Sunday, May 24, 2009
a banner day for weird obsessions
Big news! Well, ok, big news in the way of narwhal obsessions: An article in The Smithsonian about tagging and studying narwhals. Giving serious thought to ditching this whole "cinematography" thing and taking off for Greenland to study narwhals. Key to the awesomeness of this article is the mention of a Danish scientist named Ole Wurm, which is both an excellent scientist name AND bad ass rapper name.
Friday, May 08, 2009
anyone have a job for me in late september?
Upcoming schedule, just fyi:
5/9-5/14: AC for Richard
5/15: get ready for birthday party!
5/16: birthday and birthday party!
5/17: recover from birthday party
5/18: THREE doctors appointments, ugh
5/21-5/28: go home? i hope?
6/1-6/21: gaff/AC for Dustin
6/22: drive home
6/23: SLEEP
6/24: fly to Chicago!
6/25-8/1: cherubs
8/2: fly home and drive to Camp!
8/2-8/8: Camp!
8/9-sometime: home
sometime-sometime: back in LA
9/10: drive home
9/12: Rachel and Alexis' wedding in Napa
9/16 or thereabouts: fly to Chicago
9/19: Jack and Kat's wedding in Chicago
9/21: fly back home
sometime: drive back to LA
It's weird when your life fills up all of a sudden. Weird but good.
5/9-5/14: AC for Richard
5/15: get ready for birthday party!
5/16: birthday and birthday party!
5/17: recover from birthday party
5/18: THREE doctors appointments, ugh
5/21-5/28: go home? i hope?
6/1-6/21: gaff/AC for Dustin
6/22: drive home
6/23: SLEEP
6/24: fly to Chicago!
6/25-8/1: cherubs
8/2: fly home and drive to Camp!
8/2-8/8: Camp!
8/9-sometime: home
sometime-sometime: back in LA
9/10: drive home
9/12: Rachel and Alexis' wedding in Napa
9/16 or thereabouts: fly to Chicago
9/19: Jack and Kat's wedding in Chicago
9/21: fly back home
sometime: drive back to LA
It's weird when your life fills up all of a sudden. Weird but good.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
one thing Facebook is very good at
...is making me feel simultaneously happy and embarrassed about the people I used to have crushes on. Happy because whoa, most of them are REALLY not cute now, holy crap, I'm glad they never liked me back! And embarassed because whoa, most of them are REALLY not cute now, holy crap, what did I ever see in them?
Most of them are from middle school- the guys who asked you to dance and got your hopes up and then started dating that annoying girl the next week. Thank you, Facebook, for pointing out that these boys apparently peaked, aesthetically speaking, in 7th grade! But then of course there are the few who are REALLY successful and still cute, sometimes even cuter, than they used to be. Those are from high school, for the most part. Dammit. But still, I am glad to have Facebook to gather together all the random people I have ever known and make me feel like being such a nerd as an adolescent saved me from, say, my first boyfriend being someone who ended up in drug rehab, or stopped growing in 8th grade.*
*Nothing against short guys, of course, but that kid was supposed to be like 6'4! What is he doing being 5'8?
Most of them are from middle school- the guys who asked you to dance and got your hopes up and then started dating that annoying girl the next week. Thank you, Facebook, for pointing out that these boys apparently peaked, aesthetically speaking, in 7th grade! But then of course there are the few who are REALLY successful and still cute, sometimes even cuter, than they used to be. Those are from high school, for the most part. Dammit. But still, I am glad to have Facebook to gather together all the random people I have ever known and make me feel like being such a nerd as an adolescent saved me from, say, my first boyfriend being someone who ended up in drug rehab, or stopped growing in 8th grade.*
*Nothing against short guys, of course, but that kid was supposed to be like 6'4! What is he doing being 5'8?
Thursday, April 30, 2009
today i am grumpy
because i couldn't sleep last night.
because i hate ACing and have to AC for the next two weeks.
because all my friends move away from me.
because i am not one of the skinny people at the gym.
because camera prep is the most annoying activity in the world and i never get paid for it.
because i wasted an entire day this week driving around in a car in the middle of nowhere with someone i hardly know.
because cheese has too many calories in it.
because my room is a mess but is also too small to ever actually be clean.
because wireless follow focuses are finicky and stupid.
because That One Job hasn't paid me yet.
because That Other Job might not exist.
because i hate Los Angeles.
because i inherited all the Patterson/Shaw medical ailments and my brother inherited none.
because nobody likes me best.
JUST BECAUSE.
because i hate ACing and have to AC for the next two weeks.
because all my friends move away from me.
because i am not one of the skinny people at the gym.
because camera prep is the most annoying activity in the world and i never get paid for it.
because i wasted an entire day this week driving around in a car in the middle of nowhere with someone i hardly know.
because cheese has too many calories in it.
because my room is a mess but is also too small to ever actually be clean.
because wireless follow focuses are finicky and stupid.
because That One Job hasn't paid me yet.
because That Other Job might not exist.
because i hate Los Angeles.
because i inherited all the Patterson/Shaw medical ailments and my brother inherited none.
because nobody likes me best.
JUST BECAUSE.
Sunday, April 26, 2009
conspiracies and explorers and U-boats, oh my
This ability to watch endless History Channel documentaries for free on Netflix might just be the end of me. The end of my active participation in the world around me. It might even be better than that "Stuff You Missed in History Class" podcast.*
*Because I DID miss a lot of stuff in history class. Well, not AP Euro, that was basically the best class ever. And not freshman year Ancient & Classical Civilizations. But junior year US History? With Mr. Nelson? Who talked about lettuce a lot and drank vodka from a coffee mug? Yeah, I missed a lot in that class. And 20th Century Dictators with Ms. Nuñez... talk about a waste of a semester. Oh sorry, tangent.
*Because I DID miss a lot of stuff in history class. Well, not AP Euro, that was basically the best class ever. And not freshman year Ancient & Classical Civilizations. But junior year US History? With Mr. Nelson? Who talked about lettuce a lot and drank vodka from a coffee mug? Yeah, I missed a lot in that class. And 20th Century Dictators with Ms. Nuñez... talk about a waste of a semester. Oh sorry, tangent.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
survey says...?
So, just to take a broad survey of the three people who read this blog:
When you see people you hate, do you pretend to like them?
a) Yes.
b) Yes, and I usually overcompensate by being super friendly.
c) No, I just ignore them.
d) No, I am blatantly mean to them.
I ask because there is this woman I went to grad school with, whom I had a terrible horrible no good very bad experience with on set once, and every time I see her I sort of try to ignore her, but she comes over to me and makes a big show of kissing me on the cheek and talking to me when I would really rather she just ignore me too. I am 98% sure that she, like me, continues to hold a grudge against me-- things were pretty sore between us for a long time. But when she acts all nice and oh-everything's-fine-nothing-bad-ever-happened, I feel like I am the bad guy. Don't get me wrong, when she does it I do it too, because to just ignore her after she's being fake happy at me would be downright inhuman, but... it's just strange. I think secretly she does it so that I feel guilty. If that's true, it's working, and I don't even really know what I feel guilty about.
What a manipulative bitch!
Has this ever happened to anyone else?
When you see people you hate, do you pretend to like them?
a) Yes.
b) Yes, and I usually overcompensate by being super friendly.
c) No, I just ignore them.
d) No, I am blatantly mean to them.
I ask because there is this woman I went to grad school with, whom I had a terrible horrible no good very bad experience with on set once, and every time I see her I sort of try to ignore her, but she comes over to me and makes a big show of kissing me on the cheek and talking to me when I would really rather she just ignore me too. I am 98% sure that she, like me, continues to hold a grudge against me-- things were pretty sore between us for a long time. But when she acts all nice and oh-everything's-fine-nothing-bad-ever-happened, I feel like I am the bad guy. Don't get me wrong, when she does it I do it too, because to just ignore her after she's being fake happy at me would be downright inhuman, but... it's just strange. I think secretly she does it so that I feel guilty. If that's true, it's working, and I don't even really know what I feel guilty about.
What a manipulative bitch!
Has this ever happened to anyone else?
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