Thursday, June 29
Drippy
Well, this might end up being difficult to type because Boscoe is trying eat the letters on my keyboard and consequently gets mad that my hands are moving around him so much. But I will do my best to keep going, or put him back in his cage if he doesn't want to behave, though he's not doing too bad.
I did an ink wash painting today, which was pretty fun. Ink washes are a nice way to get a calligraphic and somewhat moody look if you end up getting real "drippy" with it and make the painting "cry". Anyways, I kind of made it for my bf, well I got the idea from/for him a while back and now I've finally made it come to life...or something. I'll get some batteries for my camera soon and take a shot of it to show it off. (All the Boscoe pictures were taken with the digital SLR camera I borrowed from work, wish I could afford one of those.)
Now I've put Boscoe back because he was getting to upset with me typing and he won't move or just stay on my shoulder. Oh well, I guess that's how the term "bird brain" came to be.
Don't have much going on other than that...I need to think up some more art projects or something, my heart's really not into doing a website at the moment. Anyways, goodnight.
I did an ink wash painting today, which was pretty fun. Ink washes are a nice way to get a calligraphic and somewhat moody look if you end up getting real "drippy" with it and make the painting "cry". Anyways, I kind of made it for my bf, well I got the idea from/for him a while back and now I've finally made it come to life...or something. I'll get some batteries for my camera soon and take a shot of it to show it off. (All the Boscoe pictures were taken with the digital SLR camera I borrowed from work, wish I could afford one of those.)
Now I've put Boscoe back because he was getting to upset with me typing and he won't move or just stay on my shoulder. Oh well, I guess that's how the term "bird brain" came to be.
Don't have much going on other than that...I need to think up some more art projects or something, my heart's really not into doing a website at the moment. Anyways, goodnight.
Wednesday, June 28
Ah...Nothing
Okay, so I haven't been keeping this updated very well as of late, kind of fell out of "blogging fervor" as when first started these shenanagens (I have no idea how to spell that "word"). I did get a "new" monitor though. I say "new" in quotes because it's actually my bf's old monitor, but it's a big flatscreen. So it's bigger yet smaller than my old monitor all in very good ways.
So...I've had the intention of creating a personal website (online portfolio) over the summer, but I haven't done much of anything as of yet and the summer's already halfway over. Probably should get my butt in gear I guess...it's just so easy to NOT do stuff. Plus I don't really know what I want it to look like either, because I haven't been in the Comm Design program for 2 years to do something "concept-free" for a website, especially when I want to use it for showcasing MY stuff. The only vague idea I have going so far is to have something somewhat illustrative and maybe a bit more "fine art" like, but that's a vague idea with little direction so far.
What I really need to do is just focus for a while and brainstorm and sketch up crap so I can find some sort of direction that I like and expand from there...but that requires thinking. Summer time is not the best time for me to be thinking. Which is strange because I am taking a class and I'm working...but not really thinking, not like I was these past two semesters anyways. It's also quite easy to watch TV or play video games. My self-starting ability is a little slow on the gun.
One thing that makes doing projects a bit more difficult is I'm not in a group setting trying to do it. I don't have people to bounce ideas off of or steal ideas from others(sometimes someone else comes up with a great idea for YOUR project...and you can't be too proud to NOT take it). Groups are good, especially when they're on the same page as you in what kind of stuff your trying to think up. It also makes one want to try harder because they give good advice and ideas on helping your project along. You know, constructive criticism.
I'm also lacking in the ability to say anything witty, at the moment I can't seem to make any sort of amusing qwip or remark to entertain the masses or whomever I'm talking to. Yeah, I can't think of anything entertaining to say right now, you'll have to be satisfied with this crap.
Umm...my coworker kind of annoys me. For one, she talks to herself and since we're only aisle apart and in cubicles, I can here her mumblings much of the time. She also tends to sing or hum to herself...and while not the worst singing in the world, it's still quite irksome (ah, so many memories with the word "irksome", such a wonderful and terrible word all at the same time). Perhaps what's more annoying is that many times she talks to me across the aisle and many times without a prelude of saying "Hey Melissa" and asks me a question that I'm not really paying attention to. So then I have to draw myself back in from ignoring her talking to herself to actually paying attention to what she's saying, which, most of the times isn't anything important really and she's just making some random comments. Which, are fine, but I don't tend to idle chit chat at work much and usually don't really care to continue the conversation. I feel a little bad because I was a bit snippy today (wasn't feeling well) when she did that, but also kind of not. I've got mixed feelings on how I feel about her, she's nice enough...I just find her a little irritating, and I've been kind of short on patience lately. Which makes no sense, because I'm not in any sort of rush lately, quite the opposite really.
...I'm not even talking about anything anymore. Nothing has been said since the second paragraph and not much was said there really. I better go read my ethnography now, this Anthro class is over with by next week. Kind of scary.
So...I've had the intention of creating a personal website (online portfolio) over the summer, but I haven't done much of anything as of yet and the summer's already halfway over. Probably should get my butt in gear I guess...it's just so easy to NOT do stuff. Plus I don't really know what I want it to look like either, because I haven't been in the Comm Design program for 2 years to do something "concept-free" for a website, especially when I want to use it for showcasing MY stuff. The only vague idea I have going so far is to have something somewhat illustrative and maybe a bit more "fine art" like, but that's a vague idea with little direction so far.
What I really need to do is just focus for a while and brainstorm and sketch up crap so I can find some sort of direction that I like and expand from there...but that requires thinking. Summer time is not the best time for me to be thinking. Which is strange because I am taking a class and I'm working...but not really thinking, not like I was these past two semesters anyways. It's also quite easy to watch TV or play video games. My self-starting ability is a little slow on the gun.
One thing that makes doing projects a bit more difficult is I'm not in a group setting trying to do it. I don't have people to bounce ideas off of or steal ideas from others(sometimes someone else comes up with a great idea for YOUR project...and you can't be too proud to NOT take it). Groups are good, especially when they're on the same page as you in what kind of stuff your trying to think up. It also makes one want to try harder because they give good advice and ideas on helping your project along. You know, constructive criticism.
I'm also lacking in the ability to say anything witty, at the moment I can't seem to make any sort of amusing qwip or remark to entertain the masses or whomever I'm talking to. Yeah, I can't think of anything entertaining to say right now, you'll have to be satisfied with this crap.
Umm...my coworker kind of annoys me. For one, she talks to herself and since we're only aisle apart and in cubicles, I can here her mumblings much of the time. She also tends to sing or hum to herself...and while not the worst singing in the world, it's still quite irksome (ah, so many memories with the word "irksome", such a wonderful and terrible word all at the same time). Perhaps what's more annoying is that many times she talks to me across the aisle and many times without a prelude of saying "Hey Melissa" and asks me a question that I'm not really paying attention to. So then I have to draw myself back in from ignoring her talking to herself to actually paying attention to what she's saying, which, most of the times isn't anything important really and she's just making some random comments. Which, are fine, but I don't tend to idle chit chat at work much and usually don't really care to continue the conversation. I feel a little bad because I was a bit snippy today (wasn't feeling well) when she did that, but also kind of not. I've got mixed feelings on how I feel about her, she's nice enough...I just find her a little irritating, and I've been kind of short on patience lately. Which makes no sense, because I'm not in any sort of rush lately, quite the opposite really.
...I'm not even talking about anything anymore. Nothing has been said since the second paragraph and not much was said there really. I better go read my ethnography now, this Anthro class is over with by next week. Kind of scary.
Tuesday, June 20
It's Over
So, the NBA Finals are finally over, unfortunately Dallas lost, but eh...I guess I don't really care when it comes down to it. At least it was a close game and it's somewhat entertaining that Mark Cuban got fined $250,000 after his outbreak from game 5, and then Dirk got fined $5,000 (or something like that) for kicking the ball into the stands and then later kicking a stationary bike. I wish I could afford to get fined that much.
Everything's a little blah right now. Work is work. I got to redraw some pictograms welding dangers/precautions because some that were "drawn" before looked like shit and I couldn't bring myself to use them in something that I was putting together. Looked like someone just scanned in the old drawings and tried a LiveTrace and didn't fix any of the weird things that LiveTrace tends to do like odd curvy lines and jagged edges where a line should be straight.
My class on "Asian Cultures" is kind of cool, but not very engaging, and I think we've only had to stay once for the full two hours out of the nine classes we've had so far. Did I mention there's only one test? I really need to make sure I still pay attention then.
Still trying to keep the swimming thing going. Swam about 1,200 yards within 30 minutes today, only a small fraction of a "real" practice. At least I'm getting it out of my head that I have to wear myself out everytime I go workout. By doing this it's quite a bit easier to motivate myself to go swim because it isn't going to take forever and I won't be completely exhausted afterwards.
Man, I'm not in a very good mood right now, I don't think I'm busy enough. I've become such a loner now (well, I've always tended more to the loner side of the spectrum I suppose) because I never have time during the regular semester to keep up much of a social life and now I don't know what to do with myself. I get myself to go swimming, but that's not a very social activity unless you're on the "swim team", and I mostly just sit in my cube all day work. Kind of boring. I guess it's just getting to me at the moment and feeling a small surge of self-pity.
I'm also kind of bummed that I can't buy Boscoe a new cage just yet, I think I'll be able to after my next paycheck, it's just that the cage I want to get him costs about $170. I also want to buy some new perches and things for the cage and those things get a little pricey. I'll get it eventually I suppose, but I'd rather get it sooner than later.
Better head to bed or play some more NFS Underground 2, which is pretty fun I must say, except now it's getting just a little late and I have trouble with playing that game for only a "little" while. Just a teeny bit addicting. Good night.
Everything's a little blah right now. Work is work. I got to redraw some pictograms welding dangers/precautions because some that were "drawn" before looked like shit and I couldn't bring myself to use them in something that I was putting together. Looked like someone just scanned in the old drawings and tried a LiveTrace and didn't fix any of the weird things that LiveTrace tends to do like odd curvy lines and jagged edges where a line should be straight.
My class on "Asian Cultures" is kind of cool, but not very engaging, and I think we've only had to stay once for the full two hours out of the nine classes we've had so far. Did I mention there's only one test? I really need to make sure I still pay attention then.
Still trying to keep the swimming thing going. Swam about 1,200 yards within 30 minutes today, only a small fraction of a "real" practice. At least I'm getting it out of my head that I have to wear myself out everytime I go workout. By doing this it's quite a bit easier to motivate myself to go swim because it isn't going to take forever and I won't be completely exhausted afterwards.
Man, I'm not in a very good mood right now, I don't think I'm busy enough. I've become such a loner now (well, I've always tended more to the loner side of the spectrum I suppose) because I never have time during the regular semester to keep up much of a social life and now I don't know what to do with myself. I get myself to go swimming, but that's not a very social activity unless you're on the "swim team", and I mostly just sit in my cube all day work. Kind of boring. I guess it's just getting to me at the moment and feeling a small surge of self-pity.
I'm also kind of bummed that I can't buy Boscoe a new cage just yet, I think I'll be able to after my next paycheck, it's just that the cage I want to get him costs about $170. I also want to buy some new perches and things for the cage and those things get a little pricey. I'll get it eventually I suppose, but I'd rather get it sooner than later.
Better head to bed or play some more NFS Underground 2, which is pretty fun I must say, except now it's getting just a little late and I have trouble with playing that game for only a "little" while. Just a teeny bit addicting. Good night.
Friday, June 16
Clipping
Yay cable TV and Internet in my own home! That's always nice. Though I've been playing video games all night and not watching TV. I've also been getting mad at my cell phone which decides to not work at all at times. It's very frustrating when trying to call out and it doesn't want to connect or I all of a sudden get a voicemail from 3 hours earlier. Good times, good times.
Finally got Boscoe's wings clipped and he's coping quite well. Every once in a while I see him looking longingly at the ceiling fan and he will look for some way to get up there for a time. Though he has figured out that he can't really fly anymore, he tried a couple of times and seemed confused, but he's adjusted now. He's also got less attitude since the clipping. He was getting real cocky knowing that I couldn't catch him easily and he wasn't so dependent on me on getting around.
I went swimming yesterday which was fun, discovered some muscles I haven't used in a while and realized that it's been a VERY long time since I did any sort of working out, especially swimming. I plan on keeping this up, I doubt it'll last through the fall though...I just end up running out of time during the normal school semester. I also need to get it out of my head to try and do the kind of practices I used to do for about 3 hours a day. 30 minutes at least 3 days a week will be good, I don't need to sprint a 50 yard freestyle in 27 seconds anymore, so I don't need to kill myself practicing and going ALL OUT. Though it is fun to just swim as fast as you can, well for me at least. Relaxing in some strange way.
Work's been work. Getting annoyed at times, with me being the only graphics person it's easy to get overwhelmed with crap at times. Job security I guess.
I guess I should go to bed or something, I'm kind of tired and hungry...ooh I have ice cream. I'll need to eat some of that first and maybe play some more video games, that sounds better that sleep. Oh yeah.
Also, the Mavs really need to shape up, why aren't they running? They're so much faster than Miami, WHY AREN'T THEY RUNNING? And now they've suspended Stackhouse?! When they didn't even expel him from the game. BE CONSISTENT PEOPLE! And Dirk needs to sing some more Hasselhoff tunes or something, cause his ass is not in gear.
There. I said it. What I said...I don't know. Just venting.
Finally got Boscoe's wings clipped and he's coping quite well. Every once in a while I see him looking longingly at the ceiling fan and he will look for some way to get up there for a time. Though he has figured out that he can't really fly anymore, he tried a couple of times and seemed confused, but he's adjusted now. He's also got less attitude since the clipping. He was getting real cocky knowing that I couldn't catch him easily and he wasn't so dependent on me on getting around.
I went swimming yesterday which was fun, discovered some muscles I haven't used in a while and realized that it's been a VERY long time since I did any sort of working out, especially swimming. I plan on keeping this up, I doubt it'll last through the fall though...I just end up running out of time during the normal school semester. I also need to get it out of my head to try and do the kind of practices I used to do for about 3 hours a day. 30 minutes at least 3 days a week will be good, I don't need to sprint a 50 yard freestyle in 27 seconds anymore, so I don't need to kill myself practicing and going ALL OUT. Though it is fun to just swim as fast as you can, well for me at least. Relaxing in some strange way.
Work's been work. Getting annoyed at times, with me being the only graphics person it's easy to get overwhelmed with crap at times. Job security I guess.
I guess I should go to bed or something, I'm kind of tired and hungry...ooh I have ice cream. I'll need to eat some of that first and maybe play some more video games, that sounds better that sleep. Oh yeah.
Also, the Mavs really need to shape up, why aren't they running? They're so much faster than Miami, WHY AREN'T THEY RUNNING? And now they've suspended Stackhouse?! When they didn't even expel him from the game. BE CONSISTENT PEOPLE! And Dirk needs to sing some more Hasselhoff tunes or something, cause his ass is not in gear.
There. I said it. What I said...I don't know. Just venting.
Sunday, June 11
Late Night
Ah, so this is the latest night I've had in a while. I've found out that when I regularly have to get up at 8 in the morning and DON'T have a crapload of homework to do, I kind of like going to bed before midnight. Quite fascinating really.
Haven't done anything spectacular as of late. I bought a couple of bras today, not that anyone really needs to know that, but that's something I did. I've looked up wing clipping online and have finally decided to go get Boscoe birdy a feather cut. I think this has been a good thing for him though, having his wings grow out and shit. It seems that his wings were clipped too young because he's basically learned to fly with any kind of control or accuracy just recently, and from what I've read it's good to let a bird learn to fly first BEFORE clipping their pretty little wings because it helps with their confidence and ability to fly, perhaps "flutter to the ground" is a better way to say it, with even clipped wings. I know the pet store will do it, but I wanted to read up on the procedure so I would know if it looked alright or not. If it doesn't look good I'll find a good ol' avian vet to help me out, more expensive, but probably worth it.
I guess I'll head to bed soon, I've just became RE-addicted to this computer version of Sudoku that my bf got for free. Fun times.
Haven't done anything spectacular as of late. I bought a couple of bras today, not that anyone really needs to know that, but that's something I did. I've looked up wing clipping online and have finally decided to go get Boscoe birdy a feather cut. I think this has been a good thing for him though, having his wings grow out and shit. It seems that his wings were clipped too young because he's basically learned to fly with any kind of control or accuracy just recently, and from what I've read it's good to let a bird learn to fly first BEFORE clipping their pretty little wings because it helps with their confidence and ability to fly, perhaps "flutter to the ground" is a better way to say it, with even clipped wings. I know the pet store will do it, but I wanted to read up on the procedure so I would know if it looked alright or not. If it doesn't look good I'll find a good ol' avian vet to help me out, more expensive, but probably worth it.
I guess I'll head to bed soon, I've just became RE-addicted to this computer version of Sudoku that my bf got for free. Fun times.
Friday, June 9
Card Away!
So...apparantly people don't check ID's anymore to see if you're 21. (As you may or may not know I turned 21 this past Sunday.) I got two drinks on my birthday and bought some Smirnoff just a little while ago...and have not had my ID checked any of those times. Technically the drinks on my birthday were bought for me by various family members, but still some ID should be checked, cause dude, I want to say, "Hey, dude, I'm 21, give me the booze," or something along those lines. Maybe I just exude confidence and I look old or something. Somehow I make all think that I'm 21 or older...or people just don't care much about checking ID's anymore.
Yeah, now I've reached the big 2-1, and have now run out of the real eventful birthdays. I guess I could celebrate bein able to rent a car when I get to 25, and all the new decades (30, 40, 50, and beyond) are pretty eventful. Mostly that's just people making fun of how old you are now. At least I exude confidence, that's something I guess.
Boscoe's still having adventures on the ceiling fan. Sometimes he's really good when he gets out, and sometimes there's frustrations abound. I'm still putting off the whole "wing clipping" thing, but I think that's only way I'm going to get him where he doesn't get into inaccessible areas and causing me much stress in trying to get him back in his cage. It just seems mean though, especially after he's gotten used to having full wings and actually getting pretty good at the whole flying bit.
Things are still going well at the new APT, I'm going to need to get to working on projects though, or I'm going to end up being quite bored (or more so than I've already started to become). At least Boscoe's good at keeping me occupied, except for the fact that he bites, and bites quite hard. Not fun to try and capture him.
My anthropology class on Asian cultures is kind of cool, reading a really interesting ethnography for it at the moment, "A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman." Though I need it read before Monday and I still have quite a bit to go, I just have devote more hours than have been this weekend.
Anyways, been 21 for almost a week. Haven't had any wild happenings though and don't really plan to. It's nice to know that I can go into places now that I wasn't able to not too long ago. That way when it IS suggested to go the the "Flying Saucer" I don't have to call it a night right away. Not that I'll be expecting this to happen often, but you know.
Yeah, now I've reached the big 2-1, and have now run out of the real eventful birthdays. I guess I could celebrate bein able to rent a car when I get to 25, and all the new decades (30, 40, 50, and beyond) are pretty eventful. Mostly that's just people making fun of how old you are now. At least I exude confidence, that's something I guess.
Boscoe's still having adventures on the ceiling fan. Sometimes he's really good when he gets out, and sometimes there's frustrations abound. I'm still putting off the whole "wing clipping" thing, but I think that's only way I'm going to get him where he doesn't get into inaccessible areas and causing me much stress in trying to get him back in his cage. It just seems mean though, especially after he's gotten used to having full wings and actually getting pretty good at the whole flying bit.
Things are still going well at the new APT, I'm going to need to get to working on projects though, or I'm going to end up being quite bored (or more so than I've already started to become). At least Boscoe's good at keeping me occupied, except for the fact that he bites, and bites quite hard. Not fun to try and capture him.
My anthropology class on Asian cultures is kind of cool, reading a really interesting ethnography for it at the moment, "A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman." Though I need it read before Monday and I still have quite a bit to go, I just have devote more hours than have been this weekend.
Anyways, been 21 for almost a week. Haven't had any wild happenings though and don't really plan to. It's nice to know that I can go into places now that I wasn't able to not too long ago. That way when it IS suggested to go the the "Flying Saucer" I don't have to call it a night right away. Not that I'll be expecting this to happen often, but you know.
Saturday, June 3
Moved In!
So yay! I'm all moved into my new aparment and everything seems to be looking pretty good. I should be getting a TV soon (on loan, why buy one if I don't have to?) so that I can periodically veg out over the summer. I have quite a few projects I'm hoping to get done over the summer and as long as I don't have too much homework from my summer classes (well, I'm only taking two and only ONE at a time) it shouldn't be too much of a problem...that is as long as I stay motivated.
Boscoe is sort of adjusting, right now he's going through this phase where he LOVES the ceiling fan. Why? Reason #1: It's up high and he feels like bird and gets to excercise his full grown wings. Reason #2 (the real reason this is a pain in the ass): is that he has discovered his own reflection in the shiny fake gold base of the fan. At first this was cute because he would still come onto my hand and be a good little bird. NOW he's turned into a shit head every time he goes up there and repeatedly flies off my hand back onto the fan AND bites the crap out of my hands when I resort to taking him down the mean way (putting my hand around him and essentially GRABBING him), which results in a very not fun time for both of us.
For the time being I have either taken him out while in the closet (I have only one closet, but it is quite large) and have covered up the shiny part of the fan so that he doesn't get obsessive over his reflection when he does fly up there. This is working fairly well, but sadly I think I'm going to have to get his wings clipped which would solve the problem of him even being able to get up to the fan. I haven't wanted to get his wings clipped because I had a parakeet a while back who was quite friendly and liked coming outside with me, until my mom's friend (who had birds of her own) clipped his wings for us. After the clipping he was terrified of hands and would never come out of his cage afterwards...and I really don't want to risk that with Boscoe, but the first time he got so adamant about staying up on that damn fan I really wasn't sure if I'd be able to get him down. Sure he'd get hungry or thirsty after a while and PROBABLY would have come down himself, but then he'd get even cockier than he is now and probably even harder to handle if he thinks HE can be in charge and be the Top Dog (or bird in this case).
So that's fun I suppose. I did buy a couple chairs and an end table today, so that's exciting. Stuff for the apartment! I think I'm going to really REALLY like having my own place. Sure I'll get bored or lonely from time to time, but that's why I've got Boscoe to squawk at me and keep me occupied.
Okay, now here's the X3 rant I've been holding off on.
SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!!!
Are you ready?
You sure?
Turn back if you haven't watched the movie yet!
I'm going to give just about everything away!
Did they really have to kill EVERYBODY! Why?! Why did they have to kill Professor X, was it really necessary? Not only did they kill him, he was DISINTEGRATED! ATOMIZED! BLASTED INTO A MILLION TINY PIECES! WHAT THE HELL! It's Professor Fucking X! You can't kill him, how can even come back from that. Now they can't even bring him back in any sort of reasonable manner if someone changes their mind and wants to make another movie!
Okay, that's probably why I'm most upset, because with Professor X DEAD, the X-Men movies are pretty much done. Finito. End of story. I don't want the movies to be over! And if it weren't the fact that they had the Beast in there, played gloriously by Kelsey Grammer (perfect casting, it makes me happy), I might have really not liked the movie at all. It was a good movie, but come on, they killed Professor X!
Also, what was the deal with how Cyclops died? Jean, no wait the PHOENIX, killed him within the first 10 minutes of the movie! James Marsden just plays some heart-broken widower with Jean speaking in his head and then he's dead. No one even seemed to care, Storm and Wolverine find Jean and all of a sudden they don't even care in the least where Cyclops had gone. Wolverine found his glasses just floating around OBVIOUSLY something happened to him, but no one cared.
Now, the only death I'm even sort of okay with is Jean/Phoenix, it was sad, tragic, and towards the end of the movie. A good death scene in my opinion. But I have to wonder, did Prof X and Cyclops die JUST to give Halle Berry a bigger role? Because she doesn't really need a bigger role, she's not a great actress and she had a decent role to begin with. Plus she doesn't deserve to be in charge of the whole damn school. Storm didn't even care about why Rogue would want to NOT be a mutant anymore.
There's another big stink, the whole Rogue-not-being-able-to-touch-anyone and now all of a sudden having the chance to have that change. I think if Bryan Singer were still the director he would have played up the emotional charge in that much more. And the fact that he traded over to do the damn Superman movie kind of irritates me, but you know what, I'll probably still go see it and I'll laugh it ends up sucking.
So maybe I'm too involved in the whole X-Men movie thing. A very good movie, everyone who likes the other two should go see it, but I'm very sad that there won't be anymore of the movies. Oh well, at least they had a good run.
Le sigh.
Boscoe is sort of adjusting, right now he's going through this phase where he LOVES the ceiling fan. Why? Reason #1: It's up high and he feels like bird and gets to excercise his full grown wings. Reason #2 (the real reason this is a pain in the ass): is that he has discovered his own reflection in the shiny fake gold base of the fan. At first this was cute because he would still come onto my hand and be a good little bird. NOW he's turned into a shit head every time he goes up there and repeatedly flies off my hand back onto the fan AND bites the crap out of my hands when I resort to taking him down the mean way (putting my hand around him and essentially GRABBING him), which results in a very not fun time for both of us.
For the time being I have either taken him out while in the closet (I have only one closet, but it is quite large) and have covered up the shiny part of the fan so that he doesn't get obsessive over his reflection when he does fly up there. This is working fairly well, but sadly I think I'm going to have to get his wings clipped which would solve the problem of him even being able to get up to the fan. I haven't wanted to get his wings clipped because I had a parakeet a while back who was quite friendly and liked coming outside with me, until my mom's friend (who had birds of her own) clipped his wings for us. After the clipping he was terrified of hands and would never come out of his cage afterwards...and I really don't want to risk that with Boscoe, but the first time he got so adamant about staying up on that damn fan I really wasn't sure if I'd be able to get him down. Sure he'd get hungry or thirsty after a while and PROBABLY would have come down himself, but then he'd get even cockier than he is now and probably even harder to handle if he thinks HE can be in charge and be the Top Dog (or bird in this case).
So that's fun I suppose. I did buy a couple chairs and an end table today, so that's exciting. Stuff for the apartment! I think I'm going to really REALLY like having my own place. Sure I'll get bored or lonely from time to time, but that's why I've got Boscoe to squawk at me and keep me occupied.
Okay, now here's the X3 rant I've been holding off on.
SPOILER WARNING!!!!!!!!
Are you ready?
You sure?
Turn back if you haven't watched the movie yet!
I'm going to give just about everything away!
Did they really have to kill EVERYBODY! Why?! Why did they have to kill Professor X, was it really necessary? Not only did they kill him, he was DISINTEGRATED! ATOMIZED! BLASTED INTO A MILLION TINY PIECES! WHAT THE HELL! It's Professor Fucking X! You can't kill him, how can even come back from that. Now they can't even bring him back in any sort of reasonable manner if someone changes their mind and wants to make another movie!
Okay, that's probably why I'm most upset, because with Professor X DEAD, the X-Men movies are pretty much done. Finito. End of story. I don't want the movies to be over! And if it weren't the fact that they had the Beast in there, played gloriously by Kelsey Grammer (perfect casting, it makes me happy), I might have really not liked the movie at all. It was a good movie, but come on, they killed Professor X!
Also, what was the deal with how Cyclops died? Jean, no wait the PHOENIX, killed him within the first 10 minutes of the movie! James Marsden just plays some heart-broken widower with Jean speaking in his head and then he's dead. No one even seemed to care, Storm and Wolverine find Jean and all of a sudden they don't even care in the least where Cyclops had gone. Wolverine found his glasses just floating around OBVIOUSLY something happened to him, but no one cared.
Now, the only death I'm even sort of okay with is Jean/Phoenix, it was sad, tragic, and towards the end of the movie. A good death scene in my opinion. But I have to wonder, did Prof X and Cyclops die JUST to give Halle Berry a bigger role? Because she doesn't really need a bigger role, she's not a great actress and she had a decent role to begin with. Plus she doesn't deserve to be in charge of the whole damn school. Storm didn't even care about why Rogue would want to NOT be a mutant anymore.
There's another big stink, the whole Rogue-not-being-able-to-touch-anyone and now all of a sudden having the chance to have that change. I think if Bryan Singer were still the director he would have played up the emotional charge in that much more. And the fact that he traded over to do the damn Superman movie kind of irritates me, but you know what, I'll probably still go see it and I'll laugh it ends up sucking.
So maybe I'm too involved in the whole X-Men movie thing. A very good movie, everyone who likes the other two should go see it, but I'm very sad that there won't be anymore of the movies. Oh well, at least they had a good run.
Le sigh.
Friday, June 2
Checking In!
So, I'm back from EP, moved into my new apartment (which is quite cool), and have a need to rant about the new X-Men movie, but since I'm at work that'll have to wait until later I suppose.
Anyone who can should come check out my new pad, I likes it lots.
Talk to you peeps lay-ta.
Anyone who can should come check out my new pad, I likes it lots.
Talk to you peeps lay-ta.
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