Plusses and minuses
Not every entry will have a subject line. But this one was easy.
My day started off okay. I couldn't get to sleep last night, hence the late entry. I went to bed around 1:15am or so. But woke up at 10 after 6, kind of the way I'd planned it. The idea was to wake up, stretch a bit, and then go running. Which actually worked out pretty well. I spent fifteen minutes on running, went aronud Westcott, down to Broad, and back home. A short, easily-managed first run of the year. Got back, took a shower before BH was awake (trying to avoid that confrontation), then made some breakfast. By about this time I knew I was in trouble, because it was edging towards 8:30, which is my comfortable leaving time. It takes me a bit under 25 minutes to get to work (okay, it's 22) but if I give myself that half hour, then there's no need to rush or anything. But of course I was being slow. And having trouble getting myself together. Trynig to gather everything needed to be at work (including sandwich) since I was also planning on walking to Sound Garden afterwards to do some CD purchasing. So one of the later things I grabbed was my Netflix copy of The Seventh Seal to drop in the mail. Me being an idiot, I put the envelope in my back pocket, even though it didn't quite fit right. Whatever, no problem right? Wrong. I get to the post office, dig around: nothnig's there. So I must have dropped it somewhere between my room and the post office. I'm late already, so I'm not going to turn around to look for this thing, I'll look for it on the way home. To cut down on the suspense, I didn't find it anywhere, not my house or nothing. I'm hopeful that someone saw it, said "clearly this is meant to be put in the mail" and did so. That person would be my hero. More likely, someone saw it, picked it up and said "aha! The seventh Seal! I've always wanted this!" in which case if they're a good person they'll watch it a few times, then send it in, and if they're a bad person, they'll just keep it or sell it or something. I'm holding out hope, but not much. Side note: just having checked Netflix's website, they won't charge me for it, so that's a good deal. Still, I'd like to get it back to them.
Okay, so I get to work, and my day's already not good, because I'm late and I've lost this DVD. Also, I looked at my credit card statement online, and apparently I've been charged twice for "cash advances" for $100 and $39. I don't know what the heck those are about, so I'm mustering myself to call the bank and complain. I see everyone from New Year's Eve, and that's a bit awkward, then it's okay. But things seem to be kind of meh in our land. The show is not very good because the assistant music director is playing the show, and he's good, but he's not the music director. So everything's off-kilter. And there were only cinnamon-raisin bagles. I mean, weird. But we do the show, and the kiddies watch it (I was going to say "enjoy" but I really have no idea...) and then we head out for the day. Like I said, I'd decided to go to Sound Garden to look for CD's, specifically Fall Out Boy, John Mayer, and maybe Kanye West or something. Only looking in used stuff, though. Sure enough, I find the newer Fall Out Boy album used, so I grab that. I saw Room for Squares, but realized that I have all the good songs from that already, I think. Not worth the $9 yet. Keep looking: GOLD. Or PLATINUM. Something like that. lamb: Best Kept Secrets 1996-2004. I've heard Fear of Fours, since Tim has it, so I knew that I like this group. And the CD's $9. So I can't really say no. Lastly I'm looking around, thinking about the Kanye West albums, when I see a Get Up Kids live album. I can't say no to that, so there's another $12. Immediately listen to FOB on the way home. It's okay, though the singles are the singles for a good reason. On the way, I stop at the bank to move some money from my savings account to my checking account, but my card gets refused because it's expired. Okay. So I go inside and ask the guy about it, and about activity on my checking account. Sure enough, I've overdrawn a few days before on my rent check, and again for taking money out (like an idiot, I hadn't checked what the balance was before I took out the money.) So the amounts on my credit card are correct, which really sucks, because I owe an extra $10 now. I think Columbia Bank was more forgiving about it, though I can't really remember. So okay, I'm in a bit of economic shock, and on the way home I still can't find the damn DVD. So things = not good. I tear through all my old bills and stuff, but I can't seem to find my new card. However, I do get the next heating bill, which is for $476, which is probably twice what it was last year at this time. That's $95 per person, which is really crazy for us. I mean, the worst it got to last year was $60 per person or so, and that was in February. I haven't gone back and looked at how our usage compares, but I'm assuming it's about the same, or proportional to having one fewer housemate who did laundry every day. So now I'm really in shock, because I've been spending money I don't really have, and now I'm going to need more than I ever mentally budgeted for just for the heating bill. Something tells me that will be the first thing deferred this month, since the interest rate is a whopping 1.5% per month, ie nothing. But in any case, going to visit Shayna is going to be pretty much the last fun I have for a long, long time. I just bought a bunch of food and enough alcohol to keep me happy for a few months (not such a great purchase, in hindsight). I know how to make bread and otherwise live on the cheap in terms of food. It's just going to suck for awhile, but I might as well get used to it now as when I get to the next stage of life: the starving artist.
So, two more resolutions that go with this: be ten minutes early always, and pack up and plan the night before.
As to the DVD's: Seventh Seal I thought was really good. I'm a sucker for black-and-white, European, make-you-think movies, and the commentary helped me figure out more of what was going on. Plus, Swedish chicks are hot. I thought Seven was pretty good, but what's amazing is the commentaries. I haven't made it through them all yet (and might not, to expedite getting more stuff to watch with Emily) but they go really in-depth about development and art of movie-making and directing and all this stuff that's the 1a'th reason I'm watching all these movies (right after enjoyment). It's interesting hearing the director of photography (Darius Jhondji, take note!) talk about light. I mean, he's an LD as well as the DP and cinematographer. Really interesting stuff (for me). Oh, and he was the DP for Delicatessan and The City of Lost Children and Alien Resurrection and Evita and Panic Room and The Beach. So yeah. Geeky, what up? Remains of the Day seems pretty good, though I'm not far enough in to really have a good sense yet. But the acting's pretty good, which is what counts.
So yeah, I think I'm going to do some yoga, read some, and call it a night. Wouldn't want to get a reputation as a crazy college kid, now would I?
My day started off okay. I couldn't get to sleep last night, hence the late entry. I went to bed around 1:15am or so. But woke up at 10 after 6, kind of the way I'd planned it. The idea was to wake up, stretch a bit, and then go running. Which actually worked out pretty well. I spent fifteen minutes on running, went aronud Westcott, down to Broad, and back home. A short, easily-managed first run of the year. Got back, took a shower before BH was awake (trying to avoid that confrontation), then made some breakfast. By about this time I knew I was in trouble, because it was edging towards 8:30, which is my comfortable leaving time. It takes me a bit under 25 minutes to get to work (okay, it's 22) but if I give myself that half hour, then there's no need to rush or anything. But of course I was being slow. And having trouble getting myself together. Trynig to gather everything needed to be at work (including sandwich) since I was also planning on walking to Sound Garden afterwards to do some CD purchasing. So one of the later things I grabbed was my Netflix copy of The Seventh Seal to drop in the mail. Me being an idiot, I put the envelope in my back pocket, even though it didn't quite fit right. Whatever, no problem right? Wrong. I get to the post office, dig around: nothnig's there. So I must have dropped it somewhere between my room and the post office. I'm late already, so I'm not going to turn around to look for this thing, I'll look for it on the way home. To cut down on the suspense, I didn't find it anywhere, not my house or nothing. I'm hopeful that someone saw it, said "clearly this is meant to be put in the mail" and did so. That person would be my hero. More likely, someone saw it, picked it up and said "aha! The seventh Seal! I've always wanted this!" in which case if they're a good person they'll watch it a few times, then send it in, and if they're a bad person, they'll just keep it or sell it or something. I'm holding out hope, but not much. Side note: just having checked Netflix's website, they won't charge me for it, so that's a good deal. Still, I'd like to get it back to them.
Okay, so I get to work, and my day's already not good, because I'm late and I've lost this DVD. Also, I looked at my credit card statement online, and apparently I've been charged twice for "cash advances" for $100 and $39. I don't know what the heck those are about, so I'm mustering myself to call the bank and complain. I see everyone from New Year's Eve, and that's a bit awkward, then it's okay. But things seem to be kind of meh in our land. The show is not very good because the assistant music director is playing the show, and he's good, but he's not the music director. So everything's off-kilter. And there were only cinnamon-raisin bagles. I mean, weird. But we do the show, and the kiddies watch it (I was going to say "enjoy" but I really have no idea...) and then we head out for the day. Like I said, I'd decided to go to Sound Garden to look for CD's, specifically Fall Out Boy, John Mayer, and maybe Kanye West or something. Only looking in used stuff, though. Sure enough, I find the newer Fall Out Boy album used, so I grab that. I saw Room for Squares, but realized that I have all the good songs from that already, I think. Not worth the $9 yet. Keep looking: GOLD. Or PLATINUM. Something like that. lamb: Best Kept Secrets 1996-2004. I've heard Fear of Fours, since Tim has it, so I knew that I like this group. And the CD's $9. So I can't really say no. Lastly I'm looking around, thinking about the Kanye West albums, when I see a Get Up Kids live album. I can't say no to that, so there's another $12. Immediately listen to FOB on the way home. It's okay, though the singles are the singles for a good reason. On the way, I stop at the bank to move some money from my savings account to my checking account, but my card gets refused because it's expired. Okay. So I go inside and ask the guy about it, and about activity on my checking account. Sure enough, I've overdrawn a few days before on my rent check, and again for taking money out (like an idiot, I hadn't checked what the balance was before I took out the money.) So the amounts on my credit card are correct, which really sucks, because I owe an extra $10 now. I think Columbia Bank was more forgiving about it, though I can't really remember. So okay, I'm in a bit of economic shock, and on the way home I still can't find the damn DVD. So things = not good. I tear through all my old bills and stuff, but I can't seem to find my new card. However, I do get the next heating bill, which is for $476, which is probably twice what it was last year at this time. That's $95 per person, which is really crazy for us. I mean, the worst it got to last year was $60 per person or so, and that was in February. I haven't gone back and looked at how our usage compares, but I'm assuming it's about the same, or proportional to having one fewer housemate who did laundry every day. So now I'm really in shock, because I've been spending money I don't really have, and now I'm going to need more than I ever mentally budgeted for just for the heating bill. Something tells me that will be the first thing deferred this month, since the interest rate is a whopping 1.5% per month, ie nothing. But in any case, going to visit Shayna is going to be pretty much the last fun I have for a long, long time. I just bought a bunch of food and enough alcohol to keep me happy for a few months (not such a great purchase, in hindsight). I know how to make bread and otherwise live on the cheap in terms of food. It's just going to suck for awhile, but I might as well get used to it now as when I get to the next stage of life: the starving artist.
So, two more resolutions that go with this: be ten minutes early always, and pack up and plan the night before.
As to the DVD's: Seventh Seal I thought was really good. I'm a sucker for black-and-white, European, make-you-think movies, and the commentary helped me figure out more of what was going on. Plus, Swedish chicks are hot. I thought Seven was pretty good, but what's amazing is the commentaries. I haven't made it through them all yet (and might not, to expedite getting more stuff to watch with Emily) but they go really in-depth about development and art of movie-making and directing and all this stuff that's the 1a'th reason I'm watching all these movies (right after enjoyment). It's interesting hearing the director of photography (Darius Jhondji, take note!) talk about light. I mean, he's an LD as well as the DP and cinematographer. Really interesting stuff (for me). Oh, and he was the DP for Delicatessan and The City of Lost Children and Alien Resurrection and Evita and Panic Room and The Beach. So yeah. Geeky, what up? Remains of the Day seems pretty good, though I'm not far enough in to really have a good sense yet. But the acting's pretty good, which is what counts.
So yeah, I think I'm going to do some yoga, read some, and call it a night. Wouldn't want to get a reputation as a crazy college kid, now would I?