Sometimes I guess it'w worth it to give quiet people a second chance.

This new(ish) guy at work for the past 3 weeks hasn't really said much to any of us, and he is the type that basically gives you the one work answers or nods.
So after making 2 attempts to befriend him, I sorta just gave up and didn't say much to him, and that was that.

Well, for some reason today he talked to me more than he really talked to anyone at work, and he approached me first, which I thought was kind of cool considering he doesn't approach anyone.

I could tell he thought I was annoying at first, but then I guess he learned that I'm really not "loud" because I want attention, but I'm "loud" because I have a lot to say about a lot to say.

Either way, it was cool because he felt the same way about certain thing about our store, and saw the whole managers picking favorites. But I felt kind of good about my self that he talked to me more than he has really talked to anyone. Go me.

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While driving on the parkway this evening on the way to work, a huge storm came and the sky rapidly turned black and the temp. dropped a lot. It was so beautiful.

3 more days til Richy comes back (Saturday)

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ugh, as soon as i try and be happy i get a shitty week.
1. richy's gone til saturday...i haven't spoken to him since last saturday.
2. i'm fed up with work, i really want to quit.
3. it's so hot, and it makes cleaning my house 10x harder.
4. my computer is still broken, and cns thinks they could possibly have it for another week...
5. no one is available to make plans, and the people that are seem to blow me off for something else.
6. my face broke out for the first time in like... a whole year.
7. i have been getting little sleep, and when i do i keep having really awful dreams.
8. i don't eat anything, and i apparently gained weight.

i am trying to be productive this week, but it hasn't been working...i cant do any serious photography really since my computer is down, i cant make clothes since i have no fabrics or have time and money to go out and buy some, i can't make any art work since when i get home i have to take on other reponsabilities, and i have been working a lot, but not enough.

i was supposed to go to the beach today, but that didn't happen.
i'm not feeling this week AT ALL. and the heat has GOT TO GO.

on a positive spin however, i did get a few clothes a few days ago, which are super cute, and a bad ass pair of sneakers that were cheap.

i might clean the bathroom in a little bit. but im so fucking sick and tired of cleaning.

R.I.P. Estelle Getty.

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my computer is broken and will probably be down for the rest of the week, which sucks major league ass.

the heat is getting worse and worse. i can't wait until the winter when i can wear my more fierce clothing and not have to worry about sweating or feeling over heated.
it makes me want to move away from here, like to canada or iceland where it isn't usually warm. if it were up to me i would eliminate the summer completely and make it warm only when i wanted to go to the beach.

i also think that working in retail warps your brain. lately i simply just have no attention span...my mood changes from one extreme to the next...it's quite strange. sometimes as work..2 hours will pass and i won't remember any of it...even like customer interactions. it's as if i am becoming a robot. even though i have been hit on multiple times by customers over the past two days, it still does'nt give me a good enough reason to return...it's basically the money.


im going to try and stop caring about stupid things...and voice my opinion only when i feel really strong about something, rather than luke warm. people who are quiet seem to have an easier time getting around in life, so i am gonna give it a try.

my fucking computer is broken...again.

i hate ibm.

Ben and Sara and Marisa and I went to see The Dark Knight at 12:01AM tonight. I haven't done a 12:01 since Revenge of the Sith (though I have done a couple of midnight revivals) and though I only slept for six-and-change hours I was pretty much wide-open riveted the entire time. OK, once in awhile the dialogue (which I thought sounded great in the trailer) gets a little too on-the-nose with its themes. But man does this movie actually move. Two and a half hours fly by; it just builds and builds and builds. I feel like the Empire Strikes Back comparison is tossed around a lot to overhype sequels, but I get the comparison here. It's like Empire Strikes Back meets the intercut climax of Return of the Jedi, but for two and a half hours.

Hmm, maybe I am overhyping it.

It's a really really good movie. Fans will be pleased. Fans of Batman, fans of Nolan, fans of Ledger, fans of movies.

I'll discuss more when I get back from New England.

I should probably go to bed now.

I'm fucking on vacation. In less than six hours, I'm going to see The Dark Knight with a bunch of crazies. Then I go home, sleep, wake up, and blow town.

Life is good.

The impetus for blowing town is homolinus and darhoratio's wedding. This calls for a mix cd.

( Somebody's Getting Married )

so today i started to be less debbie downer..

last night i did a big clean up in my room, which wasn't really needed...but i do it a lot because i am a bit ocd with having an immaculate and hip looking room.
i also went thru over 150 cds of mine...i have a cd tower...and 4 ikea storage boxes full of cds. though i don't listen to them anymore, i still keep them because 1. i spent good money on them and 2. i just dont have the heart to rid of them just yet.

i also moved my dresser...a whopping 3 feet to the left...but i also got rid of this ugly green DORM ROOM CHAIR (YUCK) which looked so bad in my room...so now i can't really sit in my favorite part of my room because now my sculpture lies in the spot, but at least i know that the ugly green chair is gone.
it did however snap on my finger and pierce it horrible. My whole finger print is an ugly blood blister and it's so ugly.

this morning i continued a little bit more with my room. then...i ran a little more than a mile because 1. i need to lose wieght 2. i need to get in shape and 3. running burns fat everywhere....so that means my legs, arms, and tummy have less fat now. i hate working out, but afterwards it makes you feel good about your self. i was however covered in so much sweat that it was dripping....all over the damn place.

so i took a major major shower, which felt so good after all that. i shower AT LEAST 2x a day in the summer...

then i called work and demanded to work today so i can make more money. if there is one word that can describe me, it would be industrious, i love working because it means i'm getting more money, and the more money i have the happier i am. so i totally got me more hours because im fierce and don't take no for an answer.

so now my biggest concern is wearing a cool yet comfortable outfit for work today, as well as getting rid of this ickyness of red off of my finger.

First things first: we are at twelve hours to Dark Knight. I've been counting things down this week at the L Magazine blog and may try to send them a reaction sometime between getting out of the show tonight around 2:30AM and leaving for New England eight hours later.

For now, though, feel free to sift through my various Batman retrospectives. Following the original Gotham Knight post, I took a commenter's suggestion and did a run-down of Batman's movie girlfriends. People don't seem to like this piece that much because I didn't cover any of the ladies from the sixties TV show, but (a.) that show isn't a movie, (b.) that show sucks. Honestly, what's the deal with twentysomethings calling me out for not having in-depth coverage of a show that went off the year several decades before they were born? I've seen enough to get the Simpsons jokes about it, and that's plenty. I never had much affection for the show because half the stuff they're pretending to "spoof" about Batman is stuff that the show itself either exacerbated or introduced That's not to say that there weren't some ridiculous-ass Batman comics in the fifties and sixties, but there are limits to the creative possibilities of anything so saturated in camp.

Then, I took my editor's excellent suggestion to compare the various movie soundtracks. I wonder if the overblown, barely-related movie soundtrack will be an eventual casualty of iTunes; I feel like there have been fewer of them in recent years, and the recent soundtrack hits (Juno, O Brother) tend to have something to do with the feel of the movie.

With all of the Batman excitement, I didn't remember that the Emmy nominations came out today, which is not unusual because they usually suck almost as much as the Grammy nominations. But DVR has enabled me to see a somewhat wider spectrum of television than usual this year, so I feel like they actually warrant some comments:

--Suck it, Family Guy! Their Star Wars special provided a loophole to submit in both the animated special and comedy series categories, and though it made the shortlist for comedies, it wasn't nominated, which is as it should be in a world where The Simpsons never got in (first because it wasn't allowed, and then because it didn't make the cut the one year that they submitted it there instead of animated series).

--Robot Chicken and Family Guy both got nominations (in separate categories) for Star Wars episodes. Watch for Wing Commander episodes of Two and a Half Men and According to Jim in 2009.

--30 Rock took seven of the eleven comedy guest-star slots, which is absolutely deserved, even if they left off Matthew Broderick's turn as Cooter (though that episode did get a very deserving writing nomination).

--The Office episode that got in for writing, "Dinner Party," was one of the weakest of the season. Weird.

--So let's get this straight: Pushing Daisies was recognized for writing, directing, and acting, but Two and a Half Men is deemed a superior comedy series overall based on... its powerhouse ensemble? Its art direction, maybe? Charlie Sheen's hair and make-up?

--I'm not bashing Two and a Half Men (completely) sight unseen. I caught five minutes of it a few weeks ago when a DVR-delayed How I Met Your Mother ended, and it took all of thirty seconds before I heard a homophobic joke. The whole thing had a bitter kind of meanness to it (and not the kind I like).

--Speaking of How I Met Your Mother, way to go NPH -- though I feel there is sort of a Kramer/George thing going on here with Jason Segel. Michael Richards and Jason Alexander were always both nominated, but Richards won like four times and Alexander never did, because Richards had the flashier/goofier part. Here, NPH gets the only love from the Mother cast because it's the most immediately noticeable work, but Segel does great stuff too, with less recognition (even though I sometimes miss his creepy awkwardness from the Apatow shows).

--The Academy's love of Boston Legal is crazier than Boston Legal itself.

--RIP, Kid Nation, with your Best Title Theme nomination.

Oh, and speaking of Emmy winners, I saw Ricky Gervais's stand-up thing last night, with my sister. He was pretty funny, though he was almost upstaged by Todd Barry, who might've made me laugh more, despite doing Sex and the City-style "Brooklyn is so far away from Manhattan, why would anyone go there?" jokes. Maybe I'm just sensitive.

Eleven hours and forty-nine minutes!!

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Ж-Men...but not the ones you might expect!
This week LJ Russia launched Ж-Men, a new comedy series about superheroes, inspired by the LJ communities dedicated to superheros, comics and cartoons. The title's "Ж" comes from ЖЖ, the nickname for LiveJournal in Russia.

Ж-Men's script is written by a group of LJ enthusiasts who also happen to be television professionals. Who knew? Following the premiere, five more episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks. We hope you find the series fresh and enjoyable.

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