Went to see "The Matrix Reloaded" for the second time with Marcus last night. It really is a good flick. I have noticed one thing--either a person really likes this movie or they really hate it. Maybe it's just too deep for some people and since any type of thinking or stimulation whatsoever makes their brains hurt, they don't like it. Maybe the fact that it didn't tie up into a nice, neat little package at the end and they have no patience to wait six months to see the conclusion really pissed them off. Regardless, I like how it is making me think and I've learned a lot of things while trying to understand this movie. I hope that when the last one is out, the dudes that wrote them will reveal some (if not all) of the religious, mythological, philosophical, etc. connotations. Somehow I doubt it, though. The Wachowski brothers seem to be rather secretive. There are, however, many people all over the internet offering up their theories. One site I've been visiting alot recently is Matrix Essays. I found it while trying to help Marcus research the significance of the names of people/places/ things in "The Matrix." The author of that site wrote a cute Dr. Seuss parody:
Tuesday, June 03, 2003
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Monday, June 02, 2003
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I've decided to take a module off from school. I'm so burned out that I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The module lasts five weeks and then we had a two-week summer break coming up, so I'll get seven weeks total to get my life in order and on-track. I've already been off for a week and have decided that I really need to find other employment. That is the thing that is stressing me out the most. I worked five nights last week and made a whopping $102 (when 5 days normally nets about $200). It's not going to get better anytime soon, either. Not only did the head manager hire another driver (a friend of his that comes and goes as he pleases), but we found out that the dumbass owner hasn't been putting out the mailings that he said he had and has now left for a two-week vacation. We had the slowest Saturday we had ever had this past weekend. Not good. So, I'm going to work on the old resume this afternoon (after I finish painting the shed) and take it to the placement director tomorrow and beg her to find me some other work. Even if I can only find something part-time and just dump the delivery part of the job, I'll be better off. Then I can go back to making the dough in the middle of the night when nobody is there and the ovens aren't on.
I'm grateful about one major thing, though. I'm sure glad I have Marcus. The women at work constantly gripe about their husbands/boyfriends and they seem a little miffed when I won't join in with the male-bashing. Honestly, I don't have much to compain about. I know he truly loves me, no matter what. It amazes me that after 11 years of being together, we still have great conversations. We can also be totally comfortable sitting in a room together saying nothing at all. We still have our own separate interests (ie, I'm a crafter, he mountain-bikes) , but we find time to do stuff together. I used to be depressed that he wouldn't marry me, and once I threatened the "Marry me or I'm leaving you" (he offered to help me pack), but as time goes on and more and more people that I know are getting divorced, it's not as important. I know he stays with me because he wants to, not because he has to. *sniff* I'm getting all sentimental and teary thinking about all this. I'm just glad I found him.
OK, well, I've got to get moving. I can't waste my whole time off in front of this computer!
I'm grateful about one major thing, though. I'm sure glad I have Marcus. The women at work constantly gripe about their husbands/boyfriends and they seem a little miffed when I won't join in with the male-bashing. Honestly, I don't have much to compain about. I know he truly loves me, no matter what. It amazes me that after 11 years of being together, we still have great conversations. We can also be totally comfortable sitting in a room together saying nothing at all. We still have our own separate interests (ie, I'm a crafter, he mountain-bikes) , but we find time to do stuff together. I used to be depressed that he wouldn't marry me, and once I threatened the "Marry me or I'm leaving you" (he offered to help me pack), but as time goes on and more and more people that I know are getting divorced, it's not as important. I know he stays with me because he wants to, not because he has to. *sniff* I'm getting all sentimental and teary thinking about all this. I'm just glad I found him.
OK, well, I've got to get moving. I can't waste my whole time off in front of this computer!
Sunday, May 25, 2003
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Let's see... what have I been up to this week? The shed is up and hopefully Marcus will post his pictures soon so I can link to them. The team he assembled did a fine job. We're now in the process of painting it and making it all purty.
We just now got the tree branches down from the winter storm we had over two weeks ago. Nobody from the park ever came to cut them down and I was tired of having no place to park my car.
Work sucks...'nuff said about that.
I saw "The Matrix Reloaded" with Marcus on Monday. Good flick. Can't wait for the next one. Marcus has become totally obsessed with it. He does a frighteningly good impression of Agent Smith. It's rather unnverving to listen to him do it. I'm thinking I might go buy myself "The Matrix Reloaded" soundtrack tomorrow. I really dig some of the songs on there.
I bought a cute Mary Moo Moos figurine on eBay for my craft room and when it showed up, it was the wrong one! The seller has promised the correct one. I sure hope it comes.
I went to Mama Alvino's (on Chambers/Colfax) with Marcus for dinner tonight. I was doing research for a school project that I need to do thumbnails for tomorrow. We have to design a menu for a restaurant. Unfortunately, they were totally out of take-out menus so that I could have text for my menu. Damn. They have really good spaghetti there, though. I guess I'll have to find a menu from some other Italian restaurant. *sigh*
Speaking of the Chambers/Colfax intersection, I noticed that there is a Starbucks going in there. Can a Starbucks survive in that neighborhood? I guess we'll see.
Well, I have much to do tomorrow: shed painting, dough-making, thumnail drawing, cleaning, BBQing. I guess I'd better get to bed.
We just now got the tree branches down from the winter storm we had over two weeks ago. Nobody from the park ever came to cut them down and I was tired of having no place to park my car.
Work sucks...'nuff said about that.
I saw "The Matrix Reloaded" with Marcus on Monday. Good flick. Can't wait for the next one. Marcus has become totally obsessed with it. He does a frighteningly good impression of Agent Smith. It's rather unnverving to listen to him do it. I'm thinking I might go buy myself "The Matrix Reloaded" soundtrack tomorrow. I really dig some of the songs on there.
I bought a cute Mary Moo Moos figurine on eBay for my craft room and when it showed up, it was the wrong one! The seller has promised the correct one. I sure hope it comes.
I went to Mama Alvino's (on Chambers/Colfax) with Marcus for dinner tonight. I was doing research for a school project that I need to do thumbnails for tomorrow. We have to design a menu for a restaurant. Unfortunately, they were totally out of take-out menus so that I could have text for my menu. Damn. They have really good spaghetti there, though. I guess I'll have to find a menu from some other Italian restaurant. *sigh*
Speaking of the Chambers/Colfax intersection, I noticed that there is a Starbucks going in there. Can a Starbucks survive in that neighborhood? I guess we'll see.
Well, I have much to do tomorrow: shed painting, dough-making, thumnail drawing, cleaning, BBQing. I guess I'd better get to bed.
Thursday, May 15, 2003
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Damn, I haven't written in a whole week. I've been kind of down lately. I haven't made much money in the last three weeks at work. I'm really hating being there, especially since I'm really close to having some marketable skills to find some other employment, but not quite. I really hate being around the manager since he screwed me on hours that one week. One bit of good news is that Marcus got me a small job to do some logo work for a friend of his. It's a start. I've got to keep in mind that I'll be moving on sooner than later. I can't wait for the day that I can turn in my key and never work there again.
I'm really digging the computer graphics classes I've been taking. Adobe Illustrator is the bomb! I'm also learning some cool Photoshop stuff. The best part of all of this is that I'm pretty good at it. I posted the latest project we did here. I saved it as a .gif for the web here. It looks much better in person. There's a couple of more things I want to add to it at a later date, but I think it came out pretty neat. I got a 100% (A) on it. My teacher really liked it!
Joey and Rachael finally got together on Friends tonight. Yay!!!
We supposedly had a lunar eclipse tonight. Wouldn't know it because of all the rain and clouds. Dang. Lunar eclipses are cool.
Another thing that has been bumming me is not having a house. I miss having a garden sooooooooo bad. That's another reason I've been so bummed. I'll never have a house if I don't make money. Stupid pizza job.
I can't believe it's been a whole week since that spring snow we had that broke all the trees. They say that since the trees were drought-stressed, they couldn't hold up as they normally would have. We still have huge limbs hanging from the tree where I normally park. Luckily, nothing actually landed on my car. We're not supposed to cut the trees around here, so I've just left them. If nobody has done anything about them by Sunday, I may try to get them down myself. Marcus is having a shed-building party on Saturday. We really need to get out lawn mower and stuff over here. I didn't make it to work in time to make a schedule request last Sunday, so I got stuck working (probably making no money again, *sigh*), and won't be of much help.
Marcus got to go see "The Matrix Reloaded" today with all the techies from work. I hope I can go see it soon. He said it was awesome.
OK, well, that's about it for now. I had better get to bed because I've got thumbnails to do in the morning for a CD cover project. I'm going to do Shadowfax's "The Dreams of Children." It's a cool CD. G'night.
I'm really digging the computer graphics classes I've been taking. Adobe Illustrator is the bomb! I'm also learning some cool Photoshop stuff. The best part of all of this is that I'm pretty good at it. I posted the latest project we did here. I saved it as a .gif for the web here. It looks much better in person. There's a couple of more things I want to add to it at a later date, but I think it came out pretty neat. I got a 100% (A) on it. My teacher really liked it!
Joey and Rachael finally got together on Friends tonight. Yay!!!
We supposedly had a lunar eclipse tonight. Wouldn't know it because of all the rain and clouds. Dang. Lunar eclipses are cool.
Another thing that has been bumming me is not having a house. I miss having a garden sooooooooo bad. That's another reason I've been so bummed. I'll never have a house if I don't make money. Stupid pizza job.
I can't believe it's been a whole week since that spring snow we had that broke all the trees. They say that since the trees were drought-stressed, they couldn't hold up as they normally would have. We still have huge limbs hanging from the tree where I normally park. Luckily, nothing actually landed on my car. We're not supposed to cut the trees around here, so I've just left them. If nobody has done anything about them by Sunday, I may try to get them down myself. Marcus is having a shed-building party on Saturday. We really need to get out lawn mower and stuff over here. I didn't make it to work in time to make a schedule request last Sunday, so I got stuck working (probably making no money again, *sigh*), and won't be of much help.
Marcus got to go see "The Matrix Reloaded" today with all the techies from work. I hope I can go see it soon. He said it was awesome.
OK, well, that's about it for now. I had better get to bed because I've got thumbnails to do in the morning for a CD cover project. I'm going to do Shadowfax's "The Dreams of Children." It's a cool CD. G'night.
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
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Sorry there have been no posts lately. I've been busy, busy. I'm going to have to find some other part-time job, I'm afraid. I just have not been making any money, lately. I even got the hours this week that I asked for, but the sales haven't been up to snuff. *sigh* Oh, well. I better get to bed. Got lots to do tomorrow!!
Name: LaDonna
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