| Sep. 9th, 2004 @ 08:35 am Firefly, Austin, and other matters |
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Don't mind me, I'm just:  excited
Hey, that sounds like: Pink Floyd -- Fearless
On the advice of my dad, for whom I bought them, I've started working my way through the Firefly DVD set. I got through the first episode ("Serenity") last night, and am impressed. I remembered not liking the show much the couple times I watched it while it was on FOX, so I guess the fans have a point when they say that Fox mis-handled the rollout of the show by showing the episodes out of order. If this had been the first episode I'd seen, I probably would have kept watching, although since (IIRC) it was on against Farscape for awhile I probably would have missed more than a few episodes, anyway.
It might also help that I've gotten hooked on Deadwood between the time Firefly first aired and now -- I'm probably more receptive to the vaguely-Western elements of the show, which were a big turnoff for me when I tried watching it originally. My dad calls the show "As good as Farscape, and maybe even as good as Deep Space Nine." I'm not willing to go that far, yet, but I'm willing to keep watching.
The NFL starts today! Hooray, hooray! And since I have a couple of Colts on my fantasy team, that means fantasy football starts today too. It's going to be a busy weekend at my place. I plan to start the season in style on Sunday -- traditionally, I make a humongous 5-layer dip for Big Football Weekends -- since I need to go shopping on Friday night to restock my lunch items. Hopefully I can get my laundry done on Saturday morning, after I do my make-up exercise, which will leave me all day Sunday to wallow in footbally goodness.
Austin Photo Of The Day
Joie (pronounced "Joey") is my closest friend in Austin, though not the one I've known the longest. I met her during my sophomore year at Southwestern through some mutual friends, when she was living in a house off campus (but within easy walking distance) with Gilbert (q.v.) and their friend Melissa. This was a pretty cool hang-out house, and many were the Sundays during the school year I toddled over there to watch football, followed by The Simpsons, King of the Hill, and The X-Files. After that, KTBC (Austin's Fox affiliate) usually showed an X-Files rerun, and before you knew it, it was 10:00.
Joie's another one of my rescue projects, to an extent. After running into some tough legal and financial situations, she found herself without a permanent place to stay, but working two God-awful foodservice jobs and attending Southwestern only part-time. Since I was on the verge of moving to a new place myself, I offered to split the rent with her on a 2-bedroom place in Georgetown and carry her for a few months (I still had some savings at this point) while she got her affairs in order. This worked out well, and she returned the favor later in the year when I lost my part-time job at 7-11 thanks to the machinations of the TABC.
We've been really tight since then; I have other friends in Austin, but Joie is the only one I regularly keep in touch with and whose birthday I remember every year. Last year I bought her Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich, the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide (which I bought for myself while I was still living down there, and she has coveted ever since), and a subscription to Entertainment Weekly, which is a sort of guilty pleasure of hers. When it started coming and she called to thank me, I told her I wasn't sure if she liked that kind of thing: "I mean, I sometimes caught you watching E! when we lived together, but you always looked a little ashamed of yourself." That's what made the gift perfect, though, she told me. This way she could read it every week, but if someone cast aspersions on it, she could always point out that it was a gift.
So every year when I make plans to go to Austin, it's Joie who picks me up at the airport, lends me a couch to crash on, and usually feeds me a couple times. She has a few specialty dishes that are to die for -- this time we had enchiladas, but her meatloaf is also da bomb. And this year she did me one better by calling in sick on Tuesday, so we could brunch and she could take me back out to the airport to catch my afternoon flight. And she introduced me to a cool Modest Mouse song that's caused me to reappraise my mild dislike for the band. And she gave me a couple of books as early birthday/happy to see you gifts. Basically, Joie just plain rocks. :)
( Today's exercise music: )
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