Sunday, August 28, 2005

I got quite a bit of sleep, which was really nice. In the wake of my annoying Xena delays I'm back to working on my Animated Batman guide, which is fun, if a bit daunting. Looking at all these episodes regardless of production or air date order, and trying to fit them all together and make sense of the information given (even if it wasn't intended) - it's like a giant puzzle. Puzzles are fun, but there's so much information to sort through; at least I have all the pieces now. The 4th Batman Boxed Set comes out in December, but that incarnation of the Dark Knight takes place roughly 2 years after the episodes that I have. Hopefully I will finish this, and be able to give people an order of my design that makes sense of the differing messages within the framework of the series.

Mollie's Mother & Step-Father should be arriving at Mollie's apartment today; they may already be there. I hope Mollie is doing ok; her Step-Father sounds like an extra stressful person to have to deal with (plus he stinks). And I hope that Mollie & Carrie were able to see that movie yesterday! ;-0)

Am I the only person in the world who snacks on green olives?

I keep hearing people talk about Firefly, which is awesome, and hopefully good news. I know a lot of people are excited about the movie, but I wish that it was an overwhelming number. I mean, even if all my friends go (which I believe they will, which makes me happy) that won't make the movie a hit, but hopefully word of mouth will spread and other people will see it as well. It's only rated PG-13, which means that the kiddies can see it as well, which generally makes a movie more profitable.

I have to work at 7pm. I believe I also work Wednesday-Friday. I may be getting more hours as Scott & Tara have all but quit, and Ben is on vacation. I do want more people hired, and I do enjoy meeting & working with new people, but at the same time, everytime a new person is hired I'm always a bit worried that they won't fit in, or that they'll throw off the group dynamic that we have going. We all have a twisted sense of humor which could offend some people, but it's something that makes work fun for us. And I also have to worry, though not as much, about how they'll get along with me personally, which I don't usually have a problem with. I think I've maybe not gotten along with 2 co-workers, and there's only been 1 that I couldn't stand to be around. But other than those worries, I look forward to the fresh blood.

And if Mollie is reading this, I read that the boxed set of Drawn Together won't carry the unaired episode as they plan to air it in Season 2, and release it with that set. So that's another source talking about a 2nd season. cool.

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   Monday, August 29, 2005

Work went well. It was pretty slow again, but I had fun customers, and I worked with Heidi & Nate. It was all good. I got a message from Mollie and the folks are with her now but she sounds likes she's in good spirits, at least for now - if only Kenny will stop mentioning masturbation while in her room.

I had a thought today that maybe my friend Carrie, who detests Buffy, but loves Firefly, might enjoy watching Angel: The Series, because I'm pretty sure she can't stand the character of Buffy, and while Angel is a spin off, and there are crossovers, the show was made to stand alone. Buffy appears in a few episodes, and is mentioned in still more, but for the most part Angel is Buffy free, and it features at least 5 Firefly actors through the series. I think she'd love Doyle, and I think she'd love the dialogue of the show, as it's written it's very similar to Firefly. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. Oh! And I think she would love the 4 parter where the go to Lorn's homeworld. "Numfar! Do The Dance of Shame!". Of course she might hate the idea, but it's worth a shot. There are 110 episodes of Angel.

Ooh! New episodes of JLU starting September 17! "We Are Legion", "Shadow of the Hawk", "Chaos at the Earth's Core" & "To Another Shore" appear to be the first 4 episode titles of the new 3rd Season (or 5th Season if you count Justice League as part of the series). This season may be the final season of JLU, though animates series generally run 52 episodes (which would mean that JLU could possilby get one more 13 episode season); that would rock. Another 13 episodes would also give the writers a chance to rival the finales of "The Savage Time", "Starcrossed", & the 4-part Cadmus finale of last season. I don't really think of "Epilogue" as a JLU episode, so much as the final Batman Beyond episode.

Ok - enough. I need to stop blabbing about the DCAU and get some stuff done.

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   Tuesday, August 30, 2005

I got about 8 hours of sleep on Monday! Mark & I had a bit of a miscommunication about me needing the car that was overly dramatic, but it was all resolved before nightfall. After rousing I ate while watching some Superman episodes that Mark had taped for me years ago that I never watched because I'd lost the tape: "Apokolips Now! (Parts I & II)" & "Legacy, Parts I & II" - the former being the major Darkseid episodes, and the latter being the series finale follow-up to said major Darkseid episodes. These episodes are constantly referenced on Justice League & Justice League Unlimited so it was fantastic to finally see them for myself. These episodes are also from the final 3rd of the series, so they won't be in the 2nd boxed set that comes out in December; if they did I probably would have waited to see them then.

Miss Communication. Such a nice drag name. lol I'm working on nearly zero sleep here, so bare with me. This Sierra Mist is really yummy.

I started gettting ready for Necto around 9:30pm; Paul & Amy had said they would be there, and I knew that I really wanted to go, so all was good. I had to leave home by 11:30pm as I had to return a truly aweful queer film which was due back at Hollywood; the name escapes me at the moment, and that's ok with me. I chatted for a moment with Heidi & Matt before setting off for the bar.

When I went up to the actual bar, I noticed that my friend Becky wasn't bartending, which sucked because it meant i had to pay for my drinks - what's up with that? lol I've become so spoiled. I ran into some people from detroitgothic.net & they in turn told me that it was Becky's birthday, and that she was around the corner, so I went over and gave her birthday hugs ;-0)

I danced with Vince, for a moment before being pulled into a very hot, if confusing dance with Matt's friends Emily & Bobby. Bobby was all over me, which was really weird becaus he hardly speaks to me. It was a fun dance, but it was odd. Of course, some guys when they get drunk, only know how to dance with someone by thrusting against them, and still others only know how to dance that way when there is no alcohol involved, so maybe we can just calk it up that.

Later I wandered outside, and found Paul & Amy, and I met some Lesbians who's names escape me - even though they were adorable. I also met their friends Lou & Kat/Cat. Paul was adorable, we talked about stuff on my webpage, and then other stuff. I went downstairs to use the bathroom and ran into even more people. The madness continued...

I later danced with Vince, Emily & Bobby some more. I was really enjoying the music. Paul joined me on the dance floor, and more fun ensued. I chatted with Colin & his girl a bit; they thought I had probably seduced their friend Tyler last time I saw him, and his girlfriend too, but alas, I did not. When I met Tyler, not that long ago, he WAS drooling on me, which was nice cause he's really hot, but his girlfriend looked kind of...pissed, so I didn't go there. I know that other people were there that I knew and spoke to, but I can't think of who they are at the moment. I'm pretty sure I saw Sandor there, but never really at a moment when I could say hello, so I didn't. And of course I sweated off like 10 pounds dancing; lol. I'm loving the vinyl, but it's pretty fricking hot to dance in.

After the bar, Amy asked me if we were going for pizza, and I told her that I thought Paul was at their car waiting for her, but that yeah I'd like to take them to Pizza House, and so I waited, and waited. Emily & Bobby were going to the Fleetwood Diner, and said goodbye. Eventually Amy pulled up with Paul and the 2 adorable lesbians (Lou & Cat/Kat had wandered off on their own). I asked Amy to park on the street, but she said they were just going home :-0( They had to work in the morning. Paul reached across the seat to offer me his hand; maybe to grab mine, but I just bent down and swallowed a finger; it seemed oddly appropriate. When we were chatting in the bar he started tickling me while I was trying to lace my boots, and I reached right up his shorts and...he stopped me, but I got a good feel. lol.

I came home, and I showered, and got all my makeup off, and put on some (very) different clothes, as I needed some groceries. I stopped at Fleetwood to see Emily & Bobby (after dropping off a friend a few blocks from the diner), and we chatted it up for awhile. I thought Bobby lived in Toledo, but he apparantly lives in Ann Arbor, on West Stadium, near where I work. Weird. He's really shy, & I found out how he & Emmy & Val & Matt all know each other. Matt was apparently supposed to be at Necto as well, but he stayed at home with a wacky lesbian friend. Usually I'd be pissed to hear that, but I had so many other people to interact with that I didn't mind.

After chatting with the Diner crowd, I was off to Krogers, and home. I was feeling kind of acidy, so I couldn't really lay down, which sucked because I was really tired, and I knew I had to go see my dad today with Janice. I slept a couple of hours and got up at 10am. Janice just called me and I need to get ready, and figure out if I need the car or not. More writing to follow...

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Janice is coming to get me, so we can go see dad. We're going to McDonalds or something like that. Jillian & Jonathan should be with us, which is awesome! Mark & I are chatting online; he says he's really behind on my blog.

Season 2 of Enterprise the other day, and I watched the 2nd Season finale this morning: "The Expanse". I miss Enterprise. It seems like the Buffyverse ended years ago, but Angel only ended about 13 months ago. Weird.

My eyes hurt. I'm ready to go. Mostly. "and they mostly come at night; mostly."

I need to do something else.

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Janice, Jillian, Brook (Janice's niece), Jonathan & I took dad to Red Robin to eat. I guess our Aunt Debbie was in jail for awhile; she was back on crack cocain again. That's too bad; she really seemed to have her life together last time I spoke with her - which was, admittedly, years ago. I sat next to Jill in the car so we got lots of bonding in. After the food I was super-tired, but I made it somehow, and now I'm home, and I'm so going to bed.

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So I gave Bryan this disc with last season's finale of JLU on it, but he couldn't get it to play because his computer sucks; or at least that's my opinion. So I'm thinking about putting it on a tape with a whole slew of other episodes, including the 4-parter that comes right before the finale, but even though I can fit about 18 episodes on a tape, that still doesn't cover all the episodes that tie into that amazing arc of stories, so I'm working that out in my head while doing everything else.

I woke up around 6:30pm, and watched an old episodes of Superman I had on tape but had never watched called "Ghost in the Machine" - an integral episode to the arc I mentioned in the above paragraph. When Mark got home he joined me, and when Supes was through we watched 3 episodes of Dawson's Creek. It's nice to be watching a tv show with him again... It's fun.

I checked my friends' blogs and Mollie's mom had some kind of attack, and she's not in the best of health, but she doesn't want to die in a hospital so she's in Mollie's bed, but she's doing better, maybe, so this could be ok, but it could really not be ok, and while I'm sitting here staring at the candle I lit for them (so I'm slightly superstious - bite me), and I'm worried about them, I know that I can't really do anything unless I'm asked. I mean, I can't just invade the family, you know? If Mollie needs me, she knows how to find me. erg. So I think about JLU & Dawson's Creek, and boys & try not to worry too much.

I see that Paul wrote about me, sort of. That feels good. Mark just said he's up for another episode if I am, so I'm gonna go. I need to clean my room later, and get stuff ready for tomorrow so I can be ontime for work. And that's pretty much all I have planned.

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   Wednesday, August 31, 2005

I'm awake; sort of. No new e-mail or any real news. I didn't clean my room or get stuff ready for work, but what I did try to do was get some sleep, which I'm not sure if I did...at least not as much as I wanted. I tossed & turned for a long time, I know that much. Anyways, I've got to get ready. ;-0)

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I was on time for work, which was way slow, but fairly painless except for a random stupid guy who just saw a movie about vampire cowboys but then claimed that they weren't cowboys (until I pointed out all the reasons that they were) and then he said that they weren't vampires (and I pointed out all the reasons they were) and it was just...lame. And there was some girl who said that the flooding of Hurricane Katrina was because god was pissed off at them; that one got ugly really fast, and if she doesn't complain about me I'll be rather surprised. Other than that the work day went by fine, though there wasn't a whole lot to do.

After work I went to Kroger to pick up some things for Mark (so we wouldn't have to go after he got off of work); picked Mark up from work - headed home - read the news on CNN.com and checked my e-mail & blogs and stuff but there was nothing important (except more JLU news) and then watched more Dawson's Creek with Mark while I ate garlic bread that I bought ages ago but never bothered to make. It was all about run on sentences and fun. I fell asleep during the last episode but quickly recovered, and now I'm typing this. It's almost 11pm, and my room is a bit cleaner than it was, but I still haven't done any laundry. Besides that, everything is good.

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