Huzzah!

I think the first thing I said to my roommate yesterday was that he smelled good. It was true, too! He said it was just deodorant (and something else I can't remember but used for equally cleansing purposes and not just to impress one's roommate with the smell), but clean boy smell makes me happy.

Seth and I went to Alexandria yesterday and we think it had something to do with the commercial for Domino's thin crust pizza, not to mention our earlier conversation about how it might not be so bad to see Pirates of the Caribbean, since so many people seemed to like it so much.

We didn't go to Domino's (I don't even like Domino's!), but we did see the movie. I must say it was better than I expected a movie based on a ride at Disney World to be, even with Orlando Bloom in it. I am of the opinion that, even when he's not being an Elf, he still kind of looks like a girl. Not that it's bad to look like a girl, or even that it's bad for male persons to look like girls, it just doesn't impress me. I even found Johnny Depp more interesting in this movie, and back when Seth and I were having that aforementioned discussion about other people liking the movie and how we should go see it, I'd specifically pointed out that it people really just liked it because Johnny Depp was in it, I was going to be unhappy. He's not that impressive, either, though I guess I'm just hard to impress. The last movie I saw him in was good only because there were scenes about making chocolate (that was definitely my favorite part of Chocolat).

I find the preceding paragraph very tangental and ranty but am amused that it ends with something so random as chocolate so, for now, it stays.

Seth bought a new chair. He's very excited. No more sitting on kitchen chairs while saving the world on his computer (or whatever he does with it). Plus he's getting it for $40 or $50 when it was originally $120 or $130 or something, and that's always cool.

We looked at printers, too (we were in OfficeMax) and both think we deserve a new one because ours are old and stupid--and Matthew actually reminded me a couple of days ago that I need a new printer, but that's only so I can have Linux on my computer. And if I do that, I said I'll bother him when I don't know stuff, and that will be practically all the time, and does he really want that? Regardless, I want a new printer, and Seth pionted out that they have cute little HPs for like forty bucks, but I said basically all money I spend now means it's longer until he gets back the money I owe him, and then he was less an advocate for me buying a new printer.

We went to Doolittle's and had soup and mozzarella sticks. "I didn't know I'd be doing this when I woke up this morning!" Seth said. That's part of the fun, say I.

I tried very hard to get him to buy a GameCube when we were in Target. It was his fault; he originally brought it up, and walked over to where the video games were! And I ddin't really stop trying until just before the movie started, when he told me he was going to buy a new power supply and motherboard for this still-hypothetical second computer of his before he buys a GameCube. So I stopped bothering him about that and started trying to convince him to buy a new sound card. I am relentless.

Though I'm stopping now.

(I never noticed all my entries were this long until someone--albeit it someone unenlightened--complained about it. I guess I shouldn't be surprised; I've always known I talk a lot.)

Interests

A while ago I wrote a post in which I started explaining some of the interests I have listed. It mysteriously disappeared, as stuff on the Internet does sometimes, and I didn't bother with it again, but today I've decided that it might be fun.

adding random people I put this here not only because I am interested in it but because I thought it might be good for any of these prospective random people who see my name on their "Friend of" list and think, "holly_lama"? Who the heck is that? and click on the name and see my info page. I like to steal my friends' friends and have met some cool peole in certain communities to which I belong, but as I now have something ilke sixty friends, I think I'm good and probably won't be adding any more random people for a while.

Albert Einstein This guy's just cool. I mean, if it weren't for him, we'd still believe time is constant and we live in a priviliged frame of reference (I really like that phrase, "privileged frame of reference"). He was troubled by the idea of war, and his inability to find a grand unifying theory to tie together his special and general relativity. I think a lot of people can relate to that.

astronomy I've liked astronomy ever since I can remember. I was checking books about planets out of the school library when my classmates were reading picture books and my teacher was telling me "you don't really want that book, do you?" I did. I wanted to see Jupiter and black holes and nebulae and supernovae and everything. I still do, though I don't think about it much any more. I took astronomy my first semester of college; it's still one of my favorite classes. If it were a major, I might take it. Stupid tiny liberal arts school.

baseball I know all these people who think it's boring, slow, old-fashioned, etc., but I just don't understand how they can think that. I love baseball, in an old-school kind of way. Home runs don't impress me nearly as much as good defense, or good pitching for that matter. Thanks to my dad, I'm a Twins fan, though I do also have a great fondness for Robin Ventura. Less so now that he plays for the Yankees. I'm still unhappy about that.

bassoons I think I adequately explained my love affair with bassoons yesterday.

blues It was because of Eric Clapton that guitar stopped being just another instrument I played, something else like clarinet and piano, and started being something I loved. I loved Clapton, and because of that I listened to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and had a guitar teacher who told me about Robben Ford and somewhere I found out about Stevie Ray Vaughan and pretty soon my CD collection had everything from Albert King to Cream and it all made sense to me somehow. I was about 14 and too stupid to even know how much fun I was having. I stil like Robben Ford and Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Clapton the best.

That's enough for now, I think.