forcewitch

so i just watched the first part of the Tinman miniseries on Sci Fi. Its actually kinda good. Its Sci Fi, so once you get past that, its entertaining. To help keep it so in the beginning though, my Mom and I started making a list of all of the movies that specific parts remind us of, and boy is it long, so far:

Dune
Star Wars 5 and 6
Harry Potter 3
Highlander
Resident Evil
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
AI
Snow White
The Mummy
Indiana Jones (all of them)
Hook
Elektra

and of course: Wizard of Oz and Return to Oz (it is another Oz movie, so those don't really count).

In other news. work needs to be less tiring. I was there for 13 hours yesterday. I feel like I'm back in school. Only the clothes, the studio, the projects, and the pay are obscenely better.

I wish I wasn't so tired all of the time and had time to do all of the things I want to do, like get to the gym, do my website, journal, read, see movies. eventually i'll get used to this.

just in case any of you needed to know. the element ruthofordium's (rf) atomic number is 104.

it may have taken several phone calls, but dam it if my Science Fair SAB co-advisor and I didn't figure it out. We are nurturing souls. nurturing souls who may find it necessary to get pocket sized periodic tables for future reference so we don't look like idiots at the next Science Fair meeting. although then i may get asked by other folks why i have a copy of the periodic table in my wallet. this may appear overly nerdy, even for me.

fire. lots and lots of fire.

it is hot. very very hot.

in other news. today was a most interesting day in the workforce.

took the train to and from work today. very cool. i will consider doing this again. since it cost 142 for a monthly pass and you really have to have a ticket i have to think pretty hard about it.

went out to dinner with marty in old town. we caught up on all sorts of stuff - i havne't seen her since my graduation dinner - and then we talked asi for about three hours. it was good times. i have a lot of things to make sure the girls keep working on next year that we all started last year, and she has a lot of things to do but she needs the right guidance to get them done efficiently. all in all a good dinner. i can say though that i am honestly glad i will not be on student government or a paying cp student next year.

bed time. loads to do this week with work and science fair. and apparently lindz is coming this weekend ;)

back from europa. pretty amazing. i'll probably do some updating on that soon.

my diploma came in the mail. i knew that i had already graduated, but it was a relief to get it in the mail - since lindz had heard that 45% of our class didn't actually graduate, i got a little concerned. so glad that its all finally over.

em and chris are in town this weekend, staying with and helping tasj move, so i'll be meeting up with them this afternoon and we are going out downtown tonight. so i am excited.

more later.

so i was just looking at the headliner list again for street scene this year. to which i am going this time around.

the village people are playing. and so is the dam 'this is why i'm hot' guy. eww. otherwise tho, the killers, brand new, panic!, augustana, g love, and tons more. its gonna kick ass.

anyway. saw pix of last year's show. afi looked amazing. i'm so sad i missed last year. whatev tho. can't wait for this one.

also. we may be getting tix for lion king in nyc on our way back from europe. it'd be my third time seeing it. but will never complain about lion king. cuz its amazing. plus i get to see it in the theater that was built specifically for it, which i think will make it even more amazing. i love theater.

three, possibly four broadway plays in a summer. i am super lucky. i know.

so i finished it. it was awesome. and i was kind of right about my guess on who the person was that would ultimately die, altho in a different way and for slightly more detailed reasons than i would have guessed. the book was good though. answered a lot of questions, and made things make a bit more sense than they had been over the course of the last couple of books in regards to harry and voldermort's strange relationship. i kept thinking how great of a movie this one will make - probably because i recently saw the fifth one. one thing that bugged me tho - the epilogue. i mean i know it was meant for a lot of reasons and it was good. but .well. can't go into it now. i dunno who reads this any more but i hate spoilers. anywho.

now that i'm done reading it i may have to get on with my life. devoted the day to getting through it today. now i suppose i should get back to these wretched science fair rules and regs forms. thankfully they only have to get majorly revamped this once. next year i just have to change the dates. oi. so annoying.

leave for germany in a couple of days. tons to do before then. but i'm super excited. maybe i shall procrastinate the forms a bit more and go watch the tour de france with my dad. despite what people say cycling is a terribly fascinating sport. the people who don't understand just haven't tried watching it. there is a lot of strategery. and yes. i said strategery. its my favorite word.

i'm bummed because i thought that my mom had said she preordered a copy of harry potter. turns out she said she'd pay for a copy if kylise and i wanted to. i think my mom has bought us every book so far. anyway. i have to go find one today. the bookstores are sure to be hectic so i think i'm going to hit up the grocery store, they've been advertising it.

bummed cuz i was SUPER excited about going out last night with tasja and her friends but i pulled a muscle in my neck the afternoon before and walked around with my neck all cramped last night. between the physical therapy, chiropractor visit, naps, and muscle relaxers I still wasn't feeling better and i can't bend my head one way cuz my whole neck cramps up mad crazy like.

anyway. we have to pack up the birds and send them off to the bird sitter now. so more later.

so i'm updating. cuz i feel lame that i don't.

and mostly cuz linds says i should.

okay. been working on science fair, researching things to do when i travel next week, and slowly unpacking my room. i opened a new bank account yesterday at citibank, and working on closing out my evil wells fargo account. i really don't like them.

i've also decided that i probably won't be going to the asla conference. the program doesn't look so exciting. same old same old asla garbage really. i think i'd like to save up my time for cooler conferences. altho i may go up to sf to party that weekend with all of my scasla boys.

going to go play at the camera store today. get extra battery and flash card. maybe talk my dad into a new lens. my parents said they'd get me one for my graduation present. that'd be sweet before travelling. i also need to decide if i'm going to rough my camera up before i leave, so it doesn't look so new.

i'm also in limbo about getting my hair cut super super short. if i do it i want to do it abroad - or else at a super sweet salon here. ah i don't know!

other than that, just catching up on things that i didn't have time to do in school. like deal with insurance companies over the car accident, watch csi at night, and clean out all of my files and school stuff from the last five years.

breakfast time!

ah yeah. so i keep forgetting to get my new password figured out, so here i am.

i am so done with being in slo. im done with incompetent people mostly. from faculty to friends from what now seems like a life long ago. i'm just fed up with it all. i've finally accepted over the course of the last year and a half how stupid and ridiculous all of these people are. I just can't wait til i don't have to deal with them anymore. ever again.

i'm frustrated right now because we had a field trip to hearst castle this afternoon, that surprise surprise got completely botched by the one person in my life who really can't seem to get anything right. and then he had the nerve to get upset with us. its really a wonder i was ever able to see anything truly good in him and even more so that i ever cared about him as much as i did and tried to have a life with him. yikes!

i will miss my really great friends tho when i move, but i have confidence that i will stay in touch with them because they are pretty fantastic.

asi has been interesting of late. that is saying it lightly. but now its time to focus on my project. something that i want to do very much but am seriously lacking in the motivation to actually go and do it. for a number of reasons. the rest of today i'm using as a rest day and start getting a handle on all of my work - after that tho - its going like gang busters til the end of the year. oi vei.