Another righteous weekend
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jchrisobrienwhich really started on Thursday. I saw Tomb Raider with Mathew, which was pretty aweful storywise, but there were some nicel visuals in it. Not enough to really make it worthwhile. It's like a sugar wafer: tasty, you liked it when you were a kid, but it's gone in a flash and has not nutritional value, and you feel vaguely sick afterwards.
Well, the sushi dinner before hand made the experience more pleasureable.
Friday night was a lot of cider and chess at Lena's party (along with being greeted with "YUPPIE!" by all of my out of work friends. :) It was very hot at first, but several ciders and glasses of sangria later it felt just fine.
Saturday I tooled around the house, went out to Barnes and Noble with Clay to do some book shopping, but couldn't find anything I wanted. My reading has defintely declined in recent years. Fantasy and science fiction have lost a lot of their appeal, and almost all horror/vampire fiction is atrocious. There's a lot of modern fiction that sounds appealing, but I get a little tired of writer's being oh-so-clever-and-hip when I read them. I tried Tom Robbins, and Neal Stephenson, and will probably try Chuck Palahniuk as well, but I have a feeling he's in the hip school too. I liked Fight Club a lot, and I don't mind a different take on writing, but I want the story to be enthralling most of all when I read, I don't want to get distracted by the style, it should compliment the story, help pull me in deeper.
I did end up getting the first three Transmetropolitan graphic novels at the comic store in Harvard Square. That really pulls me in: black humor, social commentary, the search for truth and the dangers in finding it. I have to resist the urge to snatch the rest of them up, and just satisfy my hunger one novel bite at a time.
Saturday evening, and Ann's surprise birthday party kicks off. It was held at a friends house. Ann was surprised by the party, and the host was surprised by finding a malfunctioning toilet upon his return! He had to make a midnight run to Home Depot for replacement parts, while I stalked the midnight streets looking for a restroom. I walked right into a late night seafood restaurant unchallenged, down a flight of stairs, and finally found the restroom. The restaurant was really empty and in dire need of a vacuuming. On the way back, I found a shortcut back to his house, and realized I walked 3x as far as I needed to go. But the night air was cool and moving, and felt wonderful after the earlier heat.
Sunday was one long stretch of Buffy episodes and painting. I must have finished about 20 miniatures for my friends army. That brings the total to 93 painted, 60 to go. and I imagine he'll be picking up a few more before it's all said and done. And there's still my own stuff to work on. I'm prediciting a vacation will be needed before long. It's not good to burn out.
I'll hear back from MGH this week about my salary for my potential new job. The environment is definitely interesting, I'd be forced to learn a lot about Linux and other OS's very quickly. The downside is their funding is through grants, so I'm not sure I'd be able to stay there. And that he hasn't told me when my hours are, what the benefits are, and what my salary is. It sounds like it will be less than what I'm making now.
We'll wait and see...
Well, the sushi dinner before hand made the experience more pleasureable.
Friday night was a lot of cider and chess at Lena's party (along with being greeted with "YUPPIE!" by all of my out of work friends. :) It was very hot at first, but several ciders and glasses of sangria later it felt just fine.
Saturday I tooled around the house, went out to Barnes and Noble with Clay to do some book shopping, but couldn't find anything I wanted. My reading has defintely declined in recent years. Fantasy and science fiction have lost a lot of their appeal, and almost all horror/vampire fiction is atrocious. There's a lot of modern fiction that sounds appealing, but I get a little tired of writer's being oh-so-clever-and-hip when I read them. I tried Tom Robbins, and Neal Stephenson, and will probably try Chuck Palahniuk as well, but I have a feeling he's in the hip school too. I liked Fight Club a lot, and I don't mind a different take on writing, but I want the story to be enthralling most of all when I read, I don't want to get distracted by the style, it should compliment the story, help pull me in deeper.
I did end up getting the first three Transmetropolitan graphic novels at the comic store in Harvard Square. That really pulls me in: black humor, social commentary, the search for truth and the dangers in finding it. I have to resist the urge to snatch the rest of them up, and just satisfy my hunger one novel bite at a time.
Saturday evening, and Ann's surprise birthday party kicks off. It was held at a friends house. Ann was surprised by the party, and the host was surprised by finding a malfunctioning toilet upon his return! He had to make a midnight run to Home Depot for replacement parts, while I stalked the midnight streets looking for a restroom. I walked right into a late night seafood restaurant unchallenged, down a flight of stairs, and finally found the restroom. The restaurant was really empty and in dire need of a vacuuming. On the way back, I found a shortcut back to his house, and realized I walked 3x as far as I needed to go. But the night air was cool and moving, and felt wonderful after the earlier heat.
Sunday was one long stretch of Buffy episodes and painting. I must have finished about 20 miniatures for my friends army. That brings the total to 93 painted, 60 to go. and I imagine he'll be picking up a few more before it's all said and done. And there's still my own stuff to work on. I'm prediciting a vacation will be needed before long. It's not good to burn out.
I'll hear back from MGH this week about my salary for my potential new job. The environment is definitely interesting, I'd be forced to learn a lot about Linux and other OS's very quickly. The downside is their funding is through grants, so I'm not sure I'd be able to stay there. And that he hasn't told me when my hours are, what the benefits are, and what my salary is. It sounds like it will be less than what I'm making now.
We'll wait and see...
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Date: 2001-06-25 09:06 am (UTC)i'm almost grateful there's not many left...
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