Sunday, April 13, 2008

I invited Michael over last night to watch Doctor Who with us, which was fun. I'll post the spoiler heavy version separately from this one, for all those avoiding news of the new series ;-0) But I enjoyed it a lot, despite of my one New Who Pet Peeve, which has been popping up now and again. After Doctor Who, we were all hungry, and I got it in my head that Michael MUST watch Battlestar Galactica. I called the video store to see if they had the mini-series in so I could rent it for us, and they said yes, but then they called back and said no. I finally said screw it; we're goiong to Best Buy and buying it. We drove over there pretty fast because it was nearly 9pm, and I figured that they closed around then, and I bought Season 1 & Season 2.0, which means I now own all the episodes available on DVD. It was a little over a hundred dollars, which is outragious, but it's only about 2 dollars more than I would have paid on Amazon (though I probably would have gotten some money back on them eventually, but this way I got them right away, which is what I needed).

After that, I found that my grocery and perscription fund, which Mark had helped me out with in the past, wasn't gone after all, which means I'm not going to be as broke as I expected I would be, which was very good news, though I'm still slightly confused about it. Oh, and Mark did get his billing done, but now has to get his taxes done today. Everybody wish him luck!

After Best Buy, we went to Michael's home so he could get his hard drive to copy some stuff, plus a dvd he needed to return to Hollywood. Then off we went to Hollywood. By now it was after 9pm, and I was exhausted so I knew that even though I was very hungry, that if I ate something really heavy I'd regret it later, so I asked if we could just go to Kroger for some things I wanted, and then they went to BurgerKing. Their food smelled really good, and it was a whole new level of torcher sitting with them while they ate and I starved. I like 10 cornchips later, to tode me over...

During all the car rides, I took the time to call a bunch of people that I haven't spoken to lately; leaving messages for all of them. Shawn Foreman. My cousin Joy. Heidi. Amber. Possibly other people as well. lol.

When we got back to the condo, Mark went to his room to watch "The Kingdom", while Michael & I watched the first segment of BSG. He was enjoying it, and I got to see the Firefly class ship in the pilot this time, which cheered me to no end. I made Mark come downstairs to see it, but I don't think he was impressed at all... I was so tired, and Michael had mentioned that he couldn't stay late, so I called it a night after the first segment of the mini-series, and we'll hopefully get together soon to continue on with it...and rewatching the series is SO WEIRD, knowing about all the courses the characters are going to take later...it's just really strange, but fun. Like...everyone should watch the series at least twice!!!

It was nice to see and hang out with Michael. I was very tempted to hook up with him, and I may have suggested that, but I was so tired that I really just wanted to sleep. After he left, I read some stuff online, that I'd been waiting to read - and then I crawled into bed, while letting the new Who episode play again. It was better the 2nd time, though I had to fight to stay awake through my own exhaustion - though I eventually gave in, willingly, near the finale.

And now I'm awake.

We still have a new BSG episode to watch...and then there will be just 8 more episodes this year, and 10 next year, and it will be over... But while that's somewhat sad, I'm very cool with that, as the show won't outlast it's storyline - you know? It's very much like Firefly to me, though with Firefly it was cancelled, with the film, it has this sense of perfection, and completeness that I really cherish. But Firefly could have gone on for several years and had that same feeling, I feel lucky to have gotten what we did. Battlestar Galactica however, seems to have had the exact number of episodes that they needed to tell their story. Hopefully, I'll enjoy the end of the series. I don't expect everything to be wrapped up, but these are the people that ended DS9 so beautifully. :-0)

Oh. And it appears that I may have judged Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem a bit harshly, though I'm not sure. I haven't rewatched it, but the unrated edition comes out on DVD on Tuesday, and both Bryan and DJ from work are enjoying it. Bryan hates the first AVP, and says 2 is better than that one - which I completely disagree with, but I'm wondering how Mollie will feel about the sequel. I'll watch it again to see how I like it on DVD; it might be less insulting in that format, plus I saw a bit of it while DJ was watching it at work and I swear they lightened up some of the picture qualitiy. We'll see.

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