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more time off, kinda
Well, I'm on-call for work, so I'm carrying the pager around, but I've just been goofing off, it feels. Last night I went to the gym after work with Megan and Heidi, who are no longer members of the gym after today, which is weird. I lifted weights and did a little treadmilling.
I stopped by Fred Meyer to get packing tape so I can start building boxes to pack stuff. Whee.
Came home, watched the end of Gokusen season 2 -- sorry Oren. It was good, but not nearly as good as the end of Gokusen season 1, which I cried through half of the graduation special. The big difference this time, in my opinion, was the lack of a really special connection like Sawada and Yankumi had in the first season. They sort of tried to set up Odagiri to be the Sawada character this year, but because they sort of split the character into both Odagiri and Yabuki, it lost some of the effect. Also, the thing about Sawada was that he was INTELLIGENT in addition to being a good fighter and the gang leader. He didn't get the crap kicked out of him in every single episode of Season 1, whereas this season had every single episode ending in the main guys full of bruises.
Also, the main five guys in season one (Sawada, Kuma, Uchiyama, Noda, and Minami) were just better. Odagiri and Yabuki are pretty much this season's Sawada, and both are really cute idol band boys, but they just don't compare. Tsuchiya is sort of like this season's Minami, and I guess Hyuga is this season's Uchiyama, but neither of them really go that far. Kuma came back, so they didn't really parallel him, and I guess Takeda is sort of like Noda, but he was *too* nice. Takeda sort of took on Noda's stylish half and Uchiyama's hair clips, but he wouldn't have survived season 1 in 3-D - the class would have ripped him to shreds.
Anyway, this is not to say that Gokusen 2 wasn't good. Because it was. I thought some of the later episodes were absolutely hilarious (more than once or twice I was thinking, "damn, I wish I was still watching with Carl, he's going to love this one"). But I just remember when season 1 ended, I was really sad and wanted more, and this season, I'm like, "ok, the storyline's over, they probably could have done more with it, but oh well".
After that, I actually went to sleep at like midnight. I didn't really feel like doing anything else.
I slept for 12 hours and got up at noon and played in the Endurance blockade a little on PP. Now I've been going around my apartment trying to figure out where to start on the packing stuff / getting rid of stuff campaign. I've been going through videotapes. It's weird, I found all these old tapes of things taped off TV like 20 years ago, and I just don't know what to do with them. Some, the movies I've replaced since on better tapes or on DVD, but some are things that I really would probably never watch again, except that going through the tapes to see what's on them, I'm not so sure. Like I just found a tape with REM Unplugged and Athens GA Inside Out that I must have copied like... 15 years ago. Would I ever watch it again normally? Probly not. Do I want to just throw the tape out? Logic says yes, but I'm like "wait, this is cool!" But on the other hand, I could just replace these all with DVDs. But on the other hand, that'd be expensive.
And in theory, things like this tape with TMBG on the Tonight show in June 1992... I can't actually replace it. But do I CARE? That's the question.
Is it weird to have a tape with 3 movies on it and realize that I'll probly never feel like watching it on such lousy quality VHS again, but on the other hand, do I want to spend the $50-60 to replace the 3 movies on DVD?
Oh well. I hope I can get at least a box or two of stuff together today...
I stopped by Fred Meyer to get packing tape so I can start building boxes to pack stuff. Whee.
Came home, watched the end of Gokusen season 2 -- sorry Oren. It was good, but not nearly as good as the end of Gokusen season 1, which I cried through half of the graduation special. The big difference this time, in my opinion, was the lack of a really special connection like Sawada and Yankumi had in the first season. They sort of tried to set up Odagiri to be the Sawada character this year, but because they sort of split the character into both Odagiri and Yabuki, it lost some of the effect. Also, the thing about Sawada was that he was INTELLIGENT in addition to being a good fighter and the gang leader. He didn't get the crap kicked out of him in every single episode of Season 1, whereas this season had every single episode ending in the main guys full of bruises.
Also, the main five guys in season one (Sawada, Kuma, Uchiyama, Noda, and Minami) were just better. Odagiri and Yabuki are pretty much this season's Sawada, and both are really cute idol band boys, but they just don't compare. Tsuchiya is sort of like this season's Minami, and I guess Hyuga is this season's Uchiyama, but neither of them really go that far. Kuma came back, so they didn't really parallel him, and I guess Takeda is sort of like Noda, but he was *too* nice. Takeda sort of took on Noda's stylish half and Uchiyama's hair clips, but he wouldn't have survived season 1 in 3-D - the class would have ripped him to shreds.
Anyway, this is not to say that Gokusen 2 wasn't good. Because it was. I thought some of the later episodes were absolutely hilarious (more than once or twice I was thinking, "damn, I wish I was still watching with Carl, he's going to love this one"). But I just remember when season 1 ended, I was really sad and wanted more, and this season, I'm like, "ok, the storyline's over, they probably could have done more with it, but oh well".
After that, I actually went to sleep at like midnight. I didn't really feel like doing anything else.
I slept for 12 hours and got up at noon and played in the Endurance blockade a little on PP. Now I've been going around my apartment trying to figure out where to start on the packing stuff / getting rid of stuff campaign. I've been going through videotapes. It's weird, I found all these old tapes of things taped off TV like 20 years ago, and I just don't know what to do with them. Some, the movies I've replaced since on better tapes or on DVD, but some are things that I really would probably never watch again, except that going through the tapes to see what's on them, I'm not so sure. Like I just found a tape with REM Unplugged and Athens GA Inside Out that I must have copied like... 15 years ago. Would I ever watch it again normally? Probly not. Do I want to just throw the tape out? Logic says yes, but I'm like "wait, this is cool!" But on the other hand, I could just replace these all with DVDs. But on the other hand, that'd be expensive.
And in theory, things like this tape with TMBG on the Tonight show in June 1992... I can't actually replace it. But do I CARE? That's the question.
Is it weird to have a tape with 3 movies on it and realize that I'll probly never feel like watching it on such lousy quality VHS again, but on the other hand, do I want to spend the $50-60 to replace the 3 movies on DVD?
Oh well. I hope I can get at least a box or two of stuff together today...
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