Major booing at Attack of the Clones

When I went and saw it the first night at 1 am, the only time there was booing in the theatre was during the trailers.

We see this awesome trailer for Matrix Reloaded. Much cheering, oohing and aahhhing.

Then they show the date. 2003. Sounds of disgruntlement from audience are overwhelming.

Neo is such a tease.

Night

Sent good vibes in the direction of wiredferret. Found that as incenses for burning on charcoal go, I like the combination of cedar, juniper, and frankincense very much. Smells like home and family. Adam can at least stand it. Adam made spaghetti. Yum. Ate more of it than I thought I would. Adam meandered out to hang with friends. Stayed up way too late playing Collapse and occasionally checking friends page and mail. Checked friendsfriends page; saw in passing a few userpics that have wandered off my friends page through lack of total common interests and/or enthrallment with writing style. Left a few comments here and there, usually in journals of complete strangers. Refrained from getting drunk.

Eventually did get sleepy enough to hit bed.

Nervous

Tested turning on Tigereye yesterday w/o plugging her in, just on battery. Tried turning her on with plugin today. Got very uneasy partway through startup and held down power button until she shut down. Not sure why so uneasy.

Prying eyes out of my box, please!

http://www.stoppoliceware.org

Fwd: The Economist's Bible

http://www.users.bigpond.com/putland/biblecon.htm

Vocabulary Lesson

Lunch is the meal.
Munch is eating it up.
Launch is what your spaceship or your robot does.

It's very important to not confuse these. Nephew is learning the difference.

Return to Innocence

Shawn and I are talking again. Rather, we're IM'ing again on a fairly regular basis. He's making a movie; I'm not. He's got a laid-out plan for his career and a wife and a daughter; I don't. I don't really totally feel inadequate, though. I've done things with my life as well. They just aren't as immediately apparent.

All true wealth is biological. Traced through the paths of that with the help of Orson Scott Card and Shadow of the Hegemon as well as Cordelia. Our worth is measured in the eyes of ourselves, our friends, our enemies, our children. Without our children, there is no future.

We may write the songs that the children will sing, compile the books our children will read, bear the children themselves, teach the children, build a better world for the children -- who will then have children of their own. Even should you not bear your own children, to have been of lasting worth in that sense, it's to have done something to help the children.

Even if they're now grown.

Bouncing words back and forth off of Shawn, I feel the old dynamic snapping into place. Equal in talent and creativity, associating through choice, sharing and shoring up each other's weak spots.

I had a hand in shaping him to the man he is today and will be in the future; he had a hand in shaping me. Many hands.

We're each more than the other dreamed that we could be, today.

Alas: earwax

In my raid on Kmart the other day, I brought home a bag of Harry Potter jelly beans: the jelly belly Bertie Bott's All Flavour Beans.

Votania, loving Jelly Bellys, snags one before work the other day.

Black pepper.

Some days, you just can't win.

To Do & Shopping

Shopping

Edible:

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Inedible:

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To Do:
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Dinner

Nephew didn't eat much of his lunch. He got hungry midway through the afternoon, and requested pop tarts. I refused, and got him a snack of pretzels/crackers instead, informing him that he'd missed out on his chance to have sweets after lunch by not eating lunch.

You have to give him credit, he still tries, even though he knows he's probably not going to make it work. Auntie is just a little more stubborn. Asking her for something more than once when she said No the first time is not the way to get something.

Fwd: humor: You Might Be An Alaskan If

(credits to Jason Ruff)

( You might be an Alaskan if... )

Fwd: humor: A selection of quotes from "I Miss Dan Quayle"

( Just in case we were getting too attached to the old administration )

Fwd: Fun things to do during Orientation Week at college

by Alice S. Tsay, MIT student

( Fun things to do during Orientation Week/on a college visit: )

Fwd: humor: Dating: A Father's Perspective

( When I was in high school I used to be terrified of my girlfriend's father... )

Claustrophobia

It gets pretty bad sometimes. Even Nephew standing too close today is bringing it on. In the kitchen, I backed up fast and spilled the cat's water all over the floor.

I can't bear to be near other people, ones I'm not adjusted to. In public, yes. Not at home.

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Those Wacky Kids

Nephew put himself to bed at 8:20 or so, but got up ten minutes later. I sent him to the bathtub, as he'd spilled butter and corn all down his front.

Happy birthday to me...

...as of Tuesday, that is.

Yay. I'll be 22.

Bedtime adventures

I read the first two chapters of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to Nephew, complete with silly squeaky voice for Dobby. Now Nephew's in bed.

In a little bit I'll wander in and turn the bathroom lights off; Mommy should be home soon.

This is the first time Nephew's held still for me reading a book for longer than about five minutes.

He's starting to read on his own. I'm so thrilled!