useful day

[da]

I think today was well-seized. melted_snowball is in bed, and I'm headed that direction very soon.

This morning while I was writing my prior week's report for $boss, I came up with a few crazy ideas that had been percolating over the last few weeks. When we met, he liked them. I hope they pan out. kraig, you get to find out first.

The day seemed quite long; but not in a bad way at all. I kept finishing things and saying, "isn't it 5 o'clock yet? Oh, only 3? Weird," and so on, every 30 minutes or so. I wasn't bored, nor hyper-alert, nor over-caffeinated, nor particularly hit by NADD, just a bit more efficient than usual. Go, me.

When 5:30 finally did roll around, I biked home in the rain, which would've been fun except I realized I was running a bit late. And they went and moved one of the paths again, due to that darned sewer construction.

I got home and hopped in the car to pick up pizza before City Cafe closed. I took what I thought was the safe route, but it wasn't. But it was "closed" and passable-through-huge-piles-of-dirt, not closed-as-in-deep-hole-and-exposed-street-innards. I got to City Cafe before they closed, and they had just one pizza left. It was unlabeled.

I asked if it was chicken-pesto. John whipped open the top... and it was indeed. A lucky man, was I.

And he gave me a defective butter tart. Mmmmm. (Defective tarts don't have calories, don'tcha know?)

And I remembered to buy coffee while I was there.

And I managed to get half the butter tart home for dan, even though it kept trying to leap off the pizza box into my lap. Mmmm gooey lap-tart.

The evening was more sedate, at least for me. After a quick meal melted_snowball managed to go to chorus rehearsal even though he had been teaching at 8:30 this morning. (How'd he do it? I'm not certain.)

Meanwhile, I watched Princess Mononoke (meh. more review later) and installed Windows (ick) in a virtual environment on my mac.

And... wow, we're going to Boston in two and 1/2 days. I'm excited!

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[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

I watched "Princess Mononoke" last week (my very first netflix). [Great minds think alike!]

I liked it, overall, though it does not show remotely the visual complexity or attention to detail of, say, "Spirited Away." So, in that sense, it's not as good. Miyazaki's style has definitely grown and matured over the years.

However, at the time it came out (which was awhile ago now), I suspect it was groundbreaking...

[Before you ask: currently watching "Upstairs, Downstairs," which is quite a departure from "Princess Mononoke"...] :-)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

*amused* Hey- thought you said Pilates of the Caribbean was your very first netflix. ;) Can't just go becoming a netflix virgin again. I mean, really. (Not like I'd never do anything like that. No, d. would never corroborate any such behaviour on my part... Never.)

I'm trying to imagine "Upstairs, Downstairs" with either main character from Princess Mononoke, and it really doesn't work.

Maybe with a Doctor Who tentacled monster in the closet. (new series, not old, so better animated effects).

*shudder*

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

Well, I got two netflix, and watched "Princess" first. (I give"Pirates" a 4 out of 10, while we're on the topic. Really don't get what the appeal is with that movie...)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Heh.

my co-worker who loaned me Princess Mononoke also loaned me nausicca, which I've heard much less about, but it looks sort of similar. I'm looking forward to seeing that; probably nest week.