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5.12.08
I was fully intending to go into work today, last night's Radiohead concert down in Virginia notwithstanding. But the seriously ugly weather and poor planning by the venue and the local police meant that we didn't get home until close to 3 a.m., cold and wet and exhausted. So I'm going to take a half day this morning to recover and work a half day from home this afternoon.
I don't think I've every been more miserable going to and getting away from a show, but very rarely as happy during.
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5.9.08
It's been a quiet week at work, and until while we're waiting for the document management contract to get signed and hire a new person, it's probably going to stay quiet for a week or two. But man, this summer is going to be crazy busy.
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5.8.08
We went to see Iron Man yesterday, and I have to say, it was pretty damn good, right up there with the first X-Men movie and Batman Begins among brilliant comic book adaptations. I didn't read that comic much as a kid, so either they've changed the mythology quite a bit since I read it briefly in the 80s or they came up with a bunch of new stuff for the movie version of the universe.
Robert Downey, Jr. was perfect for what they were trying to do with the movie version of Tony Stark, and it's kind of nice to see Marvel trying out the Batman type of hero, one that is a superhero because of his technology rather than an innate gift.
It doesn't surprise me that the movie has done very well both here and abroad, or that Marvel announced a sequel slated for 2010 after the first weekend box office receipts came in. Although summer tends to be the time of year when you only hold onto the number one spot for a week, Iron Man's competition this weekend are a lame romantic comedy from Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz and a suspect Speed Racer adaptation from the Wachowski brothers, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see Iron Man come out on top again, or at least come very close.
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5.7.08
I think I've found my new addiction: this page that displays the fifty most recently posted images from LiveJournal. Every time I load it, it's a completely new, completely fascinating look at the flotsam and jetsam of our global culture. Then wait two minutes, hit reload, and you get a whole new dose of goodness. Potentially NSFW, but generally okay. And like I said, highly addictive.
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5.6.08
Today is going to be a good day, I think, because something at work is ending that will make my professional life significantly less complicated. And tomorrow I bet will be even better.
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5.5.08
Since what I want to write about today will take far more time than I have for posting right now, I'll instead give you these words of wisdom from Frank Kozik:
Leasing is only good for Companies that need a bunch of vehicles for employees.
A normal person leasing a car is pretty much a dumbass.
Got it? Good. Now don't be a dumbass.
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5.2.08
I signed up for my final class in my master's program this week. I had originally intended to write a thesis as my capstone, so I thought my final class was the music class I took last summer, but even though I have a good thesis idea and a ton of books to use as reference/research while I'm writing it, I just know in my heart of hearts that I'll never do it. So I opted instead for the portfolio capstone option, which requires me to take another course in the program and compile a portfolio of my papers and my classroom experiences from the program.
It's not like I really need a master's—I'm not going to get a raise or anything once I have it—I was really just taking the courses for personal enrichment and because they are free with the tuition remission I get from my employer. But it will be some sort of cosmic justice to end up with a master's from Johns Hopkins that's been virtually free for me after not getting a master's from UVA that I'm still paying for today (I dropped out of the program after completing most of my coursework, but before I had taken my oral exams, etc.).
My final class will be an eight week summer course at the Walters, which is kind of fitting given that it will be my fourth Walters course in this program, with one of the others being my first course and the other two falling roughly in the middle in back to back semesters. The professor for this course was actually the asisstant for one of the other courses, so she's not unknown to me, and although I was a little worried that I'd just be redoing work that I have already done, she assures me that this will focus on a different period, different locations, and different objects than I studied before.
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5.1.08
With the exception of my 92 year old aunt dying, April was a pretty good month for me. Let's hope it's a harbinger for how the rest of the year will go, because it sure would be nice to have a string of good months on the books.
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