Weekends fly...

A long weekend full of working and conversations and movies and just things to make a guy think.

It all started on Friday. I got to do a college fair for the school. We went to the wrong school first. It's amazing how many people don't know what's going on at their own school. Then, once we arrived at the proper location, we set up the table and rocked out the tunes. Nothing like a PA system and some rock and roll to shake up the ol' college fair atmosphere.

After the fair, we went back to the school and I popped into the end of the day class to see how things were going with my fellow teachers. We chatted a little after class and then Libra showed up. So we chatted for a moment about her plans for the day and I off-handedly reminded her we still had to go see "The Grudge" so we could compare it to "Ju-On". Her response was "Why not right now?" So we went to see a matinee of "The Grudge". Final analysis of the movie?...Go rent Ju-On.

Friday ended with some time spent at my old place of employment. I spent some time with a friend of mine there and we made some copies of a few of the shows I worked on while I was there. I'm planning on putting together a demo reel in the near future so I need all the footage I can get my hands on.

Saturday was work in the morning and then a buddy of mine and I went shopping (Comics and the bookstore...I'm a geek remember).Then we returned to my abode for some much needed video gaming. I showed off Half-Life 2 and we played some Ikaruga. (Yes yes, I already admitted I'm a geek dammit.)

Today (Sunday) was get up late, not do too much, take a nap in the afternoon to make up for some of the sleep I didn't get the night before, go to work, come home, watch television and write in the blog. It's not easy to write about a day that contains so very little. I did get to talk action movies with a customer today. It was fun to try and find something he HADN'T seen in that genre. I finally did come up with something (Equilibrium...Christian Bale...cool movie.) but it took some serious wracking of the cranial regions.

Now I sit here looking at the week ahead and shudder. So much to do, so many things to prepare. I wonder why we make the holidays such a big deal that they actually turn into a burden. Too much tradition and formality makes it hard to remember we're celebrating anything at all. So much planning, so much preparation and then POOF, you're ready to take a nap from all the triptophane. Bleh.

Things I learned today (This weekend):
- When going to a function at a school, go to the correct school.
- Japanese movies are made for smart people, American movies are made for Americans. (Though i would like to think SOME of use are intelligent.)
- Large pizzas are a scam. In fact, I'm convinced there's a conspiracy somewhere to convince people that the medium pizza is actually a large. Have you ordered a "large" lately? What a joke.
-Alabama must be a wasteland of horrible ideas and people who liked "The Grudge".
- Comic Books, Video Games, Computers and lovely-pictures-of-girls, these are a few of my favorite things.
- Doing nothing makes me tired.
- Its amazing how parallel our lives can be.