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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
In case you're wondering how I spend my time at school, have a look at one of my assignments due today:  Tuesday, April 29, 2003
So I have a midterm next Tuesday and a paper (project?) due a week from Thursday. Man this college thing is getting tiresome! Monday, April 28, 2003
Well, I may have forgotten to bring my camera to Disneyland on Friday, but I didn't forget it when I went to Universal Studios on Saturday! Here's a little photo I took as I was leaving: 
Recognize the reference? If not, look here. What really boggled my mind was that this film was put out by TriStar, not Universal! Sunday, April 27, 2003
Ok, so I was an idiot and left my camera at home on Friday. Therefore, to take pics at Club 33, I had to go to the nearest gift shop and pay their inflated prices for a disposable camera. This means it'll be a while before I show any pics. Thursday, April 24, 2003
Tomorrow my parents and I are going to Club 33 in Disneyland. It's the only place in the park where they serve alcohol! I've actually been there once before, but I was about 8 at the time, so I don't remember much of it. And yeah, I plan on taking pics. Wednesday, April 23, 2003
Boy, this is really depressing. That once thriving, robust online Gen 13 community has all but dried up. I remember surfing around in 96? 97? and seeing Gen 13 fansites everywhere! Go ahead, look at the links of the few pages that remain; most of them will be dead. I guess it's sort of a testament to the impermanence of the internet. But maybe all those creative changes to the book really did kill off all interest... Tuesday, April 22, 2003
Well, I think I've finally gotten my college burnout for the year. I really want school to be over! No more classes, no more papers, no more tests!! I don't know what it is, but I never felt like this back at Troy. Maybe it was because I still lived at home, could access friends whenever I liked, didn't have to worry about finding an apartment or getting a job... God, I miss those days. Senior year, my biggest concern was if I could stay as long as possible rehearsing for the plays. On the plus side, I think I managed to hold out on burning out a little longer than last year. I really hate to say it, but it's almost as if I have no friends down here. It's largely my fault, I know, but nobody ever seems to want to hang out. (Of course, I'm almost always gone on the weekends, but the weekends I have spent at school I've been bored out of my mind.) A lot of times I wonder why I didn't put in my letter of intent to UCI, where I think I'd probably have been happier. Then I remember: they didn't have the stinkin' major I wanted! Monday, April 21, 2003
Saturday, April 19, 2003
Well, it's a small comfort when you discover people generally have the same mind about something as you do, especially something as trivial as, say, Gen 13. Yeah, we're back to this old sack of potatoes again. I'm really having a hard time finding much I like about this book, possibly more so than the Gary Frank / John Arcudi run (and that's saying a lot!) It's been months since I last reported on this title, and there's still apparently no real explained connection with the previous Gen 13 book. I've heard sales are plummeting, which hopefully means some (better) revamps (dare I hope for the original status quo??). This new book has a nice team, but it's just not Gen 13. (Hell, Fairchild even seems like a different person!) I'll probably stick around for a while, though; I'm dumb like that. I just keep hoping against hope that somewhere along the way, Gen 13 will get better agin. Friday, April 18, 2003
My parents and I saw Bulletproof Monk today. I thought it was pretty enjoyable, worth the price of admission. (Which is, for me, free due to some extenuating circumstances which I won't get in to here :-D). Oh yeah, Jaime King is hot! Thursday, April 17, 2003
Well, I got just about everything applicable I could from my short time alotted at the Off-Campus Housing Fari today. Now begins the long, painful process of finding a place to stay next year! Wednesday, April 16, 2003
I just have to say it: I find myself disagreeing with my "Hard Look at the Movies" professor on just about everything he has to say, and I don't even know why... Tuesday, April 15, 2003
So today's weather is bright and sunny, a far cry from the dismal torrent of incessant rain that was yesterday. Sunday was also bright and sunny. Screwy California weather. Monday, April 14, 2003
Holy Crap. It is not fun to drive 90 miles in this pouring rain. It was hard enough trying to make out the car in front of me. I don't even remember the number of times my car briefly lost traction and swerved on that drive. That wasn't a drive I'm looking forward to repeating any time soon. Friday, April 11, 2003
Ahh, Friday: that day of the week that doesn't feel like a work day, whether you work or not. Lucky for me, I don't! I'm not doing much right now, and I'm enjoying every minute of it. Thursday, April 10, 2003
The Off-Campus Housing Fair is in a week. The guy I plan on rooming with has work during the entire time the fair runs, and I only have about 20 minutes to look around before I have class. Guess I'll just be picking up the brochures and checking later, huh? Wednesday, April 09, 2003
Wow, I already finished reading The Return of the King. That's the fastest turn-around of the three LotR books I read. Of course, I've shied away from the appendices at the moment, since they seem rather dull, but I know they do seem to enhance some of the less well-known subplots. And man, Peter Jackson has a lot to cover if he wants to finish up his story in a 3 hour film. ( A 3 hour film! The ship set sail-wait, I'm going off on a tangent here..) Some thoughts on the first two books and their contemporary movie counterparts: I really like how Fellowship was adapted for the movie. Even though there's no Tom Bombadil and a lot of changes, I think they fit very well for the time and detail a film could allow. The Two Towers is almost as great, but there are two chief things I have issues with: the Ents, especially Treebeard, don't seem to act much like they do in the book (i.e., the Ents did decide to go to war at the moot, Huorns are nowhere to be seen), and that's a shame. Secondly, the characterization of Faramir is all wrong. The movie really vilifies him and makes him more sinister than his brother, Boromir, when in the book, he's much more like Aragorn: a man of good character and understanding. And this plays even more heavily in the third book so we'll have to see how this plays out in the next movie. Tuesday, April 08, 2003
Aybody else already ready for the end of the school year? Seriously, who really gives as much effort to Spring Quarter that they do to Fall or Winter? Monday, April 07, 2003
Well, I'm back at school, and I just finished reading The Two Towers. I don't expect to start Return of the King tonight, since I have to do some rather boring school reading now... Friday, April 04, 2003
I'm home alone for the weekend. My parents are off to Arizona for a few days, and I'm here to watch the dog. So I've got two full days ahead of me with all the freedom I could want (or not). So.... any ladies wanna visit? (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.) Thursday, April 03, 2003
A little bit of good news: it looks like I've gotten into my wait-listed acting class, and I should finish reading Fellowship by tonight. Oh yeah, it's already the weekend for me! Woo-hoo! Wednesday, April 02, 2003
Ok, so I got back to UCSD Monday afternoon. But guess what? My internet still hasn't been reconnected by ResNet! Arrrgghh! The earliest they can do it is this afternoon, when they send someone down. How efficient... I've started reading some Tolkien. On Sunday and a little of Monday I read The Hobbit. Now I'm more than halfway through The Fellowship of the Ring. But boy, it looks like he wrote a lot about Middle-earth! |
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