05.30.05
Memorial Weekend
I spent the holiday weekend in New York. We did a lot of eating, laughing, and being silly. My sister and I hung out with Tin and Ate Noreen too - we all grew up on the same street. It was a lot of fun. Better yet, I can look forward to hanging out with them again next weekend to hike Mt. Monadnock! Yay!!!
Here are our pictures. Just view the album without signing in.
I have a video of them singing You’re the Inspiration while we were eating at a Filipino restaurant. I’ll put it up once I figure out how to. But yeah, we were one of the loud, annoying tables. It was fun.
05.26.05
Office Space
I can understand why they make movies like Office Space and tv shows like The Office. The shows are funny, but man, if you’re in it, it’s really not that funny.
Oh, don’t I miss the pizza, and the cramped sweat shop room at Argosy. I never did get my birthday cake. I would’ve asked for chocolate fudge cake. Bah.
05.23.05
Wormholes are useless
I read an article titled “Wormhole ‘no use’ for time travel“. Aww, and I had JUST seen this awesome movie** (written and directed by Richard Kelly) that involved time travel.
**I took out the movie title so as not to ruin the ending. For those who read the post with the title, sorry, didn’t mean to ruin the ending!
05.22.05
Active Bum
I spent most of Saturday morning biking. I tested out paved bike trails, but also went to the unpaved old-railroad tracks trail. I don’t know how many miles I did but I was out for at least 4 hours, with breakfast worked in there somewhere in between. I had so much more fun at the unpaved trails that before I heading home, I stopped by a camping site to bike through trees and rough terrain. By bum hurts today though. But it was great! I’m sure I’ll be doing much more of that soon. At least it’s not like running where I have to force myself to do it. I found biking actually fun. I know you probably get more exercise with running but I think 2 hours of pleasurable biking was just as beneficial if not more so that 20 minutes of miserable running.
I’ll have to get a bike for myself though. Sarah let me borrow hers to see how I would like the mountain bike. At least now I know for sure I’m getting a mountain bike rather than a hybrid. They had me over for dinner last Friday night. I finally had something to do on a Friday night here in Keene. Yay!
So after all that exercise, I was pretty tired. After doing a few chores, I just hung out at home, cooked, and then watched Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle. My favorite scene is when they sing (and I sang along with them): “Some day somebody’s gonna make you want to turn around and say goodbye, until then baby are you going to let them hold you down and make you cry? Don’t you know? Don’t you know things can change, things’ll go your way if you hold on for one more day…” Yeah, Wilson Phillips. Sweet.
Today I saw Donnie Darko and Almost Famous. I saw the latter one last, so I remember more about it than Donnie Darko. Best line: “The only true currency in this bankrupt world… is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” That’s for you, TB!
05.16.05
I love Wes Anderson
I’ve seen Life Aquatic 2 times now, in 3 days. I liked the movie the first time I saw it, but I appreciated it a lot more the second time. I’m sure I’ll pick up a lot more details after watching it again, but I’ll give it a rest for now. It’s definitely worth having. The DVD extras give you a chance to see everyone in action and hear about what they think about their characters and the other actors. Everyone was amazing in this movie. Bill Murray played himself. I couldn’t tell him from Steve Zissou. It’s as if after retiring from diving, he went to Japan to promote whiskey, or whatever it was he was doing a commercial for in Lost in Translation.
Ooh, trivia: The pirates? They’re filipino! BUT they were being ordered around by some maybe Chinese (the accent was unclear). They were saying the right words and the translations were amazingly correct too! This is in contrast to Big Fish (I love this movie too!), the ventriloquist was supposed to be Vietnamese, but was speaking in Filipino, talking to his dummy about sweating and peeing in his pants.
05.15.05
Watch out world (wide web)!
My face should be up on our website soon! I’ve had 2 photoshoots already and the pictures turned out pretty good. The first one took 45 minutes, the next one took about 40. In both times, we all had to be uncomfortably close together. The first scene was set up as a product demonstration/training with 3 people involved. Our faces were literally 5 inches from each other. Good thing we had some mints. Seriously.
I was so nervous and uncomfortable, I was cracking jokes left and right and I was giggling for 20 minutes. One of my friends was worried because I wasn’t stopping and the director lady was looking at me when she said it was time to get serious. But they got some good shots, so they called me back for another one.
For the second time, it was just me and Dan and our faces were even closer together and we had to look at each other! They were even thinking of having me sit on his lap, but they found a box I could sit on on top of a chair. Geez.
Funny thing is, it doesn’t look that close in the pictures and it looks so candid and natural. I can’t wait to see the final photos.
It was fun and I got two free meals out of it, so it was worth it. Woo! Food!
WordPress 1.5.1
Ugh. I have to update my wordpress. I still get spam trackbacks. Don’t they know that nobody reads my site? But the upgrading procedure seems so complicated. Plus there’s TB’s upgrade which rendered his template useless. I’ve gotten used to mine and don’t really want to look for another one. Oh well. One of these days, I’ll do it.
05.12.05
Marlborough trail. This trail is SMOKIN’!!!
I hiked up Mount Monadnock today! It was my first hike EVER and we happened to pick the toughest trail to the summit of Mt. Monadnock. It was more of rock climbing than hiking. It was a steep incline with mostly going over rocks. It took about an hour and a half to get to the top, stayed there for 30, and started down. Going down was tough. There was a lot of butt sliding, trying to wear down my gool ol’ cheapo Old Navy’s.
At least now I understand the whole, the-view-is-worth-it thing. Maybe it was all the huffing and puffing, or all the adrenalin, but it was pretty amazing up there. Two of my friends said they might’ve seen Boston or Worcester, they weren’t sure.
Up the summit, we met and chatted with the only two dudes who hiked up on such a windy day. I had some of their beef jerky and they had some of our chocolate chip cookies.
Pictures will be up soon.
05.10.05
Outdoors
Didn’t have enough people to play ultimate today. But it was too nice of a day and GS was so anxious to get out he was giving me a hard time for cancelling the game. So we went out to practice our throws and catches. Now, aside from the Backhand, I can do the Thumber, and the Overhand Wrist Flip. I tried catching it from behind a couple of times but couldn’t do it. At least I was able to do one-handed catches a few times. I’ve been doing the pancake catch since we started ultimate and that doesn’t work when most of everyone you play with is taller than you and can jump.
When I couldn’t run anymore, he got his volleyball and we practiced bouncing. I didn’t do too bad, contrary to what I was expecting. At one point we were passing it for maybe 6-8 times back and forth. That’s way better than I’ve ever done. But then again, GS can run really fast, so saying I did better than I used to isn’t saying much. We played until I surrendered. My lungs were coming out of my mouth trying to get more air. But it was a good exercise. It saves me from having to go on the treadmill later. Tomorrow there’s dancing, and on Thursday, Mount Monadnock. Yessssss!!!!!
