I saw Transformers again today. Now that I can pay attention to other things besides the explosions and transforming robots, I'm starting to like the music too...I may have to go fetch me that soundtrack. And by fetch I mean download somewhere off the internet. Speaking of downloading off the internet, I tried fetching the entire movie as well ...but unfortunately it was only available for free in torrents, and I have no trust for those. And you shouldn't either.

Starting Monday I'm teaching a workshop for the week. It's a daycare in Redmond, and like all things up north it's a pretty nice place, so hopefuly the children won't be little demons. In the end it willl all be worth it, after I have that $500 check stashed somewhere. Why do I need to do all this job searching when I can just keep jump roping for a living. Unfortunately, I have a friend coming up from Oregon (if he sticks to the plan, anyway) so he might have to tag along through the practices and the workshop. Oh well.

Birthday in 2 days :) I expect gifts from everyone, preferably ones worth large amounts of money. I accept cash and expensive items, and if you don't want to mail it I take Paypal as well.

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I finally saw Transformers. And for the first time since The Matrix I have been in awe at what I was watching on the silver screen. Going into the movie my expectations were high, which worried me, because high expectations generally end in disappointment, but Transformers delivered, robots and humans alike. I was impressed. I've always been really meticulous when it comes to SPFX, watching outside the action, checking on the little details to see if the movie really is leet. And Transformers was. The CGI was flawless. Morphing at 80+ mph looked incredibly pwnage, and watching Megatron and Starscream blast away at the speed of sound was even better. And who could forget Ironhide, where he front flips over Miss Damsel in Distress by firing those beastly cannons into the flimsy pavement? I love it. Everytime I see a semi going down the freeway I will never think of it the same again.

I started working with my new pair today. On the outset, I was really apprehensive about how she would fit into Elaine's place, but we got off to one hell of a start already, and I don't want to jinx it but I'm excited. I mean nobody would have replaced Elaine, and I miss her a lot, but me and Steph will definitely kick ass. Turns out I'm also doing the Masters division for Worlds, as decided by my coach...which will add more stress to Trials. Yay.

I'm in the process of downloading the Transformers movie so I should probably save as much bandwidth as possible. I'm still a good person, I swear!

UPDATE
Ok, this has been bothering me for some time now. The trailer right before Transformers showed a party, taped with a handheld digital camera. If anyone wants to see the trailer, I'll post it below. There is no title for the movie, only the date: 1/18/08, although for some reason it has been coined Cloverfield. These mystery things kill me inside.

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I have begun Cleaning my room. Not cleaning, but Cleaning...a term I stole from someones_muse to describe the act of intense cleaning. I don't really know what came over me, but I do like being able to walk around my room without trampling anything. And don't forget finding $20 in an old birthday card, that's classic.

I've decided I like that one show by whatsherface. Oh yeah, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List. Her weapon of choice is sarcasm, and I personally endorse that. She also mocks anyone who appears on the show, a skill I've been trying to perfect, as many of my school friends can probalby attest to. On Nutang I try to avoid engaging in my usual mocking activities, but sometimes I slip up, generally when addressing Randy or Silver. And just for fun I thought I'd let everyone know that mockery is not that art of mocking...he is a sad, bald comedian. Don't laugh, this might be your future.

I think you should all know that I've memorized my social security number. No more having to call mom and ask, "K I'm at Target I need my SSN to apply [for work] can you read it to me?" Nope, I'm definitely too grown up for that now. Now none of you know my parents, or at least I hope not, but if you did, you'd be surprised too. I mean I guess it's not big deal to know your SSN, but this is a big step for them in letting go. And they even let me and my sister walk around DC...by ourselves. I dunno, all this independence at once might become overwhelming.

My pixel person is en route to the Island as we speak...or at least I think it is, for I have sent a message to the baboons notifying them of my request for residence on the Island. My caption:

"Dodge this."

If you are a Matrix nerd you must surely be clapping your hands in excitement, but if you are not, as I suspect is the case with most of you, then you should go watch The Matrix immediately, paying particular attention to the scene on the rooftop where Neo does his classic bullet-time dodging, and Trinity pilots the helicopter. If that's not enough of a hint than you are truly hopeless.

Good day.

P.S. That was a rather aggressive entry. I was feeling feisty.

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The revamp is now complete. I added a graphic around the Nublog title to help distinguish between entries and such. I stuck to the classic Matrix theme, though the color scheme was definitely darker this time around, which is good news for Randy. I was partly inspired by the crispness of xxallenemiesxx's site, but as the template progressed I started making it more of my own. So ta-dah, tell me what you think.

The sister is back from Satanville, a.k.a. dance camp. I can only imagine what she must have been like at camp. She is particularly fond of adopting cutesy alter egos to blend better into her social groups. Her return has brought many great things to this household; the bathroom has transformed into the usual slobfest and my mother's stress levels have risen.

Jump rope has been occupying more of my summer than I'd anticipated. Not that I really had much else to occupy it with, but you get the idea. Today was a nice break in the cycle though; instead of driving 45 minutes up to Kirkland the practice came to me. I spent most of the morning teaching a teamate in my Worlds group whose been having a hard time grasping our 4 person routine. It's sad that nobody else even noticed or cared enough to help, and we're supposed to be teammates? I liked it on my old team, where drama was extinct and people were real to each others faces.

I found out that trials are in January...which means we only have about 4 and a half months to prepare 5 routines and get all of our speed scores up to par. And they're going to be held in Ohio...how random? Yay, more hot weather.

I'm sure everyone has these kinds of friends. Ones where you feel more obligated to be there friend than anything else? I have a particularly bad case...he's called me no less than 35 times in the past two weeks, and ever single time I've ignored it. This hasn't discouraged him in the least bit, as he just called me again...you'd think my subliminal messaging would've gotten through to him by now, but apparently my ignoring him has yet to speak for itself. I'm taking a little risk here since he knows about my Nutang...but perhaps discovering this will ease in the fact that I don't want to talk to you everyday.

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