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bending_sickle...and hope that it leads to more good work.*
Wowza, I've been social this week! Wednesday I went to the ISN dinner and then off to Einstein's. At the dinner (which was a bit badly set up in that the tables were for four or six, so friendless folk were a bit screwed) I met two Dutch mentors, a Lithuanian boy, a Portuguese girl (Melissa) and a Taiwanese girl. At Einstein's, I further met a French girl (Gabrielle) and a French boy. Phone numbers were swapped all over the place.
Thursday and Friday I called the Portuguese and French girls and managed to set up a date at Olivier, a Beligian bar close-by, with Gabrielle on Saturday. I couldn't reach Melissa but she called me today while I was at the video rental, so we set something up as well.
So in one day I had two social events! With Melissa, I took her to a few stores where she could buy raincoats, have someone check out her bike's light, and stuff like that, then we went to her place for tea. With Gabrielle, we talked a while then her Italian friend (who's name I wish to gods I remembered) joined us. We then went off for pizza (which I'd been jonesing for for ages and hey, what better way to find good pizza than with an Italian?) and, when we were finishing, were joined by another two Italian guys. Gabrielle and Boy went off to the Hague now, but I decided to skip off home. I'd been having a good time and didn't want to ruin it with a stint at a disco.
I've got socks and a bathrobe on whilst in bed, so you can say it's getting a mite cold. But! I've rented White Noise 2: The Light because a) Saturday-night horror movie tradition and b) Nathan Fillion. I noticed the rental place has Carrie and The Exorcist, so that's the next two weeks covered.
So things are looking quite bright lately, despite the office computer still occasionally eating my work and my upcoming meeting on Tuesday with my supervisor. This week I went running 9in the damn rain) and swimming and my eating habits are still wonderfully under control (except today) so the scale is being progressively nicer to me. I also watched The Hangover (meh) and District 9 (too short clips for too long a documentary stint, amusing South African accents, crazy Nigerians, awesome aliens, oh good gods solidiers are horrible, how the hell do people understand the aliens, sweaty and desperate desk folk on the run are sorta sexy and, aww, itty bitty alien).
My Links of theDay Week list is huuuuge so I'm just going to leave that for slow work days. (Also, my computer's being an ass with the internet, saying it can't open the page sometimes, despite playing YouTube or opening pages on another tab just fine.)
Edit: Except I can't now because I never learn not to do Copy text B when I just Cut text A and haven't Pasted text A yet somewheres safe. *curses* I'll get most of them back.
Instead, I'm going to embedd two clips and tell a bit about why.
Firstly, there's this awesome Chinese movie, Kung Fu Dunk, featuring Jay Chou. I don't care that it's about basketball, it looks absolutely hilarious and, as I said, awesome. I sooo want to watch it. Check out the music video:
The second clip is of Jon Stewart (shuddup, we loves the precious). He was invited onto the show Crossfire on Oct. 15, 2004. There's even a wiki on it. Oh, and the aftermath? "In January 2005 CNN announced that it would not be renewing Carlson's contract. In a news release containing the announcement, CNN CEO Jonathan Klein indicated that he wanted to change the tone of shows on the network, canceling Crossfire partly as a result of Jon Stewart's appearance and criticism." (Wiki) YouTube Comment translation: "With this appearance, Jon Stewart single handedly end these two assholes show and exposed them for the bullshit artist that they are."
I've watched this clip a few times before, and my jaw keeps hitting the floor at Jon's debate skills, and how he keeps his cool (except for that one well-deserved comment at the very end). And I love how very serious he is about it all when the other so-called debaters are simply giving in to personal attacks and not listening at all. I also agree with the YouTube comment, "right before they go to commercials and he is begging them, he looks like he is about to cry, and you just want to give him a hug." *sigh* I generally find Jon adorable, or deliciously logical as when he interviews, but here? Sexy. As. Hell. *drools over brains*
* Jon Stewart
Wowza, I've been social this week! Wednesday I went to the ISN dinner and then off to Einstein's. At the dinner (which was a bit badly set up in that the tables were for four or six, so friendless folk were a bit screwed) I met two Dutch mentors, a Lithuanian boy, a Portuguese girl (Melissa) and a Taiwanese girl. At Einstein's, I further met a French girl (Gabrielle) and a French boy. Phone numbers were swapped all over the place.
Thursday and Friday I called the Portuguese and French girls and managed to set up a date at Olivier, a Beligian bar close-by, with Gabrielle on Saturday. I couldn't reach Melissa but she called me today while I was at the video rental, so we set something up as well.
So in one day I had two social events! With Melissa, I took her to a few stores where she could buy raincoats, have someone check out her bike's light, and stuff like that, then we went to her place for tea. With Gabrielle, we talked a while then her Italian friend (who's name I wish to gods I remembered) joined us. We then went off for pizza (which I'd been jonesing for for ages and hey, what better way to find good pizza than with an Italian?) and, when we were finishing, were joined by another two Italian guys. Gabrielle and Boy went off to the Hague now, but I decided to skip off home. I'd been having a good time and didn't want to ruin it with a stint at a disco.
I've got socks and a bathrobe on whilst in bed, so you can say it's getting a mite cold. But! I've rented White Noise 2: The Light because a) Saturday-night horror movie tradition and b) Nathan Fillion. I noticed the rental place has Carrie and The Exorcist, so that's the next two weeks covered.
So things are looking quite bright lately, despite the office computer still occasionally eating my work and my upcoming meeting on Tuesday with my supervisor. This week I went running 9in the damn rain) and swimming and my eating habits are still wonderfully under control (except today) so the scale is being progressively nicer to me. I also watched The Hangover (meh) and District 9 (too short clips for too long a documentary stint, amusing South African accents, crazy Nigerians, awesome aliens, oh good gods solidiers are horrible, how the hell do people understand the aliens, sweaty and desperate desk folk on the run are sorta sexy and, aww, itty bitty alien).
My Links of the
Edit: Except I can't now because I never learn not to do Copy text B when I just Cut text A and haven't Pasted text A yet somewheres safe. *curses* I'll get most of them back.
Instead, I'm going to embedd two clips and tell a bit about why.
Firstly, there's this awesome Chinese movie, Kung Fu Dunk, featuring Jay Chou. I don't care that it's about basketball, it looks absolutely hilarious and, as I said, awesome. I sooo want to watch it. Check out the music video:
The second clip is of Jon Stewart (shuddup, we loves the precious). He was invited onto the show Crossfire on Oct. 15, 2004. There's even a wiki on it. Oh, and the aftermath? "In January 2005 CNN announced that it would not be renewing Carlson's contract. In a news release containing the announcement, CNN CEO Jonathan Klein indicated that he wanted to change the tone of shows on the network, canceling Crossfire partly as a result of Jon Stewart's appearance and criticism." (Wiki) YouTube Comment translation: "With this appearance, Jon Stewart single handedly end these two assholes show and exposed them for the bullshit artist that they are."
I've watched this clip a few times before, and my jaw keeps hitting the floor at Jon's debate skills, and how he keeps his cool (except for that one well-deserved comment at the very end). And I love how very serious he is about it all when the other so-called debaters are simply giving in to personal attacks and not listening at all. I also agree with the YouTube comment, "right before they go to commercials and he is begging them, he looks like he is about to cry, and you just want to give him a hug." *sigh* I generally find Jon adorable, or deliciously logical as when he interviews, but here? Sexy. As. Hell. *drools over brains*
* Jon Stewart
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Date: 2009-09-05 11:00 pm (UTC)White Noise 2: The Light because a) Saturday-night horror movie tradition and b) Nathan Fillion.
Nathan Fillion? Horror? Do want. What's it about?
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Date: 2009-09-05 11:38 pm (UTC)"You're incapable of honest discourse!"
"Oh yeah? So are you!"
"I'm comedy. You're news."
"YOUR FACE"
"Seriously, just stop already, y--"
"LALALA YOU SUCK I CAN'T HEAAAAR YOOOOOU"
"Please, I'm just trying t--"
"COMMERCIAL BREAK!"
";_;."
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Date: 2009-09-06 10:14 am (UTC)White Noise 2 is, according to imdb, about "A man's family brought back from the verge of death, he then discovers he can identify people who are about to die." The way I remember Nathan describing it is that he becomes a sort of antennae for ghosts.
I never watched the first one with Michael Keaton (ghosts talk to him through the TV or something). I'm only watching this one because of Capt. Tightpants :)
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Date: 2009-09-06 10:44 am (UTC)