4 posts tagged “movies”

More point forms:
- I downloaded Alpha Centauri. Basically wanted that game for ~ 6 years. And then I was like, "Hey. The internet is so good for that." I also learned that I do not know anything about computers, but now I have a vague idea of what an iso is.
- I also legitimately downloaded the Creature Creator demo for Spore, which is fiiiiiinally coming out sometime soon. I really enjoy it, and will likely soon get the full version less legitimately.
- Went to the cottage. 2 days, ~ 8 episodes of rain, once when I was in the kayak. Saw "Across the Universe". I kind of wanted to hate it, but couldn't. Really, it was quite good.
- Okay seriously it rains all the time. Allll the time.
- So things with Professor are going famously! I suppose I should have provided interim updates since the last thing I said was that it was questionable, but everything seems to have smoothed out. Yayyy. I really like him. And we're going to spend my favourite holiday, aka Canada Day, together. Erm, magical...?
- Work yadda yadda. I have this week off. Gotta get my fill of Toronto before I'm off to the hinterlands come this weekend.
- Saw 2046. Not so great. Bad one, Mr Wong. (Interlude: Watched it with Professor. Putting my arm around someone makes me feel manly!)
- (Please note that Professor is but a nickname.... dating a real professor would imply a creepy age difference.)
- Free Harbourfront shows! (Nothing I like, though...)
- Okay so apparently starting a sentence with "As well," meaning also, is something we only do in Canada. I have Canadian and American neighbours: confirm? thoughts?
- I was at Sonic Boom! today (bought Milk Man and Intercontinental Champion), and some woman asked me "Excuse me, do you work here?" WHAT A COMPLIMENT!
- I finished Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, which was really good. And set in TO! This was my second excellent Cory Doctorow, so I certainly recommend him. Oh and you can get I think most of his books for free on his website sooo.
- This song:

Deerhoof - Giga Dance

Deerhoof

Okay so there's a lot that's happened.

I moved res buildings. This one is... much better than my old one haha. Not that I won't be happy to be back there in September. Especially after living in the suburbs for July and August. Um so yeah this building is so confusing, but I love to explore, so it's fun.

Work is a-mazing. I love working with kids, seriously. And every time it's gone so well. The kids are good, the workshop works out well, and I get good reviews from the teachers. I worked in my mom's school today, actually. She wasn't there, but the Grade 8 teacher booked me. I was really dreading this particular workshop because a) he was clearly going to report right back to my mom, and b) it's like the most boring, confusing workshop. But it worked out fine! Great even! DESPITE the fact that my materials crate was missing a crucial component. I just made up a replacement part and it went off without a hitch. It was amazing, and even though I'm pretty much burned out from low sleep and early mornings (at work at 6:45 today!), I am just so happy.

Yesterday, I seriously couldn't stop thinking "I think my life is perfect. My life is perfect." And I can feel that even though I know there are things I want but don't have. It doesn't make me too much less happy. I've realized that it isn't not having something that makes one sad, but rather the thought that not having that thing ought to make one sad. When I did that project in Grade 12 on happiness, the one main message was that it's all how you look at things - you make your own meaning and happiness. So like... yeah an outsider wouldn't say my life is perfect, but from the inside it is (I assure you).

Speaking of things I want but can't have, I helped my friend Samurai apply for an instructor position with my camp later in the summer. He wouldn't be working in the same place as me though, which is good because well, straight up, I'm kind of in love with him. Not actually love, mind you, but I don't want to say "like", because it's way too high school. Now if only he'd break up with his boyfriend. Which, objectively, I don't really want, because I think they're much better for each other than he and I would be. So. I'm pretty sure a lot of my annoyingly persistent interest in him is based in the fact that I barely even know any guys, so. Uh not many options. And as I said, I'm pretty content anyway, so I'm not really going to go looking.

Speaking of high school (yeah it's back there), I saw American Teen last night. For free. I'm pretty sure that in some location in the city, at any given time, there is something cool and free to do. And eat. For sure. Um but yeah the movie was really good. Though.. the director was there, and she said that she tried to avoid the sort of typical stereotypes... which she didn't do at all. But yeah it was still really good.

There is a Periodic Table up in our Common Room, for no particular reason. We were looking at it the other day, and no one, including chemistry kids like myself, could figure out what W was. Well, I shall inform you that it represents the element wolfram - better known as tungsten.

Hmm, Wolfram would be a cool name. I doubt I shall have biological children of any sort, though.

I finally saw I ♥ Huckabees. I quite enjoyed it though... I could see why some people wouldn't. I had been told several times that I resembled Jason Schwartzman's character, and although I had resisted that characterization, I suppose there were some aspects. Mostly though, I think many of the comparisons were drawn from the similar haircut I had at the time of release.

Unsurprisingly, it seemed this morning that the nu-winter was over - most of our snow cover had melted. Howevvvvver, by this evening, when I went back to the burbs for dinner with the family, it was snowing yet again. Really nice and flaky. But also really gross and wet.

This song is good!

Super Furry Animals - Into the Night

Super Furry Animals

Now ordinarily I wouldn't be so positive about a song that uses the word "Professorsaurus", but they are one of the best Welsh exports (in any area), so I'll let it slide... this time!

Toronto once again demonstrates his skill as a climatic quick-change artist, disappearing behind a screen of darkness for but a night and emerging changed from his near spring form into one of new winter again!

I must admit that though the ever-fluctuating season can be frustrating, it is ensuring that the snow is always new and white, and only rarely that horrid black crust and slush so characteristic of a winter city.

I am out of the funk I was in earlier this week. "There are other fish in the sea", I suppose. Whaaaatever.

I told 3 other friends last night. Less enjoyable - they reported being not as surprised as the first person I told. Sheesh, they could've at least pretended, haha.

I saw Atonement again. I'm glad. I rarely see movies or read books twice because I know I won't be able to recapture the feeling of the first time, but I noticed new details, and it was just as emotional as the first time. Well nearly - I did, after all, know the ending.

Dad is back from China! It sounds like it was an excellent trip, and I'm going home this weekend for the full run-through. And laundry.