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| 23 may 2002 [with this entry, i am 50% full on my geocities account. i dread the day when i fill it up and have to figure out what to do.] ah, a picture of a camera. seems amusing in a recursive way. after i opened it up in the office yesterday, i could feel myself getting carried away, so i forced myself to pack it back up and shove it in my trunk. but when i got home, i pretty much couldn't restrain myself. i fondled it. a lot. i didn't really pay attention to _felicity_, which was a disaster anyway. i got home at 8:15 and watched the tape of last week's show, but then i realized that the finale itself started an hour early! ugh. anyways, the last hour (it was from 8-10) was just a huge recap of the past four years. seems like lots of series finales are simply recaps. x-files, seinfeld, ally, and now felicity. is it because the writers have nothing to say, since they're pretty much barred from producing plot points that don't have time to be resolved? seems kind of lame if you ask me. i mean, the recaps are nice for people who haven't watched the show much, but if you've seen every episode, a summary episode just seems like a huge lazy cop-out. *pukes* but the final montage made me kind of sad. i like seeing groups of friends revel in their affection and camaraderie. it's not a surprise, then, that my favorite movie is _st. elmo's fire_. and there's that scene in the first _teenage mutant ninja turtles_ movie where you see the turtles standing together in a silhouette against the sky. it makes me warm. i think i'll miss _felicity_. even though i bitched about it, it was still better than the majority of the shows out there, and i kind of got attached to some characters, like megan and noel. oh well. but anyways! back to the camera. i think it's beautiful. it generates an odd crush-like electricity in me. eric comments: "the um ... the lens barrel is a subconscious selling point. for guys and phallic women, anyway. :) ... but it is quite... manly. this camera is the peaceful geek's sawed-off shotgun, or something." did i mention that i like asymmetry? so throughout the night, i unpacked various things like my tripod, memory stick, etc. i read through all the instruction manuals, including the 90+ page camera manual. very exciting stuff. the only bummer was that the timbuk2 bag i ordered wasn't big enough to fit my camera... i mean, i checked the dimensions of the both the bag and the camera, but something is amiss here. shit. so. now i'm all set. i am ready to shoot. now what? last night, i wrote: "i feel like i just got a lightsaber, but i have nobody to decapitate." oh, one last thing about the camera. in the 2nd page of the instruction manual, it says: DISPOSAL OF LITHIUM ION BATTERY. LITHIUM ION BATTERY. DISPOSE OF PROPERLY. ha! i think someone is having too much fun writing their manuals. how emphatic can they get? i forgot. i got a parking ticket on saturday night (sunday morning). how lame is it to go to a club and stay until closing (3am), and walk out and find a ticket on the dash just because it was a street cleaning lane. it's 3am! do they really clean at that time? *GACK* i just left a really snide sarcastic comment on a blog, and i had a TYPO! *blushes* how fucking embarassing is that? *RAAR* so abercrombie is selling girls' thongs. (i couldn't find it on the online store, though.) by "girls" i mean ages 10 or something. people are outraged. i dunno. i mean, i don't see what the big deal is. i'd like to know how many 10-year-olds actually want them. what is that? 5th grade? hm. do 5th graders roam the malls? if not, don't their parents have to take them? i think this situation is where parenting really needs to do something. if the general consensus is that the underwear is inappropriate, it's up to the parents to monitor their kids; it's not a&f's problem, except that they'll have all this excess inventory of cute size -5 thongs. i *would* like to know where the a&f rep came up with the statement that kids start caring about what underwear they wear by age 10. seems a bit low, no? but the thing is, if they're wrong, and 10-year-old girls really don't give a shit about underwear, then we shouldn't be upset then... because nobody's going to buy the thongs except for really really freakishly thin older people. thinking about this issue makes me think that there are things people do to kids that are just as bad, yet they're accepted for the most part. what comes to my mind is jonbenet ramsey. i know i should be open-minded and stuff, but i think there is something incredibly foul in dressing up a kid like a hooker and parading her around. see, at least kids can choose if they want to wear a&f's underwear, and i doubt their parents would want them to. but in jonbenet's case, her parents pretty much encouraged her, didn't they? finally! i got wind of a blog yesterday that basically quotes some of us and post up our pictures in an attempt to make fun of us. says the tagline, "links to the biggest tards on the internet!" ah, it makes sense that "dratbew" spelled backwards is "webtard." so the dude/dudette quotes people like me, lan, bleak, minjung, etc. i think in my case, i'm not offended (yet). he has only quoted me. nothing taken out of context so far. no snide comments. if he thinks i'm a retard, that's fine; my ego is so much bigger than a stranger's opinion. but in the case of bleak, he made a one-word statement on one of her passages, and i can see how she'd be pissed. but in the end, i just have to laugh at this dude. why spend all this time going through people's journals if you think they're retarded? aren't *you* doing something rather inane? it's like hanging out with people you hate. what a waste of time! but in the end, whatever. like i said, free speech is a bitch sometimes. we are having a company picture today. we were specifically told not to look "dorky." so i got up, and after surveying my button-down shirts, i put on my chandler-esque green/black bowling shirt. it's cool! but, there's one problem: my shirt is from another company. so far, i've gotten some advice that i shouldn't wear it. hm. i don't want to cause a scene. shit. last thing... thanks to eric, eric, adam and mike for their opinions and input when i was deciding on my camera. fuck. i'm going to go home and changing my shirt. |