Well, LJ, it's been so long that even the thought of catching you up on everything that's gone on is in itself kind of stressful. Suffice to say Drive was very good and I'll soon be managing a restaurant.
Onto other things: because the nearest decent library is very far away, I've amassed way, way more books than my room is designed to accommodate. SO. If you can give a good home to anything on the following list, please comment! I'll PM you for your address and send it your way. Everything's first come, first served and if you want to throw me some money for shipping I won't object, but it's not necessary.
Ask me about a character of your choosing, and I will pick one of the following and tell you:
(a) Three facts about them from my personal fanon. (b) A reason they're amazing. (c) Five things that I'd like to see happen to them. (d) Three people that I might ship that character with and why.
Okay, so, an actual update. Let's see if I can get the hang of this again.
My computer was broken for...over two months? It's a Dell, two and a half years old now, and I sunk a lot of money into it so I wouldn't have to worry about buying another one. Well, the hard drive died and the electronics store down the street quoted me some exorbitant amount for: attempting to recover my files (success not guaranteed) and swapping out one hard drive for the other (which I can do and have done myself). By some quirk of fate I managed to recover everything except some music and videos, but my god, it took forever to fix. And then I had to buy a second copy of Vista. I have now paid for two copies of Vista. That is two more than I ever wanted.
But the bright side to the whole thing was that I got really bored and bought a Wii (also I started watching a bunch of French movies, but that's another story). I never liked sports-related video games (no, not even NBA Jam) because what you were doing with the controller had no relation to playing an actual sport, but I love my Wii. And I'm quite good at tennis, which makes no sense, because I suck at it in real life.
My brother moved out to Portland in August and I'd like to visit him, but requesting time off work has been a real pain--the girl I worked with was sick, and planning her wedding, then she was actually married and requesting time off for a honeymoon that never occurred, and now she's been fired. Or, well, taken off the schedule. I've set my sights on going home for Christmas--I have to talk it over with the front desk manager since I am now working double shifts on Fridays and Saturdays.
What else? I went and saw the National and touched Matt Berninger. I'm told my Spanish has improved and get to use high school favorites like "no me hables," "dejame en paz" and "ten cuidado" on a daily basis. I still don't own a pair of hiking boots. I saw the Blackhawks at the Pepsi Center and this group of guys was toting around a Stanley Cup they'd made out of cardboard and tinfoil (...and then the Hawks lost). It has just come to my attention that the Denver Film Festival is going on right now.
In honor of the digital camera I just purchased (I was loath to buy something with the name "Coolpix" attached to it, but at $150, I'd buy a camera called Buttmunch), request a picture of something and I will post it! I do not have a lot of experience taking pictures, so the potential for hilarity is high.
Suggestions for requests:
- The first five pictures I take while trying to learn how to use the camera. - Mountains! - My blue suede shoes and/or my Kyle Orton jersey. - Random directives, such as "walk a mile north and take a picture of the first green thing you see." - The restaurant I work in! - My stuffed Batman in the (NON-OBSCENE) location of your choosing.
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awake
what.
what did I just watch
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