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Three years ago I wish I had sprung for "Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie" for $9.99 when I saw it at Target Or that I had bought every available copy I ever saw. Not only could I have watched the movie however many times I would've wanted to in that period, but now I'd be able to sell it at a 1300% mark-up, at least. There's a gently used copy going for $195. Who would have thought? I write this post because I am on a selling spree; there are piles of books and some DVDs and games that I am trying to sell through the wonderful internet. I'll always have some things I can't bear to part with, but you can tell this stack is bereft of those things: Social Psychology textbooks, doubles of Sansom's History of Japan series, Blue Seed and Trigun on DVD, my Ti-83 calculator, and other things are on the floor beside me. I can't exactly have a garage sale and sell this stuff, although Trigun might fit better at such a venue. I checked online and individual DVDs go for about $2.00 apiece, so I would say the market is saturated with Vash the Stampede and his wacky nonsensical dialogue. EB gives better credit than that.
I have a job interview tomorrow to work for the Public Interest Research Group in Arizona. I want to get away for the summer and Arizona is as good a place as any to do it. I'm tired of being the only one left in Richmond, but if I leave I will miss Bond's grand return to the States, and I was going to be there for him during the first week or so of Japan-deprivation therapy. But I digress. I would like this job because a) it pays well compared to every job I've ever had before, b) I would get to do something that I never thought about doing but am interested in trying, c) I'll be relatively close to Janel, for June and some of July anyway, and d) I'll experience some adventure. Like the freedom to pay for my electricity. Just the first thing if this were to happen is to find someplace to live on the cheap, or with a roommate, but how I'd ever meet a good roommate in AZ is beyond me. Updates about this tomorrow. It was either a hitchhiking adventure or a "job in another state" kind of summer, and only me seems to be keen on the "hitchhike across the USA" idea.
I have played games too often this past week. I blew through Psychonauts in four days, about three hour blocks each time I played. Wow, what a great game that was. I only started playing because I was frustrated with Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and I ended up having the most fun from any platformer since Mario 64 (and both share frustratingly hard jump puzzles, but that didn't deter overall enjoyment). Too bad that it only sold about 40,000 copies between PS2, Xbox, and PC. Okay, I'm babbling now.
I miss Janel, who is currently in Mexico on Earlham May Term. She is having a great time and I am glad, but understandably I am a bit worried about her safety. I am booking a flight to spend a week or so with her in the first week of June, no matter what happens with the job. She will show me all her photos and the journal entries that she has written so far, and we will drink chai at her favorite restaurant, and will show me up on the dance floor (her parents are having a 25th wedding anniversary party when I'll be there). I feel completely and naturally at ease with Janel, moreso than I can say Becky, who because of religion made me watch my tongue on more than one occasion. We are a good complement to the other, and I hope that it will stay that way. I am very smitten with her, and my desktop background proves it (it's a goofy picture of us that is not flattering whatsoever, but vaguely appropriate to both of us). I just feel good about it.
This was a longer entry than I thought.
I have a job interview tomorrow to work for the Public Interest Research Group in Arizona. I want to get away for the summer and Arizona is as good a place as any to do it. I'm tired of being the only one left in Richmond, but if I leave I will miss Bond's grand return to the States, and I was going to be there for him during the first week or so of Japan-deprivation therapy. But I digress. I would like this job because a) it pays well compared to every job I've ever had before, b) I would get to do something that I never thought about doing but am interested in trying, c) I'll be relatively close to Janel, for June and some of July anyway, and d) I'll experience some adventure. Like the freedom to pay for my electricity. Just the first thing if this were to happen is to find someplace to live on the cheap, or with a roommate, but how I'd ever meet a good roommate in AZ is beyond me. Updates about this tomorrow. It was either a hitchhiking adventure or a "job in another state" kind of summer, and only me seems to be keen on the "hitchhike across the USA" idea.
I have played games too often this past week. I blew through Psychonauts in four days, about three hour blocks each time I played. Wow, what a great game that was. I only started playing because I was frustrated with Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and I ended up having the most fun from any platformer since Mario 64 (and both share frustratingly hard jump puzzles, but that didn't deter overall enjoyment). Too bad that it only sold about 40,000 copies between PS2, Xbox, and PC. Okay, I'm babbling now.
I miss Janel, who is currently in Mexico on Earlham May Term. She is having a great time and I am glad, but understandably I am a bit worried about her safety. I am booking a flight to spend a week or so with her in the first week of June, no matter what happens with the job. She will show me all her photos and the journal entries that she has written so far, and we will drink chai at her favorite restaurant, and will show me up on the dance floor (her parents are having a 25th wedding anniversary party when I'll be there). I feel completely and naturally at ease with Janel, moreso than I can say Becky, who because of religion made me watch my tongue on more than one occasion. We are a good complement to the other, and I hope that it will stay that way. I am very smitten with her, and my desktop background proves it (it's a goofy picture of us that is not flattering whatsoever, but vaguely appropriate to both of us). I just feel good about it.
This was a longer entry than I thought.