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Sep. 22nd, 2003 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbminxWoo! 2 hours of sleep! I'm flying high on the Caffeine Express!
I watched Before Sunrise earlier, which I hadn't seen since summer 1995. (Amusingly enough, I looked - not feature for feature but in overall "air" - my shape and coloring and hair and stuff - a lot like Julie Delpy's character at the time this movie came out, so that was one reason that I liked it.) Ethan Hawke isn't really very good in it, though - he sounds like he's "acting" most of the time. Plus the dialogue is occasionally slightly pretentious. Still, it's worth seeing at least once if you haven't before. I got the DVD for $5 from a bin at Wal-Mart, and I think that was a fair price for it.
Today is the day of Moving Estimates. So far, movers find the sheer quantity of books I own to be a little daunting. I hint that I could donate some of my furniture to charity, and they counter, "It'd be cheaper for you to donate some of these BOOKS." and I'm like, "Dude! I'm an art historian and historical fantasy writer! I need all this crap! The piano, the easel, the 40 boxes of books!"
Ahem. Anyway. I think later tonight I'm going to go out and get the newest issues of Games Magazine and Knitter's.
It also seems like my projected stay in Orlando for a couple of days may not be Thursday and Friday nights, as I previously thought, but like... Fri/Sat/Sun. Which is probably better, since people I want to see will probably be able to swing it better over the weekend than they could have on like Thursday or whatever. :)
Very important: I want to go to Universal sometime while I'm out there. I have two tix. I am going to call![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hyper_ballad and see if she and maybe her gf can fix a day for going (she already has a pass). If she can, I hope katesterbp can also go. (Siobhan, yer invited too, but it seems kind of far out of your way, esp since I only have one extra ticket.) If not, Kat is still invited, then zoloft if Kat can't go, then... I dunno, maybe if nobody else can go I'll go ALONE two days in a row, or get Lou or Tim to go. (Tim is already making me go to Downtown Disney, unless I become exceptionally good at weaseling out of it.) I'm going to call around and see how this works out. I also want to have a quietish room party one night. (I have, for one thing, a heck of a lot of unshippable liquor to get rid of.)
I watched Before Sunrise earlier, which I hadn't seen since summer 1995. (Amusingly enough, I looked - not feature for feature but in overall "air" - my shape and coloring and hair and stuff - a lot like Julie Delpy's character at the time this movie came out, so that was one reason that I liked it.) Ethan Hawke isn't really very good in it, though - he sounds like he's "acting" most of the time. Plus the dialogue is occasionally slightly pretentious. Still, it's worth seeing at least once if you haven't before. I got the DVD for $5 from a bin at Wal-Mart, and I think that was a fair price for it.
Today is the day of Moving Estimates. So far, movers find the sheer quantity of books I own to be a little daunting. I hint that I could donate some of my furniture to charity, and they counter, "It'd be cheaper for you to donate some of these BOOKS." and I'm like, "Dude! I'm an art historian and historical fantasy writer! I need all this crap! The piano, the easel, the 40 boxes of books!"
Ahem. Anyway. I think later tonight I'm going to go out and get the newest issues of Games Magazine and Knitter's.
It also seems like my projected stay in Orlando for a couple of days may not be Thursday and Friday nights, as I previously thought, but like... Fri/Sat/Sun. Which is probably better, since people I want to see will probably be able to swing it better over the weekend than they could have on like Thursday or whatever. :)
Very important: I want to go to Universal sometime while I'm out there. I have two tix. I am going to call
hyper_ballad and see if she and maybe her gf can fix a day for going (she already has a pass). If she can, I hope katesterbp can also go. (Siobhan, yer invited too, but it seems kind of far out of your way, esp since I only have one extra ticket.) If not, Kat is still invited, then zoloft if Kat can't go, then... I dunno, maybe if nobody else can go I'll go ALONE two days in a row, or get Lou or Tim to go. (Tim is already making me go to Downtown Disney, unless I become exceptionally good at weaseling out of it.) I'm going to call around and see how this works out. I also want to have a quietish room party one night. (I have, for one thing, a heck of a lot of unshippable liquor to get rid of.)
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Date: 2003-09-22 03:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-22 06:00 pm (UTC)Woo! Unshippable liquor! Woooooo! ;D
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Date: 2003-09-23 10:44 pm (UTC)As far as the free unshippable likker goes - dude, I have a bottle of green Chartreuse that I had like 1 oz out of. It's too mouthwashy for me, but it's like $40 worth of alkyhol right there. there's other stuff too (i think we have... 1/2-consumed brandy and bourbon and some small bottles of stuff, none of which can be shipped), but that's the major item.
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Date: 2003-09-22 11:11 pm (UTC)I will DEFINITELY be home this weekend. Ratna is coming to Melbourne with me too. =) Maybe we can take a short trip to Orlando to come see you if you've already left.
I'll call you on friday and see where you're at.
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Date: 2003-09-23 10:31 am (UTC)I'd love for Ratna to go too, but I only have the one free ticket & I don't know if it would be too spendy for her.... but I definitely want to see her, so it would be supercool if you could pop out to say hi. :D
anyway, I'll call Nat later today and see what she says.
if you can't go, I know Alice will, and she and I can Dress Funny, too. (We're both big fans of costumes-for-everyday.) :)
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Date: 2003-09-23 08:29 pm (UTC)I want to see Nathalie, and I told her that if I was going to Universal without my mom I'd get in touch with her, but I can't get ahold of her. I left messages on her LJ and I think I have the wrong phone number or something cos I can't get in touch with her that way. Since you're busy and planning to be in Melbourne, and I don't wanna exclude Ratna or anyone, I just decided to ask Alice (
What you should do on Sunday, which I think will be my last day in Orlando, is take the 528 to I-4 way of going back to St Pete, and stop at my hotel for a few hours in the afternoon or evening on the way. That should work out a lot better for you, so you don't have to take an extra Melbourne->Orlando trip, and I'll get to see at least you and Ratna and continue trying to get ahold of Nat.
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Date: 2003-09-24 06:43 am (UTC)It might be better if I took a miniature trip out to Orlando to see you before I hafta head home. We'll see....
D'you ever get in touch with N? She does have a new number but I don't even know if I have the right one.
Call you this weekend! =)