... so hurry up and get here
May. 28th, 2005 12:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
enthusiastickThe internet is totally less entertaining on weekends, mostly because I'm the only person who checks/updates his livejournal and e-mail at midday on Saturday. But what can I say? I do. And speaking of it being Saturday, I must give a shout out to all my friends in the 60201 area code. Happy Dillo Day, kids. Drink one for me.
Let's see... since last we left our hero (that'd be me) I've graduated from my Kaplan training and am now a full-fledged teacher. Sort of. I'm not really a full-fledged teacher until I've taught a course. But all of that seems unbearably complicated and joblike, much too difficult to think about right now. So instead let me simply bask in the glory of having accomplished anything at all.
Also on Wednesday, my baby sister turned 17. Hooray for Allie! One of these years her age will mean I virtually have to stop referring to her as my baby sister. People will get the wrong idea. But hopefully not any time soon.
Last night I went out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sleetfall to a place called Jillian's in Fenway. Its basically an expansive bar & game parlor; apparently there's even a bowling alley upstairs, although we didn't get a chance to check it out. Definitely seems like my kind of place. We shot three or four games of pool. I didn't win any of them, because I'm exceedingly rusty, but we had a good time anyway. I even got past the buzzing stage towards actually drunk (I fell down on the train ride home), which I haven't had opportunity to do in a while. Then we made the mistake of ordering food when we finished playing pool. The food was pretty crappy.
Walking to and from Jillian's, as well as just around Brighton, it was beautiful out yesterday. After all this cold and rain and misery, it was actually a halfway decent day. Still cloudy, but warm enough that the train ride home was uncomfortably muggy. And I was actually happy about that, because I'm sick of the rain. Its even looking like a nice day out today -- they're predicting highs in the upper 70s. Craziness. Could May finally be here? (NB: No, its going to rain again soon. But a man can dream.)
Augh... in completely unrelated news, they totally opened up another set of preview-screenings of Serenity, twice as big as the first. And because I resist giving my life wholly over to geekdom I did not know about it until it was much too late. There's even a showing in Manchester, damnit. I mean, ultimately, I would be torn about going to a preview. I want to anticipate this movie until September when everyone can have a chance to see it. And god forbid these massive showings turn out to be test screenings, and they change some things between now and then. I guess that's unlikely, but... nyeh. I'm kind of OK with not having a ticket, I just would have liked to know.
I'm headed out to Cape Cod tomorrow with my sister Sarah for the traditional family get-together and celebration of my mother's birthday (Allison had the unmitigated gall to be born just a few days before that.) I will likely be out of touch during that period, but I don't anticipate missing too much as I imagine everyone else will be enjoying their three-day weekend, too. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for freakish weather realignment leading to a resumption of our regularly scheduled Spring, OK?
Let's see... since last we left our hero (that'd be me) I've graduated from my Kaplan training and am now a full-fledged teacher. Sort of. I'm not really a full-fledged teacher until I've taught a course. But all of that seems unbearably complicated and joblike, much too difficult to think about right now. So instead let me simply bask in the glory of having accomplished anything at all.
Also on Wednesday, my baby sister turned 17. Hooray for Allie! One of these years her age will mean I virtually have to stop referring to her as my baby sister. People will get the wrong idea. But hopefully not any time soon.
Last night I went out with
sleetfall to a place called Jillian's in Fenway. Its basically an expansive bar & game parlor; apparently there's even a bowling alley upstairs, although we didn't get a chance to check it out. Definitely seems like my kind of place. We shot three or four games of pool. I didn't win any of them, because I'm exceedingly rusty, but we had a good time anyway. I even got past the buzzing stage towards actually drunk (I fell down on the train ride home), which I haven't had opportunity to do in a while. Then we made the mistake of ordering food when we finished playing pool. The food was pretty crappy.Walking to and from Jillian's, as well as just around Brighton, it was beautiful out yesterday. After all this cold and rain and misery, it was actually a halfway decent day. Still cloudy, but warm enough that the train ride home was uncomfortably muggy. And I was actually happy about that, because I'm sick of the rain. Its even looking like a nice day out today -- they're predicting highs in the upper 70s. Craziness. Could May finally be here? (NB: No, its going to rain again soon. But a man can dream.)
Augh... in completely unrelated news, they totally opened up another set of preview-screenings of Serenity, twice as big as the first. And because I resist giving my life wholly over to geekdom I did not know about it until it was much too late. There's even a showing in Manchester, damnit. I mean, ultimately, I would be torn about going to a preview. I want to anticipate this movie until September when everyone can have a chance to see it. And god forbid these massive showings turn out to be test screenings, and they change some things between now and then. I guess that's unlikely, but... nyeh. I'm kind of OK with not having a ticket, I just would have liked to know.
I'm headed out to Cape Cod tomorrow with my sister Sarah for the traditional family get-together and celebration of my mother's birthday (Allison had the unmitigated gall to be born just a few days before that.) I will likely be out of touch during that period, but I don't anticipate missing too much as I imagine everyone else will be enjoying their three-day weekend, too. Let's all keep our fingers crossed for freakish weather realignment leading to a resumption of our regularly scheduled Spring, OK?
