The (quasi)Weekly Update
Sep. 6th, 2006 11:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillaneIt's been a strangely social bunch of days lately. I've gone from full-out hermit status to a person with something resembling a life.
Evidentiary support:
1. Dinner with third-oldest friend. We've known each other since both of us had bangs and wore light-up shoes (fittingly enough, I now have bangs again, although they are much less frightening than in that bygone era), although we only really see each other these days a few times a year. We went to the new Italian place which is almost enough like the old Italian place up north to be perfect. Afterward, we wound up in the car for ten minutes trying to figure out when we'd lost the ability to be spontaneous. Finished out by heading to Borders, though; who needs spontaneity when you've got books?
2. Lunch with oldest friend. As she is in her seventies and has known me since my greatest contribution to a conversation was the ability to bubble very seriously, that description is not at all an exaggeration.
3. Fireworks with the family. Big ones. We drove into the city and camped out in Mom's parking structure, where we got the full surround sound experience. Hee.
4. Movie with the sister and her boy. They wanted to catch The Illusionist, and I rode along. If anyone's particularly interested, I'll spill on the details, but in general, I liked it. Less profound and surprising than it wants to be, maybe, but pretty.
5. Possible job-like thing. It's with the state, in microbiology, and that's about all I know. I'm kind of conflicted - cons: I'm not a microbiologist, I'm terrified I will be hopelessly underqualified for the job, I'm the only person I know who can accidentally kill E. coli, and I sort of despise most non-macro biological pursuits; pros: money and the coinciding ability to avoid defaulting on loans - but, hey, better than the constant guilt of familial mooching.
1. Dinner with third-oldest friend. We've known each other since both of us had bangs and wore light-up shoes (fittingly enough, I now have bangs again, although they are much less frightening than in that bygone era), although we only really see each other these days a few times a year. We went to the new Italian place which is almost enough like the old Italian place up north to be perfect. Afterward, we wound up in the car for ten minutes trying to figure out when we'd lost the ability to be spontaneous. Finished out by heading to Borders, though; who needs spontaneity when you've got books?
2. Lunch with oldest friend. As she is in her seventies and has known me since my greatest contribution to a conversation was the ability to bubble very seriously, that description is not at all an exaggeration.
3. Fireworks with the family. Big ones. We drove into the city and camped out in Mom's parking structure, where we got the full surround sound experience. Hee.
4. Movie with the sister and her boy. They wanted to catch The Illusionist, and I rode along. If anyone's particularly interested, I'll spill on the details, but in general, I liked it. Less profound and surprising than it wants to be, maybe, but pretty.
5. Possible job-like thing. It's with the state, in microbiology, and that's about all I know. I'm kind of conflicted - cons: I'm not a microbiologist, I'm terrified I will be hopelessly underqualified for the job, I'm the only person I know who can accidentally kill E. coli, and I sort of despise most non-macro biological pursuits; pros: money and the coinciding ability to avoid defaulting on loans - but, hey, better than the constant guilt of familial mooching.
Other things I've been up to:
1. My recent discovery of Psych (which I really do love, as it turns out; the premise should get old, and yet they're just so damn cute I can't help but go with it) has sent me back to watching The Invisible Man obsessively for the last couple days. I'm one ep away from the full set, and it still boggles me that there is not more out there about these guys. If I get adventurous, I'd like to do ep commentaries, just so that I'll have a reference for all the little scenes of adorability that I want to remember. (Seriously, how can the introduction of an ex-wife who the protagonist is still head over heels for actually increase the slash factor? It goes against the laws of relationship physics, and yet I-Man managed it.) Bobby and Darien are probably the characters that I most regret not being able to write something about. (Yet. Still trying. Really, the one I currently want to write riffs off of the actors appearance on Las Vegas, which killed me because they were so clearly Bobby and Darien with fake names.)
2. Reading through the pile of books I've acquired lately. (And, yeah, pile of books. Pile of books. Hee.) Am on an impulse buy just now, Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down. So far, I'm kind of meh about it, but it's going fast enough that it isn't worth not finishing. It might get unexpectedly brilliant, though; I'll keep you posted if it does. (It helps that, perhaps relating to the recent viewing habits, the character of JJ is parading through my mind as Vincent Ventresca.)
1. My recent discovery of Psych (which I really do love, as it turns out; the premise should get old, and yet they're just so damn cute I can't help but go with it) has sent me back to watching The Invisible Man obsessively for the last couple days. I'm one ep away from the full set, and it still boggles me that there is not more out there about these guys. If I get adventurous, I'd like to do ep commentaries, just so that I'll have a reference for all the little scenes of adorability that I want to remember. (Seriously, how can the introduction of an ex-wife who the protagonist is still head over heels for actually increase the slash factor? It goes against the laws of relationship physics, and yet I-Man managed it.) Bobby and Darien are probably the characters that I most regret not being able to write something about. (Yet. Still trying. Really, the one I currently want to write riffs off of the actors appearance on Las Vegas, which killed me because they were so clearly Bobby and Darien with fake names.)
2. Reading through the pile of books I've acquired lately. (And, yeah, pile of books. Pile of books. Hee.) Am on an impulse buy just now, Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down. So far, I'm kind of meh about it, but it's going fast enough that it isn't worth not finishing. It might get unexpectedly brilliant, though; I'll keep you posted if it does. (It helps that, perhaps relating to the recent viewing habits, the character of JJ is parading through my mind as Vincent Ventresca.)
Things I ought to be up to:
1. Thesis to publication status. I'm doing that freaked-out-to-the-point-of-inertia thing again. Rather than just getting it done, I'm flipping out unproductively. My advisor - coauthor now, I guess, and ain't that a weird thought - would be fully within her rights to slay me.
2. Finishing all the fannish bits that need writing. I haven't forgotten the drabble prompts... honestly, I've just discovered I suck at writing short things. They all want to be novels. Damn them.
1. Thesis to publication status. I'm doing that freaked-out-to-the-point-of-inertia thing again. Rather than just getting it done, I'm flipping out unproductively. My advisor - coauthor now, I guess, and ain't that a weird thought - would be fully within her rights to slay me.
2. Finishing all the fannish bits that need writing. I haven't forgotten the drabble prompts... honestly, I've just discovered I suck at writing short things. They all want to be novels. Damn them.
And a meme for the road (because I am extremely curious):
I think it's inevitable that as we read each other's journals we create mental pictures of each other. Post this on your own journal to find out who your friends see when they read about your life.
Two Rules:
1)The person must be in the movies or on TV (but doesn't have to be an actor/actress). The person can be specific to a role (e.g. Jennifer Elhe's Elizabeth Bennett) or just the person him/herself.
2) You have to post a link to a picture of said person in the comments.
