Seperate but Delicious
Boy was yesterday a very long and eventful day.
I got up earlier than I had wanted to because whenever I set my alarm clock I don't sleep well. I got up at 7:30 and went to the living room to find my dad had gotten up way early because his air conditioner had made it too cold for his lungs to work all that well with his COPD so he was warming up. Still, he was up. I got ready and he took me to Jeremy's so we could go to the career fair.
After a bit of a wait we departed Jeremy's, picked up Ty at his place and went to West Salem high school where the richness of the building obliterated our minds and bodies until nothing was left but a fragmented entity. I exaggerate slightly but it looked more like a community college than a high school with silo sized gymnasium and an auditorium that is bigger when you're not looking at it.
We met up with some old high school friends and acquaintances inside. We ventured up to the Frito Lay and Costco stands together, Keith Locke went to hear the speech on social networking while I went to different tables alone. We met up as a group and decided the career fair wasn't too successful because they either had no jobs, refused resumes and said apply online, or wouldn't talk to us and just had us grab pamphlets. We had Keith tell us what we missed about the social networking speech and we hung around to listen to the speech on interviews. I took notes that Jeremy later typed up for people and there were a few good insights.
With the career fair over we wandered West Salem high... and promptly decided that we had to film on the outside this summer one way or another. It's so huge, architecturally awesome, impossible to resist. It's a shame we can't film inside too but the outside is almost so awesome that it doesn't matter. Quite the experience. Eventually we treked back to the car and departed.
On our way back we called John in order to tell him what things we'd need before he left for Tacoma but he was in a meeting with a Willamette professor about his project so we said we'd call back. We got to Jeremy's house, played some Brawl which was quite fun... Ty had more fun than usual and I won more than usual, quite surprising. Then we went to our separate video games.
Usually when this happens I am suddenly left without a screen, watching everyone else play their games, blinking like a fish staring at its reflection. But this time Ty was on PSP, Jordan and Jeremy were on their puters, and I had .hack//INFECTION to myself. I put in a fair amount of time and then Ty wanted to play something on the PS with Jordan so I relinquished my spot.
While they played I watched some stuff with Jeremy... Willamette Music videos, C80, Chronicles bits finished early. Very good stuff... Some I always loved, some I had forgotten just how they went. Eventually Ty and Jordan finished and Ty watched some things too, also practicing his bass off and on. He'd gone to his house and returned during some of this time, but once he was practicing his music again we had called John and confirmed what he'd bring us after work. With that time to kill I returned to dot hack and Ty eventually went home cause it was getting late.
It continued to get later, so much so that Jeremy (having access to a clock to know what time it REALLY was) called John to ask why he wasn't there. He was playing wow and had forgotten but after even more time he was going to be there so I packed up everything and Jeremy and I waited outside in the fresh air. John's van finally came, sounding better than ever after the repairs. We bid Jeremy a good night and John took me home to make up for his lateness. He brought the green and blue screens for the filming, a gameshark, the .hack//LIMINALITY mini-series that came out with the game discs and then after leaving he remembered to come back to give me the elf ears and glue for the filming. Mind you I was doing stuff in my room when he returned so my mom answered the door. Odd having to tell her what they were and John might have sneaked a peak. You see... I'd cleaned up my room so John could come through my ground level window and see it... But only if he came during the day when his noise wouldn't be a bother. Oh well.
So I had some dinner and made my mom some lunch (because apparently my family is completely helpless and her breakfast was provided by a neighbor). My theory is that my mom picked a fight because she was low blood sugar and chased my dad to bed where he could hide from confrontation and thus was not present to help her defy her blindness to fix anything to eat. Good plan. Anyhow, we watched some Robin Williams stand up while we ate before I went to bed and slept deep and hard. After a long day it was nice to just surrender to sleep. Weird dreams though.
Dream Fragment 1
Doctor who themes. I'm his companion. We come across several doctor look alikes except that they are emotionally odd and dressed in odd orange clothes. It turns out that they are some of the new Daleks in disguise. They are also extremely plentiful. We escape into a side room only to find a human guy and his personal assistant who are quite rude and rich and have a creepy theme park and anyone speaking up during their speech will have their chairs move along a track to the front to be chastises.
Dream Fragment 2
A department store of some sort. It tried to be a flashback to working at Winco but soon it was a C80 production with a few added perks. It seemed to be set a after LOTT and before Aliems and a connection between the two. Did I mean it featured Whoopi Goldberg as Gandalf the White's counterpart? And that she was pissed off at the bad guys? She came with some of her own special effects but when the general audience wasn't looking we had to come up with the rest, including tying a guy up with rope lights as quickly as possible. I believe the guy may have been a recurring character from the Sarah Jane Adventures (doctor who spin off) seasons 2 and 3.
Dream Fragment 3
Family beach trip... Trying to park the car well at a time share place that only exists in my mind. I eventually... broke physics so I could stand up flinstones style and CARRY the car to the appropriate spot. I also got a new bed mattress for my room and found some random junk I miss. This was a very mundane dream.
So then I woke up. Once again my dad was up early which was a surprise. Breakfast is cooking as I type but I wanted to write this down so I could remember.
I got up earlier than I had wanted to because whenever I set my alarm clock I don't sleep well. I got up at 7:30 and went to the living room to find my dad had gotten up way early because his air conditioner had made it too cold for his lungs to work all that well with his COPD so he was warming up. Still, he was up. I got ready and he took me to Jeremy's so we could go to the career fair.
After a bit of a wait we departed Jeremy's, picked up Ty at his place and went to West Salem high school where the richness of the building obliterated our minds and bodies until nothing was left but a fragmented entity. I exaggerate slightly but it looked more like a community college than a high school with silo sized gymnasium and an auditorium that is bigger when you're not looking at it.
We met up with some old high school friends and acquaintances inside. We ventured up to the Frito Lay and Costco stands together, Keith Locke went to hear the speech on social networking while I went to different tables alone. We met up as a group and decided the career fair wasn't too successful because they either had no jobs, refused resumes and said apply online, or wouldn't talk to us and just had us grab pamphlets. We had Keith tell us what we missed about the social networking speech and we hung around to listen to the speech on interviews. I took notes that Jeremy later typed up for people and there were a few good insights.
With the career fair over we wandered West Salem high... and promptly decided that we had to film on the outside this summer one way or another. It's so huge, architecturally awesome, impossible to resist. It's a shame we can't film inside too but the outside is almost so awesome that it doesn't matter. Quite the experience. Eventually we treked back to the car and departed.
On our way back we called John in order to tell him what things we'd need before he left for Tacoma but he was in a meeting with a Willamette professor about his project so we said we'd call back. We got to Jeremy's house, played some Brawl which was quite fun... Ty had more fun than usual and I won more than usual, quite surprising. Then we went to our separate video games.
Usually when this happens I am suddenly left without a screen, watching everyone else play their games, blinking like a fish staring at its reflection. But this time Ty was on PSP, Jordan and Jeremy were on their puters, and I had .hack//INFECTION to myself. I put in a fair amount of time and then Ty wanted to play something on the PS with Jordan so I relinquished my spot.
While they played I watched some stuff with Jeremy... Willamette Music videos, C80, Chronicles bits finished early. Very good stuff... Some I always loved, some I had forgotten just how they went. Eventually Ty and Jordan finished and Ty watched some things too, also practicing his bass off and on. He'd gone to his house and returned during some of this time, but once he was practicing his music again we had called John and confirmed what he'd bring us after work. With that time to kill I returned to dot hack and Ty eventually went home cause it was getting late.
It continued to get later, so much so that Jeremy (having access to a clock to know what time it REALLY was) called John to ask why he wasn't there. He was playing wow and had forgotten but after even more time he was going to be there so I packed up everything and Jeremy and I waited outside in the fresh air. John's van finally came, sounding better than ever after the repairs. We bid Jeremy a good night and John took me home to make up for his lateness. He brought the green and blue screens for the filming, a gameshark, the .hack//LIMINALITY mini-series that came out with the game discs and then after leaving he remembered to come back to give me the elf ears and glue for the filming. Mind you I was doing stuff in my room when he returned so my mom answered the door. Odd having to tell her what they were and John might have sneaked a peak. You see... I'd cleaned up my room so John could come through my ground level window and see it... But only if he came during the day when his noise wouldn't be a bother. Oh well.
So I had some dinner and made my mom some lunch (because apparently my family is completely helpless and her breakfast was provided by a neighbor). My theory is that my mom picked a fight because she was low blood sugar and chased my dad to bed where he could hide from confrontation and thus was not present to help her defy her blindness to fix anything to eat. Good plan. Anyhow, we watched some Robin Williams stand up while we ate before I went to bed and slept deep and hard. After a long day it was nice to just surrender to sleep. Weird dreams though.
Dream Fragment 1
Doctor who themes. I'm his companion. We come across several doctor look alikes except that they are emotionally odd and dressed in odd orange clothes. It turns out that they are some of the new Daleks in disguise. They are also extremely plentiful. We escape into a side room only to find a human guy and his personal assistant who are quite rude and rich and have a creepy theme park and anyone speaking up during their speech will have their chairs move along a track to the front to be chastises.
Dream Fragment 2
A department store of some sort. It tried to be a flashback to working at Winco but soon it was a C80 production with a few added perks. It seemed to be set a after LOTT and before Aliems and a connection between the two. Did I mean it featured Whoopi Goldberg as Gandalf the White's counterpart? And that she was pissed off at the bad guys? She came with some of her own special effects but when the general audience wasn't looking we had to come up with the rest, including tying a guy up with rope lights as quickly as possible. I believe the guy may have been a recurring character from the Sarah Jane Adventures (doctor who spin off) seasons 2 and 3.
Dream Fragment 3
Family beach trip... Trying to park the car well at a time share place that only exists in my mind. I eventually... broke physics so I could stand up flinstones style and CARRY the car to the appropriate spot. I also got a new bed mattress for my room and found some random junk I miss. This was a very mundane dream.
So then I woke up. Once again my dad was up early which was a surprise. Breakfast is cooking as I type but I wanted to write this down so I could remember.