Requisite "I am Alive" Post

[memento1]

I am alive! I'm just terribly lackadaisical about posting. I'm STILL not up on the flist, so my apologies. Any big news that I've missed?

I felt like I should put down more coherant thoughts on the movie, but...I'm lazy, and it's all been rehashed a thousand times anyway. Right now I'm all a-squee over X-Files Marathon #2 with balmyone tomorrow (sorry, lunayoshi, but it's just not worth the hour's drive up for half a day. Tell us when you have a full day off and we'll see what we can do! Also, so need to go see movie again. Call me!).

Trip to Minnesota was wonderful. It was actually quite fun being a bridesmaid. The dress cost a fortune and is pretty much unusable ever again, but it was actually much prettier than I expected. There was lots of dancing, good food, good company. I made a new friend with another one of the bridesmaids - too bad she lives so far away! Anyways, there was the requisite amount of drama (groom acted like a 2-year old at times, and sister had a minor meltdown complete with family argument), but what else can you expect at a wedding? ;) The rest of the vacation went well - watched some movies with mom, visited the Minnesota Zoo (chatted with a very nice lady at the bird show about job opportunities...doing the bird show at the MN Zoo is a dream for me. I should send her a thank you note), ate ice cream and bought some new socks. Best part of the whole thing was July 25, squeeing with you all and meeting dashakay. I only wish we could have chatted longer, Dasha!

Anyways, back to usual here. Work work work. Boss is being pig-headed, but I'm having breakthroughs in the training of Kitambi, a young porcupine. Training that porc is the best part of my day - he's come so far and is so close to being put in shows! I'm bound and determined to get him in the show before we end September 9th. Speaking of, that is the day I return to unemployment, so I'm heading back into the job search (BLEAGH!! WHY?!?! I just finished with all of that sh*t!). So yay me. */sarcasm* In better news, I finished Parabiosis upon my return, which was just as astoundingly catching as the first time. Reaching the end was like reaching the end of the Harry Potter books - what can I possibly read now that will match it?

I watched a Nova special last night on Global Dimming, and it was depressing. Really, really depressing. I want to hide my head in the sand sometimes.

Oh! I got the XF2 soundtrack and am loving it. Dying 2 Live has actually grown on me, but Broken sends me into thrills, as it puts me right back in that theater seat with..ummm...you know what at the end of the credits. ;) Other favorites include No Cures/Looking for Fox, What If You're Wrong/Sister, and The Surgery. That's all for now. I'm finding voiceposts much easier than writing out actual entries, so I may do more of those. Much love to all of you!

Comments

[krisnreine.livejournal.com]

The Surgery is THE prettiest piece of music I've heard in a long time. Utterly gorgeous and haunting. I want the soundtrack just for that.

[memento1.livejournal.com]

I admit, I downloaded it. But it is a much better soundtrack than I initially assumed it would be.

[lunayoshi.livejournal.com]

No worries. My only day off is Sunday, but with the BF in Irvine now, he may be all clingy and want to hang out then, so I might be screwed.

If you ever want to do a half-day in Esco, that'd be doable, I think. And OMG MOVIE...

[memento1.livejournal.com]

balmyone doesn't have a car to come down here, but I say we do our own half-day marathon sometime. Much easier for both of us :) I have seasons 5 and 6 and random disks of the rest. I forget..did you say you had the first 7?

I can do half-days any evening, but we should see the movie when we both have the morning off, so we can get a cheap showing.

[lunayoshi.livejournal.com]

Oh, poop. Oh well.

Yep! Seasons 1 through 7 on dvd, plus the good episodes of 8 and the series finale on my computer. My boyfriend has them atm, though, because I forgot to take them out of his car. So, I'm S.O.L. this week, but I'll probably have 'em next week, assuming I see him this weekend.

I have Thursday and Friday mornings/afternoons off, so if you wanna go tomorrow or Friday, I'm totally up for it!

[memento1.livejournal.com]

Frick. I'm driving up to balmyone's tomorrow, and work Friday. Hows about next Thursday?

[lunayoshi.livejournal.com]

Works for me!

[rchelsea2005.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry...but I found you through the X-Files comm: (your Mulder/Zoolander icon was made of win.) but I wondered where your completely AWESOME banner came from! That's amazing!

[memento1.livejournal.com]

*LOL* Always glad to have more philes on the flist.

I made the banner! :D I actually made it for the xfiles community header contest, but it didn't win so I just used it for my own LJ. *L* I used to make a lot of XF art, but my muse has been dead lately. Hopefully when screencaps from IWTB come out I'll get inspired again.

[erries.livejournal.com]

I think I might've started Parabiosis a few times in my formative years, but I don't know if I've ever finished it. It's like really super long, yes?

Glad you had a good time in MN! Good luck with the impending job search, too.

[memento1.livejournal.com]

You haven't finished finished it?!? ZOMG how can you not? It draws me in so bad. It is fairly long...not the longest I've read, but it did take me about a week to finish. I actually really enjoy the novel-length fics - it's like a good book, I look forward to getting home and reading more each day.

[scooly42.livejournal.com]

'broken' and 'the surgery' = for the freaking WIN. shudders.

[memento1.livejournal.com]

I knoooooow! SO good.

[kira-iras.livejournal.com]

Good to know you're alive and the fan-stuff keeps you happy :)

[memento1.livejournal.com]

*LOL* I will never grow out of it, apparently. And I don't want to.