This is just a collection of some of my thoughts as they come to me -- sometimes even sooner.
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| Steven Jens Has No Life This is just a collection of some of my thoughts as they come to me -- sometimes even sooner. |
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Wednesday, October 09, 2002 I have jello! Mostly blackberry.
Since my "check engine" light (my car's, actually) has been on frequently, I went to Autozone yesterday to get it checked out. The guy got three codes from the machine:
Tuesday, October 08, 2002 I watched most of the Packers-Bears game last night. I wonder what kind of ratings ABC's Green Bay affiliate was getting. posted by Steven | 5:27 PM |The following was written and sent out around 2 in the morning on Monday the sixth.
I should be sleeping, on account of the fact that I have an accounting class in five hours or less, but I wasn't able to sleep. Too many things to do. Sending y'all email isn't one, but it called me. Heck, maybe it'll settle my brain. Apropos of nothing, and in semi-random order: 1. Season premiere of Angel was tonight. Can't judge a season based on one show; certainly can't judge this season based on this show. Buffy has had two episodes; I thought the first showed promise for the season, and the second just sort of continued the first. 2. I liked Buffy better when it had more romantic sub-plots and in-the-dark (i.e., about Buffy's Slayerity) authority figures. I'm not entirely sure what I wish were different. I think the villians last season were less compelling than Glory or the Mayor. 3. I went to a bar last Friday to hang out with the Somerville Republican City Committee, or at least a few of the leaders. ("Let the good times roll," I can hear you say, your words dripping with envy and/or sarcasm.) At least one is a Buffy fan. As is a member of my own city committee (besides me). And one of my favorite columnists (and editor of National Review Online) Jonah Goldberg wrote a column a week or two back comparing an episode of Buffy to the relationship between the U.S. and the U.N., which I would have thought would alienate pretty much everyone who isn't me. I've been seeking ideas for social events for the Cambridge Republican City Committee -- maybe we'll do a Buffy marathon. 4. Speaking of the city committee, we organized a new ward committee last night. The city committee, see, is an aggregate of all the ward committees in the city -- each ward committee requires three Republicans from that ward, and some wards barely have three Republicans, let alone three willing to be on a ward committee. We got ward 1 organized, though, which is East Cambridge, so now we have eight out of eleven. 5. Back to television. New this season, from the creator of Buffy (Joss Whedon), comes Firefly. Three episodes so far; the most recent is my favorite so far. As I said, can't judge a season based on an episode -- and a new series takes several episodes -- but I think it shows promise. 6. I spend too much of my time watching shows and movies on TV. And reading things on the web. And playing at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~pyang/flash/miniputt.swf, though that's starting to get too easy. 7. Ebert and Roper like the new Adam Sandler movie. They couldn't believe it either. 8. One of the more recent movies I saw was The Majestic, which was similar to the Truman Show in that it starred Jim Carey in a non-comic role, and in that it disappointed me. I think I went in to both of those with high expectations. Pleasantville was that way -- I'd waited half a year for that, and it turned out to be pretty run-of-the-mill. Maybe that's why I didn't hate Battlefield Earth -- I didn't expect much of it. I had positive expectations of Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, though, and they met them. 9. I -- Dean, too -- will be at a wedding in Minneapolis this weekend. Alissa Luepke; some of you might remember her from Ankeny High School. I got her a thing at Home Depot this afternoon. I like Home Depot, which has many things that are far too cool for me to know how to use them. I can change the headlamp on my car. The last time I tried doing something more manually complicated was in 1996, when I cut my finger with a bandsaw. Ah, yes -- those were the days. 10. I don't think this email settled my brain, but making a to-do list (technically, adding some things to a list I'd ignored for a while) did. This email just gave me a chance to remind a few people that I'm still alive and well, and mostly in good spirits -- though I might not be in good spirits during my 7:20 accounting class. posted by Steven | 3:06 PM | |
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