Wednesday, August 25, 2010

roxy the obscure

somehow i totally fucking forgot my mom was visiting today? like, my mom lives 1000 miles away and i only see her once or twice a year, so it isn't like.. her driving down from the suburbs or something. how did i forget !

i did not update yesterday because we had a meeting from 9am to 3pm. we had our team retreat for work. i'm sort of bummed with the format- my team is split into two halves, and each half would have their own retreat in previous years. my team's retreat was going to my boss' house, eating a ton of delicious food, going over our business plans, and then going home early. i understand the value of having both halves of the team go over our business plans together, but it was just... a six hour meeting in our conference room. totally not fun. other teams got to paint ceramics !

ceramics


that said, it wasn't too bad and it went by super fast and we got to go home afterward.

yesterday when i got home i took an epic nap (bad form !) and made a card for my craft swap recipient. i'd love to show it to you guys but i'm afraid that she'll somehow see it ! i also did a little more work on my herringbone neck thing:

herringbone


seriously, most relaxing pattern ever. it looks really cool and it's super easy and knits up really fast. i've probably spent less than an hour on it so far. i also want to marry sheep shop yarn. here are some other colors i'm considering buying when i'm a millionaire:

sheep shop
modern

sheep shop
lilac

sheep shop
royalty

sheep shop
lime

sheep shop
ocean


at $12.50/skein at loop, and with my commitment to not buying yarn without a project in mind, i'm not really likely to buy all of those, but i love them ! and i've read that the yarn is discontinued so if i don't buy it now, when can i ! but i'm a miser and a scrooge and unless i can think up some projects i'm not getting them ! you guys just watched me convince myself of that, by the way.

oh, what else? i got mockingjay in the mail today ! i can't wait to read it and most likely be disappointed by it. i'm currently reading the girl with the dragon tattoo so i can write a scathing review of it a la my twilight reviews, but it is actually too boring and dull to even... scathe.

the girl with the dragon tattoo


i'm about 150 pages in and so far all he's done is

- call everyone by their last names and have the characters all each other by their last names 300000000x
- use the phrase "wennerstrohm affair" like 700000x
- describe every single piece of furniture in every room ever
- wrote the most unnatural dialogue? like in an attempt to make the main character seem cool and professional, he actually made him the rudest most socially awkward person in the universe. and yet he writes about how awkward and weird lisbeth salander is but all of her conversations with people are polite and normal?

it's just like... not compelling? at all. i also feel like i'm reading "the socially awkward guy with no defining characteristics" because the aforementioned girl with the dragon tattoo has, so far, sent an email and took a picture of a thing. maybe she shows up more later, but i'm not really that interested because so far she's just a one dimensional character written by a dude who obviously wanted to fuck a thin "goth/punk" woman.

anyway, i have to rearrange my schedule a little because of my mom's visit. i was going to hang out with mouse and kev tonight but i probably shouldn't leave my mom alone on her first day here. i'm still going to see dangerbird and red devil on friday. i may also take off of work monday and tuesday ! the sky's the limit.

i'll leave you with this picture of baby meerkats in honor of my newfound love of meerkat manor

buddies


did you know meerkats are under 2lbs and 1 foot tall??? best dudes.

15 comments:

  1. i think i am also going to see dangerbird on Friday!

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  2. wooo let me know and maybe i'll carpool with you? the walk is kind of scary for a lady by herself.

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  3. I read that book too. It was like good for a pulp-fiction book you buy at the airport for $5 but not real literature? All 3 were published after the guy who wrote them died. I also read Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton after forgetting my book on a trip and its the same deal. I think the authors just wrote them for fun and are probably rolling over in their graves with the publication.

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  4. natalie, does the story wrap itself up in the first book or do i have to read all three? ugh

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  5. I read a couple chapters, then skipped to the movie. You should have taken my copy. :/

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  6. it's okay mike, my mom gave me hers !

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  7. thank god. i don't know if i can take two more books of this shit !

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  8. have you gotten to the gratuitous rape part yet?

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  9. I am anxiously awaiting being mad at UPS for saying they tried to deliver Mockingjay. Our regular driver likes to leave the sticker saying he attempted delivery but never rang the bell. Eeee!

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  10. i think that's the MO of like... every UPS driver. i hope you get it !

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  11. if you ever finish it (i started it but gave up because i hated it) can you let me know all the secret parts so i can talk to my co-worker about it? she basically forced me to let her lend it to me and and i am hiding it in my desk drawer until i can watch the movie or have someone else tell me what it's about.
    i suppose the easier thing to do would to be like, 'oh hey i am not going to read this' but for some reason i just like, cannot bring myself to do that?

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  12. i promise to spoil the shit out of the book for everyone who reads this and everyone they know. i'll include some talking points so you can pretend you read it !

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  13. oh man, 'modern' and 'lime'.
    i wanna rub my cheek on a meerkat.

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  14. the latest Bitch magazine has a short but incredible article about the Dragon Tattoo business. i highly recommend standing in a bookstore reading it to get an awesome spin on the whole thing.

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