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My yesterday
Apr. 30th, 2005 06:40 amBeing the mature adult that I am, I decided not to go to work today at the last minute and I informed my boss of this by calling her cell via my cell at 6:20 in the AM, some two hours before I'm scheduled to show up, and then taking off my phone. I realized I felt motivated to show up today, even though I have lots of homework to do still, because very few other volunteers and workers are remotely competent in the bowling alley. I took some time and came the conclusion that while I do get enjoyment from Project Happy, I need some time away from it; when I'm done there I'm always exhausted and find myself almost literally unable to concentrate or do what I need to do for myself. Things will be rough there without me, what with the scrambling to keep bowling properly staffed, but they'll make it work.
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I'm feeling particularly okay these last couple of days. I'm still convinced you don't read these but thanks. A whole heaping lot. Sans any sarcasm at all. You really are good people...when you're not getting ramen all over everything. I'm still digesting what you told me (I know, right? - it was more coherent than you thought) and it makes sense. Thank you very very much for listening.
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Now that various shout-outs are out of the way...
I totally saw Family Guy! Live! last night. Oh man, it was so freakin' sweet!!!
I'll stop squealing now.
Last night was the first night FG Live was in town. We (as in my brother and I) were both home yesterday so we tried to plan some sort of evening out. Only thing he had very little money (I called him "el Cheapo", he objected to that and called himself "el Broke-o", I accepted that instead; who says I don't care?) and I had only a little more. Dinner at some fancy-shmancy place was off and we settled instead on that bastion of style and upper-crust good taste, TGI Fridays. Even now I can still taste the chicken strips. I did really want chicken strips, this is true, so I guess I have no one to blame for the lump they and their accompanying fries formed in my GI tract (like how I said "GI tract instead of "stomach", huh? I'm totally going to ace the test I have on digestion on Tuesday).
Right. We left Le Fridays around 6:30, not leaving us enough time to swing by Midtown Comics I thought (me being a stickler for promptness) so we got to the show with much time to spare.
Something we noticed after getting our seats and looking around - we two were the ONLY black people there. I was a little flabbergasted and we were both highly amused. While waiting for the show to start we began checking people out to see if maybe they were black (a sample exchange: "What about him?" "Nah, he looks Hispanic." "What about that guy over there?" "He's Indian." "Well, why don't we adopt him to increase our numbers?").
The show started a little after its scheduled hour with a video titled "Stewie's Dirty Domination Party" or some such. It had its moments but it was set up like one of those rap videos with the scantily clad black women dancing for a good portion of it. As the lone black female in the audience I felt twinges of...embarrassment? annoyance? You'd think they could have thrown a white hoochie or two into the mix, just to balance things out. Next Seth MacFarlane introduced the cast along with a portion of the writing staff, and then they read an episode for us. Pure hilarity. Mila Kunis had, like, five lines. I still think she's the weakest link in that show. ANY show. But I'll give her credit, she didn't sit up there looking bored. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the episode, "something Dixie" - it was the one where Chris and his family get relocated by Witness Protect to somewhere in the South and it features Herbert the Pedophile ("Get your fat ass over here"). My brother and I couldn't recall most of the episode, which made it even more funny when they performed it. Alex Borstein and Seth Green kept making blowjob jokes (with use of microphones) and there was no bleeping of curses...which led to a funny moment when Seth said (as Peter) "I'm gonna fuck you" and Alex pointed out there was a six-year old sitting in the front row not 10 feet away from him. Which begs the question "Whaaaaaaaa???" They didn't clean up their act for the rest of the show but they also didn't rib the kid's parents for bringing him out (which I totally would have done).
Next they showed five minutes or so from the new episode set to air this Sunday (which, I know, is all over the freakin' Internet but I can wait until Sunday to see it). That looks funny. I was very disappointed when they stopped. After that was questions from the audience - idiotic questions from the audience. The bulk of them were like the Simpson episode where The Comic Book Guy is at the convention and talking to the creators of Radioactive Man, roughly like "In Issue 43 page 3 fourth panel there was a mole on Radioactive Man..." . Episode specific questions which showed these people really need to get out more. Then there were the desperate VO artists who shamelessly got up and begged for jobs. I'm all for people looking to pay bills, but there are times and places for that, buddies. Very cringe-worthy all around.
And...that was it. Swung by Starbucks where I was egregiously given a whipped chocolate milk with white chocolate flavoring instead of my requested (and more expensive) whipped white chocolate mocha (my brother, knowing how I get when I'm screwed over for my money, agreed to give me my money back rather than watch me storm all the way back to the store - I was mollified). Came home, washed up, and was Family Guy'd out. Le fun.
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I'm feeling particularly okay these last couple of days. I'm still convinced you don't read these but thanks. A whole heaping lot. Sans any sarcasm at all. You really are good people...when you're not getting ramen all over everything. I'm still digesting what you told me (I know, right? - it was more coherent than you thought) and it makes sense. Thank you very very much for listening.
*
Now that various shout-outs are out of the way...
I totally saw Family Guy! Live! last night. Oh man, it was so freakin' sweet!!!
I'll stop squealing now.
Last night was the first night FG Live was in town. We (as in my brother and I) were both home yesterday so we tried to plan some sort of evening out. Only thing he had very little money (I called him "el Cheapo", he objected to that and called himself "el Broke-o", I accepted that instead; who says I don't care?) and I had only a little more. Dinner at some fancy-shmancy place was off and we settled instead on that bastion of style and upper-crust good taste, TGI Fridays. Even now I can still taste the chicken strips. I did really want chicken strips, this is true, so I guess I have no one to blame for the lump they and their accompanying fries formed in my GI tract (like how I said "GI tract instead of "stomach", huh? I'm totally going to ace the test I have on digestion on Tuesday).
Right. We left Le Fridays around 6:30, not leaving us enough time to swing by Midtown Comics I thought (me being a stickler for promptness) so we got to the show with much time to spare.
Something we noticed after getting our seats and looking around - we two were the ONLY black people there. I was a little flabbergasted and we were both highly amused. While waiting for the show to start we began checking people out to see if maybe they were black (a sample exchange: "What about him?" "Nah, he looks Hispanic." "What about that guy over there?" "He's Indian." "Well, why don't we adopt him to increase our numbers?").
The show started a little after its scheduled hour with a video titled "Stewie's Dirty Domination Party" or some such. It had its moments but it was set up like one of those rap videos with the scantily clad black women dancing for a good portion of it. As the lone black female in the audience I felt twinges of...embarrassment? annoyance? You'd think they could have thrown a white hoochie or two into the mix, just to balance things out. Next Seth MacFarlane introduced the cast along with a portion of the writing staff, and then they read an episode for us. Pure hilarity. Mila Kunis had, like, five lines. I still think she's the weakest link in that show. ANY show. But I'll give her credit, she didn't sit up there looking bored. For the life of me I can't remember the name of the episode, "something Dixie" - it was the one where Chris and his family get relocated by Witness Protect to somewhere in the South and it features Herbert the Pedophile ("Get your fat ass over here"). My brother and I couldn't recall most of the episode, which made it even more funny when they performed it. Alex Borstein and Seth Green kept making blowjob jokes (with use of microphones) and there was no bleeping of curses...which led to a funny moment when Seth said (as Peter) "I'm gonna fuck you" and Alex pointed out there was a six-year old sitting in the front row not 10 feet away from him. Which begs the question "Whaaaaaaaa???" They didn't clean up their act for the rest of the show but they also didn't rib the kid's parents for bringing him out (which I totally would have done).
Next they showed five minutes or so from the new episode set to air this Sunday (which, I know, is all over the freakin' Internet but I can wait until Sunday to see it). That looks funny. I was very disappointed when they stopped. After that was questions from the audience - idiotic questions from the audience. The bulk of them were like the Simpson episode where The Comic Book Guy is at the convention and talking to the creators of Radioactive Man, roughly like "In Issue 43 page 3 fourth panel there was a mole on Radioactive Man..." . Episode specific questions which showed these people really need to get out more. Then there were the desperate VO artists who shamelessly got up and begged for jobs. I'm all for people looking to pay bills, but there are times and places for that, buddies. Very cringe-worthy all around.
And...that was it. Swung by Starbucks where I was egregiously given a whipped chocolate milk with white chocolate flavoring instead of my requested (and more expensive) whipped white chocolate mocha (my brother, knowing how I get when I'm screwed over for my money, agreed to give me my money back rather than watch me storm all the way back to the store - I was mollified). Came home, washed up, and was Family Guy'd out. Le fun.
