Ugh
I'm getting a cold. In the past minute I sneezed five times. I did that Zicam disgusting nose gel again and it made my nose sting because now it's bleeding - not like a nose bleed, but like..one side gets all dry and sore and then it bleeds, it's disgusting.. Anyway..heh, yay. Oddly enough, I haven't had a cold for about a full year, which is unusual. It skipped helljob entirely...interesting...
On thursday, my later class let out early so I had way too much time to wait for the bus, and I was sitting in the sun at the bus stop, and it was hot. In January. And then, out of nowhere I swear, because there was seriously no one around at all, this Navy recruiter shows up and starts talking to me. It was really weird, I didn't even know they had an office down there. I said, no thanks, I'm an English major.
We have to read the Catcher In The Rye for one of my classes... I'm not impressed. In fact, I fail to see the significance of the book. At all. And it's not even..good...writing. He repeats himself far too much, I don't like it. I don't like it, I don't like it. There, that's his writing style. Now imagine that...with a WHOLE book. Not fun. Though, the "writing process" book for creative writing - I opted to get Stephen King's On Writing - is actually really good, so there's at least that.
I've got a new original character running around my head, kind of like Thomas Preston, so you might see something about him coming up sometime in the near future. Mr. Kingston is a lot tamer than Thomas I think, but then Thomas' story was particularly dark, the one I'm working on for Kingston isn't so much.
Anything else... oh. I watched The Trench today, which I got off of Netflix while skimming through Daniel Craig's list, and I like war movies, so I thought why not. I wasn't all that impressed with it - the music certainly sucked, it was the same track played at random intervals with the intension of making one emotionally attached to any of the characters, but...that didn't work. However, Craig was good, he was the professional soldier sergeant (I had no idea what his name was for the entire movie until the credits, so he was just... Sarge). Also Mr. Pullings from Master & Commander was in it (...going by my earlier naming system, it would have been Sgt. Bond and Pvt. Pullings, but...we're not even going there, thus... I left off his rank), and Cillian Murphy had a small part (Pvt. Scarecrow).
The best part had to be Sarge brooding before the battle and eating some strawberry jam that his wife made and sent to him. That totally condemned him as one of the ones to die - in fact, the first to die. Because everyone knows, it's strawberry sauce... EVERYWHERE!! Oh, and the password was kind of funny. The whimpy officer (Sarge was the only one who really had a clue what was going on), got word that the Germans had built a trench on their flank and wanted Sarge to go check it out with a couple of men, so they're getting ready and Sarge goes "We need a password to get back in."
Whimpy officer: ...Shakespeare?
Sarge: ...............wth?
soldier: London!!
Sarge: ........*facepalm*omg
main character kid: post office!
Sarge: right! post office it is, let's go before they suggest more!
Because it was really funny to whisper "POST OFFICE!!" over a trench, in the middle of the night, with people screaming and guns shooting in the background. The person screaming sounded like a girl. But it wasn't all that great of a movie, it was made for TV, some of those can be good. It was surprisingly gory.
.........
Post office!
On thursday, my later class let out early so I had way too much time to wait for the bus, and I was sitting in the sun at the bus stop, and it was hot. In January. And then, out of nowhere I swear, because there was seriously no one around at all, this Navy recruiter shows up and starts talking to me. It was really weird, I didn't even know they had an office down there. I said, no thanks, I'm an English major.
We have to read the Catcher In The Rye for one of my classes... I'm not impressed. In fact, I fail to see the significance of the book. At all. And it's not even..good...writing. He repeats himself far too much, I don't like it. I don't like it, I don't like it. There, that's his writing style. Now imagine that...with a WHOLE book. Not fun. Though, the "writing process" book for creative writing - I opted to get Stephen King's On Writing - is actually really good, so there's at least that.
I've got a new original character running around my head, kind of like Thomas Preston, so you might see something about him coming up sometime in the near future. Mr. Kingston is a lot tamer than Thomas I think, but then Thomas' story was particularly dark, the one I'm working on for Kingston isn't so much.
Anything else... oh. I watched The Trench today, which I got off of Netflix while skimming through Daniel Craig's list, and I like war movies, so I thought why not. I wasn't all that impressed with it - the music certainly sucked, it was the same track played at random intervals with the intension of making one emotionally attached to any of the characters, but...that didn't work. However, Craig was good, he was the professional soldier sergeant (I had no idea what his name was for the entire movie until the credits, so he was just... Sarge). Also Mr. Pullings from Master & Commander was in it (...going by my earlier naming system, it would have been Sgt. Bond and Pvt. Pullings, but...we're not even going there, thus... I left off his rank), and Cillian Murphy had a small part (Pvt. Scarecrow).
The best part had to be Sarge brooding before the battle and eating some strawberry jam that his wife made and sent to him. That totally condemned him as one of the ones to die - in fact, the first to die. Because everyone knows, it's strawberry sauce... EVERYWHERE!! Oh, and the password was kind of funny. The whimpy officer (Sarge was the only one who really had a clue what was going on), got word that the Germans had built a trench on their flank and wanted Sarge to go check it out with a couple of men, so they're getting ready and Sarge goes "We need a password to get back in."
Whimpy officer: ...Shakespeare?
Sarge: ...............wth?
soldier: London!!
Sarge: ........*facepalm*omg
main character kid: post office!
Sarge: right! post office it is, let's go before they suggest more!
Because it was really funny to whisper "POST OFFICE!!" over a trench, in the middle of the night, with people screaming and guns shooting in the background. The person screaming sounded like a girl. But it wasn't all that great of a movie, it was made for TV, some of those can be good. It was surprisingly gory.
.........
Post office!