Rottentomatoes says a remake is being made of Clash of the Titans?!
I hate wild berry Skittles. They make me nauseous. Are they still being made? They shouldn't be, 'cause they're GROSS.
I saw a trailer for Watchmen (my f key is sticking, uggh), and I'm now totally excited for it, but now I need to get my hands on a copy of it before it comes out.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Yay, work and more official documentation!!
Well, ladies and gentleman, I am so official and legal and all-around legit that it's just ridiculous. After I got my work permit I got my Social Insurance Number, and opened up a bank account (again) in town. I'd had one here earlier, but I hated the fees associated with Canadian banks. Even the student accounts are like, "These are student checking accounts 'cause we're charging you a little less." Evil, if you ask me.
Work is fun. I spend most of my time with two fantastic ladies, Paula and Erin. Paula's the head of wardrobe, and does most of the sewing. Erin's the costume designer, and handles the rest of the sewing. I'm the wardrobe assistant, and I do all the odd jobs, organizing, laundry between the shows, maintaining between the shows, and help with all the quick changes backstage. Erin lives in Montreal, and just finished her degree in Design for Theatre, and she has a diploma in Textiles also, which is really cool.
Paula has been volunteering for the last year or so with the Bauer (it's a volunteer sort of thing during the academic year, then turns into Festival Antigonish during the summer), and is now being employed by Festival Antigonish. She has three (three?) lovely kids.
What's fun is all the cool stuff that Paula and Erin have been showing me how to do. They're constantly showing me little tricks to do, or giving me good advice. And generally, I just have a lot of fun sitting down in teh basement of the theatre with them talking.
It's really fun, 'cause I'm never doing the same thing (except for show nights). What I am a little disappointed by, though, is the hours. It's supposed to be a 4o hrs/wk job, but that some weeks I work more, and others I work less, and it just all balances out. But I hadn't realized that performances are essentially every night of the week (no Sundays), and I work every performance, so anything earlier than 10pm is just sort of cut out. I don't know why I was picturing like three performances a week, but I was.
I am pretty entertained by Roombas. And sort of interested in maybe eventually getting one, actually.
Right now the Highland Games are going in, which is a Big To-Do in Antigonish, but it seems a bit more like a tourist trap than anything else. There are beer tents up toight and last night, but I don't know what they are, and don't have any money to go in and find out. When people heard that I didn't know what a beer tent was it apparently revealed how much I'm not from the East Coast. Or is this a common thing everywhere?
Thank you sooooo much for Sidereel, Jaime. It's not like I can't access any sites, it's just things like NBC or whatever that are obnoxious. To be honest, I mostly use Youku or Tudou. I've been watching 30 Rock to my heart's content, though.
Okay, I have to go ot bed. I am le tired.
Work is fun. I spend most of my time with two fantastic ladies, Paula and Erin. Paula's the head of wardrobe, and does most of the sewing. Erin's the costume designer, and handles the rest of the sewing. I'm the wardrobe assistant, and I do all the odd jobs, organizing, laundry between the shows, maintaining between the shows, and help with all the quick changes backstage. Erin lives in Montreal, and just finished her degree in Design for Theatre, and she has a diploma in Textiles also, which is really cool.
Paula has been volunteering for the last year or so with the Bauer (it's a volunteer sort of thing during the academic year, then turns into Festival Antigonish during the summer), and is now being employed by Festival Antigonish. She has three (three?) lovely kids.
What's fun is all the cool stuff that Paula and Erin have been showing me how to do. They're constantly showing me little tricks to do, or giving me good advice. And generally, I just have a lot of fun sitting down in teh basement of the theatre with them talking.
It's really fun, 'cause I'm never doing the same thing (except for show nights). What I am a little disappointed by, though, is the hours. It's supposed to be a 4o hrs/wk job, but that some weeks I work more, and others I work less, and it just all balances out. But I hadn't realized that performances are essentially every night of the week (no Sundays), and I work every performance, so anything earlier than 10pm is just sort of cut out. I don't know why I was picturing like three performances a week, but I was.
I am pretty entertained by Roombas. And sort of interested in maybe eventually getting one, actually.
Right now the Highland Games are going in, which is a Big To-Do in Antigonish, but it seems a bit more like a tourist trap than anything else. There are beer tents up toight and last night, but I don't know what they are, and don't have any money to go in and find out. When people heard that I didn't know what a beer tent was it apparently revealed how much I'm not from the East Coast. Or is this a common thing everywhere?
Thank you sooooo much for Sidereel, Jaime. It's not like I can't access any sites, it's just things like NBC or whatever that are obnoxious. To be honest, I mostly use Youku or Tudou. I've been watching 30 Rock to my heart's content, though.
Okay, I have to go ot bed. I am le tired.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
A Mandy-centric blogging world
I love 30 Rock toooo. But I've only seen the 1st season, 'cause I was watching on the Netflix watch it now feature, which of course can't be used outside the United States. Augh!
I have to say, when I looked at my Google Reader and saw two posts (at the time) with my name in them, I got sort of worried. Had I accidentally been typing in a blogging window, not realized, and posted something truly awful that everyone was responding to? Imagine my relief when I saw that Anne's "watch out, Mandy" post was about being eternally damned by an insecure god. Whew :) I laughed a lot at that, btw.
I'm sure I'm much more likely to go to hell for missing a family vacation than for not believing in god. Really.
I feel very privileged about the position of my picture on your desk, Sam? Any other siblings up there being represented?
GUESS what Iiiiii got? A work permit!!! I'm legal! I will be paid! And now, I will talk about work, which of course is only commencing now that I'm a legal worker. Since I'd never work without a work permit. ... Never.
Okay, time for hte old workaday.
Now there will be much posting merriment about work.
I have to say, when I looked at my Google Reader and saw two posts (at the time) with my name in them, I got sort of worried. Had I accidentally been typing in a blogging window, not realized, and posted something truly awful that everyone was responding to? Imagine my relief when I saw that Anne's "watch out, Mandy" post was about being eternally damned by an insecure god. Whew :) I laughed a lot at that, btw.
I'm sure I'm much more likely to go to hell for missing a family vacation than for not believing in god. Really.
I feel very privileged about the position of my picture on your desk, Sam? Any other siblings up there being represented?
GUESS what Iiiiii got? A work permit!!! I'm legal! I will be paid! And now, I will talk about work, which of course is only commencing now that I'm a legal worker. Since I'd never work without a work permit. ... Never.
Okay, time for hte old workaday.
Now there will be much posting merriment about work.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Introducing: My Housemates
There are two.Housemate #1:
Sarah. She's from Newfoundland, and I met her from hanging out with Nick this last year. She transferred from Dal, and is a couple years older than me. You'll recall she was the little kid in The Yelling Bee. She's majoring in Information Systems, and is great at designing graphics and dresses out of weird things (strips of paper, condoms). She's the student union vice president of communications, which is actually pretty cool.
Housemate #2:
Andrew. Our third roommate was Stella, a friend of Sarah's from Dal(housie) I hadn't met yet. She subletted her room for the summer, though, and Andrew is that guy. We can sit around being dorky together. He likes Cowboy Bebop, and got me into Battlestar Galactica, and has the series for Ghost in Shell, and I'd just watched the movie. He works at teh local pizza store that people only like if they're drunk, unless they're a local, in which case they think it's the best pizza ever. Oh, and he's a local. Thanks to his DVD collection, I also watched all of Full Metal Alchemist (fuuun) and Samurai 7. Wow, I've wasted a lot of time this summer. Though Andrew would say it was time well spent.
Eating a burger on the floor just makes it more delicious.
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