| 2011 Recap and Looking forward |
[Dec. 30th, 2011|01:53 pm] |
It's kind of fun to really encapsulate all of a year in terms of significant events, let's see how it goes.
In 2011 I
- Moved to Oregon (okay, this was technically on like New Years eve, 2010, but I'm counting it)
- Worked at Intel
- Left Intel because it was an emotionally unhealthy place, to work at a much more well adjusted company
- Lived in Hillsboro, realized it was boring and then
- Moved to NW Portland in a kickass location
- Got a second, obnoxious but adorable, puppy
- Started and abandoned a Call of Cthulhu campaign
- Gained a bunch of weight (booo!)
- Crashed the Rav-4 (also booo!)
- Started to figure out how to meet folks in Portland
- Finally bought a smart phone and a tablet
- Wrote slashfic for the Sucker Punch community (haha, that was an interesting experience)
- Had a nerf war for Kathleen's Birthday
- Went to Sasquatch festival
- Went to Emerald City and San Diego Comic Cons
- Went to Canada for the first (and second) time(s)
I'm sure there's more, I'll have to add it as I think of it later.
In 2012, I would like to accomplish the following things
- Abandon the Rodeo, find a replacement car for the Rav-4
- Start AND FINISH a Call of Cthulhu campaign
- Write SOMETHING (even if it's more fic)
- Become a full time employee of somewhere (ideally Menlo)
- Lose all of the weight I've gained
- Travel to at least one place I've never been
- Go back to Sasquatch!
- Go back to Emerald City Comic-Con
- Train Tesla so that she's a little less of a hellion
- Move somewhere with a private backyard (totally a pipedream, but why not pretend I can do it?
- Save up to something approaching a down payment for a house
- Take a legit vacation (more than a weekend) with Kathleen (this may cause problems for the above goal)
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| Weekend update, really? |
[Dec. 18th, 2011|09:27 pm] |
There was a segment in SNL this week with Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyer, and Amy Poehler, and it ended fairly slashy. I think my brain is thoroughly corrupted. I worry that if I ever decided to go back and teach a media studies class I'd be kicked out before a semester was over. I can't interpret anything without seeing underlying fic. Naturally, Alice, I blame you. |
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| Torchwood, oh Torchwood |
[Sep. 13th, 2011|11:03 pm] |
I don't even quite know where to begin on this show. Problems, potential, *Barrowman*. It's all kind of a mishmosh of thoughts in my head. Let's go for the obvious for now. There were too many episodes, and too little content. This is an obvious complaint, said time and again, but I don't even feel like they had as much to go on as Children of Earth. Our main, inescapable points are
A) Jack's past relationships (lives) have lead to this terrible issue
B) There is a cabal of three families who have been manipulating history since the 20's
C) The Miracle Day requires a jesus-like sacrifice from Jack to be undone
D) Human beings will exploit any situation they can to be shit to each other.
The A) episode was really well done, and managed to make me plead for and condemn a man I'd never met before in one go. It was probably the highlight episode of the whole series for me, because it was the most fully formed.
The B) plot line, and it's ongoing aspect, I think has a lot of potential. Why they waited until 7/10 episodes to really even mention these guys was an incredibly poor decision. Still, they pose a challenge beyond even that of CoE, as they would be harder to depose than a single government.
C) Such tired imagery, and Jack didn't even fuck up in any way to make his sacrifice symbolic
D) So close and yet so far! Yes, they were burning comatose (and occasionally non-comatose) people alive. But where were the horribly burned non-cadavers? Where were the potential suicides who didn't die? Where was anything as twisted as what we saw in the first two episodes? Even the dark character development was constantly defused, what with Rhys's bloodlust and Gwen's backstabbing just totally swept under the rug.
Even if you devote an entire episode to D, and still bring in an inexplicably failure-prone american team, we're talking 5 episodes of content. I'm thinking 3 would have been ideal, without any non-expendable American team members (including Rex). Of course, this would eliminate the Bill Pullman arc, and he had some of the most gripping moments on screen in the whole of Torchwood. But why was he there? Was he the best-written afterthought? Was he the only way they could think of to blow up another building? It doesn't fit together at all! As an excuse to introduce Kitzinger, maybe I can understand it, but so much effort was put into this character that got such a half-assed redemption in the end.
This is so totally rambly. I may give it another go to explain what else I'm thinking about the show. It's fascinating in a "I just woke up and can't describe my dream well enough to keep my thoughts around" sort of way. Maddening.
*Barowmaaaaan* |
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[Jun. 15th, 2009|04:15 pm] |
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Some days I want to run screaming out of the building. It's okay though, I can last the month (at most) that I need to. Then I can run screaming out of the building without having to return the next day. |
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[Apr. 25th, 2009|05:16 pm] |
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Holy crap how many dicks are there in Venture Bros. Season 3? I never thought I would appreciate adult swim's censoring so much. |
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| Marry, Boff, Kill |
[Apr. 2nd, 2009|06:16 pm] |
1. Comment on this entry and I will give you 3 people.
2. Label which one you would marry, shag and throw off a cliff.
3. Provide pictures and names of the 3 people.
4. Post this meme with your answers.
Alice gave me Darren Aronofsky, Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton
...because she's evil.
Okay, here we go
Marry: Tim Burton
I love Tim Burton's movies, and he works with Johnny Depp all the time, so that would be a plus. Plus he seems less crazy (or crazy in a more down to earth way) than any of the other guys on the list. Oh, also he casts his wife (Helena Bonham Carter) in EVERYTHING so I could totally get some screen time out of it.
Boff: Darren Aronofsky
By far the most attractive of the three, and his movies are so over-whelmingly trippy that I feel like a romp in bed with him would leave you confused and enlightened. There are worse things, definitely.
Kill: Quentin Tarentino
I love the guys movies, but really there's no contest here. He's a sleazeball, and the thought of him touching me is pretty revolting. Plus he's got the whole foot fetish thing going on. No thank you. I wouldn't kill him until after Inglourious Basterds though. |
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| Woo tax return (maybe) |
[Mar. 28th, 2009|07:40 pm] |
So I filed for a tax return for the first time ever, using TurboTax (because I'm lazy and I like e-filing it). I was all stoked because it looks like I'm gonna get a decent chunk of change back. Then I get a rejection letter. Not because I screwed up some aspect of my claim, but because my personal information (name, SSN, state) were deemed incorrect.
Uh...it's not that complicated, and I'm pretty sure I know my SSN. I'm hoping that it was some weird fluke with something because I really don't want to have to deal with a real tax prep person or (even worse) the IRS themselves. |
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[Mar. 1st, 2009|07:26 pm] |
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I dropped our slow cooker pot in the sink while washing it and now it has a spider-web of cracks throughout the whole thing. If we tried to cook anything in it now it would surely kerpload. This is sad, but i guess it means we get to upgrade our slow cooker. |
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