Month: June 2009

• 00:14 Monday: out at 11:30. Tuesday: 1. And now Wednesday: 12:15. Thankfully only working until 7 tomorrow and Friday. Sleep is good. #
• 10:06 @MickeydotFinn My stomach is not a celebrity! You are silly. #
• 12:40 Mom clarifies: House not actually "hit" by tornado. "High winds tore a large branch out of our tree and threw it through our window." (…) #
• 12:42 Mom continues: "All unpleasant. Lots of glass. Now it’s raining cats and dogs! We were without power about 12 hours." Zounds! #
• 18:32 Man, get a load of all these cunning plans I’m hatching in my head! It’s like Ocean’s 11 in here. #
• 19:13 I was suddenly struck with the mental image of Sean Connery singing "Music of the Night." My brain is a weird place right now. #

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• 00:46 @stephanieyee Comparing Dexter-the-character to Veronica Mars? I think my brain just exploded. I adore both, but… *sploosh.* #
• 08:12 @edeainfj Dude, AWESOME! Have fun! #
• 08:13 Great news: Futurama is back! bit.ly/7RVwy [HT @Uilos] #
• 10:43 I just had a very cunning idea! Let’s hope it works… *schemes evilly* #
• 12:45 @beachkid Pretty sure the gender assumptions = using gender of canon example to avoid "they" or "he/she" as a genderless 3rd person pronoun. #
• 13:23 Mmmmm, quinoa with apricot and butternut squash, beets with shredded feta, and roast cauliflower. Celliebelly happy. #
• 17:19 @jimmyaquino I’ll be with you in spirit, man! Be brave! #
• 18:28 @Uilos Yuppers! Can’t wait to see you and the Jedi performing! #
• 19:35 @jimmyaquino Cute! It makes me want to ask how many bullets are left in your gun, Chino, but I like very much! You rock all hair lengths. #
• 23:01 Parents’ house in Dallas hit by tornado! A window was blown out, but everything is otherwise okay. Thank goodness. #

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• 08:00 2nd awesome roommate (named Kara, oddly enough) a bust. However, 2 minutes after, I learned of BSG event @ 92nd St Y. bit.ly/UwQMJ #
• 08:00 I guess when the Lords of Kobol close a door, they also open a window. #
• 08:21 @mkcho73 I experienced the exact same thing! It was like being in a restaurant at the hour when their prices suddenly go up ten bucks. #
• 10:23 What the bananas, body? I may have gotten out of work after 11:30pm, but I still slept a full 7 1/2 hours. Why am I so exhausted? #
• 10:28 Nothing improves a gloomy morning like the Doctor Horrible soundtrack! #
• 12:57 Huh. Nearly 1 o’clock. I should probably order lunch at some point. #
• 15:18 @rdonoghue It’s a delightful planet! We welcome you. I’ve used a microwave perhaps six times in the past year and a half. #
• 15:44 @MickeydotFinn Sweet! You’ll be awesome. #
• 15:44 @rdonoghue We cook/rewarm stuff with our ovens/stoves. We are patient. #
• 17:23 @horsehearted Definitely "nargles." (Says the girl with the Harry Potter etymology website.) #
• 20:09 RT @DiscoveryChPR A dome over Houston? It’s not the Simpsons movie! For anyone who missed Mega-Engineering last nite bit.ly/i4TtJ #
• 20:10 Anything that makes use of the word "dirigible" in its building plans gets approval in my book. #
• 21:21 Oh my good lord, my mom joined Twitter. Welcome, Mom! #
• 22:25 RT @spodalicious Save the Boobs! Bid on breast cancer bears w/ autographs from Maroulis & Molina from @RockOfAges a.lisawalks.com #
• 22:34 Chris just saved an old character to the library as "bustyWhoreA." Far less subtle than my suggestion of "skank." Archiving is fun! #

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• 01:29 Fantastic night! Was out until 1:15am, chatting with @hodgman about BSG series finale. Have I mentioned how much I love living in New York? #
• 01:41 Also, the event was recorded for the MITYR audiobook, so my catcall of "COULTON!" around Mole Man #600 will be preserved for posterity. #
• 01:48 BTW, Great to chill with you guys: @robblatt, Matt, Shane, Amber, @sampotts, and Chris McCulloch! #
• 08:00 @jimmyaquino *cheers* I can’t wait to see the new ‘do! #
• 10:38 @Esperacchius I support this decision! I don’t want you to arrive in New York in pieces. #
• 12:48 @DerekRuiz Seconding Mickey’s fantasy-set crime suggestions of Men at Arms, The Fifth Elephant, and Thud!. Pratchett is a delight! #
• 12:50 @DerekRuiz Also suggesting "The Lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch, a heist novel in a fantasy setting. I’m now engrossed in the sequel! #
• 13:21 My website is down for no discernible reason. Hiss. #
• 18:20 This job is giving me a headache. To think I was so excited about it only a few days ago! #

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• 11:50 @kelldar Ooh, I hope you do! That would be a fantastic resource! #
• 11:51 Off to MoCCA! Who else will be there today? #
• 13:39 Didn’t stay at MoCCA too long, as I wanted to preserve strength for @hodgman and @jonathancoulton Mole-Man-atravaganza tonight! #
• 13:41 Still, I had a great time meeting Kate Beaton, Randall Munroe, Dylan Meconis, Ryan North, and David Malki, and giving them my money. #
• 13:51 RT @Uilos Pulp Shakespeare: tinyurl.com/69uoqy "The Queen’s own English, base knave, dost thou speak it?" #
• 14:49 Aww, the new Penny comic is adorable! www.myspace.com/darkhorsepresents #

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• 12:08 @sinspired *beams* I believe this is the first time I’ve been #FollowFriday’d! #
• 16:39 Ugh, so miserable. Sick, sick, sick. Can’t stand up for more than 10 seconds without feeling faint. Guess MOCCA is out of the picture. #
• 18:59 @Esperacchius MoCCA: www.moccany.org/ I was hoping to meet Pillars of Awesome such as Kate Beaton (@beatonna) and Dylan Meconis. #
• 19:09 @Esperacchius The delirium would’ve had to make me want to drink coffee, too. Eww! #
• 21:44 Feeling great as long as I stay horizontal! Standing is still a sketchy proposition. I did manage to eat some granola, at least. #

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• 11:32 Got tickets to see Alan Tudyk and Hank Azaria in a tribute to Monty Python! Is it October 10th yet? #
• 15:35 Booooooooo! Potential roommate decided to live elsewhere, closer to her job. Back to Craigslist for me! #
• 16:03 @Esperacchius What the… how? #
• 21:23 @sue_sue4 Dear lord, it’s too late! The twittermind has you! #

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• 07:37 Yay, only 10 minutes until I meet my (probable) new roommate! #
• 09:39 ConEd’s website is so amusing. coned.com. Coned! Cwned! I think perhaps I’ve been watching too much #theGuild. #
• 14:10 New York friends: My company accidentally got extra tickets to "Drag Me To Hell" at 8 tonight. Anyone want to come with? #
• 15:32 @MickeydotFinn My fourth Cirque show, actually. It never gets any less jaw-droppingly, heart-stoppingly amazing. #
• 23:20 Bleh. Thought "Drag Me to Hell" would be funnier, like Evil Dead. I don’t care for straight Horror. I left after about 30 minutes. #
• 23:31 @ShipLizard It definitely has campy elements, but not enough to make me want to stay. I’m a horror movie wuss, though, so mileage may vary. #

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Wednesday:

1. Poor Pascy! My partner in character creation, Chris, came in to work sick and miserable. He left for an hour to visit the doctor, then returned long enough to get his affairs in order before leaving again for good. Now, this is certainly not cause to be happy, because it sucks when friends are feeling so wretched, but his absence left me in charge of the character department. And upon his departures and his return, I sent out dramatically-phrased emails, keeping my coworkers informed as to which one of us was the point-person for the moment. I tossed around phrases like “pretendership” and “reign of terror” and “deposed,” painting myself as the new power-mad dictator of Character-Land. They got a lot of laughs!
2. Lunch (and dinner, because woo leftovers) was Mambo Italiano, which makes some of my favourite sandwiches in Manhattan. Half of one of their sandwiches is more than enough to stuff me! The Celliebelly was happy this day.
3. I’m always pleased with myself when I travel to some place off my beaten path. Wednesday night, I made it to Randall’s Island, part of the makeshift archipelago of smaller islands that surround Manhattan. Yay independence!
4. Thanks to Joe Gonzales’ bounteous generosity and awesome connections, Craig and I saw Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza! I’d seen three Cirque shows prior to tonight, but they never get any less astounding.
5. The second act featured two contortionists, who performed an exquisitely beautiful, impossibly bizarre mirror-dance. I was so enraptured by their feats I forgot to clap at times, and when I did remember to clap, I forgot to stop. I’m shocked I remembered to breathe. For the duration of their act, there was nothing in my world but those two performers and that little stage. Extraordinary.

   In another act, the Wheel of Death, I found myself gasping out loud at the slightest wobble, the merest hint that a performer might take a tumble. I didn’t care who heard me.

   They also had a pickpocket (did I invent the term “purse-charmer”? I swear I’ve heard it before), who divested a man of his wallet, iPod, cell phone, eyeglasses (in his jacket pocket at the time), and even his necktie without detection. It was particularly entertaining in the wake of reading The Lies of Locke Lamora, as it lent credibility to the idea that one can truly attain such skill in the “art” of pickpocketing.

   Another noteworthy act was the juggler, whose act was so smooth it seemed to be effortless. Watching the balls and rings and pins float up and down, I was put in the mind of an elaborate mobile, something beautiful and kinetic and in no danger of being disrupted or tumbling to earth. He pulled off extraordinarily complex maneuvers flawlessly.

   And then there were the acrobats… wow.

   I’m definitely going to have to convince my friends and coworkers to check it out! Thanks so much, Joe, for making this possible. I would have missed it otherwise.

Thursday:

1. Before work, I met the top contender for my new roommate! She’s so cute, and I think we would get along wonderfully. There’s one other place she’s considering, though, so fingers are crossed! I should find out how she decides later tonight or tomorrow morning.
2. I got to model a hilarious man-child Cupid for a spot. I love making crazy, fun characters!
3. APPLE PIE ICE CREAM. Ben & Jerry’s had “Appley Ever After” for a period of three months or so back when I was at Penn, and I fell head over heels in love with it. But then they took it off the menu, claiming it was seasonal. Every time I went there subsequently, I asked if it was going to return. I found out two years later it had been “retired.”

   But tonight, my boss took everyone to see “Drag Me to Hell,” and I joined them, thinking it was going to be funny, like Evil Dead. But there wasn’t nearly enough cheesiness or humor to mitigate the “horror movie” aspect, which isn’t how I prefer to spend my time. I left after 30 minutes. To soothe my soul, I stopped at the Cold Stone next door, and my eyes popped out of their sockets when I saw “Apple Pie a la Cold Stone” on the menu. God, it’s BETTER than I remember “Appley Ever After” being! French Vanilla ice cream with cinnamon, graham cracker pie crust, apple pie filling, and caramel! This is the perfect ice cream. I’m so glad I’ve cultivated a rigid restraint when it comes to dessert, because otherwise I’d be doomed.

4. The employees at Cold Stone were having a spirited discussion about which was better, Buffy or True Blood. They delighted in learning I was a fan of both, and the leader of the pro-Buffy contingent gave me a free waffle cone when I told them Buffy was my favourite.
5. And the best part about Cold Stone: the portions are so ginormous you have to share it! I felt stuffed to the gills after barely devouring a third of their smallest size, so I stuck the rest in the freezer for my roommate and her boyfriend. They loved it!

• 09:22 RT @featherjean: Sad news: Fantasy author David Eddings has passed away: bit.ly/nlL1b #
• 13:34 Am I really the only person who thinks it’s a problem that the client’s name is spelled wrong in the job title? Really, guys? #
• 13:54 Yay, Pascy’s going home to sleep, so he won’t give us all swine flu! Feel better, Pascy! #
• 14:06 @DerekRuiz Preaching to the choir, man. Preaching to the choir. :D #
• 14:51 Just got to improvise audio for a couple-fight for the background of a spot! Laughed so hard I was in tears. #
• 16:43 RT @txvoodoo: Breaking from MSNBC tv: New Hampshire lawmakers approve gay marriage bill, gov says he WILL sign this one. #
• 19:30 Outside the Cirque du Soleil tent, waiting to see Kooza with @Uilos! Joe Gonzales of CNI is too awesome for words. Woo, free tickets! #
• 23:45 Back from 2 1/2 hours of sheer wonder. New Yorkers, if you get the chance, see "Kooza." #
• 23:55 Roommate watching "The Searchers"–reminds me of my paper comparing it with "Serenity." I should do something with that paper sometime. #

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