Monday, November 28, 2005

Thanksgiving

Well, Thanksgiving weekend, despite some events, was pretty decent. Lunch and dinner with the family, Catey and her husband have been here for a while, although they leave tomorrow morning to go back to Hawaii.

The shopping season has begun as of Black Friday...this year is the first year that I've really noticed Black Friday (odd huh). Course the front of the local paper portrayed a local hero (and I use that word liberally) who arrived at Target at 5AM in waiting for their 6AM early opening for Black Friday (wow...).

Well...back to work...I'm glad I had 4 days to basically sleep...especially after certain occurances. I played World of Warcraft most of the time...how exciting neh? Off I go to the Post Office/Dry Cleaners/Food Lion/perhaps construction place...cough.

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  Saturday, November 26, 2005

Car

Car is back...didn't have to get a new paint job thankfully. Four new tires...ugh...

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  Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Vandal

I came out of the house, doo do doo...work time...aw crap, I have a flat tire, how the hell did that happe...wait...there's another flat tire...shit...does that mean all fou...fuck...yes...all four tires, oh look...puncture marks...OH! spraypaint..."I fucked..." what now? I can't make it out, these people have horrible can control...OH! a penis!...I think...what's the number for the police?

Labels: Pictures/Videos/Artwork

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Carma

Bad "Karma" as Steffan called it...I'll explain later with pictures...and screaming.

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  Monday, November 21, 2005

Hee Hee

I couldn't resist

"I was trying to escape...it didn't work." The president said as he walked from the door.

Also: Do you think he knows it's a robot?

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News

Well...it looks like this weekend was just a good news time for everyone...well...everyone else...

My sister officially has passed the California Bar Exam...woo hoo! One less weight...well...yes, big weight.

My cousin, Catey, is officially pregnant (when someone is unofficially pregnant it causes problems I would imagine, and no I do not know when she's due/what percentage pregnant she is...hmm...

Seems like my family doesn't really care if I make pie(s) this year, my grandmother was simply talking about going out and buying some pies...so...that made me feel real good...I'll make a damn pie for myself and one for Sherilyn when she gets back from New York.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was...a disappointment, I was expecting more from StageStruck, but Sherilyn told me that their direction isn't exactly good...they just kind of say stand here...and then let you talk. The Oompa Loompas were...rappers...that's right rappers, so they did the "songs" as little chants basically. The guy that played Willy Wonka was pretty good though, and he seemed to be having fun. Bad Stage direction though, of course my view for the first act was mostly taken up by some fat guy's head. Was really short too...the first act was only a half hour...

Well...that's all for now...

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  Friday, November 18, 2005

DVDs

If you go here before November 27th, you can get some great dvds for like...$4.99 - $6.99...

Um...Thanksgiving soon, yay

Um...yay

Um...yeah...

Going to see StageStruck's production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tonight...w00t

COLD

Haircut?

FREEZING

Peanuts...

The End...

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  Thursday, November 17, 2005

9 Man Hours

Yay! Adam! Yay!...um...Yay!

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  Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Quized

I stole you from Kevin...the quiz I mean, it's been a while I guess

1* First grade teacher's name: I'm supposed to remember this?

2* Last word you said: "OK"...in response to my boss not needing coffee

3* Last song you sang: Beatles - Love Me Do

4* Last person you hugged: hmm...Sherilyn I believe...if not then my cousin Catey...the two people that seem to love to hug me the most...

5* Last thing you laughed at: Probably some joke on Firefly

6* Last time you said I dont remember: I don't remember (cliche answer I know)

7* Last time you cried: Hmm...Saturday, a little

9* What color socks are you wearing: Dark Green

10* What's under your bed: Boxes, empty cd/dvd cases, tools, printing supplies

11* What time did you wake up today: 7:50, 8:00, and 8:08

12* Current taste: Coffee

13* Current hair: Pissing me off

14* Current Annoyance: Unexplained heat

15* Current Crush?: She knows

16* Current longing: End up in San Francisco

17* Current desktop background: Well...on this computer just blue, but at home it's a fractal (turtle one)

18* Current worry: Money, school, sleep, other things

19* Current hate: ...nothing really at the moment, I'm pretty good

20* Current favorite article of clothing: Not on me...but my jacket

21* Favorite physical feature of the preferred sex: Eyes, lips, everything

22* Last CD that you listened to: Beatles - Please Please Me

23* Favorite place to be: ...for some reason...usually in my room, alone

24* Least favorite place: Work, once again...cliche

25* Time you wake up in the morning: Around 8...

26* If you could play an instrument, what would you play: Well...should probably pick up the bass that's sitting in my room.

27* Favorite colors: Green, Blue, Orange, Purple

28* Do you believe in an afterlife: We're gonna go with...no

29* How tall are you: 5'11" - 6'0"...pending shoes

30* Current favorite word/saying: Monkey(s) everywhere...

31* Favorite book: Ender's Game still...

32* Favorite season: Spring...although it causes frustration

33* One person from your past you wish you could go back and talk to: A lot of people...

35* Where do you want to go for university? San Francisco Art Institute

36* What is your career going to be like: Shitty

37* How many kids do you want: 2 most likely

*HAVE YOU EVER...*

39* Said "I love you" and meant it: Often

40* Gotten in a fight with your dog/cat/bird/fish, etc? How do you fight with a fish? NO

41. Been to Chicago: Airport

42* Been to Florida: Once...Disney World...don't remember much besides my cousin constantly getting us lost and no one listening to me.

43* Been to California: Well...kind of born there, only been back once though.

44* Been to Hawaii: Nope

45* Been to Mexico: Nope

46* Been to China: I Wish

48* Dreamed something really crazy and then it happened the next day: Um...no, not really

52* Had a crush on someone: Hee Hee...although my "crushes" usually involve someone unobtainable...so it's more object of desire...however things are pretty simple regarding those things now

53* What book are you reading now?: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

54* Worst feeling in the world: Fear, frustration

55* What is the first thing you think when you wake up in the morning? God damn...work...thing...

56* How many rings before you answer: Depends on how far away the phone is, and then...the length of time it takes to look who's calling.

57* Future daughter's name: Emily...damn you Kevin

58* Future son's name: Asher...is also tempting Kevin...although I haven't really thought about it, so I don't know.

59* Do you sleep with a stuffed animal: Nope

60* If you could have any job you wanted: "Artist"

61* Wish were here: Sherilyn, Colorado/Utah friends

62* College plans: Few and far between...but passionate about SFAI, if possible

63* Piercings: None...and none in the future

*THE EXTRA STUFF*

64* Do you do drugs: Nope

65* Do you drink: Very Very Rarely, basically No

67* What kind of Shampoo and Conditioner do you use: A good kind (Organics...smells so good)

69* What clothes do you sleep in: Underwear...sometimes t-shirt as well

70* Who is the last person that called you: My Mother

71* Where do you want to get married: A park...preferrably a very large and very green park...with willow trees.

72* If you could change anything about yourself what would that be: My jealousy, and laziness.

73* Who do you really Hate: No one right now really, most people I hate(d) are kind of out of my life and out of touch now.

74* Been In Love: Yes yes...

75* Are you timely or always late: Always timely, usually early

76* Do you have a job: Perhaps...yes...I wonder what my next one will be though.

77* Do you like being around people: Depends on the people, usually I am stuck in a large group of people either twice my age, or 4 years younger than me...so yeah...I guess I don't, I like small groups of people, or just one person...

78* Best feeling in the world: A kiss

79* Are you for world peace: Those who are not for world peace are pretty freakin' idiotic (although Penguin War is tempting Kev).

80* Are you a health freak: Not as much as my mother, and I don't pay attention to myself on it, but I have the potential to be yes.

81* Do you have a "Type" of person you always go after? Um...according to my past record...INSANE (unicorn, manic depressive, suicidal)

82* Do you want someone you don't have? In a way

83* Are you lonely right now: Just bored...

84* Ever afraid you'll never get married: Ha...no, it would be easy for me to get married.

85* Do you want to get married: Later

86* Do you want kids? Also...later

*IN THE LAST 48 HOURS, HAVE YOU...*

87* Cried: No

88* Bought Something: Does food count?

89* Gotten Sick: 48 hours? no...last week was pretty bad though

90* Sang: Yep...this morning

91* Said I Love You: 48 hours...yes

92* Wanted To Tell Someone You Loved them: Yes...haven't been able to though, no word.

93* Met Someone: Not...really

94* Moved On: No...I have no accepted Wash's death Kevin

95* Talked To Someone: Yes

96* Had A Serious Talk: Nope

97* Missed Someone: Yep

98* Hugged Someone: Yep

99* Had intimate relations with someone: What does that mean? but no...

100* Yelled at Someone: Nope, I rarely yell

101* Dreamed About Someone You Can't Be With: Nope

And...I'm spent

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  Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Fwa

Well...hello, another boring day at work, boss decided to stay in Greensboro for another day.

It's finally raining again, which also means that my car is going to leak again, and not just anti-freeze. Most likely need a part in Raleigh/Cary (huh...sun just came out).

More World of Warcraft, character is level 32 now...woo hoo.

I still don't realize how close Thankgiving is, hopefully it will be nice...maybe I should make a trip of Raleigh for my car and for pie concocting materials...probably a good idea actually, once again...just wish I had company for it...oh well.

Wish I was going to be 21 before I visit Moab...that way I could rent a car and drive to Denver for a weekend...but alas...I will return to Goldsboro a month before that date.

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  Monday, November 14, 2005

Back at Work

Well, there were two nice things to walk into work today after not being here for nearly a week. One, a paycheck, and two, no boss...apparently he is at some tax course in Greensboro today so it's nice to have a day of slowly getting back into things after being sick.

I was just about all better Friday, but still a little out of it and my throat still hurt. I feel great now...besides the usual tiredness of work in the morning which I will continue to solve (inefficiently) with coffee.

My boss is going to New York for Thanksgiving (to my knowledge...that could probably change easily), Sherilyn is also going to New York for Thanksgiving with her folks...I'm jealous of all these people going to New York, and I terribly want to see The Producers.

I leave for Moab in a little over a month...there will be no weekend trip(s) to Denver or Boulder to see a couple people that could not leave, just not possible. So...Moab, alone, bored, come see me.

Life is great but frustrating at the same time...

Have more ideas for portfolio, it would seem like I would have time to do something on it while sick eh? But, besides the majority of my time spent in bed, the only urge I got to work on it was at about 3:30am on Saturday (or...Sunday I guess), and at that time I was trying to tell myself to sleep.

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  Friday, November 11, 2005

Blegh
(background noise: Mississippi Fred McDowell - You Got to Move)

Well...I have officially recovered from my first sickness of the season. I'm not sure what it was, felt like a combination of bad food, sore throat, and just pain.

But...feeling much better now.

Not much to say, considering not much has happened since Tuesday. I've been in bed most of the time.

Hopefully this weekend will prove to have events that inspire eh?

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  Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Pie!

I forgot to mention, during each performance of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, I consumed half a pumkin pie...so over the course of four days, I ate two whole pies...thanks to Sandra for making me one every night. People keep asking me if I'm sick of pumkin pie now, I'm definitely not. In fact, I barely even realize I ate all that pie, since it was mostly on stage.

I want to eat more on stage, lol...

Big laughs:
- The witches (especially Ana's "Ooogly Boogly!")
- Daryl's (Hanz) "patdown" of me while I'm being mugged
- Sean's (Baltus) "spittake" when I pat him on the shoulder
- Each whipping of my students
- Slapping my hand hard with a ruler and making a small ouch sound
- When I first take a nice fork right out of my suit pocket to eat my delicious pumpkin pie
- My first scream (and all screams afterwards)
- My rabbits' feet and horseshoe (my "trinkets to ward off evil, apparently thanks to Tiffany)
- Brian's (Brom) evil laugh/cough
- Sherilyn (April) throwing a blanket on the witches to come greet me
- Richie Bam-Bam's (Oltho) and Kelly's (Rose) dance...you guys are great
- My response to the possibility of a scary story (Katrina: "Every year someone tells a scary story, would you like to tell the story?" Me: "Oh Heavens no...in fact...I don't even want to hear the story" *laughter*)
- Sherilyn's (April) "father's sword" being much too heavy for me, when she's holding it upright with one hand
- My entire interaction with the headless horseman: screaming, trying to lift the sword, my trinkets again, Reynold's (the headless horseman) blind man walking stick/sword gag, running into the tree, falling, more screaming
- Scott (The old gnarled tree)...just scott...all his movement.

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Wai...Wha?

The End...The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is officially over. We had good nights and bad...Saturday's audience was atrocious, but Friday's was absolutely excellent.

'Twas over so quickly and now already seems so far away. I'm looking back at Sleepy Hollow as I look back on Wizard of Oz...that's how far away it seems.

CST has lots of little offerings here and there for things to do until the next production. We are most likely going to do a Christmas float in the parade, which I may help out with. The airforce base wants us to do a dinner theatre specifically for them...which...I probably wouldn't be able to help out with unfortunately. Speaking of the next production, it will be Death of a Salesman. Here's the bad part...auditions are about 3 days before I get back from my Moab trip...so I talked to Cathy (who has now been announced as the director) about maybe auditioning early before I leave...even though that would be 3 weeks before they announced parts...

After that is Music Man, which more and more people are wanting me to do...I'll look into it, and I need to watch the movie.

Yay for Sandman in Spiderman 3...can't wait...although it comes out in 2007...so...yeah...waiting.

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  Friday, November 04, 2005

PSP Advance

So there's this new program called PSP Advance. It promises full media compatibility with the PSP i.e. the ability to play .AVI .MPEG1 .MPEG2 .MP3 .MOV with DIVX and XVID codecs. This would be great considering most of my media collection is not in the nativ .MP4 format the PSP requires.

I will have to try this program later when I have some time, since I am at work. Unfortunately their website doesn't point out some major things about the program and doesn't provide any screenshots besides a couple slanted ones in their logo and such. The biggest question I have is: does this program allow the files to be played directly off the PSP? or do you need to be connected to your PC via a WI-FI connection to play them?

Another interesting thing about this program is that it appears to be a sort of filesharing network as well...able to download .MP3s and such from other users...but once again...I have to figure out how the hell it works later. Maybe I'll try to view this "How To" guide on their site...if it ever loads.

Sony also released it's PSP Media Manager software which is long overdue, but nice it seems. Hopefully Christmas time will mark some sort of release of interesting add-ons for the PSP...hopefully.

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Opening Night

Opening night went well...the audience was few and far between, and kind of dead...but we warmed them up a bit before the show ended, and I got a few good laughs.

No major screw-ups, had to repeat myself once or twice...and I hate that the daughters' names are Katrina and Kristina...so easy to mix and match incorrectly...but oh well...

Another show tonight of course...we'll see, it's fun...much better with an audience.

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  Thursday, November 03, 2005

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Tonight is opening night of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow...which, for those of you who don't know (most of you do), I am Ichabod Crane in.

'Tis tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday at 8PM and Sunday at 3PM at Herman Park Center.

Car...back in my possession...don't really know...no problems right now.

Catey is back in town, along with her husband...woo hoo best cousin ever. Speaking of...wish I could have made it to Raleigh to see Jonathan and Death Cab for Cutie last week...but I didn't have any company, and it was a week before opening night, so I needed to be at rehearsal (which I have officially missed NONE of). Well...wish me luck...as I have actually heard more than "break a leg" today...

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  Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Sleepy

Oooh...sleepy.

Thanks for the call back last night Zack...I just...kind of was just passing out in bed when you called.

Kevin...call me before...tomorrow, if you can.

Must find out the status of my car, still don't have it back. Should have it today I would imagine, if not...then...I'll get it back anyway and deal with the problem, since they don't know what it is anyway.

Ugh...it's only Wednesday, although the rest of the week should go by quickly.

Opening night is tomorrow...woo hoo!

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  Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Serenity

Since my reply to Zack's comment on Serenity started to get lengthy, I decided to just post it:

I never saw Firefly, but I've seen small amounts of Buffy and Angel and despised them...that was my reasoning for not expecting much from this movie...as I said, I expected fun, but not an impressive movie.

But I really was impressed, the music was perfect, the dialog was quick and witty, and never seemed awkward. Also, shortly into the movie, I realized that the entire first sequence of the interior of the "boat" is a Master Shot...no cuts whatsoever, just continuous dialog and acting...plus I'm sure some extra hard camera work (never realized how hard some of these moving camera shots are, with tracks, and cranes, keeping it all smooth...watching the commentary on Little Shop of Horrors made me realize a little because Frank Oz was talking about using a crane, on a crane, on a track...lol).

Much of it also reminded me of a live action version of many good anime series I've seen...Captain Mal definitely reminded me of the main character, Gene Starwind, in Outlaw Star, course...his pistol looked almost exactly the same...

I only have two complaints, both of which are kind of spoilers...just wondering why a certain person had to die, and why the devil Mal didn't aim for the guy's head when he whipped out his pistol.

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Secrets

I really wish I could type everything in my head right now. The thoughts are quite plentiful and exhilarating. Unfortunately, due to the readers of my blog...I cannot express them openly and can only tell a select few...or...barely anyone in fact. If things go how I want, then eventually it will not be a problem.

I am quite happy right now, although tired...and at work.

Once again The Legend of Sleepy Hollow opens this Thursday, the 3rd. Last night definitely confirmed that it was a Monday as I had not run my lines all weekend and forgot a couple of them, but simply tried to keep moving and tried to shrug it off. Even if it is three days before we open, I don't have a problem with someone spacing on one line or two because it's been four days since even considering them. Tonight...no excuses though.

I am kind of ready to have some time on weekdays again, to relax, be utterly lazy, and hopefully do some more graphics and webwork. Unfortunately, this probably does mean I'll see Sherilyn less, since I mostly see her at rehearsal every night.

My car is still at T&M Foreign Cars, they can't find the problem, and haven't encountered the same problems as I have. Fortunately one of the problems happened when I arrived at their shop, so...they know it's there. It's kind of odd to bring them the key to the car, and then bring them outside to a car that's still running...when the key is in their hand. Unfortunately this means I have to depend on other transportation...mostly involving getting rides...

Moab in another month and a half, I don't want to go.

Thanksgiving in about three weeks...should I do the turkey again this year? Another pie? mmm...pie...

Speaking of mmm...I need to drink this coffee. I also want some sort of expresso maker so I can learn how to make good coffee, but have a lack of funds to purchase one.

I hope today goes quickly.

Quicknote to Kevin, I love you, I miss you, I wish I could be around for you. If you can't come down to Moab at any point while I'm there, I will come see you at least for a couple days...course I have no way of knowing when or if you'll read this (I hope you keep somewhat up to date on my blog). I wish there was more I could do for you, but I really don't know where to start. Hang in there Kev. The only reasons I even accepted this trip to Moab was the possibility of seeing you and Lisa, course I'd love to see a couple others as well...

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