Woo hoo! Tesla Day!

Diana, I won't be online at ALL TOMORROW DARN WORK so I am saying Happy Birthday to you RIGHT NOW! Happy Birthday! In but a few days there shall be Harry Potter for you to watch!

So I've finished my last class- actually that was about a week ago, but apparently I've forgotten to update my LJ since then. Point is, I'm done!

Now I really have to send out my graduation announcements.

The 4th of July was good this year, especially because of two things:
1. So it turns out my friend Diarmid is going to Evergreen, and has been in town basically all year! We dragged him to the party and I finally had someone my own age to talk to!
2. Nathan, a two-year old boy, was bedecked in mismatched glow stick necklace, bracelets, and anklets when it got dark.

Truly that image will be my equivalent of Mom's "multiple running basset hounds" in the category "things to think of to make you feel happy."

Also there was pudge cake, but that is a standard dosage of happiness.

I have a dentist appointment in 12 hours, which means really I have to leave in 11, and I have a lot of stuff to do before that including sleep, but what's really important is that I love Ace of Cakes even more now than before due to this web comic:

http://basicinstructions.net/?p=433

Also the calendar shouldn't be allowed to have Father's Day on the solstice so it's a Sunday anyway (Farmer's market day half the time and almost always Top Foods grocery shopping day, but at least I ran into the Tomlins) and I have to spend my whole day doing mundane things instead of going up on top of the hill like I wanted and just sort of enjoying the sun.

Not waiting in the car in the parking lot wondering why Dad is taking pictures of mailboxes. That's not what the first day of summer is all about.

I'm so excited because the school sent me a small refund check (woo accidentally charging too much for tuition and then returning it!) so I am not totally broke for the summer! I can get my own AMF (the abbreviated name for a naughtily-named bright blue cocktail of doom, it's 10 dollars but so worth) next time I go out to do karaoke, which is hopefully soon because it's fun!

And I celebrated today by buying myself a "LifeWater" or whatever the Sobe brand is, and a can of enchilada sauce (I am a girl of simple but odd desires) when I went to get lemon-lime soda to cook ham in.

Mmm... ham.

Girl Sam, Kami, and I were in girl Sam's car yesterday and some music was playing. Girl Sam explained that it was a band called Billy Talent, and while I didn't recognize their music, the name sounded so familiar, and I couldn't figure out why.

DURR.

Hard Core Logo.

I haven't watched it in ages, that is my only excuse. I should have figured it out when we were sitting in the booth at Jake's and the guy in the next booth over looked kinda like Callum Keith Rennie, but with slightly Nimoy-esque features. He slow-danced with a blonde lady and I had all sorts of Due South related imagery flying around, but I guess one Jell-O shot and one cranberry vodka, while not enough to make me drunk, is enough to shut down my C6D connection brain.

I really need to remember to ask my brother for details on what he is buying for me to drink, and not accept "it's a bunch of different rums and ice"- I need to check on the pineapple front. One of the things I learned this year is that it turns out I'm a bit allergic- it makes the roof of my mouth near the front be all ouchy- but if it's presented to me I will eat it anyway. And the bucket full of rum and ice also had pineapple. It also did not taste boozy at all but it totally was.

Sam- boy Sam, my brother, I mean, not girl Sam- bought it for me because I've never seen a movie immediately after drinking before, and we were on our way to The Hangover. (We were literally next door for the boozing- there was no drinking and driving.)

IT WAS AWESOME.

Justin Bartha is adorable. Bradley Cooper was an amoral sort of gorgeous- if they'd let him swear in Kitchen Confidential like he did in this film, I think it would have lasted a bit longer. Ed Helms... nothing bad to say about him, but he's just Ed Helms, you know? And he was playing a more financially successful version of a character I've already seen in School of Rock- the browbeat boyfriend. (They could have had Sarah Silverman play his girlfriend and given Jack Black a cameo as Dewey Finn in the photo montage during the end credits.) And Zach Galifinakis was the slightly disturbing sort of "adorable or creeper?" It's nice to know for sure that Galifinakis can act- I'd seen his comedy, and watched Tru Calling, but there's a difference between being a deadpan mortician and making me feel sorry for a guy who's banned from school grounds and Chuckie Cheese, and has little to no sense of emotional boundaries.

Also the baby and the tiger were both adorable, and I loved more than I should have the part when Bradley Cooper just knocked the chicken off the counter with his forearm- chickens are bastards, man.

Well they ARE.

Makes me happy: River Ridge won for Best Stage Crew at the 5th Ave Awards. (The Tonys of Washington* high school theatre!)

Makes me happier: I actually recognized the kid accepting the award- he was in Stagecraft 1 my senior year. He's so grown-up now!

*I almost wrote that as western Washington, and then remembered that Hanford has nominations so it is for both sides of the mountains.

Hey guess what guys! Dark Angel's big set-up plot point, the pulse, was scripted as happening at June 1, 2009. That means we have successfully avoided living in a post-apocalyptic future full of transgenic super soldier that look like Jessica Alba and Jensen Ackles, while Michael Weatherly reports subversively.

I wish I'd realized that June 1 was the pulse day. I would have mentioned it to everyone when I was way drunker than I should be and singing karaoke. (For me, way drunker than I should be is like 5 drinks in 5 hours. I am a lightweight.)

My mind, she is blown.

Billy Drago, who was John Bly on The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr, is the father of Darren E. Burrows, who played Ed Chigliak on Northern Exposure and Milton in Cry-Baby.

Looking at crappy thumbnail pics of them it makes perfect sense, but I never made the connenction. Of course I didn't realize that Milton in Cry-Baby is Ed in Northern Exposure until tonight.

I've tried to figure out for ages who littleradge (as seen on "Internet" he says!) on YouTube reminded me of, facewise, besides David Tennant.

Apparently it's a young Eminem.

Not sure how I feel about that.

Pretty cool: a rather old witch bottle was found in England. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31107319/

(Too tired to make links properly.)

I had an excellent trip to Bellingham to see Sara, Adrianne, and Ellen. I got to meet Ellen's boyfriend, who is spiffy.

And now it's the Family Guy with the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Yay!

I noticed I haven't really mentioned anything about graduation yet. Here is all you need to know:

The speech at the big ceremony was SO BORING that I took a nap.

This is not a joke. This is not an exaggeration.

Luckily, the speech at the smaller ceremony was a lot better.

Under the cut, bento-y things!

( Delicious! )

I haven't posted in a bit!

Technically I am sort of drunk posting: my brother took me to the booze store and got me Kahlua and vodka for White Russians, Malibu, cognac, and Irish Cream for my late birthday presents. I am sharing the cognac because Mom loves it and Sam only bought it because he said it will grow on me but I like girlier stuff. Do White Russians count as girly? I need to make some clean ice for them, since they need it: I made a tiny proof-of-concept White Russian in my very pretty shot glass and it was good even with just 1% milk instead of cream, but it should have been colder. I was using up the old bottle of Kahlua and it had less than a tablespoon left in it so I checked to see if Kahlua tastes good in Dr Pepper or only root beer. It's okay in Dr Pepper, but it still works better with root beer. Woo Tootsie Rolls! Also I had some cognac to see what it was like. It's smooth, I guess?

I now am part of "Konnichiwhat?" which is a blog that has a Japanese focus and also includes Kami and Brittany. Find us at http://konnichiwhat.blogspot.com/ ! I haven't posted yet: I am waiting for my brother to go to work so I can use his computer to upload some bento pictures for my posts. Kami and Brittany are blogging about films and manga, mostly, and I'm blogging about Japanese food and bentos. All my bento posts are getting cross-posted to my other blog I've just started, which will be about the booze I try and the bentos I make. I figured that unless I drink sake it doesn't really belong on the main blog.

I am all checked out of my dorm! My brother is hiking the M trail, and my parents are on their way back from having to buy my dad another cane because he's misplaced his.

My hair super cute right now. Once I can use my brother's computer I might upload a picture of it: Mom braided it for me so it sort of looks like it does back when I was Elizabeth Proctor, almost exactly 3 years ago to this day. (We'd already closed the show at this point, I think.)

Oh, I totally see gowned professors! One of the departmental ceremonies is about to happen. Cool!

So my room looks like a disaster area (but sadly, not Disaster Area, because then I might get that awesome black-on-black ship or meet Hotblack Desiato or anyway....) and I've been up for much longer than I'd like to have been. I'm going to have to take a nap this afternoon no matter what.

Luckily I have three of my suitcases fully packed and a box of clothing that can be mailed back so it's obvious that it's not that I haven't been working it's that I have too much stuff and need to finish sorting it into keep, toss, can't go down the garbage chute but needs thrown out anyway, return to proper owner (books mostly), give away, and my least favorite "Dammit I really wish the boys had the money they're supposed to be giving me for this fridge because I'm going to have to physically transfer it to them whether or not they do and this is supposed to be a sale not a gift so I'm sending a crappy message and I want the money NOW."

(Zac and Alex are going in halfsies on my reduced-to-sell minifridge, but Zac doesn't have his half and I haven't asked Alex recently. Just getting rid of it is a good thing, but the cash from it would help finance mailing a bunch of my stuff back to home.)

I finished my mask for the costume crafts final, but the beard section fell off and broke irreparably. If Wendy gives us most of the time allotted to the final to finish up any final elements, I can make a crappy one by fusing more thermoplastic together, but honestly I can barely care at all about it at present. I'm way too tired for it and the hair part looks pretty good and it fits my head pretty damn well and all that.

Or maybe I'll just glue on a piece of fabric that represents the idea of the beard. That sounds hilariously ineffective and just the sort of thing a sleep-deprived me would come up with.

BRIGHT SIDE OF BEING UP AT DISGUSTING HOURS: West Wing is on! I've been wanting to watch some West Wing of late, and if the television will stop telling me about heartworm it will be time for political drama.

The first half of what is currently in my spam filter makes something of a poem.

I think I'd like some squish mittens.

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Give squish mittens DUE attention
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I checked on Fandango and the movie theater at home will still have Star Trek in IMAX when I'm home, so I'm totally doing that.

(I'm also going to see it at the other mainstream movie theater in Missoula soon, so that in the end I'll be able to say I'd seen it three times in three different theaters.)

I'm now the Chief Science Officer (but only a lieutenant, and I think I should be a lieutenant commander) in Zac's crew he's making up to go with the captain's jacket he'll be getting and the phaser he already has.

We're all such nerds.

Star Trek was utterly amazing. I saw it from the front row because we had to walk to the movie theatre (it's about 4 miles away) and we got there a tiny bit late for any decent seating to be left, but it didn't matter. It was MAGICAL. I'll try not to give any spoilers, unless you count names of cast members as spoilers. But I make no guarantees.

I wish Greg Grunberg's role had been a little bigger, but McGillion's was big enough to make me happy- he got to be in the film, even if he didn't get to be Scotty. Simon Pegg was great. EVERYONE was great. The lens flare was overdone but not painfully so.

It was a whole lot of fun. There were little callbacks and shout-outs to earlier events in Trek. (I don't want to spoil any of them for you if you haven't seen it yet, but I giggled tremendously multiple times, and not just when Scotty asked about future sandwiches.) Some of the set design for Nero's ship reminded me of the part of Moya where Pilot sits- unrailed catwalks over big drops.

Chekov was UTTERLY adorable. They made him slightly older than he would be in the original series timeline (if Kirk is 25, then Chekov should be 13, and this one was "sewenteen") but I don't mind that at all. We don't need another Wesley.

I think I did well on my Native Peoples of Montana final today. It was open book, so there were only a few questions I was unsure about, and most of those that I wasn't sure on referred to the single day of notes that were in my other filled-up-and-abandoned notebook. They also weren't on my friend Shannon's notes, which I had printed out.

I had sushi for diner, and it was delicious. I had California Roll, Rockin' Roll (eel roll), raw squid, spiced baby octopus, tamago, avocado, eel, spinach*, fish cake (krab), and raw scallop. All of that was 10 dollars, because it was dollar sushi night. It's possible that my scallop got lost in the fray: we had 6 people at the table, and it's a place where you write down the order all on one page and it comes all on one plate. I got some of the leftover California Roll (Britt's eyes were bigger than her stomach, I guess) so that makes up for it.

Then I saw Medea. Lots of shouting. My masks looked better than I thought they would, although I'm convinced that Hannah's had too much paper and paint and not enough exposed wire. Still, it served its purpose. Despite drinking plenty of green tea at the sushi joint (good green tea, too, with the leaves still in the pot!) I was drowsy during part of the show, but I didn't miss too much. My head had never connected Jason of Medea with Jason of the Argonauts, so as soon as that got mentioned a loop of Birdhouse in Your Soul appeared in my head, replacing Seventeen from Repo! The Genetic Opera.


*Spinach makes really good sushi! I got it on a whim, and also to increase my vegetable intake for the day. It was in the gunkanmaki style- the form of sushi that is a bed of rice and the main ingredient wrapped in an upright cylinder of seaweed making an oval of deliciousness- the kind that salmon eggs is usually served in. I'm thinking about cooking down fresh spinach with a tiny bit of sesame oil for my lunches this summer and doing this. The seaweed and the spinach combine in a delicious explosion of greenness!