A few things about Halloween...

Halloween really is the most terrifying day of the year for me. But not because of evil spirits floating around in the middle of the night (you can get rid of those with a few well-placed pumpkins and turnips). The terrifying thing about Halloween is that it's the last day of October. That means tomorrow is November 1st, which is exactly 1 month from the last day of classes. I have to admit to a lot less stress this year in general. But I've got a month to finish 2 papers and get almost all my studying done for 1 of my finals.

And yeah, it's completely my fault. Fine. I get that. It happens every year and I always finish everything up. So I'm not worried I won't finish. The scary part is that I know what I'm in for in the next month and 16 days (my last final is December 16th). And it's not good.

The other thing about Halloween is the movie franchise. I know you remember how much I like the movies from my list of favorite things a year ago (almost time for a new one). But I only like Halloween I, II, and H2O. The other ones? To me they don't exist. That includes Halloween III, IV, V, VI and especially Halloween: Resurrection (which really is Halloween VIII).

It's because I, II, and H20 formed their own story without having to see any of the other ones. Which is good, because I didn't like a lot of stuff that happened in the other ones. H20, I thought, provided a good ending to the story. Then in 2002 they made Ressurection and we find out the ending we thought we had in H20 wasn't really what we thought it was. Ridiculous. Also most the movie has Michael Myers stalking people he's not even related to. Lame.

But... there's another Halloween movie coming out in time for Halloween 2007 and that one I'm excited about. That's because it's a retelling/prequel of the original story. Yep, it's a bit of both. I don't know how far it goes... if we get to the end of the sequel or just the original (they both happen on the same night)... but I've got a good feeling about it. I just wish it was out for this Hallween.

Anyway here's the pumpkin I carved. I live in an apartment and don't get trick-or-treaters but I carved one anyway. I'm using my old camera to take the picture because I still don't have my "new" one back yet.

Space: 1999

Remember this show? It's what they thought 1999 would look like in 1975. Pretty accurate from what I remember.

The theme music rocks. Too bad 2006 doesn't sound more like 1975.

Why Lost Sucks

Nothing ever really happens. They show big things on the previews, but then those big things turn out to be not so big things and then they end with another big cliffhanger and promise big things next week. Seriously, the whole second season could have happened in 3 episodes.

If you've never watched it I'll sum up the whole series in 4 sentences:

Plane crashes on island where a lot of strange stuff happens. Survivors discover "others" living nearby who prefer to kidnap and spy on them rather than make friends with them. They find an underground hatch that hints at some long abandoned energy program, and eventually the hatch blows up. The mysterious "others" finally capture 3 of the main characters at the end of season 2 and nothing else has happened.

This has taken 2 years. The reason people watch it is because of the promise that eventually things are going to happen. We always think they will because they're just so convincing about it. But they lie. Last night's episode:

The "others" put Sawyer on a table and do something to him. When he wakes up they tell him they've put a pacemaker in and if his heart rate goes above 140 it'll blow up his heart. So throughout the whole episode he's trying to keep his heart rate down. Finally at the end they tell him they were lying. So he didn't really have one.

This guy starts beating the crap out of Sawyer while asking Kate "do you love him? do you love him?" which was kind of weird but that's what he was asking and finally she screams "yes I love him!!" and the guy stops beating on him. I guess this is important because they try to set it up so we never really know who she likes. So wow, ok, now we know she loves Sawyer. But... closer to the end of the episode she tells him she didn't mean it. So she doesn't really love him. Or does she? We still don't know.

Sun was confronted by some woman... one of the others... about 2 episodes ago and she shot the woman and really it seemed like the woman was dead. So last night we see her being rushed back to the others' camp and guess what? She's not dead - just badly wounded. So they get Jack to try and save her, because he's a doctor, and he can't. She dies. So now she's dead, like we assumed she was before we found out she wasn't.

Ok so what happened last night? Sawyer was told he had a pacemaker but he didn't. Nothing there. A woman is dead but we thought she was dead anyway. We don't know who Kate likes. We thought we did for a while, but now we don't again.

So nothing really happened. And at the end? BIG previews for next week with the promise "The next 2 episodes are going to change everything!" I think they've said that before. Zzzzzzzz....

You're probably wondering why I watch a show I clearly dislike so much. Well, last night was the last straw - it's going back to DVD status. I think part of the reason I thought the first season was so good is because I watched it on DVD all at once so the weekly cliffhangers weren't as annoying. So next summer I'll finish the season on DVD and hopefully something will happen. But probably not.

I seem to be hating on a lot of tv lately. I'm not even going to start on Grey's Anatomy because I've got stuff to do today. But the only show on tv I like this year as much as I liked last year is The Office. And now that Lost is out of the picture, Thursday night's are all I've got left.

One night of tv a week = not bad.

It was 3

When I was talking about that pain in my side yesterday I left out an important possibility: That it would stay the same. So I have to revise the list of possibilities:

1. It will get worse
2. It will get better
3. It will stay the same

And it was 3. I woke up this morning and there was no change. So I went to the gym and there were no problems with that. I still don't know what it is, but I think I'm probably going to live. It still hurts when I stretch, but no big deal.

So today is Wednesday, the most evil day of the week. By far. I only have 3 classes but they're spread out from 9am to 9pm. After Wednesdays done it usually feels like the week's getting close to being done. 2 classes Thursdays, 1 class Friday (that ends at 10:20am), then nothing til Tuesday morning.

As much as I want to finish school and start working, I know I'll miss that a lot. So I'm trying to appreciate it... and speaking of finishing school, it's been a long time since I've done the countdown - so here's where we're at:

189 days, 23 hours, and 58 minutes!

The pop of impending doom...

I was at the gym today doing leg extensions. This week I'm switching from a longer set/less weight based workout to a short set/heavier weight program. So I got through 3 sets of heavy weight leg extentions with no problem and started the 4th set. By that time my legs were tired... and by tired I mean tired. I was straining a lot - especially because I work at a 2/3 tempo (2 seconds up 3 seconds down) so every rep by that point is slow and painful.

So about the 4th rep in on the last set, about halfway up, I was really straining and I felt a pop. At least I think that's the right word. It could be described as a shift... a burst... maybe even a splat. But whatever it was, it happened just below the ribcage on the left side. I have no idea what would pop, shift, burst, or splat in that area... but whatever it was, it was weird.

It felt a bit strange for a few minutes after but then it went away. The problem is... as the hours go by... it's starting to ache. They way I see it, this'll go one of two ways by tomorrow morning:

1. It will get better
2. It will get worse

My money's on 1, but that's mostly because I don't want it to be 2. So we'll see how it goes.

Stupid evil camera....

Time to complain about my camera again. This is the camera I ordered in May and got in.... I don't know the end of June or the beginning of July or something. It broke... I've blogged about this before. Lines accross the screen and all that. So because I got it through air miles I only have a manufacturer's warranty.

I gave it to them at the end of August and I got a call from them 2 weeks ago saying they sent the camera to... somewhere... and this place said there was a 4 week wait on the part they needed to fix it. So I should get it back sometime around.... October 20th.

So if you notice there are NO PICTURES on this blog lately it's because I don't have a camera. Actually I've still got my old camera, so... yeah.