Happy Halloween!

So, it's Halloween. I've always enjoyed this holiday. Butit's a Monday. WHich dampens it just a tad because 1)It's Monday, 2) I have tio go to work for 5 hours, 3)I didn't sleep well last night. Yes, this has nothing to do with it being Monday, I know. Anyway, ARGO (Allegheny Role-Playing and Gaming Organization) has a party tonight, so I'll be going to that. So much for getting any work done tonight.

Also, this whole daylight-savings time thing is messing me up. It feels an hour later that it is. It's dfark when I get up in the morning, and it'll be dark by the time I get off work today. It won't be pleasant.

yay, mail!

Got the VisaBuxx card today. Just need to activate it
Also got cake from Grandma. Haven't opened that yet.
Got a lot done for Francesca today--managed to get out a mass
mailing, finally! Things will be so much easier now, after we get
responses back from people about staying on the mailing list. Just
sorry I had to come back down from Erie. Would've enjoyed more time
with Nana and Pop-pop.

oh yeah. Now I remember

4) The MS Word plug-in for Blogger, although convenient, annoys me. It seems to convert all my apostrophe's into question marks. At least When I look at the posts.

5) Just updated a couple pages for anyone who cares. It seems I've lost some of my work from last year in my workshops, or I'd put that up too. I either misplaced the files and can't find them, or the school server ater them. Either way, I'm annyed. I think I have copies of some of the poems post-revision, but I'm not sure. May post those later.

assorted things

1) Still no sign of my Visabuxx card. Should be here soon, though. (fingers crossed)

2) Went to Cheeseman's Haunted Hayride on Friday with Erin, Bridget, Brad and Steve (and, I'm embarrassed to say, some other people whose names I can't remember). Brought back memories of when we all went Freshman year. Good times.

3) Am so looking forward to Fall Break this weekend. I need it. I'm just feeling burned out. Should call Nana and Pop-pop and see what they'll be up to.

4) There's a four? I know there was, but now I can't remember what I was going to put here.

I rock!

I actually feel like I'm accomplishing things. Here's what I did yesterday:
laundry
paid the ticket/got new parking decal
e-mailed Amare re: Art/Env minor. Looks good to her.
wrote a poem for class
attended the meetings for both knitting and chess clubs
got some reading done

Happy birthday, mom!

It’s my mother’s birthday. This is a good thing. I’m just sorry I can’t be there to celebrate with her, since she left for Israel on Friday. I’m also sorry I didn’t get her anything. She gave me a birthday present before she left (very early, but I won’t complain), and I’m working on something for her with the alpaca wool she got me. Yes, I’m getting even more into this knitting thing.

stray thoughts and a geeky rant

Things on my mind this weekend:

1. My Visabuxx card expired at the end of September. Where’s my new one? I have no idea. Possibly my father hasn’t looked for it in the pile of mail he’s gotten in Israel. That’s ok, I have money, but still. I’m annoyed that they refuse to send it to me directly.


2. It can’t be October already! That means Fall Break is soon, and then Halloween. I’m not ready for either of those things


3. I gotta get work done. Don’t want to, but it needs to get done. I’m almost done with my astrology paper (yea!) and just need to do a bunch of reading after that. I have to actually read the current novel for my Fiction class, because I’m going to have to write a paper on it later.


4. Weather. It’s being finicky again. It was all ready to snow on Wednesday (I think it was Wednesday, the whole week kinda blurred together) and now it’s nearly 80. Just gonna make the winter all the harsher later.


5. I’ve been reading my copy of Kraven’s Last Hunt, a Spider-Man story from the ‘80s, and the Afterword had the following quoted from Mark Gruenwald: “Marvel doesn’t need to revamp their characters. We got them right the first time.” I almost burst out laughing, then realized how it was kinda sad, actually. Yes, I’m a geek and know that, over the last decade, Marvel’s gotten into the habit of fixing character or continuity problems by rewriting origins or just doing a huge, universe-spanning, reality-warping crossover (see Age of Apocalypse, Heroes Reborn, and now House of M). They’ve sunk lower than I would like to admit. And this depresses me not only because I genuinely want to like Marvel, but because I feel like I grew up with some of these characters, and now they’re not even the same people anymore. Yes, it’s realistic that they’ve changed. But there are far more realistic ways to have them change than they’ve used (Legion kills Xavier in the past; Xavier goes insane and kills most of the “core” Marvel heroes, but wait! They’re alive in a “pocket dimension” so they can come back again!; Scarlet Witch goes crazy and screws with history so her father, Magneto is a hero and rules a good chunk of the planet, and mutants are now the majority. And then there was the Clone Saga in Spider-Man…). I mean, really. If they feel like it’s this difficult to work around existing stories and get new material, they need new talent. Go ask somebody who isn’t responsible for the writing and get an outside viewpoint. I’m pretty damn sick of this stuff. And really, just once, I’d like to see somebody actually stay dead. I know Jean Grey has been for a while now, but we all know she’ll be back eventually. She always is. Just like Magneto.