Saw "Cloverfield" again last night. Saw it opening night...lines around the block [literally], packed house. Initial impression was that I liked it, but it didn't rock my world. Then I went again with my friend last night...and I *really* liked it on the second viewing. We sat a little farther back, which made a huge difference [trust me on this], and I was able to relax into the story a bit more and catch details and nuances that I hadn't seen the first time.
Not posting a lot of details, in case you haven't seen it yet. If you are going to, mind the shaky camera [the theatre has warning signs about possible motion sickness] and keep an open mind. This isn't your typical "bad things happen, military swoops in, good eventually prevails with the help of a plucky average joe" type of movie...and points to J.J. for that.
[Okay, one little spoiler: watch for the splash at the end. I missed it the first time around.]
One of those days that seems to overflow with minor irritants. Nothing huge, each one is teenytinyeensyweensy in the grand scheme of things, but they seem to be stacking up today:
* Woman on the sidewalk in front of me who suddenly panicked at a drop of rain, stopped dead in front of me, ran into me, then bustled off to get under an awning with nary an apology.
* Random guy standing in front of the glass-doored cooler at work, trying to decide what he wanted...with the door wide open. The glass door. The see-through glass door. Wide open. Just looking.
* Woman-with-voice-that-carries is on the phone with her little one again. Loudly. In an open floorplan office.
* The guy who sits next to me is whistling again. Sadly, this is a different guy from the one I mentioned a while back...we have two whistlers on the floor. The open floorplan floor.
* Papercut
* Insomnia [well, more so than usual]
* Sandwich fell apart whilst eating it. I hate that. [On the plus side, I had easy access to a fork, so was able to salvage some of it.]
* Slow servers, bounced email, program crash
See? Nothing huge, nothing even worth whining about really...but one after the other after the other starts making even Elmo turn into Oscar.
Sort of. Trying to get my head back into the proper workaday space. It was good having Mom here last week...I miss my family, and it was nice sharing the day-to-day with her, even though the circumstances weren't what we would have liked them to be. Now I'm back at work, with a monster deadline looming for all of Finance...lots of late nights and weekends coming up in the next few months. Going to carve out some time for me in there somewhere, but won't be as much as I'd like [but then, it never is]. Still trying to decide if the finance world is for me...my skills are definitely coming in handy, but as I've said often, just because you are good at something doesn't mean it's what you want to do. And I really miss the IT world and the people who inhabit it...I miss rubbing shoulders with geeks, nerds, and dorks on a regular basis.
But for now, I'm heads down in the land o' fixed assets, doing what I can to keep things moving forward...which is pretty much how it goes for a lot of things, isn't it?
At Lee's Comics tonight, chatting with my friend who works there. Showed him my tat, and when I told him the design came out of a graphic novel, he just shook his head and asked "Why hasn't some fanboy snatched you up yet??"
<smile>
There is a plant in a restroom at work...every time I see it, the word "bromeliad" pops into my head. Finally got around to looking it up, and sure enough, that's the type of plant it is.
Why the hell do I know that??
...a stinky, sick, confused cat landed in California after a long flight from
Ohio. Now he is a healthy, happy, sweetheart of a cat who is getting more loving and cuddly as time goes by. Happy anniversary, Pepper.
Sick, darn it. Spent new year's with my friend and his kids [which was a good time]. The bad news is that the youngest was throwing up for much of the 1st [poor thing...not such a good time], and *boom* it hit me a few days later [found out it also hit my friend...ah, the joys of those little petri dishes called "kids" and "school"].
So did you know you can get sinusitis from throwing up? Yup. Even from dry heaves. Some of the stomach acid gets forced into the nasal passages and sinus canals from the spasms...that's why your nose runs when you throw up [cheerful thought, isn't it?]. Too much of it, and it irritates everything and gives you sinusitis and cold-like symptoms: runny nose, sore throat, clogged passages, labored breathing. And if you are prone to bronchitis, it can then blossom into oh, so much more: coughing, inflamed throat, fever, red and puffy eyes, achy joints, trouble sleeping.
Joy.
