I can't walk into the room.
Watching Disconnected is tougher when my family watches it.  Especially when my relatively hip cousins (one of whom is employed with a production company in New York) are watching.  It's good enough as a documentary, but that doesn't keep me from being embarrassed about it for some reason.

My hair hasn't been this long ( Read more... )

have you ever seen a family drama(American Beauty, Ordinary People, pretty in pink) where the father figure was in more control/power than the wife?
does the lack of such portrayals imply that such drama is a result of dominant gender ideology being disobeyed?

Can you think of counter examples?

jesus i feel busy busy busy ( Read more... )

this week or difficulties won't end.

Do I clean up the mess in the bathroom during lunch , or wait till after work?

the latter please.

less than 20 hours of sleep since monday  i'm dying

because time codes were not in the transcripts, or the script that was handed to me.  So I'm playing find and import the needles in the haystack with footage.

It's due for a presentation Friday, and I'm going to be losing a lot of sleep on this

The day after my last post, I woke up feeling pretty good.  I have a new car.  There's a subdued pressure to love it, and guilt from not feeling it.

Being home while others are busy with school and work is like visiting a twilight zone. 
The geography is the same, but things are off when I've gone out on runs or bike rides(my bike was stolen at ( Read more... )

have every reason to feel carefree and happy, but i am in mud: some sort of miserable.  i don't understand.

thinking about changing comps topic to a Foucault+Dark Knight case study for a critique of our society and media.  I think I could use foucault to explain how dark knight's plot functions to maintain status quo in the film and in the real world.  Mixed in is the idea of media operating as the tower in the panopticon, always staring back at it's ( Read more... )

i'm rearranging the room.  I'm not feeling good or social.  almost done reading jimmy corrigan again, reminds me of a midwestern faulkner story.

ow ow ow.

Chicken thigh over diced yellow cucumber (both seared with soy sauce) topped with smuckers strawberry jam/white wine vinegar(latter donated by neighbors) sauce.  I got a tiny bit of help with the sauce, but now I know how to do it (very easy to do).  Came out great.  The alchohol and cucumber were also very effective in cleaning up the dried soy ( Read more... )