November 2010
17 posts
I just discovered that The Secret Garden is now on Netflix Watch Instantly, so of course I’m watching it. That was a terrible idea. You should not watch this movie when you’ve been lonely and missing your mother.
Me: I miss childhood.
Mom: I'm not sure you ever left childhood.
Me: Yes, but unfortunately, childhood has left me.
Kindle rationalizations
I’m fairly certain that I will get two things (and only two things, or money which will only be used towards these two things) for Christmas: a Kindle and a cheap but decent IKEA loveseat so that more than one person can hang out at my apartment comfortably.
Knowing this, I’ve been looking up which books in the extensive “Saved for Later” section of my Amazon.com shopping...
Dear Netflix,
Really, I can’t get The Lion King even on DVD? That’s messed up.
Sincerely,
Evan
Postscript: I understand if you need to forward this to Disney, whom I suspect is the real culprit.
Post-postscript: Disney, if you are reading this, you should also hook up the Super Nintendo/SEGA game Aladdin on Wii Virtual Console. I mean, I knew you were evil, but withholding these things from me...
Dear Glee,
I watch you on hulu sometimes. Not often, but occasionally. I just have one important question: why is it that you have some really cool dance routines accompanied by great, catchy songs that are still sort of fun to listen to despite producing the crap talent out of your voice talent, but pretty much everything else about you makes me want to throw things at my computer screen. You know, more...
I'd call it a success.
He was nice, and tall, and cute, and we got along, and then exchanged numbers so we can hang out again, and he was the one who brought it up, which is good, since I already knew that I wanted to. Also, we have mutual acquaintances. Small town.
OKCupid date tonight.
He’s from Virginia, he’s a Ph.D student at UT in Sociology, he seems cool and we have common interests, and if his picture is at all current, he has a pretty decent beard going on.
Also, it’s the last push I needed to get rid of this shaggy mop. Off to the barbershop. I chose a quirky Austin joint where they give you a free beer while you wait and the walls are all painted by...
Road Trip!
I’ve decided that this weekend is gtf out of the house weekend. On Saturday, there is a Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) Law School Forum in Houston, wherein you get to sell yourself to law schools, or if you’re lucky, have them sell themselves to you (I hope, and frankly expect, for the most part, to be lucky in this way). But why stop there? Since it’s a 4 hour drive and...
NaNoWriMo
I have all but given up. My story lost steam very, very early on. By the time I changed it to an indecisive, catch-all situation, I had lost all the hope and promise I had earlier in the year. BUT. I would much rather say I wrote 2 shitty novels that I’ll never let anyone read than just 1, so if I can get a whole lot done on my day off, enough that I can keep it going on the other days...
I watched this movie once
at Offscreen, probably, at UVa, between 2007 and 2009, about a piano player who wouldn’t play unless nobody could see him, and then he got caught in this parallel world type thing, where his lost love didn’t commit suicide in the river, or where he realized she did because of him, or he did because of her, sort of thing, and then he played the most beautiful concert of his life, or...
The thing about Matt Smith
is that he is at once too much like the Tenth Doctor, and also not enough like him. I could see the continuity and the difference between Chris Eccleston and David Tennant, but I don’t know if it’s because Matt Smith is too young, or too different, but it just seems … discontinuous, while at the same time, some of his reactions are mimicked. I don’t really sense any kind...
Let me tell you why I'm still awake.
Having a pet is great. I think Rambo will eventually get over the hands thing. I’m just not sure if tonight was a set back or a bonding moment.
Let me start this story 7 years ago, when I was just 16. We had a cockatiel named Barnie who was kind of the jerk but was nevertheless the family pet. We all loved him, and I could go on and on with funny stories about him. We got him when he...
What's The Difference Between Regular and Decaf...
fakescience:
I’m not sure this science is fake.
And, about NaNoWriMo
Any of my writing buddies actually trying this year? If you don’t answer within a couple of days, I’m going to call you and bug you about it.
So?
Some things.
Rambo is growing some new wing feathers, and gradually getting used to my hands. Still freaked out a bit, but I can pet him more without him trying to fly away with his stubby little clipped wings. But he’s growing some new feathers! He’s got these feathers with deep black stripes on one of his wing tips that are new. Soon he’ll be able to fly for real, and not just in his...
