June 5, 2014

Another exciting day in the life of me. I read, watched movies, and clicked around the internet for most of the day. I started the movie watching with Pacific Rim while looking up stuff about grad school and careers in Library Science. The cable and internet crapped out for awhile in the middle of the movie so I read more of The Fellowship of the Ring until everything started working again. I thought I had seen all of Pacific Rim while it was in theaters but apparently I watched everything but the ending. I liked it. I would have preferred a different ending, if only slightly happier, but other than that, it was a good movie. At least in terms of visual effects. The story was just alright.

The second movie I watched was City Of Ember. I'm fairly certain I watched that movie awhile ago but I was tempted to watch it again. Still a good movie. I liked the costume design and the story was interesting..

The third movie was Warm Bodies. While we had it at the theater I managed to see the vast majority of the movie. At least it all seemed pretty familiar. As with City Of Ember, it is still a good movie. My favorite thing about the movie is the humor. And the fact that it was an interesting twist on a romantic comedy. The idea that most of the zombies could be cured made me wonder about the psychological repercussions on the living people who killed zombies before they knew there was a cure. Especially if those zombies were their loved ones. I imagine they would try to justify it by saying the zombies had technically been dead when they killed them again, but I still think it would be hard to come to terms with.

I didn't pay much attention to it at the time but all three movies kind of have the same basic theme. The last of humanity fighting for its survival. Pacific Rim wasn't quite as far along in terms of population lost, but they were trying to prevent getting to that point. So I'm counting it.

I got my Warby Parker in-home trial glasses frames today. Three are fairly similar and are a little larger than my current frames, one is more similar in size, and the last pair is more round. I immediately discarded those as an option because they were set too close together and looked funny. Now I need to repeatedly try on the remaining four until I come to a decision. Then, when I finally go get my eyes checked, I can order the pair I want.

Tonight was Chipotle night and after dinner I went for an hour-long visit with the new volunteer kid. There was a lot of silence. I asked a bunch of random questions about everything I could think of but couldn't ever really get much of a conversation started. I learned that he hasn't seen his sister since the court hearing and that he has been spending his time working and playing videos games and being bored. He also said that he is supposed to go to Hawaii with his grandparents.

I had an orange today, for the first time in a long time. I'm trying to increase the citric acid in my diet. It turns out oranges are still a pain in the ass to peel but they are also still delicious.

It is almost one o'clock in the morning but I'm not really tired yet so I started watching Jack The Giant Slayer. A movie I have not seen any of but was always curious. It has the same actor as the main zombie in Warm Bodies, something I had forgotten. I was interested in how they would do the giants and I'm not sure how I feel about it. They went full, not realistic, CGI. Not necessarily bad but different. I don't think I'll make it through the whole movie tonight but I've made a decent start.