Weekend summary
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kingandyGot drunk. Came home. Stayed. Hooray!
Allow me to elaborate.
Friday was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pkgem's birthday party. It was fun, we went out to pub and club and I even danced. The Darkness rock out so much, I am thinking about buying their album. Of course, I will have to balance out such good musical taste by simultaneously purchasing the Busted album. Ha ha ha! Anyway, I got myself gently inebriated (6 units of alcohol over 4 hours) and gave Gemma a He-Man action figure.
I am in two minds about the new He-Man figure. He is all tensed and stooped, like he is trying to poop a brick. Or growling or something. He looks like an angry ape. The new He-Man series, however, kicks so much ass. There is plot, and characterisation, and backstory, Skeletor has an origin, and most importantly He-Man and Prince Adam do not look the same. Talk about Superman and spectacles all you like, but at least he did more than take off his shirt. Teela was always all "Oh no! A man I know very well has removed his shirt and I can no longer recognise him!" That's fixed for the new series, he's like two feet shorter in his secret identity.
Following the pub I spent the night inajon's inflatable bed, for which I am grateful. It was preferable to Gem's floor. I am still slightly stiff, since double airbeds are not designed for a single occupant, but it was nice all the same.
Upon awakening on the Saturday morn, I proceeded to Manchester and my own abode. I was in time to chat briefly with my housemate (bacony) and her meat[1], before they rocketed off to scout out the site for next weekend's SoS LRP event. I was not alone long[2] before Chris Perry arrived. We watched some TV and read some comics before going to see Finding Nemo.
Finding Nemo is a good movie. Apart from being very visually pleasing (from a computer science point of view, I would have to say FUCK ME that's good), it is funny and cool and clever and touching without being cloying. The dialogue is (IMO) both well-written and well-executed.
Anyway. Then we came back to my place and watched DVDs for about 24 hours, until late tonight. We watched about six hours of Futurama, all told, with breaks for sleeping and watching Justice League. Then this evening we watched Flight of the Navigator (easily as good as I remember; while the CGI is primitive, they worked within their limits and it's fairly seamless) and One-Armed Boxer II (bad martial arts flick). Now it is bed time and I have successfully avoided driving all weekend. Hooray!
The weekend's down points: I have a vague notion that people may have done lots of cool things without me. While some of this is perfectly normal paranoia, I know at least some of it is based in fact (seepkgem and ghostbritain's repeated movie trips, failure though one of them was). I am possessive of my friends, and get distressed when they exclude me. I realise that this is unrealistic, and that people can't spend all their time together, especially when they live 30 miles apart, so I don't really mind too much when I think about it. There's just an instant and immediate jealousy there.
In related news,ghostbritain tells me bacony is worried I may be acting like an asshole. I'm not entirely sure why. But then, I've never been entirely sure why people always tell me I'm nice, so it stands to reason that I wouldn't notice if I suddenly started being a twat. If I have, rest assured that I don't mean any offence, and am just trying to be funny. Comedy makes people love me. Hooray!
[1] Typo for "Mate". Intentional.
[2] Not even long enough to crack off a quick one.
Allow me to elaborate.
Friday was
pkgem's birthday party. It was fun, we went out to pub and club and I even danced. The Darkness rock out so much, I am thinking about buying their album. Of course, I will have to balance out such good musical taste by simultaneously purchasing the Busted album. Ha ha ha! Anyway, I got myself gently inebriated (6 units of alcohol over 4 hours) and gave Gemma a He-Man action figure.I am in two minds about the new He-Man figure. He is all tensed and stooped, like he is trying to poop a brick. Or growling or something. He looks like an angry ape. The new He-Man series, however, kicks so much ass. There is plot, and characterisation, and backstory, Skeletor has an origin, and most importantly He-Man and Prince Adam do not look the same. Talk about Superman and spectacles all you like, but at least he did more than take off his shirt. Teela was always all "Oh no! A man I know very well has removed his shirt and I can no longer recognise him!" That's fixed for the new series, he's like two feet shorter in his secret identity.
Following the pub I spent the night in
ajon's inflatable bed, for which I am grateful. It was preferable to Gem's floor. I am still slightly stiff, since double airbeds are not designed for a single occupant, but it was nice all the same.Upon awakening on the Saturday morn, I proceeded to Manchester and my own abode. I was in time to chat briefly with my housemate (
bacony) and her meat[1], before they rocketed off to scout out the site for next weekend's SoS LRP event. I was not alone long[2] before Chris Perry arrived. We watched some TV and read some comics before going to see Finding Nemo.Finding Nemo is a good movie. Apart from being very visually pleasing (from a computer science point of view, I would have to say FUCK ME that's good), it is funny and cool and clever and touching without being cloying. The dialogue is (IMO) both well-written and well-executed.
Anyway. Then we came back to my place and watched DVDs for about 24 hours, until late tonight. We watched about six hours of Futurama, all told, with breaks for sleeping and watching Justice League. Then this evening we watched Flight of the Navigator (easily as good as I remember; while the CGI is primitive, they worked within their limits and it's fairly seamless) and One-Armed Boxer II (bad martial arts flick). Now it is bed time and I have successfully avoided driving all weekend. Hooray!
The weekend's down points: I have a vague notion that people may have done lots of cool things without me. While some of this is perfectly normal paranoia, I know at least some of it is based in fact (see
pkgem and ghostbritain's repeated movie trips, failure though one of them was). I am possessive of my friends, and get distressed when they exclude me. I realise that this is unrealistic, and that people can't spend all their time together, especially when they live 30 miles apart, so I don't really mind too much when I think about it. There's just an instant and immediate jealousy there.In related news,
ghostbritain tells me bacony is worried I may be acting like an asshole. I'm not entirely sure why. But then, I've never been entirely sure why people always tell me I'm nice, so it stands to reason that I wouldn't notice if I suddenly started being a twat. If I have, rest assured that I don't mean any offence, and am just trying to be funny. Comedy makes people love me. Hooray![1] Typo for "Mate". Intentional.
[2] Not even long enough to crack off a quick one.
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Date: 2003-10-13 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-13 02:35 am (UTC)I have expressed doubts about the relationship, and where it may or may not be going. But she's old enough to make her own choices so I'm avoiding sticking my oar in. I like Chad, there are certainly worse people to shack up with.
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Date: 2003-10-13 02:47 am (UTC)However. Katy is a person who lives in the moment. Right now she is happy, and so is Chad, and this is enough. It's admirable, really, many a relationship has been spoiled by worrying about Where Is This Going and Will This Work Out. So I don't want to bring her down by mentioning it.
Of course this is a public journal and she's probably going to read it. So, um. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Nothing to see; move it along. I'll never tell.
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Date: 2003-10-13 05:03 am (UTC)thanks for the image...
Date: 2003-10-13 05:18 am (UTC)thanks ;-p
Re: thanks for the image...
Date: 2003-10-13 08:25 am (UTC)Re: thanks for the image...
Date: 2003-10-13 09:59 am (UTC)everybody still loves Andy!
Date: 2003-10-13 02:11 am (UTC)On a more serious note. Yes, your friends did attempt/do cool stuff without you but with good reason. The trip to Leeds was Nook and I alone due to me owning the worlds smallest car (I'll destroy alll competition people put forward to refute that claim - I will!). And our mission failed. Then on Sunday, Nook, Nev, Sam and I went to see Watching Nemo - a film that you said you saw on Saturday in an lj comment. We didn't think you'd want to make a special trip to Bolton (via train as your car is dodgy) to se a film you saw the day before.
So stop being paranoid (pass it to Chris - the additional paranoia may make him flip out and go psycho which could be amusing to watch :-) and buy a house in Bolton! We all still love you. Especially He-Man - that's a grimace of lurrrrrrve for you.
Re: everybody still loves Andy!
Date: 2003-10-13 07:25 am (UTC)Chris
Re: everybody still loves Andy!
Date: 2003-10-14 01:38 pm (UTC)PS: I may be plotting evil things against you right now...
Actually I am...
And so are all your other friends...
And that guy you passed in the street the other day...
And people you haven't even met yet...
We're all planning your doom...
moohahahhahahaha!!!!!! {{neiiigh}}
Re: everybody still loves Andy!
Date: 2003-10-14 03:28 pm (UTC)That's why I have my own plot in progress even as we speak.
What you didn't see from the brother/cat incident is he is down south training an army of cats to carry out my pl... Did I say that out loud?
too late...
Date: 2003-10-15 06:53 am (UTC)You cannot defeat us! We invented plans!!!
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Date: 2003-10-13 03:44 am (UTC)You were utterly twat-free(1) last weekend, and you're one of the nicest people I know.
Personally I blame the longer nights and colder weather, makes everyone introspective and paranoid.
(1): Twat-free, not so much a calling, more a way of life.
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Date: 2003-10-13 03:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-13 08:01 am (UTC)