Currents of Time

Squeenix, wtf are you even doing to this poor game? I mean, good on them for admitting that Eorzea needs serious, serious work (they really released it entirely too early), and I am pleasantly surprised they are going so far as to continue to not charge people for it, but... come on, this is hilarious.


I went and saw Megamind earlier this week. It was so, so much better than I thought it was going to be! (It was more of a process of elimination than any of us wanting to see it. The planning went -> We're bored, so let's do something -> ooh, movie! -> what is showing -> those sound stupid -> Megamind it is!) So I was just like, oh, whee, another supervillain redemption-whatever movie, but then it was amazing and I loved it, and also the characters were great (and! I really liked how they handled the girl / designated damsel in distress, but explaining why is, you know, full of spoilers, so not now). Highly recommend seeing it, if you get a chance!



AND NOW WORK AGGRAVATION I was bothered by a rude old man at work and it was annoying. And then he ran crying to management before I could offer to figure something out for him. He wanted icing put on some doughnuts, which, uh. I've never seen icing on the type he wanting it put on, so after figuring out what it was he even wanted - BE CLEAR DAMN IT - I started to explain to him that I'd never heard of such a thing, and that while I in no way did not believe that he'd had it done before (he kept insisting that THEY DO IT FOR HIM ALL THE TIIIIME because, yeah, no one who says that is ever lying...), I couldn't just run off and do it, and I didn't even get that far, much less get into my offering to track down a manager and ask them about it. OH NO, WE NEED TO GO FILE A COMPLAINT. I think the person he dragged over understood that I wasn't trying to make a fuss, but, still. Unamused. And going to talk to my department manager tomorrow, just in case.



... huh. I've just gone through my list of tags (trying to remember how I phrased one, and I don't remember all of these. Are people actually creating/adding tags to some entries, or am I just loosing my mind?

For those of you who like going to movies or whatall, today (September 23^rd), in movie theaters all over the place, they're doing a special showing of The Wizard of Oz! They are calling it "The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Hi-Def Event" and if they are showing it in Burlington, Vermont, they are probably showing it somewhere near you.

I've been meaning to make this post for two weeks now (since I found out and subsequently had to buy tickets for my entire family). Whoops. >_<;

DISCLAIMER: I’m not even trying to claim this was a quality film. It’s not artistic and it doesn’t have some deeper meaning. But I enjoy it, anyway! I know it has problems, but I think it’s a fun film! You are fully welcome to disagree with me! You can even inform me of that, and you are, of course, free to ask me to explain anything in this post (or not in this post) that you want. But kindly don’t tell me I’m an idiot for enjoying it.

And. I’m sick or something (headache verging on migraine yesterday, my throat is ruined today…), so I’m really not sure if this is half as coherent as it seems to me. Sorry!

( Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen )

And this is where I’m stopping, because this is way too long as is and it’s late and I’m tired and not feeling well (and a little bit loopy on decongestants). SO THERE.

I am officially in the GOING TO MEXICO IN JANUARY class! \o/ (I will gladly buy trinkets for / send postcards to people while there!)

For now, though, I am bored and miserably hot. My mother's run off again, and my wrist hurts but it's way too warm to wear the support for it. Some days I desperately wish we had air conditioning. If it were not so gross out, I'd probably do something. Instead, I am typing on LJ and being boooored. The only thing keeping me from ruining my brain on more Supernatural is the knowledge that if I blast through season 3, then I'll have nothing but schoolwork to entertain me until who-knows-when. (Actually, if I continue at my pace of one episode a day, I'll finish on the day before season 4 starts, but whether or not I'll be watching it as it airs... well... that depends entirely on how many shows my father is recording this time around.)

Oh, hey, right, so, I finally got around to seeing The DRK Dark Knight.

( Spoilers, though everyone's seen it by now, anyway )

Also: FFXI version update is MONDAY. WHY NOT TODAY? I am so excited for it! Though Monday is a bit annoying in that I'll be at classes all afternoon. Jazz dancing and then dissection of sheep eyeballs, and if that isn't a startling and abrupt change of tone then I don't really know what is.

Anyway, mostly this means I can't update until 10 at night and it might take a while. Hopefully it'll finish before midnight so I can go to bed on time. COUNTING CHICKENS BEFORE THEY HATCH? CHECK.

I am recovering now from almost 48 hours of little creatures with pickaxes living in my brain and trying to convince me to kill myself by splitting my skull open to let them out.

oh god.

So much pain.

But I'm feeling much better now! The world has mostly stopped spinning, the little pickax-possessing creatures got fed up and left, and now I'm mostly just tired. (The tiredness is from sleeping too much, since the only time I was comfortable was when I was horizontal, and I fall asleep while in that position.) Freaking headaches, man, I dunno....


My brother went to see The Dark Knight, and he said he liked the guy playing Bruce but didn't like the guy playing Batman (dur, typed it backwards originally), and was incredibly surprised when my mother informed him that... it was the same guy playing them. Which is kind of weird. I don't know, I haven't had time to go see it yet. Right now my parents are going to see the new X-Files movie, which maybe I will watch when it comes out on DVD or something, I don't know.


Apparently the first episode of the next season of Heroes was shown at SDCC. I suppose that means it is time to put my dancing shoes on and pull out some good luck charms, if I want to remain spoiler-free until, what, September?


Someone at the Allakhazam forums linked to an archive of the FFXI-remixes I linked a while back, so now I have MOAR NOISE. Glee! (If you're so inclined. I am especially fond of "The View From Above Vana'diel", which is a remix of the airship music. His - her? - non-FFXI stuff, or some of it, I certainly haven't listened to it all, is pretty good, too, actually.)

EDIT:
OH MAN. I forgot the best part! They've announced the dates for this year's Summerfest Sunbreeze Festival! August first through the eighteenth, but that's not important. The name, though... "Fantastic Fraulein Mumor Superheroine Stage Show" seriously, SquareEnix. SERIOUSLY.

I cannot breathe, I am laughing so hard.

"Because your smiles of happiness are worth fighting for!"

So now we've had direct Dragonball Z and Pokémon references (probably others, too, really, but can't think of anything immediately)... think this is Sailor Moon?

Edit 2:
My father has just now decided to shorten my name even more. A nick-nickname? I don't know. I don't think I like it. It's the s on the end that really annoys me, I think.

I am surprised that The Golden Compass beat both Transformers and Pirates: AWE for visual effects. Seriously?


Seriously?


(Edit: and The Bourne Ultimatum won both sound editing and sound mixing. This also surprises me! Most of the other categories haven't surprised me, either because I agree or because I haven't seen enough of the nominees to have any real opinion, but whatever. Yes, I am aware that all three of these confusing-to-me wins are categories Transformers was nominated for. No, I don't think Transformers should have won everything. My parents are surprised, too. Though perhaps Bourne won so much because it's the third and there won't be any more and they need to recognize it or ... something.)


New subject! Work's about to become even worse. Yesterday was the last day for one of our long-time employees. She quit because of the idiocy our manager displays. I've been convinced for a while that, as soon as we lost one person, others would begin to follow. Today, two others were discussing leaving, as well. One of them has a second job all ready, and the other's gone part time, anyway. I know at least one other person had to get a second job after being refused enough hours.

I used to really like my job, but since the change, I've begun to hate it. If too many of them leave, I'll probably follow. Sometimes I think the only thing that really keeps me going back in again is the knowledge that I will, hopefully, be out of there by the end of the year, anyway. ONLY TEN MORE MONTHS.

She's destroying the department.

I apologize for the subject line. It was the punch line of a painful joke told by one of my psychology professors a few years back and has never quite left my brain.

(If you don't get it, maybe try saying it out loud. Minor word play.)

Watched Session 9 and am going to talk about it now, though only a little.

( Here there be spoilers. )

The ending made me very sad. Alas! I still liked it a lot though. It was rather Silent Hill-y.

Edit:
Added a few more comments under the cut.

Cat seems okay so far. He was brought back home yesterday (he was stressing and the vet said it'd be better for him to be somewhere familiar) and was walking mostly normally, my brother said. One hind leg was still a little "off" - I guess he had a limp or something. Anyway! Very glad for that. The cat's owners have been calling here a lot the last few days, understandably. Stupid embolism, ruining their vacation and nearly killing their cat.

( And then she talked about Transformers again. -or- Fandom, /please/, I'm begging you. )

Perhaps one of the best indications of changing weather patterns occurred yesterday. We had a tornado warning. What?

Vermont. Had a tornado warning. WHAT?

Also, there's a possibility of snow on the mountains tonight. *boggles*


I am considering buying a notebook! Not for writing, I have about ten thousand of those. No, no, it is a letter notebook! No one wants me to write letters to them, so I have resorted to writing them to myself. I do not mail them, obviously, it's just that I really like writing letters but have no one to send most of them to. I am aware of how utterly pathetic this makes me. Oh, well.


Saw again somewhere that Life on Mars is going to be adapted by David E. Kelley. Not too unhappy with that, since he does some good stuff, actually. Still, it'll be really, really weird for Sam and Gene to not be John Simm and Philip Glenister.

So! My brother got home last night, yay! Today I proposed we go see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and at first he and Mom protested because they were under the impression that it was opening tonight (by which I mean, at midnight on the twenty-sixth. I have no idea how they got this idea).

Once I corrected them (look, if Yahoo and Essex Cinema's site say it's playing, it's playing), Mom said she'd pick up tickets, as she had to go to the store, anyway. Evening rolls around, we (well, actually, my brother decided not to come, so it was just my parents) got in the car, headed off... we got there fifteen minutes early and were directed to auditorium 6, where Spiderman 3 was playing, at which point Mom actually looked at the tickets and saw, oops. We're still not sure how that one happened. So we saw Spiderman 3 and then caught Pirates right after it. I am thoroughly movied out.

( Anyway. Here there be spoilers. )

Downside is, though, now I am very, very tired.