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What happened -- did I get shot? Oh my God, am I okay?!
So! I would say welcome to a real update, but I don't know that anything I'm going to update about is actually useful to anyone. XD; But here it is, nonetheless.
Sunday was made of football (woo!) and Venture Bros (double woo!). Although I must say, the Bears totally self-destructed and it was horribly embarrassing, alas. I mean, they kept false-starting and it was just ridiculous. Sigh. Then it was time for the season 4 premiere of VB, which did not disappoint. It was crazy! ("Oh holy crap, you're Nazis!" XDD) I think Dad was somewhat confused, seeing as I'd only shown him two episodes from season 1 and the last two of season 3, and then the premiere wasn't exactly told in chronological order and the only thing we had to go off of was Hank's hair, which is fine when you need to tell short from long, but then there were varying degrees of long and yeah. XD; But this season is certainly looking epic. Or something. Yeah. XD
Monday after dropping my dad off at the airport I came back and did my longest run yet: 7.5 miles. It took me about an hour twenty, which averages to 10.6 minutes per mile. The 13k is only 0.6 miles longer than what I ran, so I can totally do this. :D My legs are a little tired but not too bad, and I took today off. I think maybe tomorrow I'll do 4.5, and then 3.5 either Thursday (probably) or Friday, and then Saturday night's the race! (Hm... perhaps this means I need to remember to go to bed at a reasonable hour on Friday.) Also, I need to finish my costume (tomorrow) for the Halloween Party. And speaking of Halloween, the short little thing I was writing for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pjo_fic_battle is going to be longer than I thought. And may only be peripherally connected to Halloween, but I'm trying. At least it should prove to be interesting... I just hope I have time to finish more than one prompt. XD And I also need to work on The Ties That Bind; I'm a little stuck as to what I want to put next, since I need to pass some time in-story, but I'll figure out something. The next time I have a chance to sit down and write... uh. Maybe Thursday? Not tonight, that's for sure.
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pergamond is back in town for the week; this afternoon we broke out Gakuensai no Oujisama and had ourselves some fun. XD It's so much more entertaining to make the story up as you go, which is pretty much what we have to do, given our horribly incomplete understanding of the Japanese language. We first attempted to join Hyoutei, but after being totally snubbed by Shishido for Ohtori (well, no surprise there...) we restarted at Seigaku, which seemed to go much better. Momo totally loved us, and it took a while to win Ryoma over but we were totally getting there! It was also our mission to annoy Tezuka as much as possible. I am happy to report we were totally succeeding. XD Also, Fuji tried to feed us jalepeno sandwiches. Thankfully I think we ran away with Ryoma. (I'm not sure, but at least we survived, either way?)
Also, at work today I totally got IDL to do fancy things with errors and chi-squared and I think I may actually have gotten something approaching reasonable results for my IR power-law galaxies. ::squee:: I mean, I've got some overlap with optical variables and X-ray point sources - that totally means I'm doing it right, right? XD; Hopefully tomorrow I can finish that up and then I can get ACIS-Extract up and running and get those darn X-ray fluxes so I can move on with my life, eesh. And speaking of moving on, I finally got the paperwork signed on my Rio reimbursement. Here's hoping it goes through quickly. I could really used the nearly $2k they owe me!Because Delia's has the cutest star t-shirt and some kickass hoodies.
And finally. I went to Wal-Mart this evening and procured myself a copy of Revenge of the Fallen, because I had a gift card for almost exactly the right amount (I love how movies are only $20 the day they come out, even the fancy 2-disc special edition I snagged).
My first major comment is, needs more Will. Because I didn't know who he was the first time I saw it, and now that I do, well. Needs more Will. <3 And Ratchet! Did he get more than two lines? D:
Anyway. Other comments include: Definite differences from the novel, but I knew that. I just didn't know how much, since again, I had only half a clue as to what was going on the first time, since it was my first time seeing anything Transformers. Things definitely made a lot more sense this time around. Although, things I caught - Judy was totally telling everyone Sam's had sex (does this actually count as canon? I mean, she was high...) and was that a Cybertronian tattoo on Sam's arm he showed the twins? Or was it just sharpie or something? It looked like a tattoo. He just drew on the wall in the book. I WANT TO KNOW OMG.
Also, that "astronomy professor" still makes me embarrassed for the field. He doesn't deserve the title. ::dies::
In the end, I have concluded that the movie suffered mostly from horrible cutting from one scene to the next. I mean, the scene changes were often jarring and the story just didn't flow; there were a few times when things like time of day randomly changed and I wasn't sure if it was just a mistake on the editors' part or if things actually had taken that long to transpire. It was not obvious. I recall during my first viewing in the theater I assumed it was just because I wasn't familiar with the first movie, but now I know that's totally not it. It's just bad editing. Also, there were a number of scenes cut that were in the book that made things make so much more sense, so now I really am sad they were trimmed from the movie. (Things like the bit about Alice, which was half a throwaway line, and the way they changed the bit with Simmons calling Lennox instead of Sam calling Sarah.) Though the thing was two and a half hours; I guess something had to go. Too bad it was mostly plot points...
I am still sad I don't have the pretty box for the first movie, but ah well. What can you do.
valeriebean, I know I owe you a phone call. I was out 'till late yesterday (I made the mistake of reiterating that I hadn't seen The Dark Knight after Heroes and so it was immediately and impulsively watched) and I should head to bed within the hour, but I should have time tomorrow since there is no NGN! Also, I don't know if you'll even see this, but link621, I've been thinking of you all day. <3
Sunday was made of football (woo!) and Venture Bros (double woo!). Although I must say, the Bears totally self-destructed and it was horribly embarrassing, alas. I mean, they kept false-starting and it was just ridiculous. Sigh. Then it was time for the season 4 premiere of VB, which did not disappoint. It was crazy! ("Oh holy crap, you're Nazis!" XDD) I think Dad was somewhat confused, seeing as I'd only shown him two episodes from season 1 and the last two of season 3, and then the premiere wasn't exactly told in chronological order and the only thing we had to go off of was Hank's hair, which is fine when you need to tell short from long, but then there were varying degrees of long and yeah. XD; But this season is certainly looking epic. Or something. Yeah. XD
Monday after dropping my dad off at the airport I came back and did my longest run yet: 7.5 miles. It took me about an hour twenty, which averages to 10.6 minutes per mile. The 13k is only 0.6 miles longer than what I ran, so I can totally do this. :D My legs are a little tired but not too bad, and I took today off. I think maybe tomorrow I'll do 4.5, and then 3.5 either Thursday (probably) or Friday, and then Saturday night's the race! (Hm... perhaps this means I need to remember to go to bed at a reasonable hour on Friday.) Also, I need to finish my costume (tomorrow) for the Halloween Party. And speaking of Halloween, the short little thing I was writing for
pjo_fic_battle is going to be longer than I thought. And may only be peripherally connected to Halloween, but I'm trying. At least it should prove to be interesting... I just hope I have time to finish more than one prompt. XD And I also need to work on The Ties That Bind; I'm a little stuck as to what I want to put next, since I need to pass some time in-story, but I'll figure out something. The next time I have a chance to sit down and write... uh. Maybe Thursday? Not tonight, that's for sure. pergamond is back in town for the week; this afternoon we broke out Gakuensai no Oujisama and had ourselves some fun. XD It's so much more entertaining to make the story up as you go, which is pretty much what we have to do, given our horribly incomplete understanding of the Japanese language. We first attempted to join Hyoutei, but after being totally snubbed by Shishido for Ohtori (well, no surprise there...) we restarted at Seigaku, which seemed to go much better. Momo totally loved us, and it took a while to win Ryoma over but we were totally getting there! It was also our mission to annoy Tezuka as much as possible. I am happy to report we were totally succeeding. XD Also, Fuji tried to feed us jalepeno sandwiches. Thankfully I think we ran away with Ryoma. (I'm not sure, but at least we survived, either way?) Also, at work today I totally got IDL to do fancy things with errors and chi-squared and I think I may actually have gotten something approaching reasonable results for my IR power-law galaxies. ::squee:: I mean, I've got some overlap with optical variables and X-ray point sources - that totally means I'm doing it right, right? XD; Hopefully tomorrow I can finish that up and then I can get ACIS-Extract up and running and get those darn X-ray fluxes so I can move on with my life, eesh. And speaking of moving on, I finally got the paperwork signed on my Rio reimbursement. Here's hoping it goes through quickly. I could really used the nearly $2k they owe me!
And finally. I went to Wal-Mart this evening and procured myself a copy of Revenge of the Fallen, because I had a gift card for almost exactly the right amount (I love how movies are only $20 the day they come out, even the fancy 2-disc special edition I snagged).
My first major comment is, needs more Will. Because I didn't know who he was the first time I saw it, and now that I do, well. Needs more Will. <3 And Ratchet! Did he get more than two lines? D:
Anyway. Other comments include: Definite differences from the novel, but I knew that. I just didn't know how much, since again, I had only half a clue as to what was going on the first time, since it was my first time seeing anything Transformers. Things definitely made a lot more sense this time around. Although, things I caught - Judy was totally telling everyone Sam's had sex (does this actually count as canon? I mean, she was high...) and was that a Cybertronian tattoo on Sam's arm he showed the twins? Or was it just sharpie or something? It looked like a tattoo. He just drew on the wall in the book. I WANT TO KNOW OMG.
Also, that "astronomy professor" still makes me embarrassed for the field. He doesn't deserve the title. ::dies::
In the end, I have concluded that the movie suffered mostly from horrible cutting from one scene to the next. I mean, the scene changes were often jarring and the story just didn't flow; there were a few times when things like time of day randomly changed and I wasn't sure if it was just a mistake on the editors' part or if things actually had taken that long to transpire. It was not obvious. I recall during my first viewing in the theater I assumed it was just because I wasn't familiar with the first movie, but now I know that's totally not it. It's just bad editing. Also, there were a number of scenes cut that were in the book that made things make so much more sense, so now I really am sad they were trimmed from the movie. (Things like the bit about Alice, which was half a throwaway line, and the way they changed the bit with Simmons calling Lennox instead of Sam calling Sarah.) Though the thing was two and a half hours; I guess something had to go. Too bad it was mostly plot points...
I am still sad I don't have the pretty box for the first movie, but ah well. What can you do.
valeriebean, I know I owe you a phone call. I was out 'till late yesterday (I made the mistake of reiterating that I hadn't seen The Dark Knight after Heroes and so it was immediately and impulsively watched) and I should head to bed within the hour, but I should have time tomorrow since there is no NGN! Also, I don't know if you'll even see this, but link621, I've been thinking of you all day. <3