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Decadence: Eating ice cream by candlelight in the bath at 2 AM
Today was a proper all-American summer Sunday: Got up early for church, then came home and changed to head out to the ol' ball game, where I ate popcorn and read comic books. Then out for dinner and ice cream. 'Twas fun. Then I fell asleep, 'til about ten pm. oh well.
The Baysox won, by the way.
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speakerender's. Went to his place last night for dinner and movie with various others for his birthday. Dinner was good; movie was Real Genius, which was also good, even if I'd heard all the best jokes before. Is it strange that I've met people just like Lazlo and Chris, but never anybody like Mitch? Are all smart people these days either headcases or slackers? Rock on! Also, the movie was incredibly sexist. All the guys are getting paid to work in the lab, right? The girl isn't, yet she's expected to hang around and do all the hard work and risky stuff, sans pay, for her boyfriend. I mean, normally I've no objection to portrayal of traditional gender roles, but that was just so blatant . . .
Right. Speaking of geekiness and gender roles,speakerender, aka Phoenix, also loaned me the X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga, which was what I was reading during the ball game today. I had been saying I wanted to read some actual X-men comics, after seeing the movies. I'd had a vague knowledge of them, imbibed from ambient popular culture, and I'd alway thought of Jean Grey as the boring one, the plain Jane of the X-men. Boring powers, boring name, in fact goes by her street name most of the time, boring appearance, usually in an incredibly boring relationship with the most boring male member of the team. So Phoenix told me to read the saga and I did, and I learned that Jean Grey is, in fact . . . incredibly boring. She even manages to be incredibly boring as the incarnation of chaos and destruction, which takes some doing. Also, she needs to meet Mara Jade. The saga was quite good, though. Incredible art, great writing, even the fights were interesting. The other characters were wonderful. I want to know who Kitty becomes. And I do, indeed, still have a crush on Beast. Nightcrawler's much different from the movie one; I wish they'd put in the fire-and-brimstone effect, that would have been groovy. Dr. X is still evil.They even managed to make Cyclops somewhat interesting in places. And the comic book reminds me far less of Pegasus in Flight than the movies did.
Let's see, other news. I'm now four days into my effort to wean myself off electric lights. Dad is convinced I'm going to burn the house down, and Mom has begun a crusade of turning on all the lights in the room I'm in, even if it's broad daylight. I'm enjoying myself. It does make one much more aware of the day outside, of one's other senses, of color and shadow and form. And I like candles. I thought it would help my sleep cycle, but oddly it seems to be messing it up. Reading by candlelight apparently does not put me to sleep as well as reading by electric light, even if it is one of dad's books about why Christ was a bodhisattva or the history of chemistry.
This is my first post from an lj-client. Let's see if it works.
The Baysox won, by the way.
The comic book was
speakerender's. Went to his place last night for dinner and movie with various others for his birthday. Dinner was good; movie was Real Genius, which was also good, even if I'd heard all the best jokes before. Is it strange that I've met people just like Lazlo and Chris, but never anybody like Mitch? Are all smart people these days either headcases or slackers? Rock on! Also, the movie was incredibly sexist. All the guys are getting paid to work in the lab, right? The girl isn't, yet she's expected to hang around and do all the hard work and risky stuff, sans pay, for her boyfriend. I mean, normally I've no objection to portrayal of traditional gender roles, but that was just so blatant . . .Right. Speaking of geekiness and gender roles,
speakerender, aka Phoenix, also loaned me the X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga, which was what I was reading during the ball game today. I had been saying I wanted to read some actual X-men comics, after seeing the movies. I'd had a vague knowledge of them, imbibed from ambient popular culture, and I'd alway thought of Jean Grey as the boring one, the plain Jane of the X-men. Boring powers, boring name, in fact goes by her street name most of the time, boring appearance, usually in an incredibly boring relationship with the most boring male member of the team. So Phoenix told me to read the saga and I did, and I learned that Jean Grey is, in fact . . . incredibly boring. She even manages to be incredibly boring as the incarnation of chaos and destruction, which takes some doing. Also, she needs to meet Mara Jade. The saga was quite good, though. Incredible art, great writing, even the fights were interesting. The other characters were wonderful. I want to know who Kitty becomes. And I do, indeed, still have a crush on Beast. Nightcrawler's much different from the movie one; I wish they'd put in the fire-and-brimstone effect, that would have been groovy. Dr. X is still evil.They even managed to make Cyclops somewhat interesting in places. And the comic book reminds me far less of Pegasus in Flight than the movies did.Let's see, other news. I'm now four days into my effort to wean myself off electric lights. Dad is convinced I'm going to burn the house down, and Mom has begun a crusade of turning on all the lights in the room I'm in, even if it's broad daylight. I'm enjoying myself. It does make one much more aware of the day outside, of one's other senses, of color and shadow and form. And I like candles. I thought it would help my sleep cycle, but oddly it seems to be messing it up. Reading by candlelight apparently does not put me to sleep as well as reading by electric light, even if it is one of dad's books about why Christ was a bodhisattva or the history of chemistry.
This is my first post from an lj-client. Let's see if it works.