By mim on October 31st, 2009
Yesterday I was tired and achy all day with a low grade fever (~99°F). Then, for the first time since… elementary school? or kindergarten? I threw up (from being sick, not from being drunk:p). All I was trying to do was cook some innocuous bok choy and I couldn’t.
I didn’t eat too much at work today because the thought of yakking all over someone else’s desk was worse than the hunger. Now I can’t tell if I’m dizzy/nauseated from hunger or cos I’m sick.
What do you think? Mild food poisoning of some sort? Flu? Dude, if it’s some kind of flu, then it’s like the third time this year after years of good health. I think I’ve been sick for a quarter of the year.
By mim on September 19th, 2009
We went to see Green Day’s American Idiot musical at Berkeley Rep today — the Saturday matinee. Usually, since it’s a matinee, we’re somewhat surrounded by older gray haired types who sometimes fall asleep and snore or talk too loudly, being somewhat hard of hearing. But this time, there wasn’t quite the same preponderance of older folk. And they all stayed awake. And if they talked too loudly it didn’t matter too much. :)
I really enjoyed American Idiot. It was fun and there were moments where I got teary, a bit. And it’s not like I’m a huge Green Day fan with every single album and the words to most of their songs memorized at all, so if you’re near Berkeley, you should totally go. I will say that Yut saw two older folks leave after the second song. And the older lady next to me had her fingers in her ears for some parts — she maybe should have gotten the earplugs Berkeley Rep had available. But I think she enjoyed herself anyway.
But you know what was pretty exciting? Mike Dirnt the bassist was there! He came with a small group and sat like eight seats away! Dooooood! This is my first celebrity sighting that didn’t involve Ted Koppel!!! Anyways, I think it was Mike Dirnt. People were asking for his autograph afterwards, and he did a bunch and directed everyone’s compliments towards the cast, who “do this twice a day” can you imagine? I didn’t want to be the first to ask for his autograph, but once other people did, I jumped right in!
By mim on September 9th, 2009
Yut showed me this yesterday. (Or was it the day before? Spending close to 24 hours in airports or otherwise traveling confuses my already poor sense of time.)
It’s Neil Gaiman’s library in his basement. OMG, are you not jealous?! Look at those tilted shelves for easier viewing! There are even more drool-worthy photos, so be sure to click through and look. (Also, read Graveyard Book which won this year’s Newbery and Hugo awards.)
Actually this reminds me of the shelves at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, where the entire bottom half is tilted. Only perhaps that would take up too much space. Also, with this many books, I’d need a barcode scanner, don’t you think?
le sigh (a la Pepe le Pew) :)
By mim on August 28th, 2009
I was at the Other Change of Hobbit when a man walked in and asked if they carried the Bible. They don’t. He was kind of agitated, and became more so, in a way that intimated that he could not understand why the place wouldn’t carry the Bible. The Bible! At least some edition! What is the world coming to!?
I’d never considered it, but I suppose it could be somewhat surprising that a bookstore specializing in science fiction and fantasy didn’t carry the Bible.
By mim on August 5th, 2009
So this is the battery from my MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, the laptop is out of warranty and the battery wasn’t one of the recall batteries (although I thought it ought to have been, I mean, look at it!). I’m a Windows user for the most part so it was a lightly used machine, so I don’t know how this happened, but I took it to the Apple store and they said I would just have to get a new battery.
You know what though? I carried it to the nearest Apple store in my backpack and the whole time I was kind of nervous because I was afraid the battery would burst and kill me. Like in the Dead Zone. At this point, I don’t remember much about the book EXCEPT for that scene with the car battery bursting, killing someone. So my shoulder blades tickled the whole way there. Then the Genius or whatever (after he telling me he couldn’t help me) said that I should not put the battery back in the laptop since if it leaked it might damage the electronics. Aarrgghh! Okay okay, how was he supposed to know that I read some book like a million years ago and developed a battery phobia? But still, never mind the laptop, what about my spine?!?!?!
And yesterday on my way home, some dude was working on his car, and he had a huge car battery on the sidewalk and I had to walk right by it and OMG! I was kind of nervous; he was in his car, but someone was walking behind me so I had to pretend to be normal as I walked by his car and that battery. :p
I should write him a letter:
Dear Stephen King,
You have scarred me for life! I have phobias that I can trace directly to your books. Thanks a lot!
I wonder if he gets a lot of these letters or if I’m just particularly wimpy.
Right now, the time is 05:06 on 07/08/09. (And in fact, if Wordpress let me schedule down to the seconds I could’ve scheduled this for 04:05:06 07/08/09. But alas.)
So I entered a contest at Hair Thursday for Pureology NanoWax. Honestly, I didn’t think I’d win. I don’t win these things — a million other people enter and the random number generators don’t like me. But I won! Yay! She did have five contests going on at once, so maybe that helped my chances, I don’t know. Anyways, I just got it today, so haven’t had a chance to test it out. Considering that I haven’t tried it before though, I think I’ll wait for the weekend. Cos I’m a hair noob. :)
By mim on June 29th, 2009
When Transformers came out, we actually rather liked it. I mean, you have to turn off your brain entirely, but sometimes that’s just perfect for a hot summer afternoon. And okay, it was a little too much like a two hour long GM (or some car company, I forgot) advertisement, but well… overall brainless good fun. When we heard that there was going to be a sequel, we weren’t sure if we were going to see it, figuring, “Only if it gets good reviews or word-of-mouth or something.” Today I read Roger Ebert’s review. Totally damning! He calls it a “horrible experience of unbearable length” and says that “this isn’t a film so much as a toy tie-in.” It’s not that I read Ebert’s reviews always, although he is generally good, whether I agree with the review or not. Usually I just check Rotten Tomatoes, but I was browsing around and well, this one was so excellent. I’m going to guess the movie isn’t worth seeing, but the review is full of vitriolic splendor.
We did see Up finally this weekend, in 3D, which is the new popular thing, I guess. I don’t know if the 3D was a big deal to this movie — it was nice, but it didn’t particularly seem important. I would say that Coraline was a better experience in 3D than Up. I liked Up, I just think it would probably have been fine either way. Anyway, wow what a tearjerker! If you told me that Jodi Picoult or Nicholas Sparks or some other such writer wrote the original story, it wouldn’t've surprised me! I thought the movie was good though, especially the silent montage, which I cried through. I was warned, and I’m warning you now, all the people who read this who haven’t seen the movie (what is that, 0?), but honestly if you are at all prone to crying in a movie, well, you’ll probably bawl. So go watch, and bring tissue. By the way, Ebert liked it too.
By mim on June 25th, 2009
I had an eye exam last week. Nothing new, my eyes are terrible. I asked again about daily disposables; last year I tried every brand available at the time. None were a good fit on both eyes, and there haven’t been any new products out this year, CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?! :p So that’s a no go.
Oh they plucked one of my lower eyelashes out, which was a totally new experience for me. The darn thing was growing towards my eyes instead of outwards. I didn’t know eyelashes did that! They were worried about my corneas getting scratched when I wear glasses (contacts would protect the eyeballs, but you can’t wear contacts all the time). Ouch. Dude, do they make eyelash curlers for lower lashes? I might need one of those. Totally medically necessary and all that. :p
By mim on June 12th, 2009
I have to admit, everytime I’m being touristy, even remotely, I’m tempted to do the v-sign pose. Double, actually. But there are other choices! :) [via kottke]
