I don't like them.
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I am in a very foul mood. I don't know exactly why, it is a combination of things. First, I am imagining the amount of work I need to go over the next few weeks. Second, I have money things to deal with. Third, I have to wonder what I'm going to do for the summer and beg around for additional funds. If that comes up a cropper I might have to end up working as a temp and that is chafing at my pride. Before I went to grad school I was working with the C-Suite, now if it comes to this, I will spend my summer working in a file room or something. I'll be taking German classes at night, though, and would spend the last month in Germany either taking a class or just being a bum. I don't like thinking about the future because the future brings risk and that gets me all on edge and starts messing with my circuits. On top of all this add an upswing in existential angst and regret about grad school and the attendant life of solitude and penury. We don't want my circuits to blow in DC. That would be bad.
Anyway, so what am I going to do about my foul mood? Well, first I'm listening to a Swiss radio station's morning show and they are having stupid chat with a comedian and playing Shania Twain (her newer stuff, which isn't as good) and now...Bon Jovi. Ugh, no. That doesn't help. I'd listen to my new CD that I got on iTunes. I'm talking about a new Dolly Parton CD where she sings hippy folk songs. It is actually pretty darn good except for one glaring example--her cover of Imagine. That is unbearable in the original and isn't helped by a schmaltzy, string heavy twang sound.
But I know what will. I'm going to get my hair shaved off tomorrow. All off. That will help me feel like I'm making a break. It is going to be drastic. Unfortunately, seveal of my classmates have gone the same route and so I will look like a copycat. I don't care. I saw some recent pictures of myself and I don't like it. Any of it. It has to end.
28 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our friend Quicquid. But while we moarn his leaving us we can say hello to our new, old friend Basil Seal, so there is hope that we may see Quicquid again in a new guise.
28 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
I don't know how many of your are availing yourself of the opportunity to watch the "new" Doctor Who that is premiering on this side of the pond. I would doubt that many of you are as it involves watching the Sci-Fi Channel. Anyway, regardless of if you are watching it or not I'm going to share some thoughts with you now. I will begin with the positives.
First, I am glad that they did not fiddle with the theme song.
Second, the special effects are second-rate, as they should be. I do not know if that is because they want to maintain the feel of the show or if it is because the BBC is still as cheap as they were when the older ones were being made and this is the best that they could do.
Third, I'm surprised that I'm not cringing every time Billie Piper comes on as Rose, The Doctor's traveling companion. She is actually doing pretty well.
Now for the negatives.
First, I'm not too keen on their attempt so far to "humanize" The Doctor. I don't care if he is sad and lonely; he is a Time Lord.
Second, the second episode involved the destruction of the Earth in five billion years. They just so happen to have music from ancient earth to play for this occasion and it happens to be "Tainted Love" and Britney Spears' "Toxic." That was a stretch.
Third, while I really enjoyed the first episode's plot--mannequins come to life--the rest haven't been so good. There have been some bizarre aliens, but nothing too bizarre.
Anyway, on the whole I enjoy it. You should try to check it out. I've got the new Battlestar Gallactica coming to me soon on Netlfix so I can geek you out even more.
27 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)
Apologies for being absent for such a long time, I can tell that I was missed. Anyway, I returned from my Spring Break safe and sound and immediately had to write a paper that I was supposed to work on during my break. This one I finished at the wonderful hour of 5 am. Of course I didn't start it until midnight, so no one to blame but myself for that one. You can imagine that my sleeping habits have been somewhat off kilter even by my standards. By the time I had gotten myself back into the regular habits of life I found myself stricken with a strange stomach ailment that made me unable to do anything but lay down and think about not being sick.
But all is well again.
27 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
18 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)
I don't have anything for you so I thought I piece together a few random notes:
17 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (14) | TrackBack (0)
In an effort to show some solidarity with our friends the Danes I have recently gotten some Danish movies from Netflix. Last night I watched one, Lars van Trier's Medea. Wow. What an example of pretentious European film-making! Lack of dialog, strange camera angles, lots of howling wind, rain, and bleak landscapes, strange imagery, it had it all.
11 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)
So it is Spring Break for me. Unfortunately I am not going to be heading to the beach to get drunk off of watered-down Coronas and cheap tequila and to catch VDs from state school chicks. But it is still Spring Break!
11 March 2006 | Permalink | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)