ride it- my pony

wazzaaaaaaaaaaa. i'm so ridiculously caught up at work that i'm digging around for stuff to work on. summer is our slow season at work, and i have a few summer projects lined up, and i may start them early because i'm so bored.

last night was business as usual, at least for the forseeable future. i came home and hung out with christina for a bit (we watched vocal adrenaline's performance on the glee finale) and then played borderlands with perry. my character leveled twice, so now it's level 9 or 10? and we got the ability to ride in a vehicle. i think maybe i'm getting the hang of targeting shit? we dueled each other and i won twice, but only cause i killed him while he was explaining stuff to me and wasn't shooting back. he said that he didn't mind because it shows that i have the killer instinct and he can respect that.



then my friend ken and i watched a movie together. one thing you may NOT know about the xbox 360 is that you can form a party with friends and all watch the same netflix movie together- like, it syncs it up on everyone's tvs ! it's basically the coolest thing ever, though our movie choice of robot vs. aztec mummy was a poor one. while i love mystery science theater 3000, i have to admit that it's pretty hard to talk during them because you're automatically competing with one person and two robots who are funnier than you are.



it actually didn't occur to me until i watched that that mummies can be from places other than egypt. this opens up a whole world of mummies that i've never thought about !

what else? i talked to mouse and made plans to hang out tonight. he's been getting jiu jitsu compliments from his instructors lately. could a purple belt be in the works?!??!! unfortunately, brazilian jiu jitsu isn't like YMCA karate (how many of us knew black belts in like, fifth grade?) and it takes a few years to advance, and he only got his blue belt recently. it's oddly exciting for me to hear about his progress because he loves jiu jitsu so much and i still remember him stopping by after his first class, happier and more psyched than i'd ever seen him, super excited to tell me about... getting his ass kicked?


some jiu jitsu guys doing a thing

oh yeah, i forgot to mention this- my xbox gamertag is scummanifesto (hee hee), so you can add me and maybe we can play one of two games i have together? i should have left 4 dead 2 soon too.

p.s. i'm bored !!!!!!!!
p.p.s. i've been thinking about it and i'm oddly excited to buy school supplies for my classes in july?

a consolation prize will suffice tonight

booo i had meetings all morning and a greek salad just exploded on me ! and i had to like, pick feta out of indoor outdoor carpet which was awesome and i totally smell great now and am happy that i can cross that off my bucket list.



last night i finally hooked up my xbox. there was one minor snag that was um, me putting in commas instead of periods on my email address, but i got set up pretty quickly. i played borderlands with my friend perry for awhile. it's hard to get used to the headset because it's just.. on all the time. in wow, you set a button you press to talk, so you don't have to worry about everyone hearing you farting and singing songs to your cat. also, i'm like 99% sure the jack on my controller is fucked up because my headset sounds like when you'd yank out your walkman headphones too much and they'd get all fuzzy and you'd have to twist it to make it work !!! i'm taking it to the GEEK SQUAD.

borderlands was pretty cool ! we didn't really get very far, but i was surprised that it wasn't as hard to get used to as i anticipated. i didn't really have much trouble controlling my character (though aiming was kind of hard and i didn't really get the hang of it) and figuring out how to navigate, but it's very different from wow and the controller has nine billion buttons.



i'm not really sure what the game is about because i'm the worst at paying attention during cinematics and reading quest text. my friend jason described it as killing desert mosquitos and killing members of slipknot which seems about right. for example:



this screen came up right before we killed this dude. he even has slipknotted *nipples*.

after that, i set up netflix instant viewing and was astounded at how amazing it is and all the stuff i could watch ! unfortunately, i totally choked and ended up watching season 1 of 30 rock. the show started out super funny right out of the gate, but i guess somehow at the time i ignored all the fucked up shit? the rape jokes start in about 6 episodes in. haha.



okay, this is very important. you guys need to recommend netflix instant viewing stuff to me. everyone i know watches such cool things but every time i look at what's available it's like, third rate american pie type straight to video stuff and 29302380293 seasons of the vicar of dibley.

stuff i am interested in
- documentaries about historical stuff, nature, cool things
- historical fiction
- things that are funny and do not have rape jokes
- episodic television that does not involve anyone who was involved with "buffy the vampire slayer"

stuff i am not interested in
- "buffy the vampire slayer"
- jud apatow
- romantic comedies
- um, anything made before 1956
- foreign films that are not in english (this isn't in general, but my tv is too small and i wouldn't be able to read the captions)

thank you in advance ! love, roxy.

p.s. i baked a cake last night for no reason and forgot to eat any D: