Filler episode #555
Nov. 29th, 2006 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
astillar9:00 - Ha ha ha. Ah, it's funny. I tend to talk to myself. Alot. Not in a crazy way, like I've got voices in my head or anything like that; I just think out loud, that's all. Though sometimes I get into arguments with myself and to the casual observer I might look a little nutty when I'm doing that. "No, fuck YOU!" Heh heh. I try to be careful not to let people catch me doing that, but often I'm so wrapped up in my own dialogue that I'm not aware of what I look like, talking and gesturing to myself. Sometimes they'll ask me why I talk to myself so much. My go-to answer, although a bit rude, is, "Because it's the only way to have an intelligent conversation around here!" All of which leads me to wonder, do I talk to myself because I'm alone, or do people leave me alone because I talk to myself? Ha ha ha.
10:30 - Ah, I'm having too much fun today. The job is getting close to being finished so the final clean-up crew has come in to tidy up the site and get it ready for Wal-Mart to move into. Since it's all cleaning stuff, the crew is mostly women. They're just a bunch of tourists to me, like a group of kids on a field trip, with their matching blue shirts and whatnot.
The funny thing I saw just now was one woman who was going to each porta-potty on the job site. She'd open the door, look inside, and then close the door and go to the next one. I guess she was trying to find a "nice" one. Ha ha ha. They're all more or less nasty, with tons of graffiti on the walls. The johns were clean when we got em, but after a year of being used by a hundred or so Mexicans . . . well, use your imagination. I don't know whose idea it was to give them all Sharpie markers, but it wasn't a good idea. I wondered which toilet would be up to her standards. The one with the cartoon woman wearing nothing but a sombrero? The port-a-potty of Picasso penises, perhaps? The mega-racist Sani-Can? Ah, but she can only choose one!
11:30 - "Where do you want to eat?"
"Somewhere close and not slow."
"There's Subway and Thundercloud, that's about it."
"Mmm, there's also a Wendy's, but that's kinda far."
"I'm tired of fucking burgers anyways."
" . . . Burger fucker!"
14:00 - This month's Discover (my favorite science magazine) had an article about the 25 greatest science books of all time. I figure, "Hell, maybe it's about time I read a book that doesn't have pictures in it." So during my lunch break I went to Barnes & Noble with the intention of buying #1 on the list, "The Voyage of the Beagle," by Charles Darwin. I had $17 in my pocket, enough for a book and lunch, I figured. But on my way to the science section, I passed by the manga section (coincidence? I think not) and noticed Genshiken #7 is on the shelf (only a month late). The one where Ohno-san turns the club into a cosplay cult! Yay! But uh-oh. What's it gonna be? Science or manga? Who will win out? The nerd or the otaku? Tough choice. Guess which one I bought . . . . Ha ha. Trick question! I bought both! But I read Genshiken first. (And now I'm really hungry.)
FIGHT!
It was a good volume, not as exciting as the last, but still fun. I thought the story would lose steam now that most of the original characters have graduated but it's still moving forward. It was a surprise to find that Oguie has feelings for Sasahara. It's a cute, novel turn of events but I feel it's somewhat contrived, as if this love interest was invented just to inject some life into the story. *shrug* I mean, there are what ten people in that club and six of them fall in love with each other? What are the chances of that happening?
It's good to see that Ohno and Oguie are finally starting to get along. I just couldn't understand why they weren't able to tolerate each other. And I'm finally getting used to Ohno's "woman" character. I liked her more when she was the shy, meek cosplayer. Then once she got a boyfriend and moreso now that she's president, she's become much more powerful and confident, proud of her lifestyle. And the Americans were pretty funny too, though they didn't impart the story as much as the blurb on the back cover let on.
By the way, was Suzie imitating Ruri-chan from Nadesico, or maybe Asuka from NGE? Those are the only two characters I know of that go around calling people "baka" willy-nilly.
10:30 - Ah, I'm having too much fun today. The job is getting close to being finished so the final clean-up crew has come in to tidy up the site and get it ready for Wal-Mart to move into. Since it's all cleaning stuff, the crew is mostly women. They're just a bunch of tourists to me, like a group of kids on a field trip, with their matching blue shirts and whatnot.
The funny thing I saw just now was one woman who was going to each porta-potty on the job site. She'd open the door, look inside, and then close the door and go to the next one. I guess she was trying to find a "nice" one. Ha ha ha. They're all more or less nasty, with tons of graffiti on the walls. The johns were clean when we got em, but after a year of being used by a hundred or so Mexicans . . . well, use your imagination. I don't know whose idea it was to give them all Sharpie markers, but it wasn't a good idea. I wondered which toilet would be up to her standards. The one with the cartoon woman wearing nothing but a sombrero? The port-a-potty of Picasso penises, perhaps? The mega-racist Sani-Can? Ah, but she can only choose one!
11:30 - "Where do you want to eat?"
"Somewhere close and not slow."
"There's Subway and Thundercloud, that's about it."
"Mmm, there's also a Wendy's, but that's kinda far."
"I'm tired of fucking burgers anyways."
" . . . Burger fucker!"
14:00 - This month's Discover (my favorite science magazine) had an article about the 25 greatest science books of all time. I figure, "Hell, maybe it's about time I read a book that doesn't have pictures in it." So during my lunch break I went to Barnes & Noble with the intention of buying #1 on the list, "The Voyage of the Beagle," by Charles Darwin. I had $17 in my pocket, enough for a book and lunch, I figured. But on my way to the science section, I passed by the manga section (coincidence? I think not) and noticed Genshiken #7 is on the shelf (only a month late). The one where Ohno-san turns the club into a cosplay cult! Yay! But uh-oh. What's it gonna be? Science or manga? Who will win out? The nerd or the otaku? Tough choice. Guess which one I bought . . . . Ha ha. Trick question! I bought both! But I read Genshiken first. (And now I'm really hungry.)
FIGHT!
It was a good volume, not as exciting as the last, but still fun. I thought the story would lose steam now that most of the original characters have graduated but it's still moving forward. It was a surprise to find that Oguie has feelings for Sasahara. It's a cute, novel turn of events but I feel it's somewhat contrived, as if this love interest was invented just to inject some life into the story. *shrug* I mean, there are what ten people in that club and six of them fall in love with each other? What are the chances of that happening?
It's good to see that Ohno and Oguie are finally starting to get along. I just couldn't understand why they weren't able to tolerate each other. And I'm finally getting used to Ohno's "woman" character. I liked her more when she was the shy, meek cosplayer. Then once she got a boyfriend and moreso now that she's president, she's become much more powerful and confident, proud of her lifestyle. And the Americans were pretty funny too, though they didn't impart the story as much as the blurb on the back cover let on.
By the way, was Suzie imitating Ruri-chan from Nadesico, or maybe Asuka from NGE? Those are the only two characters I know of that go around calling people "baka" willy-nilly.
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Date: 2006-11-30 07:16 am (UTC)I thought it was good but it was overloaded with just Oguie, Ohno and Sasahara they seemed like the only characters in the volume with the exception of super sexy Angela Yuffie :D
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Date: 2006-11-30 03:48 pm (UTC)is it bad tht that was my first answer too? ^^;