Update

Let's see, the gas is back on and I'm running the dishwasher as we speak. We have about 3 loads of dishes sitting around the kitchen, so I suppose that's how I'll spend the better part of my early evening...doing dishes. At least I don't have to do them by hand.

Missed my doc appointment today but no worries, I will make it up tomorrow after seeing my head-doc to talk about new pills I can take while I'm abstaining from drugs. *insert tired irony here* It's such a drag going to all these wacky appointments all the time. But if they actually find a pill that improves my life, dammit, I'll take it.

In better news, I have a meet and greet that will (if it goes well) precede a real job interveiw. It's a second shift gig at a company called ImageMaster which is right around the corner from me. Of course once I move it will be much farther away...ah sweet irony! Anyway, the woman I talked to seemed a bit uptight about my outgoing phone message (which is clever, but very tame). Plus I never seem to do well at these things, but I don't want to get all self-defeaty before I even get the gig. It is, however, a casual dress environment where customers never go.

And finally, most of you know that I am not very up-to-the-minute when it comes to new video games. But this Jaws game looks fucking amazing.

Books and other media...

As I've mentioned before, I'm quite taken by the work of Christopher Moore. I just finished his debut novel, Practical Demonkeeping, last night. It was an incredible read. I've also read Stupidest Angel and Lamb. Great Stuff. I truly wish I had a similar talent for words and plotting.

Now I'm told that this weekend has been decreed "Buy Yourself a Book Weekend". This is as per thewordoffred who is a most fascinating cat. The point is that whether you go to a bookstore, buy it online, from a library or garage sale, that you all take the time to hook yourself up with a new bit of literature this coming weekend. And of course, buy another books for klynnfrost as it is her birthday this weekend.

Myself, I'm finally going to dive into DaVinci Code which seems to be for adults what Harry Potter is for kids. People appear to want to beleive it very much, which I suppose is why the movie is set to star American Everyman, Tom Hanks. I have nothing against Hanks (or Otm Shank for you Simpsons fans) but I do tire of the whole "Blockbuster movie" thing. He doesn't ever do small, indy films or films with limited appeal. it's always the biggest, most family oriented film around...and I think in my mind that diminishes him from actor to movie star. I guess there's plenty of people who would want to be a movie star, but they aren't to be taken as seriously as "real actors".

While I have you all here, I thought I'd bring up a peeve of mine regarding Simpsons and Simpsons comm's on LJ. Normally when I am outraged by someone;'s stupidity on LJ, it turns out that they are some dumbass teenager--but not always. Anyway, I realize not everyone loves Simpsons as much as I, but what's the point of joining a comm like simpsons_obsess to say things like "the show hasn't been good in years" or "I'm sure the Simps movie will suck because the current writers also suck"?!? If you think it has sucked for years, why the fuck are you watching it? Sure, we all have the odd critique here and there. But clearly YOU suck if you think it's clever to watch things you hate so you can bitch about how much you hate them...or is this some kind of dreary teen angsty thing I can wrap my grown-up brain around.

Sure punks, I'm sure the longest running sitcom in the history of television sucks and is terrible. I'm sure the buffy/simps slash fanscript you and your coven wrote over spring break is much better. Ass.