and robert? try not to blow up the world.
it's been so hot and so humid lately but today was GORGEOUS so i walked into the square, had a kong dog (which is kind of like a corn dog but not quite), asked tamalinn if she wanted to join me. she did so we got ice cream, walked A LOT, and said hi to many cute dogs. and then i came home and sat on the front porch because i guess i hadn't gotten enough sun.
saturday i went with my sister to look at a house which was apparently exactly what she wanted except for being in a fifty-five-and-up community. >.< it was a cute place altho the kitchen was kind of awkward. disappointing, tho. we had lunch (sweet potato tater tots, omg), went to dsw to look for shoes, my glasses fogged up outside because it was that humid, we saw oppenheimer. that is an intense movie. i mean, i know how the story ends and i still kept thinking "is it going to work? will the test bomb go off? will they accidentally set the atmosphere on fire and end life as we know it?" christopher nolan is working three timelines at the same time and there are exactly two points in the entire three hours of movie when someone mentions a date and sometimes it's hard to tell what's happening when. by the end it mostly converges in ways that make sense. (altho it really helps if you read up on some of the events after the movie's over.) it's full of actors i recognize including... harry groener, the mayor from buffy s3. he plays a pretty minor character, and because my sister never watched buffy i couldn't poke her and go "that's the mayor from buffy!" and expect her to care but inside i was dying from glee. i loved the mayor. he was my favorite big bad. anyway everyone in oppenheimer is so, so good - even actors who aren't given much to work with - and apparently there's no cgi (christopher nolan is making a big thing of that) so everything is practical effects and actual on-location filming. if you can sit still for three hours i highly recommend it. just be warned that there are A LOT of characters, not everyone is named on screen, and a lot of them are, uh, very sketchily characterized.
previous included the next installment of dune, the meg 2, the expendables 4, the exorcist: believer, and i think something else. my sister for reasons that escape me wants to see the meg 2 and i hope she doesn't mind that she'll have to find someone else to go with her.
at work on friday i ran into admin r who doesn't usually come in on fridays, and he volunteered to watch the faculty lunch that i was there to set up, to make sure grad students didn't wander into the room and think it was for them. (it was indian food. i did not order extra rice because i have learned my lesson, so we did not end up with nine - count 'em - containers of it.) i thanked him, he settled in, i went on my merry way. at one before i went down to put out the leftovers i collected admin s who's usually there all week, plus a random grad student who just joined the group she supports, plus a guy from one of the groups i support, plus a random high schooler who's working with that group over the summer. i felt like the pied piper leading all these people through the building to where lunch was where we discovered... no one had shown up. there were six of us, we all took some leftovers (naan my beloved), i put out what was left, eventually grad students devoured it. this was the last lunch of the summer which means it was the last time i have to come in on a friday until september. altho it's also the last friday i won't have to bring my lunch.... the indian place i got it from sent little containers of rice pudding - i took two and was very happy. i love me some rice pudding. indian, greek diner, steakhouse, with or without raisins, it's all good.
the tomato plants on the back porch are continuing to produce many delicious tomatoes and the random pepper plant has started to pepper! there's just the one pepper tho.
watched the finale of secret invasion and liked it. i especially liked olivia colman throughout the whole series. she's the best. now i'm on to s2 of almost paradise, christian kane's dumber show (altho to be fair most shows are going to be dumber than leverage), which is silly but pretty. good omens is back and i should watch that too. angels, demons, maybe not the end of the world - should be fun. i'd ask if anyone's seen it yet and if it's good but i'm pretty sure the answer to that last question is a resounding "hell yes".
read about the biggest upset in us quiz show history, in which a team of girls from agnes scott, a southern all-women college, beats a team of boys from princeton at literally the last second. surprise. :D
saturday i went with my sister to look at a house which was apparently exactly what she wanted except for being in a fifty-five-and-up community. >.< it was a cute place altho the kitchen was kind of awkward. disappointing, tho. we had lunch (sweet potato tater tots, omg), went to dsw to look for shoes, my glasses fogged up outside because it was that humid, we saw oppenheimer. that is an intense movie. i mean, i know how the story ends and i still kept thinking "is it going to work? will the test bomb go off? will they accidentally set the atmosphere on fire and end life as we know it?" christopher nolan is working three timelines at the same time and there are exactly two points in the entire three hours of movie when someone mentions a date and sometimes it's hard to tell what's happening when. by the end it mostly converges in ways that make sense. (altho it really helps if you read up on some of the events after the movie's over.) it's full of actors i recognize including... harry groener, the mayor from buffy s3. he plays a pretty minor character, and because my sister never watched buffy i couldn't poke her and go "that's the mayor from buffy!" and expect her to care but inside i was dying from glee. i loved the mayor. he was my favorite big bad. anyway everyone in oppenheimer is so, so good - even actors who aren't given much to work with - and apparently there's no cgi (christopher nolan is making a big thing of that) so everything is practical effects and actual on-location filming. if you can sit still for three hours i highly recommend it. just be warned that there are A LOT of characters, not everyone is named on screen, and a lot of them are, uh, very sketchily characterized.
previous included the next installment of dune, the meg 2, the expendables 4, the exorcist: believer, and i think something else. my sister for reasons that escape me wants to see the meg 2 and i hope she doesn't mind that she'll have to find someone else to go with her.
at work on friday i ran into admin r who doesn't usually come in on fridays, and he volunteered to watch the faculty lunch that i was there to set up, to make sure grad students didn't wander into the room and think it was for them. (it was indian food. i did not order extra rice because i have learned my lesson, so we did not end up with nine - count 'em - containers of it.) i thanked him, he settled in, i went on my merry way. at one before i went down to put out the leftovers i collected admin s who's usually there all week, plus a random grad student who just joined the group she supports, plus a guy from one of the groups i support, plus a random high schooler who's working with that group over the summer. i felt like the pied piper leading all these people through the building to where lunch was where we discovered... no one had shown up. there were six of us, we all took some leftovers (naan my beloved), i put out what was left, eventually grad students devoured it. this was the last lunch of the summer which means it was the last time i have to come in on a friday until september. altho it's also the last friday i won't have to bring my lunch.... the indian place i got it from sent little containers of rice pudding - i took two and was very happy. i love me some rice pudding. indian, greek diner, steakhouse, with or without raisins, it's all good.
the tomato plants on the back porch are continuing to produce many delicious tomatoes and the random pepper plant has started to pepper! there's just the one pepper tho.
watched the finale of secret invasion and liked it. i especially liked olivia colman throughout the whole series. she's the best. now i'm on to s2 of almost paradise, christian kane's dumber show (altho to be fair most shows are going to be dumber than leverage), which is silly but pretty. good omens is back and i should watch that too. angels, demons, maybe not the end of the world - should be fun. i'd ask if anyone's seen it yet and if it's good but i'm pretty sure the answer to that last question is a resounding "hell yes".
read about the biggest upset in us quiz show history, in which a team of girls from agnes scott, a southern all-women college, beats a team of boys from princeton at literally the last second. surprise. :D