I've recently finished reading Watership Down, and immediately after finishing the book I went out and rented the animated movie. They did a decent job for the most part, and it's animated a lot like The Last Unicorn (which, by the way, I rented at the same time and haven't watched yet). The only thing is they left out a bunch of stuff that would have made the viewer understand the motives a little more. But at least they didn't baby the viewer by taking out the weird rabbit words that are all through the book. I for one enjoy being able to read a sentence in a made-up rabbit language and understand that it basically says "Eat shit, you big stinker!" Hehehe. Now if only I could say "Fuck off and die" in Lapine, I'd be set.
I baked bread today. I just had a weird desire for bread, and hadn't bought any, so I made some. I made one wheat loaf and one white. It's good bread and I've been scarfing it. It's so much BETTER than store-bought bread. And it wasn't that messy either, and I actually washed my dishes so they're not sitting around haunting me. The only thing haunting me now is the smell of the burnt rice in the trash can from yesterday.
I played DDR again today. I worked the 6-2 shift this morning, so I figured the arcade would be empty (it being too soon for the school kids to have claimed the dance machine), and I was right. I went in and who did I see but my friend and co-worker Diana, who was waiting for her useless fucking prick "boyfriend" Rick. (I say "boyfriend" because they don't really have a romantic relationship, but he will occasionally let her have sex with him if he feels like it and hasn't had it from his actual girlfriend in a while.)
Anyway, Diana went into the arcade with me and watched me dance. It was cool. After I was done she even offered to give me money to dance more since I was done spending (I spent three dollars, which is six games), but I refused. I shouldn't do that.
I did really well on the game. I played half of them on the easy level and half on standard (which is like intermediate). I flunked one song, but I was doing songs I'd never done before so it's understandable. I passed all the rest, except on my last song I accidentally hit the button to do the song I'd just done again, and it had been a hard song with lots of jumping, and I just got too tired to do it again right then and gave up. Heheh. But I passed it the first time I did it. And I got my first one in the arcade where I didn't miss ANY steps. Yay for me!
Tomorrow I go back to work for another 6-2 shift, and probably another DDR session after work. They're making me organize the sports book section. That really sucks because I wanted to do work in Kids', anyone can organize a section but not anyone will put out the Kids' books right. Oh well. I guess a perk of being a manager is getting to tell people what's most important. Blah on that. And I have an extra day off this week. Jeaux and I are making it an Ocala Day™. We are probably going to go eat some sort of Asian cuisine and go bowling. It will be fun.
Well, getting up at five-thirty tomorrow ought to be fun. I'd better finish this.
Notes:
Teehee! My uncle has had several conversations with Richard Adams of Watership Down fame. In fact, my uncle has met many famous authors and artists over the years. This past week I was rummaging through my rent's old LPs, and on the back of a Judy Collins record was a personal note to my uncle from Judy herself! (apparently they were college chums) Sometimes my family really impresses me. :)~Kari
"Silflay hraka U embleer Rah!" Watership has always been one of my favorite books. I think I read it about 30 times when I was a kid, always finding some new nuance in it that I hadn't thought of before. The Last Unicorn was also one of my faves. The animated version is surprisingly good, but definately read the book. It's beautiful. [For Your Life]
Yay! I looooooooove Watership Down. [Meggie]
Homemade bread is good. Much better than store bread. I've been known to eat a lot of people's homemade bread. [Freder]
I have a some new book recommendations thanks to this entry! Thanks! I love bread - but white bread from the store makes me feel sick sometimes. I dont' know why. [katqueen]