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afterallthistimeChoose Your Own Adventure™ time:
Wednesday, Andy and I took Piper and Josiah to Dave and Buster's. It was surprisingly less crowded than the last time, despite both trips falling over a school vacation (Andy speculates that the nice weather drove people outdoors this time, rather than into restaurants and arcades. He may have had a point, because Wednesday was abso-fucking-lutely gorgeous. I don't know how serious Andy was about his worries about travelling with Piper and Josiah (whenever we've gone out with his family, like as a group, Denise has always taken Josiah with her seperately -- Andy really hasn't driven with them in the same car in a long time, and I'd never had that experience), but they were awesome and perfectly well-behaved (the bahavior was more of a concern with Josiah than with Piper, obviously, but they were both great). One of the rules at Dave and Buster's is that anyone under the age of eighteen has to be accompanied by an over-twenty-five adult at all times, so Andy and I each took one of the kids and did our thing. I spent most of the day with Josiah, who, I swear to God, is going to grow up, move to Vegas, and lose all his fucking money, if his time at D&B's is any indication. He wound up spending most of his time at the Star Trek game, which is one of those machines where you drop in a coin, knock other coins off a platform, and get x-number of tickets for each coin that falls -- that machine is a fucking GOLDMINE if you can time it right and if you pick the right machine. After a few rounds on there, I took Josiah to turn his tickets in so they could put the credits on his PowerPlay card. As we're in line, I'm explaining to him how the system works, helping his pull his tickets out of his cups and organize them, and giving him the, "we can look around the store and you can see what they have, and you can spend your points however you want, but remember that if you save them up you can get something big later instead of something small now, and we have all day still and you'll be getting a lot more points, so make sure you think about that before you waste them all, blah blah blah" speech, and the whole time, the woman at the weigh station is just smiling at the two of us in this, "Aw, how cute" way, and it occurred to me that basically everyone in that place was looking at the two of us and probably assuming that I was Josiah's mom, and it occurred to me that this was a completely plausible scenario -- I could totally be his mom, and it wouldn't have even been a particularly scandalous pregnancy (I'd have been a mom at nineteen, big whoop). It had the dual effect of kind of freaking me out and kind of making me want kids (this is another story altogether, but I won't get into it right now).
Saturday was the Comcast Cares Earth Day Celebration, and Groundworks Lawrence teamed up with Comcast for the day and did a cleanup of various parks and public areas in Lawrence. Rob, Ryan, and I arrived at the North Commons at about 8:30 for registration, and were assigned to Jacques Pond, up in the Mount Vernon area. They loaded about a dozen of us onto a bus and shipped us over (including two Hispanci boys, probably about eight years old (twins) who were super fucking adorable the whole time). Rob and Ryan spent the time distrubuting mulch and relining rhw walking paths, and I did trash pickup in the woods and down by the pond and tilled soil for the butterfly garden. It was nice to see so many people, including families, out and about in Lawrence, trying to actually do something good for the city.
1. Last Saturday I had friends over and we ordered pizza and watched Captain America, which I thought was a lot of fun. Steve proved himself to be one of THOSE people, who can apparently suspend disbelief about the Nazi's using a relic left on Earth by a Norse God, but can't accept the use of anachronistic technology ("They didn't have those kinds of rockets in the 40s!" "Yeah, Steve, you know what else they didn't have in the 40s? The fucking Tesseract.") We're all psyched for The Avengers, but I kind of can't believe that's in just two weeks, I remember when the hype for it started up and it was like, "we have to wait HOW long???" and now it's right around the corner, WTF.
2. Saw Girl, Interrupted for the first time and am trying to get over how ridiculously hot Angelina Jolie is in that movie.
3. I have done NO homework all break, and I'm having panic attacks about it. The paper due tomorrow I'm not worried about because I can write it at work (since I don't have a printer here anyway, andf I have an hour and half of free time at work tomorrow), and the other stuff isn't due until May 2nd, but I'm still freaked out and overwhelmed, and FUCK I will be glad when all this academic bullshit is done.
4. I have to contact CC about summer classes, because if I can get a spot in the math class happening at the Cambridge campus, I will finish all my classes (not counting student teaching) this summer and be fucking DONE with it.
5. StarKid are at The House of Blues in June, and I'm going to try to go, if anyone else is interested... also, I need to find a night to make time, sit down, and watch Holy Musical, Batman, because I haven't had a chance to see it yet.
6. I also need to find a DL link for the third episode of Legend of Korra"(ahh, and I found out some awesome news about LoK that I want to squee about, but hubby reads this and is spoilerphobic, so boo). Also, I really like the show, but everytime he's on screen, I'm just... baffled by how fucking ugly Meelo is. Sweet Jesus, that is an ugly, ugly child. (Also also, naming a character after Mako Iwamatsu -- ♥).
7. I would give my right arm to go to Con.txt, for which they JUST released the panels for voting. I haven't browsed them yet, but I'm going to, because even if I can't go to Con.txt, I'd like ideas of what's in the cards (potentially) for MJ next year (because I WILL be at MJ). I really wish I had more money for cons, cons and meet-ups are ridiculously fun.
8. Believe in Sherlock Boston meetup (for tea/lunch and Frankenstein) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, June 17th at 9 am. Cumberbatch will be the Creature in this screening, and I am psyched about seeing it, and about seeing the BiSBoston ladies again. I'm being told get tix early, so I might do that with the money I have left this month (I'm a little (liiiiiittle) under budget this month).
9. Walk for Hunger May 6th, still accepting donations (online or by check).
10. Sold two more Consulting Detective/Criminal shirts! That's seven shirts total, which sounds like shit, but seriously guys, I didn't expect ANYONE to buy them, I mostly just made them for fun.
Wednesday, Andy and I took Piper and Josiah to Dave and Buster's. It was surprisingly less crowded than the last time, despite both trips falling over a school vacation (Andy speculates that the nice weather drove people outdoors this time, rather than into restaurants and arcades. He may have had a point, because Wednesday was abso-fucking-lutely gorgeous. I don't know how serious Andy was about his worries about travelling with Piper and Josiah (whenever we've gone out with his family, like as a group, Denise has always taken Josiah with her seperately -- Andy really hasn't driven with them in the same car in a long time, and I'd never had that experience), but they were awesome and perfectly well-behaved (the bahavior was more of a concern with Josiah than with Piper, obviously, but they were both great). One of the rules at Dave and Buster's is that anyone under the age of eighteen has to be accompanied by an over-twenty-five adult at all times, so Andy and I each took one of the kids and did our thing. I spent most of the day with Josiah, who, I swear to God, is going to grow up, move to Vegas, and lose all his fucking money, if his time at D&B's is any indication. He wound up spending most of his time at the Star Trek game, which is one of those machines where you drop in a coin, knock other coins off a platform, and get x-number of tickets for each coin that falls -- that machine is a fucking GOLDMINE if you can time it right and if you pick the right machine. After a few rounds on there, I took Josiah to turn his tickets in so they could put the credits on his PowerPlay card. As we're in line, I'm explaining to him how the system works, helping his pull his tickets out of his cups and organize them, and giving him the, "we can look around the store and you can see what they have, and you can spend your points however you want, but remember that if you save them up you can get something big later instead of something small now, and we have all day still and you'll be getting a lot more points, so make sure you think about that before you waste them all, blah blah blah" speech, and the whole time, the woman at the weigh station is just smiling at the two of us in this, "Aw, how cute" way, and it occurred to me that basically everyone in that place was looking at the two of us and probably assuming that I was Josiah's mom, and it occurred to me that this was a completely plausible scenario -- I could totally be his mom, and it wouldn't have even been a particularly scandalous pregnancy (I'd have been a mom at nineteen, big whoop). It had the dual effect of kind of freaking me out and kind of making me want kids (this is another story altogether, but I won't get into it right now).
Saturday was the Comcast Cares Earth Day Celebration, and Groundworks Lawrence teamed up with Comcast for the day and did a cleanup of various parks and public areas in Lawrence. Rob, Ryan, and I arrived at the North Commons at about 8:30 for registration, and were assigned to Jacques Pond, up in the Mount Vernon area. They loaded about a dozen of us onto a bus and shipped us over (including two Hispanci boys, probably about eight years old (twins) who were super fucking adorable the whole time). Rob and Ryan spent the time distrubuting mulch and relining rhw walking paths, and I did trash pickup in the woods and down by the pond and tilled soil for the butterfly garden. It was nice to see so many people, including families, out and about in Lawrence, trying to actually do something good for the city.
1. Last Saturday I had friends over and we ordered pizza and watched Captain America, which I thought was a lot of fun. Steve proved himself to be one of THOSE people, who can apparently suspend disbelief about the Nazi's using a relic left on Earth by a Norse God, but can't accept the use of anachronistic technology ("They didn't have those kinds of rockets in the 40s!" "Yeah, Steve, you know what else they didn't have in the 40s? The fucking Tesseract.") We're all psyched for The Avengers, but I kind of can't believe that's in just two weeks, I remember when the hype for it started up and it was like, "we have to wait HOW long???" and now it's right around the corner, WTF.
2. Saw Girl, Interrupted for the first time and am trying to get over how ridiculously hot Angelina Jolie is in that movie.
3. I have done NO homework all break, and I'm having panic attacks about it. The paper due tomorrow I'm not worried about because I can write it at work (since I don't have a printer here anyway, andf I have an hour and half of free time at work tomorrow), and the other stuff isn't due until May 2nd, but I'm still freaked out and overwhelmed, and FUCK I will be glad when all this academic bullshit is done.
4. I have to contact CC about summer classes, because if I can get a spot in the math class happening at the Cambridge campus, I will finish all my classes (not counting student teaching) this summer and be fucking DONE with it.
5. StarKid are at The House of Blues in June, and I'm going to try to go, if anyone else is interested... also, I need to find a night to make time, sit down, and watch Holy Musical, Batman, because I haven't had a chance to see it yet.
6. I also need to find a DL link for the third episode of Legend of Korra"(ahh, and I found out some awesome news about LoK that I want to squee about, but hubby reads this and is spoilerphobic, so boo). Also, I really like the show, but everytime he's on screen, I'm just... baffled by how fucking ugly Meelo is. Sweet Jesus, that is an ugly, ugly child. (Also also, naming a character after Mako Iwamatsu -- ♥).
7. I would give my right arm to go to Con.txt, for which they JUST released the panels for voting. I haven't browsed them yet, but I'm going to, because even if I can't go to Con.txt, I'd like ideas of what's in the cards (potentially) for MJ next year (because I WILL be at MJ). I really wish I had more money for cons, cons and meet-ups are ridiculously fun.
8. Believe in Sherlock Boston meetup (for tea/lunch and Frankenstein) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, June 17th at 9 am. Cumberbatch will be the Creature in this screening, and I am psyched about seeing it, and about seeing the BiSBoston ladies again. I'm being told get tix early, so I might do that with the money I have left this month (I'm a little (liiiiiittle) under budget this month).
9. Walk for Hunger May 6th, still accepting donations (online or by check).
10. Sold two more Consulting Detective/Criminal shirts! That's seven shirts total, which sounds like shit, but seriously guys, I didn't expect ANYONE to buy them, I mostly just made them for fun.
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Date: 2012-04-23 02:59 am (UTC)Oh! I'm glad we have confirmation of which screening, because I only wanted to pay to see it once more... and I definitely wanted the creature screening. Except now I look at my schedule and I might be teaching that day nooooooooo. /helpless floundering.
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Date: 2012-04-23 07:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-23 07:54 pm (UTC)SO YES THEN I CAN DEFINITELY MAKE IT :DDDD ...now to figure out if there is somewhere I should be RSVPing....
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Date: 2012-04-23 08:11 pm (UTC)http://www.facebook.com/groups/421714091191201/?ref=ts
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Date: 2012-04-23 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-23 10:46 pm (UTC)Also, in weird childhood / adolescent flashbacks time -- I did the Earth Day in Lawrence thing around 1991, and would have loved more opportunities to do stuff like that. So many people try to do something positive there and all the racism and ennui and general who gives a shit ness somehow mess it up. It used to drive my grandmother crazy. I'd like to participate in some pro-Lawrence stuff but the drive's hard sometimes.
The MoS was less crowded in April vacay, unless an exhibit was closing, because the weather was usually much nicer, so Dave and Buster's probably works on the same principles.
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Date: 2012-04-25 03:27 pm (UTC)I did see Gia, way back, with... Andy and Mel? I was surprised it got such a low rating, it wasn't a stellar film, but I've seen far worse. I enjoyed Girl, Interrupted, I read the book several years ago (during MCAS, when we were all displaced and no one was getting any work done), and it was interesting to see the adaptation.
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Date: 2012-04-25 05:48 pm (UTC)I saw Girl, Interrupted back in the day, but when I tried to reread the book a year after I started therapy again there was just too much catastrophising and black and white thinking, etc, and I found myself focusing on that instead of the book.
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Date: 2012-04-25 11:45 pm (UTC)"baffled by how fucking ugly Meelo is"
OH GOD this. My Husband and I exchanged horrified looks the moment he popped up on the screen. Eeeech.
Angelina was really great looking in Hackers too, I think that's the first time I ever saw her and my girl crush started.
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Date: 2012-04-26 02:35 pm (UTC)I read Girl, Interrupted once, but I didn't even know such a movie existed. Angelina Jolie is ridiculously hot in most things.
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Date: 2012-04-26 10:21 pm (UTC)Girl, Interrupted (the movie) came out in 1998, I believe? It was enjoyable, different from the book, of course, but enjoyable.