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So, I'm getting pretty agitated. I've been working at this job for three weeks now and I am yet to do any real work. It's seriously pissing me off. You would expect that I would have done some real work by now, actual sales stuff, but no. People are starting to give me a hard time about it, but there is nothing that I can do if I don't have access to the computer systems, a functioning phone, or legal right to be on the construction sites. Yea for the broken corporate world. Also, if I hear someone say that their back teeth are floating (meaning that they have to pee) one more time, I may stab them to see if it's true. Because you know what that implies? That you are full of urine. And that you are threatening to spring a urine leak at any moment. And no one wants someone with urine streaming out of their parts not meant for it. Because that's just fucked up. Also unclean.
I got an apartment. I might be moved in as early as the 3rd of September. It is nice, the second floor of a walkup, but very clean, with a kitchen, bedroom, living room, closet and bathroom, balcony and storage. And I would be able to get a cat, which would be cool. The only downside there is that rent would go up about $15 a month. But cats are awesome animals.
Also, I met this girl in Albany, name of Bethany, and we've really been hitting it off. We have a lot in common, like a lot of the same things, she's a vegetarian to the same degree that I am (she eats fish and dairy) and she's incredibly quirky, which is awesome. We went out on thursday, hung out at a playground (why do all my relationships start out at a playground) and got coffee before driving around Delmar for a while. It's going really well. We've talked everyday since we met about two weeks ago, and actually have competitions to see who can come up with the better word. She wins a fair amount. The part that worries me is that I am 3.5 years older than her. I kind of feel like a dirty old man, although she told me a story about one of her friends dating a guy in his fifties. I just came back from the best date of my life with her, we went to a bookstore and bought a book for the other. I bought her Stardust by Neil Gaiman, she bought me The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm having a great time getting to know her.
The original Night of the Living Dead is pretty okay, but the quality is pretty crappy. The first remake is cool, the second is needless. The original Dawn of the Dead is a seminal epic slightly weakened over time. The remake is a good action movie, but lacks the commentary of the original. The original Day of the Dead is a great study of PANICS "People acting normal in a crazy situation." The remake sucks to a degree that the one dollar I paid to rent it felt like a ripoff. Diary of the Dead is pretty awesome, though. Points for self-referential humor in a zombie movie, zombie clowns, and the sense of immediacy created from a Cloverfield style movie. Despite the fact that it sucked, The Blair Witch Project was the most successful movie of all time (it made over $1,100 for every $1 spent on it; 3:1 is considered good) and paved the way for these kinds of movies which are working better, and despite the fact that Romero is almost blind, half deaf and probably has horrible lung cancer from smoking 3 packs a day since the sixties, he brought an awesome youth and energy to the film.
I got an apartment. I might be moved in as early as the 3rd of September. It is nice, the second floor of a walkup, but very clean, with a kitchen, bedroom, living room, closet and bathroom, balcony and storage. And I would be able to get a cat, which would be cool. The only downside there is that rent would go up about $15 a month. But cats are awesome animals.
Also, I met this girl in Albany, name of Bethany, and we've really been hitting it off. We have a lot in common, like a lot of the same things, she's a vegetarian to the same degree that I am (she eats fish and dairy) and she's incredibly quirky, which is awesome. We went out on thursday, hung out at a playground (why do all my relationships start out at a playground) and got coffee before driving around Delmar for a while. It's going really well. We've talked everyday since we met about two weeks ago, and actually have competitions to see who can come up with the better word. She wins a fair amount. The part that worries me is that I am 3.5 years older than her. I kind of feel like a dirty old man, although she told me a story about one of her friends dating a guy in his fifties. I just came back from the best date of my life with her, we went to a bookstore and bought a book for the other. I bought her Stardust by Neil Gaiman, she bought me The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I'm having a great time getting to know her.
The original Night of the Living Dead is pretty okay, but the quality is pretty crappy. The first remake is cool, the second is needless. The original Dawn of the Dead is a seminal epic slightly weakened over time. The remake is a good action movie, but lacks the commentary of the original. The original Day of the Dead is a great study of PANICS "People acting normal in a crazy situation." The remake sucks to a degree that the one dollar I paid to rent it felt like a ripoff. Diary of the Dead is pretty awesome, though. Points for self-referential humor in a zombie movie, zombie clowns, and the sense of immediacy created from a Cloverfield style movie. Despite the fact that it sucked, The Blair Witch Project was the most successful movie of all time (it made over $1,100 for every $1 spent on it; 3:1 is considered good) and paved the way for these kinds of movies which are working better, and despite the fact that Romero is almost blind, half deaf and probably has horrible lung cancer from smoking 3 packs a day since the sixties, he brought an awesome youth and energy to the film.