January 14th, 2008
Bob Loblaw
Why can’t all pills just be gel-capped? There are few things worse than trying to swallow a big chalky pill and it sticking to the roof of my mouth. Oh God, the awfulness. And there’s just no chance of it going down after that happens. Because now it’s all wet and more sticky, and fuck it, I might as well just ralph in the sink.
So what’s new? I’ve been back at work a week now, though my sleep schedule isn’t quite what it was before the holidays. Last week I actually went to bed rather early several nights; however, due to a big conference, I also had to be up extra early. So although last week was my first week back, it wasn’t a normal week. This week everything turns back to normal. The college students are back. Oh, joy. Well, I’m glad my student worker is starting classes again, because fuck all if I have anything for him to do right now. And finding things for him to do prevents me from doing things I really need to be doing that I can’t have him help with because that would be a disaster.
I still don’t like it. I still haven’t gotten used to it. I don’t think I will. Oh, sigh.
That’s too vague, but I can’t really be less vague here about it, can I? Moving on.
I played The Sims 2 last night! Actually played a family for the first time in months. I sent a sim on vacation and spent a ridiculous amount of time chasing the ninja around. Those questions the ninja gives SUCK. Damn it, the right answer is always the opposite of what I think it is. Then I’ll try and be smart and choose the opposite…and that’s wrong too. Stupid ninja.
You know, when I was in college, we had a thing for ninjas? Well, I had some rather silly friends, and we happened to come across this website about REAL NINJAS and got obsessed. We might have even run around campus dressed as ninjas a few times. It was highly amusing. To give you an idea of the kind of people I’m talking about, here’s a picture of one of them on my bed in my old dorm room. I really miss 2001 sometimes. It was one of the more carefree and ridiculous times in my life, where I did a whole lot of stupid things. I could never go back to it, but it was indeed a cool year. And by cool, I mean totally sweet.
January 5th, 2008
Bob Loblaw
During my extended vacation from work, I have been sleeping in opposites (going to bed around 8 or 9 am and getting up near 5 or 6 pm) and watching lots of movies. And also eating lots of popcorn, but we won’t dwell on that.
I just finished watching The Libertine a few minutes ago, and I must say–what a strange movie. Yet, not strange at all if you consider it’s a Johnny Depp movie. It starts out with a very entertaining monologue, and I think Johnny’s character, the Earl of Rochester, keeps up these entertaining, bizarre speeches throughout. I think my favorite part is the Earl’s play, just because I wasn’t expecting anything quite that extreme, though I don’t know why. This movie had me thinking WTF several times throughout, but I think I liked it. I think.
Before that, I watched I Love You, I Love You Not, with Claire Danes and Jude Law. Oh, they were young. How was that a 1997 movie? Well, Jude Law was much older than his character, and I found that a bit weird throughout. It was an okay movie. The plot seems like it could have been much better developed. I would have liked more from the Grandmother’s story, most definitely, and the ending scene with Jude Law left much to be desired. But I liked the complete and utter awkwardness of Claire Danes’ character anyhow. Meh.
Early Friday morning I watched The Cider House Rules. Good movie. Interesting movie. Tobey Maguire–not my favorite, but I liked his character. Man, that Mr. Rose and Rose Rose thing sure came out of no where for me though. God, what the hell was that? Perhaps a more appropriate question is why? I had liked them. But oh well, I’ll get over it.
Yesterday I watched Gone in 60 Seconds. Haha, yes, I had not seen that movie before. I liked it! I liked it a lot for an action movie, which I usually find utterly ridiculous. It was a bit goofy, as most action movies are, but I enjoyed the thoroughly ridiculous car chase scene. And well, honestly, I just like Angelina Jolie and Giovanni Ribisi.
A few days ago, I watched Waitress, which my mom gave me on DVD for Christmas, and I like this most of these movies I’ve listed. Of course, how can you go wrong with my dear Felicity’s Keri Russell and Firefly’s Nathan Fillion? This movie was super funny and incredibly cute and clever. Not the most satisfying ending ever, but it was a good and fitting one, none the less.
I may have watched some other movies, but they’re escaping me for the moment. I’m dreading going back to work already. Monday morning will be a sad one. Should I just not sleep, since I’m staying up later than the time I’d need to be at work anyway? I tried that once last year, and it did not go so well. But then, trying to fix it beforehand with my lack of will power won’t work either. We shall see. 
January 1st, 2008
Bob Loblaw
Happy 2008, everyone! It’s officially 5 hours into the new year, and yes, my sleep schedule is screwed up beyond belief. Well, I suppose it’s not really beyond belief, so much as it is totally predictable. Perhaps I should make a resolution to sleep like a normal adult this year, but I don’t much feel like it, so, fuck it. Vampire-by-weekend-and-holiday schedule it is!
I’m not very good at new year resolutions. Big shocker, I know. But I do like to fantasize about how awesome life would be if I stuck to resolutions. So, I’m going to list out some things that I would like to change/do in 2008, but most likely won’t because I’m a big, lazy, good for nothing turd.
- Number one, of course, would be to stop being such a fat-ass. Such a typical fat person resolution, but you know, like a diluted fat child, I do believe that all of life’s problems would be completely solved if only I were skinny. And I say this jokingly, yet, I truly do believe this in a sense. Yes, I’m actually that screwed up. But, as much as I want to be thin, I also want to eat lots and lots of wondrous junk food and not exercise ever. So, okay, let’s modify this resolution a bit: in 2008, I resolve to discover a magic drug that allows me to eat what I want, not exercise, drop 100 pounds, and stay alive! Fantastic!
- Okay, moving on. I think another good resolution would be to stop dicking around on the computer so much. See, this kind of leads in to resolution number one a bit. I would like to stop wasting time on forums and such things. I’ve actually been better about this quite a bit recently, though I still check them constantly and waste energy being annoyed with idiots. It would be much more beneficial to me to spend my extra-curricular computer time reading and working on Sim stories and sticking to my own website community, I do think.
- I will also resolve to finish I Woke Up LA this year. HAHA. Can you believe I started this in January 2006? How ridiculous am I? My characters are about to be old farts. I really want to finish this story and move on to other stories, because I think writing is a wonderfully rewarding hobby I’ve picked up. I want to do more of it, and put things out in a more timely manner. Read the rest of this entry »
