Saturday, March 3, 2007

My stomach was less than thrilled yesterday. But eventually all was well. Work was mostly fun; I worked with DJ, Michael, Matt, DJ, Nate, Joe & John. I feel like I'm forgetting someone. Heidi will still be working at Hollywood on the weekends for awhile I guess, or that's what DJ told me. After work Mark & I went to the bank so I could deposit some money I had, and it looks like my tax return has been added to my account, which is really great. I haven't had this much cash in nearly 2 years.

I've been thinking about renting some fancy clothes for future pictures on my website. A suit out of the 40's or 30's that, in the right space, with Mark's amazing photography skills could be amazing! I think it would show off his skill even more than he already has, and it would look cool on my webpage. I'm looking to get heavily stylized pictures, as I now have quite a few candid shots. I need to mix it all up. And I really love mixing the color & black and white pictures. I need a wide variety of color shots too. When my new galleries are done they should rock! That's something I'd be a lot closer too if I hadn't been so lazy the last few months.

I forgot to take my prilosec this morning, so my stomach is extra pissed off, but I'm hoping it settles soon, as Mark really wants to go to the Sprint/T-Moble store and I don't want to let him down... My stomach is really cramped right now though; it's very painful. Just sitting here typing is hard, but I'm trying to ignore the pain.

Luke called me yesterday. Apparently he was in a car accident the other day. The story sounds a bit fishy, but I'll accept it for now. We might be hanging out on Monday.

Oh. I know who I forgot to mention that I worked with yesterday; Pat! Pat actually told me that his girlfriend, who I met when we went bowling over a week ago, keeps hinting to him that she'd love to go to Factory Night at Necto. I had told her about it, and Pat seemed amused by the idea, so I told him they should go, and to let me know when and I could go too, so I could try to get them free drinks - plus they'd know someone else.

Kyle Shack, who used to work with us, but left for school, came in to visit us this week. He was only there a few minutes on Thursday; but said he'd be back several time over the weekend, and that he'd see me on Friday, but I didn't. He's on Spring Break. He used to rave about The Departed, and I told him that when I'd heard it won Best Picture at the Oscars, that I had thought of him right away. It was really great to see him.

Speaking of the Oscars, which I refused to watch after the Brokeback Mountain debacle that was last year's crowning insult, continued to support my belief that the Oscars don't reflect shit anymore, as The Departed, a movie that was horribly edited on a scene for scene basis, won Best Editing? The movie is very good besides that annoying continuity flaw, and I don't begrudge the movie winning Best Picture or Director, but the editing award makes me think the voters didn't watch the movie in question! Plus the movie had some major homophoic things to say, so it was a no-brainer that it would win Best Picture. The only other surprise for me was that Pan's Labyrinth didn't win Best Foreign Film.

I stayed in last night and read the last 100 pages of Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets. Of course I read this book years ago, but it was interesting going back to it after so many years, in which I'd seen the film at least 4 times. Interesting to compare the two from a different persepective this time.

I had started reading the new Enterpise novel the day before, but now I could devote all my attention to it, and it's so very good that I'm stunned by what the authors have achieved, at least so far; I'm not quite 100 pages in. The book is a fantastic continuation of Enterprise Season 4. Taking the horrible finale of that show and turning it into something positive! I would never have believed it possible! It's currently following up on what I consider the final episodes of Enterprise ("Demons"/"Terra Prime"), and it's brought back storylines that were featured throughout the fourth season, with Orions, Andorians, Aenar, Vulcans & Romulans. So many 4th season episodes have been referenced, that I've started rewatching it, just to make sure I don't miss anything. In fact T'Pau, the Romulans Nijil, Valdore & Vrax, Shran & Jahamel have all returned, with TONS of continuity! They've even fit the 4 Andorian genders into the Enterprise storylines, which seemed to avoid them + they've incorporated some of the Andorian/Andor background from the Worlds of DS9 book, which seemed to be contradicted by Enterprise. I love it when this stuff all fits together and the authors are doing such a good job. This shouldn't be such a surprise, as I've loved all of their books...except their last Enterprise novel which was written as though they hadn't seen the season of Enterprise that it was based on. It looks like that was just a fluke though, and things are back to being better than it has any right to be. Ooh! The book features a future Jake & Nog as well! If this is the start of an Enterprise Relaunch as DS9, and to a lesser degree, Voyager have enjoyed, then the future of Enterprise is very bright indeed.

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