almost one year later
yeah so i've been kinda not here for a while. mostly just don't leave myself enough time to post in the day. i really keep thinking that life is gonna settle down a bit and things don't have to be so crazy, but i think i really need to come to grips with the fact that it isn't going to do that. or at least not at the moments where i'd want it to.
i saw i heart huckabees again friday night. if you haven't seen it, you really should. but don't expect anything normal from it. i also got a huge bruise on my shoulder friday when trying to buy beer from ralph's. or i should clarify: from my car door while i was trying to get back into my car after trying to buy beer at ralph's. i didn't even end up buying beer 'cause it was all really expensive. i think everything was just plotting against me that night. well at least in that sense.
saturday was boring until the lost panel. i had to go into school and listen to presentations i heard before. and i was an hour late too 'cause i got distracted when trying to leave my apartment and then there was traffic on santa monica. the lost panel was rather cool. i'm glad i got to see the first episode again, although a new one would have been nice. but i guess they couldn't since a new one won't be airing for a couple more weeks. found out some interesting tidbits though. some spoilerish ones that maybe i wouldn't have wanted to know, but nothing that was more than i thought might happen at some point anyway. j.j. was still very elusive though, answering questions without saying more than needed to be said. and the cast, as "normal" people are quite funny. i could listen to them for a long time.
sunday was interesting. ok well not most of it. i went to my grandparent's for dinner. my grandmother was making corned beef and cabbage for st patrick's day (yes we know it was a few days early). i guess one of her grandmothers was irish (hence the rumor of irish horse theives in my family history) so this is a tradition. and it was good. not the kind of thing i'd want every day, but yeah. i think my grandmother overcooked the cabbage. at least i didn't let them let me take any of it home. i ended up being there for about 3 hours, which is a bit unusual. i stayed there until 9pm which is really unusual for them. but we were talking a little about family stuff since i mentioned that my dad's dad had been part of a band and had made a record in college, my grandmother went and pulled out some various things she found recently, including both of her mother's marriage liscences. those were neat. one was from england and her second marriage was in israel, so that liscence was all in hebrew, but still cool.
the funniest thing of all is that i've now realized my clean freak habits don't come directly from my mother. or at least not only from her. my grandmother is the same way. she was complaining about abe, and she was making the same complaints i make of my room mates, that my brother's make of their room mates, etc. i guess it makes sense since my mom had to get it from somewhere.
ah well. i finished all of my discussions for the quarter today. i have one more office hour tomorrow, a review session to hold on thursday and then a final to proctor on friday and that is almost all for this quarter. of course proctoring a final means grading it too, something i'm not looking forward too. i'm hoping that they will finally live up to our expectations and do well, or at least decently, on the final. their grades could definately use it. i cooked tonight. salmon on the george foreman. it worked wonderfully. tutoring tomorrow thus must remember to drive to school. sometimes that makes life easier, and sometimes it makes it harder. whatever the case, i have to spend $7 to be able to get to tutoring on time which means net profit when working with these folks who are more of a pain to get to is less than when working with others. i guess i'm not really in it for the money though. i should do laundry.
i saw i heart huckabees again friday night. if you haven't seen it, you really should. but don't expect anything normal from it. i also got a huge bruise on my shoulder friday when trying to buy beer from ralph's. or i should clarify: from my car door while i was trying to get back into my car after trying to buy beer at ralph's. i didn't even end up buying beer 'cause it was all really expensive. i think everything was just plotting against me that night. well at least in that sense.
saturday was boring until the lost panel. i had to go into school and listen to presentations i heard before. and i was an hour late too 'cause i got distracted when trying to leave my apartment and then there was traffic on santa monica. the lost panel was rather cool. i'm glad i got to see the first episode again, although a new one would have been nice. but i guess they couldn't since a new one won't be airing for a couple more weeks. found out some interesting tidbits though. some spoilerish ones that maybe i wouldn't have wanted to know, but nothing that was more than i thought might happen at some point anyway. j.j. was still very elusive though, answering questions without saying more than needed to be said. and the cast, as "normal" people are quite funny. i could listen to them for a long time.
sunday was interesting. ok well not most of it. i went to my grandparent's for dinner. my grandmother was making corned beef and cabbage for st patrick's day (yes we know it was a few days early). i guess one of her grandmothers was irish (hence the rumor of irish horse theives in my family history) so this is a tradition. and it was good. not the kind of thing i'd want every day, but yeah. i think my grandmother overcooked the cabbage. at least i didn't let them let me take any of it home. i ended up being there for about 3 hours, which is a bit unusual. i stayed there until 9pm which is really unusual for them. but we were talking a little about family stuff since i mentioned that my dad's dad had been part of a band and had made a record in college, my grandmother went and pulled out some various things she found recently, including both of her mother's marriage liscences. those were neat. one was from england and her second marriage was in israel, so that liscence was all in hebrew, but still cool.
the funniest thing of all is that i've now realized my clean freak habits don't come directly from my mother. or at least not only from her. my grandmother is the same way. she was complaining about abe, and she was making the same complaints i make of my room mates, that my brother's make of their room mates, etc. i guess it makes sense since my mom had to get it from somewhere.
ah well. i finished all of my discussions for the quarter today. i have one more office hour tomorrow, a review session to hold on thursday and then a final to proctor on friday and that is almost all for this quarter. of course proctoring a final means grading it too, something i'm not looking forward too. i'm hoping that they will finally live up to our expectations and do well, or at least decently, on the final. their grades could definately use it. i cooked tonight. salmon on the george foreman. it worked wonderfully. tutoring tomorrow thus must remember to drive to school. sometimes that makes life easier, and sometimes it makes it harder. whatever the case, i have to spend $7 to be able to get to tutoring on time which means net profit when working with these folks who are more of a pain to get to is less than when working with others. i guess i'm not really in it for the money though. i should do laundry.