. I hope it’s awesome.

Have another London journal entry.

1-21-06

I went to the British Museum again today. Mike and I did some wandering first though. We found a big Russian club/bar place in an alley, and a sex shop called 167 which I haven’’t deciphered yet. Oh, and a pretty neat games store.

The British Museum was crowded, but it didn’t matter much. We spent like 2 hours looking at all the Egypt stuff we hadn’t seen last time. Then we wandered through about 6 huge rooms filled with ancient cool stuff before we figured out how to get out. I’ll probably end up going back.

There are only five of us here today. Tomorrow there will be two. I’’d better figure out how to entertain myself. I’ll go to that garden thing probably, but that won’t take all day. Sunday… hopefully I can find a show to see or something. Apparently STOMP is the only thing that shows on Sunday, but I already saw that. Whatev.

Dinah says some other show is playing, so I’ll prolly see that w/ her. Had dinner w/ all the students left. It was pretty forgettable. We had to be back in time for the girls to ““phone” their bo’’s. 😛

1-20-06
Home Again

We made the long “coach” ride back to London today. I got a lot of reading done. Actually did some pleasure reading which is rare of late. Anyway, we made it.
The only thing I did in London of note today is visit Hyde Park. We, Mike, Dinah (spelling confirmed) and Lorel, walked through much of it in an attempt to see the Peter Pan statue. Mike and I made the trip sans coats and our antics in attempting to keep warm made the walking fairly entertaining. We did find the statue, and some all you can eat pizza place, which will probably be visited again.
I have been enjoying the Johnson reading. One of the words in the selected Dictionary part is booby, which is quite coincidental because I looked it up at his house. I’m afraid I’m quite ahead in the reading. I’ll not remember what the essays were about when we actually discuss them. I’ll review I guess.
Dunno what I’m going to do tomorrow. Might head to the Sherlock place and/or look for a gift for my sister, or go to the British Museum again. *shrug*

1-19-06
Lichfield

The world has pleasure, the world has pain
I know not of which the greater
One thing, however, seems very plain
Counting ills will not make them better. (lesser?)

I’ve noticed that a great number of these brick buildings are marred with the plastic emblem of a security company, signifying the buildings protection, and the owner’s fear. I find it odd that such fear should be so prevalent, even in relatively small communities. Hence, I note it here.
I think maybe I’ll switch to 24 hour time. Although I guess it is slower in a lot of cases… never mind then.
I think Mozart must have been born 2 or 3 years after the dictionary was published. I really need to read the history of everything.
I like the old graveyards they have around here.
We went to Lichfield today for a bit. There was an open air market where a few of us bought books. I bought 3, Darwin’s, a biography of Louis Pasteur, and a collection of Celtic tales. All good stuff I think. £1.50.
Went to the big cathedral in Lichfield. It was quite large and impressive. I enjoyed it quite a bit. It was quiet, as Mike pointed out. I also got to see Erasmus Darwin’s (Charles’s grandfather) grave.
Then went to Johnson’s birthplace and looked around. Learned a few more specifics about him, especially concerning his early years.
More interesting than his birthplace to me was reading some of his essays. I read the assigned Rambler one and a few extra from Idler. I’ll probably have to reread them, good stuff. Quote worthy, but I don’t have it w/ me, so I’ll not transcribe it at the moment.
Floccinaucinihilipilification
Had a wandering out in Burton near where we’re spending the night. I wandered far and alone until I found the game store. I didn’t know where it was, but I was drawn by some force right to the heart of nerdom. It was very stimulating. I only stayed for a few minutes because I had to be back at the bus and we pretty lost. I bought a set of dice for Mike, although I’ll take them if he doesn’t want them. I made it back to the bus in time. I was last back though because everyone else has no adventuring spirit.

How is your day?