gifts received / addams extravagance / movie update
My sister came to Chicago yesterday to give me the presents she had for me. A very belated and excessively extravagant birthday present was the centerpiece: blu-ray player with netflix streaming. Also, There Will Be Blood on blu-ray. I haven't watched that yet because I don't have the right kind of cable to hook the machine up to my roommate's projector in the living room and I don't have a HD televison in my bedroom. So at the moment we're streaming videos to the projector and I'd either need a wi-fi card or a rather long ethernet cable to use the Netflix in my bedroom. My sister says I should get my mother to get me a new TV when she comes to take me belatedly Christmas shopping but there are probably fifty things I'd need sooner. Of course, she kind of likes gadgets, so we'll see what happens. My sister also gave me a bottle of some new Calvin Kline cologne, which is pretty nice, as well as some picture frame with a picture of me and her and one of me and Zac at her wedding.
It was nice having a relaxed day off. I actually have two days off in a row this week. I'm going on Wednesday to see The Addams Family (the musical with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, with Anastasia on Wednesday. Adding to the extravagance of how she bought me an overpriced ticket to that, we're also eating at Vermilion, a fancy Indian restaurant I hope she won't expect me to pay for. I may have mentioned I'm rehabilitating my defaulted student loans so I can take out more in the fall and about how those payments have cut massively into my disposable income.
I've renewed my commitment to write about all the movies I watch over on my neglected film blog, which I have called Blue Film Journal. I've already watched ten movies this year, although, to be truthful, two or three of them might have been in the final days of 2009. Fortunately that doesn't matter at all. What matters is that my most recent post about the six movies and one tv show I watched in the last 48 hours is posted here. Films include Funny People, Half-Life, Humpday, Taken, Strange Culture, and Paris 36.
It was nice having a relaxed day off. I actually have two days off in a row this week. I'm going on Wednesday to see The Addams Family (the musical with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, with Anastasia on Wednesday. Adding to the extravagance of how she bought me an overpriced ticket to that, we're also eating at Vermilion, a fancy Indian restaurant I hope she won't expect me to pay for. I may have mentioned I'm rehabilitating my defaulted student loans so I can take out more in the fall and about how those payments have cut massively into my disposable income.
I've renewed my commitment to write about all the movies I watch over on my neglected film blog, which I have called Blue Film Journal. I've already watched ten movies this year, although, to be truthful, two or three of them might have been in the final days of 2009. Fortunately that doesn't matter at all. What matters is that my most recent post about the six movies and one tv show I watched in the last 48 hours is posted here. Films include Funny People, Half-Life, Humpday, Taken, Strange Culture, and Paris 36.