Movies and Meetings

I met a really nice lady last night. :)

We had a beer at a new place I've not been to (Hop Valley) in Springfield and then went over to the cheap seats to see Where The Wild Things Are, which was a solid flick. Then, being the nerdy person that I am, I stayed over and saw Fantastic Mr. Fox, which had some really excellent visuals and was solid as well.

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Work was pretty chill yesterday. Got a lot done. It's really nice to get the time to catch up, especially at our pharmacy. It's not always an easy thing to do. Typing, filling, checking out at the register, return-to-stocks, cycle counts, and of course, basic maintenance (sweeping, mopping, keeping counter tops clean, garbages, filling vials of all different sizes, container lids, making sure rx hardcopies are filed correctly).
Let's just say I got to most of that yesterday.
Today is laundry day and then I'm meeting a girl named Summer off of myspace for the first time. We're going to see Where the Wild Things Are at 740pm!!

Work 1-6

Well here it is about 1130am and I work at 1pm. I'm going to try and do nothing until just before I have to run roughshod to the shower to get to work on time.

I'm still slowly working my way through Robert Altman's (or should I say Carver's?) Short Cuts. The multiplicity of stories woven into a loosely collated narrative seems to be the schizophrenic equivalent to the portmanteau film, which are the films with a (sometimes) barely related theme by several directors. Sometimes only the thinnest of pretexts exists, such as the Gondry/Carax/Bong film, Tokyo!
I have scheduled the first of what I hope to be a regularly occuring movie night(s) at my apartment. We (so far just me and Andre) will be watching two films by Derek Jarman, In The Shadow of the Sun and Jubilee.

More later.

text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross relief for Haiti.

Alright the subject says it the most. Even if that is all you can do, do it.

Basketball season is in full swing, and I am so with the Blazers right now. Great stuff, injuries aside. They really have a core that believes in TEAM, and that is a great thing. Watching them play the Magic tonight on ESPN360. Thank you comcast. That's all I can say.

Work suspension, The Bear, and General distance

I've been suspended from work for 3 days. I was late a few times and it is costing me. I've never been suspended before, and I must say, this is a wake-up call. From here on out, this is the new Cody.

I've been reading a very interesting and impressive account of the creation of The Bear, a film by Frenchman Jean-Jacques Annaud. I've not seen the movie, though my friend Kayla apparently has ursaphobia for some reason, and this movie has haunted her from childhood. I certainly plan on seeing it as soon as I've finished the book, which reads more as a fascinating account of the director's style, which is not auteurist in the least, but idiosyncratic, and features a pronounced obsession with being challenged. In this regard, I see a lot of similarities with Werner Herzog and Errol Morris. These filmmakers seem to approach life in a similar way.

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Well It is the second Tuesday of the new year, and I sit cold, under the covers with my cat and my giant brown comforter. Her eyes are in that between sleep and waking, slowly slipping shut phase.

I am continually baffled about her ability to simply crash out wherever she happens to be in the apartment, provided she is either in a perceived safe place or just next to me.

I've read Robert Sapolsky's Why Don't Zebras Get Ulcers and I am simply jealous. Do you ever feel like you're walking around in daily life with a huge suit of padding surrounding you, afraid of the body and head blows that could be lurking at any turn?

Sunday of a New Year

2010. It's hard to believe we're in a new decade, let alone a new year. Time goes so fast, as they say, faster with each proceeding year. I could write about a lot of things right now, but instead I will simply state one of several 2010 resolutions: Write my daily thoughts into this blog.