nerd weekend

Feb 01, 2010 00:30

It's been a busy weekend. And a very, very fun one. (alas, no laundry was done)

Friday we (Me, Asher, Malcolm, Andy, Kat) commandeered a study room with a projector and watched Clue and Plan 9 from Outer Space (Rifftrax). This was extremely fun. We put the couch on the table to have a nice view. After Kat and Andy left we watched intros to cartoons on youtube, and then two episodes of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Very interesting, I want to see more of this. I also found out that Asher and Malcolm have not seen Read or Die, so I will have to do something about this.

Saturday I had lunch at Martel, then went to the basketball game with the BOB. (threeeecola! threeeecola! threeeeecola!) (four! four times your score! AAH aah aah!) then helped put everything back into the Mob Equipment Nexis (sometime shortened to men's room). After that Alecia went with me while I developed special black and white film for my ancient quirky camera with the knobs and bellows and the cape, which has to be developed in utter and complete darkness. Developing goes thus:
(turn out light. complete darkness. Remove film from holder)
1. 30 sec in the rinse,
2. 7-10+ min in the developer, depending on the temperature,
3. 30 sec in the stop, and
4. 5 min in the fix, At this point I can turn on the light.
5. This is followed by one min in running water,
6. one minute in hypo-remover,
7. wash in running water for five minutes,
8. then 30 sec with the photo flow, before
9. putting in in the dryer.

And I can only do two individual negatives of film at a time. Because it's freaking freezing right now the developer was so cold it didn't ever have a spot on my chart as to how long to develop it, so I ran some hot water and sat the beaker of developer in it for a minute to warm it up. Hopefully it wasn't too warm, compared with all of the other really cold stuff.

After developing film, Alicia and I were wating for Asher, who had gone to a Magic tournament, and kept winning and moving up in the brackets, so it took him longer than he thought it would to come back for dinner. We hung out in the student center and watched Doctor Who on her laptop until he showed up at 8, then met up with other people from our D&D campaign (Grant and Jack) at the band hall and went to the Hobbit Cafe for dinner. Much yummyness was had. (Alicia shared her Smog's Delight with me, and I shared my Dwalin with her).

After that it was back to Rice for D&D in the study room, because there was a Martel function in the commons. This worked out well, because there is a white board in the study room, which is very nice for keeping track of things in combat. We didn't start until 10 ish, and didn't wrap up until 2:30, when everyone was getting rather loopy. Asher then brought up "Bad Girls from Mars", and we watched it on Youtube until about 4 AM. It made "Earth Girls are Easy" look like an Oscar-worthy cinematic experience, but it was very funny. (Asher insists his favorite part is the terrible poetry, not the topless women.)

Today I dragged myself home for lunch, and snagged Monty Python, two Cheapass games, and more Dresden Files books for Malcolm, and played with Evelyn for a while. She was so happy to see me, (Aunt Jenny! can I give you a big hug and a kiss?) and wanted me to play with her the whole time, (can the monkey hug the puppy? No. Why not? Puppy doesn't have arms) and I felt guilty leaving, but I had to get back to develop the other two negatives I shot, then eat dinner at Martel, hang out in Erin's room reading Dickens while she and Asher did physics homework (at least I think it was physics homework. I only understood one word in five) Then we went to Fastwarp, and I played The Totally Re-named Spy Game and Lord of the Fries with Malcolm, Eric, and Daniella, and ate pizza.

So, this weekend, I:
watched cult bad sci-fi
cartoon intros
anime
played in a (non)marching band
did an extremely technical and anachronistic hobby
watched more sci-fi (while waiting for someone playing Magic)
ate at a nerd hangout dedicated to a fantasy novel
played D&D
read Victorian literature
and played board/card games in a board game club meeting

Without meaning to, I think I have gained new ranks in nerdiness.
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