Well, it's Sunday. Classes resume the day after tomorrow, so I'll be heading back to school tomorrow, hopefully as soon as I can. It's been . . . a good break I suppose. Nothing much happened, but it wasn't particularly stressful. I'm looking forward to school kind of, though. I'm not looking forward to getting back to work by any means, but I just feel . . . more comfortable there. More at home. I really live in a mad house here. Most of the people in my house can't stand it here and want to leave. It's not a particularly stable environment. I have so many mixed emotions about my family and my house. I suppose everyone does, though.
I watched, quite possibly, the worst movie ever made last night: Alien Apocalypse. It was a Sci-Fi original, further removing any hope I had of that channel ever being cool again. I mean, wow, it was horrible. So so so sooooooo horrible. It was so horrible I don't even know where to begin. It started Bruce Campbell as a doctor in a group of astronauts who return to earth only to find that aliens have taken over and turned humanity into redneck slaves to cut wood for them. The whole premise was absurd, the dialogue was utterly stupid, the acting was horrendous. Everything was just so BAD! Fight scenes consisted of the same 5 shots being looped together. It was painfully obvious that it was the same shots being repeated too. Ugh . . . it was just so bad and so stupid, I think I could feel my brain cells drop dead in my skull after being exposed to that show. Wow, Sci-Fi, you cancel FarScape to put trash like that on the air? Whoever's in charge there needs to be shot in the face, 'cause, damn.
I also saw The Ring Two. It was . . . decent. It wasn't NEARLY as scary as the first one. I don't even know if I can consider it a horror film. It was more a mother/son drama. Some suspense, but no horror. It was well made, I just didn't get into the story.
I am extremely excited about Sin City opening on Friday, though. Damn, it looks good. Also, Closer is out on DVD, and I can't wait till I have money to get it. It's such a good movie; very twisted, but in a way I can relate to. Besides, its always nice to see extremely fucked up romantic reationships in movies instead of sappy happy ones that make you realize what you're missing, and depress you . . . But maybe that's just my take on it . . .
But yeah, speaking of money . . . my paycheck STILL doesn't have my bonus on it . . . I was supposed to get my $200 bonus waaaaaaaaay back in January. Every paycheck, its not there, and I complain to Chad, and every week he calls the BK office to get it straightened out, and every week they say it will be on the next paycheck, and EVERY week its never there. It's really ticking me off, especially since I haven't been able to work for the past two weeks because of Smokey Joe's, so my paycheck gives me a whopping $40 to live off of for 2 weeks. OH, and more than half of that will be forced to going to my gas tank b/c gas is so FUCKING expensive.
Oh, and it looks like I'll have to miss out on at least 3 weekends of working throughout April: UNL GSA retreat, Bethany's visit, and Measure for Measure, with the possibility of a 4th weekend lost if the St. Cecilia's chorale concert is theweek before Measure For Measure like I think it is . . . Damnit, I really can't afford to miss that much work. Hell, this entire spring break of working has netted me around $320, which makes up for the past two weeks I haven't worked. So what's going to make up the 3-4 weeks I can't work in April? I might have to just bite the bullet and come back from the retreat and not spend the night, and work the weekend of the play anyway . . . Ugh . . . Maybe I won't be buying season 4 of Farscape, or any other DVDs anytime soon . . .
Oh, fuck it, I'm buying season 4 the first chance I get, and I know it. I'll just go without food if I have to. I can live off my stomach for a while anyway. If only I could actually fill my stomach with my stomach so I'm not so hungry all the time . . .
Anyway, my computer is now being a pain in the ass. Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines crashes every time I try to load the game for some reason. I have 56 some applications running when I start up and my brother doesn't know what half of them do. It's just being weird. I suppose my greatest concern is my inability to play the game. I might have to re-install, but if I do that, will I lose my saved games? I'm so close to the end with my Malkavian and I don't want to have to start all over with her! Oh well, maybe its a sign that I need to do other things . . .
So yeah, no line memorization has occured at all. I can't even tell you what I've done with myself. Just a lot of nothing. Sitting around doing nothing. Wow, I feel so bad saying that, but its so true. Hell, at least over winter break I could say I got stuff in FFXI accomplished, but I can't even say that.
*shrug*
I still need to find gay boys and lesbians. I really really do. I looked at shirts at super target and the cheapest I could find was about $2 a shirt, which is around $80 just for shirts, and is more than I was hoping to spend. Maybe I can find cheaper tees somewhere else? OH well, I still need subjects, so anyone who reads this, and is/knows gay boys or lesbians, let me know. I really need at least 10 of each. Even if its Lincoln, I'll find a way to get down there. Hell, I'm going down there for the retreat in a couple weeks anyway, and I'm sure I could get in touch with people then, and come back for the shirts another time.
I also still have to e-mail the lady at UNMC about me no longer doing the monoclonal antibody project . . . I really should have done it as soon as I found out, but I'm just so scared to. I don't want her to be mad. I really was grateful for her help, and I don't want her to think I'm just some stupid kid who can't make up his mind. That, and I don't want to burn any bridges over there. I'm becoming increasingly concerned with what I'm going to do after graduation. I'm going to need a non-BK job, and one that will provie insurance, and I really have no idea where to look, and I won't be able to get a biology job without experience, and now my project is no longer getting me that experience. That, and I still need to find out where I'm going to stay, and so much other stuff it makes my head spin.
Ugh . . . break isn't even over and I'm already stressing myself out. Wow, I need to take a step back . . .
Eric 3/27/2005 11:01:00 PM
